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What's Worth Watching: Of Miracles and Men Aubry D'Arminio February 8, 2015, 6:00 am 30 for 30 - Of Miracles and Men 30 for 30: Of Miracles and Men (Sunday, Feb. 8, 9/8c, ESPN) Imagine being the bad guys in the feel good movie of the year. That's what it was like to be the Soviet national hockey team at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, NY, where they lost 4-3 in the medal round to a plucky phalanx of American amateurs and college students who nabbed the gold two days later. (Years after, someone did make a movie about it, Miracle on Ice, starring Kurt Russell). They were the big, bad Russkies! Their hearts were colder than the ice they skated on! They trained in a world-class facility where our boys pulled donkey carts to tighten their core! But, in truth, the Soviet players were just a bunch of top-tier athletes and good guys who had to endure years of shame after the loss. Of Miracles and Men tells the story of the 1980 Winter Olympics from their point of view, demystifying just about everything. (Though, they did have a fancy training rink, but it wasn't like the American team learned how to skate on the ice that formed when the cold mountain air mixed with their mothers' tears.)

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"We bring our entire Green Team and all our supervisors from the facility to the landfill to give everyone an understanding of the volume of material that we're generating and the types of materials and the different things that we can do with them—diverting materials to recycling or seeing if they are eligible for reuse," Nicole Flewell, Director of Sustainability for Taylor Farms, explains to me. She's discussing the latest milestone in Taylor Farms' journey—an impressive testament to its mission-based approach. This summer, the company announced that it had been granted TRUE (Total Resource Use and Efficiency) Platinum Certification for its Gonzales, California, facility—becoming the first fresh food company to achieve the U.S. Green Building Council's highest level of certification as a Zero Waste Facility. The process is rigorous—to the point of supervising every aspect of waste disposal— and one of the more granular aspects of this process is coming face-to-face with the company's garbage. "Our achievement of TRUE certification is a direct reflection of our company's guiding values of trust, honesty, integrity, passion, and teamwork." Beginning in April of last year, Nicole and a Green Team composed of leaders from departments throughout Taylor Farms' Gonzales facility—including production, receiving, shipping, facilities, sanitation, purchasing, and quality assurance personnel—have worked tirelessly to reduce and redirect waste, eventually achieving this unprecedented distinction in only 14 months. Since 1995, Taylor Farms has been providing fresh foods to families and communities across the United States. The company was founded as Taylor Fresh Foods more than 20 years ago in America's Salad Bowl, California's Salinas Valley. And, in the ensuing two decades, Taylor Farms has grown to its current formation—a 16,000-employee-strong organization that is North America's leading producer of healthy fresh foods. A pioneer in the packaged salad category, Taylor Farms remains focused on promoting health across the board—the personal health of consumers, the social health of the communities in which Taylor Farms operates, and the environmental health of its farmlands and the globe. "Our mission to be North America's favorite maker of salads and healthy fresh foods encompasses every part of our business, including the way we grow and produce our fresh foods," Nicole tells me. But for Taylor Farms, being a fan favorite means more than making salads; it means pursuing a sustainability strategy that is based on the triple bottom line—the health of the company, its people and consumers, and of course, the environment. TRUE certification is a rigorous process, Nicole tells me, one that has involved over a year of committed work on the part of the company's Green Team. It's a process that requires the utmost dedication to sustainability and a challenge that Taylor Farms was eager to tackle. "...everyone really has to participate in these programs every single minute of every single day in order for them to be successful." Just this June, Taylor Farms' Green Team completed their audit, completed corrective actions, and underwent the onsite verification process. And Nicole tells me, since completion, the facility is thought of as a beacon of what the company hopes to accomplish in terms of sustainability across the country. Taylor Farms hopes that the lessons learned in its Gonzales facility TRUE certification process can become a model to be applied throughout the industry. Taylor Farms' Gonzales facility uses a range of renewable energy sources to help meet the company's sustainability goals. Employing a three-part system that uses a wind turbine, solar, and cogeneration energy system, the facility is able to generate 4.2 MW of energy—a 90 percent energy offset—to run the 192,000-square-foot fresh processing plant. Over the course of the program's 14-month lifetime, Taylor Farms announced this June, the company has managed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30,923 MTCO2E—the equivalent to taking 6,510 cars off the road each year. The company has decreased landfill generation by 56 percent, achieved over 94 percent diversion from landfills, incinerators, and the environment on average for the last 12 months, and eliminated all single-use and wax cartons for 100 percent of incoming raw material, working with the company's growing partners to instead implement reusable bins and totes. It's with an unwavering commitment to excellence that Taylor Farms approaches its community, customers, and product. And through TRUE certification and other initiatives like it, the company is doing its part to ensure generations to come can enjoy the cleanest environment and the freshest food. Our family is passionate about offering a collection of healthy, great tasting fresh salads and snacks packed with nutrients and preservative free.

Gordon Brown hits out at MoD chiefs after it emerged they knew about radiation in Dalgety Bay 30 years ago THE former Prime Minister insists the MoD should accept responsibility for cleaning up the beach after a report revealed they were to blame for the radioactive particles. Gordon Brown (Image: Danny Lawson/PA) FORMER Prime Minister Gordon Brown has hit out at defence chiefs after it emerged they knew more than 30 years ago that a beach was polluted by radiation. He slammed the MoD's failure to act after a report showed officials were aware there was a problem at Dalgety Bay in Fife as far back as 1980. The report – which shows that as many as 800 contaminated aircraft were dumped there – said the MoD was to blame for radioactive particles washing ashore. But defence bosses hit back and said they had concerns over the "adequacy and validity" of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) report. Brown said: "It is a scandal if the MoD refuse to accept responsibility for cleaning up Dalgety Bay once and for all. "SEPA's report makes clear the MoD accepted as long ago as 1990 that as many as 800 radiation contaminated aircraft were dumped at the site. "The residents of Dalgety Bay have waited too long – the clean-up must begin immediately." Brown has been campaigning for action at the beach following the discovery of radioactive particles and high-activity radiation. SEPA's investigation found the MoD deposited a large amount of ash and clinker on the Fife coast before the town was developed, which has resulted in the radioactive sources. It said significant amounts of material remains buried and continue to erode and re-contaminate the area. Brown added: "Having been named as the polluter, the MoD must now agree to fund the clean-up of the area. "They say they have concerns over the adequacy and validity of the exercise. But, in my view, the MoD are merely delaying the inevitable." The MoD said they would ask for a meeting with SEPA to discuss the report. A spokesman said: "The MoD continue to fund, at their own cost, monitoring arrangements at Dalgety Bay – in line with previous commitments." SNP MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife Annabelle Ewing said: "We always knew the MoD were responsible for the pollution at Dalgety Bay and these conclusions from the SEPA investigation reinforce this knowledge. "There can be no more excuses from the MoD – we need them to fund and carry out an immediate clean-up. "Pleas from residents, politicians, environmentalists and SEPA have fallen on deaf ears before but we can't continue down that route. "The MoD owe the people of Fife a remediation plan – along with an explanation on why they refused to take responsibility before, causing misery for the people of Fife and surrounding areas." Police ScotlandLanarkshire police launch appeal after spate of fly-tipping and fireraisingOfficers working in the Newarthill area of Motherwell are asking locals to check CCTV footage.

Roosters 2013 Season Preview Wed 27 Feb 2013, 03:00 PM Gains: Sonny Bill Williams (rugby union), James Maloney (Warriors), Michael Jennings (Panthers), Luke O'Donnell (Huddersfield), Michael Oldfield (Sea Eagles), Nafe Seluini (Panthers), Samisoni Langi (Bulldogs), Sam Moa (Hull FC). Losses: Braith Anasta (Wests Tigers), Mose Masoe (Panthers), Brad Takairangi (Titans), Justin Carney (Castleford), Curtis Rona (Cowboys), Peni Tagive (retired), Mose Masoe (Panthers), Anthony Cherrington (Panthers), BJ Leilua (Knights). No-one could accuse the 'reinvention' Roosters of inactivity over the off-season: there's a new coach on board, as well as some exciting roster additions, all designed to recapture the blistering form of 2010 when the tri-colours came within 80 minutes of premiership glory. With the dismal results of 2011 (11th) and last season (13th) still ringing in their ears, the focus has been on change. Certainly it's been more hectic than a florist on Valentines Day around Bondi Junction, as they've added representative stars Michael Jennings and Luke O'Donnell late in the piece to go with the also late but very expected arrival of superstar Sonny Bill Williams. Finally they get to hand James Maloney the No.6 jersey after signing him what seems eons ago. Former captain Braith Anasta is off to the Wests Tigers – although experience remains in the shape of veteran Anthony Minichiello who has been handed the leadership duties. In other changes, they released BJ Leilua to the Knights; Brad Takairaigi's offloading skills have been snapped up by the Titans; and Anthony Cherrington and Mose Masoe's big hits have gone to the Panthers. Crucially though they have invested in a new mentor, with Trent Robinson – an assistant under ex-mentor Brian Smith in 2010 – returning after a stint with the Catalan Dragons in the UK Super League. Will he be able to bring the quick results expected by the fans? The blue sky story is that if Williams can take the field in the majority of games and Mitchell Pearce can forge a good partnership with Maloney, the Roosters should improve dramatically. The storm cloud factor? It will take a year without major injury for them to be title contenders... How They'll Play It To their new strengths. Now Pearce has another true playmaker alongside him in James Maloney, the Roosters should recapture the attacking prowess they displayed in 2010 when Todd Carney ran riot outside the NSW No.7. Also, with Jennings and Shaun Kenny-Dowall in the centres, the Roosters have potent strike weapons on both sides of the field for either half to target. Last season they ranked 10th in the league with 19.2 points scored a game and they were last in the NRL in line-breaks at 3.9 but you can expect those numbers to rise in 2013 – especially given Jennings and Maloney each made 12 line-breaks last year. Although Williams and O'Donnell will bring some intimidation to the pack the big boys at the Roosters need to find a way to gain more metres. The Roosters ranked last in metres gained in 2012. But perhaps the greatest concern for the club is defence. Only the hapless Eels allowed more points through per game last year. Robinson, who was in charge of the Roosters' defence in 2010, needs to bring steel and discipline to the hard yakka. Expect HUGE Things From Mitchell Pearce. The recently re-signed star gets a 'partner in crime' in the halves again – plus he is another year older and wiser. More importantly, the time has come for him to become a leader, and perhaps a candidate to lead the team in 2014. The pluses are many: Pearce will get more time and space to create; he won't be the sole kicker; and he has high-quality centres and some skill factor in his pack. If the big boys bank some solid go-forward, Pearce won't have any excuses. Season 2012 yielded 22 try assists and 20 line-break assists for Pearce – reasonable numbers, but numbers he can exceed in 2013. Sonny Bill is a total wild card but most likely the Kiwi giant will bring to the Roosters some great second-phase play, damaging runs on the edges and steely intimidation in defence. It's a shame he won't be able to reprise his famous shoulder charge – although he hasn't been allowed to use it in rugby union for years, so he's used to it! In his last full season with the Bulldogs Williams scored 14 tries in 21 games with 11 line-breaks and 13 line-break assists. He also averaged three offloads a match, 123.7 metres gained and 22.2 tackles. Can he do the same after years in union and boxing? We're about to find out. Jennings is another potentially sensational buy. If he can knuckle down, stay focused, and train hard, he'll bring great flair. Another to keep an eye on? Boyd Cordner. The 20-year-old back-rower has the right people suggesting he's going to have a long and impressive career. The Question Marks Sonny Bill might be a bonus point, but he's also a query. The NRL is a much tougher week-in, week-out contest than Super 15s and Williams has become accustomed to fewer touches in matches. Will he be able to handle the defensive workload? Will his body hold up to the rigors of the NRL? And will the fact he only signed for one year and the subsequent circus his prospective future creates be a distraction? The team's defence remains the biggest question mark. The tri-colours bordered on abysmal defensively last season – and Maloney and Jennings are not the strongest defenders in their positions. Williams too could be a defensive liability – especially in early weeks should his fitness not be 100 per cent. And the coach… any untried coach has to prove himself. Who Needs To Lift? The Roosters forwards. Consider this: not one of them averaged more than 100 metres a match in 2012! Jared Waerea-Hargreaves (95.4 metres) and Martin Kennedy (87.5 metres) were the best of a poor bunch. Their discipline with the Steeden in hand needs a massive overhaul, too. The Roosters made more errors than any team last year, averaging 11.2 a game. How's Their Depth? It doesn't look overly strong. If one of the playmakers goes down, the back-up is Daniel Mortimer – but not since his early days at Parramatta has he looked like a regular first grader. Last year Mortimer played just eight games for a return of two tries and one try assist. The pack is light-on in the front row department and Jake Friend needs to stay healthy at hooker. Dream Team Bankers Michael Jennings averaged 45 points per game at the Panthers last year, one of the best centres in the competition. Is he worth it again? Our assessment is 'yes', given Mitchell Pearce and James Maloney will be feeding him. Pearce ($375,100) and Maloney ($365,800) look like giving Dream Team coaches 45+ points each week, as will hooker Jake Friend ($363,900). Trent Robinson was an assistant with the 2010 Roosters grand final side so he knows the workings of the club inside out. He also managed to take wooden spoon-holders Catalans to the finals in his first year in the UK Super League and backed it up with another finals appearance last season. However, no new coach is safe until he proves himself, so Robinson will need to hit the ground running. The pressure will be on the new Roosters coach to guide the side into the finals immediately; questions are sure to be asked should the Roosters miss the top eight for the third year in a row – especially given their recruitment. For the record, we think Robinson will provide plenty of headlines for all the right reasons in 2013. Similarly it's been an off-season of change for the young Roosters, who finished in seventh place after 26 rounds last year and only exited the competition when narrowly defeated by eventual premiers Wests Tigers in the grand final qualifier. Former Maroons halfback Paul Green steps in to mentor the side, with Jason Taylor assuming an assistants role with first grade. With many of last year's squad having moved on, another top-eight finish will be a tough task. Nonetheless, big things are expected from a raft of players, including the front row pairing of Queensland Under-20s Origin representative Brandon Tago and Mitchell Mamary, who joins the club after winning the Bulldogs' SG Ball Player of the Year award last season. Others to keep an eye on include tireless lock Jack Noble; outside back and 2012 Australian Schoolboys representative Jack Goodsell; and Australian Schoolboys five-eighth Samisoni Langi. Predicted Finish Given equal luck with injuries the Roosters should be one of the improvers this season. We don't see a top-four berth but the lower half of the eight is certainly attainable. From there they just might get on a roll and give the whole thing a shake.

Quite a number of religious people argue that an atheist cannot be moral, as morality springs from religion. This is a heavy claim, since immoral people are not a good thing to have in a civilized society. As an atheist I'm lead to defend the position that atheists, too, can be moral. In fact, I will go a bit beyond mere apology. I will claim atheists are actually in a better position to become moral in the real sense of the word than someone following a literal interpretation of biblical morality. If we think about morality, it is a tool. Its proper area of application is relations to other people in a society. Its aim is to make society an agreeable, safe and prosperous place to live in. Its essence is ease of choice in situations which pit one person's interests against another's. Morality is composed of willingness to compromise, knowledge of when and how this is best done, and a highly automated capability of making such decisions. A theist will claim that moral choices can only be made if one believes in a higher being, and rules dictated by it. Such rules are thought of as being enforced in the afterlife, or via other supernatural means. It is thought that this is the only form of enforcement available. In essence the argument says that morality governs interpersonal affairs in which direct egoism would be counter‐productive to the ones involved as a whole, and in which there exist interpersonal externalities to one's actions. It says that the problem can only be solved if the game theoretic payoff of such confrontations is modified by the presence of a supernatural, immutable payoff to choosing the communally beneficial alternative, or a similar punishment for choosing otherwise. In the absence of such conditioning, communally beneficial outcomes will not materialize, and society will disintegrate. It is also claimed that morality is something more than the above description. It is thought that it has to do with deep, intuitive, inexplicable insights into how a good citizen will behave. Both the above viewpoints are untenable. The first presumes that people with a free will will actually fear supernatural punishment more than natural ones. It claims that punishment in the sense offered by law cannot function in a manner the expectation of a supernatural one will. Such a claim is clearly wrong—a person with a free will can choose not to believe in the reality of said punishment, as us atheists have, or can choose to discount the severity of the punishment, as the economic science testifies people routinely do with regard to other future payoffs. Something happening in the far future is almost always heavily depreciated with regard to what is achievable today, even in the case of highly religious people. Also, the usual methods of punishment used throughout the world to bring about legal deterrence are far more effective in this regard than supernatural punishment, thanks to their relative immediacy. Also, if we wish strong deterrence, all the pain a person can actually experience can well be effected by means accessible to a mortal torturer. I do hope this sort of argument isn't what religious people are after—we all know torture isn't an endeavor one should easily undertake. As for the second argument, inexplicable insights are worth very little. They cannot be used to convince people, or to enlighten the essence of what we call morality. They cannot be inculcated against an invidual's wants, as we do have free will. The moral enlightenment theists habitually ascribe to belief are from an atheist's viewpoint something which could very well be taught to someone without the concept of gods and goblins. All it takes is conditioning, something which is far better achieved via modern techniques of brainwashing and mind control than primitive religious fancy. If brainwashing is what we want to do, there are ways far better than what the typical cultist/Christian has to offer. From the above it should be clear that literal adherence to a particular moral doctrine can be forced on people by mortal means. It should also be painfully clear that this isn't something one would want to accomplish, no matter the means or ends. The concept of a literal reading of an axiomatic system of morality is what really bugs me in conventional views of the genesis of moral thought. I view morality as being about informed, societally beneficial, context dependent choices, not about simplistic principles. Abiding by a literal reading of a moral doctrine will amount to inflexible, uninformed choices, which will by and far not be beneficial. Neither to the individual, nor to the society. And if such interpretation is supported only by fear of damnation or pain, we will also witness extraneous emotional harm to the individual. Living in fear never produces well‐rounded, civilized, healthy individuals. Instead it gives rise to dogmatic, fearsome, stressed‐out, irrational misers. The fact is, those who abide by a religious doctrine mostly tend to belong to the former group. They do not draw the core and essence of their morality from religion, but are informed by it. No sensible person would follow all of the teachings of the Old Testament, as they are easily seen to be harmful. Instead, a truly moral, religious person understands that Scripture isn't all there is to it. He uses his own, God‐given ability to reason. He takes from religious morality what is good, applies it in an informed fashion, and ends up a conscious, moral actor. This is what morality is about, not blind obedience to set rules. Morality is about willingness and capability for rational choice in a context where the payoff is societal instead of individual. Religion can have its place in inciting the necessary shift in an individual's profit calculus, true. But it by no means is the only means of arriving at the conclusion. I would also contend that it is in fact an inferior means in that there is a risk of instead inciting adherence to a literal interpretation of what the religious doctrine in question says. That would seriously stifle one's capability of actually making a reasoned choice in matters moral. That is a pretty big minus in the torrentous affair that we call coexistence with other people. Now, atheists have to learn to make their own decisions from the start as there are no guidelines apart from one's own reason. We can draw from the old wisdom the many religions of the world embody, of course, but that isn't the end of it. We won't have the fear of damnation hanging over our heads, true, but we also don't have the promise of an eternal life to make us feel too complacent about the way we act. To us, the choice is personal; beyond that, there's precious little. So the choice defines us. As such, our standing in life, everything we have, is predicated on what we get, how we feel and how other people perceive of us. We all know that antisocial behavior is bad. Not only for the individual, but for the surrounding community. Atheists more than anybody understand that moral behavior, with the huge benefits it brings to social interaction, is the bulwark of well‐being. After all, to us, that well‐being is pretty much all there is. We thus trust immoral individuals even less than the average theist. I mean, if we were to tolerate immorality, there'd be nothing to counterbalance the damage. We'd just die, slide into nothingness, wouldn't get to enjoy any compensation. This is why we tend to be both moral and hold others upto reasonable moral standards. We have a choice in the matter, true, but there's no real choice to it. We have to be moral, whether we like it or not. At the same time we very well know that morality is what keeps the society together. It's what other people, be they theist or atheist, expect of us. Thus, we do understand what morality is about, and have a strong incentive to abide by it. Regardless of what faith other people profess. We don't have Scripture to tell us what moral means, precisely, but we try very hard to find out, for our own benefit. Not because we are altruists, but because morality is necessary, expected and good. To us, and to those around us. Again, our own selves and those around us is all we have. Now, theists can claim no such standing. If they tolerate immorality, they can expect to be infinitely rewarded for their righteousness. If they're moral, they can expect huge rewards, true, but that's then… All that atheists have is now. That is more, I would argue. What theists have is a ready‐made system of moral values, perhaps coming from thousands of years ago. What we have is a general altruistic guideline which has to be applied in the best way we know how to. In an age which witnesses rapid development and change in societal conditions I think reasoned morality easily outperforms adherence to the letter of millennia old parchment. The spirit is still there, of course, and to be learned from—I too think religions have a lot to tell us, even in the absence of the supposed carrot&stick they also provide—but the letter, that might well be outdated. An atheist will do better because his morality isn't a matter of letter. It is a matter of personal conviction to do good, for one's own good. Or do you suppose transfusions as a life‐preserving technology should be shunned? Non‐virginal newly‐weds to be stoned to death for their previous transgression? Pigs not be eaten? Scripture often misleads one. There's a serious historical background to outdated dictates, of course. In their time they were vital. But today, even a seriously religious person will acknowledge that not all of those dictates should be followed. New moral guidelines will also surface from time to time, thanks to changing conditions. Atheists, we use reason and the scientific method to weight the good against the evil. We adapt based on what we know of what goes around and comes around. We try to do good even when the Good Bible doesn't tell us precisely how to accomplish that. I would contend that places us at a moral advantage; a high ground, if the reader so wills. Not because we're more capable or inherently more moral. No. Instead it's because we acknowledge that we have both the means and real, tangible, ever‐present reasons to build and refine our moral convictions. Because of what we think, and because of what other people do, atheist or theist. Additionally, we have nothing to resort to if our approach fails, so the claim is credible. If we're wrong about the existence of God, there's only the slight chance that our moral convictions might redeem us. We better take the possibility seriously. Also, if there's no afterlife, we hang by what we do. In either case, straying from moral conduct will hit us, fully. We cannot be immoral without paying a cost. No such credibility can be derived from theist viewpoints. Credibility, then, is a big part of how morality does well by us. There's no point to being moral if other people do not believe your are. Atheists have both a highly personal reason to be moral, and external reasons they can be trusted to be moral. Theists have neither. The approach based on individual reason is well accessible to theists, as I said, and most really resort to it. A majority of people know that Scripture isn't all there is to morality, and so apply what they have. This is in fact the precise reason why most people can be considered moral in today's world. But the fact is, the credibility and the cooperative benefits it gives rise to are never there as long as one professes a faith in the supernatural. There's no real reason to believe that a theist would actually want to follow the moral guidelines his reason assures are workable, and so benefits attainable thru presuming another person moral aren't available unless the other person is an atheist. Thus I ask, why not go all the way? Why not give up one's beliefs and become truly, credibly, moral? For me that has worked out very well. For many others it has, too. Morality is, and should be about one's own, reasoned decisions, and shouldn't be externalized to a religion, a cult, a leader or a prophet. Not to mention a benevolent, inexistent spirit. If one is to become moral in the genuine sense of the word, one should first become nothing less than a sworn atheist.

N.Y. / Region|No Vehicles, but Plenty of People on Broadway No Vehicles, but Plenty of People on Broadway By DAVID W. DUNLAP MAY 24, 2009 Crowds clog Broadway in Times Square after the city began closing sections of the street. Traffic was diverted to Seventh Avenue. Credit Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times Paul Ziemer and Pikkam So traveled to Times Square on Sunday from their home in Inwood, at the northern tip of Manhattan, and allowed their 14-month-old son, Benjamin, to do what few New Yorkers have ever done: Walk safely right down the center of Broadway in the middle of the day. On Sunday, the Bloomberg administration put a plan into effect to reduce traffic congestion in Midtown by closing two sections of Broadway to vehicles, from 47th to 42nd Streets and 35th to 33rd Streets. The idea is to eliminate the crosscurrents Broadway traffic creates on nearby avenues. However, rather than suddenly apply a single tourniquet to the great diagonal limb of Broadway, officials closed it piecemeal throughout the afternoon and into the evening, more or less coordinating the project with a street fair on Seventh Avenue. Department of Transportation crews painted lane markers, hung new signs and adjusted traffic signals from Herald Square to Duffy Square, while pedestrians mobbed the sidewalks around them. Because Broadway — like nature — abhors a vacuum, it took no coaching whatsoever to encourage the crowds to spill off the sidewalks and into the newly empty traffic lanes. Mr. Ziemer and Ms. So made a point of coming to see a vehicle-free Broadway. They did not sound disappointed. "I've lived here for 15 years," Mr. Ziemer said, "and this was only closed for New Year's Eve" — not typically the best time for a stroll with a baby. Ms. So said, "I like the experience because now I don't feel like I'm competing with cars." One block away, Lev Teshler, from Kew Gardens, Queens, also found himself drawn to the middle of the street. "From my point of view, it's great," he said, "because I don't have to drive here." And sure enough, a contrary opinion came from a cabdriver, Ben Stevens, who was caught in the vortex at Seventh Avenue and 45th Street. He did not mince words when asked his opinion of the closing. Crowds clog Broadway in Times Square after the city began closing sections of the street. At right, traffic is diverted to Eighth Avenue. Credit John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times "Nobody likes it," he said. "See the traffic? I hate it." It is probably safe to say that the new traffic program, known formally as "Green Light for Midtown," will not get its real test until Tuesday, the first business day after the Memorial Day weekend. Janette Sadik-Khan, the city's transportation commissioner, carefully noted the chance that some tinkering might result from that experience. "It's an important first step to ease traffic and sidewalk congestion and create safe, attractive spaces that are good for business," she said. "But it's a work in progress, and we'll be monitoring the area closely during the initial adjustment period." Though it sounds paradoxical to try to improve traffic flow by closing parts of a traffic artery, the transportation agency has its reasons. Vehicles are being banned where Broadway crosses Seventh Avenue (downtown-bound) and Avenue of the Americas (uptown-bound), like tracks in a switchyard. The hope is that this will improve the traffic flow on both avenues. The remnants of Broadway on the affected blocks will become pedestrian plazas. Seven bus lines that run downtown along Broadway — the M6, M7, M10, M20, M27, M30 and M104 — will be rerouted to Seventh Avenue on Monday. All of the crosstown streets will remain open. Shortly before 8 p.m., the last vehicles passed down Broadway at 47th Street — a police van, a taxi and several pedicabs. City employees then placed eight orange barrels across Broadway, prompting a flurry of honking from vehicles and forceful whistling from the police officers who were waving traffic to the side. "It's amazing how quickly people materialize on the streets when you close them off," said Ms. Sadik-Khan, as she watched pedestrians drift onto Broadway. The sudden shift was a surprise to Alex Dzh, 23, a pedicab driver, who seemed bewildered by the orange barrels adorned with "Do not enter" signs. "Ten minutes ago, it was open," he said. "Now it's closed. I don't know what happened." A. G. Sulzberger contributed reporting. A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A15 of the New York edition with the headline: No Vehicles, But Plenty Of People On Broadway. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe Times Square via Broadway? Not Anymore. MAY 25, 2009

When you are sick, you just want to feel better. There are some illnesses that just have to work through your system and cannot be cured. When you visit a doctor, you have your symptoms treated. You are not actually being cured, but being made more comfortable. While an alternative health practitioner cannot cure these illnesses either, they will work with you to make sure you do not get them again. Alternative medicine works by treating the disease and your whole being, not just what is going on at the moment. The human body is pretty remarkable and adept at healing itself if it starts off in good health. Often, you get simple illnesses not because the flu is going around, but because you were not in optimum health to start off with. If you are like most people, you do not take your state of health seriously until you feel ill. There are many states of poor health that have no real symptoms and some that have symptoms, but you are used to them so you do not notice any more. Visit an alternative health practitioner when you are feeling good and see what you can do to make sure you get or stay healthy. You will be asked about all aspects of your life. Your emotional well-being can play an important part on your physical well-being. Things like stress, work, family and time for yourself will all be considered when your state of health is determined. Part of your "treatment" may be to find a way to cut back on work and enjoy time with your family. The practitioner will work with you to find a way to achieve this without causing more stress due to financial worries. He or she understands the importance of balance. Once you have things in balance, then your physical state will be looked at again. If conditions did not improve, you will need to consider ways to help them. Many times, once your physical body is in good health, you will not need to keep taking any medications, but only maintain the good habits you formed. Using an alternative physician will almost always require a lifestyle change of some sort. You will have a partner that will help you with the change. After you get to the point of health you need to be at, keeping it will not be hard, your body will do a lot of the work for you. Your physician will notice small changes and be able to help you take care of them before they get out of hand again. He or she will also know when it is time for you to see a conventional doctor to have a more intensive treatment for a big problem. You need to trust you practitioner and do as you are told to stay healthy.

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Q: Can I explicitly call custom validator from service in Spring Boot? I have a custom validator class that implements Validator, like this: public class MyCustomValidator implements Validator I want to be able to call its validate() method from a Service. This is how this method looks: @Override public void validate(Object target, Errors errors) { // validation goes here MyClass request = (MyClass) target; if (request.getId() == null) { errors.reject("content.id", "Id is missing"; } } I don't want to have this validator in my endpoint, because I need to fetch the object to be validated from the database and then call the validation on it, so I need to do it from my service. Can you please guide me on how to achieve this? A: Use validation annotations in class but don't use @Valid on request body, then spring won't validate your class. public class MyClass{ @NotNull private Integer id; @NotBlank private String data; } Autowired Validator first @Autowired private final Validator validator; Then for class validate using the validator conditionally when needed. if(isValidate) { Set<ConstraintViolation<MyClass>> violations = validator.validate(myClassObj); if (!violations.isEmpty()) { throw new ConstraintViolationException(new HashSet<ConstraintViolation<?>>(violations)); } } A: You could inject Validator and call validate @Autowired Validator validator; And then call validate: Set<ConstraintViolation<Driver>> violations = validator.validate(yourObjectToValidate); A: The Validator interface is, as far as i understand it, called as soon as a matching object (determined by the public boolean Validator.supports(Class clazz) method). However, your goal seems to be to validate an object of MyClass only at a specific time, coming from your persistence layer to your service layer. There are multiple ways to achieve this. The first and most obvious one is to not extend any classes, but to use a custom component with some notion of a validation function: @Component public class CustomValidator{ public void validate(MyClass target) throws ValidationException { // validation goes here if (target.getId() == null) { throw new ValidationException("Id is missing"); } } } And inject/autowire it into your service object: @Component public class MyClassService{ // will be injected in first instance of this component @Autowired private CustomValidator validator public MyClass get(MyClass target) { try { validator.validate(target); return dao.retrieve(target); } catch (ValidationException) { // handle validation error } catch (DataAccessException) { // handle dao exception } } } This has the benefit that you yourself can control the validation, and error handling. The negative side is the relatively high boilerplate. However, if you want different Validators for different CRUD-Operations (or Service Methods), you may be interested in the Spring Validation Groups Feature. First, you create a simple marker interface for each Operation you want to differ: interface OnCreate {}; interface OnUpdate {}; Then, all you need to do is use the marker interfaces in the fields of your entity class, using the Bean Validation Annotations: public class MyClass{ @Null(groups = OnCreate.class) @NotNull(groups = OnUpdate.class) String id; } In order to use those groups in your Service Class, you will have to use the @Validated annotation. @Validated @Service public class MyService { @Validated(OnCreate.class) void validateForCreate(@Valid InputWithGroups input){ // do something } @Validated(OnUpdate.class) void validateForUpdate(@Valid InputWithGroups input){ // do something } } Note that @Validated is applied to the service class as well as the methods. You can also set the group for the whole service, if you plan on using multiple services. I for once mostly use the built-in Jakarta Bean Validation annotations in combination with marker interfaces, because of their ease of use and almost no boilerplate, while staying somewhat flexible and adjustable.

Bukku 01 – start and smell!!! When things & matters and the world show us the width from enclosed "Space", "position" & "insidie" to outer world. When people want, the colour that flew & came from somewhere Beyond the eternity of white was scatterring again into no time of white. If we wished, through the action called action of art, it becomes to be the artificial everday life, it's said that colours coming from it & the eternal space spending some O. Billion light years can change their positions to tranquil space by passing through the openning where holy colours fight each other. That's needless to say, out future plan …… . Then, let's start walking whith our courage slowly.

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Q: Give the columnrange different colors I have built some HighChart and I would like to give the 3 columnrange different colors (And not just blue as the current highChart Please see the jsfiddel link below) to make it simple for persons to see the difference when taking a look at my HighChart. https://jsfiddle.net/LLExL/7281/ Highcharts.chart('container', { chart: { type: 'columnrange', inverted: true, height: 200, spacingLeft: 30 }, credits: { enabled: false }, title: { text: null, style: { "fontSize": "10px" } }, subTitle: { text: null }, legend: { enabled: false, }, plotOptions: { series: { pointWidth: 30 } }, xAxis: { min: 1, max: 1, categories: ['', ''], title: { text: null }, labels: { rotation: 90 }, gridLineWidth: 0 }, yAxis: { type: 'datetime', title: { text: null }, labels: { rotation: -45, style: { "fontSize": "10px" } }, tickInterval: 1800000, gridLineWidth: 1 }, series: [{ data: [ [1, 1483337940000, 1483338000000], [1, 1483338300000, 1483339740000], [1, 1483340580000, 1483340640000], [1, 1483340640000, 1483340820000], [1, 1483340820000, 1483341000000], [1, 1483342800000, 1483342860000], [1, 1483342860000, 1483342920000], [1, 1483342920000, 1483342980000], [1, 1483346460000, 1483346520000], [1, 1483347120000, 1483347180000], [1, 1483347180000, 1483348440000], [1, 1483348440000, 1483348620000], [1, 1483348620000, 1483348740000], [1, 1483350180000, 1483350240000], [1, 1483350420000, 1483351380000], [1, 1483353300000, 1483353420000], [1, 1483355280000, 1483355340000], [1, 1483358580000, 1483359780000], ] }] } ); A: You can replace the each point array with object and declare separate color. {x:1, low: 1483337940000, high:1483338000000,color: 'red'}, Example: * *https://jsfiddle.net/ch4683os/ A: Zones would probably be better for you here. That way the color belongs to the chart not the data. Zone value represents up to next x range. Here's the example for Highcharts docs: Highcharts.chart('container', { series: [{ data: [-10, -5, 0, 5, 10, 15, 10, 10, 5, 0, -5], zones: [{ value: 0, color: '#f7a35c' }, { value: 10, color: '#7cb5ec' }, { color: '#90ed7d' }] }] }); http://jsfiddle.net/gh/get/library/pure/highcharts/highcharts/tree/master/samples/highcharts/series/color-zones-simple/ Also see: http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts/plotOptions.column.zones

EU migration plan flops on quota opposition Terror attacks highlight the divisions on Jean-Claude Juncker's ambitious plan to force EU countries to accept quotas of refugees. | EPA By Jacopo Barigazzi June 26, 2015 7:35 pm CET Terror attacks in France, Tunisia and Kuwait on Friday underscored the challenge in convincing European states to accept outsiders within their borders and emboldened critics of Jean Claude-Juncker's push for mandatory national quotas. One outcome of the EU leaders' summit was a confusing plan that claims to be "mandatory" to relocate 40,000 asylum seekers across the bloc while making the details per country "voluntary," highlighting the concessions the Commission president made from his original bid for set national quotas. Another 20,000 in need of international protection would be resettled. Countries have been squabbling over how to control the flow of thousands of refugees trekking from North Africa and the Middle East to European shores, often with deadly consequences. But Friday's spate of deadly attacks risks making the migrant issue even more politically difficult. A gruesome attack at a French factory that left one man beheaded was apparently carried out by two men flying the black flag of the Islamic State. In response, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for reinforcing Europe's security against terrorism. Irregular crossings at EU borders highest since 2016, Frontex report shows From Stockholm: Sweden shifts right on crime and migration — EU Council captaincy By Cristina Gonzalez, Suzanne Lynch and Charlie Duxbury War in Ukraine has another front line: The classroom By Lily Hyde Germany and other countries have been focused on identifying their own nationals who have gone to the Middle East to fight on the side of Islamic radicals. Careful screening of asylum seekers is also essential to keep terrorists out, she said. "We have to be careful that IS fighters don't slip into the EU," Merkel said as the summit wrapped up. Far-right French leader Marine Le Pen was much more radical, insisting on closing the EU's open internal borders. "The marches, the slogans and the emotional communication must give way to action," she said in a statement, that also called for suspected radical Islamists to be expelled from the country, mosques to be placed under surveillance and for more funding for security services. Finding a home for refugees Juncker seized on the refugee crisis to try to push through a mandatory reallocation of asylum seekers in order to shift the burden from recipient countries like Italy and Greece and from those who have already taken in large numbers of refugees like Germany and Sweden. The idea was strongly opposed by Central European countries, most of which have little modern experience with large flows of migrants. European Council President Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister, also opposed Juncker's plan. Migrants should be "exported from rather than imported to" Hungary, Viktor Orbán, Hungary's premier, said before the summit. His country has threatened to build a 175-kilometer fence along the border with Serbia to keep out migrants fleeing across the Balkans to Hungary. The debate continued Friday morning in the corridors of the Council. "I would not call it a clash, it was a very frank discussion and that's politics," said an EU diplomat who witnessed the heated debate. "Juncker's job is acting as the guardian of the European treaties and that is what he did last night," he added. A diplomat from Central Europe complained that "Juncker believes he is the president of Europe, which is simply not the case." Another made the link with the terror attacks Friday: "It's not politically correct to say so but we need to discuss how to contain illegal immigration," a senior EU official said. "If you get more containment I am sure other countries will be more ready" to accept more legal migrants. The outcome was a "mandatory" plan to relocate 40,000 refugees already inside the EU in Italy and Greece and the resettlement of a further 20,000 who have not yet made their way to Europe on a "voluntary" basis. The draft conclusions of the Council call for a "temporary and exceptional relocation over two years" from Italy and Greece adding that all member states (except the United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark, which have the option to opt out) "will agree by consensus by the end of July on the distribution of such persons." "In this way we make even clearer that no member state will get a phone call from Brussels imposing a quota of refugees upon them," argued a EU diplomat. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, one of the strongest supporters of the Commission proposal, said it was the best that could be done "otherwise the deal would have been written on the sand." On the other side, Ewa Kopacz, Poland's prime minister, said: "There was a hard battle yesterday to keep this element of voluntarism." Juncker tried to put the best face on a result that fell far short of his original proposal. "I am rather satisfied by the outcome which — even though it is not perfect — has taken a good direction," Juncker said. "We have succeeded in determining the number of people who have been relocated." Yet the problem remains: how do you get to a total of 60,000 if countries aren't forced to accept migrants? "How do you get to that number? I'm struggling with the same question," said Elizabeth Collett, policy director with the Migration Policy Institute. "It is a big question mark." Still, she said states resisting a full-on mandatory system with specific quotas per country would come under political pressure from countries more willing to accept asylum seekers. But advocates said the deal was a cop-out. "This is business as usual — what the EU and its member states have failed to do is show real leadership and compassion to the people in most need," said Iverna McGowan, acting director of Amnesty International. EU struggles to solve migrant puzzle By Antoine Sander and Ellis Kim Juncker's migration plan faces key test By Jacopo Barigazzi and Hans von der Burchard A private sector solution to the migrant crisis By Boštjan Videmšek More from ... Jacopo Barigazzi Biden administration condemns storming of government buildings in Brazil's capital UK's Sunak says tackling small boats from France a top priority in new year pitch 'New chapters' as Croatia joins euro and free-movement area Brexual healing? EU and Britain dream of a fresh start in 2023 EU ministers pledge visa restrictions to increase migrant returns By Wilhelmine Preussen and Gregorio Sorgi EU pushes to increase migrant returns By Nicolas Camut and Jacopo Barigazzi Europe's conservatives want a piece of Giorgia Meloni By Nicholas Vinocur and Jacopo Barigazzi By Susannah Savage EU summit Migration

Lightning Need to Focus on These 5 Canadiens June 28, 2021 by Nathan Moser The 2021 Stanley Cup Final is set. In a season that has been unlike any other, two teams that normally compete in the Atlantic Division are squaring off for the NHL's ultimate prize. The Tampa Bay Lightning advanced to their second straight Final appearance by defeating the New York Islanders in seven games, while the Montreal Canadiens reach the Final for the first time since 1993 (when they took on and beat Wayne Gretzky and the Los Angeles Kings) by knocking out the Vegas Golden Knights in six games. Many counted the Canadiens out from the start. With each round, many believed their playoff run would end, but the Habs continued to battle and prove their doubters wrong. While Tampa Bay has a roster built for sustained success with contributors throughout their lineup, Montreal has the ability to keep up and get past them. No one should assume this is going to be a cakewalk for the Lightning. There are many talented players on the Canadiens who could stand out in this series, but here are a select five that the Bolts need to figure out if they want to successfully defend their Cup title. This Stanley Cup Final will see two of the best goalies in the league go head-to-head. Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy, who was nominated for the Vezina Trophy for the fourth consecutive season, and Montreal's Carey Price have carried their teams when they needed to come up big. Vasilevskiy has a 12-6 record with a .936 save percentage (SV%), a 1.99 goals-against-average (GAA), and four shutouts. Price is 12-5 with a .934 SV%, a 2.02 GAA, and one shutout. When he is on top of his game, Price can be a brick wall between the pipes, just like Vasilevskiy. He is the backbone and last resort for Montreal's defense and has shut down some skilled players on the Toronto Maple Leafs, Winnipeg Jets, and Golden Knights to get to this point. Carey Price was a big asset in the Montreal Canadiens sweeping the Winnipeg Jets in their playoff series. (Photo by Jason Halstead/Getty Images) The last time these two clubs played against one another, in the 2019-20 regular season, the Lightning won all four matchups (3-1, 5-4, 2-1, and 4-0). Tampa Bay's offense didn't have an issue scoring on Price, especially defenseman Victor Hedman (two goals and five assists), captain Steven Stamkos (three goals and two assists in three games), Nikita Kucherov (two goals and three assists), and Alex Killorn (three goals and one assist). All four players will be relied on to continue their strong performances against the Canadiens and find an answer for Price's stellar play. If they do not get contributions from these stars, it could be a nightmare for Tampa. Latest Lightning Content: 3 Lightning Who Need to Step Up in the Second Half Lightning Stock Up, Stock Down: Cirelli, Penalties & More Lightning Struggle when Hedman Is Out of the Lineup 3 Takeaways From the Lightning's Back-to-Back Road Games In these playoffs, the Lightning have figured out how to solve Florida Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, Carolina Hurricanes' Alex Nedeljkovic, and the Islanders' Semyon Varlamov. Price is on another level though, and even with Tampa Bay's prior success against him, postseason hockey is another animal. In this deciding series, a simple mistake could lead to massive consequences. Both goalies have the ability to keep these contests low-scoring, so every play will be significant. Price could give the Lightning forwards a difficult time throughout this Cup Final. Nick Suzuki This trade has received a lot of attention given the semifinal series between Montreal and the Golden Knights. Suzuki was one of Vegas' first draft picks back in 2017 (13th overall); however, he was traded to Montreal with forward Tomas Tatar and a second-round pick in 2019 for former Canadiens captain Max Pacioretty before the 2018-19 campaign. Since then, Suzuki has become a rising young talent, who will likely be among the faces of their forward core for many seasons to come. He and fellow forward Jesperi Kotkaniemi are two key pieces who will take the reins offensively for the Canadiens. Suzuki posted the following so far in this regular-season career: 2019-20: 13 goals and 28 assists for 41 points in 71 games Nick Suzuki (shown), along with Jesperi Kotkaniemi, are two faces for the Montreal Canadiens on offense for what could potentially be many years to come. (Photo by David Kirouac/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) In the 2021 Playoffs, the 21-year-old is second in scoring behind winger Tyler Toffoli by a point. He notched five goals and eight assists in 17 games this postseason. Tampa Bay's defense will have to keep him in check during this series because he plays such an important role for them already. He has stayed consistent in his production no matter which team he was up against, with four points (two goals and two assists) versus the Maple Leafs, a point per game against the Jets (two goals and two assists) in a four-game sweep, and five points in six games against Vegas (one goal and four assists). If the Canadiens have strong showings in this series, look for Suzuki to be one of their standout players. Phillip Danault Against the Canadiens, the Golden Knights' top forwards were shut down offensively. A few of their top talents did not contribute enough for them to win the series, including captain Mark Stone. In the six-game series, he tallied no points and had a total of seven shots on net. He discussed this after Game 6 and noted, per a TSN.ca article: "'I got skunked this series,' Stone said. 'That can't happen. I'm the captain of this team, the leader of this team. I take a lot of responsibility for what just occurred.' Stone, a minus-4 in the series, had one shot in 17:10 of ice time in Vegas' 3-2 overtime loss Thursday as Montreal clinched their trip to the Stanley Cup Final." Jonathan Marchessault also struggled to produce in the semifinal series, with one assist on Alex Pietrangelo's second goal in Game 2, which the Canadiens won 3-2. Phillip Danault may one day win himself a Frank J. Selke Trophy based on his defensive skills as a forward. (Jess Starr/The Hockey Writers) The Canadiens not only had strong performances from their defensemen, but their forwards also helped shut down their opponent's offense. One of the best defensive forwards in the league is Phillip Danault. Even before the 2020-21 season, many believed he should be nominated for the Frank J. Selke Trophy, given to the best defensive forward in the league each season. He has been successful against some of the league's best forwards and has made a big impact in this postseason, shutting down their offensive prowess. Danault may have his greatest challenge yet, as he will most likely be paired against Lightning forward Brayden Point. Point has been the most lethal player for the Lightning in the playoffs, including a nine-game goal streak. He has 14 goals and six assists in 18 contests, and only Kucherov has more points with 27 (five goals and 22 assists). Many have tried to stop Point, but he continues to dominate. Danault will likely be the next to take on this challenge, and I look forward to watching this matchup throughout the series. Tyler Toffoli Toffoli was considered one of the top forwards available in free agency and has shown his worth since he signed a four-year contract with the Canadiens. During the regular season, he became their top scorer with 44 points in 52 games (28 goals and 16 assists), and he now leads the squad in the playoffs with five goals and nine assists in 17 contests. He is a solid complementary player who fits in well with the roster. Tyler Toffoli was the leading scorer for the Canadiens in the regular season. (Photo by Curtis Comeau/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Toffoli, like a few of his teammates, has won the Cup. He was a significant part of the 2014 Kings team that claimed their second championship in franchise history. He posted seven goals and seven assists in 26 contests in 2014 and his Cup Final experience along with that of Eric Staal, Corey Perry (who was with the Dallas Stars in the last Cup Final), Joel Edmundson, Michael Frolik, Tatar, Jon Merrill, and backup goalie Jake Allen will make a difference to the younger, up-and-coming talents on the roster. Six members of that group have hoisted the Cup. They know what it takes to win it all and can provide guidance to others. The Bolts will have to contain Toffoli. He has a good shot and is not afraid to plant himself in front of the net for tap-in goals or one-timers (just ask the Jets in Game 4 overtime). He needs to be monitored constantly when he's in Tampa Bay's zone. However, if any group of defenders can do it, it's the Lightning's, but he will burn them a few times in this series if they are not careful. Cole Caufield The addition of forward Cole Caufield has been a major storyline throughout the postseason. The Canadiens selected him 15th overall in the 2019 Draft, and he made his NHL debut in the regular season after spending most of the hockey year with the University of Wisconsin (where he was dominant with 30 goals and 22 assists in 31 games). Then he stepped on the ice in a Montreal sweater and became a game-changer for the organization, with four goals and an assist in 10 regular-season matches in 2020-21. Cole Caufield was a thorn in the side for the Vegas Golden Knights in the semifinal series. (Photo by Claus Andersen/Getty Images) Now in the postseason, Caufield is tied with Perry for third in team scoring behind Toffoli and Suzuki. He has four goals and five assists in 15 games. Some considered him too small to make an impact in the NHL, and I don't understand why. Yes, he's 5-foot-7, but the league has seen its share of successful smaller stars in players like Martin St. Louis and Brian Gionta among others. Caufield is already a significant puzzle piece of Montreal's offense, and he emerged in the Vegas series. Before that, he only had four assists in nine contests in the first two rounds. Against the Golden Knights, he had four goals and an assist in six games. He was a thorn in Vegas' side, and if he continues this production level, he will be a pain for the Lightning as well. Ultimately, while Tampa may be the favorite to repeat as Cup champions, it won't be an easy task taking on the Canadiens. Toffoli, Suzuki, Caufield, Danault, and Price are only five of the many impactful players Montreal has donning their jersey. It will be a fight to the finish. The Lightning know they have the tools to win, but the Canadiens may have the skill to stop them. It will be a good clash. Tampa Bay Lightning Newsletter Nathan Moser I have been a hockey fan for most of my life, and have played the game myself for more than six years. I graduated from the State University of New York at Oswego in 2018, with a bachelor's in Broadcasting & Mass Communication. Previous positions held include being a Sports Analyst for Oswego's student-run TV station, WTOP-10; News/Sports Intern for WIVB-TV Channel 4; and Sports Beat Writer Intern for Pro Player Insiders. Categories Previews and Predictions, Tampa Bay Lightning Tags 2021 Stanley Cup Final, Carey Price, Nick Suzuki, Phillip Danault Penguins Can Look Forward To a Stronger Guentzel Next Season Canadiens' 3 Keys to Success Against the Lightning

Q: Does a rebase prevent a pull request in Git? Any pitfalls? This is probably a basic question about .git, but I am not used to use the rebase functionality. I understand it is one way to integrate latest changes from Master to a local branch. Does it prevent the creation of pull requests or is there any pitfall I should be aware of? I believe I can push my local branch changes to the main repository after a rebase and then create a pull request for integration in Master there, right? A: A "pull request" isn't a concept in the Git object model. A pull request is an offer of some new code to a project. Essentially, "please merge the changes I made into your project's stream". "Creation of a pull request" isn't a Git operation, though Git has a request-pull command which summarizes some changes into a textual message. The git pull command fetches objects from a remote repository (like git fetch) and then performs a git rebase or git merge, depending on which action is configured as a the default. You might be confusing Git, the version control tool with the facilities of some project hosting site based around Git (whose "pull requests" might not be based on using the output of git request-pull at all.). git pull and "pull request" are completely different things. In fact, you wouldn't want to fullfill someone's request to add code to your project by doing a blind git pull from their repository. As a general rule of thumb, if you want to make it as easy as possible for someone to incorporate some patches you have made to their project, it behooves you to rebase those changes to their latest codebase, so that they cleanly apply on top without any merging. Project maintainers generally don't want to hear, "I made some changes based on a copy of your project I retrieved back in 2011; can you merge them for me?" However, if you tell someone you have some changes at a specific GIT repo you'd like them to use, identified by SHA commit hashes, and then you rebase those changes, that person effectively has a stale request which points to the old, un-rebased version of your changes. Git has a command request-pull which is basically a query that creates a pull request, which is just a textual message identifying and summarizing some changes. The command also performs a sanity check that the advertized range of changes is actually available at the given git URL, which catches you if the URL is incorrect, or you didn't push the changes there yet (you're accidentally advertizing a pull request out of some unpublished changes in a local repo).

One of the newly described bald-legged spider species Stormtropis muisca. It is also the highest altitudinal record for the family. Image by Carlos Perafan. A bald-legged spider of the genus Paratropis in its natural habitat. Image by Carlos Perafan. "We wanted to make a play on words with the name of the known genus, Paratropis, and of course, we also wanted to pay tribute to one of the greatest sagas of all time", they add. In the course of their fieldwork, the researchers also confirmed previous assumptions that the bald-legged spiders are well adapted to running across the ground's surface. The spiders were seen to stick soil particles to their scaly backs as a means of camouflage against predators. More interestingly, however, the team records several cases of various bald-legged species burrowing into ravine walls or soil – a type of behaviour that had not been reported until then. Their suggestion is that it might be a secondary adaptation, so that the spiders could exploit additional habitats. A bald-legged spider (Paratropis elicioi) in its natural habitat. Image by Carlos Perafan.

A 'Do-Nothing' Plan for Republicans by Michael Reagan, November 26, 2014 Rick McKee / Augusta Chronicle Making Sense by Michael Reagan The fight over immigration reform was wiped off our TV screens by the fires and tear gas clouds in Ferguson Monday night. CNN and the other networks will milk the grand jury's decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson for the killing of Michael Brown for as long as there's a single ratings point to be gained. But by Tuesday afternoon President Obama was already back on the road plugging the alleged merits of his executive actions on immigration and explaining why they were not constitutionally bogus. Republicans in Congress are in their home districts for the Thanksgiving recess, celebrating their recent landslides in the Senate and House and eating lots of turkey. Presumably, their party leaders are working up a plan to retaliate against Obama's power grab, which bypassed Congress and supposedly could spare as many as five million illegal immigrants from being deported. I hope it's not too late. But I've got a perfect plan for the GOP's bosses to follow for the next two years — do nothing to directly challenge Obama's executive action. Republicans shouldn't threaten a lawsuit or a government shutdown over what Obama did. And they shouldn't waste a week writing a mega-immigration reform bill half the members of their own party won't like. They shouldn't give up on immigration reform. But for the next two years Republicans can turn the tables on the president. For starters, the new 2015 McConnell-Boehner partnership should dig through the Senate wastebaskets for those House immigration bills Harry Reid never allowed to be considered. The Republican Congress should pass the bills ASAP, send them to the president's desk and force Obama to make the final yes or no call with his almighty executive pen. The GOP needs to make the president take the heat on immigration for the next two years. A lot of that political heat will come from the states. It's their taxpayers who'll have to pay the costs and foot the bills for the president's rogue immigration decision. Texas and Oklahoma have already said they were going to go to court to block what they charge is Obama's dictatorial bypass of Congress' lawmaking authority. I doubt if California's clueless government will have the good sense to join in a legal challenge, but it has paid a higher price for illegal immigration than any other state. The Golden State has 1.1 million illegal immigrants who have become welcome "guests" of its taxpayers. The County of Los Angeles alone spends more than $2 billion a year giving illegal aliens and their children welfare, food stamps, healthcare and education programs. L.A. County Supervisor Michael Antonovich says Obama's plan to give amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants is just another unfunded federal mandate and a tax-supported welfare program for people who've broken the law to enter the country.He's right. But Obama's executive order may not be as damaging as many people on our side of the aisle think. It's only good for two years. What immigrant will risk coming out of the shadows now if the law can change under a new president? When Obama's out of office, and when he's replaced by a Republican in 2016, his outrageous executive grandstanding on immigration will become a historical footnote. He knows perfectly well it won't last. It was all about padding his legacy, not doing something serious to solve our immigration problem. Basically, what Republicans in Congress should do for the next two years is pretend President Obama doesn't exist. They shouldn't argue with the president or take him to court. He's a renter in the White House, not an owner, and he and his executive orders will be gone two years from now. Meanwhile, Republicans should concentrate on passing some good bills on immigration, energy and tax reform and work to get the economy moving again. If they do that, they'll win in 2016. If they don't do it, they won't. Copyright ©2014 Michael Reagan. Michael Reagan is the son of President Ronald Reagan, a political consultant, and the author of "The New Reagan Revolution" (St. Martin's Press). He is the founder of the email service reagan.com and president of The Reagan Legacy Foundation. Visit his websites at www.reagan.com and www.michaelereagan.com. Send comments to [email protected] Follow @reaganworld on Twitter. Mike's column is distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate. 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Some individuals are asking in facebook, what the best source of entertainment is. For such a task, there are lots of options available. All options are not beneficial in getting proper entertainment. If you want a source for lots of enjoyment then consider the games. The Toon Blast is a good game for entertainment and providing puzzle content. In the game, the players need to complete lots of levels. The levels can be completed by making different types of combinations. For getting success quickly, the players need to create bigger combinations. It can be possible if the players are completely focused on the game and analyzing the board properly. With it, the players are required to pay attention to essentials. Without the help or existence of essentials, the players cannot participate in the levels. The game is available with different types of things or factors. In case of this particular game, the lives and the funds are two essentials. The players are able to earn a good amount of currency from in-game activities or by completing the levels. With it, there are different types of rewards are classified by the game. With the help of these rewards, the collection of currency becomes much easier. Coins are the game's main currency, by getting Toon Blast Hack. If we talk about the lives then the players need it more as compared to other objects. In case the players do not have lives then they are not able to access any type of level. There is a limited number of lives provided by the game. If you cannot get success in completing an objective or level then a live is deducted from the account. Due to the higher importance of lives, all players are asking that how to get lots of lives in the account. For it, there are different types of ways available. In some ways, the players need to put efforts and in some, they are required to spend currency. In the following points, I'm going to explain some of these ways. The game is also featured with the team factor. The players should become a part of the team. There are numerous benefits associated with a factor of team. By it, the players can take help from teammates in different types of game situations. You are able to request to other team members for providing a live. This particular feature is available in the chat box. As we discuss about coins in above-mentioned details, it is a kind of in-game funds. By spending a number of coins, the players are able to buy some lives. Here the players need to think properly and try to make the best possible decision. In case you are choosing its way then you need to spend at least 100 coins. At once you pay the amount of coins after that the game account is credited with lives. Consequently the players will get complete 5 lives and easily play the game.

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Home > FACULTY-WORKS > ETSU Authors > 234 ETSU Authors Bookshelf This Distracted and Anarchical People: New Answers For Old Questions About The Civil War-Era North Andrew L. Slap, East Tennessee State University Link to Buy Download or Purchase While most of the fighting took place in the South, the Civil War profoundly affected the North. As farm boys became soldiers and marched off to battle, social, economic, and political changes transformed northern society. In the generations following the conflict, historians tried to understand and explain the North's Civil War experience. Many historical explanations became taken for granted, such as that the Union Army was ideologically Republican, northern Democrats were disloyal, and German Americans were lousy soldiers. Now in this eye-opening collection of eleven stimulating essays, new and important information is unearthed that solidly challenges the old historical arguments. The essays in This Distracted and Anarchical People range widely throughout the history of the Civil War North, using new methods and sources to reexamine old theories and discover new aspects of the nation's greatest conflict. Many of these issues are just as important today as they were a century and a half ago. What were the extent and limits of wartime dissent in the North? How could a president most effectively present himself to the public? Can the savagery of war ever be tamed? How did African Americans create and maintain their families? This Distracted and Anarchical People highlights the newest scholarship on a diverse array of topics, bringing fresh insight to bear on some of the most important topics in history today--such as the democratic press in the antebellum North, peace movements, the Union Army and the elections of 1864, Liberia and the U.S. Civil War, and African American veterans and marriage practices after Emancipation.. Slap, Andrew L.. 2013. This Distracted and Anarchical People: New Answers For Old Questions About The Civil War-Era North. Fordham University Press. ISBN: 9780823250288,9780823245680 https://www.amazon.com/This-Distracted-Anarchical-People-Questions/dp/0823245691

The progressive sun of Monaco July 09, 2014 Outdoor Activities Green Boat Regatta Guide Text by: Elena Firsova Image courtesy of: Solar1 solar racing In Monaco, which has seen countless water competitions on motor boats and sailing boats, another one, unusual even for a spoiled principality, will start on 10 July. Regatta Solar1 Monte Carlo CupHowever, unusual by many standards - this first, international top-level regatta, which will only take part in solar-powered boats. Solar racing itself is not news. The most famous of these days, the Dong Energy Sollar Challenge, has been held in the Netherlands since 2006 - it has grown from a Dutch international competition. Boats have also been improved in 8 years, in 2010 they got hydrofoils, but at the same time they accelerated significantly. The initiative was picked up by Nakhimov and its director, Sergey Dobroserdov, who gathered solar enthusiasts on the Côte d'Azur where they are hosted by the luxury yacht club Monaco, which recently opened its doors to a new, impressive building designed by star British architect Norman Foster. This is a great chance for the industry to show the world how far it has come while we were all watching 'sail' and 'motor' closely. We will be following the race in Monaco, and in the meantime we will talk about what awaits us at Solar1. What to see and where to show yourself The event will take place from 10 to 13 July and the social component (cocktails, meetings, dinners) will be an integral part of it. On the very first day of the race there are no plans, there will be a conference on solar energy, a parade of participants, communication with the media and a gala dinner. But Friday and Saturday will be full-fledged racing days. On Friday, July 11, fleet races are scheduled, and on Saturday the «sprint race» for speed and a race called «slalom», where boats will compete in agility. You can see the detailed schedule on the link. Monegasque Routes The place of action will vary depending on the type of race. «The slalom» track will extend beyond the port of Hercule and the pilots will demonstrate how obedient, manageable and manoeuvrable solar-powered units are in Monaco's open waters. Fleet race, or endurance race - its course is designed so that the boats will be easy to follow from different points in the resort area of Larvatto. The race for the fastest (one-on-one) will take place directly in the port of Hercule. It is most convenient to watch it from the new building of the Yacht Club of Monaco, as well as from the Hermitage and Hotel de Paris - those who rent a room with a sea view will have a bonus to watch the races. Look who's here. 26 teams from different countries have applied for participation, it is not surprising that most of them are from the Netherlands. But there are teams from Brazil, Germany, USA, France, Monaco and even Russia among them. We have one team - Team Beluga. However, the most pressing question remains: «On which units will everything happen?»The race involves three boat classes with different specifications: A class, Open Class and V20. Behind these alphabetical designations is the following: A class - Formula 1 The most powerful class is Formula 1, a boat up to 6 m long, designed for one person and equipped with standard solar panels with a maximum output of 1750 WP. Very soon we will know what speed can be squeezed out of it. Open Class - and don't say no to yourself. The name of the class speaks for itself - there are minimum restrictions, everyone who fits into Open Class is bound only by the budget and his fantasy. According to the regulations, they do not have any limits on power output and the number of solar panels. Comrades will burn in the most ecological sense of the word. As a rule, boats in this class are racing at speeds of about 30 knots. V20 - the Solar Cup of «America» The smallest, newest and most curious class for us - it has four teams, including Russian «Beluga». This is the first solar monotype developed by the famous Vripack studio. Above all, it's a «flying hydrofoil» boat. Like America's Cup, the Dutch are joking. The V20 class was introduced in November last year. It is capable of speeds of up to 30 km/h. It has 22 flexible solar panels with 2390 cells. The electric motor has a power of 4 kW. The boat is designed so that the solar energy can be copied in lithium-ion batteries, or can be immediately launched on the propeller. The battery can be recharged on the go. In late June and early June, boats of this class were successfully tested at the DONG Energy Solar Challenge, where Vripack had its own crew. Despite the fact that all the boats in the class are the same, the teams have the right to step left or right by changing a number of elements. So, they can experiment with hydrofoils and replace the propeller. increase or decrease the weight of solar panels (or to leave it unchanged ) is also a matter for the crew and its financial capabilities. July, however, will be sunny not only on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, the baton picked up the business school «Skolkovo», which at the end of the month plans to hold a similar (not in scale, of course) regatta in Moscow. We will keep you informed! Silent Yachts will build an eco-hotel in the Bahamas The role of bungalows will be played by catamarans from the shipyard What are the alternatives to fossil fuels for yachts Four projects in which part or all of the diesel has been abandoned Silent Revolution Silent-Yachts How did the Austrian family set up mass production of yachts operating entirely on solar energy? Got hooked on the sun Gentle... sunshine!

Jon is halfway through the Specials' European tour; one-quarter of the way through the whole thing. The European response to the Bluebird Migration Project so far has been subdued, if not bemused: Our Man in Havana has been followed by passers-by trying to return "dropped" CDs to him, believing that he's simply forgetful (Jon, let's see the new Le Carre film when you're back – it may give you some tips). We did receive a mysterious Facebook "like" from a gentleman in Madrid who was kind enough to post our link and a most excellent comment about the music on his profile page. My mother is learning Spanish, so we recruited her as a translator to send him a message of gratitude, and to ask where he found the CD. We've had no reply, however, suggesting either that he is a diffident listener to whom the element of mystery inherent in the Bluebird Migration Project appeals, or that the message was reported as spam. The CDs are in Milan tonight, and back to Germany for the weekend. We'll keep our fingers crossed for contact before we start spreading the wealth to UK shores. And readers – if you found this blog by Googling "Migration Watch", then shame on you. A wordy heading that nonetheless says what needs to be said. Acoustic Rooms is the Nottingham venue's regular open mic night "with a difference", according to their website: "Acoustic Rooms seeks to unearth new talent such as Dog is Dead, Harleighblu, Jake Bugg, Frontiers and Maniere des Bohemiens, as well as put on special guest slots from the likes of Animal Collective, Trail of Dead, The Rifles, Tall Ships and Pete Lawrie". And, on October 3rd, yours truly. It should be a fun night – and, if they have arrived by then, we can leave a smattering of our new business cards (smaller size + recycled paper = more environmentally sensitive than flyers? I've been struggling with the equation myself – not sure what the best approach is. Moreover, will people realise we're a band when confronted with material that traditionally represents the insurance entrepreneur, the door-to-door toothbrush merchant, the clown at a child's birthday party? Your thoughts please. And think on this, another question about presentation of identity that was highlighted by the last one: American or English spelling in this blog?). Introducing the Bluebird Migration Project (also known as Guerilla Bluebird…): an experiment in musical altruism, or shameless promotion? We like to think the former. Jon is about to embark on two months of European and UK touring as trumpet player with iconic band the Specials. His hand luggage will consist of a pair of clean underwear, two bottles of valve oil, and a few dozen Bluebird Parade CDs. He'll hang onto the underwear, and no doubt use the valve oil for its intended purpose, but the CDs, adorned with an explanatory label, will be scattered surreptitiously in random locations throughout his cities of travel – think airports, venues, pubs, hotels, taxicabs, etc. You're contemplating your next duty-free when a glint of plastic catches your eye – What's this? A musical disque? Pour moi? Mais oui! It's okay to pick it up! It's okay to put it in your handbag! It's yours! But – but – No buts. Put it on your iPod! Pass it around among your friends! Give it as a bar mitzvah present! Excuse me, madam…Security. May I see your passport? Okay, maybe airports aren't such a great idea. But you get the picture. We've spent five long years on this album; do you honestly think we expected to make a profit? The important thing to us is sharing the music. After all, "Bluebird Parade" refers to a celebration of the small, unexpected connections between us human beings. And the Bluebird Migration Project is like the balloon experiment we did in elementary school, name and address written on a tiny postcard tied optimistically to helium-filled latex, then set free in the winds over Long Island Sound. Mine never came back. But that was in the days before e-mail. So do look out for the random gifts in life. And let us know if and when you get one.

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Sometimes it's just not possible to avoid crowds when taking vacation photos. I mean, most of us are at the same spot because it's beautiful or historic or memorable in some way, right? We would expect there to be crowds. In 2007 my husband and I visited China. We were excited to be able to visit and walk on the Great Wall. We expected that there would be many tourists there.. .we were right. At one juncture, we could go to the left, which was a very steep climb; or go to the right, which was less strenuous. We glanced to the right and saw the crowds, and opted for the more strenuous climb, but less-crowded part of the Wall. We still had other tourists in our photos, although not as many. But making a choice like we made might not always be an option. This week I found a great article on how to avoid having crowds, or as many crowds, in your vacation/landscape photographs. Some of these techniques might just work for me next time. I hope you find them helpful too! Your photos are awesome! I enjoyed the tips…especially the stack one using multiple pictures. Glad you enjoyed the article too. Yes, I am really anxious to try the multiple picture stack! Good read! I was thinking, if you yelled "Bear!", you'd have the places to yourself! LOL Thank you, Karen! LOL! Yep. I"ll be that would work too! 😉 Thanks for the chuckle!

Gummer commits to SMEs, GDS and digital transformation In his first speech at TechUK last week, new Cabinet Office Minister, Ben Gummer outlined his vision, revealed new working guidelines and stated that the government is quickly moving forward in delivering its digital strategy. Introducing the Supplier Standard The Minister announced the Supplier Standard, a "two-way commitment" to "build and support collaborative and constructive relationships between the government and the tech industry". These new working guidelines for digital and technology service providers outline the expectations government has of its suppliers, as well as its commitments to them in return. The standards aim to complement the government's new way of delivering services. As well as collaboration between the public sector and industry, it will focus on improving user experiences and transparency. The Supplier Standard has six principles which will underpin supplier contracts: User needs first Data is a public asset Services built on open standards and reusable components Simple, clear, fast transactions Ongoing engagement Transparent contracting The new supplier standard is just a starting point. We want suppliers, both current and potential, to take note of the key principles and use them to help in the bidding process for Government IT and tech projects," said Gummer. Commitment to SMEs The Minister also promised to push government and SME projects, doing "everything possible" to reach the target that a third of all business will be awarded to SMEs by 2020. This included making the way to do business easier. "My message to those who operate and work in this sector is this: no matter how large or how small your company is, this Government is open for business. We are a government that wants to work for you." Customer service and accessibility In an impassioned speech, Minister Gummer stated his commitment to bring government in line with the way successful modern companies deal with their customers, namely that they are responsive and accessible. "The most important person in the relationship of when someone looks on their iPhone or approaches government on their laptop, it's not the government, it's the person making their enquiry. It's a more important relationship than the customer relationship that has been central to the digital transformation of the economy over the last 25 years. It's actually a sacred relationship. It's a relationship that makes freedom, democracy and liberty possible. It's a scandal therefore that we have not done as much as other parts of the economy to change that relationship, to enable government to be a servant of the people in the way that so many businesses have seen the opportunity to make companies better responsive to their customer needs." Support for GDS While the Minister gave GDS his support saying it was "one of the things we're most proud of in the Cabinet Office." He added that he felt it "was not doing all that it could" due to having sufficient resources or power. One of his first acts, therefore, has been to commission "two very large pieces of work that it wasn't doing before." This speech demonstrated the government's ongoing commitment to move towards more delivery-focussed, collaborative and agile services. This means going beyond delivering a more efficient alternative. It will be interesting to see how key initiatives such as shared services, Government-as-a-Platform and investment in back-office systems fare in this new phase for government digital transformation.

Language Arts: Louie was stoked to have a week all about the letter "Ll". Of course she thought it would be all about Louie! Instead is about llamas. We did our usual worksheets and videos. She worked on beginning and ending sounds too. Louie made this cool llama with orange eyes out of the letter L! Reading: We worked on remembering details from a non-fiction piece. Louie's teacher always has some great links to books on youtube. This is such a huge help! We listened to a few stories and we discussed and answered questions about the details of the story. All the stories this week tied into social studies and the first thanksgiving. Writing: This week's project was so stinking cute! Louie was given a turkey and her job was to disguise it and write about his disguise. When we started talking about potential disguises I threw out superheros and princesses and she exclaimed that she wanted to disguise her turkey as popcorn. Genius. No one will ever find him. Math: We had a few successful attempts at counting to 30. She is still stumbling over 15 and 16 but she is getting there. We also looked at using shapes to build an object. For this assignment Louie had to follow my instructions to build a scarecrow out of shapes. Mission accomplished. Social Studies: This week we learned all about the first thanksgiving. Did you know that they did not have turkey! Weird. We read some books and then Louie made her own Thanksgiving lap book. She wrote facts about the Pilgrims and Native Americans. She also pasted pictures of food that they had. And yes she used the FSU logo for her Native American facts. She is now a big fan. Go Noles. Science: We continued our study about animals. This week we looked at babies. Aww so cute. We looked at how babies animals grow and how they can sometimes look very different than their Mommas. I really wish we lived closer to my sister Elaine. She works at a Vet clinic and a visit would be great for Louie! Language Arts: We are in between books this week and since the next story is a mystery Phi's teacher gave her a really cool assignment. It was like a game of Clue! She was given a set of facts and using those facts she had to come up with "who done it". She choose to solve the case of the jewels missing from the Titanic. She has a really good time dissecting each characters and looking for opportunity and motives. In the end Phi determined that it was the underpaid assistant and the desperate for money maid that robbed Mr. Astor. Math: We continued with adding and subtracting fractions. I was glad we got another week to look at word problems using the butterfly method because Phi needs the practice. Once she gets into the swing of it it's not so tough. I did notice that after a 3 day break from math we came back to it and she could not tell me how to simplify a fraction. This let me know that she needs to be doing some kind of math every single day. As you can imagine she was "thrilled" with this conclusion. Social Studies: Phi studied the Arctic Native Americans this week. She choose to research the Inuit tribe. This was a nice change of pace from the other tribes we have been learning about. We got to look at how they hunt whales, the crazy amount of clothes they wear and how they built an igloo and why an igloo keeps you warm. Since this week was a bit lighter than usual I had Phi do one of the optional projects. She choose to build an igloo out of sugar cubes. Classic. Science: Onto the next human body system the digestive system. We read and did a few worksheets. Then we watched a great episode of The Magic School Bus. This episode really helped explain how it all worked. Phi took notes during the show and was able to explain to me how it worked. For her project she decided to show how stomach acid works. She put together this powtoons video of her project.. Week 14 is up next and with the holiday we should have 2 weeks to complete the assignments! I was really hoping for 2 weeks off.

All right, this is about the slickest coaching tool I've seen in years. Hitting goals is always easier when we do tracking. Great athletes always track their stats. Now you can easily track your ideal-weight progress just by looking online at your chart. Just step on this baby any time and it automatically uploads your weight, fat mass, lean mass, & date for tracking. If you're committed to reaching your ideal weight, this may be the perfect tool. Heck, it could be the ideal holiday gift for your entire family! With 50% of illness in the U.S. coming from obesity, reaching your ideal weight is possibly the best health insurance you can buy. And of course, they've got an iPhone app. There's a link in the store to go to the U.S. store. It's $168 total including shipping. Next post: List of archetypes from a leading expert.

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Are surface temperature records reliable? Select a level... Basic Intermediate Advanced The warming trend is the same in rural and urban areas, measured by thermometers and satellites, and by natural thermometers. "We found [U.S. weather] stations located next to the exhaust fans of air conditioning units, surrounded by asphalt parking lots and roads, on blistering-hot rooftops, and near sidewalks and buildings that absorb and radiate heat. We found 68 stations located at wastewater treatment plants, where the process of waste digestion causes temperatures to be higher than in surrounding areas. In fact, we found that 89 percent of the stations – nearly 9 of every 10 – fail to meet the National Weather Service's own siting requirements that stations must be 30 meters (about 100 feet) or more away from an artificial heating or radiating/reflecting heat source." (Watts 2009) Temperature data is essential for predicting the weather. So, the U.S. National Weather Service, and every other weather service around the world, wants temperatures to be measured as accurately as possible. To understand climate change we also need to be sure we can trust historical measurements. A group called the International Surface Temperature Initiative is dedicated to making global land temperature data available in a transparent manner. Surface temperature measurements are collected from about 30,000 stations around the world (Rennie et al. 2014). About 7000 of these have long, consistent monthly records (Fig. 1). As technology gets better, stations are updated with newer equipment. When equipment is updated or stations are moved, the new data is compared to the old record to be sure measurements are consistent over time. Figure 1. Station locations with at least 1 month of data in the monthly Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN-M). This set of 7280 stations are used in the global land surface databank. (Rennie et al. 2014) In 2009 some people worried that weather stations placed in poor locations could make the temperature record unreliable. Scientists at the National Climatic Data Center took those critics seriously and did a careful study of the possible problem. Their article "On the reliability of the U.S. surface temperature record" (Menne et al. 2010) had a surprising conclusion. The temperatures from stations that critics claimed were "poorly sited" actually showed slightly cooler maximum daily temperatures compared to the average. In 2010 Dr. Richard Muller criticized the "hockey stick" graph and decided to do his own temperature analysis. He organized a group called Berkeley Earth to do an independent study of the temperature record. They specifically wanted to answer the question is "the temperature rise on land improperly affected by the four key biases (station quality, homogenization, urban heat island, and station selection)?" Their conclusion was NO. None of those factors bias the temperature record. The Berkeley conclusions about the urban heat effect were nicely explained by Andy Skuce in an SkS post in 2011. Figure 2 shows that the U.S. network does not show differences between rural and urban sites. Figure 2. Comparison of spatially gridded minimum temperatures for U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) data adjusted for time-of-day (TOB) only, and selected for rural or urban neighborhoods after homogenization to remove biases. (Hausfather et al. 2013) Temperatures measured on land are only one part of understanding the climate. We track many indicators of climate change to get the big picture. All indicators point to the same conclusion: the global temperature is increasing. Understanding adjustments to temperature data, Zeke Hausfather Explainer: How data adjustments affect global temperature records, Zeke Hausfather Time-of-observation Bias, John Hartz Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Study: "The effect of urban heating on the global trends is nearly negligible," Andy Skuce Check original data All the Berkeley Earth data and analyses are available online at http://berkeleyearth.org/data/. Plot your own temperature trends with Kevin's calculator. Or plot the differences with rural, urban, or selected regions with another calculator by Kevin. NASA GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISSTEMP) describes how NASA handles the urban heat effect and links to current data. NOAA Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN) Daily. GHCN-Daily contains records from over 100,000 stations in 180 countries and territories. Last updated on 15 August 2017 by Sarah. View Archives It's Urban Heat Island effect 1934 - hottest year on record A good introduction to the history and analysis of surface temperature measurements is "Tales from the Thermometer" by Tamino. "Surface Stations" by Tamino examines the two "poster stations" on the homepage of surfacestations.org, having a close look at the actual data from both stations. The adjustments NASA makes are fully documented and available online. Tamino explains it in a more digestible format in "Best Estimates". To understand what exactly happened with NASA's USA temperature glitch, check out James Hansen's explanation "A Light On Upstairs" and a follow-up "The Real Deal: Usufruct & the Gorilla". You can read Steve McIntyre's reply here. Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Comments 501 to 519 out of 519: MA Rodger at 02:18 AM on 26 September, 2017 randman @497. ♣ You ask "how do we know?" If you examine the LOTI documentation (linked @496) you will see it says "GLOBAL Land-Ocean Temperature Index in 0.01 degrees Celsius - base period: 1951-1980" And while it is fuzzed out past p1, Hansen & Lebedeff (1988) is but an update of Hansen & Lebedeff (1987) and that states "We obtain monthly temperature changes for a given subbox by applying the previously described procedure individually to each of the 12 months, with the zero point for each month being its 1951-1980 mean." So unless there is some ambiguity over the year numbering, it all sounds pretty "knowable". ♣ You ask "what is that base specifically in abolute temps?" I would quote you the comment from 1988 quoted in one of those NYT articles you have cited up-thread. "How hot is the world now? The scientists do not offer a straightforward response, saying that the vast amount of data is still being studied and that comparisons cannot be precise." If you insist on a reply, perhaps this NASA article will provide it. It states "For the global mean, the most trusted models produce a value of roughly 14°C, i.e. 57.2°F, but it may easily be anywhere between 56 and 58°F." This of course is neither an exact answer nor the 59°F/15°C you have cited from a couple of NYT articles, but as I set out @478 above, the NYT 59°F value is almost certainly the result of the journalist (it is each time the same journalist) insisting on using an absolute temperature and effectively putting words into a climatologists mouth, words they do not object to. But it ain't science. The Ts=288K you also cite (from Hansen et al 1981) is not applicable to any anomaly base. It is used for the same perpose that Callendar (1938) uses Ts=283k, to quantify the magnitude of the greenhouse effect. It has no association with any defined time-period. ♣ You state 1988 was "Same year he testified that the 1950-1980 mean was 59 degrees F." This I assume refers to Hansen's tesemony to US Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources 23/6/1988. This is not something I am familiar with but if Hansen does testify "that the 1950-1980 mean was 59 degrees F," it will require sharper eyes than mine to see it. Perhaps you can point to the page & paragraph. ♣ You will note that Hansen & Lebedeff (1987) tabulates the global anomaly record 1880-1985. I cut&pasted those numbers into a spreadsheet alongside todays GISTEMP LOTI 1880-2016. The resulting graph can be see here (usually 2 clicks to 'download your attachment'). There is significant difference between the 1980s record and today's but only pre-1940. (Folk get obsessed with the impact such adjustments would have on the implied global warming by popping a LSR through the data. Such analysis 1880-1985 shows the 1980s data implies there has been a little more warming over the period than shown in the modern data, 0.54°C/century as opposed to 0.44°C/century.) randman at 02:19 AM on 26 September, 2017 " If there were no greenhouse effect, the Earth's average surface temperature would be a very chilly -18°C (0°F) instead of the comfortable 15°C (59°F) that it is today." https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/page2.php This was put out in 2010. There is an accompanying graph showing a significant rise from 1980 and the the period of 1950-1980 along with this comment: "By the beginning of the 21st century, Earth's temperature was roughly 0.5 degrees Celsius above the long-term (1951–1980) average. (NASA figure adapted from Goddard Institute for Space Studies" So we see a mean mentioned in 2010 of "15°C (59°F) that it is today." This is said to be roughly .5 Celsius above the 1950-1980 mean, which would make the 1950-1980 mean be 58.1 degrees F. As I have shown in other posts, the mean was reported to be 59 degrees in 1988. Obviously, it was adjusted downward. "One of the scientists, Dr. James E. Hansen of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Institute for Space Studies in Manhattan, said he used the 30-year period 1950-1980, when the average global temperature was 59 degrees Fahrenheit, as a base to determine temperature variations." http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/29/science/temperature-for-world-rises-sharply-in-the-1980-s.html "Dr. Hansen informed the lawmakers that the first five months of 1988 were the hottest five-month period on record, averaging four-tenths of a degree above a 30-year (1950-1980) norm of 59 degrees Fahrenheit." "The British readings showed that the average global temperature in 1988 was 0.612 degrees Fahrenheit higher than the long-term average for the period 1950 through 1979, which is a base for comparing global temperatures. The average worldwide temperature for that 30-year period is roughly 59 degrees Fahrenheit, the British researchers said." http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/04/us/global-warmth-in-88-is-found-to-set-a-record.html And from 1991: "The Goddard group found that the record average surface temperature for the globe was eight-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit above the 1951-1980 average of 59 degrees. The British group found it seventh-tenths of a degree higher than the 1951-80 average." http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/10/us/separate-studies-rank-90-as-world-s-warmest-year.html Also note from the same article: "The British groups, headed by Phil Jones at East Anglia and David Parker of the meteorological office, reported 1990 to be the warmest year since comparable records were first kept in 1850..... The Goddard group found that the record average surface temperature for the globe was eight-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit above the 1951-1980 average of 59 degrees. The British group found it seventh-tenths of a degree higher than the 1951-80 average." Looks like 59 degrees was considered the 1950-1980 mean in 1991, and in 2010 that was revised downward to 58 degrees. So what is considered the 1950-1980 mean more recently? Here is an estimate and claim of 2015 being the hottest year. "The NASA team found that globally averaged temperatures from January through December 2015 were 0.87 degrees Celsius (1.57° Fahrenheit) above the norm (defined as a 1951–1980 base period)." https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=87359 If the mean was still 58 degrees, then 2015 would then have averaged nearly 60 degrees. 2016, however, is now considered the hottest year ever at less than 59 degrees. "NOAA reported an average temperature for the year of 14.83 degrees C (58.69 degrees F) in 2016 – 1 degree C (1.69 degrees F) warmer than the average for the 20th century." https://news.mongabay.com/2017/01/nasa-and-noaa-2016-hottest-recorded-year-ever/ [RH] Shortened link that was breaking page format. Not sure how to edit a post. For 502, meant to write by 2010, the mean had been revised downward. Not sure when it happened, sometime between 1991 and 2010 it appears or perhaps it fluctuates? MA Rodger, let's not miss the forest for the trees. I addressed some of this in another post. If the mean was still 58 degrees, then 2015 would then have averaged nearly 59.57 degrees. 2016, however, is now considered the hottest year ever at less than 59 degrees. [JH] You are comparing apples to oranges. The NASA computation of global mean surface temperature differs from that of NOAA's. Ok, let's stick with NASA. "They depict how much various regions of the world have warmed or cooled when compared with a base period of 1951-1980. (The global mean surface air temperature for that period was estimated to be 14°C (57°F), with an uncertainty of several tenths of a degree.)" https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/decadaltemp.php This appears to be from 2015 since the last year on the graph is 2014. In 2010, we see 59 degrees given as the global mean at that time. The nature of the comment suggests to me 59 degrees is an approximate. "the Earth's average surface temperature would be a very chilly -18°C (0°F) instead of the comfortable 15°C (59°F) that it is today." Nasa reported 2010 as 1.13F degrees "warmer than the average global surface temperature from 1951 to 1980." "The analysis found 2010 approximately 1.13°F warmer than the average global surface temperature from 1951 to 1980. " https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20110112/ If the global mean from 1951-1980 were 57 degrees as they said it was in 2015, then 2010 would be 58.13 degrees, right? But we just saw where they said it was approximately 59 degrees in 2010, not 58 degrees. Kind of a big deal. Clearly, the baseline mean of 1950-1980 has not remained consistent in these calculations. Why? [JH} See NASA's History of GISTEMP. Note the reference to the mean as 59 degrees or 14.5 Celsius in 2009. "Figure 1: The world's surface air temperature change ("anomaly"), relative to the world's mean temperature of 58° F or 14.5° C, averaged over land and oceans from 1975 to 20082." https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/upsDownsGlobalWarming.html [JH] In your first sentence, you incorrectly state "59 degrees". It should be "58 degrees". Also note that the baseline period for Figure 1 is 1975 to 20082, not to 20082. What relevance does this factoid have to your prior comments? Meant to write 58 degrees. That was 2009. The reference to 1975 through 2008 refers to years on the graph, not the mean those years were compared to. That mean is 58 degrees, not the average of 1975-1982 as can easily be seen by viewing the graph. This is relevant since we are discussing changes in the mean, the years 1950-1980. Note just a few years later, probably 2015 as the data stops at year 2014, I believe: ""They depict how much various regions of the world have warmed or cooled when compared with a base period of 1951-1980. (The global mean surface air temperature for that period was estimated to be 14°C (57°F), with an uncertainty of several tenths of a degree.)" So Nasa states here the "base period of 1950-1980" is estimated at 57 degrees, not 58 degrees. [JH] The answer to your question can be found in NASA's posted Q&A, The Elusive Absolute Surface Air Temperature (SAT). The Preface of his Q&A provides context: The GISTEMP analysis concerns only temperature anomalies, not absolute temperature. Temperature anomalies are computed relative to the base period 1951-1980. The reason to work with anomalies, rather than absolute temperature is that absolute temperature varies markedly in short distances, while monthly or annual temperature anomalies are representative of a much larger region. Indeed, we have shown (Hansen and Lebedeff, 1987) that temperature anomalies are strongly correlated out to distances of the order of 1000 km. The final Q&A of the post: Q. What do I do if I need absolute SATs, not anomalies? A. In 99.9% of the cases you'll find that anomalies are exactly what you need, not absolute temperatures. In the remaining cases, you have to pick one of the available climatologies and add the anomalies (with respect to the proper base period) to it. For the global mean, the most trusted models produce a value of roughly 14°C, i.e. 57.2°F, but it may easily be anywhere between 56 and 58°F and regionally, let alone locally, the situation is even worse. My bold above. randman at 13:29 PM on 26 September, 2017 To the mod: Of course, but there still has to be some reason for the varying differences in the mean (1950-1980). What are those reasons? Are they using different weather stations for one run and another? Have they adjusted the past data? If so, why? Is the algorythmn different? A combination of these factors and others? For some reason, there appear to be different means from a past time-frame and so anomalies are a separate topic. Sure, you calculate anomalies from each weather station or buoy but why then, if the same data points used, do you come up with a different mean over the past 30 years? [TD] Read this then this then this. Then section 6 starting on page 190 of this. [PS] No you dont get different means. That never changes. You are continuing to conflate "mean of baseline" with absolute temperature despite everyones efforts. What is so hard to understand about this? And yes, they do adjust the data. Read the article. Do you seriously think you should not adjust data if say a screen is added over thermometer; the station is moved; or read at 3pm instead of 9pm? Even so, you can see that adjusted versus unadjusted data makes little difference. The biggest adjustment is to sea surface temperature and the adjustment reduces the trend not increases it. If science is some conspiracy to make you poor, why would they do that? Stop believing nonsense. To the mod, read some of it. Will read more again later. Initial thoughts on this stuff is that the response to genuine questions appear to be "trust us", we know this and you do not. We can teach you, etc, etc,...and somewhat avoding the straightforward issue raised. I am not referring to you individually but rather the whole proponent industry. The thing is every marker and everything many of us have learned about human behavior tells us, those on the fence or skeptics, that all of this has the hallmarks and "tell" of a sham. Now you can blast me, ban me or whatever. At this point I am not really trying to win an argument but just share how it comes off. In fact, with the public, I think you guys have already lost but may not know it yet. There are certain "tells" one learns to see in life. Over time, you see those patterns and learn. Of course you want to make sure, ask the right questions, hear the response and so forth. Be open-minded but the one thing you can't do is ignore the warning signs and there are a whole bunch of them here. [PS] Obviously we cannot help the wilfully ignorant. Eclectic at 16:15 PM on 26 September, 2017 Randman @509 , the objective evidence "tells" that you are talking rubbish. Hard-core science-deniers such as you, will go to their graves before they will admit to the evidence in front of their eyes — though I suspect that some deniers will eventually back-pedal and try to re-write their history and will try to tell their grandchildren: "No, no, I was never one of those deniers — it's just that I had a few little doubts during the early stages of AGW". MA Rodger at 17:43 PM on 26 September, 2017 You implore me not to "not miss the forest for the trees." Then you entirely dismiss my comments @501 saying "I addressed some of this in another post." It would be interesting to see if you could find that "other post" amongst this tangled comment thread you weave here. It is not evident to me. Nobody can understand the "forest" without examining the "trees" and in your case you appear incapable of doing that. Let us consider just one tree - the testimony of Hansen to the 1988 Senate Committee. You have provided a newspaper articleof 5/7/88 which purports to inform their readers that Hansen told the Senate Committee about the 1951-80 anomaly base, that the average global temperature of that period was 59F. Yet have you ever heard the old adage "Don't believe everything you read in newspapers."? In this case it is good advice. The newspaper quote looks quite definite. From The Day we read:- All in black&white from a 1988 newspaper report. But for your purposes it isn't worth the paper it's written on! For a start, this is not what the NYT reported on the matter. From the NYT we read:- "Dr. Hansen, who records temperatures from readings at monitoring stations around the world, had previously reported that four of the hottest years on record occurred in the 1980's. Compared with a 30-year base period from 1950 to 1980, when the global temperature averaged 59 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature was one-third of a degree higher last year." (My bold) And we also have the actual testemony of Hansen (as linked @501 had you cared to read that comment). Her it is - LINK. Nowhere does Hansen ever report to that 1988 Senate Committee, either in writing or verbally, that there was an average global temperature of "59 degrees Fahrenheit". Nowhere! That part of the newspaper report was incorrectly inserted into the account by the newspaper. So that particular tree was rotten to the core. All the other "trees" are just as unreliable. If you like, we can address them tree-by-tree, but that would require you to actually read the comments people are responding to you with, to read and take on board what they are saying. But so far down this thread I see no sign of you doing that. So my advice here will likely fall on deaf ears. MA Rodger, that's not a transcript from that session. Note how it does not include the question and answer part. Already informed you of this once, btw. The fact we see Hansen and Jones and others quoted by media in the years 1988-1991 or 1992 all using 59 degrees as the mean lends credence to the NYTs quote you diagree with being valid and not a misquote. The mean of 59 degrees in Hansen's 1988 paper does the same. [DB] Inflammatory and sloganeering snipped. [JH] You are also skating on the thin ice of excessive repetition which is prohibited by the SkS Comments Poilicy. randman @512, You are entirely incorrect to state of the link I provided @501 and again @511 "that's not a transcript from that session." It is indeed a transcript. It is however not a transcript of the complete session. Being so, you are correct that it does not include the "question and answer part" of the session but if it had, my comment would have remained the same "Nowhere does Hansen ever report to that 1988 Senate Committee, either in writing or verbally, that there was an average global temperature of '59 degrees Fahrenheit'. Nowhere!" Perhaps you would care to check this by examining the transcript of the full session (which rather inconvenietly is somewhat longer than the part-transcript previously linked containing the relevant bit of Hansen's testiment.) This particular 'tree' within your 'forest' of unreliable quotes is as worthless in establishing your bold assertions as all the other 'trees'. I recommend you re-visit my comment @501 and consider each point in turn rather than ignoring them. Do note that the last does present irrefutable evidence which does actually make a complete nonsense of the bold assertions you have been making down this thread. (I even added a trace from Hansen et al (1981), just in case you start-up insisting that your 'randman event' was enacted on global temperature records prior to 1987.) THe NYTs said he told Congress 59 degrees was the mean for the years between 1950-1980. Other media reported he claimed that as well, and in 1992, media reported Jones said the same thing. And in 1981 in Hansen's paper, the mean he used for those years was roughly 59 degrees. So far you've provided no facts or sources to counter this except your own incredulity. Where are your sources? I have provided mine. [JH] Excessive repetiton and false claims snipped. Either respond specifically to MA Rodger's #513 post or cease posting on this topic. Let us stick with your ill-advised assertion that in June 1988 Hansen "told Congress 59 degrees was the mean for the years between 1950-1980." Let us deal with one-tree-at-a-time in your little forest of dodgy quotes. In that regard, @514 you claim of me and my rebutal: "So far you've provided no facts or sources to counter this except your own incredulity." Are you having a laugh? @512 you dismissed the documentation provided @501/511 by insisting the Q&As at that 1988 Senate Hearing were missing but required (when they are not required) any insisting this missing aspect of the Senate Hearing had already been highlighted by you (although I see no evidence of such prior comment up-thread). And now you attempt to ignore the link I provide to the full documentation @513 (complete with Q&As). What is your problem? Can you not see that link? Because I'm sure everybody else can!! MA Rodger at 19:50 PM on 2 October, 2017 The recent discourse about absolute global temperature appears to have ground to a halt but one aspect of this remained unmentioned and it might be appropriate to introduce it now - the Berkeley Earth temperature analysis. I was mindful that BEST would overly-complicate things for that enquirer. Yet as Rohde et al (2013) says "The Berkeley Average analysis process is somewhat unique in that it produces a global climatology and estimate of the global mean temperature as part of its natural operations." Thus mean absolute temperatures are to hand from the BEST data. As a result, not only does BEST graph its global land temperature record using absolute values, it also provides within the data the absolute mean value of the anomaly base used (1951-80) for individual months and annually, the annual value being +8.7ºC. But this isn't entirely the end of this story. Regarding the Land Only record, Rohde et al state "The global land average from 1900 to 2000 is 9.35 ± 1.45°C, broadly consistent with the estimate of 8.5°C provided by Peterson (et al 2011)." So the +8.7ºC value in the BEST data is a little different in Rohde et al. Further, this 8.5°C Peterson et al value is only re-quoted by Peterson et al, the value being taken from an NOAA FAQ table (on the 'mean temperature estimates' page), itself based on New et al (1999). Yet the true Global Land average temperatures are far far more dependent on local factors than the anomalies are. (Consider altitude - the average land altitude is 840m thus some 5ºC cooler than a sea-level average would be). Note that while there are two different anomaly base periods in play here, the difference between them is tiny. The 1901-2000 mean is cooler than the 1951-80 mean by just 0.024°C in NOAA, with an almost identical tiny difference in BEST Land (and also BEST Land&Ocean). Yet, while BEST Land temperatures may produce a global land absolute mean temperature "as part of its natural operations," that is not so clear with its Ocean data. When combined with its Land Temperatures to create a full global Land&Ocean temperature series, BEST still provide the absolute value of the anomaly base (1951-80) within the data, that value being +14.720ºC or +15.305ºC (dependent on treatment of sea ice). Sea ice aside, the derevaton of an absolute value for SST is mostly trivial compared with the Land exercise. So if the quoted Land anomaly value of BEST & NOAA land temperatures is very close (+8.7ºC and +8.5ºC respectively) why are the global Land&Ocean values so different (+14.7ºC/15.3ºC and +13.9ºC respectively)? (And without an answer, this may have seen our recent enquirer running away shouting "I told you so!") The SST data used by BEST is HadSST3 but the documentation on BEST's use of HadSST3 appears a little sparce. HadCRUT4 also uses HasSST3 but their average global mean anomaly value is roughly the same as NASA/NOAA and lower than BEST (although note the source of this HadCRUT4 data similarly give a BEST Land value as +9.17ºC). So no answer is apparent to me. Yet, whatever its cause, the discrepancy makes not a jot of difference to the anomalies in the various SAT/SST records which are unaffected by anomaly base values and provide global temperature records that are pretty-much peas in a pod. Oriolus Traillii at 22:54 PM on 8 November, 2017 Link http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Satellite_Temperatures.png is broken (see "other lines of evidence for rising temperatures", bullet point 3 under "intermediate") [DB] Fixed; thanks! (I also fixed the missing video on that page) WesIsh at 01:07 AM on 15 February, 2019 How is it possible to measure the current temperature of Earth i.e. the biosphere with the precision and accuracy of 0.01 C over a time period of 1 year? Max or not at 03:09 AM on 15 February, 2019 It ks not : https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201813 [PS] Link fixed. Please learn how to create links yourself by using the link button in the comments editor. And to go straight to the chase, the link reports global land/sea surface temperature anomaly is estimated to +/- 0.15C not 0.01.

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Therefore your belief is counteractive to your desire. This belief is essentially canceling the intention of the desire. Copyright 2018 Proctor Gallagher Institute. All Rights Reserved. Search in pages The universe is always giving you help, but it's easy to miss the signs (especially when they come in unexpected ways). When you start to acknowledge and receive signs from the universe, the universe will give you more of what you want. 15. For every goal, ask yourself "What needs to change so that I have a stronger belief that this is possible?" (then act to make those changes). The fact that very few people ask for a refund (if they did, MM wouldn't be allowed in CB's marketplace) means they do find value after giving it a try. Design Tools Awesome exercise! Totally resonating with my gratitude journal~~Thank you very much Colette! The material is thorough, well-organized, and presented in easy-to-read fashion. 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There's a certain amount of constriction that's associated with a scarcity-based thought like this. • All that i need Make loving yourself more a goal to be constantly striving for. Super-Affirmations always come true because they ARE truth. For instance, can you say to yourself, right now (with genuine belief): "I love myself"? MANIFESTATION MIRACLE REVIEWS – WHAT IS MANIFESTATION? The flaw in the Law of Attraction is the lack of a systemic approach to manifestation. Most people believe that all you have to do is imagine abundance and then boom!, you are living abundantly. But as many have come to realize over time, it works for some people and doesn't work for others. 15 Minute Manifestation Review: Mon Face Reading Transcend negativity (dismantle foundation of present negative emotion). You meditate on your health, you visualize cash in your hands, you do affirmations and whatever you think will work to attract your love. Thaddeus Henry Hale Jr. It may be hard for you to know if you're able to manifest a miracle properly. School Start-Up Documents All But me, I would just sit down quietly to think about things that I am grateful for before I go to bed. Hate in all its manifestations is wrong. yay!! I always feel good and empowered reading your letters helping me to thrive& live life!! I have Multiple sclerosis, will look forward to my dreams!! 5.0 out of 5 starsGreat information! Hello. I'm Sarah Social Dynamics #NATIVEweek No. 76 Here are the seven steps to manifest anything you want — including money. Less hustle. More abundance. Toggle navigation Positive Thinking Hey beautiful people! I'm manifesting getting the job that I interviewed for today. Actually, today was my second interview for the position. I'm super excited!!!! "Yes!! I catch you!!" So I prayed. A peek inside Lila's journey to healing her skin. Has this process of working through my fears been effective? I have no doubt that it has. 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And this is what lets them down. turning up bravura Ø If the conduct was the direct result of the district's failure to implement the IEP So give yourself ten minutes, and paint yourself a real nice picture. Let yourself daydream and think about what you really, truly want. You can also start a manifestation book our journal: whatever works best for you! Thank you for your comments. Hard to be positive when talking about the LOA. It's focus on blaming is pervasive. I am a positive psychologist and have proposed a new way of looking at attraction called the Principle of Attraction. As a Principle, like tends to attract like. Positive thoughts, feelings, actions, and words often attracts positivity…but not always. It's not a law, it's a principle, based on positive and social psychology. entrance Oops! Manifesting is a creative process using your power energy. You need to play an active role in co-creating with the universe which paradoxically, is helping things that you want in your life to come into fruition. beauty Others being successful doesn't limit your success. And by attracting abundance to yourself, you are not limiting another, according to the book. Narcissism Did this article help you? If you haven't yet manifested what you want, it's likely you are resisting what the universe has to offer. Doubts, pain, procrastination, frustrations, anxiety, fears, regrets and resentments are all forms of resistance. Browse the English Dictionary Featured Courses All around it on the page, place representations of Things You'd Like to be Doing (images and/or words) when you are at your Dream Job. You can write or draw or paste clippings or print outs on there. Look, when changing your internal programs to suit your source code, what you really do is you free the universe, and all of that hidden energy and power to come to your aid with any dream you choose. You ignite the law of attraction by following your true, individual path and signposts. May the law of attraction give you what you deserve for blaming others. Motivational Once I thought I had a back complaint but it turned out I didn't. It was a posture issue. I was locking my knees then pacing around all day at training events. I was like one of those old boneshaker bikes with no suspension, traveling over the old cobbled Victorian streets. I was aching at the end of each day. How to Use the Law of Attraction Motivate Yourself It worked brilliantly. One of the reasons was that he didn't imagine himself IN the picture. I didn't want him to be a drugged, lotus eater. I wanted him to actually have to reach in his subconscious. Now it is your blog and I am joyful that you get success but please look into Neville deeper and I can guarantee you that you will wildly more successful, wishing you the best. revealing The second most popular reason people seek information about the Law of Attraction is to find true love. Finding a lifetime partner to fulfill an ideal, loving relationship can seem like an elusive and frustrating game that you can't win. All home Just that simple… facebook Reiki Healing 101 Then you need to take the kindness and compassion you show to the world around you and point it at yourself too. You deserve that don't you? If for instance things are suddenly not working in your favor, then remind yourself that you don't quite fully understand the bigger picture. What might seem problematic now, might actually be an opportunity in disguise. Just stay vigilant and focused on the things that need to get done, and allow everything you can't control to take care of itself. 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Department of Cardiology / BMJ (Online) / M.J.G. Leening (Maarten), B.S. Ferket (Bart), E.W. Steyerberg (Ewout), M. Kavousi (Maryam), J.W. Deckers (Jaap), D. Nieboer (Daan), J. Heeringa (Jan), M.L.P. Portegies (Marileen), A. Hofman (Albert), M.A. Ikram (Arfan), et al. M.G.M. Hunink (Myriam), O.H. Franco (Oscar), B.H.Ch. Stricker (Bruno), J.C.M. Witteman (Jacqueline) and J.W. Roos-Hesselink (Jolien) Sex differences in lifetime risk and first manifestation of cardiovascular disease: Prospective population based cohort study BMJ (Online) , Volume 349 Objective: To evaluate differences in first manifestations of cardiovascular disease between men and women in a competing risks framework. Design: Prospective population based cohort study. Setting: People living in the community in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Participants: 8419 participants (60.9% women) aged ≥55 and free from cardiovascular disease at baseline. Main outcome measures: First diagnosis of coronary heart disease (myocardial infarction, revascularisation, and coronary death), cerebrovascular disease (stroke, transient ischaemic attack, and carotid revascularisation), heart failure, or other cardiovascular death; or death from non-cardiovascular causes. Data were used to calculate lifetime risks of cardiovascular disease and its first incident manifestations adjusted for competing non-cardiovascular death. Results: During follow-up of up to 20.1 years, 2888 participants developed cardiovascular disease (826 coronary heart disease, 1198 cerebrovascular disease, 762 heart failure, and 102 other cardiovascular death). At age 55, overall lifetime risks of cardiovascular disease were 67.1% (95% confidence interval 64.7% to 69.5%) for men and 66.4% (64.2% to 68.7%) for women. Lifetime risks of first incident manifestations of cardiovascular disease in men were 27.2% (24.1% to 30.3%) for coronary heart disease, 22.8% (20.4% to 25.1%) for cerebrovascular disease, 14.9% (13.3% to 16.6%) for heart failure, and 2.3% (1.6% to 2.9%) for other deaths from cardiovascular disease. For women the figures were 16.9% (13.5% to 20.4%), 29.8% (27.7% to 31.9%), 17.5% (15.9% to 19.2%), and 2.1% (1.6% to 2.7%), respectively. Differences in the number of events that developed over the lifespan in women compared with men (per 1000) were -7 for any cardiovascular disease, -102 for coronary heart disease, 70 for cerebrovascular disease, 26 for heart failure, and -1 for other cardiovascular death; all outcomes manifested at a higher age in women. Patterns were similar when analyses were restricted to hard atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease outcomes, but absolute risk differences between men and women were attenuated for both coronary heart disease and stroke. Conclusions: At age 55, though men and women have similar lifetime risks of cardiovascular disease, there are considerable differences in the first manifestation. Men are more likely to develop coronary heart disease as a first event, while women are more likely to have cerebrovascular disease or heart failure as their first event, although these manifestations appear most often at older ages. Persistent URL dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g5992, hdl.handle.net/1765/86815 Journal BMJ (Online) Leening, M.J.G, Ferket, B.S, Steyerberg, E.W, Kavousi, M, Deckers, J.W, Nieboer, D, … Roos-Hesselink, J.W. (2014). Sex differences in lifetime risk and first manifestation of cardiovascular disease: Prospective population based cohort study. BMJ (Online), 349. doi:10.1136/bmj.g5992 View at Pubmed Free Full Text ( Final Version , 1mb ) Free full text Author Manuscript Identifying Persons at Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Disease M.J.G. Leening (Maarten)

Tag Archives: psychological torture 6/6/15 (Part Two): Picking Your Poison 13 Sins, Bardi Johannsson, Brittany Snow, Charlie Hofheimer, cinema, Daniel Hunt, David Guy Levy, dinner party, director-producer, dramas, dysfunctional family, Eddie Steeples, Enver Gjokaj, father-son relationships, film reviews, films, games, isolated mansion, Jeffrey Combs, John Heard, Jonny Coyne, June Squibb, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Logan Miller, Movies, psychological torture, rich vs poor, Robb Wells, Robin Lord Taylor, Sasha Grey, self-mutilation, Shepard Lambrick, Steffen Schlachtenhaufen, Steven Capitano Calitri, thriller, torture, Would You Rather In many ways, Iris (Brittany Snow), the protagonist of David Guy Levy's Would You Rather (2012), is like a lot of folks in this modern economy: stuck between a rock and a much heavier, sharper rock. She's the sole caretaker for her cancer-stricken younger brother, Raleigh (Logan Miller), it's getting harder and harder to make ends meet and the future is looking increasingly grim. When she's passed over for a hostess job that wouldn't dig her out of the hole but would, at the very least, allow her and her brother to keep eating, it's safe to say that Iris has slipped from the rarefied ranks of the "getting by" to the much less desired "left behind." All's not lost, however: Raleigh's kindly doctor, Barden (Lawrence Gilliard Jr.), arranges a meeting between Iris and mysterious aristocrat/philanthropist, Shepard Lambrick (Jeffrey Combs). It seems that Lambrick and his equally mysterious "foundation" hold regular "games" where groups of needy people are brought together: the winner of these games gets whatever support they need from the foundation for the rest of their lives. In Iris' case, winning the game would mean getting an instant bone marrow transplant for her brother, along with enough money to set them up for the rest of their lives. When offered the chance to have all of our financial problems simply "vanish," who among us would turn down a similar offer? Canny genre fans, of course, will recognize this for the worst kind of sucker's bet: historically, we know that nothing comes for free and if it's too good to be true, it probably involves torture. Once Iris gets to the Lambrick mansion and meets the other seven participants, ranging from the obligatory conspiracy theorist (extra points for also making him the token recovering alcoholic) to a kindly, wheelchair-bound old lady and a sullen Iraq war vet, it becomes clear that this probably won't be a winner-takes-all Pokemon tournament. By the time Lambrick's obviously nutso son, Julian (Robin Lord Taylor), has made his entrance, we begin to get the idea that this particular royal-blue bloodline is a little compromised. Once Lambrick's formerly MI-5-employed butler, Bevins (Jonny Coyne), wheels his old torture rig in, however, the full measure of madness becomes much clearer. This won't end well…for anyone. If horror and genre films are a good indicator of what particular fears are running rampant in society during any given era, it's especially telling that the last five years or so have seen such a proliferation in two rather specific subgenres: the doppelgänger film and the "rich people using poor people for sport" film. If you think about it, though, it makes perfect sense: in this era of the social media "identity," it's only natural for folks to assume that, somewhere out there, an alternate version of themselves is having a much better time. What is social media, after all, if not a great opportunity to present a carefully cultivated persona to the outside world, regardless of how much it might (or might not) resemble the actual person? By that token, perhaps no subgenre bears as much current relevancy (at least in the United States) as "rich people using poor people for sport." One need only look at the current state of income equality to see that this particular pyramid has an extremely small apex and a ridiculously wide base: when so few individuals hold so much wealth and power, it's understandable that the less fortunate might begin to view these wealthy as virtual deities, capable of doling out both misery and good fortune with equal aplomb. If the game truly is rigged, perhaps the best course of action is to make friends with the dealer and hope for the best. In many ways, Levy's film (written by Steffen Schlachtenhaufen) is a much grimmer, more stage-bound version of Daniel Stamm's 13 Sins (2014) (or vice-versa, since Would You Rather preceded the other by a few years). The action, here, is confined almost exclusively to the mansion and its grounds (mostly the dining room), unlike the more free-roaming 13 Sins. The focus in Levy's film is also on the psychological torment of the characters rather than Stamm's focus on the often shocking stunts. To that end, Would You Rather definitely comes off as the more serious and "austere" of the two, despite its eventual descent into the kind of blood-soaked madness that we expect. As grim and relentless as a freight train, Levy's film gains much of its impact from another typically excellent performance by Jeffrey Combs (can't someone just give him the Lifetime MVP award, already, and get it over with?), as well as an exceptionally sturdy turn from Pitch Perfect's (2012) Brittany Snow. Unlike protagonists like 13 Sins' Elliot or Cheap Thrills' (2014) Vince, Iris is a much more likable, relatable character. We're pulling for her every step of the way, which makes her inevitable bad decisions even more painful to watch. The relationship between Iris and her brother is also nicely depicted in the film, gaining some genuine resonance from Snow and Miller's intuitive interactions: they actually feel like a brother and sister, which is quite refreshing. While the cast is consistently solid (it was a real hoot to see Eddie Steeples – better known as Crab Man from My Name is Earl – in a rare serious role and he really kills it), there are a few lead weights: Sasha Grey, who turned in a pretty great performance in the recent Open Windows (2014), is as obnoxious as possible and as abrasive as fingernails on chalkboard with her "performance" as Amy and Trailer Park Boys' main-man Robb Wells feels decidedly out-of-place with his broader take on the character of Peter. I usually really enjoy Wells (he was outstanding in Hobo With a Shotgun (2011), for example), so it was doubly disappointing to find him so tedious here. For the most part, though, Would You Rather is stuffed with lots to like: Jonny Coyne's congenial sociopath is a great character and almost steals the film from Combs, which is no mean feat. Taylor has fun playing the sleazy Julian, although his broad performance almost goes off the rails, at times. While the film can be slightly repetitive in the early stages of the "game" (all participants must do the same trials, which significantly cuts down on the "what's coming?" factor that can work so well in keeping our hearts in our throats), Levy and Schlachtenhaufen display an admirably dark wit once it gets to the penultimate phase, where contestants must choose between spending two minutes underwater or the unique, unknown test on the cards before them: it's here where Would You Rather really takes off, featuring some truly inspired, twisted setpieces. All in all, it's hard to find much fault in Would You Rather: the script is solid, the performances are generally top-notch, the cinematography (courtesy of Steven Capitano Calitri) is quite evocative and well-staged and the '80s-inspired score (by Daniel Hunt and Bardi Johannsson) is a real knockout. The film manages to maintain a fairly high degree of tension, throughout, and if the subplot involving the kindly doctor racing to save Iris never amounts to anything, it does give the filmmakers a chance to make a Shining (1980) reference, which is always appreciated. Even the (by now) de rigueur downbeat ending fits the film like a glove, highlighting the extremely arbitrary nature of life: you can do it all right and still get fucked. C'est la vie, eh? Despite being top-notch entertainment, I'll freely admit that Would You Rather won't be for everyone: in specific, if you're the kind of person who avoids torture films (either psychological or physical) like the plague, you'd probably be best served avoiding Levy's latest. For those who don't mind taking a walk on the dark side, however, Would You Rather will probably be right up your alley. Just remember: the next time a filthy-rich plutocrat wants to offer you a hand up, make sure the other hand isn't holding a knife. 7/23/14: Red Light Morality Adrien Brody, based on a book, Black Box, Cam Gigandet, Clifton Collins Jr., Das Experiment, David Banner, degradation, dehumanization, Ethan Cohn, Fisher Stevens, Forest Whitaker, humiliation, Jason Lew, morality, Paul T. Scheuring, power struggles, prison break, prison films, psychological torture, rape, social experiments, Stanford Prison Experiment, The Experiment, Travis Fimmel, writer-director While most people, if asked, would probably describe themselves as having some sort of moral compass, it really all comes down to a matter of degrees. It's often easy for people to follow moral codes when either the state or religion sets up the guidelines but remove those constructs and things get a bit iffier. The real problem, of course, tends to be those who are more "circumstantial moralists": people who would abstain from theft while the clerk is watching but think nothing of nicking a pack of gum when his back is turned. As evidenced by the sheer volume of folks who think nothing of grabbing as much as they can for themselves, with no regards to others or a "greater good," I'm inclined to say that we, as a society, have largely become circumstantial moralists: we have no problem doing the "right thing" when it's mandated or when people are watching but tend to revert back to purely selfish needs when the camera isn't pointed directly at us. Writer/director Paul T. Scheuring's The Experiment (2010) is yet another in a pretty long line of films that take the concept of a specific social experiment and uses it as a way to shine a light into the darkest recesses of the human psyche. In this case, the film re-examines the phenomenon of the Stanford Prison Experiment, although it's also explicitly listed as both an adaptation of Mario Giordano's novel Black Box and a remake of the German film, Das Experiment (2001), itself an adaptation of Black Box. Despite its slightly thorny genesis, The Experiment ends up being a fairly standard psychological drama, albeit one with more than its fair share of degrading situations and unpleasant scenarios. At the end of the day, however, the film ends up being just another example of the evil that men do when given free rein and how a complacent society is just as guilty as the monsters it allows to roam the land. For those not aware, the Stanford Prison Experiment was a real social experiment that lasted for all of six days in 1971. In the experiment, a group of 24 men was divided into "prisoners" and "guards," using the basement of an old Stanford University building as a mock "prison." The purpose of the experiment was to test how subjects would break down into power relationships, based on their "roles," but the whole thing ended up being a pretty spectacular disaster. The "guards" turned into brutal authority figures, using violence and psychological torture to break down the "prisoners," all of which was allowed by the scientists running the test. Needless to say, very few academics will go on record as supporting psychological torture and the tests were shut down post-haste, leaving the whole failed experiment as a sort of sociological shorthand for unexpectedly brutal, authoritarian experiments on conflict study/resolution. Suffice to say that, over forty years later, the Stanford Prison Experiment still stands as a notable black eye for the world of psychology. For the most part, The Experiment doesn't veer far from this basic premise: a group of 26 men, all from different backgrounds and walks of life, are brought to an abandoned prison facility, separated into "guards" and "prisoners" and told to follow a set of five rules. When the rules are violated, punishment must be swift and unflinching: if rule-breakers are not suitably handled within 30 minutes of their violations, a red light will go on, signalling an end to the experiment. Since each of the men are set to earn $1000/day for their participation, it's in everyone's best interests to make sure that the light never goes on. This, of course, leads to the film's central conflict/point: if anything goes, as long as the red light doesn't come on, how can there possibly be any moral standard or guidelines? The short answer, of course, is that there can't be: once the experiment revolves around punishing "wrongdoers," a Pandora's box is opened, unleashing all manner of horrors upon the "guards" and their unwilling charges. We meet several of the test participants but two principals emerge pretty early on. The first is Travis (Adrien Brody), who serves as our "every-man" protagonist, a kind-hearted, smart, altruistic guy who's just lost his job, met a new girl and wants to use his earnings to follow her to India for some good, old-fashioned spiritual awakening. Travis is the kind of guy who attends peace rallies but has no problem putting the hammer down on obnoxious, violent pro-war party-crashers. He's a good guy, with a capital "G," and he'll come to represent the prisoner faction. The other principal player is Michael (Forrest Whitaker), a soft-spoken, shy, slightly nerdy 40-year-old who still lives at home with his brow-beating, ultra-religious mother. Despite his friendly, laid-back attitude, we get the distinct impression that Michael may not be playing with a full deck. Faster than you can say "Overlook Hotel," Michael has been made a "guard" and has begun what can best be described as a "Nicholsonian" slide into complete bat-shit crazy territory. Everyone else seems to fall in line somewhere between these two polar opposites: on the prisoner side, you have Nix (Clifton Collins, Jr.), whose tattoos seem suspiciously reminiscent of real Aryan Nation prison tats; Benjy (Ethan Cohn), a gawky, comic-book obsessed diabetic; and Oscar (Jason Lew), the only openly gay member of the group. On the guard side, we have Chase (Cam Gigandet), a ridiculously macho, sadistic "bro-dog"; Helweg (Travis Fimmel), a guyliner-wearing sycophant who follows whoever happens to be the current alpha male and Bosch (David Banner), a kind-hearted individual who becomes increasingly uneasy as "upholding the rules" quickly devolves into "inhuman torture." And devolve it does…rather quickly, too, if I might add. After an impromptu basketball game ends with Bosch's bloody nose, Chase decides that a little punishment is in order and forces the prisoners to do push-ups. Helweg sees Chase as some sort of conquering hero but Michael isn't so sure…until, that is, he comes to believe that the prisoners all need to be knocked down a peg or two. Targeting Travis, who is seen as the defacto leader, Michael initiates psychological warfare against the other man: he's chained to his cell wall overnight, wearing only his underwear; blasted with a fire extinguisher; has his head forcibly shaved and, in one of the film's most horrifying/nauseating moments, is repeatedly urinated on. Despite what they throw at him, however, Travis refuses to break or resort to violence: the rest of the prisoners continue to look up to him and the guards' hold remains tenuous, at best. Michael is not a man to be trifled with, however, and power can be a heady drug. The harder that Travis resists, the harder that Michael strikes back, culminating in a shocking act of violence that ends up pitting the prisoners against the guards in final, bloody conflict. Although The Experiment is neither a particularly original nor an especially thought-provoking film, there are a few elements that unnecessarily hobble the production. Chief among the issues, unfortunately, is Whitaker's completely over-the-top performance. Normally an incredibly reliable presence, Whitaker seems to be channeling the worst excesses of Nicholas Cage here and his transition from "slightly subdued" to "full-bore loony" is so quick as to be virtually non-existent. When Whitaker really takes off, such as the absolutely awful bit where he screams, "Time to clean the TOY-A-LETT!," at Brody's character, the film pretty much grinds to a halt around him and becomes something closer to parody than drama. There is one fairly brilliant moment that gives visual representation to the notion that power gives men a boner but, aside from that bit, it's almost impossible to take him seriously which makes suspension of disbelief a bit of a problem. Brody, for his part, turns in one of those standard-issue performances that are just tuned-in enough but no substitute for his better genre performances in films like Splice (2009) or Predators (2010). This is more along the lines of his work in Wrecked (2010) or Giallo (2009): good enough but too prone to histrionics to be truly affecting. The rest of the cast ends up being a mixed bag, although Cam Gigandet is a thoroughly repulsive presence as the rape-happy Chase, a character so loathsome that he seems to have been wholly subbed in from something like the modern remake of I Spit on Your Grave (2010). Travis Fimmel, by contrast, is a complete non-entity as Helweg, a character who ends up being even less three-dimensional than the rest of the paper-thin characters. In one of the film's strangest moves, veteran weirdo and all-around awesome character actor Fisher Stevens gets what amounts to a cameo: they couldn't have made him one of the test subjects? There are plenty of tonal issues and more than a few plot holes (the resolution, in particular, makes less and less sense the more you think about it) but the uneven, generally OTT performances are definitely the crippling blow here. The film isn't short on ideas, even if none of them are particularly interesting, but it's impossible to take anything seriously when Whitaker is stomping around, bellowing, rolling his eyes and cracking prisoner skulls like he was a fairytale ogre. Writer/director Scheuring is probably best known as the creator of the TV series Prison Break, which would seem to make him a natural fit for something like this. There is plenty of "prison drama"-type brutality on display here (that urination scene will stick with you for a long, long time…trust me) but little of really seems to hit with any impact. Minus issues like the overacting and over-reliance on cheesy slo-mo effects, The Experiment would be a well-made, if rather unexceptional prison-drama/thriller. As it stands, however, the film is, by turns, genuinely cringe worthy and unintentionally humorous. There are scattered moments of real power and impact but, for the most part, this has all been done before, to greater effect. Unless you're an Adrien Brody or Forest Whitaker completest (or a prison-flick aficionado), skipping The Experiment is probably a safe bet: if the red light doesn't go on after thirty minutes, you'll know that you made the right choice.

Will California Gov Gavin Newsom be kicked out in recall vote? Polls show Newsom will likely stay in office, but the recall has emboldened Republicans. California Governor Gavin Newsom responds to a question from reporters after casting a 'no' note in his recall election on Friday [Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo] By Hilary Beaumont Published On 12 Sep 202112 Sep 2021 San Francisco, California – The Democratic governor of a deep blue state could be removed by Republicans. California Governor Gavin Newsom faces a high-stakes election on September 14 that threatens to replace him with one of the dozens of candidates, including a popular conservative radio host who is against abortion and has praised former Republican President Donald Trump. Newsom is in the midst of a recall election — an attempt by Republican voters to remove him from office. Nationally, the outcome could be a bellwether for the 2022 congressional midterm elections, and top Democrats are throwing their weight behind Newsom. This week, Vice President Kamala Harris travelled to the Bay Area to support Newsom, and President Joe Biden is expected to join his campaign next week. Registered voters are receiving ballots in the mail that pose two questions: first, should Newsom be recalled? If voters answer yes, they can choose from a list of 46 candidates to replace him. If 50 percent or more vote against recalling Newsom, he will remain in office. If a majority votes in favour of recalling him, he would be removed, and the candidate with the most votes on the second question would replace him. Critics of the recall have said the process is unfair because, for example, 49 percent of voters could vote against recalling Newsom, and his replacement could have a smaller percentage of the remaining votes. Not every state has recall elections, but in California, any voter can initiate the removal of an elected official if they gather enough signatures. California voters start recalls all the time, but they do not often gain traction — this is only the second recall election of a governor in state history, and the fourth in US history. In February 2020, retired police officer Orrin Heatlie started the recall after he was offended by Newsom's comments telling undocumented people not to open their doors unless police had a warrant, according to The Associated Press news agency. Heatlie and volunteers gathered thousands of signatures from other Republicans who disliked Newsom, but they needed the signatures of 12 percent of voters from the previous election — 1.5 million people. Two events put the wind at their back. Citing the COVID pandemic, a judge gave recall organisers four extra months to gather signatures. And in November, Newsom attended a maskless dinner with 11 friends and lobbyists at a posh restaurant where dinner starts at $350 per person — at the same time, he had told Californians to wear masks and avoid gathering with their families for Thanksgiving dinner. Governor Gavin Newsom apologised in 2020 for attending a birthday dinner with a dozen people at the posh French Laundry restaurant, saying he should have set a better example for the virus-fatigued state [File: Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo] People of all political stripes saw his actions as hypocritical, and donated to the recall effort and added their signatures. Although Newsom acknowledged he should have set a better example by not joining the dinner, the recall effort surpassed the threshold of required votes. Sarah Hill, associate professor of political science at California State University, said Newsom's actions confirmed public perception. "It matched with what people's opinions were [of Newsom], and it really provided the example that people needed," she said. "This guy is elite and doesn't understand what normal Californians are dealing with; he's out of touch, we need to do something about this," she said, describing the public perception. "So it provided that momentum." Voters who want Newsom recalled cite a mix of reasons; a recent SurveyUSA poll found those voting to recall him said it was due to his COVID response, handling of COVID restrictions, and closures of businesses and schools. About 11 percent pointed to his actions at the fancy dinner. What are Newsom's chances of being removed? In early August, polls narrowed to a dead heat between voters who wanted to keep versus remove the governor, putting Newsom in jeopardy. Democrats wanted him to stay, but they were initially less engaged in the recall than Republicans. "He had what we were calling an enthusiasm gap," explained Mindy Romero, founder and director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy in Sacramento. Until August, the governor ignored the recall, but the numbers forced him to switch strategies, and he began framing it as an urgent threat, she explained. "He has changed his approach in the last two weeks especially, really upped the game, really directly saying the stakes are high, they're so high it's life and death. I think that's working," Romero said. Another force motivating Democrats is the rise of Larry Elder, a popular conservative radio host who is now the leading candidate among voters who want to recall Newsom. Candidate for governor and radio talk show host Larry Elder emerged to dominate the Republican field in the California recall election that could remove Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom from office [File: Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo] Throughout his career, Elder has made a string of sexist comments. He promoted a 1950s' textbook How to be a Good Wife that told women to prepare dinner for their husbands and not to complain, claimed women knew less than men about politics, economics and current events, and the Los Angeles Times reported that he suggested some women who attended the Women's March against President Trump were "safe" from sexual assault because they were unattractive. According to CNN, in a 1996 advertisement for his radio show, he said women do not face a glass ceiling in their careers, and Black people "exaggerate the significance of racism". Elder opposes abortion, wants to end Newsom's vaccine and mask requirements, and called Trump "almost God-sent" — positions that could motivate Democrats to vote to keep him out. Newsom solidified Elder as the conservative frontrunner by framing the election as a choice between himself and Elder in a left-leaning state, Romero said. "He is crowning the frontrunner that he is happy to have," she said. Polls now show voters are leaning towards keeping Newsom. The SurveyUSA poll, conducted between September 7 and 8, found 54 percent of likely voters would keep the governor versus 41 percent who want him removed. What does the recall mean for the 2022 midterms? As election day nears, pro-recall campaigners and Elder are holding rallies to get out the vote. Nationally, political strategists and media are circling, awaiting data that can be picked apart from clues ahead of the 2022 midterms. "It's really about 2022," explained Raphael Sonenshein, political scientist and head of the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs at California State University. Analysts want to know what strategies are most effective and which base is more mobilised, he said. "People are looking for the entrails of the chicken to find out what's happening out there." If Newsom survives, he faces a general election in November 2022. If he is kicked out, his replacement would only hold power for one year before the next election. California recalls were originally intended as a check on power, but ultimately either party can spin the results for political gain. Regardless of the outcome, Romero said the recall's success has emboldened Republicans. The midterms often swing back towards the party that lost the last election, and the recall gives Republicans a powerful narrative to say, "We're taking back our country," she explained. "It's a dream come true for Republican strategists to be able to point to what's happening in the recall," she said. Kazakhstan: A coup, a counter-coup and a Russian victory

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"Downton Abbey's" final season is coming to a close — starting on Jan. 3, 2016, to be exact. The Season 6 premiere date for the U.S. debut was announced Saturday at the Television Critics' Assn. summer press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif. PBS boss Paula Kerger also said that "Downton" will have a celebratory float at January's Tournament of Roses parade to honor the show's final bow. The PBS team, behind "Downton," also told Variety that while there are no set plans for more "Downton," discussions are always happening. "When you have a hit, why wouldn't you?" said "Masterpiece" exec producer Rebecca Eaton. Of the series ending, Fellowes says he will miss the team behind the hit time period drama.

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Interlitq's Californian Poets Interview Series: Cole Swensen, Poet, Translator, Professor, interviewed by David Garyan Interlitq's Californian Poets Interview Series: Cole Swensen, Poet, Translator, and Professor interviewed by David Garyan Cole Swensen's poems to appear soon in Interlitq's California Poets Feature DG: Let's approach your work in the most sensible way—the process of translation. Borges's idea of the translation becoming an original, or Ken Liu's idea—very much connected to George Steiner—that all acts are miracles of translation both come to mind. You've done a great deal in bringing French writers into English. How has this informed your own creative vision? CS: First, I'm struck by your thought that the most sensible way to enter a writer's work is through the work that she does with others—Thank you! I like that very much—and in part because it begins us with the notion of fluidity—of one person's work flowing into another's, eroding the notion of writing as individual, and emphasizing that writing is always to some degree a communal project. Thinking more specifically, translating others' poetry has given me access to forms and tones that I probably wouldn't have found otherwise. It was through translating that I began to see, many years ago, the possibility of the book rather than the individual poem as the basic poetic unit. And I know that I've also picked up rhythms from French that are different from Egnlish rhythms; the French approach to the prose poem is a bit different as well, perhaps more matter-of-fact, and I think I've absorbed that as well. DG: How do you choose what to translate? Do the writers' personalities draw you to their words, or is it the unique way in which they use language? CS: I'm drawn to translation as a conversation, a conversation around poetics. All the people I've translated were living at the time—and most still are—and in all cases, I've talked the translation over with them in detail, which always leads beyond the specific work to its larger contexts and to the principles of thought, creativity, imagination, etc. that direct the work. Those conversations are extremely rewarding, and they inform the way I read other works—in both English and French—as well. I think of translation as a form of reading, the most intense and engaged form possible. I almost always meet the work before the writer, and it's when I find myself wanting to write the line I'm reading—it's not a feeling of "Ah, I wish I'd written that!" but rather of "I would love to write that!" I think it's not sufficiently emphasized that translation is not just decoding and recoding; it's also, and above all, writing. DG: How much liberty should a translator be allowed—in other words, if you see the opportunity to improve something, do you follow that path, or is it better to remain ever-faithful to the original? CS: What constitutes an improvement is extremely subjective. What I might consider an improvement, the writer might consider ghastly. But beyond that, translation for me has nothing to do with judging the text, of thinking whether it's "good" or whether it could be "better"; it's about engaging with it, and the deepest engagement is not necessarily the one that sticks to it the most literally, but the one that most deeply grasps its specific terms and aims and recreates them as much as possible. I'm committed to presenting the work as the writer would have written it had he, she, or they been writing originally in English. DG: You travel often to Europe. What would you say are the most notable differences between how poetry is appreciated and promoted in North America, compared to France, or Germany, for example? CS: I can't say for Germany—in fact, I can really only say for France—and it seems to me that it's oddly similar. And I say oddly, because there are so many cultural differences between France and the US, but poetry is, in a sense, its own culture separate from the one it's surrounded by (like all airports, taken together, form their own country). This is perhaps particularly true of France and the US because there has been such a long history of poetic friendship and exchange. There have been several books, a couple quite recently, that detail these exchanges. Especially during the 20th and 21st centuries, the two poetries have importantly informed each other. In the late 20th century, there was Emmanuel Hocquard's important project "Bureau sur l'Atlantique," which engaged with experimental poetics from the Objectivists through the Language Poets, paralleled by Juiliette Valery's series of publications, Format Américain, and later, beginning in the 2000's, a bi-national group, Double Change, has been fundamental in a series of readings, conferences, and publications that bring North American work to French attention. In the other direction, Rosmarie & Keith Waldrop's Burning Deck Press published many French poets over its 60 years, and other presses have also focused on contemporary French work. But often influences are less obvious. A good example might be the important influence that France and French poetry had on Ashbery. If we then think, in turn, of how important Ashbery's influence has been on American poetry from the late 20th century on—so many American poets who wouldn't think of themselves as influenced by anything French have been through Ashbery—and through many others of his generation and those immediately following. And earlier, think how many of the modernists spent serious time in France and with French work. The same is true regarding the influence of some American writers on French poets—so there's a lot of entwined shaping that many poets are not necessarily aware of. As for the contemporary moment, in both countries, poetry is equally marginalized and largely published by small presses devoted to the form for the love of it. DG: Over the years, you've emphasized the importance walking has had on your creativity. In the philosophical tradition, Nietzsche was perhaps the most fervent adherent to physical movement, at least in relation to creativity: "Sit as little as possible; do not believe any idea that was not born in the open air and of free movement—in which the muscles do not also revel." And yet, the poet must eventually sit down to write. What were some particularly memorable walks for you, and did they lead to the best poems you wrote? CS: That quotation, particularly the "in which the muscles do not also revel" is so key—that thinking and writing must also have a kinetic aspect. Though I don't think it has to be as thorough as, say, walking. You cannot write without the hand's being active—whether you're writing by hand or on a keyboard—the hand or hands are dancing, and I've always been struck by how many writers enjoy not only letting their imaginations go, but also enjoy the physical act of writing. I began a fairly recent book, On Walking On, with the question of why, for as long as such things have been recorded, so many writers are also inveterate walkers, and it's interesting to me that the ensuing book didn't end up persuing the question; it instead wallowed in the experiences of such writers as presented through their writing. Clearly, so many writers have thrived on the complete fusion of the two activities—perhaps it's because the mind works so differently when the body is active. DG: European towns—for the most part—are built very differently from cities in the US. Even in big urban areas, everything seems to be in closer proximity, meant to be explored on foot, while North American metropoles are vast, spread out, and this especially in the West. Coming from California, having lived on the East Coast, and experienced Europe, do you feel that any given setting changes your writing, or do you find that the length of your sentences, for example, stays mostly constant? CS: I like that idea! That a more extensive space might extend the line, but I don't find that to be true. That said, I do think setting affects my work. Because of Covid, I spent most of 2020 and 2021 in California, just north of San Francisco. And whether there's any connection or not, I don't know, but my writing changed completely—much more subject based and based on immediate surroundings. I'm currently on a sabbatical in France, and that focus on the immediate has continued. DG: In the introduction to your most recent book, Art in Time, you talk about the need to engage "the landscape genre in a fluid way," in a way that "puts the landscape back into motion," in order to find alternatives to some of the presumptions and practices of landscape art common to Euro-centric contexts." Indeed, you've also said elsewhere that landscapes are never silent, though they often appear that way to us. What's the best way to reorient the perception of our own surroundings? Can poetry help us do this, and, if so, what are some of your favorite poems in this respect? CS: Yes I do think that poetry can reorient our perceptions and perspective, and often does so through the "startle." Which is not an epiphany—that supposed sudden quasi-spiritual realization that is often closer to emotional manipulation—I'm thinking instead of those startling moments triggered by unusual uses of language; they're often just about shifting perspective, suddenly de-habituating the scene. Shklovsky used the term "ostranenie"—defamiliarization, and though it's a heavily-theorized term that been around for a long time, I think it's a valuable concept and an even more valuable device that allows language to operate constructively on our modes of perception. Regarding landscape, I'm interested in recognizing a continuity, an inclusivity, that involves everything in sight including the viewer because I think it changes structures of responsibility. Clearly, we as a species, need to take a dramatically different kind of responsibility, which I don't think we can do as long as we see ourselves as separate from nature and perpetuate distinctions such observer/observed. DG: With David St. John, you edited a fascinating anthology of poetry, American Hybrid, with the aim of closing the gap between traditional and experimental poetry. Thirteen years after its publication, do you feel that the margin has been closed, or has it perhaps widened unexpectedly? CS: What interested me at that point, and still does, is a shift from a perception of American poetry as on a linear continuum from the traditional to the experimental—of course that linearity wasn't "true," but it was often talked of in that way. It seemed to me that from the 1990s on, there has been an profusion of different tendencies that increasingly cannot be mapped in relation to each other. It's an exploded field, expanding outward in all directions, full of tendencies that resist comparison—and I think that that's an extremely promising mode of development; may it continue. DG: Would you say that those working in the "experimental" genre have perhaps—and in this case, rather unfairly—born a burden that isn't necessarily only theirs to bear? In other words, many formalists and lyricists, for example, are also trying to do new things with language—tackling taboo subjects, for example, or pushing the boundaries of metaphor, all the while remaining dedicated to their artistic fields; these experiments, however, are sadly not considered "experiments," but rather interpreted as the "creative impulse," which, in my view, cheapens the effort of crossing new aesthetic frontiers. Can we really say, hence, there's an actual difference between creative uses of language and linguistic experimentation? CS: I'm going to start with the end of the question—yes, I think there is a difference, but I think that the differing cultural values assigned to various practices are inaccurate and unproductive. All language uses have their value—and that value is always determined by the reader/hearer; it's not inherent in the language use itself. I happen to be very interested in unprecedented uses of language, in broken language and its relationship to the limits of the sayable, and, ultimately, I'm probably more interested in the unsayable than the sayable, and certainly in the volatile boundary between them because I think that's where the potential for the "startle" mentioned above lies, where our capacity to use language to expand what we can think and feel is based. But many people would not agree and would, instead, find that same potential elsewhere—in tackling taboo subjects, for instance. And I don't mean to dissolve into a mush of relativism, but to discourage an endless tendency that we all seem to have to judge—to assign definitive value—which is actually simply lazy; we do it just so that we can say "Good, that's settled. I don't have to think about it anymore." Which is an error; we do have to keep on thinking about it, whatever it is; we can never allow anything to settle, or, rather, nothing ever does settle, and if we view it as such, we're fooling ourselves. This is related to the view of landscape as always fluid that you mentioned above. That reality of the concrete world follows through to every aspect of living. DG: You teach writing and literature at Brown's reputable Literary Arts program. There have been rabbit-hole debates about the benefits of teaching writing. Without getting into that, what are things writing programs can do and what are their limitations? In addition, it would be interesting to hear how teaching informs your own creative process. CS: Writing programs, above all, can give people two or three years to focus almost exclusively on writing and among a variety of resources—courses, libraries, other writers. MFAs allow them to completely immerse themselves in aesthetic questions and their relations to politics, culture, and society. And that, for most people, is a transformative process. No matter what they do afterward, they'll do it with a different perspective. Regarding limitations—they are based on presumptions. If people think a writing program will, for instance, make them better writers, they'll likely be disappointed, but if instead, they simply presume that it's going to change them, and remain open about the directions such change might take, they'll probably get more out of it. It's hard for me to say how teaching informs my own writing practice as I have no basis for comparison—I've been teaching since I was 20 years old, so it's inseparable from my writing. About Cole Swensen Cole Swensen is the author of 19 books of poetry, most recently Art in Time (Nightboat Books, 2021) and a book of faux-logical nano-essays, And And And (Free Poetry Press, 2022). A former Guggenheim Fellow, she has received the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, the National Poetry Series, and the PEN USA Award in Literary Translation and has been a finalist for the National Book Award. Co-editor of the Norton anthology American Hybrid and founding editor of La Presse, she also translates literature and art criticism from French. A native of the SF Bay Area, she divides her time between there, France, and Providence RI, where she teaches at Brown University. Posted in California, Californian Poets, France, Interlitq, Poetry, Translation, USA, Writing

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Diepoltshof ist ein Ortsteil der Stadt Nabburg im Oberpfälzer Landkreis Schwandorf (Bayern). Geografie Diepoltshof liegt 350 Meter nordwestlich der Bundesautobahn 6 und ungefähr 4 Kilometer westlich von Nabburg. Etwa 400 Meter östlich von Diepoldshof entspringt der Ebertsbierlbach und fließt Richtung Südwesten an Diepoltshof vorbei. Durch Diepoltshof führte eine alte Handelsstraße. Sie wurde im Volksmund "Zigeunerweg" oder auch "Steinköppel" genannt. Sie verlief von Amberg über Moos – Hiltersdorf – Holzhaus – Kohlmühle – Etsdorf – Inzendorf – Brudersdorf – Diepoltshof nach Nabburg und weiter nach Böhmen. Südlich von Diepoltshof liegt etwa 30 Meter tief in Nord-Süd-Richtung ein Flussspatvorkommen. In den 1970er Jahren wurde hier ein alter Schacht entdeckt. Er wurde für einige Jahre mit Hilfe eines Baggers ausgebeutet, dann aber wieder geschlossen. Geschichte Im Burggeding des Pfalzgrafs Ruprecht III. aus dem Jahr 1379 wurde Diepoltshof (auch: Diepoltzhoff) als zum Stadt- und Steuerbereich Nabburg gehörig erwähnt. Im Salbuch von 1473 wurde Diepoltshof mit einer Steuer von 5 Schilling und 25 Pfennig aufgeführt. Im Salbuch von 1513 war Diepoltshof mit 1 Hof, Jägergeld jährlich von 3 Höfen und 2 Halbhöfen verzeichnet. Während des Dreißigjährigen Krieges erlebte die Region einen Bevölkerungsrückgang. 1500, 1523, 1583 hatte Diepoltshof 5 Untertanen, 1631 und 1712 waren es 4. Die Kriegsaufwendungen betrugen 736 Gulden. Im Amtsverzeichnis von 1596 erschien Diepoltshof mit 2 ganzen Höfen, einem Dreiviertelhof und 2 Halbhöfen. Im Türkensteueranlagsbuch von 1606 waren für Diepoltshof 3 ganze Höfe, ein Halbhof, 1 Gut, 5 Pferde, 6 Ochsen, 13 Kühe, 14 Rinder, 5 Schweine, 75 Schafe und eine Steuer von 18 Gulden und 21½ Kreuzer eingetragen. Zusätzlich zur Gutsherrschaft Schwarzenfeld gehörig ein Anwesen laut Steuerbuch von 1630 mit 2 Ochsen, 1 Pferd, 3 Kühen, 4 Rindern, 1 Schwein, 2 Frischlingen, und einer Steuer von 3 Gulden und 39½ Kreuzer. Im Herdstättenbuch von 1721 erschien Diepoltshof mit 5 Anwesen, 6 Häusern und 6 Feuerstätten. Zusätzlich zu Schwarzenfeld gehörig ein Anwesen mit einem Haus und einer Feuerstätte. Im Herdstättenbuch von 1762 erschien Diepoltshof mit 5 Herdstätten, 2 Inwohnern und einer Herdstätte im Hirtenhaus mit einem Inwohner. Zusätzlich zu Schwarzenfeld gehörig eine Herdstätte. 1792 hatte Diepoltshof 6 hausgesessene Amtsuntertanen. Zusätzlich zu Schwarzenfeld gehörig ein hausgesessener gutsherrschaftlicher Untertan. 1808 gab es in Diepoltshof 5 Anwesen und ein Hirtenhaus. 1808 begann in Folge des Organischen Ediktes des Innenministers Maximilian von Montgelas in Bayern die Bildung von Gemeinden. Dabei wurde das Landgericht Nabburg zunächst in landgerichtische Obmannschaften geteilt. Diepoltshof kam zur Obmannschaft Brudersdorf. Zur Obmannschaft Brudersdorf gehörten: Brudersdorf, Diepoltshof, Passelsdorf, Lissenthan, Etzelhof, Bergelshof und Ödhof. Dann wurden 1811 in Bayern Steuerdistrikte gebildet. Dabei kam Diepoltshof zum Steuerdistrikt Brudersdorf. Der Steuerdistrikt Brudersdorf bestand aus den Dörfern Brudersdorf, Passelsdorf und Diepoltshof und der Einöde Oedhof. Er hatte 26 Häuser, 155 Seelen, 230 Morgen Äcker, 100 Morgen Wiesen, 110 Morgen Holz, 3 Weiher, 12 Morgen öde Gründe und Wege, 1 Pferd, 16 Ochsen, 36 Kühe, 50 Stück Jungvieh, 100 Schafe und 24 Schweine. 1819 gehörte Diepoltshof zum Patrimonialgericht Schwarzenfeld, das bis 1848 Bestand hatte und dann an den Staat fiel. Schließlich wurde 1818 mit dem Zweiten Gemeindeedikt die übertriebene Zentralisierung weitgehend rückgängig gemacht und es wurden relativ selbständige Landgemeinden mit eigenem Vermögen gebildet, über das sie frei verfügen konnten. Hierbei kam Diepoltshof zur Ruralgemeinde Brudersdorf. Die Gemeinde Brudersdorf bestand aus den Ortschaften Brudersdorf mit 10 Familien, Passelsdorf mit 9 Familien, Diepoltshof mit 7 Familien, Ödhof mit einer Familie, Lissenthan mit 10 Familien, Etzelhof mit 7 Familien und Bergelshof mit 6 Familien. Die Gemeinde Brudersdorf blieb bis 1972 bestehen und wurde dann nach Nabburg eingegliedert. Diepoltshof gehörte vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert zur Filialkirche Brudersdorf der Pfarrei Nabburg, Dekanat Nabburg. Zur Filialkirche Brudersdorf, gehörten neben Brudersdorf noch Legendorf, Etzelhof, Lissenthan, Diepoltshof, Passelsdorf, Obersteinbach, Fraunberg, Ragenhof und Windpaißing. Einwohnerentwicklung ab 1819 Literatur Elisabeth Müller-Luckner, Historischer Atlas von Bayern, Teil Altbayern, Heft 50, Nabburg, München 1981, ISBN 3-7696-9915-7 Einzelnachweise Weblinks Diepoltshof, Luftaufnahme Geographie (Nabburg) Ort im Landkreis Schwandorf Ersterwähnung 1379

The Bahrain Summer is finally here. It seemed like it would take forever to arrive after a rather prolonged winter but now that it has, it's been quite sudden. And what's strange is that there has been no spring because we've had temperatures suddenly shooting up to 28 degrees C from around 17 degrees C last week. This could mean only one thing – that we are in for a rather severe hot months, until at least the middle of October. Here's welcoming the real Bahrain weather. The picnic's over!

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AL Injury Notes: Ohtani, Yankees, Red Sox, Athletics Posted on April 28 by thebaseballbatsfanatic The Angels' Shohei Ohtani won't make his season debut during their homestand from April 30-May 5, manager Brad Ausmus told Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register and other reporters Sunday. The two-way star is still on the mend from the Tommy John surgery he underwent on his right elbow last October, which will keep him from pitching this season but won't prevent him from helping the Angels' offense. Los Angeles entered Sunday with a middle-of-the-pack offense, though designated hitters Albert Pujols and Kevan Smith have only combined for average hitting to this point relative to their position. Ohtani was far better than that as a rookie in 2018, when he slashed .288/.361/.564 with 22 home runs and 10 steals over 367 plate appearances. The injury-ravaged Yankees may have to start dipping into the Double-A level to fill their roster soon, as a couple more of their players – infielders DJ LeMahieu and Gio Urshela – left Sunday's game against the Giants with ailments. LeMahieu departed with right knee inflammation, while Urshela exited after Giants reliever Nick Vincent hit him in the left hand with an 88.5 mph pitch. Luckily for New York, X-rays came back negative in both cases (via ESPN.com and Jon Heyman of MLB Network). LeMahieu and Urshela have handled third base with aplomb in place of Miguel Andujar, who's one of 13 Yankees currently on the injured list. Red Sox infielders Dustin Pedroia and Eduardo Nunez are set to embark on rehab assignments, manager Alex Cora said Sunday. Meanwhile, fellow banged-up infielder Brock Holt was scratched from his Triple-A rehab game Sunday because of right shoulder soreness (links via Chris Cotillo of MassLive.com). Pedroia landed on the IL on April 18 with yet another left knee injury, but he's "a lot better" now, according to Cora, who announced he's likely to play with Double-A Portland beginning May 2. Nunez, down since the 19th with a mid-back strain, will go to Triple-A Pawtucket on Monday and could be back in Boston by May 6, Cotillo writes. Holt has been on the IL since April 6 with a scratched right cornea, and there's no word on how serious his shoulder problem is. When healthy, Pedroia, Nunez and Holt have posted pitiful production this year, which helps explain why Boston second basemen have recorded the AL's worst fWAR (minus-0.9). Athletics first baseman/outfielder Mark Canha suffered a wrist sprain Sunday and may require a stint on the IL, per Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle. Slusser notes the A's could recall Skye Bolt or Dustin Fowler to replace Canha, who has hit .200/.377/.375 with a pair of HRs in 53 trips to the plate this year. from MLB Trade Rumors http://bit.ly/2GEs6MK NL Notes: Nats' Injuries, Mesoraco, Brewers, Nelson, Russell Checking In On The Least Valuable Hitters Of 2018

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The director, his deputy, and three other employees of the State Enterprise for Forestry were detained yesterday morning, suspected of passive corruption.According to the criminal scheme, on the basis of an erroneous assessment, the employees of the enterprise deliberately organized the distortion of the information on the amount of wood present in the Forestry District.As a result of the change of data, an uncontracted surplus wood is obtained, which was subsequently destroyed. The profit is distributed to 70% of the A head of department and a doctor within the IMSP Municipal Clinical Hospital "Holy Trinity" were detained by the NAC officers and the anticorruption prosecutors, suspected of passive corruption.According to the case materials, during the period of the months March-June, they, together with other doctors, are suspected of claiming money from surgical patients, including those insured with medical expenses, sums of money up to 7,000 lei, without reflect them in the accounting records of the institution.As a result of the 1. Criminal Assets Recovery Agency (CARA) has seized goods and accounts worth over 2 700 000 lei.2. 5 operational and one strategic analyses have been delivered. 3. The Legislation Directorate sent 6 anticorruption proof expertises. 33 materials are under review.4. The Legal Department participated in 7 hearings.5. There were 977 entries in the Center`s Chancellery.6. 72 calls were received at the national anticorruption line, 2 of them being under the competence of the NAC.7. In penitenciary, 14 persons are detained, arrested The National Anticorruption Center, under it`s quality of a law institution in the Republic of Moldova, being a specialized body for preventing and combating corruption, acting on the principles of legality and impartiality, starting from the obligation to act in strict compliance with the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova, makes the following statement:The NAC is an apolitical organ, doesn`t provide assistance and doesn`t support any political party. Today, public institutions in the Republic of Moldova are in an unprecedented Home / Mass-media / Events / The NAC Director: Bribery will not stop by arresting officials. We have to teach children not to give money anymore Bogdan Zumbreanu and the position of the NAC director B. Z. It is an armchair that assumes far more responsibilities than I thought at the time of my appointment. It is a function that involves activity not only of discovering offenses and not just managing the process of preventing corruption. It is a function that also involves many many other issues related to the administration of an institution: starting with logistics, human resources, accounting - facts that take a lot of time and health. Year 2017 vs. present B. Z. At the time of my appointment as a director, we proposed to the team to have a systemic approach to the phenomenon of corruption so that we do not perform momentary operations but try to penetrate the systems where the act of corruption was rooted. Our investigations and polls showed that the areas most affected by the phenomenon of corruption were justice, education and health - areas where we have intervened with large-scale operations. I did it to draw the authorities' attention that they had to make order at home. It is not the best way to go for action to fight corruption. All these cases, which were initiated as a result of these operations, some of them are at the stage of completion, some of them have already been sent to the court. Small Corruption vs. High corruption and impact on the country`s economy. B. Z. Big corruption and small corruption is an apple of discord that has been discussed by several actors, including politics. It's ok for PR to talk about big corruption, if you try to grasp the importance and severity of small corruption, you understand that the problem is actually small corruption, but not high corruption. The operations of the Center for Combating Economic Crimes and the operations carried out by the National Anticorruption Center had different effects. I've been working in the Center since 2002, and all of those developments have happened ... they`ve been through me if you want. Our actions have generated political crises, our actions have led to government failures, our actions have led to changes in the top-level leadership of some institutions, but corruption in those institutions has not been diminished to the expectations of the citizens. If we change the head of an institution, that does not mean that his subordinates will not continue to commit acts of corruption. And when you talk about the impact on the national economy, I do not mean that the Customs or the Fiscal Inspectorate are the institutions most affected by corruption, but it is an example to understand the gravity of this. In order not to document cases of smuggling, a routine inspector takes bribes. Therefore, some money that has to get into the budget, I do not. In order not to document tax evasion or not to carry out a proper tax audit, a tax inspector may request bribery and create situations when certain amounts of money are not paid in the budget. And if we gather all together, here is the impact on the national economy. Our whole team came to a single conclusion. Good people, we do not cut off corruption only with the arrests of high-liability officials, and that`s not the case in a country. For example, our colleagues in Romania, the DNA authority in Romania is incontestable, but does anyone want to say that there are fewer corruption cases in Romania each year? Not. There are so many files, but that does not mean that the anti-corruption authority does not work. DNA in Romania has the competence to fight against corruption. At the same time, small corruption is the responsibility of the territorial bodies. We as the country and territory are fewer, but if we are to make a comparison, our achievements are almost equal to the achievements of DNA. Anti-Corruption Campaigns B. Z. We are trying to educate the citizen. That does not mean that we have left aside the fighting process. Another is the fact that we have understood that it is necessary to raise a generation that will no longer pay a bribe. This bribery of civil servants will not stop by arresting these officials. We have to teach children not to give money anymore. In this sense, we have had several social campaigns. I have had training in various public authorities. I`ve set up anti-corruption volunteers. There are young people who are very enthusiastic about what the activity of propagating this principle is about changing the mentality. There are young people who are trying to propagate this new culture of integrity in society. Today we have a less generous generation of students who basically do not pay money in schools, pupils who bear the consequences of these facts. So they are marginalized by some teachers, they are regarded as a white crow by classmates, but they assume this struggle and have all our respect.

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Also on the programme Chris Cowley, implicated in the Iraqi supergun affair and former Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath."[42]. Atwell kept his job at C4 and axed the show at the end of that run. Channel 4's former Chief Executive, Jeremy Isaacs, speaking at a public lecture that month, said he would have given the After Dark air-time to Adams: "Although I sympathise with what must have been a difficult decision, broadcasters are always going to be accused of self-censorship. This includes everyone who works for Open Media, the production company – plus a couple of experts on topics we are considering for the future. "[145] The Listener magazine said 'After Dark has taken the format towards the realm of psychodrama, peeling away its participants layers of restraint and front. The Film Crew: Hollywood After Dark Cast and Crew. And two weeks ago journalist Peter Hillmore sweated so much I thought I would have to throw him a rubber ring. After the Dark (2014), Drama Mystery released in English language in theatre near you in National Capital Region (NCR). Well I suppose they are on for three or four hours, but I think that is a really good idea, that you can really work everything out for yourself. [76], The journalist Paul Foot described it as "one magnificent edition of After Dark in which Robin Ramsay excelled himself. I came in from a night out and there was McCririck and a couple of others sitting there on the TV talking a load of rubbish. Guests would be selected to provoke lively discussion; subject matter included "the treatment of children, of the mentally ill, of prisoners, and about class, cash and racial and sexual difference", as well as "matters of exceptional sensitivity to the then Thatcher government, such as state secrecy or the Troubles in Northern Ireland"; "places further afield...– Chile, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Nicaragua, South Africa and Russia – featured regularly" and "less apparently solemn subjects – sport, fashion, gambling, pop music – were in the mix from the start". We give our guests nothing until they arrive on set and then they can drink orange juice, or have a bottle of wine. The aim, discussion between people with burning experience of the subject; e.g., the murderer and the judge. Heddle's tactic was to lecture the feckless Spider, and tell him to pull up his socks. [16], From late April in 1987, Channel 4 screened a Nighttime strand, a mixture of films and discussion programmes that ran until 3am on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. [1] In 2010 the television trade magazine Broadcast wrote "After Dark defined the first 10 years of Channel 4, just as Big Brother did for the second"[2] and in 2018 the programme was cited in an editorial in The Times as an example of high-quality television. He also relishes the unexpected alliances that are formed and the genuine dialogue that becomes possible.[151]. After Dark was a British late-night live discussion programme broadcast on Channel 4 television between 1987 and 1997, and on the BBC in 2003. The series editor, Sebastian Cody, talking about the programme in an interview in 2003, said that "Reality TV is artificial. Here are the dark secrets of the cast of Jersey Shore that have come out so far. The points made in the final 15 minutes last Friday, about the differences between Britain and the US in attitudes towards wealth, and the way in which this might explain the puzzling (albeit pleasing) failure, so far, of organised crime in Britain, were the most interesting of the entire discussion. This may be the last time for some years that any disclosures can be made on such matters.... After Dark exists for mysterious reasons, probably something to do with a necessary safety-valve in a climate of increasing pressure on the media.... Its strength is that it has rescued that endangered species, genuinely spontaneous conversation, and presented it absolutely without frills. With the ending of After Dark, not a single programme from the list remains. In all the ways that matter the control of After Dark passed from the producer and the broadcaster to the participants. Operation Dark Winter was the code name for a bio-terrorist simulation conducted in June 2001 by John Hopkins, high-level government officials and the media regarding a … It was the most junior job I'd ever had and I was extremely happy! Since After Dark, unlike most radio phone-ins, boasts no tape delay, the alleged defamation could not be prevented. I was asked to join Christof Wackernagel [de], a former Baader-Meinhof actor and poet... a Herr Spitzi from Austria who was a "revisionist" historian and questioned whether a Holocaust had in fact happened; a camp survivor; a Wall Street Journal writer; a psychiatrist; and Franz Schoenhuber, head of the new Republican party in Germany.... At least three times during the long night I excused myself and marched out of the TV studio, into the street, to breathe fresh air. ", Xaviera Hollander and "Men and Women: What's the Difference? They had been given a proper environment to talk in and they had done just that. It was for him. Eamonn McCann dominated the whole discussion, destroying anyone who dared to cross him. That was the biggest reason. When this legislation completes its processes through Parliament such a gathering is likely to become illegal. "[117] The Daily Telegraph reported what happened next: "More than 100 Christians gathered outside County Hall to demonstrate their support for Mr Andrew Croall ... . After Dark had fun with Currie's apparent bilocation and the clash of realities". But the Channel Four masterminds wanted to know about my war activities and the following day Montgomery Hyde, a barrister, phoned me to warn me that a High Court writ was on its way. There will be no Season 2 for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. Sinéad came on and argued that abuse in families was coded in by the church because it refused to accept the accounts of women and children." "[44] Vergès said "the reason people were still prosecuted for massacring Jews was because the Jews were white; if they had not been, the crimes would have been swept under the carpet long ago. Share. It was suggested that only half a dozen MI5 men were watching After Dark. "[77] During the discussion, another guest, retired GCHQ employee Jock Kane, claimed "that the new procedures recommended by the Security Commission regarding the removal of documents from GCHQ had not been implemented four years later."[78]. 'I warned them it was a bad idea to invite Oliver'. Programme extract, quoted in Phil Scraton, "Three Minutes of Hope", Hugo Gryn, Continuum, 2010: footnote 8 to the introduction by Naomi Gryn. Eric Zimit Sophie Lowe. Tel: 01524 419486 No... Annette Witheridge's admission that she'd left this story to others to check out, hadn't discovered for four months that it was false, and hadn't apologised because nobody had asked her to, marked a turning point in the debate.[64]. Had she been raped?[72]. Some of us have worked on and with this production, others have been its on-screen guests, still others have no professional connection with the programme but as viewers have found After Dark uniquely entertaining, instructive and informative. And we let them go to the loo. The seat on the presenters' right, a bit in the shadows, is chosen by dark horses whose contributions are few but deadly." Therefore, he concluded, he thought the most pressing need was 'the ousting of this appalling government'. "Bunraku," one of the three most treasured traditional theatrical arts of Japan...apparently meant nothing to one whose life is dedicated to arts of the West. After Dark was a British late-night live discussion programme broadcast on Channel 4 television between 1987 and 1997, and on the BBC in 2003. He drew from his pocket a story she'd written, headlined "Spank Row MP Urged to Take AIDS Test", linking him allegedly to "a former male lover believed to have the killer disease AIDS". Since you referred to the edition in which the late Oliver Reed took part, this seems a good time to correct some of the myths which have surrounded the programme since it was transmitted on 26 January 1991. They establish a deep connection that ends up with Pink having a strange pregnancy which haunts her until the end. Learn about After the Dark: discover its cast ranked by popularity, see when it released, view trivia, and more. [5], As listed on the webpage of ITN Source:[28]. The programme is likely to cause controversy, as the Shadow Foreign Secretary Gerald Kaufman and a number of Israelis will appear alongside Faisal Aweidah, the hardline PLO representative in London. Bob Strange, quoted in John Dugdale, 'The big question'. Bonnie Wright Cast. Belafonte came directly from Wembley with a police escort for his only British TV appearance. Wilson had Alzheimers; Callaghan never liked us; and Edward Heath, who later appeared twice on After Dark, couldn't make it. This individual said an angry Michael Grade, then Chief Executive of C4, had demanded the programme be stopped. We began with a rough consensus and Mary Whitehouse designated the runt of the discussion. "[58], Socialist Worker wrote "A recent discussion on the Irish civil rights struggle in 1968 provided one of the best nights' viewing in ages. You'd be amazed how sensitive, kind he is. Directed by Rico Johnson. In his book on the channel, its founder Jeremy Isaacs gave a long list of programmes that he felt summed up its ethos. The Listener magazine described the programme: The new Official Secrets Act has just received the Queen's assent. Her, terrors awake when her patient abnormally gets better. The writing has the usual Murakami surrealistic imagery and there is a strange eerie suspense maintained throughout. Rhys Wakefield Cast. The argument actually felt quite menacing. [156], Diversity was anyway guaranteed by the colourful production teams who researched the programmes. In this episode we talk about the very saddening 10 loss streak and some potential trade targets for the Timberwolves. The first ever After Dark programme (1 May 1987) was described in The Listener: After Dark made a historic breakthrough by rediscovering the structure of adult conversation: the ingredients are intelligence, candour and courage, and the absence of impeding structures such as television time barriers. They were allowed to drink, if they wanted, and the programme ended only when they ran out of things to say. Wilkinson publicly attacked the proposal to have Adams on the programme. We are the future now. On 14 May 1988, The Daily Telegraph wrote: Tonight's edition of After Dark... will mark the 40th anniversary of Israel. The British Film Institute characterised the opening discussion of the new series in January 1991 as follows: Discussion on the West's role in supplying arms to the Middle East. He predicted that the programme could seem even more unusual now, in the age of slick and formatted television.[135]. [5] The Newcastle Journal reported that "An angry lady called her 'a conceited witch' and hoped she would never set eyes on her again".[106]. When Professor (Sherrill) Mulhern and Dr. Bill Thompson systematically explained how MPD and disclosure therapy were iatrogenic, and neither Beatrix Campbell nor the feminist or Christian social work directors had an answer, the media set out to extricate itself from its uncritical coverage of the NSPCC's claims by pouring all over Orkney. Had he been watching the daughter? Its force is its unique lack of inhibition in dealing with very controversial issues without exhibitionism...an invaluable programme.[94]. and the TV trade magazine Televisual commented: The show was successful in making its guests forget the cameras and the host. It took the show off the air for 20 minutes, filling the space with an old documentary about coal mining. You cannot record a programme like that. It was a simple, unvarnished account, and the most riveting piece of television this week.[134]. In the Dark is a podcast produced by American Public Media.Hosted and narrated by Madeleine Baran, and produced by Samara Freemark, the series features investigative journalism and in-depth reportage from APM Reports, the investigative reporting and documentary unit of APM. Anyone who regarded Benn as a dangerous "loony leftie" but watched right through until 2.00 may have been astonished at his thoroughly conservative British attitudes.[92]. Also on the panel were high profile child protection campaigner Esther Rantzen, lawyer Helena Kennedy QC, a former abuse victim, a criminologist, a solicitor and two academics. We let the guests continue their discussions, though live broadcasting was obviously no longer possible. Unfortunately the debate was hijacked by a black musician called 'Blue', who shouted everyone down with non-sequiturs. That is not a coincidence.[24]. "[34] Some years later David Mellor and writer Gaia Servadio described how their friendship started on the programme. Dark is a German science fiction thriller streaming television series co-created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese. I wish you could all meet him. [5] The Listener magazine called it "The programme in which you can see the people think". I was terribly pleased with it.[93]. In the aftermath of a child's disappearance, Dark follows characters from the fictional German town of Winden as they pursue the truth. It was the most original programme on television, and the only one in which the sound of the human voice – angry, boring, repetitive, excitable, but occasionally passionate, revealing and unforgettable – overcame the patina of artifice with which television habitually polishes and tidies up its speakers. I will allocate tasks, giving myself a slightly smaller workload so that I can keep a supervisory eye on the overall progress of the one or two projects in hand. Any suggestion that she was beautiful, they explained, was simply a reflex of a conditioned and oppressed culture. Peter Hain – of course he was set up by the South Africans – of course he was. The curious event of the disappearance of a live programme provided Fleet Street with some funny stories, not all of them true (but many are still recycled). The German show has a unique take on time travel and is filled with twists and turns. But there was this guy, sitting there quietly, who would chip in every now and again and say something which was quite outstanding. The Independent newspaper noted: "Grade's programming is confused: he axed the talk show... allegedly to make way for even more innovative programmes, yet replaced it with a series of Seventies repeats. Dark (2017–2020) Series Cast & Crew. Film ini adalah film cerita ketiga Huddles dan dibintangi Sophie Lowe, Rhys Wakefield, Bonnie Wright, James D'Arcy, Daryl Sabara, Freddie Stroma, Cinta Laura dan Katie Findlay. "[102] A columnist in The Times, Barbara Amiel, wrote "A very fat lady and a deformed man (told) a beauty queen that her looks were 'boring'. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker. Although Reed was not the only disruptive guest in the history of After Dark, what put this particular show into the headlines was not so much Reed's behaviour as C4's. [43], The last After Dark ("Iraq: Truth and Lies?") And what do Alex O'Loughlin and Scott Caan plan to do after Hawaii Five-0? It came when a young American lawyer [ Eli Rosenbaum ] announced that he had flown in for the programme specifically to confront Vergès with evidence of his anti-Semitic, right-wing connections and general moral corruption. I enjoyed the intellectual cut-and-thrust of the office, the thrill of live broadcasting, and the diversity of the subjects we covered."[157]. The Dark cast is as enormous as it is impressive given the nature of the show. His decision prompted a campaign by more than 100 public figures, from an astronaut to a zoologist, to save the programme. Cast & Crew. The BBC defended the decision to give a platform to Mr O'Carroll, saying he was invited on as part of a legitimate discussion about a topical issue. During the course of the program, I happened to remark on the traditional use of whale baleen plates that is an important part of the respect paid to all parts of the whales caught, using them without waste. "It was more than a discussion of child sex abuse," she says. The BFI said InView offered examples of how some of the UK's key social, political and economic issues have been represented and debated. Initially, it said that Adams would only appear if a "suitable context" could be found. And there was Lord Hailsham, who as Quintin Hogg had been a Tory MP at the time. [57], On 30 April 1988 Tony Wilson hosted "a special Walpurgis Night edition...which featured representatives of several pagan, occult and Satanist groups. In fact it was Liz Forgan, awoken at home, who said the programme should be put back on air. Was robbery part of the motive? As so often with After Dark I switched on to watch 10 minutes and stayed till the end. A motion, drawn up by Mr Ken Livingstone (Brent E), refers to statements made by Mr Gary Murray – a private investigator, who says he has been employed by the Government – on Channel 4's After Dark programme.[79]. The producer described the working method: ... so designed as to empower the guests, rather than have them act out a preordained and inevitably limited agenda designed by others. That night Reed's behaviour was certainly causing concern. [27], Presenter Tony Wilson said "After Dark kept its participants apart before the transmission"[150] Presenter John Underwood reckons the first give-away is guests' choice of seats when they enter the studio: "Power figures, people used to being listened to, plump themselves down opposite the host. (Host) Helena Kennedy recalls that homeless Spider, sitting on the plump sofas in the mock studio living room with fellow guests, did not take kindly to being lectured about fecklessness by John Heddle, a Tory MP". The combination of Home Office minister David Mellor, former Cosa Nostra "bagman" Bob Dick, former Scotland Yard intelligence officer Frank Pulley (who made particularly astute political and social comments), New York undercover policeman Douglas le Vien and several journalists who write about organised crime, proved highly productive. grown-ish's Yara Shahidi Explains Why New Cast Members' Dark Skin Matters. There is no celebrity host who has to make himself look good. Cast 32. Furthermore, she left Sir Alfred Sherman lost for words, a feat rarely achieved before or since."[81]. But it was not Irving they reserved their contempt and anger for. After Schitt's Creek, Eugene Levy could be resting on his laurels, but the longtime actor is already onto a new project, doing voiceover work. From a phone in the hospitality room they rang the TV gallery and asked the directors to urge Ian Kennedy, that evening's host, to call upon particular members of the party who were well-informed in the area under discussion. "[18], In 1987, The Guardian wrote: "After Dark, the closest Britain gets to an unstructured talk show, is already finding that the more serious the chat, the smaller the audience... Channel 4's market research executive Sue Clench... says that around three million saw some of After Dark in its first slot."[19]. 0 … Coutts is still pleased with the way viewers could turn the television on and within seconds know that what they were watching couldn't be anything other than After Dark. He also questioned the Siam-born lawyer about his alleged connections with a wealthy Swiss neo-Nazi. A week later the programme discussed "The Cost of a Free Press" with, among others, Duncan Campbell, Anthony Howard and Lord Lambton. The special freedoms guaranteed by the programme were grabbed by the participants, who often said the apparently unsayable. That'll be why they dropped it. For all its faults, as when Oliver Reed appeared tired and emotional as a newt, the programme fulfilled its purpose and filled a gap. Given that it is a set-up situation and cast quite carefully, after that it's completely open'. His supporters rallied before a meeting of the county social services committee. During a life-threatening rescue mission in space, Jean is hit by a cosmic force that transforms her into one of the most powerful mutants of all. Mr Croall's remarks ... had outraged members of NALGO, who called for his resignation."[118]. [31] "Spectacular corruption allegations from author David Yallop"[32] were described by The Observer as follows: Perched in the gallery above, a Channel 4 lawyer nervously watches in case the stew bubbles over. The Independent Broadcasting Authority said then that it would have banned Mr Adams on the grounds that his views were offensive to public feeling. Daryl Sabara Cast. "Looking back, it was terrible we made the poor devil wait all that time," Mr Sutcliffe said.... "We were very unjust to him". Ironically, Heddle later committed suicide, while Spider went into rehab, sobered up and now has both a home and a job.[54]. The ICA wrote: "it ended with (Stefan Jaworzyn) vehemently debating the meaning of the word "integrity" with fellow guest Michael Winner". The key to the series... is the casting.... (The producer says) "We start with one or two people without whom the discussion wouldn't take place, the catalysts. 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The legacy of music can be that will give your message... jeeny Leawo all-in-one PPT to video converter assits you to... Finnish and German history during the 20th century - from supporting the national movement to burning Lapland Monday, 12 .June, 2006, 22:05 - English Entries, Finland, Germany, History The Finnish city of Ivalo, after it's destruction by the Germans during the Lapland War There were several occasions during the last years when I talked with different Finnish people about Germany. That's not a big surprise, I am a German and Finns are usually curious and many of them even have studied my mother tongue for a long time in school. What I learned is, that many Finns have a very distinct view on Germany and that this view is based on the last 100 years of history, in which Finns and Germans had a lot of interaction. During World War One German troops went into Russia, which was weakened after the the revolution and the take-over of power by the communists. It was a major German interest to establish a line of buffer states between Russia and central Europe. This was achieved when Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which gave independence to a number of states that before formed part of Russia, including Ukraine, the Baltic states, Poland and also Finland. Finland is the only country that was able to maintain its independence from 1918 till today. But immediately after gaining independence the Finnish Civil War broke loose, in which the socialist/communist Red Guards fought for several months in the beginning of 1918 against the conservative White Guards, which were lead by Marshall Mannerheim. There were cruetlies done on both sides, but it seems to me that the White Guards organized their way of fighting in a dramatic way, by establishing camps in which mass executions of the red enemies became daily business (see here). Parts of the White Guards were trained in Germany and formed so-called "J�ger" troops. During the Civil War, Helsinki was held by the Red Guards. In early April 1918 Germany, still ruled by an Emperor at that time, sent troops to the Southern Finnish city of Hanko. From there they marched to Helsinki, conquered the capital and handed it over to the Whites. The German prince Frederick Charles of Hesse even became elected king of Finland in 1918, but he ruled only for two month and afterwards Finland became finally a republic, with Kaarlo Juho St�hlberg as the first president. Later, during World War Two, the secret protocol included in the Hitler-Stalin (Molotov-Ribbentrop) Pact "allowed" Russia to conquer Finland (and other countries) again. Russia tried occupy Finland again during the so-called Winter War from November 1939 till March 1940, but gave finally up. Few years after that, German troops again fought in the so-called Continuation War together with the Finns against Russia. No doubt about it that it would have been in no way desirable for anybody in the Western hemisphere that Finland would become part of Russia again. Still this does not excuse anything what happened several hundred kilometres South in central Europe in the name of Germany. The Finns and the Russians signed a armistice. One of the conditions in there was, that all German troops had to be kicked out of Finland. This finally lead to the Lapland War, the last war in Finnland during World War II. The Germans, moving back towards West followed their strategy of "scorched earth", meaning they burnt most of the villages and towns they came through in order to not give anything into the hand of their enemy. The city of Rovaniemi was completely destroyed and re-built anew after the war. There are much more details to all these issues, but to me it seems that those parts of history play a major role in the thinking that some Finnish people have about the Germans. It ranges from "You freed us from the Communists", over "Our fathers kicked the Russians out" to "You burned my hometown". It is all part of History and I am just happy that people here are not getting over-excited about these things but mostly making jokes about it. E-Mail this to a friend � E-Mail the Author � Add to del.icio.us Technorati Tags: finland germany history war worldwari worldwarii laplandwar continuationwar winterwar lapland hitler-stalin-pact finnishcivilwar civilwar mannerheim view entry ( 592 views ) | permalink | ( 2.9 / 1748 ) <<First <Back | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Next> Last>> (c) 2005 - 2009 by Georg Mayer (http://georgmayer.eu) - Page Generated in 0.0252 seconds | Site Views: 6343

The supplier is advising us that most lines are now returning on-stream; this may take a few more minutes as the Radius catches up. Anyone still affected after this time should power-off their router for at least 20 minutes to clear any stale session. Please email into [email protected] if this fails to bring you back live. We apologise for the lengthy downtime and are looking at further remedial work with the supplier to ensure that such a failure doesn't affect us in future. Apologies for the lack so far of anything concrete in time-to-fix terms; we are escalating this to senior managers inside the supplier to get this fixed. Senior engineers are currently on site working on the faulty hardware. Further updates will be posted once the work has been completed. Supplier update: We're seeing a partial recovery on the equipment. hardware in the switch stack. Further updates will be posted when available. The supplier has a new switch on route to the site to be swapped out — they're expecting this to complete by 1pm. We'll update as this progresses. We are aware of a problem affecting one of the interconnect switches on a transit supplier network which means that a number of lines dropped earlier this AM and are still down; they and we are working on getting this switch bypassed and replaced. Currently we have no time-frame for a fix but believe this will not be service affecting for too long.

Peoplefluent Unveils Peoplefluent University Published: Apr 23, 2014 1:46 p.m. ET New L&D Platform Reinforces Strong Customer Focus and Commitment to Driving Employee Engagement and Collaborative Learning WALTHAM, Mass., Apr 23, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Peoplefluent®, a leading social human capital management (HCM) technology company, today announced the launch of Peoplefluent University, a unique, collaborative learning and development program residing in Peoplefluent's Customer Community. The University hosts accredited courses by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) which facilitates learning via videos, webinars and white papers on a number of topics, including leadership development, contingent workforce management, recruiting innovations and Government and regulatory compliance. Peoplefluent University has 41 video courses and educational videos available and will be continually updating its online resources to further education and engagement. Pervasive, collaborative video is essential for engaging employees in Peoplefluent's learning solution and Peoplefluent University continues this theme with a commitment to social video content that not only informs, trains and educates, but also engages all who watch. The 2014 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends research revealed 78% of business leaders rated retention and engagement as an urgent or important issue. This prompted Josh Bersin, Founder and Principal, Bersin By Deloitte to conclude that it is time to rethink the concept of "employee engagement" because there needs to be a much more holistic, integrated, real-time approach to driving high levels of employee commitment and passion. Developed using key customer insights, Peoplefluent University features learning resources and SHRM accredited courses based on industry-relevant functions and best practices. Peoplefluent worked closely with SHRM in building relevant, high-quality courses, and will continue to build the relationship between organizations as Peoplefluent CEO Jeff Carr will be attending the SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition this June. "Peoplefluent believes in the continuous learning, development and most importantly, engagement of our employees and customers," said Jeff Carr, CEO and President, Peoplefluent. "The Customer Community creates a collaborative environment for learning and transferring knowledge, and is a strong driver for engagement, not just skills development. Now with the addition of Peoplefluent University, a powerful and valuable knowledge library, we hope to advance expertise and engagement in the HCM field." Peoplefluent University also offers peer-to-peer learning taught by human resource leaders from Fortune 500 companies, as well as onsite learning programs, a library focused on the HCM domain, blog content on industry-leading best practices and one-hour training sessions. The new EEO Source, Peoplefluent's top resource for Workforce Compliance and Diversity, can also be accessed through Peoplefluent University. The new Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Source provides continually updated educational and training content focused on Government and regulatory compliance, and provides access to the Peoplefluent Research Institute, Peoplefluent's expert team of professional, Affirmative Action, and diversity consultants. Peoplefluent University is part of Peoplefluent's Customer Community, a collaborative environment for customers powered by the company's Talent Engagement Platform which infuses video, social and analytics applications into a deeply engaging Talent Management experience. This engaging platform creates a powerful, multidimensional community for customers to collaborate with peers and Peoplefluent experts. Members of the community are able to work and learn with other customers, ask questions and get help from experts online. They can join groups, and create and view interactive video content, including product roadmap videos, product demos and troubleshooting videos. Traditional support is also managed in the Customer Community, including support requests and tickets, documentation and product guides as well as FAQs. The number of users in the Community has increased by 26 percent in the first quarter of 2014; while page views have seen a 34 percent increase over the same time period. The expanded user base and increased participation and engagement in the community has resulted in a 50 percent reduction in telephone assistance tickets since launch, with over half of tickets closed within 24 hours. The unveiling of Peoplefluent University is the first of several significant formal announcements this month leading up to a series of events beginning on April 28th with speakers including Carly Fiorina, Aragon Research's Jim Lundy, Ventana Research's Mark Smith and Talent Function's Elaine Orler. Formal announcements with more detailed information are expected next week. About Peoplefluent Peoplefluent® is the leading provider of talent management solutions designed to support the entire workforce. An innovator in mobile enablement, social collaboration, information visualization and domain expertise required to empower strategic decision making and true employee engagement, Peoplefluent's talent management software enable organizations to unlock each individual's potential by removing the boundaries that limit the performance and productivity of your workforce. With the most comprehensive talent suite in the industry including solutions for talent management, workforce compliance and diversity, contingent labor management, analytics and workforce planning, Peoplefluent offers a solution to optimize every step of the talent lifecycle. Peoplefluent solutions have helped over 5,100 organizations in 214 countries and territories successfully achieve their talent aspirations. Today, 80% of the Fortune 100 relies on Peoplefluent solutions as part of their talent management delivery strategy. SOURCE: Peoplefluent Racepoint Global Jenna Caswell, 617-624-3252 [email protected]

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Published on December 8th, 2014 | by Scott Romeyn Super Smash Bros for Wii U Review Super Smash Bros for Wii U Review Scott Romeyn Summary: The ultimate showdown between 50 of Nintendo's brightest stars Perfection! Primary Format – Games – Nintendo Wii U Game Genre – Fighting Rating – PG Game Developer – Sora Ltd Game Publisher – Nintendo Reviewer – Scott Romeyn Following the release of the 3DS game in October, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is the second half of this generation's instalment of the ultimate Nintendo All-Star title. And boy, does it deliver. With the most to offer than any Smash Bros. game has ever had before, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is clearly the definitive instalment. Smash Bros. for Wii U shares the same character roster as the 3DS version with about fifty characters from over a dozen Nintendo franchises, and the ability to create your own characters with Mii avatars. Each character has their own variety of attacks inspired by their games, and the goal of Smash Bros.'s main event is to do battle with other characters until you've weakened them enough to launch them right off the stage. The controls are much more comfortable than the 3DS version, and with plenty of controller options there's a controller for everybody, but on a personal note if you missed out on picking up a GameCube Controller Adapter, you'll be kicking yourself. There's a huge variety of stages to choose from, and you can now design your own stages with the Wii U gamepad by drawing shapes- a huge step up from Super Smash Bros. Brawl's grid-based tiles. But what falls short with Smash Bros. for Wii U's custom stages is the lack of two things; a diverse range of visual options which makes your creations feel a little generic, and the lack of objects you can place- only cannons, moving platforms and lava. This can be forgiven for the sheer quality of a package that the rest of the game is. Smash battles can now have eight players at once, which is total chaos on the battlefield but luckily it doesn't make playing the game any harder and if anything you'll just enjoy yourself more. Of course, the Smash battles aren't the only thing to do in this game. Classic Mode, All-Star mode, and the Stadium games return from the 3DS version- but enhanced and expanded to take advantage of the Wii U's power and disk space. All of these changes rejuvenate the experiences from the 3DS version and bring a new challenge. There's a lot of content in the Wii U version that wasn't in the 3DS version. Event matches are back from Brawl, where you complete challenges set by the game and receive rewards like equipment, trophies and gold. There are completely new modes in Smash Bros. for Wii U as well. Special Orders has you taking orders from Master Hand and Crazy Hand as a sort of bounty hunter, accepting randomized missions to earn rewards, and Smash Tour is a new party game where you and three other players travel around a board receiving characters and upgrades to fight with in the final battle. It's an enjoyable little side game to say the least, but I do still prefer the 3DS version's exclusive mode, Smash Run. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is also the first game to support Nintendo's new amiibo figurines. In this game, you can train your amiibo to play well, and you can train it tactics for victory, and you'll watch it get smarter and quicker. It's like being a teacher to your own personal Smash Bros. pupil. It brings a surprising amount of joy into the game. And when the time comes and you find that your amiibo can even beat you in a one-on-one battle, you'll realize that you just befriended a toy. They're a perfect ally; one that knows how you play and works with you. They're a perfect rival, they know you better than you know yourself and they'll find a way to beat you. Graphics and Audio Smash Bros. for Wii U's graphics looks absolutely amazing. Unlike the 3DS version, which has a washed-out look to it, the Wii U version has such vivid colour and high-detail environments that it makes all the previous Smash Bros., games look ugly, and that's saying something. Every character's designs stay true to their roots, and yet there's no clashing of art style between franchises of a radical visual difference. The soundtrack is a heavenly experience that culminates over 30 years of Nintendo games into over 400 unique musical tracks with more variety than any other game I've played. Ask me what the best experience is on the Wii U and I would tell you Smash Bros. in a heartbeat. After a long winter of Nintendo titles that didn't quite hit the high note that people expected, Smash Bros. makes up for any shortcomings Nintendo has had in recent years. You don't even have to be a fan of fighting games to love Super Smash Bros. because it's a genre of its own. Its Nintendo's finest hour and I'll still be enjoying this game long after %100 completion. Gameplay – 5 Graphics – 5 Audio – 5 Value – 5 Total 5/5 – The perfect representation of all things Nintendo! • Compete with classic players from the Super Smash Bros. series, along with new challengers like Mega Man, Little Mac or newly announced Palutena, the Goddess of Light from the Kid Icarus games. For the first time, players can even compete as their own Mii characters. • Use a variety of control methods during the high-energy and action-filled battles, including Nintendo GameCube controllers – the long time controller of choice for hard-core Super Smash Bros. players. • Customize move sets when playing locally or online with friends. • Connect with amiibo for added fun. • Experience the beauty of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U in stunning HD, a first for the series. • Fight against friends and family locally or online, or battle random challengers from all over the world online in "For Fun" or "For Glory" modes. Scott Romeyn Born in '95, learned how to play on a SNES. Became a little too obsessed with gaming in the Nintendo 64/PlayStation era. Spent his teenage years making custom Mario levels with an editing tool, now thinks he's some sort of level design savant. Big lover of collectathon 3D platformers. Still plays Super Mario 64 regularly. 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How Low Will the Snow Go? Snow covers the trees Wednesday in the Cleveland National Forest. Snow is falling on Mount Laguna and along on Sunrise Highway in big white flakes. The beauty of this winter-like storm hitting San Diego doesn't come without its dangers. The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning for the mountains and higher desert areas through 10 p.m. Wednesday. Chains are required in elevations of 3000 feet and higher. As of 9 a.m., the Mount Laguna fire department said there have been no major accidents along the roadways. Snow of 8 to 16 inches is possible above 4000 feet with 4 to 8 inches possible below 4000 feet. Snow could even fall below 3000 feet, according to the NWS forecast. Palomar Mountain residents are prepared for more snow today. Firefighters there are staffed up and ready for any travelers who may get into trouble on the slick roads. In the foothills and San Diego County mountains, travelers should be prepared for hazardous winter conditions and possible road closures. If you are traveling today, carry chains and take extra food and clothing. For those thinking about going up to play in the snow, you may want to wait until the winter storm warning is lifted. Read article on where to go to play in the snow. Send your video and pics to [email protected]. Get your weather forecast delivered to you, sign up for weather alerts now.

Israel failed to achieve all its objectives in its summer war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Israeli army chief admitted on Tuesday, but he rejected calls to resign as a result. Summing up internal army inquiries into the war, which ended inconclusively in a ceasefire after 34 days of fighting, the army chief of staff, Lieutenant General Dan Halutz, said Israeli forces caused considerable damage to Hezbollah and killed "hundreds of terrorists." At a briefing for Israeli military correspondents carried by local TV channels, he added: "We were not successful in reducing the short-range rocket fire on Israel's north until the ceasefire." Hezbollah fired approximately 4,000 rockets at Israel during the fighting. Israel pounded Lebanon with airstrikes at Hezbollah targets and infrastructure and ground forces swept through south Lebanon. "We attacked the Katyushas [rockets], but unsuccessfully," he said. "There were cases in which officers did not carry out their assignments and cases in which officers objected on moral grounds to their orders" Halutz said, an apparent reference to resistance against attacking south Lebanese towns and villages. He said these instances of refusal "ran counter to the army's basic values." He said a senior officer was suspended as a result. Halutz said it would be a mistake to use the military now to try to free the two Israeli soldiers captured in a cross-border Hezbollah raid, which set off the fighting -- though that was one of the goals stated at the outset of the conflict. Halutz, who is under pressure to stop down because of the shortcomings of the war, said he decided to stay on and "correct what can be corrected." He said resignation now would be "running away," adding: "I have not heard my superiors calling on me to resign. If they do, I will respond." He noted conclusions of an inquiry by a former chief of staff that included vague definitions of goals and faulty work in command centers. Halutz said that reserve soldiers would be called up for longer annual service to undergo better training and said a plan to shorten the length of regular service -- now set at three years -- would be delayed. A committee appointed by the government is in the midst of its investigation of the war and its outcome. The internal army inquiries did not call for resignations, but the government committee has the power to do so. Halutz said if that committee called for his resignation, "of course" he would comply. Defense Minister Amir Peretz has made the same pledge. The conflict ended on Aug. 14 with a UN Security Council resolution that posted a reinforced peacekeeping force in south Lebanon with a mandate to keep the area clear of armed forces. The fighting left more than 1,000 people dead, UN, Israeli and Lebanese officials said. Lebanon's Higher Relief Council, a government group, said the majority of those were Lebanese civilians. UNICEF also says most of those killed were civilians and that about a third of them were children. Of the total deaths, 159 were in Israel, including 39 civilians who were killed in rocket attacks. Israel claimed 600 Hezbollah fighters were killed but that figure was not substantiated, with the group acknowledging only 250 of its fighters killed.

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Kolárovice (in ungherese Kolaróc, in tedesco Heinrichsdorf) è un comune della Slovacchia facente parte del distretto di Bytča, nella regione di Žilina. Storia La cittadina è citata per la prima volta nel 1312 (con il nome di Henrici Villa) quando venne fondata dal cavaliere di origine germanica Heinrich che qui condusse dei coloni. Nel 1469 passò ai Signori di Hričov e poi alla città di Bytča. Note Collegamenti esterni Kolarovice

Mendiant is French for a beggar of alms, and refers to the four orders of mendicant monks. The chocolates known as mendiants are thin rounds of crisp perfectly tempered chocolate. The classic garnish is elegant and restrained—an artistically arranged blanched almond, a raisin or two, a hazelnut, and piece of dried fig; their colors represent the white, gray, brown, and purple robes of the Dominican, Franciscan, Carmelite, and Augustinian friars. When I was 20 and living in Paris, I felt the amount of toppings on mendiants were truly beggarly. I've come to appreciate the restrained aesthetic and I enjoy the focus on the chocolate instead of the toppings. Whatever your aesthetic, the fun of mendiants—the chocolate kind—is getting to pair your favorite chocolate with creative combinations of any dried or candied fruits, nuts, seeds, even flaky salt or spices! (If you want candied bacon or toasted crickets, go for it.) Whether you are generous or refined in your approach to toppings, no recipe is necessary for making mendiants. Simply temper and spoon small or large puddles of chocolate onto a parchment-lined tray, slam the tray to spread the puddles and decorate with your chosen toppings. Kids are perfect, and very willing helpers, for decorating, by the way. Yes, I did say temper the chocolate. Some readers know that I often give people a pass on tempering chocolate by suggesting a workaround or hack that involves melting but not tempering chocolate, and then refrigerating the finished confection as soon as possible so that the chocolate sets before it has a chance to bloom or streak. I can even make the case that not tempering is sometimes better than tempering—for certain projects! But mendiants are not one of them. I'm going traditional on this one. Mendiants really do deserve to be tempered. You want them crisp at room temperature, you want the chocolate to have a satiny gloss, and you do not want to keep or eat mendiants cold—lest the fruits harden and the nuts (or crickets!) get damp. If learning to temper chocolate has been on your to-do list for a while, mendiants might be a perfect raison d'être for making 2018 the year you checked that item off. Tempering takes practice, so you might as well lay in a supply of toppings and celebrate each successful batch of tempered chocolate with a batch of mendiants. Why not? You can't make too many mendiants. They keep for weeks at room temperature so you can pack them in cellophane bags or clear topped boxes for spur-of-the-moment hostess gifts, and keep a stash to serve with coffee and tea—or tequila, for that matter! A tasty combination of raw or toasted nuts and/or seeds, dried fruits, seeds, candied or glacéed fruits or peels, candied ginger, flaky salt, a cinnamon stick or whole nutmeg for grating, or ground spices. 8-16 ounces dark, milk, or white chocolate, but not chocolate chips. Each ounce of chocolate will make 2 or 3 mendiants. Gather, and prepare (chop, dice or slice to the desired size) toppings and get out your equipment first: Once the chocolate is tempered, you want to use it right away, rather than let it cool while you get your game together. If using a fan, set it up, in a cool place away from your workspace, with enough room to set a couple trays of mendiants in front of it. Line the trays with parchment and tape the corners to the tray (if using the fan). Melt and temper the chocolate and test it to be sure that it is tempered before you use it. Test it by drizzling a bit of the chocolate onto piece of parchment paper and setting it aside in a cool place, as described in this post, or do it my way: Drizzle some chocolate onto a knife blade and set it in front of a portable fan. Either way, the chocolate is tempered if it begins to set, without streaks, within about 3 minutes. Drop a dozen or so spoonfuls of tempered chocolate, at least 2 inches apart (to allow for spreading), on a parchment-lined tray. Lift and rap the bottom of the tray sharply on the counter to spread the puddles of chocolate into thin disks. A teaspoon of chocolate will spread to a dainty two-bite mendiant about 1 1/2-inch in diameter; a tablespoonful will produce a 2 1/2-inch confection. Place or sprinkle garnishes attractively on top before the chocolate sets. If you have a helper for decorating, you can spoon out more puddles of chocolate at a time, otherwise, do not exceed the number you can decorate before the chocolate sets (which takes only 3-5 minutes). Use restraint if finishing with flaky salt or ground spice, or freshly grated cinnamon or nutmeg. Set trays in a cool place, preferably in front of the fan, for at least an hour (longer is better), or until mendiants are completely set and crisp to the bite. Pack in a covered container with wax paper between the layers. Store in a cool dry place. Before adding the toppings, make sure you've rap-rap-rapped the chocolates on the tray. Don't hesitate to temper more chocolate than you think you need—it's easier to handle the greater mass, and it will stay warmer longer. Leftover chocolate can be saved and used another time. Chocolate chips do not melt well and will not spread thin when you rap the tray; a bar of chocolate or pistols, wafers, or callets will look and taste better. How would you decorate your mendiants? Let us know in the comments! Candied orange peel, thank you very much. I'd put candied ginger, pistachios & cranberries on mine!

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NAH… – Summer's Failing by Reverb Raccoon | Mar 15, 2018 | Song of the Day | 1 comment by Reverb Raccoon | Mar 15, 2018 | Song of the Day Today we are treated to a jangly spoonful of pure twee pop. For those of you who just said "What's twee?", don't worry. Just listen to the song… "Summer's Failing" has everything that has been going into great pop songs since the day Phil Spector decided to write a two-minutes-forty symphony for the AM car radio: simple, undistorted guitars, a melody that stays with you, and enough hooks to make you hit the replay button as soon as the track runs out. For today's Obscure Reference, I'll say that "Summer's Failing" brings to mind True Hallucinations-era Ex Cops, a boy-girl band featuring Brian Harding and Denmark's Amalie Bruun. "Summer's Failing is the first single from the same-named four-song EP set for release March 30. NAH…, based in Amsterdam, describes itself (themselves?) as a "Twee Pop project of Sebastian Voss and Estella Rosa." Estella sings while Sebastian provides vocals, instruments, and programming. I can't tell you anything definitive about Sebastian, other than that he has an obvious feel for creating great pop. Estella is the primary writer at FadeawayRadiate, a blog covering indie musicians (think Reverb Raccoon, only cool). Kenji Kenji, who belongs to pretty much every band in Europe, lends an understated vocal to "Summer's Falling." On their Facebook page, the band describes its origin: "As we were both working on a Sophistipop cover compilation for the Sophistipop Lounge, Sebastian needed some vocals on a jangly track that I rather liked….. A few months later Nah… was born. The name came to Sebastian in a dream…." NAH… may have an identity problem, at least in the US. There are at least two bands and a rapper running around calling themselves Nah. Be sure to look for the version with the ellipsis. You can support deserving independent musicians like NAH… by visiting their Bandcamp page, giving their songs a listen, and downloading your favorites. Or pre-order all four tracks! Bonus Track: "No Other," a single by The Golden Eaves featuring Kenji on vocals and guitar. Nice! Static In Verona – The Loud and (The Quiet) Nothing I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away -- and wanted to shoot myself... The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as... Sebastian on March 16, 2018 at 2:23 pm Thank you so much, folks ❤️!

After having spent a tiring day on planes and in airports, I was ready to get my vacation started. One last hurdle—would I be hassled by the Customs & Immigration people yet again? After going through the initial customs checkpoint, where my documents were checked, I was instructed to go to immigration. The woman in immigration asked me why I was coming to Canada. "To visit friends," I replied. "How long will you be here?" she asked. I showed her my return ticket. I told her that I did not. "Are you sure?" she asked insistently. Thinking that this was quite possibly the most idiotic thing I'd heard in weeks, I told her that I was quite sure about my lack of a criminal record. Growing a bit exasperated with this inane questioning, I said that I might go shopping at some point during my stay. At this point, I was sent back to customs for a baggage check. The officer conducting the baggage check was more polite than the woman at immigration. In one of my bags, he found a book containing the text of a ritual which we were going to be performing. I said, "Yes." It wasn't really any of his business, but what could I say, as he was looking at the text of the ceremony? He told me to repack my bag and walked away. A few minutes later, I was sent back to immigration. After waiting a bit, I was called back into the same office and confronted by the same woman. "You lied to us," she flatly asserted. "You came here to perform religious ceremonies," she said, eyes blazing—a prosecutor who had caught a defendant in deceptive testimony. "Well, no." Her disappointment was clear. "It's the same thing," I affirmed. "But you are going to be conducting your ceremonies. You should have told us that you were here for that." She was looking for some leverage. She grudgingly acknowledged that I had a point and went on to the inevitable questions about my hosts. I provided the information they requested and informed these officials that my friends would be waiting here at the airport, should they wish to confirm any of this. The plane arrived at the same time we did—7:15 p.m., on time. We watched, patiently, for the first 45 minutes, as passengers from Michael's flight filed through the Customs/Immigration doors. Half an hour later, out strode the inevitable immigration officers—one female with an agenda and the other male, who held back somewhat closer to the doors. "Yes we are." We had bridged about half the distance between us by this point. I could see those eyes, the eyelids opened just a bit too far, pupils dilated—the general look of fanaticism. The rest of the people in the airport turned around, gawked, and began listening to this public interrogation. Obviously, I thought, there would be no tact or respect of privacy with this one. Both of our tempers beginning to flare. "Or is it his religion?" Robert added suavely. At this point she must have realized where we could head with this. Canada does not yet officially endorse the persecution of minority religions. "Oh no it's nothing like that," she said hastily. "Thank you. He'll be out in just a few minutes." She and her silent back-up turned and left. Another 15 minutes later, Michael finally emerged—annoyed, but otherwise unscathed. When "Miss Immigration" returned, she took my documents, made copies of them and issued me a temporary pass which, she said, I must have with me at all times. Recollections of films wherein Gestapo or KGB agents perennially asked for "your papers" flashed across my mind. She then assured me that my religion had nothing to do with these hassles—it was what they had to do to everyone. She seemed to miss the irony.

Available 24/7 / Contact Us For Questions Or An Initial Consultation Family Law, Mediation, Collaborative Law CAN I OBTAIN AN ANNULMENT AS OPPOSED TO GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS OF A DIVORCE? Annulment, in Ontario, is subject to the Annulment of Marriages Act (Ontario) R.S.C. (Revised Statutes of Canada) 1970, c.A-14. Basically, Ontario follows the law of England as it was in 1870 as modified by the case law here. The Superior Court of Justice is the Court which decides all annulment cases. It is extremely hard to be granted a civil annulment. A civil annulment is very different than an annulment granted by the Curia of Rome as part of the Catholic faith. To obtain an annulment, basically, the law requires proof that the marriage is unable to be consummated and it distinguishes between the inability to consummate and a willful refusal to do so. What is required is that at least one of the parties is incapable of engaging in sexual intercourse with their spouse and this condition must exist both at the time of the marriage and at the time of the Hearing. Whether the impotence is based on a physical inability or through a psychological incapacity makes no difference. The mere refusal of marital intercourse due to willfulness or caprice is not sufficient ground to warrant a decree of nullity. There has to be incapacity of some kind which in some cases is a physical defect, but may also include a mental condition with the resulting affect of creating an aversion to the physical act of consummation which is not mere unwillingness, but an actual mental incapacity. In effect, some type of invincible repugnance to the act of intercourse must exist. Much of the case law is very old, but there are current cases and the case law has been built up over many years. Now this situation is very different, in effect, these marriages above are voidable as opposed to void ab initio (from the beginning). In other words, these marriages are annulled by a Court as opposed to a marriage which is void ab initio which is the situation, for example, where someone is already married and they entered into a second and therefore bigamous marriage. In the case of a bigamous marriage, because it is void from the beginning, consummation is irrelevant and an annulment of the marriage will be declared. Areas & Topics Divorce For Older Adults Cohabitation Agreements And Marriage Contracts Mediation and Arbitration (Working Together) Family Adoptions "I found Judith Holzman Law Offices to be very diligent, knowledgeable….." Donna P "Judith and her staff made what would have been a difficult process….." "Judith was recommended to me by a close friend to help me settle….." Linda L Issues such as child custody, child support, spousal support and property division are best resolved with the advice of a family lawyer. Contact our office online or call us at 905-303-1070 (Vaughan) or 416-977-3050 (Toronto) or 866-233-0945 (Canada toll free) to schedule a consultation. As divorce lawyers, Vaughan and York Region are among the geographic areas we serve. We are available to our clients 24/7. Please call or email us any time with questions or for an initial consultation. Judith Holzman Law Offices / 2126 Major Mackenzie Dr. / Maple, ON L6A 1P7 Toll Free: 866-233-0945 / Local: 905-303-1070 / Toronto: 416-977-3050 / Cell: 905-731-0347 / Fax: 905-303-4364 Judith Holzman Law Offices 2126 Major Mackenzie Dr. Maple, ON L6A 1P7 MAPLE LAW OFFICE MAP © 2020 by Judith Holzman Law Offices. All rights reserved. Disclaimer | Site Map Privacy Policy | Business Development Solutions by FindLaw, part of Thomson Reuters.

← Back to season list Reckoning (2) Pacific Blue's season opener picks up from the cliffhanger season-ender, ""The Right Thing,"" in which Bobby Cruz and the three other rookie cops were arrested for withholding evidence in the murder of gang conciliator, JOHN PATRONE. The entire unit is pressured by IA officer SUSAN JESSUP, as BRUCE BEST is tried for the killing with Bobby Cruz as an accessory before Santa Monica's notorious hanging judge, J. GUNNAR HALLORAN. After a sorority girl turns up dead, Monica and Chris go undercover at a very select sorority at Pacific University. Harper discovers that freshman pledges are being forced to strip at a local nightclub as part of their initiation, but then are being blackmailed to continue their activities or risk exposure to their parents and on the internet. Blue Hawaii (1) While in Waikiki to train the Honolulu bike patrol, Bobby Cruz (Mario Lopez) and Russ Granger (Jeff Stearns) back into an undercover case when they are mistaken for buyers in a large scale drug smuggling operation. They team up with four young, hip undercover officers in Honolulu to bust a ring working out of a surf shop. Cruz winds up falling for CLAIRE KEENE, one of the young undercover officers, and considers transferring to Hawaii, while she considers transferring to the mainland. Granger gets involved with a gorgeous, young exotic dancer who is thinking of moving to Japan to continue her trade. Silicon Valley of the Dolls A doctor running an underground clinic for plastic surgery causes the death of a young co-ed. The world of high school girls obsessed with plastic surgery is explored when Russ Granger and Monica Harper go undercover. Struck by the beautiful perfection of the students, Monica and Granger learn that their boyfriends have been financing plastic surgery by stealing cars. Hostile Witness Granger and Cruz are sent to Ventura County on a seemingly simple case to return a witness to a murder trial in Santa Monica. The wild young woman makes their life miserable, escaping numerous times, and causing them to miss their date with two gorgeous women headed for Catalina. Dead Ringers A pair of twins are killing people who rub them the wrong way. One of their victims is a Federal Witness, which brings an FBI agent, who thinks that one of the people he testified against lashed back. Chris finds herself fascinated with the case, which causes more friction between her and T.C. Chris suspects that they have a serial killer and the agent is impressed with her, that she requests that Chris help her, which makes T.C. unhappy. When a person who saw the twins in one of their moods tries to call Chris but is not around so T.C. takes the call. The twins kills him and when T.C. arrives they tell him that the one who called him went away. Bobby who thinks that something is wrong and who thinks that T.C. is letting his problems with Chris cloud his judgement, tells the FBI agent about the twins and the agent says that it's been theorized that the killer is nore than one person, and the twins could be it. One of the twins lures Chris into a trap but Chris escapes and when one of After saving a woman who was about to kill herself, Granger learns that she's being blackmailed by a male escort service she used. While she won't testify, she tells him that they pose as auto servicemen. Granger and Cruz convince Cory to let them work undercover. They find out that one of the men who work there has a record and convince him to introduce them to the boss. The boss gives them a job. Cruz learns that one of the guys wants to leave and open his own escort business. The woman who saved takes a liking to him so much that she is practically splurging on him. When the boss catches the guy who wants to leave, stealing the client list, he kills him. When Granger and Cruz can't get anything on the operation, Cory wants to pull the plug. But they convince her to be the next mark. She goes to the service center, hoping to snag the boss but the boss sends Granger instead. While having dinner, the woman who like Granger sees them and blows his cover. The guys then grab her and Cory A female boxer dies after an exhibition match. Cory decides to investigate but the new D.A. whom she is attrracted to, is concerned that she might not handle it properly. So he calls T.C. who has depressed ever since Chris left, to come back and he does, which doesn't make Cory happy. She Strickland and Cruz undercover as a boxer and her handler. They discover that the bottle the girl drank from was poisoned and has the fingerprints of Mia St. John on it. They bring her in for questioning and learn that the water bottle is hers and suspect that maybe she was the target. Strickland then meets Joey another boxer who feels that she is being passed over because she is not as attractive as the others. They then learn that Rick who manages Joey was once involved with Mia both personally and professionally. When they try to bring him in he runs away, they manage to catch him, and they grill him about trying to kill Mia but realize that he gave the bottle to the other girl. Cory decides to han While working on a Haitian whom they suspect is smuggling in drugs Bobby sees a man whom he arrested a few years ago who is still in prison. Jamie who was about to go on vacation encounters a singer whose songs gave inspiration and hope when she was incarcerated. After finding her passed out Jamie brings her home. When she comes to she grabs Jamie's gun and tells her to stay away and she then leaves. Jamie needing to find her and her gun tracks her down to her mother's house. She finds her and upon convincing her that she only wants to help her, the singer tells her that she is down and outr because of her record producer. It seems that he is crooked; he takes very large cuts and when someone wants to leave he threatens them, which is what he did to her. Jamie tries to convince Cory that her claims have to be investigated, but Cory saying that this is not a criminal matter declines so Jamie decides to do it on her own. With Monica's help and one of the singers unpublished songs they try to goad the producer into doing something. He then sends his man to get the singer but Jamie saves her. Later Jamie gets the singer a gig o God's Gift Jamie Strickland and Cory McNamara go undercover in a sex cult operation. The master is very seductive and has convinced women to prostitute themselves in the name of God. Meanwhile Russ Granger and Monica Harper are on rollerblades trying to catch criminals. Swimming in the Dead Pool A controversial and outspoken attorney, whose specialty is suing the police department; presently he has a wrongful death suit against them over the death of a young (black) man, whose death he believes was cause by the actions of the two policemen who were pursuing him. He then announces that he has found a witness, who will prove that he is right but he won't name the witness right now. Later at his apartment, someone knocks on the door and shoots him. When the department hears of this, the Chief, who is afraid that the press will assume that a cop is the killer, decides to let the Pacific Blue unit handle the investigation. Cory decides to first look into the possibility that this was the act of a scorned lover or wife, because the way the place was set up, it appears that he was expecting someone. Cory then learns that, that person is his assistant, so Cory goes to her place and finds the murder weapon. She says that she didn't do it and Cory thinks that she is innocent. Cory then A female radio talk show host witnesses a murder on her way home. As the killers are about to shoot her too, TC saves her life. But the flash from his gun blinds the woman. TC becomes obsessed with protecting her due to his guilt and her resemblance to the love of his life, Chris Kelly. The woman doesn't know he's the one who robbed her from her sight, she just thinks he's a caring cop. This leads to a romans. But after a while the womans sight beings to return. Jamie's sister Jennie returns to Santa Monica, but is kidnapped by young juveniles. The guy Jamie is dating is somehow involved, also the dirty narc Detective Perry Marcus. Russ and Cory go undercover in the ugly, violent world of the Nazis, trying to catch the killers of several African-American and Mexican young men. Jamie goes undercover and tries to protect a young boy, a very talented photographer, who has captured a meeting between two powerful adversaries. Fifty-Nine Minutes When a pretty 15 year old girl is kidnapped from a shopping mall parking lot, Cory and the rest of the unit must band together to find her within 59 minutes. The officers must deal with the hysterical mother and false leads before their 59 minutes is up. Disrobed After Russ and Bobby arrest a murder suspect, the trial lands before hanging Judge J. Gunnar Halloran. After tossing the weapon because of an illegal search, the heat is turned up on Bobby and Russ, who are accused of planting evidence. The case is further hampered by the fact that Judge Halloran has fallen in love with the exotic dancer sent to blackmail him into releasing the defendant. Bobby Cruz' sister, Teresa, witnesses the suicide of a high school classmate and begins to fall under the spell of the girl's manipulative boyfriend. An ambitious rookie cop, recently assigned to Pacific Blue, turns out to be a spy for Internal Affairs. Things get complicated when he's let into the young Pac Blue officers' scheme to frame a ruthless drug dealer. Cory learns she is pregnant, but is unsure whether the father is T.C. Callaway, a one night stand, or Will Blake, her District Attorney boyfriend. Before she can tell either one, she's kidnapped by two jewel thieves who offer to let her go in exchange for the release from jail of their ace safecracker, who happens to be a crazy, violent, female bodybuilder (played by WWF superstar Chyna). T.C. is shot in the leg while saving Cory McNamara. T.C., now hooked on painkillers from being shot in the leg, leads Pacific Blue on the trail of a potential serial killer who preys on young runaways that he locates via the Internet. Cory and Monica convince a woman psychic, who used to help the police back East, into helping on the case. S.N.A.F.U. While Russ, Bobby, Monica and Jamie are out tracking pot growers in the Santa Monica mountains, Chris Kelly returns to visit a wounded T.C. Callaway, who's fighting addiction to pain pills, as well as kidnap victim Cory McNamara.All hell breaks loose when Chris finds out T.C. slept with her best friend, Cory, and that Cory doesn't know if her pregnancy is the result of Will Blake or T.C. Callaway. The season-ending cliffhanger occurs when Cory opens the blood test results to find out which one is the father.

Mike Nielsen (born 21 February 1961) is an Irish guitarist, composer, and educator specializing in jazz and improvised music. Career Born in Sligo, he began on ukulele at the age of four. He studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the Dublin College of Music as well as the Berklee College, Boston. Performing on acoustic and electric guitars, he has worked with Kenny Wheeler, Larry Coryell, Kenny Werner, Jason Moran, Simon Nabatov, Eric Revis, Joe Lovano and Dave Liebman, with whom he toured Europe in 2001, New Zealand/Australia in 2004 and has recorded two albums. He has also performed with the Crash Ensemble and featured as a soloist with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Nielsen is Director of Jazz Performance at the Dublin Institute of Technology Conservatory of Music and Drama. Discography Solo at Garden City (2000) Osmosis (2003) Sound Recipes (2004) Evolution with Benjamin Dwyer (2005) References 1961 births Living people People from Sligo (town) Irish jazz guitarists

Browns OC on Manziel TD: Coaching is overrated Published: Sep 21, 2015 at 02:01 AM When Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel escaped a rush, rolled to open space and bombed an improvised touchdown across his body for a game-clinching pass in Sunday's 28-14 win, Browns head coach Mike Pettine heard a silent surrender on his coaching headset. "Certainly wasn't the way the play was designed," Pettine said, via Cleveland.com. "I think Flip (offensive coordinator John DeFilippo) had the best line of the day on the headset after he rolled out of it, ended up throwing backwards across the field, scored the touchdown. He just says real calmly while everybody was cheering, he said, 'Coaching is overrated.' "They did a nice job, brought pressure. We didn't pick it up. Johnny did a nice job getting out of it and finding Travis and making a play." Pettine might have been happier about Manziel's first touchdown, another bomb to Travis Benjamin that was thrown on a near-pinpoint five-step drop from under center, but at this point, he has to be thrilled that he finished 1-1 over these first two games. Manziel was exactly what they needed against the Titans, though he might not be what they need moving forward. Pettine wouldn't play the hypothetical game of naming a starter for next week's game against the Raiders in Cleveland, but assuming Josh McCown clears concussion protocol in time, he knows there are two very clear choices ahead of him. Manziel can instantly make something out of nothing, and it seems that as the weeks wear on, he's learning to adapt his playing style to the NFL. McCown will run the offense as designed, but with a lack of defined playmakers outside of Benjamin, is that the correct route for Cleveland to go? Like DeFilippo said: 'Coaching is overrated.'

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Last updated by voxelectropod at August 15, 2014 . Pop My Culture may cover ephemeral subject matter, but this "weekly-ish" podcast, hosted by comedians Cole Stratton and Vanessa Ragland, manages to simultaneously nail funny and topical every time I listen. Recently, one of the hosts, Cole Stratton (also co-founder of SF Sketchfest), answered a few questions for me about his show and why he does what he does. How'd you and Vanessa meet? Vanessa and I met doing improv at the Westside Comedy Theater (then the Westside Eclectic) in Santa Monica — we were on a house improv team called "Ladies and Gentlemen" which later became "Bruce." We still improvise together there in a monthly show I run called "Pretty, Pretty Pony" where we do an armando with a special guest celebrity monologist. Always love getting on stage with her! How has your sketch background served you on the show? I think both our sketch and improv backgrounds come into play a lot — the show is super conversational and tangental, and we'll often riff on an idea that comes up randomly, assuming characters and fleshing out a premise on the spot. Our pop culture topics are really just jumping off points to go on silly asides. We try to balance that along with good anecdotal career stories from our guests, so you get some inside info as well as just some funny games and goofy talk. How'd you wind up on the Nerdist channel? I've know Chris Hardwick for a long time — I'm one of the three founders of SF Sketchfest, the San Francisco Comedy Festival, which Chris has done many times. He was also engaged to my sketchfest co-founder (and often comedy and writing partner) Janet Varney for like seven years. Once Nerdist was putting together a network of shows, I simply asked Chris if he'd be interested in adding us to the roster, and he immediately accepted. We were already fairly established at that point, having done 63 episodes (our first episode with them was #64 with Ethan Suplee), and having been picked by Rolling Stone a year or so earlier as the #2 Best Comedy Podcast of the Moment. Joining Nerdist really did a ton for us — our numbers tripled and it felt great to be part of a family of shows. What '80s movie can you deliberate on most effectively? I can talk 80s movies til the cows come home. It's hard to just pick one — there's a few that I've seen a billion times and can quote pretty much all the way through. Midnight Madness is one that comes to mind — it's about an all-nighter scavenger hunt in LA with college teams and features David Naughton, Stephen Furst and Michael J. Fox in his first role. And Paul Reubens as a daft employee at a video arcade. I also have unabashed love for Cloak and Dagger, The Last Starfighter, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, The Last Unicorn, The Pirate Movie and all those great John Hughes movies of the decade. When was the last time you talked to someone about global warming? Tort reform? I never talk about those things. I fill my life with trivial water cooler stuff. I just see so many people get bent out of shape about politics, the environment, religion, etc. What do they say — ignorance is bliss? It's not that I don't have opinions about those things, it's just that I refuse to let them put any stress into my life. What episode generated the biggest reaction? Hard to say — we did just release our 150th episode with Patton Oswalt, which got a good amount of attention as well as an iTunes feature and had us charting as high as #7 on the iTunes comedy charts. There's certain guests that have definitely gotten the lions share of downloads — Felicia Day, Weird Al, Paul F. Tompkins and our year end multi-guest episodes spring to mind. Oh, and our live big panel shows — like the Legends of Voice Acting with Rob Paulsen, Maurice LaMarche, Phil LaMarr, Tara Strong and Cree Summer, and our TGIF panel with Reginald VelJohnson, Jodi Sweetin, Stuart Pankin and Bryce Beckham. We're always looking to find fun angles for guest groupings, as well as guests that don't do the podcast circuit — I'm pretty sure we're the only ones who have had Eddie Deezen and William Zabka on! Posted in: Interviews, Pop My Culture | Carmody Central Podcast – Interview with Jenn Carmody June 18, 2014 by voxelectropod | Leave a comment The Carmody Central Podcast is a lifestyle podcast covering all things culture. There's sex, comedy, even existential dialogue. Host, Jennifer Carmody brings in a guest, like comedian Colin Quinn, and they schmooze and kvetch for an hour. But it was her show with comedian Jim Norton (as Chip Chipperson) that really put her on the map. Carmody can be as aimless as it is insightful, but this self-described "talker" embraces her show's twists and turns, and somehow gets you where you need to go. She calls it "eavesdropping on your hot neighbor's psychotic conversations." She was kind enough to have a conversation with me earlier this week about the show, internet trolls, and her process as a podcaster. Why podcasting? To be honest, it just happened. I'm a TALKER, and I had a lot of people encouraging me to do something with my big mouth. I am a writer, and I work in film production, but I wanted to do something more genuine. I was spending months working on projects that in the end had no part of me left in them. So I stopped being worried about sounding stupid or people thinking I'm a bitch and said screw it, and just put myself out there uncut. How'd you land Colin Quinn? Colin is an amazing man, and I'm so grateful that he was willing to be a guest on my podcast. Some people know this, but my ex-boyfriend is a comedian and through tagging along with him everywhere for 3 years, I was able to make some really cool acquaintances. And luckily those people liked me enough to say yes to being a guest on my podcast. I took a peak at your iTunes reviews, and it looks like small, angry person decided to drop all of his/her own disappointment in his/her own life on you. What's your take on comment troll culture and how has impacted your online life? (Laughs) That review is intense, the guy who wrote it deserves a hug. One, cause clearly he needs a damn hug… and second because he really took the time to listen to every episode, he should be thanked for that. Most people that dislike something just move on, he's dedicated, he stuck with it… you gotta respect that. He even regularly checks my reviews to "thumbs down" the good reviews and keep his on top. Translation: He's my Biggest Fan… in the review he talks about reading my blog, checking my modeling portfolio. Damn- I wish the people that loved me cared that much. I have friends that were even guests on the show who haven't listened yet. I should hire that man to be my personal assistant and motivator once the show gets bigger. I like his attention to detail. That said, my comments on trolling… I feel bad for people that direct their attention toward negativity, what a waste of time. However, as someone who is putting content out on the internet… all dirty trolls are the prime free advertising. They will share your page, tweet their friends about you, and spread the word of how awful you are… it comes with the territory, and I love their obsessive hits on my site, thank you. I don't take it personally, I can relate. When I feel unreasonably angry because "someone sucks so bad." I know the real reason is because they are doing something that I want to be doing, and they are doing it with better results than me. Sometimes I read magazine articles and I get angry how bad the advice is… but, actually I'm angry because I felt that I could write it better and I'm pissed at myself because I didn't take the initiative to write that article. Not only did someone else do what I want to do, it's also working well for them. It all comes back to yourself, and it's your choice how you use that feeling. Does it motivate you to share it on your Facebook wall and shit talk it with your friends? Or does it motivate you to try and prove that you can do it better than they did? That poor bastard who wrote my podcast a bad review is most likely just jealous I got to sit around and chat with all his favorite comedians… and he thinks he can do it better than me. And maybe he can… too bad he is wasting his time writing reviews and keeping tabs on other people's success, not taking the time to make his own podcast. This whole answer is SURPRISINGLY still shorter than his iTunes review. He's thorough, man; it's a shame that people waste their energy in the wrong places. Hopefully more people in the world will learn how to direct their attention towards the things they enjoy and less towards downloading things online that make them upset. They're only perpetuating and advertising the things they are bitching about. How do you prepare for a show? I wish I had a good answer for this. Usually in some panic, I write down a bunch of ideas related to the topic, pace around my apartment and then just go with it. I enjoy getting "off-topic;" I think the best ideas come of it. And it's kind of the point of the show, to not be so interview-y. I like to keep the conversations natural, and it won't be if you think about it too much before. But I'm still learning all of this, and I'm not an actor or comedian so more preparation will definitely work to my advantage as I'm getting new guests. I've already been a speechless ass a couple times on my own show, but oh well, I'm not Johnny Carson; this isn't the Tonight Show. I'm Jenn Carmody; this is my show, so people can take it or leave it. Where do you see Carmody Central Podcast in two years? That's a great question. My mind is actually blocked from seeing that far in advance; it's literally black. But, in the near future, I will definitely be adding video episodes and making the show longer if the demand is there. When I'm more established and not at a full-time day job, then I'd like to extend the show, eventually do some events. Much further into the future, I want to be ranking in iTunes. I have hit Top 6 in the Comedy Section of iTunes, and #24 of the Top Charts on all of iTunes. Now I'm off the list, but that week run proved to me I can get Carmody Central Podcast there again and keep it up there. It's going to be a lot of work, and I have a lot of different projects that I'm working on. Like I said, I am a writer and filmmaker, so I plan to use the podcast to open other doors, and those other endeavors could mean new guests to the podcast. What episode are you most proud of? I'm just really proud of everything so far, but I definitely have to say my most proud moment was the Chip Chipperson Exclusive Interview, which is shocking to say, because Chip is definitely a low point for mostly everyone else's life that he comes into contact with. But Chip is one of my closest friends, and you can only tell someone to shut up so many times before you just love them. So not only was that the most fun to record, it was featured on Opie and Anthony, which helped the podcast rank so high in iTunes, and the episode itself was in the Top 100 Episodes for a couple days. To date the show has received 70 thousand downloads; it was a very proud moment. It shows me I can eventually get all my episodes to that level with work. Sometimes I forget to enjoy the process of getting there, I just want them all to be Top 100, but it's a journey; and I'm lucky that I have a podcast and listeners that can experience it with me. Posted in: Interviews | GoodStuff.fm's Chris Enns May 5, 2014 by voxelectropod | Leave a comment Chris Enns hosts multiple podcasts, so many in fact he had to start his own network: Goodstuff was launched by Enns, Adam Clark, and Tim Smith in early 2014. The programing comfortably inhabits the sweet spot between technology and culture without alienating non-techs or indoor kids — to borrow a term. Enns put the mic away for a few minutes last week to talk to me about himself and his role in the "podcast boom." Tell me a little about yourself, career, hobbies, origins, etc. I'm a guy who has loved technology in various forms for most of my life – from begging my dad to buy a computer to play King's Quest, building my own PC to play Castle Wolfenstein, running digital hockey drafts with whoever I could beg to join me to recording music, podcasts and video production – I've loved being involved in and using technology to be creative. In a more practical sense, I'm a husband to my beautiful wife for 15 years in 2014 and father to three kids. They are the reason I'm trying to build a business and lifestyle that allows me to see them off to school, help out at home and in general be around as much as possible. As a web devel­oper, you've said you love helping get technology out of the way of people accomplishing things. How does podcasting play into that ethos? That's one of the great problems facing podcasting in 2014 (and beyond): how to get normal, everyday folks into podcasting without the difficultly. It's something we're thinking about constantly at Goodstuff. But in the meantime, having interesting discussions about technology in a way that's interesting to people and helps them disseminate what's worth looking into or worth skipping, whether it's a new Apple product or a movie that's just came out, is all part of that ethos. Exactly how many podcasts are you currently producing and would you mind breaking them down for me? http://goodstuff.fm/dailyish – Daily(ish) is my personal podcast that I do. 10 minutes or less. More of a podcast playground for me to mess around with formats and ideas. http://goodstuff.fm/smym – Show Me Your Mic is a podcast where I interview other podcasters. It started as a way to geek out about gear, but it's turned into more of a discussion about the why's behind podcast. http://goodstuff.fm/tirp – The Intellectual Radio Program is a fun discussion show I do with Adam Clark and Tim Smith, my co-founders of Goodstuff. We talk about some of the usual geeky stuff (Apple, tech, etc.) but also push ourselves into other areas such as work/life balance, future planning, money, and rants about life. http://goodstuff.fm/nbsp – The Non-Breaking Space show is a podcast that my primary role has been of intro-voice-guy and editor. It talks to the best and brightest folks on the web about how and why they do what they do with a focus on web developers, designers, content strategists and other folks involved in creating the sites we all use. http://www.ssktn.com/category/lal/ – Lost & Lemon is a fun show I do with my brother-in-law where we talk about our respective businesses that we're building as well as family life, creative life and surfing life (him, not me). I think that's it? I feel like I'm forgetting something but that's a lot of stuff. New media is probably one of the most ephemeral disciplines people have ever claimed expertise in; What do you see your core capabilities as and how do you apply them to what you do every day? Yeah it's tough to figure out what to call yourself these days when everything changes so quickly. I don't know if "new media" is a good term or not for what we do. I really enjoy dabbling in audio and video and so working on the web is a natural canvas for those disciplines these days. The instant feedback (or lack thereof) is almost an addictive drug for the creative side of my brain. Where do see podcast in general in two years? I see it shrinking and growing as most things do – similar to the way blogging has. There will be the core group of people who continue to podcast (or whatever it becomes called) no matter what – but I see a large number of shows disappearing in a year or two simply because people will run out of things to say or people to interview. We're in the middle of a bit of a boom right now where everybody and their dog seems to have a podcast which is great for the industry. It helps us all figure out what's working, what's not and what we need to change in order to grow. Growing not necessarily in number but in quality and listenership. Sponsorship of podcasts is another whole beast. As the quality of shows increases, and hopefully the listenership follows then you'd think the sponsorship dollars should flow as well. But imagine if Squarespace decides to stop sponsoring podcasts? There's certainly other companies that would take its place in some form, but the sheer number of podcasts Squarespace supports right now is mind boggling. I really like what Lex Friedman and the folks at The Midroll (http://www.themidroll.com) are doing. What shows are you listening to these days? The Talk Show, Accidental Tech Podcast, Mac Power Users, Back to Work, CMD+Space, The Incomparable, The Fizzle Show, Shawn Today, Shop Talk, DLC with Jeff Canata, Hired – and of course everything on Goodstuff.fm. Follow Chris on Twitter @iChris Posted in: Interviews, New Shows |

Anxious Bench Get updates from Anxious Bench delivered straight to your inbox Andrea L. Turpin Christopher Gehrz Agnes R. Howard Thomas Albert (Tal) Howard Kristin Kobes Du Mez David R. Swartz Beth Allison Barr Melissa Borja Former Contributors The Clemson Tigers and the Narrative of Christian Athletic Excellence January 9, 2020 by Melissa Borja The Clemson Tigers and the Narrative of Christian Athletic Excellence January 9, 2020 Melissa Borja Dabo Swinney (WikiMedia Commons) This Monday, the Clemson Tigers face off against the LSU Tigers in the College Football Playoff National Championship. For Dabo Swinney, Clemson's coach, the game will not only be a contest of athletic skill, but also a testimony to religious faith. Under Swinney's leadership, the Clemson Tigers have earned a formidable record—they are the defending champions, and Monday's game will be their third appearance in the championship matchup in four years. But Swinney is famous not simply for leading his team to victory, but for doing so while putting his evangelical Christian faith front and center. In Swinney's view, the team's triumphs owe to talent, teamwork, and, above all, trust in God. Swinney made this conviction clear when Clemson captured the national title last year. "All the credit, all the glory, goes to the good Lord," he proclaimed. In the United States, the overlap of football and faith has long drawn the fascination of both the press and the broader public, especially in the case of Clemson's football team, which has been both uncommonly successful and unabashedly Christian. A look at how the team is represented in news media reveals an enduring narrative: that Clemson's football team is not only religious, but successful because they are religious. Indeed, as recent research shows, this narrative is part of a broader trend in American sports journalism that correlates religious faith with good character and athletic excellence. But such a favorable view of athletes' religiosity is by no means universal. Elsewhere in the world, sports writers do not link religious faith with athletic or personal excellence and are, in fact, quite skeptical of athletes' open displays of faith, if they choose to cover it at all. Religious Athletes as Men of Good Character In "Cross Cultural Comparisons of Religion as 'Character': Football and Soccer in the United States and Germany," a paper recently published in The International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Michael Butterworth of Ohio University and Karsten Senkbeil of the University of Hildesheim argued that news media in the United States tend to portray the Christian faith of football players in a positive light. American sportswriters equate Christian faith with success in several ways. First, they connect religious faith—in particular, Christian faith—with both personal virtue and athletic achievement. They suggest that devout Christian faith helps coaches and players to be strong leaders. Finally, they portray a shared Christian faith as foundational to team cohesion. As Butterworth and Senkbeil wrote, When it comes to athletic achievements, the American master narrative usually suggests that religious commitment translates into extra commitment and willpower on the field as well, and thus ultimately to a higher level of athletic performance under pressure," wrote "Also, a team's solidarity, determination, and self-reliance are enhanced by communal prayers, so religion is in fact a positive factor in athletic success. A look at news media coverage of the Clemson Tigers football team confirms the findings of Butterworth and Senkbeil. In magazine and newspaper articles, journalists have regularly highlighted the team's distinctive Christian culture, often presenting it as central to its success. Consider, for example, how American sportswriters portray Swinney. To be sure, Swinney's open emphasis on Christianity has drawn criticism and legal action, especially after one of his players was literally baptized on the football field. Nonetheless, Swinney has enjoyed favorable depiction in the news media as a devout evangelical Christian who is capable of leading and recruiting an excellent team because of his Christianity. For example, in "How Dabo Swinney's Christian Evangelism Boosts Clemson Recruiting," Joshua Needelman at the Charleston Post and Courier described how thirteen current and incoming players committed to Clemson because they were drawn to Swinney's faith-centered approach to football. According to Needelman, Swinney's Christian leadership and Clemson's religious culture "struck a chord with prospects who come from strong Christian backgrounds." Because success during the football season depends so much on success during the recruiting process, Needelman suggested that Christianity itself is Swinney's winning strategy. Similarly, in the article "Faith, Football, and the Fervent Religious Culture at Dabo Swinney's Clemson," Tim Rohan at Sports Illustrated tied Swinney's coaching triumphs to his emphasis on religion: …Swinney has built Clemson into a one of the premier college football programs in the country, while keeping religion front and center. Swinney has hired a team of Christian coaches and support staffers; he's used faith as a selling point for recruits; and he's created an environment where players openly discuss and bond together over their Christianity. Steeped in religion, Clemson has won two of the last three national championships, and is ranked No. 1 again this season. Put simply, both Rohan and Needelman portrayed Christianity not as as incidental to the Clemson Tigers' triumphs, but as intentionally central to it, in large part due to Swinney's Christian leadership. At the same time, news media portrayals of Trevor Lawrence, Clemson's star quarterback, illustrate how American sports journalists tend to present Christianity as a positive influence on athletes' lives and as evidence of good character and virtue. According to media accounts, Lawrence had troubled beginnings but experienced a religious awakening that transformed both his faith and his football career—in other words, a classic conversion story, but this occurring in the world of elite college sports. A September 2019 Sports Illustrated profile of Lawrence followed the familiar narrative arc of an old-time gospel hymn. "[Lawrence] was lost," wrote the author, Ross Dellenger. "Not physically lost, but he was spiritually lost, emotionally lost." Describing him as "deeply troubled," Dellenger included a quote Lawrence, who offered a tantalizingly vague account of his life during his turbulent first year in college. "Being in college," Lawrence said, "I made some decisions… first year being on my own, got this freedom now… I made some decisions, not good decisions." According to the article, though, Lawrence found success at Clemson because he found salvation, thanks to NewSpring Church, a South Carolina church that plans a weeklong religious retreat called The Gauntlet. As Lawrence told Sports Illustrated, the retreat was when he "was truly saved." "I already believed there was a God, that was real," Lawrence said. "I never had experienced it myself. Having them kind of as a guide and seeing things and getting advice… it was me seeing that this stuff was real. I could tell." As Dellenger wrote, faith became "an outlet to escape from the chaos" for Lawrence, who proudly shows his faith to the broader public: Lawrence is not shy about discussing his faith. In fact, he wears it. On his wrists are a half-dozen personalized rubber bracelets, each a different color with its own message. There is one representing a church band, two more portraying Bible verses and another recognizing Clemson's 2018 national championship. Dellenger's profile of Lawrence concluded not simply with the act of redemption, but with the possibility that Lawrence's conversion and Christian conviction might change the lives of those around him. Dellenger described how Lawrence, who once was lost but now was found, shares his faith in a way that he hopes will inspire others: It's hot, it's sweaty, but it doesn't matter, because Trevor Lawrence is found. "I don't think anyone has abilities for no reason," Lawrence says. "I don't think anything is coincidence. God gave me these things for a reason, not just talent on the field, but other opportunities to be a light to people." According to media accounts, the religiosity of Clemson's team is not limited to Swinney and Lawrence, but defines the entire team. Lawrence leads a team that is depicted in the press as not only unabashedly religious, but as unusually close and affectionate—another way that the news media positively portrays Clemson's Christian culture. As Gene Sapakoff wrote at the Charleston Post and Courier, "'love' is at the core of Clemson's four national championship game appearances in five years." Sapakoff described how team members regularly text "I love you" to one another and are united by strong bonds of care. In his story, Sapakoff did not discuss religion directly. However, his portrayal of the team's culture reinforced Clemson's popular image as distinctively virtuous, and it dovetailed with Butterworth and Senkbeil's observation that American news media present religious piety as linked to good moral character, team solidarity, and athletic success. Clemson v. Middle Tennessee, 2009 Season Opener (Lauren Nelson) Religious Athletes as "Remote-Controlled" Dolls But how do news media portray the relationship between sports and religion in other countries and cultural contexts? Butterworth and Senkbeil argued that Americans' tendency to equate Christian piety with athletic and personal excellence is not universal, and they presented the case of German news coverage of soccer to illustrate this point. Germany, like the United States, is characterized by a meritocratic sports culture and a majority Christian population. However, unlike their American counterparts, German sports journalists handle the religiosity of elite athletes very differently. Butterworth and Senkbeil found that in Germany, sportswriters discuss the religious faith of athletes only rarely. European soccer organizations, they pointed out, do not involve themselves with religious organizations, and when they engage in social issues, they emphasize non-religious issues such as opposition to racism and environmental sustainability. Even when an athletic event involves unambiguously religious figures and messages, the German news media describes the event in terms of secular values. For example, after the suicide death of Robert Enke, a goalkeeper for the German national team and a practicing Catholic, a Catholic priest led a prayer and offered a message about God's grace to an arena full of grieving fans. However, none of the mainstream German media mentioned the religious figure or message at all and emphasized, instead, secular concerns such as mental health. On the rare occasion that German sportswriters do talk about religion, they tend to be skeptical of overtly religious athletes. Religious figures in the German media have been described as "remote-controlled" (in the words of one publication) by money-hungry, corrupt churches. As Butterworth and Senkbeil wrote, German sportswriters "overtly belittle these players, implying that they, simply put, are too ignorant to fully understand what they are doing when they show their Jesus slogans." In sum, Butterworth and Senkbeil found that the German news media do not frame the religious faith of athletes as essentially positive, as American news media do, and German sports journalists do not see religious faith as essential to good character, leadership, community building, and athletic success. "German media imply no causality whatsoever between an athlete's religiousness and his athletic success, neither positive nor negative," they wrote. Why do German news media—and German people in general—think about the relationship between faith and football differently from Americans? The researchers offered several explanations. First, religious diversity might play a role. The largest German stadiums are located in large, multicultural cities, with significant Muslim populations, and young, working-class, Muslim men comprise some of their most committed fans. Highlighting the Christianity of some players risks alienating this important fanbase. Moreover, German soccer is centered on a "youth culture" that rebels against messages that are "patronizing, moralistic, and condescending." Finally, Germans tend to see religious faith as a private matter, rather than something that should be on public display. Butterworth and Senkbeil's research reveals very different media narratives and religious cultures, and it raises more questions for consideration. One wonders if, as the American population becomes more religiously diverse—including religiously unaffiliated—the overlap of faith and football, along with the news media celebration of it, will decline. Alternatively, and perhaps more likely, Americans' existing assumptions about faith, character, and athletic excellence will be applied to religiously devout non-Christians, whose piety might be portrayed by sportswriters as essential to success. Will sports become yet another space where minorities need to claim a religion (and do so loudly) in order to be respected and appreciated in America? Finally, sports could continue to be yet another arena in which American society becomes increasingly polarized. Evangelical Christianity remains so tightly linked to American football, but one wonders if non-evangelical groups will ever forcefully counter the status quo. Dabo Swinney, among all the praise, has no doubt been the target of criticism, but it is also hard to imagine anybody taking his job away as long as he is winning. Perhaps more than they love religion, Americans love winners—a lesson we have witnessed in politics, for sure, and also in sports. All The Single Ladies in the Church January 10, 2020 How American Anglicans Went Mainstream "Who says we are a secular nation? You and atheists? Where did you get that? ..." Evangelical Silence and Trump: A Reformation ..." "Personal attack. Once you run out of reason fuel and facts, you engage in personal ..." ">>>"Read your responses to my comment and see whom is truly the one making 'personal ..." "You're projecting." 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Q: Unable to load script from assets 'index.android.bundle'. Make sure your bundle is packaged correctly or you're running a packager server I am having working React Native application having version 0.38.0, when i have tried to upgrade it to 0.45.1 it is showing following error java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to load script from assets 'index.android.bundle'. Make sure your bundle is packaged correctly or you're running a packager server. at com.facebook.react.cxxbridge.CatalystInstanceImpl.jniLoadScriptFromAssets(Native Method) at com.facebook.react.cxxbridge.CatalystInstanceImpl.loadScriptFromAssets(CatalystInstanceImpl.java:198) at com.facebook.react.cxxbridge.JSBundleLoader$1.loadScript(JSBundleLoader.java:33) at com.facebook.react.cxxbridge.CatalystInstanceImpl.runJSBundle(CatalystInstanceImpl.java:216) at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager.createReactContext(ReactInstanceManager.java:994) at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager.access$600(ReactInstanceManager.java:109) at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManager$4.run(ReactInstanceManager.java:746) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:761) I have tried following solutions but it didn't work for me SO: unable to load script from assets index.android.bundle on windows SO: react native android failed to load JS bundle A: Add these lines project.ext.react = [ entryFile: "index.js", bundleAssetName: "index.android.bundle", bundleInAlpha: true, bundleInBeta: true ] before apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native/react.gradle" in build.gradle A: Okay. Every answers are unique depending on 'when' and 'the version' at the time the problem occur. Today is 27 August 2018 ( 1.2 years from this page posted) and I still found the same problem when I install react-native and create projects (on windows) by following the official website instruction. And honestly it is very difficult to find the right answer to make it work like 'normal' for 'today', because everything has changed and is different from the time that has been left behind. Now for the above question : Unable to load script from assets 'index.android.bundle'. Meaning that we don't have the file as requested in the directory assets. That's all the problem!. There is no relation to port, devices, emulator etc. Now what we need to do is to make the file is 'exist there'. And these are some options to you can do depending on your package configuration : Create the directory 'assets' if not exist as requested in directory android/app/src/main/ or you can type in the console : mkdir android/app/src/main/assets In your project directory, execute : react-native bundle --platform android --dev false --entry-file index.js --bundle-output android/app/src/main/assets/index.android.bundle --assets-dest android/app/src/main/res Then check in the asset folder if the files is already there. If not, then try the second way : 1 react-native start // open npm window popup 2 curl "http://localhost:8081/index.android.bundle?platform=android" -o "android/app/src/main/assets/index.android.bundle" Then check in the asset folder if the files is already there. If not, then you need to down grade your project to earlier version packages. Follow these 5 steps and must complete one by one : 1 npm remove --save react-native 2 npm i --save [email protected] 3 npm remove babel-preset-react-native 4 npm i --save [email protected] 5 react-native bundle --platform android --dev false --entry-file index.js --bundle-output android/app/src/main/assets/index.android.bundle --assets-dest android/app/src/main/res If you already have the files in asset folder, then you can continue your project. Check if your device is connected and ready, and run-android : adb devices Make sure you get result like this : List of devices attached cb8eca15 device Then run : react-native run-android Note : Alternatively, you can create a new project again with a specified version : react-native init ProjectName --version 0.55.4 A: 1- Create a new folder => android/app/src/main/assets 2- Run this command => react-native bundle --platform android --dev false --entry-file index.android.js --bundle-output android/app/src/main/assets/index.android.bundle --assets-dest android/app/src/main/res This command will create 2 files : index.android.bundle & index.android.bundle.meta 3- run command => react-native run-android A: To resolve Unable to load script from assets index.android.bundle - React Native follow below process : You have to create dir assets manually in your android project or make Directory by Terminal/CMD enter mkdir android/app/src/main/assets Go at the created Directory if that is successfully created then run step 3 Command: react-native bundle --platform android --dev false --entry-file index.js --bundle-output android/app/src/main/assets/index.android.bundle --assets-dest android/app/src/main/res you have your missed files in the folder now you can Run your React Native project npm run android. https://stackoverflow.com/a/53275340/9489285 A: In my case, the emulator was on airplane mode. Make sure your emulator or mobile phone can communicate with the Metro server.

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Flint, It's People, It's River, Overcomes – Posted on March 8, 2016Posted in: Environmental Health The documentary "Here's To Flint" examines the origins of the Flint, Michigan, water crisis and the determined efforts of residents, activists and researchers to learn the truth about the city's lead-contaminated drinking water. The crisis began when an unelected emergency manager appointed by Michigan's Republican Governor Rick Snyder switched the source of Flint's water to the corrosive Flint River in an apparent bid to save money. The river water corroded the city's pipes and poisoned the water with lead. Photo of Water Tower in Flint. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook 10 Things They Won't Tell You About the Flint Water Tragedy. But I Will By Michael Moore, Published in MichaelMoore.com News of the poisoned water crisis in Flint has reached a wide audience around the world. The basics are now known: the Republican governor, Rick Snyder, nullified the free elections in Flint, deposed the mayor and city council, then appointed his own man to run the city. To save money, they decided to unhook the people of Flint from their fresh water drinking source, Lake Huron, and instead, make the public drink from the toxic Flint River. When the governor's office discovered just how toxic the water was, they decided to keep quiet about it and covered up the extent of the damage being done to Flint's residents, most notably the lead affecting the children, causing irreversible and permanent brain damage. Citizen activists uncovered these actions, and the governor now faces growing cries to resign or be arrested. It was the summer of 2014 when LeeAnne Walters first realized something was very wrong: Each time she bathed the three-year-olds, they would break out in tiny red bumps. Sometimes, when Gavin had soaked in the tub for a while, scaly red skin would form across his chest at the water line. That November, after brown water started flowing from her taps, Walters decided it was time to stock up on bottled water. "Here's To Flint" produced by Michigan Journalist of the Year Curt Guyette and filmmaker Kate Levy, presented by the ACLU of Michigan, tells the inside story of how local residents, journalists and scientists organized to uncover the water contamination crisis that has sparked congressional hearings, the resignations of public officials and a national debate about the impacts of austerity and infrastructure decline in the United States. Here are ten things that you probably don't know about this crisis because the media, having come to the story so late, can only process so much. But if you live in Flint or the State of Michigan as I do, you know all to well that what the greater public has been told only scratches the surface. While the Children in Flint Were Given Poisoned Water to Drink, General Motors Was Given a Special Hookup to the Clean Water. A few months after Governor Snyder removed Flint from the clean fresh water we had been drinking for decades, the brass from General Motors went to him and complained that the Flint River water was causing their car parts to corrode when being washed on the assembly line. The Governor was appalled to hear that GM property was being damaged, so he jumped through a number of hoops and quietly spent $440,000 to hook GM back up to the Lake Huron water, while keeping the rest of Flint on the Flint River water. Which means that while the children in Flint were drinking lead-filled water, there was one — and only one — address in Flint that got clean water: the GM factory. "I feel Snyder should be locked up,"said Yvette Mark of Southfield, a suburb of Detroit. "Snyder killed kids, elderly people… they were trying to wipe a whole city out." STORY: Detropia: Detroit as Utopia or Dystopia? Flint resident Angela Hickmon, 56, chants during a protest outside City Hall in downtown Flint on Jan. 25. JAKE MAY/THE FLINT JOURNAL-MLIVE.COM VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS For Just $100 a Day, This Crisis Could've Been Prevented. Federal law requires that water systems which are sent through lead pipes must contain an additive that seals the lead into the pipe and prevents it from leaching into the water. Someone at the beginning suggested to the Governor that they add this anti-corrosive element to the water coming out of the Flint River. "How much would that cost?" came the question. "$100 a day for three months," was the answer. I guess that was too much, so, in order to save $9,000, the state government said f*** it — and as a result the State may now end up having to pay upwards of $1.5 billion to fix the mess. There's More Than the Lead in Flint's Water. In addition to exposing every child in the city of Flint to lead poisoning on a daily basis, there appears to be a number of other diseases we may be hearing about in the months ahead. The number of cases in Flint of Legionnaires Disease has increased tenfold since the switch to the river water. Eighty-seven people have come down with it, and at least ten have died. In the five years before the river water, not a single person in Flint had died of Legionnaires Disease. Doctors are now discovering that another half-dozen toxins are being found in the blood of Flint's citizens, causing concern that there are other health catastrophes which may soon come to light. Don't Blame the Flint River… People's Homes in Flint Are Now Worth Nothing Because They Cant Be Sold. Would you buy a house in Flint right now? Who would? So every homeowner in Flint is stuck with a house that's now worth nothing. That's a total home value of $2.4 billion down the economic drain. People in Flint, one of the poorest cities in the U.S., don't have much to their name, and for many their only asset is their home. So, in addition to being poisoned, they have now a net worth of zero. (And as for employment, who is going to move jobs or start a company in Flint under these conditions? No one.) Has Flint's future just been flushed down that river? "Snyder is an accountant… that doesn't mean take money out at the expense of people's lives,"added Muhammed Hussain of West Bloomfield. STORY: Greening Detroit: Positive Change Moves Slow and Fast Etched into the landscape by the same glaciers that carved the Great Lakes about 10,000 years ago, the river has been the lifeblood of Flint. It was a source of food, water and transportation for Native Americans who first settled the area. Following the arrival of European immigrants, the river supported a thriving fur trade in the 1700s, carried millions of logs to saw mills in the 1800s, and fueled the rise of the automobile industry in the early 1900s. – The Flint River Photo: Nathan Holth in HistoricBridges.com While They Were Being Poisoned, They Were Also Being Bombed. Here's a story which has received little or no coverage outside of Flint. During these two years of water contamination, residents in Flint have had to contend with a decision made by the Pentagon to use Flint for target practice. Literally. Actual unannounced military exercises – complete with live ammo and explosives – were conducted last year inside the city of Flint. The army decided to practice urban warfare on Flint, making use of the thousands of abandoned homes which they could drop bombs on. Streets with dilapidated homes had rocket-propelled grenades fired upon them. For weeks, an undisclosed number of army troops pretended Flint was Baghdad or Damascus and basically had at it. It sounded as if the city was under attack from an invading army or from terrorists. People were shocked this could be going on in their neighborhoods. Wait – did I say "people?" I meant, Flint people. As with the Governor, it was OK to abuse a community that held no political power or money to fight back. BOOM! The Wife of the Governor's Chief of Staff Is a Spokeswoman for Nestle, Michigan's Largest Owner of Private Water Reserves. As Deep Throat told Woodward and Bernstein: "Follow the money." Snyder's chief of staff throughout the two years of Flint's poisoning, Dennis Muchmore, was intimately involved in all the decisions regarding Flint. His wife is Deb Muchmore, who just happens to be the spokesperson in Michigan for the Nestle Company – the largest owner of private water sources in the State of Michigan. Nestle has been repeatedly sued in northern Michigan for the 200 gallons of fresh water per minute it sucks from out of the ground and bottles for sale as their Ice Mountain brand of bottled spring water. The Muchmores have a personal interest in seeing to it that Nestles grabs as much of Michigan's clean water was possible – especially when cities like Flint in the future are going to need that Ice Mountain. "The issue with the (lead in Flint's) drinking water stemmed from the Flint River having natural differences in chemistry compared to water from Lake Huron," Biologist Joseph Leonardi from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources said. "The river water itself was not to blame." The Flint River contains chlorides (some of which likely come from road salt), but the water does not pose direct threats to fish, wildlife or people who use the river. Chlorides cause problems in drinking water mainly because they corrode metal in the pipes and plumbing fixtures that transport water into homes. Flint's recent drinking water problems increased concerns about water quality in the river, but research shows the waterway is improving. In Michigan, from Flint water, to Crime and Murder, to GM Ignition Switches, It's a Culture of Death. It's not just the water that was recklessly used to put people's lives in jeopardy. There are many things that happen in Flint that would give one the impression that there is a low value placed on human life. Flint has one of the worst murder and crime rates in the country. Just for context, if New York City had the same murder rate as Flint, Michigan, the number of people murdered last year in New York would have been almost 4,000 people – instead of the actual 340 who were killed in NYC in 2015. But it's not just street crime that makes one wonder about what is going on in Michigan. Last year, it was revealed that, once again, one of Detroit's automakers had put profit ahead of people's lives. General Motors learned that it had installed faulty ignition switches in many of its cars. Instead of simply fixing the problem, mid-management staff covered it up from the public. The auto industry has a history of weighing the costs of whether it's cheaper to spend the money to fix the defect in millions of cars or to simply pay off a bunch of lawsuits filed by the victims surviving family members. Does a cynical, arrogant culture like this make it easy for a former corporate CEO, now Governor, turn a blind eye to the lead that is discovered in a municipality's drinking water? "The bottled water, the filters – that's a Band-Aid," says Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician in Flint who played a central role in exposing the water crisis. "We need to think about tomorrow, because this is an issue that we will be dealing with for a long time to come." "Our kids have every obstacle to their success," she says. "And then we gave them lead." Don't Call It "Detroit Water" — It's the Largest Source of Fresh Drinking Water in the World. The media keeps saying Flint was using "Detroit's water." It is only filtered and treated at the Detroit Water Plant. The water itself comes from Lake Huron, the third largest body of fresh water in the world. It is a glacial lake formed over 10,000 years ago during the last Ice Age and it is still fed by pure underground springs. Flint is geographically the last place on Earth where one should be drinking poisoned water. ALL the Children Have Been Exposed, As Have All the Adults, Including Me. That's just a fact. If you have been in Flint anytime from April 2014 to today, and you've drank the water, eaten food cooked with it, washed your clothes in it, taken a shower, brushed your teeth or eaten vegetables from someone's garden, you've been exposed to and ingested its toxins. When the media says "9,000 children under 6 have been exposed," that means ALL the children have been exposed because the total number of people under the age of 6 in Flint is… 9,000! The media should just say, "all." When they say "47 children have tested positive", that's just those who've drank the water in the last week or so. Lead enters the body and does it's damage to the brain immediately. It doesn't stay in the blood stream for longer than a few days and you can't detect it after a month. So when you hear "47 children," that's just those with an exposure in the last 48 hours. It's really everyone. In coordination with conservative state legislators, Governor Snyder moved to enact the emergency manager law, which allowed appointed — not elected — city managers to privatize city services, cancel union contracts, and dissolve local governments, all in the name of saving struggling cities and school districts. Call it disaster capitalism. Snyder had done so under the influence of the Mackinac Center of Michigan, a think tank funded by the powerful and defiantly conservative DeVos Family of Amway Multi-Level Marketing Company, as well as Charles and David Koch. Included were all of the recommendations from the think tank regarding the power and ability of these emergency managers. This Was Done, Like So Many Things These Days, So the Rich Could Get a Big Tax Break. When Governor Snyder took office in 2011, one of the first things he did was to get a multi-billion dollar tax break passed by the Republican legislature for the wealthy and for corporations. But with less tax revenues, that meant he had to start cutting costs. So, many things – schools, pensions, welfare, safe drinking water – were slashed. Then he invoked an executive privilege to take over cities (all of them majority black) by firing the mayors and city councils whom the local people had elected, and installing his cronies to act as "dictators" over these cities. Their mission? Cut services to save money so he could give the rich even more breaks. That's where the idea of switching Flint to river water came from. To save $15 million! It was easy. Suspend democracy. Cut taxes for the rich. Make the poor drink toxic river water. And everybody's happy. Except those who were poisoned in the process. All 102,000 of them. In the richest country in the world. Click here to sign the #ArrestGovSnyder petition. US EPA: 2012 Awards for Smart Growth Sustainability-Minded Projects DamNation: On Dam Removal, Salmon and Wild Flowing Rivers Health Freedom Expo - Long Beach, CA - March 2nd-4th Stop Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Coup Over Organics - By Ronnie Cummins Baram Dam: Protecting Wild Borneo, One Blockade at a Time Detroit Future: Landscape Urbanism, Antidote to Industrial Blight Tar Sands Documentary: White Water, Black Gold Reclaiming Houston: Greening of the Bayou Newhall Ranch: Feds OK Massive Flood Plain Development Tags: ACLU, Detroit, drinking water, Environmental Protection Agency, General Motors, lead, Michael Moore, Michigan, rivers, water pollution

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Your attendees use your conference app 60 to 100 or more times during the event while also using their email, social networks, phone, maps, photo, and dozens of other apps. That takes energy and dead batteries create unhappy attendees. It's very easy and cost effective to offer attendees opportunities to charge their mobile devices. Amazon.com for example offers a variety of USB charging stations that even include several high speed charging ports for tablet devices. These stations can be used for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Apple Watch, Android phones and tablets, Android watches, Amazon Kindle devices, any fitness trackers, or rechargeable backup batteries for mobile devices. Place the mobile device charging stations smartly so the location itself helps enhance the attendee experience. For example, place a charging dock at your membership desk or the registration area. While attendees wait for their batteries to recharge, your staff has the opportunity to start conversations and educate about additional services your organization offers. Or create a seating area around a central charging station to foster networking. Your attendees won't be distracted by their phones and can focus on talking with their peers. Put a coffee cart nearby and you may have created a formula for creating new connections that spawn future research breakthroughs. With all those power hungry gadgets, your charging stations will be well visited and offer a great opportunity for your sponsors to display a message. Simply place a nice countertop banner next to it. If you include a QR code on the banner, your attendees can use EventPilot's built-in QR code reader to pull up the sponsor's detail view. Or use the same iBeacon on the station but this time send a notification that only appears when the attendee is very close and about to plug in their phone. You could send a message like "Visit our sponsor xyz who is providing this charging station for you". Learn more about EventPilot's location-based notifications for conference apps or conference app sponsorship opportunities.

As you can probably tell, we really enjoy our avant-garde. We dedicated a whole week to it, and many of the writers here, this one included, have countless favorites. One of the bands that many of us really enjoy, however, is Norwegian blackjazz avant-garde specialists Shining. Their last album, 2010's Blackjazz, completely blew us away, and their live DVD that followed was every bit as good. However, it's been nearly three years since the band have put out a new studio record, and the question remained: how could they possibly top such a phenomenal record? One One One is every bit heavy as it is catchy. From track one, which became the first single, to the closer 'Paint The Sky Black', this record has everything you could ever want. At first, the appearance of songs around three to four minutes long may scare some of you. Gone are the tripped-out musical journeys, such as 'Blackjazz Deathtrance', and in its place there are catchy songs. If black metal went pop, this record would be definitive. However, the lack of long experimental songs is completely fine; each song on this record is just long enough to become imprinted in your memory. The sheer catchiness that is exemplified on this record is really a testament to how well these guys can run the gamut as far as style goes. It may seem as if these songs were fabricated as some sort of ruse to break into the mainstream, when it is actually quite the opposite, further solidifying them as one of the best, and most interesting, metal bands out there. Another thing to note is the overall sound from this record. Jørgen's voice cuts through the mix like a knife, but is well-placed in relation to everything else. You can definitely tell that this album is every bit as collective as before, perhaps even more. Whereas before it seemed that they just wanted to see how far they could take this shift in sound, on this record they kind of pulled back on the experimentation and went ahead with the hooks, which there are plenty of throughout this record. This record is hook city. Each song has one, and they're all fantastic. A personal favorite is the main riff of "Off The Hook', which is really fun and bouncy, and sounds like something that Shining would never write, but they did. The best part about this record? Each songs has a definitive chorus, and it's going to make their live shows that much better. Hopefully they tour stateside soon so that we can all go and bask in their Norwegian, blackjazz glory. It's not to say that this album is devoid of all forms of experimentation, however. There's a crazy sax solo in "I Won't Forget', sax on the opening part of 'How Your Story Ends', there's some off-time riffs here and there. This record is one giant experiment: to see whether or not the fans like their short and sweet route as much as the experimental, prog-laden route. Even the garish bright orange artwork is an experiment (it gets a bit much at times). They said they did it to reflect their experience with recording in California, which is all well and fun, but a smaller dose would have sufficed. However, the simplicity of the artwork is also captivating; it leaves a lot to the imagination for virgin ears that have yet to behold the magic of Shining, and gives them no reason to say no. One One One is going to end up on many different year-end lists, and for good reason. It's one of the best metal albums to come out this year, and it's also the most memorable. All of the hooks on this record are enough to last you another few years until they decide to release another great record. This record is not only a step forward, but also a step in the right direction. There's no telling what else this band is capable of in the future, and here's to hoping nothing but great things happen to them! Baroness Are Going Back On Tour!

One of the strategic objectives of the parks is to"bring under-utilized land (especially in communal areas) into full production within three years and expand irrigated agriculture,"Zuma said at the Annual Opening of the National House of Traditional Leaders in Parliament. The Agri-Parks program has as one of its guiding principles: maximizing access to market to all farmers with a bias to emerging farmers and rural areas, according to Zuma. "This is a very important program and we urge our traditional leaders to assist in ensuring its success," Zuma said. The government, he said, has developed the Agricultural Policy Action Plan under which food security at household level should be achieved through the utilisation of one million hectares of the communal land for food production.

Evan Rachel Wood (Raleigh (North Carolina), 7 september 1987) is een Amerikaanse actrice. Ze werd op het Filmfestival van Cannes 2007 uitgeroepen tot vrouwelijke revelatie van het jaar. Wood werd in zowel 2004 (voor haar hoofdrol in de dramafilm Thirteen) als 2012 (voor haar bijrol in de miniserie Mildred Pierce) genomineerd voor een Golden Globe. Voor Mildred Pierce werd Wood ook genomineerd voor onder meer een Primetime Emmy Award. Biografie Wood is de dochter van acteur Ira David Wood III (1947) en actrice Sara Lynn Moore (1958). Ze heeft twee oudere broers: Dana en acteur Ira David Wood IV (1984). In 1994 deed Wood auditie voor de rol die Kirsten Dunst uiteindelijk speelde in Interview with the Vampire. Toch verscheen ze datzelfde jaar zelf ook in haar eerste filmrollen, zij het in televisiefilms. Wood kreeg op haar tiende voor het eerst een hoofdrol, in Digging to China. Dat jaar speelde ze tevens een bescheiden rol in Practical Magic, met Sandra Bullock en Nicole Kidman. Wood had al wat ervaring met rolletjes in televisieseries, zoals American Gothic en Profiler, maar haar aandeel daarin was minder omvangrijk dan dat in het daarop volgende Once and Again. Daarin was ze van 1999 tot 2002 een van de prominentere personages. De actrice was in 2010 verloofd met zanger Marilyn Manson. Thirteen Wood verscheen in 2003 als hoofdrolspeelster in de film Thirteen, wat haar onder meer een nominatie voor een Golden Globe opleverde. De film was in Nederland en België in januari 2004 te zien in de bioscoop. Wood speelt hierin een doorsnee tienermeisje dat door een foute vriendin in het wereldje van drugs, seks en diefstal terechtkomt. In 2004 zou Wood de hoofdrol in de bioscoopfilms Raise Your Voice en Mean Girls spelen. Op het laatste moment werd ze vervangen door Hilary Duff en Lindsay Lohan. Vanaf 2005 verscheen ze voornamelijk in minder geruchtmakende films. Haar grote doorbraak was in 2010 door haar rol in de populaire hitserie True Blood. Trivia Woods eerste zoen op beeld was met een meisje, namelijk Mischa Barton in Once and Again. Hierin speelde ze Jessie en Barton Katie, samen het eerste vaste minderjarige (beiden vijftien jaar) lesbische stelletje in een Amerikaanse televisieserie. Ze heeft van 2007 tot en met 2010 een relatie gehad met zanger Marilyn Manson. Voor en na de relatie met Manson heeft ze een relatie (gehad) met de Britse acteur Jamie Bell. Bell en Wood waren van 2012 tot en met 2014 getrouwd. Samen hebben ze een zoon. 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Australia play two Tests and four limited-overs matches against Pakistan in the Middle East in October and November. And Johnson's involvement was put in jeopardy on Friday when Cricket Australia (CA) announced they would not release him for the Champions League Twenty20 with Indian franchise Kings XI Punjab. CA said that Johnson was "not back to 100 per cent fitness" but just two days later, Johnson revealed he was feeling good. "I've had a little bit of a rib thing going on," Johnson told Fox Sports News. "It's something that reoccurs. We've got a fair bit of cricket coming up in the next 12 to 18 months [so I've had some extra rest]. "It's feeling really good now." Australia captain Michael Clarke is also under a fitness cloud after injuring his troublesome hamstring on their recent one-day tour to Zimbabwe. Johnson feels Clarke's presence on the UAE tour will be critical, though, given the inexperienced Test squad. "I hope he gets his fitness up," he added. "He obviously struggled in Zimbabwe with his hamstring but we need him there. He's our captain. "There's a few inexperienced guys going over there, some young guys, so to have his experience … we really need him over there." Pakistan's chief spinner, Saeed Ajmal, has been banned by the International Cricket Council after his bowling action was deemed to exceed the 15-degree level of tolerance. Johnson feels Ajmal's absence will "definitely help" Australia, while acknowledging that playing spin better was an area the batsmen were targeting. "To play spin and to do it well … it's probably something we [struggled with] in Zimbabwe," he said.