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Technical Information Piece */d_piece 1000979 Piece Title Renjishi Plot Summary The theme of "Renjishi" stays close to that of the Nô play "Shakkyô", and it is classified as a matsubame dance. That is, a dance that's performed before the symbolic backdrop of a large pine tree flanked by bamboo which is copied from the Nô stage. This scenery has no connection with the dance's content. The first section features a pair of Kyôgen actors who come to dance the story of the shishi parent and cub. The actors each carry a wooden mask of a shishi head, one with white hair representing the parent shishi and the other with red hair to represent its child. A shishi is a mythological lion-like animal said to be the king of beasts and always associated with the Buddhist deity Monju. For this reason, any portrayal of the shishi should not only bring out its wild, beastial nature, but also a sense of dignity and authority that goes with this divine status. The shishi is in many ways a spiritual creature.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
August 3, 2013 Since college football teams aren't supposed to pay their players, they spend vast sums to wow beefy boys with practice facilities that 17-year-olds will consider awesome. Oregon recently revealed its new Phil Knight of Nike-funded palace, complete with barbershop: Not to be outdone, Alabama countered the next day. Here's the football players' video arcade: A number of people from the former Soviet Union wishing to immigrate to Israel could be subjected to DNA testing to prove their Jewishness, the Prime Minister’s Office said Sunday. The policy was reported in Maariv on Monday, one day after the Israeli paper revealed that a 19-year-old woman from the former Soviet Union was required to take the test to qualify for a Birthright Israel trip. The Prime Minister’s Office confirmed that many Jews from the FSU who were born out-of-wedlock can be required to bring DNA confirmation of Jewish heritage in order to be allowed to immigrate as a Jew. A source in the PMO told Maariv that the consul’s procedure, approved by the legal department of the Interior Ministry, states that a Russian-speaking child born out-of-wedlock is eligible to receive an Israeli immigration visa if the birth was registered before the child turned 3. Otherwise a DNA test to prove Jewish parentage is necessary. This seems not unreasonable. Going back to Sen. Henry Jackson's legislation to give special rights to immigrate to Israel (and America) to Soviet Jews, a lot of fairly random Russians have claimed to be Jewish to cash in. For example, I knew a lady from Leningrad in the early 1990s who wasn't noticeably Jewish in looks, demeanor, culture, or family ties, but her Plan C for staying in America (she wanted to be blackjack dealer in Las Vegas) was to assiduously pull together a stack of genealogical paperwork (of who knows what authenticity) to prove she was Jewish enough to attain refugee status. August 2, 2013 Back in 1996, Proposition 209 outlawing racial preferences was passed by California voters and became part of the state Constitution. State officials have ever since pursued a strategy of "massive resistance" to this unwelcome demand for equal treatment of the law, such as by switching the evaluation of University of California admissions from a cheap, mechanical system to an expensive, subjective "holistic" system. After all, the Latino lobby in the state legislature could cut UC's budget if they don't get more of their people into UC. Ruth Starkman took a job as a reader of applications to Berkeley, and writes in the NYT: Admissions officials were careful not to mention gender, ethnicity and race during our training sessions. Privately, I asked an officer point-blank: “What are we doing about race?” She nodded sympathetically at my confusion but warned that it would be illegal to consider: we’re looking at — again, that phrase — the “bigger picture” of the applicant’s life. After the next training session, when I asked about an Asian student who I thought was a 2 but had only received a 3, the officer noted: “Oh, you’ll get a lot of them.” She said the same when I asked why a low-income student with top grades and scores, and who had served in the Israeli army, was a 3. Which them? I had wondered. Did she mean I’d see a lot of 4.0 G.P.A.’s, or a lot of applicants whose bigger picture would fail to advance them, or a lot of Jewish and Asian applicants (Berkeley is 43 percent Asian, 11 percent Latino and 3 percent black)? ... In a second e-mail, I was told I needed more 1’s and referrals. A referral is a flag that a student’s grades and scores do not make the cut but the application merits a special read because of “stressors” — socioeconomic disadvantages that admissions offices can use to increase diversity. Officially, like all readers, I was to exclude minority background from my consideration. I was simply to notice whether the student came from a non-English-speaking household. I was not told what to do with this information — except that it may be a stressor if the personal statement revealed the student was having trouble adjusting to coursework in English. In such a case, I could refer the applicant for a special read. Why did I hear so many times from the assistant director? I think I got lost in the unspoken directives. Some things can’t be spelled out, but they have to be known. Application readers must simply pick it up by osmosis, so that the process of detecting objective factors of disadvantage becomes tricky. It’s an extreme version of the American non-conversation about race. I scoured applications for stressors. To better understand stressors, I was trained to look for the “helpful” personal statement that elevates a candidate. Here I encountered through-the-looking-glass moments: an inspiring account of achievements may be less “helpful” than a report of the hardships that prevented the student from achieving better grades, test scores and honors. Should I value consistent excellence or better results at the end of a personal struggle? I applied both, depending on race. An underrepresented minority could be the phoenix, I decided. We were not to hold a lack of Advanced Placement courses against applicants. Highest attention was to be paid to the unweighted G.P.A., as schools in low-income neighborhoods may not offer A.P. courses, which are given more weight in G.P.A. calculation. Yet readers also want to know if a student has taken challenging courses, and will consider A.P.’s along with key college-prep subjects, known as a-g courses, required by the U.C. system. ... Another reader thinks the student is “good” but we have so many of “these kids.” ... IN personal statements, we had been told to read for the “authentic” voice over students whose writing bragged of volunteer trips to exotic places or anything that “smacks of privilege.” Fortunately, that authentic voice articulated itself abundantly. Many essays lucidly expressed a sense of self and character — no small task in a sea of applicants. Less happily, many betrayed the handiwork of pricey application packagers, whose cloying, pompous style was instantly detectable, as were canny attempts to catch some sympathy with a personal story of generalized misery. The torrent of woe could make a reader numb: not another student suffering from parents’ divorce, a learning difference, a rare disease, even dandruff! As I developed the hard eye of a slush pile reader at a popular-fiction agency, I asked my lead readers whether some of these stressors might even be credible. I was told not to second-guess the essays but simply to pick the most worthy candidate. Still, I couldn’t help but ask questions that were not part of my reader job. The assistant director’s words — look for “evidence a student can succeed at Berkeley” — echoed in my ears when I wanted to give a disadvantaged applicant a leg up in the world. I wanted to help. Surely, if these students got to Berkeley they would be exposed to all sorts of test-taking and studying techniques. But would they be able to compete with the engineering applicant with the 3.95 G.P.A. and 2300 SATs? Does Berkeley have sufficient support services to bridge gaps and ensure success? Could this student with a story full of stressors and remedial-level writing skills survive in a college writing course? I wanted every freshman walking through Sather Gate to succeed. Underrepresented minorities still lag behind: about 92 percent of whites and Asians at Berkeley graduate within six years, compared with 81 percent of Hispanics and 71 percent of blacks. A study of the University of California system shows that 17 percent of underrepresented minority students who express interest in the sciences graduate with a science degree within five years, compared with 31 percent of white students. When the invitation came to sign up for the next application cycle, I wavered. My job as an application reader — evaluating the potential success of so many hopeful students — had been one of the most serious endeavors of my academic career. But the opaque and secretive nature of the process had made me queasy. Wouldn’t better disclosure of how decisions are made help families better position their children? Does Proposition 209 serve merely to push race underground? Can the playing field of admissions ever be level? For me, the process presented simply too many moral dilemmas. In the end, I chose not to participate again. Federal civil rights officials reached an important settlement late last month with a California school district accused of discriminating against a transgender student by denying him equal access to educational programs and activities. Under the agreement, the Arcadia Unified School District in California will revise its policies and ensure that the student, who was born female but has since assumed a male name and identity, is treated fairly and like other male students. The agreement should be required reading for school officials at all levels nationally. July 31, 2013 A large fraction of homeless people -- especially the poor bastards you find sleeping under a bridge in Chicago in January -- are lunatics to be pitied. But, then there are the kind of homeless people you find hanging out at the blufftop park along Ocean Boulevard in Santa Monica or under the amazing Moreton Bay Figtree in downtown Santa Barbara who are highly rational about their lifestyle choices. The creme de la creme of the Lifestyler homeless are the ones who have made it to Hawaii. ... A similar program was implemented in New York City in 2007 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other cities have used the tactic over the years. 'These kinds of programs have been used historically to ship homeless people out of town,' Michael Stoops, from the National Coalition for the Homeless told MSN. 'In the homelessness field it was once called greyhound therapy. Hawaii now goes a step higher with airplane therapy. Oftentimes local police departments run such programs offering the stark choices of going to a shelter, jail or hopping on a bus or plane home.' July 29, 2013 WASHINGTON — President Obama’s choice of a replacement for the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, is coming down to a battle between the California girls and the Rubin boys. Janet L. Yellen, the Fed’s vice chairwoman, is one of three female friends, all former or current professors at the University of California, Berkeley, who have broken into the male-dominated business of advising presidents on economic policy. Her career has been intertwined with those of Christina D. Romer, who led Mr. Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers at the beginning of his first term, and Laura D’Andrea Tyson, who held the same job under President Clinton and later served as the director of the White House economic policy committee. But no woman has climbed to the very top of the hierarchy to serve as Fed chairwoman or Treasury secretary. Ms. Yellen’s chief rival for Mr. Bernanke’s job, Lawrence H. Summers, is a member of a close-knit group of men, protégés of the former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin, who have dominated economic policy-making in both the Clinton and the Obama administrations. Those men, including the former Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and Gene B. Sperling, the president’s chief economic policy adviser, are said to be quietly pressing Mr. Obama to nominate Mr. Summers. The choice of a Fed chair is perhaps the single most important economic policy decision that Mr. Obama will make in his second term. Mr. Bernanke’s successor must lead the Fed’s fractious policy-making committee in deciding how much longer and how much harder it should push to stimulate growth and seek to drive down the unemployment rate. Ms. Yellen’s selection would be a vote for continuity: she is an architect of the Fed’s stimulus campaign and shares with Mr. Bernanke a low-key, collaborative style. Mr. Summers, by contrast, has said that he doubts the effectiveness of some of the Fed’s efforts, and his self-assured leadership style has more in common with past chairmen like Alan Greenspan and Paul A. Volcker. But the choice also is roiling Washington because it is reviving longstanding and sensitive questions about the insularity of the Obama White House and the dearth of women in its top economic policy positions. Even as three different women have served as secretary of state under various presidents and growing numbers have taken other high-ranking government jobs, there has been little diversity among Mr. Obama’s top economic advisers. “Are we moving forward? It’s hard to see it,” said Ms. Romer, herself a late addition to Mr. Obama’s original economic team, chosen partly because the president wanted a woman. She said she viewed the choice of the next leader of the Fed as a test of the administration’s commitment to inclusiveness. “Within the administration there have been many successful women,” she said. “There are lots of areas where women are front and center, where women are succeeding and doing very well. Economic policy is one where they’re not.” This controversy is an illuminating example of - What is encouraged to be treated as legitimate identity politics: e.g., gender. There's never been a female Fed chairman, so Janet Yellen's supporters are praised in our culture for trumpeting her candidacy as promoting women. - What is uncomfortable as an identity politics issue: age. Summers is 58 and Yellen is 66. The latter seems troublesome for an extremely demanding four-year term in a job where two terms (or more is common) to avoid "roiling the markets." As Baby Boomers (currently ages 49 to 67) age, they become less tolerant of anybody attempting to, in effect, foreclose their career prospects due to advancing age. - What should never be tolerable identity politics: anybody mentioning that if either Summers or Yellen gets the post, then the 98% gentile majority of America won't have held the Fed Chairman's post from 1987 through 2018. Noticing that is simply beyond the pale, even though the Fed Chairman post is not simply a technocratic macroeconomic position, but is also a major regulator of financiers. I don't know much about Yellen, but Larry has been a big personality for a long time. I've written four articles defending him in the 2005 evolutionary psychology brouhaha. But, as a regulator, Larry is representative of the dominant tendency of the last generation in both parties (such as Larry's mentor Robert E. Rubin for the Democrats and Greenspan/Bernanke for the Republicans): pro-Wall Street economists or operators who tend to see attempts to regulate billionaires as at least subliminally anti-Semitic. There's a lot to be said for this dominant standpoint, but let's also be clear that it has been dominant, and that it might well be time to try somebody, at least for a change, who doesn't suspect effective regulation of financiers is the first step to Nazism. WASHINGTON — More than 100 Republican donors — many of them prominent names in their party’s establishment — sent a letter to Republican members of Congress on Tuesday urging them to support an overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws. The letter, which calls for “legal status” for the 11 million immigrants here illegally, begins with a simple appeal: “We write to urge you to take action to fix our broken immigration system.” The effort was organized by Carlos Gutierrez, who was secretary of commerce under President George W. Bush and was a founder of a “super PAC,” Republicans for Immigration Reform. The letter is the beginning of a campaign to lobby Republican lawmakers in favor of a broad immigration bill as they return to their districts for the August break. A cross-section of Republican donors and fund-raisers signed the letter. They include Karl Rove, a deputy chief of staff in Mr. Bush’s White House; former Vice President Dan Quayle; Tom Stemberg, a founder of Staples; and Frank VanderSloot, the founder of Melaleuca Inc. Frank VanderSloot, CEO of Melanoma Inc., sounds like the name of the rich Republican villain in a movie. But, he's in favor of more immigration, so he's cool. Here's the Google Wallet FAQ. From it: "You will need to have (or sign up for) Google Wallet to send or receive money. If you have ever purchased anything on Google Play, then you most likely already have a Google Wallet. If you do not yet have a Google Wallet, don’t worry, the process is simple: go to wallet.google.com and follow the steps." You probably already have a Google ID and password, which Google Wallet uses, so signing up Wallet is pretty painless. You can put money into your Google Wallet Balance from your bank account and send it with no service fee. Google Wallet works from both a website and a smartphone app (Android and iPhone -- the Google Wallet app is currently available only in the U.S., but the Google Wallet website can be used in 160 countries). Or, once you sign up with Google Wallet, you can simply send money via credit card, bank transfer, or Wallet Balance as an attachment from Google's free Gmail email service. Here'show to do it. (Non-tax deductible.) Fourth: if you have a Wells Fargo bank account, you can transfer money to me (with no fees) via Wells Fargo SurePay. Just tell WF SurePay to send the money to my ancient AOL email address steveslrATaol.com -- replace the AT with the usual @). (Non-tax deductible.) Fifth: if you have a Chase bank account (or, theoretically,other bank accounts), you can transfer money to me (with no fees) via Chase QuickPay (FAQ). Just tell Chase QuickPay to send the money to my ancient AOL email address (steveslrATaol.com -- replace the AT with the usual @). If Chase asks for the name on my account, it's Steven Sailer with an n at the end of Steven. (Non-tax deductible.) My Book: "Steve Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be very, very different - and much more interesting - than the bland healer/uniter image stitched together out of whole cloth this past six years by Obama's packager, David Axelrod. Making heavy use of Obama's own writings, which he admires for their literary artistry, Sailer gives the deepest insights I have yet seen into Obama's lifelong obsession with 'race and inheritance,' and rounds off his brilliant character portrait with speculations on how Obama's personality might play out in the Presidency." - John Derbyshire Author, "Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics" Click on the image above to buy my book, a reader's guide to the new President's autobiography.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
I have spent some time over the last week or so reflecting upon the time I spent in our nation's capital for the TGC Global Symposium. The magnitude of this blessing is settling in as I recognize what a gift this program is to my life and my teaching. Meeting all of the members of the cohort, discovering more information about the travel plans for this summer, bonding with the group of distinguished educators I am honored enough to be placed with for our trip to India -- It is all a bit overwhelming and humbling. The groups traveling to Morocco and Senegal are leaving this week, Columbia soon thereafter, and during the first week of April. I thank the Good Lord that I have until summer to plan and get ready for my trip. There are so many things I want to prepare to take with me, such as photo albums, school year books, small gifts and trinkets to hand out to children I meet, and nicer gifts to give my host teacher and his or her colleagues. I also want my students to have the time and opportunity to write postcards and include pictures of themselves that I can give out to the Indian students. I am hoping we can develop a lasting, long distance relationship online so all can better understand the multiple perspectives of people living in other countries. Until we can develop true, lasting relationships of common respect, our world cannot change for the better. We need to really KNOW each other, to understand our differences and similarities in order to appreciate the gifts and talents we all bring to this world. One cannot accomplish that kind of intimate acceptance across a conference table. It must be done over dinners in homes, in discussions about life and fears and dreams. Our children must see people through eyes of empathy and compassion, not competition and fear. There is so much I want to accomplish with this opportunity, but I also realize that whatever comes will be pure gift, whether MY plans are achieved or not. I will be open to the possibilities and will approach all with wonder and a sense of discovery, the same way I hope my students will approach life. I have thought long and hard about my "Guiding Question," the focus for my research while I'm away. I am so very passionate about story, individual story and how our family history informs and directs our personal life story. I wonder how different peoples and cultures pass on their family histories now and how, if at all, that has changed with the innovations of the Internet. How will we, this populous of text-speakers, emailers and Instagrammers, assure that the true meaning behind and within us is forever preserved for posterity. I think I know the answer to this, but: Do we need to worry about or even care what future relatives and peoples know or think about us? So, this concept of story is rattling around in my mind as a possible focus. I'll share some other ideas next time. Until then, be open to the miracles around you; they are happening every moment of every day, if only we take the time and effort to look for them.God bless!! My students in Memphis are in the middle of a huge church building project, in which they discover the wonder and awe in our world by studying the architecture and art of churches. They study many locations all over the world, learning about the people, language, culture and, of course, FOOD from each country. Then they cook a traditional dish from their specific country for our International Feast. Here, simple and fun lessons involve the students' senses, tastebuds, measuring skills (math) and scientific combinations to make the food rise or fluff, cream or stiffen, brown or simmer. As well as helping them to develop global competency as they discover new places, gain understanding of different cultures, communicate their thoughts effectively by building a wiki project, and take action by building a scale model of a church for their location. They collaborate in groups to determine a specific location for their church. Should it be on the sea? But what if the tide comes in too high in a storm and destroys it? Or maybe on level, higher ground with good drainage? Could it be in a forest where trees would have to be removed to make the church fit? Would the town’s people want so many trees to be destroyed? So many real world issues to consider. They must always consider the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in their plans. Finally the building begins…after my safety speeches about the proper ways to use boxcutters and hot glue guns. Once completed, the churches are displayed for the whole school to see. They then create brochures to mail to the bishop or archbishop in their chosen location so show off their work and what they have learned. Waiting for responses from the bishops takes patience, but each year we are never disappointed, receiving from the bishops congratulations, prayer cards, books, brochures and even more information about the Catholic population in the countries. These hands-on projects help build student confidence, instill a sense of wonder and develop global competencies that can be easily implemented in any classroom, any discipline. Students are given the chance to explore and be creative, all with a specific purpose in mind. They are also able to connect school-wide by showing off their work and world-wide with the bishops in distant lands. Julia SchustEr:Author & SPIRITUAL ANTHROPOLOGIST Memphis, Tennessee born. Loves to write. Loves to read. Loves her dogs. Loves her family, FAITH and friends. Loves life. This website is not an official U.S. Department of State website. The views and information presented are the grantee’s own and do not represent the Teachers for Global Classrooms Program, IREX, or the U.S. Department of State.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Climate McCarthyism Strikes Again About six weeks ago Dr. Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama Huntsville (a center for lots of NASA activity and climate research) published an important new paper with William Braswell in the Journal of Remote Sensing entitled “On the Misdiagnosis of Climate Feedbacks from Variations in Earth’s Radiant Energy Balance.” Translated from the scientific lingo, the paper essentially argues that discrepancies between what the climate models say should be happening and what we actually observe happening (namely, the pause in warming over the last decade) means we still don’t have a complete picture of cloud behavior. (This issue is closely related, though not identical, to the post I had up last weekend on Nature’s blockbuster cosmic ray paper.) As Spencer explains on his blog: “Even the IPCC admits the biggest uncertainty in how much human-caused climate change we will see is the degree to which cloud feedback [temperature change => cloud change] will magnify (or reduce) the weak direct warming tendency from more CO2 in the atmosphere.” Well, you can imagine what happened next. Not content with attacking Spencer and Braswell for their heresy, the Climate Inquisition has forced the resignation of the editor of the Journal of Remote Sensing. Better still, they seem to have given him the full Rubashov treatment and forced a confession: Unfortunately, as many climate researchers and engaged observers of the climate change debate pointed out in various internet discussion fora, the paper by Spencer and Braswell… is most likely problematic in both aspects and should therefore not have been published. “Should not have been published.” Even though it passed peer review, and finds lots of company among scientists and other journal articles. And besides, if it’s been attacked on the internet by the climate mafia, then it must be wrong! You can understand why the Climate McCarthyites want to suppress Dr. Spencer. He’s only been a senior scientist for climate studies at NASA for more than a decade, co-designer of NASA’s satellites that monitor global temperatures, winner of NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, and author of several books on the subject, including Climate Confusion, and The Great Global Warming Blunder.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
I know I've already submitted two, but may I please submit one more? Sorry, but I just made this wallpaper of Vegeta from Dragonball Z that I really love ;A; It's okay if you say no, I like the ones I submitted anyways x]	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
World’s 10 Most Expensive Sports The beauty of sports is that they are the closest thing to a meritocracy. Sure, anyone can play basketball or soccer at anytime and if they show a particular talent, they can make a career out of it. While this is true for many sports, it is not for all. Not everyone has access to every sport. In some sports, talent and hard work are not the determinants of success. The major determinant of success in some sports is money. The following ten sports are all about access. Without considerable financial capital there is no way an individual can even consider participating in these sports. The costs associated with these sports are very high and not only include equipment and training costs, but also insurance. Quite frankly, some of these sports appear to be designed so the elite can do something with their money. Regardless of the expenses, competing in and succeeding in these ten sports is time consuming and requires a level of commitment on par with other sports. If you want to pursue any of these sports though, be warned, they have the potential to empty your pockets! Equestrian Equestrian is the sport concerned with the skill of riding, driving, steeple chasing or vaulting with horses. Equestrian sports, however, are sports that only the privileged few can participate in. The costs of training and maintaining a horse for the events in equestrian sports can be astronomical and include traveling to events and stabling the animal appropriately. The cost of exhibiting a horse on the international circuit can exceed $200,000 a year. This figure doesn’t even include the cost of purchasing a horse. Polo Just like equestrian, polo requires the purchase of an elite horse and requires maintenance, training and traveling costs. What separates polo is that it requires those who play it to own more than one horse. Most polo players need about four horses in order to substitute tired horses. Polo ponies must be exercised regularly and this usually requires two grooms at $2,500 a month. Tournaments can cost anywhere between $3,500 and $150,000. To be a patron and sponsor polo teams in tournaments can cost anywhere between $300,000 and $1,000,000. Formula 1 Those dreaming to be Formula 1 drivers should expect to have high expenses, as injuries are prevalent and are usually more serious that a sprained ankle. Participation in this sport, requires one to own their own car. Formula 1 is the pinnacle of motor racing and to reach this level, drivers have to start racing from a young age on go-karts. The costs rise at each level and corporate sponsors are essential as entering a Formula 1 race costs about $190,000. There is a reason why the cars and athletes look like walking advertisements for various products. The cost of the cars are astronomical and the tires cost more than the average civilian vehicle. Sailing There shouldn’t be a surprise to see sailing on this list. Owning a boat is usually more expensive than owning a car and the boats required for this sport, and the assortment of equipment, requires deep pockets. A sailing vessel can cost up to $100 million as in the AC 72 craft which will participate in this year’s America’s Cup. The only catch in this sport is, that it takes place over a few months. The rest of the time the boat has to be stored and this is where most of the money is spent. When the boat in question is on dry land, it is an expensive task to make sure it is suitable to go back in the water. Pentathlon Participating in a sport at the highest level can be an expensive proposition. Depending on the sport, the costs for equipment and training can be high. Well, if you want to participate in the Pentathlon, you should be ready to spend money on not one, but five sports. These sports are fencing, swimming, show jumping, pistol shooting and running. Obviously the cost of show jumping is far and the most expensive facet, as it requires a horse. But there are other costs from training for all the other events, such as the costs of fencing equipment as well as the purchase and maintenance of guns. Wingsuiting Wingsuiting is the sport of flying the human body through the air using a special jumpsuit called a wingsuit. The wingsuit adds surface area to the human body to enable a significant increase in lift. Surprisingly, the wingsuit is not the most expensive component of the sport and costs about $2,500. What really burns your money is the many costs associated with getting into the air and back on solid ground safely. One has to take skydiving lessons, purchase gear, rent a plane, pay a pilot and also pay insurance. These costs add up and prevent all but the elite from participating. Recreational wingsuiting can cost up to $30,000 a year, without including insurance costs. The costs are exponentially higher for competitive wingsuiting. Bobsledding Bobsledding is similar to F1 in the sense that it requires corporate sponsorship for those who have any hope of participating. The bobsleds themselves are not cheap and cost around $25,000 and it is very expensive to train, as there are few bobsled runs in the world. Constructing a bobsled run can cost millions of dollars. Bobsledding is a team sport and requires four participants and hence four times the cost. Hot Air Balloon Racing The prices for a recreational ride on a hot air balloon that an individual would pay cost upwards of $300 for an hour ride. One can only imagine the costs of owning and competing in those balloons. A one person hot air balloon costs at least $20,000 to buy. Balloons must meet air safety regulations and need to be inspected which costs around $350. Inspections occur either annually or every 100 hours of flight time. The costs of training for a pilot’s license can cost anywhere between $1,250 and $3,000. Then there are the equipment costs, such as navigational devices and the storage fees. Storing a hot air balloon is not quite the same as parking a car in a garage. Fuel for these machines can cost about $15-$30 an hour and the cost of inflating the balloons is at least $900, as a special fan is required. Competition fees are expensive and one cannot forget the insurance which would cost up to $1,200 annually. As if all this is not enough, a hot air balloon typically lasts between 300-500 hours of flight time after which it needs to be significantly repaired or replaced. Ski Jumping Though the equipment can cost upwards of $2,500, it pales in comparison to the aforementioned sports. While recreational ski jumping is pricey, competitive ski jumping can be exponentially more so. The equipment will cost more (maybe $2,500 for just the skis) and a trainer is required. Access to ski jump for training is also a requirement and is going to cost a lot. A competitive ski jumper should expect expenses in the range of $100,000 every year and needs a bevy of sponsors in order to pursue the sport. But what really makes this sport expensive is the insurance policy. As one can imagine, being insured for a sport that requires an individual to fly down an incline at great speeds and jump is not easy and will significantly dent one’s wallet. The Whitianga Festival of Speed The world’s most expensive sport or sporting event is the Whitianga Festival of Speed. The festival is held annually in New Zealand and features multiple sports centered around speed. The event includes a helicopter race, an offshore Powerboat Race, Jet Ski racing, Rally Car vs. Helicopter Racing, and Parachute Swooping, among other events. So, basically in order for you to join the competition, you have to have a helicopter, amongst all the other equipment. Owning and maintaining the equipment for one of these races is expensive enough, but to do it for all of them requires many millions of dollars.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Men's Soccer Soccer's Incoming Class Ranked Fourth in the Nation SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - In a poll recently released by College Soccer News, the UC Santa Barbara men's soccer team's 2009 recruiting class was ranked fourth in the nation. According to College Soccer News: "While most of the top classes are dominated by big-time high school prospects, the Gauchos made their biggest marks in the junior college ranks. UCSB needed help on the defensive side of the ball and they got it with this class, plus more. Defenders Evan McNeil and Chris Hunter and goalkeeper Sam Hayden transfer from Yavapai College. Defender Taylor Rivas comes from Taft's and forward Waid Ibrahim, who was a two-time CIF Offensive Player of the Year, comes out of Santa Barbara City College. You know the Gauchos have serious selling power when they can go to Wisconsin and attract a High School All-American as they did in the case of midfielder Robbie Boyd. Midfielder Christian Ramirez, defender Robert Hoyle, and forward Michael Nonni are all solid." Earlier this summer, College Soccer News ranked UCSB No. 19 in its national preseason poll and yesterday, it was announced by the Big West Conference, that the Gauchos were picked first in the annual preseason coaches' poll. The 2009 soccer season kicks-off on Aug. 22 when the Gauchos host Westmont in a scrimmage at 7 p.m. at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium. Season tickets for the 2009 men's soccer season are on sale for only five bucks a game. Fans who purchase 2009 season tickets will be guaranteed the opportunity to buy tickets for the 2010 Men's NCAA College Cup hosted by UCSB at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium Dec. 10-12, 2010. To accompany the successful "Soccer Town, USA" slogan as part of the College Cup bid, a discounted family valued offer is also available where a family of five can catch games for only $2.50 per game! Family Plan package also includes three free youth t-shirts and memberships to the new UCSB kids club: GKids. Fans can easily buy tickets online or by calling 805-893-UCSB. To purchase your tickets click here. The Golden Scarf: A New Tradition To reward and recognize our loyal soccer supporters, we will present the "Golden Scarf" to fans who have donated and/or purchased season tickets for five consecutive seasons. The scarves will be presented during a special halftime ceremony during the October 2 game vs. Indiana.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Team Rauner’s harmful push to help the check-cashing biz Angelica Rosales, a hardworking Latina parent of three children, is living paycheck to paycheck. To cash those paychecks, Rosales often goes to a currency exchange. Her reason for not having a bank account? She doesn’t have enough money. The bank’s terms made a bank account unaffordable. Banks can charge fees based on your minimum balance, frequency of deposits and whether you have direct deposit. An unstable employment situation does not match up well with traditional banking services. When the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation, a state agency that is part of the Rauner administration, proposed a double-digit check-cashing hike that mirrored exactly what the industry asked for in June, mothers like Rosales knew feeding her family was about to get more difficult. Rosales got a chance to make her case at a recent public hearing on the proposed rate hike. IDFPR was required by law to hold the hearing because it received so many requests from consumers. Unfortunately, the hearing was a somewhat stilted affair. Notice of the event was buried in an obscure regulatory publication known as the Illinois Register. Despite this, concerned consumers and their advocates joined together under the rallying cry of Illinois Sen. Jacqueline Collins. At the hearing, these cries were met with cold stares and harsh demands from the industry and its lobbyists. Consumers attending the hearing were told they could not testify unless they first presented their testimony in writing. Opponents of the rate increase were required to testify first; the industry testified last. When Woodstock Institute, a research and policy nonprofit, requested the opportunity to respond to the industry arguments, we were denied. So I will do so here. The industry, represented by the head of the Community Currency Exchange Association of Illinois, points to decreasing profits as the need for a rate increase. CCEAI’s principal officer, John Iberl, gave testimony intended to respond to a proposal Woodstock Institute tendered to the Rauner administration in July. The gist of our proposal is that certain checks, like public assistance checks, should be exempt from the rate increase.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Black Ink 1-20-14 Related Media After living through the summer of 2012, a farmer in my area might be tempted to plant longer season corn. That year it warmed up early, was a hot dry summer that stretched well into fall. The 117-day varieties out-performed the 112-day ones that are common in central Nebraska. As most farmers know, corn that’s adapted to longer growing seasons is typically the highest yielding. But most won’t make cropping decisions based on one year’s worth of data, and certainly not on one year’s weather pattern. Our first average freeze is October 12. Our average growing season lasts 156 days. There are curve benders, to be sure, but the crops are selected with those dates in mind. Cattle marketing is much the same. There are normal price patterns and then there are years that defy those trends. Cattle feeders have told us that some of their long-term retained ownership customers, still seeing the red from last season, decided not to feed their calf crop this year. Instead, those ranchers sold on summer video auctions and now may be wishing they hadn’t. Those who did stick with cattle feeding one more year are enjoying lower input prices and higher beef cutouts. Just as it’s tricky to stand there in April and guess what the next several months of weather will bring, it’s difficult to predict the market. Even with the National Weather Service data, the latest gizmos and information at your fingertips, it’s hard. No matter how many market analysts you hear, what ag economic theories you study and how many historical reports you take into account, it still comes down to making an educated guess and hoping for a little bit of luck. The only way to really beat the market is to get a program together that helps you capture better-than-commodity prices, and then stick with it. The best way to secure more than the market average? Producing cattle that are worth more. That means genetics and management, paying attention to the details, big and little — and then finding a way to get paid for doing all of that. For many people that means owning those better cattle through the feedyard. Every year that means that they take a risk. Sometimes they see high calf prices in the summer and yet have the confidence to put those cattle on feed and wait another couple of quarters for their payout. Why? Darrell Busby, Iowa State University, told me once, “We find many producers have spent time and effort selecting genetics for high-quality, fast-gaining cattle and have gone through the rigors of preconditioning their calves. Retained ownership offers them the opportunity to take advantage of the genetics and management that they’ve put into their cattle.” They’ve seen that strategy work, and though it’s not perfect, it’s proven. And the more they improve their cattle, the better it works. That’s not saying you have to stick with the same marketing plan year after year, but making drastic moves based on the whim of one odd year might make as much sense as switching to 120-day corn varieties in Minnesota.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
An examination of aspects of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) from a scientific perspective. Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Westall research - this blog's contribution to the debate. Introduction From time to time, I receive comments from people, that they believe I have a negative approach to the subject of the 6 April 1966, mass sighting at Westall, Melbourne, Australia. I inform such people that, like themselves, I have the right to my opinion as to the cause of the sighting that day. Unlike some individuals, I base my own opinion on having conducted research on the event. I was not there on the day, and ultimately, my opinion is based solely on what I have been able to find out, by communicating with Westall witnesses as long ago as the 1990's; by visiting the site, prior to the playground installation; by an examination of all the original source material I could locate; an examination of Australian government files; by looking for potential non-UFO explanations; by exploring topics such as memory recall in people; and applying all that I have learnt from many years of interviewing witnesses to sightings, all over Australia. One of the few witness documents available from 1966 - image courtesy VFSRS This blog's contribution to the Westall debate Quite a few posts on this blog, have explored the Westall sighting. I have provided the following links for anyone who wishes to explore material relating to the event; much of which, you will not find anywhere else. Photo by author Blowing in the wind Back in 2010, a series of posts appeared about the possibility that stratospheric balloons might cause some UAP events. Research found that certain Australian sightings did indeed, seem to have been caused in this way. An even more remote possibility, that a USAF aircraft (which were flying in Victoria at around that time) had accidentally lost an atomic bomb, was explored, given that Westall witnesses reported individuals with Geiger counters examining the area. In 2012, there was a tantalising report about another (1967) Victorian sighting involved multiple aircraft chasing UFOs. This second sighting had several common factors with the Westall incident, and just had to be explored. No one had previously published about this. Westall researcher, Shane Ryan received information from the family of a former high up member of the former Department of Supply, which led Shane to understand that that employee knew the answer to what was seen at Westall. Researcher Paul Dean located an Australian government file concerning the reported observation of a UFO on radar, three days before Westall. No-one outside of the government prior to Paul, had seen this file. Extensive work was undertaken to explore the hypothesis (simply an idea to be discussed, confirmed or rejected based on the evidence) that the Westall object(s) was/were associated with the HIBAL program. This blog, has since 2010, explored a variety of aspects of the Westall sighting; provided a summary searchable text of all the original source material; uncovered new data; clarified other pieces of existing information, and put forward a testable non-UFO hypothesis for the event. I point out that there is almost no hard data available. There is no analysis of reported ground traces. There is no evidence of radar detection of the object. There are no documents about the sighting to be found in any Australian government file. The witnesses' observations are not well documented from the era, e.g. there are no entries from a 1966 diary. Much of the shared information only came to light since around 2006. Researchers have failed to acknowledge that human memory is prone to errors. No government employees have come forward to say they were involved in a cover up of the incident. Even the legendary US researcher, James E McDonald, following a personal investigation of Westall, never promoted it as an example of the 'core' phenomenon.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
TWP Interviews: Nikki Juen, Multidisciplinary Artist and Designer 1. We are curious about who you are and what kind of work that you do?Hello The Woman Project, it’s an honor to be asked to contribute my thoughts here. I am a multidisciplinary artist and designer, I am a parent, and a partner. The primary medium of my work is education. I am a proud Rhode Island resident although I did not grow up here; something of which I am aware of on a near daily basis. I teach at Rhode Island School of Design in the Division of Experimental and Foundation Studies and I Co-Chair an MFA program in Graphic Design at Vermont College of Fine Arts [http://vcfa.edu/graphic-design]. My partner and I run a graphic design studio called Happymatter [https://www.happymatter.com/] that collaborates with non-profits, educational institutions, and individuals to help them develop attentive and holistic understanding of their intention, function and efficacy. I have a practice as a direct art activist and my collective uses art, design, performance, and experience as forms of nonviolent direct art action. Our collective is called Public Displays of Affection Collective [https://pdacollective.org/] and we organize nationally to create work that resists misogyny and racism among other important topics. [http://www.brickxbrick.org/] The combination of art, experience, and the human body is such a powerful way to ask challenging questions. Our work aims to foster community and to express complex feelings in response to traumas recreated by 45s assault on women’s bodies especially on freedoms of healthcare access and choice. 2. TWP has been working to pass a bill that codifies Roe v. Wade into RI state law. We are interested in the ways that Reproductive Freedom impacts your life and the work that you do? There’s a great limitation in the line of thought that ‘reproductive freedoms or feminisms in general impact only women’. They do not and they never have. I refer here to a quote by Audre Lorde: “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” Lourde’s quote recognizes difference itself as connectivity and action and empowers the fact that we are an inseparable constellation of peoples and environment. Myself and my immediate family still have the privilege of access to healthcare (albeit paid out-of-pocket) including choices in providers. Many families and individuals do not. Until everybody has safe access, abundant education, and freedom of choice — reproductive freedom in Rhode Island impacts us all — regardless of gender or sexuality. 2a. What about the lives of the women in your personal life?I immediately think of another quote by the extraordinary Audre Lorde. I could easily praise Lorde’s work all day long. Lorde says “Art is not living. It is the use of living.” My practice in both in academia and in nonviolent direct art action, work to create spaces where individuals can talk across differences. Our project Brick by Brick [http://www.brickxbrick.org/] has in the time since its creation in 2016 put hundreds of bodies in brick patterned jumpsuits. On the jumpsuits are different colored bricks using language that Trump has said about women and their bodies. What we are doing is standing in solidarity and silence against those words and in the process reclaiming our bodies, who we are, and what we believe. A year ago, over 130 Brick x Brick performers performed at the 2017 Women’s March on Washington in DC building the single largest wall on the White House Ellipse. On Jan 20th, 2018, during the anniversary rally, we had 12 walls happening simultaneously in cities across the nation, so collectively we had well over 250 people in jumpsuits and vests. Last month Brick x Brick built walls in Austin, TX, Boston, MA, Columbus, OH, Greensboro, NC, Los Angeles, CA, Montpelier, VT, Nashville, TN, New Orleans, LA, New York City, NY, Providence, RI, San Francisco, CA, and St Louis, MO. People who have never performed before come together for a common cause to defend women’s bodies including under-represented bodies through a highly visual form of direct art action. Since 45 wants to build other walls the image of a wall became a very powerful form of resistance, another way to use his words in protest and reclamation. One of the most incredible products of creating art is when it starts to live beyond your original intentions and I think that’s very much a case for Brick by Brick. Standing hand-in-hand in silence is a powerful action. Brick x Brick offers a visually dynamic, accessible, and creative space to contemplate and resist feelings of desperation and the unimaginable consequence that 45s dismantling of reproductive rights for women’s bodies and wellbeing would cause. 3. When you think about your community (or communities) what is something you would like them to know about Reproductive Freedom in RI? Why?I would like people in my community to know that on the cornice of the RI State House is inscribed the statement, “To hold forth a lively experiment That a most flourishing civil state may stand and best be maintained with full liberty in religious concernments.” The Founding Fathers of the United States of America echoed Roger Williams’ separation of church and state in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Since its founding, Rhode Island has always been a progressive state. There are many legislators and individuals working to support reproductive health and accessibility. It is important to support local access for all, and it is important to have conversations with peoples and populations not like ourselves. There are many collectives, groups and organizers like The Woman Project, Fang Collective, Dirt Palace, Nancy Rafi, and many others in RI, that are making art, creating communities, and affecting policy that have the ability to directly affect lives. 4. What are the best ways in your opinion to educate people about this issue? Making art, using design, and community building are the three methods that I find most effective in my practice and that continually hold my interest. I recognize that what I do individually is less effective than working in tandem with other artists, groups, collectives, and lawmakers. My teams and I are committed to taking action so that others unlike ourselves benefit. This practice includes and allegiance to intersectionality and accountability. Art and design are a way to collapse the personal towards the seemingly unwieldy size of the political and governmental. There are some impossible and even dangerous policies being enacted daily. It helps me process what I can’t immediately stop or even understand at my personal scale. Through art and design I can more easily come into conversation with forces that seek to annihilate the security, safety, and well being of my body. 5. Is there anything else you would like to add?There is no action that is too small or inconsequential. If you’re interested in direct art action or policy creation, get in touch with groups in your area, there is a lively network and people there is always work to be done. Joining in ways that can be helpful to already established groups is a wonderful way to start! Watching people work together, listening to many voices, can be one of the most gratifying practices. Primary Sidebar Want to get involved but don't like the common ways done in politics? That is why TWP got started! Join us in an ARTIVIST action! We need your support to thrive and make our voices heard! Our Address: 13 Mechanic Ave Wakefield, RI 02879 Join Us! We take political action on issues important to women through art and community-organizing at a grass-roots level. First NameLast NameE-Mail Address About Us! The Womxn Project (TWP) is a non-profit organization in Rhode Island focused on building a strong, feminist, community-based movement to further human rights of Rhode Islanders by using art and activism to advance education and social change. TWP stirs social awareness and invites political action to inclusively further womxn’s rights through creative advocacy campaigns and collaborative art projects. Read More...	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
DOE delays decision on Cheniere Energy facility Thursday, 18 Oct 2012 \| 10:27 AM ETThe Associated Press SHARES NEW ORLEANS -- The U.S. Department of Energy says it needs more time to consider an environmental group's objections to a Texas company's plans to build an export terminal for liquefied natural gas in southwest Louisiana. Earlier this year regulators approved a permit allowing Houston-based Cheniere Energy Inc. to build the Sabine Pass LNG terminal in Cameron Parish. The project was the first large-scale natural gas export facility to be approved in the U.S. In September, the Sierra Club objected and asked DOE to block the project. The group said a more in-depth environmental analysis should be done to examine whether building the facility would result in an increase in natural gas production and environmental damage. On Oct. 5, DOE issued its decision to take more time to consider the Sierra Club's request for a rehearing and a stay. The department did not indicate when it will respond to the Sierra Club's request. Under its permit, Cheniere can export LNG to countries without free-trade agreements with the United States. The facility, which will chill natural gas into a liquid that can be shipped on tankers, will allow U.S. producers to export natural gas overseas for potentially huge profits. The company hopes that partial operations at the terminal to come online between 2015 and 2016. The Sierra Club argues that federal regulators need to look at the ramifications of increased natural gas production should the facility be built. The group argues that natural gas drilling creates air pollution, contaminates groundwater and damages the environment in other ways.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
New plan needed for Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River; water levels likely to be higher this summer CLAYTON The consensus among those in the room for a panel discussion hosted by the International Water Levels Coalition was clear: the plan that regulates the water levels for Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River needs to be updated, immediately. Thomas E. Brown, a member of the International St. Lawrence River Board of Control, and Gary S. DeYoung, executive director of the 1000 Islands International Tourism Council, addressed a small but deeply invested crowd of listeners in the concession area of the Cerow Recreational Arena during the annual Clayton Spring Boat Show. The recurring topic? The Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Plan 2014 authored by the International Join Commission. Mr. Brown and Mr. DeYoung were both critical of the existing plan 1958D, in place for more than 50 years and called for a renewed look at the way both Canada and the United States manage the levels of the two bodies of water. At stake are both environmental and economic issues, the two experts were quick to point out. Fielding questions from coalition President William H. Schebaum, Mr. DeYoung was the first to speak. Higher water levels are key to extending the tourism season into autumn, which will allow businesses ranging from fishing charters to tour boats to retail outlets to continue to operate and provide a more robust economic base for an area that has long been dependent on seasonal consumers. Fall is what we found out is the best opportunity for increasing business, Mr. DeYoung said. If we do that, we can support a lot of different kinds of businesses. He then painted a practical picture of the wider effects low water levels can have on the business communities along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. When the water levels drop, people stop buying tablecloths, he said, emphasizing the harm done to Main Street businesses when river tourism slows down. This is a terribly important topic, Mr. Brown said. The more we can learn about it, the more we can talk about it. One of the reasons the 1958D plan is no longer suitable is the fact that it was developed in an entirely different era with an emphasis on an entirely different set of industries, according to Mr. Brown. The beneficiaries of the current plan were power, navigation and shoreline entities, and the plan has been around for 50 years without any change and without any regard for recreational boating or the environment, Mr. Brown said. According to Mr. Brown, in the 1950s, people knew very little about the environment, and the 1958D plan has devastated the ecology and environment of the entire system, in some places leaving 80 percent of the wetland lost. Part of the problem, he said, is that a natural 6- to 8-foot range of high and low water levels has been compressed to a 4-foot range, which necessitates major annual control of the Lake Ontario ecosystem and leads to lower water levels in the fall and winter. That control has taken a heavy toll on biodiversity, especially the muskrat and Northern pike populations, Mr. Brown said. The 2014 plan, which is being finalized by the IJC, will begin to improve variability and move the regulation of water levels to a more natural process; it also would provide higher water levels in the fall, Mr. Brown said. Though the plan ultimately will have to be approved by the governments of the U.S. and Canada, New York state also is supposed to have significant input, according to Mr. Schebaum. The problem is that state officials, particularly Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, have been slow to weigh in on the plan, Mr. Schebaum said. Stephen M. Hunt II, a representative for Rep. William L. Owens, attended the meeting, as did Canadian Sen. Robert W. Runciman, who told attendees that he had recently spoken with IJC Commissioner and acting Canadian Chairman Gordon Walker. Weve got a friend in Mr. Walker, Sen. Runciman said. He told me we would be very happy. Asked his forecast for this summers water levels, Mr. Brown said the harsh winter provided a 93 percent ice cover, which saves a lot of water, and the area likely would see higher water levels this summer. The levels now are 7 inches lower than normal but rising, Mr. Brown said. Lake Ontario was at 244.69 feet as of Friday, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers website. Commenting rules: Stick to the topic of the article/letter/editorial. When responding to issues raised by other commenters, do not engage in personal attacks or name-calling. Comments that include profanity/obscenities or are libelous in nature will be removed without warning. Violators' commenting privileges may be revoked indefinitely. By commenting you agree to our full Terms of Use.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
- OKAY, GUYS, WE REALLY NEED TO GET STARTED ON THIS YEARS UNITED WAY CALENDAR. - YES WE DO (laughs). - UH, I'M THINKING A NATURE THEME FOR THIS YEAR'S CALENDAR. - MMM... - SOMETHING VERY SIMPLE, SOMETHING VERY TASTEFUL. [ farting sound ] - WE'RE STARTING OUT HERE WITH TWO POTENTIAL JANUARY'S HERE. WE GOT, UH, COTTAGES IN THE SNOW. WHAT DO WE THINK ABOUT? LET'S BRAINSTORM SOME IDEAS. - I LOVE YOUR COTTAGE IDEA. I WAS THINKING MAYBE-- - LOOK, I KNOW YOU ALL THINK I JUST FARTED, BUT I DIDN'T. WHAT YOU ACTUALLY HEARD WAS JUST MY SHOE RUBBING AGAINST THE FLOOR, AND IT SOUNDED EXACTLY LIKE A FART. - OKAY KAREN, WE BELIEVE YOU, YOU DIDN'T FART. - YEAH. - I WOULD'VE SAID IT WAS THE COUCH IF I WAS LYING. BECAUSE IT'S A LEATHER COUCH. - THAT MAKES SENSE. - LET ME JUST PROVE IT TO YOU, OKAY? [ scraping sound ] OKAY, WELL IT'S NOT DOING IT NOW-- - YOU KNOW WHAT? I FEEL LIKE MAYBE-- WHY DON'T WE JUST FOCUS ON THE CALENDAR. - RIGHT, YES. PLEASE. - SO... - CAN WE? YES, YES, YES... - OKAY, SO, GERALD I LOVED YOUR IDEA ABOUT THE COTTAGES. - I WAS THINKING MAYBE LIKE A COVERED BRIDGES OF MAINE. - OOH, YEAH. - GOOD, GOOD. - YES, I LOVE THAT. - YOU DO? - WITH DIFFERENT SEASONS, YES. WITH DIFFERENT COLORS. - I MEAN I JUST THINK THIS WOULD BE THE PERFECT-- - IF I FARTED, YOU WOULD SMELL IT. - GERALD, DO YOU SMELL ANYTHING? - NO. - NO, HE DOESN'T. CASE CLOSED. BUT IF I DID WOULD IT REALLY BE THAT BIG OF A DEAL? - NOBODY CARES THAT YOU FARTED-- - ALLEGEDLY FARTED [ giggles ]. WE NEED TO GET THE FACTS STRAIGHT GERALD [ laughs ]. - WHY DON'T WE JUST VOTE ON THIS COVERED BRIDGES IDEA, OKAY. - I THINK WE ARE ALL LEANING TOWARDS IT. ALL IN FAVOR OF COVER BRIDGES. - GREAT WE'RE ALL IN AGREEMENT. - GREAT. - NOW THAT WE'RE VOTING, WHY DON'T WE JUST TAKE A QUICK VOTE ON WHETHER OR NOT YOU THINK I FARTED. OKAY, IT'S GOING TO TAKE 2 SECONDS GERALD. - OKAY-- - THANKS. LET'S JUST DO THAT-- I'M GOING TO HAVE TO ASK YOU TO LEAVE THE MEETING. - IF GERALD WANTS ME TO LEAVE. - YEAH, YOU CAN GO. [ sad music plays ] - I'M INSULTED RIGHT NOW, AND OH-- YOU KNOW-- YOU KNOW WHAT? I WILL LEAVE, BUT JUST KNOW THAT I WAS NOT ASKED TO LEAVE THIS MEETING FOR FARTING, AND I MOST CERTAINLY DID NOT FART IN HERE TODAY. SO I'M GOING TO LEAVE WITH MY HEAD HELD HIGH, AND MY DIGNITY STILL FULLY IN TACT. [ fart sound ] THESE, UH, HINGES ARE MAKING A SOUND. - SOUNDS LIKE A FART AGAIN THOUGH. - SMELLS LIKE A FART OVER HERE TOO. [ door hinge squeaks ] [ fart sound ]	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
A limited constitutional government calls for a rules-based, freemarket monetary system, not the topsy-turvy fiat dollar that now exists under central banking. This issue of the Cato Journal examines the case for alternatives to central banking and the reforms needed to move toward free-market money. The more widespread use of body cameras will make it easier for the American public to better understand how police officers do their jobs and under what circumstances they feel that it is necessary to resort to deadly force. Americans are finally enjoying an improving economy after years of recession and slow growth. The unemployment rate is dropping, the economy is expanding, and public confidence is rising. Surely our economic crisis is behind us. Or is it? In Going for Broke: Deficits, Debt, and the Entitlement Crisis, Cato scholar Michael D. Tanner examines the growing national debt and its dire implications for our future and explains why a looming financial meltdown may be far worse than anyone expects. The Cato Institute has released its 2014 Annual Report, which documents a dynamic year of growth and productivity. “Libertarianism is not just a framework for utopia,” Cato’s David Boaz writes in his book, The Libertarian Mind. “It is the indispensable framework for the future.” And as the new report demonstrates, the Cato Institute, thanks largely to the generosity of our Sponsors, is leading the charge to apply this framework across the policy spectrum. Memo to Robert Reich: Rewrite Your Brief He argues that I distort his proposal (though I wasn’t talking about his proposal) and ignore his argument that, “Giving the middle class more purchasing power by lowering its rates while raising the rates at the top will help spur [economic] growth.” This strikes me as a futile effort to change the subject. Since I proved that past tax rates of 50-70% on relatively modest incomes raised less revenue than a top tax rate of 28%, how could Reich’s proposal of 50-70% rates at incomes above $500,000 raise more revenue? And if 50-70% tax rates would not raise more revenue, then how could he possibly promise “substantial rate reductions [actually a refundable tax credit] for people with incomes under $100,000”? The original draft of my article was not focused on Reich, but included others − including two of his Berkeley colleagues (Brad DeLong and Emmanuel Saez) who recently suggested a tax rate of 70% would be “revenue-maximizing.” The details of Reich’s proposal were not in the blog I quoted, but such details have no relevance to any points I made. Only after top tax rates came down, I noted, were we able to afford very substantial reductions in taxes for people with incomes under $100,000. Since President Reagan took office the average income tax rates have become negative for the bottom 40% and were cut in half for the “middle class.” In 1980, when top tax rates were 70% and nearly 40% on capital gains, such rates brought in so little revenue that the Feds were compelled to tax low and middle-income families quite heavily to bring revenues up to the normal 8% of GDP. At his blog, Reich argues that, “Reynolds bends the facts to make his case. The most important variable explaining the rise and fall of tax revenues as a percent of GDP has been the business cycle, not the effective tax rate. In periods when the economy is growing briskly, tax revenues have risen as a percent of GDP, regardless of effective rates; in downturns, revenues have fallen.” For that to work as an explanation of why individual tax revenues were higher when the top tax rate was 28% than when it was 70-91%, Reich is logically obligated to argue that the economy was growing more briskly when the top tax rate was 28% than when the top tax rate was 70-91%. Contradicting his own logic, however, Reich instead claims that “Giving the middle class more purchasing power by lowering its rates while raising the rates at the top will help spur growth.” Reich is not proposing to add new tax rates to 50-70% on salaries, dividends and capital gains because he believes it will raise more revenue (my data show otherwise), but because he believes it will raise the growth of real GDP. This is breathtaking. Reich should be glad that I ignored his “central argument” about super-high tax rates boosting economic growth by taking income from those who earned and giving it to those more likely to squander it. I was just being too polite. Within his hyper-Keynesian lawyer’s brief, Reich is logically required to argue that top tax rates of 70-91% (1) raised revenue, and that (2) this imaginary added revenue allowed imaginary tax reductions on poorer people with a lower propensity to save. He must then arrive at the logical conclusion, which is that (3) the average savings rate must have been much lower when top tax rates were 70-91% than since 1988 when to tax rates have frequently been 28-35% and as low as 15% on capital gains and dividends. A low savings rate, in Reichian theory, is what makes the economy grow. My article proved the first two premises are false. High statutory tax rates on the rich generated less revenue, and the poor and middle classes paid much higher taxes as a result. The third premise of Reich’s brief is key to the Keynesian fable about growth depending to incentives to consume rather than incentives to produce. Once again, the facts are the exact opposite of what Reich imagines. The personal savings rate was 9% from 1959 to 1981 when top tax rates were 70-91%, and 4.5% from 1988 to 2007 when top tax rates were 28-39.6%. Reich’s comment that “the richest 1% of Americans got 10% of total [pretax, pretransfer] income in 1980, and get more than 20% now” refers to income reported on individual tax returns, assembled by Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez. When top tax rates went way down, particularly in 1988, 1997 and 2003, the amount of reported income and capital gains went way up. As Saez explained in the 2004 issue of Tax Policy and The Economy (MIT Press, p.120): “Top income shares … show striking evidence of large and immediate responses to the tax cuts of 1980s, and the size of those responses is largest for the topmost income groups.” That is why revenues from high-income households went way up rather than down, and why it then became feasible to hand out refundable credits to the bottom 40% and cut tax bills in half for those earning less than $100,000. Reich would apply his 50-70 % tax rates to reported capital gains and dividends, which is a surefire way to make taxable capital gains and dividends vanish from tax returns. No high-income taxpayer can be compelled to sell property or financial assets for the sheer joy of paying 50-70 % of the gain to the IRS. No investor can be compelled to hold dividend-paying stock rather than tax-free bonds. With the enormous amount of revenues lost under the Reich tax proposal, we would have no choice but to revert to the pre-1986 stingy personal exemptions and standard deductions while also repealing the Bush child credit and the vastly expanded earned income tax credit.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
What can you do to protect yourself if you might get fired? November 30, 2018 A lot of people who call Gold Star Law are calling because they think they are about to be fired and want to know what they can do. Sometimes they keep getting called into meetings with human resources, or with supervisors, and get disciplined about their performance. Sometimes they see a lot of people around them getting fired and think they may be next. Sometimes their supervisors have started avoiding them or ignoring them in a way that makes them think something is up. Whatever the reason, it is not uncommon at all for people to call us and ask “What can I do if I think I’m about to be fired?” The first question we have when people ask us what they can do to protect themselves if they think they are about to be fired is why. Why do you think that and, more importantly, why do they want to fire you? Michigan is an at-will state, which means that generally, you can be fired for any reason or no reason at all, as long as you are not fired for an illegal reason. Illegal reasons for firing someone in Michigan include discrimination on the basis of sex, race, age, and other certain traits, and retaliation for having engaged in certain activities such as making a complaint about certain unlawful practices. If you believe that your employer is setting you up to be fired for an illegal reason, our first and best advice is to document everything. Say, for example, you complained about not getting overtime pay. That type of complaint is protected under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and it is illegal to fire someone for making that type of complaint. Now, your employer keeps giving you write-ups for things that everyone else does all the time, and you think they are laying the groundwork to fire you. The best thing you can do is make and keep detailed records. Make sure, if you have not already, that you have written proof of your complaint regarding overtime pay. If your complaint was in writing, keep a copy. If your complaint was not in writing, send an email or other writing to follow-up, so you can prove that you did make the complaint if your employer later disputes it. Also keep documentation to show that you are being “set up,” if you can. In addition to the write-ups themselves, it is helpful to have written evidence showing that the write-ups are either false or wrongful in some way. If you believe that you are about to be fired for an illegal reason, or if you have already been fired for an illegal reason, call Gold Star Law for help.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
(CBS) — An Illinois lawmaker is working on ways to help Alzheimer’s patients through the paperwork maze. State Representative Robin Gable from Evanston says witnesses at her committee hearing explained how hard it can be to get the help they’re entitled to. “Filling out paperwork for long-term care insurance and having it be denied because they didn’t fill out the paperwork correctly, so people need some assistance with just maneuvering through the system,” said Gable. Alzheimer’s patient Patty Hauffman told the committee that while she can no longer drive, she could contribute to the community if she could just get a ride to the community center. And Cathy Perkowitz told the committee of her chagrin when the psychologist she retained to help her two teens reported her to the Department of Children and Family Services because she was letting them live in a home with an Alzheimer’s patient: their father.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
‘Sit tight and we’ll let you go soon without a problem’ Volgograd journalists recount how cops herded them into police vans, so they couldn’t film a crackdown on protesters On January 28, opposition politician Alexey Navalny organized rallies in dozens of cities across Russia to promote a “voters’ boycott” on March 18, when the country holds its next presidential election. In many places, the demonstrations didn’t have permits from the local authorities, and law enforcement detained a few hundred people in total. In Volgograd, before police moved in on the crowd, officers moved the press corps into buses, rounding up photographers especially, apparently to prevent photos of the crackdown. The journalists were taken to a local police station and released without charges. Meduza spoke to some of these reporters to find out just what happened on January 28. Ekaterina Gerasimova journalist for the website Volzhskii.ru I went to the January 28 demonstration on a routine assignment. There had been incidents involving the police at previous rallies, but they had involved only Navalny's supporters — not journalists. So none of my colleagues was expecting anything like this. When the rally was actually underway, the police asked everyone from the press to get into a police van. They were polite but insistent and they didn’t take no for an answer. There were six journalists in the bus, including my husband, who was also on assignment. Ending up together in police custody was a new chapter in our history together. All of us that day had come from different news agencies to report. The police officers offered no explanations and didn’t say why we were being detained. They drove us around downtown Volgograd for about an hour, and there were already jokes circulating on social media that the cops were joyriding with all the reporters or taking us on a sightseeing excursion. Eventually, they brought us to the central police station, where they wrote down our passport details and released us. We're now discussing next steps with our colleagues. The chief editors at several publications (including mine) have sent formal inquiries to the Interior Ministry, requesting an explanation of the reasons for detaining members of the press. It's hard to make any predictions just yet. We’ll wait for their response and then decide with our colleagues what to do next. Ruslan Gerasimov photo editor for the website Novosti Volgograda I was as careful as possible, knowing that the demonstration didn’t have a permit and that there might be trouble or provocations. People started assembling at about 2:00 p.m. Thirty minutes later, the crowd set off down Lenin Avenue, heading for downtown. The police — including riot police — blocked the crowd's path at the exit leading out from a pedestrian tunnel. The demonstrators had only come about 150 meters [about 500 feet]. This is where the police started detaining people. I was standing behind the riot police, doing my job — filming what was happening. Then, without giving their names, two police officers came up and asked me to board a police bus. I tried showing my press credentials, but they said, “You can show your credentials in the bus.” I invoked Article 144 of the Russian Federation Criminal Code [which prohibits interfering with journalists’ lawful professional activity], but it was no use. Firmly but politely, they forced me inside the bus. Once inside, I saw my colleagues from other publications. I was very surprised: I hadn't seen them being detained. I immediately called my wife to warn her that I'd been taken, and to ask her to get out of the crowd. I was too late, it turned out — they brought her to the van a couple of minutes later. Immediately, I wrote about our detentions on [the social network] Telegram, asking people to share it as widely as possible. We drove around downtown, and they didn’t give us a single reason for having detained us. Whenever we asked them a question, they said, “We’re just doing our jobs.” Incidentally, talking to them in private, the officers’ were remarkably sensitive. I probably have to agree with Navalny that the police actually support his political views to a great extent. These are ordinary people — they take off the uniform at the end of the day and go shopping, like anybody. We never got an apology or an explanation, but it shows that we were processed at the station promptly — with exaggerated respect, even. I’m of two minds about the whole thing. I'm not afraid to go and work at rallies — it's my job. But such disregard for and indifference toward the rights of journalists is something new. Who came up with the idea of detaining journalists — all the journalists — working at a demonstration? It makes no sense to detain journalists. If you don't want them to write anything, just make sure nothing happens. Slava Yashchenko photographer for Kavkazskii Uzel I saw the police detaining journalist Yaroslav Malykh and I tried to explain to the officer that Yaroslav was working. “Just take a look at the credentials he’s showing you,” I said. For some reason, they left me alone then. After another 30 minutes, I saw police detaining an activist. I started taking pictures, and then an officer grabbed me by the elbow. He refused to listen when I said I was a journalist, ignoring my credentials, and bringing me to the police van with the activist. There were only two other people detained in the van — everyone else was a police officer. I offered to show the captain my credentials, so they’d leave me alone. But he said, “This has got nothing to do with me.” I tried to get out of the bus, but they wouldn't let me. They took us to a police van at the upper terrace of the embankment, where they were bringing some of the activists. They made me wait in line to be searched before putting me in the bus. While I was waiting in line, I heard someone call my name. It was the chief editor of New Day, a local news agency, and he asked what I was doing waiting in line with the activists. My colleague talked to the police officer, and he let me go. We never got photos of the most interesting stuff. This situation is an important moment for the journalists around here. Personally, I'm going to sue, and my newsroom supports me. If my colleagues issue a collective statement, I'll support it. What happened was an insult, and we need to respond. The regional journalists’ union, meanwhile, has taken a bizarre position by not reacting at all. I visit there website every day to see if they’ve appealed to the governor yet or to somebody. But as far as they’re concerned, it’s like nothing even happened. Alexey Volkhonsky photographer for V1.ru-Volgograd I wasn’t worried at first. I figured the police would probably be able to distinguish me from an activist, who go around chanting slogans and carrying banners. And the police officers here all know who the journalists are. But we were the very first to be detained. The whole time, I kept running ahead to photograph the crowd, and then these two uniformed officers came up and said, “What are you doing?” I showed them my press credentials, and they said, “Well, we didn’t notice, but we’ll sort it out later. For now, come with us to the van.” I only managed to photograph the demonstration for about seven minutes, and then it was off to the police van. When we got there, an officer was waiting. In an understanding tone, he said, “Sorry, guys. This is nothing personal. Sit tight and we’ll let you go soon without a problem.” They brought a few other journalists to the van next, and only afterwards did the police start detaining activists. My impression is that everything that happened to us was somebody’s dumb idea. An order probably went out telling the police to keep arrest photos out of the papers, and so somebody decided to detain the journalists. On top of that, Vladimir Putin would visit Volgograd on February 2. Maybe they were trying to hide bad news from the president? But we’re not living in the year 2000, when there wasn’t any Internet here. * * * On January 29, Volgograd’s Interior Ministry contacted local media outlets, explaining that protest sites are “danger zones.” The document also stated that journalists have the right to photograph demonstrators, but they must present their press credentials immediately upon request. The ministry’s message said nothing about the detention of several reporters a day earlier at Navalny’s “voters’ boycott” rally. Officials did not respond to Meduza’s requests for a comment on this story.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Hemant Morparia points to actor Priyanka Chopra’s hypocrisy for urging people not to burn fire crackers on the one hand and organising a big fireworks show at her own wedding on the other. Gokul Gopalakrishnan \| The Asian Age In The Asian Age, Gokul Gopalakrishnan reacts to the mob killing of an on-duty police official in Bulandshahr, suggesting that Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath might consider changing the city’s name to “Durbhagya Shahr (city of misfortune)”. Manjul \| Mid-day In Mid-day, Manjul takes a jibe at Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath’s press statement asserting strict measures to ensure safety of cows in the state, while maintaining complete silence on the recent mob frenzy in Bulandshahr that claimed the life of an on-duty police official. Neelabh Banerjee \| Twitter Neelabh Banerjee too has a take on the mob killing of an on-duty police official in Bulandshahr.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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Grizzly looking dude with a suspiciously full head of hair, with something of the Renato Out Of Renée & Renato about him. Operatic Balkan ballad. Gypsy fiddle. Duller than a very dull thing. Let’s move swiftly on. Wa-hey, it’s a man in a frock, with plumage! How SUBVERSIVE! To ram home the “royal” theme, there’s also a giant crown on stage, in which a disco mirror ball nestles. This won the vote at the Retro Bar’s Douze Points night, which is generally the kiss of death – but there’s something rather lovable and touching about DQ’s Cabaret Nite galumphing, and I particularly like the Sideways Formation Shuffling which they’ve nicked from Israel’s customary box of tricks. Camp Not Dead! Shouting SCHLAGER SCHLAGER SCHLAGER mega mega white thing! We are pre-disposed to Like Lots! Well, let’s try to look on the positive side. The gherkin-shaped cage is a nice touch, the long-legged ladies are pretty (I’m struggling already), and there’s some pleasing chair work, not to mention a brief bout of deeply erotic Formation Bumming. But oh dear, hip-hop/R&B done Euro-style rarely works, and this is no exception. “I’m a little bit crazy! Crazy like a baby!” Yeah, whatever. OK, let’s get this out of the way first: Marija is, shall we say, a “homely” type, whose anti-glamour stands in sharp contrast to all the other dolled-up young misses on display – including her own backing dancers, who occasionally give her a reassuring stroke or two. (You’ve lucked out there, Marija. Work it, girl!) Interestingly enough, this homeliness actually works in her favour (much as it did for Malta’s Ciara in 1998 and 2005) – mainly because, lo and behold, what we have here is a superb ballad, sung brilliantly, with real passion and commitment. This has been wowing absolutely everybody on the live blogs, and is rated as a dead cert to qualify. (We shall ignore the nasty person in the Youtube comments who likened the somewhat static performance to a “bored picket line”.) If it goes on to win, I for one shall be delighted. Why, I might even have a little cry. It has been known. (Oh yeah, and there’s a cracking dance remix of this floating around. They’ve covered all bases.) Crikey, talk about contrasts. This section of the draw has been gathering nothing but one stars and five stars from me so far – and here’s another one star. No, I’m not a hard rock fan. It’s the only musical genre other than opera to leave me stone cold (particularly when it’s this croaky and creaky), and I find myself powerless to change my prejudices. Along with Georgia, Serbia-minus-Montengro, and Montenegro-minus-Serbia, the Czech Republic is the fourth and final of the countries to be making its Eurovision debut. Sadly, this is a far from auspicious start. Poor old Portugal. Long saddled with one of the contest’s poorest scoring records, one wants to wish them well, but rarely finds adequate reasons to do so. Strictly in Portuguese terms, this ain’t so shoddy. OK, so it’s a bog standard piece of Latin American pop which we’ve heard a thousand times before, but at least it has that most elusive of Portuguese qualities: a tune. And the fan dancing presses a few tribal buttons. Never discount the power of the Balkan bloc vote, Part 94. Macedonia managed to qualify last year with a fairly forgettable ditty, and since “Mojot Svet” has the virtue of mild memorability, it should sail through on Thursday. I like the way the chorus rhymes “muzika”, “granica” and “balkanska”, although this is somewhat diminished when Karolina switches to English at the end. This one’s all about the consonants, y’see. Hang about, didn’t we hear this two songs ago? Brassy, slightly dated Latino pop with the word “conmigo” in its title? As some wag on All Kinds Of Everything observed, this is “like two women turning up at a party with the same dress”. I can’t choose between the two, and neither will anyone else, meaning that the Latino vote will be disasterously split on the night. Which is a shame for Norway, as they’ve fielded not only “the official face of L’Oreal cosmetics” to sing the thing, but also the King of Scandi-Schlager-Pop, Thomas “Not A Misprint” G:son, the composer of last year’s “controversial” Swedish entry, “Invincible” by The Blessed Carola, Peace Be Upon Her.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Geordie favourite Sarah Millican has announced an extra date for her home crowd tour meaning that she will now perform seven nights at Tyne Theatre & Opera House within a three-month period. While the stint does not quite reach the whopping 11-date sell-out run she enjoyed at the Newcastle theatre last year, her local fans can have no complaints that they don’t get enough of the comedienne’s time. The South Shields-born TV star, who was recently at the Tyne Theatre to launch her debut book How to be Champion, has added the extra date - Sunday, July 8 - to the six stand-up shows she had already signed up to as part of her upcoming 2018 Control Enthusiast tour. Tickets for the additional date will go on sale on Wednesday. A spokeswoman for the theatre said: “We’re so grateful that Sarah continues to support us and come back to Tyne Theatre & Opera House. Video Loading Video Unavailable Click to playTap to play The video will start in 8Cancel Play now “Tickets for her previously announced shows are now very limited.” The show tackles the point that the comic is not a control freak but a control enthusiast, apparently, and it promises to address such issues as what can happen at a bra fitting; the benefits of casserole; how to talk to shop assistants, and the correct way to eat a biscuit. It’s described as “funny, frank and unapologetically filthy” and has an 16-plus age restriction. Read More Joanne Johnson, director of the theatre which this year is celebrating its 150th anniversary, said: “This is now Sarah’s seventh date here for 2018. Last year she performed 11 nights and they all sold out. “She even recently held her book launch here in association with Waterstones, which was a wonderful night. Sarah Millican's new book (Image: Supplied pic. Free to use.) She added: “It means an awful lot to us that Sarah chooses to come back to our beautiful 150-year-old theatre, and we’re very grateful for her continued support.” Tickets for the July 8 show, costing £27.50, will go on sale on Wednesday from 10am. They will be available from from the box office in Westgate Road; the booking line 0844 2491 000 and online here . Booking online or over the phone will incur booking fees. There is also limited availability for Sarah Millican ’s other dates: April 6-8 and July 5-7.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Tools of the Trade AMS NEVE MMC 300/400 CONSOLESThese two new post-production consoles from AMS Neve (www.ams-neve.com) both offer a new central panel and touch-sensitive controllers, giving engineers total control over monitoring, source and surround mixing. Both boards also feature eight assignable faders that can be used as group, stem, aux or master faders — or additional input channel faders. The difference between the two is that the MMC 400 is fitted with conventional channel strips while the MMC 300 offers a knob-per-function assignable channel. Both consoles are Dolby-compliant and offer Encore automation with Encore Plus as an option. Other features include automation reconform; offline automation editing; and control of Pro Tools, Nuendo and Pyramix workstations through HUI and Oasis protocols. The consoles support high sample rates and up to 1,000 paths from a single rack. Priced per configuration. GIGSKINZ GSRB RACKBAGSCrafted with durability and road-worthiness in mind, these new two, three and four-space rackbags feature a hard plywood shell covered with GigSkinz's (www.gigskinz.com) carbon fiber — style fabric. The bags come standard with mounting hardware, feature a big and roomy pocket to hold cables and accessories, and provide a quick-access zipped back panel for easy connections. The inside of the bag carries a plush felt lining and offers two carrying options: a nylon shoulder strap or a molded rubber top carrying handle. Prices: GSRB2, $119; GSRB3, $139; GSRB4, $149. M-AUDIO PODCAST FACTORYAnyone at the home level wondering how to produce a Podcast will have all of their questions answered by the Podcast Factory ($179.95) from M-Audio (www.m-audio.com). The bundle of products includes an audio interface with mic preamp operating up to 48k/24-bit and a dynamic microphone. The interface offers two channels, an XLR input for the microphone and a second ¼-inch input that toggles between instrument and line-level. The box also offers a zero-latency headphone output that shares a level control with the dual RCA outputs on the back; a handy mono switch is also included. Podcast Factory includes software (Mac or PC) that allows users to create a Podcast, add sound effects and then post MP3s with RSS feeds to the Web. It also comes with a collection of music loops in a variety of styles. APPLIED ACOUSTICS SYSTEMS AAS MODELING COLLECTIONThis new bundle from Applied Acoustics Systems (www.applied-acoustics.com) promises to be “the ultimate solution in physically modeled software instruments.” The collection includes Tassman 4, Lounge Lizard EP-2, Ultra Analog VA-1 and String Studio VS-1. Tassman 4 is able to process and synthesize by combining subtractive, additive, FM and acoustic objects. It also offers more than 1,000 patches. String Studio VS-1 is a string modeling synthesizer that re-creates guitars, basses, clavinets, ethereal pads, organic textures and otherworldly sounds. Ultra Analog VA-1 models vintage to modern analog synthesizers, and Lounge Lizard EP-2 models various electric pianos. Price: $499; upgrade paths are available for users who already own one or two AAS products at the price of $375 and $249, respectively. CAD E70 MICROPHONEThis attractive, new front-address condenser mic from CAD (www.cadmics.com) features a roll-off at either 75 or 100 Hz and a -10 or -20dB pad. The frequency response measures in at 20-20k Hz, and the manufacturer claims a low-noise design and exceptional sensitivity of -38 dBV (13 mV) @ 1 Pa. It will also take up to 15dB SPL, and it comes in a black-satin finish. Price: $249. DIGIDESIGN PCI EXPRESS CARDSReady for both Apple G5s and upcoming PC computers carrying PCI Express card slots, Digidesign's (www.digidesign.com) new PCI Express cards will take advantage of the blazing speed offered by the new information highway. Transmitting data across a series of “links” and “lanes” (each PCI Express lane is capable of 250 MB/s in each direction), the new format almost doubles the bandwidth that AGP 8x could offer. If you need more than the three slots that most computers will carry, the company is also releasing the Expansion\|HD, a brand-new six-slot PCI expansion chassis that connects to the host Windows or Mac computer using either a PCI/PCI-X or PCIe expansion slot. The best news of all is that PCIe-compatible Pro Tools\|HD systems are the same price as their PCI counterparts. Digidesign has expanded its hardware exchange program so that you can upgrade your Pro Tools LE or legacy Pro Tools TDM system to a Pro Tools\|HD system for PCIe or PCI. There is also a crossgrade program for PCI users who want to move their Pro Tools\|HD system to a host computer with PCIe slots. FURMAN IT-20 IIThe balanced power crowd will love Furman's (www.furmansound.com) new IT-20 Series II ($1,799). It supplies 20 amps of balanced AC power with more than 80 dB of common-mode noise reduction from a frequency range of 20-20k Hz. The unit includes Furman's proprietary Linear Filtering Technology (LiFT), which reduces transverse noise — making it a comprehensive noise-reduction solution. LiFT is part of Furman's SMP+ technology, which also offers non-sacrificial surge suppression and extreme voltage protection. The IT-20 II also includes a switchable ground isolator and a laboratory-grade digital voltmeter. ALIENWARE WORKSTATIONSFor those looking to build beefy audio platforms for the road, Alienware (www.alienware.com) is now offering two new mobile base platforms featuring Intel Centrino technology. The MJ-12 m5700i ($1,499) offers dual-SATA hard drives in RAID configurations and a 17-inch widescreen LCD with ClearView technology. The MJ-12 m5500i ($1,049) weighs only 6 pounds and features a 15.4-inch widescreen LCD. FAIRLIGHT DREAM CONSTELLATION-ANTHEMFairlight (www.fairlightau.com) brings it all together for music and post users with the latest addition to its DREAM console series. Each fully featured channel on the ANTHEM system provides six bands of parametric EQ; a two-stage dynamics processor with gate, expander and limiter; and up to 12 auxiliary sends. Channels can be configured in any format, from mono up to 7.1. Console layout is user-configurable in one of three modes. For tracking, Split mode comprises 48 fully featured inputs with 96 fully featured monitor returns, each with an associated recording and playback track, for a total of 144 channels. For mixing or for users wanting a more up-to-date desk, there is In-Line mode, which is available with 96 long faders and 96 short faders (192 channels in total, EQ/dynamics shared). In-Line Plus offers 72 long faders and 72 short faders (144 channels, each channel having its own EQ/dynamics). The third mode, Constellation, offers the company's industry-proven post-production technologies. Starting price: $130,000. EVENTIDE ANTHOLOGY IISix is your lucky number if you're purchasing the Anthology II ($1,195) plug-ins from Eventide (www.eventide.com), a completely new bundle for TDM users comprising 15 plug-ins (six new). The newest of the group includes the EQ65 and EQ45 48-bit double-precision vintage equalizers; the E-Channel and Ultra-Channel channel strips, both with configurable signal path; Precision Time Align, which provides the ability to align separate tracks; and Quadravox, which features four voices of diatonic Harmonizer pitch shifting. Eventide's tried-and-true plug-ins model the company's legacy hardware units and others, including the H910, H949, Instant Phaser, Instant Flanger, Omnipressor, Eventide Reverb, Octavox, H3000 Band Delays and H3000 Factory. TL AUDIO M4 CONSOLEThose looking to add some tube “essence” to their signal path will want to check out the new M4 console from TL Audio (dist. in the U.S. by Independent Audio, www.independentaudio.com). The console is available in 16, 24 and 32-input channel configurations, each with tube preamps, a direct track output with level control, 4-band EQ, four auxiliary sends and optional 24-bit, 48/96kHz mix output option and 24-bit, 48/96kHz ADAT interface I/O. Each channel features switchable phantom power, preamps with a gain range of +16 dB to +60 dB with a 30dB pad, mute and PFL switches with LED and a highpass filter (-3 dB @ 90 Hz). Prices: $5,050, 16-channel; $9,025, 24-channel; $11,350, 32-channel. ROYER R-122V TUBE RIBBON MICLooking tempting in its 18-carat-gold jacket, the Royer (www.royerlabs.com) R-122V ($3,495) features the same large-ribbon transducer assembly found in the R-121 and R-122 active ribbon microphones. The “V” ups the R-121 ante because it offers -29 dB of output, approximately 25 dB hotter than the R-121. The R-122V's active electronics use a NOS 6AU6 vacuum tube and Royer's proprietary toroidal ribbon-matching transformer. A Jensen 8:1 ratio output transformer provides an electrically isolated, fully balanced output signal. Because of its powered output, the R-122V can easily drive virtually any preamplifier and long cable runs (from power supply to preamp). The active circuitry provides optimum impedance to the ribbon element at all times, preventing over-damping. The R-122V employs a pure (99.99%), low-mass, 2.5-micron-thick aluminum ribbon. SONICCOUTURE DRUM KITSVersatile and feature-packed are not often words that go with “affordable,” but Soniccouture (www.soniccouture.com) has married all three in its Variable Ambience Drums ($49). Programmed for Native Instruments' Battery 1 and 2 and Kontakt 1 and 2, the kits comprise more than 1,300 24-bit samples with seven velocity layers and up to five positions on the snares. Users can mix real room ambience samples recorded with the drums via MIDI controllers, giving the ability to mix the kit from dry and intimate to big and wet. Kits include variable ambience kits, a loud rock kit and a kit recorded in an anechoic chamber, making it perfect for use with added reverbs and rooms. AURALEX SPACEARRAYIn collaboration with studio designer Russ Berger, Auralex Acoustics (www.auralex.com) has released the SpaceArray ($399). The wood-finished diffuser offers hemispherical acoustical diffusion and is based on a quasi-random series that provides superior performance without visual patterning. Each 24×24-inch solid wood panel is strong and light and can be used in a variety of placement options. The SpaceArray is one of the first offerings in the new pArtScience product line, a family of acoustical treatments designed for exceptional performance with a custom look. MXL 604 INSTRUMENT MICBased on its 603 mic, MXL's (www.mxlmics.com) 604 ($179.95) is a front-address cardioid condenser that's targeted toward instrumental recording. The slender small-capsule mic is able to fit in tight spots and offers a -10dB pad, making it able to withstand high SPLs. The satin silver — finished mic also features a low-frequency roll-off, and ships with a mic clip, a windscreen and a wood storage box. UPGRADES AND UPDATESAntares (www.antarestech.com) is now shipping Auto-Tune 4 for Pro Tools TDM systems on Windows XP. Auto-Tune 4 TDM XP offers Windows users all of the power of the Macintosh TDM version, including compatibility with the iLok USB Smart Key. In related news, maintenance releases of Auto-Tune 4 RTAS PC and DirectX are now available to add compatibility with iLok USB Smart Key authorization…Apogee (www.apogeedigital.com) is offering firmware Version 1.72 for the X-HD card. It resolves a timing issue in Pro Tools 7 that caused inconsistent recognition of Apogee and Digidesign interfaces during boot up. X-HD V. 1.72 is also backward-compatible with earlier versions of Pro Tools\|HD…CreamWare's (www.creamware.com) SCOPE line of DSP cards is now shipping with software V. 4.5. The software package features new plug-ins such as the “SBC” Spectral Balance Controller mastering plug-in. Upgrades are also available for current SCOPE users; see the company's Website for details…Metric Halo (www.mhlabs.com) has released ChannelStrip V. 2.1 for TDM and RTAS, making it compatible with Pro Tools 7 within Pro Tools 7 TDM, LE and M Powered…Cubase (www.steinberg.net) System\|4, Steinberg's integrated music production system, now includes Cubase SL 3.1 with new features and capabilities, as well as a new driver for Mac OS 10.4 Tiger…MOTU's (www.motu.com) 828 mkII interface now supports high-speed USB 2, allowing connection to any compatible Mac or PC. Both 828 models are identical, except for their connection to the computer via either FireWire or USB 2…Roland (www.rolandus.com) has released V. 3.5 for its MV-8000 Production Studio. The free ugrade features audio track and mute automation, recordable MFX control knob movements, 3-band EQ added to the audio and instrument parts, a Pencil tool added to the Piano Roll window and a Patch Preview mode added to the Import function…In a major collaboration with Sound Devices (www.sounddevices.com), SoundField Ltd. now offers its SoundField B-format surround decoding on Sound Devices' 744T 4-track production audio recorder. 744T firmware revision 1.57 (and later) now offers B-format-to-stereo decoding without additional hardware. In related news, SoundField (www.soundfieldusa.com) has released a new update for the Surround Zone plug-in for Nuendo/VST (V. 1.02) for both Mac and PC platforms.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Camp, Huckleberry to debate Published 8:00 pm, Friday, September 17, 2004 A debate by candidates for the 4th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives is set for northern Michigan Oct. 21. Seven-term incumbent Dave Camp, R-Midland, and Democratic challenger Mike Huckleberry, a Greenville restaurant owner, reportedly accepted the invitation of the League of Women Voters of the Grand Traverse Area. A League spokesperson said word was awaited on whether Libertarian Party candidate Al Chia Jr. of Saginaw will participate. The debate's time and site will be announced, the League spokesperson said. A likely time was said to be 7 p.m. In Midland on the same evening, a live question-and-answer session for political candidates is scheduled to be shown on MCTV, a public access station seen by customers of Charter Communications. That program is a cooperative effort of the League of Women Voters of the Midland Area and MCTV. Huckleberry sought debates in the district's eight largest cities. Camp, who did not commit to that number, mentioned the need to be in Washington, D.C., on House business. The Grand Traverse area debate is the first to be announced. Huckleberry backers plan Oct. 2-3 activities The Huckleberry campaign announced plans for an Oct. 2-3 "Camp Out" on the family farm of Larry Olyer near Greenville. Gates open at 2 p.m. Scheduled are children's games, starting at 4 p.m., a frankfurter roast, horseshoe tournament, bonfire and overnight camping in tents and campers participants bring to the site, and a light breakfast on Sunday. Donation of $20 a car is requested, but a flier tells people who've lost their jobs to "join us for whatever you can give." Clean-up and teardown are to take place by 1 p.m. Oct. 3. Maps and more information will be given to people who make reservations by calling (616) 225-9334.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
If Mark Jacobs says something about Warhammer Online, it has to be true. According to a recent posting by Mark on the Warhammer Alliance site, the NDA may be dropping very, very soon. Players can expect to see much more Warhammer excitement very soon. to the NDA, we expect to lift it tomorrow morning. I was hoping it was going to be today but I wanted to wait till I got the beta reports from the weekend and we just didn't have enough time to get everything coordinated with our partners in order for the press release to go out today. This is not the fault of GOA at all, we just had a lot of data to go through and by the time we did that, it would have been too late to put out the release today. As to the three issues that were holding up the release, I'll be discussing them tomorrow. While I wish that we could have lifted the NDA a couple of weeks ago, I'll explain why tomorrow. Given how many MMOs/games don't lift the NDA until launch (or just before or in some cases, never), our lifting it more than 4 weeks (only slightly but it's still 4+ weeks out), is more than sufficient for all the information about the game to hit the Internet.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Well as awlways Michael you are accurate with your information. It is funny because Mel and Barry I spoke about the book and we felt that there was lack of info as well as a focus on the normal "city" Dj's again. Maybe I am the one that should write a book!! Anyway, thanks for the time in contributing here. Do you like my "Still Alive"? Pooch _________________dance, the final frontier Discoguy Post subject: Re: The Lost art Of Re-Mixing Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:05 am Site Admin Joined: Sun Apr 16, 2006 8:48 amPosts: 1386 DanPooch wrote: we felt that there was lack of info as well as a focus on the normal "city" Dj's again. Maybe I am the one that should write a book!! Well as awlways Michael you are accurate with your information. It is funny because Mel and Barry I spoke about the book and we felt that there was lack of info as well as a focus on the normal "city" Dj's again. Maybe I am the one that should write a book!! Anyway, thanks for the time in contributing here. Do you like my "Still Alive"? Pooch Before Barry passed he actually discussed the book with me, even though I'd yet to read it. Just finished reading it today.I know now what he meant about it being very "localised".I would however recommend it as compulsive reading (as well as other books on the period) to anyone intrested in the topic.I'd love to hear about all that other stuff you did @ some point though Pooch. The Japan bit sounds intersting. _________________It's always been 'bout the music.......... Dancer Post subject: Re: The Lost art Of Re-Mixing Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:54 am Joined: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:23 pmPosts: 1269 I would love to read a book from you Dan!!!I am sure that you know EVERYTHING about the Disco Years,even the behind the scenes things and the important point is that you are really a GREAT DJ,so you can tell exactly who was who and how all happens!!!!!This is a great idea because no one can write better a book about DJs and Disco Music than a original first generation DJ like you or Jay!!!!Please show some mercy,no more stories about Levan and Mancuso,enough with the no mixing DJs!!!!!!!Thank god,some Disco DJs are still Still Alive Soul-Boy Post subject: Re: The Lost art Of Re-Mixing Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:26 pm Joined: Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:22 pmPosts: 1685Location: Spain / England DanPooch wrote: Maybe I am the one that should write a book!! Anyway, thanks for the time in contributing here. Do you like my "Still Alive"?Pooch Lovin' your picture Pooch but it's time to come off the salads brother!..LolI for one would quite happily hand over my 30 bucks or so to read yours or Jay's memoirs!I could personaly listen to you two brothers preach the gosple on all things music, all day long!...Keep what your doing Pooch and say it how it is...you have a appreciative flock here!.....Sing Brother!.. Sing! Gentleman - You flatter me. I thank you for you confidence and assurance, Jay, Mikey, Claes, Paul and George.You are all too much. You guys are what keep me going. I do so wish I had more time to spend here with you all. Pooch I mean not to insult anyone who performs in a club, in front of a crowd, or on a radio show, I am mearly expressing my feelings, my observations. On October 24, 2009, I had the pleasure to exhibit my art form to a crowd at Nox, in Brooklyn. This was a cancer benefit and my time was donated. I also had the pleasure of being in the company of Ralphie Dee, Danny Cole, Vinnie T and Eddie DiLollo. This was the first time I had actually played vinyl and the other Dj's utilized todays technology. Eddie used the computer, Ralphie used Serato, Danny used CD's, and Vinnie used CD's. I had never actually watched any of those formats being used before. Sure I have seen it and listened to a couple of (DJ's) but I never really eyed the whole format. I was the first jock to play, and I played all vinyl. I am not blowing my horn here people, I am saying it like it is and also repeating what was said to me. When I played, I had used all my knowledge of the tables, I remixed each song, went from A side to B side, Vocal to Dub, I double tracked and Quad tracked, Phased and looped phrases. I had extensive overlays during mixing, I overlayed vocals from one song over the tracks of another. When the other jocks came on to play, there was none of that art form. I am NOT insulting my fellow DJ's, I have known these people for 30 years. what I am saying is, all there was going on was mixing. One record to the next. Now I know in my heart why I was told "you are the last of your kind". I recall the moment when I finished a double lay over, grabed the record and flipped it in the air and spun it in my fingers and placed back down on the platter on the B side. and in the corner of my eye, I saw two Dj's high five each other. I was told by a number of people how great it sounded, how cool it was to watch. Even Lenny Fontana sent a email about how great it sounded. It was not the fact that I played records, it was the fact of what I did with those records, my presentation, "The Art" of remixing. I know that there are some jocks out there that still play records and exhibit some art form, one I am sure of is George Siras in Greece, I heard his great sets. But, I have now become full aware that my days are numbered. One fact brought to light is that this is the third time I went to play in a club and the tables had to be set up for me. The end of days is upon me, my heart is filled with sadness, and tears come to my eyes.My ART, my LOVE, and in many respects, my CREATION is nearing its end of days. Like the Dinosaur, soon to be exticnt. I am that I am. Old School, I am the teacher, the creator, the artist, the very definition of "Disc Jockey". I can not change. Respect to all,Dan Pooch Pucciarelli _________________dance, the final frontier Last edited by DanPooch on Wed Nov 18, 2009 9:28 pm, edited 1 time in total. Jay Negron Post subject: Re: The Lost art Of Re-Mixing Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:23 am Joined: Fri Jun 13, 2008 8:46 pmPosts: 2193Location: South Florida Don't be so sad Danny. I still have my tables hooked up at the crib; you are welcome any time you take a vacation to South Florida to come & 'do-tha-doo'---it's not over 'till the fat lady sings!!And she ain't even ready!! From Francis Grasso to Bobby DJ to Walter Gibbons to Danny POOCH to George Sirus to David Morales to Frankie Knuckles to Danny Krivit and the next generations, it still will go on!!! The technology will get different, it will always go back to basics---vinyl. True, there are few of us left from the 70s---but the spirit still moves on.Out of everyone that seen you spin with vinyl, someone there was impressed enough to do it himself----same with George---You & 'G' with your live spinning have influenced SOMEBODY----and these younger guys will have to find it out for themselves!! They still have vinyl record pressing plants, no??? _________________Jayski "Doin'The Doo" King C Post subject: Re: The Lost art Of Re-Mixing Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:36 pm Joined: Sat Sep 27, 2008 5:43 pmPosts: 429Location: Greece,Athens Don't feel this way Dan. There is a reason for everything.Just as Jay said,somebody will get influenced.One for sure is me.In 1997 i bought two turntables for me.The reason was that i wanted to feel the vinyl in my hand.I wanted to slum dank it on the platter.My collection of vinyl may be house music,but i am building a disco collection too with the help of George.He showed me a record store downtown Athens that's got the originals 12'' from back then.So every now and then i go there and i can tell you that i 'm not buying one or five records.More than 30 is in my bag every time i go there.So,all i want to say is...It's not dead till you let it die...Pressing huh...?why not if i can't find what i want!!! _________________Put Your Body In It... Dancer Post subject: Re: The Lost art Of Re-Mixing Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:40 am Joined: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:23 pmPosts: 1269 Don't worry Dan,it's the same situation everywhere!Most of the clubs and bars in my country they have just a PC and a mixer in the booth.When they book me for a gig,they just set up turntables for the night that I play It's OK for me,I want to mix my music with vinyl and I don't care if some other DJs want to play their stuff with laptops,mp3s,CDs or whatever ,this is THEIR problem,not mine!!!!I enjoy my time at the booth working with double records for the 90% of my set and I also using a lot of records with acapellas and bonus beats stuff!!!That's not old school,this is the way I express myself and I feel that I am a REAL DJ Besides I never heard even one serious and creative DJ who's using these laptops and can make anything better than he could do with records - if he have them!!!!In all these years I have the chance to listen a lot of ''big name'' DJs and with all the respect for some of them,the ''vinyl'' sets that some people like Sasha or David Morales did back then,has nothing to do with their ''PC'' days now..... 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After enjoying the demo of Death Has a Million Stomping Boots which referenced Space Quest, I saw the trailer for this series. I decided to give it a try from the 1st episode. I am happily impressed with this game including the retro aspects (so far.) I kept thinking that this sounded so familiar and I finally placed it. The music was from Dagger of Amon Ra. Both graphics and sound/music were very reminiscent of that game which was one of my favorites. I no sooner realized this when they spoke the very same words used so often in that game - "You pick it up and put it in your purse." What a nice poke at themselves and Dagger. It gave me a jolt then made me laugh. Thanks to Chief and Gameboomers and all for letting us know about all the great games available. Another thing, it's great to come along to a series when it's complete.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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Tag Archives: Patchwork I watched Fred and Jeff Wilpon squirm yesterday with embarrassment and pain. It was clear to me by their body language and tone of voice they felf genuine embarrassment and frustration of having to go through the firing and hiring process once again. WILPONS: Not an easy time. They were under the glare of the spotlight not only in New York, but the baseball community, and they were admitting the last six years under Omar Minaya were under them. That can’t be easy, as it reaffirmed in part the criticism directed at them. When Fred Wilpon said he loves the Mets, I believe him, and I believe Jeff Wilpon when he said everybody is responsible. They were asked point blank where they failed and their answer was in hiring the wrong people. There were no excuses, no lamenting injuries and bad luck, but an admission they made judgment errors in their hiring process. They said things spun out of control and the people they hired did not produce the results, meaning the Wilpons did not produce results, either. Nobody spends that kind of money and doesn’t want to win. Can the Mets win with the Wilpon ownership? I believe they can. Afterall, they reached the World Series in 2000 and came within one hit of doing so again in 2006. When you come that close, you can win with the right people. I believe the biggest problem the Wilpons made with Minaya, was overestimating the ability of the team after the 2006 season. Their thinking was “we’ll get that hit next year,” but it never happened. The Mets made no significant changes after the 2006 season, and instead regressed with their pitching staff. That led to the collapse of 2007, and later 2008. By 2009, the team had dramatically regressed and patchwork was not enough. Patchwork won’t be enough for 2011, either. How much the Ponzi scandal set back the spending we’ll never really know, but we must give them the benefit of doubt with that payroll. That they continually have a one of the highest payrolls in the major leagues shows a willingness to spend. That they OK’d the spending on whom they signed was their mistake. Maybe the Wilpons never overruled Minaya’s choices, but they should have done a better job of asking questions. One of the questions the Wilpons and the new leadership must face is that changing the culture might entail eating contracts, and if the new general manager suggests it, are they willing to take that kind of financial hit? I would have liked to have heard more of a blueprint for the future rather than hearing it will be the new general manager’s decision, but they left it all out there that the new leadership will have responsibility and must have a vision. They said they will examine all kinds of GM candidates, but I would have liked to have heard them define the ideal candidate. In saying the new general manager must just change the culture is an admission the present environment hasn’t been good and the fault lies with the Wilpons in fostering it. Yesterday was not an easy day for the Wilpons or the Mets’ organization. And, this will not be an easy winter for them or the new leadership. But, Fred and Jeff Wilpon took responsibility yesterday, and promised the new leadership will be given the authority and resources to rebuild their franchise. I saw their anguish and humiliation yesterday. I know they don’t want to go through that again. There’s an old saying, that discontent is the first step toward progress in a nation or a man. That includes baseball teams as well, and there was no hiding their discontent. Backed by a patchwork lineup, the Mets’ Hisanori Takahashi is being asked not only to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, but stop a free fall. Game #96 at Dodgers The Mets have lost six of seven since the break – and should’ve lost the game they won – and eight of ten. Once 11 games over .500, tonight they are only three. They are hitting .192 with 15 runs in the seven games since the break, prompting tonight’s sitting of Jason Bay, Carlos Beltran and Rod Barajas. Enter Jeff Francoeur and Chris Carter in the outfield and Josh Thole behind the plate. Francoeur, acknowledged as a team leader, has been in a long funk even before losing his job with Beltran’s return from the DL. His public image is one of happy-go-lucky, but in the end it’s all about playing time and Francoeur said he’d welcome a trade. Perhaps even requested. Against that backdrop is Takahashi, who didn’t make it out of the third in his last start, Saturday at San Francisco. Impressive when he first entered the rotation as a fill-in, Takahashi has struggled, going 1-2 with a 10.90 ERA in his last four starts. In that span he’s given up seven homers. This stretch is why the Mets believe he’s better suited for the bullpen, which is why it is surprising he’s getting the ball despite other options. The Mets won’t give Pat Misch a start and the Mets refuse to start Oliver Perez, despite giving him medical clearance. Jerry Manuel said Perez will work out of the bullpen, something he proved last night he’s not equipped to do. With Oliver Perez exiled to the bullpen, R.A. Dickey’s knuckleball is being brought up from Triple-A Buffalo to face the Washington Nationals. Dickey has been Buffalo’s most effective starter and his date to pitch coincided with Perez’s so this should be seamless. Dickey has major league experience, but it would be wrong to say he’s an accomplished major league pitcher. He was 1-1 with a 4.62 ERA in 35 games last year for Minnesota, all but one of them in relief. He is 0-1 with a 17.18 ERA in one start and one relief appearance against Washington. The Mets have made no commitment to Dickey beyond today, but it is a safe assumption that a strong start should warrant the ball again.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
whidbey:The economy is still weak, unemployment still high, the budget deficit and federal spending both still well above historical averages, and Obamacare continues unpopular The economy is weak because multi-billion dollar big businesses are sitting on a shiat-ton of money and not hiring. Has jack shiat to do with the President, and more with regarding workers as expendable bargains they feel the have the "right" to pick and choose. I still don't get why they have such huge amounts of cash on hand. If nothing else their shareholders should be all over them for not doing anything with it to improve earnings. A Scrooge McDuck money bin is just about the worst thing you can do with your money. Stile4aly:It also doesn't help that Obama has no partner in government. The House can't even pass a farking farm bill, let alone a signature piece of legislation like immigration reform, so Obama has no legislative victories to point to. You what now? Pretty sure there's still a long list of accomplishments despite his inexperience in playing Congress like a piano. That was their plan last term, hoping to retake the Presidency and Senate. That failed completely and the only reason they kept the House was gerrymandering. I don't think they have a plan now, which is why we see so many non-scandals. MaudlinMutantMollusk:Stile4aly: It also doesn't help that Obama has no partner in government. The House can't even pass a farking farm bill, let alone a signature piece of legislation like immigration reform, so Obama has no legislative victories to point to. The economy is still weak, unemployment still high, the budget deficit and federal spending both still well above historical averages, and Obamacare continues unpopular The economy is weak because multi-billion dollar big businesses are sitting on a shiat-ton of money and not hiring. Has jack shiat to do with the President, and more with regarding workers as expendable bargains they feel the have the "right" to pick and choose. And of course some stupid conservative magazine like Forbes is going to biatch about government spending. Any deficit is bad to a bunch of bean counters who made their money being selfish pricks. No surprise they consider the first attempt to insure every American "unpopular, " either, seeing as most of them are probably too cheap to shell out any money for a decent health plan to begin with.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
News ‘Partridge Family’ star dead at 82 'THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY:' This 1970 photo released by courtesy of Sony Pictures Television shows, back row, from left, cast members, Shirley Jones, Dave Madden, David Cassidy, Susan Dey, and front row, from left, Brian Forster, Danny Bonaduce and Suzanne Crough of the television series, "The Partridge Family." Madden, who played the child-hating agent on the hit 1970s sitcom, died in Florida on Thursday, Jan. 16, at age 82. Photo: Associated Press “The Partridge Family” star Dave Madden died Thursday at the age of 82.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Meet Andrew Seliskar on Nov. 22 at Fuel the Pool Here’s what the Washington Post had to say this summer about our featured guest speaker for “Fuel the Pool,” Andrew Seliskar. Be sure to watch the video, and then come meet him in person on November 22 at 6 p.m. at Chinquapin!	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
M2M FEATURE NEWS Cirrent Integrates with Samsung ARTIK Platform Cirrent, a company that works with network providers to improve Wi-Fi for connected products, has announced that it will join Samsung’s ARTIK platform in order to bring its enhanced Wi-Fi configuration, connectivity and security solutions to IoT products on that platform. According to the recent announcement, Cirrent technology will be integrated with the SAMSUNG ARTIK platform to make it easy for partner companies to bring ZipKey-enabled products to market. Through partnerships with network providers, Cirrent allows ZipKey-enabled products to connect automatically to the Internet, in order to make IoT products more secure and easier to use. The Samsung ARTIK platform brings hardware modules and cloud services together with an ecosystem of tools and partners to speed up time-to-market of IoT products. “With millions of potential IoT devices needing to be connected, ease of connectivity is critical,” said Eric Dewannain, Sr. Director, ARTIK Product Management, Samsung Strategy & Innovation Center. “With Cirrent’s offering, SAMSUNG ARTIK customers will have a broader set of best-in-class tools to speed up time-to-market and provide a greater user experience for the end customer.” Faster, more secure connectivity can reduce support costs and product returns, offering a competitive advantage to product manufacturers. “We are seeing tremendous growth in the deployment of connected products and 45 percent of U.S. broadband households are concerned that someone will get access to a smart home product,” said Patrice Samuels, Sr. Research Analyst, Parks Associates. “As these products become mainstream, ease of use and security will become even more important. The Cirrent technology with the ARTIK platform allows product developers to integrate these capabilities into their products, which will help alleviate consumer concerns and accelerate market adoption.” ZipKey products provide a much better out-of-box experience, eliminate the need to remember complex Wi-Fi passwords, and in many cases automatically update the passwords when the home network changes. “As the Internet of Things grows, companies will need end-to-end platforms like Samsung’s ARTIK platform, and end users will demand easy-to-use ZipKey products,” said Rob Conant, CEO, Cirrent. “Samsung shares our vision of putting the end consumer first, making product setup easy and making products secure, and with ZipKey support in the ARTIK platform, product companies can now bring easy-to-use, secure products to market faster.”	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Rescuers carry the injured after two subway trains collided in Shanghai, East China, Sept 27, 2011. A subway train rear-ended another Tuesday afternoon in Shanghai, leaving more than 40 passengers injured. Equipment failures were believed to have caused the crash on Subway Line 10, sources of the subway operator said. [Photo/Xinhua] Most of the injuries were bruises and bone fractures and there were also external head traumas, doctors told Xinhua. An estimated 20 of the injured are in critical condition but the injuries are not life threatening, they said. The crash occurred at about 2:51 pm following a signal system failure at a station on the Line 10 subway, Shanghai Shentong Metro Group Co. said in a statement, adding that about 500 passengers were later evacuated from the trains. The subway train stopped for about 15 minutes and then went on before stopping again for another ten minutes before crashing into the other, a young passenger on the train's first carriage said. The signal system failure at about 2:10 pm meant the trains had to be directed via phone by subway staff rather than by electric signals and thus were running at slower speeds, the subway operator's statement said. The signal system is a product of Casco Signal Ltd., a joint venture of China Railway Signal and Communication Corp. and Alstom, which reportedly supplies signal systems to a number of subways in Chinese cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Shenzhen. Casco was blamed for a subway train crash in Shanghai in 2009. Casco also provided the centralized traffic control system for a railway in east China's Zhejiang province where two bullet trains crashed on July 23, killing 40 people and injuring 177. Jiang Jianhua, Casco's chief engineer, could not be reached for comment. A staff member at Casco's headquarters declined to confirm with Xinhua if the company had launched an investigation into the accident. The company's website www.casco.com.cn could not be opened on late Tuesday afternoon. Local authorities have launched a further investigation into the crash. Photos posted on weibo.com, China's popular Twitter-like microblogging service, showed several passengers bleeding, with firefighters entering the train to rescue the injured. "I was stunned, not knowing what happened. We tried to open doors and windows but couldn't. I felt smoke in the car," a passenger said shortly after being rescued from the train. "The train braked suddenly...some people fell and some cried, then the automatic alarm sounded," said another passenger surnamed Bian. Four foreigners, including two from Japan, one from Canada and one from the Philippines, suffered minor injuries during the accident and have received treatment at hospital, according to the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Health. As of 7 pm, the scene was cleared, and the Line 10 started to resume operation, said the the subway operator. Earlier subway services at nine stations on the Line 10 were halted. "Today is a dark day in the history of Shanghai Metro. We feel deeply sorry for the injuries and losses of the passengers no matter what the investigation results will be," said a brief statement from "shmetro." The crash was the result of a third system failure on the Line 10 over the last two months. Signal failures guided a train in the opposite direction on July 28. Five days later, another Line 10 train stalled in tunnel after a controlling device breakdown. No casualties or injuries were reported in the first two accidents.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
10 hurt in shootings across Chicago Two teens were shot as they sat on a porch in the 2900 block of North Wisner Avenue in the Logan Square neighborhood, police said. Two teens were shot as they sat on a porch in the 2900 block of North Wisner Avenue in the Logan Square neighborhood, police said. (WGN-TV) William LeeTribune reporter At least 10 people were wounded in seven shootings across Chicago overnight, police said. A 23-year-old woman was wounded in the left thigh as she stood with others on a sidewalk at about 1:30 a.m. in the 1700 block of West Juneway Terrace in the Rogers Park neighborhood, police said. The woman was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, where her condition was stabilized, police said. Most of the night's shootings occurred roughly between 8:45 p.m. and 10 p.m. Monday, according to preliminary police reports. In one incident, two boys, ages 16 and 17, were standing on the sidewalk in the 3700 block of West 16th Street when they were hit by gunfire just after 10 p.m., police said. The 17-year-old suffered a minor wound to the left thigh, while a 16-year-old suffered a graze wound to his left thigh, police said. Police said the shooting appeared gang-related. Around 8:45 p.m. in the 2900 block of North Wisner Avenue in the Logan Square neighborhood, two men, both 19, were sitting on the front porch of a home when a gunman walked up and opened fire, police said. One of the men suffered multiple gunshot wounds, while the second man was struck in the abdomen, police said. Both were taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition. In other shootings: • A 25-year-old man was driving in the 8600 block of South Wood Street when a gunman opened fire on the street, hitting the motorist in the chest and left arm at about 10 p.m., police said. The man was taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition, police said. • Two men were sitting in a Toyota Camry parked in the 5400 block of South Loomis Boulevard just before 10 p.m. when two gunmen approached and fired shots into the car, police said. Both men, ages 34 and 27, suffered minor gunshot wounds and were hospitalized in good condition, police said. • A man, 21, suffered a graze gunshot wound to the right thigh in the 5600 block of South Martin Luther King Drive at about 9:40 p.m. The man refused medical attention at the scene. • A 20-year-old man was wounded in a shooting in the 2500 block of West 63rd Street in the Marquette Park neighborhood at 9:30 p.m., police said. The man's wounds weren't life threatening. No arrests have been made in any of the shootings. Through Monday, the city reported 1,648 shootings, 152 more than the same time last year, according to preliminary police statistics. The city has seen 52 homicides for August, 17 more than all of August 2011.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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The Trouble With Time Shares Except for leasing a car, few financial endeavors are as confusing as buying a time share. But the one point you should never lose sight of is that you're purchasing a luxury item, not an investment. And like a car, as soon as you take ownership, the value of your property drops. Fact is, anyone who buys a time share with the intention of making money will be sadly disappointed.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Tag Archive \| "Newsroom’" “The Blackout: Part I” is the start of a two-episode story arc which sees Will, MacKenzie and Charlie scrambling to keep the show afloat and keep Will on the air. Full News here – Detroit Entertainment What a way to announce her retirement! After speaking to the WXYZ staff this afternoon, legendary anchor Diana Lewis cued some music and led the 7 Action News team in a surprise dance party. INSIDE: Watch Video Full News here – Detroit \| WXYZ Jeff Daniels: “The biggest challenge aside from the dialogue was getting behind that news desk and making it look like I’ve been there for 25 years. … Brian Williams, Chris Matthews and Bill O’Reilly are all comfortable in that chair in front of that lens.” Full News here – Detroit Entertainment The episode used a meeting between Charlie (Sam Waterston) and network executives, including owner Leona Lansing (Jane Fonda), as the basis for flashbacks over a six-month period of time. Detroit Entertainment	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Strange and Silly Dreams. I've always been interested in dreams, and I am curious, as to what dreams you guys have been having, that are strange, interesting, or just plain dumb and silly. I'll start. About three days ago I had a dream I met Arnold and got his autograph and the next day I hung out with him. The funny thing is, he was still built like he was in his prime and his manager was there, and his manager was the bad guy from the running man(the host of the show). Also he had a tattoo on his shoulder of 131215. I had a dream this morning, that there was this short guy the size of a garden gnome that was following me around a mall and all I wanted to do is have I'm leave and no matter what I did he wouldn't leave and would try to lay a guilt trips on me after I tried to loose him. I thought I was going crazy, because no one else could see or hear him but me. I also get Deja Vu ALOT for spurts. I will know entire sections of say 10 minutes...it gets creepy, I have had dreams over a year old come true. But depends most often I dont dream, but if I am healthy, eating right, or on a good supplement(IGF-2 ROCKS for this) I have great dreams. For 21 years I had tons of dreams, all with the same thing. Me running from something I couldnt beat, something invincible. The situation changed from people, to monsters, to aliens, but it was always stronger than me. Then I have plain weird ones, most of em spooky like out in an old mansion in some woods, that is really weird but full of stuff. I really like those ones, they have great depth. But now, I rarely dream at all, and if I do it usually hurts because my ex or something still hangs in my dreams... Originally Posted by dave12 I thought you couldn't comprehend numbers or letters in dreams because of the part of the brain that processes them is separate from and inactive during dreaming. Depends, I can usually comprehend that stuff if I see, it, but I cant hear sound. I can never remember voices or any sound. Its like silent movies. But I know there is sound in my dreams, I think...I just can never recall it after waking. Every ones body is differant. Not to mention when sleeping our minds go up a notch. I firmly believe that is when spiritual things, or supernatural things have an increased %. I know some people who would dream things that were basically truth. If those are the ones I have that revolve around Kristen Bell and Jennifer Love Hewitt, then maybe. I was just reading your post and it reminded me of something that was brought up in a pysch class didn't know if it was on the mark or not. I also get Deja Vu ALOT for spurts. I will know entire sections of say 10 minutes...it gets creepy, I have had dreams over a year old come true. But depends most often I dont dream, but if I am healthy, eating right, or on a good supplement(IGF-2 ROCKS for this) I have great dreams. For 21 years I had tons of dreams, all with the same thing. Me running from something I couldnt beat, something invincible. The situation changed from people, to monsters, to aliens, but it was always stronger than me. For me it was werewolves, etc. But none the less, stronger than me. Then I have plain weird ones, most of em spooky like out in an old mansion in some woods, that is really weird but full of stuff. I really like those ones, they have great depth. But now, I rarely dream at all, and if I do it usually hurts because my ex or something still hangs in my dreams... Depends, I can usually comprehend that stuff if I see, it, but I cant hear sound. I can never remember voices or any sound. Its like silent movies. But I know there is sound in my dreams, I think...I just can never recall it after waking. Every ones body is differant. Not to mention when sleeping our minds go up a notch. I firmly believe that is when spiritual things, or supernatural things have an increased %. I know some people who would dream things that were basically truth. The mind, is an amazing thing that we barely pretend to comprehend. For me it was werewolves, etc. But none the less, stronger than me. And dreams are scarce for me nowadays too. I also got the one where I was naked somewhere public. Couldn't find clothes to save my life. Weird indeed. Haven't seen that one in a LONG time though. Damn, man, you have some pretty homoerotic dreams about muscle men and gnomes... weird. Originally Posted by DerickVonD I've always been interested in dreams, and I am curious, as to what dreams you guys have been having, that are strange, interesting, or just plain dumb and silly. I'll start. About three days ago I had a dream I met Arnold and got his autograph and the next day I hung out with him. The funny thing is, he was still built like he was in his prime and his manager was there, and his manager was the bad guy from the running man(the host of the show). Also he had a tattoo on his shoulder of 131215. I had a dream this morning, that there was this short guy the size of a garden gnome that was following me around a mall and all I wanted to do is have I'm leave and no matter what I did he wouldn't leave and would try to lay a guilt trips on me after I tried to loose him. I thought I was going crazy, because no one else could see or hear him but me. Damn, man, you have some pretty homoerotic dreams about muscle men and gnomes... weird. Well I wanted to meet Arnold since I was a little kid, so it's more of a childhood meeting Arnold more than anything. And I wanted to kill the gnome, how is that homoerotic at all? I do have another dream to mention, but don't feel like typing it right now. I used to have a recurring dream where I was playing Madden on the Titantron in Heinz Field (where the Steelers play), then out of nowhere Leatherface, not the new leatherface...but the nasty ss leatherface from the original TCM, starts chasing me around the stadium with a chainsaw. That's it...nothing ever comes of it...it never ends differently or anything, I just wake up in the middle of the chase. Used to have a really weird dream here and there when I was a kid that it was nighttime....and I would be hanging from the rafters of a bridge. Just hanging, trying not to let go. I never fell, or climbed back up, just hung. That used to mess me up.... Me running from something I couldnt beat, something invincible. The situation changed from people, to monsters, to aliens, but it was always stronger than me. Yeah, I get these from time to time too. I seem to recall one where I was running from some chick vampire (who was hot, of course) all over a city. Can't remember how that one ended... either I had sex with her, or it ended up ending the usal way my "chase" dreams end: Ending as soon as whatever it is that's chasing me finally catches up to me, or if the situation becomes so ridiculous that I basically stop running realize that it's a dream (usually declaring to myself "ok, this is so F@!ed up, this has to be a dream). I also, but rarely, get this dream where I'm in my bedroom at my old house from my childhood, and there's this ceiling light that I can't turn on, and I have this extreme fear that something's going to get me if the lights aren't on. I can get lucid dreams pretty regularly, or some that are halfway lucid. I know I'm in a dream but I don't have full control over everything. Last night I dreamed I was flying, and when I went to land, instead of landing how you would think, I landed on the 'ground' which just looked like google maps satellite view. Twas weird. I knew it was a dream, but I couldn't change it. I woke up when I got bored walking on google maps :/ Interesting thread. All my dreams were about me fighting hordes of different guys. Ninjas, samurais, cavemen, roman centurions, toxic avengers, african warriors, vikings , and the most recurring were men in all black suits in sunglasses. When Matrix 2 first came out and Neo had the scene in the playground fighting the Smith clones, I almost frigging fainted dead away in the theatre. It was like my heart stopped and my whole body went cold. I have an update for you guys. I had a dream I met Stone Cold at a bar and had a beer with him, and I had a dream the Iron Sheik measured my height in a shopping mall. After he measured me, it turned out I was 5' 3". After he told me my height I shrunk. One of the craziest ones I've had recently was, I dreamed I saw George Carlin at some kind of afterlife comedy special.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
3. Current issues In this sections the current issues are outlined that require further investigation. 3.1. Fonts The font path and glyphs need to be the same for the front-end and each of the back-end servers. Font glyphs could be sent to the back-end servers as necessary but this would consume a significant amount of available bandwidth during font rendering for clients that use many different fonts (e.g., Netscape). Initially, the font server (xfs) will be used to provide the fonts to both the front-end and back-end servers. Other possibilities will be investigated during development. 3.2. Zero width rendering primitives To allow pixmap and on-screen rendering to be pixel perfect, all back-end servers must render zero width primitives exactly the same as the front-end renders the primitives to pixmaps. For those back-end servers that do not exactly match, zero width primitives will be automatically converted to one width primitives. This can be handled in the front-end server via the GC state. 3.3. Output scaling With very large tiled displays, it might be difficult to read the information on the standard X desktop. In particular, the cursor can be easily lost and fonts could be difficult to read. Automatic primitive scaling might prove to be very useful. We will investigate the possibility of scaling the cursor and providing a set of alternate pre-scaled fonts to replace the standard fonts that many applications use (e.g., fixed). Other options for automatic scaling will also be investigated. 3.4. Per-screen colormaps Each screen's default colormap in the set of back-end X servers should be able to be adjusted via a configuration utility. This support is would allow the back-end screens to be calibrated via custom gamma tables. On 24-bit systems that support a DirectColor visual, this type of correction can be accommodated. One possible implementation would be to advertise to X client of the DMX server a TrueColor visual while using DirectColor visuals on the back-end servers to implement this type of color correction. Other options will be investigated.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Terrorists attack government building in Pampore, one jawan injured A government building in Pampore in Jammu and Kashmir has been occupied by a group of two or three terrorists. The encounter is underway between the army and the terrorists. One jawan is reported injured.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
02/06/2019 How AI is Transforming Healthcare: Diagnostics, R&D and Therapeutics The impact of artificial intelligence, or more specifically machine learning, is being felt in every industry sector, but perhaps nowhere more so than in healthcare, where AI funding hit historic highs in 2018, according to CB Insights. The term AI is commonly used by the media and others to describe a computer-generated solution that is as good, or better than, a solution that could have been produced by a human. That often includes digital health tools that use algorithms programmed by researchers and clinicians. Machine learning is a subset of AI that uses neural networks to simulate or even expand on the level of data analysis that human minds are able to achieve. Deep learning is where software learns to recognize patterns. And these tools are already transforming diagnostic imaging. The Scope CB Insights reports that since 2013, $4.3 billion in private equity has been invested in healthcare AI startups across 576 deals. That’s more than AI startups in any other industry have taken in. In a way, healthcare and AI are almost made for each other. The healthcare sector produces tons of data, but most of it is not being leveraged to provide the kind of insights it potentially could. The hope is that AI will be able to sort through this mountain of information to provide novel insights to improve the treatment or enable the prevention of disease. In this post, we have rounded up some of the most promising applications for AI/ML in healthcare and examples of companies that are making it happen. Diagnostics Diagnostic imaging is one place where AI has made significant inroads. According to Frost & Sullivan, there are 114 startups working on AI for medical imaging. CB Insights identifies diagnostics as a key driver of healthcare AI deals accounting for more than $200 million of investment through the first half of 2018. There are now AI-assisted tools to diagnose or aid in the diagnosis of conditions ranging from diabetic retinopathy to cancerous lesions to patients at risk of strokes. That’s not surprising. Medical imaging generates large and similar datasets that, unlike data collected by wearables, is stored in a clinical setting and therefore easily accessible to researchers. AI’s ability to recognize patterns has been harnessed to help clinicians identify risks and reduce the incidence of false positives that may require additional testing or unnecessary procedures. Radiologists have now incorporated this technology into their workflow. Equipment manufacturers are already working to integrate AI technology into the next generation of imaging devices. Cardiogram is an example of the next generation of AI-based diagnostics. The company’s goal is to take diagnostics out of the clinic and put it into the hands of anyone with a wearable device. Its tool currently allows users to track sleep and fitness and may eventually be able to predict a user’s risk of a serious cardiac event. Drug Research and Development Drug research is a notoriously inefficient process. The hope is that AI and ML can be leveraged to change the paradigm in this space. Interest in drug R&D, as measured by investment, has leapt in the past two years. In the first half of 2018, CB Insights recorded 20 AI drug discovery deals—equaling the total number of deals from 2017. AI-based tools can predict interactions and identify possible side effects of a specific drug candidate, significantly reducing the time it takes to develop a drug or eliminating drug candidates early in the process. These tools can also be used to identify genetic variations that might affect a drug’s efficacy in certain populations—a key to personalized therapeutics. Big pharma companies are also making significant investments in AI drug discovery deals either through strategic investments, partnerships or outright acquisitions. Most are using AI platforms in the hope to accelerate the search for successful drug candidates. One example of this trend is Evidation, a health and measurement company that uses an AI-driven platform to help life sciences and healthcare companies understand how everyday behaviors and health interact. The company analyzes consented real-world data from smartphones and connected sensors, such as those in wearables and medical devices, to help with the identification, treatment and monitoring of disease. AI Therapeutics At this point, most AI therapeutics are actually driven by algorithms. Most are designed to manage chronic diseases, particularly diabetes. Omada Health received full recognition of its diabetes prevention program from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in May 2018. Mental health is also proving to be another critical use case for AI. With the high cost of mental health therapy, a shortage of clinicians and significant populations that lack access to mental health services, AI-based mental health chatbots focused on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) are looking to fill that gap. One example is Woebot, which is developing an AI-powered companion that leverages CBT and coaching techniques. An early study showed that patients had better outcomes when CBT was delivered through a “conversational agent” in the form of a bot than when the same material was delivered via an e-book. Comments The impact of artificial intelligence, or more specifically machine learning, is being felt in every industry sector, but perhaps nowhere more so than in healthcare, where AI funding hit historic highs in 2018, according to CB Insights. The term AI is commonly used by the media and others to describe a computer-generated solution that is as good, or better than, a solution that could have been produced by a human. That often includes digital health tools that use algorithms programmed by researchers and clinicians. Machine learning is a subset of AI that uses neural networks to simulate or even expand on the level of data analysis that human minds are able to achieve. Deep learning is where software learns to recognize patterns. And these tools are already transforming diagnostic imaging. The Scope CB Insights reports that since 2013, $4.3 billion in private equity has been invested in healthcare AI startups across 576 deals. That’s more than AI startups in any other industry have taken in. In a way, healthcare and AI are almost made for each other. The healthcare sector produces tons of data, but most of it is not being leveraged to provide the kind of insights it potentially could. The hope is that AI will be able to sort through this mountain of information to provide novel insights to improve the treatment or enable the prevention of disease. In this post, we have rounded up some of the most promising applications for AI/ML in healthcare and examples of companies that are making it happen. Search Fenwick & West's Life Sciences Group consists of more than 60 attorneys and scientists who provide a broad mix of corporate, intellectual property and litigation services to private companies, public companies, investors and research institutions.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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Navigation Menu Breadcrumb Tech 3D Sensing - Banner Structured Light Tech structured light - description Structured light systems from ams enable 3D imaging applications to achieve extremely high accuracy. Accurate structured light technology is behind the user face recognition being implemented in smartphones. Structured light products and design expertise from ams help customers get to market quickly and scale up production rapidly. These products, which provide best in class performance, include VCSEL (laser) arrays, projection optics and diffractive optics. The offering from ams also includesexpertise in system design (including dot patterns) as well as in assembly and system integration. tec Structured light systems project random patterns of dots – sometimes more than 30,000 dots - on the target. The miniaturized projection systems consist of VCSEL arrays as the light source, and sophisticated optical and micro-optical elements. A camera optimized for near infrared (NIR) wavelengths captures images of the dot pattern. Algorithms generate depth maps by analyzing changes in the pattern.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Speaking of Tax Policy… November 9th, 2011 at 2:48 pm …the Tax Policy Center has a blog up on Mitt Romney’s tax plan. It’s a plan that mostly consists of tweaks to the current system and in this regard is much less ambitious relative to the Cain and Perry plans. The biggest change would be a 10 percentage point cut in the corporate rate from 35 to 25 percent. But here’s the thing that caught my attention. According to TPC, he’d also …add a new temporary investment tax credit and allow firms to continue to fully write off the cost of capital investments in the year they make them. He doesn’t say how all this would work, but allowing firms full expensing, adding an investment credit, and letting them continue to take an interest deduction all on the same equipment would result in massive subsidies on capital purchases. Many economists and policy types on both sides of the aisle love this idea of subsidizing capital spending. The Obama administration has been a big purveyor of accelerated expensing, for example. But I’m worried about it. There’s some evidence building that the labor-saving characteristics of capital and technology have accelerated in recent years, and that’s one reason why the pace of job growth was so weak in the 2000s, as shown here. If so—if the pace of substitution of capital for labor has increased; and if, in fact, new technology-enhanced capital is truly more of a labor substitute than a labor complement—it’s not obviously smart from the perspective of job-creation to keep pushing all these tax incentives to make capital cheaper. This is not a Luddite argument—it’s just saying perhaps market forces, untweaked by tax incentives, should play a larger role here. 3 comments in reply to "Speaking of Tax Policy…" Yes, new technology enhanced capital replaces jobs. For one simple example, many small bookshops have folded since Amazon came on the scene. And now, Amazon is becoming a digital publisher. To equate technology that creates code with a Sorcerer’s Apprentice propensity for multiplying itself as equivalent to older industrial technologies is extremely foolish. Amazon’s capacity to convert digital files into eBook formats is very different from the capital required to build presses, bind, print, and deliver books. Do we have a good understanding of the sectoral composition behind these trends? It could be that capital is substituting for labor. It could also be that labor intensive work is increasingly being shifted to other countries. Knowing which is driving apparent changes in capital intensity might have large policy implications.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Jessica Jones, ex-superhero and current private investigator, is separated from her husband, or ex-husband, Luke Cage. She's hiding their baby and this is a huge thing: Cage sends all his hero friends to ask about Danielle, and Jessica Jones tells them it'll be a Big Thing if they keep harassing her. Meanwhile she picks up a case: a husband wakes up, says he's not married to his wife, and is in fact married to another woman. He has a child with this woman. Meanwhile, the lady who hired Jones can't have kids, so this may be something personal, something the husband is doing to hurt her. Or maybe, she says, it's an alternate dimension or a super villain thing. That happens in their world. Maybe he's crazy. But she wants Jessica to figure it out and tell her. The problem is that without knowing why Jones was in jail or how she hid the baby during that time, without knowing what happened between her and Luke, I'm too confused to be anything but frustrated. You don't show confusion by making the reader confused. I didn't get enough answers for me to continue, although I might later on. For now, I got this free as a Marvel Insider - I used my points to get some free comics - so I enjoyed getting to read this. Think I'll wait for a sale to continue, though. So in issue #6 we have Jessica Jones finally some would say turning against the mess that Carol Danvers has gotten her into. We do know that Jessica plans on exploring what she was told in the prior issue, which is that the super-heroes have purposely destroyed other realities in order to make sure the reality they all currently exist in stayed the main one. We do have a swift end to some nonsense with someone who is out to get Carol and who never watched a movie before about what happens when the bad guy spills all of their plans. There is some rhetoric thrown out about Carol helping Jessica with soothing Luke's anger at her (seriously, does no one own a phone?) and then Jessica realizing that maybe she has given up way too much for such a little payoff (you think girl?). The artwork and language made me smile since it made me think more of the Jessica Jones I saw on the Netflix show (that is a good thing). The first few issues felt off to me, and now I know why. We get an appearance by Maria Hill and also seems to be in the dark about what Jessica has been up to and why and once again I just don't get the secrecy behind it. I honestly loved this and the next comic in the series. The colors in this one seem more vibrant, ie. I can see people's expressions. I know that the watercolor effect is kinda cool, but man oh man the first two issues I was squinting away. In issue #5 we have Jessica being brought down to the jail to help out the police and talk to the husband of her former client. What the man starts to reveal to Jessica Jones about other realities and what exactly the Avengers and other so-called heroes have been up to will shock Jessica's world. We also then having Luke Cage (still an ass) getting talked to like the child he is acting like from Ben Ulrich (see Daredevil). I still don't get why Carol Danvers had Jessica lie about what was going on to her husband (Luke Cage) and whys he felt the need to kidnap her daughter and hide her with her mother. Frankly it feels like things that romance novels would include that would tick all of us readers off. You would think that none of these people heard of having a freaking conversation before. This one of course ends with Jessica about to make a deal with the devil. I have to say though that one reason why I am starting to fall out of love with reading comics (Marvel) right now is that I don't want to have to read across different series to figure out what is going on. There are references to the Inhumans, another Civil War between the superheroes, etc. I already read Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan) so I know enough ins and outs to figure out what people are talking about. But I really wish that most of these authors would consider these being standalones for us comic readers who don't want to dip in and out of a bunch of different series to follow one story-line. Finally! We finally find out what the heck is going on. What caused the rift between Jessica. Why did she go to jail? Why is Misty acting like a stalking fool and talking crap about Jessica? Okay that last one we don't get an answer to, but I was so over Misty that I am hoping Iron Fist shows up and is all so baby, are we not a thing anymore? I have no idea what she is doing besides acting like Jessica cannot and will not beat her butt for trying to steal her husband. Okay where was I? Please do not continue reading if you have not read the first three issues. We readers finally find out that Carol Danvers and Jessica Jones are working together to find out who is behind a plot to take out the world's superheroes. Jessica really has not turned her back on her friends (like she ever would) and instead went to jail and pretended to have a break with her old life. I have no idea why Carol picked Jessica for this. And why Luke wasn't told. I feel like we are dancing towards some soap opera levels of stupidity with some of this, but we at least know that Jessica is still a good guy. So yeah to that. But, we do realize that Carol realizes who the woman is behind this. And she doesn't exactly deny working her over. So what the heck Avengers? Is Carol going rogue? Or was this okayed by someone? Also though, I have to wonder why they are so worked up about this woman. She has a henchman and all. But I am not seeing an elite amount of villains running around that should have the Avengers worried. Carol goes on about them having to protect the younger kids like Kamala (yeah! Ms. Marvel shoutout) from this evil organization. And color me stupid, but I don't think Hyda is involved. We do have Luke having a run-in with a police detective who seems to think that Luke is up to no good. Weirdly he is protective of Jessica against Luke and Luke maybe finally realizes that someone is out to hurt his wife and is going to do what he can to find her and keep her safe. Aww Luke. Though the whole thing with the detective thinking that Luke could hurt Jessica was not a good sub-plot. I hope that doesn't pop up again. The optics of a strong black man hitting a strong white woman.....no. Let's hope Bendis doesn't have an issue with Luke being mistakenly arrested for domestic violence or anything. So yeah to reveal finally being revealed. But boo to the reasons behind it. I just thought it strained all credibility. And, Jessica being so hell-bent on talking to her client's husband and investigating cases to feel normal just needs to stop. I want to get back to who is behind this organization and what their plans are exactly. I want Jessica reunited with Luke. These issues are so small I may want to the volume releases in the future. Well at least we finally get to see who has captured Jessica and what they are up to. We still don't know about the great rift that no one is giving any details about. But I still had issues with thinking that somehow Jessica has hit up the dark side or whatever was going on through issues #1 through now. We see that someone is out to get the Avengers and actually any superhero out there. A woman reveals to Jessica that she plans on using Jessica to find out the secrets of all of her friends and use that to take them out one at a time. We also see a hint that this character is holding a big old grudge towards Carol Danvers (Captain Marvel) who she blames for taking her away and torturing her because Carol thought she was working for Hydra. I did have to do a bit of a head shake at this moment. Cause I can't see any of the Avengers being down for a thing like that. Or at least I can't see Captain America being okay with anyone doing anything like that. I haven't been following the new comics much besides Ms. Marvel, so I have no idea who is a good guy or bad guy at his point in this universe. Once again the colors are so freaking muted at times I could barely see anything it felt like. I am glad though that the zoom and pinch was working on this via my Kindle Fire so I could at least enlarge the text and study the scenes a bit better. We have Jessica eventually being released with this mysterious woman thinking she can eventually turn Jessica since all of her friends and her husband have turned on her. And she even shows Jessica a photo of Luke looking way too cozy with Misty Knight. Also can I say, I don't care for comic book Misty at all. She is a bit too pressed about Luke. Girl, he is married with a kid, keep it moving. I read issue #4 directly after this though, so can I say that finally secrets are revealed. Too long enough. I think that Bendis could have combined issues #1-3 honestly into one issue. The drag to find out what happened and why Jessica went to jail is the first mystery I wanted to figure out. And everyone talking circles around it was not very realistic. Important: Our sites use cookies. We use the information stored using cookies and similar technologies for advertising and statistics purposes. Stored data allow us to tailor the websites to individual user's interests. Cookies may be also used by third parties cooperating with BookLikes, like advertisers, research companies and providers of multimedia applications. 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Hecklers at Sykes show ruined the comedic vibe Saturday Aug 25, 2012 at 2:10 AM On Aug. 15 my husband and I attended the Wanda Sykes show at the Melody Tent. Very shortly into her show, several audience members began shouting to her to stop her routine about politics, leading her to remark that she'd only been doing this for 25 years. On Aug. 15 my husband and I attended the Wanda Sykes show at the Melody Tent. Very shortly into her show, several audience members began shouting to her to stop her routine about politics, leading her to remark that she'd only been doing this for 25 years. Comedians have routines that many times are filled with bad language and digs at people for all sorts of reasons, from clothing to race to hairstyles and so on. If a person is sensitive about hearing the irreverent comments, they should think twice before attending such a venue. While people frequently disagree about politics, I don't know who these people think they are to feel it's appropriate to direct what topics a comedic performer can talk about while on stage. While the show went on after she did stop that repertoire on politics, the vibe changed. We paid good money to listen to the comments she wanted to share with us. I am sure she won't be returning to Cape Cod or the Melody Tent anytime soon. I'm embarrassed and disappointed.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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7 comments: Adrian - Just imagine for a moment that instead of running A&A, you were working at GCHQ (or the french equivalent) and you had been tasked with writing surveillance software to help the authorities work out what the bad guys are doing and who they are talking to. You might well have access to terabytes of intercept data to sift through every day, but you write your software to find the interesting connections or people with a certain profile. With your excellent network technical knowledge, I imagine that you would actually be quite good at this. Imagine now that you have been doing this for some time and had actually been quite successful at finding useful information that directly led to lives being saved - In this position, wouldn't you be pushing for these powers too? I spoke to someone who works on this stuff in government earlier this summer and he told me that current mass surveillance IS producing them useful information that is helping them catch terrorists. He told me that it has directly led to terrorist atrocities being stopped and this is why they are pushing for it to be put on a proper legal footing in parliament. I think you are missing the point when you say that terrorists can use end to end encryption - Technically, you are right of course, but if iMessage could be decrypted by Apple and hence was no longer completely secure for terrorists to use, it would help the authorities: Either the terrorists are lazy and use iMessage et al anyway (in which case the authorities could ask the party in the middle to decrypt it) or by using their own end-to-end encryption, the terrorists would be demonstrating a new type of activity to help the authorities work out who they need to look at more closely. The manual paper encryption you refer to of course works, but you don't mention that this form of encryption is cumbersome and therefore not very practical to use for a high volume of routine day to day communications. Most of the intelligence game is about working out who is talking to whom and the people that are in the conspirator network, not just what the content of the messages are. I don't agree with you that changing the encryption so that a central service provider like Apple, Microsoft or Facebook could decrypt the traffic would meaningfully weaken security for everyday users. Yes, in theory, it is a bit weaker than end to end encryption, but it is very unlikely that the email spam criminals you refer to in your video would have access to the decryption keys, so in practice in would only be very slightly less secure than the end to end encryption we use today. There would need to be careful design of the management of decryption keys by central parties so that no individual corrupt employee at one of these central parties could get hold of them, but designing a secure method for accessing the decryption key should not be too difficult for them. The majority of the normal non-technical people I have spoken to want to keep using iPhones and secure messaging, but they also want the authorities to catch the terrorists and prevent their atrocities. They do not have an issue with mass surveillance where it is used under proper legal authority to help the authorities catch terrorists. They mostly feel that there is nothing terribly interesting in their private data and that the authorities could look there, if they want to and are suitably legally authorised to do so. The authorities are under huge pressure to capture the terrorists that would quite happy kill all of us, given the opportunity to do so. Whilst I don't think we should give carte blanche to the authorities to look at anything anytime they want to (as this would be subject to too much abuse), I feel we do need to help them do their job to protect the country, with the right legal controls in place. One of the issues is that huge pressure. Terrorists are criminals and need our attention, but they are statistically quite a minor threat to live compared to many other things. What is worse is, the name is a clue, they are trying to create "terror" and we seem to be falling for it. If terrorist deaths were reported at the same level as car related deaths the most of the country would not even know the word "terrorist". End to end encryption is an important and necessary tool against criminals and weakening that is bad. What is worse is that simple things like https are end to end, just that one end is a web server. You could easily use that protocol to a phone and so make your app look completely innocent. There are many other ways to hide the encryption. If a terrorist group made an app and had any sense the use of the app would be pretty much undetectable. You also have the huge hole in the proposals that there need not be an "over the top provider" to target with laws. If an app is open source - who does the warrant requiring decryption get severed on exactly? " spoke to someone who works on this stuff in government earlier this summer and he told me that current mass surveillance IS producing them useful information that is helping them catch terrorists. He told me that it has directly led to terrorist atrocities being stopped and this is why they are pushing for it to be put on a proper legal footing in parliament." Well, they would say that, wouldn't they? I mean, sure maybe everyone who has access to surveillance data at GCHQ or the NSA is a saint. But maybe they include some bad guys who just want the powers in order to gain personal power, and we cannot tell the difference based on the unsubstantiated claims they make. Whenever an agency like this has been forced to produce real evidence or back down, they've backed down or sent up a smokescreen of minor cases that could have been solved with honest police work. That is insufficient evidence on which to force the entire country to give up the use of opaque envelopes. I've also spoken to people who work on this stuff in government (indeed, I considered a job working on it, but declined as the salaries on offer were laughable). They do believe that it is producing useful information, but they don't have proper metrics for it; they know how much of their output is used by anti-terror police, and that's about it for metrics. So, there's no false positive or false negative rate; there's no attempt made to determine how often their data is necessary to an investigation (i.e. where without the mass surveillance data, the investigation would not have begun, or not have successfully concluded). They don't know what the precision, specificity, accuracy or recall of their models actually is against the wider population, because they don't track that, either - they're only tracking against persons of interest. Now, it's possible that they lied to me about what they do track - but in that case, why should I trust their assertion that they're beneficial? Taking the claims at face value, they don't know at least two things that I consider extremely important: 1) How often are they responsible for actually stopping someone bad? I'm conflating two things here - one is when they trigger an investigation that would not otherwise happen, the other is when they provide the "straw" of evidence that "breaks the camel's back" of the presumption of innocence. 2) How often do they flag up someone harmless as a terrorist, only to be filtered out downstream? It's great and all if you flag every terrorist - but I'm not sure it's beneficial if you also flag 10 million innocent people. Neither of these are questions they could answer at all, even in vague terms, to someone they'd security cleared for interview. It doesn't really matter whether the app is open source or not - Clearly if the authorities can't find someone to serve a warrant on to decrypt the traffic, then they won't do so. If the app is using a central server, the IP address of that server would still provide useful information for the authorities to search for in the IP traffic streams of other users. What the authorities need to find is activity markers in the data streams that help them identify the people they need to look at more closely. At present, it is much easier for the terrorists to make themselves look like any other normal user and to hide their activities amongst all the traffic going to Facebook / Twitter / iMessage etc. If this option became unsafe for the terrorists to use (because it could be decrypted by the likes of Facebook / Twitter / Apple etc. by law) then they would be forced to use other means of communication which would inevitably be different to what ordinary members of the general public are using. As mentioned previously, this would not in reality make those services significantly less safe for ordinary users than they are today. You seem to suggest that we should just ignore the terrorists, because the number of deaths they cause are too small to matter. Given that ISIS want a worldwide caliphate, such an approach would surely lead them to ultimately succeed. The authorities are already stopping lots of attacks and the new surveillance powers are about enabling them to continue with that success and thus keep successful terrorist attacks to a minimum. With regards to car related deaths, the authorities have been continually trying to deal with those by making cars and roads progressively safer - We have lots of law for this mandating safety features in cars, outlawing drink driving, banning use of mobiles while driving etc. There were 1,713 road related deaths in the UK in 2013 and this is down from 3,400 in 2000. By way of comparison to terrorists, the 9/11 attack in the USA resulted in 2,996 deaths, so this demonstrates that terrorist activity is already at levels comparable to road related deaths and of course this would be much higher if the authorities were not actively working to prevent terrorist attacks. We all have to give up a certain amount of privacy to safely live in a civilised country. We are subject to the rule of law and have to disclose information to the authorities when necessary (e.g. our income for tax collection purposes). If the authorities need mass surveillance capabilities to help them hunt down terrorists, is it really reasonable to deny them this capability? At the end of the day, the volume of the data they collect will mean that it can only realistically be crunched by computers, so your personal data will remain very unlikely to be looked at in detail by a human working for the government, unless your on-line profile has all the hallmarks of a terrorist, in which case they will apply for suitable authorisation and then have lots of people looking over your personal data in detail. Are the proposed powers really much different to carrying out covert surveillance of a house and then getting a search warrant to enter and search the property, once suspicion has been raised sufficiently? Your stats are screwed a bit, comparing one year in UK is close to total terrorist deaths in US in 20 years (and that is because of one event) similar to US road deaths in each month. And I did not say ignore terrorists. They do not, however, need the level of attention and invasion of privacy and "terror" they get. It will be interesting when Apple make access to iMessage by apps easier as that will allow apps to do end to end encryption and then use iMessage as the transmission medium, so again, hiding in the noise - only if you order a decryption of iMessage would you then see you cannot actually read the message. There are also plenty of ways to convey encrypted message without a central server for that purpose, and ways to make it hard to see who is accessing messages (i.e. track the meta data). If I were a terrorist, tell me why the following method of communications wouldn't avoid detection, even without any encryption:I set up an email client, such as microsoft outlook on my computer and then allow my terrorist associates to remotely access my computer. All messages are then simply placed in the outbox or draft messages of my email client. Provided everyone else uses a secure VPN connection when remotely logging in to my computer to read or leave a message there should be nothing incriminating in any ICRs that the ISP may have been ordered to retain and no messages are ever sent over the internet. How will the stupid IP Bill prevent that or similar subterfuge? Everything I write here is just my honest opinion and not a statement by my employer, etc, you get the idea. If you find any words or pictures menacing or offensive, or likely to impair your computer, or alarming or distressing, stop reading now and don't come back (and don't forget to block me on social media too). 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Flicks On The Bricks in Portland - Enjoy A Summer Movie Flicks on the Bricks in Portland is an annual summer event here. From July through August, you can camp out in your low-back chairs or whatever in Pioneer Courthouse Square and watch a great movie. The warm breeze and the uniqueness of an outdoor movie is very cool. Summers are really nice here and we take advantage of that by offering locals and visitors alike the chance to see an enjoyable movie right outside, in the center of the city. No B-rated stuff here. In the past seasons, the event has brought Anchorman, Top Gun, Ghostbusters, Raiders of the Lost Ark, National Lampoon's Vacation and many others to the big screen in downtown Portland. Four to five movies run from July through August on the warm Friday evenings around here (pray for good weather!). It's really a lot of fun heading into the city and sitting around to enjoy a good movie with your Portland family in such a large living room as Pioneer Courthouse Square (Pioneer Courthouse Square is, in fact, called Portland's "Living Room"). There's always a good number of companies, both local and national, who sponsor this event...businesses such as Cricket Wireless, KINK-FM, the Portland Tribune and others. Everyone wants to get involved....it's just the nature of Portland, Oregon. We never do things halfhearted here....everything is a special event. Vendors are available at the movie for you to grab popcorn, soft drinks and other goodies. And there's always Starbucks plopped right there in the middle of the action. This can be a really fantastic Portland event for making memories! ;)	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Jenny Packham With a clientele that ranges from royalty to Rihanna, the English designer says her new line was inspired by the colors in a rainbow. "I was using the colors to put different personalities into the dresses, while still keeping the flow through the show," Packham said. 从皇室成员到蕾哈娜都是这一英国设计师的客户，据她说自己最新一组服装的色彩灵感来源于彩虹。“我用色彩给予服装不同的个性，同时也保持了整个秀的流畅性。”Packham如是说。 From left: Courtesy Cut 25; Getty Images Cut 25 In its first New York Fashion Week showing, Yigal Azrouel's lower-priced, contemporary line presented simple silhouettes suited for the stylish but practical young woman. 这是该品牌首次参加纽约时装周，这一Yigal Azrouel出品的平价时尚品牌展示了时尚又脚踏实地的年轻女性的剪影。 From left: Courtesy Fotini; Getty Images Fotini "She's always a lady, but she never gives a damn," says the designer of her customer. “她永远仪态万方，但从来不装模作样。”设计师这样描述自己的客户。 From left: Courtesy Tory Burch; Getty Images Tory Burch For her debut at New York Fashion Week, the Queen of Prep showed clothing inspired by Deauville in the 1920's—a line that was "sporty and polished with an emphasis on special details." 在纽约时装周的首次亮相秀中，这一主走精英名校风的名牌展示了一系列以20年代法国多维尔为灵感来源的，“运动感十足又于细节处精心打造”的时装。 From left: Courtesy Reem Acra; Getty Images Reem Acra "For Spring 2012, I became very interested in mixing different textures and materials in the style of haute couture within the context of a ready to wear collection," said the designer. "I have created new silhouettes using hand sewn embroideries, woven silk ribbons, and textured silks for a range of ensembles for my international customer to wear for both day and night." “对2012年的春季流行，我很有兴趣得将不同材质不同材料相混搭，让成衣也充满了高级定制的味道。”设计师这样说，“我创造了大量使用手工刺绣、编织丝带以及富有质感的丝绸的时装，以满足来自世界各地客户日间与夜晚的双重着装要求。” From left: Courtesy Tommy Hilfiger; Getty Images Tommy Hilfiger "Ivy League goes camping," was the idea behind this American designer's menswear collection. “当常春藤大学生去野营”这就是这一美国本土设计师男装系列的主题。 From left: Courtesy Vivienne Tam; Getty Images Vivienne Tam "I wanted to transform the elements of a Zen garden into clothes," Tam said of her new line. “我希望能把充满禅意的花园的感觉加入到服装中。”Tam这样描述其新作。 Milly "My Spring 2012 collection is modern and geometric in cut and print, softened by earthy materials like wood and tortoise resin," said Michelle Smith, the label's designer. “我的2012春季系列是充满现代感、几何剪切及印花的，同时又用木质与树脂这种质朴的材料加以柔和。”该品牌的设计师Michelle Smith这样说。 From left: Courtesy Rebecca Minkoff; Getty Images Rebecca Minkoff She's better known for her leather handbags, but when it came to her clothing collection, Minkoff showcased dresses and separates in neon colors and python patterns. Minkoff最出名的是皮包，而其服装设计中则充满了大量霓虹色彩以及蟒纹。	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Surgical/Medical Outreach- Upper East, Ghana Dec.11-17, 2016 THE STORY: I am an anesthesiologist from the Univ. of Utah who has been teaching and providing patient care for the past 17 years at the KATH Hospital in Kumasi Ghana. I have joined an Outreach Surgery/Medical group (Apridec.org) a totally Ghanaian driven group of specialist volunteers started in 2010 who have been providing free surgical and medical care for patients in the poorest areas of Ghana (Upper East and Upper West). The productivity of this organization is unmatched in any health care delivery system (also providing education) I have ever seen. My first trip to Upper East -290 surgeries in 5 hospitals in 4 days (in 2015 -320 of all types of surgeries) and to Upper West this past April 3-9th- 389 surgeries in 7 hospitals in 5 days. I am asking for funding for transportation, lodging and food for the volunteers and support to purchase anesthesia medications, antibiotics and consumables and patient monitors like a finger pulse oximeter. Jeffrey L. Peters, PhD, MD, FGCPS, 801-205-1021, [email protected]; Fundraise online and raise money for charity and causes you’re passionate about. CrowdRise is an innovative, cost-effective online fundraising website for personal fundraising pages, non-profit fundraising and event fundraising. Raise money online for causes and have the most fun in the world while doing it.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Most incredible use of unwanted perfume Well, you know those bottles, cheap and/or unwanted that you buy blind or are given by an friend or family member. What is your best use for them? Here is mine:DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING! DO NOT HOLD BASENOTES OR ANY BASENOTERS RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE! I use it as a flamethrower 8-) Get the lighter and spray! Since cockroaches are so hard to kill >, next time I find a cockroach on the ground: 1.Stomp it so it won't move as fast 2.Douse it in perfume 3.Use flamethrower to ignite perfume! 4.Watch the damn thing die! Re: Most incredible use of unwanted perfume Here is mine:DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING! DO NOT HOLD BASENOTES OR ANY BASENOTERS RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE! I use it as a flamethrower 8-) Get the lighter and spray! Flame spritzer more I guess, since no fragrance bottles I own are powered with that gas that make the scent go flying out (huge lack of words in my vocabulary here hehe). My use would be as room fragrance, at least that is what I've planned on doing with some unused bottles I have. But then, would I want my home smell like a scent I don't want to wear on me? I doubt it. Re: Most incredible use of unwanted perfume Since cockroaches are so hard to kill , next time I find a cockroach on the ground: 1.Stomp it so it won't move as fast 2.Douse it in perfume 3.Use flamethrower to ignite perfume! 4.Watch the damn thing die! Heh, I guessed that this was going to be the use. I used to use 100% isopropyl alcohol in a large pump spray bottle and then a butane lighter as the igniter: it makes a great flame thrower; no need to stomp first, you can blast them as they run! Re: Most incredible use of unwanted perfume Er.. I think that would burn down the house Not quite, it was a really strangely constructed building I was living in at the time with heavy concrete walls. Though, when the landlady was suing my ex-roommate for back rent she did try to mention the black soot marks on the walls as evidence that we had tried to burn the place but the judge said that unless there was a record of the fire department being called then he wasn't interested. Re: Most incredible use of unwanted perfume Spritz yourself with the frag 28 times. Then go look for the person or people who you don't like. Walk within their circumference until they start dropping dead like flies. Don't forget to wear a gas mask before attemptng, BTW A-men will set bodies ablaze. Re: Most incredible use of unwanted perfume Originally Posted by mrliberfarb spraying your roomates bed sheets as revenge for keeping you up last night [smiley=evil.gif] Fragrances are wonderful things for messing with roomates. Sometimes if my roomate is trying to be suave with some girl he brought back, i'll sneak into the living room and spray one squirt of A*Men into the air, then be ready to launch into a large fragrance discussion when the sillage carries it to her nose. Great game killer Re: Most incredible use of unwanted perfume As I read in Tonino Benaquista novel named Someone Else (Russian edition), it`s probably good choice to fuel your Zippo with unwanted perfume-cologne. The heroine of the novel used Miss Dior perfume, mentioned that Zippo fuel is too horrid smelling, and so she fueled her lighter with Miss Dior instead...	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Why you'll love this Learn more about the beautiful land and its people from your insightful guide You can choose from a number of trails - Naggar, Rumsu village or Rhala waterfalls One can customize their schedule, extending them to longer routes with camping or more About This Activity Investigate the tough landscape of Manali with the energizing game of mountain biking. Being a game to be delighted in on mountains. timberlands, forsakes or fields, Manali is an impeccable host having more than its offer of tough slants and territory for experience biking. Investigate the excellence of the Himalayas, mountains and streams as you test the floor in Naggar, Jana falls. Rhala falls and Rumsu town. This is a gathering of excited explorers, who have testing the land. water and skies of Manali through energizing experiences like bking. calculating, paragliding and the sky is the limit from there. Perceiving the related soul for experience in other people who dream to taste the excite of such exercises, they began this office SO years back to benefit them ‘activity’ while managing them through the procedures. This is a day-long mountain biking movement through Manali, giving you the excite of the tough landscape and also the stunningness of the wonderful scene. The city of Manali offers distinctive sorts of trails. You can investigate the interesting towns in transit to Naggar, ride along the common Kullu styled houses at Rumsu Village or the forested trails and inclines to the Rhala or Jana falls. Couple your rides with touring campaigns. for the Naggar palace is a value a visit with a lovely mix of customary and European design. Also the great waterfalls that offer a visual dinner of magnificent slopes. valleys and woodlands encompassing the falling waters. The ride begins at 9 early in the day to your decision of course. Very much kept up, choice bicycles and rigging will be given. Find out about the spots and the life in the towns from the neighborhood guides who go with you. You can pick a picturesque spot to eat around twelve, the pressed dinners which are additionally given by the hosts. The ride proceeds till S pm after which you can come back to the base or to your inn. On the off chance that one might want to investigate more. the hosts can mastermind longer rides to the Rohtang Pass, Spiti Valley or Ladakh at an extra cost, alongside nourishment and settlement. The calendars can be worked around the accommodation of the visitors, taking into account their desires and needs. With a dazzling scene for your riding setting and a rich legacy to cover this experience to bound to one of your most loved recollections in Manali. If you are buying new shoes for your trek, please remember to use them for at least a month before you commence your trek. Guests belongings such as mobile phones, wallets, and cameras should be taken care of by themselves Kindly do not scatter plastics and bottles on the roads Duration of transfers mentioned is approximate. The exact duration would depend on the time of day and traffic at the time. Comfortable walking shoes recommended for the trail It is advised to wear comfortable clothes Guests should take care of their own belongings such as mobile phones, wallets and cameras Guests are advised to be prepared for the weather in Kullu before they pack for the experience Cancellation will attract the following cancellation. 45 days or more prior to the departure Rs.10000 30 days prior to the departure 25% of the tour cost 15 days prior to the departure 50% of the tour cost 07 days prior to the departure Or a “No Show” on the tour 100% of the tour cost’ Itinerary Day 1 You will be gotten from your inn anyplace inside a 3 km range of Manali to be conveyed to the coordinator’s office or you can get in touch with them straightforwardly. Transported to the movement point at 9:00 am. The movement should be possible from various focuses like Naggar or Jana waterfalls. Stop for a meal break around twelve and resume the movement to be proceeded till 5:00 pm. You will be dropped back at the organizerS office or at your inn in Manali.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
McIntosh Laboratory, has announced three new preamplifiers – the C1100, C52 and C47 – all made at the company's factory in Binghamton NY, following the brand’s signature design. The C1100 features a separate controller and tube preamplifier, and the C52 and C47, offer phono preamps and built-in DACs, featuring PCM, DSD256, and DXD up to 384kHz. All three feature McIntosh’s Headphone Crossfeed Director circuitry and Home Theater Pass Through. McIntoshLabsXL_C1100C_and_C1100T.jpg (68.08 KiB) Viewed 502 times McIntoshLabsXL_C1100C_and_C1100T.jpg (68.08 KiB) Viewed 502 times The new McIntosh C1100, comprised of the C1100 controller and the C1100 tube preamplifier, brings a new level of performance and luxury to McIntosh’s preamplifier offerings – evidenced by its high level inputs, which the company says have the lowest noise of any McIntosh preamplifier ever produced. It utilizes a two-chassis design where the control and power sections are completely separate from the audio section. ...	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. Absence of Leaf/Green I'm not sure who else remembers this enough to care, but apparently there was a female protagonist planned for Gen I although(correct me if I'm wrong), due to limitations at the time, she was left out. I hardly ever play as the female protagonist unless I decide to get both games in a set at the time/fool around with having both but I can't help but think over the fact that, as badass as Red is(and will be to anyone who started with the first gen!), you ladies out there don't really have a proper heroine to reflect on from way back then. Any opinions on this? Would you have liked an equally 'badass' female counterpart of Red if it meant making some little sacrifices or was possible at all? I know we do have Leaf now for that gen but she was not in the original Gen I games so can we really say that she is as big as Red? It's not like she has her own spot as an elite trainer in Johto/Gen II either. Though it was a long time ago, I don't remember any in-game text referring to gender. Notice that the your character's hat cover's it's face, and that you can add a female symbol to the end of your name? If you want, the main character can be female. † I am a Christian and proud of it! Copy and paste this into your sig if you are too.† I'm not talking about any ingame reference. There's old artwork on the strategy guide for Red/Green that suggests they could have had one planned(she was next to squirtle while Red and Blue were next to Bulbasaur and Charmander, respectively). I don't think it was by Sugimori though, but we did end up getting one in the remakes that has a similar appearance to that original girl. Red is definitely male. I always play as a girl when I play FR/LG, and when you're in Erika's gym as a girl, no one really bothers you. In R/B/Y, however, you get told to leave by one trainer, and another calls you a peeping Tom! So, yeah, it's definitely different playing as a boy. It would've been really neat to have that option from the beginning to be a female (though I don't know if this would've worked for Pokémon Yellow since it's pretty much the anime in game form). That would've probably made G/S/C that much more memorable at Mount Silver. Like if you chose to be the girl in the game, you got to fight the female counterpart from the first games (or it would be randomly generated, since most people tended to start over their games anyway). That would've been freakin' awesome. But all we have is concept art, and the inclusion of Green in the manga, which I guess further proves she was supposed to be a playable character. It's sad that the first games had limitations, but hey, technology marches on. I'm happy that from Crystal on-ward, we can have that option to be male or female. And so LeafGreen was really neat for me. I got nostalgic going back through Kanto, but I was now a girl, and it became a little more personal for me, like how RPGs tend to be. Red is definitely male. I always play as a girl when I play FR/LG, and when you're in Erika's gym as a girl, no one really bothers you. In R/B/Y, however, you get told to leave by one trainer, and another calls you a peeping Tom! So, yeah, it's definitely different playing as a boy. I don't think I really paid attention to that. I wonder how the 'peeping' old man who sits outside of the gym would've reacted to the female protagonist, haha. XD Very nice picture. I do think the games should have had a proper female protagonist. At the same time, I wonder if the game's artist didn't try to draw the protagonist as a generic, non-gender specific kid. If so, it didn't work. † I am a Christian and proud of it! Copy and paste this into your sig if you are too.† I think they probably programmed a single player Character which ends up being Red. Adding Playing as a girl in the early 90 was rarely done in the games of the times, not unless where where Statical reason such as +5 Evade -5 Strength, and in those games chances are you'll have a possible "Monster character" with -10 Speed +5 Strength +5 Def. Most of the game I can think of which was released before 96 that did have playable female characters, they're generally tie ins to a Tv/Movie, or just a token female in some cases. Pokémon came out as the SNES/MegaDrive Era ending and the Playstation1/N64 Era just started. Also remember the GB graphics are quite limited the over world image is only 16 x 16 pixels. (The Dex Graphics we use are 32x32) Oh.. I saw this thread thinking it was for 3rd Gen section based on the title. Lack of time, money, and skill. Many good ideas are cut from games for these reasons. Lack of space is also possibly the biggest reason why lots of things were cut out from the original until the second generation came out. The Game Boy cartridge could only hold so much, especially with how tight everything was in Game Freak at the time--Pokémon saved the company, after all. Originally Posted by Nutter t.KK Most of the game I can think of which was released before 96 that did have playable female characters, they're generally tie ins to a Tv/Movie, or just a token female in some cases. Pokémon came out as the SNES/MegaDrive Era ending and the Playstation1/N64 Era just started. Samus Aran is probably the most well-known/popular video game female heroine out there (she may have been the first if I remember correctly), though since you mentioned tie-ins to movies, it's possible Metroid may have taken cues from Aliens. shrugs But still, I think she counts as a female character who stood out on her own given the time-period. yes their was a planned female portagonist but I think they left it out for 2 major reasons: 1, they couldn't fit her in and 2, they proballyt weren't sure how popular the game was gonna be with the girls because back then, video games we're mostly a guy thing May the odds be EVER in your favor Credit to Eeveelover824 for this sig and credit to RondezView for the pink pikachu If you are a true Swiftie (a Taylor Swift fan) like me and not scared to show it, "Drop Everything Now" and copy and paste in your signature. Lack of space is also possibly the biggest reason why lots of things were cut out from the original until the second generation came out. The Game Boy cartridge could only hold so much, especially with how tight everything was in Game Freak at the time--Pokémon saved the company, after all. Samus Aran is probably the most well-known/popular video game female heroine out there (she may have been the first if I remember correctly), though since you mentioned tie-ins to movies, it's possible Metroid may have taken cues from Aliens. shrugs But still, I think she counts as a female character who stood out on her own given the time-period. I assumed lack of money would limit the cartirige size. Perhaps that was a poor assumption. What about Ms. Pac-Man? † I am a Christian and proud of it! Copy and paste this into your sig if you are too.† She's pretty much Pac-Man if he went through a sex change. I wouldn't say she counts, she was pretty much there for eye-candy, albeit odd eye-candy. Freakin' LOL'd. Originally Posted by Liz Azzimagica yes their was a planned female portagonist but I think they left it out for 2 major reasons: 1, they couldn't fit her in and 2, they proballyt weren't sure how popular the game was gonna be with the girls because back then, video games we're mostly a guy thing What would the second part have to do with anything, haha? If she wasn't used as often as Red, so be it; She'd be there for the female players as an option at least. I just think it sucks that, as generations come out, we can all look back on Red as the beginning/badass protagonist that he was, while female players don't really have their own to reflect back on because of Leaf/Green's absence(sure you can look back on her from the perspective of how FrLg turned that around, but the original games will always hold a place in our hearts. I can understand memory issues but surely they could have cut something not as important out to make way for her. Originally Posted by pacman000 That makes some since. I can think of a couple more games, Ghost Manor and Halloween for the Atari 2600, but those are probably too obscure to matter. That game is all sorts of creepy, especially the flickering lights in some rooms to go along with the music. especially with how tight everything was in Game Freak at the time--Pokémon saved the company, after all. This. It's fascinating to think about how many times the creator was turned down by game companies to make Pocket Monsters, and now it's one of the best selling franchises of all time, third according to Wikipedia. With 219.28 million games sold. It's like... imagine what you can miss as a publisher.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
About BT His concept of epic house inspired by the classical training he received from an early age, Brian Transeau revitalized the British dance community in the mid-'90s and provided a point of entry for later dream house merchants like Robert Miles, Sash!, and BBE (though Transeau had, for the most part, left the style behind by the time of its pop success during 1997-1998). After his debut album appeared in late 1995 (as BT), Transeau hit the dance charts when his remix of Tori Amos' "Blue Skies" became one of the most-played American club tracks of the following year. Though he attempted to leave dream house behind on second album ESCM, Transeau continued to do well with club-goers and critics in Britain as well as America. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Transeau was playing piano from the age of two and began his classical training while only 13. Even while he was studying string arrangement and orchestration, Transeau listened to Depeche Mode and Yes. He attended Berklee School of Music in Boston for one year but then dropped out and moved to Los Angeles; he was soon back in Washington, D.C., where he hooked up with longtime friend Ali Shirazinia's new Deep Dish production team. He had already played synthesizer for albums by Salt-N-Pepa and Tyler Collins before debuting on Deep Dish Records with two 1993 singles, "A Moment of Truth" and "Relativity." The tracks became club hits in Britain, routinely played by super DJs like Sasha and Paul Oakenfold for their epic, symphonic qualities, which worked well as a sort of climax at clubs like Cream and Ministry of Sound. Signed to Oakenfold's Perfecto Records, BT continued his success with 1995 singles like "Embracing the Future" and "Loving You More," and did remix work for Mike Oldfield, Seal, and Billie Ray Martin. His debut album, Ima, was a hit with British audiences, though Transeau's name remained largely unheard in his native land. One 1996 remix largely changed that. Transeau's reworking of "Blue Skies" by Tori Amos became a massive club hit in America and Great Britain. By 1997, England received a wave of pop hits in the same line pioneered by Transeau; dubbed dream house, artists like Robert Miles and Sash! typified the approach with a wash of new age or prog-influenced synthesizers and a chugging beat indebted to trance. Transeau himself attempted to distance himself from the style with his 1998 album follow-up, ESCM. Movement in Still Life followed in mid-2000. He marked time between albums with high-profile production work, including chart hits from Britney Spears ("I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman") and *NSYNC ("Pop"), while a career retrospective entitled 10 Years in the Life was released in 2002. Emotional Technology, which featured collaborations with JC Chasez, Charmed actress Rose McGowan, and guitarist Richard Fortus, appeared in 2003. BT was also moving beyond his own musical sphere during this time by venturing into film. His score Music from and Inspired by the Film Monster was released in spring 2004. His 2006 effort, This Binary Universe, continued his exploration of other genres with ambient music and more experimental sounds filling the album. A tour with Thomas Dolby followed. In late 2009, BT announced he was putting the finishing touches on a new double album, These Hopeful Machines. The effort was released the following year and featured appearances by Stewart Copeland, Kirsty Hawkshaw, and JES. It received a 2011 Grammy nomination. A one-disc edit (These Humble Machines) and a two-disc remix (These Re-Imagined Machines) arrived months later. By the end of that year, SiriusXM aired the first episode of his Laptop Symphony program, featuring BT's hand-selected playlists of up-to-date club music. A mix album of the same title was later issued. 2012 proved to be busy for BT. In addition to starting a synth pop project with Vince Clarke and Christian Burns -- which they called All Hail the Silence -- BT composed a pair of minimalist ambient collections, If the Stars Are Eternal So Are You and I and Morceau Subrosa. His ninth LP, A Song Across Wires, plunged BT back into the club world. JES returned for the effort, along with Aqualung and Christian Burns. Wires broke into the Top 10 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic and Heatseekers charts. In 2015, BT unveiled his Electronic Opus collection, an album of previously released tracks like "Dreaming" and "Skylarking" reimagined as symphonic remixes. His tenth full-length arrived in late 2016. Originally untitled, BT would dub it _. Recorded in the United States, Iceland, China, Bora Bora, Japan, and Australia, _ was split into three sections -- Artifacture, Indivism, and Ω -- and returned BT to the world of atmospheric ambient soundscapes. ~ John Bush	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Of the Box This Cambridge University Game Wants You to Build a Fake News Empire For Science This is too much fun. In the 21st century, misinformation has spread across the internet like a virus, making it harder for people to distinguish fact from fiction. Now, Cambridge University researchers have released an online game that aims to “vaccinate” people against fake news. “A biological vaccine administers a small dose of the disease to build immunity. Similarly, inoculation theory suggests that exposure to a weak or demystified version of an argument makes it easier to refute when confronted with more persuasive claims,” said Dr Sander van der Linden, Director of Cambridge University’s Social Decision-Making Lab. “If you know what it is like to walk in the shoes of someone who is actively trying to deceive you, it should increase your ability to spot and resist the techniques of deceit.” In previous studies, the same researchers showed that exposing people to the tactics underlying fake news propaganda can help serve as a “psychological vaccine” against misinformation. The new game draws on this idea, and presents players with a mock interview for the job of “fake news tycoon”. “We aren’t trying to drastically change behaviour, but instead trigger a simple thought process to help foster critical and informed news consumption,” said one of the game’s designers Jon Roozenbeek, a researcher from Cambridge’s Department of Slavonic Studies. The game walks players through a series of tactics that fake news propagandists use when spreading mistrust, fear and anger online. First, you must steal someone’s identity to boost your credibility… And create a meme that personally attacks climate scientists… And write fake news articles for your website… And last but certainly not least, fabricate a national scandal. All the while, earning badges along the way and growing your followers. The game itself is like a vaccine trial. The researchers hope players will share the game far and wide, spreading the good word about media literacy and the dangers of fake news. “We try to let players experience what it is like to create a filter bubble so they are more likely to realise they may be living in one,” said van der Linden.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Mechner gets source code Some time back, we told you about Prince of Persia author Jordan Mechner finding his old disks that contained the source code for the Apple II version. Mechner wanted to rescue the code and then post it where it was freely accessible. With an assist from digital archivists, Jason Scott and Tony Diaz, using a number of modified hardware combinations, the code was able to be extracted from the floppy disks. Mechner has made good on his promise to release the code, and it is posted on GitHub where it can be accessed for free. So, 23 years after the release of Price of Persia on the Apple II platform, you can now study the code that made it all possible. Our hats are off to both Mechner for releasing the source code and to Scott/Diaz for being able to rescue the code so it could be preserved.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
A young girl has become the third person to die in the UK after catching swine flu, as the total of confirmed cases in the country passed 6,000. The girl, who had other significant health problems, died at Birmingham children's hospital on Friday evening. Her death is the first in England associated with swine flu, although it is not yet known if it contributed to her death. Two people, also with other significant health problems, died at a hospital in Paisley, Scotland. They were an unnamed 73-year-who died on Saturday night after 15 days in intensive care, and Jacqui Fleming, 38, who died after giving birth prematurely more than two weeks ago. As details of the girl's death emerged, the government's Health Protection Agency announced a big jump of 1,604 in the number of patients in England confirmed with swine flu. The figure for the UK as a whole rose to 6,133. Changes in the way health officials are confirming cases in areas where the disease is most prevalent may complicate judgments about how fast the disease is spreading. The chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, has already warned that there may be tens of thousands of cases each week this autumn, because the virus is more likely to thrive in a colder climate. The family of the girl who died has asked for her identity to be kept private. Andy Burnham, the health secretary, said: "Tragic as today's death is, I would like to emphasise that, across England, the majority of swine flu cases have not been severe. "The risk to the public remains low and we can all play our part in slowing the spread of the virus by following simple hygiene procedures – like washing your hands and using tissues when coughing or sneezing. We are making sure arrangements are in place so that the UK remains well placed to deal with this pandemic." Vivienne Nathanson, head of science and ethics at the British Medical Association, said: "Flu can kill completely healthy people if they get pneumonia, but if they have got health problems they are more likely to get complications. Nathanson said that as public health officials gathered more information on complications, doctors might start to be able to identify higher risk groups at higher risk. "That will help us in future to vaccinate the people at highest risk." Six people had suspected swine flu at the Glastonbury festival. Health officials said this was remarkably low, but the incubation period of three to four days means other cases may emerge. A handful of ball boys and girls at Wimbledon, where attendance has reached 40,000 a day, have been advised to stay at home after suffering flu-like symptoms. Anyone with symptoms has been advised to ring NHS Direct or GP surgeries for advice, rather than going to surgeries and risking infecting more people. Because of the outbreak's scale, health officials in hotspots such as London, the West Midlands and parts of Scotland are no longer tracing people who have come into contact with confirmed cases. Doctors are now confirming cases on the spot, rather than through laboratory results. The official statistics at present include only cases confirmed in laboratories. The jump reported in England covered new cases confirmed between Thursday lunchtime and Sunday lunchtime. But the figure for Scotland rose later in the day from 922 to more than 1,118, six of whom were being treated in hospital. Scientists have found the first case of the new H1N1 influenza strain showing resistance to Tamiflu, the main antiviral flu drug, Danish officials and the manufacturer said yesterday. It was expected that the strain would at some point show resistance to Tamiflu, Denmark's State Serum Institute said. The patient was now well and no further infection with the resistant virus had been detected.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Wenger dismisses Vucinic link Arsene Wenger has played down suggestions a deal for Juventus striker Mirko Vucinic was imminent, with reports representatives from the club had held meetings with the player's agent. Arsenal are on the lookout for cover following the season-ending knee injury to England forward Theo Walcott. "We are looking at potential possibilities for us to get someone in, but we are not especially in for Vucinic," Wenger said. "Some people have visual capacities that I don't have." "We are not on any special case. I would love to announce something that would excite you and me, but I don't have the possibility to do it." With or without any new additions, Wenger feels Arsenal are well set for what looks to be the most exciting championship run in of recent years. "We have played 22 games and have 51 points. If you compare that to any other season you will see that it is one of the best, if not the best ever, so let's just continue," the French coach said. "We have a good solidarity in the group and we rotate a bit and sometimes great players are on the bench. "You want me to buy more players, but if they sit on the bench you ask me why." With free-scoring Manchester City romping to another big home win as Cardiff were the latest side put to the sword, there was little margin for error from Wenger's men, who hold a slender one-point lead. After a slow first half, the Gunners finally sparked into life as two quick goals from diminutive Spaniard Cazorla, each dispatched with an instinctive finish, secured what was in the end a comfortable victory. "When you play in your opponents' half, in the final third, he is one of the players who can create something special, either through his pass or through his finishing," Wenger said. "He is two-footed, and that makes him very dangerous." Wenger added: "Cazorla was out for a long time at the start of the season and had some injury problems. After that he had an ankle problem and only recently, since mid-December, has he come back to his level." Wenger felt his side deserved credit for showing patience to finally breaking down what was a determined defensive display from the Cottagers, who are fighting for their top-flight survival. He said: "We were in control for the 90 minutes, but we were a bit one-paced in the first half with our passing. In the second half, when we got up a gear we scored the goals. "We had a few more chances, but overall in games against teams who fight not to go down, they are of course very difficult. Sometimes it is a question of patience."	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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You will get expert support and over 3,000 videos! Notice a content problem? Quote Postby infograf768 » Sun Jun 06, 2010 5:12 am jonnyslide wrote:infograf768 wrote:Your template should includewhere you want the message to display.How would you edit the index.php file if I have a huge problem here that I cant figure out how to change... I can't make it work. Quote Postby mattstahl » Sat Nov 29, 2008 7:28 pm Figures its the one file I didn't look at in the language directory. is a registered trademark of Open Source Matters, Inc.If you are experiencing technical issues with this website, please report it . Contribute The Joomla! Company No. 120494845 \| VAT No. BUT...the user isn't gonna have a clue what that means. Not the answer you're looking for? How do I change the footer text in a template? is a registered trademark of Open Source Matters, Inc.If you are experiencing technical issues with this website, please report it . Quote Postby imcabee » Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:21 pm Is it possible to change the color of the error message? Quote Postby infograf768 » Sat Nov 29, 2008 6:15 pm The string is located in language/en-GB/en-GB.iniE_LOGIN_AUTHENTICATE=Username and password do not match or you do not have an account yet. L'expo! I've deleted the old content of the error.php and then pasted your your code, except with my URL for the 404 article which is: index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43 So you can see the custom In this case you will be modifying some of the core files of the template you're using for your site. adding "error message" to login form 4 years 4 months ago #48405 heart0 OFFLINE Posts: 808 even when I switched templates - it still didn't work... I just want to edit the error message on the French page.What's the easiest way to locate it and edit it in English and in French ?PLEASE HELP :-/ Top infograf768 The 2nd is the page it takes me too after I typed in the wrong username/password. Start learning now! Get InvolvedJoomla! CMS but dependent on the Joomla! Kind regards, Nick Follow us on Twitter - twitter.com/OSTraining Like us on Facebook - facebook.com/ostraining Please become a member of OSTraining to reply to this post. Greetings Anna Joomla General Question Edited Order by Votes Newest Active 3 Answers 2 mustaq Support answered Change the contents of error.php to Using modules in error pages Modules cannot be included in error pages in the same way as the template's index.php because you cannot use statements. As an example, the path to the folder will usually be something like templates/gk_TemplateName/layout/. NOTE: My joomla cms has a german language extension which is used in the front-end. Master Posts: 18087 Joined: Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:47 pm Location: Translation Matters Re: How do I edit a standard system error message? You can format the page, as desired, to match your template. So play it safe and get help if you're not comfortable making this change yourself! UPDATE Thank you for your reply. support websted - joomla.dkOpenTranslators Core Team opentranslators.org Top rhrueda Joomla! Basically, simply create a new error.php file in your own template's folder, with only this code: error->getCode()) == '404') { header('Location: /index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=999'); exit;}?> Replace 999 with In some cases, your hosting company has an error page that overrides your Joomla error page. Option 2: Redirect the error.php page to a page created with a Joomla Menu Item You can create a custom 404 Error page that has the sam... 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Add new resources to executables or resource files. Click Save. 13 Display the error message. Phrase as Error code: . Doing so is often difficult to parse. Ideally, these problems would happen less often?for example, we can design our software to prevent many types of user mistakes?but it isn't realistic to prevent all of these problems. moose875 628.591 weergaven 5:03 How to create your own Error Message! - Duur: 5:49. Use a slider instead. Reply Alan Wade July 27, 201...	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
butchabay Wrote:No not the same in 2.07. I've posted a bunch of screenshots in the first post and the latest screens you'll see the new vertical menu. 2.06 is outdated, look at the changelog in the first post. I see. I never had any reason to check out the first post again and I didn't realize that some of the screenshots posted were replacing the old vertical menu. Like I said in my earlier post, I noticed this back on 2.04 and that was obviously wasn't the new vertical home menu. I was just verifying wolfodeiwolfy's bug. Thanks for clarifying.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
What the Editors Are Reading Not a find, but an old friend, is Malcolm Muggeridge. I am reading a collection of his essays called Time and Eternity, and his golden spiritual autobiography, Confessions of a Twentieth-Century Pilgrim, written after he and his wife, past their four-score years, had been received into the Catholic Church.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Following the additional tax on individual dividends above Rs 10 lakh from April 1, the street has begun pricing in a significant dividend payout in March. Companies including Bajaj Auto, Hero MotoCorp, TCS, Mindtree, Dr Reddy’s and Bharat Forge may rush to cut the tax bill in the hands of large shareholders, including promoters, by declaring interim dividend. According to data from Bloomberg, the near-term futures contract prices of the high dividend paying companies such as Page Industries, Mindtree, Hero MotoCorp, Bajaj Auto, TCS, Just dial and UltraTech are trading at 1-6% discount to spot prices. The increasing futures market discount shows the extent of dividend market is pricing in for March. For instance, Hero MotoCorp’s March futures is trading at Rs 2,787, which is lower than its spot price of Rs 2,835 on Friday. Its futures price was Rs 17.24 higher on average than the spot price in the past six months. The current discount reflects that market is expecting interim dividend of Rs 48 per share in March. In the last fiscal, HeroMoto had paid a dividend of Rs 60 per share, which was 50% of earnings per share. The March futures on the Nifty is trading at 25 points discount to the Nifty spot level as compared to 27 points average premium in the fifteen days prior to the Budget day. Going by the stock exchange rule, a company has to serve a notice of 15 days before calling for the board meeting. It means, companies which want to declare interim dividend in March, need to notify the date of board meeting to exchanges in the next five days. In fact, segment leaders like Maruti Suzuki, Tata Motors and Hero MotoCorp have reported de-growth of 34.3 per cent, 45 per cent and 20 per cent, respectively giving a clear indication of a prolonged slowdown in the sector.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
1. There was no plane debris at the Pentagon. . Cover-up: none. "Witnesses" and an old piece of metal was the package used to make sure that people get the message "It was an inside job", as part of the truth planted to terrorise you. Web of disinformation: some (rense, whatreallyhappened.com, etc) go as far as to try to cover-up what was meant to be obvious, since that helps people to swallow the core lie. 2. There was no plane debris at Shanksville. Cover up: live videos of first images on the scene never shown again; packaging it to let the web of disinformation continue the job. Web of disinformation: suggesting the plane was shot down. BTW, first Video footage at the scene http://youtube.com/watch?v=JZekosYOmXc 3. The WTC towers were pulled. Cover up: live footage only from close-up scenes (smoke, people running away); no live videos with global view on 9/11 or ever after. Hoax: faked photos released short after, with WTC tower above "impact" tilting. Web of disinformation: will not deny it, since is not important to make people swallow the core lie. BTW, here is finally video of the first tower as it was demolished: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ExrVgioIXvk 4. No planes ever hit the WTC towers. The simple truth, the other side of the coin being the core lie: we saw the second "impact" live. As long as people believe it, the BIG LIE technique will work. Hoax: CNN inserts the second "plane" with real time software, disappearing behind the burning tower, one second before the "impact", i.e. the bombs are detonated. Faked photos and videos, most released short after, with frontal "plane" crashes. Cover-up: no live videos, no videos ever after, exposing the core lie. Web of disinformation: all sorts of false tracks, from remote controlled planes to holograms. Anything as long as people believe that CNN had nothing to do with it. BTW, the previous video also exposes the core lie, showing why the second tower to be "hit" had to be pulled first. 5. Some people were previously murdered to accont for the "passengers".Hoax: "passengers" were faked, previously murdered (Barbara Olson) or given new identities; family members reporting cell phone calls to these "passengers". In the case of real people, two cases, depending if they were offered an opportunity to get rid of someone (Ted Olson) or not. Cover-up: family members evaporate, other than those part of the conspiracy. Again: understanding the core lie was not required to see that "Reichstag Fire = 9/11". Any of the first three facts were enough for that. The first ever since day one. There were no Planes because if there were it would have been very hard to do it as the 'Hollywood' Special Effects Departments did in the Edited Feeds that many 'brainwashed' Captain Video's think was LIVE TV....Captain Video is having a hard time DE-Promgraming themselves from the LIVE From CNN etc..... If you look at the made to arouse your attention Plane that doesn't appear to be a passenger Jet [done on purpose] as it goes in to WTC 1 [the second Plane] it doesn't break appart because it's a Edited Feed of a Plane....the exposion blasts outwards...enough if you can't figure it out ...stay in Disney-Land and await your 'Chip'... Holograms were used on the outside 4 the people to see a Jet coming in but they were very poor on the Jet noise area....so awake People did notice that there was no Jet Engine noise... As said before they went to great lenghts to make you think that Planes were there...from the 1st Liar down............ Ave Maria ! If you want to analize a pile of shit and guess what part was the Lima Bean and where that Bean came from..what farm and what materials the plant used to make the bean or the Chicken and what it ate etc...you would have to be on a angelic dimensions...it's just a wild goose chase that people love so...a fn Murder Mystery :roll: All the great dramas in the last 4 thousand years of History are just Scripts out of the Insane Minds of the Controllers of the Illuminati....a on-going 'Wag the Dog' Soap.......................Infinity I've said this before about the no-planes theory, but it's worth repeating. If there were no planes, then how did they smuggle the 20,000+ gallons of kerosene up to where the huge explosion took place? Did they just bring it up in one of the lifts? Or maybe they brought it in a couple of gallons at a time --hidden inside briefcases. Or maybe the huge fuel-air explosion was a hologram too. And maybe they planted explosives in the outline of a plane so the result would look convincing? So tell me this. Why go to all that bother? Cruise missiles can be targeted at a ventillation shaft and could certainly have precisely homed in on any part of the second tower. So, presumably, the 9/11 plotters were unable to secure a plane and figure out how to fit it with cruise-missile technology to make it slam into the second tower at exactly the right point. Which is clearly rubbish. Slamming a plane into the tower is a piece of cake. So why bother faking it, when you can just do it? So why bother faking it, when you can just do it? All this is 9/11 Analysis 101. Nobody who thinks it through can possibly buy the no planes theory. But I am not saying that the famous CNN footage is unretouched. That's another issue. But you better have your thinking hat on to figure just why someone would would mess with 9/11 footage. One reason is to deliberately seed the pod and flash theories. Think about it. However I am saying that the easiest way to inflict the damage and effects is to hit the building with a cruise-controled, kerosene-laden plane. My own analysis of the soundtrack of the explosion suggests two high intensity charges aboard the plane to trigger the kerosene esplosion. for years, from robotic planes with missles to Holograms n the foolish stuff but one day talked to a bright woman who I had talked to before but this time in our conversation she just had to tell me she was there on West St [Hudson River side] when she heard the explosion at WTC 1 [the second one] and looked up and saw the Hole in Building and Fire but she SAID THAT SHE HAD HEARD NO JET NOISE [she just had to tell me this and knew I would give her, her answer]....told her because their was no Jets and in my mind I just KNEW THEN, that it was Holograms and Controlled Demolitions and I told her so and she just knew that she had her answer......I called Alan Watt a few days later and mentioned the incident with the Woman and Holograms and Alan said to me, did I see 'Wag the Dog' ? and did I know the Apollo Moon Landings were fake and I said Yes to both...well he said do you know now what it was and everything from the years of looking at '911' fell into place and that is why I close the book on it and say It was a Hollywood Production....'911 Wag the WTC/Pentagon PROGRAM' and on-going 'SOAP'... ...the fire-balls were Hollywood 'fire'...so u could research how many pounds of that fake fire they would need or it could have been a Hologram for those present and a EDITED FEED for TV..... :roll: Well there can be some 'Corn' in the 'Pile' also, just said Lima Beans cause I like 'em' ...and I do think about where all the 'Elements' that make-us-up were in 'their' travels in 'Creation'... Ohh and I don't alway's agree with Alan and I'm not his 'moonie' but I do respect his 'genius'...was taking last Sunday with Alan on the Phone for a hour n a half [[been talking iwith him for 2yrs,bout} ...and mentioned that I was dropping his name and he did say that it was , ok.....I don't pretend or claim to be his spokes-person or do I claim to be able to re-count the story as it took place but do try to give the 'essence'....Alan does say 'Holograms were used and it was a Production, Hollywood Style n edited TV Feeds and more....would love to hear Fintan interview him and ask him to spend a-little time on the '911 Program' from Big Brother and Babylonian Harlot Studios.......... Remember the idea that it was a plane fits right into the NWO order agenda more than a missle. Also 99.9 percent of us were not there to see anything and so we must rely on national television news footage again this falls right into their agenda. I am not saying it was a hologram but this whole thing was perception managed and if they want us to think there were planes they they did a good job. You cant prrove there was no plane becuase you cant provide a photo of no plane so it is possible. There were no Planes because if there were it would have been very hard to do it as the 'Hollywood' Special Effects Departments did in the Edited Feeds that many 'brainwashed' Captain Video's think was LIVE TV....Captain Video is having a hard time DE-Promgraming themselves from the LIVE From CNN etc..... ........................................................................................................ Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh well as my fellow-driver [was still driving his-own Yellow Cab in NYC last time I saw him, he was 86yo, he's RIP now, used to say "when you know, you know" can't tell em, till then....... :roll: Also a 'real' Plane might have left 'evidence' that might have fallen into the 'wrong' hands... OK, Captain Video [s] you can run around in circles like 'they' want you too, yeah, saw the Edited Film Missle coming out the other side too, LOL...when you know, you know... Like the picture of the Driver shooting JFK and Bill Cooper and Alan Watt both say it was the Driver who Killed JFK but 'others' will 'boch-a-galop it up 4ever so 2 say..................... :roll: Get a loop-to-loop of the Plane going in and you will see clearly that it's a edited clip and the plane doesn't break at all, remember the outer wall with the Windows was all steel supports.... Holy Dora Dyke, Robin !............................... right-on Ave Maria !.....................Infinity { what about the 50 or so BILLION in GOLD that was under the WTC ? and the stock trades...oyeah, they had their pin-up girl, Martha...} The only thing that is obvious to me is that we were all intended to believe was that UNITED and AMERICAN airplanes were hijacked on US soil, and used to attack AMERICA. That provided ample reason to militarize the airports and give citizens a clear choice: Relinquish all individual rights to property and privacy, or stay home. Considering some sort of air travel is a necessity for most people these days, it provided the opportunity to investigate anybody near an airplane as part of the war on terror. That's a fascist wet dream already, especially when it's smothered in Patriot act gravy. All the footage of the towers' demise looks weird to me, but then I have little to compare it with. It makes sense to me, though, that if the 'perps' had the ability to pull off a holographic impact, then they certainly had the ability to dive a real plane in there, so, why use the hologram? What operational advantage would a holographic plane have over a real plane when the object is to get us to see a real plane - it implies that it couldn't be done with real planes. Is there any reason why a real plane couldn't have been used? If anybody thinks commercial airlines are not tightly regulated federal assets, I'll beg to differ. I don't think the DiCaprio's version of Howard Hughes really painted the complete picture. What would the use of holograms accomplish that real planes couldn't? If both options had the same intentional effect, then what is gained from making the distinction at all? Swapping a prop or two doesn't change the script's plot.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
WASHINGTON — A sophisticated and previously unrevealed experiment by Democratic interest groups could provide Democratic candidates in as many as nine states with an unanticipated edge in the November elections. America Votes, a roundtable of the nation's top liberal membership groups, is coordinating a multimillion-dollar program to boost Democratic turnout using the same voter modeling method mastered by Republicans in 2004. "The goal here is to once again bring 'field' into the column of the progressive community," said Jano Cabrera, a senior adviser to the project. Amassing the data EMILY's List, which raises money to help elect Democratic women, is in the catbird seat for two states: Michigan and Minnesota, both of which feature competitive gubernatorial and senate races. Other members of America Votes plan to employ the project in Ohio, Colorado, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. And so-called "robust" voter lists will also be provided to program members in Arizona, New Hampshire and New Mexico. Catalist, a private information firm founded by veteran Democratic strategist Harold Ickes, is providing the raw data. The firm has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to add demographic and commercial data to entries for each voter, often purchasing the information from information vendors. In Michigan, EMILY's List asked Garin Hart Yang, a Democratic polling firm, to survey more than 12,000 Michigan voters with an in-depth battery of lifestyle and issue questions. From the massive poll, EMILY's List and Garin Hart Yang were able to profile distinct clusters of voters. These groups were then given names like Educated Postgraduate Democrats or Downscale Union Independents. Each cluster was scored for how likely it'd support Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, their affinity toward the Democratic Party and the likelihood they will vote. Then, using reams of the appended demographic data, each of more than 6.7 million names on the statewide voter file was given a score that corresponded to the clusters they most closely matched. Based on the cluster score, voters will be targeted with precise appeals. The project aims to increase turnout statewide, not just in traditionally Democratic counties like Wayne, but in heavily conservative areas of Western Michigan, and Oakland and Macomb counties in the east. From midterms to 2008 If the state modeling projects work, America Votes hopes to set up a similar effort in every battleground state in 2008. Officials at Catalist, America Votes and EMILY's List will unveil the program to major Democratic donors. Similar efforts are under way at the Democratic National Committee, which has spent more than $6 million to craft robust voter files for state parties, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which has modeled clusters of voters in its targeted states, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. In 2005, the DNC worked with the Virginia Democratic Party, then-Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine's gubernatorial campaign and a private firm called Copernicus Analytics to identify Democrats who had voted for Sen. John Kerry in 2004 but not for then-Gov. Mark Warner in 2001. Kaine saw his turnout increase more than 40 percent among those so-called drop-off voters. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's re-election campaign has employed the same microtargeting firm, Copernicus Analytics, to help them find new voters in New York. The impulse to find new ways to flush voters to the polls was midwifed from the party's failure in 2004. Democrats and their allies spent more than $100 million to turn out a record number of voters in areas with high concentrations of Democratic voters. It worked, but Republican targets were far higher. The Republican National Committee and the Bush-Cheney campaign had pioneered several new technique for tunneling to their voters. One, dubbed microtargeting, allowed them to find hidden warrens of Bush voters in Democratic precincts. It also predicted the best way to send persuasive messages to those voters. "While there used to be a time when progressives could feel secure in having a field advantage over conservatives that came to an abrupt end in November 2004," said Cabrera. Catching up is hard to do Some Democrats worry that the Republican National Committee is cycles ahead of the Democratic Party in using the technology, and they fear that the Democratic National Committee's efforts to catch up are underfunded and proceeding too slowly. Also, dozens of outside Democratic groups have worked for years with voter and membership lists dubbed "dirty," meaning they were out of date and not dynamic. Ickes, the deputy chief of staff to President Clinton, started the Data Warehouse in part to help these outside groups. Laura Quinn, who ran the DNC's database in 2004, became its president. America Votes became its first client; the two share an office in Washington. Last week, Data Warehouse changed its name to Catalist. The Republican machine is massive. The party will use an enhanced version of micro targeting and voter persuasion programs in every contested House race in the country. For months, state parties have been adding and updating identified voters to their centralized database, called Voter Vault. In several states, the number of identifiable voter clusters exceeds 40. More than 200,000 volunteers will make telephone calls and knock on doors on election day. Told about the Michigan program, one senior Republican party official said he wasn't worried. "We've been doing this for years. They're just starting." And Rep. Tom Cole, who is coordinating get-out-the-vote efforts for the National Republican Congressional Committee, said that no matter what Democrats or allies do, "We'll clearly enjoy a significant resource advantage over our counterparts."	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Johnson in doghouse over plan to demolish greyhound stadium LONDON LETTER:Time is running out for dog racing in the capital, as social needs trump attachment to a sport whose heyday is long gone IN THE 1930s, Walthamstow greyhound stadium in east London attracted crowds of 5,000 people and more, who earned the reputation of being the biggest betters. In its heyday, the Kray Twins were regulars, while, much later, footballer David Beckham collected glasses in its restaurant for pocket money. Owned by the Chandler family, Walthamstow hosted five meetings a week – two daytime fixtures and three at night – before the clock finally tolled on August 16th, 2008, at 11pm. The final winner was Mountjoy Diamond, running from trap number two, who won the 640-yard race in 40.33 seconds – one of 26 of its career victories. Today, the grade two-listed stadium with its famous neon light looks forlorn, but it illustrates the contradictions faced when demand for housing runs up against the desire for life to remain the same. This week mayor of London Boris Johnson supported Walthamstow Forest Council’s decision to approve plans to demolish it and build nearly 300 homes, a nursery, allotments and green spaces. Even some of his own are not happy with him. MP Iain Duncan-Smith, who represents next-door Chingford, said he was “absolutely furious” about Johnson’s decision. Speaking on local radio on Wednesday, Duncan Smith, who happens to be work and pensions secretary, railed: “This is a bad decision and I have constituents of mine saying, ‘What’s the point of Boris?’” In his defence, the mayor, who insists that nothing will bring the greyhounds back, said: “I share the sadness of many about the demise of dog racing from this historic corner of London.” The plan to build houses was approved by the council last May, while Johnson says he would have been overruled on appeal if he had rejected it. Like most politicians from time to time, Johnson is being skewered by his own quotes, since in 2010 he said he was dismayed that there would be no more dog racing in Walthamstow. Now he is under pressure from all sides, since both he and all of London’s councils desperately need space for the estimated 500,000 homes required over the next decade. Faced with the barrage of criticism, Johnson pleaded: “After years of toing and froing we had to make a decision. It was going to start to decay and become an eyesore and I think it was better to go ahead.” The houses are to be built by London Quadrant, a social landlord that has 66,000 properties in London rented out for less than the market rate in a city where housing costs are crippling. Some local opponents want the greyhound track back. Others are unhappy about the number of properties. Still more fear the creation of “a slum”. Some believe the new estate, if built, will exacerbate traffic delays at a nearby roundabout, while more think Walthamstow cannot support more housing without spending on services. Though not covered by new planning rules designed to encourage building, Walthamstow illustrates the difficulties to be faced when decisions have to be made. Unlike the four-year battle that has occurred in east London, the Localism Act, 2011, and a new planning policy framework lay down that decisions should be guaranteed within 12 months. The Conservative/Lib Dem coalition wants local councils to be taken out of the equation if they have “a track record of consistently poor performance”. Indeed, the Conservatives want to go even further, abandoning demands on developers for affordable homes if such demands make projects unviable. Instead, developers should be able to appeal previously agreed targets if they run into problems, with the planning inspectorate left free to set a new number. However, the Lib Dems are unhappy, believing the Tories are trying to curry favour with major builders – some of whom are substantial donors to the party. Equally, the Lib Dems believe that plans to let house-owners build larger extensions than can be built currently without planning permission – a boost to the economy, say Conservatives – are flawed. During their September conference, Liberal Democrat delegates slated the plan, saying it would cause neighbourhood disputes over the garden fence and environmental damage. Back in Walthamstow, some mourn for a track that was once known as “the Lords of the dogs”, when greyhound racing was the poor man’s entertainment. Great tracks such as White City, Catford and Harringay have long since disappeared, while Wimbledon is now the only track inside the city’s bounds. Even there, the future is not guaranteed. Wimbledon football club, now living in self-imposed exile in Milton Keynes as the MK Dons, wants to come back. Greyhound racing’s future in London may lie in the hands of Irish businessman Paschal Taggart, who has lodged plans for a four-tier £30 million (€37.4 million) stadium in Wimbledon. Complete with hospitality suites, restaurants and bars, Taggart believes that in a city of eight million, there are still plenty who want to go to the dogs.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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Teaching strategies and family humor from inexperienced-but-trying, homeschooling parents. January 01, 2011 My Sippy Cup Habit My switch to sippy cups wasn't planned. The kids were still toddlers, and I wanted some orange juice as I headed out early one morning, and the fancy travel mug that always leaks and dribbles onto my tie was dirty, and I was in a hurry. I’d like to say there was a moment when I recognized the wisdom of the sippy—when I had to to avoid a deer on the snowy road, for instance, and my juice shot harmlessly out of my hand into the windshield as I swerved to safety—but in truth there was no such turning point. I just gradually came to appreciate that the sippy cup made a lot more sense than the stainless travel mug. It fits in the cup holders. It doesn’t break if you drop it on the pavement as you get out of the car. And no matter how forcefully and awkwardly it falls, it never leaks more than a drop or two. Nothing compares: next time you’re in Starbucks, see how tightly that little white lid clings to your cup when somebody in need of caffeine opens a door into you. I am a grown-up, and I don’t want to give the wrong impression. I don’t gnaw on the bit that fits into my mouth, so my sippies are free of tooth marks. My cup never has that slimy sheen that reveals its owner as someone who hasn’t yet adopted the fork. Those little vacuum plugs that prevent leakage entirely? Not in my cup—those are for babies. Occasionally when I’m at a stoplight, head tilted back, cheeks pumping slightly while I suckle an iced coffee, I’ll sense another driver looking at me. At first I suspected mockery, but I finally confronted one of these gapers by peeking sideways around my cup. I took him in: the gleaming chrome chopper, the leather tassels blowing gently, the studded gloves working the throttle, the impossibly small, hemispherical helmet. When our eyes finally met, I saw only deferential respect, and sure enough he flashed the peace sign before roaring away. Recently I set a sippy on the conference table when I joined a video call with some European colleagues at 4:30 in the morning. It was the green one with the hot pink lid, and I like to think it added some color to an otherwise dry meeting. Our kids drink their milk out of glasses now, and for years my wife had been threatening to throw away the battered sippies. She finally did on Christmas Eve. A lesser man might have made a scene, but I trusted in my spouse’s love. In my stocking the following morning I found two new Gerbers: the top-of-the-line, 12-ounce models.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 I am a Dream Reporter I am still a little slow in returning to my own blog but I wanted to let you all in on what I have been doing elsewhere. I am now an official "dream reporter" for Jess LC's Make Under My Life blog. I am so excited to have this opportunity and I just know it is exactly what I am supposed to be doing right now. I will be blogging every Saturday about what it looks and feels (and smells and tastes) like to follow my dreams. As raw and authentic as possible. I really hope that you will join me there! Hi everybody! My name is Ashley Inzer and I have some big dreams. For as long as I can remember I have been a dreamer and not a do-er. I constantly get tons of ideas, get really excited about them and then quietly let them go without acting on them. There are a ton of things that I have allowed to hold me back…fear of failure, fear of success, insecurities, jealousy, fear of responsibility, money mindsets, debt, getting older….the list could go on forever. So here I am, at 32 years old, ready to kick some serious dream butt. When Jess asked me to be a “dream reporter” for her blog I felt some serious fear. What if I can’t do it? What if people think I am ridiculous? What if I am too lazy or unorganized or a terrible writer? But somewhere deep in my gut I know that this is exactly the thing I need to do to end the “dreaming only” cycle and start the doing process. First I want to mention that I am not “prepared” to be a dream reporter…I do not have my ducks in a row, I don’t have a specific plan, I am not a life coach or a self-improvement guru or a writer with a blog filled with amazing content that will help you on your way to your dreams. This whole thing is about the process. Its about the raw realities and authentic experiences. This is an experiment to document exactly what it looks like when a woman decides it is her birthright and responsibility to follow her dreams and live within her purpose. To get a better understanding of where I am coming from here is a bit about me and my dreams…. I created a “personal statement” for myself a long time ago….”Creator of beautiful experiences”. Since I am a multi-talented person (I enjoy doing lots of different things), this can manifest in a variety of forms. Ultimately if someone encounters me on any level I hope that when they leave they have had a beautiful experience and are inspired to live authentically and with intention. My dream is to be an entrepreneur and to inspire people to dwell within the world of possibilities and to live creatively with intention. I feel my purpose is to inspire people to live authentically. I have had an entrepreneur mindset since i was a kid. At 7 years old I was going door-to-door selling my own watercolor paintings (for 10 cents) and loom-weaved potholders (for 25 cents). There was never a weekend when I wasn’t selling something in my front yard or trying to explain to people why a certain office supply (that I happen to find in a drawer in my room) or a cup of my special recipe lemonade (that probably just had 2 extra cups of sugar added to it) would make their life so much better. I have also always loved creating experiences for people. As a kid I would put on productions (fashion shows, carnivals with free prizes, cooking lessons, etc) and go around the neighborhood and pick up other kids in my wagon and bring them to the “event”. As an adult I have coordinated, produced and designed several special events as well. I also happen to be a designer and artist. I love working in every medium possible. Painting, ceramics, sewing, embroidery, illustration, photography….I love it all. I currently make my living as an Art Director designing print materials mainly for women’s magazines like More, Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, Budget Travel, etc. Also recently I have been working with brides to create print materials and DIY decor to create a truly authentic wedding that is specific to the couple. I started a blog almost a year ago to document my crafty creations and to communicate what it looks and feels like to live an authentically creative life. Unfortunately when we moved, in September, to a new state I kind of lost my center and have been struggling personally (with being so unhappy at my job and wanting to follow my dreams so badly) that my blog has paid a price. I am ready to get back to it. I was never happier than when i was communicating and sharing my story and connecting with other like-minded peeps. I love stories. I want to tell stories because they really are what bring us all together. I love hearing other people’s stories and connecting on that level. I am so ready to do this dream thing that I can hardly stand it. I have taken several steps to get me going in that direction (mainly personal steps like hiring a coach, a nutritionist and a boot camp physical trainer) though I am still on the edge about exactly what I want to launch. Starting Feb 1st I will be taking a business class (http://www.unconventionalguides.com/100biz.htm) with Chris Guillebeau and I will leave my 28 days with him with a business plan in place (the dream will sprout legs!). So hopefully all of that makes some sort of sense. The most important thing for me is to be honest and authentic about where I am in this process. It is all very raw right now for me as I don’t have a definite course of action laid out….I only know what I want. I am very nervous about stepping fully into my dreams….I have major financial concerns (especially since I am the only one in my home generating income at this point – my partner is in school full time – and we have a good bit of debt) as well as issues with my confidence and trusting myself to make decisions from my heart. I believe that each person is different and each person has the ultimate power to create the life that they want to live. I don’t want to live re-actively, I want to live creatively (and I don’t mean only in the artistic sense) and with intention. I don’t want another year to go by where I am just wishing that I could be doing something else or being someone else. I want to inspire other people to live authentically as I am doing it myself. I like the idea of revealing the good and the bad…the true path to living my dreams. As scary as it all seems, spending my life outside of my purpose for yet another year seems a lot more terrifying. When I step back and get that perspective it doesn’t seem so much scary as it seems necessary, important and responsible. (I wonder what the world would look like if every single person was dedicated to living within their true purpose?) So what do you think? Will you go on this journey with me? About Me Thank you for stopping by, I am so glad you are here! Just a bit about me...I aim to live an authentic and creative life. I love design. I love craftiness. I love possibilities.I love connecting with people who love pretty things and who are passionate about living whole-heartedly.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
I run a Ubuntu server where I have a split tunnel for VPN. Which means I have a "normal" connection to the internet for most of my services but also a tunneled connection that only a few services use. ... I have an application (APP) which runs on a remote computer (COMPUTER_A) and connects to another remote computer (SERVER) on a specific port (PORT) to retrieve some information. Now, I want to deploy ... I'd like to have only one program run through a wireguard config I have stored at /etc/wireguard/config.conf, and all the other programs run through the normal IP address. I've found this page in the ... I've set up a VPN connection using IKEv2 to my Draytek router which works for one hour then just disconnects (and I can't reconnect unless I reboot). From what I found so far it might be related to ... I have some services running as web servers on my PC (e.g., Jupyter Notebook), which stop working when I connect to my VPN through their app (their support team confirmed that this should be the case).... I created a VM and installed debian on it. Everything ok so far. I installed openvpn, tor browser etc. Then my next step was to install the FirewallVPN. After that the internet connection ist gone. ... I tried a solution mentioned in the question: getting Checkpoint VPN SSL Network Extender working in command line (the accepted answer), but for some reason I'm getting an authentication failed error. ... I have a problem for setup my VPN on OrangePi(This is a micro-computer same as Raspberry Pi) My project is to configure a VPN with ipv6 on him. So, i have find a project on github, which proposes to ... I have a Network Video Recorder which is connected to a raspberry pi directly through ethernet, and the raspberry pi is connected to internet through wlan0. I want to route all the traffic from the ... I'm running an openvpn client and connecting to a commercial VPN provider (PIA). Every so often, that connection stops working. I can resolve the problem by manually restarting my client. However, I ... Yesterday, I successfully installed a working PXE server on a Raspberry Pi and managed to boot from it on my home server on my local network. My goal is to build a cluster with a master node hosted ... I am wanting to put a VPN server on one of machines on my LAN and expose this VPN service to the internet. Once a client (laptop) is connected to my VPN service from outside my LAN I want to be able ... I'm trying to migrate my strongSwan VPN server to a new machine but it does not work. My public IP address is dynamic and I use DDNS to access my home network from the outside. When I establish a VPN ... OpenVPN opens tun device, but does not up this, therefore can't add the route afterwards. This command does not up the device /sbin/ifconfig tun0 172.31.0.6 pointopoint 172.31.0.5 mtu 1500 It works ... I have been trying to install Pulse Secure 5.3r4.2-b639 in Fedora 28. I was able to install its dependencies thanks to all the community posting workarounds. There were some dependencies which were ... I have a Linux Mint 18.1 desktop on my home LAN. I run PIA VPN on this computer, and also run ssh server listening on port 22. I am able to ssh into this computer from other computers on the LAN using ... First of all, I understand that the kernel routing table makes all the outbound traffic forwarded to tun0. However, they're NOT going to the IP address that the local tun0 interface has (e.g., 10.13.... The rule set to block all outgoing connections except for VPN access could be like this: block drop all pass on lo0 pass on utun0 pass out proto udp from any to xxx.yyy.zzz.ttt port pppp This works ... The setup: I have a server set up as a DHCP (isc-dhcp-server) and DNS (bind9) server (acting as a router). It connects to the internet via pppoe (ppp0) using eth0 device. The eth1 is connected to a ...	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
August 25, 2017 Great People Doing Great Things: Learning from the Eclipse Students prepare to launch the balloons.Mark Stone/University of Washington While many people across the country donned viewing glasses and prepared to watch Monday’s solar eclipse, a group of 100 teenagers from tribes across the Pacific Northwest launched balloons thousands of feet into the air, gaining a novel perspective of the eclipse — and the chance to send meaningful artifacts to the edge of space during a memorable moment in history. In addition to launching the giant weather balloons, students from each school attached culturally significant items, called payloads, to the balloons and sent them high into the sky. Their artifacts nearly reached space before returning to the ground. Over the past couple of years, consortium staff visited many of the schools participating in the eclipse balloon launch, introducing students to space research and various NASA projects. The goal is to bring STEM-related topics to the students in culturally relevant ways, said outreach specialist Isabel Carrera Zamanillo. Many Native Americans Looked to the Eclipse as a Time of Renewal In Navajo culture, the passing of the moon over the sun is an intimate moment in which the sun is reborn and tribal members take time out for themselves. “It’s Kind of like pressing the alt, control, delete button on your computer, resetting everything,” said Baldwin, a Navajo woman from Fort Defiance, Arizona. New Statue Graces the South Dakota Plains Photo from article: Daily Mail The Dignity sculpture is a stunning combination of art and history. Located on a bluff between exits 263 and 265 on Interstate 90 near Chamberlain, the stainless steel, 50-foot-tall statue was specifically designed by sculptor Dale Lamphere to honor the cultures of the Lakota and Dakota people. That’s why he used three Native American models ages 14, 29 and 55 to perfect the face of Dignity. “Dignity represents the courage, perseverance and wisdom of the Lakota and Dakota culture in South Dakota,” Lamphere said. “My hope is that the sculpture might serve as a symbol of respect and promise for the future.” The Hawaiian Cowboys COURTESY NANCY ERGER, REMINISCE As the fifth generation in a family of paniolo, or Hawaiian cowboys, DeeDee would rather spend the day riding horses. But more often than not, weekends find her and her family checking and fixing the miles of rock walls that crisscross their ancestral land. The family still traverses much of the ranch on horseback, because many areas are too rocky to be accessible by an all-terrain vehicle. “I always wanted to be a cowboy when I grew up,” she says. “When that’s all you know, it’s kind of hard to do anything else.” Her family raises around 200 crossbred Angus cattle on 1,000 acres leased from the state. DeeDee’s RK Livestock ranch is on just a portion of the original Pu’uwa’awa’a Ranch, which spread from the mountains to the sea and was first leased out by the government of Hawaii in 1892. Now a calf-cow operation, the ranch sends most of its weanlings to feedlots on the U.S. mainland. DeeDee’s relatives also fish, hunt wild pigs, raise chickens, grow vegetables and gather crab and limpets. Oral histories passed from generation to generation link DeeDee’s ancestors to this area long before Hawaii began leasing the land to them. “When we’re on the land, it’s almost an intimate relationship because of the connection between our family and the ‘āina, ” or land, she says. Read the Full Story Here Here's Why You Need to Travel to Sante Fe ASAP Photo credit: Alamy - Native American art and culture will be on display starting this weekend at the SWAIA Indian Market and the newly opened ZOHI Gallery. Along with the draw of a major Native American art events, a slew of new restaurant and store openings make Santa Fe a top contender for that last-minute escape.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Description These fantastic 2 bed 2 bath apartments are located in an amazing Spanish village close to the famous 5 star Golf Resort of â€œLa Manga Club" which offers 3 championship golf courses. These apartments offer a high quality living experience with 2 spacious bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. The unique style designer kitchen comes alongside with various entertainment options. The development has a large communal pool which is surrounded by beautiful gardens. High quality fixtures and fittings can be appreciated throughout the property. The apartments are located close to beautiful sandy beaches. A must view for the discerning buyer! Features Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Rooms: Lounge + Dining Room Kitchen: American Kitchen Pool: Communal Furnished: Fully Furnished Area Sorry, Unable to map the location Note: this is a guide to the area and does not show the actual location of the property	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of the Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2005, the Secretary shall commence striking and issuing for sale such number of $50 gold bullion and proof coins as the Secretary may determine to be appropriate, in such quantities, as the Secretary, in the Secretary’s discretion, may prescribe. ‘‘(2) INITIAL DESIGN.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided under subparagraph (B), the obverse and reverse of the gold bullion coins struck under this subsection during the first year of issuance shall bear the original designs by James Earle Fraser, which appear on the 5-cent coin commonly referred to as the ‘Buffalo nickel’ or the ‘1913 Type 1’. ‘‘(B) VARIATIONS.—The coins referred to in subparagraph (A) shall— ‘‘(i) have inscriptions of the weight of the coin and the nominal denomination of the coin incused in that portion of the design on the reverse of the coin commonly known as the ‘grassy mound’; and ‘‘(ii) bear such other inscriptions as the Secretary determines to be appropriate. ‘‘(3) SUBSEQUENT DESIGNS.—After the 1-year period described to in paragraph (2), the Secretary may— ‘‘(A) after consulting with the Commission of Fine Arts, and subject to the review of the Citizens Coinage Advisory	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
All over the world cities want to be found attractive, so that people would like to live or work there or that people come to visit these places. Special organizations are founded to make this happen. These organizations create an identity for the city, after which they develop marketing strategies to fulfill this identity. These organizations have the intention to create a positive image for the city. This process is called citybranding. ‘IAmsterdam’, ‘het kan in Almere’, ‘Lelystad geeft lucht’ and ‘Rotterdam worldbrand’ are examples of citybranding in the Netherlands. Before the rise of citybranding in the 1980s, the municipality was responsible for the image of the city. In those days the city and the municipality were seen as one. Nowadays there are two organizations who work for the city, they both are responsible for the image of the city. A city nowadays also has two corporate visual identities. First the visual identity of the municipality and second the corporate visual identity which is developed on account of the citybranding, also known as the city style. It is important these corporate visual identities are geared to one another. This research answers the question: What is for municipal authorities the most successful way to combine the corporate visual identity of the municipal and the city style? By means of preliminary analysis the current situation is analyzed. There is started with desk research. The most substantial result of this analysis is that cities and municipalities have to make three important choices that influence the success of uniting the styles. First they have to decide the degree to which the city style and the corporate visual identity of the municipal house style corresponds correspond. Secondly they have to determine whether to combine the styles in the communication to the stakeholders and the third choice has to do with making the city style public. Cities and municipalities can decide that they are the only ones who will use of the city style, but they can also decide that third parties such as organizations active in the city may use the city style. To continue the preliminary analysis interviews were held with several municipalities and a communication office. During these conversations the policy choices which cities and municipalities make are reviewed. Discussed are the choices they make, why they make these choices and the advantages and disadvantages of these choices. Based on these interviews, five important aims which cities and municipalities have with their corporate visual identity have been identified. These are: 1. To create a positive image for the city. 2. To create a positive image for the municipal. 3. To create a reliable and upright image for the municipal. 4. Clarity, so that the receivers know who has send the message. 5. Visualize consistency between the municipal and the city. With the use of surveys is examined to what extent the aims are influenced by the degree to which the city style and the corporate visual identity of the municipal visual correspond and the degree to which the styles get combined in the communication to the stakeholders. For this research a 3 (the degree of visual correspondence: very corresponding vs. partially corresponding vs. not corresponding styles) x2 (the degree of combining: combining the styles vs. not combining the styles) experimental research design has been developed. The 122 respondents with the minimum age of 18 years have been assigned to one of the six conditions and by means of three fictitious cities the investigation has been conducted. It turned out that the consistency between the city and the municipality, and clarity are influenced by the policy choices. When cities and municipalities found it important that receivers know from who messages are coming it is recommended to use non or partially visually corresponding styles and not to combine them. When cities and municipalities want consistency between the city and the municipal it is recommended to use styles which are visually corresponding. The other aims, namely the image of the city, the image of the municipality and the reliability of the municipality are not influenced by these choices. They are influenced by the appraisal of the styles. If people like the styles, they will have a more positive image of the city, the municipal and reliability of the municipal.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Report: 2 Killed, 40 Detained in Chechnya Anti-LGBTI Crackdown A Russian advocacy group on Monday said at least two people have been killed and upwards of 40 people have been detained in the latest anti-LGBTI crackdown in Chechnya. The Russian LGBT Network in a press release said a “new wave of illegal detentions in Chechnya based on the alleged sexual orientation of victims, both men and women” began late last year with the detention of an administrator of a social networking group. “It was followed by other numerous detentions,” said the Russian LGBT Network. “The Russian LGBT Network learned about this situation in the beginning of January 2019. There is information that around 40 people were detained, both men and women. At least two people died as a result of torture.” Igor Kochetkov, a prominent Russian LGBTI activist, in the press release said “it is impossible to name the precise number of victims.” “However, we know that the detentions are conducted by the law enforcement officers, and the victims are detained in Argun (a town outside of the Chechen capital of Grozny.) The local police makes (sic) every effort to prevent the victims from leaving the region or applying to the courts. They take away documents, they threat the victims with the criminal proceedings against them or their close ones, and they force them to sign empty forms.” Chechnya is a semi-autonomous Russian republic in the North Caucasus. Novaya Gazeta, an independent Russian newspaper, in April 2017 reported Chechen authorities had arrested more than 100 men because of their sexual orientation. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe last month released a report that documents extrajudicial killings and other human rights abuses against LGBTI people in Chechnya. The Associated Press on Monday reported a spokesperson for Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov — a close ally of Russian President of Vladimir Putin — described the reports to the Interfax news agency as “complete lies and don’t have an ounce of truth in them.” President Trump — who is under increased scrutiny over his alleged involvement in the Russian government’s interference in the 2016 presidential election — has not publicly commented on the anti-LGBTI crackdown. The Washington Blade will provide additional updates as they become available. By submitting this form, you are consenting to receive marketing emails from: The Georgia Voice, PO Box 77401, Atlanta, GA, 30357, https://thegavoice.com. You can revoke your consent to receive emails at any time by using the SafeUnsubscribe® link, found at the bottom of every email. Emails are serviced by Constant Contact	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
User Tools Friends Meh, he was a good signing last season, but the older he gets, the riskier it gets to bring him back. He's going to be turning 42 years old in December...how many forwards are still effective at that age? I wouldn't go more than $3 million and even that has plenty of risk....the problem with building a team with all these old players as Holland likes to do, is that old players are more injury prone. If gets injured then Mantha or Pulkkinen play. That's doesn't sound like too big a risk to me. Holland's not building a team with "all these old players." We'll actually be a pretty young team next year. Seriously, why are so many people down on the fact that Alfie is potentially returning? Yes he's old, but he's still good, and he won't cost us anything (minus some cap room). If he stays healthy for the entire year he's practically good for 20 goals I think the fact that you're comparing scoring between Ericsson and Quincey just shows the ridiculousness of this argument. It should be obvious at this point that neither player is relied on for the offensive production so I'm not sure why we're using that as a measuring point for their value to the team. It's a measuring point for Quincey because that's suppose to be the type of D-man he is. He's never been a shut-down or stay-at-home defenseman. So if he's bringing almost no offense to the table, he better be stepping it up big time on the defensive end. And so far he has barely showed up on the scoresheet and has been mediocre on the defensive end at best. If he were a high-level shut-down defenseman you would definitely have a point. But he's not (or even close to it). And the almost every game bonehead penalties seem to be the most consistent part of his game. So basically that's why people find it laughable that he is our 2nd highest paid D-man, and makes more $ than Jonathan Ericsson. Ya ok, the US fans were bragging for the last few weeks relentlessly about how they were winning the gold this year, and Canada has no chance and blah blah blah, I'm just doing my due diligence now. Absolutely NO ONE said that Canada "had no chance." In fact, most of us said that they had every chance in the world. Just that some of us were confident that team USA had enough to bring home the Gold (especially the way the tourney had been going). But of course we can't be confident in a gold without it somehow being viewed as a personal attack to certain Canadian fans here. NOW GO SWEDEN FOR THE GOLD!!! Lol of course... USA has a pretty easy matchup against Czech, they'll be pretty tired on top of that. USA should have absolutely no problem rolling past them Of course what? The Czechs are a much more formidable opponent than Slovenia or Latvia. Any team with several NHL players will be a tough test. Is there really any question about that? I should be the one saying "of course." Of course some Canadian would try and downplay the toughness of team USA's matchup, while their team gets yet another non-NHL caliber team to play (aside from playing Finland). It's not like I was singling Canada out. I said Sweden and Canada both have very easy matchups, while the Russians and Americans will both have tougher tests. And that's 100% true. Is TSN creating their own way to show the Olympic medal count so Canada ranks higher? esteef I noticed that too! At first I thought they were going alphabetically back when Canada was tied with Norway for medals. But now it's pretty obvious they're just keeping Canada as #3 regardless of the medal count. Ridiculous. Inferiority complex much? lol Also playing weaker teams off the start is not an advantage for a team like Canada. If anything it's the opposite. I couldn't disagree more... Playing weaker teams in the beginning gives them more slack to build up chemistry and have less pressure overall and gives them more time to get their stuff together when they finally do play a medal contender. Apparently TSN/CBC gives more weight to a gold medal? The have Slovakia with 1 Gold ranked above Sweden with 5 Silvers and 2 Bronze? Retarded. esteef Yeah and they're tied with USA, Norway and Netherlands for Gold, yet they rank themselves above all 3 despite the fact that all 3 have the same amount of Gold and MORE overall medals. SMH Can't taunt the entire east with our cup count, cause Montreal and toronto have more, so how about a 3d image of murphy eating $1 hotdogs Yeah, but all their cups were won many decades ago (the most current one being Montreal's '93 Cup title). Since the mid 90's the Red Wings have been leaps and bounds better and more consistent than either of those teams. Heck, in that time span we've almost won more Cups than either team has playoff appearances. And i'll take boasting about recent championships, over Cups won back in the black-and-white TV era any day. Any Habs or Leafs fans still bragging about ancient championships just proves how inept and inconsistent their teams have been in this modern era of hockey. We are the new crown jewels of the eastern conference. Oh and I almost forgot, LETS GO RED WINGS!!!!! Just for fun's sake, how many of USA's players could crack Canada's roster in terms of talent? Maybe Kane, Kessel and Parise? I would say Quick, Anderson, Howard, Miller, Schneider, Kane, Kessel, Parise, Ryan, Byfuglien, Suter, Yandle (and possibly Kesler with his 2-way skills) would all have a very good chance of cracking Canada's lineup. Although the great thing about the direction USA hockey is going, in another 4 years that number should grow big time. So much young American talent coming up the ranks. Hopefully most of them will develop accordingly. Yzerman, with no doubt. Lets say that you had to have one of these two players to bring your team out of an era of failure, which would do the better job? Without Yzerman the Wings could very well have maintained the gold standard of fail around the league. I love me some lids, but he could NOT have been the spark this team needed to reach success. I draft a rookie Yzerman over a rookie Lids each and every time. Dont forget that Yzerman was a mad mad point producer, scoring 1040 points before Bowman took over and made him a two way player. Had Yzerman remained the pure scorer he was he would have challenged many records. 10 years before 2 way play by Bowman 1040 points, After Bowman, 12 years 715 points. Now I'm not arguing that this helped us win our first cup in forever, just that Yzerman unselfishly changed his entire game for this team, and he could have gone on to break records had he decided to not put this team first. This would be a really solid move for the Wings. Spent almost 2 months of the season down in Florida for work, so I caught quite a few panther games. And all I can say is I was really impressed with what I saw on a nightly basis. He has a pretty hard shot at the point, likes to get involved with the offense, yet seems to be defensively sound. Plus he's young, and presumably we can sign him for a reasonable price. Well, first and foremost let's hope Lidstrom will go one more year. If he doesn't, then I think it's almost a certainty that Stuart will be re-signed. I know Brad wants to be with his family in California, but with the cap space we have I'm sure Holland will offer him more $ than any of the Cali teams. And the Red Wings 'playoff guarantee' year after year should also help sway his decision. Plus, the deal would likely be only 2-3 years tops, then he can go back to Cali. I don't think it's really a question of Stuart or Quincey. From what I've heard Holland is definitely sticking with Quincey for the next few years. So it really just comes down to what Lidstrom does, and how much space we have. If Lidstrom does play for one more year (please hockey Gods let it happen), we still have a chance to sign Stuart, but we might not be able to overpay for him. If that happens let's just hope his desire to win more Stanley cups outweighs spending a few more months with his family for just a few more seasons.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Madeleine Skipsey: She Sells Sea Shells I first heard of Mary Anning only a few years ago, and I suspect I’d still be ignorant of her existence if it weren’t that my then fairly young daughter went through a period of dinosaur obsession. When I found out about her work, and that it had – fairly predictably, to be fair – been used by men to further their own interests and careers, I felt pretty cross. So, needless to say, I was excited to find out about ‘She Sells Sea Shells’, a play by Helen Eastman that takes a look at Anning’s life and recognises the importance of her endeavours. To find out more about that play and the company behind it, I spoke to director Madeleine Skipsey. CM: To start, for anyone reading that isn’t aware of her, can you tell us a bit about Mary Anning, who she was, and what she was known for?MS: Mary Anning was the daughter of a cabinet maker from Lyme Regis. She was introduced to fossil-hunting by her father who – sometimes accompanied by his children – would hunt for ‘curios’ along Lyme’s beaches in order to sell them to tourists. The Napoleonic Wars sent the price of bread through the roof during Mary’s childhood and this gave the family a much-needed second source of income. Mary made a string of vital discoveries that played a huge role in the early development of palaeontology, our understanding of the prehistoric world and the consequent scientific challenge to the Genesis creation myth. Mary and her brother, Joseph, discovered an Ichthyosaur in 1811 – when she was twelve, the same year her father died – which they sold to a local collector and which by 1819 found its way into the British Museum where it caused a great stir. Her big break, so to speak, was her discovery of a complete Plesiosaur skeleton in 1823. She discovered creatures that clearly didn’t exist any more, meaning that they weren’t created perfectly by God in seven days, and meaning that the earth was potentially much older than the Christian church had always insisted it was. It’s difficult to overstate how earth-shattering that suggestion was; it implied humanity was not the perfect protagonist of a divine plan, but instead the most successful product of a much longer process of natural trial and error. Mary’s name was sufficiently well known that scientists and collectors regularly made trips to Lyme Regis to meet with her and discuss her findings. It’s absolutely clear from her diary and letters about her that Mary was more than just a fossil hunter, she was a scientist in her own right. Mary’s tragedy was not just that she was never credited on the papers written about her finds, but that she could clearly have written those papers herself if she’d only been given the chance. In reality, despite repeated applications, she was never let into the Geological Society because she was a woman and working-class and therefore never granted the position to publish in her own right. Instead, as she wrote to a friend near the end of her life “These men of learning… sucked my brains, and made a great deal of publishing works, of which I furnished the contents”. CM: How does the play approach this subject matter? Does it tell a whole life story, or excerpts? Or does it focus on a particular time in her life?MS: Helen Eastman’s script takes key moments from Mary’s life in order to develop a sense of her story. It would be wrong to say it tells her whole life story in a hour but rather it spans key events in her life from childhood to her death. Rather than attempting to be a biopic, the play attempts to offer the audience a flavour of who she was, what she did and what moments shaped her life. The play uses a multi-rolling chorus who transform around Mary, giving a sense of how her family, the gentlemen collectors, and others impacted her life. CM: What was the impetus for the writing of a play about her? Is there a desire there to raise awareness of her?MS: Helen first learnt about Mary Anning a decade ago and was fascinated by the story of this extraordinary working-class woman, whose finds were so important to science, to our under of the world, and who had received so little acclaim. She wanted to tell her story through theatre – as opposed to an article, or a biopic, or a lecture – because it would allow her to create something as feisty and playful and complex as we suspect Mary Anning was. And to acknowledge that when you dig up – pun intended! – someone’s story, you are continuously making choices of how to tell it, and to interpret what you are finding – just like Mary was digging up fossils and trying to ‘read’ them. When Scandal And Gallows heard about her from Helen, we were excited to realise Helen’s story through our blend of physical and visual playfulness. CM: Can you tell us a bit about the playwright?MS: Helen is an internationally acclaimed writer who writes across a broad range of genres – theatre, musicals, lyrics, opera, poetry… but always try to write something that gives directors and actors an opportunity to play: something which is a springboard for their creative process. She is also very keen to address big questions of inequality, poverty, gender… in ways which are playful, engaging and often funny. We’re incredibly grateful to have this opportunity to work with her. CM: What do you like about the play? What made you interested in focusing on a play about this subject? How did you approach it as a director?MS: As a feminist, I’m always interested in plays which bring recognition to impressive women. I couldn’t believe I hadn’t heard of, or been taught about, this incredible woman who made such huge contributions to our understanding of humanity. I liked the feisty nature of Mary, and Helen’s script brought immediate life to a woman who was clever, passionate, witty, brave and resilient. For me, the starting point was researching Mary and some of the key people she interacted with before then playing around with the script in the rehearsal room. We were fortunate to be able to R&D the play earlier in the year. As a director, the R&D process allowed me to think carefully about the emotional arc of the piece and what theatrical language we might use to convey Mary’s story. Once I’d marked out where the highest points of emotion were, it was about ensuring that the journey the audience is taken on ebbs and flows appropriately so that by the end, they feel the same passion as we did about telling Mary’s story. CM: Can you tell us a bit about the company, Scandal And Gallows Theatre? How did it come together and what is its ethos, and approach to theatre making?MS: Scandal And Gallows Theatre was founded by myself and actor Guy Clark while we were at university together. Although coming from very different backgrounds, we shared a commitment to intimate and innovative storytelling. We like to make work that interrogates the act of telling a story, asking questions such as who gets to tell a story? Who has ownership over a story? What is being left out? CM: The company has been to Edinburgh with productions before, hasn’t it? What made you want to come back?MS: We have indeed! We brought our first show, an adaptation of Conrad’s ‘Heart Of Darkness’, to Edinburgh a few years ago and loved the experience. The Festival is a place to experiment, try new things, play around with conventions and expectations and we were excited to see what the response would be to this new work. CM: How is the run going? How are you enjoying this year’s Fringe?MS: The run is going incredibly well. We have had a brilliant response from reviewers and audience members alike and have had a number of sold out shows. We have been overwhelmed with how enthusiastically people have responded to Mary’s story and that audiences have shared our passion for giving her the recognition she deserves. As for the rest of the Fringe, the standard of theatre and comedy is, as always, incredibly high and we’ve thrown ourselves into seeing as much work as possible. It’s truly inspiring. CM: What’s your favourite thing about the Festival?MS: I think my favourite thing about the Festival is the huge variety of work on offer. You never quite know what you’re walking into and that’s so exciting artistically! At the Fringe, it’s impossible to only see work which is like your own and that’s such a brilliant opportunity to expand your ideas about art and theatre and reflect on your own practice. CM: What advice would you have for newcomers to the Festival?MS: I’d split my advice into three areas: practical, creative and well-being! Firstly, the practical advice; create a flyering schedule rather than just flyering on the Royal Mile for long periods of time. Think about which shows are similar to yours or are selling well and exit flyer those. Flyering in the hour before your show can also be really helpful to bring in any last minute audiences. Secondly, the creative advice: not everyone is going to like what you do and that’s okay. If you get some negative feedback, take the time to reflect on whether it’s something you are willing to creatively take on board. If the feedback is within the realms of your creative ideas, great! Think about how to use it to improve. If the feedback isn’t, then you absolutely are allowed not to respond to it. Thirdly, the well-being advice: look after yourself!! Always think carefully about when you read reviews and how to approach them. The fringe is a marathon not a sprint and even if everyone else seems to be seeing ten shows a day, flyering for hours and going out, you absolutely shouldn’t hold yourself to the same standard. CM: What’s coming up next for you, when the Fringe is all over?MS: We’re very keen to share Mary’s story more widely and are exploring a number of possible avenues at the moment. So if you missed seeing ‘She Sells Sea Shells’ at the fringe, then watch this space! The cast and crew also all have lots of exciting things coming up individually so if you want to know why we are up to, please do follow us on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook! ‘She Sells Sea Shells’ was performed at Underbelly Cowgate at Edinburgh Festival 2019.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Book Review: 'This is How You Lose Her' by Junot Diaz All apologies as published in the September 2012 issue of MORE by Pam Houston Photograph: Avery Powell This is How You Lose Her (Riverhead) reacquaints us with Yunior, the lovable, stiletto-tongued, sexually voracious boy from Junot Díaz’s first book, Drown, who believed that his Dominican heritage meant he could never be faithful. Now Yunior is older. He writes books and teaches college. And he is engaged to a woman he realizes is the love of his life just after she learns he’s cheated on her with 50—50!—women. In signature Díaz prose, strong voiced and evocative, these stories look back to the family’s arrival in America; to the numbing days surrounding the death of Yunior’s brother; to the women who preceded his fiancée; and to the years of self-torture Yunior endures until realizing in his “lying cheater’s heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.”	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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Jena Jameson She didn’t earn really big money in the adult industry. Therefore, she invested all the savings in her own company Club Jenna, which annually brings this lady several tens of millions of dollars. Tera Patrick Tera was the first girl from the adult industry, who was called to shoot quite legal and very When you hear about porn movies, how do you think: in what states most of the porn studios located? Some people think that Germany is the leader here. But in fact, it’s only in the middle of gold! Here is the real situation: The leader in production, of course, is the USA – this is They are 50+ but we still remember them and like their hot scenes. Pioneers of the genre, son and daughters of their epochs, they deserve their fame and glory! Nina Hartley Nina Hartley is an American actress of the hot genre, porn film director, sex-positive feminist, sex educator, and author. This lady is still active Queen Victoria adopted strict laws regarding the behavior of men and women, prohibiting nudity. However, they did not apply to photographs. These were the first hot pictures which then were sold for big money. The beginning of the 20th century marked the silent film era and underground porn studios in Europe. The first countries that Many believe that porn celebrities are from the USA. But first of all, let’s remember about a country which long before has been literally a capital of sex and erotica in art & literature – France. She is beautiful at any time, and French retro porn is well known in the world of professional cinema	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Endless Wonder Recap Artie, Claudia, and Steve confront Brother Adrian in an old abandoned house. Meanwhile Myka and Pete are sent to track down an artifact that is making people grow taller. Pete meets a new woman name Deb who has more than a passing interest in what he does. Follow Warehouse 13 Myka: So what about Paul Bunyan's axe, or David's slingshot?Pete: Or how about bag of magical beans?Artie: We got the axe, we got the slingshot. The beans, please - that's just a fairytale.Pete: It's good to know where we draw the line.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Mildred Inman Forkois Mildred Inman Forkois Relatives and friends may call at Jefferson Funeral Chapel, 5755 Castlewellan Dr., Alexandria, VA on Thursday, March 20th from 2-4PM and 7-9PM, where a funeral service will be held on Friday, March 21st at 11AM. Interment Oakwood Cemetery 12:30PM. She was a native of Culleoka, daughter of the late Samuel and Lino Inman. She was also preceded in death by her husband Harold M. Forkois, Sr and her daughter Nancy L. Forkois-Self. Survivors include sons Harold M. Forkois, Jr (Calene) and Jerald L. Forkois (Susan), son-in-law Ernie Self, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, and two step-grandchildren and their four children. Rules for posting comments Comments posted below are from readers. In no way do they represent the view of Stephens Media LLC or this newspaper. This is a public forum. Comments may be monitored for inappropriate content but the newspaper is under no obligation to do so. Comment posters are solely responsible under the Communications Decency Act for comments posted on this Web site. Stephens Media LLC is not liable for messages from third parties. IP and email addresses of persons who post are not treated as confidential records and will be disclosed in response to valid legal process. Do not post: Potentially libelous statements or damaging innuendo. Obscene, explicit, or racist language. Copyrighted materials of any sort without the express permission of the copyright holder. Personal attacks, insults or threats. The use of another person's real name to disguise your identity. Comments unrelated to the story. If you believe that a commenter has not followed these guidelines, please click the FLAG icon below the comment.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Mumbai, Nov 25 (IANS) There was a time when Rani Mukerji didn't have the courage to "look into Aamir Khan's eyes" and now is a time when she "keeps gazing into his eyes until he asks me not to". They worked together for the first time in 1998 release "Ghulam". At that time Rani was a newcomer and Aamir was already a star with hits like "Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak", "Dil" and "Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander" to his credit After hit film "Ghulam", Rani-Aamir came together on screen after seven years for the not-so-successful historical drama "Mangal Pandey" and now they will be seen as a couple in forthcoming thriller "Talaash", their third film in 14 years. Reminiscing her experience on the sets of "Ghulam", Rani said: "When I did my first film with him, I used to look at his shoes as I used to be all tensed and nervous. I was a huge Aamir Khan fan. I had a crush on him. When I had seen QSQT ('Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak'), I was in school." "I was very nervous while doing a romantic scene with him. I would look at his shoes because I couldn't look into his eyes because I feared I would fall in love with him," she said in a group interview. "Now I look into his eyes. I keep gazing into his eyes until he asks me not to," added the actress who did a special appearance in Aamir-starrer "Mann". The two enjoy a good friendship off the screen and Rani hopes it is for lifetime. "Over the years, Aamir and I have built a friendship which, I would like to believe, is for life. I would like to believe that I will be attending his 80th birthday also," she said. Rani, 34, is all praises for Aamir, 47. "He was a superstar when I did my first film with him and he is a much bigger superstar even now. His focus, dedication and sincerity towards his craft, his approach towards filmmaking, performance and character, has become greater and bigger with time," she said.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Thermos stainless steel bottle store safe and pure water How safe is the drinking water that we store in a plastic bottle? Experts say it is not at all healthy as it is contaminated by the molecules of the bottle that leach with the water. The water stored in a plastic bottle is not suitable to drink and might cause serious damage to the body. Furthermore, they say that the right way to keep the water safe from bacteria and other pollutant factors is by storing is on the thermos stainless steel bottle. A thermos stainless steel bottle is made from the highest quality of steel for durability and to resist bacteria. The bottles are properly insulated and is flawlessly vacuum sealed with double layers that can keep hot water warm and chilled water cold for long hours. Moreover, the insulated stainless steel bottles have built-in patented filter that are highly capable of filtering pollutants up to 99.99%. The filter seperates the unwanted elements present in the water and make it suitable to drink. So, drinking pure water you can improve your health as well. Thermos stainless steel bottle are made from materials that are bio degradable. These products are manufacturered taking environment into concern. If you are worried about your child’s health, then fetch him/her kids stainless steel bottle. The bottles are manufactured to store milk, luke water, juice and other liquid to store them safely. The thermos are available in a wide selection of sizes, light weight and colours that they would like to carry with them to school. Stainless steel sippy are popular among people who travel a lot, as they have to carry drinking water. The market is flooded with thermos stainless steel bottle manufacturer that offers the best product at highly competitive price. The best way to find a insulated stainless steel bottle is to browse the internet that offers a range of bottles at low price. So, by purchasing a bottle you can keep the drinking water safe and pure that will also improve the health. Our German Shepherd Dog Drinks Water in 4K Slow Motion. April drinks water in a very funny way, so we filmed her in 4k Resolution slow motion to see exactly what’s going on, and the result was very amazing. She’s one funny dog and we have been watching her drink her water everyday in this unique way, i was always trying to figure out exactly how she stays under water while swallowing her water at the same time. In this Slow Motion Video we can see that she actually breathes out of her nose slightly while drinking to keep the water out, seems like a very weird way to drink but that is our german shepherd april. If you want to see more of April in upcoming video just let us know in the comments below !. Again thanks for watching and don’t forget to subscribe check out our social media link below.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Quick links Millwall exact revenge on Danny Shittu in defeat of QPR This was never going to be a quiet evening for Danny Shittu, the main culprit in this shock defeat for the Championship leaders. Shittu was returning to play against Millwall for the first time since snubbing the club's offer of a new contract in favour of joining Queens Park Rangers. The booing and barracking had been merciless from a Den crowd that was under the spotlight after unsavoury reports of missile-throwing against Watford and Middlesbrough. But the home fans' mood was too good to trigger trouble when, with the score at 1-0, Shittu conceded a penalty and was sent off in the 72nd minute. Liam Trotter scored from the spot and QPR were on their way to a first defeat in 12 Championship matches. The Shittu foul was the moment when the match slipped out of QPR's grasp and the Millwall supporters revelled in their former centre-back's trudge off the pitch. The QPR manager, Neil Warnock, had no complaints about the fans: "I thought they were brilliant. That's life. I thought Danny did all right. It was just an elementary mistake that he made." Regarding the defeat, he said: "If you concede goals like a Sunday league team, that will happen. But I've got to forgive them. It's a miracle what we've done to be in this position." Shittu had caught the attentions of the home fans within 30 seconds by fouling the Millwall legend Neil Harris. QPR's Adel Taarabt then floated in a free-kick from the left that Kaspars Gorkss met with a header, and this was tipped over by the goalkeeper David Forde. Back came Millwall and the on-loan Tottenham winger Andros Townsend delivered a 16th-minute corner that was headed wide by his captain, Paul Robinson. Next Steve Morison struck a 30-yard effort that Paddy Kenny gathered. Millwall finished the first half strongly, too. Harris's angled, 30-yard volley narrowly cleared the crossbar and Morison then cut in from the left before producing a low shot that Kenny thwarted. But QPR had the last chance of the first period with Wayne Routledge's powerful close-range hit being gloved away by Forde, and the intensity of the game remained high after half-time. Forde produced another eye-catching reflex stop to keep out Bradley Orr's stooping header. Robinson somehow wasted an outstanding chance as he headed over from just a couple of yards following Townsend's corner, but Millwall kept going forward with Harris coming close on the hour mark. Millwall broke through when Morison collected the ball neatly from Tamika Mkandawire's header. The forward surged down the middle and unleashed an 18-yard shot that travelled with too much power for Kenny to get close to it. The ineffective Taarabt was then substituted by Warnock but there was little time to judge if that was a wise move before Millwall doubled their lead, when Shittu dragged down Morison and Trotter stroked in his spot-kick. Millwall controlled the closing stages, with a weak effort from Tommy Smith being the best that 10-man QPR could manage. The Millwall manager, Kenny Jackett, said: "As soon as we got the first goal, you could see the confidence in the players. We could have scored more and we kept them down to a minimum amount of chances." As the QPR players came off the pitch, their pain was visible. But it could have been worse. They could have been in Shittu's position.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Hotel description Situated amongst a variety of tourist attractions, shops and eateries, Hotel Andalucia Benidorm is ideal for guests wishing to discover Benidorm and its surroundings. It also provides a ticket service, a tour desk and a 24-hour reception. There are a range of amenities available to those staying at Hotel Andalucia, such as internet, wireless internet and a safe. The hotel's multilingual staff will be glad to share local knowledge and assist in organising itineraries. Every room at Hotel Andalucia Benidorm offers a private bathroom and all the necessities for a comfortable stay. There are also a number of rooms especially for families. Enjoy Spanish cuisine at Hotel Andalucia's traditional restaurant, or unwind with a drink in the bar. In the evening, guests can wind down in the comfortable lounge bar. The area surrounding Hotel Andalucia Benidorm is well-known for its nightlife, with a wide range of places to go for a drink or dance. The hotel also provides parking for guests with a car.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
1.877.338.5493 SEARCH Main menu NEWS Green Building A Wichita, Kansas home has been built as part of the House Against Hunger program, an initiative that will build green homes and use part of the proceeds from the sale to combat hunger worldwide, according to The Wichita Eagle. The home that has been built will sell for $169,900, providing nearly $145,000 to help feed starving people worldwide as well as $25,000 to help with the building of the next House Against Hunger, reported the news source. Along with the charitable contribution that comes with the sale of the house, the residence has been built with the latest in sustainable technology to minimize the carbon footprint for the house. Solar panels have been installed on the rooftop, along with a radiant heating system that will provide green warmth to the family, The Eagle reported. "This should make a big difference not only up front but over the life of living here," Rod Chrystie, chairman of the Kansas Mennonite Relief Sale, told the news source. He noted that with the new technology, the average savings on gas and electric bills are estimated at $45 a month. The use of radiant heating will also help to provide a higher level of comfort to families, as the warmth is evenly spread out due to the in-floor nature of the technology, something that a forced-air system does not offer. GC and plumber very pleased Warmboard was done in early April. Complete project done in early May. Probably got 3 weeks of heat running time in April before turning off heating system. Very impressed with Warmboard and how it performed for the short time we had it on. Really looking forward to next winter so I can give the system a workout. General contractor and plumber are very pleased with details provided on layout. I would like to thank you and your organization for the timely information and responses when needed. - Jeff R., Sun Prairie, WI Welcome to Warmboard, Simply Smarter Radiant Heat Warmboard was invented in 1992 by Architect and entrepreneur Terry Alsberg. It has since become one of the fastest growing and most popular radiant heating systems. Two things drive growth and popularity of Warmboard: More comfortable radiant floor heating Warmboard adjusts its radiant heat output to quickly match changing heat loads throughout the day and night. This gives you the exact feeling of warmth you desire from a radiant floor heat system. The goal of any radiant floor heating system is to ensure that the temperature that you feel in your home is exactly the temperature you desire, and to maintain this ideal comfort minute by minute, hour by hour. No other radiant heat system can match the precise control and fast response of a low mass Warmboard radiant heat system. More energy efficient radiant floor heating Warmboard is simply more conductive compared to all the other radiant heat systems. The job of a radiant heat system is to conduct heat from water in a tube to the surface of a radiant floor. This is why in radiant floor heating, conductivity is king. It is a simple law of physics that as conductivity goes up, water temperature goes down. It always saves money to heat water to a lower temperature, and therefore Warmboard is more energy efficient than all other radiant heat systems.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }

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