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[ "The NFL says its investigation into whether the New England Patriots used under-inflated footballs in the AFC Championship game is ongoing after a report late on Tuesday claimed the league found 11 balls were not properly inflated. Troy Vincent, the NFL executive vice president for football operations, told The Associated Press the 'investigation is underway and we're still awaiting findings.' Vincent was responding to an ESPN report that cited anonymous league sources saying 11 of the Patriots' 12 allotted game footballs were under-inflated by 2 pounds per square inch of air. ESPN did not say how that occurred. VIDEO Scroll down to watch match highlights and reaction . New England Patriots' AFC Championship win against the Indianapolis Colts is under review by the NFL over their alleged use of deflated footballs on Sunday night . Pats head coach Bill Belichick (right) was fined £330,000 in 2007 for videotaping sideline coaches . New England's Julian Edelman (right) runs with the ball against D'Qwell Jackson during Sunday's match . Vincent said earlier Tuesday he expected the probe to be concluded by the end of the week. The last thing the NFL wants after a difficult season off the field is a potential cheating scandal that disrupts Super Bowl week. New England faces the Seattle Seahawks on Feb. 1 in Glendale, Arizona. The Patriots, who beat the Indianapolis Colts 45-7 for the AFC title, said they were cooperating with the league, and a Seahawks spokesman said the team would defer to the league on the matter. The NFL began looking into the issue not only because doctoring the footballs could provide a competitive advantage, but because it would compromise the integrity of the game. Deflating a football can change the way it's gripped by a player or the way it travels through the air. Under NFL rules, each team provides balls each game for use when its offense is on the field. The balls are inspected before the game by the officiating crew, then handled during the game by personnel provided by the home team. Social media responses were quick late Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning. It has been claimed that officials took a ball out of play during the AFC Championship game to weigh it . '11 of 12 balls under-inflated can anyone spell cheating!!! (hash)Just Saying' was the tweet from Hall of Fame receiver Jerry Rice. 'So we get to play the game again or nah? ??' tweeted Colts cornerback Darius Butler. Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers said on ESPN radio in Milwaukee that he didn't like how referees who inspected balls before games take air out of the game balls. 'I have a major problem with the way it goes down, to be honest with you,' Rodgers said. 'The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. That, for me, is a disadvantage.' 'My belief is that there should be a minimum air-pressure requirement but not a maximum,' Rodgers said. 'There's no advantage, in my opinion. We're not kicking the football. There's no advantage in having a pumped-up football. Patriot's player Nate Solder (right) surges towards the touchdown line against the Colts . Pats quarterback Tom Brady (right) and Belichick have built an incredible run at New England.  In 14 seasons together, they have recorded only one losing record and missed the playoffs just three times . New England quarterback Brady holds up the trophy following the AFC Championship game on Sunday . Patriots owner Bob Kraft (left) will see his side face the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl on February 1 . Brady (right) and Kraft celebrates their victory against the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday . Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said the investigation was the least of his worries. And tight end Rob Gronkowski tweeted a photo of himself spiking the ball with the words: 'WARNING GRONKING MAY CAUSE DEFLATION.' Patriots coach Bill Belichick on Tuesday deferred questions about the investigation, saying reporters should ask league officials. Belichick earlier said he wasn't aware there was an issue until Monday, and promised to 'cooperate fully with whatever the league wants us to, whatever questions they ask.' Belichick, of course, was fined $500,000 in 2007 for having an assistant spy on the New York Jets' defensive signals. Colts coach Chuck Pagano said he did not notice issues with the football and didn't specify when asked whether the Colts had reported the issue to officials. 'We talk just like they talk to officials (before the game),' he said. 'We have an opportunity to talk to the officials about a lot of things.' Players were mobbed by fans after the game. It's the eighth time the Patriots have won the AFC Championship . An ecstatic Brady (right) spoke to reporters after leading the Patriots to victory against the Colts . Fans rushed to congratulate the Patriots after their 45-7 victory over the Indianapolis Colts . Brady's supermodel wife Gisele Bündchen was there to celebrate his AFC Championship victory . Delighted New England fans celebrated their progression to the Super Bowl with jubilant scenes in the stands . Brady's next challenge comes against the Seahawks in Arizona in two weeks ." ]

[ "Brazilian right back Danilo netted a crucial penalty for Porto as the visitors fought back against Basle in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 clash, though the fixture was dominated by two decisions from referee Mark Clattenburg. Paraguayan midfielder Derlis Gonzalez opened the scoring at St Jakob-Park as Liverpool's conquerors looked set to take a narrow lead to Portugal, before Casemiro thought he had equalised for the visitors. However, English official Clattenburg took two minutes to disallow the goal, and then awarded Porto a penalty after Walter Samuel was adjudged to have handled in the box. Danilo made no mistake, sending goalkeeper Tomas Vaclik the wrong way . Danilo fires home a penalty for Porto during the 1-1 draw with Basle in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 clash . The Brazilian right back celebrates with his team-mates after netting the equaliser at St Jakob-Park on Wednesday night . Basle midfielder Derlis Gonzalez scores the opening goal of the game after prodding the ball past Porto goalkeeper Fabiano . But Gonzalez was caught in the face by the stopper's knee during the Champions league last-16 clash . Gonzalez holds his face as he goes to celebrate with his team-mates after opening the scoring at St Jakob-Park . Porto thought they had equalised when on-loan Real Madrid midfielder Casemiro poked the ball home after a scramble from a corner . But English referee Mark Clattenburg (bottom right) adjudged that two players were offside and impeding the goalkeeper . Clattenbrug sought help from additional assistant referee Kevin Friend (top left) as he made his decision . Clattenburg chats with goalkeeper Tomas Vaclik after disallowing the goal early on in the second half . BASLE: Vaclik, Xhaka, Suchy, Samuel, Safari, Gonzalez (Calla 25), El-Nenny, Frei, Zuffi, Gashi (Hamoudi 83), Streller (Embolo 63). Subs not used: Vailati, Degen, Arlind Ajeti, Delgado, Hamoudi, Embolo, Calla. Booked: Suchy, Samuel, El-Nenny, Frei, Gashi . Goal: Gonzales 11 . PORTO  Fabiano, Danilo, Maicon, Marcano, Alex Sandro, Herrera, Casemiro, Torres (Neves 68), Tello (Quintero 81), Martinez, Brahimi (Quaresma 61). Subs: Helton, Martins Indi, Quaresma, Quintero, Evandro, Ruben Neves, Aboubakar. Booked: Danilo, Alex Sandro, Casemiro, Torres . Goal: Danilo 79 (pen) Referee: Mark Clattenburg (England) Basle set themselves up as a team who first and foremost didn't want to concede, but scored with the first chance of the game in the 11th minute. Fabian Frei chipped a perfectly weighted ball over the Porto defence and found Gonzalez, who held off his marker and prodded the ball past the Porto goalkeeper. But the Paraguayan was involved in a heavy collision with Fabiano in his efforts, with the Porto stopper's knee making impact with his face. Basle lost their bite after the he went off injured in the 25th minute. Porto took their time to get going but began stringing some moves together and although the did not seriously test Tomas Vaclik before half-time, it was a different story after the break as they controlled the game. The visitors had a half-chance to level on the hour mark as they started to apply the pressure but Jackson Martinez was thwarted by the home defence as he was floored in the box while referee Clattenburg waved play-on, before Danilo sent the ball flying over the crossbar and into the stands. The away side continued to push and Cristian Tello had the ball in the back of the net 10 minutes before the break although the offside flag had already gone up. It looked as if Julen Lopetegui's men had got onto the scoresheet two minutes into the second half as Tello's corner found Maicon at the far post, whose header was punched out by Vaclik before the ball fell to the feet of Brazil midfielder Casemiro to volley home. But seconds later the goal was disallowed after a brief exchange of words between Clattenburg and his assistant, and the English referee ruled the goal out after saying the Porto players had impeded the goalkeeper in an offside position. Czech stopper Vaclik was forced to parry Tello's close-range shot out for a corner as the game approached the hour mark, while - five minutes later - Martinez came close to netting a leveller with a great chance but he fired too high with his close-range effort and instead found the roof of the net. Casemiro wields away to celebrate with the visiting fans before finding out the goal had been ruled out . Clattenburg sought help from fellow English official Kevin Friend as he made his decision - which took around two minutes . Jackson Martinez scooped the ball over the bar for Porto when through on goal as the Portuguese side went hunting for an equaliser . Basle players pile on top of Gonzalez after his opener - though the Paraguayan was down hurt for some time . The 20-year-old receives treatment on the touchline on Wednesday night from the Basle physios . Gonzalez eventually had to be taken off during the first half after the injury . With just over 10 minutes remaining, Porto levelled through Danilo's penalty after former Inter defender Samuel went to ground in his own box and was unable to avoid handling the ball on the deck. Danilo made it look easy as he took the resulting spot-kick with a cool short run to fire into the bottom-left of the goal and beat the diving Vaclik as the visitors' pressure finally paid off. Both sides seemed content to play out for a draw in the end, though the Portuguese side are surely favourites. Casemiro, challenged by Walter Samuel, heads the ball towards goal for Porto at St Jakob-Park . Basle's Taulant Xhaka (left) fights for the ball against Porto winger Yacine Brahimi during the last-16 clash . Basle head coach Paulo Sousa (right) greets Porto's boss Julen Lopetegui prior to kick0off . Clattenburg books Spanish midfielder Oliver Torres during the last-16 clash .", "(CNN) -- India tied the three-Test series with Sri Lanka after V.V.S. Laxman overcame back problems to score an unbeaten century on the final day of the deciding match in Colombo to seal a five-wicket victory. Set 257 to win, the top-ranked tourists made it home comfortably following a fourth-wicket partnership of 109 between Laxman and veteran batsman Sachin Tendulkar, with Suresh Raina's 41 off 45 balls completing a fine turnaround. Laxman followed up his first-innings 56 as he ended the match unbeaten on 103 from 149 balls, scoring his 16th Test ton despite needing the help of a runner. \"He proved today why he is called very, very special,\" Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni told reporters. \"He always comes up with innings that have a huge bearing on the game. \"It was very important for him to score runs as the team needed it most to level the series. I think it is a very special innings. Hopefully, he plays plenty more innings like this for us.\" Laxman, a veteran of 113 Tests, said he had struggled to keep momentum due to his back pain. \"I started my innings well, but during the partnership I had a lot of discomfort and the spasms didn't allow me to move freely. Once I was into my 30s it became very painful,\" he said. \"It was difficult. You don't want to create confusion and also not break the rhythm. If you see, Sachin got out once I took the runner. But I was in such pain that I thought that the best decision in team's interest was to have a runner instead of just giving away the wicket due to pain.\" Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara said the turning point was when his side were bowled out for 267 in their second innings the previous day. \"If we had just tried to bat till lunch, the ball would have got softer and we could have scored a lot more runs. But unfortunately, we played some poor strokes,\" he said. \"Otherwise we could have batted out the day and put the heavy roller on today and declared.\" Resuming on 53-3 in their second innings on Saturday, India soon lost nightwatchman Ishant Sharma for four as off-spinner Suraj Randiv claimed his fourth wicket. But Laxman joined Tendulkar, who made a patient 54 off 122 balls -- his 56th half-century in his record 169th Test appearance -- before also falling to Randiv at 171-5. Tendulkar had been dropped by a close fielder when on 18 also off Randiv, who claimed his first five-wicket haul in just his second outing after coming in to replace retired world record-holder Muttiah Muralitharan. Raina, who scored 120 on debut in the previous drawn Test, hit the winning runs with a six off Chanaka Welegedara just before the scheduled tea break. Meanwhile, Pakistan reached 19-1 at stumps of the second day of the second Test against England, having bowled out the hosts for 251 in Birmingham. Pakistan, all out for a paltry 72 in their first innings, are still 160 runs away from making England bat again at Edgbaston. The hosts resumed on 112-2 on Saturday, but spinner Saeed Ajmal took his first five-wicket haul to restrict the deficit. However, Pakistan's bowling options were hit when seamer Umar Gul was ruled out of the rest of the match with a torn hamstring. Kevin Pietersen returned to form with 80, but had a lucky escape on 41 when he was given not out in bizarre circumstances. The South Africa-born batsman pulled away from the crease just before Mohammad Asif was about to deliver the ball, signaling he had been distracted by movement behind the bowler. But then he offered a shot after all and chipped a catch to Pakistan captain Salman Butt, who could not persuade umpire Marais Erasmus to change his decision of \"dead ball.\" James Anderson later took his fifth wicket of the match as Butt went without scoring.", "The All Blacks have taunted England by claiming their Twickenham performance was a backward step and Stuart Lancaster’s men must play a more attacking game to be world beaters. England lost 24-21 to the world champions, making it four successive defeats following last summer’s 3-0 whitewash, and the final scoreline flattered the hosts. Jonny May’s stunning try raised hopes of an England win but they ran out of steam badly in the second half. England players look dejected during the demoralising defeat against New Zealand at Twickenham . England manager Stuart Lancaster looks on as England were beaten at home to New Zealand . VIDEO England 21-24 New Zealand highlights . New Zealand No 8 Kieran Read, the world player of the year, said: ‘They took us on up front but they didn’t show as much as they did in June (when England lost the series 3-0). ‘They started well, then maybe went away from their strength. They scored a great try by passing the ball but later on they closed up a bit. They will learn a lot from this game.’ Read’s team-mate, fly half Aaron Cruden, agreed that England — who will consider starting George Ford at No 10 against South Africa on Saturday with Owen Farrell at inside centre — went into their shells in the second half. Danny Care of England is stopped by Aaron Cruden... and the Kiwi had more to say after the game . New Zealand No 8 Kieran Read, the world player of the year, said he saw more from England in June . ‘At the start of the second half we felt we got a bit of dominance and England went away from using the ball a bit,’ Cruden said. ‘They reverted a lot to kicking and trying to put pressure on us that way. In the first half they were chancing their arm a bit. They turned down a shot at goal and kicked to the corner. ‘In the second half they reverted to being forward-orientated and kicking the ball. We were expecting them to use the ball more, but we adapted well.’ England went in at half time with the lead but ultimately lost out to an impressive New Zealand team . Lancaster has several selection dilemmas — including the make-up of the back row — ahead of the Springboks, who were surprise losers to Ireland in Dublin. But despite the latest setback the head coach is adamant his injury-hit side is on track 11 games away from the start of next year’s World Cup. ‘I don’t think in any games we’ve played we’ve felt we’ve been dominated,’ Lancaster said. ‘The first half of the third Test [in New Zealand] is probably the only time. We don’t think the gap is very big at all.’ Chris Robshaw suffers in the Twickenham rain as England fall to defeat against New Zealand .", "India batsman Virat Kohli says Australia’s players called him a spoilt brat and that he has no reason to respect Mitchell Johnson. Kohli scored 169 on the third day of the third Test at the MCG in Melbourne during which he and Johnson exchanged plenty of verbals. ‘It was going on throughout the day,’ said Kohli. ‘They were calling me a spoilt brat. I said, “Maybe that’s the way I am — you guys hate me and I like that”. It worked in my favour I guess.’ Viat Kohli (left) scored 169 runs for India in the third Test against Australia in Melbourne . Kohli exchanges words with Australia batsman Mitchell Johnson during the game . India are 2-0 down in the four-match Test series but Kohli has scored three centuries. At one point during the third day, Johnson hit Kohli with the ball when throwing for the stumps. Kohli put on 262 with Ajinkya Rahane to help India to 462 for eight in reply to Australia’s first-innings 530. Johnson did take Kohli’s wicket with the final ball of the day but ended up with figures of one for 133. Johnson apologises after hitting Kohli with a ball thrown at the stumps . The India batsman insisted that he has no respect for Johnson after the game . ‘I respect quite a few of them. But someone who does not respect me, I’ve got no reason to respect him,’ said Kohli of Johnson. In Brisbane, Andrew Flintoff took two wickets and scored 15 runs from 10 balls as his Brisbane Heat side beat the Melbourne Stars in Australia’s Big Bash League. Across the Tasman Sea, Dimuth Karunaratne’s maiden Test hundred helped Sri Lanka fight back against New Zealand in Christchurch. Johnson eventually took Kohli's wicket but finished the day with figures of one for 133 . Kohli leaves the field after having his wicket taken by Johnson, with India trailing 2-0 in the series . The tourists, bowled out for 138 in their first-innings reply to New Zealand’s 441, were much improved as Karunaratne’s 152 helped them to 293 for five at the close of day three. Meanwhile, off-spinner Saeed Ajmal has withdrawn from Pakistan’s World Cup squad as his bowling action is yet to be cleared by the ICC. However, banned compatriot Mohammad Hafeez is to have checks before potentially applying for a test on his bowling action.", "By . Paul Newman . Follow @@Paul_NewmanDM . Liam Plunkett took almost as much pride in his maiden Test half-century as the two wickets in two balls that kept England in the second Test. Plunkett, who was dismissed off the last ball of the day at Headingley when he first acted as nightwatchman against Sri Lanka, this time showed the batting style which marks him out as bowling all-rounder material. ‘I take pride in my batting, I love to bat,’ said Plunkett, who volunteered to go in ahead of Matt Prior on Friday night with the new ball imminent. ‘I started out as a batsman at junior level and I still work hard at it. Resistance: Liam Plunkett scored his maiden Test 50 at Lord's during England's second Test against India . Boost: England's Plunkett celebrates taking the wicket of Cheteshwar Pujara during India's second innings . Glory: Plunkett runs off to celebrate the wicket of Virat Kohli, his second in just two balls against India at Lord's . ‘Last night I was trying to line it up and was prepared to take one on the body if necessary but then I had the freedom to play my shots. It’s great to get a 50. ‘I’m absolutely over the moon with it. ‘I’ve been working hard to be honest with you. I’ve felt good with the bat all year and I’ve been working on some stuff. Last night when I came in as nightwatchman I worked really hard on lining it up and I felt in good nick and then came out in the morning a little bit more confident.’ Plunkett, who has been used mainly as an enforcer in his second coming for England, admitted that he got it wrong in the first innings when he was culpable as India scored at least a hundred more than they should have on a green pitch. Expansive: Plunkett started his junior career as a batsman and has the potential to be an England all-rounder . High point: England celebrate after Plunkett dismissed Virat Kohli to take his second wicket in two balls . ‘I’m an aggressive bowler and that’s how I got back in the team and I didn’t want to take that away from myself because if I did, I’d just bowl little swingers,’ said Plunkett. ‘But I got my lengths wrong in the first innings. I adjusted second time around and bowled a lot better.’ But Plunkett regretted wasting Saturday afternoon’s opportunity to claim a hat-trick - his third such chance in Tests this season. ‘I guess the lesson is not to bowl a wide one like that,’ said Plunkett. ‘I was just trying to be aggressive but I got my line wrong.’ Plunkett was a member of the Yorkshire attack who conceded 472 in the final innings to a Chris Rogers-inspired Middlesex as they lost a remarkable championship game at Lord’s this season. Lift: Plunkett took two wickets in two balls to keep England in the hunt for a win on day three of the second Test . Salute: Plunkett acknowledges the crowd during his unbeaten 55, which he said he was 'over the moon' with . He was adamant on Saturday night that this pitch will get better for batting as the Test continues. ‘It’s still nipping around but if you get in there are runs to be had,’ said Plunkett. ‘We are willing to chase whatever we need to on this wicket. ‘We’ll come out hard again. If we get a few early ones it’s still a good pitch and still a good cricket wicket. The wicket’s only going to get better so we’ll go hard in the morning and see what happens.’ Cheteshwar Pujara, the first of Plunkett’s victims in those two balls, said India were aiming for a 350 lead but would still fancy their chances if they could set England 300 to win. ‘The bounce is very uneven, a couple are keeping low and others are kicking,’ said Pujara, in a rather different assessment of the third-day pitch to that offered by Plunkett. ‘If we bowl well I’m confident we could defend any total.’ In truth, anything more than 250 will seriously test an England side who have forgotten how to win and a nervous chase is in prospect for Cook and England over the final two days of this Test. Pumped: Plunkett celebrates the wicket of Pujara as he put England in a good position after day three at Lord's . Shot: Plunkett's unbeaten 55 helped England to a total of 319 and they trail India by 145 heading into day four .", "England captain Chris Robshaw has been challenged to raise his game to even greater heights on Saturday – to set the tone for a famous victory over the All Blacks. The 28-year-old Harlequins flanker delivered a superb individual performance last Saturday at Eden Park, emphatically out-playing his iconic opposite number, Richie McCaw, as the tourists dominated the first Test for long periods before subsiding to a 20-15 defeat. Yet, while Robshaw was a massive influence around the field, particularly with his ball-carrying and astute work as a link-man in attack, McCaw had a greater impact in terms of claiming turn-overs. Raise your game: Chris Robshaw has been challenged to perform even better in the second Test . Missing link: While Robshaw's ball-carrying was good, he was beaten at the breakdown by Richie McCaw . Poacher: The England skipper has a long way to go to match the All Blacks' leader in forcing turnovers . Given the crucial importance of breakdown poaching in a No 7’s repertoire, the England management have re-emphasised to their skipper the need to compete over the ball. Their demand for a greater ruck return is in keeping with the overall quest for a leap in standards this weekend, from an already impressive base. Asked to reflect on Robshaw’s exploits in Auckland and what was expected of him in the second Test, forwards coach Graham Rowntree said: ‘He was industrious last week. I thought he had a good game. We have been through his game and there are things he has to be better at, but he knows that. He will be the last one off the training field, doing his extras. ‘I’m delighted with how he is going but he knows he’s going to have to come up another level tomorrow. For Chris, that means finding another level in everything he does, but there are more breakdowns than anything else in the game and that is one area we coach daily.’ Wde role: Manu Tuilagi (centre) moves to the wing on Saturday as the back line in reshuffled . Straight back in: Owen Farrell takes his place at fy-half having joined the camp after the Premiership rugby final . Brothers in arms: The now full-strength England squad listens to Robshaw during the captain's run in Dunedin . On a high: Billy Twelvetrees has recovered from an ankle injury and will partner Luther Burrell in the centres . England have recalled Tom Wood at blindside flanker in place of James Haskell, who was arguably their most effective breakdown asset at Eden Park. But Wood and Robshaw – aided and abetted by the likes of lock pair Joe Launchbury and Geoff Parling – led a ferocious rucking onslaught 18 months which was at the heart of a record victory over New Zealand at Twickenham. That same raging intensity at the collision areas will be vital this time, if England are to disrupt the hosts’ possession and ensure their backs have quick ball to work with. That would allow them to set about dispelling the local perception that they want to play a slow, turgid game; a view which Rowntree took his turn to dismiss out of hand. Recalled: Tom Wood will play at blindside flanker in the only change to the starting forward pack . On a high: Wood comes in for James Haskell after captaining Northampton to victory over Saracens . Firepower: Stuart Lancaster will call on the likes of Courtney Lawes from the bench at Forsyth Barr Stadium . Perfect conditions: England and the All Blacks will go into battle under the roof at the Highlanders' home ground . ‘We want to play quick,’ said the former prop. ‘I was alarmed by some of the comments in the press this week saying we want to slow the game down. We want to play quick because we have a lightning-fast backline and a dynamic group of forwards, and that stadium will suit us. ‘In my opinion, the squad is a lot fitter – and I’m sure the data would back that up as well – than it ever has been. That is certainly helping the way we want to play. We want to play a challenging game and we want every tool available for a driving game or a quick game. We want everything.’ There was a degree of doubt about whether or not Forsyth Barr Stadium – with its roof-covered surface – would suit England’s kickers, after Jonny Wilkinson had some trouble shooting at goal there during the last World Cup. But the indications from training there this morning are that Owen Farrell and Freddie Burns endured no such problems. Kicking game: Owen Farrell will be playing under a roof in the second Test . Waiting game: Saints hooker Dylan Hartley will be back-up for Rob Webber, who impressed in the first Test to keep his starting spot . Quick recovery: Scrum-half Danny Care starts after missing the first Test with a shoulder injury . Warming up: England ease into their session in the stadium nicknamed the Glasshouse . Warming up: England ease into their session in the stadium nicknamed the Glasshouse . Testing time: While Mike Brown (left) is rock solid under the high ball, Tuilagi (right) will be peppered on the wing . ‘Owen’s not missed a shot this morning,’ said Rowntree. ‘I was marvelling at how easy he makes it. Crikey, I’m glad I never had to do that for a living, under that pressure, but they both (Farrell and Burns) kicked well this morning.’ England have stocked their bench with high-calibre, heavyweight replacements, in the hope of blasting to victory in the final quarter against a tiring All Blacks defence. There will be a major onus on the visitors to maintain their intensity levels for the entire match, which they were unable to do last weekend. ‘You have to be able to play until the last 10 seconds,’ said Rowntree. ‘New Zealand have shown that, particularly in their victory in Ireland last autumn. We have to be pounding away at the end there. That's something we are constantly speaking about; being there and accurate in the last few seconds of the game. It's certainly a work-on for us.’ So near, yet so far: Robshaw saw England concede a late try against New Zealand in the first Test . On the charge: Robshaw will look to lead England to victory in the second Test .", "Lionel Messi equalled Raul's Champions League record by reaching 71 goals in 90 games as Barcelona beat Ajax to reach the last 16. Playing against his old club, Luis Suarez is without a goal in his first three games for Barcelona but Messi's double at least meant the former Liverpool striker got his first win for his new club. Messi scored from Pedro's cross on 76 minutes to reach Raul's landmark and book Barca's place in the knockout stages. Lionel Messi heads into an empty net to give Barcelona the lead after Jasper Cillessen had come out but failed to clear the ball . Dutch goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen left his line but failed to collect the ball, leaving Messi to head Marc Bartra's cross into an empty net . Luis Suarez's pin-point cross finds Messi at the far post leaving the unfortunate Cillessen unable to cover . Argentine star Lionel Messi celebrates scoring the opening goal of the game, which took his tally to 70 Champions League goals . Messi is congratulated by Jordi Alba, Suarez and Neymar after moving within one goal of Raul's Champions League record . Ajax: Cillessen, Van Rhijn, Veltman, Moisander, Boilesen, Klaassen, Serero (Denswil 80), Andersen (Riedewald 72), El Ghazi, Sigthorsson (Milik 62), Schone. Subs Not Used: Boer, Kishna, Viergever, Zimling. Sent Off: Veltman (71). Booked: El Ghazi, Veltman, Moisander. Barcelona: Ter Stegen, Dani Alves (Adriano 83), Bartra, Mascherano, Jordi Alba, Rakitic (Rafinha 80), Busquets, Xavi, Suarez, Messi, Neymar (Pedro 74). Subs Not Used: Bravo, Pique, Douglas, Munir. Booked: Mascherano, Jordi Alba, Dani Alves. Goals: Messi 36, 76. Att: 52, 116 . Ref: Pedro Proenca (Portugal). Suarez's best opportunity to open his account came on the hour when Messi played him through. He had promised not to celebrate if he scored against his former club and the promise was not tested as Jasper Cillessen came out to save his shot. Gerard Pique was once again out in the cold this time not in the stands but on the bench as Luis Enrique paired Marc Bartra with Javier Mascherano. Xavi took his place in midfield to draw level with Iker Casillas on a record 144 Champions League games, but all eyes were on Suarez. The man who scored over 100 goals for Ajax in little more than 150 games, captained them to success in the Dutch Cup final in his final full season and played enough games in his last campaign – before moving to Liverpool in January 2011 – to earn a league winners medal has always enjoyed the unstinting support of the club's supporters even during what was a troubled last season at the club marred by a ban for biting Otman Bakkal. They cheered his name as the Barcelona team was read out and just hoped he would net score his first Barcelona goal against them. Barcelona's former player Marc Overmars, who is now Sporting Director at Ajax, described the Barcelona front three that Suarez now makes up with Messi and Neymar as 'a dream' before the game but this was the first time the fantastic three had finished the game with three points; albeit after a difficult first half. Neymar had the ball in the net on four minutes but his goal was ruled out for offside and it was the last we saw of Barcelona's attack for a while as Ajax domintated. Lucas Anderson picked up on a poor clearance from Dani Alves and shaved a post with his shot and Marc-Andre ter Stegen then had to turn Davy Klassen's shot away for a corner as Ajax had their first chances. Stegen's save and some timely interceptions from Jordi Alba and Mascherano were all that was keeping Ajax at bay. Suarez forced a corner to give Barcelona some much-needed respite but Ajax were laying siege to Barca's goal. Alba handled in the box and was lucky to escape without conceding a penalty. At the other end he forced a save from Cillessen but Ajax remained on top. The night gets worse for Frank de Boer's men when Joel Veltman is sent off for picking up two bookings . Former Santos forward Neymar holds off Anwar El Ghazi at The Amsterdam Arena on Wednesday night . Barcelona's Uruguayan forward Suarez leaps into the air to reach the ball during his side's clash with Ajax in Holland . Former Liverpool and West Ham midfielder Javier Mascherano fights for the ball with Kolbeinn Stigthorsson . Lasse Schone remonstrates with former Sevilla midfielder Ivan Raktic during the Champions League Group F match . They were furious when El Ghazi stayed down injured in the Barcelona area and the visitors played on and forced a free-kick at the other end. Messi took the kick and Cillessen saved brilliantly but seconds later he made the mistake that would cost Ajax the lead. He came for a 50-50 ball with Bartra, lost the race. The central defender crossed from the byline and Messi scored with a looping header. It was the most unusual of goals – a Messi header from a cross from a centre-half – but it calmed Barca's nerves in what had been a chaotic first half. And it was goal number 70 in 90 Champions League games that left him level with Cristiano Ronaldo and one short of Raul's record. Messi turned provider on the hour sliding a pass through for Suarez. It should have been his first goal for Barca. His first touch took him clear of the Ajax defence but Cillessen won the one-on-one and so there was no 'no-celebration' from the Uruguayan who had promised to respect his former supporters. Arkadiusz Milik headed against the post as Ajax pushed for the equalizer but they were reduced to ten men when Joel Veltman was sent off for a second bookable offence and as Barca poured forward wth the extra man Messi got his historic goal. Suarez promised not to celebrate against his old club, but that promise wasn't tested after he missed his one-on-one . Dutch winger El Ghazi, who is only 19-years-old, tries to shake off the attention of Spanish full back Jordi Alba . Messi takes a free-kick during the first half, Durhc keeper Cillessen dived to his right to bat it away . The result will calm talk of crisis at the Nou Camp. Suarez will hope he gets off the mark soon after another frustrating night in front of goal. There were at least signs in the second half when he played more centrally and Messi tucked in behind him that things are beginning to click. Enrique still has problems, with Alves below par at right-back and Pique an unused substitute. But he also has Messi. The Argentine had a quiet first half hour as Barca suffered but when he came alive he killed the game. And at just 27 years of age has leveled with Raul – the only difference being that it has taken him 90 games and not 142 as it did the Spaniard. 'Messi is the best player I have seen in my life' said Enrique after his double. He added: 'We were better in the second half. We always tried to win the ball back as far from our goal as possible and we were able to do that better after the break. 'It's important qualify with two games left. We have to improve we know that much but I have no complaints about the attitude of my players.' Barcelona's talented front three of Suarez, Messi and Neymar discuss their plan for a free-kick . Ajax's players defend frantically while Neymar and Messi try to pick up the loose ball in the box . Niklas Moisander reacts angrily to a decision by referee Pedro Proenca during the Group F clash in Holland . Ajax midfielder Dennis Praet kicks the ball away while being closed down by Barcelona's Sergio Busquets . Ajax fans wave their flags and play drums in the build up to the match against the Spanish giants in the Dutch capital . Former Liverpool striker Suarez, now playing for Barcelona, spent four years with Ajax in what was an incredibly prolific period . Former Barcelona midfielder and current manager Luis Enrique watches on as his team face the Dutch giants in Amsterdam . Barcelona's players celebrate after ending their two-game losing streak with a 2-0 win over Ajax . Suarez applauds the crowd at his old home stadium - the Amsterdam Arena - where he spent four years with Ajax . Suarez is without a goal in his first three games for Barcelona, but he did at least get his first win on Wednesday .", "Joe Root admitted pitches like the one in Grenada make it easier to make centuries and harder to win games, as West Indies batted themselves into a position of relative comfort on day four of the second Test. Regardless of the state of the wicket, Root was in superb touch on his way to 182 not out in the morning session, his second highest score and the fourth of his six hundreds to pass the 150 mark. But for the second match in a row England's hopes of pushing for victory were railroaded by a dead pitch that was arguably better for run-making than on day one. Joe Root hits another ball to the boundary on his way to an impressive big hundred in Grenada . Root admitted that the flat pitch made it too easy to score runs and too tough to take wickets . Root's efforts left the West Indies with a 165-run deficit, but they cleared that to finish 37 ahead on 202 for two at stumps. Speaking after the match, Root lifted the lid on the tourists' frustrations. 'These pitches are great for batters because we get big scores but as far as Test cricket is concerned, it's not ideal,' he said. 'Unfortunately, it's a very unresponsive pitch and it's been hard work . 'We all thought it might break up a little bit more and give a little bit more spin than it has done, but unfortunately it hasn't happened. 'This is what we've got to deal with, and we've just got to get on the best we can.' Stuart Broad, who eventually took the wicket of Darren Bravo, found the going tough in Grenada . Ben Stokes sees the ball disappear to the boundary once again as England struggled on day four . In all likelihood, the destiny of the game will be decided in the morning. England are five overs away from a new ball - which has been the only bankable way of making things happen - and must make it count with a cluster of wickets to set themselves for success. 'We're going to need a very good first hour in the morning,' he said. 'With the new ball we'll need a couple of early wickets and you never know. They're only 40 ahead, so if it's bang bang in the morning we've got a game on our hands. 'That would definitely give us the best chance of winning the game on a very flat wicket. 'Our only chance is wickets with the new ball, whether it be with seam or spin, that's the way it looks at the moment, but you never know.' Root admitted that England need early wickets with the new ball, just as James Anderson achieved on day four . West Indies go in to the final morning with Kraigg Brathwaite on 101 not out having compiled a dogged fourth Test ton and England's tormentor-in-chief Marlon Samuels alongside. Samuels, who memorably saluted Ben Stokes after his dismissal on the third evening, was not sledged when he arrived at the crease but Root had no guarantees that would continue. 'Everyone was very well behaved tonight, there was no-one speaking up,' he added. 'We'll see how tomorrow goes. Concentration might come into it, and maybe a bit of banter could spice things up a bit.'", "Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper said Sunday that President Barack Obama beat him at pool not once but twice when the two ran into each other at a bar in Denver last week. Hickenlooper told reporters at the National Governors Association meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, yesterday that he 'felt pretty good' about his odds of winning the game when he challenged Obama, but the president turned out to be a much better player than he expected. 'He was making long shots with a difficult angle. I didn’t know people in Hawaii played that much pool. Evidently they do,' Hickenlooper said, according to the Wall Street Journal. 'The man is a shark.' After pictures of Obama playing pool and . drinking a beer with Hickenlooper were published, the president took . flack for taking time out of his schedule to have a boys night out in . Denver while adamantly refusing to make a pit stop at the border during . his swing through Texas in the two days that followed. Scroll down for video . Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper admitted to reporters at the National Governors Association convention yesterday that 'he felt pretty good' going into his pool game with President Barack Obama last week and was shocked that the president beat him not once but twice . Obama had already boasted about beating the Democratic Governor in pool at a fundraiser the following day in Denver but said nothing about playing - and winning - against the state's chief executive more than once. 'I walked over to Hickenlooper’s old joint. Hickenlooper was there. He . challenged me to pool,' Obama told donors, referring to Wynkoop Brewing Co., a bar Hickenlooper used to own. 'You can ask him how that went,' Obama continued. 'I took his lunch . money.' Reporters who caught the men's first game and Obama's big win said neither of the elected leaders played well the first half of the game. 'And then, literally before my eyes he ran like four balls,' Hickenlooper said yesterday, recounting the his defeat at the hands of the president. Obama smoked the Colorado Governor, sinking the eight ball when Hickenlooper still had five balls on the table. 'I take a little longer to warm up,' Hickenlooper said at the time. Hickenlooper was the one who challenged Obama to a game of pool last Tuesday night at Wynkoop Brewing Co. not knowing how good Obama was at the game. 'He was making long shots with a difficult angle. I didn¿t know people in Hawaii played that much pool,' he said on Sunday . After reporters were escorted out of the room, Hickenlooper says the men played a second game, double or nothing, for $20, and Obama won that game, too. 'I was playing as hard as I could possibly play,' the newly minted National Governor's Association chairman said on the last day of the organization's conference. 'I still had four balls on the table when he nailed the eight ball.' 'I’m not a bad pool player,' he opined. After the game, Obama began to walk away with the $20 pot, Hickenlooper said, but the president doubled back and returned the money. 'Find a good charity,' the president reportedly told him. Obama was in Colorado at the time to attend a luncheon benefiting the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and incumbent Senator Mark Udall, who is up for reelection this year. The president also gave a speech on the economy and met with a local supporter who had written him a letter before traveling to Texas for similar events. He did not, however, visit the U.S.-Mexico border to take stock of what he himself has called a 'humanitarian crisis' during his trip to the Lone Star state, upsetting Texas politicians, including a congressman from his own political party. 'He's so close to the border,' Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar said last week. 'And let me say this: when I saw, and I hate to use the word bizarre, but under the circumstances, when he is shown playing pool in Colorado, drinking a beer, and he can't even go 242 miles to the Texas border?' he continued. Cuellar said he 'very very upset' that Obama made time for a photo op with Hickenlooper but wouldn't go see the illegal immigrant children being held in detention facilities in southern Texas.", "The team bus carrying Fenerbahce players and coaching staff back from an away game was shot at on Saturday night. Trabzon governor Abdulcelil Oz said the driver appeared to have been hit by a bullet, after initially stating he may have been hit by a stone. Fenerbahce TV maintained the bus was attacked by an assailant with a shotgun. It said security officers on board quickly took control of the bus and safely stopped it after the driver was hit, averting an accident. None of the players were hurt. Five round marks can be seen on the windscreen of the Fenerbahce team bus after the attack . The window nearest the driver was smashed during the attack on Saturday night . The injured driver, with blood seeping from a head wound, seeks help after the attack . Caykur Rizespor midfielder Ludovic Obraniak was taken to hospital with a suspected heart problem after being substituted against Fenerbahce . 'The latest situation is that it appears to be a gun,' said Oz. 'It is too soon to say anything definite, but it appears to be a type of bullet fired by a rifle.' Former Liverpool midfielder Dirk Kuyt was among 40 players and officials on board the coach which was attacked near the city of Trabzon. The bus driver suffered a head injury and was taken to hospital. None of the players or club officials were reported to be injured. The attack came hours after Fenerbahce's 5-1 win over the Black Sea side Caykur Rizespor in the Super Lig. Ashen-faced head coach Ismail Kartal surveys the damage to the team bus . Players and coaching staff survey the damage after the attack near the city of Trabzon . The bus driver was injured in the attack and was taken to hospital on Saturday night . The bus was going over a viaduct on its way from the city of Rize to the airport in Trabzon to return to Istanbul. Fener general secretary Mahmut Uslu said on the club website the attack was 'very wrong', saying: 'We come here to do sport, we come to play football.' President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Football Federation and Turkish clubs condemned the attack. Local TV footage reportedly showed the damage to the team bus and a hole in the steering wheel . Meanwhile, Caykur Rizespor midfielder Ludovic Obraniak was taken to hospital with a suspected heart problem after being substituted after just 30 minutes before being taken for tests. Caykur Rizespor revealed on social media that Obraniak was not in any immediate danger following preliminary tests. There were fears that the 30-year-old, who is on loan from Bundesliga club Werder Bremen had suffered a heart attack but he appears to have given the all-clear. Fenerbahce team went top of the table after their victory on Saturday, one point ahead of bitter rivals Galatasaray. Moussa Sow celebrates after scoring for Fenerbahce during their 5-1 win on Saturday . Ludovic Obraniak (left) is currently on loan at Caykur Rizespor from German side Werder Bremen .", "Even by football’s frenetic standards, the rise of Raheem Sterling from problem child to national treasure in under 12 months has been rapid, just like his acceleration on the pitch. A year ago this weekend, he was a late substitute for Victor Moses in Liverpool’s 2-2 draw at Swansea City, still to be entrusted by manager Brendan Rodgers as a regular first-teamer. Today, it’s a vastly different story. He is Liverpool’s go-to man following the departure of Luis Suarez. The undisputed centre of attention at Anfield for Saturday’s tea-time kick-off against Aston Villa. Raheem Sterling has scored two goals in three games already for Liverpool so far this season . Raheem Sterling slots home to give Liverpool the lead against Tottenham, a game they won 3-0 . Raheem Sterling scored Liverpool's first goal in their 2-1 win over Southampton on the opening day . Raheem Sterling promotes The Sims 4 . Sterling is also the major cause for optimism about England’s future. Still only 19 but with plenty of life experience already behind him — he is already a father — Sterling puts his fantastic form down to a conscious decision to be less inhibited on the pitch. ‘Maybe 12 months ago, I wouldn’t want to get on the ball as much if I’d made a mistake. But now I’m a bit more confident,’ he says. ‘If I lose the ball I want to get on it as quickly as possible and make up for it, whereas before I would hide away and maybe only look for the ball 10 minutes later. I don’t want to give the defenders any break. ‘I sat down with my agent and went through my youth-team video footage. I saw that when I started, I’d get on the ball and within two touches would turn straight away and look to attack my opponent, but when I got into the first team, I would go for the safer option. So I went back to basics where I needed to be on the front foot and the defenders on the back foot.’ In the flesh, you are quickly reminded this is still a kid, albeit one who has had an eventful journey to this point. At our interview at Aintree racecourse to promote EA computer game The Sims 4, he appears nonplussed by the sudden wave of love being thrown in his direction. Raheem Sterling was one of few positives for England at their miserable World Cup campaign . Raheem Sterling slots home one of his two goals against Arsenal at Anfield last season . This is a lad who left his birthplace of Kingston, Jamaica, to live in England at the age of five. Growing up on a tough north-west London estate overlooked by Wembley stadium, his mum took him to play his first organised football game at the age of 10, essentially to keep him out of trouble. One teacher told him starkly he’d either become a star footballer or end up in prison. At 15, he took the biggest decision of his life, to leave QPR for Liverpool and get him away from the malignant influences in London. Regular goalscoring is his next challenge and two in his first three games of the season for Liverpool suggests he’ll crack that too. Pushed to explain why his development has been so meteoric, he also points to a meeting with Rodgers around this time last year. He’d just been cleared at Liverpool crown court of assaulting a former girlfriend when the Liverpool boss stated privately and publicly he needed ‘stability in his life’. Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers and Raheem Sterling talk during a training session at Melwood . Sterling took a good look at himself, decided to stop going out every time friends asked and dedicated himself to being a professional. In December, he started to be given a run of games. He was unplayable when he scored twice in a 5-1 win against Arsenal in February. By the end of the season, his performances were regularly eclipsing Suarez and he was the only England player to return from the World Cup with his reputation enhanced. ‘Going into training each day, coming home and going back to training. That’s been it for me over the last 12 months,’ he says. ‘I have tried to live, sleep and eat football as the manager has told me to do. ‘When the time is right, I have a laugh and a joke with my friends on a day off, but I have had to make sacrifices and in that sense it’s been a huge step forward, completely different to how it was before. I was 18 when the manager spoke to me. I realised I’m not like any other teenager. I can’t be doing stuff any other 18 or 19-year-old was doing. I knew I had to make changes, to ensure being the best I could be.’ Surprisingly, and a little unconvincingly, Sterling insists he is not a naturally confident person. By that he probably means he would rather let others talk him up rather than do it himself. Brendan Rodgers told Raheem Sterling that he needed stability in his life and to focus on football . Raheem Sterling and Luis Suarez celebrate during a game against Norwich last season . ‘I am not saying I don’t think I’m good, but I’m not the type of player to have an ego or big myself up. ‘It’s been a quick turnaround for my career but that is football. It changes within seconds. I am now focusing on going to the next level. I’m determined it is only a matter of time before I get there.’ It says a lot for his growing maturity that both Rodgers and Roy Hodgson trust him to play at No 10, arguably the most important position on the pitch. Gareth Bale, for example, was much older before he was switched inside from the wing. ‘I prefer the No 10 position, but I’m still developing and not quite the complete player to play there. ‘Every time I get in there I try to take the responsibility of creating and scoring goals. I enjoy that.’ Hodgson must agree. He devised a diamond system for England’s crunch game in Basle specifically to get Sterling on the ball as much as possible. There will be a chance to compare Sterling’s progress with Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo when Liverpool play Real Madrid in the Champions League. Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and their Real Madrid team-mates train in the Spanish capital . ‘Ronaldo has always been an idol to me,’ says Sterling. ‘But I’m not going to say any more because every time I mention a name, people say I’m comparing myself to them! Everyone wants to be like the best in the world.’ While Sterling keeps social activity to a minimum these days — ‘I’m not really a drinker’ — he does allow himself one ‘vice’, social media. ‘Why am I on Twitter? Well, I am 19 and need something to get away from football sometimes,’ he smiles. ‘It’s a way of having a laugh and a joke with my friends. You scroll past the provocative messages if they come in.’ Rodgers will be happy for him to carry on tweeting at least as long as England’s most talented teenager carries on with his otherwise ‘boring’ life of home-training ground-home. Raheem Sterling is a ‘Playful Creative’ on The Sims 4 personality test. What’s your Sims 4 personality? Take the test and buy your copy of the game NOW at thesims.com .", "Barometer readings at Twickenham are destined to soar off the scale today, as England attempt to cope with stifling, intensifying pressure while standing in the path of a thunderous South African juggernaut. National coach Stuart Lancaster, his assistants and players are painfully aware that the stakes are rising as they engage in the second instalment of their QBE autumn Test series. Saturday’s encounter represents the edge of an abyss. A fifth successive defeat would leave England in freefall, just when they need to be building towards next year’s World Cup. VIDEOS Scroll down to watch . England gather in a huddle as Stuart Lanacaster (right) watches on at Twickenham on Friday . Owen Farrell (centre) runs with the ball during the England captain's run ahead of the South Africa match . England players sprint during training at Twickenham Stadium ahead of Saturday's international . England head coach Lancaster takes a seat as he watch the captain's run on Friday . Harsh it may be — given the calibre of the opposition during that period — but the worst losing run since 2006 would not convey the message that the tournament hosts are shaping up to mount a convincing challenge for the global prize. There has long been a tangible sense of progress and upward mobility, but this regime needs further endorsement in the shape of another landmark result. The management have been emphatically backed by their RFU employers, with contract extensions through to 2020, but they all know that judgment will be passed on the strength of what happens in the next 11 months. Lancaster spoke this week of the pressure faced by the coaches, with every decision increasingly dissected and scrutinised. It is not just those four men who have to carry the burden, far from it, especially this week. In light of the allegations of homophobic abuse aimed at referee Nigel Owens last Saturday, there will be pressure on the sell-out crowd to be vocal but respectful. And, following criticism by All Blacks coach Steve Hansen, there will be pressure on the hidden figures who edit footage for the stadium’s big screen, to avoid any home bias with their use of replays. Away from south west London, there will be pressure on officials from the IRB and Samoan Rugby Union to confirm an agreement with their players to avert the threat of strike action disrupting next weekend’s Twickenham Test. And Saturday’s contest will bring intense pressure on the Springboks too, after losing to Ireland. Their proud heritage does not permit the luxury of repeated failure, even with experimental team selections. But the pressure will sit most heavily on England’s players — those men left standing amid an injury crisis, who must earn the victory demanded to put the Sweet Chariot back on a positive course. There are certain members of the Red Rose line-up particularly in need of an upturn in fortunes. After naming his team for Saturday, Lancaster conceded that England’s kicking game must improve after the problems in that area last week. Bryan Habana (centre) passes the ball during the South Africa Springboks captain's run on Friday . Victor Matfield (centre) passes the ball as the Springboks prepare to face England at Twickenham . Tendai Mtawarira stretches on the Twickenham pitch during the Springboks' training session . The South Africa Springboks gather for a team photograph ahead of Saturday's autumn international . So the onus is on Owen Farrell to rediscover the authority in his game after an injury-disrupted start to the season, while Danny Care must share the load and sharpen his execution in his 50th England match. There will be a different type of pressure on the pack as a unit. They must maintain the superb set-piece standards of last week — especially in their line-out work — as they will be tested to the limit by the wily Springbok forwards. But in their breakdown work and ball- carrying, England must be several levels better, or they will be eclipsed and beaten. Lancaster has made it plain that two of his back- rowers are playing for their places. Tom Wood has been a stalwart and influential presence in this regime, but the blindside flanker has been told to ‘step up’ or face the threat of being replaced by James Haskell, the in-form Wasps captain. Saracens No 8 Billy Vunipola has also been given a warning that his starting status is in danger. Lancaster used both carrot and stick to make his point and the 22-year-old has expressed his determination to be more forceful. Reflecting on his low-key contribution against the All Blacks, Vunipola said: ‘I felt that I didn’t impact the game as I would have wanted. I didn’t enforce my normal game. I felt I was quiet and I have definitely got to improve on that. I’ve just got to impose myself like I do at the club, and be who I am rather than tiptoeing round everything.’ Danny Care kicks the ball upfield during England's training session on Friday . Billy Vunipola looks on during an England media session at Pennyhill Park earlier in the week . Having been brought up by his Tongan family with an emphasis on respect and religion, Vunipola admitted he has to make character changes in order to improve as a player, adding: ‘It is tough because it is not in our culture to say, “Look, Mom, I am doing this”. You don’t impose yourself. You wait until you are spoken to as a kid. ‘I’m not still a kid, but sometimes I have got too much respect for older guys in the team. I said that to Stuart. I’ve just got to get on with it and impose myself better and be like, “Give me the ball. I’ll do my best with it”. It is a lot to do with growing up fast. Hopefully, I will be better on Saturday. It is fair enough that people tell me I should be better. It is international rugby. I know I’ve got to be better.’ Vunipola is not alone in knowing that standards must be raised and maintained. Care said: ‘Like Stuart said, we need an extra 10 per cent from everyone — maybe 20 per cent.’ Each home player will hope to deliver that personal improvement, in the knowledge that next week’s clash with Samoa will serve as a time for experimentation, which may leave them vulnerable in the longer term. And as a team, England must end an unacceptably long run of submission to South Africa — 11 matches without a win — as the only way to lower the soaring barometer readings.", "Martin Johnson regrets his England players getting ‘caught out off the field’ during the disastrous 2011 World Cup campaign which featured a dwarf-throwing competition in Queenstown and stars making inappropriate comments to a chambermaid. Incidents such as those, Mike Tindall kissing his ex-girlfriend in a bar and Manu Tuilagi diving into Auckland harbour ‘became the story’, says the former England coach, who broke his silence three years after the tournament in New Zealand. Johnson said: 'We got caught out off the field. We were aware of what could happen and warned the players, but it still happened,' Johnson said. England's poor campaign in New Zealand was blighted by off-the-field problems . Chris Ashton and other World Cup stars went to a 'dwarf-throwing' event during a night out in Queenstown . Manu Tuilagi was fined for jumping off a ferry into the water in Auckland . England players Mike Tindall, Dylan Hartley and Ashton party at Altitude bar, Queensland . September 11: Mike Tindall, Chris Ashton, Toby Flood and Dylan Hartley reportedly take part in a 'dwarf-throwing' contest in a bar in Queenstown. September 13: Courtney Lawes is handed a two-game ban for 'recklessly striking' Argentina's Mario Ledesma with his knee. Johnson defends allowing his players to go bungee jumping on their day off. September 29: Kicking coach Dave Alred and fitness specialist Paul Stridgeon are suspended after being found to have switched the ball Jonny Wilkinson was due to kick against Romania with without asking the permission of referee. October 2: Johnson reprimands three players for making inappropriate comments to a female hotel worker. October 9: Manu Tuilagi is formally warned by police and fined £3,000 by England rugby officials after jumping from a ferry in Auckland. 'The disappointing thing is that it's something we fell into even though we knew it was there. 'We warned the players about it and you think you've covered it off, when maybe you haven't covered it off. Maybe you have to say it every day. 'The difficult thing is that it gets perceived as something that it wasn't really. 'But if enough people say it is something, then everyone believes that is what it was. You're fighting a difficult battle. 'I'm not saying that things didn't happen, but I'm saying the perception is that that was the only thing that happened. 'That became the story rather than the rugby and that's what gets remembered.' Tindall, Chris Ashton, Toby Flood and Dylan Hartley were caught at a 'dwarf-throwing' competition on a night out during the tournament, players were allowed to go bungee jumping on their day off, inappropriate comments were made to a female hotel worker, while Manu Tuilagi was fined for jumping off a ferry. On the field, they performed with limited ambition or adventure, grinding out narrow victories over Argentina and Scotland before exiting the competition against runners-up France. To make things worse, lock Courtney Lawes was banned for two games for 'recklessly striking' Argentina's Mario Ledesma with his knee and kicking coach Dave Alred and fitness specialist Paul Stridgeon are suspended after being found to have switched the ball Jonny Wilkinson was due to kick against Romania with without asking the permission of referee. Martin Johnson has broken his silence after England's disappointing Rugby World Cup in 2011 . Johnson has defended his team but admitted: 'We all make mistakes' Johnson, a Mastercard ambassador for the 2015 World Cup, insists the events in Queenstown have been distorted by misinformation and that his gravest error was his handling of the aftermath. Asked if he was hurt by the way it ended, Johnson said: 'The worst thing was the way the game got dragged through the mud. 'It wasn't actually a true reflection of those people and what we were about, but you're fighting a tidal wave almost at that point because everyone 'knows' what's happened because they've read about it. 'People start telling me what it was like when I was there.....that's the battle you have to win. 'That was my mistake, you have to win that battle as well. It's almost like a sales job. 'You see some organisations that are perceived a certain way publicly when actually they're not like that - good and bad because it goes both ways.' England players watch on during a quarter-final defeat by France in Auckland . Delon Armitage and Sean Lamont battle for the ball in a pool B match . Martin Johnson's record as England coach . Tests - 38 . Wins 21 Draws 1 Defeats 16 . Six Nations title - 2011 . Johnson insists that the World Cup-winning heroes of 2003 got up to similar things during that tournament in Australia. However, because of the results on the pitch they were not taken to task. The former captain said: 'In 2003 once you've won the World Cup, everything is portrayed as being great and a perfect working machine. 'But of course it wasn't - we were all human beings, we all made mistakes, had our frailties and did similar things that the boys did in 2011. 'It just didn't get to that level and didn't get recorded. And then you win, so everything is all right.' Tuilagi was caught up in off-the-field controversy during the competition . Johnson and captain Lewis Moody chat during a training session in Takapuna . Johnson defended a managerial record that spanned 38 Tests, numbering 21 wins, 16 defeats and one draw. He takes pride in masterminding England's only RBS 6 Nations title since 2003 and highlights the number of players he blooded who remain active in the Test arena. 'People go, \"It was a disaster at the World Cup\", but England have won one Championship in the last 11 years and that was in 2011,' Johnson said. 'We won 10 out of 13 games that year and we did OK. Ultimately we brought through a lot of players who had a successful start to their career, although we were criticised for not doing that. 'Dan Cole, Alex Corbisiero, Courtney Lawes, Tom Wood, Ben Youngs, Chris Ashton, Ben Foden and Manu Tuilagi all came through. Johnson is a Mastercard ambassador for the 2015 World Cup . 'In 2008-09 there was a lack of guys who were really putting their hands up to play Test rugby. We did start bringing some through and they played well. 'Looking back at it, of course I would have done things differently. We can all do that. 'You do what you think is right at the time, that's all you can do. We could all say we'd go back and change things.' Martin Johnson is a MasterCard Rugby World Cup 2015 ambassador. The Rugby World Cup 2015 ticket ballot is now open, use your MasterCard when buying tickets and you won't pay any surcharges and you'll be in with a chance of Priceless Surprises - www.tickets.rugbyworldcup.com .", "By . Dominic King for the Daily Mail . Follow @@DominicKing_DM . Gareth Southgate has urged his England squad not to fall into the trap he did as a player and wilt under play-off pressure. The Under-21s will discover the identity of the opponents standing in their way of Euro 2015 when the draw is made on Friday and Southgate intends to draw on personal experience to help this group through their biggest test. Saido Berahino was the star of the show in Moldova for England U21 as he bagged a brace . Southgate played in the second leg of England’s clash with Scotland at Wembley in November 1999 and he remembers how a team containing David Beckham, Michael Owen and Alan Shearer almost threw away a place at Euro 2000 as the occasion got to them. He does, however, want the Under-21s to experience the tension of a game when, potentially, one mistake could lead to a year’s work unravelling, as Southgate is adamant it will accelerate their development. ‘I played in the debacle at home,’ Southgate recalled. ‘We were under more pressure at Wembley. Everyone expected Hampden to be the game when it would be tough but Paul Scholes got a couple of goals early and it killed that match. ‘But there is something about [having a lead] that makes everyone anxious. There were top players that night who just couldn’t keep the ball. It was incredible really. I can remember some of our top players giving it away all the time. It’s something we will have to deal with.’ Harry Kane challenges for the ball during the U21 showdown between Moldova and the Young Lions . A 3-0 victory in Moldova on Tuesday stretched England’s winning run under Southgate to eight games but there is no sense that the comfortable manner in which they have been winning games will breed complacency in the group. Dangers lurk throughout the draw - Germany, Spain, France and Portugal are all in the mix, while the potential for a reunion with Serbia remains on the cards - but Southgate is happy for his squad to be scrutinised. ‘I strongly believe that if they do the right things, as they have done, then they will get there,’ said Southgate. ‘If they don’t, then it is another two big, pressure games they have been involved in. We will review it and move on. That is how it works. ‘In the club game, and in the seniors, sometimes that pressure can mean change. You have to live with that as a head coach. That’s not necessarily where we are at this age group. It is a positive pressure rather than a negative pressure. ‘We want to go and test ourselves against the best. We want to start achieving things so the other teams at St George’s see us and think “they were the first group to win the Under-21s”.’ Gareth Southgate looks on during the clash between Moldova U21 and England U21 .", "What Jason Holder did in Antigua and Marlon Samuels managed here will do much for the culture Phil Simmons is trying to create as new West Indies coach. They will inspire their team-mates with their discipline, character and application, just as Mike Atherton inspired me with the way he batted to save a Test in Johannesburg and in his famous battle with Allan Donald at Trent Bridge. This is an era in which West Indies are losing players to the easier option of the Indian Premier League and it is understandable because of the money that can be made there. Why shouldn’t they cash in? Marlon Samuels (right) celebrates reaching his century for West Indies in second Test . But Samuels has taken the difficult road. It is all well and good going off and having a bit of a hit and giggle but he will take a lot more satisfaction from the way he has taken on the moving ball in a demanding Test match. These are the types of innings you remember when you retire. He will remember his duel with Ben Stokes, the way he saw off a newish ball and how he took the attack to England on the first evening. He did finally fall to Jimmy Anderson after a loose shot but by that time Samuels had grafted his way to 103. That is what you get in Test cricket. This is far harder than going off towards the end of your career and enjoying an IPL sunset. I never played in an easy Test. There is no easy option during five hard-fought days and that’s why this game gives you far more satisfaction than you will ever get over 50 or 20 overs. It gets me down to hear people saying ‘wasn’t Antigua boring’ or ‘these pitches are just too dead and the cricket is slow’. Just give this time. The Test England won in the dark of Karachi was remembered for years because it was the ultimate conclusion to three hard Tests. The same could happen here. I can see a lot of our England side of 2000 in this West Indies team. We could not become a winning side straight away. West Indies batsman Samuels grafted his way to 103 against England in the second Test . We had to stay in games, instil a bit of pride and discipline before we could think about being positive and that’s what Simmons is trying to do here. The first step is to take Tests into five days and once that is achieved then West Indies can think about moving on and hopefully keeping their best players. The seven days we have had so far in this series may not have satisfied those who prefer their gratification instant but I have enjoyed it. This is not to denigrate Twenty20 or what we saw at the World Cup but there is something fulfilling about seeing a match go to the fifth day as in Antigua, with England bowling 130 overs and trying to find different ways to take 10 wickets. We live in a modern world of instant news where Test cricket seems something of a throwback but there is still great satisfaction to be taken from a slow burner. Ben Stokes was admonished by umpire Steve Davis following clash with Samuels . I find the mental side of Test cricket to be unparalleled. To be Jonathan Trott, for instance, getting a duck in his first innings after waiting to get back in for 18 months. Then he has to spend the best part of two days fielding and sweating on a pair. You can’t replicate that in any other form of the game. Someone like Alastair Cook has to tackle a technical issue, having been found out by opponents, and has the mental battle to overcome it. There is the physical challenge of a bowling attack spending all that time in the heat trying to bowl a side out and then having to go through it all again. In Twenty20 you can have a bit of a slog, edge through the slips for four to get you off and running and then get caught on the boundary which is supposed to happen in the short game. I thoroughly enjoy the different attractions of limited-overs cricket. But Test cricket is what players will be remembered for. Even in the modern world.", "Kevin Pietersen battered Oxford’s students for 170 off 149 deliveries in his first game of red-ball cricket for 15 months – then insisted the incoming ECB chairman Colin Graves has told him everyone has a ‘clean slate’. Pietersen’s quest for an improbable return to international cricket began as his scriptwriter must have known it would: with sumptuous strokes, a standing ovation and much of the old bravado. The fact that his first hundred since the Old Trafford Test against Australia in August 2013 came against a modest attack, at a windswept Oxford, in a game not deemed first-class, is beside the point. Pietersen’s only hope of playing for England again is to score lots of runs for Surrey – wind, rain or shine. Here was the first box ticked, in style. Surrey's Kevin Pietersen (right) celebrates reaching his 100 during the three-day Match at The Parks . Pietersen makes his way out to the crease following the dismissal of Rory Burns . It was the 34-year-old's first appearance for Surrey since the LV= County Championship in June 2013 . Asked what Graves had said to him when the pair spoke over the phone last month, Pietersen replied: ‘He said he wants the best players playing for England, and everyone has a clean slate. Right now, it’s just about me hitting the red ball. I think it can help England going forward. ‘I took confidence from the way I played in Australia [at the Big Bash]. It was as well as I’ve ever batted. I’ve been given a lifeline, and I have an opportunity to get back to doing something I love that was taken away from me prematurely.’ England meet West Indies in Antigua on Monday, and comparisons will be inevitable. There will be mixed feelings both in the Caribbean and at Lord’s. Whether Pietersen’s journey will prove more futile than fruitful is another matter. The first aim of the new regime at the ECB has been to stop the sniping; the second may be to keep Pietersen sweet in case English cricket needs him after he retires, possibly in a mentoring capacity. Regardless, the evidence here – as if it were required – suggested he is deadly serious about reclaiming his place. Pietersen has played exclusively Twenty20 cricket throughout the world since being axed by England . A young spectator points to a dent in her mother's car made by one of Pietersen's shots . Pietersen made 62 on his only prior appearance at The Parks, for Nottinghamshire in April 2004 . With Surrey 122 for five at lunch, Pietersen (left) found himself on 47 not out from 58 balls . Nearly 10 years on from his Ashes-clinching century at The Oval, Pietersen cannot have imagined he would need to prosper in the Parks simply to stay afloat. But in front of a crowd of several hundred – almost unheard of in these parts – and with Surrey stumbling to 113 for five, he had a captive audience and a job to do. Pietersen was careful at first, waiting until his eighth delivery to pinch his first run in red-ball cricket since the Sydney Test of January 2014, and not finding the boundary until his 31st. Then he opened up. His fifty came from 63 balls, his hundred from 110, and his 150 from 137. By the time he was out for 170, caught at mid-on off the bowling of Abidine Sahande, a human sciences undergrad from St John’s College, the total was only 310. He knocked one spectator off his stool with a fierce drive, dented a Peugeot 207 with the first of two successive straight sixes, and unveiled his full repertoire. Stealing headlines and causing damage, Pietersen might never have been away. Pietersen's inclusion in Surrey's line-up attracted several hundred spectators and a number of photographers .", "An emotional Michael Clarke dedicated Australia’s unprecedented fifth World Cup triumph to his former team-mate and friend Phillip Hughes after his side trounced New Zealand in the final at Melbourne. Clarke – who joins Allan Border, Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting (twice) in the pantheon of Australia’s World Cup-winning captains – scored a classy 74 in 72 balls in his final one-day international before quitting the format to focus on Tests. And with Australia overhauling the New Zealanders’ disappointing total of 183 with seven wickets and nearly 17 overs to spare, he went out in style, watched by an MCG crowd of 93,013 – an official world record for a single day’s cricket. Michael Clarke kisses the World Cup after guiding his team to glory at the Melbourne Cricket Ground . The Australia side celebrate after defeating New Zealand to be crowned Cricket World Cup champions . Clarke celebrates with his wife Kyly and the trophy in the Australian dressing room . Referring to the black armband he wore in memory of Hughes, who died in November after being struck on the neck by a short-pitched delivery during a domestic game in Sydney, Clarke said: ‘As you can see it's got PH on it. I’ll wear it every game I play for Australia. For everyone in Australian cricket it’s been a tough few months. ‘We played this World Cup with 16 players and this is certainly dedicated to our little brother and team-mate Phillip Hughes. Hughesy used to party as good as any of them, so I’ll make sure we drink two at a time – one for Hughesy and one for us. 'Hughes used to party as good as any of them so I'll make sure we drink two (beers) at a time tonight, one for Hughesy and one for us.' Hughes would have approved of the manner in which Australia crushed their trans-Tasman cousins, even if the neutrals were deprived of the climax which the tournament – if it’s honest with itself – so badly needed. From the moment Mitchell Starc bowled New Zealand’s captain and talisman Brendon McCullum in the game’s first over, a sense of inevitability descended on the MCG like the evening shadows. Here were the pre-tournament favourites doling out a painful lesson to a team taking part in their first World Cup final. The Australian captain receives a kiss from his wife Kyly after winning the World Cup . Kevin Pietersen didn't do his hopes of an England recall any good by posing with James Faulkner . The one-way traffic was held up only during a gutsy fourth-wicket stand of 111 between Ross Taylor and Grant Elliott, New Zealand’s hero during their semi-final thriller against South Africa. But James Faulkner, named man of the match for figures of 3 for 36, removed Taylor and the big-hitting Corey Anderson in the first over of the batting powerplay, and wicketkeeper Luke Ronchi fell in the next, to the outstanding Starc. Elliott went on to make 83, but New Zealand’s last seven fell for just 33 in 10 overs. After eight successive games on their smaller, less intimidating, home grounds, they never came to terms with either the occasion or the relentlessness of the Australian attack. The dismissal of Martin Guptill, who had hammered West Indies for an unbeaten 237 from 163 balls in the quarter-finals, summed up their day: trying to dab a gentle off-break from Glenn Maxwell through backward point, he was bowled for 15. Australia lost Aaron Finch to Trent Boult in the second over of the reply, but for New Zealand’s bowlers that was as good as it got. David Warner hit 45 in 46 balls, before Clarke joined Steve Smith – his heir apparent – to add 112. After carting Tim Southee for four successive fours, Clarke chopped on against Matt Henry with nine runs still needed, but Smith was there at the end, a fifth successive half-century in his increasingly irresistible bag. Clarke received a standing ovation as he left the field having been dismissed in his final one-day international . The Australian captain scored 74 from 72 deliveries to anchor his team's chase of 184 . Clarke said: 'We're really proud, it's a wonderful achievement. It's a great thing just to make a World Cup final, but to be able to win in your own back yard in front of your family and friends is extremely special and I guarantee we'll celebrate hard tonight. 'Obviously I'm over the moon. What a tournament. 'The New Zealand team deserve a lot of credit . They're always a tough team to beat it seems in any sporting event. Australia v New Zealand is always an exciting contest and tonight was no different.' 'It's been an honour and a privilege to represent my country in both Test and one-day cricket and Twenty20 cricket. 'The time is right for me to walk away from one-day cricket, but I'll keep playing Test cricket.' Clarke poses with the World Cup trophy after Australia's fourth success in the last five editions . Clarke dedicated the victory to Phillip Hughes, who died after being hit on the side of the head by a bouncer . As Australia prepared to celebrate into the night and beyond, it was left to McCullum to confirm his status as one of the World Cup’s most impressive characters. He said: 'It's been one hell of a ride for us right the way through. I think we've played some outstanding cricket and we ran into an outstanding Australia team tonight who continue to set the way in international cricket and full credit to them, they deserve to be champions. 'Michael Clarke as well, he deserves to bow out a World Cup-winning champion too. They were outstanding in this World Cup and thoroughly deserved to win. 'We were the second-best team on the day and all credit to Australia.' McCullum took time to reflect on the tournament as a whole and said he was 'proud' of his team's performances as they became the first New Zealand side to reach a World Cup final. He added: 'We've forged some memories and friendships that will last forever. New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum admitted his side were second best on the day . 'Obviously we're not able to lift the trophy but the brand of cricket and the entertainment that we've been able to give people throughout our country and throughout the world is something we're immensely proud of. 'We have no regrets and we walk away from this tournament with our heads held high. 'It's the greatest time of your life to be able to represent your country on the international stage with a group of friends and then put your skills against the world's best - it is the greatest time of our lives and that's how we tried to play the game, play with a free spirit and plenty of heart all the way along. 'It's taken us so far in this tournament but we weren't obviously able to get over the final hurdle, but it's something that I'm immensely proud of, all the guys in the team, all the management group and all those that have been part of this team over the last few years and helped build us into what we are. 'We've still got some work to do but we can be very proud of our achievements in this tournament.'", "A win is always a win and England will go into next week’s game against France with a fighting chance of winning the Six Nations but they will be annoyed with themselves for leaving so many points out there on the field. It’s all going to come down to points difference, and its nip and tuck with Ireland, but those points England left out there at Twickenham could cost them dear. The biggest positive I would draw out of the game is that there was plenty of creativity – George Ford and Ben Youngs led the way – and at least England were making try-scoring opportunities. This was no sterile kicking performance and with a bit more experience I'm hoping England will start putting good teams away comfortably. George Ford breaks away to score England's second try on a nerve-wracking afternoon . Ben Youngs gave England options with a display of much-needed creativity against an obdurate Scotland . Ford in particular was composed and was confident enough to slow the game down on occasions to allow play to come to him. He’s got time on the ball and some of England’s other exciting young backs must look to emulate that . The first half was extraordinary in many ways and spelt out the absolute necessity of taking your chances in Test rugby because it almost invariably comes back to haunt you. England started at a good tempo - which they definitely needed to after going behind early on in their last three Six Nations games - but they failed to take full advantage and put away three or four gilt-edge chances. Luther Burrell made a strong break in the first minute which should have led to a try but he showed no composure. He neither slowed down to allow Anthony Watson to get to him on his right nor did he look for Youngs steaming up on his inside. Instead he just went to ground and even then England didn’t recycle very well. England did score a fine try during this period which saw them at their best with Ford taking the ball to the line and Jonathan Joseph again showing that brilliant footwork of his to beat Hogg but then the sloppiness crept in again. Jonathan Joseph scored England's first try to give the hosts hope of a rout, but that did not materialise . Jack Nowell had been hungry for work and made an excellent initial burst but failed to transfer the ball to two hands which immediately limited his choice. He had the perfect arrowhead, support players on his left and right, but with the ball in one arm went to ground ineffectively. England also looked odds on to score at a scrum five having completely dominated Scotland in the previous scrum but then inexplicably gave a penalty away for coming in on the angle. Another try went begging when Mike Brown got dragged down by Stuart Hogg. There’ s no disgrace in being caught by Hogg who is a real speed merchant and I’m pretty sure Brown had lost a boot as well, but would like to have seen more support on his shoulder. Almost predictably Scotland hit back an scored with their very first serious attack to level the scores and in many ways England were possibly lucky to only trail 13-10 at half-time. That was definitely a yellow card when Dan Cole stepped into play the ball earlier at a ruck when Scotland were camped on England’s line! Mike Brown looked to have broken free but was hauled back by the pacy Stuart Hogg . Tom Youngs leads an England breakaway with team-mates sprinting to joining in with his foray forward . Half-time will have been interesting in the England changing room and England looked a different beast for most of the second half and regained control of the match with Ford's try but then again we saw that lack of composure. Tom Youngs made a terrific break immediately after coming on as a replacement picking a wonderful angle but then lost his head completely and flung the wildest of passes to nowhere. Yet again if he had just slowed down for a second and picked his support runner there would probably have been a try. Moments later Watson was nearly through but again went to ground without looking for his support and Mike Brown slightly over-ran that pass form James Haskell.In the furnace of international rugby you must play it cool on occasions . Finally at the end they killed Scotland off with a well taken try by Nowell England should look carefully of why it took so long. Scotland attempt to clear their lines with Courtney Lawes (right) trying to block during the edgy encounter . England back-row Billy Vunipola evades the tackles of two Scottish opponents . Good show: England will have to taken heart from the attacking intent if not the finishing. Jack Nowell worked very hard and took his late try well and Jonathan Joseph again demonstrated how he can unpick the tightest defences with his footwork. Youngs and Ford were really lively at half-back, Lawes added physicality up front . Bad show: England have to recapture the coolness under pressure and ruthless streak they showed in the second half against Wales in Cardiff. That is what wins you big rugby matches. They made life so difficult for themselves with their lack of precision and not building a score. Scotland took heart and scavenged like they always did.", "Carrow Road was stunned when Charlton executed a textbook smash and grab — scoring an 86th-minute goal to deal Norwich a first league defeat since the opening game of the season. Only a tiny corner of Charlton fans were united in song after a shot by Johnnie Jackson from distance was deflected off Russell Martin and beyond John Ruddy’s outstretched arm. Ruddy had only been tested once before that. ‘We’re staggered that we’ve lost,’ said Norwich manager Neil Adams. ‘We did enough to win two or three games. Except for not scoring a goal, we did everything right. I couldn’t criticise anything. Charlton captain Johnnie Jackson (left) celebrates his goal as John Ruddy sits dejected on the turf . Stephen Henderson (left), Tal Ben Haim (centre), and Andre Bikey (right) celebrate Charlton's win . Rhoys Wiggins (right) knocks the ball past Norwich City's Wes Hoolahan during the first half at Carrow Road . Norwich: Ruddy 5; Whittaker 6, Martin 6, Turner 6, Olsson 5; Redmond 6.5, Tettey 5 (Howson 83), Johnson 5, Hoolahan 7 (Murphy 83); Jerome 5, Grabban 5 (Loza 84) Subs not used: Rudd, Hooiveld, Garrido, O'Neil. Charlton: Henderson 7; Gomez 6.5 (Moussa 71), Wiggins 6, Ben Haim 7, Bikey 6; Wilson 5, Bulot 5 (Ahearne-Grant 89), Buyens 5, Jackson 6, Cousins 6; Vetokele 6 (Fox 95) Subs not used: Pope, Morrison, Harriott, Munns . Bookings: Wiggins 77, Ben Haim 79, Vetokele 88 . Goals: Jackson 86 . Referee: Mr Mick Russell . Attendance: 25,983 . ‘We made chances, had penalty appeals turned down and to make it even more disappointing we’ve been done and not even come away with a point. It’s a cruel game.’ Tempers spilled over after the final whistle with several players embroiled in a fracas. Charlton manager Bob Peeters dragged 17-year-old Karlan Ahearne-Grant, who was making his debut, away from a skirmish with Norwich captain Martin. ‘You don’t see him picking on Andre Bikey,’ said Peeters afterwards, referring to his defender who is built like a rugby prop forward. ‘They pick on the little one.’ Adams turned toward the dugout, hands on his chest and head tilted to the skies in through the second half when Nathan Redmond was denied, then Wes Hoolahan’s follow-up shot was cleared on the line by a scrambling Rhoys Wiggins. He must have wondered what his side had to do to win this game. They played elegant football and tested keeper Stephen Henderson several times but the Charlton defence stood resolute. Steven Whittaker of Norwich City (left) flicks the ball away from Rhoys Wiggins . Bradley Johnson shouts as his goal is disallowed for a foul on Charlton keeper Stephen Henderson . Carrow Road on Tuesday night, during Norwich's Championship game against Charlton . Adams protested after referee Michael Russell waved away a second-half penalty appeal for what seemed an obvious handball by Bikey. Earlier Russell had disallowed a goal, probably correctly, for a push on Henderson by Bradley Johnson before Martin poked the ball into the net. Norwich’s best opportunity to establish a lead came after only three minutes when Hoolahan played a tremendous ball to release Lewis Grabban. The striker had only the keeper to beat but his low shot to the left was palmed away by Henderson. Hoolahan again found Grabban in space soon after but he shot wide from distance. Charlton, one of only five sides in English football still unbeaten this season, owe much of that record to experienced defensive duo Tal Ben Haim and Bikey, who made several crucial tackles. ‘They were excellent,’ said Peeters. The former Belgium international striker said he was not considering promotion yet for Charlton. ‘If you look at the budget we have and the budget Norwich have they are very different. I was playing two 17-year-olds (Joe Gomez and Ahearne-Grant). At the moment I’m enjoying English football and the whole of Charlton is happy.’ Rhoys Wiggins clears Wes Hoolahan's shot off the line during the match on Tuesday night . Charlton Athletic Goalkeeper Stephen Henderson gives a thumbs-up with the scores level at 0-0 .", "Ian Bell would like to continue working with Graham Gooch — who was sacked as England batting coach earlier this year — after a one-to-one session before last week’s third Test proved an instant hit. The England No 4 made a sparkling 167 in Southampton, his first Test hundred for 20 innings, to set up a crushing win over India — and credited his revival to a two-hour net with Gooch at Edgbaston. Bell had been one of the senior players failing to do justice to their talents this summer, averaging just 25 in four games against Sri Lanka and the Indians. But, two days after the nadir of England’s 95-run defeat in the second Test at Lord’s, he invited Gooch up to Birmingham for a session on Warwickshire’s colts ground. Tonderful: Ian Bell celebrates his first Test hundred for 20 innings at the Ageas Bowl . Credit: Graham Gooch (right) is still held in high esteem by England's batsmen and helped Bell find his form . Not cutting the mustard: Bell was out at Trent Bridge when caught in two minds . VIDEO Cook praises England . ‘We have a really good set-up with England, but sometimes it’s nice to have another set of eyes,’ Bell told Sportsmail. ‘I used to have Neil Abberley here at Warwickshire, someone you could chat through a few things with. Because they’re not so attached to the game, there’s less emotion involved, and it’s nice to do that with Goochy — a net session with someone who can help me reconnect in a different way.’ Gooch, whose tally of 20 Test hundreds was surpassed by Bell at the Ageas Bowl, was hurt when Alastair Cook told him at the end of April that his services were no longer required by England. But Bell’s decision to seek help outside the bubble reflects the high esteem in which Gooch continues to be held. ‘He does one-on-one net sessions really well,’ said Bell. ‘He never goes through the motions. He puts you under the pump, which is where you are in a Test match. He never gets over-complicated or technical. It’s about making sure you’re in the right frame of mind. ‘As Goochy always says, you should always be looking to score runs, not just to survive. It’s nice to refresh that from time to time. Generally we’re always exchanging text messages. ‘And if he’s available I try to make the most of him for a couple of hours. If I get the chance I’d like to keep doing that.’ Reversal of fortune: A confident Bell reverse sweeps Ravindra Jadeja at Southampton . Going over the top: Bell was confident enough to play some shots in the second innings at the Ageas Bowl . Ian Bell moved into England’s top ten Test run scorers against India last week. His 7091 took him past Andrew Strauss. Gooch was not Bell’s only net buddy in the lead-up to the Southampton Test. After seeking permission from Cook and coach Peter Moores, Bell took it upon himself to offer his former Warwickshire team-mate Moeen Ali help with his off-breaks. The upshot? Second-innings figures of six for 67, the best by an England spinner against India since Ray Illingworth at Lord’s in 1967. Bell said: ‘Having watched him bowl in the first Test, and having faced him in the nets, it felt like he was bowling in the Test as he was in the nets. ‘The important thing for me was trying to get him clear on what his role was at different times in the game. ‘Swanny was brilliant at having two game plans: hold up an end for the seamers when conditions aren’t in your favour, then bowl aggressively when they are. Moeen is naturally aggressive: he gets spin on the ball and good shape. Highs and lows: Bell jumps for joy after scoring an Ashes ton last summer but struggled Down Under (right) ‘He’s got his pace up a little bit to 55mph, from 51 when he started. But on the Hawk-Eye data he’s also getting more drop and drift. ‘The important thing for me is not pace but energy. When Swanny bowled, his arm speed was full of energy, so the ball drops. With dismissals like when Moeen nicked off Pujara and Kohli — world-class players of spin — the ball deceived them on length. He wants to learn and he’s not far away.’ England’s unofficial vice-captain, Bell was named in some quarters as a possible leader until Cook ended his own drought last week with scores of 95 and 70 not out and his side’s first win in 11 Tests. But he says it was not a scenario he gave any credence to. ‘I heard it muttered around, but I didn’t pay it much attention because obviously I believe Cooky’s the right man. He’s won Test series in India, he’s won an Ashes series and he’s 29. I think he’s the right bloke to captain England.’ Vintage: Bell is an ambassador for Hardys Wine . If the loyalty is to be expected, then Bell’s own lack of runs made his potential promotion just as unlikely. But his 167 — after he was lucky to escape an lbw shout from Pankaj Singh before he had scored — symbolised the about-turn in Southampton which Bell describes as ‘a perfect five days’. And he said the possible ban hanging over Jimmy Anderson during the third Test following his altercation in the Trent Bridge pavilion with Ravindra Jadeja did England no harm. ‘Maybe it has brought us tighter together,’ he said. ‘No one’s really discussed it too much. Jimmy wanted it that way, to focus on the cricket. But hopefully it will keep us tight as a unit. Jimmy was at the top of his game — he must prefer those headlines.’ When the fourth Test starts in Manchester on Thursday, England will be hoping for more of the same. Ian Bell was attending a net session for Hardys 1853 Club winners. For a chance to win great prizes, as well as buying Hardys wine, visit hardys1853club.com .", "England's young guns secured their place at next year's European Championships with a 2-1 win against Croatia in the second leg of their play-off clash. Liam Moore gave the visitors the lead before making a mistake to allow Marko Livaja to equalise. But as the hosts pushed for a winner, Derby's Will Hughes sealed victory for the Three Lions with a well-taken goal. Here's how Sportsmail rated England's performances. England's Under 21 side pose for a photo before their European Championship play-off second leg in Croatia . Jack Butland 7 - Made an excellent early save from close-range inside three minutes before almost being caught out after poor pass gave Croatia the ball. Rushed out for the hosts' equaliser but couldn't have done much more to stop it. Goalkeeper Jack Butland (right) clears the ball under pressure from Croatia's Alen Halilovic (left) Eric Dier 6 - Doesn't offer the thrust down England's right that Gareth Southgate might like but looked solid defensively and got forward well when given the chance. Relieved to see Croatia miss a good chance after allowing his man to find space in the second half. Tottenham's Eric Dier (centre) turns defence into attack during the second half in Croatia . Liam Moore 6 - Took his goal with aplomb, sneaking in unmarked and finishing with style into the top corner. Was athletic and strong at the back until getting bullied by Marko Livaja for the equaliser. Harry Kane (left) congratulates Liam Moore (right) after the Leicester defender opened the scoring . Ben Gibson 5.5 - Caught out on a couple of occasions in the opening period and didn't look comfortable when up against the skilful Alen Halilovic. Won a few important headers inside his own box. Luke Shaw 6 - Not as involved in England's attacking play as he would of liked. Attempted to get forward but his crossing was poor. Dealt with his few defensive duties well. Will Hughes 7 - Appeared to be carrying a slight injury in the first half but managed to battle through. Not at his creative best but popped up with a classy finish to put England 2-1 ahead. Booked for pulling back Halilovic. Derby midfielder Will Hughes (second from right) brings the ball forward with a driving run . Hughes celebrates his winning goal with team-mate Harry Kane late in the second half . Jake Forster-Caskey 5.5 - Struggled to really impose himself on the game and was guilty of giving the ball away inside his own half a couple of times after the break. Tom Carroll 6 - His excellent corner caught out the hosts and found Moore's right boot for the opening goal. Quiet at times but sparked into life to provide an excellent chance for Saido Berahino. Nathan Redmond 7 - The Three Lions' most positive player with the ball at his feet and always looking to beat his man. Won a few free-kicks and attempted to find a killer ball where possible. Taken off late in the game. Nathan Redmond (right) tussles for the ball with Croatia's Marko Pjaca (left) Harry Kane 6.5 - Did well to create a chance for himself and test the keeper early on. England's target man from crosses and long balls. Missed a clear-cut chance midway through the second half but worked hard all game. Saido Berahino 6 - Showed some good hold up play and clever movement but kept hold of the ball for too long at times. Smashed the post after a smart run behind Croatia's defence. West Brom striker Saido Berahino (centre) attempts to get away from three Croatia players . Subs: Bond, Garbutt, Pritchard, Lascelles, Baker, Ince (replaced Redmond after 84 minutes), Woodrow.", "Alex Pearce’s defensive nightmare handed Cardiff City a 2-1 triumph to extend Russell Slade’s perfect home record. The Reading defender s​cored an own goal, conceded a penalty and was sent off in a shambolic first-half performance to give Vincent Tan’s chosen man his fourth successive win at the Cardiff City Stadium. Michael Hector hit a consolation goal for the Royals but it could not stop their dire run of just two wins in 12 games. The Cardiff players celebrate after Reading defender Alex Pearce (not pictured) put them 1-0 up . Peter Whittingham doubled the lead for Cardiff from the penalty spot on the stroke of half-time . Pearce sees red just before half-time after a challenge in the area conceded a penalty in Cardiff's favour . Cardiff: Marshall, Connolly (Fabio 76), Morrison, Turner, Brayford, Pilkington, Gunnarsson, Whittingham, Noone (Daehli 70), Le Fondre, Macheda (Jones 90) Subs not used: Ecuele Manga, Adeyemi, Moore, Morrison . Goals: Pearce (OG) 20, Whittingham 45+4 . Booked: Pilkington 41 . Reading: Federici, Kelly, Hector, Pearce, Gunter, Robson-Kanu (Blackman 84), Norwood, Williams (Taylor 72), Obita, Murray, Cox (McCleary 46) Subs not used: Tshibola, Cummings, Andersen, Cooper . Goal: Hector 81 . Booked: Williams 41, Blackman 90 . Sent off: Pearce 45+3 . Referee: James Linington . Attendance: 20,643 . Glenn Murray tested home goalkeeper David Marshall early on as the visitors found space between the Cardiff City midfield and defence. But their bright start was extinguished by one of their own after 19 minutes when Pearce diverted Peter Whittingham’s corner past Adam Federici - who was yet to make a save. Former Royals defender Sean Morrison proved a handful in the Reading penalty area and Pearce only had eyes for his man when Whittingham sent his kick curling in. Confusion reigned in the away side’s defence and the ball had deflected off the leg of Pearce and past the Federici before either knew anything about it. Hal Robson-Kanu led the search for an equaliser before half-time with a testing drive at the same end he scored his match-winning goal for Wales against Cyprus last month. Both sides seemed content to head in at half-time with the score at 1-0 after Anthony Pilkington and Danny Williams were booked for their part in a melee, but the evening was about to go from bad to worse for Pearce. Pearce (second left) scored an own goal in the 20th minute to put Cardiff 1-0 up against Reading . The referee reaches into his pocket (left) to send Reading defender Pearce off just before half-time . Former Madjeski favourite Adam Le Fondre controlled a searching Peter Whittingham ball 18 yards from goal and tried to beat Pearce, who had found himself one-on-one with the tricky attacker. The Ireland international dragged Le Fondre down and referee James Linington pointed to the spot and pulled a red card out of his pocket. Whittingham finished the move he started by sending the Australian goalkeeper the wrong way to give Cardiff a flattering 2-0 half-time lead. Chris Gunter (second right) and Pearce (centre) confront the referee James Linington to appeal the red . Adam Le Fondre (left) is fouled by Pearce on the stroke of half-time - the latter was then sent off . Simon Cox was sacrificed for Gareth McLeary at the break as Nigel Adkins sought to shore things up at the back. But the early signs were not good as Anthony Pilkington and Craig Noone burst down the flanks but saw their shots fly high and wide. Le Fondre was next to test the away side’s three-man defence as the home side took advantage of their one-man advantage. But Cardiff did themselves no favours as they let their possession advantage go to waste with some sloppy defending. Oliver Norwood (centre) looks to evade the challenge of Le Fondre of Cardiff . Michael Hector (left), who scored Reading's goal, challenges Federico Macheda on Friday night . Michael Hector got his side back in the game with Reading’s first foray into enemy territory in the second period. Whittingham and Mats Daehli both failed to clear a corner from the left hand side and Hector pounced to slide the ball through Marshall’s legs to give his side a glimmer of hope. Blackman had Cardiff fans sweating when he went over in the box as the clock hit 90 minutes, but Linington pulled out his yellow card for a dive. Hal Robson-Kanu (centre) battles with Ben Turner (right) for the ball during Reading's match at Cardiff . Jordan Obita (right) evades the challenge of Craig Noone during the second half at the Cardiff City Stadium .", "By . Paul Newman . Follow @@Paul_NewmanDM . Click here for our live scorecard after England v Sri Lanka's second day at Lord's . The cry has been for positive, . proactive cricket at the start of this new Test era and England . responded, at least with the bat, by frolicking in the Lord’s sunshine . yesterday to rattle along to their highest score against Sri Lanka. There . will rarely be better conditions than this but a team who had forgotten . how to score 300, let alone build match-defining totals, made hay while . the sun shone with a formidable 575 for nine. It means realistically . there can only be one winner of this first Investec Test. Paul . Downton set out his stall by making it clear here that winning will not . be enough for Alastair Cook’s side. It must be done with style. Best: Joe Root helped England secure an excellent opening innings against Sri Lanka at Lord's . Top: Root celebrates after reaching a double century of 200 runs not out during the second day's play at Lord's . ‘We want a team that followers are proud of and want to identify with,’ said managing director Downton in the first Test programme. ‘We have to earn that right by playing pro-active cricket. We want to play  winning but positive cricket.’ So far, so good then, with Joe Root reaching an unbeaten double  hundred of some maturity on the second day of the Test summer and England scoring their runs at such a rate that Cook was able to declare well before tea. Sri Lanka ensured it was not all plain sailing for England by then enjoying one of Mick Hunt’s perfect pitches themselves but, at 140 for one, they have much to do if they are to travel to Leeds with this mini-series still all square. Root acknowledges the crowd after England's opening innings on 200 runs not out during the second day's play . It was a reverse-swept four from, of all . people, Jimmy Anderson that took England beyond the 551 for six they . amassed here eight years ago against Sri Lanka. The fact that England . were unable to force a win in that 2006 game, with Andrew Flintoff . bowling himself into the ground, shows there could be three long days . ahead. Yet, a side who were humiliated by Australia will be happy . enough that they passed the first examination of their batting mix of . old and new with a spring in their step. None more so than Root, who . added another hundred to the one he scored on Thursday to become, at 23, . the fourth youngest Englishman to record a double century in Test . cricket. Debut: Chris Jordan bowls during England's second day against Sri Lanka at Lord's . Time to celebrate: Jordan looks as overjoyed as Root did during England's opening innings . High fives: Jordan celebrates taking the wicket of Dimuth Karunaratne in his very first over . England sprang a surprise by asking Gary Ballance to bat at . No 3 here and dropped Root to No 5, where he had made his maiden Test . hundred against New Zealand on his Headingley home ground last summer. Root . looked immediately at home back in the middle order, filling the anchor . role vacated by Jonathan Trott and showing that England will not have . to rely totally on Cook and Ian Bell to provide the right example for . their callow colleagues. Root was able to scamper along at a steady . pace thanks to the support he received, even after Matt Prior and then . Chris Jordan had fallen to Sri Lanka’s fastest bowler in  Shaminda . Eranga and their very own ‘Bodyline’ tactics. The short ball may have . done the trick for Sri Lanka but it had little effect as the second day . wore on, with Stuart Broad, who last week declared his intention to . attack with the bat, flaying a tiring attack that became increasingly . ragged. Dive: Kaushal Silva, who past his half-century, avoids Jordan's bouncer at Lord's . By the time Broad had smacked 47 from 38 balls and Liam . Plunkett, surely England’s best No 10 in years, had added 39, Sri Lanka . were looking as woeful here as England had appeared in the field at . Sydney in the final Ashes Test. Even after scoring 575 in 130 overs . there were some voices in the commentary box claiming England could have . been less conservative, yet they can hardly have done more to fulfil . Downton’s mission statement when Cook declared after Root had reached . his landmark. The last time Root batted at Lord’s he had scored 180 . against Australia and this monumental effort came just a day after his . brother Billy scored a double century of his own for Notts 2nd XI . against Derbyshire. A good week then for this impressive cricketing . family from Sheffield. It was always going to be harder against Sri . Lanka’s batsmen than bowlers but England did not get much luck. Dimuth . Karunaratne was given out lbw to Anderson by Paul Reiffel in the first . over but technology, incredibly, insisted the ball would have gone over . the stumps. Then Prior appeared to catch Kaushal Silva on 39 but the . umpires abdicated responsibility and, after an eternity, TV official . Steve Davis could not be sure the ball carried. But Prior insisted: . ‘I felt it carry. ‘My gloves have got rubber tips in them, and I felt . the ball go right in. There’s no doubt in my mind that it did carry. I’m . disappointed the decision didn’t stand but that’s cricket and we move . on.’ Just as unsatisfactory was the fact that six overs remained . unbowled at the close even after a half-hour extension, an unacceptable . rate with Sri Lanka the principal offenders. At least there was one . positive moment in the field for England when Jordan took the only . wicket to fall with his third ball in Test cricket and celebrated as . joyously as Root had enjoyed his hundreds. New era and two positive, proactive stars for the here and now in Root and Jordan. England can be satisfied with that, even if they struggle to win here.", "Kevin Pietersen is being urged to make the England selectors' lives difficult after his barnstorming start to the summer. England's exiled record run-scorer made 170 off 149 balls against MCC Universities Oxford at The Parks on Sunday, at the start of Surrey's three-day fixture. Former England captains Alec Stewart, Pietersen's boss as Surrey director of cricket, and Nasser Hussain have since both had their say on the 34-year-old's chances of a return to the Test arena. Kevin Pietersen in action for Surrey on day two of the three-day match against Oxford MCCU . Pietersen (centre) pictured with his Surrey team-mates at The Parks on Monday . Stewart is hoping Pietersen can further his quest when Surrey face Glamorgan in their first LV= County Championship fixture next week - while Hussain insists England's selectors need to clarify with a 'very public decision' once and for all whether the controversial South Africa-born batsman has any prospects of playing for his adopted country again. Pietersen's impressive return to long-form cricket 14 months after his England sacking was timely, on the eve of the first Test against the West Indies which began 4,000 miles away in Antigua on Monday. Stewart said: 'Anyone who scores runs will ask questions of the selectors. 'Kevin shouldn't look any further than the next innings, whether it's here or down at Cardiff. 'If he strings hundreds together - and the reason we signed him is because we want him to score hundreds, double-hundreds, help us win games and be successful - it will be interesting to see where it may lead to. 'No one has got any idea whether Kevin Pietersen will play for England again. 'The only people that know that are those who are currently picking the England side. 'At the moment he's not being considered, because he hasn't played red ball cricket for the last 14 months.' Pietersen chills out against the fence as Oxford MCCU bat on Monday . Alec Stewart (right) believes that Pietersen could make it difficult for the England selectors . Hussain is impressed that Pietersen has already proved he is serious about a recall, and he is adamant the England and Wales Cricket Board must 'watch out' for him. 'He could easily go off and get his IPL contract and play over there,' Hussain said on Sky Sports 2. 'He's decided to give it another go... people say 'Oh, 170 against Oxford - it was only Oxford'. 'But as a player who has played 100 Test matches to turn up at The Parks and smash 170 shows how determined he is - so I'd watch out, if I was a selector.' Hussain senses Pietersen will not be easily deterred, unless England spell out that they do not want him. 'This is not a lad that's going to go away, and the ECB need to make a decision on Kevin Pietersen - make a very public decision on him, whether he is available for selection or not,' he said. 'I know the chairman elect, Colin Graves, has said that he is. 'But it needs to come from the selectors.' Pietersen believes last week's departure of Paul Downton - the ECB managing director who described him as 'disengaged' - has offered him an England 'lifeline' even as he approaches the veteran stage of his record-breaking career. Stewart, who played for England until the age of 40, added: 'Whether you're 18 or 38, if you're good enough, then I believe you take the age factor out of the occasion. 'If you're performing, surely you've got to be warranting a place in the team.' Pietersen made 170 runs off 149 balls during his stint with the bat in Oxford on Sunday . Pietersen fielding on Monday afternoon as the 34-year-old makes his county cricket return . He hopes Pietersen can boost Surrey's championship promotion prospects, and was encouraged by his comeback. 'It was a very good innings,' Stewart added. 'He had to get used to playing red ball cricket again - lining it up, letting it go - and then he showed what a quality batsman he is, which we all know but we just haven't seen it because he's only played 20-over cricket. 'We've signed Kevin because he's a top-class player. 'Will he play for England? We don't know. All we're going to do is enjoy having Kevin around, scoring as many runs as he can. 'Next game, next innings, is the next most important one.' Pietersen had a quieter second day back in his whites. He fielded at mid-off and slip as Surrey's hosts dug in after resuming on 28 for four. Jack McIver top-scored with 83, hitting 11 fours and a six, in the students' 224 all out. Chris Tremlett, another England Test player, took five for 30. Surrey reshuffled their batting order in the second innings, and Pietersen was left to watch on as they reached 182 for three - Zafar Ansari making 53 towards a lead of 378 entering Tuesday's final day.", "Australia and New Zealand cricket officials say their national teams will likely to meet in the world's first day-night Test match in November next year, either at Hobart or Adelaide. James Sutherland, Cricket Australia chief, and his New Zealand Cricket counterpart David White said that talks in Melbourne last week advanced plans for the match and both countries 'are supportive of the innovation and its clear benefits.' New Zealand are scheduled to tour Australia from late 2015 and Sutherland said the venue for the historic match had been narrowed down to the Adelaide Oval or Hobart's Blundstone Arena. Play would likely begin at 2 pm each day and a pink ball will be used. Historic: The Adelaide Oval is one of two venues being considered by Cricket Australia for a day-night Test . Setting: The Bellerive Oval in Hobart could host the day-night Test between Australia and New Zealand . 'We are serious about pushing ahead with the concept of day-night Test cricket,' Sutherland said. 'We feel it will only strengthen the position and possibilities for test cricket in many parts of the world,' he added. 'There are many test matches played during non-holiday periods when adults are at work and kids are at school. That's not an ideal way to promote the highest form of the game.' Sutherland said there was no intention of shifting Australia's marquee Boxing Day or New Year Test matches to a day-night format 'given they are staged at the peak of holiday season,' but matches in non-holiday periods would be considered. New ground: New Zealand, pictured on their 2011 tour of Australia, will be the opposition if plans go ahead . A pink ball would be used for a day-night Test . He said data showed annual Tests at . Perth, Western Australia, which ends at around 9 pm Australian east . coast time each day, rated 40 per cent higher than other matches played . at the same time of year. 'We believe that's evidence in itself that we'll get greater viewership and more opportunities for people to attend,' Sutherland said. He accepted cricket traditionalists might not support day-night Test matches, but believed the commercial and other benefits outweighed reservations about tradition. 'I don't think we're ever going to get to a stage where everyone is completely satisfied or comfortable with it,' Sutherland said. 'But I think if we go back 30-odd years in time when the first-ever day-night one-day internationals were played, I'm sure there was that same level of trepidation among some stakeholders including players about things like day-night cricket and white ball,' he said. White said tradition was not in itself an excuse to reject innovation. 'People have talked about messing with . the traditions of Test cricket,' he said. 'But since it was first played . in (1877) there's been significant changes - covered pitches, fielding . restrictions, over limits, introduction of helmets, change in the . no-ball law etc. Tradition: The annual MCG Boxing Day Test and SCG New Year Test are not being considered for the plans . Audience: Test matches in Perth finish around 9pm on the Australian east coast and attract many viewers . 'I think as administrators we must keep evolving and improving the game for our stakeholders. We need to be mindful of change, but keep an open mind on these things.' Sutherland said trials would continue to develop a pink ball, which closely mirrors the performance of the red ball currently used in test cricket. Trials had already been carried out in Australia's domestic Sheffield Shield competition and those would likely continue in Australia and New Zealand this year. He said consultation will also continue with both nations' players' associations, the ICC, fans and broadcasters.", "By . Mike Dawes . Shane Warne has launched another stinging attack on Alastair Cook, whom he believes should either step down as England captain or take a break from cricket. The former record-breaking Australia spinner has been Cook's most outspoken critic in the last 12 months, and has clearly got under the skin of the Essex left-hander, who stated last week that he believes the judgements are becoming personal. But in the wake of England's first ever Test series defeat to Sri Lanka on home soil, just a matter of months after their Ashes humiliation, Warne thinks Cook, whose own form has stagnated in the last year, needs to step aside . VIDEO Scroll to the bottom to see Warne sing an Usher song with his daughter . Poor spell: Warne criticised Cook's captaincy in the second Test at Headingly as the worst he'd ever seen . Despair: England lost the series when James Anderson was out with two balls left on the final day . Writing in his column for the Daily Telegraph, he said: 'There are three ways to go with Alastair 'Cooked' Cook. Everyone sticks their head in the sand and just allows things to keep going as is and hope he finds form with the bat and by a miracle discovers some tactical brains from somewhere. 'Two: he steps down from the captaincy to concentrate on his batting. 'Three: the most radical of all, he has a complete break away from the game. 'Lots of people, including me, think it is time for him to step down as captain. VIDEO Cook refuses to step down . Failed again: Disappointing form with the bat has only led to greater pressure on Cook's captaincy . Decisions: Warne criticised England's bowling on the fourth day at Headingley when Cook stuck with pace . Spin king: Moeen Ali, England's primary spinner, is only a part-time bowler and Cook appeared not to trust him . VIDEO I'm gutted for Jimmy and the lads - Moeen . 'The most disappointing thing for me is that he has not learned or improved after a horrible 5-0 drumming in Australia, in fact he has got worse. 'He is not thinking straight. He is not there. He is confused. He does not know what to do and because he is in a rut with his form it makes life a lot worse. 'You just cannot captain a team in transition in that frame of mind.' England suffered a 100-run defeat to the Sri Lankans at Headingley on Tuesday to lose the two-Test Investec series after the tourists escaped with a draw in the opening match at Lord's. Much of the damage in Leeds was done on day four as Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews was allowed to compile a wonderful 160 to build his side's lead to 350 before their bowlers reduced Cook's men to 57 for five before the close. While England came within two balls of securing a draw on the final day, thanks to Moeen Ali's century and a last-wicket stand with James Anderson, Warne does not think that should hide Cook's shortcomings as captain. Driving force: Angelo Matthews' superb century took the game away from England on day four . Historic: The series victory, inspired by Matthews, was Sri Lanka's first ever on English soil . 'On Monday at Headingley I witnessed the worst day of captaincy I have ever seen at international level in almost 25 years in the game. 'It was horrific, and I am not the only one singing that tune,' said Warne, who is the second highest Test wicket-taker of all time with 708 scalps. 'He just does not get it. Everyone watching could see the game needed a change of pace; bowl the spinner or make the seamers try and actually get Angelo Mathews out. 'You just cannot bowl the same stuff over after over like he did - good captains try things and are proactive, not hopeful.'. Warne also refuted Cook's suggestions that his negative comments were a personal attack as a means to undermine the 29-year-old's authority. VIDEO Defeat is tough to take - Cook . Take a break: Warne has called on Cook to relinquish the captaincy or take some time away from cricket . He said: 'This column is not a personal attack and never has been, Alastair. Mate, you need to improve tactically or England need someone else in the job. 'And I am not the only one saying it. Please speak to (former England captains) Michael Vaughan, Nasser Hussain and other successful captains who were tough, ruthless and got it. 'Also, if I was an Aussie cheerleader, as the ECB thinks I am, I would not be criticising Cook. 'I would be saying keep him in the job because that would be the best thing for Australia during the Ashes next year. 'I have always been open to talking to Alastair, like I always have with any other player from any country, if they wanted a chat over a beer.'", "Luis Suarez helped move Barcelona to within one point of Real Madrid at the top of La Liga, scoring in an emphatic win over Athletic Bilbao. He was given the ‘butcher of Bilbao’ treatment by Xabier Etxeita whose first half kick on him went unpunished but who repeated the crime in the second half and was shown the straight red. But despite being left with stud marks above his right knee Suarez finished the night with a smile on his face and his team-mates had plenty to celebrate after one of their best performances of the season meant they took three points from what is a notoriously difficult fixture. Barcelona forward Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring his side's opening goal against Athletic Bilbao . Messi is mobbed by his Barcelona team-mates after firing his free-kick into the back of Gorka Iraizoz's net . Xavi (right) goes approaches Messi (centre) after the latter helped take Barcelona one point off top . Athletic Bilbao: Iraizoz, De Marcos, Etxeita, Laporte, Balenziaga (Aurtenetxe 52), San Jose, Mikel Rico, Susaeta (Benat 69), Lopez, Muniain (Gurpegui 78), Aduriz . Subs not used: Herrerin, Gomez, Aketxe, Williams . Goals: Mikel Rico 59, Aduriz 66 . Booked: Balenziaga 40, Lopez 69 . Sent off: Etxeita 75 . Barcelona: Bravo, Alves (Adriano 69), Mathieu, Pique, Alba, Xavi (Rafinha 74), Busquets, Rakitic, Messi, Suarez (Pedro 80), Neymar . Subs not used: Ter Stegen, Iniesta, Mascherano, Bartra . Goals: Messi 15, Suarez 26, De Marcos (OG) 62, Neymar 64, Pedro 86 . Booked: Alves 45 . Referee: A Mateu Lahoz . Attendance: 43,800 . 'We got the goals early' said Suarez, 'but they kept fighting and we had to match them in intensity to win the game.' The former Liverpool striker linked up with Neymar and Leo Messi to score the second after Messi had scored the first from a free-kick. Athletic made a fight of it in the second half with goals from Mikel Rico and Artiz Aduriz but Barcelona’s front three have clicked into gear just as Real Madrid’s trident have stalled and with Neymar getting on the scoresheet and Oscar De Marcos putting through his own net under pressure from Messi the game was won. Pedro replaced the wounded Suarez late-on and got the fifth. Athletic started with all the belief that Atletico Madrid had shown 24 hours earlier in their win over Real Madrid. They were physical too with Xabier Etxeita going through the back of Luis Suarez. But with another foul on the edge of the area Messi was given his first chance to test the home side’s keeper on 16 minutes and he took it with a free-kick that deflected past Gorka Iraizoz when it hit Aymeric Laporte in the wall. Luis Suarez (left) doubled Barcelona's lead, ensuring three points for Luis Enrique's team at San Mames . Former Liverpool striker Suarez kisses his fingers, as is customary in his celebration after scoring . Neymar, fast becoming the face of Barcelona, fights to take the ball past Oscar de Marcos during the match . It was the sixth straight game that Messi had scored and it took him to 23 goals for the season, just five goals short of the earlier pace setter Cristiano Ronaldo who has 28. On 20 minutes Neymar flicked Messi into space and he crossed for Suarez to rise at the far post and send his header back across the face of the goal. It looked a goal all the way but Iraizoz dived to his right to save to prolong the Suarez drought, but only for another six minutes. His next chance came on 26 minutes and this time Iraizoz could do nothing to prevent the goal. Neymar found Suarez who fed Messi and when he received the ball back from the Argentine, he found the bottom corner with a brilliant first time strike. Neymar controls the ball, as Barcelona beat Athletic Bilbao to go within touching distance of Real Madrid . Ivan Rakitic (left), Messi and Neymar celebrate at San Mames as Barcelona beat Athletic Bilbao . Suarez's shot ricochets back off Aymeric Laporte's leg as Barcelona looked to break down the Bilbao defence . It wasn’t all Barcelona. Former Real Sociedad keeper Claudio Bravo saved at the back post from Aritz Aduriz who then hit the post with a header. Barça could also have scored again when Xavi crossed and first Neymar and then Suarez failed to convert. Barcelona were flying forward but quick in defence too with Jeremy Mathieu back in the team ahead of Javier Mascherano and getting in ahead of Aduriz to prevent Athletic getting a foothold back in the game. Neymar was then fed by Messi but Laporte came across to make the interception. Alves chopped down Muniain and was shown the yellow card that rules him out of next game. Pedro wheels away in celebration after coming on as a substitute to score Barcelona's fifth goal of the game . Gorka Iraizoz looks up after Pedro's goal for Barcelona secured an impressive 5-2 win at San Mames . Suarez (centre) watches on as Messi falls in front of Athletic Bilbao goalkeeper Iraizoz on Sunday night . Suarez could have doubled his tally at the start of the second half when he received another pass from Messi and turned to get his shot away only for Laporte to block. The French Basque was showing why Manchester United were interested in him in January. Athletic were not out of the game and when Messi gave the ball away in midfield they raced away to pull a goal back. It was Aduriz who got the shot away and when Bravo could only parry it and Mikel Rico swept in the rebound. Messi took two minutes to put things right. Suarez was this time the provider crossing from the right for Messi to connect at the far post. His effort hit Oscar de Marcos as it crossed the line. Neymar duels for the ball with Mikel San Jose (right) as Barcelona romped to a convincing 5-2 victory . Xabier Etxeita (centre), who was later shown a straight red card, celebrates Mikel Rico's goal for Bilbao . Barcelona head coach Luis Enrique watches on as his Barcelona side impress away at Bilbao . Neymar scored the fourth from Messi’s assist and it looked as if Barcelona would be able to coast the last 25 mintues but Aduriz beat Bravo from Muniain’s pass to make it 4-2. The old war-horse – one of Spain’s under-rated players and now 33 – had his 100th La Liga goal and he was keeping the home side in the game but only just. After Etxeita had been sent off for kicking Suarez under the referee’s Mateu Lahoz’ nose Barça could breathe more easily. Pedro came on to replace the Uruguayan and from a mesmerizing Messi assist Sergio Busquets crossed for the substitute to make it five. Barcelona have found another gear in 2015. Ever since their talisman took on the coach at the start of the year, elections were called, and the Sporting Director was sacked the team hasn’t looked back. They are now right on Real Madrid’s shoulder and Suarez is finding his range.", "Jose Mourinho launched another attack on referees on Thursday night after Chelsea were beaten 5-3 at White Hart Lane. The Chelsea manager, who claimed Anthony Taylor should be ‘ashamed’ after failing to awarded a penalty in the 1-1 draw at Southampton, told Phil Dowd he was ‘too slow’. Chelsea’s poor Christmas run means they are now level on points with defending champions Manchester City after they beat Sunderland 3-2. VIDEO Scroll down for Jose Mourinho on Eden Hazard's penalty claim . Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho was furious after Eden Hazard was denied a second-half penalty . Immediately after Hazard collided with Federico Fazio in the second-half Mourinho launched into a tirade . This incredible defeat is only the second time in Mourinho’s history as top class manager that one of his teams has conceded five times in a game. Mourinho’s side took the lead at Tottenham through Diego Costa and the Chelsea chief claims his side should have been given a penalty when Jan Vertonghen appeared to handle. He said: ‘I can go in another direction and say what we all know, which is, with the result 1-0, one clear action could make it 2-0. Mourinho launched into a tirade at fourth official Andre Marriner after the incident involving Chelsea's Hazard . Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho directed a furious tirade towards fourth official Andre Marriner in the second-half . ‘Normally, at 2-0, the result would be completely different and the history of the game would be different. ‘You are talking about handball. Why do you want me to speak? You all know. ‘I don't think we need clarification when there are no doubts. When you have doubts, when the situation is not clear, I think the discussion comes good. This is the moment that angered Mourinho, when Hazard tumbled under the challenge of Federico Fazio . Hazard fell into the penalty area after the collision but it was unclear where contact had taken place . ‘Everyone can have a different opinion. The same way against Southampton there was no discussion, today there was no discussion too. ‘We are speaking about two matches, six points, we had one out of six when two crucial decisions would give us six points. ‘What matters are the points. The decisions, the normal tendency is for people to forget the decisions.’ Mourinho also hinted that Eden Hazard, who scored in the draw at Southampton and was excellent again here, is being driven out of English football because of persistent fouling. He added: ‘People in love with football in this country, people must be in love with Eden Hazard. Hazard falls after contact with Fazio, who appears to win the ball, so Phil Dowd didn't award the Blues a penalty . ‘The way match to match he's being punished by opponents and not protected by referees, maybe one day we won't have Eden Hazard. ‘It's one, two, three, four, five or 10 aggressive fouls against him. They kick and kick and kick, and the kid resists. ‘He's a very honest guy in the way he plays, but that's another problem.’ Chelsea’s bench demanded a red card when they mistakenly believed Federico Fazio had taken out the Chelsea forward when he was in on goal. Mourinho continued to berate the officials and referee Phil Dowd after his side weren't awarded a penalty . The Blues boss, complaing to Dowd, failed to contain his anger during the match at White Hart Lane . Mourinho added: ‘Hazard, honest as always, tells me in his opinion that it was not a foul or a red card. So that is good, in spite of the fact Mr Dowd was too slow to follow that ball. ‘He was 40 yards away, but made the right decision. It was the decision when he was 10m away (the penalty) he couldn't make.’ Incredibly Mourinho missed Gary Cahill twice kicking man of the match Harry Kane during an ugly incident in front of both technical areas. Instead the Chelsea manager snapped: ‘I didn't see that. But it was like the back - not like Sterling in the face?’. Mourinho claims he missed this incident when Gary Cahill appeared to kick Harry Kane in the back . Jose Mourinho complained there was a 'clear campaign' against his Chelsea side following the draw at Southampton. Press Association Sport assessed whether key decisions were fair during the Premier League clash between Tottenham and Chelsea. OFFSIDE? Eden Hazard narrowly kept the ball in out wide and whipped a shot past Diego Costa - the striker was being marked by Kyle Walker - which rebounded off the post to Oscar. His shot was tapped in by Costa. Spurs defenders' appeals were in vain. Decision: Goal for Chelsea. Correct. HAND OF JAN . Jan Vertonghen fell on to a ball after blocking Oscar's run on to the ball, with the Brazil playmaker and Mourinho appealing for a penalty. No-one else nearby did and referee Phil Dowd was unmoved. Decision: Play continued. Correct. ON THE SPOT . Gary Cahill flew in late on Harry Kane and Dowd had no hesitation in pointing to the spot. The Chelsea defender's challenge gave him no choice in the moments before half-time, but Mourinho came out for the second half talking into the official's ear. Decision: Penalty. Correct. DISAPPEARING BALLS . Mourinho continually complained in the second half when Hugo Lloris took his time to put the ball back into play with a goal kick. Decision: Play continued. Mourinho had a point. HAZARD HACKED? The Chelsea boss erupted when Hazard burst forwards and went down under the challenge of Federico Fazio. Mourinho complained to fourth official Andre Marriner and wanted a red card as the Spurs defender was the last man, but replays showed Fazio won the ball. Decision: Play continued. Correct. SPORTING PLAY . Vertonghen kicked the ball out because Costa took a blow to the head. Rather than return the ball, Fabregas took the throw-in as normal and won a corner, which Spurs cleared. Decision: Play continued. Grey area, and in Chelsea's favour on this occasion. Mourinho continued to unleash his anger towards the linesmen and fourth officials at White Hart Lane . That was a clear reference to Raheem Sterling’s slap on Federico Fernandez during Liverpool’s victory over Swansea, for which he went unpunished. Mourinho also refused to criticise Manchester City after they signed Frank Lampard for the rest of the season from his parent club New York City. He added: ‘If UEFA and the Premier League allow it, they allow it. I think any player from the New York team, if Manchester City wants them, they can bring him. ‘If they do it with other players, they do well. If they are allowed to do that, they'll do that.’ The Chelsea boss refused to criticise former Blues star Frank Lampard's transfer to Manchester City . Mourinho was animated on the touchline throughout the 5-3 defeat at White Hart Lane . The Chelsea boss had to be restrained from going onto the pitch by one of his coaching staff . The first-half performance was too much for Mourinho as he stormed off down the tunnel before the whistle . Spurs chief Mauricio Pochettino admitted he was stunned by the result as Chelsea slipped to their second defeat of the season. They were beaten 3-0 at Stamford Bridge on December 3, but this was a convincing performance at White Hart Lane. He added: ‘The most important thing is to congratulate my players. There was a great atmosphere out on the pitch and for our supporters to. ‘For me, it's only three points. It is a good victory against Chelsea, one of the best teams in the world. But this is nothing. It's only three points. ‘We've started to improve a lot in the last few months. I think that we are more strong now.’ Hazard, scoring Chelsea's second, wasn't awarded a penalty in the second-half which incensed Mourinho . Spurs striker Harry Kane celebrates after his fine performance inspired the 5-3 win over Chelsea .", "Eoin Morgan went range hitting before displaying plenty of attacking intent off the field in backing his coach and under-performing No 3 and then defending his decision not to sing the national anthem at this World Cup. Plenty of sixes were hit in practice at the Basin Reserve before Morgan, who showed glimpses of a return to form in England’s win over Scotland, aimed a couple of big verbal blows in standing up for Peter Moores and Gary Ballance. Then the Irish captain of England addressed his reluctance to join in with God Save the Queen ahead of each game, in contrast to the bulk of his side who have been belting it out with gusto. England captain Eoin Morgan passes the ball in a game of touch rugby during an England nets session . Chris Woakes offloads the ball as England take a break from their nets session in Wellington . Morgan took part in practising his big shots at the Basin Reserve in Wellington . Morgan and his England team-mates were training ahead of Sunday's game with Sri Lanka . England face Sri Lanka on Saturday and the captain was robust in his defence of Ballance even though he has looked rusty in scoring 10 in each of his three World Cup games since being brought in at the last minute. Alex Hales has been ‘knocking hard on the door’ according to batting coach Mark Ramprakash and England, it seems, will wait until the last minute before they decide whether to stick or twist again, after ripping up their World Cup plans on the eve of their first game. ‘We’re three games into a World Cup,’ said Morgan, who has been given the team he wants in this tournament. ‘Gary came into the side four games ago and scored 70 (it was actually 57 in the final warm-up match against Pakistan). ‘He has played against two of the toughest teams in the World Cup and then dragged one on against Scotland. In my eyes he has been a bit unlucky. He hasn’t played a lot of cricket over the last month and I think any criticism of him at the moment is unfair. He’s a fantastic cricketer and has a huge amount of potential.’ Morgan charges up the field as England swapped the cricket ball for a rugby ball in the nets session . Morgan defended his decision not to join the rest of his team-mates in singing God Save the Queen . Gary Ballance has looked out of form . Ballance was left out of the one-day tour of Sri Lanka before Christmas and then broke his finger in practice when England first arrived in Australia, so he has been playing catch-up in this tournament. He showed last summer that he is on his way to becoming a special Test player and England believe that, in time, a batsman who averages more than 50 in domestic one-day cricket can be similarly effective at international level. The question is whether this World Cup is the right time to bed Ballance in to the one-day side or whether should England add more dynamism into the top order in the form of Hales, who is deserving of his chance now more than ever. Ravi Bopara, dumped on the eve of the first game but impressive in practice here, will also return to England’s thoughts. England, with one victory in their first three Group A games, are pretty much where everyone expected them to be at this stage but the scale of their defeats by Australia and New Zealand raised more questions over Moores. Moores was always likely to find himself under the spotlight in his second coming as coach but privately it is said that the players like and respect him and that he gets his message across to them, however unconvincing he is in public. His new one-day captain offered his support. ‘Mooresey has been completely different to Andy Flower, Ashley Giles or anyone else I have worked with before,’ said Morgan. ‘He brings a lot of energy to the side and a lot of ideas. ‘The basis of international cricket is trying to be one step ahead of the game, particularly as a coach, and he has been good in trying to find those little edges without taking away the basics since he’s been involved.’ The anthem issue is a contentious one because it throws up the whole dynamic of national identity, which is more complicated in cricket than most sports. Morgan is not the first nor the last international sportsman who has chosen not to sing (Darren Sammy was the only player to sing Rally Round the West Indies before the match against South Africa) but it has been noted in Morgan’s case because is a Dubliner now at the helm of the England side. Joe Root (left) and James Taylor (right) enjoy a game of touch rugby ahead of England's next match . England coach Peter Moores gives instructions during training in Wellington . Moores talks with bowler James Anderson during an England nets session at Basin Reserve . ‘It’s pretty simple,’ said Morgan. ‘I have never sung the National Anthem whether I’ve been playing for Ireland or England. It doesn’t make me any less proud to be an English cricketer. ‘I am extremely proud to be in the position I’m in and privileged to be captain of a World Cup side. It’s a long story but it’s a personal thing.’ Morgan chose not to tell that long story which is a shame because it leaves him open to conjecture as to why he will not exercise his vocal cords. But the bottom line is that it is his choice and it is better surely to be true to yourself rather than, as some dual nationals in England’s recent history have, belted out the anthem for effect. Stuart Broad talks with team-mate James Anderson during an England nets session at Basin Reserve . Anderson passes the ball in a game of touch rugby during an England nets session . There are plenty who would not care if Morgan hummed the Irish Rover under his breath while the anthem was being played as long as he scores runs and leads England to a victory over Sri Lanka that would all but guarantee their quarter-final place. It will not be easy. Sri Lanka defeated England in all forms last summer and then comfortably overcame them again in that one-day series before Christmas. And only on Thursday they demolished Bangladesh with Tillekeratne Dilshan smashing 161 and Kumar Sangakkara scoring a century in his 400th one-day international. England hope the swing here at the Westpac Stadium with which Tim Southee destroyed them against New Zealand can now work to their advantage. ‘Sri Lanka are in a good place at the moment,’ added Morgan. ‘It’s a test for us coming up again against their best cricketers, guys who have played 300, 400 games. We have done a lot of work on the possibility of the ball swinging throughout the first innings, as it did last time. We’ll be more than happy for the ball to swing around again now.", "Liam Plunkett has set his sights on the West Indies batting line-up and is ready to 'rough them up' with pace. The 29-year-old England seamer is back in Test contention in the Caribbean after his comeback last summer was cut short by injury. He managed 18 wickets in four Tests prior to that, playing a big part for an England side often criticised for going easy on the speed gun. Liam Plunkett wants to use his pace to lead England to victory in the Test series against West Indies . Plunkett returned to the England fold last summer in Test series against Sri Lanka and India . Plunkett has recovered from a minor ankle complaint in Yorkshire's pre-season trip to Abu Dhabi . A minor ankle complaint during Yorkshire's pre-season trip to Abu Dhabi proved to be nothing more than a brief setback and he is now looking to make a name for himself in a part of the world that is famous for its quick men. 'I'm trying to be the fastest (bowler on the pitch). I train hard at it and I feel that's why I stand out from the rest,' he said ahead of Monday's two-day warm-up against a St Kitts & Nevis Invitation XI. 'I feel like I'm adaptable but you might need those little patches in the game - where it's a bit dead and there's good batters - to try and rough them up a bit. 'That's why I'm in the team, because I do bowl fast. 'I'm not a bowler who runs up and just hits line and length all day, I want to do something, I want to ruffle batsmen up. If that's what I'm asked to do, I'm happy to do that.' With James Anderson and Stuart Broad likely to retain new ball duties for the first Test in Antigua on April 13, Plunkett is fighting for a place with Barbados-born Chris Jordan and the uncapped Mark Wood. There is a case to be made for both his rivals, Jordan being more familiar with conditions in his homeland and Wood an unknown quantity to the opposition, but Plunkett relishes the scrap. 'It's a good unit, a good bunch of lads and we're all working hard. There's massive competition,' he said. 'It's up to me to bowl well in practice and in the warm-up games and get the chance to play in the first Test. 'You don't want to just get in easily. You want to feel like you've earned your place and outbowled the other guys. You want to be the best bowler. 'Last summer I felt the best I had in my career, I felt good with the ball, I felt confident. Plunkett is fighting for a start in the England Test side with Chris Jordan and Mark Wood . Plunkett (second left) could feature in a warm-up game for England that begins on Monday . 'I felt I was in a situation where I could win games for England. It didn't quite happen but I bowled nicely. 'Then I got the injury, went away this winter with the Lions and I feel good again. I got some wickets and some good rhythm so it would be good to play that first Test.' England plan to play a standard XI man fixture on Monday, with their selection likely to provide a clear insight into their preferred Test side.", "John Guidetti's ninth goal in seven games proved enough to seal Celtic's fifth consecutive win - but Inverness were left raging that the strike stood. The Swede scored on a 49th-minute counter-attack but Caley Thistle claimed Scott Brown had unfairly won the ball to spark the move. Guidetti soon had a penalty claim rejected before Celtic survived a late onslaught to hang on for a 1-0 win. Celtic's John Guidetti celebrates his goal during the Scottish Premiership match at Celtic Park . Celtic: Zaluska, Lustig (Matthews 63'), Denayer, van Dijk, Izaguirre, Brown, Mulgrew, Wakaso (McGregor 71'), Johansen, Stokes, Guidetti (Griffiths 80'). Subs: Ambrose, Scepovic, Kayal, Fasan. Booked: Wakaso, Mulgrew . Goals: Guidetti 49' Inverness: Brill, Warren, Meekings, Tremarco, Raven, Tansey, Vincent (McKay 70'), Draper (Doran 83'), Shinnie, Watkins, Williams (Christie 70'). Subs (not used): Esson, Ross, Devine, Polworth. Booked: Draper, Tremarco . Referee: Craig Thomson . Caley Thistle created four clear chances in the final eight minutes but some poor finishing cost them and allowed Ronny Deila's men to move up to third spot in the Scottish Premiership. With Craig Gordon rested, Lukasz Zaluska came into the Celtic team for the first time since being injured in an alleged assault in Glasgow last month. The Pole was tested within 90 seconds when midfielder Graeme Shinnie made space to shoot from 25 yards and the goalkeeper held at the second attempt. Inverness manager John Hughes dropped striker Billy McKay to the bench and brought in defender Carl Tremarco, who took Shinnie's normal role at left-back. Marley Watkins played up front for Caley Thistle but he was largely isolated in the opening half as a five-man midfield played close to a back four. Celtic got behind the mass of blue shirts early on when Stefan Johansen cut the ball back for Guidetti but the Swede sent a first-time effort over the bar. Mubarak Wakaso had a shot deflected wide after Shinnie had given the ball away in a dangerous area but Inverness were looking comfortable. Anthony Stokes failed to make the most of two half chances from crosses and Celtic were restricted to long-range efforts in the latter stages of the half. Dean Brill beat away Virgil van Dijk's powerful effort before Stokes and Brown drove not far wide. Shinnie fired over from 22 yards after good play from Danny Wiliams just before the break. Celtic's Virgil Van Dijk and Inverness Caledonian Thistle's Marley Watkins battle for the ball . Celtic Manager Ronny Deila during the Scottish Premiership match at Celtic Park . Celtic's Scott Brown (right) goes down trying to get to the ball during the first half . Celtic's Anthony Stokes and Inverness Caledonian Thistle's Garry Warren (right) vie for the ball . The game exploded into life when Brown won the ball midway inside the Inverness half before giving the ball to send Stokes on the charge. Caley Thistle were suddenly exposed and, although Stokes under-hit his pass to Guidetti, the Swede managed to work enough space to fire past two defenders and beat Brill with the power of his strike. However, the visitors were furious with referee Craig Thomson for missing what they claimed was a pull on the shirt of Danny Williams by Brown when he won possession. Watkins was booked for protesting and the controversy continued moments later when Guidetti had two penalty appeals rejected in quick succession. The on-loan Manchester City forward claimed handball when his shot was blocked as several visiting players dived at his feet and then appeared to be bundled over by Tremarco, but a free-kick was given against him after he fell on the ball. Ross Draper was booked for confronting Guidetti after a number of players got involved in the recriminations. Guidetti scores the opener for Celtic in the early stages of the second half . And the forward celebrates his goal in somewhat emphatic fashion on the Celtic Park turf . The visitors had a good chance to level when Shinnie fed Williams but the left-winger fired over from 15 yards. Wakaso and Tremarco received yellow cards for late tackles as the game remained tetchy. It was also far more open with Inverness bringing on Ryan Christie, Aaron Doran and McKay in the hunt for an equaliser and consequently leaving more gaps at the back. Shinnie shot wide with the aid of a deflection from a decent position before van Dijk missed a good chance at the other end. And Inverness put Celtic under intense late pressure. Greg Tansey blazed over from 16 yards after Doran's shot was blocked and Tremarco nodded over after Gary Warren had headed a corner into the six-yard box. Warren set up another opportunity in injury-time but McKay could not get enough on the ball from six yards and Zaluska pounced to smother, before the Pole saved Tremarco's downward header and scrambled the bouncing ball over the bar.", "England were defeated 5-2 by Sri Lanka in the seven-match one-day series and, in truth, very few players have done their World Cup chances much good. Joe Root was the star for the tourists but that was not much of a contest, so bad were many of his team-mates. With the squad for the World Cup being announced on Saturday, Sportsmail assess the England players who appeared in Sri Lanka (highest rated top). Joe Root, on his way to 80 in Colombo, was England's best player during their tour of Sri Lanka . 8 Joe Root (Games 7; batting average 73.40; 1 wicket at 110) England’s best Test batsman in the summer, and their best one-day batsman here. Match-winning century in Pallekele was a masterpiece of timing and good sense. 7 James Taylor (Games 4; average 42.50) Shone twice, using his feet superbly to the spinners, and running like a hare. But it took England until the fourth game to pick him, and he faded. 7 Moeen Ali (Games 7; average 33.71; 5 wickets at 63.80) No one struck the ball more sweetly. There were failures, especially against Tillakeratne Dilshan’s off-breaks, but his 12 sixes were nine more than anyone else, and his strike-rate was 123. Useful off-spin too. James Taylor shone in two matches, while Moeen Ali hit more sixes than any other England batsman . 7 James Tredwell (Games 5; average 17.00; 4 wickets at 54.75) England’s tightest bowler was unlucky to miss out on a turning Colombo pitch for the fourth match. But pitches at the World Cup won’t suit him. 6 Ravi Bopara (Games 6; average 30.83; 1 wicket at 82.00) Began with two fifties and was promoted to No 5, as he wanted. But he reverted to his frustrating ways. Should have bowled more than 15 overs. 6 Chris Jordan (Games 5; average 1.66; 10 wickets at 26.00) His accuracy and rhythm showed odd signs of improvement, and Cook wants him at the World Cup. His slip-catching and potential with the bat could count in his favour. 6 Chris Woakes (Games 7; average 20.60; 14 wickets at 25.28) Confirmed his extra bite with the ball, and collected six-for in the win at Pallekele. Expensive at times, but may have overtaken Finn. Chris Wokes salutes after taking the fifth of his six wickets in the victory at Pallekele . 5 Ian Bell (Games 2; average 23.00) Dropped for Hales after two games. May have to concentrate on Tests from now on. 5 Jos Buttler (Games 7; average 29.00) Finished off the run-chase in Hambantota, but his keeping grew scruffier as the tour progressed. England need to manage him carefully. 5 Steven Finn (Games 5; average 2.00; 5 wickets at 43.80) Heartening to see him take the new ball after his woes last winter, but didn't offer England enough early breakthroughs. 3 Alastair Cook (Games 6; average 19.83) Barely a day went by when the question of his captaincy didn’t overshadow everything else. His strike-rate was a relic-like 67. Alastair Cook shows the strain after another ordinary performance with the bat in defeat . 3 Alex Hales (Games 3; average 11.33) Given only three chances, but took none of them. A frustrated figure for much of the tour. 3 Harry Gurney (Games 3; average 8.00; 1 wicket at 158.00) One wicket for 158 in three games, and shaky in the field. Will be lucky to make World Cup squad. 3 Eoin Morgan (Games 7; average 12.85) Produced only one innings of substance – when he was standing in as captain for the banned Cook in the fourth game. Averaged less than five otherwise. Missing his usual spark. 2 Ben Stokes (Games 3; average 11.00; 0 wickets) Utterly devoid of confidence, with both bat and ball. The Ashes seem a long time ago. Ben Stokes' confidence with both bat and ball has gone through the floor ." ]

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[ "The strong personality of Leo man impresses the Aquarius woman to the depth of her heart. ... They are not only physically attracted to each other but they also admire and respect each other's personality traits and always feel complete in each other's company." ]

[ "Aquarius Man and Libra Woman Compatibility: Love, Sex, and Chemistry. An Aquarius man and a Libra woman are both Air Signs. ... This makes them an excellent match by zodiac sign. Both an Aquarius man and a Libra woman are very social and need intellectual stimulation in order to feel attraction for someone.", "An Aquarius man is able to let an Aries woman be as strong and independent as she is without feeling threatened or overpowered. Likewise, an Aries woman will find in an Aquarius man someone who can stand up to her without trying to control her. Overall, this is a very compatible match.", "Leo's point of view of the Leo and Aquarius compatibility There is no difference between the genders. A Leo relationship can be anything but boring. ... Aquarius and Leo have one thing in common after all, and that's a strong sexual attraction. Because of their sexual compatibility, their relationship works like a charm.", "Aquarius man, Sagittarius woman: Sexual compatibility An Aquarius man and a Sagittarius woman are well-matched for each other in the bedroom. They both see sex as playful and fun rather than a source of deep emotional intimacy. Both of them like adventure and excitement and to try new things.", "Aquarius and Leo have one thing in common after all, and that's a strong sexual attraction. Because of their sexual compatibility, their relationship works like a charm. Aquarius is one heck of a lover, and Leo knows it. ... Communication-wise, it's almost impossible to establish a steady relationship with an Aquarius.", "The lovely relationship of Leo man and Libra woman is one of a kind romantic with sweet blend of understanding and acceptance. ... The Air of the Libra woman feeds the Fire of her Leo man quite harmoniously in their love making. Sexually, Leo man and Libra woman are compatible as long as they are both in the mood.", "A Leo man and a Virgo woman are a match made in Heaven as they temper each other and become better when together. The Leo man and the Virgo woman are two very different characters. ... Because they are capable of understanding each other's needs, the Leo man and the Virgo woman will be very happy together.", "A Sagittarius man and Leo woman make an energetic and lively couple, and they are a wonderful zodiac match. A Leo woman will dazzle a Sagittarius man, and a Sagittarius man will entertain a Leo woman. Together they will have a wild and passionate romance and will share many adventures together.", "A Leo man and an Aries woman are a well-matched pair. They will admire and love each other very much, and they have the ability to have a long and happy life together. This is a highly compatible combination.", "Even though both signs have different interests, they are a very compatible pair. Leo and Aquarius are both fixed signs. ... Aquarius could amaze Leo with their creativity and vision. Leo and Aquarius remain loyal to each other, and work well as a team.", "As with the time their trust and faith increases, the Leo man and Pisces woman share one of the most compatible relationship. They both give each other the freedom and love; they crave for and promise to return to each other's arms.", "Aquarius Moon with Leo Moon is a very compatible match, and can often lead to marriage and a big, long lasting commitment. Leo Moon will worry if they feel Aquarius Moon is not giving them special attention, as Aquarius Moon can sometimes act a bit detached.", "Leo and Aquarius. Leo and Aquarius is often a challenging and exciting match. The low scores represent the initial compatibility of this match. However, you are both strong willed enough to make this work, and if you succeed the scores would be much higher.", "Leo Woman and Virgo Man Compatibility in 2020 As a couple, allow yourself to be swept up in romance, in leisure time, carefree fun in 2020. ... The Leo woman needs to focus on her mood swings and the Virgo man needs to make his presence felt. Gossip and infighting are taking up too much time and energy.", "A Virgo man is sincerely devoted to his woman and this is what makes him a great match for Aquarius woman. ... He and his Aquarius woman do not really bother each other with their natures, but they rarely have much to do with one another. The timing between a Virgo man and Aquarius woman is typically off.", "The sexual compatibility of Aquarius man and Aquarius woman becomes strong and harmonious after they have found the perfect companion. They automatically know each other's deep sexual secrets and whether it is a gradual crescendo or a sudden explosion, they reach each other's sexual peaks rather quickly.", "Scorpio Woman and Aquarius Man Love Compatibility. The relationship of Scorpio and Aquarius can be rather tempestuous at times, but exciting nevertheless. They both admire each other's strength of character. ... They need to be quite truthful, diligent and honest to have a long lasting relationship.", "An Aquarius man and an Aquarius woman are an unlikely match. They are both eccentric, independent, and set in their ways. In many cases, they will not get together as a couple at all. If they do form a relationship, it will be a gradual one that develops over time.", "Leo Woman and Sagittarius Man Love Compatibility. ... They most certainly share some fantastic times together as they both fuel each other's spirits, inspiring each other to reach new heights in love. But Leo is naturally more loyal while Sagittarius is restless, causing insecurities in Leo.", "Top top: Aquarius have the greatest compatibility with Gemini, Leo and Libra's. Famous Aquarius signs include Robbie Williams, Ed Sheeran and Alicia Keys. 10.", "The least compatible signs with Taurus are generally considered to be Leo and Aquarius.", "A Gemini man and a Leo woman will admire each other all day long but their relationship is likely to be built on much deeper feelings. The combination between the Gemini man and the Leo woman can result in a very happy relationship. They enjoy each other's friends and they are both happy people.", "An Aquarius man and a Libra woman are both Air Signs. Signs of the same element have a connection between each other known as a trine. ... This makes them an excellent match by zodiac sign. Both an Aquarius man and a Libra woman are very social and need intellectual stimulation in order to feel attraction for someone.", "A Capricorn man and an Aquarius woman are an unlikely pair, but they can make a good couple. Any problems between them will surface early on, so the longer they are together, the better the chance is that they will stay together.", "An Aquarius man and a Capricorn woman are a surprisingly good match. On the surface, they seem very different from each other, but they have a common way of looking at the world. They may not be the most demonstrative or romantic couple, but they are both stable and steadfast.", "An Aquarius man and Cancer woman are not very compatible according to their zodiac signs. These two signs are so different that they will have a hard time relating to each other at all. He detaches himself from people and situations so that he can look objectively at the world around him.", "A Libra man and an Aquarius woman are a very harmonious pair. They will get along well with each other, and at the same time, their differences are such that they complement and balance each other. These two can have a happy and long-lasting relationship together.", "An Aquarius man and Gemini woman are an excellent zodiac match. They both enjoy intellectual pursuits and communicate very well. These two will understand each other in a way that other zodiac signs would not. ... Because of the nature of these two signs, it is possible that they may not decide to enter into a marriage.", "Aquarius will also enjoy Leo's wide circle of friends and associations. Aquarius will blend well with Leo because they both like bringing in people into their world. Both signs are intelligent and impartial.", "As the Aries woman and Aquarius man share a powerful common characteristic of passion, once they are completely committed, the blaze of their affection keeps burning till eternity. They both love helping each other in all possible ways throughout their lives to bring out best of them.", "Libras are most compatible with Gemini, Leo, Sagittarius and Aquarius. Libras are ruled by air, so the safest bet for a happy relationship is one of the other air signs Gemini or Aquarius. ... Passionate Leos and Sagittarians can also provide good matches.", "The most compatible signs with Scorpio are generally considered to be Cancer, Virgo, Capricorn and Pisces. The least compatible signs with Scorpio are generally considered to be Leo and Aquarius." ]

[ "LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair faced a revolt by lawmakers Wednesday over a U.S. request to redeploy some British troops closer to Baghdad." ]

[ "Tony Blair faces a growing political row over Iraq after it emerged that hundreds of British troops may soon be sent to the Baghdad region in order to fight under American command.", "TONY Blair today faced a revolt by Labour MPs over plans to send British troops into danger zones in Iraq. The prime minister was expecting a grilling at Commons question time this afternoon, with 45 Labour", "Prime Minister Tony Blair's government agreed Thursday to meet a US request and redeploy a battalion of 850 British troops into volatile central Iraq, despite strong opposition from lawmakers.", "TONY Blair faces a mauling in the Commons today from Labour backbenchers furious at a plea for British troops to bail out the Americans.", "Prime Minister Tony Blair went into his weekly Commons showdown facing fresh unrest among Labour MPs over Iraq. Mr Blair was pressed over the request for soldiers to be sent into US-controlled hotspots at Prime Minister's Questions.", "LONDON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair has come under fire over the way his government is handling a US request to redeploy 650 British troops in Iraq.", "British Prime Minister Tony Blair has reacted to a barrage of criticism from politicians, analysts and national newspapers for considering a US request to deploy troops in Baghdad.", "Britain was considering a U.S. request on Monday to move troops into more potentially dangerous areas of Iraq, a politically charged move which has reignited anger over Prime Minister Tony Blair's support for the war.", "Britain agreed on Thursday to a U.S. request for UK troops to move to dangerous areas near Baghdad, a politically risky step for Tony Blair who could face a sharp backlash if casualty rates start rising.", "Britain said Monday it will respond soon to a U.S. request to send troops to more dangerous areas of Iraq, a politically charged issue that has revived anger over Prime Minister Tony Blair's support for the war.", "Prime Minister Tony Blair's ( search ) government on Monday rejected claims from opposition lawmakers that a redeployment of British troops in Iraq would be a political show of support for the Bush ...", "British lawmakers sharply criticized Prime Minister Tony Blair's government on Monday for planning to dispatch hundreds of British troops to an area just south of Baghdad to supplement U.S. forces.", "LONDON Some British lawmakers are balking at a US request to redeploy British troops in Iraq. Forty-five lawmakers, including 44 members of the governing Labor Party, have signed a motion insisting that the", "The government is considering a US request to move troops into more potentially dangerous areas of Iraq, a politically charged move which has re-ignited anger over Prime Minister Tony Blair's support for the war.", "US lawmakers prepare to vote on a resolution opposing President Bush's deployment of extra troops in Iraq.", "Prime Minister Tony Blair stood his ground Wednesday over plans to renew Britain's missile nuclear deterrent, as he faced the threat of a widespread revolt among his own ranks in a vote on the issue.", "Prime Minister Tony Blair was set to face the anger of rank and file members of his Labour Party over the Iraq war, as party officials tried to head off a motion calling for British troops to quit the country.", "A continual undercurrent of discontent suggests that some legislators are not satisfied with Tony Blair’s refusal to be pinned down on a firm departure date.", "On October 21, the Labour government of Prime Minister Tony Blair confirmed that it would accede to a US request to redeploy approximately 850 troops and support staff from their", "Tony Blair reportedly faces growing opposition from elements within the Labour Party over his plan to serve a full third term as prime minister.", "British Prime Minister Tony Blair may face growing opposition from within the Labour Party over his plan for a full third term, the Sunday Times said.", "TONY Blair insisted yesterday that he will still be Prime Minister at next May's Scottish elections - a defiant prediction that will stoke a growing Labour revolt against him.", "Opposition lawmakers put up a human wall in parliament, delaying approval to extend the deployment of South Korean troops in Iraq.", "The British government agreed on Thursday to a US request to redeploy British troops in Iraq to relieve American forces, despite angry objections from some lawmakers, who fear a major increase in British ...", "The Government is under renewed fire over claims Tony Blair was warned before the war in Iraq of the scale of the task that would face British and other coalition troops after Saddam Hussein was toppled.", "President Bush, facing growing anger among senior citizens over the high cost of prescription drugs and a virtual revolt by some states, conceded on Wednesday it \"makes sense\" for Americans to be able to import cheaper medicines as long as they are safe.", "Lawmakers from Prime Minister Tony Blair's governing Labour party plan a major rebellion Wednesday over proposals for a new multibillion dollar nuclear missile defense system, a program critics claim risks undermining efforts to halt the weapons ambitions of Iran and others.", "UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's government, risking criticism from lawmakers in the ruling Labour Party, said it will redeploy 850 troops now in southern Iraq to a region controlled by US forces.", "Tensions are rising between Washington and allies such as Germany over the deployment of troops in Afghanistan", "Tony Blair, at his last annual conference as Labour Party leader, faces fresh calls to withdraw British troops from Iraq in demonstrations that include one on his own doorstep.", "Parliamentarians will table a motion on Wednesday demanding a debate on Prime Minister Tony Blair's \"gross misconduct\" in leading Britain to war against Iraq.", "Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Cabinet met Thursday to discuss a U.S. request for British troops to be moved into volatile central Iraq, a proposal that has met strong opposition within the governing Labour ..." ]

[ "Atlantic Ocean" ]

[ "What's Wrong With the World", "What Rules the World", "Border", "Star Academy Arab World", "On the Border", "What's Going On in Your World", "Arab historians", "Mesopotamian Arabic", "Israeli Arabs", "Arab salad", "Gum arabic", "Literary Arabic", "Classical Arabic", "Border War", "Egyptian Arabic", "the Border Reivers", "Arabic cuisine", "border checkpoint", "Border Girl", "Arabic script", "the vertebral border", "Arabic abjad", "the brush border", "Palestinian Arabic", "border area", "Arab men", "Border controls", "The Bull Arab", "border barrier", "an Arab miller", "Arab Fort", "county borders" ]

[ "UPDATE: I must have gotten a bad bag the first time around. I just got another bag and opened it today. The beans were aromatic, fresh, and oily. The coffee was perfect this time around using the same amount of beans as last time. The coffee was nice and bold. It was not watered down and weak. My coffee snob husband even loved it. I ordered another bag right away. I am hoping to get another good bag. :)<br /><br />For the price, this organic coffee is good. We pay about $9.99 for half pound for higher quality for local coffee shoppe beans. Overall the flavor was full-bodied, but it tasted watered down. We used the proper amount of beans, ground them fresh right before brewing, and just didn't didn't get the zing I expected. It did have a nice aroma and finish though. the acidity was well-balanced. I might try extra beans next time. I would definitely purchase this again and maybe mix this with our regular coffee to stretch it." ]

[ "This stevia is alright, but it is not as good as Truvia. 04/13/2012 Update to this review: I have come to like this just as much as the other brand, this is more of a powder than crystal-like, but just as good. Will be ordering this PureVia again!", "These are ordinary coffee beans, not the super oily dark roast you want in expresso beans. In fact they are a little on the green side. They probably make decent coffee.<br /><br />Update 9/3. I have revised my review from 3 stars to 5. This is wonderful stuff, full-bodied and creamy. It isn't what I expected; it's better. I'm reordering some today.", "4 college educated people couldn't figure out how to set the traps! There's a little hook on the setting rod that needs to hook onto part of the trap. Hard to explain how to set the trap. Go to YouTube and search for \"how to set Sweeney Gopher Trap\".<br />As for how effective they are, Im confident they will work! I may update this review after the killing spree.", "These are so good. You can't beat the price either. There are a lot, but if you love olives it's no problem to use them up.<br /><br />Updated 4/2010 - the price is nearly twice what it used to be. Still a decent deal, but not nearly the deal it was. The price has been going up for a while, but when I original reviewed them they were 19.87 for 5 pounds.", "I have been feeding my cat all sorts of cat food. She has long fur and hasn't had any hairballs. If she gets hairballs on Iams Proactive hairball formula, I would definitely update this review.<br /><br />This food is different from any cat food I've ever bought because the kibble is shaped like tiny balls. Up until now, my cat has eaten foods shaped like starfish or \"Y\" and \"X.\" She doesn't seem to mind the shape, though.<br /><br />My main beef with cat food is some of them smell so horribly bad (dead fish). This one is fine. That's what I buy for -- that and price. If it does what it says, make my cat lose weight and controls hairballs, I will be a happy cat owner.<br /><br />Will come back in the future to update.<br /><br />____________________________<br /><br />UPDATE: Well, this formula must not work. After being on it for two months, my cat suffered her first hairball.", "This candy is a perfect mix of sweet, sour, and spicy. If you like tamarind flavor, you'll love this. I might just spend my next amazon giftcard on a dozen of these boxes.<br />I don't really understand what to do with the seeds inside, I don't think they're edible - anybody?<br /><br />Review update: I ordered it again, and the candy that arrived was low quality, and in slightly different box.", "My cat likes the gravy but not so much the bits. She eats some of them but not many. Update - actually since I published this review months ago I've re-ordered several times because it has become a favorite food. So if your cat seems disinterested at first, there is still hope she/he will decide it's pretty good after all.", "I absolutely love these! Seven of these sweet, very thin Graham Crisps are only 60 calories, but it's easy to eat a lot of them and there are almost 80 in the package. Delicious by themselves; wonderful with ice cream. If they are purchased using Amazon's Add-on Program there is no shipping charge.<br /><br />UPDATE: I've seen mixed reviews of this company's products. The items I've purchased have not been stale or strange smelling.", "This is my girlfriend's favorite salad dressing. She has actually purchased it by the gallon from the manufacturer. Low fat, low carb and tastes great. So how come it's not available (1/2010)?<br /><br />3/2011 Update -- See above review for info on Class Action Lawsuit for misleading labeling. The suit is not settled, but we had a feeling the contents were too good to be true. Still one of the best tasting dressings though.", "I am not sure how big I thought 14oz is, but this is small! I got it for my mom to share tea with her aunt when she comes to visit. They both love tea and thought this was a terrific idea. I am ok with the small pot, just wish it were a tad bit larger. I am sure they will love their tea parties. I will update review after she opens it on Christmas and we have a cup of tea!", "This is a great product. It has very few calories and does not contain corn syrup, which is great and makes this tea much better than snapple. Also, the inside of the label has cute quotes. Shipped quickly. - I am updating this review because I recently found out that a bottle of this tea has about 5-6 spoons of sugar in it which isn't good because the recommended daily intake is 7spoons.", "I'm surprised to be in the minority on this, but the Vanilla flavor of VIA is just too sweet. It tastes like liquefied marshmallows. I couldn't even finish the first cup, and I also gave one to a colleague with the suggestion to add a little extra water and maybe a little milk to dilute the shock of syrupy coffee, but she couldn't finish hers either. I love a Vanilla Latte made at Starbucks, and am also a fan of the Vanilla brewed coffee, but I wouldn't purchase the VIA (at least the vanilla flavor) again, and I gave away the remaining 4 packs. I am still on the lookout for an excellent instant coffee, so if I try any more flavors, I'll update this review.<br /><br />Update: Also sampled the Carmel flavor which unfortunately I also find overbearingly sweet. What a bummer.", "Unless you are brewing coffee in bed, I don't see it waking anyone up. It makes a little bit of noise for a few seconds, but works fast and efficiently as far as I can tell. I like to hear the motor after owning the B60 that was ridiculously weak.<br /><br />If anything changes, I will be sure to edit this review with an update. Doubt I will have to do that, but I will if needed.<br /><br />5/5 for a great K-cup brewer.<br /><br />-Mike", "I was in the process of purchasing these when I thought I'd look at the Honeyville website first. But then I noticed that on the company website that there is sodium lauryl sulfate in these eggs, which is not listed on the ingredients on Amazon. Please be aware of this since there are various concerns over the use of this ingredient in all sorts of products.<br /><br />UPDATE 11/16/11: SLS is not good for you and tastes like soap. I went with Del El Egg Whites from Amazon based on another reviewer. No SLS added.", "Give me a reason to buy from you? Nespresso website is half the price. 0.57/caps and 6.95 for shipping.<br />Total is .70 per caps shipping included and yours is 1.22 per caps for the same quantity!<br />I usually buys on amazon because I find good deals.<br />You should revise your pricing or change business.<br />I'll update my review if you change your prices to be at least cheaper that Nespresso themselves.", "I think this toy has potential, but it didn't come as pictured. The rope is not actually a rope, it's a plastic mimic of a rope and my dog can't seem to figure out that he can tug at it like he can his tug rope. He quickly figured out all the other busy buddy toys and the buster cube, so I assume the rope just seems too foreign. I am going to buy an actual tug tope that will fit and try that instead. Will update review once I do this.", "__________________________________________________________________________________<br />NOTE: I have left an update on my eczema condition in the comments section of this review. To summarize the update: I tried applying the oil topically to the affected area and it stopped the itch and burn completely! Applying the hemp seed oil directly to the area will cure eczema!!! (8/15/2011)<br />__________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br />Couldn't be happier with this hemp seed oil. The delicious nutty flavor makes it easy to take this as a daily supplement. The texture will take some getting used to if you're taking it straight as a supplement (it is oil after all). And you can't beat the price here on Amazon. The original price is $20 and here it's half that!<br /><br />I actually decided to get this because I heard an omega6 deficiency causes eczema (a skin disease that I have). I've been taking it for about a week and my skin is showing improvement. I itch less and my skin doesn't inflame as badly. I'm thinking I need to up the dose a little bit. Maybe I'll start taking 1 full tablespoon instead of 2 teaspoons that I'm taking daily. I understand this probably won't be of use to most people simply looking for hemp seed oil, but I will update in the comments of this review about how my eczema curing progress is going. Maybe this can help someone.<br /><br />Nutiva is obviously very passionate and dedicated to the products they sell. The label on this oil is informative and their website is even more informative. By quality of this oil alone I can say I trust this company, and I'll be buying from them in the future.", "I am a tea drinker, and I like both lemon and ginger, but I didn't find this drink to be terribly tasty. I followed the directions for making it hot and could only drink about half of it. The ginger is very strong, so if you're not a real fan of ginger, I would suggest you not bother with this product. I would like to have tried it cold as well to compare the two, but the Vine program only sent me one packet. I agree with another reviewer who commented on the large packaging that was used for such a small item. It seemed very wasteful.<br /><br />If I find this product in the store, I might give it another try cold and update my review.", "This is one of my favorite teas. It has a lovely fragrance and delicious taste! Keep in mind that each bag can be used two or three times (using a 12 oz cup), so it's more like the box makes 30 cups, not 15 -- which definitely makes the steep price a lot more bearable!<br /><br />UPDATE TO REVIEW: they seem to have changed their bags -- putting less tea in, so I no longer feel that it is worth the purchase as the bags no longer bear repeated steeping very well.", "Not only did several jars break, but they were apparently broken for so long that the food that had spilled all over the other jars grew mold. Mold everywhere! Really disgusting and smelled terrible. I won't trust Amazon to ship these baby food items.<br /><br />Update: Apparently this is a huge issue with EB via Amazon. If you look at other reviews for other EB here you'll see that the USDA has been alerted about the spoiled and moldy EB baby food on Amazon.", "This product tastes AMAZING and somewhat sweet, naturally. Seems to have plenty of ingredients that health reviews agree are supposed to be good for what this tea is claiming to do - enhance the function of your mind and memory. I suffer from terrible memory, and while it is too early to tell, i am going to continue drinking this (alternating with Brain Booster tea) for the next 3-6 months, as it definitely cannot hurt, and if nothing else, is delicious. I will try to update after 3-6 months.", "I had been using the lansinoh bags and after a few leaks tried the green sprouts storage bags which were great but pretty costly - the honeysuckle bags have been great! Affordable price and no leaks :)<br /><br />**Updated**<br /> Now that we are in full swing using these bags to defrost milk for Daycare I can give a better review. I have had 3 leaky bags out of about 100 which have been defrosted so far... there were no holes when I put the milk in but the 3 that have leaked seem to have come apart at the seems when frozen. I have about a months worth of milk frozen in them right now and I sure hope that there aren't more leaks... as a 3% failure rate isn't great. I will update again in another month as that will be another 140 bags we have defrosted.<br /><br />* Update 2* I freeze 8 bags a day - 6 oz of milk in each. I defrost 5 a day. Today 3 of my 5 which were left to thaw overnight were leaking. All were from different batches and all were leaking along the seams. I cannot even put into words the anxiety I have about the fate of my entire freezer full of milk stored in these bags.... To lose 18 oz today was heartbreaking.", "Similar to many reviews - I started drinking this tea when I was 35 weeks pregnant. Drank for 2 weeks and the baby came a bit early - yet it was an amazingly easy and fast labor. It took me less than 30 minutes and I was fully dilated. I had to literally held the baby in so that my doctor could rush in to deliver him. LOL. And he was out in 3 pushes. Everyone was amazed how quick and smooth it was. I also had no tear. Like others said, I don't know for sure if it's really this tea, or genetics, or exercise (I did walk like at least 30 minutes a day), or luck or something else...but really, I can only see benefits of drinking this tea. I'll definitely drink again with my 2nd. Good luck everyone.<br /><br />Updated 11/11 - I recommended this tea to a close friend who drank 2 - 3 cups a day for 2 - 3 weeks before her labor. Her labor was not as smooth and fast as mine - it was about 15 hours total. Still it seems to be faster than other first time mothers I know who had labors of 24 hours or longer. I'm currently pregnant now (16 weeks) and will surely start to drink it around 32 weeks and will update this review after my labor.", "I'm starting this wine tomorrow. It looks like its all juice and will produce 6 gallons of wine without adding any water. If it turns out like I expect, it will be a winner. I've recently purchased other wine kits from Amazon and so far they've all proven to be great hits.<br /><br />Great wine, , great price, no shipping charges, no tax ........ priceless. Join the subscription and get another 15% off.<br /><br />I'll update you in about 7 weeks. I'm predicting great results.<br /><br />UPDATE: 7/2/2012<br />I did a secondary racking yesterday. I did a taste test also and my wife and I loved it. My wife is the expert and she said it's better than anything she buys. Will bottle 7/12 and update again.<br /><br />UPDATE: 7/25/2012<br />I've bottled this and have handed it out to friends that are serious wine drinkers. They think it's very good and my wife said order another...", "Jennies Coconut Macaroons have three ingredients: Egg whites (so if you are on the SCD, eat them when you are able to eat eggs), Coconut and Honey. There are no other sweeteners, no artificial ingredients, nothing else added. They are tasty, chewy, goodness, and the ingredients can be tolerated by many people who otherwise have to avoid most of what they see at a typical grocery store. The packaging keeps them fresh. I tried the SCD diet recipe (which contains the same ingredients plus optional lemon zest) and can't get them as good as Jennies.<br /><br />For a sweet treat with wholesome goodness, Jennies coconut macaroons are the way to go!<br /><br />REVIEW UPDATE!!! As I have seen from another reviewer - in my most recent order, Jennie's changed from HONEY to EVAPORATED CANE JUICE WITH HONEY!! This is a HORRID DEVELOPMENT! WHY DID THEY DO THIS?? I can't eat them now! They are no longer SCD Diet friendly :(", "RAW, Gluten-free GOODNESS! AND it has cocoa in it! Mmmmmmmmm<br />Just discovered this a week ago and already we are on our second bag.<br />I wish I could order in bulk because I see us going through this fast.<br /><br />Update: after the fourth bag since reviewing I've discovered that at least half the bag is made up of raisins.... :( I can buy organic raisins for far less in bulk. They will need to reduce the raisins and increase the valuable ingredients if they want my business at $8 a bag.", "The peanut butter tastes slightly better than the Kroger brand, but cost much more. The word \"Natural\" is misleading since, as another reviewer pointed out, palm oil is added. I will not by this product again and will avoid all Jiffy peanut butter in the future.<br /><br />Update--03/05/2012: I now definately believe that the use of the word \"Natural\" was meant to mislead the consumer into believing that this product contained something better than \"un-natural\" peanut butter. Apparently, this is the new buzz word that companies use to get us to buy something which is better for us healthwise, but there are no FDA standards to the word \"Natural\" which many products now claim.", "UPDATE:<br />The reason these beans are dryer and less oily is because these are light to medium roasted beans! Darker roasts are oilier and wetter looking, the darker the roast the oilier (and more burnt tasting) the coffee will be...<br /><br />I like this coffee and have ordered 3 lots already. Anybody who does not like dark roasts should like this coffee.<br /><br />ORIGINAL REVIEW:<br />----------------<br />The bag I received was a medium roast, though it doesn't specify any particular roast on the package.<br /><br />This coffee (Guatemalan) has a fruity flavor.<br /><br />It's organic as well as fair trade.<br /><br />This brand is a good price for organic coffee.", "Recently ordered this assortment of herb seeds to start an indoor herb garden. Not only were the seeds shipped and received very quickly, they are exactly as advertised. My sons and I planted each variety in 4\" terracota pots and have placed them in a mini-greenhouse that I also purchased on Amazon. Looking forard to seeing these seeds grow and will come back to update my review once they start to.<br /><br />Mini greenhouse also purchased for indoor herb garden:<br /><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NCTGQE\">Gardman R687 4-Tier Mini Greenhouse</a>", "Let me start this by saying I'm a huge animal lover, but when it comes to moles, f*** them! I've hunted these bastards for years, trying everything, until I came across these traps. As other reviewers have said, they work great...as long as you DON'T follow the instructions. Please read the review marked \"most helpful\" explaining the right way to set them. I started setting them 3 days ago, and once I got the hang of it, I caught two in one day! Bought three to corner them. It's also nice because even though the product pic looks like it cuts the mole, it actually crushes it, so no mess. They are hard to set. You need pretty good arm strength, but worth every second and penny. Don't spend more either. I was tempted to buy more expensive ones, thinking, how could a $10 trap compare? But no worries. Just buy more to increase your odds. I can't explain how excited I am right now. I'm off now to save the rest of my yard.<br /><br />5/27/11 UPDATE: Got 2 more in the last 24 hours, so I'm up to 4 moles killed by these traps. Number 5 will be dead tomorrow. I will have a new nickname soon: \"The Mole Hunter\"<br /><br />6/29/11 UPDATE: Now 7 moles dead in less than 2 months with these traps. Enough said!", "Das Salt fleur de sel is the best of those I've tried. Awesome as finishing salt and a touch on chocolate ice cream can't be beat.<br /><br />Update 5/10/2011: Amazon will not let me delete the review I wrote in 2010 (it keeps the date) and start over, so all I can do is give this added information. Since my first purchase, I've tried a few other brands of fleur de sel de Guerande. Das Salt is the best.<br /><br />Unfortunately, the salt sold by Spice Lab is NOT Das Salt even though he uses a Das image and description & says it is by Das Salt. Seriously, if it ships from The Spice Lab it is NOT Das Salt. What you will get from The Spice Lab is repackaged salt in an unsealed container and a lot of trust-me-trust-me-trust-me crap about how honest the seller is -- from him, of course. No real surprise the seller misrepresents the product -- would you buy it if he advertised it as it is: repackaged salt, who knows how, from who knows where?<br /><br />This section is product reviews, not seller reviews, so buyer beware. My first review was for Das Salt fleur de sel, not the stuff you will get from The Spice Lab, but you'd never know it. I guess because Mr. Spice Lab says he is selling Das Salt, the reviews still apply but as noted, he is NOT selling Das Salt. Some of the reviews here were written for the real deal and not for that you will get from Spice Lab.<br /><br />Update 5/19/2011. After multiple complaints, it must be that Amazon made Spice Lab take down their falsely advertised product because Amazon is back to selling Das Salt from Das. The reviews follow the product, not the seller. I will leave this post as negative in case dear Brett from Spice Lab tries his trickery again. My praise for Das Salt is HIGH. My low rating is for FAKE Das salt sold by Spice Lab.", "I was really excited to find these-- I lived in India and this was a staple at my school. Really great in curry. They truly are delicious and meaty, plus I've never seen them in the United States. The price was right (2.39 for a 1-lb bag). I put 5 bags in my cart, went to check out, and was shocked to find that the shipping cost over $15. Really? More than $3 a bag???? What a rip off!!!!! I can't believe that nobody else mentioned this in their review. I'm going to call the company and find out what the deal is, and if it's a different story, I'll update." ]

[ "Brown spotting gets its color from old blood, which can start making its way out of your body one to two weeks before the start of your period. For some, this is just a normal part of their cycle. For others, it may be a symptom of an underlying health condition." ]

[ "Mucus plug is the name for the build-up of mucus that seals the cervix, while a 'show' describes what happens when it comes free and leaves your body as a gooey discharge. This discharge may be clear, but sometimes it's tinged pink or brown with a little blood – this is what's called a 'bloody show'.", "What does spotting look like in early pregnancy? In early pregnancy it can be pink, red, or brown. Often, it's slightly lighter in color than what you might normally see during your period.", "What does watery discharge during pregnancy mean? Watery discharge is a completely normal part of pregnancy, and it typically gets heavier as your pregnancy progresses. In fact, very heavy discharge towards the end of your third trimester could be a sign that your body is preparing to go into labor.", "['oily or fatty stools;', 'oily spotting in your undergarments;', 'orange or brown colored oil in your stool;', 'gas and oily discharge;', 'loose stools, or an urgent need to go to the bathroom, inability to control bowel movements;']", "What does the lightning bolt icon mean on the search and listings page? If a sniff spot is marked with a lightning bolt, that means it can be Booked.", "Now, the risks: Taking oral contraceptive pills means introducing additional hormones when the body does not need them - this may have short-term effects like spotting, nausea, headaches, abdominal pain, tender breasts, frequent vaginal discharge or decreased sexual desire.", "You may see “20HR” on your battery and wonder what does it mean. Simply said it means 20 Hour Rate. ... This basically means that the battery can discharge 1 amp per hour over a 20 hour period. A High Rate battery with the same amperage (20Ah) and with 10HR will be able to discharge 2 amps/hour over a 10 hour period.", "The most common depo shot side effects are changes in your periods, especially during the first year. These include: Bleeding more days than usual. Spotting (light bleeding or brown discharge between periods)", "When your yucca plant has brown tips, it's likely due to fluoride toxicity. This issue generally starts as small brown spots on leaf margins, but soon encompasses the entire leaf tip. It's especially bad on older leaves. There's no serious risk with fluoride toxicity, but it does make a yucca look unsightly.", "What does a cougar or a jaguar look like: Comparison of aesthetics. Jaguars are more similar to leopards and have a pattern on black/ brown spots on their yellow golden fur. Jaguars are most similar to leopards in their cat family. Cougars have a tan/ brown/ black fur.", "What does chlamydia discharge look like? Discharge caused by cervicitis (the infection of the uterine cervix), is the most common sign of chlamydia in women. The discharge can appear to be milky and white in colour; however, discharge caused by chlamydia does not always look the same.", "Originally Answered: What does it mean when your guy falls to sleep while talking on the phone? IT MEANS HE'S TIRED.", "There are several fairly common side effects associated with HSG tests: abdominal pain and/or discomfort, feeling crampy or achy, and vaginal spotting and/or watery discharge. When spotting or discharge occurs, we encourage patients to use sanitary napkins or pads as opposed to tampons.", "What are age spots? Age spots are flat brown, gray, or black spots on the skin. They usually occur on sun-exposed areas. Age spots are also called liver spots, senile lentigo, solar lentigines, or sun spots.", "“Technically, a normal eye should not have any ocular discharge, but a small amount of clear discharge may be OK,” she tells us. Clear dog eye discharge might look brown and slightly crusty when it dries.", "The most common birth control implant side effect is spotting (light bleeding or brown discharge), especially in the first 6-12 months. Sometimes the implant causes long-term spotting, or periods can get longer and heavier. But for most people, the implant makes their periods way lighter.", "When someone plays with your fingers, when they are holding your hand, what does that mean? Honest answer? It means they are looking for something more than holding hands. ... It means they are looking for something more than holding hands.", "Endometriosis is a condition where the uterine lining grows in places outside of the uterus. It may cause anything from painful, heavy periods to spotting between periods. Without a way to exit the body when it is shed, the endometrium becomes trapped and may cause severe pain, brown discharge, and fertility issues.", "If your Gardenia's leaves turn brown or display brown spots, this may be caused by any of these reasons: Low humidity: Gardenias demand high humidity to thrive. ... Water splashed on the leaves when watering the plant. Drip-irrigation will keep water off the foliage and flowers and prevents leaf spots.", "For gene 1, there are two possibilities, brown or blue. The brown version of gene 1 is dominant over the blue one. What dominant means is if at least 1 of your two copies is brown, then you will have brown eyes.", "What does pink period blood mean? Your blood may appear pink in color at the beginning or end of your period, especially if you're spotting. This lighter shade likely indicates that the blood has mixed with your cervical fluid, diluting its hue.", "However, taking birth control pills can lead to a range of side effects such as brown vaginal discharge. It is very common to have brown discharge while on birth control pills.", "On average, this mucus lasts for 11 to 14 days. The mucus right before your period may also look yellow at times. You may also see brown discharge in the days right after your period. Brown-colored discharge is actually old blood exiting your body.", "Oxidation Causes Brown Spots A scattering of pale brown spots on the cauliflower curds isn't all that abnormal, and it doesn't necessary mean it's time to ditch that newly purchased veggie. The culprit for this discoloration is oxidation, which happens naturally the longer cauliflower is stored.", "What does 'Hold water' mean? When you say that something does or does not 'hold water', it means that the point of view or argument put forward is or is not sound, strong or logical.", "What Does NUNYA Mean? NUNYA means \"None of Your (business)\".", "The Dalmatians are famous for its white coat with black spots on it. ... Originally, bred dalmatians are mostly found with black or liver spots. Can Dalmatians Have Brown Spots? The liver color is also called brown, so yes dalmatians can have brown spots.", "What does it mean when your computer displays a \"VGA No Signal\" message? It means that the monitor is working but does not see the computer is turned on. The message means your monitor is working okay but is not getting a signal from your computer. The best thing to do is make sure your computer is powering on.", "Originally Answered: What does it mean when a guy asks what you are wearing? Because he is a closet pervert and REALLY wants you to say that you are naked or in your underwear….", "Brown spots, patches or lines on your teeth could be a sign of poor oral health. Tooth decay and cavities can look like brown stains, and when plaque hardens, it forms a yellow or brown substance called tartar, which lies along the gum line.", "Branch A for other bank cashes the check on the spot, but only for smaller amounts, $500 or less. On the other hand, branch B does not cash it on the spot, so procedures are not exact. What is your experience when trying to cash your checks overseas? there are now ways to counterfeit certified and bank cashiers checks.", "So, what does it mean when someone touches your shoulder? It can mean that they find you attractive, that they are trying to dominate you, that they're trying to reassure you or that they are mirroring your own behavior." ]

[ "Does the Moon Rotate? Does the Moon Rotate? By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor | February 28, 2014 08:39pm ET MORE Miguel Claro recently sent Space.com this beautiful image of the moon and Earthshine taken from Almada, Portugal on Feb. 1, 2014. “I could see the night side of the moon very well illuminated by the Earth reflected light, like if it was full moon,” Claro wrote Space.com in an email. “This impressive phenomenon known as Earthshine, was described and drawn for the first time, by the great Leonardo Da Vinci about 500 years ago in his book Codex Leicester.” Credit: Miguel Claro | www.miguelclaro.com Attentive observers on Earth might notice that the moon essentially keeps the same side facing our planet as it passes through its orbit. This may lead to the question, does the moon rotate? The answer is yes, though it may seem contrary to what our eyes observe. The 'dark' side of the moon The moon orbits the Earth once every 27.322 days. It also takes approximately 27 days for the moon to rotate once on its axis. As a result, the moon does not seem to be spinning but appears to observers from Earth to be keeping almost perfectly still. Scientists call this sychronous rotation. The side of the moon that perpetually faces Earth is known as the near side. The opposite or \"back\" side is the far side . Sometimes the far side is called the dark side of the moon, but this is inaccurate. When the moon is between the Earth and the sun, during the new moon phase , the back side of the moon is bathed in daylight. The orbit and the rotation aren't perfectly matched, however. The moon travels around the Earth in an elliptical orbit , a slightly stretched-out circle. When the moon is closest to Earth, its rotation is slower than its journey through space, allowing observers to see an additional 8 degrees on the eastern side. When the moon is farthest, the rotation is faster, so an additional 8 degrees are visible on the western side. [ The Moon: 10 Surprising Lunar Facts ] If you could journey around to the far side of the moon as the Apollo 8 astronauts once did, you would see a very different surface from the one you are accostomed to viewing. While the near side of the moon is smoothed by maria — large dark plains created by solidified lava flows — and light lunar highlands, the far side is heavily cratered. [ VIDEO: A Year of Lunar Phases and Wobbles ] A changing orbit The rotational period of the moon wasn't always equal to its orbit around the planet. Just like the gravity of the moon affects ocean tides on the Earth, gravity from Earth affects the moon. But because the moon lacks an ocean, Earth pulls on its crust, creating a tidal bulge at the line that points toward Earth. [ Infographic: Inside Earth's Moon ] Gravity from Earth pulls on the closest tidal bulge, trying to keep it aligned. This creates tidal friction that slows the moon's rotation. Over time, the rotation was slowed enough that the moon's orbit and rotation matched , and the same face became tidally locked, forever pointed toward Earth. The moon is not the only satellite to suffer friction with its parent planet. Many other large moons in the solar system are tidally locked with their partner. Of the larger moons, only Saturn's moon Hyperion , which tumbles chaotically and interacts with other moons, is not tidally synchronized. The situation is not limited to large planets. The dwarf planet Pluto is tidally locked to its moon Charon, which is almost as large as the former planet. Earth (and other planets) do not escape completely unscathed. Just as the Earth exerts friction on the spin of the moon, the moon also exerts friction on the rotation of the Earth. As such, the length of day increases a few milliseconds every century . Related:" ]

[ "What is the Apollo program? A Apollo program The Apollo Program was a NASA spaceflight endeavor that landed the first humans on Earth's moon. Conceived during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower , Apollo began in earnest after US President John F. Kennedy announced his support for a manned moon landing on May 25, 1961, as part of a special address to a joint session of Congress: “ ... I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important in the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. ” Kennedy's goal was accomplished during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969 with the landing of astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, while Michael Collins orbited above. Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last in December 1972. In these six Apollo spaceflights twelve men walked on the Moon. These are the only times humans have landed on another celestial body . The Apollo Program ran from 1961 until 1975, and was the US civilian space agency's third human spaceflight program (following Mercury and Gemini). Apollo used Apollo spacecraft and Saturn launch vehicles, which were later used for the Skylab program and the joint American-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. These later programs are thus often considered to be part of the overall Apollo program. The program was accomplished with only two major setbacks. The first was the Apollo 1 launchpad fire that resulted in the deaths of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. The second was an explosion on Apollo 13 during the moonward leg of its journey, which badly damaged the spacecraft. The three astronauts aboard narrowly escaped with their lives, thanks to the efforts of flight controllers, project engineers, backup crew members and the skills of the astronauts themselves. Apollo set major milestones in human spaceflight. It stands alone in sending manned missions beyond low Earth orbit; Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to orbit another celestial body, while Apollo 17 marked the last moonwalk and the last manned mission beyond low Earth orbit. The program spurred advances in many areas of technology peripheral to rocketry and manned spaceflight, including avionics , telecommunications , and computers. Apollo sparked interest in many fields of engineering and left many physical facilities and machines developed for the program as landmarks. Many objects and artifacts from the program are on display at various locations throughout the world, notably at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museums. Background The Apollo program was conceived early in 1960, during the Eisenhower administration, as a follow-up to America's Mercury program. While the Mercury capsule could only support one astronaut on a limited earth orbital mission, the Apollo spacecraft was to be able to carry three astronauts on a circumlunar flight and perhaps even on a lunar landing. The program was named after the Greek god of light and music by NASA manager Abe Silverstein, who later said that \"I was naming the spacecraft like I'd name my baby.\" While NASA went ahead with planning for Apollo, funding for the program was far from certain, particularly given Eisenhower's equivocal attitude to manned spaceflight. In November 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected President after a campaign that promised American superiority over the Soviet Union in the fields of space exploration and missile defense. Using space exploration as a symbol of national prestige, he warned of a \"missile gap\" between the two nations, pledging to make the U.S. not \"first but, first and, first if, but first period.\" Despite Kennedy's rhetoric, he did not immediately come to a decision on the status of the Apollo program once he was elected President. He knew little about the technical details of the space program, and was put off by the" ]

[ "Wawrinka swept past Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta, the world number 23, 6-3 6-2 in Saturday's opening semi-final.\nFederer, the 18-time Grand Slam singles winner, who has won the event four times, had few problems joining him in the decider.\nThe world number 10 defeated the American world number 18 Jack Sock 6-1 7-6 (7-4).\nFederer came into the match after his scheduled quarter-final opponent Nick Kyrgios pulled out because of illness, and he was imperious from the start.\nHe needed just 21 minutes to wrap up the first set, with Sock requiring treatment from the trainer midway through it.\nSock made more of a match of it in the second set but Federer always held the advantage and capitalised on some unforced errors from Sock in the tie-break to reach his seventh final in the Californian desert.\nWawrinka never faced a break point in his encounter with Carreno Busta, who was playing in his first ATP Masters 1000 semi-final.\nThree-time Grand Slam winner Wawrinka, 31, will be playing his first Indian Wells final, having lost in last year's semi-finals.\nThe Swiss pair have met 22 times over their careers with Wawrinka only winning three times, and never on a hard court." ]

[ "World number two Murray, the 2013 champion, has reached the finals of the Australian and French Opens this year.\nKonta has had a rapid rise to world number 18, having been 47th at the end of last season.\nThe 25-year-old achieved her best result by reaching this year's Australian Open semi-finals.\nKonta, born in Sydney, Australia, is the first British female to be seeded at Wimbledon since Jo Durie in 1984.\nSix-time singles champion and 2015 winner Serena Williams is the top seed in the women's competition and Novak Djokovic, who is going for a third successive title, is the number one men's player.\nMurray, beaten by Djokovic in the two Grand Slam finals of this year so far, would not meet the Serb until the final at Wimbledon as they are in opposite sides of the draw.\nSwiss Stan Wawrinka moves up to fourth in the absence of the injured Rafael Nadal.\nFrenchman Richard Gasquet, a quarter-finalist at Queen's club this month, jumps from a world ranking of 10 to a seeding of seven as the men's seedings take into account recent grass-court form.\nIn the men's doubles, Briton Jamie Murray and his Brazilian partner Bruno Soares, who won the 2016 Australian Open together, are seeded third. Another Briton Dominic Inglot and Canada's Daniel Nestor are seeded ninth.\nBBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller\nMurray is seeded to play either Roger Federer or Stan Wawrinka in the semi-finals, but some of the changes could make life trickier for the top four in earlier rounds.\nRichard Gasquet is now a potential quarter-final opponent, and Nick Kyrgios's jump from a ranking of 18 to a seeding of 15 means he is now projected to play one of the top four in the fourth round.\nBeing one place outside the top 16 does mean Konta is seeded to face a slightly higher ranked opponent in the third round, but she would be protected from the very top seeds until at least the fourth round.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nSubscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.", "Spaniard Nadal, 30, is fifth in the latest ATP standings, with 35-year-old Swiss Federer two places lower.\nSerbia's Novak Djokovic tops the list, ahead of Briton Andy Murray and Federer's compatriot Stan Wawrinka, with Japan's Kei Nishikori in fourth.\nBriton Johanna Konta is in the women's top 10 for the first time.\nThe 25-year-old climbs to ninth after reaching the final of the China Open, in which she was beaten by Agnieszka Radwanska.\nNadal, who won the most recent of his 14 Grand Slams in 2014, has claimed two titles this year - in Barcelona and Monte Carlo.\nFederer, a 17-time Grand Slam winner, has been out with a knee injury since Wimbledon, where he was knocked out in the semi-finals by Canada's Milos Raonic.\nATP rankings:\n1 Novak Djokovic (Ser) 13,540 points\n2 Andy Murray (GB) 9,845\n3 Stan Wawrinka (Swi) 5,910\n4 Kei Nishikori (Jpn) 4,740\n5 Rafael Nadal (Spa) 4,730\n6 Milos Raonic (Can) 4,690\n7 Roger Federer (Swi) 3,730\n8 Gael Monfils (Fra) 3,745\n9 Tomas Berdych (Cze) 3,470\n10 Dominic Thiem (Aut) 3,295", "The British world number one has not played since losing in the fourth round of the Australian Open five weeks ago.\nAlso in the Dubai draw is Roger Federer in his first tournament since winning his 18th Grand Slam title in Melbourne.\n\"I'm fine now, I've been training flat-out for the past few weeks,\" 29-year-old Murray said.\n\"I was a bit sick for 10 days, a couple of weeks, after I got back from Australia.\n\"I feel fresh and ready to go here. I had shingles. It's not terrible, but it's not great. I had to go easy for a little while, so I wasn't able to push that hard in training when I got back into it.\"\nMurray, who lost in four sets to unseeded Mischa Zverev at the Australian Open, said he was not sure if the illness had started developing while he was playing in Melbourne.\nMurray is the top seed in Dubai and faces Tunisian world number 47 Malek Jaziri in the first round, while Federer is in action on Monday against Frenchman Benoit Paire, ranked 41.\nUS Open champion Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland is seeded second and takes on Bosnia's Damir Dzumhur in the first round.\nBriton Dan Evans, up to a career-high ranking of 44 after reaching the last 16 in Melbourne, faces Germany's Dustin Brown in round one.\nMurray plays on day one in the doubles, partnering Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic against Evans and Gilles Muller of Luxembourg.", "The 35-year-old former world number one came into the tournament seeded 17th after six months out through injury.\nBut the Swiss was in destructive form against Czech Berdych and needed only one hour 32 minutes to win 6-2 6-4 6-4.\nFederer will now face world number five Kei Nishikori, with the winner of that match potentially meeting Andy Murray in the quarter-finals.\nWorld number one and five-time Melbourne finalist Murray beat Sam Querrey 6-4 6-2 6-4 earlier on Friday and will face Germany's Mischa Zverev in the fourth round.\nNishikori progressed with a 6-4 6-4 6-4 win against Lukas Lacko from Slovakia.\nFormer Australian Open winner Stan Wawrinka, the reigning US Open champion, also reached the last 16 with a 3-6 6-2 6-2 7-6 (9-7) victory over Serbia's Viktor Troicki.\nThe Swiss, a potential semi-final opponent for Murray, will play Andreas Seppi next after the Italian beat Belgian Steve Darcis 4-6 6-4 7-6 (7-1) 7-6 (7-2).\nFind out how to get into tennis in our special guide.\nFederer had only dropped one set in his victories over Jurgen Melzer and Noah Rubin, but Berdych was considered his first real test since his return from a knee injury.\nHowever, the 17-time Grand Slam winner looked back to his best and never faced a break point in the Rod Laver Arena.\nHe took 27 minutes to win the first set, in which Berdych could only land 41% of his first serves, and hit a total of 40 winners on his way to victory.\n\"I didn't expect it to go this well,\" said Federer. \"I am happy it went as well as it did, happy to continue my run here even though I struggled in the early rounds. Today was great and I surprised myself.\"\nWhen asked how he feels about playing Nishikori in the fourth round, he said: \"I guess I am ready now.\n\"I like Kei, I have always been a fan of his game, he is a nice kid, had a great few seasons. I have got my work cut out.\"", "The Scot, 28, is aiming to win his first title in Melbourne, having lost four finals, including last year to Novak Djokovic.\nAljaz Bedene faces the USA's Steve Johnson, while in the women's draw, Britain's Johanna Konta and Heather Watson take on American Venus Williams and Hungary's Timea Babos respectively.\nThe tournament runs from 18-31 January.\nSee the full Australian Open draws here.\nMurray, seeded second and chasing a third Grand Slam title, was drawn in the same half as Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka and Spain's Rafael Nadal, meaning he could meet either player in the semi-finals.\nThe Scot has never played 18-year-old Zverev, who is ranked 83rd in the world.\nBedene's opponent, Johnson, is seeded 31st, seven places higher than fellow Briton Kyle Edmund's first-round opponent, Damir Dzumhur of Bosnia-Herzegovina.\nLast year's men's champion and world number one Djokovic starts against Hyeon Chung of South Korea, while Swiss number two seed Roger Federer begins his quest for a fifth Australian Open victory and 18th Grand Slam title against Georgia's Nikoloz Basilashvili.\nDefending women's champion Serena Williams and number five-ranked Maria Sharapova were drawn into the same section of the draw, meaning last year's finalists could meet in the quarter-finals.\nSix-time champion Williams has a tough draw starting in the opening round against Camila Giorgi of Italy, who finished 2015 at number 34 in the world and is the highest-ranked unseeded player for the season's first major.\nWilliams could also meet former world number one Caroline Wozniacki in the fourth round.", "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe 35-year-old reached the last four in Melbourne for a 13th time with a 6-1 7-5 6-2 win over Zverev, who upset world number one Andy Murray on Sunday.\nFederer, seeded 17th as he seeks an 18th Grand Slam title, faces compatriot Stan Wawrinka in the last four.\nFourth seed Wawrinka beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6 (7-2) 6-4 6-2.\nWawrinka won his first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open in 2014.\nThe 31-year-old has since added victories at the French Open in 2015 and the US Open last September, and is rated by many as the favourite in Melbourne following surprise defeats for Murray and Novak Djokovic.\nFederer, playing his first competitive event since Wimbledon six months ago following a knee injury, brushed aside Zverev with the minimum of fuss.\nHe blitzed through the first set in just 19 minutes, and soon levelled in the second when he was broken by the world number 50.\nFederer won 23 of 32 points at the net (72%) as he reached his 41st Grand Slam semi-final.\n\"My expectation was not to play Stan Wawrinka in the semis. I thought maybe I could get to the fourth round or quarters - that's what I told the Swiss press,\" he said.\n\"For me to play against Stan I have to play aggressive, the more time I give him the better he is. I'm happy he's got this far but he doesn't need to go a step further - Stan knows I'm joking.\"\nFederer is the oldest men's singles semi-finalist at the tournament since Arthur Ashe in 1978, and the oldest at any Grand Slam since Jimmy Connors reached the 1991 US Open last four aged 39.\nWawrinka edged a tight opening set against Tsonga, with the pair exchanging words after the tie-break.\n\"What did you say? You're the one looking at me and talking to me. What are you looking for?\" Wawrinka said to Tsonga in French. \"Come on, let it go. Did I look at you once?\"\nIt appeared as though Tsonga was fighting back when he finally broke serve to lead 4-3 in the second set, but Wawrinka snuffed out the danger with two successive breaks for a two-set lead.\nAn early break was enough to give Wawrinka the final set and he closed out a straightforward win to reach an eighth Grand Slam semi-final.\nOn the possibility of facing friend and compatriot Federer, he said: \"Playing in a semi here is always special - I won my first Grand Slam here in front of amazing fans. If it's against Roger, I hope a few will cheer for me.\"\nAsked about the exchange after the first set, Tsonga replied: \"Sometimes it happens. We can talk during the game. Nothing special, yeah.\n\"We just spoke about things that I think is only between him and me, and that's it.\"\nWawrinka added: \"You can have some tension during the match between players. Sometimes it can happen. Most important is that after the match it's all good.\"", "Seventh seed Dimitrov saved a set point in the opener on his way to a 7-6 (9-7) 6-2 win over the Canadian world number three.\nThe world number 17 will face Japan's third seed Kei Nishikori in the final.\nWorld number five Nishikori beat US Open champion Stan Wawrinka 7-6 (7-3) 6-3 in the first semi-final.\nSwiss Wawrinka had knocked out British number two Kyle Edmund in the quarter-finals.\n\"Nishikori is one of the trickiest players out there,\" Dimitrov said after his win. \"He has a tremendous fighting spirit. He has quite a few weapons if you think about it.\"\nThe Brisbane international is a warm-up event for the Australian Open, which begins on 16 January.", "Media playback is not supported on this device\nSeventeen-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer did not face a single break point as he beat Frenchman Gasquet 6-3 6-3 6-1 in just 87 minutes.\nWawrinka made almost as short work of Andy Murray's conqueror Kevin Anderson, beating the South African 6-4 6-4 6-0.\nTop seed Novak Djokovic will face holder Marin Cilic in the other semi.\nFederer has won 16 of his 19 meetings with compatriot Wawrinka, but lost the most recent in this year's French Open quarter-finals and found his wife's courtside conduct called into question after a bad-tempered encounter at last year's World Tour Finals in London.\nHowever, he said he was relishing the chance to meet his friend and Davis Cup team-mate in the last four.\n\"Stan played a wonderful match against me in Paris,\" he said.\n\"He can consistently bring the power on forehand, backhand, and serve out almost anybody when he gets hot.\n\"It is cool for us to have two Swiss in the semi-finals.\"\nAnderson's win over Murray in the previous round was built on relentless aggression off the ground as well as his powerful serve, but he could not replicate those tactics against Wawrinka.\nAnderson hit less than half the number of aces and less than a third of the number of winners that he managed against Murray.\nBy contrast, Wawrinka put together his most impressive performance of the tournament after making relatively heavy weather of beating Albert Ramos-Vinolas and Hyeon Chung in the opening rounds.\n\"Stan didn't make it easy,\" Anderson said.\n\"He was taking time away from me. He was swinging out and I was just a step slow.\"\nWhile Wawrinka said his relationship with Federer off the court was still good, he added his countryman's demeanour on court had been changed by their increasingly competitive meetings.\n\"Before it was only me,\" Wawrinka said. \"I was nervous because I knew I wasn't at his level, for sure.\n\"Now I think we can see that he was also nervous every time we play each other the past few years. That's a big difference, because that shows how much he knows that I can play at his level.\"\n\"Seeing all those big serves coming down meant I felt I had more time. \" Roger Federer says everything seems easier on return when compared to playing John Isner in the last round.\n\"I needed a shirt change after the fifth game the other night. Don't think Roger changed his shirt all match.\" John Isner returns the compliment on Twitter.\n\"Hopefully nine to 10 hours.\" As well as clocking up time on the practice court, Federer advocates getting some serious sleeping done to reach the top.", "Murray was drawn in the same quarter as Roger Federer - meaning the pair could face each other in the last eight.\nMurray is chasing a fourth Grand Slam title of his career and his first in Melbourne, where he has reached the final five times.\nBritain's word number 10 Johanna Konta will face Kirsten Flipkens from Belgium.\nKonta's draw places her in the same quarter as Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova and American champion Serena Williams.\nDefending champion Novak Djokovic will be aiming for a record seventh Australian Open title with a first round match against Fernando Verdasco.\nIf Murray can safely find a way through his first ever week as a top seed at a Grand Slam, then he may have the chance to avenge last year's US Open quarter-final defeat to Kei Nishikori.\nBut Roger Federer may have something to say about that. Now seeded 17, after six months out through injury, the 17-time Grand Slam champion is in Nishikori's section of the draw.\nAll the British men will face opening round opponents outside the world's top 50, but the women have a tougher draw.\nKirsten Flipkens brings the experience of a Wimbledon semi-final into her match with Johanna Konta, while Heather Watson and Naomi Broady must both face seeded Australians.\nSam Stosur has a very poor record in front of her home fans, however, which should give Watson cause for optimism.\nSpain's Verdasco knocked his compatriot Rafa Nadal out in the opening round last year, but went on to lose to Djokovic in their recent clash at the Qatar Open.\nNadal, seeded ninth, will play German Florian Mayer before a possible quarter-final against Canadian Milos Raonic.\nIn the women's draw, Williams is aiming for her 23rd grand professional slam title.\nHer first match will be against Swiss Belinda Bencic.\nDefending champion Angelique Kerber will play 61st-ranked Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko.\nWorld number one Kerber is aiming for her third Grand Slam win following her maiden US Open title last year.\nAt the Sydney International on Thursday, Konta had a 6-2 6-2 win over Eugenie Bouchard.", "Murray's compatriots Aljaz Bedene and Kyle Edmund will also face qualifiers, who are yet to be determined.\nJohanna Konta, Britain's top-ranked female player, will start her campaign against German Julia Goerges.\nFellow Britons Heather Watson, Laura Robson and Naomi Broady will face Nicole Gibbs, Andrea Petkovic and Coco Vandeweghe respectively.\nRobson, in particular, faces a tough challenge as Petkovic is a former semi-finalist at the clay-court tournament, which begins on Sunday, 22 May.\nDefending women's champion Serena Williams, who will start against Magdalena Rybarikova, is in the same half of the draw as Angelique Kerber and Victoria Azarenka, the third and fifth seeds respectively.\nMurray, 29, is in the same half of the draw as reigning champion Stan Wawrinka, with world number one Novak Djokovic and nine-time winner Rafael Nadal in the opposite half.\nHaving reached three semi-finals in Paris, Murray goes into this year's tournament having beaten Djokovic in the final of the Italian Open earlier this month.\nIn the previous tournament, the Scot beat Nadal as he reached the Madrid Open final, where he was beaten by Djokovic.\n\"There's a lot of guys coming back that will be feeling good about their chances,\" Murray told the French Open website.\n\"I hope I can have a good run and get some good work done in the next few days to get ready.\"\nThe French Open is the only Grand Slam Djokovic, who lost in the final to Wawrinka last year, is yet to win and he is attempting to become the first man since 1969 to hold all four majors at the same time.\nThe Serb will play Lu Yen-hsun in round one, while Nadal will play Australian Sam Groth. Wawrinka will begin his title defence against Lukas Rosol.\nRoger Federer has withdrawn after failing to recover from a back injury, while Frenchman Gael Monfils has pulled out because of a viral infection.\nBBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller:\n\"It seemed very much in Nadal's interests to be promoted to fourth seed after Roger Federer's withdrawal, but he has ended up with the toughest draw of the three most in-form players.\n\"He may need to beat both Dominic Thiem and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga before even thinking about a semi-final with Djokovic.\n\"Murray will be pleased to be in the other half of the draw - but less delighted with the prospect of meeting Kei Nishikori in the quarter-finals.\n\"None of the four British women have terrifying draws, but each of their opponents can be very dangerous on their day. And Serena Williams may have to beat Ana Ivanovic, Victoria Azarenka and Angelique Kerber just to reach the final.\"\nWe've launched a new BBC Sport newsletter ahead of the Euros and Olympics, bringing all the best stories, features and video right to your inbox. You can sign up here.", "The 30-year-old Scot, who won the tournament for a second time last year, faces Kazakhstan's world number 134 on Centre Court at 13:00 BST.\nSeven-time champion Roger Federer faces Ukraine's Alexandr Dolgopolov in his opening match.\nBritish number one Johanna Konta, seeded sixth, plays Hsieh Su-wei in the first round on Monday.\nDefending champion Murray pulled out of his final warm-up match before Wimbledon because of a sore hip, but was training at the All England Club on Friday.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nBublik earned his place at Wimbledon as a lucky loser - a player who lost in the final round of qualifying but comes into the draw as someone else has pulled out through injury.\nIt will be the first time Murray has played the 20-year-old, who said he had the \"biggest luck of life\" in drawing the defending champion.\nKonta, who withdrew from her semi-final at Eastbourne with a back injury on Friday, will begin her Wimbledon campaign against Hsieh.\nThe 26-year-old was surprisingly beaten by the Taiwanese player in the French Open first round.\nDefending women's champion Serena Williams is absent as she awaits the birth of her first child.\nThe men's draw put Murray and fourth seed Rafael Nadal of Spain in the same half as potential semi-final opponents, with Swiss third seed Federer and second seed Novak Djokovic of Serbia together in the opposite half.\nWorld number one Murray will head into Wimbledon without a win on grass this year.\nMurray lost to world number 90 Jordan Thompson of Australia in the first round at Queen's Club, and then pulled out of two exhibition matches with a hip injury.\nIf he makes it through his first match, Murray will face German Dustin Brown or Portugal's Joao Sousa in round two, with Australian Nick Kyrgios potentially waiting in round four and Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland in the quarter-finals.\nFederer is seen by many as the favourite for the men's title after a stunning start to 2017 that included an 18th major title at the Australian Open, followed by back-to-back wins at Indian Wells and Miami.\nThe 35-year-old warmed up for Wimbledon with a record ninth victory in the grass-court event at Halle, Germany.\nThree-time champion Djokovic, who has struggled for form since losing in the third round last year, will play Slovakia's Martin Klizan in round one and could meet former US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro as early as round three.\nNadal is hopeful of a strong showing after several lean years at Wimbledon as he struggled with injuries.\nThe two-time winner, fresh from a record 10th French Open title, will play Australian John Millman in round one.\nIn the women's draw, top seed and last year's runner-up Angelique Kerber of Germany opens against a qualifier or lucky loser, as does Romanian second seed Simona Halep.\nCzech two-time champion Petra Kvitova, who returned last month following a knife attack, plays Sweden's Johanna Larsson.\nBelarusian Victoria Azarenka returns to a Grand Slam for the first time since giving birth to her son Leo, and plays American teenager Cici Bellis, while five-time champion Venus Williams of the US takes on Belgian Elise Mertens.\nThere are 12 British players in the singles draws - seven of them wildcards, four there through their rankings, and Alex Ward - the world number 855 - having come through qualifying.\nThe 27-year-old from Northampton, who slipped down the rankings last year after six months out with a wrist injury, will play British number two Kyle Edmund.\nBritish number four Aljaz Bedene plays Croatia's Ivo Karlovic.\nAmong the wildcards, Cameron Norrie will face France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, James Ward plays Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus, Brydan Klein plays Yuchi Sugita of Japan.\nKatie Boulter takes on American Christina McHale, Naomi Broady will face Romania's Irina-Camelia Begu, Laura Robson plays Brazil's Beatriz Haddad Maia, and Heather Watson is up against Ukraine's Maryna Zanevska.\nBBC Sport tennis correspondent Russell Fuller:\nAndy Murray is in the same half of the draw as Rafael Nadal and could play Stan Wawrinka in the quarter-finals, but that seems a long way away given the soreness he has been feeling in his hip.\nDustin Brown and Nick Kyrgios - two players to have beaten Nadal here in recent years - are potential second and fourth round opponents.\nAll five British women have avoided top 50 players in the opening round.\nIf Johanna Konta can beat Hsieh Su-wei she could face Donna Vekic, who beat her in the Nottingham final, in the second round and possibly Petra Kvitova in the last 16.", "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe Serb, 27, won 6-2 6-2 to extend his unbeaten run indoors to 30 matches stretching back to 2012.\nHe tops Group A in London with three wins and will play Kei Nishikori in the semi-finals on Saturday.\nStan Wawrinka will play Roger Federer in the second semi as he won the three games required against Marin Cilic.\nWawrinka, the Australian Open champion, took only 13 minutes to move 3-1 ahead and so ensure he could not be overtaken by Cilic in any of the qualification scenarios.\nThe Swiss number two went on to win 6-3 4-6 6-3 and return to the last four after his debut appearance 12 months ago.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nCzech player Berdych, 29, suffered a 17th defeat in 19 matches against Djokovic but made more of a mark than in their last meeting, when he trailed 6-0 5-0 in Beijing last month before grabbing two games.\nA similar drubbing appeared on the cards when the Serb raced into a 4-0 lead with two breaks of serve.\nAfter a week of one-sided matches at the O2 Arena there was relief all around when Berdych recovered from 15-30 to get on the scoreboard in game five, but it was hardly a signal of intent.\nDjokovic continued to dominate, rolling through the first set in 31 minutes and making it five games in a row as he moved 4-0 clear in the second.\nBerdych slowed the two-time champion's progress sufficiently to take him past the hour mark, but Djokovic sealed victory after 69 minutes, and with it the end-of-season number one ranking for the third time in his career.\n\"Definitely one of the best,\" Djokovic said of his performance. \"Obviously I hoped I could continue the way I played in the first two matches.\n\"It's been a long year, a long season, it's an incredible achievement and I want to thank my team and my family and all the people who supported me.\n\"I'm aware that being number one in the world is the biggest challenge a tennis player can have. It's an incredible feeling and I'm very happy.\"\nMeanwhile, Wawrinka was left to look ahead to Saturday's second semi-final where he will face compatriot Federer.\n\"I hope I can get a little bit of support because I know people love him here. It's going to be tough for me, but I need to trust myself and go for it,\" said Wawrinka.\n\"It was a tough match tonight, it's never easy to play against Marin, he's been having an amazing year. It was not easy, trying to be aggressive. I was trying to serve and volley.\"", "Media playback is not supported on this device\nKonta, 25, arrives at SW19 as the 16th seed after reaching the Australian Open semi-finals in January and will face Puerto Rico's Monica Puig.\nWorld number two Murray, 29, meanwhile, faces another Brit in 22-year-old Liam Broady - ranked 235th in the world.\nBritain's world number 772 Marcus Willis stole the headlines on day one, setting up a tie with Roger Federer.\nMurray's meeting with Broady, who has been seen hitting with high-profile names such as Milos Raonic and the Canadian's coach John McEnroe this week, will take place on Centre Court after defending champion Serena Williams opens day two against Swiss Amra Sadikovic at 13:00 BST.\n\"It's an opportunity for him to play on one of the biggest courts in the world with a huge audience and try to cause an upset,\" said Murray, champion in 2013.\nThere will be added scrutiny of world number two Murray as he embarks on his first Grand Slam since reuniting with coach Ivan Lendl, who formed part of his camp when he won his two majors.\nFresh from becoming the first British woman to reach the semi-finals of Eastbourne's Aegon International since 1976, Britain's highest ranked woman Konta faces Puig, whose appearance in the last four at Eastbourne was her second grass-court semi-final of the summer.\nThey will follow Stan Wawrinka and Taylor Fritz on Court One.\nIn all there are seven British players in action on day two.\nWildcard Katie Swan, 17, will hope to upset Hungarian Timea Babos, Heather Watson takes on Germany's Annika Beck (around 17:00 BST), Tara Moore plays Belgian Alison van Uytvanck, and British men's number two Aljaz Bedene faces French seventh seed Richard Gasquet (11:30 BST).\nAway from the home interest, Swiss fourth seed Stan Wawrinka plays American 18-year-old Taylor Fritz, while Australian 15th seed Nick Kyrgios faces a fascinating contest against 37-year-old Czech Radek Stepanek.\nIn the women's draw, third seed Agnieszka Radwanska plays Ukraine's Kateryna Kozlova and two-time former champion Petra Kvitova faces Romanian Sorana Cirstea.\nQualifier Willis stunned world number 54 Ricardas Berankis, to become the lowest-ranked player to reach round two since 1998, where he will earn £50,000, having won £220 all year.\nWillis, 25, faces seven-time champion Federer, who beat Guido Pella.\nDan Evans overcame Jan-Lennard Struff in four sets and Britain is guaranteed three men in round two as Murray faces Broady.\nDefending champion Novak Djokovic - seeking a calendar Grand Slam having already won the Australian and French Open titles this year - produced 21 unforced errors but was in no mood for an upset as he overcame Britain's James Ward in straight sets on Centre Court.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nThe Serb has not lost at a Grand Slam since his defeat by Wawrinka in last year's French Open final, a run of 29 matches.\nSouth African Kevin Anderson, seeded 20, and Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber, seeded 21, were the best-ranked players to go out on day one.\nThere were also wins for David Ferrer, Marin Cilic and David Goffin in Djokovic's half of the draw, while sixth seed Milos Ranoic served 27 aces to advance in straight sets.\nFifth seed Kei Nishikori faced a 142mph serve - the fastest of day one - from Australian Sam Groth but won through 6-4 6-3 7-5.\nFrench Open champion Garbine Muguruza provided an early show of grit on day one as she faced a tough test against Italy's Camila Giorgi before progressing 6-2 5-7 6-4.\nThe number two seed is in the same half of the draw as five-time champion Venus Williams, who equalled Amy Frazier's record of appearing in 71 Grand Slams as she overcame Croatia's Donna Vekic in straight sets.\nWilliams, 36, has not won a Grand Slam singles title since 2008 - in which time her sister Serena has secured 13.\nThe 2008 French Open champion Ana Ivanovic was the first notable scalp in the ladies' draw, citing an injured wrist after defeat by 21-year-old qualifier Ekaterina Alexandrova, who hit 19 winners.\nGermany's Sabine Lisicki, a finalist in 2013, blasted nine aces - including three in a 52-second opening game - to beat Poland's Magda Linette.", "World number one Murray last played in Indian Wells on 12 March, and will resume against Gilles Muller or Tommy Robredo on Wednesday.\n\"I would not be playing if I felt I was taking a risk,\" said the Scot.\nDjokovic, ranked second, said he \"feels great\" after coming back with a win in the Davis Cup last week.\nLike Murray, the Serb missed last month's Miami Masters with an elbow issue and will play his first clay-court match of the year when he takes on Frenchman Gilles Simon.\n\"It's normal for an athlete to go through [injury] ups and downs,\" said Djokovic, 29.\n\"I trust myself and the effort I put into my game. I have to believe I'll get the results I'm hoping for.\n\"All of my thoughts next week will be on this event. I won it in 2013 and 2015. I'm hoping this is the place to have a new start to the season.\"\nMurray returned to the court in an exhibition match against Roger Federer in Switzerland on 10 April, and has since been preparing on the Monte Carlo clay.\n\"When I started serving again, I had to progress very slowly, but in the last couple of days I've been serving pretty much close to the speed that I would normally,\" said Murray, 29.\n\"My elbow has reacted well, so I feel good about it.\n\"I will have had pretty much five days before my match of serving at the right speed, so I think it will be fine.\"\nMurray has a lot of points to defend as he looks to extend his time at the top of the rankings - he lost to Rafael Nadal in last year's Monte Carlo semis before reaching the final in Madrid, winning in Rome and finishing runner-up at the French Open.\nStan Wawrinka is seeded third in Monte Carlo, with nine-time champion Nadal seeded fourth.\nRoger Federer has chosen to skip the clay-court season until the French Open, which begins on 28 May.", "The pair will meet for the 46th time, with Nadal leading 23-22, in the first semi-final at 14:00 GMT.\n\"Against Novak, I know what I have to do,\" said fifth seed Nadal. \"But it's going to be very difficult to make it happen. It's a big challenge.\"\nRoger Federer plays fellow Swiss Stan Wawrinka in the second semi-final at 20:00 GMT at the O2 Arena.\nWawrinka knocked out Britain's Andy Murray by winning the final group match on Friday.\nDjokovic is two victories away from becoming the first man to win the season finale four times in a row.\nThe Serb, 28, has won seven of his past eight meetings with Nadal, including all three this year.\nAlthough Nadal has failed to reach the semi-finals of a major in an injury-plagued season, he won all three of his group matches this week, against Wawrinka, Murray and David Ferrer.\nDjokovic said: \"It's a fact that he's been playing better and he's been raising his level ever since the US Open.\n\"The first couple of matches he played here against Wawrinka and Murray showed that he feels more confident, shows that he's starting to miss less, serve efficiently, use his forehand much better. I know that - I've been watching.\"\nSpaniard Nadal, 29, has been feeling positive about his tennis in London and said he plans a long, hard off-season of practice, jokingly adding: \"I don't deserve a vacation this year.\"\nHe still faces a major task to oust Djokovic in an arena the Serb has made his own in recent years.\n\"I cannot go crazy,\" said Nadal. \"I cannot go on the court thinking that I have to do something that I cannot do.\n\"I know the surface is better for him than for me.\n\"I'm going to try to play my game. I'm going to try to play aggressive. I'm going to try to be strong mentally.\"", "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThey meet in the last round-robin match at 20:00 GMT, with the winner facing Roger Federer in the semi-finals.\nA victory would also guarantee Murray the year-end world number two ranking for the first time.\nWorld number one Novak Djokovic will play 14-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal in Saturday's other semi-final.\nMurray will travel to Belgium next week for Great Britain's first Davis Cup final since 1978, but he has yet to reach the London final in five previous attempts at the O2 Arena.\nThe Scot, 28, has the chance to reach his third semi-final but must recover from a poor performance against Nadal on Wednesday.\n\"Obviously I lost comfortably to Rafa and I could play him in a couple days' time and it could be a different story,\" said Murray.\n\"I'm trying to win every match that I play. I hope that's how all of the players view it.\"\nWawrinka lost to Nadal in his opening match but saw off David Ferrer on Wednesday.\nThe 30-year-old Swiss trails 8-6 in career meetings with Murray but they have not played since 2013, since when Wawrinka has won Grand Slam titles in Australia and earlier this year in France.\n\"We used to have some big battles in the past, some tough matches, three sets, four sets,\" Wawrinka said.\n\"It's going to be interesting how I'm going to play Friday, if I'm going to bring the positive game that I started to play on Wednesday, and also how he's going to be.\n\"He's having an amazing year, number two in the world and so dangerous indoors, especially at home. So we'll see.\"", "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe four-time champion in Melbourne is making his competitive return after last playing at Wimbledon in July.\nFederer beat Mischa Zverev 6-1 7-5 6-2 to set up Thursday's last-four match against fellow Swiss Stan Wawrinka.\n\"Feeling as good as I am, playing as good as I am, that's a huge surprise to me,\" said the 35-year-old.\n\"If someone would have told me I'd play in the semis against Stan, never would I have called that one.\n\"For Stan, yes, but not for me. I honestly didn't even know a few days ago that he was in my section of the draw or I'm in his section.\"\nFederer, who has not won a Grand Slam title since triumphing at Wimbledon in 2012, had been sidelined by a knee injury throughout the second half of last year and has slipped from third in the world to 17th.\nHe played in the non-ranking Hopman Cup in Perth earlier in January, but has come through 18 sets in Melbourne.\n\"I think winning back-to-back matches in best-of-five sets against quality, great players has surprised me most,\" he said.\n\"Really that's been for me the big question mark, if I could do that so early in my comeback.\n\"I felt I was always going to be dangerous on any given day in a match situation. But obviously as the tournament would progress, maybe I would fade away with energy, you know, that kind of stuff.\"\nFederer holds an 18-3 winning record against Wawrinka, but the 31-year-old will go into the semi-final as the world number four and looking for a second consecutive Grand Slam title after last year's US Open success.\nFederer has won their past two meetings, at the ATP World Tour Finals and in the US Open in 2015, but Wawrinka holds a Grand Slam win against his Davis Cup team-mate, coming in the quarter-finals of the French Open in the same year.\n\"Against Roger, it's always special because he's so good. He's the best player of all time,\" said the three-time Grand Slam winner.\n\"He has an answer for everything. But I managed to beat him in a Grand Slam, so we'll see.\n\"It's great to see him back at that level. Hopefully I can manage to play a great match.\"\nAll of Wawrinka's three Grand Slam titles have come since Federer won his last five years ago.\nAnd Wawrinka's rise to becoming a consistent top-10 player did not come until he was aged 28, and after plenty of help from his fellow Swiss.\n\"I remember giving Stan a lot of advice on how he should play certain guys,\" said Federer.\n\"Then the day came where he didn't call me so much any more. He called me less and less.\n\"I also felt like I didn't tell him any more, because he created his knowledge, his base, had his team. Only from time to time would I give him advice if he asked me.\n\"Otherwise I was happy that he was able to let go and go on his own path.\"\nBritish Davis Cup captain Leon Smith on BBC Radio 5 live\nIt's a great match because Wawrinka wants to stay back and bludgeon the ball with huge swings and power.\nFederer's job, in the lively conditions, is to take time away from Wawrinka and not allow him to get into that rhythm. Federer has to come forward and test Wawrinka's passing shots a lot.\nThat's important because I don't think Stan's the best passer in the world. Roger will be able to come in a lot because Wawrinka does chip and block a lot of first-serve returns.\nThe way Federer is playing, even though he has missed six months of tennis, I think he's maybe the slight favourite from what I've seen.", "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe six-time champion wrestled control from his compatriot and came through 4-6 7-5 7-6 (8-6) in London.\nSecond seed Federer will take on world number one Novak Djokovic in Sunday's final - live on BBC Two at 18:00 GMT.\nWawrinka and Federer will team up next week as Switzerland try to win the Davis Cup in France.\nIt looked as though the 17-time Grand Slam champion would be heading to Lille first when his friend and team-mate moved within one point of victory four times.\nWawrinka, 29, served for victory at 5-4 in the decider but might regret choosing to serve-volley on three match points, missing a makeable backhand volley on the second.\nThe Australian Open champion earned a fourth match point in the decisive tie-break but could not return a good serve, and Federer made him pay with a nerveless drop volley on his first match point.\n\"I got lucky,\" said a clearly relieved Federer. \"Stan played better from the baseline and that usually does the job on this court. But I kept fighting.\n\"It's tough [on Stan] but I'm thrilled to be in another final in London.\"\nFederer's deft winner brought an end to the longest, and by far the most entertaining, match of the week at the O2 Arena at two hours and 48 minutes.\n\"The final is 6pm tomorrow, which is good it's not earlier than that, so at least it gives me the chance to sleep in in the morning,\" added Federer.\nFederer's deft winner brought an end to the longest, and by far the most entertaining match of the week, which kept the 17,000 spectators at the O2 Arena gripped throughout.\nThere was brilliant ball-striking from both men and controversy, as Federer argued with umpire Cedric Mourier after an over-rule in the third set which looked as if it had derailed his hopes.\nWawrinka began in spectacular fashion, breaking twice in the first set and holding off a resurgent Federer for 11 games in the second.\nWith a tie-break in sight, the pressure finally told and Federer broke to love thanks in part to a woeful Wawrinka smash that betrayed his nerves.\nFederer appeared to be on the charge, only to be knocked off course by a dispute with umpire Mourier.\nA Wawrinka backhand flew wide - later confirmed by Hawkeye - on the opening point of the final set, but Federer apparently did not hear Mourier over-rule his line judge.\nIt was only two points later, when Mourier announced the score was 0-40 and not 15-30, that Federer realised the situation and approached the chair.\nThere was nothing that could be done, however, and a flustered Federer hammered a forehand over the baseline to lose the game.\n\"I couldn't believe it that he wouldn't ask me more clearly because it was clearly a very close call,\" Federer said.\n\"I still don't know if it was in or out. I just don't quite understand how he cannot be louder.\"\nWawrinka still faced a considerable task to keep hold of his advantage all the way to the finish line but got within a point four times, only to fall agonisingly short of only a third win over his illustrious compatriot in 17 attempts.\n\"A tough match like that, I think there's only a few points that makes the difference,\" Wawrinka said.\n\"I was playing great tennis. I'm really happy with the way I was playing, but I had a big opportunity in the third set.\"", "The 28-year-old has played Kyrgios twice in Grand Slams this year, winning in straight sets at both the Australian and French Opens.\nWorld number 37 Kyrgios, 20, was fined $10,000 this month for an \"insulting remark\" to Stan Wawrinka.\nTop seed Novak Djokovic takes on Joao Souza of Brazil in New York.\nWomen's defending champion Serena Williams, who is aiming to complete a calendar Grand Slam, will play Russian Vitalia Diatchenko, while men's defending champion Marin Cilic will face a qualifier.\nMurray could face French Open champion Wawrinka in the quarter-finals and second seed Roger Federer in the semis.\nIt is arguably the toughest possible first-round draw, it is certainly the most high-profile - Kyrgios will bring plenty of baggage on court against Murray, along with his powerful game.\nThe Australian, just outside the seedings, is playing under a suspended 28-day ban and $25,000 (£16,200) fine as his behaviour is closely monitored following the comments to Wawrinka.\nOn-court microphones picked up Kyrgios making a lewd suggestion about the Swiss player's girlfriend.\nThe incident made global headlines and has raised the Kyrgios profile to such an extent that it is likely his contest with Murray will be a night match.\nThe Australian's game, when firing on all cylinders, is good enough to have already seen off the likes of Federer and Nadal.\n\"Kyrgios has had a lot of trouble against Murray, who's able to defend against his game really well,\" said Darren Cahill, former coach to Andre Agassi, at Thursday's draw.\nTo add extra spice, if it were needed, Murray and Kyrgios are likely to meet again straight after the US Open when Britain face Australia in the Davis Cup semi-finals in Glasgow.\nThe main interest in the men's draw surrounded which side Murray would be on, and where eighth seed Rafael Nadal would land.\nThe Spaniard's slip down the rankings means he now lurks as a potential Grand Slam quarter-final opponent for his established rivals, this time Djokovic.\nNadal will need to get past Croatian teenager Borna Coric in the first round, with the 18-year-old having won their only previous meeting.\nIn-form second seed Federer plays world number 33 Leonardo Mayer in the first round, with Tomas Berdych a potential quarter-final opponent and Murray or Wawrinka in the semis.\nWorld number one Djokovic remains the favourite, despite defeats by Murray and Federer in recent weeks.\nWilliams has won her last 28 matches at the tennis majors - she needs seven more to make history as only the fourth woman to complete the calendar Grand Slam.\nThe American, 34, already holds all four major titles stretching back to last year's US Open, has 21 in total and has won the last three US Opens.\nHer last defeat at a Slam came against Alize Cornet at Wimbledon 2014.\nSloane Stephens, Madison Keys, her sister Venus and Maria Sharapova are potentially standing in the way this time, with Simona Halep seeded to be waiting in the final.\n\"I don't feel the pressure right now,\" Williams insisted. \"I'm really just here to perform and do the best I can.\"\nThe British contingent could yet be swelled with four players still going in qualifying, but those already in the main draw - and not named Murray - will be hoping to find some form.\nJames Ward, who opens against Brazil's 30th seed Thomaz Bellucci, broke into the top 100 for the first time over the summer but has lost his last eight matches.\nBritish number two Aljaz Bedene, 26, plays Latvia's 2014 French Open semi-finalist Ernests Gulbis.\nSince taking Williams to the brink at Wimbledon, Heather Watson lost early in Washington and Cincinnati, with a decent run in Toronto in between. The world number 61 plays American Lauren Davis in round one.\nLaura Robson, the former British number one, has won just two of her eight matches since returning from a serious wrist injury in June.\nHowever, there were encouraging signs last time out in defeat by Christina McHale and she will not be without hope against world number 110 Elena Vesnina.", "The 30-year-old Scot flew to New York on Friday to prepare for the event.\nMurray will drop to number two in the world rankings behind Rafael Nadal on Monday, and has not played any competitive tennis since his Wimbledon quarter-final defeat to Sam Querrey.\nHe pulled out of recent tournaments in Montreal and Cincinnati due to the ongoing hip complaint.\nThe Scot will be seeded second at the US Open - which he won in 2012 - behind former champion Nadal.\nThe three-time major winner will be looking to improve on his quarter-final defeat to Kei Nishikori 12 months ago at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre.\nBehind Nadal and Murray, Roger Federer and Germany's Alexander Zverev are seeded third and fourth respectively, but defending champion Stan Wawrinka withdrew due to a knee injury that will keep him out for the rest of the season.", "The Swiss eighth seed played magnificently in a 4-6 6-4 6-3 6-4 victory at Roland Garros.\nWawrinka, 30, brought an end to Djokovic's 28-match winning streak as he claimed his second Grand Slam title.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nDjokovic had been hoping to become the eighth man to complete the set of all four major titles.\nBut the Serb will have to wait at least another 12 months before attempting to match the full set of major titles collected by Andre Agassi, Don Budge, Roy Emerson, Roger Federer, Rod Laver, Rafael Nadal and Fred Perry.\nThe 28-year-old had been a strong favourite to finally get his hands on the Coupe des Mousquetaires after beating nine-time champion Rafael Nadal and third seed Andy Murray, but he was outplayed by Wawrinka.\n\"It was an incredible atmosphere on court and I felt emotion like I never have before,\" said Wawrinka.\n\"I would like to thank my coach Magnus Norman. You played in the final without winning but this victory is yours as well as mine.\"\nDjokovic was effusive in his praise for the new champion: \"There are things that are more important in life than victories and that is character and respect - Stan you are a great champion with big heart.\"\nTheir last four matches in Grand Slams had gone to five sets and this was every bit as good in terms of quality, with Wawrinka hitting 60 winners as his aggression broke down the seemingly invincible Djokovic defence.\nThe victory makes him only the second Swiss to win at Roland Garros after Roger Federer, the man he beat in the quarter-finals.\nHaving lost the first set of the final following a poor service game at 3-3, Wawrinka came storming back with a barrage of winners that left Djokovic looking lost for a response.\nFour break points came and went in the second set before the fifth arrived in the shape of a set point, and Wawrinka finally converted to level the match.\nIt was merely a sign of things to come as the eighth seed tore into the Djokovic serve in the third, and despite seeing off three break points for 1-1, there was little the top seed could do four games later.\nA brilliant forehand winner was followed by an equally breathtaking backhand to earn three break points, and the first was converted as Wawrinka moved forward and hammered a short ball.\nThe crowd on Court Philippe Chatrier roared as the Swiss hit an outrageous winner around the net post on his way to securing the set.\nDjokovic was now facing a third French Open final defeat and he dug in, taking advantage of a lull at the opposite end of the court to fashion a 3-0 lead in the fourth.\nThe match was now on Wawrinka's racquet, however, and he came storming back to level at 3-3 after some brilliant defence earned him the break.\nDjokovic called on everything he had to stay in touch, finding two volleys - the second a lunging effort reminiscent of his coach Boris Becker - to save break points with the score level in the set.\nMoments later it looked as though Djokovic would force the fifth set that had seemed inevitable as he moved 0-40 up, but there was another burst of brilliance to come from Wawrinka.\nA volley, a backhand and a serve got him out of trouble, and he rode the wave of five successive points into the next game as two screaming backhand passes at 4-4 gave him the chance to serve out for the title.\nIt was never likely to be easy and, after a possible ace was overruled by the umpire on his first match point, the Swiss had to face a break point as Djokovic clung on to his career Slam hopes.\nThe Serb could only send a forehand wide under pressure, and given a second opportunity to take the championship, Wawrinka steered another of those trademark backhands down the line and raised his arms in triumph.", "World number three Murray had to play on to a second day after the contest was rained off at 4-4 on Tuesday.\nThe 28-year-old Scot went a break down in the second set but recovered and faces Gilles Muller of Luxembourg next.\n\"It was tricky conditions, very windy, completely different to yesterday. When the shadow came across it became hard to pick up the ball,\" said Murray.\n\"I lost my timing in the middle of the second set but came up with some good shots towards the end.\n\"I feel much better on the court. I am hitting my backhand better and it forced Tommy to slice the ball. Then I could dictate the points. It wasn't something I could do early on in the year.\"\nShould Murray reach the final in Montreal he will replace Swiss Roger Federer as number two in the world rankings. He last held the position - the highest of his career - in 2013.\nThird seed Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland went out after withdrawing with a back injury as he trailed Australian Nick Kyrgios in the third set.\nCroatian US Open champion Marin Cilic also lost, beaten 6-3 6-4 by Bernard Tomic of Australia.\nFourteenth-seed Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria was beaten 5-7 7-6 (7-5) 7-5 by unseeded American Jack Sock, who now plays top seed Novak Djokovic.\nSpanish seventh seed Rafael Nadal beat Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky 7-6 (7-4) 6-3, while fourth seed Kei Nishikori of Japan went through with a 6-3 6-3 win over Spain's Pablo Andujar.", "The Briton eventually won 2-6 7-5 7-5 in two hours and 33 minutes against the 26-year-old Frenchman, who served for the match in the final set.\nMurray, 28, will face Canadian Milos Raonic in the last eight.\nRoger Federer, eight-time champion Rafael Nadal and 2014 winner Stan Wawrinka are also through.\n\"Hopefully I can start to play a little bit better,\" said Murray, who has already reached the doubles quarter-finals alongside fellow Briton Dominic Inglot.\n\"Every win is important right now at the start of the clay season to get a feel for what is going well and what isn't.\"\nMurray recovered from a seemingly hopeless position to earn a vital win as he looks to build some form heading into the French Open next month.\nSince returning to action following the birth of his daughter in February, the Scot had lost his second matches in Indian Wells and Miami last month - and looked on course for another early exit in Monte Carlo.\n\"He gave me an opportunity in the middle part of the second set when he started to make a few mistakes,\" added Murray.\n\"It still wasn't my best match, but I fought as hard as I could right to the end and managed to get the win based on that.\"\nPaire hit 47 winners, keeping Murray guessing with numerous drop shots as he forged into a commanding 6-2 3-0 lead.\nHowever, the Frenchman would end the match with 52 errors and having double-faulted when serving for the match, and on Murray's first match point.\nMurray steadied himself after struggling with his first serve in the early stages and edged through an unpredictable contest that saw 10 breaks of serve.\n\"I panicked,\" said Paire. \"It's the biggest disappointment of my career.\"\nMurray next faces Raonic in a rematch of their Australian Open semi-final, after the 10th seed beat qualifier Damir Dzumhur 6-3 4-6 7-6 (7-5).\nFifth seed Nadal saved 15 of 16 break points in the first set on his way to beating Austria's Thiem 7-5 6-3.\nThiem beat Nadal on clay in Buenos Aires earlier this year but the 22-year-old but could not repeat the feat as a host of opportunities slipped by.\nNadal will next play fourth seed Wawrinka, who saw off French 15th seed Gilles Simon 6-1 6-2, while third seed Federer beat Spanish 14th seed Roberto Bautista 6-2 6-4.\nNever want to miss the latest tennis news? You can now add this sport and all the other sports and teams you follow to your personalised My Sport home.", "Media playback is not supported on this device\nFourth seed Cilic beat 19-year-old American Stefan Kozlov 6-0 6-4.\n\"Serving well is they key on grass and I did that really well again today,\" said the 2012 champion, who is yet to face a break point.\nAmerican Querrey, the 2010 winner, beat Jordan Thompson - conqueror of Andy Murray - 7-5 (7-3) 3-6 6-3.\nBulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov, champion in 2014, is already through to the last eight, where he will face Russia's Daniil Medvedev.\nThe 19-year-old beat Australia's Thanasi Kokkinakis 6-2 6-2.\nSpain's Feliciano Lopez saw off Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 6-1 7-6 (7-4) in the remaining second-round contest.\nIn the doubles quarter-finals, third seeds Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares beat Ryan Harrison and Michael Venus 7-6 (7-1) 4-6 10-6.\nCroatia's Cilic, 28, is the highest seed left in the draw after Murray, Stan Wawrinka and Milos Raonic all lost on Tuesday.\n\"It happens quite often,\" said the former US Open champion.\n\"We are playing so many tournaments during the year and it's very rarely that all the top seeds are going through.\n\"So it's not easy, especially at a tournament like this where there's so many great players, great grass-court players.\n\"Considering also that it's one of the first weeks on grass, it's always very tricky.\"\nCilic has looked sharp in his opening two rounds and goes on to face American Donald Young for a place in the semi-finals.\nQuerrey ended the hopes of lucky loser Thompson, the Australian ranked 90 in the world who stunned five-time champion Murray.\n\"I don't feel like the win from seven years ago has any effect on how I play today,\" said Querrey, referring to his tournament win in 2010.\n\"That was fun to win, but seven years is a long time ago.\"\nFind out how to get into tennis in our special guide.\nKokkinakis, 21, had caused a major upset with his victory over Raonic on day two, but could not back up such a strong performance.\nThe Australian is ranked 698th following a succession of injuries and on Tuesday became the lowest-ranked player to beat a top-six opponent since 1994.\nMedvedev proved much tougher opposition, however, repeating his win over Kokkinakis in the Netherlands last week as he fired down 13 aces.\n\"I'm happy I managed to show a very solid game, I was serving amazing,\" said the Russian, ranked 60th.\nRoger Federer took another step towards a ninth Halle title and boosted his Wimbledon hopes with victory over Germany's Mischa Zverev.\nThe Swiss, 35, won 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 to reach the quarter-finals in Germany, and ensure he will be seeded at least fourth for Wimbledon next month.\nThat means he will avoid meeting Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic or Rafael Nadal before the semi-finals at the All England Club.\nFederer will play Germany's Florian Mayer in the last eight in Halle.", "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe 35-year-old will face Rafael Nadal on Sunday if the Spaniard beats Grigor Dimitrov in Friday's semi-final.\nThe Swiss, returning from a six-month lay-off to rest his left knee, last won a major at Wimbledon in 2012.\nHe is the oldest man to reach a Grand Slam final since Ken Rosewall did so at the 1974 US Open at the age of 39.\n\"I couldn't be happier right now,\" said Federer. \"I felt like everything happened so quickly at the end, I had to check the score.\n\"I never ever in my wildest dreams thought I'd come this far in Australia. It's beautiful, I'm so happy.\"\nFederer's extraordinary run in Melbourne had already seen him beat top-10 seeds Tomas Berdych and Kei Nishikori to reach the last four.\nSeeded 17th following his injury, Federer had an 18-3 record against the fourth seed and reigning US Open champion coming into the semi-final, but the two had never played a five-set match.\nBoth players needed medical treatment during a match of high intensity but it was the 17-time Grand Slam winner who finally prevailed after three hours and five minutes.\nFederer will now seek a fifth Australian Open title, and his first in Melbourne since 2010, when he plays in his 28th Grand Slam final and 100th Australian Open match on Sunday.\nWhat makes Federer's run to the final remarkable is the combination of being in the twilight of his career and not having played competitively since his Wimbledon semi-final exit last year.\nFederer missed the Olympic Games and the rest of the 2016 season to have \"more extensive rehabilitation\" on a knee injury suffered in February while he ran a bath for his twin daughters.\nHe played just seven tour events last year, leading to him dropping out of the world's top 10 for the first time in over 14 years.\nAfter beginning his comeback with victories against Britain's Dan Evans and France's Richard Gasquet in the Hopman Cup - a non-ranked event played in the first week of January - Federer played down his chances of going far in the Australian Open.\nBut, after reaching his first Slam final since the 2015 US Open, he finally spoke about the prospect of winning in Melbourne.\n\"I can really actually talk about playing a final - I've been dodging that bullet for a few rounds,\" he said.\n\"I'll leave it all out here in Australia and if I can't walk for five months that's OK.\"\nWawrinka noted how the tour and the fans had missed Federer, saying: \"Everyone wants even more to see him play, to see him win. He's flying on the court. He's playing amazing tennis. He's the best player ever.\"\nFormer world number one Federer started the match brightly and had three early break points before converting his first set point, on Wawrinka's serve, in the 12th game.\nWawrinka, the 2014 Australian Open champion, was broken for the second time at 2-3 in the second set as Federer maintained his impressive standards.\nClearly frustrated, the 31-year-old Wawrinka cracked his racquet in two over his left knee and, after the set, left the court with a trainer for treatment to his other knee.\nBut he came back superbly to win the third set in 26 minutes and break Federer in the ninth game of the fourth set to take the match to a decider.\nFederer went off for a lengthy medical timeout for treatment to his leg as the physical nature of the match started to tell.\nHe also came back fighting and broke Wawrinka in the sixth game when the US Open champion double-faulted on break point.\nThere was no let-up as Federer completed a stunning victory to the delight of the majority of fans in Rod Laver Arena.\nFederer explained why, after losing the fourth set, he left the arena to take his injury timeout.\n\"I have had a leg thing going on for a week and felt it from the second game on in the match,\" he said.\n\"If you go off the court, that means the treatment is further up the leg.\n\"I never take injury timeouts. Stan took his, so I thought people won't be mad - Stan won't be mad hopefully.\n\"You hope something works, and that the physio has some magic hands going on.\"\nIf 14-time major winner Nadal wins his semi-final the pair would contest their ninth Grand Slam final together and their first since the French Open in 2011, when Nadal won in four sets.\n\"Rafa has presented me with the biggest challenge in the game,\" Federer said when asked about the prospect.\n\"I'm his number one fan. His game is tremendous. He's an incredible competitor.\n\"I'm happy we had some epic battles over the years and of course it would be unreal to play here. I think both of us would never have thought we would be here playing in the finals.\"\nBBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller:\nAustralia Day was graced by two remarkable achievements by two remarkable players in their mid-thirties.\nOne, Roger Federer, has spent six months out of the game after knee surgery, and the other, Venus Williams, has lived for many years with an auto-immune disorder which causes fatigue and joint pain.\nFederer had to win a deciding set against one of the toughest men on the block. The extraordinary defence he produced when Wawrinka hammered a forehand towards him on break point early in the fifth set turned out to be worth its weight in gold.\nYes, Mischa Zverev did him a favour by taking out Andy Murray, but Federer has now beaten Wawrinka, Nishikori and Berdych - with two of those matches going the distance.\nFind out how to get into tennis in our special guide.", "Nadal, 31, came through 6-2 6-3 6-1 against the Swiss third seed to claim his 15th major title.\nHe becomes the first man or woman in the Open era to have won a Grand Slam tournament 10 times.\nWawrinka, 32, was beaten in a major final for the first time after winning his first three.\nNadal moves above Pete Sampras on the list of all-time Grand Slam winners into second place behind Roger Federer, who beat the Spaniard to win his 18th at the Australian Open in January.\nOnly Australia's Margaret Court has more victories at a single Grand Slam tournament, with 11 Australian Open wins between 1960 and 1973.\nThe Open era, when the Grand Slam tournaments allowed professional players to compete with amateurs, began in 1968.\nSecuring a 10th title in Paris - La Decima - further entrenches Nadal's place as the greatest clay-courter in history.\nThe Spaniard won the title for the loss of just 35 games over the course of seven matches, second only to six-time champion Bjorn Borg's 32 at the 1978 French Open.\nHe extended his record at Roland Garros to 79 wins and two losses since his first victory in 2005, the only defeats coming against Robin Soderling in 2009 and Novak Djokovic in 2015.\nMartina Navratilova won Wimbledon nine times, while Roger Federer and Pete Sampras are the only post-war players among a group of six men to have won a Grand Slam seven times.\nDespite a 15-3 career record against Wawrinka, and an imperious run to the final over the last two weeks, Nadal still had questions to answer heading into the final.\nHe responded in emphatic fashion, proving he was back to the kind of form that saw off all-comers in Paris for the best part of a decade.\nWawrinka's firepower off both forehand and backhand had seen off world number one Andy Murray in the semi-finals, but he could not dominate Nadal in the same way.\nThe Spaniard's relentless depth and power left Wawrinka trying for his spectacular winners from too wide and too deep, opening up the court for Nadal's forehand to deliver the decisive blows.\nA scrappy start from both men in hot conditions saw Wawrinka miss the first break point in game three, and fail to earn another.\nWhile the Swiss could not stop leaking errors, Nadal found his rhythm and began skipping around his backhand to fire off forehands, breaking serve at 4-2 and again to seal the set.\nFour winners and 17 errors from Wawrinka told its own story, and he found himself 3-0 down in the second as Nadal stretched his run to seven games in a row.\nWawrinka's frustration boiled over as he smashed his racquet on the clay - snapping it over his knee for good measure - moments before losing the second set.\nAnother fizzing forehand winner swept Nadal through to a love break of serve at the start of the third and the nine-time champion had too much experience to let such a commanding lead slip.\nThe Philippe Chatrier Court crowd did their best to haul Wawrinka back into the match but Nadal was now simply unstoppable, breaking serve twice more before collapsing in joy when the Swiss netted on the second match point.\nAnalysis from former Wimbledon champion Pat Cash on BBC Radio 5 live.\n\"I don't like to use the term 'greatest of all' but it's hard not to with this guy. It's just absolutely phenomenal.\n\"Rafa's style of play is so effective on clay, he's lightning fast and ruthlessly tough. He's got incredible power.\n\"He's got all the attributes you need to just go on and on. He's in the minds of his opponents. Even the greats are crumbling at his feet on this surface. They cannot even compete with him.\n\"The only two times he's lost here, he's been injured. He cannot be touched on this surface. It was an incredible performance.\"\nRafael Nadal, speaking on court, said: \"I play my best in all events but the feeling I have here is impossible to describe and you can't compare it.\n\"The nerves and adrenaline I feel on this court is impossible to compare. It's the most important event in my career.\"\nStan Wawrinka said: \"Rafa, I have nothing to say about today. You were too good.\n\"You are a great example and it's always been an honour to play against you. Congratulations on your career, to you and your team.\"", "The 34-year-old 17-times Grand Slam champion had the surgery in his native Switzerland to repair a torn meniscus.\nHe was injured the day after his four-set Australian Open semi-final defeat by Novak Djokovic last week.\nFederer, who won his most recent Grand Slam at Wimbledon in 2012, has pulled out of the World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam and the Dubai Championships.\nHe is the reigning champion in Dubai, having secured his seventh title there last March, and has won twice in Rotterdam.\n\"While this is an unfortunate setback, I feel grateful that up until now I have remained mostly healthy throughout my career,\" he said.\n\"My doctors have assured me the surgery was a success and, with proper rehabilitation, I will be able to return to the Tour soon.\"", "Murray will face the 19-year-old Russian, ranked 152nd in the world, on Wednesday from 09:30 GMT.\nFellow Briton Dan Evans will also be in action in Melbourne, against seventh seed Marin Cilic around 07:00 GMT.\n\"I've never hit with him or played against him, but I've seen him play and he goes for it,\" Murray said.\n\"I know a little bit about him and he doesn't hold back. He hits a big ball.''\nRublev is appearing in his second Grand Slam - he was knocked out in the first round of the US Open in 2015.\n\"I'm so excited, I have nothing to lose. He's the best tennis player at the moment. So I will just try to take a great experience from this,\" he said.\nMurray was left frustrated after his first round victory over Illya Marchenko, taking two hours and 48 minutes to register a three-set win.\n\"I have had a lot of tough losses here, for sure,'' said Murray, who has been beaten in the final in Melbourne five times in seven years.\n\"I have played some of my best tennis on hard courts here. But I keep coming back to try. I'll keep doing that until I'm done.''\nElsewhere, Roger Federer faces American Noah Rubin from 04:00, while fourth seed Stan Wawrinka will play Rubin's compatriot Steve Johnson.\nWorld number one Angelique Kerber plays Germany's Carina Witthoeft, while Serena and Venus Williams appear in the first round of the doubles, playing Hungary's Timea Babos and Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.\nGreat Britain's Davis Cup captain Leon Smith\nWe'll learn a lot more about Rublev in this match. He is a big-hitting player who goes after the shots and plays high-octane tennis.\nIt'll be good to see what this young man can bring but it's a very tough ask for someone of that age against Andy.\nIt's an environment that Andy really enjoys. You would expect him to get the job done, but he will study him and won't take anything for granted.", "Former champion Murray has never played Broady, the world number 234 who has received a wildcard to the tournament.\nFind out how to get into tennis in our special guide.\nCompatriot James Ward, also a wildcard, will play defending champion Novak Djokovic in his opening match.\nIn the women's singles, British number one Johanna Konta faces Puerto Rican Monica Puig, while Serena Williams will face a qualifier or lucky loser.\nSixteenth seed Konta, ranked 18th in the world, has met Puig once.\nThe Australian Open semi-finalist came from behind to win 4-6 6-4 7-6 at last year's grass-court tournament in Nottingham.\nBritish number two Heather Watson starts against Annika Beck and could then face top seed Williams in a repeat of last year's gripping third-round match, while Laura Robson has drawn Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber.\nRobson and Kerber have met three times, including at Wimbledon in 2011.\nThe Briton won in three sets then, but Kerber has triumphed in the other two matches, the most recent in Beijing in 2013.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nIn the men's draw, Murray is in the more favourable half and would only face Djokovic or third seed Roger Federer in the final.\nDjokovic and Federer are scheduled to meet in the semi-finals.\nIf Ward overcomes Djokovic in round one, he could play countryman Kyle Edmund in round two.\nEdmund takes on Frenchman Adrian Mannarino.\nThe highest seeds in Murray's half of the draw are Stan Wawrinka, Kei Nishikori and Richard Gasquet.\nFrenchman Gasquet, a semi-finalist last year, will play British number two Aljaz Bedene in his opening match.\nWomen's singles:\nNaomi Broady v Elina Svitolina (17)\nKatie Swan v Timea Babos\nTara Moore v Alison van Uytvanck\nMen's singles:\nDan Evans v Jan Lennard Struff\nBrydan Klein v Nicolas Mahut\nAlex Ward v David Goffin (11)\nBBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller:\nMurray won't be looking too far ahead - he was taken to five sets in his opening two matches at the French Open - but a fourth-round match with Nick Kyrgios on Centre Court could be fraught with danger.\nIt could be considered an advantage for Murray that Federer is in the other half of the draw with Djokovic, but the seven-time Wimbledon champion, 34, has played little tennis in recent months.\nRobson's draw suggests her recent luck is showing no sign of improvement, while Konta will have her work cut out to live up to her seeding.\nShe could face the 2014 runner-up Eugenie Bouchard in the second round and former Australian Open runner-up Dominika Cibulkova in round three.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device", "The Swiss triumphed 6-4 7-6 (15-13) for his ninth straight final win and his second title of the season.\nThe French Open champion, 30, saved five set points in a tense tie-break and won when a Baghdatis return went wide on a fourth match point.\nIt was Wawrinka's first time playing the tournament in eight years.\nHe had reached the final when Nick Kyrgios retired from their semi-final with a back injury.\nThat had been the first match between the pair since the infamous match in Montreal last August, when on-court microphones recorded Kyrgios making a lewd suggestion about Wawrinka's girlfriend.\nThe Australian, who later apologised for the remarks, was given a fine and a 28-day ban, suspended for six months by the ATP, which came to an end on Wednesday.", "The 21-year-old, seeded 15th, beat world number two Novak Djokovic in the previous round, but will not now face Australian Open champion Federer.\n\"At this stage we think it's food poisoning, and I'm praying it's nothing more,\" Kyrgios said in a statement.\nFederer, 35, goes on to face Jack Sock, who beat Japan's Kei Nishikori.\nThe American 17th seed upset fourth seed Nishikori 6-3 2-6 6-2 to reach his first Masters 1000 semi-final.\nThe Swiss star's match-up against in-form Kyrgios was much anticipated, and he sent his support to the Australian on Twitter, saying: \"Hope you feel better @NickKyrgios.\"\nKyrgios added: \"After a restless night of being sick I have nothing left and to play a great champion like Roger, I need to be at my best to have a chance.\"\n\"I don't take this decision lightly, these are the matches we train for but I'm in no fit state to take to the court. I'm sorry to the fans but I have to put my health first and I hope you understand.'\n\"I want to wish Roger the best of luck for the rest of the tournament and thank everyone for their support so far here at the BNP Paribas Open. I will definitely be back. Thank you.\"\nIn the women's semi-finals, Russian 14th seed Elena Vesnina beat French 28th seed Kristina Mladenovic 6-3 6-4, while Vesnina's compatriot, eighth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova, defeated Czech third seed Karolina Pliskova 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-2).\nKuznetsova, 31, last reached the Indian Wells final nine years ago and the two-time grand slam champion will aim to go one better this time around after defeat to Ana Ivanovic in 2008.\nMeanwhile, 30-year-old Vesnina will play her first final at this level after a confident semi-final performance.\n\"In tennis 30 is the new 20,\" she told BT Sport.\n\"They are just numbers, I am really enjoying myself, I feel good, I feel healthy and I love tennis.\"\nEighth seeds Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo are through to their first ATP World Tour Masters final as a pair after edging out fourth seeds Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares 3-6 7-5 10-5.\nBritain's Murray and Brazilian Soares, who sat first in the ATP Doubles rankings last year, started the stronger and took the first set before racing to a 2-4 lead in the second.\nYet a rallying performance from the Polish/Brazilian pairing of Kubot and Melo ensured they will face sixth seeds Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram in Saturday's final.", "The 17-time Grand Slam champion said he needs \"more extensive rehabilitation\" if he wants to prolong his career.\nFederer, 34, had knee surgery in February before missing May's French Open with a back problem.\nFederer said on his Facebook page he was \"extremely disappointed\" to not be representing Switzerland in Rio and it was \"tough\" to miss the rest of 2016.\n\"I am as motivated as ever and plan to put all my energy towards coming back strong, healthy and in shape to play attacking tennis in 2017,\" he added.\nFederer won doubles gold at Beijing in 2008, but has never won an Olympic singles title and lost to Britain's Andy Murray in the final at London 2012.\nFederer twice required treatment during a five-set semi-final defeat by Canada's Milos Raonic at Wimbledon this month, but found a \"silver lining\" in his injury-troubled year.\n\"This experience has made me realise how lucky I have been throughout my career with very few injuries,\" he said.\n\"The doctors advised that if I want to play on the ATP World Tour injury free for another few years, as I intend to do, I must give both my knee and body the proper time to fully recover.\"" ]

[ "There are many myths afoot about the movement to save Darfur. Chief among them in recent weeks is the rumor of its death. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, a longtime ally, has declared the movement to be fragmented by internal disagreement and dismissed by those in power. Alex de Waal, a leading self-critical voice among Sudan watchers, laments that it is archaic and unwilling to adapt its ways. Columbia University scholar Mahmood Mamdani, in a recent book on the subject, all but declared the Darfur movement a waste of time. Mamdani's distorted broadside notwithstanding, there are probably grains of truth to any thoughtful critique of the Darfur movement. It is far from perfect, and an accurate accounting of its strengths and weaknesses is long overdue. But such calls to declare defunct efforts to save the war-torn Sudanese region miss the point. Millions of activists around the world remain committed to the cause of peace in Sudan. It's just that no one is telling them that now is the moment they are needed most. There has never been a more critical time in Sudan's history than the present. This summer, Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is celebrating two decades of dictatorship, having come to power in a coup in 1989. During Bashir's tenure, Africa's largest country has steadily declined into a model failed state. Home to the 21st century's first genocide, Sudan now boasts more displaced persons than any country on Earth. According to the current issue of Foreign Policy, it is among the three countries in the world most at risk of total collapse. Bashir himself is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on seven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, torture, rape, and attacks against civilian populations. Even so, he looks set to win a national election next year. The following year, 2011, will bring a national referendum on the secession of Southern Sudan, which most experts expect to pass. This will split the country in two and render obsolete existing peace agreements, including the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement that was intended to end the country's 12-year civil war and set out the parameters for peace. All of this means the international community now faces an 18-month window in which to fix the whole mess. And originally, nobody seemed better equipped to do so than Barack Obama. As a U.S. senator and presidential candidate, Obama seemed particularly attuned to Sudan's urgent and tragic trajectory, calling it \"a stain on our souls.\" Joining him were Senate colleagues Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. During the campaign, Clinton was fond of demanding a \"more robust response.\" Biden was the most out front, at one point proclaiming he did not \"have the stomach for genocide when it comes to Darfur.\" But since taking office, the Obama administration has been slow to translate rhetoric into action. In fact, there now appears to be internal discord within the administration over how to best bring about cooperation from Khartoum, the hub from which Sudan's violence emanates. It seems that the president's special envoy to Sudan, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. J. Scott Gration, is taking a conciliatory line toward Bashir, going as far as to declare last month that what we now see in Sudan is the \"remnants of genocide.\" Just days earlier, Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, had said the opposite, accusing the Sudanese leadership of ongoing genocide in Darfur and citing the \"urgency and complexity of the overall situation.\" This kind of muddled interplay might normally be forgiven early in a new administration. In the case of Sudan, however, it plays directly into Bashir's hands. Since his March indictment by the ICC, Bashir has expertly capitalized on the lack of a focused, comprehensive effort by the international community to advance his strategy of delay, deny, divide, and detract. Enough is enough. If there is agreement on anything within the Darfur movement, it is that Obama must start living up to his promises of leading a bolder path forward in Sudan. Both Bashir's recent expulsion of humanitarian aid groups upon which millions depend for basic survival and the actions of his government to prevent the Mandate Darfur conference scheduled for last month, which was to bring together Sudanese civil society groups as part of the peace process, are unacceptable behaviors by any standard. Yet the United States and other countries remained nearly silent. It's time to start speaking up. The White House must begin shaping a new international road map that provides a framework for sustainable peace in Sudan. The road map should be grounded in existing commitments, including the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement and the various existing Darfur commitments. It must also set measurable milestones and hold accountable Khartoum for its decisions and actions. The way forward must include Sudan's key geopolitical partners, principally China and R" ]

[ "The Obama administration's new Sudan strategy signals an interest in reaching out to a regime that Washington has mostly tried to isolate during the past six years of conflict in the ravaged Darfur region of western Sudan. But in announcing the strategy on Monday, Obama used the term \"genocide\" to refer to the violence in Sudan and said that he would renew tough U.S. sanctions on Khartoum. \"If the government of Sudan acts to improve the situation on the ground and to advance peace, there will be incentives,\" Obama said. \"If it does not, then there will be increased pressure imposed by the United States and the international community.\" The results of the seven-month policy review suggest that the Obama administration is trying to change the dynamic in one of Africa's largest man-made humanitarian disasters by walking a fine line between engagement and punishment. The Darfur conflict has been going on for six years, and United Nations estimates suggest that as many as 300,000 people have died and some 2.7 million more have been driven from their homes there. The fighting began when ethnic African rebels took up arms against the Arab-dominated Sudanese government in 2003. U.S. officials declined to specify what kinds of incentives or additional sanctions might be on the table, but said they plan to regularly evaluate whether or not the Sudanese government is taking concrete steps toward ending the conflict in Darfur and to fight terrorism. \"This new strategy is not based on words,\" Obama's special envoy for Sudan, retired Maj. Gen. J. Scott Gration told NPR in an interview on All Things Considered on Monday. \"It's not based on agreements. It's based on positive, verifiable things we can see on the ground.\" The Obama administration also wants Sudan to fully implement the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended a two-decade civil war between north and south Sudan. The deal calls for a crucial referendum in 2011 in which southern Sudan will vote on the possibility of secession. Many human rights activists, who were worried that the Obama administration might be too conciliatory toward the government of Sudan, cautiously welcomed the new direction. \"There is an incredible disappointment on the part of those that expected the administration to come out from the early days and set a new tone,\" says John Prendergast, a Sudan expert who co-founded Enough, an anti-genocide activist group. \"What this policy statement does is get us heading back in the right direction.\" In a particularly significant shift from the Bush administration, the new Obama strategy makes it clear that cooperation on counterterrorism efforts by itself is not enough. \"It must be clear to all parties that Sudanese support for counterterrorism objectives is valued, but cannot be used as a bargaining chip to evade responsibilities in Darfur or in implementing the CPA,\" says a new strategy document released by the State Department. The Sudanese government tentatively welcomed the new strategic direction, with one official telling reporters in Khartoum that there are \"positive points.\" The official welcomed a policy of engagement, but said that it was \"unfortunate\" that the Obama administration continues to use the word \"genocide\" to refer to events in Darfur. One of the thorniest issues for the Obama administration is the question of war crimes, and particularly the status of Sudan's president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who was indicted by the International Criminal Court in March for war crimes and crimes against humanity. He has denied all charges, but remains in power. Some activists had feared that Gration would push for a softer line on Bashir in order to make progress on other issues. But the new policy does not appear to make any concession on Bashir's status. \"We must have accountability and justice as part of the solution,\" Gration told NPR. \"We understand that is the only way we can get a lasting peace.\" The shift on Sudan is also significant for what it says about Obama's interest in issues on the African continent. When he came into office, there was intense speculation that as the first African-American president, Obama would place a new emphasis on Africa, but other issues have dominated the first eight months of his presidency. Many activists are watching to see whether Obama will now take an active role in Sudan diplomacy. \"We need to see substantial personal involvement from President Obama,\" says Jerry Fowler, president of the activist group Save Darfur. \"His presidency is the game-changer here. His ability to influence is the game-changer here.\"", "Joshua Keating is an associate editor at Foreign Policy. George Clooney's \"anti-genocide paparazzi\" seems to be dominating nearly every transmission coming out of south Sudan this week. Clooney, along with the Enough Project, Harvard researchers, and some of his wealthier Hollywood friends, have hired satellites to monitor troop movements along the north-south border, particularly the oil-rich region of Abyei. Clooney, active for years in the Save Darfur movement, has also become something of a celebrity spokesperson for the independence referendum. Naturally, the international humanitarian blogosphere's snark brigade is out in force. Laurenist: \"If you're anything like George Clooney, you lounge around on your yacht off the coast of Italy thinking up ways to save Africa.\" Texas in Africa: \"While John Prendergast, George Clooney, and other advocates who don't speak a word of Arabic have been raising fears about violence for months … the likelihood that a genocide or war will break out immediately seems to me to be slim to none.\" Wronging Rights: \"Clooney has described it as 'the best use of his celebrity.' Kinda just seems like he's trying to recruit a mercenary for Ocean's Fourteen.\" Troubling as this morning's border violence is, there seems to be good reason for skepticism about the satellite project. The imagery the satellites provide isn't all that clear, showing about 8 square miles per computer-screen pixel, making it difficult to figure out just what's going on on the ground. That level of imprecision can be dangerous when trying to assign guilt or innocence in crimes against humanity. There's also the question of how much of a deterrent this type of monitoring really is. Laurenist again: In 2007, Amnesty International and the American Association for the Advancement of Science launched \"Eyes on Darfur,\" a satellite project that monitored developments on the ground in Darfur. As you'll recall, mere months later, Darfur was saved after millions of people updated their Facebook statuses with a link to blurry photos of sand. But what about Clooney's presence itself? The actor's use of the paparazzi and basketball as analogies for horrific human rights violations might be grating to those who study these issues seriously, but isn't it worthwhile to bring attention to an often overlooked conflict? Here's UN Dispatch's Mark Leon Goldberg: I know some people (cough, cough, Bill Easterly, cough, cough) have hangups about celebrity activism.  But does anyone really think that Sudan's upcoming referendum would be covered on a National Sunday morning broadcast without George Clooney's handsome face to greet viewers? (Interestingly, Bono-basher-in-chief William Easterly doesn't appear to have weighed in yet.) Clooney has his own words for the haters: \"I'm sick of it,\" he said. \"If your cynicism means you stand on the sidelines and throw stones, I'm fine, I can take it. I could give a damn what you think. We're trying to save some lives. If you're cynical enough not to understand that, then get off your ass and do something. If you're angry at me, go do it yourself. Find another cause -- I don't care. We're working, and we're going forward.\" This kind of \"at least I'm doing something\" rhetoric drives development scholars absolutely bonkers and for good reason. But for now at least, it's hard to see how Clooney's presence as a cheerleader is really hurting. Once the referendum is over however, I hope he heads back to Lake Como. In international negotiations, a certain degree of obscurity can often be just as helpful as the media spotlight. Making a new country is a messy business anywhere, and in Southern Sudan, it's going to involve some very ugly compromises. (I wonder, for instance, what Clooney thinks about the Southern Sudanese government expelling Darfuri rebels in what seemed to be a conciliatory gesture to Khartoum.) In the difficult weeks and months ahead, Southern Sudan will certainly need international help, but it should come from people with a slightly more extensive background in the situation. Most of all, it's probably not helpful for celebrities and the media to promote a narrative of the Juba government as the \"good Sudan.\" Even in the best-case scenario, it's bound to be shattered pretty quickly. In any event, the Southern Sudanese themselves seem pretty nonplussed about Danny Ocean's presence in their midst: \"Who is that man talking?\" a Sudanese journalist asked, gesturing to a white man with a group of reporters around him. When told it was George Clooney, a movie star, the Sudanese journalist looked confused and walked away.", "President Bush said Thursday that he will delay, if necessary, a planned trip to Africa to make sure Congress extends the law on government eavesdropping. But the trip has been long in the works — and part of his effort to tout the softer side of his foreign policy agenda. The president made clear Thursday that he isn't ignoring trouble spots on the continent. He says he will send Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Kenya to deal with the post-election violence there. But mainly his five-nation tour will highlight good news stories. This is clearly a trip about building a different sort of legacy for Bush. Before he spoke Thursday at the Smithsonian's Museum of African Art, his aides played a newly produced video touting PEPFAR — a $15 billion program to fight HIV/AIDS. The Africa trip is meant to highlight the administration's work on AIDS and Malaria. Bush's former speech writer Michael Gerson says the Bush years should be known for its soft power approach in Africa. \"Everyone on the continent knows the word PEPFAR, and that's something that no Americans know. So it has made a real difference. You know, America has image problems in the world, but right now we don't have huge image problems in Africa,\" Gerson says. There are disagreements in Congress over parts of the program — the emphasis on abstinence in fighting HIV/AIDS for instance — but overall, this is an area where the president does have bipartisan support. Democratic Sen. Joseph Biden wants to boost Bush's budget request for the program, which he says trumpets America's values and not just its power. \"The President's Emergency Action Program for HIV/AIDS has saved more than a million lives. It may be the greatest legacy this president leaves,\" Biden says. The president is also using the trip, and his speech Thursday, to talk about the Millennium Challenge Corporation — an initiative that pours money into countries that have a clear track record on good governance. \"America is serving as an investor, not a donor. We believe that countries can adopt the habits necessary to provide hope for their people,\" Bush said in the speech. \"That's what we believe, and we are willing to invest in leaders that are doing just that.\" He plans to meet some of those leaders on this trip — in Ghana and Benin — and will sign a $700 million aid deal with Tanzania's president when he's there. Tanzania just had a big shakeup after the prime minister and other officials had to resign in a corruption scandal. Nathaniel Heller of Global Integrity says this shows that Bush can't simply take a victory lap but must push for more change. Heller says it is too early to judge the Millenium Challenge Corporation initiative. \"Whether people like it or not, countries are, in practice, responding to what has been coined the MCC effect — basically a big, giant green carrot with lots of money hanging off of it — and they are undertaking reforms, sometimes some of the tough ones. So again, longer term, it could be very powerful,\" Heller says. The MCC was slow to start moving money out the door — and even the president's budget requests to Congress don't come close to the $5 billion a year he initially promised to spend. The president's legacy on foreign policy in Africa is also mixed. He's expected to visit Liberia, which has emerged from a devastating civil war, and Rwanda, which suffered a genocide in the 1990s and was among the first countries to offer peacekeeping troops to Darfur. In his speech Thursday, the president couldn't ignore Darfur or the post-election violence in Kenya, where former U.N. Chief Kofi Annan is mediating a solution. \"When we're on the continent, I've asked Condi Rice — that would be Secretary Rice — to travel to Kenya to support the work of the former secretary general, and to deliver a message directly to Kenya's leaders and people: There must be an immediate halt to violence, there must be justice for the victims of abuse, and there must be a full return to democracy,\" Bush said. He didn't mention Somalia, where a U.S. strategy to fund warlords in a bid to nab terrorism suspects backfired. Anthony Holmes, a former ambassador now with the Council on Foreign Relations, says there are plenty of other trouble spots, like Zimbabwe. \"We talk the talk, but we've discovered that our leverage is very limited; that when it comes to prioritizing the expenditure of American resources around the world, Africa still comes very close to the bottom of the list,\" Holmes says. Except, he adds, when it comes to funding the fight against HIV/AIDS and Malaria.", "Warren Buffett's move to trim Berkshire Hathaway's holdings in PetroChina, the Chinese government-owned company that explores for oil in Sudan, is being seen as a victory for activists who say the company indirectly supports genocide in Darfur. To make that point in a public way, the Save the Darfur coalition produced a TV ad in which a broker talks to a couple about their investments. \"You're really making a killing in Darfur,\" the broker says. A narrator then urges viewers to stay away from Sudanese investments, and to visit the group's Web site to check on what mutual funds have money there. Earlier this year, Berkshire Hathaway owned more than 10 percent of the non-governmental shares of PetroChina. That number has since dropped to around 3 percent. And analysts say it may continue to drop. But while the social pressure may have influenced Buffett's decision to sell, profit-taking may have been the main motivation, said Brian Bethune, an economist with the forecasting and analysis firm Global Insight. \"I would say that primarily it's a business decision,\" Bethune said, \"but there may have been some influence in terms of what was happening in Sudan.\" Activists unhappy with PetroChina's involvement in Sudan are also hoping to use the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing to pressure China to change its policy. With China's economy growing at a double-digit rate, the country is seeking energy resources to support that growth. The Chinese government is the largest foreign developer of oil fields in Sudan. \"The primary issue is securing energy assets for China,\" Bethune said. But its growing appetite for fuel also means that the country is relying on other options besides Sudan. \"At the political level, my sense of it is that they're willing to be persuaded to perhaps deemphasize that particular part of their investment,\" Bethune said. \"The investment in Sudan is only one piece in a massive jigsaw puzzle of assets that PetroChina is trying to accumulate.\" Earlier this year, Bill Gates said \"changes in our investment practices would have little or no impact\" on environmental and human rights abuses. The latest move by Buffett, who has pledged to give away a huge chunk of his fortune through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, suggests that Gates' statement may not be true in all cases. \"In some instances, where there's a lot of sensitivity at the political level, I think there can be some influence,\" Bethune said. And that may be especially true in China, where political and economic goals often become entangled. \"There may be some ability to have some influence, or at least exert some pressure,\" Bethune said. DEBORAH AMOS, host: He's the second-richest man in America. So when Warren Buffett moves his money - and when he does so after an aggressive campaign by political activists - it's bound to have a ripple effect. First, the campaign: Buffett has been one target to get U.S. companies to stop investing in PetroChina, the Chinese company that explores for oil in Sudan. The argument goes, investment in PetroChina supports the Sudanese government, and indirectly funds the genocide in Darfur. To drive the point home, the Save the Darfur Coalition produced this TV ad in which a broker talks to a couple about their investments. (Soundbite of TV commercial) Unidentified Man #1: As you can see you can see, your portfolio has performed really well this year. Energy stocks are up and technology is strong. You took a little hit in real estate, but more than made up for genocide. You're really making a killing in Darfur. Unidentified Man #2: Is your mutual fund funding genocide? Find out at savedarfur.org. AMOS: Well, it look likes the activists have won the battle. We called up Brian Bethune, an economist with the research firm, Global Insight. Good morning. Mr. BRIAN BETHUNE (Chief Economist, Global Insight): Good morning. AMOS: Is it true? Did the activists win this battle? Did Warren Buffett, who sold off most of his high-profile investments in PetroChina, did he do it because of that pressure? Mr. BETHUNE: That might have played a factor in terms of the over all decision, but I think the primary decision was related to the fact that there's been a significant increase in the value of this investment over the last three years. And in this type of situation, it would make sense for Mr. Buffett to reduce his holdings and probably take some profits here. So, I would say that primarily, it's a business decision, but there may have been some influence in terms of what was happening in Sudan. AMOS: And there's two kinds of pressure coming at China over the issue of Darfur. One is the Olympics coming up, and there's been a lot of activists who are trying to use that high-profile to pressure China. Now we have this investment. Does either one of them change China policy? Mr. BETHUNE: Well, it's probably not going to make a huge influence. The primary issue is securing energy assets for China. China's growing a", "China appears to be emerging from the global recession faster than the rest of the world, including the U.S. The conventional wisdom among economists is that the U.S. will \"pass the baton\" to China, as the world's No. 1 engine of economic growth. But that won't happen so fast, author Stephen Roach tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer. Roach is the former chief global economist for investment bank Morgan Stanley, and now chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia. The economist's new book, Stephen Roach on the Next Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Globalization, examines some of these issues, including the challenges China faces, and how it will rebalance its economy away from one reliant on manufacturing exports to one where consumer spending plays a bigger part. Save the DaySeptember 25, 2007 Currencies are first and foremost relative prices in essence, they are measures of the intrinsic value of one economy versus another. On that basis, the world has had no compunction in writing down the value of the United States over the past several years. The dollar, relative to the currencies of most of America's trading partners, had fallen by about 20 percent from its early 2002 peak. Recently it has hit new lows against the euro and a high-flying Canadian currency, likely a harbinger of more weakness to come. Sadly, none of this is surprising. Because Americans haven't been saving in sufficient amounts, the United States must import surplus savings from abroad in order to grow. And it has to run record balance of payments and trade deficits in order to attract that foreign capital. The United States current account deficit the broadest gauge of America's imbalance in relation to the rest of the world hit a record 6.2 percent of GDP in 2006 before the pressures of the business cycle triggered a temporary reduction in 2008. Even so, savings-short America must still attract some $3 billion of foreign capital each business day in order to keep its economy growing. Economic science is very clear on the implications of such huge imbalances: Foreign lenders need to be compensated for sending scarce capital to any country with a deficit. The bigger the deficit, the greater the compensation. The currency of the deficit nation usually bears the brunt of that compensation. As long as the United States fails to address its saving problem, its large balance of payments deficit will persist and the dollar will eventually resume its decline. The only silver lining so far has been that these adjustments to the currency have been orderly declines in the broad dollar index averaging a little less than 4 percent per year since early 2002. Now, however, the possibility of a disorderly correction is rising with potentially grave consequences for the American and global economy. A key reason is the mounting risk of a recession in America. The bursting of the subprime mortgage bubble strikingly reminiscent of the dot-com excesses of the 1990scould well be a tipping point. In both cases, financial markets and policy makers were steeped in denial over the risks. But the lessons of postbubble adjustments are clear. Just ask economically stagnant Japan. And of course, the United States lapsed into its own postbubble recession in 2000 and 2001. Sadly, the endgame could be considerably more treacherous for the United States than it was seven years ago. In large part, that's because the American consumer is now at risk. In early 2007, consumption expenditures peaked at a record 72 percent of the GDP a number unmatched in the annals of modern history for any nation. This buying binge has been increasingly supported by housing and lending bubbles. Yet home prices are now headed lower probably for years and the fallout from the subprime crisis has seriously crimped home mortgage refinancing. With weaker employment growth also putting pressure on income, the days of open-ended American consumption are finally coming to an end. This makes it all but impossible to avoid a recession. Fearful of that outcome, foreign investors are becoming increasingly skittish over buying dollar-based assets. The spillover effects of the subprime crisis into other asset markets especially mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed commercial paper underscore these concerns. Foreign appetite for U. S. financial instruments is likely to be sharply reduced for years to come. That would choke off an important avenue of capital inflows, putting more downward pressure on the dollar. The political winds are also blowing against the dollar. In Washington, China-bashing is the bipartisan sport du jour . New legislation is likely, which would impose trade sanctions on China unless China makes a major adjustment in its currency. Not only would this be an egregious policy blunder attempting to fix a multilateral deficit with nearly 100 nations by forcing an exchange rate adjustment with one country but it would also amount to Washington taxing one of America's major foreign len", "Sudan's president, wanted by an international court on war crimes charges, denounced the tribunal, the U.N. and aid agencies on Thursday as part of a new \"colonialism\" that aims to destabilize his country. President Omar al-Bashir danced and waved a cane defiantly before thousands of supporters, as the arrest warrant had its first repercussions on the ground. Sudan ordered at least 11 aid agencies to leave Darfur and cease operations in retaliation for the International Criminal Court's decision to issue an arrest warrant. The groups started the process of moving out Thursday. Aid workers warned that the expulsion order could spark a humanitarian crisis for up to 2 million people in Darfur who are directly served by the agencies, receiving food, shelter and medical supplies. In Zamzam Camp, one of the largest Darfur refugee camps, residents said aid workers who operate daily in the camps did not show up Thursday. Refugees said they fear what will happen when their most recent monthly delivery of food and other supplies run out if aid workers don't return. Particularly worrisome is the pullout of health workers and the possibility of disease outbreaks in the upcoming rainy season. \"After God, we only have the organizations\" to help us, said Ibrahim Safi, 34, a resident of the camp. He called the expulsion order a \"catastrophe.\" Speaking for the first time since the warrant was issued Wednesday, Bashir told a Cabinet meeting that those agencies, the U.N. and the tribunal are \"tools of the new colonialism\" meant to bring Sudan and its resources under control. Bashir accused the aid organizations of trying to disrupt peace efforts in Darfur, profiting from the conflict and interfering with foreign investment. He said his government ordered them out of Darfur because they violated the law. \"We in Sudan have always been a target of the U.N. and these organizations because we have said, 'No,\"' Bashir said. \"We said the resources of Sudan should go to the people of Sudan.\" Hasabo Abdel-Rahman, the head of the government agency coordinating humanitarian affairs, also accused the aid groups of cooperating with the ICC and offering the court \"false\" testimonies. At least 2.7 million people in the large, arid region of western Sudan have been driven from their homes, most to camps in Darfur and neighboring Chad, in the war between Darfur rebels and the government since 2003. Even many who remain in their homes depend on international aid to survive. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the order \"a serious setback to lifesaving operations in Darfur.\" The aid groups, which included Oxfam, CARE and Save the Children, protested that they had nothing to do with the Netherlands-based ICC's decision. Doctors Without Borders said its French branch was ordered expelled — a day after its Dutch section received the order to stop operating in Darfur. U.N. agencies were expected to continue working in Darfur. But it was unclear how the expulsion orders would affect supply distribution, since much of the U.N. humanitarian supplies are given to aid agencies to deliver. \"The impact is going to be huge. We were assisting 600,000 people in parts in Darfur with lifesaving activities like water and food distribution,\" said Bea Spadacini, a Kenya-based spokeswoman for CARE. She said CARE's 650 employees in Sudan, a majority of whom are Sudanese, stopped working Wednesday after the government revoked its license. In the capital, Khartoum, senior U.N. officials were meeting with government officials, trying to negotiate a deal to stay. Bashir, who faces charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, is accused by the ICC of overseeing an anti-insurgency campaign in Darfur in which atrocities were carried out against civilians. At least 300,000 people have died in Darfur in the fighting, which pits ethnic African rebels against the Arab-led Khartoum government and Arab militiamen. Appearing before tens of thousands of supporters at a Khartoum rally Thursday, Bashir warned international missions and organizations still operating in the country \"to respect themselves,\" saying they would be \"humiliated\" if they infringe on Sudan's sovereignty. He danced with the cheering crowd outside his Republican Palace in the biggest demonstration in Sudan in years. \"We are ready to resist colonialism,\" he said, jabbing his cane in the air as he spoke. \"We are ready to defend our religion.\" The arrest warrant is the ICC's first against a sitting head of state. Bashir has rejected the charges and his government has said it will not cooperate with the court. U.N. officials said their staff will continue to deal with Bashir in Sudan because he remains the president of the country. Aid workers from the targeted groups said staff were in the process of leaving Darfur. One U.N. official said the process is taking time in some cases because of security procedures. The workers and official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the s", "Word of Cabinet appointments by President-elect Barack Obama flew fast and furious late Friday afternoon: Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), his archrival for the Democratic nomination, is his choice for secretary of state, Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM) for commerce secretary and New York Federal Reserve President Tim Geithner for secretary of the Treasury. Obama's selection of Clinton is both conventional and controversial. Though she accepted his offer on Friday, she must still be confirmed by the Senate. It's a conventional choice because she is arguably one of the best-qualified candidates for the job. The highest diplomatic position in the country holds enough prestige for the former first lady, who has been a senator from New York since 2000. She sits on the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign policy chief, said on Friday that, in the eyes of Europe, Hillary Clinton would be a good choice for secretary of state. \"She is a very capable person whose experience is well-known,\" Solana told reporters. But her selection is also controversial, because her appointment would naturally include her legendary lightning rod of a husband, former President Bill Clinton. The Obama transition team has been exploring Bill Clinton's worldwide financial activities and his charity work to see if there might be potential conflicts of interest if his wife becomes secretary of state. The New York Times reported that Bill Clinton forked over a list of more than 200,000 donors to his philanthropic foundation. Sen. Clinton takes pride in the role her husband's White House played in forging peace in Northern Ireland. Israel's right to exist, she says on her Senate Web site, \"must never be put in question.\" She also says, \"Whether it is bringing an end to the war in Iraq, bolstering our efforts in Afghanistan, continuing to provide strong support for Israel, or pushing for an end to the genocide in Darfur, I remain focused on pursuing real solutions to our most critical national security and foreign policy challenges.\" Over the past few years, Clinton has spoken often of her approach to foreign policy. She has said she believes that the U.S. must \"renew internationalism for a new century.\" \"We cannot face the global terrorist threat or other profound challenges alone,\" she told the Council on Foreign Relations in 2006. She also said she \"values diplomacy as well as a strong military.\" And, she added, \"Our foreign policy must blend both idealism and realism in the service of American interests. ... In an increasingly interdependent world, it is in our interest to stand for the human rights to promote religious freedom, democracy, women's rights, social justice and economic empowerment. But reality informs us we cannot force others — nations and people — to accept those values. We have to support those who embrace them and lead by example.\" Material from The Associated Press was used in this report.", "President Bush leaves Friday for a six-day trip to Africa. The president is traveling to Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana and Liberia. All have benefited from U.S. aid to save lives and develop their countries. Bush is hoping his trip changes his image — from a president who takes his country to war to a leader who helps countries. RENEE MONTAGNE, host: President Bush's image in the United States may be shaped by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but today he sets off on a trip to try to change that impression. He's headed to Africa. He hopes the trip will make him look more like a leader who helps countries develop than a president who takes his country to war. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports. KELEMEN: The president's trip is designed to show the compassionate side of America and of President Bush. As he travels to Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana and Liberia, you'll hear a lot about his emergency AIDS relief program, known as PEPFAR, and his administration's $1.2 billion program to tackle malaria. The president told an audience at the Smithsonian's Museum of African Art yesterday the malaria initiative has reached 25 million people. President GEORGE W. BUSH: We stay on this path and extraordinary achievement is within reach. Africa can turn a disease that has taken its children for centuries into a thing of the past, and wouldn't that be fantastic? And so Laura and I are going to spend time with these leaders saying, what a noble opportunity. KELEMEN: The president will tour a mill in Tanzania where bed nets are made to protect people from mosquitoes carrying malaria. He plans to use his trip to Rwanda, the scene of a genocide in the 1990s, to highlight the fact that Rwandan troops were among the first to come to the aid of people in Darfur, Sudan, which President Bush has labeled a genocide. Pres. BUSH: This trip I'm going to visit with brave peacekeepers from Rwanda, a nation that knows the pain of genocide and was the first country to send troops into Darfur. Other nations need to follow Rwanda's example. Other nations need to take this issue seriously, just like the United States does. KELEMAN: Critics see a Bush administration that is long on rhetoric, short on action in Darfur, and his trip comes at a troubling time for a key ally, Kenya, which erupted in violence after disputed elections. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to peel off the trip for a day on Monday to go to Nairobi to address that issue, while the president stays focused on humanitarian affairs. Emira Woods of the Institute for Policy Studies casts serious doubts about this image of Mr. Bush as a development president. Ms. EMIRA WOODS (Institute for Policy Studies): Now is the time to focus on people, and Bush says that in rhetoric, but the reality of the program of the last eight years has been an investment and an emphasis on military might. KELEMAN: She's been raising alarms about AFRICOM, the new U.S. military command that will focus on Africa and will have some involvement in humanitarian issues. The Bush administration has been planning to move it from Germany to Africa, but is moving a bit more cautiously now, according to Anthony Holmes of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. ANTHONY HOLMES (Council on Foreign Relations): The U.S. has taken its foot off the accelerator, I would say, in terms of moving forward n placing an AFRICOM permanent presence on the continent. KELEMAN: Emira Woods says that's because no one wants it, except for Liberia, which happens to be President Bush's last stop on his five-nation tour. While AFRICOM may be discussed in private there, the visit to Liberia will be mainly a symbolic show of support for how far that country has come since a civil war. Gayle Smith of the Center for American Progress says it is the sort of evolution the Bush Administration would want to highlight. Ms. GAYLE SMITH (Center for American Progress): The fact that it has found peace, that it has Africa's first woman president, who is very strong and capable, makes it a perfect story and it's a good story. I think the question on Liberia is about staying power. KELEMAN: Because she says the U.S. has a tendency to run in with enthusiasm and then disappear a year or two later. Michele Keleman, NPR News, Washington.", "Actor Don Cheadle once took part in a conversation that could be seen as a commentary on today's news. It was in the movie Hotel Rwanda, in which he portrayed Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who sheltered more than 1,200 people during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. In the movie, Cheadle thanks a Western TV cameraman for sending footage of the killing to the West, saying it would prompt the international community to intervene. The cameraman replies, \"I think if people see this footage, they'll say, 'Oh my God, that's horrible,' and then go on eating their dinners.\" Now Cheadle is trying to prevent a similar reaction to what's been labeled genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. In 2005 he traveled to Sudan with John Prendergast, a former Clinton administration official who is now a senior adviser to the International Crisis Group. They visited a refugee camp for people who had fled the violence in Darfur, and heard first-hand accounts of killings, rape, torture and forced evacuations. Cheadle and Prendergast are urging ordinary citizens to speak out to end the suffering in Darfur. They are co-authors of a new book, Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond, which maintains that people can influence their governments to act. \"If U.S. citizens can make enough noise to press their government to do what's right, then we will have saved literally tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of lives in Darfur,\" Prendergast says. Chapter One: Challenges and Choices It was sometime round midnight in a little village in southern Sudan, and the only link to the rest of the world within a five-hundred-mile radius was one satellite phone, so when it rang it was a bit of a shock to everyone. Don dispensed with the formalities. \"My man, you are not easy to find.\" \"Obviously, hiding from you is not as easy as I thought,\" John countered. Despite his attempt at a cool demeanor, John was excited. After Marlon Brando and Mickey Rourke (John is well aware that he has issues), Don was his favorite actor, and the fact that the two of them were about to go on a trip together to Chad and across the border into the western Sudanese region of Darfur was firing him up. However, Don wasn't making a social call. He was concerned that the mission that we were going on with a bunch of members of Congress was only going to spend several hours in the refugee camps in Chad, and he wanted to stay longer. \"You gotta rescue it,\" Don instructed John. John looked around to see what tools he had at his disposal in that little southern Sudanese village, but all he could hear was the ribbit, rabbit of the Sudanese frogs. \"I am in the middle of nowhere. Give me twelve hours.\" A few hundred dollars of satellite phone calls later, a much more substantial and lengthy trip was planned. We also managed to get Paul Rusesabagina, whom Don had portrayed in Hotel Rwanda, and Rick Wilkinson, a veteran producer for ABC's Nightline, to come with us and help interpret and chronicle our first journey together. Our trip to witness the ravages of genocide in Darfur was not the first brush with that heinous crime for either of us. Don had visited Rwanda post-filming, and John had been in Rwanda and the refugee camps in Congo immediately after the genocide. As we listened to the stories of the refugees who fled the genocide, we sensed what it might feel like to be hunted as a human being. These Darfurians had been targeted for extermination by the regime in Sudan on the basis of their ethnicity. Although well-meaning and thoughtful people may disagree on what to call it, for us the crisis in Darfur is one that constitutes genocide. Enough is ENOUGH. We need to come together and press for action to end the violence in Darfur and prevent future crimes against humanity. Through simple acts and innovative collaborations, we can save hundreds of thousands of lives now. That is our fervent hope, and our goal. Darfur: A Slow-Motion Genocide Genocide is unique among \"crimes against humanity\" or \"mass atrocity crimes\" because it targets, in whole or in part, a specific racial, religious, national, or ethnic group for extinction. According to the international convention, genocide can include any of the following five criteria targeted at the groups listed above: -killing -causing serious bodily or mental harm -deliberately inflicting \"conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part\" -imposing measures to prevent births -forcibly transferring children from a targeted group. The perpetrators of genocide in Rwanda took one hundred days to exterminate 800,000 lives. This was the fastest rate of targeted mass killing in human history, three times faster than that of the Holocaust. JOHN: In mid-2004, one year into the fighting and six months before the trip Don and I took to Chad/Darfur, I went with Pulitzer Prize–winning author Samantha Power to the rebel areas in Darfur. At the same time, U.S. Secretary of State Colin ", "Secretary of State nominee Hillary Clinton began Tuesday to outline some of the incoming Obama administration's plans for dealing with some of the nation's biggest international challenges. At her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, she promised what she called a \"smart power\" approach to foreign policy issues, with \"diplomacy in the vanguard\" as well as development and military power. Clinton's appearance before the Senate panel was generally friendly, with the expectation on all sides that she would be confirmed. The only signs of concern about her nomination came from Republicans who wanted tighter measures to avoid conflicts of interest between Clinton's role as secretary and her husband's charitable foundation. Clinton addressed what will probably be the first challenge that the Obama administration will face — in reaffirming the president-elect's commitment to working for peace in the Middle East. She said both she and Obama \"understand and are deeply sympathetic to Israel's desire to defend itself ... and to be free of shelling by Hamas rockets.\" But she said the present Israeli offensive in Gaza is a reminder of \"the tragic humanitarian costs of conflict in the Middle East.\" She said the new administration will seek a lasting agreement \"that brings real security to Israel ... and independence, economic progress, and security to the Palestinians in their own state.\" The questions from committee members ranged from the conflict in Gaza to nuclear nonproliferation to violence against women and human trafficking. Clinton said she would work to implement President-elect Obama's \"more for more\" policy in Afghanistan, saying that meant more troops from the U.S., more support from allies and more support for economic development in Afghanistan. She also said that the U.S. policy would be \"to look at Afghanistan and Pakistan together, particularly the border region.\" Clinton said the president-elect intends to be active in alleviating the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. In addition to humanitarian aid, she said the U.S. will consult with allies on \"other options\" to pressure the Sudanese government, including no-fly zones and \"other sanctions and sanctuaries.\" In response to a question from committee Chairman John Kerry, Clinton said she would seek greater international cooperation to dissuade Iran from developing nuclear weapons, engaging the United Nations and U.S. allies in actions to persuade and pressure Iran. She also stressed that the Obama administration would consult \"broadly and deeply\" with countries in the region, such as Israel, before taking action. The hearing began this morning with a friendly greeting from Kerry, who spoke of Clinton as \"secretary\" from the beginning — leaving no doubt that she would win easy confirmation — but said he wanted to hear her thoughts on issues ranging from the conflict in Gaza to global climate change. Stressing the challenges ahead for Obama, Kerry said the U.S. faces \"a gargantuan task\" and must fundamentally redefine the American approach to foreign policy. He aimed several slaps at the Bush administration's handling of foreign policy, saying, \"We have spent the treasure of our nation\" in lives and in money — questioning whether the effort was effective. Sen. Richard Lugar, the ranking Republican on the committee, called Clinton \"a big leaguer\" who has the worldwide stature needed to represent the United States and to bolster efforts to improve U.S. standing with other countries. Lugar added to the list of issues that he considers vital for the secretary of state. He said it is essential that the START treaty on nuclear arms reduction with Russia be approved. The treaty, which Lugar called \"the conceptual underpinning of our strategic relation with Russia,\" is set to expire in December. The Indiana Republican also said energy security must be a much higher priority, and he cited Russia's recent cutoff of natural gas supplies to Europe. Lugar and Louisiana Republican David Vitter both expressed concerns about the charitable foundation set up by Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton. The foundation, which among other things, works on HIV/AIDS issues in developing countries, released the names of its donors last month. They included countries such as Saudi Arabia, with which Hillary Clinton will be dealing as secretary of state. Lugar asked that the foundation agree to accept no foreign donations during the time that Clinton is secretary. Failing that, he said, the foundation should at least agree to immediately disclose any donations of more than $50,000. Clinton said her husband's agreement to release donor names in a yearly report went beyond ethics requirements and is \"probably as close as we get to doing something that is so unprecedented.\" The committee could vote on Clinton's nomination as early as Wednesday.", "Iceland's latest volcanic eruption and the cloud of ash drifting over Europe are proving to be hugely costly and disruptive but, so far, the effects are mild compared with the havoc caused by the country's economic eruption just a year and a half ago. As if on cue, Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupted in the same week as the release of a long-awaited report from the investigation into the country's financial collapse. The collapse of Iceland's major banks in late 2008 helped herald the start of the worldwide financial crisis. It brought the country's government to the brink of bankruptcy and wiped out billions of dollars worth of savings for bank customers in other countries. What is it with Iceland? How can a remote island in the North Atlantic, with only about 320,000 people, be the source of so much damage? An Increasingly Interconnected World If the drifting ash from Iceland's volcano shows the interconnected nature of weather and ecological systems around the world, the fallout from Iceland's bank failures shows the interconnectedness of global financial systems. This week's report accuses Iceland's former prime minister and other top officials of \"gross negligence\" for failing to intervene as the country's three biggest banks took on the excessive debt that eventually sucked them under. The investigation was carried out by a commission appointed by Iceland's Althing, or Parliament. The lawmakers must now decide whether to take legal action against former Prime Minister Geir Haarde and other top officials. Meanwhile, Iceland's economy remains mired in recession and experts say it could be years before the country recovers. \"The country is still in crisis,\" says Fridrik Mar Baldursson, a professor of economics at Reykjavik University. He says foreign investment in Iceland has dried up, largely because of uncertainty over whether Iceland will get the next installment of a crucial loan from the International Monetary Fund. Iceland's bank meltdown began in late 2008, not long after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in the United States. The country's three biggest banks collapsed and were taken over by the government, which found itself with a combined debt that was many times the size of its entire economy. The problem might not have been so serious if it were confined to Iceland. But the crisis was compounded by the fact that Iceland's banks had been snapping up assets around the world. The country's biggest bank, Landsbanki, had also been offering online savings accounts, through a subsidiary known as Icesave, to hundreds of thousands of customers in the U.K. and the Netherlands. When the bank went belly up, those customers saw their savings wiped out. The British and Dutch governments eventually stepped in to compensate their citizens who lost money in Icesave, but now they want the Icelandic government to pay them back a total of $5.3 billion. They argue that the government of Iceland was obligated to guarantee at least part of those savings accounts, much as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. guarantees bank accounts in the U.S. Icelanders Reject Repayment The Icelandic public resents what it sees as a punitive demand for repayment by the British and Dutch. In a national referendum in March, Icelanders rejected a payment plan negotiated by the government. Last year, the IMF and the Nordic countries of Finland, Norway and Denmark agreed to help bail Iceland out with a loan package worth about $4.5 billion. The IMF's contribution is being delayed, in part because of Iceland's dispute with the U.K. and the Netherlands. The IMF's board is expected to meet Friday to review the issue and decide whether to pay out more of the loan. That would free up more of the money from the Nordic countries as well. In the meantime, says Baldursson, much of Iceland's economy is at a standstill. \"Iceland in many ways is very fortunate,\" he says. \"We have a lot of natural resources — geothermal and hydroelectric energy — and there's a lot of foreign interest in investing in energy projects, but the markets don't want to lend money until the disputes are resolved.\" Earlier this month, Moody's Investor Service downgraded Iceland's debt ratings from \"stable\" to \"negative,\" making it still more difficult for the country to raise money overseas. Oddly, Baldursson says that to look at Reykjavik today, a foreigner wouldn't necessarily know that there's a problem. \"If you didn't know there was an economic crisis,\" he says, \"you might think, 'What a thriving country!' \" He says the tourism sector is still strong, though that could be affected if volcanic ash continues to shut down travel across the North Atlantic. At around 9 percent, unemployment is considered extremely high for Iceland, \"but most people are still employed, so they're getting by,\" Baldursson says. Baldursson says that so far, the latest volcanic eruption has caused relatively little economic damage in Iceland itself. \"The eruption is not in an area where the", "If you are a scientist, entrepreneur or a Nobel laureate, you might have a future as an expatriate in China. The guidelines were released jointly by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Public Security. The special visas — the first of which has already been approved — can be obtained in as few as five days, the government says. Applications for the visa can be completed online and are free, the ministries say. \"Information uploaded by applicants will be shared by all the three departments, which will save the applicants' time since they won't need to hand in the information repeatedly,\" Gao Xiang, director of the policies and regulations department of the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, said. Channel News Asia reports: \"The sought-after professionals include scientists and leading figures in technology-intensive sectors, the authorities said, adding that the categories could be adjusted based on the country's changing demand for talent. Other perks include a visa fee waiver, 180-day stays for a single entry and a same-day visa permit approval for spouses and children.\" Government guidelines say \"high-end\" talent also includes \"Nobel Prize winners, chief or deputy editors in Chinese state media, foreign coaches and players in national and provincial sports teams, postdoctoral students from world-class universities outside China, and foreigners who earn at least six times the average annual wage in China,\" according to The South China Morning Post. The move comes after Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said in September that China's restructuring required a more open policy toward allowing in foreign expertise.", "Six people associated with a French charity have been charged with kidnapping after attempting to take 103 African children out of Chad and place them with families in Europe, authorities said Tuesday. Authorities in Chad detained 17 people — including charity volunteers, a flight crew and several journalists — after the charity L'Arche de Zoe, or Zoe's Ark, tried to put the children on a plane last week. Chad's President Idriss Deby has denounced the plan as a \"straightforward kidnapping\" and promised punishment for those involved. French authorities also have condemned the charity's plans. Officials with the charity said it had arranged French host families for the children to save them from possible death in Sudan's western Darfur region. More than four years of conflict there has left more than 200,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced — many to eastern Chad. In France, police searched the charity's offices and the apartment of its founder as part of an inquiry into whether the group broke adoption laws, police officials said. The group initially promised some families that they could adopt — not merely host — children from Darfur, French officials have said. Chad's Interior Minister Ahmat Bachir said if the defendants are found guilty, they would face up to 20 years in prison with hard labor. A judge in the eastern city of Abeche also agreed late Monday to allow prosecution charges of complicity against three French journalists, Justice Minister Pahimi Padacket Albert said. Two of the journalists were covering the operation and a third was reportedly present for personal reasons, according to the media watchdog group Reporters Without Borders. A seven-person flight crew also would be charged with complicity, Albert told The Associated Press. The accused would be flown this week to the capital N'Djamena. Gilbert Collard, a lawyer for the group, said they will fight the charges. \"Now we are going to work with Chadian lawyers and contest all the elements against them, one by one,\" he said. \"We are entering difficult territory, but one that is now clearly defined.\" Seven Spanish citizens who work for a Barcelona-based charter airline also were detained in the case, as was a pilot from Belgium, the two countries said. The Chad justice minister made no mention of the Belgian citizen, whose legal status in the country was not known. UNICEF's representative in Chad, Mariam Coulibaly Ndiaye, said authorities were interviewing the children Monday to learn more about their origins and whether they were truly orphans. Chad has assured France that a debacle will not affect plans to deploy European Union peacekeepers there to protect refugees from neighboring Darfur, a French official said Monday. French diplomats said they had warned Zoe's Ark for months not to go through with its plans. Christophe Letien, spokesman for the charity, insisted its intentions were merely humanitarian. \"The team is made up of firemen, doctors and journalists,\" he said at a news conference. \"It's unimaginable that doubts are being cast on these people of good faith, who volunteered to save children from Darfur.\" From NPR reports and The Associated Press", "Anyone who doubts that anti-Semitism still exists should have a look at my e-mail. Not a week goes by in which our show, or me personally, doesn't receive notes from people who use good grammar, have a detailed knowledge of the news, and who are certain that something — or everything — that irritates or scares them in this world traces back to Jews. Interestingly — or maybe I should just say, appallingly — many of these people take pains to profess that they are not bigots, but distinctly perceptive observers; and if the rest of us don't see the truth as plainly as they do, it's because we're Jews, or in the pay of Jews, or don't realize how everything is run by Jews. But I think you can learn something from almost anyone. These e-mailers and letter writers have demonstrated something to me: Bigotry is a virus. It doesn't stay in a bottle. It spreads in an atmosphere of ignorance and fear. I bet that if I saved some of the anti-Semitic e-mail messages I receive to check their names — and many writers unapologetically sign their names — against future e-mails saying something vile about gays or blacks, I'd find more than a few matches. My wife and I were supposed to be at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on the night of the shooting to see Janet Langhart Cohen's play, Anne and Emmett, which imagines a conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till. We cherish our association with the museum. No institution in America is more vigorous about not only making the memory of the Holocaust meaningful, but extending the moral reach of memory to call on people to help stop modern genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur and elsewhere around the world. I know the news business a little, and I understand why so many reportorial resources must be focused on the life and crimes of the man who has been charged with the killing at the museum. But in the few seconds I have, I'd prefer to talk about a good man: the guard who gave his life. Stephen Tyrone Johns was 39, and the father of an 11-year-old son. He had a sunny personality, in the memory of his friends, loved funny movies and to make people laugh. His son will grow up knowing that his father was, to use a word that is so misused to describe athletes or movie stars, a hero. Stephen Tyrone Johns gave his life to save others. In doing so, he reminded us why it is so vital for the place he was protecting to exist, and for people from all over the world to be able to see it safely. And the life of Stephen Johns reminds us that each man or woman on this earth can find a way to make the world better. He did. SCOTT SIMON, host: Anyone who doubts that anti-Semitism still exists should have a look at my email. Not a week goes by in which our show, or me personally, doesn't receive notes from people who use good grammar, have a detailed knowledge of the news, and who are certain that something or everything that irritates or scares them in this world traces back to Jews. Now, interestingly - maybe I should just say appallingly - many of these people take pains to profess that they are not bigots, just distinctly perceptive observers. And if the rest of us don't see the truth as plainly as they do, it's because we're Jews or in the pay of Jews or don't realize how everything is run by Jews. But I think you can learn something from almost everyone. These emailers and letter writers have demonstrated something to me: bigotry is a virus. It doesn't stay in a bottle; it spreads in an atmosphere of ignorance and fear. I bet that if I saved some of the anti-Semitic email messages I received to check their names - and many writers unapologetically sign their names - against future emails saying something vile about gays or blacks, I'd find more than a few matches. My wife and I were supposed to be at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on the night of the shooting to see Janet Langhart Cohen's play, \"Anne and Emmett,\" which imagines a conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till. We cherish our association with that museum. No institution in America is more vigorous about not only making the memory of the Holocaust meaningful but extending the moral reach of memory to call on people to help stop modern genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur, and elsewhere around the world. I know the news business a little and I understand why so many reportorial resources must be focused on the life and crimes of the man who's been charged with the killing at the museum. But in the few seconds I have, I'd prefer to talk about a good man: the guard who gave his life. Stephen Tyrone Johns was 39 and the father of an 11-year-old son. He had a sunny personality in the memory of his friends, loved funny movies and to make people laugh. His son will grow up knowing that his father was - to use a word that's so misused to describe athletes or movie stars - a hero. Stephen Tyrone Johns gave his life to save others. In doing so, he reminded us why it's so vital for the place he was protecting to exist", "Anyone reading the headlines these days can see that China's growing influence is being felt across the globe and in all areas of life. Much of that increasing involvement comes through the world economy. After years of attracting foreign investment, China is now investing overseas itself, prospecting for new markets and raw materials for its intensive economic growth. In the process, it has taken on new risks, responsibilities and a national interest beyond its own borders. One overseas entrepreneur is Jacob Wood, born Hu Jieguo in Shanghai, who has spent the last 30 years building an African business empire called the Golden Gate Group. It includes hotels, restaurants and construction and real estate firms. Golden Gate employs 20,000 people, most of them Nigerians. Wood enjoys the status of an honorary Nigerian chieftain, which came in handy last year, when kidnappers seized several groups of Chinese oil workers in Nigeria. Wood used his honorary position to help negotiate for their release, and he suggested that oil companies try adopting corporate responsibility. \"We tried to help them,\" Wood says. \"But also we tell them, you know, for next time what they should do, right? We should do more ... community jobs. Build schools, build hospitals for them. Like everybody love you. Not like people feel you come here just to take oil.\" Getting Involved China's new role overseas is changing its long-stated policy of noninterference in other countries' affairs. In the past, \"Whenever the issue of peacekeeping came up, China would either not participate or abstain,\" says Wu Jianmin, who served as a junior diplomat at the United Nations in 1971, when China had just retaken its U.N. seat from Taiwan. \"We felt that peacekeeping did not fit our idea of nations minding their own business.\" Now, Wu notes, China has 8,000 peacekeeping troops overseas. The message seems to be that it's now acceptable to interfere in other countries' affairs, as long as there's a United Nations mandate. \"We are a part of the existing international system,\" Wu says. \"We are its beneficiaries. The international system is evolving and we are participating in it and constructing it.\" Analysts say China is gradually becoming more responsive to international demands to put diplomatic pressure on authoritarian regimes such as Sudan, North Korea and Myanmar (still referred to by many as Burma). China's special envoy on Sudan's Darfur refugee issue, Liu Guijin, recently responded to foreign criticism that Beijing is shielding Khartoum from censure. \"China's basic policies on the Darfur question are not substantially different from those of Western nations,\" he said. \"We agree that the international community should speak with one voice and exert equal influence on the Sudanese government and rebel forces ... or, as Western nations prefer to say, exert pressure.\" Downplaying Capabilities Western governments are far from satisfied with China's contributions on the Darfur issue. Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi recently said that China would shoulder more responsibility for world affairs, but he cautioned that this was not just to please specific countries. \"Frankly speaking, China, as a developing country, cannot undertake a level of obligation that goes beyond its capacity,\" he said. \"I would like to emphasize that we are not taking international responsibilities to serve the interests of certain countries.\" Even the downplaying of its capabilities has become a part of China's foreign policy. Jin Canrong, an international relations expert at People's University in Beijing, says that China portrays its relations with other countries as a win-win game and aspires to wield power humbly. But Jin adds that as China becomes more powerful and confident, these pledges are coming under increasing criticism. \"One direct cause for this is Taiwan's pro-independence provocations,\" he says. \"People on the mainland think: 'We've been putting up with these troublemakers for too long, we ought to just whack them.' There are others who say there's no point in downplaying China's capabilities when everyone knows what they are.\" China's government has quietly ditched the official term \"peaceful rise\" to describe its re-emergence as a major power. Critics say that sticking to this description would limit China's options. Other skeptics point out that such a peaceful rise has no precedent in human history. MICHELE NORRIS, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michele Norris. ROBERT SIEGEL, host: And I'm Robert Siegel. China's influence is growing around the world and in many different areas of life. China placed a huge role in the world economy, and that's prompting it to exercise some diplomatic muscle. So, all this week, we'll be hearing about China's expanding influence in Africa, the Mideast, South America and elsewhere. NPR's Anthony Kuhn starts things off with this report from Beijing. (Soundbite of promotional video) ANTHONY KUHN: In this p", "Presidential candidate Sen. Sam Brownback embraces conservative social issues — he is strongly anti-abortion. But the Kansas Republican also talks about subjects dear to liberals, like stopping the killing of refugees in Darfur. In an interview with Renee Montagne, Brownback explains why he thinks his \"bleeding-heart conservative\" views will resonate with voters in 2008. You are strongly conservative — a strong, social conservative on what could easily be called the hot-button issues — abortion, stem cell research, gay marriage, fiscally conservative. Are those two sets of positions enough to get the base of the Republican Party on board your candidacy? Well, I think they help a lot, but I don't think they're enough to overall win. I'm also a bleeding-heart conservative. I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family. And rebuilding the family for you — and I think this is where people have heard of you nationally so far — has to do with your very, very staunch opposition to abortion and to stem cell research. Well, I think we should defend life. And plus, you just look at human history — any time we've ever treated one class of humans as subject to another class or as property, as in the case of when you research on the youngest of humans, we've always regretted it. And I believe we're in a very similar situation today where you treat the youngest of humans as property rather than as a person. And stem cell research, which does involve the destruction of embryos, you're not at all persuaded by an argument of greater good that could come out of that? You know, you could destroy me today and harvest my body parts and save a number of lives — you know — with my heart, kidneys, liver. Is that a greater good? Now, some might suggest it is, but it just is morally wrong to take one human life for the benefit of another. Well, considering that these are the sorts of issues that have been coming up and that have — on the other side — a fair number of champions who will argue for stem cell research and many people who believe it's important for women to be able to control whether or not they have an abortion. When you add this all up, what do you think it says about American culture today in this year, in this time? Well, I think what it says is that we've got a big discussion. I just think you've got a society that's really looking at these issues, trying to determine which way it's going to go. It's also why I bring in the being pro-life but being fully life — working on issues like human rights and children in Darfur — because I think we have to stand for life in the womb, but we also have to stand for the young woman that's in poverty or the guy that's trapped in his own bondage by what he has done in prison. And I'm not for cutting that prison sentence short, but I am for work that we can reduce that prison recidivism. And I think that full definition of life is a much more appealing and broad-based definition that draws a lot more people into it. Now, you converted to Catholicism several years ago. And there is something in the Catholic Church known as the seamless garment, moral consistency. Specifically, how would you describe the common thread of your positions? Well, the common thread of my position is that I believe all human life is sacred, is beautiful, is the child of a living and loving God, period. It's at all stages; it's at all places. It doesn't matter what that life looks like. It doesn't matter the nature of that life. It is human and it is therefore sacred and it should be protected and we should fight for it. This has put you here and there in partnership politically with Barack Obama — you have together called for intervention in Darfur, against the genocide in Darfur — with Edward Kennedy on the question of North Korea. How do you work with these folks when you're actually trying to work together when your politics are pretty far apart in other respects? My experience has been that if I will simply look at the issue, we can work together on a lot of topics. You know, most things people can actually agree on up here. It's the heat-seeking ones that divide us and divide us aggressively. But I find that there are a lot of topics. One of the best legislative accomplishments I've had here on an international basis and on saving lives is the bill we did against human trafficking. And I did that with [the late Sen.] Paul Wellstone... who — he and his wife — worked aggressively on this. We had a consortium that included Chuck Colson and Gloria Steinem behind this legislation. And it has helped and it has saved lives, and it stopped particularly young women from being trafficked into sexual servitude. That's the sort of things that we can get done when we look past judging each other and look to the issue of what we can accomplish. Now, let me ask y", "While incurring a record deficit, the U.S. economy remains stable and flexible, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told a group of international bankers. Speaking via video link to a conference organized by the Banco de Mexico, Greenspan said the United States's flexibility has been key to surmounting recent economic troubles. In particular, Greenspan cited several setbacks that forced U.S. businesses to adapt: the market drop of October 1987; the credit crisis of several years later; the bubble that burst in 2000; the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks; and the more recent rises in oil and energy costs. The stability of the U.S. economy -- a central reason for foreign investors' willingness to underwrite the nation's debt -- stems from its flexibility, according to Greenspan. The Fed chairman is set to step down from his post at the end of January, 2006, after leading the central bank for more than 18 years. Read the entirety of Greenspan's remarks: Stability and Economic Growth: The Role of the Central Bank International finance presents us with a number of intriguing anomalies, but the one that seems to bedevil monetary policy makers the most as they seek stability and growth (the topic of this conference) is the seemingly endless ability of the United States to finance its current account deficit. To date, despite a current account deficit exceeding 6 percent of our gross domestic product (GDP), we--or more exactly, the economic entities that comprise the U.S. economy--are experiencing few difficulties in attracting the foreign saving required to finance it, as evidenced by the recent upward pressure on the dollar. The markets are not behaving in the way that some, if not most, analysts anticipated as the U.S. current account deficit rose above its previous high of 3-1/2 percent of GDP recorded in 1986. Of course, deficits that cumulate to ever-increasing net external debt, with its attendant rise in servicing costs, cannot persist indefinitely. At some point investors will balk at further financing. Such a development would be particularly likely should risk-adjusted rates of return on assets outside the United States rise relative to investment opportunities in the United States. Even if such returns on U.S. assets stay high, the rise of concentration risks in foreign official and private portfolios could still induce investors to slow their accumulation of dollar claims and thereby delimit the size of the financeable U.S. current account deficit. However, the adjustment of the U.S. external balance, when it comes, doubtless will be initiated by the actions both of foreign investors and of U.S. residents. Whatever the triggers for adjustment, the move toward current account balance, in addition to being driven by foreign investors altering their external portfolios, presumably would also reflect actions by U.S. residents to address domestic imbalances. In all instances, a current account balance is essentially the product of a wide-ranging interactive process that reflects the production and allocation of goods, services, and incomes among the residents of a country and those of the rest of the world. The outcome encompasses the full array of domestic and international product and asset prices, including interest rates. The array of bilateral exchange rates between the dollar and foreign currencies appears to be particularly important to the current account balance, although, of course, exchange rates, like all other prices, are determined interactively and simultaneously. To the extent that an economy harbors elements of inflexibility, so that prices and quantities are slow to respond to new developments, the deficit-adjustment process is likely to adversely affect the levels of output and employment. A nation's current account balance thus is essentially a market phenomenon that is not readily subject to rebalance by targeting one or more policy variables such as the exchange rate. To be sure, if the exchange rate of the dollar, through intervention, is persistently pressed higher or lower, the whole set of previously noted relationships would shift accordingly. I doubt, however, whether, given the current size of global financial markets, locking together two major currencies such as the dollar and the euro is feasible any longer. Over time, the required large domestic adjustments would be quite unlikely to be accepted by the majority of residents of either the United States or those of the euro area. To be sure, policy initiatives to increase interest rates, which would elevate the propensity of households to save, would reduce the need for domestic investment to be financed by borrowed foreign saving. However, the additional inflow of capital arising from higher U.S. interest rates would boost the dollar's value and offset the narrowing of the imbalance. Alternatively, a discretionary reduction in our federal budget deficit would work toward narrowing the current account deficit but, if history is any", "Foreign policy neo-con Eliot Cohen on the Trump administration, generals in the White House, and the US abroad. US foreign policy and standing in the world are facing plenty more challenges than the alarming challenge of North Korean nukes. ISIS, war in Afghanistan, uncertain allies, a powerful China, a meddling Russia – all threaten. Foreign policy hawk Eliot Cohen is watching. He was there in the push for the Iraq War. There in opposition to candidate Donald Trump – the kind of interventionist Trump slammed. Now he sees too many generals in the White House. Up next On Point: Eliot Cohen on Donald Trump and America in the world. &#8211;Tom Ashbrook. Guests Tara Palmeri, White House Reporter for Politico. (@tarapalmeri) Eliot Cohen, Professor at John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, where he also directs the strategic studies program. Former Counselor to the Department of State. Author of, &#8220;The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force.&#8221;  (@EliotACohen) From Tom&#8217;s Reading List The Atlantic: The Downsides of John Kelly&#8217;s Ascension — &#8220;Kelly’s decision to take the job lends itself to multiple explanations. It may be an irresistible call to duty by someone who thinks of the president mainly as commander-in-chief; it may be an act of deep, quiet patriotism by someone who intends to shield the country from Trump’s lawless worst; it may reflect personal ambition, or mere hankering for as difficult a management challenge as one could imagine; or it may reflect a sneaking admiration for the boorish businessman who has successfully slapped around the politicians of left and right that many officers, and Marines in particular, despise as cowardly and corrupt. Kelly once handed a ceremonial saber to the President while unfunnily suggesting that he use it on the press.&#8221; Politico: Kelly trades West Wing neophytes for Washington insiders— &#8220;For the new hires, the retired general is looking to seasoned political hands rather than the neophytes who made up the first wave of aides brought in by Trump, many of whom never had clear portfolios, according to eight current and former White House officials.&#8221; Newsweek: Trump&#8217;s Generals Can Save The World From War — And Stop The Crazy — &#8220;All U.S. military officers serve at the pleasure of the president. The same holds true for Mattis, McMaster and Kelly—so at any time, Trump could tell them their services are no longer required, and each would take his leave. But in this White House, the relationship between the president and “his” generals may be more nuanced. The president has no prior experience in politics or national security. Combine that with the widespread respect all three generals bring with them, not to mention their reputations for seriousness and intelligence, and it means they possess something that Donald Trump the dealmaker understands well: leverage—leverage over him.&#8221;", "When Save the Children Australia signed up to help migrants that Australia was detaining on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean, workers for the aid group had to sign confidentiality agreements. Australia's government required the agreements. While unusually strict, they reflect a bargain many aid agencies must make in troubled areas of the world: to gain access to vulnerable people, they must remain diplomatically silent about what they see, avoiding embarrassment to the governments. The agreement imposed by Australia served as an example of what may happen behind that veil of secrecy. Children placed with their families in a camp on the isolated island of Nauru suffered sexual and other abuse. The scale of the problem was not publicly exposed until a former aid worker violated that confidentiality and acted on her own. That former worker, Viktoria Vibhakar, told NPR on Wednesday that as a result, abuse, including the abuse of children, was largely ignored. \"I chose to make a report, an anonymous submission detailing the abuse and systemic violations of human rights to children and families on Nauru and I attached several thousand pages of documentation as well and I sent it to the [Australian Human Rights] Commission,\" Vibhakar told NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep. Australia's immigration minister, Peter Dutton, has played down allegations of abuse and has stressed Australia will not change its policy of blocking migrants from coming to Australia. He says smugglers would bring large numbers to Australia by boat if the country changed its policy. Australia did agree to shut down a detention camp in Papua New Guinea last week, but the one in Nauru remains open. There were 543 asylum seekers at the Nauru camp, including 70 children, as of last November, according to the Australian Human Rights Commission. Mat Tinkler, the director of policy and public affairs at Save the Children, spoke to Inskeep via Skype about the confidentiality agreement and how the group responded when it became aware of abuse. Why did Save the Children agree to the confidentiality agreement? Because it was a condition of supporting children in that terrible environment. So that is correct. We were required to sign confidentiality agreements. I've signed one myself. What that means is when we saw rights violations or the impact of detention that was grave enough to warrant us speaking out publicly we would do that. But it was important that we did that in a careful and controlled manner. It wasn't appropriate that we had all of our 300 staff members speaking to the media about any incident they may have observed. That would not have allowed us to continue working in that environment; our contract would have been terminated. I'm trying to get a sense of why Australia felt it necessary to demand such strict confidentiality. My view on this is that the Australian government has deliberately cloaked this area in secrecy because if the Australian public had a full view of the impacts of its policy, they would not support it. There's no independent human rights monitor or child rights advocate working in the detention environment working in places like Nauru. And there should be. So what happened behind that cloak of secrecy on the island of Nauru? So one of the things I'm very proud of is that Save the Children was the agency in that environment who was essentially the conscience of the island. So when children didn't have appropriate footwear, we were the ones advocating to get them decent shoes. When children were being educated in a tent, we were the ones advocating to get them out of those tents and into an air-conditioned facility so that they could actually learn. And publicly we were the ones advocating to end this process, because the impacts and the harm being done to children and their families were extreme and should not be tolerated in a country like Australia. But when the Australian Human Rights Commission came around asking, not about kids shoes but about child sexual abuse and criminal violations, we're told that Save the Children told them nothing. Well that's not correct. I gave evidence in person to that Human Rights Commission inquiry, and we also provided a written submission to the inquiry. The commission very much understood that we had to play a very careful balancing act here between providing evidence to the inquiry and maintaining our position in Nauru. And I can tell you that the commissioner herself told me that it was in everyone's interest that Save the Children remain in Nauru, and therefore she understood that our evidence needed to be finely calibrated. Importantly, however — and this is a really key point — the fact that we didn't say publicly to that commission [that] we observed incidents of child abuse does not mean that we weren't reporting consistently any type of issue that we observed like that through the government. This was standard practice — it happened all the time, I've got to say, ", "The Food and Drug Administration has warned people about the many dangers of buying medications from foreign pharmacies over the Internet. While some sites might offer high-quality medicines, there are plenty that sell bogus and potentially dangerous products. But a recent economic analysis suggests that while there's good reason for the safety warnings, the FDA's stance on the matter might go too far. Many Americans don't fill their prescriptions because they can't afford to, the study says, and some legitimate foreign pharmacies may offer medicines at prices lower than those of verified U.S. suppliers. \"A blanket warning against any foreign website may deny consumers substantial price savings,\" states the report from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Continue Reading Researchers Roger Bate, Ginger Zhe Jin and Aparna Mathur looked at how different online pharmacies compared in terms of drug safety and cost savings. They went to dozens of websites and ordered medications widely used by Americans: Viagra, Celebrex, Lipitor, Nexium and Zoloft. They obtained 328 drug samples from 41 online pharmacies based in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Europe or Asia. They found the foreign suppliers the same way many consumers do: by doing a search on Google and Yahoo. Eight of the websites were U.S.-based providers verified by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, LegitScript.com, PharmacyChecker.com or the Canadian International Pharmacy Association. Those websites were classified as Tier 1 and sold high-quality, authentic drugs. (The researchers established the drugs' authenticity through detailed, chemical analyses.) Another group — classified as Tier 3 — was made up of unverified, mostly foreign providers that sometimes shipped fake versions of one of the drugs, Viagra. But there was a middle group of mostly foreign suppliers that had been verified by two agencies — dubbed Tier 2 — that sent drugs that were authentic and cost much less than at Tier 1 pharmacies. In fact, the Tier 2 drugs were, on average, 52.5 percent cheaper (including shipping and handling) than the Tier 1 medicines. The only exception was Viagra, which was the same in drug safety and price for both groups. \"In the U.S., tens of millions of Americans go without prescribed medication due to cost each year,\" the study says. \"For most uninsured Americans, lower priced drugs from foreign online pharmacies are an attractive option and for many a necessary one.\" \"In light of this,\" the researchers asked, \"we wonder whether a blanket warning against foreign websites has limited price competition between U.S. and foreign websites, and whether a more open and educational policy could make better use of the existing verification services for consumer savings in authentic drugs.\" Still, people shouldn't rush online and buy from a pharmacy that hasn't been checked out. The FDA strongly recommends verification from the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy. Plus, as Nancy Shute has reported in Shots, people searching for prescription drugs even on legitimate websites can sometimes fall victim to hackers and scams. Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, tells Shots that despite the study's findings, he has concerns about the safety of the products from foreign pharmacies. When drugmakers develop and sell generic copies of existing brand-name drugs, he says, regulators require them to prove the copies are not only chemically identical but work the same way inside the body — a concept known as bio-equivalence. If the drugs from foreign websites could be shown to be the same in terms of bio-equivalence as drugs from verified suppliers, he says, \"we would strongly support it.\"", "A top foreign-policy adviser to President-elect Barack Obama promised a Senate panel on Thursday that she will work for international support and consensus on key challenges if she is confirmed as the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Susan Rice told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that she will work to strengthen what the incoming Obama administration views as \"an indispensable if imperfect institution.\" Rice, 44, is expected to win easy confirmation to the job, which the president-elect will elevate to a Cabinet-level position in a sign of a renewed commitment to multilateralism. She would be the third woman — and the first black woman — to serve as ambassador to the U.N., following Jean Kirkpatrick and Madeleine Albright. Action On Darfur Up until now, Rice has mainly worked on Africa, in the Clinton administration and at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. She told senators that one of her priorities will be to do more to stop what she called an \"ongoing genocide\" in Darfur, Sudan. She made it clear that her past experience with Rwanda has taught her some powerful lessons — that preventing genocide requires consensus and concerted action from the international community. Rice called it \"patently unacceptable\" that more than a year after a peacekeeping force was authorized for Darfur, it is still up to only about half-strength. She was also skeptical about the Bush administration's call for a new U.N. force for Somalia. Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) told Rice he expects she will find many frustrations on the job, especially when it comes to conflicts in Africa, from Zimbabwe to the Democratic Republic of Congo. \"It seems somehow,\" said Kerry, \"that the international community has lost the ability to act on its outrage.\" Republican Distrust Of U.N. Several Republicans, including Jim DeMint of South Carolina, complained about the United Nations, saying \"they are ineffective, they've been wasteful, there's corruption, and there is deep concern that there is a lot of anti-American sentiment within the United Nations, which I think undermines the trust and confidence that many Americans have with the United Nations and our role there.\" Rice acknowledged that in her opening statement to the panel, saying \"none of us can be fully satisfied with the performance of the U.N., and too often we have been dismayed.\" She promised to press for high standards and high expectations of the U.N. on issues such as financial accountability, efficiency, transparency and ethics. Kerry said U.N. officials should take advantage of the incoming Obama administration's commitment to the U.N. and stop making excuses to avoid painful reforms. \"Nobody is going to come in here with an arrogant, overbearing, do this or else, my way or the highway attitude,\" he said, \"but we are going to look for legitimate, cooperative, rational common sense ways of trying to do these things better.\" Rice seemed to be on board. \"I will listen, I will engage, I will collaborate,\" she told the committee. \"I will go to the U.N. convinced that this institution has great current value, even greater potential and still great room for improvement.\" Rice, whose grandparents immigrated to Maine from Jamaica, was introduced to the committee by a senator from Maine, Republican Susan Collins. Rice herself was born and reared in Washington, D.C. Her father was a professor of economics at Cornell University and a former governor of the Federal Reserve System. Her mother is a scholar of education policy. Rice graduated from Stanford University and won a Rhodes scholarship, earning a doctoral degree from New College, Oxford. The confirmation hearing was short and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is expected to move quickly to confirm her. The full Senate could vote on Rice's nomination within a day or two of next week's inauguration. MELISSA BLOCK, Host: The incoming Obama administration views the United Nations as an indispensable, if imperfect, institution. That was one of the messages Susan Rice brought to senators at her confirmation hearing today. The president-elect has tapped Rice to become the next US ambassador to the UN. The job will now be a cabinet-level position. The incoming administration says that change is a sign of renewed commitment to multilateralism. Here's NPR's Michele Kelemen. MICHELE KELEMEN: Up till now, Susan Rice has mainly worked on Africa, in the Clinton administration and at Brookings, a Washington think tank. She told senators today that one of her priorities will be to do more to stop what she called an ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan. And she made it clear that her past experience with Rwanda has taught her some powerful lessons. (SOUNDBITE OF CONFIRMATION HEARING) BLOCK: We need to be prepared to build the sort of international support and consensus that is necessary to challenge the international community so that we see no more Rwandas, and no more Darfurs, and God forb", "Today's Americans inherited the wealthiest nation in history — but only because earlier generations learned how to feed, fuel, finance, and defend themselves in ways unrivaled elsewhere. Lately we have forgotten that and instead seem to expect others to do for us what we used to do ourselves. Take our plentiful, cheap, and safe food supply. Long ago, Americans struggled to create farmland out of swamps, forests, and deserts, and built dams and canals for irrigation to make possible the world's most diverse and inexpensive agriculture. Now in California — the nation's richest farm state — the population is skyrocketing toward 40 million. Yet hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland this year are going out of production, and with them leave thousands of jobs. Why? In times of chronic water shortages, environmentalists have sued to stop irrigation deliveries in order to save threatened two-inch-long delta fish that need infusions of fresh water diverted from agricultural use. And, for both environmental and financial reasons, we long ago stopped building canals and dams in the Sierra Nevada Mountains to find sources of replacement irrigation water. So farmers are asked to produce more food for more people in a desert climate with less water — while environmentalists dream of returning to a pristine, 19th-century, sparsely populated California of smelt and salmon in their inland rivers. But the end result will be more imported food from less environmentally sound farms abroad. Consider energy consumption and supply as well. The United States still has plenty of untapped natural gas and oil — both offshore and in Alaska. We have nearly unlimited coal supplies and oil shale, in addition to the ability to build dozens of new nuclear plants. Developing such traditional sources of energy responsibly would save us trillions of dollars in imported fuels, keep jobs here at home, and allow the nation a precious window of energy autonomy as we steadily transfer to more wind, solar, and renewable energy. If we exploit our own energy carefully offshore and in Alaska, it will mean less sloppy foreign drilling off places like Nigeria or in the fragile Russian tundra to feed American cars and trucks. But this generation of Americans does not want messy drilling at home — only to keep driving. That means more borrowing to buy imported fuel, while telling others to do the dirty work of drilling crude oil in their own backyard. Both Democrats and Republicans have also taken for granted having enough military power to intervene overseas to remove tyrannical governments such as those of Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, Manuel Noriega, and the Taliban — and to stop atrocities whenever we can. But such power takes hundreds of billions of dollars in expensive hardware and military personnel. Barack Obama is no exception to this bipartisan muscular idealism. He sent more troops into Afghanistan, keeps attacking terrorists in Pakistan and, during the campaign, even talked about deploying additional troops to save those in Darfur. But he also wants to keep the defense budget static, or even cut it in some places. In our have-it-both-ways generation, we want to keep our involvements abroad while not worrying as much about the practical means to meet them. Then there is the question of national debt. We are now projected to run a record $1.7 trillion deficit — and may add $9 trillion to our existing $11 trillion in aggregate debt over the next eight years. The president, though, has outlined vast new entitlement programs in health care, education, environmental programs, and infrastructure. The problem, of course, is that we have not earned enough money to pay for any of these additional expenditures. Again, the glamorous ends get the attention, never the mundane means of how to obtain them. Americans became wealthy and strong through unique self-reliance, common sense, and delayed gratification. And we — or our children — will soon become poor precisely because we hold on to the romance that producing food and fuel and saving money are icky tasks to be ignored or left to others. Until we change that attitude, we'll keep borrowing and spending on ourselves what we have not yet earned — all the way to bankruptcy. Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a recipient of the 2007 National Humanities Medal.", "When President Trump tweeted a pledge on Sunday to help save China's second-largest telecommunications firm because penalties imposed by the U.S. Commerce Department had cost too many Chinese jobs, many were left slack-jawed to hear such words coming from the \"America First\" president. But the case of ZTE highlights the importance of high tech in the U.S.-China trade disputes, as well as how the two countries look at the role of government in the economy. China's Foreign Ministry expressed its appreciation for Trump's gesture, which could help smooth crucial trade talks that start Tuesday as China's top economic official, Vice Premier Liu He, arrives in Washington to meet with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. The two sides have so far imposed or threatened each other with billions of dollars in tariffs and failed to significantly narrow their differences when Mnuchin led a delegation to Beijing earlier this month. \"The Chinese have suggested that ZTE was a show-stopper — if you kill this company, we're not going to be able to cooperate with you on anything,\" says Scott Kennedy, an expert on China's political economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. And President Trump needs China's cooperation in ironing out the trade spat, not to mention North Korea and a host of other issues. The ZTE case predates the current U.S.-China trade spat. In March 2017, the Commerce Department hit ZTE with a $1.2 billion penalty for violating U.S. sanctions on Iran and North Korea, and for misleading the U.S. government about the firm's actions. ZTE was also slapped with a suspended seven-year ban on the purchase of U.S. tech products. That ban was activated last month after the U.S. found out that ZTE failed to come clean about its operations. \"ZTE made false statements to the U.S. government when they were originally caught,\" Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a statement last month. ZTE \"made false statements during the reprieve it was given, and made false statements again during its probation.\" ZTE announced May 9 that its operations had ground to a halt because it was unable to purchase the microchips it uses in its products from U.S. companies including the San Diego-based firm Qualcomm. Chinese observers were despondent to find that one of their country's top companies, which sells network equipment and cell phones all over the world, is \"hollow at its core\" and reliant on the U.S. for its microchips. \"The U.S. is moving against ZTE because it wants to knock China out of its leading position in 5G mobile communication technology,\" fumed Hu Xijin, the editor of China's nationalist Global Times tabloid, in a post on the Weibo microblog platform. \"Chinese society must support ZTE,\" he said (although some needled him for sending the post not from a ZTE smartphone, but an iPhone). ZTE's situation convinced many Chinese that rather than being dependent on foreign suppliers, the country must manufacture key technology products itself. This notion is behind Beijing's industrial policy, known as \"Made in China 2025.\" The policy involves subsidizing Chinese firms so they can dominate domestic markets for hi-tech products such as artificial intelligence and new energy vehicles. The U.S. government sees the plan as a threat, and proposes to target it with tariffs on China's tech exports. Douglas Fuller, an expert on China's tech policies at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, says the U.S. could have taken smarter action against ZTE, without hurting U.S. producers that sell it products and \"antagonizing China to double down on more techno-nationalist import substitution policies.\" Those policies did not start with Made in China 2025. Beijing-based economist Hu Xingdou says China has practiced them to some extent for two or three decades. Their proponents can point not only to Asia's main economies as fellow practitioners, but also to a young U.S. Hu notes that President Trump's \"America First\" economic nationalism harks back to the ideas of Alexander Hamilton, who argued in 1791 that free trade would work only \"if the system of perfect liberty to industry and commerce were the prevailing system of nations.\" But as it was not, Hamilton contended, the U.S. should protect its industries with tariffs, while supporting them with \"bounties\" — government subsidies. Hu believes President Trump may be willing to ease up on ZTE in order to protect the overall economic relationship. \"The U.S. still needs China,\" he says. \"If the U.S. causes China's economy to collapse, it won't do the U.S. much good, and the U.S. will lose markets for its core technologies.\" As for Chinese industry, for now, at least, it \"is deeply integrated in global supply chains,\" observes Kennedy. And \"China's economic success depends on continued connectivity to the global economy.\" But he concedes: \"I guess there's a balance between needing that connectivity and wanting to reduce your vulnerability\" to foreign blockades or repr", "Calliope Spanou knows what it's like to feel isolated. As a graduate student in France in the 1980s, she remembers how being Greek didn't feel like being part of the European family. There was, she says, arrogance from northern Europeans toward \"peripheral\" countries like Greece. \"You were a second-class person,\" she says. \"The way they treated you – in their minds, we were immigrants,\" she recalls. Over time, the European Union broke down that sense of isolation. Citizens of member states moved freely between countries. They studied together and worked together. Spanou worked in Great Britain, married a German and then returned with him to settle in Athens. \"It was so easy and natural to be part of these European networks,\" she says. She felt like an equal. Then, five years ago, Europe's economy took a dive. And Greece, which revealed it had enormous debt, was blamed. Spanou, a University of Athens professor, found herself being lectured by taxi drivers in Brussels and colleagues at European conferences. \"They see you now through the lens of a crisis country,\" she says. \"That's all you are.\" In late January of this year, the leftist party Syriza swept Greek elections and promised to save Greece from the crisis, from its unbearable debt and what it called the farmaki or \"poison\" of austerity. It hoped to unite Europe in this process — and, in a way, succeeded. \"The eurozone is united as never before,\" says Spanou's German husband, Jens Bastian, an economist and analyst in Athens. \"And one country is utterly isolated. That is Greece. It's an unintended achievement of this administration.\" Months of negotiations between the Greek government and eurozone lenders over a new credit deal have worn out the Greeks and everyone else. Meanwhile, Greece needs the cash — it's broke, shut out of international markets and struggling to pay bills. It delayed a 300 million euro repayment to the International Monetary Fund, one of its creditors, on Friday. Eurozone lenders insist that Greece must agree to pension cuts and labor reforms, among other unpopular measures, if it wants to receive aid. But Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras wants a deal that will not deliver more blows to an already crippled economy and will keep Greece in the eurozone. \"From the very beginning, this government made it known that it seeks a European solution to the Greek problem,\" he said in an address to an emergency session of Parliament Friday. \"Such a solution would usher in a new era of European integration, sending a clear message that the EU and the common currency are part of our permanent history.\" To many, the Greek fight to change European policy is looking increasingly like a futile mission. Greece \"is too small, too peripheral to be able to challenge the status quo,\" says José Ignacio Torreblanca, who heads the Madrid office of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank. \"Probably the damage to Greece would be far higher and larger than the damage to the EU So they cannot credibly threaten the EU.\" Bastian, Spanou's husband, points out that some countries that once showed solidarity with Greece, like Austria, Malta and Cyprus, \"have actually withdrawn this kind of support for the country and its new administration.\" Torreblanca says Syriza is even losing support from its ideological brother in Spain, the Podemos anti-austerity party, which is preparing for elections later this year and doesn't want to hitch itself to a losing strategy. \"In order [for Podemos] to convince fellow Spaniards that the path chosen by Greece is a good one, it should be successful,\" Torreblanca says. So far, no path has been successful for Greece. The country is still deeply in debt and in a deep economic depression. It has already had two bailouts and may need a third, says Peter Cleppe of the Brussels office of the Open Europe institute. And this time, European taxpayers may be footing part of the bill. Most of the previous bailout payments actually went to rescue French and German banks, which held Greek government bonds. If Greece had been allowed to default on its debt in 2010, it could not have paid those bonds and French and Germany banks would have lost money. With the first two bailouts, EU leaders like German Chancellor Angela Merkel were \"pretending they have sorted out the problem, that they had it all under control, when — guess what — it's not under control,\" Cleppe says. \"It's coming back in full force, creating a lot more damage than it ever would have in 2010.\" Cleppe says Greece must exit the eurozone to save itself. But Calliope Spanou, like most Greeks, does not want that to happen. \"I don't even want to think about it,\" she says. Polls show that nearly half of all Greeks want their government to cut a deal with lenders. Spanou says there seem to be no good options for the country. \"There is a very depressing atmosphere, a lot of questions about what might happen or how things could evolve and develop,\" she says. These days, she an", "The Trump administration is seeking to close nearly two dozen U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices around the world in a move it estimates would save millions per year. But critics argue the closures will further slow refugee processing, family reunification petitions and military citizenship applications. USCIS spokeswoman Jessica Collins announced on Tuesday the agency is in \"preliminary discussions\" to delegate its international responsibilities to the State Department, or to its own personnel in the U.S. In some cases, the workload would be absorbed by U.S. embassies and consulates abroad. \"The goal of any such shift would be to maximize USCIS resources that could then be reallocated, in part, to backlog reduction\" at the agency, Collins told NPR in an emailed statement. In a cost analysis conducted last year, USCIS officials estimated phasing out its international offices would save millions of dollars each year. The USCIS field offices currently assist with refugee applications, family reunification visas and foreign adoptions. They also consider parole requests from people outside the U.S. for urgent humanitarian reasons and process naturalization documents for military members who marry foreign nationals, among other responsibilities. Another \"important function\" of USCIS' international offices is \"to provide technical expertise on immigration-related matters to U.S. government agencies abroad, including other Department of Homeland Security components, the Department of State and the Department of Defense,\" the agency explains on its website. In the statement, Collins downplayed the potential impact of shuttering all 23 field offices across 20 countries. She provided assurances that the transition would be coordinated with the Department of Homeland Security, as well as the State Department, \"to ensure no interruption in the provision of immigration services to affected applicants and petitioners.\" Additionally, the agency says the U.S. refugee program would not be affected because refugee interviews are conducted by U.S.-based personnel who travel around the world. But Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, argued the plan will likely exacerbate a processing bottleneck of refugee applications that has led to fewer opportunities for people to seek asylum in the U.S. She noted the Trump administration slashed the ceiling on the number of allowable refugees from 45,000 in fiscal year 2018 to 30,000 in 2019 due to \"a massive backlog of outstanding asylum cases.\" \"It's yet another step that USCIS has taken that slows the processing of refugee applications and will slow customer service in general,\" Pierce said, adding that an increase in the backlog could fuel calls for further refugee cap reductions moving forward. The USCIS International Operations department employs approximately 70 staffers in its offices around the globe. Foreign nationals make up more than half of its staff working abroad and approximately one-third of all its employees.", "Many of us who can remember Watergate and the news of '72-'74 never dreamed this would happen: More of then-president Richard Nixon's White House recordings are now available to hear for anyone who has a computer and an Internet connection. Click here to go to Nixon Presidential Library & Museum's website and here for the 154 hours of recordings from January and February 1973 that were made public today. The Associated Press starts its latest story on the tapes with this: Read More >> When the Watergate scandal grew into a full-bore crisis unraveling Richard Nixon's presidency, aides hatched a \"game plan\" to save him. The idea: Convince lawmakers that the Watergate prosecutor was a zealot holding a \"pistol to the head\" of the president. It didn't work. Memos and tape recordings released Tuesday by the Nixon Presidential Library shed light on fateful moments of Nixon's second term, among them a peace deal with North Vietnam, sea changes in domestic and foreign policy and management of the Cold War .", "The upcoming shift in the daylight-saving time change is designed to help retailers — and is a substitute for a genuine energy policy, says author Michael Downing. Congress moved the time shift up this year. Melissa Block talks with Michael Downing, author of <em>Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time</em>.", "Do we still live in a capitalist country? As the New Deal took shape, Franklin Roosevelt was accused of undermining capitalism. His response was that he was saving capitalism, not least from itself. And he turned out to be right. Today, in the midst of another economic crisis, cries of \"socialism\" once again abound. There is every reason to believe that these charges, too, will prove to be overwrought. Even if all of Barack Obama's proposals were adopted, the United States would remain a capitalist country. Let's be clear what we mean. Roughly speaking, capitalism implies that markets and market transactions are the principal drivers of economic activity. But this activity takes place within a system of public rules that define property, transactions and everything else that gives shape to markets. And these rules must be enforced through public power. As we have seen recently, when the rules are inadequate, ill-conceived, or poorly enforced, markets malfunction badly, causing great damage. Regulatory institutions are not antithetical, but rather essential to a well-functioning modern capitalist system. Experiences teaches, moreover, that public institutions other than regulators enhance modern capitalism. For example, after a series of financial panics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, government and business leaders agreed that a decentralized financial and banking system could not direct monetary policy effectively. The result was the establishment of the Federal Reserve Board, which influences interest rates and the supply of capital, tries to limit the severity of the business cycle, and seeks to preserve the dollar as a reasonably stable store of value. Capitalism also implies that agents other than the state are the principal owners of the means of production and other sources of wealth. To the extent that governments own energy resources or control banks, for example, their economies are a blend of capitalism and other systems. But it makes a difference whether government ownership is temporary or permanent. During the banking crisis of the 1930s, and again in the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s, the government took control of failed or failing institutions for a time, shutting some of them down and returning others to private hands. Temporary state control of private institutions during emergencies does not transform a capitalist economy into something else. Even the staunchest defenders of markets acknowledge that there are some goods that markets do not supply, at least in adequate quantities. For example, a modern economy depends on an educated and trained work force, which the private sector will not produce. The reason is simple: If a firm invests in training workers, it cannot be sure that another firm will not hire those workers and get the advantage of their skills without paying for them. Government finances education and training because it must, not because it wants to control these activities. Again, there is no contradiction between capitalism and the public provision or subsidy of public goods. Nor, finally, is there a contradiction between capitalism and measures to assure that workers receive a wage adequate to support their families and to maintain the purchasing power on which a sustainable market economy depends. For example, Republicans and Democrats alike have long favored the Earned Income Tax Credit, which uses the tax system to subsidize low-wage work. These are old debates, which many of us thought had been resolved during the New Deal. The fact that they are being revived today testifies both to the gravity of our economic ills and to the persistence of longstanding misconceptions — rooted in doctrine rather than observation — about how modern market economies actually work. William Galston is a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution. He is a former policy adviser for Bill Clinton.", "Robert Dreyfuss is a contributing editor to The Nation. President Obama's speech on \"fiscal policy\" — dollars and cents — on Wednesday touched briefly, very briefly, on defense. Having just written a piece for The Nation magazine on defense spending, I was listening carefully for what he'd say. Sadly, it hardly qualifies as a start. Here's what Obama had to say on Pentagon spending: \"The second step in our approach is to find additional savings in our defense budget. Now, as Commander-in-Chief, I have no greater responsibility than protecting our national security, and I will never accept cuts that compromise our ability to defend our homeland or America's interests around the world. But as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Mullen, has said, the greatest long-term threat to America's national security is America's debt. So just as we must find more savings in domestic programs, we must do the same in defense. And we can do that while still keeping ourselves safe. \"Over the last two years, Secretary Bob Gates has courageously taken on wasteful spending, saving $400 billion in current and future spending. I believe we can do that again. We need to not only eliminate waste and improve efficiency and effectiveness, but we're going to have to conduct a fundamental review of America's missions, capabilities, and our role in a changing world. I intend to work with Secretary Gates and the Joint Chiefs on this review, and I will make specific decisions about spending after it's complete.\" Where to begin? First, the president spoke only of \"wasteful spending,\" but cutting the Pentagon budget means cutting deeply into real, tangible spending, not waste — cutting large numbers of troops, closing bases, canceling weapons systems, slashing Tricare (the military's healthcare plan) and much more. Second, Obama suggested that Gates has cut spending by $400 billion, itself an exaggeration, and then suggests that between now and 2013 he can cut another $400 billion. But many independent and bipartisan reviews of defense spending (see my article) have proposed cuts of $1 trillion or more over the next ten years, more than doubling Obama's measly $400 billion. And this week the People's Budget, released by the Progressive Caucus in Congress, proposed cuts of $2.3 trillion in military outlays. While that's laudable, it is politically unrealistic. But cutting a trillion bucks is perfectly doable. It's good that Obama proposed \"to conduct a fundamental review of America's missions, capabilities, and our role in a changing world.\" But as Winslow Wheeler, Director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information, points out: \"Unless this new review is a radical departure from previous ones, it will be a sham. If it is anything like the 2010 [Quadrennial Defense Review], it will not address the fundamental issues, and it will require none of the basic information needed to put together a competent budget and national strategy, nor a realistic plan the Pentagon can actually follow to reduce spending by $33.3 billion, or any other amount, per year.\" Of course, the Republicans are much worse, and for the most part — except for some rumblings from Senator Tom Coburn and other members of the so-called Gang of Six — the GOP is refusing to propose defense cuts. The Stimson Center's Gordon Adams, who's been critical of Obama's modest plan for cuts, lambasts the Republicans for protecting the Pentagon. In a piece for The Hill, Adams and a colleague say: \"Last Tuesday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) opposed a 2012 budget that caves to the Pentagon bureaucracy and spares the Department of Defense from fiscal discipline. Ryan's spending plan mimics Defense Secretary Robert Gates,' which is more about the pretense of savings than actual prudence. It calls for $178 billion in reductions over the next five years, but most of these reductions are illusory and none of them lower the budget. Instead, they merely slow the growth that the department has said it would prefer.\" The country cannot sustain military spending of more than $4 trillion over the next decade, which is what's on the books. And, more important, it's not the right thing to do. But these opening bids are pathetically less than what's needed", "In his State of the Union address, President Bush proposes the expansion of health savings accounts. Proponents say the accounts will shift responsibility for health care from the government and employers to the individual. Critics argue the sick will suffer from sub-standard care. Guests: Julie Rovner, NPR correspondent Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute (non-profit research organization focusing on free-market ideas for health reform) Uwe Reinhardt, professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University LYNN NEARY, host: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Lynn Neary in Washington. Neal Conan is away. One of the many proposals that President Bush made in his State of the Union speech last night was an expansion of health savings accounts. President GEORGE W. BUSH: We will strengthen health savings accounts, making sure individuals and small business employees can buy insurance with the same advantages that people working for big businesses now get. (Soundbite of applause) We will do more to make this coverage portable, so workers can switch jobs without having to worry about losing their health insurance. NEARY: An estimated three million people now use these plans, which the administration believes can change the way Americans think about health care. Unlike traditional health insurance plans, health savings accounts are consumer directed. The Administration believes if consumers pay more for health care out of their own pockets, it will force them to think more about their health care choices; which doctors to see, which brand of medicines to buy, which procedures to have done. And that, proponents argue, will help bring down the cost of health care. Opponents say these policies only benefit those who are healthy, and leave the elderly and the chronically ill in a more difficult position. They also say health providers simply don't provide enough information about care quality and prices to allow consumers to make informed decisions. Later in the show, the President's call for a more civil tone in society, but first, if you have an HSA, how is it working for you? If your employer gave you the option of having an HSA and you refused, we'd like to hear why. Our number here in Washington, 800-989-8255, that's 800-989-TALK. And our email address is talk@npr.org. Joining us now is NPR's health policy correspondent, Julie Rovner. She's here with me in Studio 3A. So good to have you with us so you can explain all this for us, Julie. JULIE ROVNER reporting: I'll try. NEARY: And let's see if we can start out, if you can give us a thumbnail explanation for HSA's. What are they? Give us a refresher course. ROVNER: Okay. Health savings accounts are actually, it works in two parts. The health savings account is a piece of a paired unit, and the savings account itself can be, can have money contributed to it by an employer, or by the employee, or by both. And it gets combined with a high deductible health insurance plan, with a deductible of at least 1,000 dollars a year for an individual, $2,000 for a family. I actually guess this year it went up to 1,050 for an individual. And basically, the way it works is that you get the money, whatever money you put in or your employee puts into that health savings account, you spend for routine care up to that deductible. Once you hit that deductible, then your insurance kicks in, and it shares the cost. And that high deductible health plan can work one of any number of ways; it can be an HMO, or a PPO, or standard insurance. But, the theory is that the first chunk of money you're gonna spend will be your money. And unlike the flexible savings accounts a lot of us, excuse me, flexible spending accounts a lot of people have now for healthcare, where if you don't use it by the end of the year, you lose it, in this case, it rolls over. And that's the important part, because the theory is if people are spending money that they can keep if they don't spend, they'll spend less of it. They'll go out and make wiser choices. NEARY: So, the health savings accounts are not themselves a plan, but they're part of a plan? Is that how you would describe it? ROVNER: That's correct. And in fact, when you say that there's three million people in these plans, there's three million people in plans that are qualified, that they're high deductible health plan qualified to have HSA's. We don't actually know how many of those people are in the HSA's, because, of course, the health insurers don't really run the HSA's, they only run the health plans. So, the health insurers can tell us how many people are in qualified health insurance plans. But they can't tell us how many people actually have those HSA's. NEARY: The accounts are either held by the individual or by their employer. Is that how it is? ROVNER: Yes, usually a bank runs them, actually. There's some sort of financial institution. Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association is actually going to start its ", "\"I'm a carpenter/cabinet-maker/woodworker, and I think I'll be retiring the day I die.\" Michael Powers, 47, is not alone in his retirement insecurity. According to a Pew study published in May, members of Generation X — aged 38 to 47 — are on track to be the first generation to do worse in retirement than their parents. Assuming they retire at all. For almost a century, it's been a tenet of the American dream: Work hard enough, and you'll get to rest and relax in your golden years. But retirement as we know it may be consigned to the dustbin of history. Getting By Powers lives in Washoe Valley, Nev., with his wife, Katharine. At 46, she manages an office suites company. The Powers have three children, and like many people of their generation, they didn't even start saving for retirement until well into their 30s. \"We moved back and forth quite a lot, and didn't really save a whole bunch. We did start saving probably only about 15 years ago,\" Michael Powers tells Tess Vigeland, guest host of weekends on All Things Considered. \"I had a profit-sharing with the construction company that I used to work for, but that's all gone now.\" In 2007, business was booming. The housing bubble kept him busy, and the couple was able to save. They'd put away more than $15,000, but then the crash came. \"We lost a whole bunch of the money ... and we even at one point had to take some out because it was getting really bad there for a while,\" Katharine Powers says. The worst year was 2009, after Michael Powers lost his job. They used their small retirement fund for daily living expenses. He says things are better now, but it's still tough to make ends meet. He had been making about $100,000 a year. Last year, they made $30,000. \"We're not poor. We're very thrifty,\" he says. \"But there's no retirement, not a lot of extras happening.\" Of that $15,000 they'd saved before the recession, only a few hundred dollars remain. Taking A Hit \"Gen. X looks to be the first generation that will not exceed the wealth of the group that came before them, and to potentially face downward mobility in retirement,\" says Erin Currier, director of economic mobility for the Pew Charitable Trusts. The Pew study compared Generation X to previous generations, like the baby boomers (ages 48-65). The study looks at \"replacement rates,\" how much of people's pre-retirement income they can replace with savings. Wealth managers recommend having enough to replace 70 to 100 percent of your income when you retire. Here's the study's replacement rate breakdown: Early boomer: 70 to 80 percent Late boomer: about 60 percent Generation Xer: about 50 percent Currier says the recession took a particular hard toll on Generation X. \"They lost the highest percentage of net worth than the other groups, losing an average of $33,000 in their net worth,\" she says. But Currier says there were signs even before the recession that Generation X would not exceed the wealth of the previous generation. Contributing to their insecurity are big student loans and wages that haven't kept up with the cost of living. Counting On The System The retirement system itself could also be a factor in how — or if — this generation is saving. A dominant savings vehicle for Americans under 50 is the 401(k). But fewer than half of Americans have access to a 401(k) plan through their employer, Currier says, \"and a very small percentage of them try to get retirement plans on their own through an IRA.\" With a 401(k), workers are allowed — but not required — to invest their own money, rather than having the company automatically set aside and manage a pension for you. In theory, it gives you freedom. \"Our experiment with the do-it-yourself, individual-directed, commercially provided 401(k) plan has not worked,\" says Teresa Ghilarducci, director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School. \"It's an abysmal failure in almost every way, and almost all experts agree that something has to change.\" Her suggestion is to \"go back to the basics.\" \"Make sure that people save where they can save — and that's at the workplace,\" she says. The further along you are in your career, she says, the more you'll have to save. Yet Ghilarducci realizes it's difficult to ask people to put aside their own wages, particularly if where they are putting that money isn't secure. \"There has to be new institutions that guarantee a modest but safe continual rate of return,\" she says. \"And we can do that by adding to the Social Security system, a place where people can save their money and get a rate of return that's safe.\" She notes that a number of states are trying to find ways that residents can save money through the public employees' retirement systems. 'Most Precious' Period Of Life However those initiatives work out, most changes will come too late for people now in their late-30s and 40s. Meaning people like Katharine Powers may have to revise their vision for retirement. \"We've been married 26 years. ", "Part two of a two-part report. The gap in the wealth of white families and what's owned by blacks and Hispanics has widened in recent years. Researchers say it will widen even more unless steps are taken to break what's become a vicious cycle — the rich getting richer and the poor struggling to keep from falling further behind. The city of San Francisco is taking one step to help even the playing field. Children entering the city's kindergartens are getting their own college savings accounts. \"It's all about building aspirations in that child's mind,\" says City Treasurer Jose Cisneros. The city will deposit $50 in each account — $100 for those students who get free and reduced price lunches. Local nonprofits will match parents' contributions up to another $200. The amounts are modest, Cisneros admits. But he says, in a city where many public school children are poor, it's more about the message than the money. \"When a child grows up and sees — 'Oh, look at this, concrete evidence, a college savings account, my name on it. That must mean I'm I going,'\" he says. \"And we wanted to bring that kind of success to San Francisco.\" Right now, half the kindergarten classes are participating. Soon, it will be all of them. This program is part of an effort nationwide by government and nonprofit groups to narrow the racial wealth gap. The Pew Research Center recently found that the median white household has net assets worth 20 times that of the median black household and 18 times that of a Hispanic family — assets such as housing, savings and investments, minus any debt. Ben Mangan runs a nonprofit group in San Francisco called EARN, which helps low-income families save money for long-term investments, such as college, a home or business. He says the racial wealth gap itself is propelling the economic divide. \"The fact is, communities of color have less of the dollars across the generations and so they're at a disadvantage in their ability to invest in the things that would allow them to get ahead,\" he says. His group has helped people such as 34-year-old Helena Edwards, who today lives in a three-bedroom condominium in the Bayview section of San Francisco. She bought the place about a year ago, after she, her partner, their daughter, a niece and a nephew came home one day to find an eviction notice on their door. \"The apartment we was living at, the landlord went into foreclosure and he didn't tell us,\" Edwards says. First, she got the eviction delayed. Then, with the help of EARN, she started a matched savings account for a down payment on a home. The group also gave her financial advice. Edwards grew up in foster care, and no one really showed her how to handle money, let alone how to buy a house. \"Lot of stuff that I never knew about. Never. I don't even know anybody who owned a house but one person,\" she says. Edwards learned how to have money automatically withheld from her paycheck to put into a savings account. And she got her favorite tip of all — something she calls a \"credit card condom\" — to help control debt. \"It's a little envelope you put over your credit card and you write your goal,\" she explains. \"Every time you use that credit card, you had to pull it out of that sleeve. So you got to read, 'Do I need this, or do I need to save for a house?'\" Now that she has her house, Edwards says she can focus on other things, such as finishing her college education. Tom Shapiro of Brandeis University, who has studied the racial wealth gap extensively, says families that participate in these individual development accounts, as they're called, have shown promising results. \"Their foreclosure rates have been much lower. Their savings are much higher. Indicators around their children's education are much better,\" he says. \"But we're talking about maybe thousands of families, not even tens of thousands in a state.\" And there are millions who need help. These programs are also expensive, which make them difficult to fund at a time when government at all levels is stretched for resources. San Francisco's Kindergarten to College accounts will cost the city about $500,000 a year. Shapiro says it will take a lot more than that to narrow a gap that's so firmly entrenched. He thinks one solution might be tax breaks to encourage low-income families to save more. Shapiro says that might offset the many tax breaks today — on things such as estates and investments — that tend to favor those who already have wealth and help to widen the economic divide. Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation says another way to encourage more savings by low-income families might be for employers to automatically enroll people in savings plans — for things such as 401(k) plans — instead of waiting for them to sign up, which they often don't do. Once enrolled, he says, people are more likely to keep saving. 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[ "Because people do not understand the aim of education,,Education in school and uni.s is not only giving information (that is more in schools) , but mainly it teachs the person HOW to get information,,millions of books are there everywhere full of information (plus internet ...etc), what ment by education is to enable the person to get the information and use it to solve a problem..(of course I am not talking about the basics)", "2 words: Ben & Jerry's.\\nJust jokin. Seriously, you need to realize how much happier you can be without that person. You are free, and no matter how great of a person they were, you will find someone that matches you better. Good luck, and I hope you find happiness within yourself. Not within someone else.", "blogging is not different from the rest of the internet, or newspaper publishing for that matter. Same limititations to free speech: insults, confidential or copyrighted information, , promoting hate/violence/crime. If they can find you or website operator, they'll shut the blog down. Aside from that, nobody cares.", "It's like most of the rest of the internet: it, itself isn't necessarily safe or unsafe. it's how you use it. Don't give out personal information or post photographs in places people can use to find you (like in front of your house). Don't go meet strangers or invite them over. Don't even give out your favorite email address if it has too much information in it (name of your school/business with your full name).\\n\\nIf you're asking whether or not it's safe for your kids, then the answer is \"no.\" Kids tend to be too trusting on the internet and feel safer than they really are.", "Personally I like St. Thomas and I believe you can easily find information that will make a fantastic report.", "Well according to the internet it is pink, though I find it odd I can only find that information on trivia sites and not on sites about hippos. I'll do some more research and let you know.", "Most hotels, if they do not provide free wireless internet, will provide free wired internet. If you don't want to be wired, I would suggest taking your Linksys router along with you, but then you'll have to reconfigure. If the hotel has a wireless connection, they can provide you with information to use the wireless network, and at most hotels, the person at the desk can actually help you configure if you bring your computer to them. The only thing you would need for a wired connection, if there is not other option, is an Ethernet cable. Either Cat5 or Cat5e will be fine. Some of the hotels I've been to provide a cord, but it is better to be safe than sorry.", "Yes - I find the whole process fascinating. I also believe that voting is an informed decision making process, so I keep up with local, state and national issues so I can make an informed decision. How can a person complain about the state of things in their city, state and country if they are not well informed as to what is going on AND they don't vote! If you don't exercise your right to vote, you shouldn't complain about the state of things.", "The question should read \"How can I find out if I have an arrest warrant that was issued in Pima County Arizona\". AND arrest warrants are not public information. Criminal history reports for Arizona are listed on the internet. Tell me why a \"warrant\" issued by a judge would be public record? Hey- go to the Tucson Police Department on Stone Avenue and ask them:)", "I am guessing that you are enquiring about study in US after completing dentistry course in India (BDS).\\n\\nI think you can find all the information you need for free from any US consulate or information center in your country. They would be more than glad to provide the correct information to you.\\n\\nYou can also refer to the following site. There is a section called \"US Aspirants Please Go through this\". There I think you will find the information you need. \\n\\nhttp://www.healthmantra.com/USA.htm\\n\\nI am not sure what the USD 25 brochure is about. I think you would get that information for free also ;-)", "There are some great resume examples here, too. The best thing about this site is that they show you a person's resume in all 3 of the most common formats (chronological, functional and combination), so you can see how one person's information looks in different formats. It is a neat approach and it's also free.", "Sweety, pardon my ignorance but is the USMLE a medical student test or something? Since no one else has answered your question, I'm going to have to apply my legal knowledge as I see it. I'm an ex-cop, not a lawyer but I can tell you that if it is illegal, the truth is, that they probably won't do much about it since the internet is so vast, it's nearly impossible to find all of the sites which post the information. In my view, unethical; yes, illegal; not sure but I'll try to find out, stopping it; no way. I personally like to pass test on my own intelligence but some people just don't care how they do it. It's damned wrong! But, internet policing is not so easy. =) email me with the exact name of the test so I can do some research. rilti8@sbcglobal.net.", "watch out! if you have an email informing you that you have won millions in a lottery it's an internet scam to 'phish' for your personal information. don't ever send your personal details. search the web, type: \"internet scams\" to learn more...", "I recently went through AOS preceedings with my wife from Guatemala. I searched endlessly for information on the internet. The INS website is so huge, and can be quite confusing. I called many immigration attorneys and wrote many emails, but I found it VERY difficult to get free information from anybody. In the end, I decided that the best thing to do is to let a professional handle the case. If you are financially able, try to find an attorney. My attorney handled all AOS costs for $1200 (filing fees are paid separately). The peace of mind was worth it. Hope this helps.", "Who would actually pay for internet porn? If you look around just a little bit, you can find tons of it online for free.", "It's a cultural shift to the age of information. People become jaded about life and love when they are bombarded with internet porn, unattainable bodies, soft drink ads, and winning free ipods. The ideals of our grandparent generation are gone. I don't think that there is all bad to come of this shift, i believe that we are more aware and informed then ever. We have way more options then the you have to marry girl down the street or the person you parent picked out for economic reasons.", "Nice question, I do love the internet, it links the world together, there is soo much on the net, and more is on the way.\\nThe best thing for me about the internet is that you can find ideas, you can reach out to the world and emarce yourself in the random maddness of someone else. \\nIts not just about finding a peace of infomation anymore, its about living with the internet not for or on the net but with it, its a hugh part of the world. with this in mind you sould enjoy what it is and keep idea open and free for others to enjoy.", "depends on the depth of your dive, length of your dive, and the person diving. I'm sure that you can find proper mixes on the Internet.", "You can open rar files with a little free utility called UnRarX. Do a search on the Internet to find it. You can go to Mactopia and download the Windows Media Player for Mac there. This helps.", "hope u find out - wouldn't it be wonderful to make money from what we are addicted to lol - mine's the internet and food - now how can I combine that to make money lol", "I would be glad to mail you some information. I am a loan officer with Griffin Financial mortgage. We are the largest Reverse Mortgage broker in the Southwest but we are able to do loans within 22 states. I have a lot of information that I can provide you so feel free to contact me and I will put it in the mail. You can reach me at bburns@griffinloans.com\\nTry starting here. This is the best source on the internet.\\nhttp://www.aarp.org/money/revmort/", "Samantha... I'm an herbalist and i can't find anything on chachayotl except that it is an Aztec word meaning rattles of a snake. there are several herbs that I can help you with that can help arthritis pain. my information is free and I would be glad to help, contact me direct.", "Great question. It's a study in human behavior, and the Yahoo executives are being briefed in their offices probably as we debate the subject. One aspect is being able to discuss any topic anonymously. You may wonder how the public at large thinks about things and your willing to give information as you learn new things. So it's sort of like a free Ebay where thoughts, ideas and information are being traded rather than goods and services. It can certainly be addictive since you want to know things and you think you know things other people don't. I think it's just another example of how the Internet can benefit society, and congratulations to Yahoo for providing this open forum for us to communicate in.", "You can find a Nintendo emulator at that link. As for roms, all's I can say is when i'm searching for something on the internet I use the seach engines. With a carefully worded search you can find just about anything on the internet if it's there to find.........", "Sorry, I don't know of a translation site on line that free, but I do know where you can find a free online English to Croatian dictionary. I wish I had more info for you. \\n\\nhttp://www.onlinedictionary.com/bilingual_english_dictionary/english_croatian_dictionary.aspx\\n\\nI hope this small amount of information is helpful.", "First I would do a goggle search using the name and information you have. It's surprising how much is out there you can find out with just a simple search.\\n\\nSecond contact the better business bureau and the Chamber of Commerce (through their website) there in Phoenix Arizona and ask if they have had any reports of problems with this company. It's free through both of these sources to find out about a business and they will tell you of any major problems that have been reported. \\n\\nThird I would ask the financial aid office at the school I was planning to attend if they had any information about the company. If they don't know anything about them ask how to contact the Federal Student Loan Department to find out what they have on them. Sallie Mae keeps records on problems with lenders and will provide that information to you.\\n\\nSee the resources area below for URLs \\n\\n(Remember that companies that are questionable change their information often so not finding out anything doesn't mean all is OK. Use all of the resources before you decide and look for positive information not just a lack of complaints.)", "See, I've had the same thought. It seems a form of laziness and cheating to come on here and ask for answers. But to be fair, coming here and asking IS finding online information. It's a novel approach to research but then, so was the Internet 10 or 12 years ago. I think getting the information should maybe not be the main focus today like it use to be -- maybe we should work on HOW they get the information. Teach a variety of strategies and compel students to use them, not just one.", "Here it is, Specially made for kids. Howver i would NOT recommend its Parnetal Filter.\\n\\nFollowing are the information:\\n\\n(NOT FREE, Trial Available)\\nChild Control 8.102 - Salfeld Computer\\n\\nThis software lets you set time limits for the PC and the Internet, and block or filter unwanted Internet content. You can limit access to internal Windows components and personal folders. A protocol informs you as to what happens on your computer and when. Access is protected via a password.\\n\\nMore Info:\\n\\nPublisher :Salfeld Computer \\nLicense :Free to try; $29.90 \\nLimitations :30-day trial \\nRequirements :Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP\\nFile size :4.67MB\\nCNET Rating :4 STARS\\n \\nWhere to Download it?\\nHere's The link to download it\\nhttp://www.download.com/Child-Control/3000-2162_4-10506859.html", "i highly suggest you consult a doctor instead of the internet for information like this. much of the prognosis of stroke depends on how focused and guided your rehabilitation program is.", "Sorry,there are no free background checks.Because it requires identification and protection of personal information.", "there are plenty of songs in English that you can get free on the internet./ I don't understand the question.", "The Mormon Church and others have great databases that are accessible by internet and in person looking for Geneology. They can find generations back further than 1700." ]

[ "Billingsley is related, by marriage, to actor/producer Peter Billingsley, known for his starring role as \"Ralphie\" in the seasonal TV-movie classic, A Christmas Story (1983). First husband Glenn Billingsley's cousin is Peter's mother, Gail Billingsley." ]

[ "Minds have been blown across the internet over the last week following a discovery that has been hiding in plain sight for 15 years: Peter Billingsley, the actor behind the iconic role of Ralphie in “A Christmas Story,” also appears in the Christmas movie classic “Elf.” Not only that, but he also appears in the ...", "Peter Jones & Partners is a large department store in central London. It is owned by John Lewis Partnership and located in Sloane Square, Chelsea.", "Are Lewis Capaldi and Peter Capaldi related? The two stars are related. Lewis Capaldi is the second cousin once removed to actor Peter Capaldi – Peter is Lewis' dad's second cousin. Peter is famous for playing the twelfth incarnation of Doctor Who, as well as starring in BBC's The Thick of It and the Paddington films.", "John Oxley, in full John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley, (born 1783/85?, near Westow, Yorkshire, England—died May 26, 1828, Kirkham, Australia), surveyor-general and explorer who played an important part in the exploration of eastern Australia and also helped open up Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania).", "Peter was a fisherman in Bethsaida (John 1:44). He was named Simon, son of Jonah or John. The three Synoptic Gospels recount how Peter's mother-in-law was healed by Jesus at their home in Capernaum (Matthew 8:14–17, Mark 1:29–31, Luke 4:38); this passage clearly depicts Peter as being married.", "Peter Childs (31 August 1939 – 1 November 1989) was an English character actor best known for playing Cockney Detective Sergeant Ronnie Rycott, nemesis of Arthur Daley in the top-rated ITV series, Minder.", "Daniel Goleman's five components of emotional intelligence. Emotional Intelligence, as a psychological theory, was developed by Peter Salovey and John Mayer.", "Dan + Shay's Shay Mooney Marries Hannah Billingsley. Dan + Shay singer Shay Mooney married fiancé Hannah Billingsley on Friday (Oct. 20) during an outdoor ceremony in Arkansas. The couple became engaged in 2016 before announcing they were expecting a baby in January 2017.", "John Bennett Ramsey (born December 7, 1943) is an American businessman, author, and father of JonBenét Ramsey, who was murdered in her Boulder, Colorado home on December 25, 1996.", "Peter Bjorn and John are a Swedish indie pop/rock band, formed in Stockholm in 1999 and named after the first names of the band's members: Peter Morén (vocals, guitar and harmonica), Björn Yttling (bass guitar, keyboards and vocals) and John Eriksson, known in his solo work as Hortlax Cobra (drums, percussion and ...", "Tyler Richard \"Ty\" Dillon (born February 27, 1992) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He is the younger brother of fellow NASCAR driver Austin Dillon, son of former driver and RCR general manager Mike Dillon, and grandson of Richard Childress.", "Bob is not related to John Denver, who was born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr.", "P-Square were a Nigerian duo of identical twin brothers Peter Okoye and Paul Okoye. They produced and released their albums through Square Records.", "John Patrick McSherry (September 11, 1944 – April 1, 1996) was an American umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the National League from 1971 until his death.", "The original members were Mick Fleetwood (b. June 24, 1947, Redruth, Cornwall, England), John McVie (b. November 26, 1945, London, England), Peter Green (original name Peter Greenbaum; b.", "Paul John Ross (born 31 December 1956) is an English television and radio presenter, journalist and media personality. He is the son of Martha Ross and the elder brother of Jonathan Ross.", "['Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen)', 'Bumblebee.', 'Hound (John Goodman)', 'Drift (Ken Watanabe)', 'Ratchet (Robert Foxworth)', 'Crosshairs (John DiMaggio)', 'Leadfoot (Robert Foxworth, video footage)', 'Brains (Reno Wilson)']", "Parker Bagley is American actor best known for portraying Jason DiLaurentis in the first season of Pretty Little Liars. He is later replaced by Drew Van Acker, because according to Marlene King, \"[Van Acker] works more for where we're going with that story.\"", "John Oswald Sanders (October 17, 1902—October 24, 1992) was a general director of Overseas Missionary Fellowship (then known as China Inland Mission) in the 1950s and 1960s. He authored more than forty books on the Christian life.", "The full list of the Twelve is given with some variation in Mark 3, Matthew 10, and Luke 6 as: Peter and Andrew, the sons of John (John 21:15); James and John, the sons of Zebedee; ; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Jude, or Thaddaeus, the son of James; Simon the Cananaean, or the ...", "Peter John Gzowski CC (July 13, 1934 – January 24, 2002), known colloquially as \"Mr. Canada\", or \"Captain Canada\", was a Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter, most famous for his work on the CBC radio shows This Country in the Morning and then Morningside.", "Nelson Frazier Jr. (February 14, 1971 – February 18, 2014) was an American professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment (WWF/WWE) in the 1990s and 2000s under the ring names Mabel, Viscera, and Big Daddy V.", "John Le Mesurier (/lə ˈmɛʒərə/, born John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley; 5 April 1912 – 15 November 1983) was an English actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his comedic role as Sergeant Arthur Wilson in the BBC television situation comedy Dad's Army (1968–1977).", "Cody Martin Linley (born November 20, 1989) is an American actor and singer. He played a recurring role as Jake Ryan in the television series Hannah Montana, and was a contestant on the seventh season of Dancing With The Stars, in which he was partnered with Julianne Hough and finished fourth.", "Sarah G. Bagley, (born, probably Meredith, N.H., U.S.—died 1847?), American labour organizer who was active in trying to institute reform in the mills of Lowell, Massachusetts.", "Joe Altobelli is my grandfather and, no, we are not related to John.", "John Crawley, who represented England in 37 Tests and 13 ODIs from 1994-2003, has two elder brothers named Mark and Peter Crawley. All the three brothers had played first-class cricket for Lancashire at some point in their respective careers. However, Zac Crawley is not related to any of the three brothers.", "['Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime. ... ', 'Frank Welker as Galvatron. ... ', 'John Goodman as Hound. ... ', 'Ken Watanabe as Drift. ... ', 'Robert Foxworth as Ratchet. ... ', 'John DiMaggio as Crosshairs. ... ', 'Mark Ryan as Lockdown. ... ', 'Reno Wilson as Brains.']", "Player first came together in Los Angeles, California. The original members included Peter Beckett (vocals, guitar), John Charles \"J.C.\" Crowley (vocals, keyboards, guitar), Ronn Moss (vocals, bass), and John Friesen (drums).", "['John Avlon.', 'David Axelrod.', 'David Frum.', 'Paul Begala.', 'Peter Beinart.', 'Keith Boykin.', 'Maria Cardona.', 'Amanda Carpenter.']", "The John Lewis Partnership plc (JLP) is a British company which operates John Lewis & Partners department stores, Waitrose & Partners supermarkets, its banking and financial services, and other retail-related activities.", "A Great Big World is an American musical duo from New York made up of singer/songwriters Ian Axel and Chad King and signed to Epic Records." ]

[ "I received the item and found 10 of them were crushed and spilled onto others.<br />My mother spent about 30 minutes to clean.<br />Didn't want to return as it is not worth my while.<br />Always liked this particular creamer but wasn't happy to see a lot of them crushed inside the box." ]

[ "These would have been good except 99.9% were broken. I asked for and received a refund. I will not order them again. I ended up crushing and using them in recipes that called for graham cracker crumbs.", "Amazon sent them with 'ice' packs, very heavy ones, placed ON TOP of the boxes of delicate chocolates!!<br /><br />They were not only crushed, but the styrofoam was so thin that the ice packs completely melted and were useless by the time they got here, even though I brought them inside the minute they arrived.<br /><br />The boxes of chocolate were crushed.<br /><br />If it's over 75 degrees where you are, don't bother to order them. They're not returnable.", "These Szechuan ones are 99.9% just the husk (shell) and virtually none of the peppercorns. Roast them and crush them to get the flavor and texture right. If you don't roast them and crush them up they'll be chewy and lack the flavor you expect. I am used to seeing more of the peppercorns mixed in which I crush up with the husks as I roast them. Yummy.", "Love, love love Krispy Kreme doughnut's! When I could no longer find them in my area I was crushed. Thank's to Amazon I can now get them. They came a little dry so I just popped them in the micro wave for about 10 seconds and they were just as moist and delicious as I remembered. I hide them when the kids spend the day with me. They are much too good share.", "I purchased packs of 12 o four different flavors of these breadsticks. I was very disappointed when I received them. Two of the four contained absolutely no protective packaging to prevent them from moving around or being crushed. One box was crushed severely on one end and as a result two of the boxes containing the breadsticks was also crushed. Some of these boxes contain little more than bread crumbs. I have opened several boxes and have yet to come across even one whole breadstick let alone a box with the entire amount whole.<br /><br />I wanted to use these for gifts at Christmas presented with a decorated container to set them in and homemade spaghetti sauce and salad dressing. I would not purchase these unless you want to use them for breading.", "my cats love this cat food, but 9 of the 24 cans were crushed.. the amazon box was not crushed.. the carton the cans came in was not crushed.. the cans inside were crushed.. i think this was a manufacturing problem.. not an amazon problem. i tossed the 9 cans.. did not want to take a chance with contamination. inspect the entire carton when you receive it.. i waited til 10 days. i think it is too late to claim a problem.", "For $35 (with shipping) I would expect all 35 of my K-Cups to arrive in great condition. Well, FedEx crushed my box ending up in about 10 of them to either get punctured resulting in coffee everywhere in the box, or the sides of the cups crushed making them unusable. Anyway, when it comes to variety, it was top notch. I had about 20 types of coffee in my packaging, and they were all over the spectrum. I look forward to ordering the types of coffees I like, praying they make it to me in 1 piece.", "Not even sure if this is really Dill Weed????? These look like crushed mint leaves or just plain crushed leaves, dill weed looks feathery and the smell and taste is VERY distinct. This item is NOT. Don't waste your money. I think if someone were to have left dill weed out open subjected to the elements for 10 years, that would have more aroma and taste than this product does. ABSOLUTE WASTE OF MONEY", "We were tried and true Progresso customers for many years until they stopped producing crushed tomatoes last year. We both like a more chunky and thick sauce and as such, whole tomatoes, chuny tomatoes just don't work. Crushed tomatoes do.<br />We tried one of the other San Marzano canned whole tomatoes and crushed them ourselves. The taste was very very good, better than the Progresso's and by hand crushing we were able to make a very nice thick sauce. But it had little hard things in it, like large pieces of pepper but not pepper and we don't know if that came from those canned tomatoes or the parmesan cheese we used ( Kraft ) Stay tuned on that.<br />This disappointment led us to made a whole new batch of our twice a year sauce making binge as I was not sure if I would eat that other sauce. We had only a couple cans of these San Marzano's and let me tell you, we are very very happy we were forced to make a new batch. The sauce that we made from this product is very tasty, starts off nice and thick although not as sweet as the other brand. But very nice. We used the usual ingredients and a nice wine. Came out on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being perfect and 1 being the least, I'd call this batch an 8+, maybe a 9 and that means Happy Happy Joy Joy.", "I recieved my Athon Berg chocolates today, 12-9-10. They were here earlier then expected, and in perfect condition. No leaks or any crushed. I took them to share at a Christmas party. Everyone loved them! I hide a whole bunch! I loved the Grande Marinier and the Southern Comfort the most. I love the burn and kick these little confections give. They are awesome! I WILL be buying them again as well as recommending them to my friends and family. Thank you to the thenewmall as well as Amazon. Meep meep", "What a great deal! Only $10 Shipping, while if buying direct from Tropical Traditions it costs $40.<br /><br />I used to live in a place in San Jose CA, where the chickens ran free, and pick up my eggs behind small bushes in the morning. This is how these eggs taste. I fry 2 of them in olive oil and add butter powder, salt, habanero & crushed rosemary to them. These two medium eggs last far into the day. No bread. Just coffee...", "Memorable snack from childhood. Just as I remembered them. A couple of the bags in the shipment were pretty much crushed to crumbs but they were tasty crumbs.", "I found this cereal accidentally at a local store and I am hooked.<br /><br />The barley malt adds a hint of sweetness so the cereal isn't boring, but the whole grains and flax seeds make it good for you, and it's full of fiber and beneficial fats. If you're not comfortable with such a large order, pick up a box at a local store -- and come back to Amazon for the bulk discount.<br /><br />I wish that this cereal came in larger packages, as 10 ounces is only five servings. Also, Amazon seems to have problems shipping them without crushing the tops of the boxes.", "I was really disappointed when I opened this package up. Over a third of the crackers are already crushed or cracked or even slightly burnt on the edges. I am using them for S'mores favor bags for a birthday party and it's too late to send them back and try to find other individually packaged graham crackers. I had enough to do what I needed but what a waste of money on the rest of the damaged goods. I guess I can make a graham cracker crust out of them.....", "These biscuits are really tasty. They're more for adults than children because they're not too sweet. They stay crisp, have a good mouth feel, and are very satisfying.<br /><br />If you can find them at your grocer's, get them there.<br /><br />I bought the 7-pack option, and they arrived with two or three cookies on one or both ends of the packages crushed to dust.<br /><br />I'm not asking Amazon to replace them because I'm going to put the crushed biscuits in breakfast cereal, and we're going to eat them. They're quite good that way too. But I will suggest that Amazon take the fragility of these biscuits into account when shipping them in the future.", "Do not order these online. They are shipped in the flimsy box that the grocery stores use. No additional packaging is used to protect the inside. My box was crushed on three corners, adding to the already crushed chips. I wound up feeding them to the birds.", "If you love pineapple, you won't be disappointed by this item. About half the can is sweet pinapple juice, the other half, nice bite sized chunks to eat. Even my cat liked these, because he would lick at them in my hand and eat them.<br /><br />Stay away from the \"crushed\" variety though, which isn't crushed at all, and is more like a disguisting slush. But this \"chunks\" variety is absolutely delicious and highly recommended.", "Love them! All the Just Tomatoes products are great and tasty - a wonderful snack and so much better than chips! Amazon does a great job delivering them to my door quickly and without crushing the products!", "I love these chips and when I could no longer find them at Costco, I went to the internet. Unfortunately when they reached me they were totally crushed. There were no whole chips, very few partial chips and most just crumbles.", "These pods cost way more than ordering through Nespresso. I didn't know that and paid about twice the amount I should have. Also it took 3 weeks to ship. When I ordered through Nespresso it took 3 days. On top of all that, many of the pods were crushed. Some didn't even work they were so crushed. In the end, don't buy the pods here. Just buy them from Nespresso's website.", "The chips are great - they arrived sooner than expected and they arrived safely - I was concerned about their being crushed, etc. - but they were fine. A wonderful snack! I recommend them highly....many thnx!", "I'm not commenting on the quality of the item but the poor experience buying it through Amazon. Of the 12 cans, 10 of them came crushed and dented, a health hazard due to potential air entry into the cans. I had to throw them out because Amazon didn't want them back. I asked for a refund so I didn't end up paying $13 a piece for the two good cans. Amazon refused at first, saying they would re-send it. But it was out of stock. I waited a while, wrote back, and they finally refunded the product, making me feel guilty for the dented up cans.<br /><br />I have bought many things through Amazon and will continue to do so. But I won't buy canned items. They don't survive either the Amazon warehouse or the shipping process.", "The quality of these pirouline cookies is unsurpassed, but I was very disappointed with this purchase. It was shipped quickly, but arrived mostly crushed. Most of the cookies were broken and many were crushed at the bottom. We purchased them for a formal dinner and gifts. Unfortunately, because of their condition, we will have to purchase other wafers locally and eat these ourselves. I would not recommend purchasing this product through delivery.", "I'm a profecinal cat trainer and have used several different treats including raw/freezdried raw home made and comercial treats over the last 10 years. These treats take the cake and run. OMG all cats/ clients cats love these treats. They are the onlything i will ever use for training again. Best cat treat on the market. just dont forget to cut them up in little pieces there to big for your average house cat.<br /><br />If you have a finiky cat that dosnt like to eat. well here is your god send. Just crush some up and toss there food in it. Its a garanteed way to get them to start eating again. Dont use a ton since its high in fat.", "I like the flavor and texture of these granola bars. They are pretty crumbly, so don't eat them in the car of you'll get crumbs all over yourself! I also like these crushed in yogurt.", "So, I previously purchased the \"chunk\" version of this product [Native Forest Organic Pineapple Chunks, 14-Ounce Cans (Pack of 6)] since I love pineapple, and they were delicious. The chunks were of a nice size, and even my cat kept bothering me when I ate them, as he apparently liked the sweetness of them.<br /><br />Then I saw this version, labeled as \"crushed.\" The picture basically makes it look just like smaller chunks than the \"chunk\" version. But it's not. Instead, it's like this awful kind of sludge or mush, and for some reason it comes from a different country than the \"crushed\" version, and doesn't taste as good.<br /><br />In my opinion, stay away from \"crushed\" and go for the \"chunk\" version. I've also now ordered the \"mini rings\" variety to see how those are.", "This is so much better than the Ramen-type noodle bowls. I suppose I could make noodles from scratch and put peanut sauce on them, add a little spice, a few greens, and some crushed-up peanuts, but this is so much faster. They give a generous packet of spicy peanut sauce with a good flavor, and the crushed peanut bits add a nice little crunch. Good stuff for a quick meal.", "Many of the crackers were crushed in the individual packages. We prefer whole crackers. Would not buy from this source again.", "Bought this jar of crushed peppers to add to my peppers collection but it hasn't stayed on the shelf for long.<br />I practically use this on every meal.<br />As impressed as I am with this sellers quality of product I am also disappointed that the price has gone up so much.<br />Guess it's due to inflation in the volatile economy. Anyways, the product is great!<br />I did try to share with my brother and mom and they didn't much care for the \"fruity\" flavor.<br />Good thing it was just a taste for them and that means more for me.<br />If you are tired or \"burned out\" with buying those intimation pepper flakes to pour over your spaghetti<br />then I would recommend you try HABANERO, FLAKES,(DRIED) 10 oz. jar<br />Believe me, when I say 10 oz is not gonna last too long if you use it in almost every meal like I do.", "Clearly I need to brush up on my math skills. I ordered the Riceworks brown rice crisps assuming the $17.95 price was reflective of a bulk purchase - because who in their right mind would pay $17.95 for ONE BAG OF CHIPS. But - sadly - no, the $17.95 was reflective of one 16oz bag of chips. No, really - it is/was. To add to this purchasing disaster, the chips were completely crushed resulting in a price average of .10/chip crumb. It's *almost* funny.", "Not a good value for the money. Not as pictured, not nearly as full. Crackers were soggy and some of the boxes were crushed.", "I am a M & M/Butterfinger junkie!!! I ordered a box of each. The candy was not packed properly and the M & M's were 50% broken. The Butterfingers were all broken and/or crushed. The Butterfingers were replaced, however the packing was just the same as the first order and they TOO were broken and crushed. There was no packing inside the boxes to keep the candy from shifting all over in the boxes, even though I was promised the second shipment would be better packed. I will never order them again." ]

[ "They spray a lot of hot water around (and some soap) through small moving nozzles which builds up slightly pressurized jets of water. A little bit like a small army of Smurfs armed with power washers. It does this for usually about half an hour to an hour depending on your model and settings, then it dries everything using a build in oven element, to warm everything up just warm enough that the water evaporates off (this only works for ceramic, glass and metal stuff... stupid plastic Tupperwear still is full of water cause you didn't put it in upside down and its plastic.)" ]

[ "Some of the plastics cannot be washed in dishwasher. Check the package.", "Dish soap is made with \"bubbling agents\" which is different from dishwasher detergent. (And laundry detergent for that matter) so when you use it in the dishwasher, it bubbles up like crazy because it's supposed to make bubbles.", "The dish machines in kitchens are SUPPOSED to be sanitizers, not dish washers. The poor sucker getting paid barely enough money to survive is the dishwasher. All the machine is for is removing whatever small bits are left over after the dishwasher has already mostly cleaned them off. Long story short: If you want clean dishes quickly, you're gonna have to get your hands dirty. Source: Am Chef", "They don't. Foaming agents are added to soaps as a marketing strategy, as people erroneously believe that bubbles are more than just air pockets and actually have an effect on how clean things get. Bubbles can serve as a sort of indicator of the concentration of soap in the water, which does effect how clean stuff gets. However this is only a rough indicator, and isn't really reliable. Beyond that, there's really no correlation between bubbles and how clean anything gets. As an example compare dish soap and dishwasher detergent. Both are surfectants designed to do the same job. Dish soap has bubbles, thanks to the added foaming agents, and dishwasher detergent doesn't. Both get your dishes clean equally well (assuming correct use) proving that the bubbles really don't have any impact on cleanliness.", "Washer machines has a load level, also, requires some supervision of the activity [i.e. Trying to open the door when water level is hight]. Dishwashers can't be \"overloaded\" neither visual inspection is needed.", "As someone that worked as a dishwasher once upon a time, my hands can tolerate a whole bunch more heat than my mouth.", "This is outside of my panel expertise, but I spent a summer working for a major consumer products company in their soap areas. The primary reason that consumer soap lathers (makes bubbles) is because consumers are conditioned to believe that if the soap doesn't lather, then it isn't cleaning anything. There are many commercial soaps that do not lather, like dishwasher soap, which is why you're always told to never put your sink dish soap in the dishwasher. The bubbles do serve the helpful purpose of letting you know where you haven't properly rinsed yet, and what parts of the dish you have cleaned. And yes, for dish washing soap you're intended to use by hand, bubbles are indicative of a higher local concentration of soap which by their very nature will tend to be at the surface of the water.", "The main problem is that detergent is largely ineffective at removing it from surfaces like dishes, most notably industrial dishwashers. Hand washing is effective, but alcohol hand sanitizers are not. No lipid envelope just means usual methods of removing it don't work well.", "No. Dishwasher safe generally means that the extream hot water in the dishwasher as well as the pressure of the spray is not going to damage the opject in question. Mostly it's cheep plastic that will melt and deform in the hot water of a dishwasher. Microwave safe is the exact same thing with an added layer. Microwaves are designed so that certian materials will get heated, and other materials will not. There are some materials where the Microwaves get trapped in the material and just keep getting reflected back in on themselves. This can cause the material to get WAY hotter than you expect it to be. So, basiclly, \"Microwave safe\" means that the microwave will not melt this item, and also then item will emerge reasonably cool to the touch.", "Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: how do painkillers know where the pain is? ](_URL_1_) 1. [ELI5 : how do painkillers work? ](_URL_0_) 1. [ELI5: How do painkillers stop the pain? ](_URL_4_) 1. [ELI5: How do Advil and other painkillers work? ](_URL_2_) 1. [ELI5: How do painkillers work? How can they target the pain/area? ](_URL_6_) 1. [ELI5: How (and where) do different types of painkillers work? ](_URL_3_) 1. [ELI5: How do painkillers work? ](_URL_5_)", "Yeah I saw that video. My assumption is that the proteins of the whites and the yolks have different temperatures where they denature. Since the dishwasher can only reach a certain temperature the proteins in the whites didn't fully cook/denature but the yolk did.", "You are somewhat right. If you order a $10 meal, or a $25 meal, the work done by the waiter is usually the same. But if you order a $5 drink, $15 meal and a $5 dessert. They now have more work, so percentage does come into play.. HOWEVER - what it also boils down to is this - most waiters have to pay a % of what they sell to the kitchen. This is NOT a % of their tips.. it's a % of what they sell. Where I work its 4% of what I sell, so for ever $100 of food I sell, I have to pay the kitchen $4. * I do also share my tips with the dishwasher and hostess but that is based on the tips I make and not an established figure based on the food we sell.", "*Part* of the reason is that the professional organizations to which these people belong \"back home\" aren't recognized \"over here\". So they do other jobs. Source: Was a Food & Beverage director... I saw an outsized amount of foreign lawyers and doctors come through the door looking for dishwashing/ housekeeping jobs.", "Unlike bath or liquid dishwashing soap, a component of dish-washing powder is an abrasive compound. It's like sand eroding driftwood but at a less intense scale. The graininess is responsible for providing the friction that does the cleaning. Similar to a dentist's toothpaste, actually.", "Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: How do patents work? ](_URL_6_) 1. [ELI5 Patents? How do they work for simple things ? ](_URL_3_) 1. [ELI5: How do patents work? ](_URL_4_) 1. [ELI5: How patents work and could you re-apply after they expire? ](_URL_0_) 1. [ELI5: How do patents work and what is involved with obtaining one? ](_URL_7_) 1. [ELI5: How patents work ](_URL_2_) 1. [ELI5: when you apply for a patent how do they check there isn't already a conflicting one? ](_URL_1_) 1. [ELI5: Why do patents exist? ](_URL_5_)", "The house isn't a casa without one of these. Just don't be a turd like the younger me and stick it in the dishwasher. Hand wash only!", "Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: how do metal detectors work? ](_URL_2_) 1. [ELI5: How do metal detectors work? ](_URL_1_) 1. [ELI5 how do metal detectors work? ](_URL_3_) 1. [ELI5: How does a metal detector work? ](_URL_5_) 1. [ELI5: How do metal detectors work? ](_URL_7_) 1. [ELI5: How do metal detectors work? ](_URL_4_) 1. [ELI5 How metal detectors work. ](_URL_8_) 1. [ELI5: How metal detectors work and if they detect all elements classed as \"metals\" or only specific metallic elements ](_URL_6_) 1. [What do metal detectors actually detect?? ](_URL_0_)", "It does something called \"agitation\". The central spinning blades in a standard vertical washer or the spinning action of the sideways low-water models are specifically designed to force the clothes to move freely around in water and to force the water carrying detergent to and through anywhere it can. It's the equivalent of swishing a cloth around in the sink - water and soap gets into it and throughout it, the detergent molecules grab onto the oils that glue dirt onto your clothes, and the flushing action of more water added later ensures both the soap, the oils it's trapped, and the dirt that's been freed are all washed away. It doesn't take any sort of physical contact between two surfaces, all it takes is water and soap contacting the area, and the process is faster when the water/soap mixture is moving around. Even works inside your pant legs and other inside surfaces of clothes.", "they absorb water from the air. They are often packed in nitrogen or another inert, low humidity gas to keep them fresh. When you open them normal air gets in and....floop. They go all soggy.", "Yo ho ho! Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: Solar panels. How do they work? ](_URL_1_) 1. [ELI5: How do solar panels work](_URL_3_) 1. [ELI5: How do solar panels work? ](_URL_7_) 1. [ELI5: How do solar panels work? ](_URL_6_) 1. [ELI5 how do solar panels work? ](_URL_5_) 1. [ELI5: how_do_solar_panels_generate_electricity](_URL_2_) 1. [ELI5: How do solar panels generate and store electricity? ](_URL_4_) 1. [Eli5: how does solar power work? ](_URL_0_)", "Maybe she had taken the glass from a dishwasher just finished thus hot and pored cold milk in it. That could make the glass shatter like that", "The purpose of the soap is to help remove the things that are stuck to the plate and help the water wash away oils. If the plate is clean enough that the soap would have \"nothing to cling to\", whether that is true or not, would simply mean the dishes are already clean enough that the soap isn't necessary to clean that area. The majority of the work in the dishwasher is done by the force of the hot water spraying against the dishes.", "Because your dish soap is engineered to produce a lots of foam (like your shampoo or hand soap too) to give you the feeling that its doing its work. It would have the same effect without the foam. In the washing machine or dish washer you cannot see the process, thereore there is no need to let it produce a lot of foam, which would be counterproductive anyway because you would need a lot more water to flush out the remains of the foam.", "Yo ho ho! Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: How do erasers erase? ](_URL_5_) ^(_9 comments_) 1. [ELI5: How do erasers erase? ](_URL_2_) ^(_11 comments_) 1. [ELI5: How do erasers work on a molecular level? ](_URL_1_) ^(_2 comments_) 1. [ELI5: How do erasers work? ](_URL_7_) ^(_4 comments_) 1. [ELI5: How do erasers work? ](_URL_0_) ^(_4 comments_) 1. [ELI5: How do erasers work? ](_URL_6_) ^(_4 comments_) 1. [ELI5: How does a rubber (eraser) work? ](_URL_4_) ^(_2 comments_) 1. [How do erasers work? ](_URL_3_) ^(_23 comments_)", "As AnatomyGuy answered, no: boiling water is not hot enough to detemper or otherwise damage the blade of a knife. (The lightest tempering color, pale yellow, is about 300F) Two things, however, may be associated with this: 1. Putting knives in the dishwasher will dull them due to the abrasive action of the detergent and the uncontrolled sloshing about. 2. Wooden handles may be damaged by soaking in water, so it's considered bad practice anyway to put them in the dishwasher.", "Lemon juice is made of lemon juice. Lemonade is made of lemon juice, water, and sugar. Cheap lemonade is made of water, citric acid, and corn syrup. Some dishwashing liquid uses lemon oil to add fragrance to the soap. If you want lemonade made with real lemons, spend more money on it. Dishwashing liquid can also be made with artificial ingredients, and it is likely less expensive than the stuff made with real lemons. You get what you pay for.", "Shampoos, hand soaps, dish soaps, etc have foaming agents that you would not want in your dishwasher or washing machine. Dishwasher detergents have abrasives to scrub dirt away, but this probably wouldn't be desirable or necessary for a shampoo. There are lots of ingredients in these products that are tailored to the specific use they're intended for. You can try this yourself by washing your hair with body soap or dawn dish soap and compare to a shampoo. Or put dawn in your washing machine and observe the results.", "Restaurants will have Magnets in chute to the trash can by the dishwashing station where leftover meals are thrown out. The magnets in the chute will grab any silverware accidently dropped in so it doesn't get thrown out. This keeps the restaurant from having to continually replace utensils being thrown away.", "Take bucket. Fill it with water half way. Hold it by handle and start spinning it in vertical circle. Water stays in pushed towards the bottom of bucket by centrifugal force.", "Yer relative is exactly right. Ahoy, fellow redditor. Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5:How does a nuclear reactor work? ](_URL_5_) ^(_35 comments_) 1. [ELI5: how does a nuclear reactor work? ](_URL_1_) ^(_19 comments_) 1. [ELI5: Nuclear Power ](_URL_3_) ^(_22 comments_) 1. [ELI5:How do Nuclear Breeder Reactors work? ](_URL_4_) ^(_9 comments_) 1. [ELI5: How do nuclear reactors work and why does it need to be a radioactive material? ](_URL_0_) ^(_14 comments_) 1. [ELI5: How do nuclear reactors work? And what exactly is a meltdown? ](_URL_6_) ^(_15 comments_) 1. [ELI5: How does a nuclear power plant work? ](_URL_2_) ^(_33 comments_)", "Because the thing you wanted to do next came to your mind BECAUSE you were doing the other thing. Say you were unloading the dishwasher, you saw that one glass with Anna from Frozen on it, which reminded you of the fact that you promised your daughter that you would fix her Olaf figure before she comes home from kindergarden, so you go into the garage to get the glue gun, but get distracted on the way by the neighbour whom you wanted to ask something, now you can't remember why you are in your garage. By going back to the dishwasher, you might see the glass again, or your brain might remember the whole thought process in a split second without you even realizing it, but the outcome is the same. At least that's often true for me.", "Ahoy, matey! Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: How do fish gills work? ](_URL_0_) ^(_6 comments_) 1. [ELI5: How do fish gills actually work? ](_URL_5_) ^(_11 comments_) 1. [ELI5: How do fish gills work? ](_URL_8_) ^(_7 comments_) 1. [ELI5: How do gills work, and why can't fish survive on land very long? ](_URL_1_) ^(_2 comments_) 1. [ELI5: how do the gills on a fish filter out the oxygen from the water? ](_URL_2_) ^(_40 comments_) 1. [ELI5: Do we know how do gills work? If we do, what is stopping us from designing fake gills that you can simply put into your mouth or up your nostrils? ](_URL_6_) ^(_4 comments_) 1. [ELI5 What do gills do? Why do fish need oxygen in water but can't breathe air? ](_URL_4_) ^(_5 comments_) 1. [ELI5: Why fish can pull oxygen from the water yet not from the air. ](_URL_7_) ^(_11 comments_) 1. [ELI5: How do fish \"breathe\" water? ](_URL_3_) ^(_6 comments_)" ]

[ "The pyrolysis technology of wastes occupies an important position in solid waste disposal due to its lower secondary pollution and higher recovery rate of energy.After the refuse derived fuel(RDF) is prepared from residual wastes through pressing,a pyrolysis test of RDF has been carried out.Results of test show that the plastics,CaO,and DHC-32 added into RDF is helpful to enhance the temperature of pyrolysis,and can significantly improve the progress of fuel pyrolysis reaction and the efficiency of prolysis,at the same time,the content of K and Na in the carbocoal has remarkable tendency to change in case the test condition being varied." ]

[ "A new way of disposing of municipal solid wastes——refuse derived fuel——is being introduced. By factual analysis of its production process, application procedure, characteristics as a fuel, practical application in oversea countries, and its application prospects in China's field of disposal of garbage is being discussed.", "The aim of the present work to investigate the performance of oil derived from the waste plastic on diesel engine. Waste plastic fuel (WPF) is derived from the waste plastics by catalytic pyrolysis. Test were employed to completely characterize the Fuel by determining the physical, chemical and spectroscopic like FTIR, GC-MS properties of WPF and WPF-diesel blends in different proportions and to evaluate the performance and emission characteristics of these fuel and their blends on a single cylinder diesel engine and finally the results were compared with reference test fuel diesel. It is observed that the engine can operate with neat WPF and their blends without any modification and can be used as an alternative fuel for diesel engine. However, it is found that WPF10D90 (10% waste plastic oil and 90% diesel fuel) shows similar results as compare to diesel.", "Abstract The present study aims to valorise, through fast pyrolysis, the solid residue of microalga Dunaliella tertiolecta , after extraction of added-value compounds (β-carotene, phytosterols and fatty acids), which are included in the total lipid fraction, following the “ Biorefinery Approach ”. This study targets biooil and/or char as pyrolysis end-products. At pyrolysis temperature of 600 °C, biooil yield was maximized (45.13 wt.%), while char reached 29.34 wt.%. Biooil quality was assessed and its potential use as biofuel discussed. In addition, assessment of char composition and properties, either as fertilizer or sorbent for soil remediation, was also discussed. Finally, microalga D. tertiolecta can produce high amounts of lipids which have a high potential application and also renewable fuel/soil amendment by fast pyrolysis of its residue.", "As a renewable energy resource,corn stalks can be converted into liquid fuel by means of pyrolysis.Microwave pyrolysis of corn stalks was investigated to produce bio-oil.The results showed that microwave pyrolysis of corn straw was influenced by many factors such as microwave power,temperature,heating time,bulk density of biomass,and a ratio of material weight per kilowatt of microwave power.The process was optimized that 500 ℃ of pyrolysis temperature,a ratio of 0.3 kg of corn straw per kilowatt of microwave power,5 to 10 percent of carbon additive of the sample can make the yield of bio-oil to reach 56%.", "TGA results indicated that the maximum decomposition temperature of the biomass decreased from 373.9 to 359.0°C with increasing potassium concentration. For fast pyrolysis, char yield of potassium impregnated biomass doubled regardless of pyrolysis temperature compared to demineralized one. The presence of potassium also affected bio-oil properties. Water content increased from 14.4 to 19.7 wt% and viscosity decreased from 34 to 16.2 cSt, but the pH value of the bio-oil remained stable. Gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy (GC/MS) analysis revealed that potassium promoted thermochemical reactions, thus causing a decrease of levoglucosan and an increase of small molecules and lignin-derived phenols in bio-oil. Additionally, various forms of aromatic hydrocarbons, probably derived from lignins, were detected in non-condensed pyrolytic gas fractions.", "The pyrolytic and combustive reactions of thermally decomposing pelletized refuse-derived fuel in air and nitrogren atmospheres is studied through the experimental determination of the temperature profile within cellulose cylinders. The internal temperature history of cellulose cylinders is monitored by use of thermocouples inserted into holes drilled in the cylinder side at different depths and heights. The cylinders are tested by immersion into a preheated furnace at a range of temperatures. The reaction energetics of the decomposition during pyrolysis and combustion processes are recorded by the thermocouple monitors. An endothermic reaction initiated at c. 310 °C is observed. This reaction is followed by a consecutive, exothermic reaction at c. 350 °C in both air and nitrogen atmospheres that raises the cylinder temperature above that of the surrounding chamber.", "Abstract In this study, the effect of feedstock type and pyrolysis temperature on the properties of biochar samples relating to their utilization as energy feedstock and soil amendment was investigated. For this purpose, four different types of biomasses (vine pruning (VP), poultry litter (PL), orange pomace (OP) and seaweed (AB)) were pyrolyzed at different temperatures between 250 and 600 °C. The pyrolysis temperature of 350 °C was found as critical upper temperature in the production of biochar used as fuel. The VP and OP were seen to be more suitable than PL and AB for solid fuel production. The stable carbon contents of biochars produced at 500 °C and 600 °C were over than 98%. With increasing of pyrolysis temperature, plant nutrients (except K) in biochars become less available to plants. Although the carbon exchange capacity was the highest in AB and PL biochars, they had extremely high electrical conductivity values.", "Abstract A kinetic study of pyrolysis of dried black liquor was performed using a Netzsch 429 Thermogravimetric Analyzer. It was found that as conversion increases from 10 to 45% the apparent pyrolysis activation energy for black liquor increases from 77.20 to 112.74 KJ/mol. For black liquor the order of reaction was found to be first-order. The reaction rate constant was found to be 2.12×109 min. These results are in agreement with the data reported by other investigators on biomass pyrolysis.", "Fast pyrolysis of biomass to produce bio-oil is an important technology to utilize lignocellulosic biomass materials, as it offers a convenient way to convert solid biomass mainly into the liquid bio-oil. Bio-oil is regard as a promising candidate of petroleum fuels, but it is a low-grade liquid fuel and difficult to be used in various thermal devices, due to the presence of many undesirable components. One of the undesirable components is the solid particles, resulting from insufficient separation of the pyrolytic products. The solid particles will bring many negative effects to the storage and combustion of bio-oil, and thus, should be removed. This paper reviews the recent progress on the removal of solid particles, through the filtration of liquid bio-oil or pyrolysis vapors.", "Fast pyrolysis is a promising technique to convert biomass into a liquid fuel/fuel precursor, known as bio-oil. However, compared to conventional crude oil, bio-oil has much higher oxygen content which results in various detrimental properties and limits its application. Thus the first part of this thesis aims to develop an efficient catalyst to upgrade bio-oil into high quality fuel via de-oxygenation and hydro-deoxygenation. The second part is dedicated to study the nature of the active specie in the newly-developed catalyst and to gain more insight into the catalytic conversion of lignin via a model compound study.", "This paper deals with an experimental evaluation of the combustion properties of solvent refined coal II fuel oil. The purpose was to identify problems, if any, associated with handling, storing, pumping, and burning SRC fuel oil. Detailed fuels characterizations were performed and compared to petroleum distillate products. Laboratory fuel analyses and combustion tests were performed with SRC fuel oil, No. 2 fuel oil, and No. 5 fuel oil. Four B&W atomizers were tested and two B&W oil burners were utilized. The laboratory fuel analyses indicated that in most respects this SRC fuel oil sample behaved similarly to No. 2 fuel oil. The combustion tests confirmed that expectation. The one identified problem was relatively high concentrations of fuel-bound nitrogen and, consequently NOx emissions were relatively high. It was concluded that SRC fuel oil may require the application of NOx combustion control techniques.", "Abstract This work investigates the designing aspect of a pyrolysis reactor. The reactor is operated within a temperature interval of 292 K–637 K. The pressure of the generated gas varies from 4 Pa to 26.8 Pa during the whole pyrolysis process. The assessment of reactor is based upon the gas dynamic of generated gas, and the effect of heat transfer on the energy generation. The dimension of reactor used for experimental work has a length of 0.4 m and the cross-sectional area of 9498.5 mm2. The pyrolysis test rig is programmed for the cubical thermal history. The empirical relationship of density of volatile gases density with the height of the reactor is ρ g , Z = ρ g ( 1 + 32.4 Z T ¯ ) 7.6 . The producer gas follows the polytropic process of PV0.89 = C. The gas yield of the reactor is estimated to be 36 (wt.%), while the char yield is 26.9% of the total residual biomass.", "Oxidative pyrolysis of Cuban pine sawdust was investigated using an autothermal fluidized bed reactor. Biomass particles were fed continuously (8.13 Kg/h) in a bed, fluidized by air gas. Experiments were conduced at three different dimensionless air factors 1, 1.5, and 2 (defined as ratio of actual air flow rate to stoichiometric air flow rate). The various physical and chemical characteristics of the pyrolysis products acquired in these conditions were identified. The results indicated that (1) the operating temperature can be correlated with the air factor; (2) the higher air factor promotes high temperature and contributes to the secondary reactions, which lead to less liquid; (3) the physicochemical characterization of the pyrolysis products indicated that the air factor, in the range studied, does not have a notable influence in their properties; (4) the liquid and char products obtained may be a potentially valuable source of chemical feedstocks.", "The current work is to investigate the diesel engine performance and combustion characteristics fuelled with Banalities aegyptiaca (BA) biodiesel and compare those with the performance and combustion characteristics of palm biodiesel, sesame biodiesel,rapeseed biodiesel, soybean biodiesel and diesel fuel. In this study, only 10% of each biodiesel (BA10, PALM10, SESAME10, RAPESEED10 and SOYBEAN10) was tested in a diesel engine. The physical properties of all the fuel samples are mentioned and compared with ASTM standards. The test rig consists of a single cylinder, auxiliary water-cooled and computer-based variable compression ratio diesel engine, which was used to evaluate their performance at a measured torque. All biodiesel fuel samples reduce brake power and brake thermal efficiency and increase brake-specific fuel consumption rate than diesel fuel. Combustion characteristics results indicated that the blended fuel samples performed with a significant reduction in terms of cylinder pressure and...", "A two-step fuel-rich/fuel-lean catalytic combustion seems to be one of the most effective methods to control simultaneously the NO generation and the hydrocarbon (HC) conversion from fuel-bound nitrogen. By controlling equivalent air ratio, space velocity, inlet temperature, and catalyst component, the HC and ammonia conversion efficiency higher than 95% could be achieved, with ammonia conversion to NO remaining below 5%. The experimental results would be applied to the combustion of land fill gas and to gasified refuse-derived fuels as a method of minimizing NO generation.", "In the present work pyrolysis of pure pine wood and softwood carbohydrates, namely cellulose and galactoglucomannan (the major hemicellulose in coniferous wood), was conducted in a batch mode operated fluidized bed reactor. Temperature ramping (5 degrees C/min) was applied to the heating until a reactor temperature of 460 degrees C was reached. Thereafter the temperature was kept until the release of non-condensable gases stopped. The different raw materials gave significantly different bio-oils. Levoglucosan was the dominant product in the cellulose pyrolysis oil. Acetic acid was found in the highest concentrations in both the galactoglucomannan and in the pine wood pyrolysis oils. Acetic acid is most likely formed by removal of O-acetyl groups from mannose units present in GGM structure.", "Abstract Cashew nut shell (CNS) has been studied for the product distribution in a packed bed vacuum pyrolysis unit. The effect of pyrolysis temperatures on the product yields is also studied. The oil-to-liquid ratio in the pyrolysis products was found to remain almost constant in the range between 400°C and 550°C. The properties of CNS oil has been found to be amazingly near to that of petroleum fuels with calorific value as high as 40 MJ kg −1 , the oil has a low ash content (0.01%) and water content is limited to 3– 3.5 wt % of oil.", "The operation of a refuse-derived fuel facility in Madison, Wisconsin, is described. The process, briefly described, consists of primary shredding, ferrous metal removal, separation of combustibles and noncombustibles, secondary shredding, and air sweeping. Capital and operating costs are noted. (MCW)", "A test was carried out on an 6 MW industrial biomass atmospheric CFB gasifier in a power plant. The gas composition, NH3 and tar contents in the product gas at different temperatures were measured and analyzed. Ash (char in the present case) analysis was also made to make mass balance of chemical element in solid and gas phases during gasification based on Si balance analysis. The measurement results show that a gas productivity of 2 Nm3/kg (daf biomass) with gas LHV of 5MJ/Nm3 can be achieved at 750℃.The conversion of fuel-bound nitrogen (FBN) to NH3 ranges from 6 wt% to 70 wt% depending on temperature. Tar content in the product gas ranges from 2.5 to 16.7 g/m3. Small fractions of H, O, N, Cl and S contents in fuel remain in the ash while most of mineral metal element remains in the ash.", "Solketal chemically derived from bioglycerol was shown in this study to improve the fuel characteristics of ultralow sulfur diesel. Either microwave irradiation or mechanical homogenization method was applied to prepare the nano- or microemulsions of solketal-in-ultralow sulfur diesel. A nonionic surfactant mixture was used to reduce the surface tension of the interphase among the components to facilitate emulsion formation. The fuel properties of those emulsions were analyzed and compared. The experimental results show that a weight fraction of solketal lower than 5 wt % along with a surfactant mixture amounting to 15 wt % would produce a nanoemulsion that contains a mean droplet size of the dispersed phase in the range of nanometers. The nanoemulsion with 3 wt % solketal as a combustion improver for diesel fuel, prepared by a microwave-irradiating reactor, appeared to have the highest amount of heat release, combustion efficiency, and the lowest carbon residue due to the increase in the combustion effic...", "Abstract The pyrolysis characteristics of the cassava rhizome in the large scale metal kiln using flue gas have been studied experimentally. The effect of inclined metal kiln of 0.57 m3 was also considered. It was found that at 70 degree of incline angle of the metal kiln, the pyrolysis time was shortest due to the good temperature distribution throughout the kiln. At 70 degree of incline angle of the kiln, the pyrolysis time of the dry cassava rhizome was 95 minutes, while the fresh one was longer owing to more moisture content. The pyrolysis temperature distribution throughout the kiln of the flesh cassava rhizome was poor due to the high shrinkage of fresh one. The charcoal yield obtained from the dry cassava rhizome (11.22% moisture content) is 25-28% (db), while the charcoal yield from the fresh cassava rhizome (35.5% moisture content) is 35.65%(db) which is higher than that of the dry one due to effect of moisture content.", "Experiment was carried out to study the feasibility of biomass derived solid acid catalyst for the production of biodiesel using Palm Fatty Acid Distillate (PFAD). Malaysia indigenous seaweed was selected as the biomass to be carbonized as the catalyst support. Sulfonation of seaweed based carbon material was carried out by thermal decomposition of ammonium sulfate, (NH4)2SO4. The effects of carbonization temperature at 200 to 600°C on the catalyst physical and chemical properties were studied. The effect of reaction parameters on the fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) yield was studied by varying the concentration of ammonium sulfate (5.0 to 40.0 w/v%) and thermal decomposition time (15 to 90 min). Characterizations of catalyst were carried out to study the catalyst surface morphology with Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), acid density with back titration and functional group attached with FT-IR. Results showed that when the catalyst sulfonated with 10.0 w/v% ammonium sulfate solution and heated to 235°C f...", "Results of a preliminary experimental study to investigate the feasibility of reformation of hydrocarbon fuels into hydrogen and carbon by high-power, electric arc pyrolysis are presented. The goal is to obtain the high energy density of gaseous hydrogen fuel for combustion while still achieving the volumetric efficiency of much denser hydrocarbon fuels. A 1.6 MW arc heater was modified to run on gaseous hydrocarbons, and a diagnostic chamber was developed to provide quantitative measurements of the products of pyrolysis. An electrical fault in the 1.6 MW power supply occurred early in the test program, thus the experimental data were obtained by using a commercial plasma cutting torch that was modified to run on methane. Preliminary results showed significant carbon deposition on the cold trap and identification of gaseous hydrogen via emission spectroscopy.", "In this study, investigations were made as to the effect of the maceral compositions and mineral matter content of Azdavay and Kurucasile coals on the coking property. Chemical and maceral analyses and coking properties were determined for the products of the float-sink procedure. The coking properties were established on the basis of free swelling index and Ruhr dilatometer tests. Maceral analyses showed that as the ash content of a coal containing both high and medium volatile matter increases, its effective maceral proportion decreases, and the coking property is affected in an unfavorable way.", "In the scenario of fossil fuels and in ever depleting, there is always a scope for alternative fuels and this paper aims to study blends of diesel with Refined corn oil (BRC) on a stationery engine. The experiment is done on krisloskar Direct injection 4 stroke diesel engine, single cylinder, air cooled 4.4 kW constant speed at 1500 rpm with an compression ratio 17.5:1. Methyl esters of BRC were transesterified with sodim meth oxide before blending with diesel. For different blends at diesel (10%, 30%, 40%) in volume at specific injection pressures ( 180bar, 210 bar and 240bar) against different loads (0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%) have been tried in the experiment to study NOx, CO, HC, Smoke emissions with exhaust temperature. A 3- hole nozzle has been used and the emission are analyzed with AVL gas analyzer. Even though marginal increase in NOx with exhaust temperature at higher temperature are noticed the decrease in engine temperature by 3 deg in addition to HC and CO an significant.", "Aviation turbine engine fuel specifications are governed by ASTM International, formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International, and the British Ministry of Defence (MOD). ASTM D1655 Standard Specification for Aviation Turbine Fuels and MOD Defence Standard 91-91 are the guiding specifications for this fuel throughout most of the world. Both of these documents rely heavily on the vast amount of experience in production and use of turbine engine fuels from conventional sources, such as crude oil, natural gas condensates, heavy oil, shale oil, and oil sands. Turbine engine fuel derived from these resources and meeting the above specifications has properties that are generally considered acceptable for fuels to be used in turbine engines. Alternative and synthetic fuel components are approved for use to blend with conventional turbine engine fuels after considerable testing. ASTM has established a specification for fuels containing synthesized hydrocarbons under D7566, a...", "The Institute of Gas Technology (IGT) has been participating in an experimental program at the Community Waste Research Facility (CWRF) located at the Walt Disney World Resort Complex, Orlando, Florida. Four institutions have formed a team to provide solutions to community waste treatment and disposal programs. Of primary importance to this research effort is the implementation of low-cost, energy-efficient waste treatment and recovery technologies and the net production of energy (methane) from biomass and waste resources. The production of methane is being studied in a novel, high-rate digester. During 1988, we were responsible for modifying the Experimental Test Unit (ETU) to permit dry solids feeding of refuse-derived fuel (RDF) and for conducting bench-scale experiments to evaluate techniques for efficient removal of carbon dioxide produced during anaerobic digestion.", "Solid fuel, ash incineration stage conversion process is arranged from bottom to top vertically discrete solid fuel, carbide oxide-gasification stage, pyrolysis stage, drying stage, the gas from the gasifier is burned by the stage divided thermal reactor is carried out in a plurality of stages of gas combustion stage that converts volatile organic compounds (VOC's), NOx, dust, hot exhaust gas cleaning containing clean ash low carbon content It is. Pyrolysis stage and carbide oxidation and gasification stage is carried out in upflow moving bed heat reactor. .Field", "The main combustible gas components of the coal-derived gas fuel are CO and H2. Moreover, a small amount of NH3 and CH4 will be contained. NH3 contained in coal gas fuel will be converted to NOx in the gas turbine combustion process. This paper describes the study of the influence of the coal gas fuel properties such as CH4 on NOx formation from NH3, using experimental study by a laboratory-scale combustor and study of the reaction kinetics. As a result, a small amount of CH4 in coal gas fuel was found to strongly influence NOx formation from NH3 in coal gas fuel.", "Pyrolysis characteristics and kinetics of wood sawdust (liuan and shuishan) and sludge were investigated using thermogravimetric analysis. A number of experiments with different heating rates (10～30 °C /min) and particle sizes ( 0.09 ～ 0.25 mm) were performed and analyzed. The results show that the non isothermal weight loss process of biomass samples is composed of dehydration, holding, rapid weight loss and slow weight loss. The effect of particle diameter on the pyrolysis is small under the present conditions. Based on the experiments, a pyrolysis index, P , was put forward to describe the pyrolysis characteristics. The kinetic parameters were calculated using an improved Freeman Carroll method. And according to the experimental results and the kinetic compensation effect, correlation equations for liuan and shuishan were developed respectively to predict the kinetic parameters at different heating rates.", "Physical and chemical properties and combustion characteristics of methanol fuel are briefly introduced,and the feasibility of adop ting methanol fuel is analysed and studied in this paper.", "Abstract The reactivity of cokes from 12 briquettes prepared from ternary blends of coal, three biomasses and four binders was evaluated. In order to determine the effect of the binder, 4 briquettes without biomass were also studied. The gasification tests were carried out by thermogravimetric analysis at 900 °C. Two gas-solid models i.e. the Volumetric model and the Grain model were applied to describe the behaviour of the cokes. Chars and cokes from the briquette components were also tested to determine the degree of synergy. The two models were able to describe the gasification reaction and the predicted conversion fitted the experimental data very well. Reactivity was also determined by means of a greater scale method and a relationship between the two methods was obtained. The ash composition of the briquette components, the micropore surface area and quantitative optical microscopy were used to explain the gasification results obtained." ]

[ "TAMPA, Fla. (AP,Jan 2,2017):— Police in Florida say an angry dog sent three people to the hospital after one tried to put a sweater on it.\nTampa police say the pit bull mix named Scarface bit a 52-year-old woman who was trying to dress him on Friday and her husband was attacked while trying to pull the dog off of her.\nPolice say the couple’s 22-year-old son was attacked while trying to stop the dog by stabbing it in the neck and head.\nThe three people escaped the house and left the dog in the backyard.\nPolice say animal control officers shot it with a tranquilizer gun, but it managed to get back into the house where there were two children present.\nPolice used a bean bag gun and stun gun on the animal before catching it." ]

[ "A Florida woman was so viciously attacked by her 9-year-old pit bull that she later lost her arm.\nYasmin Adam got her “gentle” pet, named Sir Hinkles, as a puppy and he was a loving companion until recently, when she broke up “a play fight” between the pit pull and her two other dogs.\nSir Hinkles started barking at her and then launched at her, biting her ear and mauling her arms. The attack lasted nine minutes, she said.\n“I guess there was tension after the other dogs were fighting. Next thing I know, he jumps up and bites my ear. I knew what was going on, but I didn’t feel any pain. I guess I was in shock,” Adam said.\nThe dog owner said she ultimately gave up. “I just stopped fighting the dog. I figured I was going to die”\nA friend who was staying with her at the time called 911. Police pepper-sprayed the animal and fatally shot it.\nDoctors at Broward General Hospital tried for three weeks to save her left arm, but ultimately had to amputate it. Her right arm was also damaged and is heavily scarred. She called her recuperation “the most painful thing I’ve ever experienced.”\nShe spent six months in the hospital and is now warning others that pit bulls can be dangerous pets.\n“People always say, ‘It’s how you raise a dog that matters.’ And I was one of those people. And I do believe to a certain extent that’s true. But animals have an instinct they can’t overpower and that’s what happened with my dog.”\nRELATED STORIES\nAfter Deadly Pit Bull Attack, Bite Expert Offers Explanation on Why Dogs Would Turn on Their Owner\n22-Year-Old Mauled to Death by Her Pit Bulls While Taking Them for a Walk\nRescued Pit Bull Elected Town Mayor After Beating Out Chicken and a Donkey", "Diva singer's aides claim faulty earpiece caused Times Square lip-sync disaster - and accuse TV execs of disabling equipment on PURPOSE to create a scandal and boost their audience figures Pit bull mauls family who tried to put him in a Christmas sweater - and is only captured after being stabbed, Tasered, then shot with a tranquilizer dart AND a shotgun North Korea will test-launch an intercontinental nuclear missile that could let it nuke the United States, claims Kim Jong Un Will a BAG solve the mystery of what happened to six missing plane passengers who vanished over Lake Eerie? Police find luggage in hunt for family of four and their two friends 'One of the most eventful and exciting years of my life': Ivanka Trump celebrates New Year in Hawaii as the rest of the clan party with Stallone and Donald in Florida 'No computer is safe,' warns Trump as he explains how he writes important ... (more)\nStart the conversation, or Read more at Daily Mail.", "TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida say a dog named Scarface attacked a family who tried to put a sweater on it.\nTampa police say the pit bull mix bit a 52-year-old woman who was trying to dress it Friday and her husband was attacked while trying to pull the dog off her.\nPolice say the couple’s 22-year-old son was attacked while trying to stop the dog by stabbing it in the neck and head.\nThe three people escaped the house and left the dog in the backyard.\nThey ended up in the hospital.\nPolice say animal control officers shot it with a tranquilizer gun, but it managed to get back into the house where two children were. Police used a bean bag gun and stun gun on Scarface before catching it.\nAnimal Stories\nLIVE: Eagle nest cam in Florida Watch the eagle in the nest with the hatchling.\nUpstate elk finds new home They say it will be some time before visitors to Charles Towne Landing will be able to see the elk as it will be under observation in a quar…\nHero cat saves man from Gatlinburg wildfire Burger knew something was wrong on November 28 when his cat started acting strangely.\nOfficer rescues puppies from dumpster during weekend freeze in Indy IMPD Officer Scott Charleswood responded to a report of cries coming from a trash bin.", "One of three dogs is loaded into a Broward County Animal control truck after an 8-month-old girl was bitten by a family dog and died from her injuries, May 30, 2018, in Miramar, Fla.\nCarline Jean, South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP\nAn 8-month-old baby girl died Wednesday in Miramar, Fla., after she was attacked by a family dog, local police said.\nThe infant was in the care of her grandmother at the time of the attack, Miramar Police Officer Yessenia Diaz told USA TODAY.\nThe family owns three pit bulls — a mother, one male sibling and one female sibling. The grandmother was walking the dogs when the male dog, which police said was 3 or 4-years-old, got away from her and attacked the baby who was bobbing in a bouncy chair in one of the bedrooms.\nThe family raised the male dog who attacked the child from a puppy. Broward County and Animal Care and Adoption officials removed all three dogs. Diaz said the dog that attacked would \"most likely\" be put down, but it would depend on the result of an evaluation by animal control experts.\nPolice withheld the identity of the victim and her family because the parents asked for time to inform other relatives, the Sun Sentinel reported.\nPolice were the first to arrive. When fire and rescue officials got to the scene, they declared the child dead, Diaz said.\nDiaz said that a victims services unit was made available to provide counseling and support not only to the child's family but also to the first responders at the scene.\n\"Who isn't going to be affected by that, especially when they're looking at the crime scene?\" Diaz asked.\nMore: Pack of dogs maul, kill woman in Oklahoma\nMore: What a difference 4 months makes for boy mauled in pit bull attack\nMore: Man who tried to help neighbor during dog attack now charged in her death\nMore: 4-year-old boy killed by family dogs in Texas\nMore: Louisiana woman dies after pit bull attack at pet boarding facility\nCopyright 2017 USATODAY.com", "CLOSE An Oklahoma woman has died after being mauled by a pack of dachshunds that allegedly belong to a neighbor. Time\nPitt Bull in a rage . (Photo: Beaubizz, Getty Images/iStockphoto)\nAn 8-month-old baby girl died Wednesday in Miramar, Fla., after she was attacked by a family dog, local police said.\nThe infant was in the care of her grandmother at the time of the attack, Miramar Police Officer Yessenia Diaz told USA TODAY.\nThe family owns three pit bulls — a mother, one male sibling and one female sibling. The grandmother was walking the dogs when the male dog, which police said was 3 or 4-years-old, got away from her and attacked the baby who was bobbing in a bouncy chair in one of the bedrooms.\nThe family raised the male dog who attacked the child from a puppy. Broward County and Animal Care and Adoption officials removed all three dogs. Diaz said the dog that attacked would \"most likely\" be put down, but it would depend on the result of an evaluation by animal control experts.\nPolice withheld the identity of the victim and her family because the parents asked for time to inform other relatives, the Sun Sentinel reported.\nPolice were the first to arrive. When fire and rescue officials got to the scene, they declared the child dead, Diaz said.\nDiaz said that a victims services unit was made available to provide counseling and support not only to the child's family but also to the first responders at the scene.\n\"Who isn't going to be affected by that, especially when they're looking at the crime scene?\" Diaz asked.\nMore: Pack of dogs maul, kill woman in Oklahoma\nMore: What a difference 4 months makes for boy mauled in pit bull attack\nMore: Man who tried to help neighbor during dog attack now charged in her death\nMore: 4-year-old boy killed by family dogs in Texas\nMore: Louisiana woman dies after pit bull attack at pet boarding facility\nRead or Share this story: https://usat.ly/2xvayRG", "Pitt Bull in a rage .\nBeaubizz, Getty Images/iStockphoto\nAn 8-month-old baby girl died Wednesday in Miramar, Fla., after she was attacked by a family dog, local police said.\nThe infant was in the care of her grandmother at the time of the attack, Miramar Police Officer Yessenia Diaz told USA TODAY.\nThe family owns three pit bulls — a mother, one male sibling and one female sibling. The grandmother was walking the dogs when the male dog, which police said was 3 or 4-years-old, got away from her and attacked the baby who was bobbing in a bouncy chair in one of the bedrooms.\nThe family raised the male dog who attacked the child from a puppy. Broward County and Animal Care and Adoption officials removed all three dogs. Diaz said the dog that attacked would \"most likely\" be put down, but it would depend on the result of an evaluation by animal control experts.\nPolice withheld the identity of the victim and her family because the parents asked for time to inform other relatives, the Sun Sentinel reported.\nPolice were the first to arrive. When fire and rescue officials got to the scene, they declared the child dead, Diaz said.\nDiaz said that a victims services unit was made available to provide counseling and support not only to the child's family but also to the first responders at the scene.\n\"Who isn't going to be affected by that, especially when they're looking at the crime scene?\" Diaz asked.\nMore: Pack of dogs maul, kill woman in Oklahoma\nMore: What a difference 4 months makes for boy mauled in pit bull attack\nMore: Man who tried to help neighbor during dog attack now charged in her death\nMore: 4-year-old boy killed by family dogs in Texas\nMore: Louisiana woman dies after pit bull attack at pet boarding facility\nCopyright 2017 USATODAY.com", "An 8-month-old baby girl died Wednesday in Miramar, Fla., after she was attacked by a family dog, local police said.\nThe infant was in the care of her grandmother at the time of the attack, Miramar Police Officer Yessenia Diaz told USA TODAY.\nThe family owns three pit bulls — a mother, one male sibling and one female sibling. The grandmother was walking the dogs when the male dog, which police said was 3 or 4-years-old, got away from her and attacked the baby who was bobbing in a bouncy chair in one of the bedrooms.\nThe family raised the male dog who attacked the child from a puppy. Broward County and Animal Care and Adoption officials removed all three dogs. Diaz said the dog that attacked would \"most likely\" be put down, but it would depend on the result of an evaluation by animal control experts.\nPolice withheld the identity of the victim and her family because the parents asked for time to inform other relatives, the Sun Sentinel reported.\nPolice were the first to arrive. When fire and rescue officials got to the scene, they declared the child dead, Diaz said.\nDiaz said that a victims services unit was made available to provide counseling and support not only to the child's family but also to the first responders at the scene.\n\"Who isn't going to be affected by that, especially when they're looking at the crime scene?\" Diaz asked.\nMore: Pack of dogs maul, kill woman in Oklahoma\nMore: What a difference 4 months makes for boy mauled in pit bull attack\nMore: Man who tried to help neighbor during dog attack now charged in her death\nMore: 4-year-old boy killed by family dogs in Texas\nMore: Louisiana woman dies after pit bull attack at pet boarding facility\nCopyright 2017 USATODAY.com", "An 8-month-old girl was bitten by a family pit bull dog and died from her injuries Wednesday in Miramar, police said.\nThe baby was in the care of a grandmother during the attack, Miramar Police Officer Yessenia Diaz said outside a home in the 2400 block of Kingston Drive.\nNearby, a distraught man was being comforted by two women.\nThe male pit bull was three or four years old and had been raised by the family since it was a puppy, Diaz said. Its sibling and mother, both pit bulls, were also in the home.\nEarly Wednesday afternoon, all three dogs had been removed from the property.\nThe bite happened about 11:30 a.m. while the baby was in a bouncy chair in a bedroom, Diaz said.\nLandlord Alex Bernal said the family has rented the white house with brown trim for about 18 months.\n“They are excellent tenants,” Bernal said. He did not provide his tenants’ names.\nThe parents of the baby asked for time to tell other relatives about her death, and police withheld their identities.\n“They’re a beautiful family,” Bernal said. “They always pay on time. They are very nice.”\nInvestigators from the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office and Broward County Animal Care & Adoption were at the scene.\nMiramar firefighters were called to the address in response to a dog bite, but their help wasn’t needed, Inspector Lt. José A. Gregorisch said.\nThis is a developing story. Check back for updates.\nJoe Cavaretta/Sun Sentinel Investigators from Miramar police and Broward County Animal Care & Rescue were at a home where a baby girl was bitten by a family dog and died. Investigators from Miramar police and Broward County Animal Care & Rescue were at a home where a baby girl was bitten by a family dog and died. (Joe Cavaretta/Sun Sentinel)\nljtrischitta@sunsentinel.com, 954-356-4233 or Twitter @LindaTrischitta\nALSO\nPit bulls in mauling came from same Lauderhill home linked to October dog attack, cops say\nwww.sunsentinel.com/safety", "LONG BEACH (CBSLA) — Neighbors in Long Beach are on edge after a pitbull allegedly mauled their pets Monday morning.\nSharina Clark says her dog, Ringo, was attacked on his morning walk in front of her young daughter.\n“I just ran out of the house, I thought there was something wrong with my daughter. I heard her screaming. Seeing the dog, he was totally covered in blood. I thought he was not going to make it,” she said.\nRingo’s back home after surgery and $1,800 in vet bills. But the Clark family is shocked he survived.\n“It’s a miracle this dog’s alive,” she said.\nThe incident started on East Florida St., where, neighbors say the pitbull and a German Shepherd escaped from their gated home.\nThe Clarks discovered at the vet Ringo wasn’t the only victim. Two other dogs, according to the family, had been attacked that same morning.\nBarry Stevenson said his cat was killed on his front porch.\n“This pit bull had such a lock. I had my fingers in its eyeballs. We’re beating it with a stick … It was like, in a trance. Like, I am killing this cat,” Stevenson recalled.\nStevenson said he had a heated exchange with the dogs’ owner, who would not admit fault. Police officers responded to the scene after the exchange.\n“They’re worried I’m threatening my neighbor,” Stevenson said.\nMills rang the buzzer on call boxes at the home neighbors said the dogs resided, but received no response.\nLong Beach police did not respond to requests for comment.\nMills reports Animal Control took the dogs away. It was not immediately clear what action the agency would take.", "LAKELAND, Fla. - A Florida meter reader was mauled by two pit bulls on Monday. She told reporters she “thought she was going to die.”\nRELATED: Deputies shoot, kill dog attacking Lakeland meter reader\nLinda Dionne went to a home in Lakeland, to turn the power off due to non-payment, something she’s done countless time in her 22 years at Lakeland Electric.\nShe said when she arrived, the gate at the end of the driveway was wide open, and two dogs laid in the driveway.\n“I petted her, she seemed fine, and that led me to believe that it would be OK,” she said.\nBut it was not OK.\nMoments later, she said the dogs attacked, tossing her around like a rag doll.\nDionne said she followed her training, and kept feeding the dogs any objects she could find, but her time was running out.\n“I’ve never been so scared in my whole life,” she said. “I really thought the dogs were going to kill me. I really did.”\nFor the first time in all her years, Dionne pressed an emergency button on her radio, notifying colleagues of a problem.\nMaster Deputy Matthew Dennis was first to arrive.\n“I don’t believe she would be sitting her today the way those dogs were mauling her,” he said.\nDennis shot and killed one of the dogs after it charged after him\nDue to a previous attack, the state already deemed that same animal a “dangerous dog”, meaning by law, the owner cannot let it roam free.\nDeputies arrested Matthew Overton for doing just that.\n“Had the gate been closed, I would have never been in that yard,” Dionne insisted.\nDespite more than a dozen deep wounds on both arms and legs, she is already counting down the days when she can return to work.\n“Hopefully soon,” she said.\nThe second dog in the attack was not injured, however, it may now be deemed a dangerous dog as well.", "The five-year-old dog was described as a member of the family, raised from a puppy but Monday afternoon it attacked the one person who may have loved him the most.\n“My pit bull attacked my wife for no reason, bit a big hole in her side. If the law don’t get him, he’s a dead dog here.”\nThe dog Milton Weeks raised from a 6-month-old puppy, crated and taken out of the house. Half an hour earlier.\nhis wife was airlifted to a trauma center after the dog attacked. “I had to pick up an electric heater and hit him across the head and then he jumped at me.”\nWeeks says an argument inside the home sparked the attack but it wasn’t the first time the dog had bitten someone. “He bit other people cause they violated our property but this time it went too far, it attacked my wife.”\n“It didn’t hurt for real. I didn’t feel nothing.” Jackson Turner is a neighbor who has scars from his tangle with the dog named Bosco. “I jumped the fence and he came out the door, walked up to me, sniffed me and stuff, hit me and bit me.”\nAfter those bites, family and friends told Weeks to get rid of the dog. Now, he wishes he’s listened. “Anybody got any pit bulls get rid of ’em cause I never thought it would attack my wife.”\nThe dog is being held for now by animal control. Normally it would be quarantined or tested for rabies but the dog’s owner has asked that it be euthanized.", "Please enable Javascript to watch this video\nALSIP, Ill. – Police shot and killed a pit bull that mauled a 77-year-old woman to death in the yard of a suburban Illinois home Monday afternoon, according to WGN.\nOfficers responded to Komensky Ave and 116th St in Alsip after a young man walking his dog saw the attack and called police.\nWhen they arrived, police say the dog was still aggressive and they were forced to shoot it. Officers tried to give the woman first aid but it was too late. Police said the woman lived at that address and that the 6-year-old pit bull was a pet in the home.\n\"It was pretty horrific,\" Alsip Deputy Chief Shawn Schuldt told Alsip Patch. \"If I go through the rest of my career without seeing something like this, that would be a good thing. I feel extremely bad for the family and we offer them our condolences.\"\nSchuldt said the dog appeared well cared for and that the department had never received any prior calls from residents or neighbors reporting the animal behaving aggressively.\nNo word yet if anyone else was at the home when the attack happened.", "A baby girl in Florida died Wednesday after the family's pit bull attacked her while she was playing in a bouncy chair, police said.\nThe 8-month-old was at home with her grandmother, who was bringing the dog back in from a walk around 11:30 a.m., when he broke free and bounded straight toward the little girl, Miramar Police Officer Yessenia Diaz told BuzzFeed News.\n\"The grandma was holding the dog after coming back inside and he overpowered her and went directly into the room where the child was bouncing and attacked her,\" Diaz said, calling the incident a \"traumatizing tragedy not only for the family, but for the officers on scene, as well.\"\nThe baby's injuries, Diaz said, were \"severe\" and first responders declared her dead at the scene. Her parents were at work at the time of the attack, she added, and the identity of the family was not immediately released.", "MIRAMAR, FLA. (WSVN) – An 8-month-old baby girl was mauled to death Wednesday morning by a dog in Miramar, Florida.\nPolice responded to the 2400 block of Kingston Drive, where the child was fatally attacked by a dog.\nThe child was identified as Liana Valino.\nThe infant was being watched by a family member, and the parents were not home at the time, according to detectives.\n“The child was in a bedroom, in a bouncy chair, and the grandmother was with the child,” said Miramar Police Officer Yessenia Diaz.\n“It’s very difficult for the entire department,” Diaz added. “Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to the family.”\nNeighbors in the community were stunned to find out what happened.\n“Just to know that a baby, an innocent baby, died under those conditions is devastating,” said Jacki Knapp.\nBrenda Villasin, the infant’s mother, said she dropped her daughter off at the home with her ex-husband and his mother prior to the tragic incident.\nThe mother was visibly distraught.\n“She was the best thing to ever happen to me. She smiled every morning,” said Villasin. “She was my world.”\nVillasin said she abruptly left work after hearing news that something happened to her daughter.\n“When you get a call like that, you don’t ask questions, you just go,” said Villasin.\n7Skyforce hovered over the scene, where officers and crime scene tape were seen at the house.\nThe family is confirmed to several dogs, all reported to be pit bull/Staffordshire Bull Terrier mixes.\nAll three dogs have been removed for evaluation.\nOfficials said it’s too early to tell what the outcome will be for the dog that fatally mauled the baby.\nPolice continue to investigate.\n(Copyright (c) 2018 Sunbeam Television. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)", "Rhode Island Police are investigating after a dog was killed in a vicious attack.\nInvestigators say the owners were walking their chihuahua Sunday morning when a pit bull jumped out and bit the dog in the neck.\nThe chihuahua ended up bleeding to death.\nHer owners believe the pit bull should be put down.\nA hearing about the incident will take place sometime next week.\nWatch the video above to hear from the owners.\n(Copyright (c) 2017 Sunbeam Television. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)", "A pit bull attacks its owner in a Foley neighborhood on Cedar Court.\nA 5-year-old pit bull attacked the woman this afternoon. We are told her injuries are so severe her internal organs are exposed. She has been flown to USA Medical Center in Mobile for treatment.\nThe dog is inside the home and officials are unable to capture it. Police are on the scene. The dog will eventually be euthanized at the owners’ request.\nNews 5 has learned this is not the first time the dog has attacked someone. A neighbor’s kid was bitten not too long ago.\nDebbie Williams is on the scene now. You can watch on facebook live.", "Police are investigating a pit bull attack on the subway in Lower Manhattan after a dog latched onto a 22-year- old woman's shoe.Eyewitnesses believe the people were the problem, not the pet. Now authorities are looking for the dog's owner.In a 60 second video the pit bull can be seen latching onto a young woman's shoe and refusing to release until the sneaker comes off. Then the owner is seen throwing the shoe at the other riders.\"You should've had your dog in a bag, kennel, muzzle. It wasn't a service dog,\" said eyewitness Tahsyi Kyng.It was 4 Friday afternoon. Tahsyi Kyng and his girlfriend were on the downtown #4 train to pick up their kids when a man entered the subway with his pit bull, Vinci.\"The dog sat on my foot and I really didn't mind it much,.\" said Tahsyi.When room opened up across the aisle, I'm told the man sat down and put his dog on the seat. As the dog lay down, Tahsyi says the pet bumped a female passenger on the other side\"She was like, 'the dog don't belong on the seat, that's an animal, people belong on the seat, put the dog on the floor,' and he looked at her like, I'm not moving my ***ing dog'\", said Tahsyi.From there, it went downhill quickly. Tahsyi, who took the video, says the woman pushed the dog off the seat. The owner put him back up. She shoved the dog off again. The owner responded with fists.\"He was like don't touch my dog and he started hitting, they started fighting and everybody tried to break it up, the dog latched onto her,\" said Tahsyi.In the struggle to get the dog off, other passengers are heard yelling at the owner to have the dog release.As the train pulled into the Wall Street stop, the owner can be seen leaving with his pit bull. I'm told the conductor eventually came into the car to assist the female passenger.\"That dog was not vicious,\" said eyewitness Denise Leon. \"It was just an incident that could have been avoided.\"The MTA confirms non-service animals must be inside containers when riding mass transit.----------", "Please enable Javascript to watch this video\nWILKES-BARRE, Pa. -- Owners of the pit bull that was shot and killed after attacking another dog in Wilkes-Barre are grieving the loss of their pet.\nThe pit bull's owner says he tried to stop the attack and feels lucky that he wasn't shot.\n\"I had to bury him myself. I couldn't stop crying. I teared up.\"\nAlejandro Loria still can't believe that he had to bury his pit bull named Batman in his backyard.\nSunday morning, Loria was taking Batman for a morning walk around his neighborhood in south Wilkes-Barre. Batman broke away from his leash and started attacking a couple's dog.\n\"I'm trying to pull my dog away from their dog and I hear the woman saying 'Shoot the dog!' I'm screaming 'No! No!' My girlfriend comes out the house because she hears me screaming. The guy shoots the gun. I'm maybe three feet away. I can't even hear what happens afterwards,\" Loria recalled.\nWilkes-Barre police report that a woman fired two shots, but Loria says it was her boyfriend who had the gun and shot Batman. Loria's girlfriend initially thought he got hit.\n\"I heard my boyfriend screaming, 'No, don't shoot, don't shoot!' and I heard a gunshot and I went outside. I thought they shot my boyfriend and I saw my dog and my dog was bleeding pretty bad,\" said Courtney Rivera.\n\"They acted too quick. Right there, what I did as soon as I saw my dog's leash and collar broke, I ran after him and I got on top of him. I attacked my dog just so he could stop attacking their dog. He was just standing there in shock. He should've jumped on his dog as well,\" Loria added.\nBatman was taken to a veterinarian but did not survive. Loria and his girlfriend have started a GoFundMe page. Loria says he will also have to pay a fine for letting Batman get loose.", "A baby girl in a bouncy chair died Wednesday after one of the family’s three pit bulls attacked her.\nFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A baby girl in a bouncy chair died Wednesday after one of the family’s three pit bulls attacked her.\nThe 8-month-old child was in the care of a grandmother during Wednesday’s attack, Miramar Police Officer Yessenia Diaz said outside the home.\n“She was the best thing to ever happen to me,” Brenda Villasin, said of her daughter, Liana Valino, according to WPLG-Ch. 10. “She was my world.”\nVillasin told reporters that she would drop her daughter off at the grandmother’s home so she could go to work.\n“Nobody wakes up in the morning and thinks they are going to lose the person they love,” Villasin told the television station.\nThe male pit bull was 3 or 4 years old and had been raised by the family since it was a puppy, Diaz said. Its sibling and mother, both pit bulls, were also in the home.\n“I don’t know what outcome will be of the dog (suspected in the attack),” Diaz said. “I can tell you that it will depend on the outcome of this investigation, our detectives’ evaluation and that of the Broward County Animal Control.”\nEarly Wednesday afternoon, all three dogs had been removed from the property.\nThe bite happened about 11:30 a.m. “At the time of the incident, the child was in a bedroom and was in a bouncy chair,” Diaz said.\nInvestigators from the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office and Broward County Animal Care & Adoption were at the scene.\nAt the time of the emergency, Miramar firefighters were called to the address to respond to a dog bite, but their help wasn’t needed, Inspector Lt. Jose A. Gregorisch said.\nLandlord Alex Bernal said the family has rented the white house with brown trim for about 18 months.\n“They are excellent tenants,” Bernal said.\nHe did not provide his tenants’ names. “They’re a beautiful family,” Bernal said. “They always pay on time. They are very nice.”", "A 12-year-old boy has been mauled by a pet bull-mastiff cross at a family friend's home in Kenwick on Sunday night.\nNine News Perth reporter Alice Pooley said the dog's owner Katrina Haywood believed the boy woke Snowy, a two-year-old bull-mastiff cross breed, when he startled and latched onto the child's face and body, biting him repeatedly.\nSHARE\nShare on Facebook SHARE\nShare on Twitter TWEET\nLink Two-year-old Snowy will most likey be put down after the attack. Photo: 9 News Perth\n\"The dog was asleep on my bed when my friend's son came in and sat on the bed,\" Ms Haywood, a mother as well, said.\n\"He must have startled him and before I knew it he latched onto his face.\n\"I couldn't get him off.\"\nThe boy was rushed to Princess Margaret Hospital with severe injuries and sustained dozens of stitches.\nAdvertisement\nThe bull mastiff cross was taken away from the home on Monday morning and a ranger told Ms Haywood the dog would most likely be put down after the savage attack.\n\"He is my best friend,\" Ms Haywood said.\n\"I don't think he should be punished for something he didn't deliberately do.\"\nJust two weeks ago a bull mastiff cross was put down by Gosnells rangers after attacking and killing its onwer.", "Two people were injured Monday afternoon, including a police officer, after they were bitten by a pit bull in Norton, Massachusetts.\nPolice said an officer arrived to a home on Union Road after someone reported that a pit bull had gone through a wire fence, into a neighbor's yard, and bit the homeowner.\nThe victim's injuries were not said to be serious and police said they were going to the hospital for treatment on their own.\nPolice notified Animal Control who then determined that the dog needed to be quarantined.\nWhen the owner of the pit bull brought the dog back out on a leash, police said it overpowered the owner, pulled away and attacked the officer — biting him and latching onto his forearm.\nThe officer was able to fight the dog off but was bleeding severely. He was quickly able to apply a tourniquet to stop the bleeding while waiting for first responders to arrive.\nThe officer was then transported to Sturdy Memorial Hospital where he was treated and later released.\nThe dog was taken by Animal Control.\nThe officer remains out of work due to his injury.", "Shocking video captured the moment a pit bull latched on to a woman's shoe for several minutes and refused to let go while on one of New York City's trains.\nIn the video, the dog is seen pulling on the woman's shoe as its owner tries to pull the dog off of her.\nAnother woman is seen holding the victim's leg as she yells: 'Get the dog off of her!'\n'Call the police!' another man is heard saying.\nShocking video captured the moment a pit bull latched onto a woman's shoe for several minutes and refused to let go while on one of New York City's trains\nIn the video, the dog is seen pulling on the woman's shoe as its owner tries to pull the dog off of her. Another woman is seen holding the victim's leg as she yells: 'Get the dog off of her!'\nFinally, the dog's owner tells the woman to take her shoe off. Once the woman's shoe was removed, the dog let go of the shoe.\nIts owner then threw the shoe at the commuters who witnessed the incident, striking one man in the leg.\nPassengers kept yelling at the man, saying he was going to go to jail for the dog attack.\n'You're going to jail now and he's [the dog] is going to get euthanized,' one man yells at the dog's handler as he records the incident.\nBut according to the person recording the video, the woman attacked the man on the train, prompting the dog to then attack her.\n'The dog is not vicious. She did attack him,' the man is heard saying. The incident happened on a 4 train.\nAccording to the MTA, non-service animals are supposed to be kept inside carriers to ride the trains so that they aren't bothering other passengers.\nIt wasn't clear if the dog's owner had it in a carrier on the train before the fight broke out between the man and the woman.\nFinally, the dog's owner tells the woman to take her shoe off. Once the woman's shoe was removed, the dog let go of the shoe. Its owner then threw the shoe at the commuters who witnessed the incident, striking one man in the leg", "By: News Staff\nEmail: news@abc6.com\nTwitter: @ABC6\nFALL RIVER, M.A. (WLNE) — A Fall River barber shop owner charged with animal cruelty and assault with a dangerous for stabbing a pit-pull five times is done with his jail time.\nWilliam Whitson was sentenced to, and served twenty-one months and four days for stabbing \"Smokey\" the pit-bull outside his barbershop in 2015.\nWhitson says he stabbed \"Smokey\" the pit-bull in self defense, but prosecutors said Whitson had a problem with the dog's owner.\n“I was in shock, I have never seen anything like that before in my life, I was just crying,” said Heather Lemieux, Smokey's owner.\nSmokey was on a leash when LeMieux said a small white dog that wasn't on one, started fighting with Smokey.\nThe owner of the small dog got nervous and screamed for help.\n“My dog was playing with this dog for a good 30 seconds and the dog didn't have a mark on him,” said LeMieux.\nLeMieux says seconds later then 45-year-old William Whitson came running out of the barber shop he owns on South Main Street, and started attacking Smokey.\n“I thought he was punching my dog but he was stabbing him multiple times,” added LeMieux.\nSmokey was barely alive when police arrived on scene.\nHe underwent multiple surgeries, and made a full recovery.\nWhitson claimed Smokey bit him which is when he says he stabbed the dog.\nThe dog never bit Whitson or attacked the other dog, authorities said.\n©WLNE-TV / ABC6 2017", "A 12-year-old boy was badly mauled by a family friend's dog he startled as it slept on its owner's bed.\nSnowy, a two-year-old bull-mastiff cross, latched on to the child's face and bit him several times on the face and body in a Perth home on Sunday night.\nHe was rushed to hospital for surgery and given dozens of stitches, while rangers took the dog away to likely be put down.\nScroll down for video\nA 12-year-old Perth boy was badly mauled by a family friend's bull-mastiff named Snowy after the child startled the dog as it slept on its owner's bed\n'The dog was asleep on my bed when my friend's son came in and sat on the bed,' Snowy's tearful owner Katrina Haywood told 9 News.\n'He must have startled him and before I knew it he latched onto his face. I couldn't get him off.\n'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. Her and her son told me that I saved his life but I don't feel like it. I don't feel like it at all.'\nMs Haywood believed Snowy thought he was protecting her and was heartbroken that she would likely never see her beloved pet again.\nSnowy's tearful owner Katrina Haywood she the dog thought he was protecting her and was heartbroken that she would likely never see her beloved pet again\n'He is my best friend. I don't think he should be punished for something he didn't deliberately do,' she said.\nThe Kenwick mother pleaded with rangers to at least find a home for Snowy on a farm with no children but was told that wouldn't be possible.\nThe attack was just two weeks after another bull-mastiff mauled a kennel owner to death in the same area of southeast Perth.", "JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A plan to promote pet adoption during a Florida city's televised council meetings may have already gone to the dogs.\nThe Florida Times-Union (https://goo.gl/e9EeEM ) reports that a 2-year-old pit bull mix named Elvis bit the ankle of a man who stepped on him Tuesday before the Jacksonville City Council meeting.\nA Jacksonville Sheriff's Office report says an audience member told officers the 63-year-old man was barreling down a crowded aisle when he became tangled in the dog's leash and stepped on the animal. The man was taken to a nearby hospital for stitches.\nElvis was placed in a 10-day quarantine. Shelter workers call the bite an isolated incident, but his future adoption eligibility is undetermined.\nIt was the second meeting attended by city-shelter dogs wearing \"Take Me Home\" vests. Officials aren't sure whether the program will continue.", "The woman was bitten so badly she needed plastic surgery. Her family are furious the animal wasn't removed until two days after the attack.", "The video will start in 8 Cancel\nClick to play Tap to play\nGet daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email\nThis shocking footage captures a savage pit bull attack on a packed subway train in New York.\nVideo posted on Instagram shows the crazed animal with its jaws locked on a young woman's foot.\nPassengers can be heard screaming as the owner, a man in a blue jacket, struggles to pull the animal away.\nA woman screamed \"Get the dog off of her!\" while another man shouted \"call the police!\"\nAnother passenger calmly helps the victim, untying her shoe laces so it can be removed.\nThe animal continues to shake the foot from side to side with the owner powerless to pull it off.\n(Image: Instagram/subwaycreatures)\n(Image: Instagram/subwaycreatures)\nEventually, the shoe comes loose and the owner manages to grab it and throw it back to the victim as he pulls the dog into a carrying cage.\nA transit spokesperson told the New York Post the incident has been referred to police.\n\"Our rules require non-service animals to be kept inside containers and not disturbing other passengers,” said MTA spokesman Shams Tarek.\n\"What’s happening in this video is disturbing and a clear violation of our rules.\n\"We flagged this video for NYPD, which is responsible for enforcing Transit rules.\"", "Alsip police said a 77-year-old woman was mauled to death Monday by a 6-year-old pit bull.\nPolice said the dog was a pet at the residence in the 11600 block of Komensky Avenue where the attack happened at about 3:30 p.m.\nOfficers were dispatched for a report of a person being attacked in the back yard at that address, and the dog \"acted aggressive towards officers and had to (be) put down,\" police said in a news release.\nPolice said they had no prior contacts or complaints in regards to the dog.", "MIRAMAR, Fla. - A pet dog attacked and killed an 8-month-old girl at the Florida home of a caregiver.\nMiramar police said they received a call about the attack just before noon Wednesday, but by the time officers and paramedics arrived, the baby was dead.\nMore News Headlines\nThey said the suburban Fort Lauderdale home belongs to a relative who was babysitting the child. No names or further details were immediately released, including the breed of the dog.\nTwo other dogs at the house were not involved.\nCopyright 2018 by WKMG ClickOrlando. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.", "Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email\nA woman mauled by her pit bull wants to send out a warning to other pet owners after her \"gentle\" dog suddenly turned on her - causing her to lose her arm.\nTraumatised Yasmin Adam, 45, was left lying in a pool of blood and fearing for her life after her beloved pup Sir Hinkles launched the unexpected attack.\nThe brutal assault took place after Yasmin attempted to break up a play fight between Sir Hinkles and her two other dogs.\nThe previously good-natured pooch, who was even permitted to sleep in Yasmin's bed, suddenly started barking before launching himself at her, biting her ear and tearing flesh from her arms.\n(Image: Yasmin Adam / SWNS.com)\n(Image: Yasmin Adam / SWNS.com)\n(Image: Yasmin Adam / SWNS.com)\nWARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES BELOW\nYasmin says Sir Hinkles, a nine-year-old red-nose pitbull, chewed on the bone in her left arm for nine minutes before police arrived and shot him dead.\nThe former quality control technician had recently moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, from Greenville, South Carolina, with her pets when the attack happened.\nPit bull terriers or pit bull type dogs are banned in the UK.\nYasmin said: \"I guess there was tension after the other dogs were fighting. Next thing I know he jumps up and bites my ear.\n\"I knew what was going on but I didn't feel any pain. I guess I was in shock.\n\"Sir Hinkles went back in his cage then, but all I can think of was that he got a taste of\nblood because he came right back out and bit me on my right arm.\n\"After that he attacked me on and off for nine minutes. The dog ripped all the meat off my lower left arm, and that's gone now.\n\"I just stopped fighting the dog. I figured I was going to die. He kept trying to pull the bone out of my arm.\"\n(Image: Yasmin Adam / SWNS.com)\n(Image: Yasmin Adam / SWNS.com)\n(Image: Yasmin Adam / SWNS.com)\nFortunately, a friend who was also living in the apartment, alerted the police, who pepper sprayed the vicious dog before shooting him.\nDoctors at Broward General Hospital, Florida, battled to save Yasmin's left arm for three weeks before it was decided that amputation was the only way forward.\nShe said: \"It was the most painful thing I've ever experienced in my life.\n\"I could see the bone clear as day. Eventually, they amputated it from just above my\nelbow on December 26.\n\"I'm just working on getting my right arm functional again. He ripped that arm apart too, but not as badly.\n(Image: Yasmin Adam / SWNS.com)\n(Image: Yasmin Adam / SWNS.com)\n\"I can't move my wrist and I have limited movement in my fingers. To be honest I thought I was going to die so to have just lost my arm I feel lucky.\"\nYasmin, who is unmarried, was in hospital for six months after the attack and during her time there, her two other dogs were put down.\nWhile Yasmin was upset she couldn't save them, she now warns people about the dangers of owning this breed of dog as, prior to the attack, Sir Hinkles had never shown signs of aggressive behavior.\nShe said: \"I loved him so much. He slept with me in my bed, he never was out of line.\n\"He was always so gentle with children and really friendly. He never snapped at cats or little kittens, he never touched a kitten.\n\"I didn't even have to put him on a leash because he was such a good-natured dog.\n(Image: Yasmin Adam / SWNS.com)\n(Image: Yasmin Adam / SWNS.com)\n(Image: Yasmin Adam / SWNS.com)\n\"I loved Hinkles, I had him for nine years but he turned on me in nine minutes. Now I warn people against these types of dogs.\n\"People always say 'It's how you raise a dog that matters', and I was one of those people.\n\"And I do believe to a certain extent that's true. But animals have an instinct they can't overpower and that's what happened with my dog.\n\"I thought he would never do anything like that and look at me now.\n\"Don't be tricked into thinking they aren't capable of doing something like this.\"\nIn the UK, people are banned from owning pit bull terriers under the Dangerous Dogs Act.\nOwnership of the Japanese Tosa, Dogo Argentino and Fila Braziliero is also prohibited.\nIt's also illegal to sell, abandon, give away or breed a banned dog.", "LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) – A Polk County Sheriff’s Office deputy shot and killed a pit bull that was about to attack him.\nThe shooting happened on Monday, while deputies were responding to a call about a Lakeland Electric employee who was attacked by a pit bull.\nDeputies a the Lakeland Electric employee was attacked in unincorporated Lakeland near Hardin Combee Road and Fish Hatchery Road before the deputy arrived.\nOn Tuesday, Linda Dionne, covered in bandages and only able to one arm, spoke about the attack, and to the deputy who she said saved her life.\nWHAT OTHERS ARE CLICKING ON RIGHT NOW\n>> back to WFLA.com for more top stories", "MIRAMAR, Fla. - An 8-month-old girl was killed in a dog attack Wednesday in Miramar, police said.\nThe attack was reported at a home in the 2400 block of Kingston Drive.\nMiramar police confirmed that the infant was killed by the family pet while she was in the care of a relative.\nSky 10 was above the scene at 12:30 p.m. as authorities had the home blocked off with crime scene tape. Animal control vans were parked outside the home.\nA woman, possibly the victim's mother, was being consoled by officers.\nMiramar Fire Rescue officials said a crew was called to the scene regarding a pit bull attack, but they did not take anyone to a hospital.\nFire Rescue officials said the incident is now a police investigation.\nWatch Local 10 News or refresh this page for updates.\nCopyright 2018 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved." ]

[ "Supported by a philanthropic gift from law firm Reed Smith, the expanded partnership includes a collaboration with local legal services provider Community Legal Services (CLS) of Philadelphia. As part of the expansion, CLS attorneys, in conjunction with law students from from ICAC and attorneys from Reed Smith, will provide pro bono legal services to families receiving care at CHOP.\nThe MLP addresses a wide range of issues, including problems with utilities; unsafe or uninhabitable housing; guardianship issues; and lack of access to adequate food and public benefits, all of which can interfere with a child's health and well-being. The expanded program will offer collaborative learning opportunities for medical, social work and legal staff.\n\"At CHOP, we know that we can deliver better care when we partner with groups committed to addressing family and child well-being outside the healthcare setting,\" said Madeline Bell, President and CEO at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. \"The MLP model has proven to be an effective way to meet the needs of families facing complex health issues combined with other social and physical stressors. As a result of the program's recent expansion, we look forward to even more opportunities to help these families, and we thank Reed Smith for their generosity in helping us to do so.\"\n\"The goal of this multi-disciplinary collaboration is to improve health outcomes for children and their families, and an integral component of this MLP is the placement of on-site CLS attorneys as part of the triage and treatment team,\" said Heather Ritch Rocks, a partner in the Life Sciences Health Industry Group at Reed Smith, who has been instrumental in the establishment of this and other MLPs. \"We are pleased to support this innovative model, which is a natural outgrowth of our pro bono commitment and desire to work with our clients to benefit our community.\"\nAdded Debby Freedman, Executive Director of Community Legal Services, \"Legal aid improves outcomes for children by ensuring access to essentials such as healthcare, heat and housing. We are thrilled to work with our outstanding partners at CHOP and Reed Smith and to provide patient families with the legal representation and resources to enhance their health and well-being.\"\nProfessor Kara Finck, Director of the University of Pennsylvania Law School's Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic, added, \"We have worked to meet the high demand of legal needs among patients and their families, and now with additional resources in place – including our partnership with CLS – there is enormous potential to help improve the circumstances for even more Philadelphia families and their children.\"\nCHOP's Division of Social Work and ICAC began piloting the MLP in 2015; to-date, more than 350 families have received legal counseling as part of the program.\nFor more information, please visit: http://www.chop.edu/resources/medical-legal-partnership.\nAbout Children's Hospital of Philadelphia\nChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1855 as the nation's first pediatric hospital. Through its long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals and pioneering major research initiatives, Children's Hospital has fostered many discoveries that have benefited children worldwide. Its pediatric research program is among the largest in the country. In addition, its unique family-centered care and public service programs have brought the 546-bed hospital recognition as a leading advocate for children and adolescents. For more information, visit http://www.chop.edu.\nContact:\nJennifer Lee\nChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia\n267-426-6084\nleej41@email.chop.edu\nView original content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/childrens-hospital-of-philadelphia-announces-expansion-of-multi-partner-medical-legal-partnership-300634590.html\nSOURCE Children's Hospital of Philadelphia\nRelated Links\nhttp://www.chop.edu" ]

[ "SEOUL, KOREA–(Marketwired – February 14, 2017) – Swisslog, a leading supplier of solutions for medication and supply chain management in healthcare, announces the successful integration of its Korean distribution partner, Telecar Co., Ltd into the newly incorporated Swisslog Korea Co., Ltd. With this strategic partnership, Swisslog Healthcare expects to expand its market presence in Korea and drive improved medication management and supply chain efficiency in hospitals and health systems.\n“South Korea has been a strategic focus for our Asian business. This partnership gives us a more significant market presence from which to serve the Korean healthcare sector. Our fruitful long-term collaboration with Telecar and its strong local network led us in the direction of an integration strategy.” says Stefan Hasenfretz, Head of Swisslog Healthcare — Asia. “We believe our best-in-class solutions, together with our technology leadership will benefit Korea’s forward-thinking healthcare systems and the patients they serve.”\nWith this announcement, Roy Roh EunKyun, former president of Telecar, is now Managing Director of Swisslog Korea. Of the new partnership he adds, “Telecar had served the healthcare market for the past 13 years. We gained extensive local market knowledge and built numerous references in the Korean hospital landscape. Together, the financial and R&D capabilities of Swisslog and the KUKA Group will propel us forward to play a more active role in the modernization of Korean hospitals and to be a better partner for all our existing customers.”\nOne of the many firsts for the new Swisslog Korea organization is a project awarded by EWHA Womans University Medical Center for their new 1,000-bed hospital to be built in Mogok, Seoul. The other was Swisslog Korea’s participation in K-Hospital Expo, an annual business-to-business medical exhibition and conference held in October 2016. In March, Swisslog Korea will welcome trade guests at Hall D, booth D643 from 16 to 19 March 2017 at the annual KIMES (Korea International Medical & Hospital Equipment Show) exhibition held at COEX in Seoul, Korea.\nNxtAsia Consulting supported Swisslog Healthcare in the market and commercial assessment for the partnership. Its Managing Partner, Mr. Seoul Min estimates, “There are more than 300 hospitals in the Korean healthcare landscape larger than 300 beds. The future points towards smart solutions with high levels of automation to reduce human errors and enhance the efficiency of patient services. This integration deal is one of many future cross-continental transactions where both parties recognize and acknowledge the positive assets involved and collaboratively create a highly positive outcome.”\nSwisslog Healthcare Solutions is a leading supplier of automation and software solutions for material transport, medication management and supply chain management in healthcare facilities. Swisslog has installed facility-wide and pharmacy automation systems in more than 3,000 hospitals worldwide, including more than 2,000 in North America. Denver-based Swisslog Healthcare Solutions offers total system design, manufacturing, installation and customer support — providing an integrated solution for lean workflow and operations that enhances information access, patient safety and cost efficiency.\nAbout Swisslog\nSwisslog designs, develops, and delivers best-in-class automation for forward-thinking health systems, warehouses, and distribution centers. We offer integrated solutions from a single source — from consulting to design, implementation and lifetime customer service. Behind the company’s success are 2,500 employees worldwide, supporting customers in more than 50 countries.\nSwisslog is a member of the KUKA group, a leading global supplier of intelligent automation solutions. Headquartered in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany with 12,000 employees worldwide. www.kuka.com\nAbout NxtAsia Consulting\nNxtAsia Consulting is a leading advisory firm serving Western customers in the field of Asian markets’ strategy. It also supports Asian companies in the Europe and US region. In the field of M&A, NxtAsia Consulting is focusing on mid-cap transactions. It’s regional headquarters is located in Shanghai, China. www.nxtasia.com\nImage Available: http://www.marketwire.com/library/MwGo/2017/2/14/11G130287/Images/(left_to_right)_Mr_Seoul_Min,_Managing_Partner_Nxt-993c2fea7b79934794a5bd0a462f0aa1.jpg", "PHILADELPHIA – The 2018 Philadelphia Concours d’Elegance, presented by nonprofit Cool Cars for Kids, Inc. (CCfK), is seeking entry submissions. Classic car collectors from throughout North America are invited to submit their entries for this premier Concours to be held on Father’s Day weekend, Saturday, June 16 at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. All entries submitted by May 1 will be considered for acceptance into the Concours. The entry kit can be found at http://www.coolcarsforkids.org/car-registration.html.\nThe Philadelphia Concours d’Elegance Selection Committee, led by Michael Tillson III, president and director of Cool Cars for Kids, Inc. will review all nominations and promptly notify entrants of the committee’s decision. This year’s classes are: Open Cars, Closed Cars, Prewar Cars, Postwar Cars, and Sports Cars. Generally, cars manufactured prior to 1970 will be considered for acceptance into the Concours.\nThe Concours, on June 16, is the highlight of a two-day event presented by CCfK. The day-long, fundraising event includes professional judging and awards presented for historical accuracy, technical merit, and style; family-friendly activities; celebrity guests, among whom will be Super Bowl-winning Coach Dick Vermeil; a Car Corral behind the Simeone Museum for local car enthusiasts; food and specialty vendors; and access to the Simeone Museum – one of the world’s greatest collections of racing sports cars.\nThe night before, on Friday, June 15, from 6:30 to 10 p.m., the 2018 Philadelphia Concours d’Elegance Preview Gala will be held at the Simeone Museum. The evening will include cocktails, dinner, Concours preview, silent auction and celebrity keynote.\nAll proceeds from the Philadelphia Concours d’Elegance on June 16, and Preview Gala on June 15, benefit the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in providing help and hope to children with rare birth disorders and their families, and to support research that will identify the best possible treatments.\nPremiere Concours Entries:\nClassic car collectors from throughout North America are invited to submit their entries for the 2018 Philadelphia Concours d’Elegance. All entries will be considered for acceptance into the Concours. Nomination Submission Deadline, May 1, 2018 http://www.coolcarsforkids.org/car-registration.html\nCar Corral Registration:\nClassic car enthusiasts and owners are invited to participate in this year’s Car Corral to be held on the grounds of the Simeone Museum. Individual Space, $50. http://www.coolcarsforkids.org/concours.html\nWHAT: 2018 Philadelphia Concours d’Elegance\nWHEN: Saturday, June 16, 2018, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.\nWHERE: Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum, 6825 Norwitch Dr, Philadelphia, PA 19153. ADMISSION: Public admission, $25; students and children under 18, free.\nFor more information, visit www.coolcarsforkids.org, or call 267-982-CCfK (2235)\nCool Cars for Kids, Inc. is a nonprofit organization based in Philadelphia, Pa. that brings together families of children with birth defects and classic car enthusiasts who share a common passion and appreciation for the one-of-a-kind. Funds raised from this unique partnership will directly forward its mission by supporting local and national charities – including The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia – to deliver care and support to children and families who struggle with the medical complexities associated with rare diagnoses. www.coolcarsforkids.org", "Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email\nSunderland is to get a new medical school as part of what the Government claims is the biggest ever expansion of the NHS medical workforce.\nThe school, specialising in GP and psychiatric training, will be based at Sunderland University and opens its doors in September.\nKen Bremner, chief executive South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust, said: “This development will build upon Sunderland’s proven success in medical sciences and nursing education and will help address the medical inequalities in the North East.”\nSunderland will have its own medical school for the first time, welcoming 50 students in 2019 and 100 new students in 2020.\nIt’s part of a major expansion of medical training announced by Health and Social Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt.\n(Image: Getty Images Europe)\nA total of five new medical schools are to be created, with the others in Lancashire, Canterbury, Lincoln and Chelmsford.\nThe medical school at Newcastle University will also be expanded, with 24 extra student places created.\nAs a result, a record number of undergraduates will begin medical training by 2020 with 1,500 new places funded across the UK, including 630 starting in September this year\nMr Hunt said: “Setting up five new medical schools is part of the biggest ever expansion of our medical and nursing workforce which will help us deal with the challenges of having around one million more over 75s in ten years’ time.\n“These schools are being set up in parts of the country where it is can be hard to recruit and attract new doctors - but will benefit doctors everywhere as we start to eliminate the rota gaps that add so much pressure to their work.”\nSunderland won funding to open the medical school after taking part in a bidding contest against other applicants.\nThe Government said one of its goals was to train more doctors and medical professionals in areas which currently struggle to attract them.\nOf the new places, 90% are outside London, with up to a third in the North of England.\nThe Government also says the new medical schools will work closely with their local communities to help talented students from disadvantaged backgrounds become doctors, widening access to medicine and ensuring the profession reflects the population it serves.\nSunderland University Vice-Chancellor Shirley Atkinson said: “Our bid presented a compelling case for an innovative medical school for those with talent and who present the requisite medical school entry requirements, regardless of their background and social status.\n“We will provide accessible medical education training for a new generation of doctors, recruited from the communities in which they live and where they will eventually practice.”\n(Image: PA)\n“Our bid was backed unreservedly by our NHS partners and clinicians and we are also working closely with the city council to provide an environment and a range of new amenities to retain young doctors in the region to halt the disappointing drift south of many newly qualified medics.”\nProf Scott Wilkes, Head of School of Medicine and Professor of General Practice and Primary Care at Sunderland, welcomed the announcement.\nHe said: “Our specialisms will address the well-publicised need for more GPs and psychiatric specialists. This will complement existing provision in the region.\n“Our programme will incorporate multi-professional learning and extensive exposure to real-life clinical settings and through our own simulation suites located at our own state of the art Living Lab”.\nProf Madeleine Atkins, Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), said: “This significant expansion opens the door for many more students, including students from under-represented groups, to gain high-quality medical education and training.\n“Following a rigorous competitive process, an ambitious portfolio of places has been allocated across both new and established medical schools which will offer innovative training and provision.\n“Universities and colleges across the country play a vital role in supporting their local and regional communities. This initiative will provide highly-skilled professionals, many of whom will go on to serve communities in areas of greatest need.”", "Popular text-based therapy platform Talkspace is planning a massive expansion.\nThe company is bringing on psychiatrists to prescribe medications to patients through the app using its video chat tool.\nThe app is also partnering with fraternity Delta Tau Delta to offer its 9,000 members free access.\nI began my first therapy session on a crisp spring night in 2015, in the middle of a crowd near Manhattan's Union Square. I was on my way to the subway when my phone buzzed with a new text from an app called Talkspace, a text-message-based therapy platform.\n\"Hi Erin, it's nice to meet you,\" the message said. \"Can you tell me a little bit more about yourself? I'm glad you are here.\"\nFollowing that initial message, I used Talkspace for a week.\nThe app is designed to replace or supplement traditional in-person therapy. And nearly three years and some 1 million additional users after I tried it out, the platform is planning a major expansion.\nThe biggest change is that Talkspace plans to start prescribing users medications for conditions like anxiety and depression.\nRoni Frank, Talkspace's co-founder and head of clinical services, told Business Insider that the decision to expand into prescription drugs comes alongside the company's recent appointment of its first chief medical officer. Neil Leibowitz, Talkspace's pick for the role, was previously senior medical director at UnitedHealth.\nIn addition, Talkspace is announcing a round of new partnerships in the coming weeks, one of which involves free access for brothers in the 9,000-member college fraternity Delta Tau Delta.\nPrescribing drugs through the Talkspace app\nplay null (iviewfinder/Shutterstock)\nThe Talkspace platform is built as a way to confront the reality that traditional therapy — which involves pairing a licensed therapist or social worker with an individual or couple — is failing to meet a large and growing need for mental health services.\nOf the roughly 20% of Americans who have a mental illness, close to two-thirds are estimated to have gone at least a year without treatment.\nDozens of other startups are also attempting to solve this problem, including AI-powered app Woebot and chatroom platforms like Better Help and 7 Cups of Tea. None of those currently offers patients access to medication, however.\nWith that in mind, Talkspace is bringing on a team of licensed psychiatrists who will serve as independent contractors and work directly with Talkspace's therapists to determine appropriate prescriptions for medications.\nWith Leibowitz on board as CMO, Talkspace would be the first mental health app to provide this service, which Frank said they would be piloting in a region of the US beginning in October 2018.\n\"Many patients can’t access medication and it's very expensive,\" she said. \"This collaboration is key for better clinical outcomes and better results.\"\nUsers won't completely forego an in-person consultation, though — Talkspace said that would take place via video chat.\nTalkspace is increasingly moving into offices and universities\nIn addition to expanding into the prescription drug space, Talkspace is also bringing its platform to offices and universities — first by offering its services through employer assistance programs, and second by teaming up with fraternities on college campuses.\nAs part of the new arrangement with Delta Tau Delta, the fraternity's members will get free access to Talkspace by using a special code. Talkspace views the initiative as an opportunity to provide young people greater access to mental health services, according to Lynn Hamilton, Talkspace's chief commercial officer.\n\"I think millennials today are more open about their mental health and their desire to get services but the flipside of that is that the universities are challenged to keep up with the students' demand to access care,\" Hamilton said.\nThe company announced a similar partnership with Alpha Tau Omega in 2016, after a member of that fraternity heard about Talkspace in an advertisement and reached out to the company.\nThe company is also in talks with several sororities and has been mulling the decision to work directly with on-campus mental health services at universities across the US.\n\"I don't view this as a fraternity-only partnership,\" Hamilton said.", "Oak Creek-based flexible packaging manufacturer Seville Flexpack Corp. will be sold, the company’s interim leadership announced today.\nThe family business, established in 1978 by Walter Yakich, has been tied up in probate while a lawsuit plays out among his children. Yakich died in June 2014, and had several provisions in place for the legacy of his estate, including the business. His five living children and his late son’s widow have been hashing out the ownership and control of the business in Milwaukee County Circuit Court since November 2014. The parties came to a settlement agreement on Jan. 27.\nThrough the sale of the business, the assets of Yakich’s trust will be monetized and distributed to the children by the court.\nLaxson Boyd was appointed interim chief executive officer of the company on Sept. 1. He has been working to prepare the company for a potential sale by positioning it for expansion, with plant improvements and $500,000 invested in new technologies and expanded capabilities on its presses, Boyd said.\n“We would certainly hope that we’d be able to find a strategic buyer with the close industry alignment—someone in the flexible packaging industry for whom the customer base and the employee base and the capacity that we have in our production facility would be valuable,” he said.\nSeville Flexpack has about 30 employees at two adjoining facilities totaling 205,000 square feet. While the company will seek the highest possible value from whichever buyer offers it, Boyd said keeping the facility operational in Oak Creek would drive the highest value for the owner so it would likely remain open.\n“We’re working very aggressively to keep the company on stable footing and we feel we’ve done a good job of that,” Boyd said. “We’ve preserved our customers and we’re bringing on new business, new customers. I don’t think (the lawsuit) will be a significant detraction to the value of the business.”\nSeville Flexpack has engaged Milwaukee investment bank TKO Miller to market and sell the business, with a preference for a strategic buyer who can take advantage of its talent and operations, the firm said.\n“We aren’t considering it a distressed asset sale. We’re expecting that it will be a normal sale process with a little bit more explanation upfront,” said Tammie Miller, managing director at TKO Miller. “But really, most businesses we sell have a little explanation upfront.”\nThe investment bank will market the company to a national list of prospective buyers, including interested buyers who have approached the company during the legal battle. The sale is expected to close within the next six months.\nSeville Flexpack makes flexible packaging for the food, beverages, pharmaceutical, medical supplies, personal products and confectionary markets. Among its capabilities are rotogravure and flexographic printing, solvent-free laminations, registered cold seal, registered pattern heat seal coatings, single and multi-ply laminations and pouch fabrication.", "Gorakhpur: Health authorities on Monday delivered oxygen to a public hospital in Uttar Pradesh where 63 people have died of encephalitis in recent days, nearly half of them children, as it ran out of medical supplies because of unpaid bills, triggering public outrage.\nThe deaths of the children have again exposed India`s underfunded and poorly managed public healthcare despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi government`s vows to revamp the system. Hundreds of people die each year in India of encephalitis, a mosquito-borne disease common during the monsoon season, and no medical official directly linked the recent deaths to a lack of oxygen.\nBut complaints that the hospital in Gorakhpur did not have enough supplies has stoked anger against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party which governs Uttar Pradesh state.\n\"We now have adequate supplies of oxygen cylinders, there was a shortage last week... but I am not in a position to say whether they were the cause behind the deaths,\" R.K. Sahai, a senior medical officer in the hospital, said.\nTelevision images of parents emerging from the hospital carrying the bodies of infants and alleging they died because there they didn`t get oxygen have led to a firestorm of criticism of chief minister Yogi Adityanath, a saffron-robed Hindu hardliner who took office earlier this year.\nBipin Singh said his six-year-old daughter died on Thursday because of lack of oxygen and he had seen six other children die for the same reason.\n\"My daughter and other children were unable to breathe. We kept telling the nurses that they should call the doctors. The doctors said they have ordered for oxygen cylinders but we never saw them being used.\"\nBahadur Nishad, who lost a four-year-old son suffering from encephalitis, said he was ready to pay for the oxygen cylinders himself.\n“They told me there was a shortage of cylinders,\" he said and turned his wrath on chief minister Yogi Adityanath whose electoral constituency is Gorakhpur.\nOther parents spoke of desperately trying to arrange basic materials such as cotton gauze, glucose injections and blood supplies as their children struggled for life in the wards.\nPatients continued to stream into the hospital over the weekend. Some 450 patients suffering from encephalitis were admitted on Saturday alone, of whom 200 were children under 12, hospital records showed.\nMany were being treated on the floor and near toilets due to the shortage of beds.\nGovernment expenditure on public health is about one percent of GDP, among the world`s lowest. In recent years, Modi`s government has increased health spending and vowed to make healthcare more affordable.\nThe Uttar Pradesh government fired the head of the hospital as well as the doctor who headed the paediatrics department to head off criticism from the opposition.\nBut Rajeev Misra, the sacked chief of the hospital, told reporters he had repeatedly written to the state administration to release funds to pay suppliers.\nSahai, the medical officer at the hospital, said authorities were investigating the reasons for the shortage of oxygen cylinders.", "PHUKET: Phuket City Municipality yesterday donated B1.36 million to go towards medical equipment for the currently under construction Chalong Hospital.\nFriday 30 March 2018, 02:34PM\nA cheque for B1.36mn is donated to hospital officials by Phuket City Mayor Somjai Suwanasupphan. Photo: PR Dept\nAt 1:30pm yesterday (Mar 29) at the Phuket City Municipality Meeting Room, Phuket City Mayor Somjai Suwanasupphan together with Deputy Attorney General of the Office of Litigation at Phuket City Municipality Bantoon Thongtan held a meeting to donate B1.36mn for medical equipment at the upcoming Chalong Hospital.\nMayor Somjai said, “Chalong Hospital still lacks the budget to purchase medical equipment and supplies, which means that it is not yet sufficient to accommodate the number of patients.”\nMayor Somjai noted that Chalong Hospital will be a community hospital featuring 36 beds and will accommodate patients from Chalong, Rawai, Karon and neighbouring areas before transferring them to Vachira Phuket Hospital.\nDoctors and nurses from Vachira Phuket Hospital and Thalang Hospitals will provide services at Chalong Hospital, she noted.\n“The government, private sector, people, and local government agencies in Phuket recognise and give priority to providing assistance to other human beings. Therefore, we jointly fund the purchase of equipment for Chalong Hospital.\n“Part of the support was given to Chalong Hospital through the organisation of a walking and running event on Feb 11 at Nai Harn’s public park in Rawai, from which B10mn was donated for the hospital,” she said.\n“Phuket City Municipality as a local government organisation responsible for caring for people from birth to death. It has the authority to promote the health of the people by working with Vachira Phuket Hospital, a network partner, to work together in all ways.\n“In terms of treatment, promotion, rehabilitation and prevention, it recognises the importance of public health service provisiond,” she added.\n“Therefore, the donation to finance the purchase of these medical devices is what Phuket City Municipality can take care of,” she said.\n“Phuket City Municipality is sponsored by PJT Technology Co Ltd, who contributed B1mn, Phuket Fishing Club who contributed B146,900, Eastern Thai Consulting 1992 Co Ltd who contributed B100,000, Phuket Rock Partnership who contribute B50,000, Diamond Thalang Ltd and Coral Island Resort Co Ltd who contributed B45,000, and Sompong Mineral Limited Partnership and its relatives amounting to B20,000.", "PGI doctors maintained that the institute’s collection of human organs dates back to the 1970s. Of the total preserved organs, the majority are of the human brain, numbering around 2,500. ( File Photo) PGI doctors maintained that the institute’s collection of human organs dates back to the 1970s. Of the total preserved organs, the majority are of the human brain, numbering around 2,500. ( File Photo)\nThe Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) is planning to set up a museum for anatomy. Doctors said the proposed start-of-the-art museum would act as a teaching aid for medical students as well as serve as an attraction for visitors.\nAt present, PGI has an anatomy museum on the campus, but the new plan is for a manifold expansion. The proposal that has now been prepared would require an outlay of approximately Rs 2 crore. “Our existing collection runs into\nthousands of organ specimens from the human body. It is probably the largest collection in India. These could be an excellent source of medical education for resident doctors and faculty of the institute and even other institutes of the country. With improved display and modernisation [in the new plan], it could be one of the best museums of Asia,” PGI spokeswoman Manju Wadwalkar told the Chandigarh Newsline on Wednesday.\nThe museum, as it exists now, is located in a hall in the research block of PGI. Not all specimens in the collection are on display due to the shortage of space. The main visitors are PGI’s medical students. The organ collection includes both healthy and diseased specimens, harvested from cadavers.\nPGI doctors maintained that the institute’s collection of human organs dates back to the 1970s. Of the total preserved organs, the majority are of the human brain, numbering around 2,500. The world over, teaching hospitals have museums that are as well known as the institute itself. The Gordon Museum of Anatomy at Guy’s Hospital in London is one such.\nThe Mutter Museum in Philadelphia at the non-teaching College of Physicians is famous for its exhibit of a piece of Albert Einstein’s brain. According to the new proposal, PGI officials said the museum would be divided into zones spread over different floors.\n“The collection will be curated in the new museum in a manner so that the visitor can have a seamless learning experience of visiting the museum,” said an official. “There will be different zones, including one for histology (study of microscopic tissues), self-study area, conference space, children’s section and also a tunnel of reflection,” he stated.\n“An additional mezzanine floor has been designed in the new plan to further connect via aerial bridge with the existing mezzanine,” informed the official, adding that the new museum would remain open for the general public as well. A senior PGI official said: “Huge money is involved and the proposal is under active consideration. Also, deliberations on the financial part of the project have begun.”\nFor all the latest Chandigarh News, download Indian Express App", "The company which supplied oxygen to the Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur said it had on August 9 written a letter to the Uttar Pradesh medical education minister Ashutosh Tandon, informing him that it had sent nine reminders to the college about more than Rs 60 lakh in pending dues. The letter from Pushpa Sales director Manish Bhandari said that despite nine reminders and even a legal notice sent between April 17 and August 8, the college had not responded.\nThis letter is likely to be part of the investigation by a special team announced by UP Chief Minister Adityanath on Sunday, after 30 children died in a 48-hour period at the medical college’s hospital. Adityanath has claimed that the deaths were due to encephalitis, although other reports have blamed a shortage in oxygen after Pushpa Sales cut off its supply on August 10 due to non-payment of dues. The supply was restored on August 13, only after some payments were made to the company.\nThe letter from Bhandari informed the minister that the 24-hour central oxygen pipeline was essential for the treatment of critically ill patients in the hospital. Pushpa Sales said it had written the letter to ensure that in future there is no impediment in supplying oxygen.\n“I would like to bring to your attention that for the last six months the BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur has, as of 8 August, 2017, yet to pay Rs 68,65,702 of dues and that despite several letters, meetings, calls, mails and a legal notice sent to the principal of the BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur, we have not got any response,” Bhandari wrote.\nThe letter written to the minister lists out the dates of the nine reminders written to the college between April 17 and August 8.\nThe company’s sales manager in Gorakhpur, Deepankar Sharma, told the Indian Express that the agreement with the college mentioned that payments must be made within 15 days and arrears should never exceed Rs 10 lakh. On August 11, after the deaths were reported, the company says it was paid about Rs 20 lakh of the amount, but pending dues are still more than Rs 40 lakh.\nOn his part, Rajeev Mishra, the former head of BRD Medical college claimed that he had written several letters to top officials of the Uttar Pradesh government requesting the release of funds to the college, so that it could pay Pushpa Sales. He claimed that the state government did not take prompt action in the matter.\n“I wrote at least three letters to the health department on July 3, 19 and August 1,” Mishra said. “I had attached reminders from the Lucknow-based vendor in my letters. I had even raised the issue in discussions over video-conferencing with officials in Lucknow.”\nThe former head of BRD Medical College said the government finally sanctioned the funds on August 5 and payment was made on August 11. He claimed the payment was delayed further as a result of Chief Minister Adityanath’s visit to the hospital. Mishra said that he resigned on August 12, after taking responsibility for the deaths of the children, although the government claimed he had been suspended.", "American aerospace and defense technologies company Lockheed Martin reckons that the F-16 Block 70 for India — the newest and most-advanced F-16 -- will strengthen the strategic partnership between India and the United States.\n\"We have partnered with India for more than 25 years and remain committed to fostering technology development, manufacturing and strategic collaboration. Today's global security environment requires proven success to protect what matters most,\" a spokesperson said.\nLockheed Martin says the F-16 is ready for any challenge, combining innovative structural and capability upgrades, such as the Active Electronically Scanned Array radar with a new avionics architecture. The Block 70 software further enhances capabilities through an advanced datalink, precision GPS navigation and Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System.\n\"Our partnership and joint venture company with Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) has also proven that Indian industry can manufacture airframe components for the C-130J airlifter and the S-92 helicopter. We hope to build on that success with the F-16, because when it comes to success in complex environments, we know trusted partnerships can make a world of difference,\" the spokesperson added.\nLet's have a look at Lockheed Martin's Make in India links:\nC-130J Super Hercules\nThe C-130 programme represents a strong legacy of partnership between the US and India. All C-130Js delivered to customers around the world have major aerostructure components from India included in their build through partnership with TASL in Hyderabad. This partnership with TASL also includes an on-the-job training element that supports the broader \"Skills India\" initiative.\nC-130J Super Hercules:\nIs Lockheed Martin's largest programme in India.\nRepresents the first major military contract between the US and India in more than 40 years.\nIs the world's most successful and advanced tactical airlifter.\nThe Indian Air Force operates a fleet of five C-130J-30s and it will receive an additional six C-130J-30s as well. Currently, India is one of 16 countries operating the C-130J Super Hercules, which is the world's choice for tactical airlifters. The IAF uses its C-130Js to support a variety of missions, from cargo delivery to providing vital humanitarian aid.\nThe Super Hercules is also part of India's C-130J Roll-On/Roll-Off University Design Challenge. Through this initiative, Lockheed Martin provides research grants for teams from Indian universities to work with local industry partners and mentors from Defence Research and Development Organisation to develop design specifications for proposed modules that could be used on a Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules cargo aircraft.\nS-92 Helicopter\nSikorsky – a Lockheed Martin company – also relies on TASL in Hyderabad, as the manufacturing base for its global supply of cabin aerostructures for the S-92 helicopter.\nSince production began in 2010, TASL has delivered 120 cabins to Sikorsky's S-92 assembly plant in the US.\nToday, production of more than 5,000 precision components that compose each S-92 cabin is 100 per cent indigenous to India — supplied by a joint venture company called Tata Sikorsky Aerospace Ltd., also located in Hyderabad.\nRenowned for its safety and reliability, the S-92 helicopter is operated extensively worldwide by offshore oil and gas transport companies, search and rescue agencies, and by heads of state. Sikorsky has produced more than 275 S-92 aircraft since September 2004. The worldwide S-92 fleet recently surpassed one million flight hours.\nS-70B SEAHAWK\nThe Indian Navy has selected Sikorsky's S-70B SEAHAWK helicopter for its multi-role rotorcraft requirement.\nDesigned to perform anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare (ASW/ASuW), the S-70B aircraft will be configured to meet the Indian Navy's specific and unique operational needs. The proposed Indian Navy S-70B variant will include a weapon management system that integrates an advanced sonar, 360-degree search radar, modern air-to-surface missiles, and torpedoes for the ASW role.\nThe S-70B aircraft will also enhance the Indian Navy's capabilities to perform non-combat maritime roles, including search and rescue, utility and external cargo lift, surveillance and casualty evacuation. Formalities to enable the successful delivery of 16 of these sophisticated and customised helicopters to the Indian Navy are expected to conclude soon.\nWhen delivered to the Indian Navy, the S-70B SEAHAWK helicopter will be one of the most advanced maritime rotorcraft in the world.", "Continuum Health, headquartered in Marlton, will provide RMG with comprehensive practice management services that enable value-based care, revenue cycle management (ensuring accurate, timely payment), and other leading-edge activities. Value-based care is part of the healthcare industry's transition to payments based on quality rather than quantity of care.\nFounded more than 40 years ago in Hudson County by Dr. Azzam Baker and his family – who continue to lead the group – RMG has 200-plus providers across 70 primary care and subspecialty locations in six counties.\n\"We look forward to helping Riverside achieve their clinical and aggressive business expansion goals,\" said Continuum Health CEO Peter Bailey. \"Our entire team is energized by Riverside's value-based vision for healthcare and their collaborative approach to our new partnership.\"\n\"The addition of Main Street Medical Associates and Heights Primary Care marks the beginning of the next stage of our expansion,\" said Zayed Baker, MD, co-president of RMG. \"We continue to hear from practices seeking the administrative assistance and resources of a larger organization to support their transition to value-based care. Continuum's deep relationship with payers, their ability to quickly and seamlessly onboard new practices, and their expertise in value-based care, practice management and revenue cycle management will not only support our practices but also help drive our growth.\"\nSupported by Continuum, RMG is empowering physician practices that seek an employed medical group model but wish to retain their autonomy from outside forces. RMG is frequently chosen by N.J. practices looking for an established value-based system, as well as access to RMG's partners, Surgical Care Associates (ambulatory surgical centers) and MedExpress (urgent care).\nThe number of independent physician practices is declining, as many doctors seek employment with hospitals and other large entities. Just 33% of physicians identified as independent practice owners in a 2016 survey, down from nearly 49% in 2012.1 Most cite reimbursement pressures as their biggest concern with remaining in independent practice.2\nJoseph B. Levin, MD, co-founder of Main Street Medical Associates, cited several reasons for joining RMG: \"Our ongoing commitment to the medical home model coupled with Riverside's diverse resources and drive to dramatically expand value-based care made this a perfect choice for our practice. We continue to be impressed with Riverside's patient-centered vision and support of our providers.\"\nAbout Riverside Medical Group\nRiverside Medical Group (RMG), an Optum® company, is one of the premier medical groups in New Jersey serving more than 250,000 patients in Bergen, Essex, Passaic, Hudson, Camden and Burlington counties. Formed over 40 years ago in Hudson county, RMG has grown due to its unwavering commitment to continuity of care and the establishment of strong relationships between the doctor and the patient. RMG features 70 locations specializing in Adult Medicine, Pediatrics, ENT, Foot & Ankle and Physical Therapy with Gastroenterology, Rheumatology, and Psychiatry, as well as partnerships with Surgical Care Associates (ambulatory surgical centers) and MedExpress (urgent care). As a Patient-Centered Medical Home, Riverside provides patient-focused medical care to the entire family. The team consists of more than 200 board-certified medical providers equipped with state of the art diagnostic tools. In addition to being top rated on HealthGrades.com, RateMDs.com, and Vitals.com, many of Riverside's doctors have earned prestigious regional awards. Learn more at https://www.riversidemedgroup.com/\nAbout Main Street Medical Associates\nMain Street Medical Associates offers high quality health care for patients in every stage of the developmental lifecycle. Specializing in Family Medicine and Internal Medicine, their five highly trained physicians are committed to providing family members with comprehensive care from age seven through geriatrics. Co-founders Joseph Levin, MD and Sanan Levin, MD have been practicing in the South Jersey area for more than 35 years, and providing care from their Moorestown, NJ location since 2000. Main Street Medical Associates' providers have been recognized as \"Top Docs\" in various regional publications year after year.\nAbout Heights Primary Care\nFounded in 1972, Heights Primary Care in Haddon Heights, NJ features a collaborative team of physicians, physician assistants, nurses, patient service representatives, and care coordinators dedicated to providing preventive, acute and chronic care throughout the patient life span. This comprehensive approach to care provides patients with better access to health resources, increased satisfaction and improved health. Heights Primary Care's ten board-certified providers have been recognized as \"Top Docs\" in various regional publications year after year.\nAbout Continuum Health\nAs a physician enablement company, Continuum Health optimizes physician practice operations, transitions them to value-based programs and prepares them for risk. Continuum also collaborates with payers to help drive value-based adoption among providers and improve the health outcomes of patients. The company improves performance through value-based care, practice management, revenue cycle management and specialty care solutions. Some of the largest regional payers in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, and thousands of physicians, specialists and nurse practitioners caring for millions of patients, depend on Continuum's business and clinical experts to help achieve their goals. Learn more at www.continuumhealth.net.\n­­Sources:\n2016 Survey of America's Physicians: Practice Patterns & Perspectives; pp 18-19, September, 2016 2015 Accenture Independent Physicians Survey; p.2\nCompany Contact:\nLinda M. Smith\nVP, Marketing & Communications\n(856) 782-3300 X1026\nlismith@continuumhealth.net\nView original content with multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/continuum-health-selected-to-support-riverside-medical-groups-nj-expansion-300635415.html\nSOURCE Continuum Health\nRelated Links\nhttp://www.continuumhealth.net", "Sue France\nWhat country has the highest per-capita number of marijuana users?\nAccording to a recent story in U.S. News & World Report, that honor belongs to Israel, sometimes called start-up nation for the large number of new enterprises it generates.\nThe magazine says 27 percent of Israelis ages 18-65 have used marijuana in the last year. Israel’s population is roughly 8.5 million, which means approximately 2.3 million Israelis smoked pot last year.\nNo other country is even close. Second place goes to Iceland, with 18 percent inhaling in the past year, and third place goes to the U.S., with 16 percent.\nNigeria is in fourth place with 14.3 percent and Canada, which is on track to legalize recreational pot nationwide sometime in the next year, is in fifth with 12.7 percent.\n(U.S. News apparently got its information from the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, the country’s largest.)\nThe main thrust of the U.S. News piece was a discussion of how Israel became the world’s leader in marijuana research while touching on the country’s approach to legalization, which seems to be everything short of full legalization.\nIsrael has legalized medical marijuana. There are currently about 25,000 people in the country with medical marijuana licenses and the number is expected to grow big time.\nLast month, the Israeli cabinet approved a proposal to decriminalize public consumption of cannabis. The proposal still has to be approved by the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, but that is highly likely given the cabinet’s approval. Under the plan, people caught smoking pot in public a first time would face a fine of approximately $270, but not criminal charges. Fines would rise with subsequent offenses, but criminal charges would kick in only with a fourth offense.\nGrowing and selling for recreational use would remain illegal.\nAccording to a recent piece in the New York Times, unofficial policy has amounted to de facto decriminalization in recent years. There were fewer than 200 arrests in 2015.\nWhen it comes to marijuana research, Israel is also the world’s leader, and Israeli chemist 86-year-old Raphael Mechoulam is the high priest. In 1964 he discovered tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), and he later co-discovered the endocannabinoid system in the human body, the body’s largest receptor system. He also found that the brain produces its own cannabinoids; he named the first one Anandamide, from the Sanskrit word for bliss or joy.\nAccording to Michael Dor, senior medical adviser at the Israel Ministry of Health’s medical marijuana unit, there are currently more than 110 clinical trials involving marijuana underway in Israel, more than any other country.\nThe Israeli company Breath of Life is about to open a one-million-square-foot grow-house and research center. The facility will be among the largest medical marijuana grows and research centers in the world.\nLast week, Hebrew University in Jerusalem announced the creation of The Multidisciplinary Centre on Cannabinoid Research, which will bring together 27 cannabis researchers at the university specializing in agriculture, chemistry, drug delivery, pharmacology and chemical development, including Mechoulam, of course. It will also draw on other university specialists in nanotechnology and brain science.\nGiven the foregoing, how is it then that Israel didn’t move to full legalization long ago?\nIsrael has a multi-party system, and all Israeli governments have been multi-party coalitions. Most have had religious parties in their coalitions, and some of those probably would have objected. No prime minister would risk bringing down his or her government over marijuana, especially if the 27 percent of the population who are stoners doesn’t vote on the issue.\nAlso, international tourism plays a big role in Israel’s economy, and much of it is religiously motivated. A lot of pilgrims may find pot dispensaries in the Holy Land off-putting.\nGiven what is delicately called “the security situation” — the fact that Israel has had to deal with the unrelenting prospect of surprise attack since its founding — a lot of Israelis may harbor more anxieties about the security implications of legal pot than, say, citizens of countries with more strategic depth and fewer hostile neighbors.\nStill, Israel tends to follow the U.S.’s lead on social and cultural issues. It wouldn’t be at all surprising if it legalizes sometime in the next two or three years, especially if more states with substantial Jewish populations do so." ]

[ "The drums are easier and you will always be in demand and get into better more successful bands. There are too many guitarists out there. Heard this from friends in bands." ]

[ "Yes. You can very easily put elecric-guitar stings on your acoustic guitar. I'm a lead singer/rhythm-guitar player and have been playing for 30 years. One of my best friends of 13 years is a lead player who enjoys playing both acoustic and electric guitar just like me. He only uses Ernie Ball Regular or Extra Slinky electric-guitar strings on both his electric Fender Telecaster and acoustic-electric Martin. I now prefer light-gauge, bronze-wound acoustic strings for my acoustic guitars, but I used medium-gauge, bronze wound for many years. The heavier the gauge, the louder the volume and greater the body of the sound. The lighter the gauge, the easier it is to work the strings. Lead guys often like electric strings on their acoustics for the latter reason - because they're easier to manipulate. Rhythm guys, like myself, often prefer more body and volume. If your guitar is an acoustic-electric and you often play through an amp, however, you may want to go with a light acoustic string or electric string on your acoustic, but if it's a non-electric acoustic, I'd stick with a heavier, acoustic string - especially if you do much playing outdoors (campfires, etc.). I hope this has helped.", "I agree with am1benz answer. I would add, however, that when I first started playing bass for a rock band (I used to be a classical guitarist) I found it to be much easier than guitar, but as I started playing more complicated music (Latin, jazz, fusion) I found it required even more work to play well than the guitar, because the strings are heavier, and required greater dexterity in my fingers in order to play fast and with a consistent tone and attack.", "Do you want the best set type? If so, try Ludwig. It is very sturdy and easy to bang on, plus it has incredible sound. I have used it all my life and has never failed me. Drum tabs take a while to get used to b/c there are so may things you have to look at at once. Try playing out singular parts, such as snare drum, and then putting the parts together. I don't know who or what Kahon is so I can't help there. There is no best techniques, you just have to decide what type of music you want to play and create stellar beats. Also, work on your flams, rolls, etc. which will help you make better music. Good luck and have a good time.", "truthfully speaking, you may as well get used to the fact that your guitar will get some nicks in it. alot of people actually throw dimes at theirs when they first get it to get it over with.\\n\\nlook at your guitar as a tool to help you enjoy your music, it will make the first ding alot easier on you.\\n\\nto answer your question, the body itself on a solid body electric is quite durable, it's the finish that will get marks on it. take a look at John Mayers guitar, the finish is almost wore off, same with many players who get that one axe they love.\\n\\nenjoy it and don't worry too much about a ding. ;)", "Im 15 and play drums w/ a double bass pedal", "i think that this question is pretty subjective to have just one answer. You would get different answers as to what is the most important instrument is. But if you want to know you have to know what genre of music you are aiming at playing. Guitars are always a good instrument for any genre of music, Drums would be hard to learn at an earlier age because of rhythmic comprehension but would be kick-ass if mastered. Pianos are pretty versatile as well and would be easier to learn. It really depends on your musical tastes as to what your children would be learning.\\n\\nIf your child has interest i'd say that bring them to music schools as early as possible, maybe at around age 7 would be good", "Hey, first off electric guitars are not too pricey...if you go to a music store, you can get one for around 200 dollars(im not sure how much that is in malaysian currency, but it shouldnt be too much there)...Personally, For your first Guitar, I recomend a Fender acoustic...(thats what I got, and its great)...But after you learn, you should probably get an electric guitar; I suggest a Fender, Yamaha or Gibson(Fenders the cheapest cost, but great quality)...and In answer to your question, Guitar is usually played chord by chord, but depending on what song youre playing, sometimes its played note by note (usually for scales and leads or solos)...Bass guitar though, is ALWAYS played note by note to accompany rythm guitar...and as for learning, usually, its best to take classes...the one on one instructions are very helpful and faster than learning on your own... personally its helped me...I learned guitar in two months(But alot of great guitarists have taught themselves how to play...Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Johnny Cash, just to name a few)...But you should know that there are some awesome classes you can take on the internet... and knowing how to play other instruments also helps alot (I play guitar and piano)... also, you can buy playing guides and DVD lessons at the music store where you buy your guitar...and whatever guitar you choose to get, I suggest getting a chord dictionary (they have chord chart books and electric chord charts...the book is cheaper, but the elecrtic has more features), also a guitar tuner, a strap, Gig Bag, extra strings, picks, string winder and cutter and an amp chord (if you get an acoustic/electric combo or an electric)...usually all those things come in the package with your new Guitar (and an amp too, if you go electric),along with the DVD...As for tips; PRACTICE, PRACTICE PRACTICE...and all you need to play guitar well is Memory, Ears, Fingers, and a passionate love for music (and Im betting we both have all of those things), and youll do great...", "Eddie VanHalen - guitar / lead vocals\\nAlex VanHalen - drums\\nMark Stone on Base (replaced in 1974 by Michael Anthony)", "Any good music shop. You can get drum set \"tattoos\" as well. They are cool, just like stickers and you stick them on your drum set. I had barbed wire on my old set.", "When I started to play the guitar it was really hard at first because i was new at it. But about a year later I learned how to play chords and it got much easier. Its easier and more fun when you get to make your own songs because its easier to memorize. You also have to be dedicated to playing the guitar, and have a good guitar teacher to make things fun.", "I am sure a man of his stature probably owns (and plays) many guitars depending on the desired sound. I have never seen him in concert to determine what type of guitar he uses for his live shows. I did the next best think and looked up some images of him playing the guitar.\\n\\nAcoustic Guitar\\nIn one picture, he is playing an acoustic Martin Guitar. Click the first link and look at the headstock of the guitar. Click the second link to view the headstocks from the Martin website to verify that it is a Martin in the picture (look at the Features image).\\n\\nElectric Guitar\\nThere are several images of him playing an electric guitar. However, none of them clearly show the brand of guitar. Based on the body styles in the images, it is safe to assume that he plays Fender Stratocasters and Fender Telecasters. See the third link for information on Fender guitars. Click on the corresponding link for the guitar on teh Fender site.", "\"Dexter Holland: vocals, background guitar\\nNoodles: guitar, background vocals\\nGreg K.: bass\\nRon Welty: drums\"", "need more info \\ndance music/rock music etc\\nacoustic/electric/amped up guitars\\n\\ngood luck", "The way I do it is by downloading the \"sheet music\" from www.mysongbook.com and the program called \"Guitar Pro\" will display and play the notes, most of these guitar pro files have the parts for vocals, guitar, bass, drum, and keys etc. \\nYou can find tons of songs on that site", "I am a complete klutz who can't hold a pencil without dropping it and I learned to play lead guitar in a surf rock band okay (NOT good, mind you, but ok) in 6 months. I put in a LOT of hours but we're talking fast picking lead, not rhythm guitar. I learned both on acoustic and electric.\\n\\nSo, I can quite honestly say if I can do it anyone can do it. The hardest thing with an acoustic guitar (more than an electric) is buidlign your callouses. You'll have to build up some major callouses and get so your left hand and right hand will work independently. That isn't as hard as it sounds.\\n\\nThe truth is in this saying by the man Beethoven chose to teach his nephew: \"Practice is the great magician who not only makes apparent impossiblities performable, but ever easy.\" Carl Czerny\\n\\nHINT: Don't play too long the first couple of weeks or your fingers will get too sore from depressing the strings, even on a high end guitar. If you put your hands in warm water and think your fingertips are on fire, you're practicing too long at one stretch. Build up time slowly.\\n\\nHINT TWO: Get really good strings. They will make your life a lot easier and sound better, too.\\n\\nHINT THREE: Don't be discouraged by what seems like failure. One day you'll suddenly make a giant leap and be doing something you thought you'd never get. Then you'll level off and think you aren't getting anywhere. Pretty soon you'll take another leap.\\n\\nHINT FOUR: When you aren't playing, do \"beats\" with your hands against your legs, the arm of the chair, etc. It helps you learn to keep time. (This I thought I'd NEVER be able to learn. Everyone always said I had to sense of rhythm at all. Imagine how proud I was when I took up drums and everyone sat and stared at me because I actually had a really steady beat from months of slapping furniture and my body to anything playing on the radio! YAY!)\\n\\nGood luck!", "Not hard at all. Once you learn the basics, like strumming and picking, then some chords, you're playing the guitar.\\n\\nIf you want to be a great guitarist it's a lot of work and practice, but it's enjoyable work. The more you learn the easier it is to learn. If you just want to pick up the guitar and play then don't worry about all the techniques.", "Jack Johnson maybe?\\ngreat drumming, guitar, and singing. plus his music is really mellow and laid back (if thats what ur looking for)", "I can play all clarinets, all saxophones, oboe, mellophone, english horn, trumpet, piano, bass guitar, electric guitar, some flute/piccolo, and am currently learning bassoon... I'm crazy, I know.", "The drums are my fav musical instrument to play and to hear, there is something about playing the drums that gives you such a rush.. hard to describe unless your a drummer", "I go to the subway with my electric guitar and play really loud. People pay me to quit playing. I make between $95 and $147.85 for a 6 hour day.", "it depends. down to the vocal patterns, the keys the songs play in, the techniques, the drum beats, even the way the guitarist plays certain lines, the culture that surrounds the music, the people that listen and go to the shows, the lyrics, the venues they play, every little detail almost.", "The instruments that play this theme song are: An electric piano, a clarinet, and an electric guitar. There is a timpani used as well. My husband is a composer and often goes to the piano and plays the theme song along with the TV just for fun. He hears the notes in his head. The melody notes are g g g a b-flat. For the accompaniment, play perfect fourths under the melody.", "It creates the acoustics of the guitar. That's why electric guitars don't have them.", "Best thing I can reccomend is play an electric, the neck is not as big around so you have an easier reach. I play the guitar, and it's hard for everyone to get use to stretching your fingers out all crazy. You just have to start simple with your basic chords, and practice a lot. I have friends that play great and have small hands, and short fingers. You just have to work them out! Good luck!", "those three instruments are actually the only three instruments that i have ever been interested in. sadly im lazy and have given up on all three. my recommendation is the piano though... this is only because from what i hear \"if you learn to play the piano it makes it a lot easier to play almost any other instrument\" or thats what i hear anyway. point is regardless of wether u choose it or not. anything is better than nothing because its better to get urself at least used to reading music and what different notes sound like etc. u can always change to a different instrument later... also someone said that guitar chicks are hot... actually any girl that plays an instrument that can be in a rock band is sexy. :-D", "every guitar has a different feel, different tone, ect.\\n\\npicking the right guitar for you is a personal thing that no one else can answer for you\\n\\nhowever, imo i think ibanez's play VERY well, but go for what sounds and feels right TO YOU not these other people who answer for you", "I use reason, just plug in a midi controller and go! Drum machines, synthesizers and samplers all at your disposal! www.propellerheads.se!", "you don't need to know how to sing or play instruments for punk rock. Just get a drum kit, a crappy epiphone guitar and a short crappy bass and learn three chords. Then scream. Now you have punk rock!", "You could either buy an instructional book, CD or DVD. or do what I did let myself go on the set and teach yourself. Teaching yourself gives you your own drum personality and makes it fun to try and make up beats of your own. Also listen to music while on your drumset. Since most songs these days are 4/4 time it should be easy to figure out a beat.\\n\\nHOPE I HELPED!", "Andrew Mast-Guitar and vocals Victor Lewis-Bass Justin Avery-Drums", "Sign of thyme is a young and talented jazz fusion band based in Amman. The two main members are Yacoub Abu Ghosh, who plays bass guitar, and Amhad Barakat, who plays oud. They recently released an album titled \"Like All People,\" which was produced by Nai. On the album, Tareq Abu Kweik plays drums, Saeb Omari plays classical guitar and Ali Dabbagh plays percussion. The guys are very laid back and the music is amazing, but they are not very well marketed. They have honorably opted to shun the major labels and traditional route to Arab pop stardom. They are currently trying to make inroads into the Beirut music scene, but their management doesn't seem to have a clue as to how to go about this. It's unfortunate, because they're truly talented and well worth a listen. And despite whatever anyone says, track 7 is by far the best on the album!", "I too was a classical guitarist. If you gat a classical, it will not be as good for strumming with a pick, and the baby guitars don't have such a good acoustic sound, although they could sound good with good electronics if you plug into an amplifier. If your steel string guitar is a fairly good one, you might be able to keep it and still make it easier to play by switching to lighter gauge strings, and having it professionally set up by a luthier or instrument repair shop. If the action (distance between strings and fret-board) or the truss rod (iron rod inside the neck) are not properly adjusted, the instrument could be harder to play." ]

[ "enoch contains unique material on the origins of demons and giants why some angels fell from heaven an explanation of why the great flood was morally necessary and prophetic exposition of the thousand year reign of the messiah the older sections mainly in the book of the watchers of the text are estimated to date from about 300 200 bce and the latest part book of parables probably to the 100 bce various aramaic fragments found in the dead sea scrolls as well as koine greek and latin fragments were proof that the book of enoch was known by early jews and christians this book was also quoted by some 1st and 2nd century authors as in the testaments of the twelve patriarchs authors of the new testament were also familiar with some content of the story a short section of 1 enoch 1 9 is cited in the new testament epistle of jude and is attributed there to enoch the seventh from adam 1 en 60 8 although this section of 1 enoch is a midrash on deuteronomy 33 2 several copies of the earlier sections of 1 enoch were preserved among the dead sea scrolls it is not", "in the bible the name azazel appears in association with the scapegoat rite the name represents a desolate place where a scapegoat bearing the sins of the jews during yom kippur was sent during the second temple period he appears as a fallen angel responsible for introducing humans to forbidden knowledge his role as a fallen angel partly remains in christian and islamic traditions in the bible the term is used thrice in leviticus 16 where two male goats were to be sacrificed to yahweh and one of the two was selected by lot for yahweh is seen as speaking through the lots one goat is selected by lot and sent into the wilderness for azazel this goat was then cast out in the desert as part of yom kippur in older english versions such as the king james version the phrase la azazel is translated as as a scapegoat however in most modern english bible translations it is represented as a name in the text later rabbis interpreting azazel as azaz rugged and el of god take it as referring to the rugged and rough mountain cliff from which the goat was cast down the translators of the greek", "protector of metatron seraphiel holds the highest rank of the seraphim with the following directly below him jehoel in some texts he is referred to as the angel of silence eponymously named as chief of the seraphim one of several for whom this office is claimed seraphiel is one of eight judge angels and a prince of the merkabah in 3 enoch seraphiel is described as an enormous brilliant angel as tall as the seven heavens with a face like the face of angels and a body like the body of eagles he is beautiful like lightning and the light of the morning star as chief of the seraphim he is committed to their care and teaches them songs to sing for the glorification of god in magical lore seraphiel is one of the rulers of tuesday and also the planet mercury he is invoked from the north israfil could likely be his counterpart in islam one of the archangels and an angel of music with a similar name of the same meaning", "300 bc after the angels michael raphael and gabriel he is also considered to be the ruler of the ophanim other spellings of phanuel ph n l include paniel peniel penuel fanuel orfiel and orphiel his name means the face of god he was one of the four voices enoch heard praising god as an angel phanuel is reputedly a member of the four angels of presence in 1st enoch he is also listed as an angel of exorcism he is heard expelling satans phanuel has also been linked with the angel of penance mentioned in the shepherd of hermas some associate phanuel with uriel however the book of enoch clearly distinguishes the two uriel means the light of god while phanuel has a different meaning phanuel s duties include bearing up god s throne ministering truth and serving as an angel of judgement furthermore as the book of enoch attests phanuel is the angel of repentance unto hope of those who have inherited eternal life piecing together the writings of enoch and the revelation of john phanuel along with michael gabriel and raphael will all drink from the winepress of the wrath of god strengthening them in that day", "in later translations he is one of the 20 leaders of 200 fallen angels mentioned eighteenth the name is believed to originate from tuwr rock and el god meaning rock of god while the translation taken from m a knibb s work on the ethiopic book of enoch is either mountain of god or rock of god there is a grimoire called the secret grimoire of turiel in which the magician is given instructions on how to contact turiel it claims to have been written in about 1518 and that it may have been copied from something older according to the original publisher the work was found by marius malchus in 1927 after buying an english translation of a now lost latin original from a defrocked priest which he copied before discarding no references to the work have appeared anywhere before 1960 when the work was originally published and the story of the defrocked priest and lost manuscript is fiction meant to cover up why the author could not produce any copies older than the twentieth century the work plagiarizes and re hashes material from a e waite s 1898 work the book of black magic and of pacts particularly", "he was editor of old moore s almanac which is still published in the 21st century as a young man sepharial initially studied medicine and followed this up with studies in psychology oriental languages astrology and numerology in 1886 he started to write an astrology problem page in the society times where he answered public questions and in 1887 was admitted to the inner sanctum of the theosophical society he was one of the founding members of the theosophical movement in england madame blavatsky whom he lived with until her death called him the astral tramp sepharial became an influential author in the fields of the occult astrology and numerology and his writings had a considerable impact on alfred h barley and alan leo who he introduced to theosophy he can be credited as the first astrologer to use waltemath earth s hypothetical natural satellite in his calculations since he considered it to be black enough to be invisible most of the time he call it dark moon lilith many of his books and other works were put together in a rather slapdash way which made his reputation less enduring than it might have been sepharial also started a number", "it divided the year into four seasons of exactly 13 weeks each each such season consisted of two 30 day months followed by one 31 day month with the 31st day ending the season so that enoch s year consisted of exactly 364 days there is some evidence that the group whose writings were found at qumran used a variation of the enoch calendar see qumran calendar the enoch calendar was purportedly given to enoch by the angel uriel four named days inserted as the 31st day of every third month were named instead of numbered which placed them outside the numbering the book of enoch gives the count of 2 912 days for 8 years which divides out to exactly 364 days per year this specifically excludes any periodic intercalations calendar expert john pratt wrote that the enoch calendar has been criticized as hopelessly primitive because with only 364 days it would get out of sync with the seasons so quickly in only 25 years the seasons would arrive an entire month early such a gross discrepancy however merely indicates that the method of intercalation has been omitted pratt pointed out that by adding an extra week at the", "strugnell said that he was shown the microfilm in 1990 during the kuwait crisis but he was never able to buy it for the editorial team according to strugnell the scroll was found in the qumran cave 11 in 1956 together with the other already publicized scrolls and fragments this cave was found by the same bedouin abu dahoud who found the first cave in 1947 apart from this and another scroll from cave 11 that he claimed to have seen strugnell had heard gerald lankester harding the director of jordan s department of antiquities 1936 1956 speak of at least 2 never published scrolls from the same find these or some of them were at that time the kuwait crisis about to be bought by private probably european collectors or bankers the reason for buying them was for investments although strugnell had arranged with serious buyers who would publicize the scrolls he was not able to convince the owners to sell abu dahoud has confirmed that he and 10 other men found the cave and sold the scrolls to many different people the importance of a complete aramaic manuscript of the book of enoch could be immense michael wise", "like the nephilim the elioud are exceptional in both ability and wickedness the texts that use the term elioud are non canonical in modern rabbinic judaism western christianity and eastern orthodox christianity but are considered canonical by ethiopian orthodox christians and beta israel jews i e certain ethiopian jews the canonical book of genesis mentions enoch the putative source of this revelation about the elioud only in passing as a long lived ancestor of noah and while it notes that nephilim had children it does not assign a name to them another canonical bible passage concerning a giant at gath and his children is sometimes alleged to refer to the elioud who in that account have six fingers on each hand and each foot although in context these references to giants appear to refer instead to the philistines early fathers of the christian church of the first and second centuries as well as the bodies that formed the modern rabbinical jewish canon were aware of 1 enoch and the book of jubilees in which these accounts were contained and accepted the former as scripture but by the 4th century ad due to a view of angels that held they could", "enoch holds material unique to it such as the origins of supernatural demons and giants why some angels fell from heaven details explaining why the great flood was morally necessary and an introduction of the thousand year reign of the messiah the unique material makes it possible to identify which ancient literary works adopt enoch as a primary source well known in antiquity the book was received by various authors with respect who treated it as any other scriptural book or explicitly identified it as divinely inspired among the dead sea scrolls ca 300 bc ca 100 ad in surviving documents of the qumram community aramaic fragments of enoch have been found attesting to an early date of authorship philo b ca 25 bc in a commentary of gen 6 1 5 found in on the giants uses enoch s teaching of demons being spirits of the air and the issue of angels that had adulterated with women before the great flood rabbinical tradition material that is unique to enoch is used in old jewish rabbinical interpretation of gen 6 1 5 midrash ca 8 c ad uses material unique to enoch in stating that the source of women painting" ]

[ "the name metatron is not mentioned in the torah and how the name originated is a matter of debate in islamic tradition he is also known as m a r sh the angel of the veil in folkloristic tradition he is the highest of the angels and serves as the celestial scribe or recording angel in jewish apocrypha and early kabbalah metatron is the name that enoch received after his transformation into an angel among the pseudepigrapha 1 enoch book of parables presents two figures the son of man and enoch at first these two characters seem to be separate entities enoch views the son of man enthroned in heaven later however they prove to be one and the same many scholars believe that the final chapters in the book of parables are a later addition others think they are not and that the son of man is enoch s heavenly double similarly to the prayer of joseph where jacob is depicted as an angel the book of daniel displays two similar characters the ancient of days and the one like a man parts of the text in daniel are aramaic and may have been changed in translation the septuagint", "it was published in 1835 in messenger and advocate and is hymn number 49 in the current lds church hymnal the hymn was written by w w phelps an early church member and poet the music comes from the 1835 southern appalachian folk hymn prospect of heaven the latter day saint term adam ondi ahman refers to the place that adam and eve went after they were evicted from the garden of eden this earth was once a garden place with all her glories common and men did live a holy race and worship jesus face to face in adam ondi ahman we read that enoch walk e d with god above the pow e r of mammon while zion spread herself abroad and saints and angels sung aloud in adam ondi ahman enoch walked with god is a quote from the book of genesis and enoch walked with god and he was no more for god took him the epistle to the hebrews expands on this by faith enoch was translated that he should not see death and was not found because god had translated him for before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased god in", "in the book of malachi 3 16 the prophet describes heaven as having conferring angels and the lord took note and listened and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who revered the lord and thought on his name in judaic thought gabriel is the principal recording angel as shown in ezekiel 9 3 4 where he is the man clothed in linen who had the writing case at his side who put the mark of passover on jewish houses in egypt in the secrets of enoch also known as second enoch or slavonic enoch the recording angel is named pravuil or vretil and the lord summoned one of his archangels by name pravuil whose knowledge was quicker in wisdom than the other archangels who wrote all the deeds of the lord in islam the two recording angels are called raqib and atid that record human speech each records faithful or blasphemous speeches and also records a human s deeds they are considered as the kiraman katibin angels the two angels believed by many muslims who record a person s good and bad deeds to a degree the recording angel overlaps with the guardian angel in christian", "it is based on the poem enoch arden by tennyson a print of the film exists at the george eastman house motion picture collection based on a summary in a film magazine enoch annie and walter grow up as friends later annie decides to marry enoch but walter though bitter about the decision remains their friend enoch and annie have two children then business takes enoch on a sailing voyage which he states will take less than one year and he asks walter to look over his family while he is gone enoch does not return and walter dutifully cares after enoch s wife and children after ten years word comes of a wreck seen in the pacific and everyone believes enoch has died walter and annie then marry one night a stranger comes to the house and through a window sees walter annie and the children happy the stranger who is enoch finds an old woman who tells him what happened enoch tells her to keep his secret and then leaves he later dies with a smile on his face the film is recognized by american film institute in these lists", "the term archangel itself is not found in equivalent in the hebrew bible and in the greek new testament the term archangel only occurs in 1 thessalonians 4 16 and the epistle of jude 1 9 where it is used of michael who in daniel 10 13 is called one of the chief princes and the great prince in the septuagint this is rendered the great angel the idea of seven archangels is most explicitly stated in the deuterocanonical book of tobit when raphael reveals himself declaring i am raphael one of the seven angels who stand in the glorious presence of the lord ready to serve him tobit 12 15 the other two archangels mentioned by name in the bible are michael and gabriel the four names of the other archangels come from tradition one such tradition of archangels comes from the old testament jewish apocrypha namely the third century bce book of the watchers which eventually merged with four other books in what has been called the enochic pentateuch but which is commonly known today as 1 enoch or the book of enoch the enoch story s narrative is affiliated with the book of giants which also references", "the most famous account of transfiguration is the transfiguration of jesus in the ladder of jacob at the conclusion of this instruction instead of simply being given the new name israel jacob is introduced to his heavenly counterpart the angel israel in the book of enoch when enoch returns to earth he tells his children that although they see him as the earthly human enoch there is likewise an angelic enoch metatron that has stood in the lord s presence the assumption of moses apocrypha offers a detailed account of the assumption and transfiguration of moses lumen gentium states that the immaculate virgin was exalted by the lord as queen of the universe that she might be the more fully confirmed to her son the lord of lords and the conqueror of sin and death in christian eschatology eternal life is said to be the transfiguration of all of humanity ramalinga swamigal 1823 1874 is said to have obtained an alchemized light body the buddha is said to have been twice transfigured at the moment of his enlightenment and at the moment of his death p d ouspensky recounts an episode where he claims that he and other onlookers experienced", "the editor in chief is piero capelli ca foscari university of venice the journal is published by brescia italy the ancient patriarch enoch is the hero and patron because enoch is an inter canonical interdisciplinary character par excellence and as such requires an inter canonical interdisciplinary approach by specialists of both judaic and christian studies enoch is the symbol of the determination to go beyond the traditional boundaries that divide the field of research of ancient and medieval judaism and christianity the journal is jointly edited by an international board of directors assisted by an editorial board and by an international advisory board it is double blind peer reviewed and indexed in the main international academic databases for the humanities religious studies and social sciences the journal was established in 1979 by paolo sacchi university of turin the interests of the journal ranged from the bible to contemporary judaic studies already with a clear emphasis on ancient judaism including christian origins from 1979 to 1986 the journal was published by marietti casale monferrato then genoa italy in 1987 the journal moved to another publisher silvio zamorani editore turin italy from 1989 to 1995 bruno chiesa university of pavia then university", "said to have died at the age of 969 he lived the longest of all figures mentioned in the bible according to the book of genesis methuselah was the son of enoch the father of lamech and the grandfather of noah elsewhere in the bible methuselah is mentioned in genealogies in 1st chronicles and the gospel of luke his life is described in further detail in extra biblical religious texts such as the book of enoch slavonic enoch and the book of moses bible commentators have offered various explanations as to why the book of genesis describes him as having died at such an advanced age some scholars believe that methuselah s age is the result of mistranslation while others believe that his age is used to give the impression that part of genesis takes place in a very distant past methuselah s name has become synonymous with longevity and he has been portrayed and referenced in film television and music methuselah is a biblical patriarch mentioned in as part of the genealogy linking adam to noah the following is taken from the new revised standard version of the bible according to the chronology of the bible methuselah died during", "and new american library in the united states bringing high quality paperback fiction and non fiction to the mass market in those countries kurt enoch was born in hamburg then part of the german empire on 22 november 1895 he was the son of otto enoch 1860 1934 an entrepreneur and publisher and his wife rosa his parents were from a liberal jewish background and encouraged their son to study literature and devote himself to his education after graduating from school and working as a volunteer in the gselliussche buchhandlung a bookshop in berlin the first world war began and he joined the german army and was sent to the western front on 27 november 1915 returning from the war in december 1918 kurt enoch began to help in the family business which comprised a printing company named gebr der enoch verlag english enoch brothers press a book and magazine distribution enterprise and a publishing company he progressively came to realize that he was mainly interested in the profession of publishing rather than in printing for this reason his father decided that the focus of the family business should henceforth be publishing and that the printing plant should be sold", "the manuscript is an account of how cain and abel slew each other and how adam s inheritance therefore passed to his third son seth seth was permitted to reach the gate of the earthly paradise without being attacked by the guardian angel with his flaming sword and beheld the trees of life and knowledge which had joined to form a single tree said to symbolise the harmony of science and religion in the kabbalah the guardian angel presented him with three seeds from this tree which he was instructed to place in adam s mouth when he died from these grew the burning bush which god used to talk to moses who made his magic wand from part of it this wand was placed in the ark of the covenant and was planted by king david on mount zion where it grew into a triple tree which was cut down by solomon to construct the pillars of jachin and boaz at the entrance to the temple in jerusalem another portion was inserted into the threshold of the great gate and permitted no unclean thing to enter the sanctuary it was however removed by some wicked priests weighted down by", "it is based on the 16th century writings of john dee and edward kelley who claimed that their information including the revealed enochian language was delivered to them directly by various angels dee s journals contained the enochian script and the tables of correspondences that accompany it dee and kelley believed their visions gave them access to secrets contained within the book of enoch the enochian system of magic is primarily the work of two men john dee and edward kelley the research of samuel liddell macgregor mathers aleister crowley thomas rudd elias ashmole william wynn westcott and israel regardie made additional contributions the raw material for the enochian magical system was dictated through a series of angelic communications which lasted from 1582 1589 dee and kelley claimed they received these instructions from angels while kelley conducted the psychic operation known as scrying dee kept meticulous written records kelley looked into a crystal shewstone and described aloud what he saw this account of the angelic communications is taken at face value by most enochian occultists however some of them have pointed out remarkable similarities to earlier grimoiric texts such as the heptameron known to dee such magical texts as the", "the king james version spells his name mahalaleel in the old testament and maleleel in the new testament mahalalel was a son of kenan son of enos son of seth son of adam in the old testament of the bible he was also the father of jared in judaeo christian mythology mahalalel is an ancestor of noah and thus of all humanity he appears in the book of genesis 5 12 17 and according to the book he lived 895 years placing him eighth in the records for the unusually long lifespans for the antediluvian patriarchs later references to mahalalel include 1 chronicles 1 1 jubilees 4 14 15 and gospel of luke 3 37 enoch s first dream vision in 1 enoch 83 recounts the dream that enoch had in the house of mahalalel his grandfather and which mahalalel explains to him additionally mahalalel is also mentioned in islam in the various collections of tales of the pre islamic prophets which mentions him in an identical manner the pet cat that comes to the manor in the storm in joyce carol oates s novel bellefleur is named mahalaleel", "other possible versions of his name are suriel suriyel in some dead sea scrolls translations seriel sauriel saraqael sarakiel suruel surufel and sourial in 1 enoch there is a fallen watcher named s raquyael amharic and s r qael amharic one of the seven holy angels who is of eternity and trembling in kabbalistic lore he is one of seven angels of the earth origen identified sariel as one of seven angels who are primordial powers in gnosticism sariel is invoked for his protective powers he is commemorated in the calendar of the coptic orthodox church on 27 tobi in coptic calendar according to the book of enoch sariel was one of the leaders of angels who lusted after the daughters of men they descended to the summit of mount hermon in the days of jared to acquire wives and lead men astray sariel specifically taught men about the course of the moon knibbs translation of the names of the book of enoch says it was sariel who taught humans the course of the moon the lunar calendar his name is also listed as arazyal and asaradel in some 1 enoch translations the name being a combination of sa ar", "the book of ether tells the story of the jaredites who were present at the tower ether records jared came forth with his brother and their families with some others and their families from the great tower at the time the lord confounded the language of the people and swore in his wrath that they should be scattered upon all the face of the earth and according to the word of the lord the people were scattered and it came to pass that the lord said unto the brother of jared go to and gather together thy flocks both male and female of every kind and also of the seed of the earth of every kind and thy families and also jared thy brother and his family and also thy friends and their families and the friends of jared and their families and when thou hast done this thou shalt ago at the head of them down into the valley which is northward once in the valley of nimrod the jaredites gathered flocks caught birds collected honeybees stored seeds and prepared watertight containers for the journey ahead the brother of jared then talked with god and received directions that led", "faces hebrew mal ak ha panim or mal akh ha panim or angel of his presence face hebrew mal ak panayw or mal akh panav refers to an entity variously considered angelic or else identified with god himself the phrase occurs in which states that throughout the history of israel god has loved and been merciful to that nation and shared in its distresses saving israel with the angel of his presence the septuagint translation of the book of isaiah emphasizes that this term is simply a way of referring to god not a created angel in the book of jubilees the angel of the presence explains to moses the history of israel jubilees depicts this entity as one of god s special agents and does not provide him with a specific name in the testament of judah judah states that he has received blessing from the angel of the presence in the book of enoch four angels that stand before the lord of spirits are given as michael raphael gabriel and phanuel according to some scholars the second book of enoch identifies uriel known in various traditions under the names of phanuel or sariel as the angel of the", "the meaning of his name is given as the covering of god the name sachiel originally occurs in the late 1500s grimoire called the heptameron in the early mentions of that angel its name is spelled differently in the late 1200s grimoire the oathbound book of honorius its name is spelled satquiel that spelling was taken from the early 1200s jewish occult book sefer raziel hamalakh book of raziel the angel the sefer raziel is highly inconsistent in its spelling of the angel s name which is therein spelled twice as satquel three times as satquiel twice as saquiel and once as sachquiel it is that last spelling from which derives the later spelling sachiel from the heptameron the wide variation of spellings of the name in the sefer raziel is in large part the result of the fact that the author created the angel by conflating together two different angels from the 400s ce jewish book 3 enoch the sefer raziel spellings satquel and satquiel are derived from the 3 enoch angel zadkiel which is also spelled shatqiel and shataqiel the sefer raziel spelling sachquiel is derived from the 3 enoch angel sahaquiel which is also spelled shachaqiel and", "supported by the department of near eastern studies of the university of michigan and the michigan center for early christian studies the group gathers about 200 university professors from more than fifteen countries the enoch seminar focuses on the period of jewish history culture and literature from the babylonian exile 6th century bc to the bar kochba revolt 2nd century ad the period in which both christianity and rabbinic judaism have their roots it is a neutral forum where scholars who are specialized in different sub fields ot apocrypha and pseudepigrapha dead sea scrolls josephus philo new testament and are committed to different methodologies have the opportunity to meet talk and listen to one another without being bound to adhere to any sort of preliminary agreement or reach any sort of preordained consensus the enoch seminar was founded in 2000 by gabriele boccaccini university of michigan who has chaired it ever since boccaccini is professor of second temple judaism and christian origins at the university of michigan usa and was editor in chief of the journal henoch from 2005 to 2012 vice directors from 2000 to 2011 were the late hanan eshel bar ilan university israel and loren stuckenbruck university", "his primary history is recounted in the biblical details about jared like the other long lived patriarchs are in the book of genesis in terms of the documentary hypothesis the passage about the descendants of adam genesis 5 1 32 is attributed to the priestly source a parallel passage genesis 4 17 22 which contains a genealogy of the descendants of cain is attributed to the jahwist another ancient version of the same original genealogy the two genealogies contain seven similar names and the jahwist s version of the genealogy has irad in the place of jared his father mahalalel great grandson of seth son of adam was 65 years old when jared was born in the apocryphal book of jubilees his mother s name is dinah jubilees states that jared married a woman whose name is variously spelled as bereka baraka and barakah and the bible speaks of jared having become father to other sons and daughters of those children only enoch is named specifically born when jared was 162 years old enoch went on to marry edna according to jubilees and the sole named grandchild of jared is enoch s son methuselah the longest living human mentioned in", "christianity and judaism have both produced messianic movements which featured millennialist teachings such as the notion that an earthly kingdom of god was at hand these millenarian movements often led to considerable social unrest similarities to millennialism appear in zoroastrianism which identified successive thousand year periods each of which will end in a cataclysm of heresy and destruction until the final destruction of evil and of the spirit of evil by a triumphant king of peace at the end of the final millennial age then saoshyant makes the creatures again pure and the resurrection and future existence occur zand i vohuman yasht 3 62 scholars have also linked various other social and political movements both religious and secular to millennialist metaphors millennialist thinking first emerged in jewish apocryphal literature of the tumultuous intertestamental period 200 bce to 100 ce producing writings such as the psalm 46 the book of enoch the book of jubilees esdras book of daniel and the additions to daniel passages within these texts including 1 enoch 6 36 91 104 2 enoch 33 1 and jubilees 23 27 refer to the establishment of a millennial kingdom by a messianic figure occasionally suggesting that this kingdom would", "wheels phann m singular ph n ofan also called galgalim galgallim spheres wheels whirlwinds singular galgal refer to the wheels seen in ezekiel s vision of the chariot hebrew merkabah in one of the dead sea scrolls 4q405 construes them as angels late sections of the book of enoch 61 10 71 7 portray them as a class of celestial beings who along with the cherubim and seraphim never sleep but guard the throne of god these wheels have been associated with mentioned as galgal traditionally the wheels of galgallin in fiery flame and burning fire of the four eye covered wheels each composed of two nested wheels that move next to the winged cherubim beneath the throne of god the four wheels move with the cherubim because the spirit of the cherubim is in them the late second book of enoch 20 1 21 1 also referred to them as the many eyed ones the first book of enoch 71 7 seems to imply that the ophanim are equated to the thrones in christianity when it lists them all together in order round about were seraphin cherubic and ophannin these angelic princes are often also called ofanim wheels of", "this book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet ezekiel and is a part of the books of the prophets the original text was written in hebrew language this chapter is divided into 32 verses some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in hebrew are of the masoretic text tradition which includes the codex cairensis 895 the petersburg codex of the prophets 916 aleppo codex 10th century codex leningradensis 1008 there is also a translation into koine greek known as the septuagint made in the last few centuries bc extant ancient manuscripts of the septuagint version include codex vaticanus b formula 1 4th century codex sinaiticus s bhk formula 1 4th century codex alexandrinus a formula 1 5th century and codex marchalianus q formula 1 6th century the date corresponds to march 3 586 or 585 bce based on the analysis of bernhard lang the date depending on the month corresponds to a day between april 27 586 bce to march 17 585 bce based on the analysis by bernhard lang egypt will join other nations which were judged by god in the depths of the earth pit or sheol", "he is considered the angel of justice his name means friend of god raguel is almost always referred to as the archangel of justice fairness harmony vengeance and redemption he is also sometimes known as the archangel of speech in the book of enoch cap xxiii raguel is one of the seven angels whose role is to watch his number is 6 and his function is to take vengeance on the world of the luminaries who have transgressed god s laws raguel s duties have remained the same across jewish and christian traditions much like a sheriff or constable raguel s purpose has always been to keep fallen angels and demons in check delivering heinous judgment upon any that over step their boundaries he has been known to destroy wicked spirits and cast fallen angels into hell called gehenna in the hebrew old testament and called tartarus in the greek new testament raguel is not mentioned in the canonical writings of the bible however in 2 enoch which is generally considered non canonical the patriarch enoch was carried as a mortal to and from heaven by the angels raguel and sariel possible historical references to a similar figure from other", "it is primarily based on the bible old and new testaments the exegesis of these scriptures the scriptures of early christian philosophers hermits and the associated traditions and legends incorporated from other beliefs in some christian traditions the deities of other religions are interpreted or created as demons the evolution of the christian devil and pentagram are examples of early rituals and images that showcase evil qualities as seen by the christian churches since early christianity demonology has developed from a simple acceptance of the existence of demons to a complex study that has grown from the original ideas taken from jewish demonology and christian scriptures christian demonology is studied in depth within the roman catholic church although many other christian churches affirm and discuss the existence of demons albertus magnus said of demonology a daemonibus docetur de daemonibus docet et ad daemones ducit it is taught by the demons it teaches about the demons and it leads to the demons according to the book of enoch which is currently only canonical in the eritrean and ethiopian orthodox churches but was referred to by the early church fathers the disembodied spirits of the nephilim are demons enoch explains in 1467", "the earliest known copy dates to about 350 bc other copies come from the ptolemaic and roman periods of egyptian history as late as the second century ad it is a simplified form of the book of the dead the books were originally named the letter for breathing which isis made for her brother osiris the first letter for breathing and the second letter for breathing they appear in many varying copies and scholars have often confused them with each other their titles use the word breathing as a metaphorical term for all the aspects of life that the deceased hoped to experience again in the afterlife the texts exhort various egyptian gods to accept the deceased into their company egyptologists assert that some of the papyri that joseph smith claimed to use to translate the book of abraham are actually parts of the books of breathing mormon scholar hugh nibley who was appointed by the church of jesus christ of latter day saints to learn egyptian in order to defend the claim that joseph smith had found and translated a document from the hand of abraham gives a short description of the book of breathings", "it describes the jaredites descendants of jared and his companions who were led by god to the americas shortly after the confusion of tongues and the destruction of the tower of babel ether consists of fifteen chapters the title refers to ether a jaredite prophet who lived at the end of the time period covered by the book believed to be circa 2600 or 2100 bc through 600 bc or later at least 1500 but possibly as long as 2500 years jared and his people were among the many scattered peoples from the destruction of the tower of babel the brother of jared is described as a large and mighty man highly favored of the lord and seems to have been the spiritual leader of the group he was given a vision of the history of the world and inscribed prophecies which were sealed up until the lord decides to reveal them the lord told the brother of jared to build unpowered submarines termed barges or vessels to cross the ocean to the promised land the barges could circulate fresh air because of openings in the top and bottom of the vessel the hole in the top could be stopped", "this book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet ezekiel and is a part of the books of the prophets in the new king james version this chapter is sub titled egypt cut down like a great tree the original text was written in hebrew language this chapter is divided into 18 verses some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in hebrew are of the masoretic text tradition which includes the codex cairensis 895 the petersburg codex of the prophets 916 aleppo codex 10th century codex leningradensis 1008 there is also a translation into koine greek known as the septuagint made in the last few centuries bc extant ancient manuscripts of the septuagint version include codex vaticanus b formula 1 4th century codex sinaiticus s bhk formula 1 4th century codex alexandrinus a formula 1 5th century and codex marchalianus q formula 1 6th century the date corresponds to june 21 587 bce based on the analysis of bernhard lang assyria was a superpower that fell into the hand of the babylonians and soon egypt will fall likewise", "this book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet amos and is a part of the book of the twelve minor prophets this chapter contains the prophecies of god s judgments on syria philistia tyre edom and ammon the original text was written in the hebrew language this chapter is divided into 15 verses some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in hebrew are of the masoretic text tradition which includes the codex cairensis 895 the petersburg codex of the prophets 916 aleppo codex 10th century codex leningradensis 1008 fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the dead sea scrolls 2nd century bc and later ancient manuscripts in koine greek containing this chapter are mainly of the septuagint version including codex vaticanus b formula 1 4th century codex sinaiticus s bhk formula 1 4th century codex alexandrinus a formula 1 5th century and codex marchalianus q formula 1 6th century nkjv groups this chapter into cross reference research by creationist geology professor steven a austin and colleagues published in 2000 suggested that widely separated archaeological excavations in the countries of israel and jordan contain late iron age iron iib architecture bearing damage from a great earthquake", "this book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet amos especially charges against moab judah and lastly israel the chief subject of amos prophecies it is a part of the book of the twelve minor prophets the original text was written in hebrew language this chapter is divided into 16 verses some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in hebrew are of the masoretic text tradition which includes the codex cairensis 895 the petersburg codex of the prophets 916 aleppo codex 10th century codex leningradensis 1008 fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the dead sea scrolls 2nd century bc and later ancient manuscripts in koine greek containing this chapter are mainly of the septuagint version including codex vaticanus b formula 1 4th century codex sinaiticus s bhk formula 1 4th century codex alexandrinus a formula 1 5th century codex marchalianus q formula 1 6th century and papyrus oxyrhynchus 846 ad 550 with extant verses 6 12", "it is attested in two g z manuscripts namely the earlier short recension emml 1835 and the later long recension emml 1841 both preserved in the monastic library of d br ayq the earlier one was copied during the reign of emperor zara yaqob 1434 1468 while the other has been dated to the seventeenth century on palaeographic grounds the veneration of uriel seems to have become more popular after zara yaqob the first church in ethiopia dedicated to him was built by emperor na od reigned 1494 1508 the old testament apocryphal books 4 ezra and 1 enoch both are considered canonical by the ethiopian orthodox tewahedo church serve as the primary base for the homiliary in general it depicts uriel as one of the great archangels and as the who has interpreted prophecies to enoch and ezra and the helper of both of them the homiliary is influential over the ethiopian orthodox tewahedo church traditions about the archangel uriel it comprises dozens of homilies and miracles attested in more than thirteen manuscripts the miracle story of a miracle of the archangel uriel worked for abba giyorgis of gas a is taken from the according to the at the", "state of maryland the society collects preserves and interprets objects and materials reflecting maryland s diverse heritage mdhs has a museum library holds educational programs and publishes scholarly works on maryland the campus of the maryland historical society is located in the mount vernon neighborhood of baltimore maryland at 201 west monument street this location is the main building of the maryland historical society which has been housed at the enoch pratt house since 1919 the house was originally built in 1847 and was presented to mdhs in 1916 by ms mary washington keyser as a tribute to her husband h irvine keyser who was a member of mdhs from 1873 until his death in 1916 enoch pratt 1806 1896 is a well known philanthropist who created the enoch pratt free library and gave substantial contributions to the first unitarian church of baltimore the maryland science center and the maryland school for the deaf the mdhs has published a quarterly journal now entering completing its 103rd year the maryland historical magazine is a peer reviewed journal boasting one of the largest readerships among state historical society journals the society also publishes books on maryland history that are distributed through a", "the book is described at the passage reads and behold the acts of asa first and last lo they are written in the book of the kings of judah and israel it is also referenced at the account of his sons the many prophecies about him and the record of the restoration of the temple of god are written in the annotations on the book of the kings and amaziah his son succeeded him as king it is referenced again at which reads now the rest of the acts of jotham and all his wars and his ways lo they are written in the book of the kings of israel and judah another reference is found at which reads now the rest of the acts of hezekiah and his goodness behold they are written in the vision of isaiah the prophet the son of amoz and in the book of the kings of judah and israel this name is sometimes written the book of the kings of israel and judah the book of the kings which is parallel to the book of the chronicles of the kings is referenced 45 times in the king james bible and the 46th reference", "bennion s organization of the enoch branch in 1911 the first latter day saint settlers had arrived in 1906 in 1908 a sunday school was organized at enoch in 1910 a building was built for the sunday school in 1930 it was only one of eight communities in texas where the church owned a chapel by the mid 1930s enoch had one church and two stores in 1938 it had a population of 250 dairy farming was the most important economic activity in 1951 the school in enoch was consolidated into the gilmer independent school district in the mid 1960s there were 125 residents of enoch by the 1990s there were no functioning institutions in enoch in 2000 there were 25 inhabitants of enoch in october 1953 when the dallas stake was organized the enoch branch was a unit in this stake in 1958 the area was transferred into the shreveport louisiana stake and the kelsey ward and enoch branch being merged with the gilmer branch to form the kelsey gilmer ward with j wilburn tefteller sr as bishop as of 1997 enoch was part of the gilmer 2nd ward there were three wards in gilmer" ]

[ "After the mass shooting in Roseburg, Ore., last week, the national media gave a lot of attention to the fact that the local sheriff, John Hanlin, is an ardent supporter of gun rights. He'd written a letter to Vice President Joe Biden shortly after the Dec. 14, 2012, massacre of schoolchildren at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., saying gun control was not the answer. In the letter, Hanlin pledged not to enforce gun regulations he believed to be unconstitutional. What wasn't widely reported was how common views like Hanlin's have become in law enforcement. \"Talking about firearms now is like talking about race,\" says Richard Beary, chief of police for the University of Central Florida and president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. \"These are difficult conversations, and people get very polarized on each side of it.\" It's not unusual to see law enforcement executives arguing with each other about guns in public. Take the situation in Milwaukee. The county sheriff, David A. Clarke Jr., is a champion of gun rights; earlier this spring he released a statement attacking the city administration for being \"anti-gun\" and \"anti-Second Amendment,\" and for \"blaming the gun instead of the behavior.\" Milwaukee's police chief, Edward Flynn, responded to Sheriff Clarke by saying that he wouldn't hold back from talking about guns and how they get into the hands of criminals. \"Our bad guys with guns learn nothing because the laws are so weak, and we need help,\" Flynn said. \"And I would like to think that people who think of themselves as advocates for law enforcement could get that through their skull.\" Jennifer Carlson, an American sociologist at the University of Toronto who studies police attitudes toward gun laws, says this divide has grown since the 1990s. A generation ago, she says, police chiefs made a common cause of legislation such as the Assault Weapons Ban and the Brady bill. \"And now you've really seen police not taking as much as a unified stance, at least publicly,\" she says. \"That's been a major shift.\" She thinks this may have something to do with the expansion of concealed handgun permits, which gun rights groups pushed for especially hard starting in the late 1990s. Police chiefs initially resisted the expansion of the gun permits, but Carlson says many of them changed their minds when they saw that increased permits didn't cause a big increase in shootings. Carlson says that once they got more comfortable with the idea of citizens carrying guns, some police embraced and even profited from the trend. \"In Michigan, for example, police are able to certify people,\" Carlson says. \"They can get in the business of running those firearms schools.\" The differing opinions of law enforcement leaders often mirror an urban-rural divide. Earlier this year, Sheriff John Hanlin of Roseburg — a town of about 22,000 that's more than 70 miles south of Eugene — appeared before a committee of the Oregon Legislature and spoke out against a proposed state bill to expand background checks to private gun sales. \"This law is not going to protect citizens of Oregon,\" he said. \"We have laws that prohibit the possession of other things, like methamphetamine, and it doesn't stop it.\" The bill passed, but not without a bitter political fight, including an attempt by gun rights groups to recall legislators who voted for it. That's why it's understandable that national police organizations tread carefully on the issue of guns. \"We don't want to separate ourselves from our communities,\" says Beary. These days, national police groups are more likely to talk about making existing gun laws work better and finding ways to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill — middle-ground positions that can get the support of their divided membership." ]

[ "President Biden said Tuesday that he and first lady Jill Biden were \"devastated\" by Monday's shooting in Boulder, Colo., and called on the Senate to pass gun bills passed by the House earlier this month that would tighten gun laws. Acknowledging there is more to confirm about the shooter's weapons and motivation, Biden said, \"I don't need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take common-sense steps that will save lives in the future and to urge my colleagues in the House and Senate to act.\" Biden said assault weapons and high-capacity magazines should once again be banned and that loopholes in background checks should be closed. \"It will save lives,\" he said of the House-approved legislation. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he would bring the bills to the floor, but their fate is uncertain in a tightly split Senate. Biden's remarks come a day after 10 people, including a police officer, died in a shooting in a grocery store in Boulder. Police identified the victims on Tuesday, ranging in age from 20 to 65. They also said suspect Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, of Arvada, Colo., is in custody. The president has been receiving regular updates on the shooting, the White House said, and has directed that flags be flown at half-staff through Saturday. Biden also spoke about the bravery of Officer Eric Talley, 51, who was the first on the scene. \"When he pinned on that badge yesterday morning, he didn't know what the day would bring,\" Biden said. He added, \"He thought he would be coming home to his family and his seven children, but when the moment to act came, Officer Talley did not hesitate in his duty, making the ultimate sacrifice in his effort to save lives. That's the definition of an American hero.\" The violence follows shootings last week in the Atlanta area, where a gunman opened fire at three spa and massage businesses. Eight people died, including six women of Asian descent, prompting an amplified outcry against rising violence and discrimination against Asians and Asian Americans. \"Whatever the motivation [for the shooting], we know this, too many Asian Americans walking up and down the streets are worried,\" Biden said last week. \"They've been attacked, blamed, scapegoated, harassed, they've been verbally assaulted, physically assaulted, killed.\" Earlier this month, the House passed a pair of bills to strengthen gun laws, including expanding background checks. Lawmakers are holding a hearing Tuesday as the country enters a new cycle of debate over gun control. Still, a narrowly divided Senate is a major roadblock to passage in that chamber. However, despite Biden's strong support of passing additional bills to tighten gun control measures, they are not universally supported. \"I come from a gun culture. And I'm a law-abiding gun owner would do the right thing, you have to assume we will do the right thing, give me a chance to do,\" Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, told reporters on Tuesday. Without Manchin's support, a Democrat supported bill would have little chance of passing in the tightly contested Senate. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday that in addition to pushing legislation, Biden was considering executive actions \"not just on gun safety measures but violence in communities,\" adding that discussions are ongoing about what the administration plans to do. During the campaign, Biden endorsed a $900 million program to curb gun violence in urban communities. As vice president, Biden led the Obama administration's failed push for stronger gun control measures after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012. They pushed to expand background checks for gun sales and ban more types of guns, but the measures failed to pass Congress. Former President Barack Obama released a statement of his own Tuesday, saying, \"It is long past time for those with the power to fight this epidemic of gun violence to do so. \"It will take time to root out the disaffection, racism and misogyny that fuels so many of these senseless acts of violence. But we can make it harder for those with hate in their hearts to buy weapons of war,\" he said. \"We can overcome opposition by cowardly politicians and the pressure of a gun lobby that opposes any limit on the ability of anyone to assemble an arsenal. We can, and we must.\"", "Over the last generation, gun rights have expanded in America, especially the right to carry firearms, both concealed and in the open. The big exception to this expanding gun culture has been New York City. \"We're an oddity in New York,\" says Darren Leung. He's referring to his business, the Westside Rifle and Pistol Range, a warren-like shooting range in the basement of a building on West 20th Street. One of the few places where it's legal to shoot a gun inside city limits, it's decorated with the kind of pro-gun sentiments that you'd see at ranges in other parts of the United States. But Leung says the reality for New York gun owners is very different. \"It's very, very difficult to obtain a license, very costly,\" he says. It's up to the New York City Police Department to decide whether someone should have a handgun license, and Leung says the police look for reasons to deny applications. Licenses from other jurisdictions — even other parts of New York state — aren't valid in the city, and he says you even have to be careful how to transport legal guns, here. \"Have the weapon unloaded, in a locked box, with a trigger lock on it,\" he says. \"They don't want you to have the ability to use the firearm in a situation.\" These long-standing restrictions are now coming under pressure. In early December, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York, which challenged city rules barring legal gun owners from transporting their weapons anywhere but to certain gun ranges. \"No law is going to keep a criminal from getting a gun or committing a crime with a firearm,\" says Tom King, executive director of the association that brought the suit. The association is based upstate. Gun rights groups hope this case will give the new conservative majority of the Supreme Court a vehicle for rolling back New York's gun control laws. But the city repealed the gun-transportation laws at issue before the case reached the Supreme Court, a tactical move that may end up giving the rest of the city's gun laws a reprieve on technical grounds. Still, gun groups think the city's strict laws are on borrowed time, given the highest court's new conservative majority and its sympathy for Second Amendment rights. \"If people live in dangerous neighborhoods and they want a firearm in their house to protect themselves, they're taking a chance of making themselves a criminal to protect themselves and to protect their families,\" King says. \"Is that right?\" On the other side of this debate are the New Yorkers who believe that gun control is a must in the nation's biggest city. That's the attitude at NYPD headquarters. \"I guess there are purposes to have rifles and guns for hunting and everything,\" says Tom Galati, chief of the department's Intelligence Bureau. \"But in an urban area, I don't think it's really safe to have a high-powered assault weapon here.\" He says this as he looks at a color photocopy of an AK-47 rifle that police seized the day before. The commanders at One Police Plaza in Lower Manhattan are known for being obsessive about guns. \"Every morning, I'll get a sheet like this. It'll tell me the precinct, the person,\" says Galati. \"Getting guns off the street is one of the number-one priorities of the NYPD.\" And the uncontested reality is that guns are less a part of New York life than they are in other American cities. Not only is the murder rate far lower than rates in comparable urban areas, but the percentage of those murders committed with guns is lower. It's only 54%, according to an analysis of FBI data by Jeff Asher, a crime analyst and co-founder of AH Datalytics. On average, the share of murders committed by firearms in other big American cities is 80%. Those color photocopies at NYPD headquarters are sent in from places such as the 75th Precinct, in east New York. Sgt. Damon Martin runs the field intelligence office there, and the walls of his office are plastered with photos of the guns that he and his officers have seized. \"A lot of times, it's a good icebreaker when people come into the office,\" Martin says of the photos. \"I think in the last four, five years, we've [recovered] close to 300.\" Each picture is tagged with the legal basis for the seizure. On some it's \"SW,\" for \"search warrant,\" but often it just says \"consent.\" That's an important technique for field intel officers, because that's what they do — they talk to people, sometimes people who've just been arrested, to find out who might have a gun. Then they try to get written consent to go find it. Intelligence work like this leads to about one-third of the NYPD's gun recoveries. \"I feel like I'm doing a gentleman's job. I feel good about it because I have great results. You see it — it's here on the wall,\" Martin says. But here's the question: Does this kind of police work depend on the fact that New York makes it so hard to get a license and that legal guns are relatively rare? All Martin can say", "Is it fair to blame the Occupy Oakland encampment for a murder on its doorstep? That's the question everyone's debating today here in Oakland, after a young African-American man was gunned down by the campsite Thursday at about 5 p.m. Some here say the victim was not affiliated with the camp; others say he was a frequent visitor, identified as \"Alex\" (police have not yet released his name). City officials don't seem very concerned about that particular detail. Regardless of the victim's affiliation with the camp, city council members and now the mayor say the camp has become a magnet for fights and other disturbances downtown. The police union this morning pleaded with the Occupy campers to vacate the plaza in front of City Hall. The statement read, in part: \"Yesterday's murder was Oakland's 101st homicide of 2011. It is time for us to stop directing all of our efforts at policing the small enclave of 'Occupy Oakland' and get back to our job of protecting the citizens of Oakland in the neighborhoods where our residents live.\" Occupy activists reject the notion that their camp is somehow distracting the police from patrolling the rest of the city. And they say closing the camp in response to the shooting is nonsensical. One activist told me, \"By that logic, we should shut down the whole city of Oakland.\" They point out that residents of the camp tried to break up the fight, before the gun was drawn, and that their medics tried to help the victim until the EMTs arrived. The camp members also tried to control the situation; right after the shooting, some of them blocked media photographers from getting close to the scene, and at least one camera man was assaulted. One camper told me to put away my recording gear or risk getting beaten up \"like the others.\" The campers have good reason to fear that this shooting may spell the end of the encampment. Local merchants and members of the city council have been pressuring Mayor Jean Quan to evict them. (She did once before, on Oct. 25, but the campers were soon allowed to come back, infuriating downtown businesses.) Last night, she issued a statemement that read, in part: \"Tonight's incident underscores the reason why the encampment must end. The risks are too great. We need to return OPD resources to addressing violence throughout the city. It's time for the encampment to end. Camping is a tactic, not a solution. \" So residents of the camp are steeling themselves for another eviction. I chatted briefly with two young kids, a sister and brother, who'd been equipped by their father with German Army gas masks. In case of tear gas, apparently. City officials are not eager for another violent scene. Many are sympathetic with Occupy's larger political message, especially in the office of Mayor Quan. But they're also extremely frustrated with the current standoff. One of them told me, \"This movement got the whole country finally talking about income inequality in the country... but now it's turning into a debate over camping.\" (Martin Kaste is a national correspondent for NPR.)", "Gun rights demonstrators rallied at state capitols across the U.S. Saturday to show support for gun ownership. A group called The National Constitutional Coalition of Patriotic Americans created Facebook events for pro-gun gatherings in all 50 states, and its co-founder David Clayton told The Associated Press that organizers secured permits for rallies in 45 states. It has been three weeks since Parkland, Fla. high school students and their allies organized a day of public rallies and marches to push for more gun regulation. A statement on the National Constitutional Coalition of Patriotic Americans' website announcing the events frames the day of action as a show of support for the Second Amendment and the Constitution. It also alludes to political debates about gun violence and mass shootings: \"Modern thinkers feel the need to strip away our natural born right to self-protection by limiting the available weapons that are at our disposal. They blame mental illness without documentation. They blame everything except the sole responsible party, the person involved in the action.\" Another group publicizing the events on social media was Oath Keepers. According to the organization's website, Oath Keepers is \"a non-partisan association of current and formerly serving military, police, and first responders, who pledge to fulfill the oath all military and police take to 'defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.'\" The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks the activity of far-right groups in the U.S., calls Oath Keepers \"one of the largest radical anti-government groups in the U.S. today.\" Clayton told The Chicago Tribune that though carrying unloaded guns, when legal, was encouraged, the marches were meant to be nonviolent: \"This is a very peaceful approach to a show of force,\" Clayton said. \"What that means is we're not going to go there looking for a fight. We're saying, 'Look at all the people gathered here. We have a voice too.' \" Associated Press reporters counted about 100 people at the event in Cheyenne, Wyo., more than 400 at the event in Dover, Del. and more than 135 people at the event in Atlanta, Ga. Organizers of the event in Augusta, Maine told the AP about 800 people showed up there. Corey Stewart, a Republican who is now making his second run for Senate in Virginia, spoke at the event in Richmond, Va. He told NPR that though he hasn't heard an official count, he estimates that about 200 people were in attendance. He says he believes such an event is important in the current political moment because \"the left is trying very hard to limit the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans.\" Stewart says he emphasized arms as a tool for public safety in his speech Saturday. \"The only way that we're going to prevent school shootings is by arming retired police, veterans and even teachers,\" he said. \"The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.\"", "The U.S. Department of Justice will not charge any of the officers involved in the fatal shooting of Tamir Rice, a Black 12-year-old boy who was killed by police in Cleveland in 2014. The department has closed its investigation. The Justice Department announced it found insufficient evidence to \"support federal criminal charges against Cleveland Division of Police (CDP) Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback.\" In a statement released Tuesday, the department said it notified Rice's family attorneys about the decision on Monday \"and today sent a letter to Mr. Rice's family explaining the findings of the investigation and reasons for the decision.\" Video footage of the killing, which happened in daylight on Nov. 22, 2014, shows the child was shot within two seconds of the police arriving at the scene. Loehmann, who fired two bullets into Rice, and Garmback allege they believed he was carrying a gun. In fact, the boy was playing with a toy air pellet gun near a playground at a city recreation center. The officers were responding to a 911 call during which the caller said there was a man — \"probably a juvenile\" — pointing a gun — \"probably fake\" — at people on the playground. However, the dispatcher failed to relay to the responding officers the fact that the subject of the call was likely a child with a toy. Rice died early the next morning at a Cleveland hospital. Outrage over the boy's death, which followed that of Eric Garner at the hands of New York City police in July 2014 and Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Mo., that August, was a leading narrative in the nascent Black Lives Matter movement that has emerged as a national call for police reform. There were no prosecutions in the case. In December 2015, a grand jury declined to bring criminal charges against Loehmann and Garmback. In its statement Tuesday, the Justice Department said the officers \"repeatedly and consistently stated that Officer Loehmann gave Tamir multiple commands to show his hands before shooting, and both officers repeatedly and consistently said that they saw Tamir reaching for his gun.\" \"Based on this evidence and the high burdens of the applicable federal laws, career prosecutors have concluded that there is insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Tamir did not reach for his toy gun; thus, there is insufficient evidence to establish that Officer Loehmann acted unreasonably under the circumstances,\" the department said. The statement noted Loehmann and Garmback were the only two witnesses in the near vicinity of the shooting. Loehmann was fired nearly three years after Rice's death for lying on his application to the Cleveland police." ]

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As long as the process is smooth, you can expect a check for your total loss claim around 30 to 40 days after you file.", "*How long does it take to get results back? Generally, it takes FDLE 1-3 business days to send results to the requesting agency. Each agency has their own internal processes once they've received fingerprint-based background check results so completion times vary according to agency.", "Q: How long does a background check take with Justifacts? A: Justifacts' normal turnaround time to process background searches is 24-72 hours.", "How long does it take? The entire experience inside Savi's Workshop takes around 20 minutes. If you include check-in and reviewing the hilt styles, it's closer to 30 - 40 minutes total.", "How long does it take USAA to send a settlement check? After the claimant signs the release, the insurance company can take up to six weeks to send the check. After everything, it can take up to two years for your claim to settle.", "How long does it take to receive results? Results of fingerprint-based checks submitted to OH BCI are typically received within 24-48 hours. Results may take up to a maximum of 30 days.", "How does TSA Pre-Check work with International travel? You can use your Pre-Check benefits when flying from an approved domestic airport (on a participating airline) to an international destination.", "Does Publix cash checks? Yes, Publix does cash personal and payroll checks at all stores. To cash a check at Publix you must provide a driver's license, state-issued photo identification card, or military identification.", "How long does it take to get approved? The approval process takes approximately 2-3 weeks, although many applicants receive their approval in a few days and may check their application status online.", "How long does a mammogram take? The mammogram itself takes around 6 minutes. When you attend your appointment, you should also allow time for checking in and getting changed.", "How Long Does a Background Check Take? The entire application process usually takes only a few days – anywhere from 48 to 72 hours. The background check is a very small part of the overall application process and should only take one to three hours to complete.", "How long does a background check take for a government job? It's the same for a Federal or Government job: two to five business days. It could take up to 30 days for some higher level government positions like the FBI. These background checks are more extensive and detailed.", "How Long Does It Take? According to Uber, the background check process should take between 7 and 10 days. As a rule, this is true, and most people pass their background checks within one week. However, there are many factors that can contribute to this taking more time.", "How long does it take to become licensed? It takes approximately 90 days.", "The three most common approaches to project selection are payback period (PB), internal rate of return (IRR) and net present value (NPV). The payback period determines how long it would take a company to see enough in cash flows to recover the original investment.", "A: A standard background check can take anywhere from 3 days to 1 week. An FBI background check takes up to 30 days, but Walmart does not usually do those. Thus, it can take as long as 1-2 weeks for the hiring manager to get back to you. Q: How far back can the background check go?", "How long does it take to get a Kentucky real estate license? The two most time-consuming factors to getting your license include completing the FBI criminal background check and completing the Pre-Licensing education requirement. The background check takes 12 to 16 weeks to complete.", "How long does it take? A one-color gel manicure takes up to 45 minutes. How long does it last? A gel manicure can last anywhere between two to three weeks.", "How long does the test take? The test usually takes 5 to 10 minutes.", "Uber Background Check FAQ. How long does the background check take to complete? Uber says it should take 5-7 days, but that time frame may vary depending on the number of driver applications Uber and their background check partner are dealing with at the moment. Most drivers report that it takes around 3-5 days.", "You can send money online to a Western Union location for a cash pickup, directly into your receiver's bank account, or to your receiver's mobile phone. ... Learn more about how to send money online. How long does it take to send money online?", "Cash may include a cashier's check even if it is called a \"treasurer's check\" or \"bank check.\" Cash does not include a check drawn on an individual's personal account. A cashier's check, bank draft, traveler's check, or money order with a face amount of more than $10,000 is not treated as cash.", "How long does it take to fill up my nightclub completely? I have full storage/upgrades. 66 hours .. but don't do that, as soon as your meth, coke and cash are full, sell. Approximately 20 hours of afk'ing ..", "How long does a gamertag change take? 24-48 hours to take effect on all services.", "Capital budgeting is the process by which investors determine the value of a potential investment project. ... The payback period determines how long it would take a company to see enough in cash flows to recover the original investment. The internal rate of return is the expected return on a project.", "Types of checks cashed: Safeway typically does not cash personal checks, handwritten checks, third-party checks, or starter checks. You can typically cash government checks — such as disability benefits, Social Security benefits, tax refunds, and unemployment benefits — and payroll checks at Safeway.", "But how long to deep fry chicken legs? It takes around 15 minutes to deep fry the legs. But they'll appear to be ready within 5 minutes of frying. To make perfectly deep fried chicken drumsticks, you can take a thermometer to check the chicken's internal temperature." ]

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[ "I would assume by your screen name and your problem, that you are a woman. This is a common problem with women because our wrists just aren't as strong as mens. This is something men just don't understand because they don't have the problem! No offense. It's just us girls still are weaker. I struggled with throwing a backup ball for quite some time, but finally rid myself of it. Now I throw a powerful hook and average 185+. I would strongly suggest you working out of that backup and working into a straight ball or a slight curve. The biggest thing you need to remember is to keep your wrist straight. Everytime you release the ball, bring your arm up, as if you were reaching out to shake hands with the pins. This is the proper release. You might want to wear a brace to help keep your arm & wrist straight, but I don't like to push it because they are too easy to become dependant upon. \\n\\nGood luck and many strikes to you!" ]

[ "Cricket-a game unfamiliar to many Americans, is a summer sport popular in Australaia, the Indian Subcontinent, Southern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, the West Indies and Britain. It is a game which requires precision in timing, skill, discipline and patience. Though cricket isn't always a spectacular showpiece, basic knowledge of the game will make it more enjoyable. \\n\\n\\nCricket is played with two teams of eleven, each with two umpires (referees) on an oval field. The size of the field varies, but generally has a diameter of around 200 metres. A cricket bat is oblong shaped with a skinny handle. The bat in length is around 90 centimetres, or up to your waistline. A cricket ball is made of cork and coated with leather, and is then stitched up. A ball weighs around 10 ounces. \\n\\n\\n \\nIn the middle of the field is what is known as a pitch. A pitch is a hard, flat strip of dry ground around 18 metres long. Two batsman are at the pitch at a time, both at different ends, with one facing the delivery of the ball from the bowler. The bowler runs up to the pitch where he bowls the ball overarm but releases the ball before he reaches the crease, which is a white line painted on the pitch. If the bowler oversteps the line, there is a one run penalty. \\n\\n\\nTeams score by getting runs. A run is completed when a batsman hits the ball and then runs to the other end of the cricket pitch, getting past the crease. The non striking batsman has to run to the opposite end as well. The batsman can run as many times as they like, but the batsmen can get out if their stumps are hit with the ball by a fielder before the batsman reaches the crease. The stumps are three sticks of equal size measuring around 90 centimetres tall with 5 centimetres separating them. Bails (small pieces of wood) are balanced on top of the stumps. \\n\\n\\nOther ways runs can be scored are by hitting boundaries. Boundaries are scored when the ball is hit and touches or goes past the outer edge of the field. Four runs are scored when the batsmen hits the ball and the ball hits the ground before reaching the outer edge of the boundary, and six runs are scored when the ball is hit and goes over the boundary without touching the ground. Runs can also be scored in the following ways: No balls, when the bowler oversteps the crease, bowls in a dangerous manner or incorrectly, or if the ball rises above the batsmans head. A no ball is worth one run. A wide is scored when the ball goes outside the line of the pitch before coming in line with the batsman. This is also worth one run. A leg bye is scored when the ball hits the batsman but doesnt contact his bat and then proceeds to run. A bye is scored when the batsman runs without the ball coming into into contact with the batsman or his bat, and then runs. \\n\\n\\nThe fielding team can get the batsman out in several ways, by 1) catching him out. This is done when the batsman hits the ball with his bat and a fielder catches the ball on the full. By 2) bowling him out. This happens when the bowler bowls the ball and the ball strikes the batsmans stumps or bails. By 3) leg before wicket, or LBW. This happens when the bowler bowls it and the stumps being hit by the ball are prevented when the batsmans leg gets in the way. By 4) stumped, when the batsman comes forward to hit the hit but steps out of his crease, misses the ball and the fielder behind the stumps collects the ball hits the stumps before the batsman gets back behind his crease. By 5) run out, when the batsman attempts to score a run but has his stumps hit by the ball before he reaches the other crease. By 6) Hit wicket, when the batsman hits his own stumps while trying to hit the ball.By 7) retired, when the batsman voluntarily decides to finish his innings, and 8)timed out, when the next batsman doesnt appear on the pitch within two minutes of the last batsman getting out. \\n\\n\\nEach team has one inning of 50 overs. An over is a series of 6 bowls by a bowler. Each bowler c", "It can be, but be careful of the on-line university you choose. \\n\\nHere is a website for an on-line university that is very well recognized in Canada.", "I can't imagine that it would be safer than chess, backgammon or lawn bowls. So that would put it forth in line at least. However, it is probably safer than anything to do with horses, hang gliders or motorcycles.", "ALL SPIN BOWLERS ARE SLOW BOWLERS", "I disagree. Friend, cricket is a funny game. Miracles do happen. :) Yes, Pakistan are the favourites. Deficiency of fast bowlers will hurt India. But then again, you never know with cricket.", "Sure, all you have to do put a bowl that will fit tightly and then set it in the dish washer for a cycle. Then just take it out while it's still wet, put a slightly bigger bowl in it and let it dry with the bowl still in it.", "something along the lines of \"how are you doing\"", "Da Packers...yah, ya gotta love da Packers...no matter how badly they may do, they STILL have won more Super Bowls that the Viqueens!", "You pretty much answered this one yourself....We aren't God almighty. \\n\\nCloning is 'making' a human being and that is God's job.\\n\\nTest tube babies are like throwing the ingredients for a cake into a bowl and letting a cake make itself - it can't be done unless an outside force plays a part (call it God, or Mother Nature or whatever you choose.)\\n\\nThere is too much power behind the cloning of humans and it could be disasterous if the ability to do it got into the wrong hands. How many Bin Laden's would we want in this world??", "think about the things that you do agree with and go from there. the preacher doesn't need your aquiesences and neither do you need his. if your having a good time at this church and are doubtful that you'll find one that hold your attention as well, then you should definitely stay. if not, by all means, go. you don't need a preacher to tell YOU how YOU feel about YOUR faith. myabe you could find other like-minded people and have your very own group study. you don't have to stop going to that church if you should choose to do that either. you could just supplement your normal church going with my group study suggestion. bottom line, believe whatever you choose to because no man has power over your free will.", "They take a lot of tech knowledge to maintain and to keep copies clear. The consumables are expensive. How many copies a month? How photo like do you want the copies? How much space do you have? Are you partial to a given OEM? HP has anice one in the LJ 4650. I like the Lexmark line myself. Maybe the 550. If print quality is a major issue, the Xerox line id very nice.", "I would choose a service with a good record of repairs, and inexpensive bills. ( I am assuming you are referring to land lines and not cellular.)", "Open the lines of communication with your friend so there are no hard feelings if you choose to go out with him.", "cricket, ball-and-bat game played chiefly in Great Britain and the Commonwealth countries.\\nBasic Rules\\n\\nCricket is played by two teams of eleven on a level, closely cut oval “pitch” preferably measuring about 525 ft (160 m) by about 550 ft (170 m). Two wickets are placed 66 ft (20.12 m) apart near the middle of the field. A wicket consists of two wooden crosspieces (bails) resting on three wooden stumps 28 in. (71.1 cm) high.\\n\\nAt each wicket stands a batsman. If the opposing bowler, delivering the ball from near the opposing wicket, knocks down the bails of the batsman's wicket, the batsman is retired. In delivering the hard, leather-covered ball, the bowler throws overarm but may not bend the arm, and the ball usually approaches the batsman on one bounce. After six bowls to one batsman, an umpire (there is one at each wicket) calls “over,” and another bowler begins bowling to the batsman's partner at the opposing wicket. The players in the field shift position according to the batsmen.\\n\\nIf the batsman hits the ball with his willow paddle-shaped bat far enough so that both batsmen may run to exchange places, a run is scored. When the ball is hit a long distance (in any direction, since there are no foul lines), up to four exchanges or runs may be made. (If the ball crosses the boundary of the field on the ground, four runs are scored automatically; if it clears the boundary in the air, six are scored.) However, if the opposing team recovers the ball and uses it to knock down the bails of a wicket before the batsman reaches it, the batsman is out. A batsman is also retired if an opposing fielder catches a batted ball on the fly (as in baseball), or for any of several more technical reasons. An outstanding turn at bat may result in more than 100 runs, a “century.”\\n\\nA game usually consists of two innings; in one innings all players on each team bat once in a fixed order (unless a team, having scored what it considers runs adequate to win, chooses to retire without completing its order); a game may take several days to complete. Substitutions are allowed only for serious injury.\\n\\nOrigin of Cricket\\n\\nCricket's origin is obscure. Evidence suggests it was played in England in the 12th–13th cent., and it was popular there by the end of the 17th cent. By the mid-18th cent. the aristocracy had adopted the game. In 1744 the London Cricket Club produced what are recognizably the rules of modern cricket. The Marylebone Cricket Club, one of the oldest (1787) cricket organizations, is the game's international governing body.", "Well, the super bowl is better because in college football the bowls change for the national chamionship and that means the rose bowl,(this year the rose bowl is the championship), wont always be the best bowl to go to. The super bowl will always be the best bowl because in the NFL that is the only you can go to.", "♥You can do it on-line here at this Dell site. How nice of you! Your friend will be soooooo happy!♥", "Hey, what's going on with you girl? If don't have respect for yourself, then do it. Otherwise, if you value who you are and how you are, you would not be thinking about doing that. Just doing do it; that's the worst decision you can ever make in life. There are lot of good jobs, but don't choose a \"job\" like that.", "you're well on your way to becoming one heck of a good person. on the one hand, you should care very much how other people perceive you. on the other hand, you have to draw the line somewhere and be your own person. there are lots of people out there that you shouldn't give a flip about what they think about you. choose your judges carefully. don't worry about the rest of them. the most important question is, what do YOU think about you?", "If they signed in as invisible, they will look off line to you, or anyone they choose. I dont think there is any way you can find out otherwise", "Vinatieri. He's the most clutch kicker in NFL history. When you win 2 Super Bowls with one foot, how can you not be better than Akers?", "I'm bisexual and very happy that way. All you people in here saying \"eww that's gross\" need to grow up and understand what a person chooses to do in his/her own bedroom is none of you're concern. If you don't like it, don't do it and let us live our lives how we choose.", "First of all, make sure your lists in Excel have headings on the columns. For example, line \"A\" needs to say First Name, Last Name, Street City, State, Zip, etc. This tells Word what type of info it is looking at. Do this to the best of your ability, depending on how you set up your sheet. If you combined some of it, don't worry and then follow the next steps...\\n\\nOk, go into Word and choose \"Tools\" \"Letters and Mailings\" and \"Mail Merge.\" When the mail merge wizard opens on the right, choose \"labels.\" Click \"next\" Then choose label options. Go in and tell it what type of labels you are using, etc. You should be able to choose the Avery Label and # so it knows what it is printing on. Then click \"next\" It should open up a page of blank labels and your next step should be choosing recipients.\\n\\nClick the \"browse\" link under \"existing list\" in the \"select recipients\" page. Go through the browse and open your Excel mailing list. Once you select that, you click \"next\" to arrange your labels. There will be a group of options such as \"address block\" \"greeting line\" etc. on the right. Set up your \"address block\" on your labels by clicking the link then positioning it on the label where you want it.\\n\\nThen, choose the \"more\" link under the \"address block\" \"greeting line\" etc. and a window will pop up. There will be a button it it that says \"Match Fields.\" Yours may work a little differently, but you need to find the \"Match Fields\" in case you need to tell Word which columns in your spreadsheet conatain what info. For example, if you put the city, state, and zip in one column, you can go in and tell it to use that column for that part of the address. This is where you tell Word which info to use for the labels.\\n\\nOnce you get all that meshed correctly, you should be able to preview your labels and all should be well. If not, check back into the arrange labels part and fix what you need to fix.\\n\\nI hope that helps!", "Vince Young, if he chooses to go in the draft this year. Solely based upon his unreal stats this year AND his supernatural performance against USC in the Rose Bowl, this guy's jumpin' off the board at pick number 1!", "Chop it up and sprinkle it with salt. Mix it well and then put it in a collander and let it drain. \\n\\nI saw Rachel Ray do that once to deliquify tomatoes.\\n\\n(PS: If you want to actually keep the juice, drain it over a bowl. If you leave the juice sitting long enough, the solids will separate out to the bottom of the bowl.)", "You are correct, but the effects are so insignificant, it doesnt nearly matter.\\n\\nAll object in the universe have a gravitational attraction to one another.\\nTake the Earth and bowling ball example,\\nThe Earth exerts a force on the bowling ball, and the bowling ball exerts a force on the Earth. Both on these forces cause the other object to accelerate towards a common center of mass. In the case of the Earth's gravitational force on the bowling ball, the force is huge in comparison to the bowling ball's force exerted on the Earth, so much so that we can easily neglect the 2nd force.\\n\\nLets look at some numbers.....\\nIf we say the Earth has a mass of 5.9742 E24 kg and say we will say we have a very heavy bowling ball with a mass of 1000 kg, then we can calculate the gravitaional force between them if we know the distance. Lets estimate their centers of mass are 6380 (~larger than radius of Earth), we can calculate the gravitational force to be,\\nF_g = (G*M*m)/r^2\\nF_g = 9789.58 Newtons, which would cause an acceleration of 9.7895 mm/s^2 for the bowling ball and a miniscule 1.63 E-21 m/s^2 for Earth. To put that in perspective of just how slow acceleration is, if you were to accelerated you car from at a constant acceleration of 1.63 E-21 m/s^2, it would take you about 86500000000000 YEARS to go from 0 to 10 miles per hour! I think for simplicity sake, Newton did all right.\\n\\nEDIT:\\nYes, the bowling ball very much so does pull on the Earth. How is the \"universe\" to know which object is suppose to be the planet and which is the bowling ball? ALL objects in the universe have a gravititational attraction to ALL other objects. The Earth pulls in the bowling ball, and the bowling ball pulls on the Earth. There are 2 equal forces pointed in opposite directions, therefroe momentum is conserved (which is a physical LAW).", "This is a really hard question for everyone. My advice would be to explore jobs that you think you may like. Shadow some people who do the jobs that you think you may like to do. Talk to professors at college and ask them about the subjects they teach. I found out what i wanted to be becuase I just kept asking people why did you choose this and how did you know this is what you wanted to do what do you like about it? If you dont know and you are trying to choose a school i would choose a school with a lot of majors so you can explore and change your mind if necessary. Goodluck!", "Interesting, different info than I figured. Depends on how you look at it--for one event, the Super Bowl, followed by soccer and F1 racing. Link has a lot more info:", "click the line of email you recieved, go to menu file, save and choose text/html as the file type to save, then you'll have the full doc.", "The players are over rated so the Super Bowl is over rated.Most Super Bowls do not reach the hype that the media makes them out to be.Duane Thomas running back of the Dallas Cowboys was asked after winning the Super Bowl 1972 against Miami if this was the ultimate game and his response was,If this is the ulimate game,why do we have to play it again next year", "and kidney stones..I'd rather defecate a bowling ball then do that again", "Here is a full list of the ten different ways of getting out. But first, a few necessary definitions: \\nThe wicket is said to be broken if one or both of the bails have been dislodged and fallen to the ground. If the bails have fallen off for any reason and the ball is still in play, then breaking the wicket must be accomplished by pulling a stump completely out of the ground. If the wicket needs to be broken like this with the ball, the uprooting of the stump must be done with the ball in contact with the stump. \\nWhen a batsman gets out, no matter by what method, his wicket is said to have fallen, and the fielding team are said to have taken a wicket. \\nNow, the ways of getting out: \\n\\n1. Caught: \\nIf a fielder catches the ball on the full after the batsman has hit it with his bat. However, if the fielder catches the ball, but either during the catch or immediately afterwards touches or steps over the boundary, then the batsman scores six runs and is not out. \\n2. Bowled: \\nIf the batsman misses the ball and it hits and breaks the wicket directly from the bowler's delivery. The batsman is out whether or not he is behind his popping crease. He is also out bowled if the ball breaks the wicket after deflecting from his bat or body. The batsman is not out if the wicket does not break. \\n3. Leg Before Wicket: \\nIf the batsman misses the ball with his bat, but intercepts it with part of his body when it would otherwise have hit the wicket, and provided several other conditions (described below) are satisfied. An umpire must adjudicate such a decision, and will only do so if the fielding team appeal the decision. This is a question asked of the umpire, usually of the form ``How's that?'' (or ``Howzat?''), and usually quite enthusiastic and loud. If the ball bounces outside an imaginary line drawn straight down the pitch from the outside edge of leg stump, then the batsman cannot be out LBW, no matter whether or not the ball would have hit the stumps. If the batsman attempts to play a shot at the ball with his bat (and misses) he may only be given out LBW if the ball strikes the batsman between imaginary lines drawn down the pitch from the outside edges of leg and off stumps (ie. directly in line with the wicket). If the batsman does not attempt to play the ball with his bat, then he may be given out LBW without satisfying this condition, as long as the umpire is convinced the ball would have hit the wicket. If the ball has hit the bat before the hitting the batsman, then he cannot be given out LBW. \\n4. Stumped: \\nIf a batsman misses the ball and in attempting to play it steps outside his crease, he is out stumped if the wicket-keeper gathers the ball and breaks the wicket with it before the batsman can ground part of his body or his bat behind his crease. \\n5. Run Out: \\nIf a batsman is attempting to take a run, or to return to his crease after an aborted run, and a fielder breaks that batsman's wicket with the ball while he is out of the crease. The fielder may either break the wicket with a hand which holds the ball, or with the ball directly. It is possible for the non-striker to be run out if the striker hits the ball straight down the pitch towards the non-striker's wicket, and the bowler deflects the ball on to the wicket while the non-striker is out of his crease. If the ball is hit directly on to the non-striker's wicket, without being touched by a fielder, then the non-striker is not out. If the non-striker leaves his crease (in preparation to run) while the bowler is running up, the bowler may run him out without bowling the ball. Batsmen cannot be run out while the ball is dead - so they may confer in the middle of the pitch between deliveries if they desire. \\n6. Hit Wicket: \\nIf, in attempting to hit a ball or taking off for a first run, the batsman touches and breaks the wicket. This includes with the bat or dislodged pieces of the batsman's equipment - even a helmet or specta", "forever. don't take the negative connotation to mean discrimination to be a bad thing. discrimination is really about making choices and somewhere along the line the idae formed that if you change how you feel or act toward someone for whatever reason that you should be punished for it. look, some people actually like black guys, or blond girls or green poodles or NOT. does that make it wrong? most people need to lighten up on that one and realize it actually is ok to like and dislike for whatever reason you so choose. if i don't like how you decide, well then, i can choose to spend time with someone other than you, maybe the black, blond guy with the green poodle??? hmm?" ]

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Disney World in Orlando, Florida, is the biggest tourist attraction in... The Best Time to Go to Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Disney World in Orlando, Florida, is the biggest tourist attraction in...", "Theme parks are so predictable. Universal Orlando recently jacked up admissions prices by a few bucks, just as it did last year in the weeks before kids start their summer breaks. It was only a matter of time before Disney followed suit. Walt Disney World in Orlando and Disneyland in Southern California did just that on Sunday. A single-day ticket for adults (10 and up) to Disneyland increased from $87 to $92. A one-day child admission (ages 3 to 9) is now $86. 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I saw on the website that Disney parks and extra hours are included but did not see anything about transport from Orlando intl airport to the hotel.", "What did Epcot originally stand for? EPCOT stood for (and still stands for): Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Walt Disney was fascinated with the idea of technology of innovation, so his dream was to… build an actually city, government and all, in Orlando, Florida.", "Walt Disney World is located in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Southwest of Orlando. Orlando, Fla is the home of Disney World.", "Orlando Florida Weather | Disney World Weather | Orlando Weather | Disney Weather. Please do not hesitate to contact us at - -Orlando Welcome Center Blog.", "If you are flying to disney world in orlando florida which airport do you fly to orlando mco or orlando ord? Source(s): flying disney world orlando florida airport fly orlando mco orlando ord: https://shortly.im/lgEHh.", "On the day I depart from my Disney Resort hotel for Orlando International Airport, how will I know what time a Disney's Magical Express motorcoach will pick me up?", "Orlando is a large city located in Orange County, Florida. Orlando, for most people, conjures up the image of theme parks, mainly Walt Disney World, but there is a lot more. (In fact, Disney World is not in Orlando, but is in nearby Lake Buena Vista). With the estimated 52 million tourists a year, Orlando and many other areas in the region developed a lot to offer a traveler who wants to see something other than a theme park.", "Professional recording studio. Phantom City Studio in Orlando, Fl. Near Disney World, Downtown Disney, Universal Studios, Sea World, Orlando International Airport, Downtown Orlando, Florida, UCF, and International Drive.", "How far is the orlando airport to disney - Orlando Forum.", "Orlando Executive Airport. Orlando Executive Airport (orlandoairports.net) provides another option for general aviation pilots within a 40-minute drive of Walt Disney World. The airport's two runways are open to pilots 24 hours a day and serve as the main relief location for the Orlando International Airport.", "1 Book a one way flight to Orlando with an open departure date for the most inexpensive ticket. 2 Disney World flights can use either Orlando International airport as well as Daytona Beach airport. 3 Flights to Orlando can be cheap if you fly between late May and early June.hy you should take a flight to Orlando. Because the magic of Disney World and other theme parks, like Universal Studios and SeaWorld, are often considered the essence of the city, Orlando trips get associated with all children, all the time.", "Discovery Island is an 11.5 acres (4.7 ha) island at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando, Florida.Between 1974 and 1999, the island was open to guests, where they could observe the island's many species of animals and birds. Disney originally named it Treasure Island, and later, Discovery Island.iscovery Island is an 11.5 acres (4.7 ha) island at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando, Florida.", "Orlando Florida Weather December | Disney World Weather | Orlando Weather | Disney Weather. 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I’ve been saving for a Disney vacation for years and Orlando Park Deals put hundreds of dollars back in my pocket..", "Today’s weather forecast for Orlando, Sanford, Cocoa, Daytona Beach, Kissimmee and Walt Disney World. The latest Orlando weather forecast. Today’s weather forecast for Orlando, Sanford, Cocoa, Daytona Beach, Kissimmee and Walt Disney World.", "Orlando Resorts Near Disney - A Magical Experience. Disney World in Florida is the biggest and most diverse Disney resort in the world. Even if you've been to other Disney parks such as Disneyland Tokyo, Disneyland Paris, or Disneyland California, Orlando's Disney World still offers unmatched entertainment and excitement.", "ORLANDO, Fla. - Workers are building a stone wall around a Walt Disney World lake where an alligator killed a toddler earlier this summer. Disney officials in Orlando said that the barrier wall is part of the new security plan following the death of 2-year-old Lane Graves of Omaha, Nebraska, reports CBS affiliate WKMG.", "Just one mile from Walt Disney World® Resort and minutes from Universal® Orlando and SeaWorld® Orlando, Westgate Town Center located in Kissimmee, Florida Resorts near Disney, provides convenient access to major Orlando tourist attractions.", "Averages for florida in march. The emerald coast is south florida weather for example, an 80f temperature with 85. The average temperature in the orlando area march is 65 degrees fahrenheit, with an high of 79 and low 56. What is the weather usually like in florida march? March for disney world orlando, march averages florida, usa holiday. 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[ "Rising Reggae Star, Meleku and Trinidadian Soca Sensation Orlando Octave Added to “Life Of A Ghetto Youth” Tour Lineup\nFort Lauderdale – International Reggae artist Sizzla Kalonji, alongside Reggae stars Marlon Asher Pressure Busspipe and Ras Shiloh brought high energy, positive vibes and the message of peace, love and unity to Florida, with the launch of the “Life Of A Ghetto Youth” tour.\nThe eight-city tour, presented by Vas Productions, kicked off in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday, June 10 at Central Broward Stadium before continuing to St. Petersburg at Jannus Live on Sunday, June 11.\nFans and fellow artists including Spragga Benz from Jamaica and Vaughn Benjamin from the USVI USVI were out in full force to show their support for this movement of Caribbean unity, through conscious Reggae music.\nThe Life Of A Ghetto Youth mission is simple, its purpose is to elevate conscious Reggae in a way that’s never been done before. The artists shared anecdotes of their experiences with ‘life in the ghetto’ though freestyles sets during their spirited and uplifting performances.\nFollowing the successful reception of the groundbreaking U.S. tour in Florida, the movement is growing by two. Sizzla’s son and rising Reggae star, Meleku and Trinidadian Soca sensation Orlando Octave have also been added to the tour’s North Carolina and Georgia legs, representing the next generation of Conscious, Caribbean music.\n“To have the likes of Marlon Asher, Orlando Octave, Pressure BussPipe, Ras Shiloh, Sizzla and the young Meleku, all on one stage is something magnificent. Reggae music is the music you want your kids to grow up listening to. It is the foundation. For older generations Sizzla was the magnet. We gravitated to Conscious Reggae under his order. The younger generations need conscious music as well. Hopefully Meleku can be one of the flag bearers for the next generation of Reggae music ,” said Vychalle Singh of VAS Productions.\nThe “Life Of A Ghetto Youth” tour is so much more than a series of concerts. It is about promoting and elevating peace and unity as a direct response to ongoing crime in communities throughout the Caribbean and around the world. It’s also an opportunity to combine community outreach and music by using the success of the Sizzla Youth Foundation as the blueprint.\nSince 2010, the Sizzla Youth Foundation has turned around a neighborhood in Jamaica once plagued by poverty and crime. 2016 marked the first year there was not a single murder in the August Town neighborhood. The community credits Sizzla’s continued and undeterred efforts as a major factor.\nThe “Life of a Ghetto Youth” tour aims to repeat that success on a much larger scale. Through targeted appearances and performances in cities along the tour, the artists will use the music that was birthed in the ghettos of the Caribbean to inspire conscious change.\nThe tour is a precursor to the “Life Of A Ghetto Youth” album. The project, produced by VAS Productions, features an 18-track collection of brand new Reggae hits including “Ghetto Story,” “Rough Love,” “Mary Jane” and “Home Away” performed by the talented group of artists who will represent the best of the Caribbean’s Reggae industry and will carry on the spirit of community activism, peace and unity. The “Life Of A Ghetto Youth” album is now available for pre-order on iTunes. The official album release is set for July 7th.\nVas Productions partnered with Ganja Farmer Official, the apparel and lifestyle brand by Reggae artist Marlon Asher and inspired by his hit song “Ganja Farmer,” to create exclusive “Life Of A Ghetto Youth” tour T-Shirts, 100 percent organic hemp soaps and other branded products.\nAs the multi-city promotional tour continues to roll out, Reggae fans can expect blazing sets from all the tour headliners as they perform their catalogue of chart-topping hits to thrill audiences from the East Coast to the West Coast.", "Undefeated Welsh boxer Nathan Thorley (9-0-0) fights at Cardiff’s Ice Arena Wales on the 14th April. The light heavyweight was a bronze medalist at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Thorley won the Welsh Area Light Heavyweight Title in his last bout and now returns to fight in his hometown of Cardiff.\nRingnews24.com: Last time out an impressive stoppage in the second round against Jermaine Asare. How did you rate your last performance?\nYeah was a goodish performance, second round wasn’t the best until I landed that sweet punch.\nSee Also\nRingnews24.com: Can we expect more of the same on the 14th April?\nYeah we will see what happens on the 14th if that punch lands it lands.\nRingnews24.com: How do you feeling training has gone leading up to this fight?\nLooking for boxing tickets?\nPreparation for this fight has gone well so far just looking forward to getting in there and doing the business with who ever they put in front of me.\nRingnews24.com: Any news on an opponent for the night?\nThere’s a few names floating about at the moment nothing is set in stone as of yet but I know it’s going to be a tough opponent to see if I can get the rounds in.\nRingnews24.com: What kind of sparring have you had for this camp?\nMy sparring has started now. Been over to Bristol sparring over there, will be going back over there to do more Sparring Craig Kennedy a lot, we have great competitive spars together.\nRingnews24.com: How important has your relationship with Chris Davies been to your success so far?\nMy relationship with Chris is really important, he is a great teacher and I’m learning so much from him. For me he’s the best pro coach in Wales, just needs more exposure for what he does.\nRingnews24.com: You won the Welsh title last time you fought. Have you got your eyes on Frank Buglioni and his British title next?\nYeah big time, I don’t think much of him to be honest, just tough and very durable takes way too much than he should. I think I could box his head off and make him look very stupid haha.\nRingnews24.com: Anthony Yarde is regarded by some as the top light heavyweight in the UK at the moment. Have you seen much of him and if you have, how highly do you rate him?\nI’ve seen him he’s powerful and sharp but look who he has fought, load of painters and brickies with padded records to make him look good. I’d like to see him in with someone that can fight. See how he copes with that but he does look pretty good at the moment.\nRingnews24.com: For those who haven’t watched you before how would you describe your boxing style?\nTommy Hearns, the main man, long powerful shots and counter puncher who’s not shy of a brawl either.\nRingnews24.com: Any past or present boxers that you would say are an influence or inspiration?\nPast boxer the hitman Tommy Hearns, he was the man, he is my idol. Currently it is Andre Ward, even though he’s retired he’s just sheer class, untouchable.\nRingnews24.com: What got you in to boxing?\nWanted to fight from a young age, out with the dog one day with my dad and came across one of the boys where he had come from. He told us about a boxing gym run by former 2 weight British champ Pat Thomas and I’ve been in gyms ever since, just love it\nRingnews24.com: The Fire and Ice card is looking like a stacked show. Great for Welsh boxing. Where can people get tickets?\nYeah it’s a great card. Cracking fighters and people can get ticket from me either contact me on Facebook or Twitter.\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nathan.thorley.9\nTwitter:@nathanthorley1\nThe ‘Fire and Ice’ card presented by Sanigar Events promises to be one of the biggest and best nights for Welsh boxing in 2018.\nSee Also", "Getty Bitcoin is currently going through a tumultuous price period\nMorgan Stanley likened the current market climate of Bitcoin to the dot-com bubble that, during its most “exuberant” period rose by 250 to 280 per cent - however analysts have stated that the cryptocurrency’s timeline is accelerating much faster. Morgan Stanley strategist, Sheena Shah, stated: \"Just that the bitcoin rally was around 15 times the speed.” Bitcoin is currently going through a tumultuous price period that has seen it plunge by 21.02 per cent in the last month. At the time of writing the cryptocurrency is worth $8,593.84.\nMs Shah stated that the similar behaviour between dot-com and Bitcoin could mean that history is repeating itself, meaning that the cryptocurrency could soon crash. Bitcoin has seen bare markets, periods in which share prices fall that encourage investors to sell, that has demonstrated the sheer volatility of the virtual money. Four bare markets have hit Bitcoin that have shaved roughly 45 to 50 per cent off its value every time. Ms Shah detailed that this is very similar to the five declines of the dot-com bubble before it burst.\nCryptocurrency price: A year in charts Mon, March 12, 2018 Compare crypto currencies (Ripple, Bitcoin, Ethereum, LiteCoin) on value, market cap and supply for the past year Play slideshow coindesk.com 1 of 10 LiteCoin is going down with the market dip\nShe continued: \"The Nasdaq's bear market from 2000 had five price declines, averaging a surprisingly similar amount of 44 percent.” \"The follow-up rally for both bitcoin and the Nasdaq always saw falling trading volumes. \"Rising trade volumes are thus not an indication of more investor activity but instead a rush to get out.\" Morgan Stanley declared that the correlation of trends between Bitcoin and the dot-com era is “an interesting development”.\nThe analysis from the financial giant could cause a new period of worry from crypto investors. During Bitcoin’s last bear market, it was noticed that crypto token Tether was used for significant Bitcoin trading. This marks a change from the US dollar, China yuan and Japan’s yen that usually dominate the currencies used for crypto trade.\nGetty Bitcoin's price could crash faster than dot-com did almost 20 years ago\nGetty Bitcoin has seen bare markets that have demonstrated the sheer volatility of the virtual money", "\"Everyone at Fusion92 is extremely appreciative of this recognition,\" said Fusion92 Founder and CEO Matt Murphy. \"Our goal is to consistently deliver innovative, value-building solutions to our clients, and we recognize how important employee engagement is to achieving that goal. The agency strives to hire and retain the best talent in the marketplace.\"\nTo be considered in such a competition is an honor for any business. The Best and Brightest Companies to Work For \"identifies and honors organizations that display a commitment to excellence in their human resource practices and employee enrichment. Organizations are assessed based on categories such as communication, work-life balance, employee education, diversity, recognition, retention and more,\" according to the organization.\n\"Fusion92 is committed to a values-based culture supported by strategic physical and psychological environmental elements,\" said Fusion92 President Doug Dome. \"Our distinctive culture provides for the agency's aggressive current and future growth.\"\nThe selected companies will be honored on Friday, July 27, 2018, at a luncheon and awards presentation at the Drury Lane Conference Center in Oakbrook Terrace. At the event, the selected companies will be in the running to receive 13 additional elite awards. An overall winner will be presented with a Best of the Best Overall award. The event will be emceed by Judy Hsu, ABC 7 Chicago News, and Pat Cassidy, WBBM AM News Radio.\nAbout Fusion92\nFounded in 1999, Fusion92 is a Chicago-based independent marketing innovation agency that focuses on helping growth-stage and FORTUNE 500 companies across a number of industries including financial services, CPG, telecommunications and automotive. As a full-service agency, Fusion92 partners with its clients on consumer engagements that span both traditional and digital media, leveraging our talents in user experience, design, technology and media. Learn more at www.Fusion92.com.\nAbout Best and Brightest to Work For\nThe Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® is a program that provides the business community with the opportunity to gain recognition, showcase their best practices and demonstrate why they are an ideal place for employees to work. This national program celebrates those companies that are making better business, creating richer lives and building a stronger community. It is presented annually in several markets, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, San Diego and San Francisco Bay Area, in addition to a national program. Nominations are now being accepted. Visit www.thebestandbrightest.com to obtain an application.\nContact:\nDebbie Van Ooteghem\ndebbie@fusion92.com\nView original content with multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fusion92-named-one-of-chicagos-best-and-brightest-companies-to-work-for-300656775.html\nSOURCE Fusion92\nRelated Links\nhttp://www.fusion92.com", "Oxford researchers reckon they've spotted the next emerging trend in Android advertising (and possibly malware): using common libraries to “collude” between apps with different privilege levels.\nLibraries are a common enough vector for attackers to target, but the trio of boffins (Vincent Taylor, Alastair Beresford and Ivan Martinovic) point out most research looks at apps in isolation.\nSo they took a different approach, looking at how the same library in two different apps could expose information from a higher-privilege app to one with lower privilege.\nThey write that this “intra-library collusion” (ILC) happens “when individual libraries obtain greater combined privileges on a device by virtue of being embedded within multiple apps, with each app having a distinct set of permissions granted”.\nAs the paper explains, shared libraries can borrow permissions an app doesn't have Click to embiggen\nThat's a threat, because library re-use across different apps isn't a bug, it's a feature: it makes app development more efficient and keeps apps small by letting them use code pre-loaded to a device.\nWhile noting that attackers are standardising their own libraries, the researchers focussed their effort on advertising libraries, since these are almost ubiquitous in the world of smartphone apps, and are already collecting and aggregating sensitive personal data.\nTheir research focussed on libraries handling location, app usage, device information, communication data like call logs and messages, access to storage (including, for example, a user's files which can indicate their interests), and the microphone.\nOf more than 15,000 apps with more than a million downloads, the researchers went to work decompiling apps to identify the libraries they linked to. Those they successfully decompiled, they analysed for their intra-library collusion potential.\nThe 18 most popular libraries include familiar names:\nLibrary % of apps com/facebook 11.9 com/google/android/gms/analytics 9.8 com/flurry 6.3 com/chartboost/sdk 5.9 com/unity3d 5.2 com/applovin 3.5 com/mopub 3.1 com/inmobi 3.0 com/google/ads 3.0 com/google/android/gcm 2.7 com/tapjoy 2.4 org/cocos2d 2.4 com/amazon 2.0 com/millennialmedia 1.6 org/apache/commons 1.4 com/heyzap 1.4 com/nostra13/universalimageloader 1.3 com/adobe/air 1.0\n“The main catalyst that allows ILC to happen is the failure of the Android permission system to separate the privileges of libraries and their host apps”, they write, and this at least offers opportunities for an underhanded ad network to improve their data collection without seeking extra permissions from users.\nThey note that in such scenarios, app developers have a strong incentive to not support library privilege separation, since “it may impact their profits negatively”.\nDigging deeper into how advertiser libraries behaved, they found on average those libraries “leak sensitive data from a device up to 2.4 times a day and that the average user has their personal data sent to 1.7 different ad servers per day”.\nWhile the focus of the paper is on how advertisers might exploit ILC, it clearly offers an attack vector, especially on jailbroken or rooted phones. There's already evidence in previous studies that as many as 7 percent of apps from the Play Store contain potentially malicious libraries, suggesting that “attackers have turned their attention to libraries as a means of malware propagation”. ®\nSponsored: The Joy and Pain of Buying IT - Have Your Say", "From left to right: Stefanie Keenan, Greg Doherty, Jeff Kravitz, all Getty Images\nAnna Camp and Patrick Warburton are also joining the cast of the Sarah Hyland-fronted rom-com.\nThe Sarah Hyland-fronted rom-com The Wedding Year has set an ensemble cast that includes Wanda Sykes, Jenna Dewan and Pitch Perfect star Anna Camp.\nLegally Blonde director Robert Luketic will helm the feature, which centers on a marriage-resistant Los Angeles photographer (Hyland) who is invited to 15 weddings in the same year with her new ready-to-settle-down boyfriend, played by Dear White People actor Tyler James Williams.\nKeith David and Patrick Warburton are also set to star, along with Tom Connolly, Grace Helbig and Fred Grandy.\nThe Wedding Year, written by Don Diego, is currently filming in Los Angeles. Lakeshore’s Gary Lucchesi, Marc Reid and Mark Korshak will produce, with Hyland executive producing.", "W.Va. Legislative Committee Meeting Schedule – Subject to change\nWatch WV Legislature Live each day at http://www.legis.state.wv.us/live.cfm\nSENATE:\nWednesday, Feb. 15, 2017\nREVIEW BILLS INTRODUCED\nSenate convenes at 11 a.m.\nUNFINISHED BUSINESS\nC. R. 10 – US Army SGT Arthur George Roush Memorial Bridge C. R. 11 – USMC Lance Corporal Edwin Russell ‘Snook’ Danehart Memorial Bridge C. R. 12 – Requesting Joint Committee on Children and Families study government benefit programs\nTHIRD READING\nEng. Com. Sub. for S. B. 151 – Authorizing Department of Administration promulgate legislative rules (original similar to HB2284)\nEng. S. B. 169 – Repealing article providing assistance to Korea and Vietnam veterans exposed to certain chemical defoliants\nEng. S. B. 170 – Repealing state hemophilia program\nEng. S. B. 171 – Repealing Programs of All-Inclusive Care for Elderly\nEng. S. B. 176 – Repealing article concerning detection of tuberculosis, high blood pressure and diabetes\nEng. S. B. 237 – Repealing obsolete rules of Department of Revenue – (Com. title amend. pending)\nSECOND READING\nB. 174 – Exempting transportation of household goods from PSC jurisdiction – (Com. amend. pending)\nFIRST READING\nCom. Sub. for S. B. 127 – Authorizing Department of Revenue to promulgate legislative rules (original similar to HB2230)\nCom. Sub. for S. B. 230 – Relating to WV officials carrying concealed firearm nationwide\nCom. Sub. for S. B. 233 – Excluding from protection oral communications uttered in child care center under Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act\nCommittee Schedule\nWednesday, Feb. 15, 2017\n10 a.m.: Workforce (208W) SB 191: Relating to tax credits for apprenticeship training in construction trades Com. Sub. for SB 222: Providing disqualification for unemployment benefits for individual who left or lost job as result of strike\n1 p.m.: Economic Development (208W) SB 238: Increasing tax credits allowed for rehabilitation of certified historic structures\n2 p.m.: Agriculture and Rural Development (208W) SB 25: Creating farm-to-food bank tax credit SB 27: Permitting sale of home-based, micro-processed foods at farmers markets\n2 p.m.: Pensions (451M) Presentations by Craig Slaughter, Chief Executive Officer, West Virginia Investment Management Board; Blair Taylor, Executive Director, Municipal Pensions Oversight Board; Jeffrey Fleck, Executive Director, Consolidated Public Retirement Board\n3 p.m.: Finance (451M) Budget Hearing: West Virginia State Treasurer Budget Hearing: West Virginia State Auditor\n3 p.m.: Judiciary (208W) Agenda TBA\nHOUSE OF DELEGATES:\nWednesday, Feb. 15, 2017\nREVIEW BILLS INTRODUCED\nHouse convenes at 11 a.m.\nTHIRD READING\nCom. Sub. for H. B. 2006 – Increasing the penalties for violating the Whistle-blower Law (Shott) (Regular)\nFIRST READING\nCom. Sub. for H. B. 2099 – Defining the act of leaving the scene of a crash involving death or serious bodily injury as a felony; Erin’s Law (Shott) (Regular)\nCommittee Schedule:\nCOMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION – 9 A.M. – ROOM 215E\nCOMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY – 9 A.M. – ROOM 418M\nCOMMITTEE ON FINANCE – 9 A.M. & 2 P.M. – ROOM 464M\nCOMMITTEE ON VETERANS’ AFFAIRS AND HOMELAND SECURITY – 1 P.M. – ROOM 434M\nCOMMITTEE ON EDUCATION – 2:30 P.M. – ROOM 434M", "Biologists use eDNA to find insect invaders\nBiologists can use environmental DNA (\"eDNA\") found in water samples - from the feces, shed skin, and carcasses of fish, insects, and other aquatic animals - to detect the presence of species. Until recently, however, this method has mostly been limited to aquatic ecosystems. Now, a group of Rutgers University researchers has developed a way to obtain and analyze eDNA on land. The new method detects the bugs more effectively than other tests such as blacklights or pheromone traps. Since it enables early detection of pests - one of the main keys to eradication - this approach could revolutionize agricultural pest surveillance.\nAuthor Contact: Rafael E Valentin (Raf.E.Valentin@gmail.com)\nValentin RE, Fonseca DM, and Nielsen AL et al. Early detection of invasive exotic insect infestations using eDNA from crop surfaces. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 16: 265-70. https:/ / esajournals. onlinelibrary. wiley. com/ doi/ 10. 1002/ fee. 1811\nEco-culture of Great Barrier Reef and other iconic ecosystems\nCoral reef researchers carried out a survey that establishes the cultural importance of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, and show how the less tangible values of ecosystems can be incorporated into environmental decision making. One of the challenges for conservation is that the \"value\" of an area being managed (or affected by human disturbance) encompasses much more than just the ecosystem's contribution to the economy. Stakeholders also value the traditions, customs, emotional well-being, and sense of identity that ecosystems like the Great Barrier Reef can provide. The researchers surveyed tourists, local and indigenous residents, commercial fishers, and other stakeholder groups in Australia to determine the importance of several cultural values provided by the GBR. The authors discuss how such surveys can give environmental managers and policy makers a way to more clearly realize the non-monetary value of ecosystems.\nAuthor Contact: Nadine Marshall (nadine.marshall@csiro.au)\nMarshall N, Barnes ML, Birtles A, et al. Measuring what matters in the Great Barrier Reef. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 16: 271-77. https:/ / esajournals. onlinelibrary. wiley. com/ doi/ full/ 10. 1002/ fee. 1808\nFish-friendly architectural engineering design for marine infrastructure\nUnderwater structures like marinas, breakwaters, pilings, oil rigs, and offshore wind farms may not be conducive to colonization by fish populations. The prevalence of these structures along coasts undergoing development threaten marine habitats. A group of Australian researchers has devised a way to help managers use principles of ecological engineering to design marine infrastructure that benefits both humans and nature. The authors consider how the physical characteristics like hole size and roughness of both natural and artificial reefs can be incorporated into customized human structures to provide habitat for fishes. For example, the foundations of offshore wind turbines could be specially designed to include holes or structural features that benefit fish abundance in the long term.\nAuthor Contact: Rebecca L Morris (rebecca.morris@unimelb.edu.au)\nMorris RL, Porter AG, Figueira WF, et al. 2018. Fish-smart seawalls: a decision tool for adaptive management of marine infrastructure. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 16: 278-87. https:/ / esajournals. onlinelibrary. wiley. com/ doi/ 10. 1002/ fee. 1809\nWho are the winners and losers and in an oil sands landscape?\nExploitation of the oil sands in western Canada is transforming the boreal forest landscape in unprecedented ways. Media coverage has often focused on the detrimental effects of open-pit mines, but in-situ drilling and its associated landscape disturbances, which span most of northern Alberta and parts of British Columbia and Saskatchewan, have received less attention. A new study by two Canadian researchers shows how this type of drilling influences populations of gray wolf, white-tailed deer, moose, American black bear, coyote, Canada lynx, fisher, red fox, snowshoe hare, and American red squirrel across the region. A combination of camera-trapping and landscape analysis revealed far-reaching effects on wildlife abundance and distribution. A criss-crossing grid of paths cleared for drilling exploration has opened up new thoroughfares for predators, forests cut down for development have been replaced with new vegation, and the balance between predators and prey is shifting in the new industrial landscape.\nAuthor Contact: Jason Fisher (fisherj@uvic.ca)\nFisher JT and Burton AC. Wildlife winners and losers in an oil sands landscape. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. https:/ / esajournals. onlinelibrary. wiley. com/ doi/ full/ 10. 1002/ fee. 1807\n###\nContact: Zoe Gentes, 202-833-8773 ext. 211, zgentes@esa.org\">zgentes@esa.org", "MONTREAL _ The president of Canadarm-builder MDA says setting up the company’s parent firm in the United States won’t have any impact on jobs in Canada.\nIn October 2017, MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, based in Richmond, B.C., became Maxar Technologies Ltd. after it acquired DigitalGlobe, an American satellite imaging company.\nMaxar’s headquarters were in San Francisco before recently moving to Westminster, Colo.\nAt the time, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates was also rebranded simply as “MDA”.\nThe move came almost 10 years after the Conservative government moved in 2008 to halt the sale of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates’ space technology division to Alliant Techsystems, an American company.\nThen-industry minister Jim Prentice said he was not satisfied the sale would be a net benefit for Canada.\nMike Greenley, the head of the new MDA, says the company has been “very transparent and talked openly” about shifting the head office south of the border.\nHe oversees all of the MDA lines of business and its 1,900 employees in Canada.\n“Nothing has moved and nothing is moving,” Greenley told The Canadian Press in a recent interview.\n“My job is to run it and grow it bigger in Canada, for Canada, and exporting from Canada to the rest of the world.\n“You have to export and access foreign markets in order to grow to scale,” because “Canada’s economy is only so big.”\nMDA’s Canadian operations include its surveillance and intelligence facilities in Richmond, Ottawa and Halifax; its robotics and automation plants in Brampton, Ont; and its satellite subsystems in Montreal.\nIn an email to The Canadian Press, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Department spokesman Hans Parmar said, “MDA has indicated for several years its desire to grow in the U.S. market, which is the largest market.”\nBut NDP science critic Brian Masse is worried about what he calls “the hollowing-out of decision-making” in Canada.\n“This has happened to some degree in the auto industry as we don’t even have Canadian presidents in some sectors anymore,” the MP for the Ontario riding of Windsor West said in an interview.\nConservative science critic Matt Jeneroux says he’s seen the story before.\nJeneroux pointed to the 2016 takeover of COM DEV International, a Canadian satellite equipment provider, by New Jersey-based aerospace giant Honeywell.\n“The same promises are made by Honeywell when it bought out COM-DEV, (but) 35 per cent of their employees at their Cambridge plant lost their jobs,” he noted.\n“In the fall of 2017, they announced they were laying off COM DEV employees due to a downturn in the space and satellite industry.”\nJeneroux does not appear to be comforted that Greenley has said no jobs would leave Canada.\n“The Liberals seem to take this at face value, but just you look at what’s happened in the past and we’ve been losing jobs to the States,” he said.\nGreenley also said in the interview that finding growth for MDA in Canada would be helped by a new space strategy.\n“For that to happen something would have to move . . . in terms of folks trying to get an updated, documented, discussable space strategy,” he said.\nBut the email from the federal department gave no indication as to when the Canadian space sector could expect to see a new plan.\n“Space is a critical part of Canada’s infrastructure and a strategic sector of our economy, so it is important that we take the time necessary to get it right,” Parmar wrote, adding that “more work needs to be done.”\nJeneroux says the Canadian space industry is frustrated waiting for Bains to unveil a national strategy.\n“He made an announcement in November 2016 that a space strategy would be forthcoming and said the strategy would be released in June 2017,” he noted.\n“They (the Liberals) make these promises, but then they end up disappointing an entire industry.”" ]

[ "What’s next for the homeless at Peachtree-Pine shelter?\nThe shelter, which is set to close at the end of August, currently houses around 500 people\nAlthough Atlanta’s largest homeless shelter, at the corner of Peachtree and Pine streets downtown, is scheduled to change hands at the end of August, it will remain open for at least another month until its residents have been placed in other facilities and housing programs.\nThat’s the first message that Jack Hardin, co-chairman of the Regional Commission on Homelessness, wants people to know. Hardin, a corporate lawyer whose volunteer efforts have long focused on homelessness, said that since it was announced in late June that the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless would be vacating the shelter, he’s had to reassure concerned acquaintances that its occupants would not be turned out to wander the streets.\nInstead, he said, the Regional Commission, which operates under the auspices of the United Way of Greater Atlanta, plans to send caseworkers into the shelter over the next few weeks to do individual assessments on the approximately 500 men—and a possible handful of women and children—staying there to determine what specific kind of help they need. Hardin said his group could begin placing people in other programs even before the Task Force leaves.\nThe imminent closing of Peachtree-Pine is the result of the settlement of a long-running lawsuit in which the Task Force had accused the City of Atlanta; Central Atlanta Progress, the community development organization for downtown; Emory Healthcare; and other groups of conspiring to take away the shelter’s funding and cause its eviction from the building that had been its home for the past two decades.\nAfter countless legal twists and turns that include the city’s dismissal from the lawsuit, the case was set to be heard by a jury last month, until it was finally resolved in a settlement that leaves the 100,000-square-foot former auto-parts warehouse at 477 Peachtree Street in the hands of CAP—reportedly in exchange for a $9.7 million payout to the Task Force, although that and other details are officially under seal. By some accounts, Task Force founder Anita Beaty left the group last year because she didn’t want to accept a settlement.\nHardin said CAP had asked his group for assistance in finding places for shelter residents, but it’s a role that the commission has been anticipating for years.\n“When the court gave its first eviction order to the Task Force in 2012 (which was quickly appealed), we were looking at an emergency situation in which a number of existing shelters would need to step up and take in the population,” he said. “Even though the shelter remained open, I figured that someday it would close, so I said let’s start getting prepared.”\nA widespread misconception is that the Peachtree-Pine population will need to be found the same type of space in other shelters. “A lot of people make the assumption that, if you lose a certain number of shelter beds, you need to create the same number of beds elsewhere,” said Hardin, who points out that the preferred methods for combating homelessness have evolved substantially in recent years—and have become more effective than many people realize.\nFor the past several years, Atlanta’s approach to dealing with homelessness has been refined into a so-called “continuum of care” that includes more than 100 government and charitable agencies providing transitional housing, drug treatment, educational support, and other services. Hardin serves on the board of one such organization, Georgia Works!, that’s garnered national attention for providing housing and job training to homeless and drug-addicted men. Two years ago, Mayor Kasim Reed launched Partners for H.O.M.E., a city program that helps coordinate local homeless services, funded by a $3.3 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies. Around the same time, he floated plans—but ran into some opposition in neighborhoods such as Pittsburgh and Adair Park—to build several smaller facilities around the city with wraparound services that could accommodate 20 to 30 people. And during his State of the City address in February, Reed announced a new, $50 million program named HomeStretch—with half the money to be raised by the United Way and the balance matched by the city—whose aim is nothing less than eliminating chronic homelessness in Atlanta.\nHardin says that’s a goal that’s within the scope of reality. Thanks to various public and private initiatives, the number of homeless people in Atlanta has been reduced by 40 percent over the past six years, according to data compiled by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. “If we can cut it by 40 percent, we can get it to zero,” Hardin said. “We functionally ended homelessness in this country before, in the years during and following World War II, and we can do it again.”\nIn the meantime, the Regional Commission is working with Fulton County to reopen Jefferson Place, a former shelter on Atlanta’s westside that the county closed five years ago, to take in some of the men now at Peachtree-Pine.\nThis past Wednesday, in an appearance before a City Council committee, Partners for H.O.M.E. executive director Cathryn Marchman explained that there has long been a plan in place for absorbing the Peachtree-Pine population into the current support network that prioritizes the most vulnerable individuals. “The idea is not just to move everyone to a different shelter, but to do assessments in order to place them with existing providers,” she said." ]

[ "SANTA CRUZ >> The North County’s Winter Shelter program has shuttered for the year with little reported difficulty in its first season under new management.\nUp to 100 people were bussed nightly from a vacant River Street lot to the Veterans of Foreign Wars building in Live Oak and the Salvation Army in downtown Santa Cruz for the winter months. The two sites, operated by the Association of Faith Communities, hosted volunteer thank you parties and goodbyes to their homeless guests in recent weeks.\nThis year’s program was reliant on volunteer power, and was able to secure lower overhead costs when it moved out of the National Guard Armory of years past, said Association of Faith Communities Chairman Jon Showalter. Member churches “adopted” the two shelters on a weekly basis, signing up for 1,000 volunteer slots to prepare dinners and sit and talk with those who needed a place to sleep for the night, Showalter said. In a few months, the coalition will consider running the winter shelter for a second year, he said.\n“We’re going to come in on budget, largely because of lower rental costs,” Showalter said during a look back on the program last week. “I think the faith community will respond again next year. It fulfills their call.”\nPreviously, a winter shelter was managed by the Homeless Services Center at the National Guard Armory in DeLaveaga Park. The Association of Faith Communities stepped in late last year after the Homeless Services Center, facing its financial difficulties and shift in focus toward long-term supportive housing, decided not to host a winter shelter.\nGOOD PARTNERSHIPS\nVFW Post 2259 Quartermaster Steve Curtin dubbed the first-time use of the Seventh Avenue hall a “very successful four months of housing the homeless every evening.” Early neighborhood concerns proved unwarranted and after a few initial hiccups, the operation ran like a “well-oiled machine,” Curtin said.\nThe Salvation Army’s Capt. Harold Laubach Jr. said the shelter partnership is a relationship he hopes to see continue in future winters. The Association of Faith Communities also uses the Laurel Street building to host homeless clients twice a month for its smaller year-round Faith Community Shelter.\nIf it’s possible to form a similar partnership with South County officials, Laubach said he would like to investigate launching a second winter shelter on the Salvation Army’s Union Street property in Watsonville. One of the property’s buildings will become vacant when Teen Challenge Monterey Bay and Pajaro Rescue Mission transfer the homeless shelter they are running to their own remodeled property in coming months, Laubach said.\nThough there were “growing pains” in the beginning, Laubach said the Salvation Army values the shelter partnership, adding that both sides took steps to resolve neighborhood concerns along the way.\nAdvertisement\nA TOO-SHORT SEASON\nFor Association shelter manager Debbie Bates, however, the closures cannot help but feel as though the community is pulling the rug out from under the feet of the sheltered homeless who have become more than familiar faces since December.\n“What has been a thorn in the Homeless Services Center’s side and everybody else’s is the budget (is limited to) four and a half months,” said Bates, referring to the winter shelter’s former operator. “It’s never set well in anyone’s craw to have the funding be so limited. There’s such a struggle at the end of winter shelter with, ‘Where do we go now, what do we do now.”\nBates and Showalter separately said this week that the faith coalition, which does not have independent nonprofit status, took on the winter shelter bid with the long-term goal of expanding to a new year-round emergency shelter. The path to a year-round effort, however, remains unclear. Issues ranging from funding and sustained staffing to site locations and political will need to be sorted out before the idea could become reality, Showalter said. The conversation continued in a debriefing with Santa Cruz County Homeless Coordinator Rayne Marr on Monday.\nOn a parallel track, community activist Brent Adams launched about two years ago a volunteer-run Warming Center, also rotated among area faith facilities, on winter’s coldest and wettest nights. Adams will host a “Coalition on Homelessness: Community Meeting” at 7 p.m., May 8, at the Louden Nelson Community Center’s Room 1, 301 Center St.", "When motel vouchers were being passed out to homeless people on the first day of Orange County’s effort to clear homeless encampments from the Santa Ana riverbed, some in line had been sleeping elsewhere: in cars, on friends’ sofas. Not at the riverbed.\nSophia, 28, was one of them. She held her sleeping, 1-year-old son while her 6-year-old sat in the shade with her ex-husband.\n“I lived in my car for a month, then my uncle took us in,” she said. Most recently, she had been sleeping in an emergency shelter for families.\nHer story illustrates the fact that Orange County’s homeless problem is much bigger than just the riverbed, where at least 400 people had been living in arguably the county's highest profile encampment.\nBut on any given night, nearly 5,000 people go without permanent shelter, according to the 2017 Point In Time homeless count.\nA few miles away from the riverbed homeless encampment, more than 100 people camp nightly in Santa Ana civic center.\nEven more alarming, OC school districts identified 27,000 homeless kids in the 2016-2017 school year, the most recent available data, a number that includes kids whose families are doubled and tripled-up in cramped apartments. More than 2,800 of those children lived in shelters, motels or on the streets.\nShortly after the riverbed clearing got started on Tuesday, several county officials complained that homeless people were being dropped off from elsewhere, confounding workers’ attempts to find shelter for all riverbed residents, whose estimated numbers range from 400 to 1,000 people.\nMany of those not on the county's list of known riverbed campers were offered a bed in one of the county’s emergency shelters. Some, including Sophia and her family, were eventually given a motel voucher.\nSome advocates for the homeless who have been monitoring the riverbed clearing said the county should help all homeless people who show up needing assistance, not just those on the county’s list.\n“A lot of these cities aren’t taking care of their own backyards and making sure that people have affordable housing,” said R. Joshua Collins, who heads a group called Homeless Advocates for Christ. “So we’re going to have to work together to make this problem go away. We can’t just ignore it anymore.\"\nOC’s homeless czar Susan Price said Thursday that the flow of outsiders hoping for motel vouchers had tapered off and that the county was well on its way to meeting its goal of clearing the riverbed by the end of the week.\n“Initially it did slow us down,” she said. “But we’re right in the heart of the encampment now, and we know the people that we’re working with.\"\nShe said the riverbed clearing is a chance for the county to show what it can do to address what many considered the toughest population to help.\n“I want to see the system expand and wrap its arms around the people who want help,” Price said.\nShe acknowledged the county’s lack of affordable housing is still a major challenge. But she said county officials had recently put a call out to OC cities to develop 2,700 units of permanent supportive housing for all the county's homeless over the next three years.", "The British icon of fashion has also spoken about why he is supporting homelessness charity Shelter.\nFashion designer Giles Deacon has said he would be “more than delighted” if he was given the chance to design Meghan Markle’s wedding dress were she to walk down the aisle with Prince Harry.\nThe British couturier designed the bridal gown of Pippa Middleton, the sister of the Duchess of Cambridge, for her wedding to James Matthews earlier this year – a vintage-style lace number with a high neckline that won the appraisal of the fashion industry’s harshest of critics.\nWhile actress Markle and the royal are not engaged, speculation about another potential royal wedding refuses to be quashed, a year after their romance was confirmed.\nPrince Harry and Meghan Markle (Danny Lawson/PA)\nAsked if he would like to design Markle’s bridal gown, Deacon told the Press Association: “If Meghan Markle was in any way interested, I would be more than delighted!”\nHe added: “I’m sure she’s got plenty of other people on her list.”\nDeacon, one of the UK’s most prominent designers, added there is no one celebrity or public figure he is particularly keen to dress, explaining that his dream clients are the ones with the most passion for fashion.\n“With all my clients I work with, they all have their absolute specialness about them,” he said, adding he is keen on “anybody who is very passionate in wanting something beautiful”.\n“It’s not really about the ‘celebrity’, or anything like that.”\nPippa Middleton in her wedding dress designed by Giles Deacon, and her husband James Matthews (Arthur Edwards/The Sun/PA)\nSomething Deacon is certainly enthusiastic about is his backing of housing and homeless charity Shelter, for which he will head up a talk as part of its Gimme Shelter series of cultural events for autumn 2017, along with other leading figures in the UK art scene to raise awareness of the issues around homelessness.\nDeacon will next week join print designer Anthony Burrill and contemporary photographer Juno Calypso for a night in conversation to discuss their work, using art for social change, the creative industries in the capital and how their creativity is impacted by the ongoing issues around housing.\nDeacon said: “I’ve always been a big supporter of homeless charities across the board, ever since I first moved to London.\n“Being at Central Saint Martins in 1989, coming from the countryside in the north of England … at that time you very rarely saw homeless people, it really struck me.\n“It affects people from all walks of life and in different situations.”\nAccording to Shelter, 150 families become homeless every day in the UK and Deacon said the numbers “really make you think” about how many people are in a “very lucky position” while “an awful lot of people are not”.\nHe said homelessness can affect more people than many might think, adding: “It can be refugees, it can be a pregnant mother, it can be a 15-year-old … homelessness can happen to everybody.\n“A lot of people’s circumstances can change very, very quickly and people can move jobs, relationships can break down, something else could happen and the next thing you know you can’t pay your rent, you can’t get the support you require and you’re out on the street.\n“If you’ve got no family support or immediate friends, you’ve got to find a way to get yourself back up again, and that’s the great thing about what Shelter does.”\nAsked if he thinks the government needs to do more to lessen the issue, Deacon said: “I think there is always more that can be done from everybody.\n“I think the way the world is, with cuts and God knows what going on, there is just not enough … It’s a very difficult time.”\nDeacon, Burrill and Calypso appear at Gimme Shelter – Art for a night in conversation at Oval Space in London on October 9.\n© Press Association 2017", "Citizens' group SOS Vanier met again Sunday to plan its appeal of the City of Ottawa's approval of the Salvation Army's new complex on Montreal Road.\nBut what do the people who use the Salvation Army's services think of the proposal?\nLast month council voted 16-7 to approve the complex, which includes a 140-bed emergency shelter. SOS Vanier plans to appeal the decision to the Ontario Municipal Board.\nCBC News spoke Sunday to three people who use the Salvation Army's services, and asked them for their thoughts about relocating to Montreal Road.\nAndrew Frizzle\nAndrew Frizzle, 29, has been homeless for three years. He either sleeps on the streets or stays at the Ottawa Mission, but he also uses the Salvation Army's services.\n\"I like being downtown a lot. Vanier is a ways away. You could really walk there if you need to, though. Vanier is walkable.\nThe bus is one thing [but] not everybody can afford the bus. Being downtown is valuable.\"\nDavid\nDavid has been homeless for a year-and-a-half and is currently taking the Salvation Army's residential life skills program.\nCBC has agreed to withhold his last name at his request.\n\"The way I saw how the [Vanier] building's going to be like, I find it's going to be more secure for the homeless. But I know there's a big issue with [the Salvation Army] moving out there.\nThe public has to understand [that] nobody is perfect. We all have our faults and if we're willing to change, that'll be up to the one person. It's not up to the public, the way how we are. We shouldn't be judged for who we are because we're all human, we all have mistakes, we all have our faults.\nI think them moving out to Vanier, it might help out a little bit more with the homeless.\"\nAndré Garceau\nAndré Garceau has been homeless for 10 years and uses the Salvation Army's services. His response has been translated from French.\n\"Vanier will be worse off than it is now. We're not all saints, [but] we're not all evil either. Some have psychological issues, but there is [drug and alcohol] consumption. It's here. We can't hide it.\nBe it here or there, people will be consuming drugs. Vanier isn't like a brothel, but it's not like a very rich neighbourhood either. If the shelter moves there, we should expect more criminality. Criminality is everywhere, but now it's going to be localized in one central point.\"\nSOS Vanier raises $26K\nSOS Vanier said Sunday it has raised more than $26,000 in the last few weeks, and hoped to raise about $200,000 over the next six months.\n\"We have a fundamental problem with how they deal with housing and homelessness in Ottawa. We believe that shelters are a thing of the past, especially large shelters like the mega-facility they want to put on Montreal Road,\" said Drew Dobson, the group's spokesperson and owner of Finnigan's Pub on Montreal Road.\n\"We think that housing first is the way to go. We think that resources should be spent on affordable housing rather than shelters. In my view, shelters are just warehousing the problem.\"\nHe said the group is working to make sure the problem of homelessness is a main topic in next year's municipal and provincial elections.", "San Diego’s sunny identity threatened by homeless crisis\nSan Diego’s sunny identity threatened by homeless crisis\nSAN DIEGO — For Christine Wade, the tent she shared with six children, pitched in an asphalt parking lot, was far better than their previous home — a shelter where rats ate through the family’s bags of clothes.\n“It’s peaceful here,” Wade, 31 and eight months pregnant, said in an October interview at the campground.\nA tent, of course, is not a home. But for these San Diegans, it is a blessing.\nLike other major cities all along the West Coast, San Diego is struggling with a homeless crisis. In a place that bills itself as “America’s Finest City,” spiraling real estate values have contributed to spiraling homelessness, leaving more than 3,200 people living on the streets or in their cars.\nMost alarmingly, the deplorable sanitary conditions help spread a liver-damaging virus that lives in feces, contributing to the deadliest U.S. hepatitis A epidemic in 20 years.\n“Some of the most vulnerable are dying in the streets in one of the most desirable and livable regions in America,” a San Diego County grand jury wrote in its report in June — reiterating recommendations it gave the city over the past decade to address homelessness.\nSan Diego has struggled to do that. Two years ago, Mayor Kevin Faulconer closed a downtown tent shelter that operated for 29 years during winter months. He promised a “game changer” — a new, permanent facility with services to funnel people to housing.\nBut it wasn’t enough.\nThe result? Legions of Californians without shelter. A spreading contagion. And an extraordinary challenge to the city’s sunny identity that threatens its key tourism industry.\nFor now, San Diego again is turning to tents. The campground where the Wades lived served 200 residents but was only temporary; this month, officials are opening three industrial-sized tents that will house a total of 700 people.\nThere are plans afoot to build housing. But to deal with the immediate emergency, the city had to take $6.5 million that had been budgeted for permanent homes to operate the giant tents.\n“The people of San Diego need to decide what they want the city to look like,” said Gordon Walker, the head of San Diego Regional Task Force on the Homeless. “San Francisco has essentially given up its streets to the homeless. It could go either way here. The real issue is we don’t have enough housing.”\nLast year, the number of people living outdoors in San Diego jumped 18 percent over the previous year, according to an annual count taken in January. More than 400 makeshift shelters covered downtown sidewalks alongside new apartment high-rises.\nIn October, Faulconer teamed with the homeless services provider, Alpha Project, to open the Balboa Park campground where the Wades found shelter. The city installed public washing stations, opened 24-hour restrooms and scrubbed streets with a bleach solution.\nPolice also cited people. Within weeks, the nearly 400 tents and tarps downtown disappeared.\nMeanwhile, the number of encampments along the banks of the San Diego River doubled.\nThe San Diego River Park Foundation — whose mission is to preserve the river that feeds into the Pacific — spent $115,000 removing 250,000 pounds of trash left by the homeless camps this year.\nDirector Rob Hutsel said potential donors ask him when he talks about plans for a 52-mile-long river park and trail system: “What about the homeless? Don’t build a park. It’ll just bring in more.”\n“There shouldn’t be any thought about building a park,” he said. “That’s so unfortunate.”\nThe mayor has earmarked more than $80 million to reduce homelessness over the next three years.\n“Ultimately the goal is to put everyone in a home who wants to be,” Faulconer said.\nBut units need to be built, and the temporary solution is expensive. At a cost of $1,700 per person per month, $6.5 million will cover seven months, but the tents may need to remain open for up to two years, according to the San Diego Housing Commission’s head, Rick Gentry.\nMeanwhile, San Diego County has spent $4 million to contain the hepatitis outbreak that has killed 20 people and sickened more than 560 in the past year.\nAt Perkins Elementary School, the student body is more than a quarter homeless, up from 4 percent three years ago.\nShawnni Wade was a straight-A student as a third grader. But when her family’s troubles escalated, she left the school; now, she’s returned as a seventh grader.\n“It’s weird to be back,” said the girl with bright green eyes and a sly smile.\nBut then, little about this 12-year-old girl’s life has been normal.\nChristine Wade blames her ex-husband’s drug addiction. After they divorced, he let Wade care for his two daughters. She rented a kitchenette. But then she lost her job, and Wade discovered she was pregnant.\nShe could find space only in the rat-infested shelter, where the family lived before landing in the campground.\nThen, a few weeks ago, Wade was hospitalized with an infection. She could not return to the campground, so the family moved into yet another shelter.\nA caseworker is now helping her find a home. She hopes to have one before next month, when she expects to give birth to a son.", "The city is entering a new stage in its efforts to end homelessness in Regina as the YMCA announces a call for proposals.\nThe YMCA, along with the Regina Homelessness Community Advisory Board, the Homelessness Partnering Strategy, the City of Regina and community stakeholders, is looking for a consultant to develop a clear plan to reach a state of “functional zero” homelessness.\n“That’s not to say that people never slip into homelessness again,” said Shawn Fraser, senior director of partnership initiatives for YMCA Regina. He said shelters will always be needed for individuals fleeing from domestic abuse and other similar situations.\n“But what functional zero homelessness means is that there is a community-held standard that when somebody hits the shelter system, within a set amount of time, they will be offered housing and the supports they need to maintain that housing.”\nAn applicant will be chosen based on a number of qualifications, including past experience, understanding of the project’s scope and objective, ability to engage the community, technical and data management expertise and experience in Indigenous engagement.\nOnce chosen, the applicant will spend approximately half a year consulting with the public, the city, community organizations and stakeholders to build a plan.\nBut Fraser said the work doesn’t stop once the plan is made.\n“A plan itself is just paper. Really, what this process also needs to involve is some common expectations from our community about what we’re talking about when we talk about ending homelessness,” he said.\nHe said the goal is to stop people from “pin-balling” between shelters, couch surfing, the street, prison and the emergency room by providing the necessary community supports.\n“There (are) people who have fallen through the cracks — actually people who fell through the cracks many years ago who are still in the cracks because there’s not a system-wide approach,” said Fraser. “That’s what we’re trying to fix.”\nAlso needed is an agreement from the community about how long is an acceptable amount of time before someone who has fallen into homelessness receives the support needed to get re-housed and stay that way.\nMedicine Hat was the first city in Canada to come up with such a strategy. The community works to re-house individuals within 10 days of entering the shelter system. Red Deer has a 28-day deadline and Edmonton is working toward a 21-day system.\nFraser said consultations will be essential to determine what length of time makes the most sense for Regina and urges residents to be optimistic.\n“It can happen. People don’t need to be cynical about ending homelessness. There’s other communities that are doing it,” he said.\nThe plan created by the successful applicant will guide and grow the work already being done to combat homelessness. Fraser acknowledged the many individuals in the community who have been working towards this goal behind the scenes for the past several years.\nWhoever is hired must establish a definition of “functional zero” for Regina that includes:\nAn ambitious and achievable community-held standard for the maximum acceptable time limit spent in shelter.\nAn ambitious and achievable community-held standard for the level of housing support and acceptable rates of homelessness relapse once individuals are housed.\nClear and concise costing.\nThe deadline to apply is Nov. 3. The month of November will be spent reviewing applications. Negotiation of contracts will be made in December and strategic planning sessions with Regina HPS and RHCAB are to take place in January, followed by research, community consultation, and data analysis from January to June.\nThe release of the final report is expected in the summer of 2018.\nFor more information, visit www.reginahomelessness.ca\njackerman@postmedia.com", "While two of Winnipeg’s busiest homeless shelters are running at capacity, the organizations don’t believe a lack of space is to blame for tent cities popping up in the community.\nDozens of people who were living out of tents on the lawn of a West Broadway church are looking for a new place to sleep. They were asked to leave by the church because of a wedding scheduled for the weekend.\nREAD MORE: Tent city at West Broadway Church coming down\nAt first glance, it might appear a capacity issue at homeless shelters is to blame.\nFor instance, Main Street Project said in the last 12 months it turned away 300 people from its shelter, which is about 25 people each month. But communications and fund development co-ordinator Cindy Titus said many just prefer to avoid the shelter.\n“People who are experiencing homelessness crave the same things you and I might crave,” she said. “They want to be with their friends. They want to be with their community.\n“The tent cities offer a bit of personal space for them within their tent and it offers a sense of community also.”\nAcross the street, Siloam Mission has the capacity for 110 people but on any given night can have between 10 and 30 people on its wait list for a bed.\nSiloam is currently adding dozens of new beds to its facility but CEO Jim Bell doesn’t believe it will necessarily stop tent cities from appearing.\n“We do believe that the 50 extra beds will go a long way but it’s impossible for me to say whether situations like tent city would hang around,” he said.\n“The bigger initiative we’re paying attention to is that there is a need for social and affordable housing.”\nREAD MORE: Osborne Village experiencing a ‘homeless takeover’\nThe Social Planning Committee of Winnipeg agrees that more affordable housing is needed. Community animator Josh Brandon said there are also scenarios where people are waiting months for a welfare cheque to come in or just can’t access the right help.\n“The current phenomena I think really relates to the lack of affordable housing as well as inadequate services for people who need help,” he said.\n“There are big backups for accessing mental health services, addiction services.”\nEven if everyone decided to stay at a shelter instead of in a tent, Brandon said it doesn’t mean homelessness would be solved.\n“It’s also important to remember that a shelter is not a home,” Brandon said. “What we’re trying to achieve is homes for all people in this city.”\nREAD MORE: New funding set to address spread of homelessness in Winnipeg\nThe committee will be releasing information on Winnipeg’s current homeless population, including its size and demographics, on June 12.", "The now empty Quality Inn across from Home Depot on 200 Street is being proposed to house the homeless with supports in place. BC Housing along with Stepping Stone is holding a public meeting Oct. 30 starting at 5 p.m. at LEC. Monique Tamminga Langley Times\nBC Housing is considering turning the Quality Inn beside Home Depot into supportive housing for the homeless.\nBC Housing and Stepping Stone Community Services Society are proposing to convert the existing 50-room hotel into 49 units of supportive housing as well as programming space.\nA public information meeting is being held Monday, Oct. 30 starting at 5 p.m., at the Langley Events Centre, with a panel from BC Housing and Stepping Stone scheduled to speak on the proposal at 7 p.m.\nThe proposal includes an office for the new Integrated Care Management (ICM) team funded through the Fraser Health to provide access to treatment for people who are homeless.\nThis supportive housing effort comes in response to the increase in the number of homeless people in the Langleys. Supportive housing is intended for people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless, to help them transition from shelters, the street or unstable housing into housing with supports, and ultimately into independent living, said a representative from BC Housing.\nLangley has seen one of the largest increases in homelessness in Metro Vancouver.\n“We know homelessness is a growing problem in all major cities in North America. The cost to municipalities is large. I just had a request from engineering and parks to increase their budget for costs they are incurring to clean up parks and encampments,” said Township mayor Jack Froese.\nOn Tuesday, Township bylaw officers arrived with half a dozen trucks to remove a large homeless camp on 30 Avenue, near 200 Street.\nThat area is now added to bylaws’ weekly inspections, so the camp doesn’t pop up again.\n“We do enforcement with compassion. Bylaws has done a really good job establishing relationships,” Froese said.\nThe mayor said he recently toured some of the camps with bylaw officers and meets with the Gateway of Hope director Emmy Skates on a regular basis.\n“We have services like Gateway, Stepping Stone, and we are excited to get the Integrated Case Management team going very soon. BC Housing is working hard to get the supportive housing component coming here to Langley and from what I understand, the Youth Resource Centre is opening in early 2018,” said Froese about the efforts made in Langley to help the homeless.\n“There are many who do fall through the cracks and want help but there are some in tents who really don’t want help at this time in their lives,” said Froese.\nThe Langleys saw a 124 per cent increase in the number of homeless people since the last count in 2014.\nThere were 206 homeless people counted in Langley in the 2017 Metro Vancouver count, which was conducted over two days in March.\nSEE STORY HERE\nThe Gateway of Hope operates 32 shelter beds and has an additional 25 beds in their transitional housing program that offers two years of permanent housing. Both programs are full, said Skates.\nIn response to a large camp next to the Nicomekl River, at 207 Street in Langley City, the provincial government opened up a 30 mat relief shelter last year to give campers a place to stay. Because of the increase in homelessness in Langley, that relief program has been extended indefinitely, said Skates.\nThey have felt the increase and said there are some new faces showing up this year as people come from other parts of B.C.\nHowever, Gateway isn’t asking to have its shelter expanded, said Skates.\n“When Gateway was built it was meant for a capacity of 30 beds and 25 spots for the long-term transitional housing program.\n“It’s all we have space for now,” said Skates.", "RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — One night about a year ago, Leandro Mota Generoso was sleeping on a street in downtown Rio de Janeiro when he felt something jagged strike his face.\nSomebody — he didn’t see the person, but believes it was a resident in the neighborhood — had slashed his nose with broken glass from a Vodka bottle. He awoke in a pool of blood.\n“I can’t sleep at night anymore,” said Generoso, 23, who has been homeless since the grandfather who was raising him died five years ago. “To many people, we are rats, garbage or whatever thing.”\n“That is the reality, and now there are many more homeless in the streets,” he added.\nA year after Rio de Janeiro hosted the Olympic Games, a grinding economic crisis has led to an influx of thousands of homeless people, creating a climate of tension that city officials are scrambling to address.\nWarm temperatures and miles of beaches have long made Brazil’s most famous city a place with a large street population. But city officials say it’s more than tripled in the last few years, to an estimated 15,000 people.\nWhile many U.S. cities have experienced sharp increases in people living outdoors thanks to rising housing prices amid a recovering economy, in Rio the driving factors have been fallout from Brazil’s worst recession in decades and long-standing inequalities.\nToday’s homeless in Rio include thousands who came from other states for work before the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Rio Olympics and subsequently lost their jobs.\n“Rio de Janeiro is facing the worst possible scenario when it comes to the homeless,” said Pedro Fernandes, the city’s secretary of social assistance and human rights. “We have never had such a large number in the streets.”\nTensions have been steadily increasing, particularly in affluent and touristy neighborhoods where residents and businesses are frustrated with the throngs of people sleeping on the streets. In August, a residential building in the iconic Copacabana neighborhood installed sprinklers below its awnings to rouse unwanted campers below. The city later forced the sprinklers to be removed.\nPeople in several affluent neighborhoods post messages on community Facebook groups urging police to act and imploring neighbors not to feed the homeless.\nIn some cases, violence has erupted. Forty-year-old Fernanda Rodrigues dos Santos was fatally shot in the chest while sleeping in the street in Copacabana in October. Police say 24-year-old Rodrigo Gomes Rodrigues, a medical student who lives in the neighborhood, has confessed to the killing. Police say he and a friend argued earlier in the night with another homeless person, went to get a gun and returned looking for revenge.\n“How many Fernandas are still in the streets?” said Wilham Rodrigues dos Santos, Fernanda’s brother. “We can’t accept that this aggression becomes normal.”\nCarla Beatriz Nunes Maia, from the Public Prosecutors office, has been leading visits to the homeless at night to get a sense of what they are facing. She says complaints about rough-handed tactics by police have given way to even more complaints about friction with residents in affluent neighborhoods.\n“There is a repressive movement to keep people from helping the homeless,” said Maia, referring to the calls on social media not to give food or money.\nThe city has launched an initiative to spruce up shelters and persuade more homeless people to use them. Many shun shelters because they often have strict rules and, by the city’s own acknowledgement, have fallen into disrepair, with infestations of bugs and filthy bathrooms.\n“You may go into a shelter healthy, but then how will you come out?” said Nancy Gouveia, a 49-year-old who has been on the streets three years.\nWhen her marriage broke up, the former housewife with no work experience said she had nowhere to go but the street. While many people have helped her, she said she has also had water and diesel thrown on her. A man once tried to light her on fire while she slept.\n“All of us on the street want to get off it. But how?” Gouveia said as she lay on a frayed cushion in front of a bank near the ocean in Copacabana.\nSitting on a chair next to Gouveia, Patricio Santos added there would be no change until the economy improves.\n“We need jobs,” said Santos, 34, who has been on the streets six months since losing his job as a telemarketer.\nWhile some of the nearly 2,200 beds in shelters go empty each night, successfully persuading more homeless people to use them could create its own problems, as there are vastly more potential users than space for them. Given that reality, the city is also working to help migrants return to their home states, and in some cases even other countries.\nDespite the grim situation, there are signs of hope. Though growth is tepid, Brazil officially emerged from recession earlier this year. And city officials say some businesses are donating food and clothes as well as providing jobs for some homeless.\nOn a recent day, hundreds of homeless showed up at a park where the city offered services ranging from free haircuts to recovering documents and help with job searches.\nOne of those who showed up was Generoso, who wanted more information about a shelter where he might be able to stop worrying about being attacked again.\n“I want to find a place to sleep,” he said. “There is only misery on the streets.”\n___\nPeter Prengaman on Twitter: www.twitter.com/peterprengaman", "FARMINGTON - After operating for the last four years in the basement of the Living Waters Assembly of God church on Route 2, Western Maine Homeless Outreach will settle into new digs at the Holman House on Main Street this fall.\nCurrently the shelter offers 16 beds, primarily serving families, elderly and veterans, however there is almost always a waiting list according to shelter coordinator Aly Livernois. In addition to a need for more space, guests who stay at the shelter are asked to leave between the hours of 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. which often forces them to walk the busy road into town. The shelter does offer daytime hours during the winter months, but a move into town would make for a safer journey and easier access to local resources.\n\"None of us feel good about making them leave during the day, especially when they have young children,\" case manager Diane Alexander said.\nAlexander sat on a panel of six Wednesday morning to share information, clear misconceptions and field questions from local business owners. While the move has brought some controversy from local residents, the crowd was generally supportive of the idea- reflecting the warm reception of the Holman House owner- Old South First Congregational Church.\n\"We heard they needed space, and we had the space,\" Old South moderator Chris Magri said. \"This project demonstrates that Farmington is not just a town, it's a community. It's a community where we have each other's backs. Where we do not allow labels such as 'homeless.' I'm really proud Old South has the opportunity to take this project to the next level.\"\nThe Holman House is currently undergoing an assessment process to bring the building up to code- the biggest need being a sprinkler system. Magri said based on preliminary meetings, the required renovations could cost up to $120,000. The two organizations are planning to fund the needs for now, with hopes that state funding could offer reimbursement down the road.\nAlthough a secure number hasn't been reached yet, WMHO board president Steve Bracy said they are hopeful of doubling the number of beds offered. Priority would still be given to families, with the elderly and veterans coming next on the list. If space is available, beds are offered to single adults.\n\"It's quite a process for people to be taken in there,\" Chief of Police Jack Peck said.\nPeck also serves on the WMHO board and sat on the Wednesday morning panel. He reported to the audience that in the four years since the shelter opened, officers had only been called 17 times, primarily for minor incidences. Business managers both from Farmington Ford and Walmart reported no issues in the four years of being neighbors.\nGuests who stay at the shelter have to undergo an extensive background check, including the sex offender registry. The shelter is a \"dry\" one, meaning not only are drugs and alcohol prohibited from the premise, but guests are not allowed to enter if intoxicated. All medications are locked up and supervised, and the building will include security cameras as it does now, Peck reported.\n\"Our priority is to make sure individuals are a good fit for the shelter. They have to be safe around kids of all ages and there is absolutely no tolerance of violence. If they are not a good fit, we try to find them a different shelter that is more appropriate,\" Alexander said.\nShe went on to say that all guests do their part in communal living at the shelter, which includes seeking employment if applicable. The primary goal of the shelter is to help prepare their guests for a stable living situation upon departure. Similarly, the shelter is not just a \"drop in\" location. Guests stay for a minimum of two months, during which shelter staff works with local landlords to find permanent housing. Staff members also conduct classes such as how to be a good renter.\nWMHO is the only shelter in Franklin County, with the next closest option being Waterville or Skowhegan. Livernois said very few referrals are taken from outside Franklin County, and guests almost always have a tie to Western Maine that makes it home.\n\"The homeless live among us. They are out there. The people you walk by everyday on the street could be homeless. You just never know,\" Alexander said.", "BURLINGTON — The city and several nonprofit partners are planning to convert a former Burlington College dormitory into transitional housing for homeless people.\nThe Stone House at 311 North Ave. served as a dorm for Burlington College until February 2016, when the city took possession of it. After the liberal arts school closed abruptly last year “the building was abandoned and subject to vandalism, break-ins and trespassing” over the summer, according to a memo from Parks and Recreation Director Jesse Bridges.\nBridges’ department stepped in and did some preliminary repairs. It has been using the structure for storage, and the police and fire departments have also used it for training.\nNow Bridges is proposing that the city lease the property for no charge to the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity to be run as a sober-living home for at least 13 homeless people with high needs.\nThe city is also enlisting the University of Vermont Medical Center Community Investment Committee, the United Way, the Vermont Community Foundation and Vermont’s Agency of Human Services to provide support services for the new tenants.\nIn his memo, Bridges says Chittenden County has made progress addressing homelessness in the region but that a tremendous need for temporary housing still exists.\nBurlington’s warming shelters remain full, there is a long waitlist for housing vouchers, and the most recent point-in-time survey, conducted late last year, showed 330 homeless people in Chittenden County, according to Bridges’ memo.\nAt a recent meeting of the Warming Shelter Advisory Board, Bridges learned that “the shelter had guests who possessed housing vouchers but stayed in the shelter because they were unable to secure permanent supportive housing.”\nThat’s a common situation at several emergency shelters, which creates a bottleneck preventing other people from finding space in the shelter system, according to Bridges.\n“This is a rare and wonderful opportunity,” said Jan Demers, executive director of the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity.\n“We’d be working with the folks who would live there to go from homelessness to permanent housing,” she added. Her organization is in a good position to do that because of its role as a member of the Chittenden County Homeless Alliance.\n“We have the numbers, and we know the people,” Demers said.\nThe alliance, made up of local nonprofits and government agencies, uses a survey to assess people’s vulnerability if they were to remain homeless. That helps to triage people, through what’s known as the “coordinated entry” program, for space in permanent or transitional housing, Demers said.\nConverting the Stone House into transitional housing would require approval from the Board of Finance and the City Council as well as a green light from the Development Review Board. Demers said she’s hopeful people will be living at the Stone House come spring, but said there’s still a lot of moving parts for the project to succeed.\nThe plan was on the agenda for Monday’s Board of Finance meeting, which was canceled due to weather.\n“It’s like everything is moving at once,” Demers said. “We’re repairing the buildings, going through the zoning and raising money all at the same time.”", "Buffalo Wild Wings has fired a group of staffers in Louisiana involved in writing a derogatory slur on a homeless man’s receipt and has offered the customer free wings for a year.\nOn May 28, an unnamed man ordered wings from the casual dining chain’s Lake Charles location and was infuriated to discover an offensive note written on his bill, KPLC reports.\nSOUTH CAROLINA COP BUYS HOMELESS MAN 'ASKING FOR SCRAPS' A MEAL AFTER RESPONDING TO 911 CALL\nWARNING: Image contains graphic language.\n\"For homeless f---! Let sit and get gross,\" a staffer had written on the receipt, also adding an inexplicable \"I love you.\"\nIn tears, the unnamed man shared the shocking find with his fellow customers, and patron Kailynn Weston soon spoke up.\n“I was just really upset about it, like why would you do that, especially, and he said, 'You all know that I'm homeless, I don't have anywhere to live,' and it just really upset me,” she told the outlet.\n“That's not OK, one, for someone to treat a customer like that, let alone a customer in his condition,” the 26-year-old recalled of the “horrible” incident.\n\"I walked up to the manager and I said, “This isn't right and I demand that she get fired or something happen because I won't come here anymore, for sure, and I'll let other people know not to come here anymore, because it's not OK.”\nBuffalo Wild Wings’ regional manager Ray Rhode said the Lake Charles employees involved in the incident have been terminated, and that the Minneapolis-headquartered chain is giving the customer free wings for a year.\nIn addition, the man has received a gift card to Walmart for some new clothes, a hotel room and the restaurant has donated a \"couple hundred wings\" to a local homeless shelter, KPLC reports.\nAccording to photos shared to Facebook, the wings were quite a hit with the shelter’s residents.\n\"It's embarrassing for this gentleman and it's very inhumane on the part of the employees,\" Rhodes said. \"It's not our culture and it's not who we are.\"\nFOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE FOX LIFESTYLE NEWS\nMeanwhile, Twitter users responded to the news with mixed reactions.\n“I have just boycotted BWW” one critic wrote.\nOthers, however, disagreed.\n\"Very nice response, @BWWings. Well done,” a supporter said.\n“We aren’t perfect humans and employees do stupid s---, but it’s everything for corporations to own it and do better,” another chimed in.", "More than two weeks after Orange County officials cleared a homeless encampment and put nearly 700 people in motels, the deadline is looming for a more permanent solution.\nUnder a legal settlement that allowed the 2-mile long Santa Ana River encampment to be cleared in February, the county is supposed to help find alternative housing for evictees before their 30-day motel vouchers are up. That could be the end of this week for some people.\nMany homeless people and advocates are skeptical that the county can find alternatives in such a short time.\n“You can’t even get through the red tape in 30 days,” said Craig Alan, who’s been homeless for three years and is now staying at a motel in Laguna Niguel.\nCounty health care agency workers have been visiting homeless people spread throughout the county to assess their need for housing and support services and determine what resources are available to them. Officials said Friday that they had carried out 221 assessments.\nThat means roughly two-thirds of the homeless people in motels haven’t yet been assessed.\nSome of those staying in motels expressed anxiety about the looming deadline. Andrea Phipps is pregnant and staying at a motel in Tustin with her partner. She said a county worker visited, asked if she would be willing to stay in a shelter and gave her some phone numbers to call to get mental health and other services.\n“It’s like they pushed me off, you know?” she said.\nDespite her frustration, she said she's working hard to get her life back on track and look for affordable housing.\n\"I needed a quiet place to sit down and make calls,” she said of her transition from the riverbed to a motel. \"Now I’m able to do that, so there should be no excuse on my part.”\nPhipps and others praised the volunteers who have been darting around to different motels, taking people to doctor’s appointments and helping them sign up for benefits.\nMohammed Aly is among the volunteers. He said homeless people with mental health issues aren’t getting the services they need.\n\"There are some people not healthy enough to be sitting in a motel room by themselves without mental health treatment,” he said. He was also skeptical of the county’s ability to provide housing and services to all those evicted from the riverbed.\n\"There has been a good faith effort to identify this problem of a lack of case management and care … but I highly doubt that the health care agency can find the resources and the employees to handle this big of a load this quickly,” Aly said.\nCounty Supervisor Andrew Do said the county was on track to have shelter and other resources in place to transition people out of motels when their 30 days are up.\n“We are beefing up our capacity every day for transitional housing,” he said. Do said he couldn’t give specifics because the list of shelter and other housing options hasn’t been finalized or approved by the board of supervisors. But said it would include a variety of options beyond emergency shelter.\nDo said it was likely that not all people currently in motels would accept the resources offered.\nPaul Leon, executive director of the Illumination Foundation, said the number of people sleeping on streets around Orange County had increased since the county cleared the riverbed. \"It’s just kind of moved everybody,” he said.\nLeon said his organization had received more than double its normal volume of calls alerting them to homeless people on city streets in the last two weeks.\nHe and others also questioned the wisdom of relying on transitional housing as a next step for riverbed evictees. Several years ago, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development cut funding for transitional housing, or short-term housing, in favor of permanent housing with support services. The latter has been found more effective at keeping chronically homeless people housed.\nSupervisor Do defended the county's plan to use transitional housing and said the federal government's failure to fund this type of housing had contributed to the growing homeless population.\nSitting in his tidy motel room in Laguna Niguel, Alan was hopeful he could get his life back on track. He said he works construction and other odd jobs, but hasn't been able to save up enough money to afford rent in Orange County.\nHe said if the county can't offer him housing at the end of his 30-day stay, he’ll push for more time at the motel. He's doubtful county workers will be able to offer him housing before his time's up, and he doesn't like sleeping in shelters, though he says he's done it plenty of times.\n\"It’s going to get worse before it gets better,” he said.", "Moving people around is not going to make homelessness go away. (THE NEWS/files)\nEditor, The News:\nRe: Rally in Maple Ridge against supporting housing and shelter.\nIn dealing with solutions to homelessness in Maple Ridge, I wonder if we could all take two deep breaths and do the following.\nRecognize that the homeless are human beings. They are human beings who may be sick, mentally and physically wounded — but they are not morally-weak human waste. The homeless are without a decent, safe, reliable place to live often because they are unable to find living spaces that suit their circumstances. Others are simply and suddenly without a home.\nAbout 20 per cent of the homeless are youth who may have been forced to leave home too early due to abuse or neglect. The LGBTQ2S in this group are overrepresented at about 40 per cent of that youth population. They are not yet ready to care for themselves and homelessness in this group contributes to further abuse, mental illness and addiction.\nThey need support and care in the community.\nRoughly 26 per cent of the population in Canadian shelters are women, often put in this situation due to violence at home for themselves and their children. Would any woman actually want to stay in a shelter, let alone a tent? Like youth, women in shelters are at greatly increased risk of violence, sexual exploitation and abuse.\nRecognize that as a wealthy, western society, we have a moral and financial obligation (through the taxes we pay into governments at all levels) to care for those who are unable to manage in the mainstream. We need to begin to see the homeless as human beings once again. They are someone’s daughters or sons, sisters or brothers.\nAs a community, we need to consider harm reduction in safe, clean shelters that house people with addictions. We need to keep them and the neighbourhoods in which they live safe. No needles outside. No dealers lurking around. Safe injection with supervision indoors. That requires resident health care, as well as law enforcement support.\nWe need safe, clean shelters that protect women and children, as well as youth from being prayed upon and hurt. They need support to step up to homes they can rely on.\nWe need to give folks who can’t manage financially as way to climb back up and feel a strong sense of belonging and contributing in our society.\nNo want wants the homeless in Maple Ridge. But they’re here, whether we like it or not. Moving them around is not going to make homelessness go away. And sticking our heads in the sand and saying it can’t be near us is making the problem much worse as we shame and ostracize people who have a right to feel a sense of belonging and dignity, even when they’re ill.\nIf we do it right, it will be better for everyone in Maple Ridge, and it won’t harm those near the shelters.\nCasey Hrynkow\nMaple Ridge", "On a tour in February of Breakthrough Urban Ministries, a homeless shelter in Chicago, Taylor University men’s basketball player Keaton Hendricks saw a donation room full of jackets, pants and shirts.\nBut Hendricks noticed one notable thing missing from the collection: socks.\nIt was then that he got confirmation that Sky Footwear, the company he runs of his dorm room on Taylor’s Upland, Ind., campus, was needed more than ever. Sky Footwear donates a pair of socks to the homeless for every pair sold.\n“Every time we do a handout and we go deliver the socks there’s always a story of something that happened,” Hendricks said. “It was really cold, and they had no socks. They were even surprised when after we handed out the socks to every resident, we told them all these boxes are yours. They expected that we just gave them those pairs for those residents that day but we were able to fill out that whole bin for them in Chicago.”\nSky Footwear sells a variety of socks and styles, ranging from plain white ankle socks to colorful athletic socks and patterned crew socks. The socks are priced at $10 to $12 for a single pair, $26 to $30 for a pack of three and $125 for a pack of 11. Every cent made is reinvested into Sky Footwear so it can buy more socks to sell and eventually donate.\nSo far Hendricks has donated more than 4,000 socks to 11 shelters.\n“We had no idea what the number would be and we weren’t going to let the little resources we had and the limitations that we have of being college students and being in a dorm room hold us back,” Hendricks said. “We’re very proud that we have been able to dominate so many socks.”\nHendricks, who started in all 33 games last season for the Trojans and averaged 13.1 points a game, spends an average of four hours every day working on Sky Footwear, on top of a full course load and basketball practices.\n“He manages time so well and he performs well in the classroom and of course brings it every day for us on the court,” Taylor head coach Josh Andrews said. “I’m very, very proud that he’s in our program and that I’ve been able to coach him.”\nHis passion for helping the homeless sparked in 2010 when he began volunteering at a homeless shelter with his father in his hometown of Bloomington, Ind. He learned that socks were the No. 1 requested item at homeless shelters, and five years later he created Sky Footwear with a teammate, Eric Cellier. Cellier has since graduated.\n“It was like this is a perfect opportunity to use the ‘buy one give one’ model and raise a bunch of socks for homeless shelters that are in need,” said Hendricks, a senior this year. “I had a little background with selling online and using the ecommerce store so I kind of knew the process of how to ship, how to create a website and how to get a domain name.”\nHendricks, a business major, pitched the idea at a shark tank event held at Taylor. Upon receiving positive feedback, the two basketball players decided to put their own money into the business and ordered 10,000 pairs of socks to their dorm rooms.\n“There is a lot of information that goes into a order that size, getting a shipment that size over here and all of the customs and tariffs that you have to pay for that,” Hendricks said. “It’s pretty complicated, but you know honestly with Google, anything is possible and you can search and figure out how to do anything. I knew that when I had this passion and this business concept I would be able to teach myself to do the rest.”\nHe got reconnected with Tracy Gorman, the father of an old teammate who runs the Evansville Rescue Mission and is the vice president of the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions Great Lake District. Gorman heard what Hendricks was doing and wanted to see if there was anything he could do to help.\nGorman was then able to connect Hendricks with a network of other homeless shelters across the country, and Sky Footwear was able to deliver the first batch of socks in August 2016. Since then, Sky has eone handouts once a month to different homeless shelters.\n“I think it’s amazing that someone of his age has such a burden already,” Gorman said. “I believe that he has tremendous potential to really make some significant impact on a lot of people around the country that are homeless because socks are one of the forgotten items when people make donations, there’s no doubt about that. It’s one of the most needed items here at the Evansville rescue mission and I know that’s true around the country. He has been an inspiration to me and has really caused me to want to come alongside him and partner with him to make what he is doing available to a lot of rescue missions.”\nHis team fully supports him, on the court and off. Teammates wear Sky Footwear socks during games and join him once a month when Hendricks goes to homeless shelters. Some even help out with the day-to-day operations.\n“When you’ve got a great idea like this that affects others, I think it’s almost natural for our guys at Taylor to rally around that effort,” Andrews said. “It has been a very positive thing for our guys and our program and I believe even the University. There have been a lot of people who have been blessed and influenced by our guys putting some action into an incredible idea.”\nHendricks has just one season left with the Trojans and although he has no set plans for continuing Sky Footwear after college, he hopes to be able to donate as many socks as he can.\n“It sounds simple but really we’ve not set a huge goal for what we want to accomplish, we’ve just always looked at what can we do today,” Hendricks said. “Eventually this is something that I would love to continue after college if it’s available to do. But I still have a year left of college and a whole season to play so I’m looking forward to do that as well.”", "Anti-Shelter protesters rally at Irvine Civic Center against the three city plan that would help alleviate the homelessness issue in Santa Ana. Photo Courtesy of Wujun Ke\nAnti-Shelter protesters rally at Irvine Civic Center against the three city plan that would help alleviate the homelessness issue in Santa Ana. Photo Courtesy of Wujun Ke\nBy Wujun Ke\nA group of around 100 Irvine residents protested outside the Irvine Civic Center on April 10 in a continued effort to prevent emergency homeless shelters in Irvine. The demonstrators held signs saying “Election is coming, we will remember” and “OC children deserve better.” Organized through the Chinese-language WeChat group WeIrvine and the Facebook group Irvine For Responsible OC Solutions (formerly Irvine Tent City Protest), the protesters began to chant “No more shelters” among other slogans after the Irvine City Council meeting adjourned early.\nAfter an estimated 623 homeless residents were evacuated from their tents in a two-mile strip along the Santa Ana riverbed in February, Orange County officials have struggled to find adequate shelter and services for the newly displaced. To hasten a solution, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter has threatened to temporarily forbid city governments from enforcing anti-vagrancy and anti-camping ordinances. Public outrage followed when the county supervisors announced that they would use county funds to build emergency shelters in Irvine, Laguna Niguel and Huntington Beach.\nThe decision to build shelters in their famously safe city has led Irvine residents to take the issue into their own hands. Last month, a strong showing of Irvine protestors at the Orange County Hall of Administration led the OC Board of Supervisors to scrap plans to site emergency shelters in the three cities, but no alternative solutions have been proposed.\nWhile the protest at the Hall of Administration was hailed as a success, organizers are determined to continue agitating for Irvine to remain shelter-free. On the day of the most recent protest, the parking lot was packed with sparkling BMWs, Lexuses and Mercedes, a familiar sight in a city whose median income is $90,585. The bulk of the demonstrators were Chinese immigrants who had learned about plans for the protest on WeIrvine, a Chinese-language social media network serving about 40,000 members.\nAccording to an article published last week in the Los Angeles Times, the Irvine protesters succeeded, but at a price. Some critics accused Irvine residents of lacking compassion, while others pointed to the self-interested “NIMBY” (“not in my backyard”) mentality that shuffles responsibility for the county’s homeless from wealthier cities to lower-income ones like Anaheim and Santa Ana.\nCharges of NIMBY-ism as well as distrust in government officials to solve the problem in their favor have shifted Irvine’s anti-homeless activist strategy towards a more solution-oriented approach. The newly renamed Facebook group, Irvine For Responsible OC Solutions, rebrands the group as advocating for both home-owning residents and homeless populations. The group description proclaims that “The community members of Irvine are not against helping the homeless, in fact, it is this very reason that we are against this “temporary” relocation proposal.”\nVirginia, a protester who moved to Irvine last year and who chose not to disclose her last name, claimed that some homeless people simply do not want to be helped. “They don’t want to go to shelters,” she said, mentioning that many of the homeless are drug addicts.\nUnite OC, a website spearheaded by the organizers of the Facebook group, shares the sentiment. On the About page, the site proclaims, “The simple fact of the matter is that a good portion of these people simply do not want aid or assistance.” Unite OC wants to develop solutions and find the necessary resources for those who do want assistance, with the addendum that drug addicts and the mentally ill should be kept away from residential communities.\nAccording to the “no tent city” organizers, this solution involves building a homeless shelter at a more suitable location. The proposed solution would site a homeless shelter in Los Pinos Conservation Campus, a former juvenile detention center located 40 miles away from Irvine.\nWhile the United OC website asserts “we are committed to providing real solutions,” it remains to be seen whether Irvine’s “no tent city” activists will bring about responsible — and compassionate — solutions for the homeless.", "Recycling skips in Grimsby are being used by rough sleepers for overnight shelter, it has been revealed.\nOne man was found sleeping in a paper and cardboard recycling skip using candles for light, a spokesman for homeless charity Harbour Place revealed.\nCharity project co-ordinator, Dave Carlile said a new overnight shelter at his centre is “the difference between life or death”.\nIt has been overwhelmed by demand.\nDave warned the situation will become worse when the universal credit system of issuing benefits becomes fully operational and his charity is gearing up for a much bigger influx of demand in North East Lincolnshire.\nThe centre on Albert Street West has become an overnight shelter for seven people on three nights per week.\nSome rough sleepers are queuing from 5pm till the new shelter opens at 8pm.\nOne homeless woman appeared at the door of the shelter during the heavy downpour which triggered flooding on Tuesday night with soles falling off her shoes.\n(Image: Duncan Young)\nSince the overnight shelter opened in July there have been 90 people sleeping overnight.\nDirectors of the charity are aiming to provide a larger venue so they can attempt to meet the growing demand.\nAccording to figures, North East Lincolnshire said in November 2014 there were six rough sleepers in the borough. Last year there were 13, according to official figures.\nBut Harbour Place say there are at least 30 this year.\nIf they are unable to get a place at the shelter they use shop doorways or derelict buildings, many of them deemed dangerous.\nHarbour Place director, Robin Barr said: “It is shocking some of the dangerous buildings people are using.”\nHe said the charity had worked with 23 different individuals. But their service is being overwhelmed by demand.\nHe said since March there have been 103 different people on the charity’s rough sleepers’ list and that is 30 at any one time sometimes up to 40 people.\nHarbour Place, Dave Carlile said one man had used a recycling skip outside Asda in the summer but used candles for light even though it was recycling skip for paper.\nWhen he was given support by Harbour Place, organisers read about a fire in the skip.\nIt has since been moved.\n(Image: Duncan Young)\nOther homeless people are using tents or trampoline shelters in Weelsby Woods, said organises.\nDave said: “We need a night shelter in new premises that is bigger. Then we can provide a day centre and night shelter, as we have outgrown what we have.”\nOne of the people using the night shelter was a 28-year-old man, who did not wish to be named.\nHe said; “I have been coming here for a few years. It is a help. It is brilliant for people like me. They are always ready to help. It helps everyone in the community. There are a lot with mental health problems.”\nA woman, who also benefits from the shelter said: “It is company for people.”\nThe shelter receives funding for three nights only, but could provide more nights if there was more funding.\nFrom November to the end of March, Harbour Place will be part of the Severe Weather Emergency Protocol.\nThat will link all the hostels in North East Lincolnshire with Harbour Place and could mean it can open more often and staff will be able to provide night time cover.\nRobin said: “When we started the staff felt very strongly that they wanted to provide the shelter service and it was needed.\n“Tuesday night shows rough sleepers would have got very wet. It would have been worse in the cold. But at least when it is dry you can wrap up. When you are wet its stays with you all night.”\nDave said: “We get a lot of people who have been turned away from hostels and get them right so they can apply again. We provide shelter, warmth and a meal. They are usually people who are not engaged by other survivors and not able to cope. We are working with people to break the cycle of homelessness.”\nHe started the overnight support in July and it will run for six months.\n(Image: Getty Images)\nHarbour Place has resubmitted a bid for Big Lottery funding, as present funding ends in February.\nDave said: “People using the shelter really appreciate it. For some it is the difference between life and death.”\n“It is that precarious for some people. For whatever reason, it can be something outside of their control, like a relationship breakdown or unemployment.\n“We provide that face-to-face contact. People can come in and use the telephone. No one else provides that. With the JobCentre and North East Lincolnshire Council cutting back the work is coming to us. That is going to increase with when universal credit is fully implemented. We are gearing up for that. It is going to get worse and homelessness will be up considerably.”\nPeople can pledge donations by calling the centre on 01472 344118 or 01472 240823.\nNorth East Lincolnshire council also offers advice about homelessness", "City council has put an extra $50,000 into its rent supplement program to keep people from homelessness next year.\nIt was a last-minute addition to the 2018 budget on Monday, just as council was about to set in stone its spending priorities.\nThe motion came from Coun. Diane Therrien, who said it's imperative to help keeping people from homelessness.\nRent supplements are meant to help pay the rent for people who can't afford it and are at risk of becoming evicted.\nThe 2018 budget had already boosted the rent supplements by roughly $300,000, to just over $2 million.\nBut there's still a homelessness crisis in the city, Therrien said.\nShe moved to take the extra $50,000 from reserve funds in 2018, meaning it doesn't increase taxes in 2018. In subsequent years, the increase would come out of operating funds.\nCoun. Dean Pappas agreed with it, saying the city has a responsibility to help its most vulnerable citizens.\n\"It's not enough, the $50,000,\" Pappas said.\nYet Coun. Henry Clarke, the budget chairman, didn't support the motion - even though he said housing is \"near and dear\" to his heart.\nHe pointed out that council had already planned to boost its rent supplement program by $300,000.\nHe said the city is going to run into serious financial problems in 2019 if it spends any more.\n\"This creates a problem for next year that I'm very concerned about,\" Clarke said.\nMayor Daryl Bennett said he was concerned that the cost will be difficult for council to manage, over the years.\nHe said he has trouble adding just a bit to the budget when councillors had asked city staff to stick to a 2.85 per cent tax increase for 2018.\nHe said he's like to support the plan but couldn't, in good conscience.\n\"It's not sustainable,\" he said.\nEarlier in the meeting, housing advocate Joanne Bezak-Brokking had asked for an increase of about $637,000 in rent supplements (as opposed to a boost of roughly $350,000, as council ultimately approved).\n\"It's a basic, fundamental human right to have housing,\" Besak-Brokking said.\nBut Coun. Keith Riel said he went through the budget looking to see whether he would find enough to meet her request. But he couldn't, without increasing the budget by three percent.\n\"I don't know if there's an appetite to increase taxes,\" he said.\nBezak-Brokking said she knows it's a complex problem, but meanwhile people are going hungry.\n\"The depth of suffering in this community is real,\" she said. \"It is urgent that another look is taken at this need.\"\nWhile it's true the city needs new buildings and roads, she said, the \"social infrastructure\" should be the priority.\n\"We can't ignore the absolute desperate situation people find themselves in,\" she said.\nPaul Armstrong, another housing advocate, said Peterborough has the worst need for housing anywhere in Canada.\nFinding the money to help house people means council has to make difficult choices, when it comes to spending.\n\"It starts with willingness,\" he said. \"How much more important issue can we have, in this city? We have to do something.\"\nHe asked councillors not to wait until the federal and provincial governments offer more money for housing.\n\"We've got to get into the game, here,\" he said. \"If not, what does it say about us?\"\nIn this budget, council also includes more money to help run all of Peterborough's emergency shelters for the homeless - and to also enough to keep the Warming Room open year-round, at least until 2020.\nThe plan is to give an extra $200,000 to Brock Mission, Cameron House, Youth Emergency Shelter and the Warming Room.\nIn 2018, the city will take that money from a homelessness reserve fund and then budget for it in later years.\nThe Warming Room will get the largest boost: its funding will go from $85,000 annually to $160,000 (an increase of $75,000).\nThat's expected to be enough to keep the overnight shelter open year-round, rather than only in winter, for the next two years (until April 2020).\nJKovach@postmedia.com\nFollow @JoelleKovach", "A new homeless shelter planned for Portland would feature 200 beds, separate dorms for men and women, a dining room and kitchen, a health clinic, lockers, a laundry room and an enclosed outdoor courtyard to discourage human traffickers and drug dealers from preying on the city’s most vulnerable population.\nCity officials unveiled a concept plan and cost proposal for the new shelter at a City Council workshop Monday evening, the same day that the Oxford Street Shelter began its new 24 hours a day, seven days a week schedule.\nNas Hirad drives his wheelchair to the Oxford Street Shelter, where he has lived for two years. The shelter now offers round-the-clock services. Hirad said he was relieved by the change. \"There's nowhere to go out there,\" he said. Staff photo by Ben McCanna Mark Elsner, left, sits in the day room Monday at the Oxford Street Shelter in Portland, which now offers round-the-clock services to the homeless. \"Outside is really hard. This will be very helpful,\" Elsner said. Staff photos by Ben McCanna Nas Hirad heads to the Oxford Street Shelter, where he has lived for two years. He said he is relieved that overnight guests are no longer required to leave by 7:45 a.m. each day. Related Headlines Oxford Street homeless shelter in Portland to stay open 24 hours a day Search photos available for purchase: Photo Store →\n“For too long, clients have had to leave each morning with no place to go. Now clients will have the option to remain in a safe place during the day with their belongings, which will improve their quality of life as well as the downtown area and surrounding community,” the city said in a statement. “Operating a day shelter will not replace the need for a new shelter.”\nCity officials said the current facility on Oxford Street is leased, poorly configured and expensive to staff because of its layout. A new shelter will allow the city to reduce staffing costs and prepare meals on-site as well as offer a range of mental and health services in one location. It will have parking for 28 vehicles and contain 200 beds – the Oxford Street shelter has 154 beds.\nOxford Street’s shelter will remain open 24/7 until the new shelter is approved and open. City Manager Jon Jennings told councilors he has looked at several potential sites for a new shelter, but is not ready to nominate a preferred location.\nThe first step will be to hire an architect for the project, with a request for proposals due to go out Dec. 19. The city hopes to hire an architect by Jan. 19.\nJennings said the new 35,000-square-foot shelter would cost about $10 million – which does not include the price of the land – and the city may have to partner with one or more social service agencies to cover the cost. Jennings said the city could also consider bonding the project.\nHe said the shelter will be one or two stories. The size and height will depend on the property it is built on.\n“This is something that is very significant, but it’s not going to happen tomorrow. We’re not at the beginning, but we are also not at the end yet,” Jennings told the council.\nRob Parritt, director of the Oxford Street Shelter, said Monday’s soft opening went well, with about two dozen homeless clients taking advantage of the new daylight hours.\n“Our guests were pleased,” Parritt said.\nBefore Monday, homeless individuals would line up outside the Oxford Street Shelter each evening in hope of getting a warm place to sleep. But those clients would have to leave no later than 7:45 a.m. the following day, an exodus into the Bayside neighborhood and downtown Portland that led to complaints from residents and business owners.\nThe day shelter offers four computer stations, which clients may use to apply for jobs and benefits or check email. Parritt said he also has scheduled several educational sessions, including one with a Maine Department of Transportation staffer who will talk about how to stay safe while walking at night.\n“We’re trying to be creative,” he explained. “We don’t want to be warehousing people.”\nIt will cost the city about $340,000 to staff and operate the day shelter through the end of the 2017-2018 fiscal year on June 30. The city says it will cover the costs with savings from its salary account. Future funding will be incorporated into the city manager’s budget.\nParritt said the city has or will hire a supervisor of operations at the day shelter, a maintenance person and a street outreach worker who will assist clients with housing resources and encourage vulnerable, hard-to-reach people to use shelter services.\n“I’m really proud to work for a city that takes care of its most vulnerable,” Parritt said.\nHe praised the proposed facility’s features, saying the Oxford Street Shelter is no longer able to adequately serve the city’s homeless.\nUnder the current configuration, illicit activities such as drug dealing and human trafficking often occur outside the shelter building. But Parritt believes an enclosed courtyard will prevent predators from having contact with clients.\nIn the current shelter, he said, there are too many isolated areas, making it hard for staff to keep an eye on everyone. The new facility will feature a centralized staff observation room with straight sight lines to all parts of the facility, he said.\n“We want it to be modern, clean and most importantly, safe,” Parritt told the council.\nCouncilors praised the shelter proposal, but one, Kimberly Cook, wanted to know if other communities in Greater Portland would be willing to share the costs because homelessness is a regional issue.\n“Location is going to become a very big part of this discussion,” Mayor Ethan Strimling told councilors.\nJennings said he anticipates bringing one or more potential sites for a new shelter to the council in the first quarter of 2018.\n“There will be an enormous amount of opportunity for public comment (before a site is chosen),” he said.\nDennis Hoey can be contacted at 791-6365 or at:\n[email protected]\nShare\nWant the news vital to Maine? Our daily headlines email is delivered each morning. Email *\nNewsletter Choices * Daily Headlines Evening Express Breaking News Business Headlines Maine Cannabis Report High School Sports Real Estate\n* I understand the Terms of Service.\nEmail This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.\nThis iframe contains the logic required to handle Ajax powered Gravity Forms.", "Sleeping on the streets - or rough sleeping - has risen in England for seven consecutive years, according to government figures, with more than 1,000 homeless in London and more than 4,100 nationally, a 134 per cent jump since 2010.\n[LONDON] Outside a multi-million pound property in central London a small black sign reading \"The homeless are revolting, join them\" is the only indication this building is involved in a dispute over how the homeless are treated in the British capital.\nWhen snow blasted London in early March, a group of about 160 homeless people moved into the disused 17.5 million pound (S$31.55 million) eight-storey building in Great Portland Street, making it the biggest single shelter in the capital.\nThe occupation - due to end on Monday with a court ordering their eviction - has sparked a citywide debate involving London Mayor Sadiq Khan about the treatment of growing numbers of homeless people.\nSleeping on the streets - or rough sleeping - has risen in England for seven consecutive years, according to government figures, with more than 1,000 homeless in London and more than 4,100 nationally, a 134 per cent jump since 2010.\nsentifi.com Market voices on:\nJane Clendon, who was homeless and now volunteers with Streets Kitchen, a group that works with the homeless and is involved with the squat, said the traditional systems for dealing with people living on the streets were not adequate while buildings sat empty.\n\"The system that is in place isn't working and it's just heartbreaking,\" she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. \"We had to do this to save lives; we had nowhere to take people.\" The squatting campaign began after \"Storm Emma\", a snow blast from Siberia dubbed \"the Beast from the East\", hit Britain in March, with homeless people seeking shelter saying local authorities took too long to find solutions.\nVOLUNTEER SERVICES The squatters moved into the empty building, dubbed the Sofia Solidarity Centre, while volunteers provided hot food and drinks and also supplied clothing, toiletries and sleeping bags.\nGroup co-ordinator Steve Broe, 54, who is homeless, said the squatters planned to leave peacefully on Monday and were seeking somewhere to go but railed it made no sense to have so many homeless in London - and so many empty buildings.\n\"It is ridiculous ... the current services that are out there are very inadequate,\" Broe said.\nProperty company W1 Developments that is responsible for the occupied building in Great Portland Street did not reply to multiple requests for comment.\nBut the squatters said the company had given them an extra few days during a cold snap before enforcing the eviction.\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said his team had spoken to the local authority, Westminster City Council, and made sure help was at hand when the group moved on.\n\"It's shocking that some people sleeping rough feel they have no other option than to sleep in a derelict building,\" Mr Khan said in a statement.\n\"Ministers have simply got to do more to invest in services that provide a warm bed and a proper route off the streets for good.\" A Westminster City Council spokesman said the local authority helped people find accommodation all year round and activated an emergency protocol when temperatures drop below zero, providing up to 100 extra beds a night.\nBritain's parliament last year passed the Homelessness Reduction Act, which was designed to ensure that local councils had increased obligations towards homeless people.\nBut volunteer Jacqueline Messih, 31, said this was not enough as the face of homelessness in London changed with more working poor and international people living on the streets.\n\"London is a rich city, we come from a rich country and yet there are still no facilities or organisations that can house these people,\" Messih said.\nOtman Ferraj, 33, from Brussels, arrived at the Great Portland Street building four nights ago after running out of money for a hotel while visiting London.\n\"I looked online for a squat and found this. It's not my first time. I've travelled and stayed in squats in Switzerland, Holland and Germany. I think it's a very good solution,\" he said. \"We are like a family ... it's better than being alone.\"\nREUTERS", "Get Daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email\nChalets from the Bath Christmas Market should be given to the homeless so they have somewhere warm to sleep this winter, some residents have suggested.\nThe residents made their thoughts known as traders began dismantling the sheds on Monday (December 11).\nHundreds of the wooden chalets had packed the city centre until the 18-day market came to an end on Saturday.\nVisit Bath, which organises the market, is proposing to extend the duration of lucrative market to 25 days next year.\nResponding to news of the possible extension on Facebook, Michelle Slater wrote: \"Omg I hope not I think they should donate the huts and shelters to the homeless\".\nTim Thorne made a similar suggestion. He wrote: \"Instead of using the huts to shelter the homeless for a while in this weather they have started packing it away!\"\n(Image: Artur Lesniak)\nCecil Weir, the funding director for Bath homelessness charity Julian House, called the suggestion “a really interesting idea\".\nMr Weir said: “From a practical point of view, if it would be possible to take, say ten of the sheds and move them to a quieter part of town for the remainder of December and January, it could be really helpful.\n\"Rough sleep numbers are high and it’s a really dangerous time to be sleeping outdoors.\"\nHe said certain risks would be associated with letting homeless people use the sheds, but that those risks could be managed.\n“You’d almost certainly need some kind of supervision and that’s where conversations could be had the B&NES Council and Bath BID.\n“But certainly if the sheds were going to be free and could be moved it would be worth a conversation.”\n(Image: Artur Lesniak)\nA spokeswoman for Visit Bath said: “Visit Bath do not have planning permission to keep the chalets, which are temporary retail structures, up for longer than 18 days and do not have permission to move them to another area of the city.\"\nShe added that 18 charities get a free day's trading at a dedicated charity stall every year. They raised a combined total of more than £8,000 last year, she said.\nAccording to Visit Bath, the Christmas market is very lucrative for the city.\nLast year, 420,000 people spent an estimated £5 million at the market and another £16 million shopping and eating out around the city.\nThere are no official figures yet for this year.", "The First United Church extreme-weather shelter has had 543 guest visits since it opened its doors in November.\nShelter co-ordinator Kathy Booth told the Peninsula Homeless to Housing task force Friday that the shelter had been open 40 nights this season, including 25 nights in December.\nThe shelter, which has a maximum capacity of 15 people per night, housed 23 guests on a cold night in December, and averages about 13-14 visits when it opens during cold-weather events, Booth said.\nFollowing the PH2H meeting, Booth told Peace Arch News that both men and women use the shelter, and that they range in age from 19 years old to over 50.\n“We certainly notice that we have working people that are coming, the working poor,” Booth told members of the task force, which is made up of different faith groups, social service agencies and citizens from the Semiahmoo Peninsula. “We did notice that the population seems more (vulnerable).”\nBooth said that the guests are both respectful and thankful for the service, and that she wished to thank members of the community who have donated blankets, toiletries and warm clothing.\n“Not accepting donations at this time in anticipation of the move,” she told PAN by email.\nBooth said that Peninsula United Church, which operates the shelter with Options Community Services Society, is in the process of finalizing the shelter’s temporarily relocation to Star of the Sea Centre (15262 Pacific Ave.).\n“Thanks to Star of the Sea, they have done some really good renovations, very helpful renovations. Including a shower and special storage, we really appreciate that,” she said at the PH2H meeting.\nAmong renovations will be relocating the dishwasher from First United to Star of the Sea, as meals will be prepared for homeless people making use of the shelter.\nBooth said they don’t have an exact date on the relocation, but “we anticipate that it’s going to be within the next couple of weeks.”\nRegular church services at First United, located at 15385 Semiahmoo Ave., have stopped as the facility is to soon be demolished to make way for a memory-care facility.\nThe new facility is to include space for worship and have space for an extreme-weather shelter once it’s complete in approximately two years.\nDiscussions around the redevelopment project were spurred by concerns with the church’s long-term financial sustainability several years ago. One of the original plans – brought to light in 2013 – was the possibility of affordable housing.\nLast year, officials told PAN the affordable-housing component had been taken off the table, adding that the decision was that of the developer.", "ATLANTA -- It's finally here!\nThe 49th AJC Peachtree Road Race will take place on July 4 at 6 a.m. and with 60,000 runners participating in the 10K, you can bet there will be some road closures.\nMorning Rush is live from the course starting at 4:30AM on 11Alive and the 11Alive YouTube channel.\nWatch the race LIVE on July 4th starting at 6:00AM.\nOnly official vehicles (police, medical personnel) will be allowed to move along the course after 4:30 a.m. Atlanta Police and course volunteers will work with pedestrians to cross the course throughout the morning until 6 a.m.\nHere is a complete list of closed roads on race day:\nPeachtree Road from Lenox Road to Peachtree Dunwoody Road\nGA 400 Northbound Exit Ramp at Lenox Road\nAround Lenox Road from Peachtree Road to Lenox Road\nLenox Road from Peachtree Road to Ferncliff Road\nBuckhead Loop from Peachtree Road to GA 400\nPhipps Boulevard from Buckhead Loop to Wieuca Road\nWieuca Road from Old Ivy Road to Roxboro Road\nRoxboro Road from Kingsboro Road to Peachtree Dunwoody Road\nPritchard Way from Roxboro Road to Oak Valley Road\nLakeside Dr from Pritchard Road to Kingsboro Road\nKingsboro Road from Roxboro Road to Lenox Road\nOak Valley Road from Peachtree Road to E. Paces Ferry Road\nWright Ave from Lenox Rd to Oak Valley Rd.\nThe start area for the race, located Peachtree Road, was closed at midnight between Lenox Rs. and around Lenox Pkwy.\nThe finish line area closures will end after the race ends:\n10 Street from Charles Allen to Monroe Drive Beginning Monday, July 2 from 9:30 a.m. Ending Wednesday, July 4 at 5:00 p.m. 10th Street will reopen on Monday, July 2 from 3:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.\n10th Street from Myrtle to Charles Allen Beginning Wednesday, July 4 at 2:30 a.m. Ending Wednesday, July 4 at 1:00 p.m.\nMonroe Drive from Kanuga to Virginia Beginning Wednesday, July 4, 5:30 a.m. Ending Wednesday, July 4, 12:00 p.m.\n8th Street from Monroe to Peachtree St. Beginning Wednesday, July 4 at 7:15 a.m. Ending Wednesday, July 4 at 12:00 p.m.\nPeachtree Place from Peachtree St. to West Peachtree Beginning Wednesday, July 4 at 8:00 a.m. Ending Wednesday, July 4 at 12:00 p.m.\nRELATED |\nPHOTOS | 49th Annual AJC Peachtree Road Race\nPHOTOS | 49th Annual AJC Peachtree Road Race\n© 2018 WXIA", "A new homeless shelter planned for Portland would feature 200 beds, separate dorms for men and women, a dining room and kitchen, a health clinic, lockers, a laundry room and an enclosed outdoor courtyard to discourage human traffickers and drug dealers from preying on the city’s most vulnerable population.\nCity officials unveiled a concept plan and cost proposal for the new shelter at a City Council workshop Monday evening, the same day that the Oxford Street Shelter began its new 24 hours a day, seven days a week schedule.\nNas Hirad drives his wheelchair to the Oxford Street Shelter, where he has lived for two years. The shelter now offers round-the-clock services. Hirad said he was relieved by the change. \"There's nowhere to go out there,\" he said. Staff photo by Ben McCanna Related Headlines Oxford Street homeless shelter in Portland to stay open 24 hours a day\n“For too long, clients have had to leave each morning with no place to go. Now clients will have the option to remain in a safe place during the day with their belongings, which will improve their quality of life as well as the downtown area and surrounding community,” the city said in a statement. “Operating a day shelter will not replace the need for a new shelter.”\nCity officials said the current facility on Oxford Street is leased, poorly configured and expensive to staff because of its layout. A new shelter will allow the city to reduce staffing costs and prepare meals on-site as well as offer a range of mental and health services in one location. It will have parking for 28 vehicles and contain 200 beds – the Oxford Street shelter has 154 beds.\nOxford Street’s shelter will remain open 24/7 until the new shelter is approved and open. City Manager Jon Jennings told councilors he has looked at several potential sites for a new shelter, but is not ready to nominate a preferred location.\nThe first step will be to hire an architect for the project, with a request for proposals due to go out Dec. 19. The city hopes to hire an architect by Jan. 19.\nJennings said the new 35,000-square-foot shelter would cost about $10 million – which does not include the price of the land – and the city may have to partner with one or more social service agencies to cover the cost. Jennings said the city could also consider bonding the project.\nHe said the shelter will be one or two stories. The size and height will depend on the property it is built on.\n“This is something that is very significant, but it’s not going to happen tomorrow. We’re not at the beginning, but we are also not at the end yet,” Jennings told the council.\nRob Parritt, director of the Oxford Street Shelter, said Monday’s soft opening went well, with about two dozen homeless clients taking advantage of the new daylight hours.\n“Our guests were pleased,” Parritt said.\nBefore Monday, homeless individuals would line up outside the Oxford Street Shelter each evening in hope of getting a warm place to sleep. But those clients would have to leave no later than 7:45 a.m. the following day, an exodus into the Bayside neighborhood and downtown Portland that led to complaints from residents and business owners.\nThe day shelter offers four computer stations, which clients may use to apply for jobs and benefits or check email. Parritt said he also has scheduled several educational sessions, including one with a Maine Department of Transportation staffer who will talk about how to stay safe while walking at night.\n“We’re trying to be creative,” he explained. “We don’t want to be warehousing people.”\nIt will cost the city about $340,000 to staff and operate the day shelter through the end of the 2017-2018 fiscal year on June 30. The city says it will cover the costs with savings from its salary account. Future funding will be incorporated into the city manager’s budget.\nParritt said the city has or will hire a supervisor of operations at the day shelter, a maintenance person and a street outreach worker who will assist clients with housing resources and encourage vulnerable, hard-to-reach people to use shelter services.\n“I’m really proud to work for a city that takes care of its most vulnerable,” Parritt said.\nHe praised the proposed facility’s features, saying the Oxford Street Shelter is no longer able to adequately serve the city’s homeless.\nUnder the current configuration, illicit activities such as drug dealing and human trafficking often occur outside the shelter building. But Parritt believes an enclosed courtyard will prevent predators from having contact with clients.\nIn the current shelter, he said, there are too many isolated areas, making it hard for staff to keep an eye on everyone. The new facility will feature a centralized staff observation room with straight sight lines to all parts of the facility, he said.\n“We want it to be modern, clean and most importantly, safe,” Parritt told the council.\nCouncilors praised the shelter proposal, but one, Kimberly Cook, wanted to know if other communities in Greater Portland would be willing to share the costs because homelessness is a regional issue.\n“Location is going to become a very big part of this discussion,” Mayor Ethan Strimling told councilors.\nJennings said he anticipates bringing one or more potential sites for a new shelter to the council in the first quarter of 2018.\n“There will be an enormous amount of opportunity for public comment (before a site is chosen),” he said.\nDennis Hoey can be contacted at 791-6365 or at:\n[email protected]\nShare\nWant the news vital to Maine? Our daily headlines email is delivered each morning. Email *\nNewsletter Choices * Daily Headlines Evening Express Breaking News Business Headlines Maine Cannabis Report High School Sports Real Estate\n* I understand the Terms of Service.\nName This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.\nThis iframe contains the logic required to handle Ajax powered Gravity Forms.", "Thousands turned out to run 10K race. It's a mix of veterans and first time runners. Check back here for real-time updates, videos and pictures throughout the day. If you're going to race, send us your pictures and videos using #Peachtree11 on social media.\nThe winners are in | Get the results, here.\nWatch the special on 11Alive and the 11Alive YouTube channel.\nFOLLOW THE JOURNEY | 11Alive.com/Peachtree11\n(STORY CONTINUES BELOW THE VIDEO)\n10:00 AM | As the race wraps up re-watch some of the best moments from the morning.\n9:00 AM | Alert level upgraded to RED as conditions worsen. Meaning the conditions are potentially dangerous. In alert level RED, runners are encouraged to slow down, observe, follow official event instructions and consider stopping if they need to.\n8:40 AM | The final wave, the Y wave takes off to begin the last phase of the race. They're bursting with energy!\nFinal wave of runners taking off for this 49th annual @ajcprr! The energy is electric in the air and the community is joined together on this 4th of July! Time to finish strong!!!#Peachtree11 #PeachtreeRoadRace\nWatch Live here:https://t.co/1LYiLN0WaX pic.twitter.com/DoWkW7Gt30 — 11Alive News (@11AliveNews) July 4, 2018\n8:00 AM | Runners stop by the 11Alive lounge to get towels, fans and water after finishing the race.\n7:30 AM | Bernard Lagat wins the men's elite race. It's the 43-year-old's first AJC Peachtree Road Race win.\n7:24 AM | Stephanie Bruce wins the women's elite race with her training partner and last year's winner Aliphine Tuliamu. In 2013 Bruce won 2nd place and vowed that she would come back and win. She did!\n7:15 AM | The winner of the T-shirt design for the AJC Peachtree Road Race has been revealed.\nStroll Down Peachtree by Michael Martinez\n7:00 AM | Men's elite division begins the race.\n6:55 AM | Susannah Scaroni nips 7x winner Tatyana McFadden for her first AJC Peachtree Road Race win.\nSusannah Scaroni nips 7x winner Tatyana McFadden for her first @ajcprr win. #peachtree11 pic.twitter.com/eYEYW9Xeto — Jerry Carnes 11Alive (@jcarnes11alive) July 4, 2018\n6:50 AM | The women's elite division begins with the BEST runners in America.\n6:45 AM | Daniel Romanchuck wins the men's Wheelers division in an unofficial 13:40, just seconds off the course record! The 19-year-old from Illinois is a two time winner, he also won last year.\n6:25 AM | The wheelchair division begins at the AJC Peachtree Road Race.\n6:15 AM | Competitors in the wheelchair race begin lingering up to being their race at 6:25 AM.\nPHOTOS | 49th Annual AJC Peachtree Road Race\n5:35 AM | Those mechanical issues near Lindbergh have been resolved.\n5:20 AM | MARTA is experiencing mechanical issues on their N/S lines and there are delays near Lindbergh.\nDue to a mechanical issue NB near Lindbergh, delays occurring on the N/S line.\nUnsubscribe: https://t.co/40cdq8CW7I — MARTA Alerts (@MARTAalerts) July 4, 2018\n5:00 AM | Temperatures are already in the high 70s and the alert level is yellow. 11Alive meteorologist say it could be upgraded to red. Meaning the conditions are potentially dangerous. In red alert level, runners are encouraged to slow down, observe, follow official event instructions and consider stopping if you need to.\n4:45 AM | MARTA is running extra trains for runners.\nTo make it easier for runners and spectators to enjoy the @ajcprr #PeachtreeRoadRace, MARTA will provide extra trains, shuttle buses, and staff. Go to https://t.co/3K7boMPuKy for bus and train information. pic.twitter.com/aonKGPkVaL — MARTA (@MARTASERVICE) July 4, 2018\n4:30 AM | Road closures begin around the race area. - https://on.11alive.com/2Kz18L5\nAPD will close the entire course at 4:30 a.m. for vehicular traffic and 6:00 a.m. for foot traffic. Only official vehicle traffic permitted along the course after 4:30 a.m. APD and course volunteers will work with pedestrians to cross the course throughout the morning up until 6:00 a.m.\n4:30 AM | The day begins with Wake Up With Chesley taking you behind the scenes of race day as volunteers prepare for the crowds to arrive.\n4:00 AM | The 11Alive team is up early and having a great time ramping up energy for the race.\n© 2018 WXIA", "In response to the January Letter to the Editor regarding homelessness:\nThe letter to the editor regarding homelessness is thoughtful and empathetic, but lacking insightful perspective and realistic solutions. Absent its negative connotation, gentrification is a dynamic process of turnover that benefits communities. Properties that languished in disrepair are suddenly fixed and improved, low-income residents are encouraged to improve their economic conditions through job training and seeking employment with higher pay. Rising housing costs can actually be a positive for those who own the properties. For those who rent, a cogent solution is available via a city council ordinance for temporary (3-5 year) rent control. The comments on loss of pension benefits and health care coverage are questionable and probably cannot be supported by valid data.\nThe writer poses the question that homeless citizens “…should move along to where?” Actually, they should move back to where they came from. It’s no secret that a lot of them came to Denver for the pot. They can smoke weed without getting arrested, and they commit crimes to acquire the money to pay for it. They have no incentive for self-improvement and the consumption of marijuana makes them feel, “hey dude, we don’t care”.\nThe writer’s comments on homeless shelters do not elicit much sympathy. Sleeping on a mat in a warm shelter is certainly better than sleeping under a viaduct in the cold. Disease transmission in a shelter? How about passing around a joint? And what about the disease foisted upon the public by urination and defecation in public places and private properties, such as business vestibules? Couples can’t sleep together and transgender folks lack services. If we don’t have enough money to support services for normal folks, can we justify sexpenses for aberrant conduct and for those who comprise less than one percent of the population? As for those with alcohol and drug problems, they should be in treatment facilities, not in shelters. The comment about religious shelters imposing beliefs on the homeless is beyond the pale. A little religion for these people couldn’t hurt. It might actually help them realize that there is more to life than self-indulgence and harmful behavior. It would be better to express a little appreciation to those who do the work of God and community.\nMost people would be glad to chip in for suitable housing at taxpayer expense, if there’s hope of betterment for the community and the supported residents—meaning an end to camping on the streets and making attempts to become productive citizens who might pay back the gracious citizens. Unfortunately, the experience of cities like San Francisco says otherwise. The misguided attitudes of well-meaning, charitable citizens in that once-elegant city have made it an abominable place to live. Having been identified as hospitable to the homeless, they kept coming from all corners of the country and turned the inner city into a veritable outhouse, occupied by bums, vagrants, purse-snatchers and aggressive panhandlers. Rather than ending the camping ban, we should tell the mayor and city council to visit the outhouse of the West Coast to get a glimpse of what will happen in Denver if left up to those who are clueless.\n- Walt Heidenfelder\n_______________________________________\nDear Mr. Eason,\nI'm sure that your Editor's Note in the January edition was intended to be a balanced, healing attempt to bring community together, in spite of the election results. But you don't seem to understand that this country, and our communities, will never be the same as they were before a racist, misogynistic, homophobic, lying opportunist with absolutely no compassion for humanity was elected to our highest office. A person who supports the Russian government over our intelligence agencies and the best interests of the American people.\nI don't want to know my neighbors if they supported this despicable person for President. Because, if they did vote for him, they voted for the oppression of any person that is not a white, rich old man. These neighbors are racist, they are homophobic, they are misogynistic. They are the stuff that created Hitler's Germany.\nWe now have three right wing generals in cabinet positions, his {Trump’s] children sitting in on security briefings while they do business with foreign countries, billionaires all, chomping at the bit to raid the government coffers the likes of which we've never seen, while they take away healthcare and security from the old, the poor, the young. Who is now paying for his \"wall\"? And who will get rich by building it? No surprises there.\nI can't go on because my heart is breaking.\nTherefore, I am deeply offended by your Editor's Note. Not for what it said, but for what it didn't say. The media had a great deal to do with the destruction we are now witnessing. Therefore, it is incumbent upon you, and your fellow journalists, to report the facts. And the facts are that any person that supported what is going on is not worth knowing. Self interest, on all fronts, is not a good way to run a country that used to be the land of opportunity.\n- Gail Sykes", "Two new \"safe rooms\" coming to Sandy Pines next spring will provide refuge for people in the park in the event of a tornado.\nThe new convenience centers will take the place of existing centers with bathrooms and showers, but will be equipped with safe rooms that have hardened concrete walls embedded with steel reinforcements. The rooms will be built to withstand an EF-4 tornado with winds up to 250 mph.\nAccording to Cassi Ringsdore, media contact for FEMA Region 5, one shelter will hold approximately 250 people and the other will hold 200.\nBoth buildings will have restrooms and a safe room inside, but one also will have showers, a laundromat, a mechanical room and vending machines.\nWork on the new facilities will start Sept. 4, and be completed by April 15, 2018.\nThe project is being funded through an $856,418 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) hazard mitigation grant awarded to Salem Township on Nov. 15. Salem Township Supervisor Jim Pitsch said there is a 25 percent matching grant requiring Sandy Pines Wilderness Trail Inc. to pay $285,472.\nThe FEMA grant also will cover a severe weather siren costing $22,500.\nThe grant funding does not cover items like shingles, fixtures, flooring and wall coverings in the centers, and those expenses will be covered by Sandy Pines, Pitsch said.\nPitsch said he is happy the grant came through.\n\"I am happy that we will be able to help out at least this population of people. I am happy we got the grant, and with the achievement that we were able to do something like this.\"\nPitsch said since there can be more than 22,000 people in the park, he is hoping for more funding in the future so more structures in Sandy Pines can be made into safe rooms.\nCaledonia-based FCC Construction was awarded the job of building the shelters.\nPitsch said there were six bidders altogether, with bids ranging from $1.68 million to $1.85 million. FCC Construction, with a $1.7 million bid, was chosen because the Safe Room Committee felt the company could handle the size of the job.\nSandy Pines Park Manager Gene Van Koevering said there were several factors involved in selecting the bidder, including the size of the company, the amount of human resources they had and the percentage of the annual revenue the project would represent to the company.\n\"We were very pleased with the bid turnout and level of detail given upon request,\" Van Koevering said.\nPitsch and Steve Deyarmond, manager of the Sandy Pines Ranger Station, both worked on writing the grant.\nPitsch said it took about a year of research and writing before the grant was submitted to FEMA. He said Scott Corbin, Allegan County emergency management director, helped with research and input in the grant application process.\nPitsch said the safe rooms will help \"lessen the burden of our first emergency responders\" because firefighters will be able to locate those in a safe room much more quickly.\nThe new structures will be located in Phase Three of the campground at the east entrance, 2540 136th Ave. in Dorr.\nThe structures will be located in Monterey Township, but through a mutual agreement of understanding, Salem Township will remain the administrator for work covered by the grant. Sandy Pines will be responsible for the work performed outside of the grant.\nPitsch said the mutual agreement of understanding came about because Sandy Pines is located in both Salem and Monterey Townships, and he and Monterey Township Supervisor Henry Reinart did not yet know where the safe houses would be located when the grant was being written. Pitsch said he thought they would be in Salem Township, but that was not the case.\n\"As the safe rooms are to be built in Monterey Township, a mutual agreement of understanding had to be exercised between the townships in allowing FEMA to be assured that the townships involved could work together,\" Pitsch said.\nThe Safe Room Committee was made up of two board members each from Salem and Monterey townships and Sandy Pines. There were four administrative staff members from Sandy Pines and president and lead architect Kevin Edson from WLP Associates in Grand Rapids." ]

[ "A 30-minute unpaid meal break must be provided when an employee works more than five hours in a row. The employee must be paid for the meal break if they're required to work (or be available to work) during their meal break. Working through a meal break does not always result in overtime pay." ]

[ "£12 an hour is how much per year? If you make £12 per hour, your Yearly salary would be £24,960. This result is obtained by multiplying your base salary by the amount of hours, week, and months you work in a year, assuming you work 40 hours a week.", "How much does Wawa in Florida pay? Average Wawa hourly pay ranges from approximately $9.69 per hour for Shift Manager to $19.79 per hour for Food and Beverage Manager. The average Wawa salary ranges from approximately $23,510 per year for Shift Manager to $55,047 per year for Assistant General Manager.", "A good rule of thumb is to look at how much money you're making versus the times you're working a week. A starting bartender should average around $230.00 a night, or about $23/hour for a full ten hour shift.", "How Much Do Dogs Sleep – Most dogs sleep 12 – 14 hours per day. Large dog breeds can sleep up to 18 hours a day.", "Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon are 12 hours apart There's a difference in the way time is set in the two games: the two worlds of Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon are set 12 hours apart! ... Pokémon Sun operates on the same time as your Nintendo 3DS system, but time in the world of Pokémon Moon is shifted by 12 hours.", "1GB of Data: How Much Is It & How Long Does It Last? Mobile Data Limits. A 1GB data plan will allow you to browse the internet for around 12 hours, to stream 200 songs or to watch 2 hours of standard-definition video.", "How much energy does a gas oven use? Given that an average gas oven uses around 12 megajoules (mJ) of gas an hour, you can expect to pay around 65c per hour of cooking.", "However it's one question that we get asked a lot – how much sleep does my child need? While there is no hard and fast rule, the general guide is toddlers need around 12 hours of sleep a night; children aged three to six – 10-12 hours; seven-12 years olds – 10-11 hours; and teenagers – around eight to nine hours.", "How much should sleep toddlers really need? How much sleep do kids need? From 1-5 years of age, kids should sleep 12-14 hours a day, counting naps and nights. (You can expect your 2-year-old to nap about 2 hours a day and your 3-year-old to nap 1 hour a day.)", "Most drug tests detect alcohol for between two and 24 hours. Hair tests can detect alcohol for up to 90 days. Urine tests can detect alcohol for between 12 hours and 24 hours. This length of time usually depends on how recently and how much you drank.", "How much does it cost to run an electric fireplace per hour? Based on the national average kilowatt-hour (kWh) rate of 12 cents, a 1,500-watt electric fireplace will cost around 18 cents per hour with all settings at maximum.", "Air pressure, also called barometric pressure, indicates how the weight of the atmosphere above is shifting. A falling air pressure generally means an approaching storm in the next 12 to 24 hours. The farther the barometric pressure drops, the more intense the storm. Air pressure is measured with a barometer.", "How much does 5 quarts weigh? Answer is 10 pounds. How much does 6 quarts weigh? Answer is 12 pounds.", "How much is 12 out of 30 written as a percentage? Convert fraction (ratio) 12 / 30 Answer: 40%", "How much is 12 out of 19 written as a percentage? Convert fraction (ratio) 12 / 19 Answer: 63.157894736842%", "A. How much energy is required to break the first O–O bond? 349 kJ/mol is required to break the first O2 bond.", "How much is 12 out of 45 written as a percentage? Convert fraction (ratio) 12 / 45 Answer: 26.666666666667%", "They will tell you how much to use and how often. Most people only need to use hydrocortisone cream once or twice a day for a week or two. If you use it twice a day, try to leave a gap of 8 to 12 hours between times.", "How much is 12 out of 100 written as a percentage? Convert fraction (ratio) 12 / 100 Answer: 12%", "How much is 12 out of 80 written as a percentage? Convert fraction (ratio) 12 / 80 Answer: 15%", "An average NFL broadcast lasts well over three hours, yet it delivers a total of only 18 minutes of football action. And although NFL games start with one hour on the clock and include a 12-minute halftime, because of constant clock stoppages and commercial breaks, game broadcasts are much longer than that.", "How much is - 12 out of 150 written as a percentage? Convert fraction (ratio) - 12 / 150 Answer: - 8%", "How much does Wawa in Pennsylvania pay? The average Wawa salary ranges from approximately $19,403 per year for Associate to $100,000 per year for Application Specialist. Average Wawa hourly pay ranges from approximately $9.05 per hour for Shift Leader to $16.88 per hour for Customer Service Supervisor.", "How much is 12 out of 25 written as a percentage? Convert fraction (ratio) 12 / 25 Answer: 48%", "How much is 12 out of 800 written as a percentage? Convert fraction (ratio) 12 / 800 Answer: 1.5%", "How much is 11 out of 12 written as a percentage? Convert fraction (ratio) 11 / 12 Answer: 91.666666666667%", "Speaker break-in is a natural process that is influenced by how much you use the speaker and how loud you play it. ... Much like your new pair of shoes, new speakers need time to “break in”, and will not sound best until they do. The components making up the speaker's suspension are primarily what changes during break-in.", "How much is 12 out of 13 written as a percentage? Convert fraction (ratio) 12 / 13 Answer: 92.307692307692%", "How Long Does the SAT Take? The SAT clocks in at 3 hours (3 hours and 15 minutes with breaks). And if you choose to sign up for the optional essay, the SAT takes 3 hours and 50 minutes to complete (or 4 hours, 5 minutes with breaks).", "How long would a ban last? 12-24 hours. Maybe a few days? 24 hours.", "How much is 12 out of 43 written as a percentage? Convert fraction (ratio) 12 / 43 Answer: 27.906976744186%", "How much is 12 out of 17 written as a percentage? Convert fraction (ratio) 12 / 17 Answer: 70.588235294118%" ]

[ "How should India respond to the latest Pakistani terrorist attack in Uri?" ]

[ "Should India attack Pakistan for the killing of 17 soldiers by Pakistani Terrorists?", "How are the responses by educated people of Pakistan on the Uri attack?", "Will be there war between Pakistan and India?", "What happen if india attack on Pakistan?", "What are the unbiased views of Pakistan citizens in the light of Uri attack?", "What are the possibilities of a nuclear war between India and Pakistan after the surgical strike attack on pok?", "What is Uri attack?", "What does Pakistani thinks about terrorist attack on India?", "What is pak media reporting on URI attack?", "What will happen if there is a war between India and Pakistan?", "Will there be another war between Pakistan and India?", "If war starts between India and Pakistan, will it be a nuclear war?", "Will India revoke Indus Waters Treaty as retaliation against Uri attack?", "Will there be a nuclear war between India and Pakistan?", "What are chances of another war between India and Pakistan?", "What are consequences of a war between India and Pakistan now?", "What would happen to India purely from an economic point of view incase we do go to war with Pakistan?", "What do Pakistani citizens think about Uri Attack?", "What would happen if India attacked Pakistan tomorrow?", "Why did Pakistan attack India in 1965?", "Can the surgical strike of India over Pakistani militants lead to a war between the two nations?", "Who will win in a war between India and Pakistan?", "What are reactions in Pakistan after surgical attack by India?", "What will happen if Pakistan attacks India with nuclear weapons?", "If war occurs between India and Pakistan what will be its effect on the rest of country?", "What would happen if Pakistan declares an all out war on India?", "Who will win the war between India and Pakistan if we go all round indigenous?", "Who will win, if a war starts between India and Pakistan?", "If there is an India vs Pakistan war, will China support Pakistan?", "What could be an intelligent and efficient response to the Uri terror attack?", "If there is a war is declared between India and Pakistan, which countries will support India ?", "What do Pakistani people think about the Uri attack on 18th September 2016?" ]

[ "Tokyo Electric Power Company" ]

[ "OWN", "Who", "the Who", "Who Made Who", "Who?", "competitors who build and maintain their own vehicles", "their own blood", "Newman's Own", "their own mark", "Own the Night", "On My Own", "our own", "for their own enjoyment", "their own weapons", "own equity", "The Who by Numbers", "Pershing's Own", "their own funds", "Betty Who", "The Who's Tommy", "their own father", "their own poison", "who is singing", "Who Dat", "On Our Own", "Holding My Own", "A League of Their Own", "Dr. Who", "In His Own Write", "to each his own", "own brands", "the country's own currency" ]

[ "The Flintstones" ]

[ "The Animals", "premiere dancer", "animals", "the premiere of The Aviator", "animal", "\"When Two Becomes One\"", "animism", "a no-show", "lamina/animal", "Animal (bird)", "when they leave & when they arrive", "No one", "Talk To The Animals", "Carnival of the Animals", "dais", "\"No One\"", "when spoken to", "animals & plants", "Cruelty to Animals", "Animal (antelope)", "When it's hot", "there's nothing good on TV", "Children or animals", "Me Talk Pretty One Day", "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", "a floor show", "followed her to school one day" ]

[ "allergies" ]

[ "Call and response", "Vigorous spring", "HTC Vigor", "the Calling", "On Call", "The Call", "ongoing responsibilities", "objective response", "Vigorous Atlantic depressions", "response time", "responsible Minister", "Emotional responsivity", "responsible government", "chain of responsibility", "vehicle responsiveness", "best response", "Disaster response", "response to inflation", "response to the individual", "an affirmative response", "Judicial immunity", "no natural immunity", "to prompt a response", "flehmen response", "mount a response", "not immune to accidents", "Qualified immunity", "Collective responsibility", "diplomatic immunity", "Sovereign immunity", "parliamentary immunity", "consular immunity" ]

[ "Circuit analogies don't 100% apply to myelin because membranes have complex electrical properties, but both of those explanations work and they are in fact essentially interchangeable: Take a membrane with distance d across the membrane and capacitance c. Then we add some myelin to get a new capacitance C at a new distance D. \n\nIf you 4X the distance between plates (D = d * 4), C=c/4 (from the formula you posted as (2) ); if you add 3 extra plates (so now you have a total of 4 plates), C=1/(1/c + 1/c + 1/c + 1/c)=c/4.\n\nImportantly, myelin also increases the membrane resistance, and because myelin is typically very thick compared to a normal membrane (~10nm for one layer vs. 500-2500nm for myelin), you can almost consider myelination to increase resistance to infinity (compared to the axial resistance of cytoplasm) and the capacitance to zero.\n\nSee this page for some more info.\n\nNote that the reason these explanations are interchangeable is that there is effectively no distance between the added plates in series and no difference in capacitance for each individual capacitor/piece of membrane (for example, see this page)." ]

[ "As Wikipedia points out:\n\n\n Myelin is a lipid-rich (fatty) substance formed in the central nervous system (CNS) by glial cells called oligodendrocytes, and in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) by Schwann cells.\n\n\nWhen referring to the sheath, you are referring to the covering which is made of myelin.\n\n\n Myelin sheaths are sleeves of fatty tissue that protect your nerve cells from damage (WebMD).\n\n\nThe thing is that myelin formed in the CNS and PNS is only used in the form of a sheath to protect your nerve cells, so when physicians refer to the myelin, they are referring to the sheath.\n\nWith demyelination, the integrity of the sheath is being compromised.", "There is a bunch of literature on the topic. A good starting point is probably a short description with lots of references in this thesis (page 8), not to talk about other articles, which pop up in google scholar: 1, 2.\n\nThe mechanisms are multifaceted and involve principally decrease in oxygen and ATP demands: reduced neuronal activity, lower density of ion channels (but hyper-polarization of the membranes) and so on. Concerning blood flow: \"Brain blood flow was continued or increased, and oxygen and creatine phosphate (PCr) stores offered some immediate protection. As PCr declined, turtle brain became increasingly reliant upon anaerobic glycolysis.\"", "In a single-compartment model, you do not have spatial dimensions. Sometimes this is not a problem, for example in the stomatogastric ganglion of C. borealis, in which the neurons have a mechanism to scale the signal with distance by modifying the \"effective reversal potential\" (Otopalik et al., 2017). In the case of one of these models, it would be sensible to either make an approximation of the cell surface area (Liu et al., 1998 for example) or to use parameters which are normalized by the surface area, to whose explicit numerical value we remain agnostic. One would do this by using a membrane capacitance in microfarads per centimeter squared for instance (typically about unity) and then use maximal conductances in millisiemens per centimeter squared.\n\nThis way, the natural units for current divided by capacitance are mV * mS/cm^2 * cm^2/uF, or equivalent to mV/ms.\n\nIf you wanted to model multiple neurons with a decay factor, you could either use the cable equation and explicitly input the current into the descending neuron following that, or make a neuron with multiple compartments.", "Short answer\nA conduction velocity of 440 km/h is possible in thick, myelinated fibers. However, this number is probably more representative of the upper range of conduction velocities, rather than a conservative average. \n\nBackground\nFirst off, there are a heap of variables that affect neural conduction velocities (in myelinated fibers) in complex ways (Waxman, 1980), including but not limited to:\n\n\naxon diameter;\nmyelin thickness;\ninternode distance;\ntemperature;\naxonal milieu;\nage of the subject.\n\n\nHaving said that, in humans myelinated, thin A-delta fibers the average conduction speed was established at 19 m/s (Gyberls et al, 1983), or 68 km/h. A range of pain-conducting fibers exist, with different diameters. As a result, they range in their conduction velocities from 0.5 m/s (2 km/h for thin C-type fibers) to 120 m/s (432 km/h for thick A-alpha type fibers).\n\nHence, the 440 km/h is certainly possible in thick myelinated fibers. Note I just highlighted pain-conducting fibers here as an example, and other classes of neurons may feature even faster conduction in their axons. \n\nReferences\n- Gybels et al., J Neurophysiol (1983); 49(1): 111-22\n- Waxman, Muscle &amp; Nerve (1980); 3(2): 141–50", "Axons are used to transfer electrical signals from Point A to Point B.\nDendrites are for receiving electrical signals from different neuron cells via their respective Axons.\n\nThere are mainly two different types of Axons, insulated and non-insulated.\n\nInsulated Axons allows extremely high velocity of electrical signals to propagate from Point A to Point B. Please note that insulated axons are not entirely insulated, the axons are only insulated at every given interval for a certain length (in measurement of distance). This forces the electrical signal to jump from one gap to another gap between insulation and result in extreme speed of electrical signal propagation down the axon.\n\nNon-insulated axons still allow high velocity of electrical signal propagation but it is very much slower as compared to insulated axons. This is why when you have a stomach ache, its a slow and dull pain due to non-insulated axons which gives you prolonged pain signal. However, if you accidentally knock into a sharp object, you receive an instant sharp pain for a split second for you to react at that instant (Its a biological life saving function) due to insulated axons that gives you extreme speed of pain signal propagation.\n\nOn the other hand, dendrites are not built for signal transmitting but for signal receiving. Dendrites comes in different configurations, one such examples are your color sensory cells in your retina.\n\nThis is why dendrites are short while axons are long. They are configured for different purpose. Just a bit more information, electrical signal in biofluid are actually ionic current. Ionic current are different from electron current, the charge carrier are different. Lastly, electrical signal are generated due to electrochemical gradient on cellular level. When a certain membrane potential threshold is reached, action potential will be triggered and they resulted in the firing of electrical signal down the axons.\n\nI hope you find these useful.\n\nBest Regards\n\nPrice", "Yes. Although utilizing the action potential is not in their function, Schwann cells do have Na/K ATPases. In fact all animal cells do. It contributes to the resting membrane potential in neural networks, with regards to Schwann cells, and prevent differences in osmotic pressure from disrupting the cells.\n\nAs for your second question, action potentials do not occur in Schwann cells as there is nowhere for this \"impulse\" to travel to. A localized depolarization is not an action potential. Papers such as this, and this suggest that voltage-gated ion channels in Schwann cells serve complex and specific purposes such as inducing myelin formation.", "The brain is made up of oxygen-demanding gray matter and myelin-covered white matter.\nHypoxic events initially damage the gray matter, but myelin is spared. However, new myelin secretion requires ATP-dependent enzymes which is impaired by hypoxic event. Since myelin takes about ~20 days to cycle, this coincides with the biphasic presentation of DPHL. Another theory is that oligodendrocytes (myelin-secreting cells) might have delayed apoptosis after hypoxic event, also leading to lack of new myelin formation once the old myelin degenerates.\nSource:\nBeeskow AB, Oberstadt M, Saur D, Hoffmann KT, Lobsien D. Delayed Post-hypoxic Leukoencephalopathy (DPHL)-An Uncommon Variant of Hypoxic Brain Damage in Adults. Front Neurol. 2018;9:708. Published 2018 Aug 27. doi:10.3389/fneur.2018.00708", "The process is not clearly understood. Calcium helps in capacitation: During capacitation calcium enters the spermatozoa through ion channels; blocking these channels inhibits the acrosome reaction but what calcium does inside the spermatozoa is not very clear. This paper says that calcium activates a certain tyrosine kinase in the spermatozoa which in turn activates a protein called p32. This they say occurs \"concomitantly with capacitation\". Other papers cited by this article talk about involvement of calcium dependent adenylate cyclase. \n\nThis article also says that protein tyrosine phosphorylations are important for capacitation but doesn't describe how.\n\nI could not find a more precise information on this topic. I shall update the answer if I find one.", "Short Answer \nMyelination acts as an electrical insulator and allows saltatory propagation.\n\nBy reducing membrane capacitance and increasing membrane resistance, myelination increases the velocity of signal (i.e., Action Potential) propagation.\n\nIf you want to see a really wonderfully simplified explanation, see this Quora post by Edward Claro Mader. Four great figures that Edward created show this phenomenon simply:\nDecreased Membrane Capacitance:\n\n\nIncreased Membrane Resistance:\n\n\n Long Answer \nSo you're right: myelination speeds up electrical conduction. Unmyelinated axon conduction velocities range from about 0.5 - 10 m/s, while myelinated axons can conduct at velocities up to 150 m/s -- that's 10-30x faster!!\nBut why? ...\n Let's Look at Action Potentials & Signal Propagation: \n\nYou can get a background of this process in numerous places (e.g., here), so I will just mention this briefly:\n\nWhen the neuron is at rest, ions are distributed so that the inside of the neuron cell is more negatively charged than the outside. This creates an electrical potential, called the resting membrane potential, across the cell membrane.\n\nSodium and potassium channels in the cell membrane control the flow of positively charged sodium (NA$^+$) and potassium (K$^+$) ions in/out of the cell to maintain this negative charge.\n\nDuring depolarization, the cell membrane essentially becomes more permeable allowing NA$^+$ to enter the cell. This causes that section of axon to have a positive charge relative to the outside.\n\nWhen this positive voltage is great enough (i.e., when an action potential is created), the influx triggers the same behavior in the neighboring section of the axon. Gradually, this positive charge on the inside of the cell moves down the length of the axon to the axon terminals.\n\n\n\n The Main Takeaway: \nIn this process, action potential generation occurs repeatedly along the length of the axon.\nIt's important to note two things about action potential propagation:\n\nEach action potential takes time to occur.\nThe charge (i.e., voltage) that is created dissipates with $ \\uparrow $ distance.\n\n Time for some Math & Physics: \nIn fact, we have equations to calculate both the time a voltage change takes to occur and how current flow decreases with distance.\n\nYou can read more about the mathematics behind this and passive membrane properties in general here and here.\n\nImportantly, these equations rely on two constants: length and time.\nThe time constant, $\\tau$, characterizes how rapidly current flow changes the membrane potential. $\\tau$ is calculated as:\n$$\\tau = r_mc_m$$\nwhere r$_m$ and c$_m$ are the resistance and capacitance, respectively, of the plasma membrane.\n\nResistance? Capacitance? Huh?...\n\nResistance = the measure of the difficulty to pass an electric current through a conductor.\n\nCapacitance = the ability of a structure to store electrical charge.\n\nA capacitor consists of two conducting regions separated by an insulator. A capacitor works by accumulating a charge on one of the conducting surfaces, which ultimately results in an accumulation of oppositely charged ions on the other side of the surface. In a cellular sense, increased capacitance requires a greater ion concentration difference across the membrane.\n\n\n\n\nThe values of r$_m$ and c$_m$ depend, in part, on the size of the neuron:\n\nLarger cells have lower resistances and larger capacitances.\n\n\n\nImportantly, however, is that these variables also rely on membrane structure.\n\nc$_m$ (the capacitance of the membrane) decreases as you separate the positive and negative charges. This could be the result of additional cellular structures (e.g., sheaths of fat) separating intracellular and extracellular charges.\n\nr$_m$ (the resistance of the membrane potential) is the inverse of the permeability of the membrane.\n\nThe higher the permeability, the lower the resistance.\n\nLower membrane resistance means you lose ions quicker and therefore signals travel less far\n\n\n\nBut why? This is where that length constant becomes important. The length constant, $\\lambda$, can be simplified to:\n$$ \\lambda = \\sqrt {\\frac {r_m}{r_e + r_i} } $$\nwhere, again r$_m$ represents the resistance of the membrane and r$_e$ and r$_i$ are the extracellular and intracellular resistances, respectively. (Note: r$_e$ and r$_i$ are typically very small).\nBasically, if the membrane resistance r$_m$ is increased (perhaps due to lower average &quot;leakage&quot; of current across the membrane) $\\lambda$ becomes larger (i.e., the distance ions travel before &quot;leaking&quot; out of the cell increases), and the distance a voltage travels gets longer.\n Why am I telling you all of this?? \nHow are the time constant and the space constant related to propagation velocity of action potentials?\nThe propagation velocity is directly proportional to the space constant and inversely proportional to the time constant. In summary:\n\nThe smaller the time constant, the more rapidly a depolarization will affect the adjacent region. If a depolarization more rapidly affects an adjacent region, it will bring the adjacent region to threshold sooner.\n\nTherefore, the smaller the time constant, the more rapid will be the propagation velocity.\n\nIf the space constant is large, a potential change at one point would spread a greater distance along the axon and bring distance regions to threshold sooner.\n\nTherefore, the greater the space constant, the more rapidly distant regions will be brought to threshold and the more rapid will be the propagation velocity.\n\n\nSooo....\n\nIf you increase the layer of cells around the membrane, you decrease the electric field imparted by extracellular ions, which allows intracellular ions to move more freely in the axon. In other words, you decrease the capacitance.\n\n\nAs a result, you have more cations available to depolarize other parts of the membrane.\n\n\nIf you decrease the permeability of the membrane (i.e., if you prevent ion pumps from moving ions in/out of the axon), you increase the resistance of the axon membrane, which allows for the voltage created in the action potential to travel farther before dissipating.\n\n\nBy allowing the voltage to spread farther before necessitating the generation of another action potential, you reduce the time it takes for signal propagation.\n\nIn other words, if you &quot;block&quot; ion pumps and decrease the concentration of anions near the axon membrane, you increase membrane resistance (r$_m$) and decrease membrane capacitance (c$_m$), respectively. Together, this decreases the time of electronic conductance through the axon (and thus increase conduction velocity).\n Finally, to Myelin! \nMyelin greatly speeds up action potential conduction because of exactly that reason: myelin acts as an electrical insulator!\n\nMyelin sheath reduces membrane capacitance and increases membrane resistance in the inter-node intervals, thus allowing a fast, saltatory movement of action potentials from node to node.\n\nEssentially, myelination of axons reduces the ability for electrical current to leak out of the axon. More specifically, myelin prevents ions from entering or leaving the axon along myelinated segments. As a result, a local current can flow passively along a greater distance of axon.\n\n\nSo instead of having to contantly generate new action potentials along each segment of the axon, the ionic current from an action potential at one node of Ranvier provokes another action potential at the next node. This apparent &quot;hopping&quot; of the action potential from node to node is known as saltatory conduction.\n\n\n So Why not Just Myelinate the Entire Axon?? \nThe length of axons' myelinated segments is important to the success of saltatory conduction. They should be as long as possible to maximize the speed of conduction, but not so long that the arriving signal is too weak to provoke an action potential at the next node of Ranvier. The nodes also can't be too frequent because, although adding a new node to the axon would increase its ability to generate sodium current, it would also increase the capacitance and thus diminish the effectiveness of other nearby nodes.\n\nSources:\n\nPurves D, Augustine GJ, Fitzpatrick D, et al., eds. (2001). Neuroscience. 2nd edition. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.\n\nThe Brain: Understanding Neurobiology\n\nByrne, J.H. Chapter 3: Propagation of the Action Potential. Neuroscience Online. Univ. Texas.\n\nUnderstanding the Passive Properties of a Simple Neuron \n\nQuora\n\nWikipedia", "During the repolarization, relatively few ions need to cross the membrane for the membrane voltage to change and therefore the change in ions concentration outside and inside the cell is neglible. After repolarization, the concentrations are restored by the continuous action of Na⁺/K⁺-ATPase. The same happens for calcium, but I don't know exactly what kind of pump is used.", "After crossing the blood-brain barrier, toluene, along with other volatile anesthetic agents, had been previously thought to inhibit neuronal transmission by causing a change in membrane or membrane protein conformation. Recent research has shown that interactions with several key brain neurotransmitters, mainly γ-aminobutyric acidA (GABA), to a lessor degree glycine, and possibly dopamine, are responsible for the clinical effects seen. Postmortem studies along with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings have shown diffuse white matter demyelination and gliosis (solvent vapor/toluene leukoencephalopathy), which is postulated to be the end product by which chronic toxicity occurs, although the exact mechanism by which this occurs remains unclear \n\n\n(McKeown at al. Toluene Toxicity).", "Basically there are two reasons. First, (most) synapses are asymmetrically designed in such a way that synaptic transmission only works in one direction. Second, action potentials usually run in one direction only, from the axon hillock down the axon.\n\nSaying that a neuron fires means that an action potential (AP) is effected, a series of depolarisations along the axon which constitute a signal that moves down the axon, since APs are usually initiated at the axon hillock. Neural signal flow thus generally is directed orthodromically, i.e. along the axon and away from the soma.\n\nA synapse is constituted partially by the presynaptic neuron, partially by the postsynaptic neuron. It is the axon terminals, located at the distal end of the presynaptic neuron's axon, which can carry a neural signal further over the synaptic cleft to effect an AP in the postsynaptic neuron. This generally works in one direction only – e.g. the presynaptic part of the synapse can release neurotransmitters, and the postsynaptic part of the synapse has receptors for the neurotransmitters, not the other way round (mind that this does not imply that the postsynaptic part of the synapse cannot have any effect on its presynaptic counterpart).\n\nSince the propagation of the AP along the axon basically works through causing neighbouring parts of the axon to depolarize, it would be possible that at some point a second AP is generated which runs back into the direction the original AP came from. However, this is prevented by afterhyperpolarization (also called refractory period): the membrane potential falls below the usual resting potential and thus prevents this running back up of a second, antidromic AP.\n\nThe mechanism of afterhyperpolarization is largely responsible for unidirectional propagation. However, it has to be emphasized that this only applies if the AP is initiated at the axon hillock in the first place. If an action potential forms at some point down the axon, it is indeed possible that two APs are generated, one moving down the axon, another one moving upwards towards the soma. This is called neural backpropagation, and while it constitutes an actual phenomenon in the nervous systems, there is not much clarity yet about its (possible) functions. However, the above mentioned unidirectional design of chemical synapses prevents this signal to effect synaptic transmission.\n\nAnother phenomenon that can be said to reverse the »normal«, unidirectional flow in neurons is that of electrotonic potentials (but they don't effect anything like antidromic APs), and finally an autapse is a synapse from a neuron's axon onto its own dendrite, so that in some sense it is correct to say that a neuron with an autapse activates an »incoming synapse« (however not in the sense the question seems to imply). Finally, it should also be mentioned that in contrast to chemical synapses, electrical synapses work in both directions (notwithstanding the above).", "The His-Purkinje fiber system is a network of one type of specialized conducting cardiac cells that carry an action potential in the heart. There are other cells which perform this function in different parts of the heart. The initiation time, shape, and duration of the action potential are distinctive for different parts of the heart, reflecting their different functions. These distinctions arise because the myocytes in each region of the heart have a characteristic set of channels and anatomy. You can completely dissociate the nervous system from the heart, and the heart will still pace itself. Think of what happens with heart transplants. This completely eliminates neuronal influence. See the following brief excerpt which explains one type of cells conduction method. Please note there is no reference to neurons.\n\n\n The positive charge that enters cell A not only depolarizes cell A but also produces a flow of positive charge to cell B—intracellular current. This flow of positive charge discharges the membrane capacitance of cell B, thereby depolarizing cell B and releasing extracellular positive charges that had been associated with the membrane. The movement of this extracellular positive charge from around cell B toward the extracellular region around cell A constitutes the extracellular current. The flow of intracellular current from cell A to cell B and the flow of extracellular current from around cell B to around cell A are equal and opposite. It is the flow of this extracellular current in the heart that gives rise to an instantaneous electrical vector, which changes with time. Each point on an electrocardiogram (ECG) is the sum of the many such electrical vectors, generated by the many cells of the heart.\n\n\nThis has been extensively studied, so much so that cardiac electrophysiologists can pinpoint the location of a small group of cells that are misfiring by the nature of the impulse they are giving off. The annual median salary for an electrophysiologist in the US is $480,000. :-( There is a lot of grant money in this area. It's a big deal.\n\nFor in-depth study of electrophysiology of cardiac cells, please see Electrophysiology of Cardiac Cells or any other of a number of reliable sources.", "There is a huge body of literature on axon growth cone guidance which will give you some insights into how the biology works. Unfortunately, incorporating it all into a model is probably going to make it unwieldy unless your express purpose is to model the physiology, which doesn't seem like the case.\n\nHere are some references:\n\n\n Hong K, Nishiyama M. (2010). From guidance signals to movement: signaling molecules governing growth cone turning. Neuroscientist, 16(1),65-78. \n\n\nThis is pertinent because it explicitly mentions adult neurogenesis, as much of the subject is devoted to the developing nervous system in models like the developing chicken.\n\n\n Kolodkin AL, Tessier-Lavigne M (2011). Mechanisms and molecules of neuronal wiring: a primer. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol, 3(6), 1-14 Free PDF\n\n\nTo call Marc Tessier-Lavigne a leader in the field of neuronal growth would be an understatement. This article also covers some of the cues of synaptogenesis as well.\n\n\n Simpson HD, Mortimer D, Goodhill GJ (2009).Theoretical models of neural circuit development. Curr Top Dev Biol, 87, 1-51.\n\n\nRegrettably, I do not have access to this article, but it appears to be more along the lines of computationally realistic representations. It does state that their models for synaptic strengthening are based on Hebbian Learning, so that's at least in line with what you presumed that you needed.\n\nIn searching for more computational models, ephrins and integrins are two of the cell surface agents that are heavily involved in the process, so any abstractions of those would make for a good model.", "Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is an inflammatory disorder, which often follows an infection or a vaccination. It is the most frequent demyelinating disorder of the CNS in children. \n\nIn case of an infectious aetiology, some epidemiological studies suggest that ADEM is more frequently associated with upper respiratory tract infections in countries with significant advances in infectious disease control, whereas in poor or developed countries, ADEM often occurs after childhood infections such as measles. Below a table with a list of the possible aetiologies for ADEM (from Garg et al).\n\n\n\nCurrent evidence suggest that ADEM results from a transient autoimmune reaction against myelin or other autoantigens which occur through a phenomenon of molecular mimicry or activation of autoreactive T cells.\n\nYour question\n\n\n Does myelin fully regenerate after a demyelization disease such as\n ADEM (Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis)? Does myelin always get\n damaged after an ADEM?\n\n\nI have found two studies focusing on clinical outcome in children with ADEM:\n\n1. According to this study 1 conducted among 39 patients with median age at onset of 8 years:\n\n\n Of 39 children with 12 months' follow-up, 71 % recovered completely.\n Thirteen (33 %) children had relapses. Patients who had more than one\n relapse (n = 4) presented with new symptoms at each attack. Treatment\n with high-dose methylprednisolone was associated with complete\n recovery, and tapering over more than 3 weeks, with a lower rate of\n relapses. MRI lesions could persist even in asymptomatic patients; in\n particular, periventricular lesions tended to disappear later than\n others.\n\n\n2. According to this study 2 including 14 children with a follow up of one and a half year:\n\n\n 10(71%) children had total remission of symptoms within one week of\n starting steroids. 4(29%) children had residual symptoms at the end of\n steroid therapy. The children were followed up for a variable period\n from two months to three and a half years. Most of the cases made\n uneventful recovery.\n\n\nYou can find additional information in the complete report for each of the study.\n\nSources:\n\n\nGarg RK et al. Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. Postgrad Med J\n2003;79:11-17 doi:10.1136/pmj.79.927.11\nJayakrishnan MP, Krishnakumar P. Clinical profile of acute\ndisseminated encephalomyelitis in children. Journal of Pediatric\nNeurosciences. 2010;5(2):111-114.\nAnlar B et al. Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis in children:\noutcome and prognosis. Neuropediatrics. 2003 Aug;34(4):194-9.\n\n\nEdit (after additional information was submitted by the OP)\n\nProbably yes, or at least that full remyelination has not completely finished. Concerning your question about the potential of remyelination: There isn't much information available on ADEM and remyelination, but at it shares some common features in terms of pathogenesis with multiple sclerosis (MS), let's take some evidence concerning remyelination in MS:\n\nWe know that the treatment of MS aims at two things (1,2):\n\n\nPrevent further damages by modulating the inflammatory processes. This is normally achieved with immunomodulatory therapies.\nRepair the demyelination which resulted from the pathological inflammatory process by stimulation remyelination, ie the regeneration of new myelin sheats.\n\n\nWhile the first has showed some interesting results thanks to growing number of immunomodulatory therapies on the market (among which glucocorticoids, which are also used in ADEM treatment), the second has still to be proven. \n\nAlthough some immunomodulatory therapies might indirectly stimulate remyelination, current therapies directly targeting regeneration of myelin sheats have yet to be proven. Furthermore, the presence of axon degeneration despite immunomodulatory therapies, suggest that axon integrity and protection may occur through mechanisms independent of inflammation (3,4).\n\nHuang et al provide a good summary of current approach for remyelination (5):\n\n\n The principal source of new remyelinating cells is an abundant and\n widely distributed population of cells in the adult CNS traditionally\n called oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs). In the adult CNS, these\n cells are both self-renewing and multipotent, having been observed to\n give rise to certain neurons, astrocytes (albeit rarely), and Schwann\n cells, as well as oligodendrocytes in vivo, and so can reasonably be\n regarded as a type of adult neural stem cell. The response to\n demyelination causes OPCs to become activated, a morphological change\n accompanied by upregulation of genes not normally expressed in the\n resting state. Activated OPCs proliferate, migrate and rapidly fill up\n the demyelinated lesions at a density that far exceeds that in normal\n tissue. To complete the remyelination process, the cells exit the cell\n cycle and differentiate into myelin sheath-forming oligodendrocytes,\n which is a complex process involving axon engagement, ensheathment and\n formation of compacted myelin.\n\n\nThe article by Huang et al also provides a good review (it is open access) on the current pharmacological targets for remyelination as well as the barriers of remyelination (among which age, probably explaining while cases of ADEM in the adults show a worse outcome that cases in children).\n\nHope this brings some clarification!\n\nSources:\n\n\nMartino G, Franklin RJM, Baron van Evercooren A, Kerr D, Group SC.\nStem cell transplantation in multiple sclerosis: current status and \nfuture prospects. Nat Rev Neurol. 2010;6:247–255.doi:10.1038/nrneurol.2010.35.\nFranklin RJM, ffrench-Constant C. Stem cell treatments and multiple\nsclerosis. BMJ. 2010;340:986–985. doi: 10.1136/bmj.c1387\nColes AJ, Wing MG, Molyneux P, et al. Monoclonal antibody treatment\nexposes three mechanisms underlying the clinical course of multiple\nsclerosis. Ann Neurol. 1999;46:296–304. doi:\n10.1002/1531-8249(199909)46:3&lt;296::AID-ANA4>3.0.CO;2-#.\nDutta R, Trapp BD. Pathogenesis of axonal and neuronal damage in\nmultiple sclerosis. Neurology.2007;68(22 suppl 3):S22–S31. doi:\n10.1212/01.wnl.0000275229.13012.32.\nHuang JK, Fancy SPJ, Zhao C, Rowitch DH, ffrench-Constant C,\nFranklin RJM. Myelin Regeneration in Multiple Sclerosis: Targeting\nEndogenous Stem Cells. Neurotherapeutics. 2011;8(4):650-658.\ndoi:10.1007/s13311-011-0065-x.", "I will try to answer all of your main and sub questions structurally below:\n\nHow do neurotransmitters manage to depolarize the inside of the cell?\n\nDo they force the cell to give up pumping out Na ions?\nNo, the Na,K-ATPase (the sodium potassium pump) keeps active, also during the action potential (AP).\nDo the neurotransmitters themselves contain positively charged ions that the ion pumps are not sensitive to?\nThey can, but neurotransmitter charge is irrelevant.\nAnswer: Neurotransmitters bind to their corresponding receptors. An example excitatory neurotransmitter is glutamate (Glu). Glu has many receptors and one of them is the NMDA receptor. The NMDA receptor is coupled to a cation channel that opens when Glu binds (and other conditions pertain). In turn Na+ and other depolarizing cations can enter the cell through the open channel. Other neurotransmitters and receptor mechanisms exist, but the coupling to a cation channel is a commonly encountered theme.\n\n\nWhen the cell depolarizes, the electrical impulse travels down the axon. When this happens, Na+ and K+ ions rapidly pass through the membrane as the signal fires. [...]\n\nWhy are ions being pumped in and out of the axon in such a way to propagate an action potential?\nDuring an action potential, the voltage changes are not the result of ions being pumped in or out of the cell. Instead, ions flow along their concentration and charge gradients out or in the cell during an action potential. For example, Na+, a key ion in any action potential, flows passively into the cell during an action potential. Passive influx occurs, because Na+ is continuously and actively pumped out of the cell into the extracellular fluid by the Na,K-ATPase. Moreover, the inside of the cell is highly negatively charged. Both the concentration gradient and charge gradient (i.e., the potential difference) will cause Na+ to surge into the cell once Na+ channels open. How then does it move across the axon? The trick is that Na+ depolarizes the cell membrane. When for example Glu binds to its NMDA receptor, Na+ enters the cell into the dendrite. Then, voltage-gated ion channels take over. Voltage-gated ion channels open or close depending on the local membrane potential. Most notably, voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs) open when the cell membrane depolarizes. Hence, after NMDA receptors are activated in the dendrite, Na+ enters. This in turn depolarizes the dendrite and VGSCs open. This causes further depolarization and adjacent VGSCs open etc. etc. Voltage-gated potassium channels open after the VGSCs and re-polarize the membrane. An overview is provided in the following image from Antranik.org :\n\n\n\nWhy isn't it just a positively charged signal running through the axon, without regard to the outside environment?\nCharges only move to an opposite charge. A neuron is not differentially charged from dendrite to axon terminal. Hence another way of action potential transduction is needed. Step-wise opening of VGSCs is a clever trick to use a constant cell membrane potential to generate a directional action potential.", "Ohm's law famously states V=IR, the voltage change (V) across a resistor generated by a current (I) equals the current multiplied by the resistance (R). \n\nThe resistor in this case is the cell membrane. When an experimenter injects a known amount of current through an electrode, the voltage change that occurs is related to that current by the resistance of the cell membrane. A high value indicates that the cell membrane does not let current pass easily so a given amount of current requires a large voltage changes. \n\nThe size of the cell and the number of open ion channels affect the input resistance. Larger size means lower resistance (more surface area for current to flow through) and more open ion channels means lower resistance (the conductance g=1/R increases when you open ion channels so the resistance decreases). \n\nAs for relevance to neural computation, higher input resistance means that less synaptic input (current injection) can lead to larger voltage changes. Manipulating input resistance (say by opening Cl- channels, which don't change the voltage of the cell much but do decrease the resistance) can change the responsiveness of the neuron to other inputs. This phenomenon is called shunting inhibition.", "Neurons (either the neuron as a whole, or segments such as a length of dendrite) can be modeled as an RC circuit. This is because the membrane acts as both a resistor and capacitor.\n\nRC circuits have a time constant tau, equal to R * C. This time constant describes how long it takes to passively discharge the membrane capacitor.\n\nIn the context of neurons, this is referred to as the \"membrane time constant\" and like other exponential decay constants it refers to the amount of time that passes before the voltage has gone ~63.2% of the way towards rest.\n\nIn exponential decay, equilibrium is never truly reached, but after ~2-3 time constants it is likely decayed to within measurement precision given other sources of noise.\n\nTo answer your question \"how long\" the only answer is \"it depends\" - neurons with different functions have very different time constants. Time constants also aren't perfectly static, because the membrane resistance is not constant due to channels gated by voltage or signalling molecules. Typical values are from milliseconds to tens of milliseconds.", "High Speed vs High Frequency\nFor starters, what you are describing is a high frequency signal, not necessarily a high speed signal. High speed signals are caused by myelination (a sheath of fat deposits that encases neuron fibers), and by minimizing the number of actual dendrite/Axon junctions you need to pass through to get from point A to point B. In this respect, the nerves responsible for muscle control tend to be very long and have similar myelination to the cells in your ear; so, muscle control neurons would if anything transfer a signal faster than the more densely packed neurons in your ear.\nNow to Answer the actual question: Why the Higher Frequency?\nNo one nerve in your ear actually needs to transmit a signal at a higher frequency than those nerves used by muscles. Instead you have a number of different nerves detecting for different audio frequencies, and your brain then receives a combination of signals that tell it that various Audio Frequencies are being detected 1. Each of the hairs in your inner ear tapers from the base to the apex such that the apex begins being stimulated by low frequencies, but the base only begins being stimulated by higher frequencies 2.\nEach auditory nerve fiber is actually a cluster of nerves that work together at different frequencies to create a more complex signal. This results in a number of parallel signals that is interpreted as a complex (high frequency) signal.\nHere is a simple diagram showing how low frequency signals can merge to make a higher apparent frequency.", "I haven't read anything particularly about dendrites being reshaped, though I would expect them to be as flexible as other parts of the cells.\n\nThe more commonly discussed topic (in my literary experience) is reshaping of the axon's branches before forming synaptic terminals. These branches are not fixed even in adults - neurons can grow new and retract old branches, attaching (synapsing) to other cells in new places and removing old connections (see Wikipedia: Synaptogenesis).\n\nAdditionally to this actual change in the number of synapses, individual synapses can be regulated in their signal strength by adjusting the number of neurotransmitter receptors in the postsynaptic membrane (Gerrow&amp;Triller, 2010, also see Wikipedia: Synaptic plasticity)", "I think there are many ways to accomplish this in terms of technical detail, but they will all boil down to measuring the arrival of an action potential along the axon on at least two points with known distance from each other on the axon. From these two arrival times the latency can be deducted. Then, by dividing the distance between the elektrodes by the latency (i.e., the time it took the action potential from going from electrode 1 to number 2), the conduction speed can be estimated. In a paper by DeMaegd et al. (2017) they use extracellular electrodes and the figure in their paper is quite informative (Fig.1 ).\n\nFig. 1. Measuring axon conduction velocity by recording action potentials. source: DeMaegd et al. (2017)\nReference\n- DeMaegd et al., Bio Protocol (2017); 7(5)", "There are two primary factors that allow the cochlea to isolate frequencies. These are generally referred to as passive and active properties:\n\ntl;dr version: The passive properties are due to the mechnical properties of one of the membranes in the cochlea, the basilar membrane, primarily the width and stiffness at a given point. The active properties are due to the vibration of a special class of cells within the membrane, called the outer hair cells, which change their shape in response to sound in such a way that it narrows the range of frequencies that this part of the cochlea responds to.\n\nPassive\n\nThe cochlea is a complex structure, with multiple membranes and fluid-filled chambers.\n\nCochlea cross-section\n\n\n\nHowever, the part that is primarily responsible for the frequency tuning of the cochlea is the basilar membrane. When a sound wave enters the cochlea (by way of the oval window), the sound wave travels down a fluid-filled chamber (scala vestibuli). This causes the basilar membrane to vibrate. Different points along the basilar membrane vibrate most strongly at a different frequencies (that point's resonant frequency), although there is a range of frequencies that it will respond to more weakly. Due to the fact that the sound travels at a finite speed down the cochlea, this induces what is called a traveling wave in the basilar membrane.\n\nBasilar membrane traveling wave\n\n\n\nThe resonant frequency is determined primarily by two factors. First is the width of the basilar membrane at that point. The wider it is, the lower the resonant frequency (like the longer strings on a piano producing lower-frequency sound). The second is the stiffness. The stiffer the basilar membrane, the higher the resonant frequency. \n\nThese properties vary together across the the length of the cochlea, with the the narrowest, stiffest part (high-frequency) at the base, while the widest, most flexible part at the tip. In between these two extremes, there is a smooth, logarithmic gradient in frequency tuning along the basilar membrane.\n\nBasilar membrane unrolled. In mammals in real life it is a spiral. In birds it is straight.\n\n\n\nPlots of basilar membrane properties as a function of position\n\n\n\nYou can think of it sort of like strings on a harp, where each string vibrates at a particular frequency. However, instead a finite number of discrete strings, there are an infinite number of strings, all attached together to form a long sheet.\n\nThis is called the passive properties of the cochlea, since they are based on the effects of sound waves on the basic mechanical properties of the membrane.\n\nFor more detail see The Inner Ear\n\nActive Properties\n\nHowever, the earliest experiments on the basilar membrane were on dead tissue. Comparing these results with live tissue resulted in a surprise: a given point on the basilar membrane responds to a much smaller frequency in live tissue compared to dead tissue. This, it turns out, is due to what we call outer hair cells. \n\nThe cells in the cochlea that convert sound energy to neural activity are called hair cells. They are embedded in the basilar membrane in a structure called the organ of Corti, and have small protrusions (the \"hairs\", technically stereocilia, which are not at like hairs on your head). These hairs are embedded in another membrane, the tectorial membrane, which floats just above the basilar membrane. When the basilar membrane vibrates, the tectorial membrane moves relative to the basilar membrane, causing the hairs to bend, and this bending is converted into neural activity through a mechanism that I won't go into because it isn't relevant.\n\nOrgan of corti operation. Inner hair cells are the leftmost row, outer hair cells are the other three rows.\n\n\n\nHowever, in mammals these hairs are divided into two distinct groups: the outer hair cells and the inner hair cells, so-called because of their position along the basilar membrane. It turns out they also have different specializations (although with some overlap). The inner hair cells are primarily signal transducers, they are main group responsible for converting the vibrations into neural activity.\n\nThe outer hair cells, however, have a very different role. They receive inputs from both the inner hair cells and higher brain areas. In response to these inputs, the outer hair cells change their length very quickly and very strongly. \n\nOuter hair cell vibrating\n\n\n\nThe inputs from the inner hair cells cause a very fast feedback loop where, in response to sound, the outer hair cells change their length to amplify vibrations caused by sounds at around the frequency at the \"proper\" tuning of that part of the cochlea and attenuate those at different frequencies, which results in the membrane vibrating to a narrower range of frequencies and more strongly to the \"correct\" frequency than you would expect from the mechanical properties alone. The higher-level brain inputs allow for more complex dynamic changes in the cochlear response.\n\nPassive vs. active responses\n\n\n\nThe mechanism by which outer hair cells change their length is a subject of some debate right now. Various people will tell you very confidently that some different factor is at play, but the truth is we really aren't sure yet. It isn't related to how muscles work, that much is clear, it is way too fast. It is know that a protein called prestin is required, but whether it is directly responsible for the change in length or are required for the proper operation of something else that causes the change in length is not certain. It may be related to changes in the capacitance of the cell, which result in changes in the cell membrane's surface area, but exactly how this occurs is not certain. \n\nThe vibrations caused by the outer hair cells are so strong, they produce sound that can be detected outside the ear (called otoacoustic emissions) using sensitive microphones. There was one dog that had this effect so strongly, you could hear the sound just by putting your ear next to its ear.\n\nThese are called active properties because they come from activity in the membrane.\n\nReferences on outer hair cells: Two Kinds of Hair Cells in the Cochlea, Inner and outer hair cells", "While model neurons like the leaky integrate and fire may use a simplification in which the neuron forgets all previous information when it emits a spike, in a biological neuron, the synapse and the soma are relatively electrically isolated from each other, so the voltage activity of the action potential does not make the synapse \"forget\" the EPSP. Although see back propagating action potentials for a mechanism for somatic action potentials to affect dendritic processing. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8107777)", "Your edits do improve the question, but you are still asking two very different questions.\nWe don't really need to answer these questions:\n\nHow fast are ions transported passively inside the dendritic tree (and soma), probably depending on their atomic mass, charge, and of the local geometry?\nWhat is the order of magnitude of the speed of passively transported ions in the dendritic tree?\n\nto answer this part:\n\nEspecially I want to know when a post-synaptic potential generated x μm away from the axon hillock &quot;arrives&quot; there, i.e. can be detected/summed up with other PSPs\n\nThe speed of propagation of electrical signals in neurons don't depend on particular masses of particular ions or diffusion per se. Instead, passive electrical conduction is best understood using the cable equations which treats conductance within neurons as electrical RC circuit. The electric field propagates at the speed of light.\nTherefore, EPSPs actually propagate almost instantaneously (given how short the distances involved are relative to speed of light) in that they produce an electric field. However, the peak decays with distance, and the rise time of an EPSP depends on the compartment because of capacitive filtering along the length of the dendrite. The decay peak is described by the length constant:\n$$\\lambda = \\sqrt{\\frac{r_m}{r_i+r_o}}$$\nIn this equation, rm is the resistance of the membrane, ri is the resistance of the intracellular space, and ro is the resistance of the extracellular space and is effectively negligible.\nThe length constant is the distance at which the peak amplitude will have decayed 63% from the peak at the signal origin.\nThe temporal filtering comes from the capacitive properties of the membrane along the length of the dendrite. The authoritative works describing these properties are several papers in the 1960s from Rall, Rall, W. (1962). Theory of physiological properties of dendrites. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 96(1), 1071-1092. and Rall, W. (1969). Time constants and electrotonic length of membrane cylinders and neurons. Biophysical Journal, 9(12), 1483-1508. are good references.\nThe effective time constant for signals originating closer to the soma is much faster because there is less membrane to charge along the way. Exactly &quot;how far&quot; you have to travel to make a certain amount of difference depends on the properties of the membrane, which vary across neurons, vary in different parts of the dendritic tree, and vary dynamically within a neuron due to synaptic transmission.\nMagee, J. C. (2000). Dendritic integration of excitatory synaptic input. Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 1(3), 181. is a fairly accessible review that covers a lot of these issues and more. It's important to recognize that although passive propagation of signals is important in dendrites, it's never purely passive and active conductances have important roles as well; in many cells, these active conductances plus differences in the initial shape of EPSPs throughout the dendritic tree act to mitigate the effects of distance.\nSee also Koch, C., Rapp, M., &amp; Segev, I. (1996). A brief history of time (constants). Cerebral cortex, 6(2), 93-101. for more on the time constant and some evolution of the ideas about neuronal time constants since Rall.", "On the one hand it was clearly down to cost - being very much cheaper than a conventional keyboard.\n\nHowever, remember that the Spectrum was the replacement for the ZX81 and ZX80. These had absolutely no tactile feedback in their capacitive keyboards and so the Spectrum could be marketed as a great leap forward in quality and user experience. Although that claim was open to debate it did create sales. A small increase in price gave a large increase in perceived quality and usability.\n\nAlso, the membrane keyboard enabled the Spectrum to differentiate itself from competitors that were beginning to appear in the ultra-cheap home computer market from the likes of Oric and Tangerine which had the ZX81-style of capacitive keyboard.", "Passive diffusion.\nThis question specifically refers to passive diffusion.\nIll reiterate and clarify what was mentioned in the question.\nPassive diffusion involves a molecule dissolving into the membrane, diffusing across it, and then dissolves in the aqueous solution on the other side.\nThe second part of your question can be answered briefly: this diffusion event occurs from time to time, and often at a high rate.\n\nImportantly only small, relatively hydrophobic molecules are able to diffuse across a phospholipid bilayer at significant rates. Thus, gases (such as O2 and CO2), hydrophobic molecules (such as benzene), and small polar but uncharged molecules (such as H2O and ethanol) are able to diffuse across the plasma membrane. Other biological molecules, however, are unable to dissolve in the hydrophobic interior of the phospholipid bilayer. Consequently, larger uncharged polar molecules such as glucose are unable to cross the plasma membrane by passive diffusion, as are charged molecules of any size (including small ions such as H+, Na+, K+, and Cl-).\n-Cooper, 2000\n\nHydrophobic fatty acids repel charge.\nThe additional or missing electron gives the ion its charge. The hydrophilic head groups of the bilayer are charged, but the fatty acid chains are not, and these repel charge.\nThere are also repulsive forces between hydrophobic and polar residues (hence the bilayer exists in water), however polarity is essentially a spectrum. A small relatively non-polar polar molecule will not experience enough repulsion to stop diffusion, but a larger, or more polar molecule might.\nActive and passive transport.\nAlthough not mentioned in the question, these ions and other molecules can permeate the membrane via protein channels that allow, often with great specificity, ions and large molecules to traverse the membrane.", "Well, it turns out the situation is more complex. I had assumed the answer was what rwst suggests or something to do with osmotic pressure. It seems that we don't really know that well. \n\nIn a paper from 1991, Chi and Wu suggest the following possible mechanisms :\n\n\nMembrane fusion during the shedding of exovesicles might produce a transient decrease of the permeability barrier. \nIncrease of lipid dynamics by the alcohol could decrease the packing of the\nbilayer. The membrane barrier behaves like a soft polymer, which can sieve solutes. The meshes in the polymer might become larger if its packing density is\nreduced. \nLateral phase separation of lipids could induce packing defects in the lipid domain. This has been observed for long chain alcohols and postulated to be responsible for the increase of membrane permeability by amphiphiles. \nIncrease of the dielectric constant of the membrane by the alcohol would also increase the partition of hydrophilic solutes into the membranes. Such an increase has been postulated to be responsible for the increase of the permeability by aliphatic alcohols.\nModification of the intrinsic membrane domain might follow modification of the membrane skeleton by the alcohol. Accordingly, aggregation of intrinsic proteins might cause membrane modification mentioned under point 2 to 4.\n\n\nThe authors state that it is not possible to decide between the\nvarious possibilities, but they seem to prefer point 5:\n\n\n Although it is not possible to decide between the various\n possibilities from the present data, we showed that the\n release of membrane fragments from ethanol-treated RBC was not a\n requirement for the creation of membrane pores since it occurred at a\n time much later than the detection of K ÷ leakage. In addition, we\n found that changes of membane rheological properties preceded the\n permeability increase. These properties have been related to\n the membrane skeletal protein spectrin. Moreover, ethanol has\n been shown to affect the skeleton. The processes leading to\n the formation of pores in ethanol-treated RBC may thus relate to a\n deranged cytoskeletal network, followed by the aforementioned\n alteration of membrane properties.\n\n\nThe plot thickens, apparently, low concentrations of alcohol protect erythrocytes from hemolysis while higher concentrations can cause it. The following are extracts from Tyulina et al:\n\n\n The seeming paradox between the direct haemolytic effect of ethanol on\n erythrocytes (Fig. 1) and the stabilizing effect of ethanol on\n erythrocytes undergoing NaOCl-induced haemolysis (Fig. 2) could be\n explained by the relatively small destabilizing effect of ethanol\n which is observed (&lt;1% haemolysis) over 16 h. This effect would be\n negligible in the short time period (generally &lt;10 min) assay for\n NaOCl-induced haemolysis where 100% of the cells are haemolysed. An\n alternative explanation for this paradox is that the mechanisms of\n haemolysis induced by ethanol and NaOCl are different. \n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n It therefore appears that ethanol does not induce significant\n oxidative stress in the human erythrocyte, and these data are in\n agreement with previous studies (Seeman et al., 1971), in which it was\n found that low ethanol concentrations could protect erythrocytes\n against haemolysis. Although the mechanism for this protective effect\n is unknown, it has previously been suggested (Halliwell and\n Gutteridge, 1999) that ethanol can serve as a hydrogen donor in the\n elimination of the hydroxyl radical with formation of water and the\n 2-hydroxyethyl radical. \n\n\nThe authors then state (emphasis mine):\n\n\n In summary, we conclude that the damage to erythrocytes which occurs\n on in vitro exposure to ethanol may be caused, at least in part, by\n unmetabolized ethanol directly, rather than by the oxidation of\n ethanol to acetaldehyde or its conversion to FAEE.\n\n\nI would guess this \"direct effect\" is something very much like what rwst suggested but the fact that the authors, who clearly work in this field, do not say so makes me think that the situation is more complex.\n\nSo, in conclusion, the exact details of alcohol's hemolytic properties don't seem to be understood in great detail. Admittedly, neither of these articles is very recent, if anyone can find a more up to date account I would love to read it.\n\n\n\nREFERENCES:\n\nChi LM, Wu WG. Mechanism of hemolysis of red blood cell mediated by ethanol.\nBiochim Biophys Acta. 1991 Feb 11;1062(1):46-50.\n\nTyulina OV, Prokopieva VD, Dodd RD, Hawkins JR, Clay SW, Wilson DO, Boldyrev\nAA, Johnson P. In vitro effects of ethanol, acetaldehyde and fatty acid ethyl\nesters on human erythrocytes. Alcohol Alcohol. 2002 Mar-Apr;37(2):179-86.\n\nTrandum C, Westh P, Jørgensen K, Mouritsen OG. Association of ethanol with\nlipid membranes containing cholesterol, sphingomyelin and ganglioside: a\ntitration calorimetry study. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1999 Aug 20;1420(1-2):179-88.", "As the chain length of the alcohol increases, it becomes more hydrophobic. This would make it easier for them to insert into membranes and hydrophobic pockets of proteins. This could interfere with the protein function. Hydrophobic molecules also tend to be harder to eliminate than shorter molecules and can accumulate in fatty tissues, including the brain. Longer chains can also be metabolized into a greater number of products simply because there is more to metabolize. And sometimes seemingly innocuous compounds can be metabolized into very toxic substances, such as n-Hexane, which can be converted to a molecule with an epoxide on each end. The epoxides can cross-link proteins, particularly in neuron axons.", "I'd argue that \"brain power\" is dangerously vague. Are you looking at weight, volume, area (including or excluding cortical folding), are you looking at just the cortex, or the whole brain? \n\nAt a lower level, are you counting just cell bodies, or do you count the processes that join them; do you just weigh the whole lot and try to figure out \"power\" that way? Do you count long axons projecting from the peripheral nervous system? Because touch would have a massive edge over vision if you counted the weight of those long, thick, myelinated axons in the spinal column. \n\nNone of those straight physical measures will give you an estimate of \"power\" because power implies other more cognitive factors; speed and capacity notably. Myelination gives speed of response to neurons, as does thickness. But a shorter neuron will be faster (more powerful?) than a longer one, and will also weigh less - clearly weight isn't a good estimator of speed, in fact the further information travels through axons the less \"powerful\" the whole system will be. \n\nBut that's just talking about speed - what about capacity? The overall number of indivudal points of input might relate to capacity, but the brain does plenty of post processing on visual input to allow it to process far more information than the eyes actually give it at any one time. Is capacity related to the number of synapses each neuron makes? This probably has something do to more with \"depth\" of processing than capacity, as it implies that each percept is sent to more places.\n\nAnd beyond even speed, depth and capacity, what about learning? Which system has a greater ability to adaptively learn and pass learned information back into the decision making parts of the brain? How do you measure that? By the number of NMDA receptors in each system?\n\nAlso, what's this \"touch\" thing anyway? Are you talking about perception of heat, cold, pain (which sort, a$\\delta$, perhaps C fibres)? Are you talking about sensations of pressure, like that felt when pushing a heavy object? Those sort of sensations are related more to proprioception than touch - they are all about sensing the environment's reaction to the body based on stretch receptors in the muscles, this is another type of input that makes up the heterogeneous sense labelled \"touch\".\n\nEach of these types of pressure, superficial touch, pain, heat and cold have different afferent projections, and each has it's own substrate in the brain, with different architectures, different strengths and weaknesses - there is no straightforward \"power\" to compare any of those components of touch, much less to compare touch to something as remote as vision. This sort of question and attempts to answer it dangerously obscure the complex science behind both systems, giving a false sense of understanding where most of the above questions are unanswered, and possibly unanswerable.", "i once wrote a paper doing biophysical modeling of neurons that could create plateau potentials. While the paper itself is not exactly what you are looking for, there should be lots of good references in there:\nhttp://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/2/424.short\nSanders H, Berends M, \nMajor G, \nGoldman MS,\nLisman JE. (2013) NMDA and GABAB (KIR) Conductances: The “Perfect Couple” for Bistability. J. Neurosci. 33, 424–429\n\nalso, check other articles that cited that paper: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=2120401607202660739", "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3502130/\n\nConclusion\nThe findings from this study support the view that the mechanism for the JM is a reduction in presynaptic inhibition of alpha motoneurons as it is influenced by physical and not mental activity.", "According to this research paper by Lockary and Goodman, the resting membrane potential of C.Elegans is two fold because its a stepped resting potential of -70mV and -35mV. After an initial activation a resting potential of -35mV is held following a higher depolarisation, so on your graph the initial depolarisation would be a little higher, and then drops to -35mV for roughly 60+ secs. When terminated, or receiving a inhibitory signal this drops to -70mV. I don't see any reason why the receiving neuron would respond any differently so long as the activation strength was enough to create positive depolarisation. As mentioned by Izhaki in the comments, the strength of the synapse connections plays an important role. Here is a good thesis on transfer between neutrons in C.Elgans, it also explains the methods to investigates neutrons in the central nervous system of C.Elegans, and seems to see two patterns of activation depending on the method applied. Only a few of the neutrons have been fully recorded in C. Elegans so its possible that different potential patterns may occur, nervous systems are far from homogeneous, humans appear to use more than one type. \n\nI can't respond anymore than this at the moment as I don't have time for the extra reading but I hope this is at least useful." ]

[ "As implied by its name, the MACD is concerned with the convergence and divergence of the two exponential moving averages. Convergences occur when the two lines move toward each other, while divergences take place when the two moving averages move away from each other. The MACD line oscillates above and below the “zero” line or centerline. The MACD is above the centerline whenever the 12-day EMA is above the 26-day EMA." ]

[ "DEFINITION of 'Trigger Line'. A moving-average line found in the moving average convergence divergence (MACD) theory, which is used to signal buy or sell points for a security. The trigger line interacts with the two moving averages that form the MACD line and attempts to predict upcoming trends. Next Up.", "Divergent - where two plates are moving away from one another. (Mid-ocean Ridge) Convergent - where two plates are moving towards one another. (Ocean Trench) found at both O/O converge and O/C converge. Divergent - where two plates are moving away from one another. Convergent - where two plates are moving towards one another. (Ocean Trench) found at both O/O converge and O/C converge.", "The boundary where two plates meet and trenches are formed. Divergent Convergent Transform B. The plates move away from each other allowing magma to create new ocean crust. Divergent Convergent Transform C. The plates move in opposite directions building up tension until they slip causing earthquakes. Divergent Convergent Transform 5. Label each type of boundary as either: Divergent, Convergent, or Transform Boundary: A. _____ B. _____ C.", "There are 3 different types of plate movement: Convergent, Divergent, and Transform.Each of these types move in different ways.here are 3 different types of plate movement: Convergent, Divergent, and Transform.Each of these types move in different ways.", "Price Forecast Report for Ripple — 16th October 2017 Welcome to the Price Forecast Report for Ripple — 16th October 2017. This report investigates 4 popular technical analysis indicators: Moving Average Convergence Divergence", "There are three main types of plate boundary: divergent, convergent and transform. Plates move away from one another at divergent boundaries. This happens at mid-ocean ridges. Plates move towards one another at convergent boundaries; one plate is forced below another in a process called subduction.", "The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways in relation to each other. Convergent Boundaries.he movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways in relation to each other. Convergent Boundaries.", "plates move away from each other allowing magma to create new ocean crust. Divergent Convergent Transform C. The plates move in opposite directions building up tension until they slip causing earthquakes. Divergent Convergent Transform 5.", "The 3 types of tectonic plate boundaries are convergent, transform, and divergent. A convergent boundary is one where two plates are moving toward each other.", "There are three main types of plate boundary: divergent, convergent and transform. Plates move away from one another at divergent boundaries. This happens at mid-ocean ridges. Plates move towards one another at convergent boundaries; one plate is forced below another in a process called subduction.Earthquakes and composite volcanoes are common at this type of boundary. Plates move past on another at transform boundaries.The most famous example of this type of boundary is the San Andreas Fault in California. Image: Cutaway artwork showing different types of plate boundary and hotspots.here are three main types of plate boundary: divergent, convergent and transform. Plates move away from one another at divergent boundaries. This happens at mid-ocean ridges. Plates move towards one another at convergent boundaries; one plate is forced below another in a process called subduction.", "Video: Plate Boundaries: Convergent, Divergent, and Transform Boundaries. In the theory of plate tectonics, the earth's crust is broken into plates that move around relative to each other. As a result of this movement, three types of plate boundaries are formed: divergent, convergent, and transform boundaries.", "This is a particularly interesting area to study because we can observe two types of plate boundaries (divergent and convergent) and their processes in very close proximity. A divergent boundary occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other.here are three kinds of plate tectonic boundaries: divergent, convergent, and transform plate boundaries. This image shows the three main types of plate boundaries: divergent, convergent, and transform.", "> At a divergent boundary two of Earths plates slide apart. At a converging boundary is when two plates come together and converge. At a transform boundary two plates slip past each other moving in opposite directions.", "SL convergence divergence teacher.doc © www.morelearning.net 2010 Page 1 of 1 Convergence and Divergence Convergence is where we change our language to show we like someone. Divergence is where we make our language more different from someone to show we dislike them. Upwards convergence is where a regional speaker becomes more RP to show they like the RP speaker.", "There are three types of plate boundaries. divergent = plates move apart and oceanic lithosphere is created by seafloor spreading. convergent = plates converge together and oceanic lithosphere is recycled (consumed) by subduction.", "Earth's outer layer, the crust, is divided into a set of large moving plates. The lines where they meet are called plate boundaries. There are three main types of plate boundary: divergent, convergent and transform.Plates move away from one another at divergent boundaries. This happens at mid-ocean ridges. Plates move towards one another at convergent boundaries; one plate is forced below another in a process called subduction.Earthquakes and composite volcanoes are common at this type of boundary. Plates move past on another at transform boundaries.arth's outer layer, the crust, is divided into a set of large moving plates. The lines where they meet are called plate boundaries. There are three main types of plate boundary: divergent, convergent and transform.", "Plates have three kinds of boundaries: divergent plate, transform fault and convergent plate. Divergent Plate Boundaries. Spreading ridges, or divergent plate boundaries, are places where plates move apart and grow by addition of basalt from the mantle.", "Plate Boundaries: Divergent, Convergent, and Transform. Movement in narrow zones along plate boundaries causes most earthquakes. Most seismic activity occurs at three types of plate boundaries—divergent, convergent, and transform. As the plates move past each other, they sometimes get caught and pressure builds up.", "(Answer #1). The 3 types of tectonic plate boundaries are convergent, transform, and divergent. A convergent boundary is one where two plates are moving toward each other. Typically one plate is forced beneath the other (ex: the Andes mountains and the Japanese islands).Answer #1). The 3 types of tectonic plate boundaries are convergent, transform, and divergent. A convergent boundary is one where two plates are moving toward each other. Typically one plate is forced beneath the other (ex: the Andes mountains and the Japanese islands).", "Earth's outer layer, the crust, is divided into a set of large moving plates. The lines where they meet are called plate boundaries. There are three main types of plate boundary: divergent, convergent and transform. Plates move away from one another at divergent boundaries.", "They are 1. Divergent where they more away from each other, 2. Convergent where they move towards each other, and the 3rd theory or movement … is transform, where the movements are side by side.late movement has three theories. They are 1. Divergent where they more away from each other, 2. Convergent where they move towards each other, and the 3rd theory or movement … is transform, where the movements are side by side. Answered. In Volcanoes.", "Scientists believe that convection currents in the Asthenosphere, due to the Earth s escaping heat, provide the driving force of Plate movement. There are three types of Plate movement Convergence, Divergence, and Transform. Convergence occurs when two plates move towards each other.", "MACD Classic divergence is used as a possible sign for a trend reversal. Classic divergence is used when looking for an area where price could reverse and start going in the opposite direction. For this reason classic divergence is used as a low risk entry method and also as an accurate way of exit out of a trade.1.ACD Classic divergence is used as a possible sign for a trend reversal. Classic divergence is used when looking for an area where price could reverse and start going in the opposite direction. For this reason classic divergence is used as a low risk entry method and also as an accurate way of exit out of a trade. 1.", "The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways in relation to each other. Convergent Boundaries.ivergent Boundaries. At divergent boundaries in the oceans, magma from deep in the Earth's mantle rises toward the surface and pushes apart two or more plates. Mountains and volcanoes rise along the seam.", "The lines where they meet are called plate boundaries. There are three main types of plate boundary: divergent, convergent and transform. Plates move away from one another at divergent boundaries. This happens at mid-ocean ridges.Plates move towards one another at convergent boundaries; one plate is forced below another in a process called subduction.ectonic plate interactions are of three different basic types: 1 Divergent boundaries are areas where plates move away from each other, forming either mid-oceanic ridges or rift valleys. 2 These are also known as constructive boundaries. 3 Convergent boundaries are areas where plates move toward each other and collide.", "For other uses, see Moving average (disambiguation). In statistics, a moving average (rolling average or running average) is a calculation to analyze data points by creating series of averages of different subsets of the full data set. It is also called a moving mean (MM) or rolling mean and is a type of finite impulse response filter.", "MACD is calculated by subtracting a long term exponential moving average (EMA) of the stock from the short term EMA. Usually 26 day EMA and 12 day EMA are chosen for the same. As the moving averages cross, converge and diverge, MACD fluctuates above and below the zero line. 9 day EMA of MACD is used as signal line.", "Watching for divergence between price and the RSI indicator is another means of refining its application. Divergence occurs when a security makes a new high or low in price but the RSI does not make a corresponding new high or low value. Bearish divergence, when price makes a new high but the RSI does not is taken as a sell signal.", "Definition of CONVERGENCE. 1. : the act of converging and especially moving toward union or uniformity; especially: coordinated movement of the two eyes so that the image of a single point is formed on corresponding retinal areas. 2. : the state or property of being convergent.", "Converge is a verb that applies limits, sequences, series, and integrals. The word diverge is used for the negation of it. A limit converges if it exists, that is, if it has a finite value. It diverges if it doesn't exist.", "The moving averages used in the diagram start with the 50-day moving average and increase by 10-day periods up to the final average of 200. (50, 60, 70, 80 ... 190, 200) BREAKING DOWN 'Moving Average Ribbon' Responsiveness to changing conditions is accounted for by changing the number of time periods used in the moving averages. The shorter the number of periods used to create the average, the more sensitive the ribbon is to slight price changes. For example, a series of 5, 15, 25, 35 and 45-day moving averages will be a better choice to find short-term reversals then 150, 160, 170, 180-day moving averages.", "There are three kinds of plate tectonic boundaries: divergent, convergent, and transform plate boundaries. This image shows the three main types of plate boundaries: divergent, convergent, and transform.Image courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.here are three kinds of plate tectonic boundaries: divergent, convergent, and transform plate boundaries. This image shows the three main types of plate boundaries: divergent, convergent, and transform." ]

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[ "Carbohydrates used in cat foods. Carbohydrates used in cat foods generally include the starchy portion of a plant that can be easily broken down in the digestive tract of the cat. These carbohydrates are found in high concentrations in cereal grains such as rice, wheat, corn, barley, and oats.", "No, as long as they are not a major source of energy when compared to protein and fat, carbohydrates can provide the aforementioned benefits to your dog. Sources of Carbs. There is a variety of common sources of carbohydrates in commercially available dog food. Look for higher quality carbohydrate sources like these listed below: 1 rice. 2 oats. 3 barley. 4 millet. 5 potatoes. 6 sweet potatoes. 7 peas." ]

[ "The human bodies' primary source of energy is through protein, carbohydrates and other foods.", "They maintain the functional activity of the cells and serve as structural and reserve materials. Carbohydrates provide the primary source of energy for humans. There is not a single living thing—plant or animal—that does not contain carbohydrates in some form. Though the quantity and form of carbohydrates varies, the presence of carbohydrates as an integral component of life is constant. This means that all foods are potential sources of carbohydrates. However, some foods are better sources than others, and this is what we will discuss now.", "Prebiotics are carbohydrates that cannot be digested by the human body. They are food for probiotics. The primary benefit of probiotics and prebiotics appears to be helping you maintain a healthy digestive system. Question: What foods are good sources of probiotics? Answer: One of the best sources of probiotics is yogurt.", "What Are Sources of Carbohydrates? In order to meet your minimum carbohydrate requirements, you must first know what foods contain carbohydrate. Because carbohydrates are found in most plant-based foods, whole grains, starches, fruits and vegetables are all excellent sources of this essential nutrient.", "Carbohydrates, proteins, and fats all contain calories, and can all be used for energy. Carbohydrates are mostly in foods in the starchy foods groups, but also in vegetables, fruits, dairy foods, and sugars. The primary sources of protein are meats and dairy products.", "Carbohydrates. All of the calories in creamed honey come from carbohydrates. Each tablespoon of creamed honey contains 17 grams of carbohydrates, which makes this food inappropriate for low-carbohydrate diets. Carbohydrates act as your body's primary source of energy.", "In order to meet your minimum carbohydrate requirements, you must first know what foods contain carbohydrate. Because carbohydrates are found in most plant-based foods, whole grains, starches, fruits and vegetables are all excellent sources of this essential nutrient.ecause carbohydrates' primary function is to fuel the body, athletes needs a high percent of their overall energy intake from carbohydrates. On the other hand, individuals with diabetes may not need as many calories from carbohydrates due to the risk of high blood sugar.", "Natural Sources of Carbohydrates. By far, the best place to get the carbohydrates that your body needs is from natural sources. While carbohydrate supplements can be valuable for individuals that have severe deficiencies, consuming as many carbohydrates as possible from natural whole food sources is the most healthy approach for the human body. Provided in this article are good natural sources of carbohydrates that you can enjoy every day. Please use this article as a reference if you are having a difficult time deciding on which foods to eat to get your daily requirement of carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are the primary source of energy for the human body.", "Almost all foods have carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are essential for two distinct functions in your body -- energy and digestion. Most types of carbohydrates, such as starch and sugar, break down into glucose, which is the simplest form of carbohydrate and your body's primary source of energy.Fiber, another type of carbohydrate, is vital to normal digestion; however, it does not break down into glucose.ost types of carbohydrates, such as starch and sugar, break down into glucose, which is the simplest form of carbohydrate and your body's primary source of energy. Fiber, another type of carbohydrate, is vital to normal digestion; however, it does not break down into glucose.", "Carbohydrates, proteins, and fats all contain calories, and can all be used for energy. Carbohydrates are mostly in foods in the starchy foods groups, but also in vegetables, fruits, dairy foods, and sugars. The primary sources of protein are meats and dairy products.Fat can be found in dairy and meats. Fat can also be added to food, such as salad dressing or margarine. Fat can also be added when food is made, such as chips, cookies, or pizza.arbohydrates are mostly in foods in the starchy foods groups, but also in vegetables, fruits, dairy foods, and sugars. The primary sources of protein are meats and dairy products. Fat can be found in dairy and meats.", "Carbohydrates are an essential nutrient for your body. During digestion, they break down into glucose, or blood sugar, which is the primary source of fuel for all cells. Nearly all of the foods you eat contain carbohydrates.Meat, eggs and some types of seafood are the only foods that do not have carbs.arbohydrates are an essential nutrient for your body. During digestion, they break down into glucose, or blood sugar, which is the primary source of fuel for all cells. Nearly all of the foods you eat contain carbohydrates.", "Carbohydrates are the primary source of energy. Some foods contain large amount of carbohydrates, while some have a lower concentration. Eating the right amount of carbohydrates is crucial. Carbohydrate Intake. Most people opt for a low-carb diet for weight loss. However, your carb intake should be well balanced.", "There are two types of carbs: starches and sugars. Sugars are simple carbohydrates that can be easily digested by the body. They include foods like candy jellies, soda, cake and fruits. Starches are complex carbohydrates that take very long to get digested by the body.nderstanding Good and Bad Carbohydrate Foods. Carbohydrate foods are essential for the proper functioning of our body. Carbohydrates are the primary source of energy. Some foods contain large amount of carbohydrates, while some have a lower concentration. Eating the right amount of carbohydrates is crucial.", "Agriculture is important because it is the source of supply of food, clothing, medicine and employment all over the world. Agriculture is the primary source of food food products all over the world. All the major ingredients like carbohydrates, proteins and oils can be obtained through agriculture in large scale.", "Carbohydrate-rich foods are the primary source of energy for all body functions. Your body breaks down carbohydrates, or carbs, into fuel for use by your cells and muscles - t … hat's why eating a moderate amount of carbohydrates is necessary for most people.", "Carbohydrate functions as Primary Source of Energy. The process of production of energy by carbohydrates is described in above steps. Now it is important to note, that fats and proteins can also be burned to provide energy but carbohydrate functions as primary source of energy.", "Eliminate all roach food sources. They love the carbohydrates and sugar found in your food, soaps, and even plants. Keep food (for humans and pets) in glass or plastic containers, with lids that fit tightly. Transfer any food that you keep in bags, boxes, or other materials that are easy for roaches to chew through.", "b. Carbohydrates-Sugar (sucrose) is an important source of carbohydrate, the body's primary energy source. Surveys indicate that we are eating more than enough protein and probably too much fat. Carbohydrates are the only calorie source in which an increase in consumption is recommended.. Carbohydrates-Sugar (sucrose) is an important source of carbohydrate, the body's primary energy source. Surveys indicate that we are eating more than enough protein and probably too much fat. Carbohydrates are the only calorie source in which an increase in consumption is recommended.", "Usually called a sugar, glucose is the primary source of energy for every cell in the body. Glucose is largely converted from other carbohydrates in the foods we eat. The body breaks down the carbohydrates in the intestines using enzymes and other chemicals resulting in glucose as a final product.", "The human bodies' primary source of energy is through protein, carbohydrates and other foods.arbohydrates are the primary source of energy for the body.They are one of the four types of Macromolecules which are: Carbohydrates, Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Lipids. 15 people found this useful. Edit.", "Food sources high in carbohydrates. Most athletes know the importance of carbohydrates. And many see their main source coming from breads, pastas and cereals. However, the table below will show you further examples of foods that do provide carbohydrates. Importance of carbohydrates In selecting the food source, the food group is first identified and the amount taken compared to the amount of carbohydrates received in grams.", "Carbohydrates in Food. Carbohydrates are found in all food groups with the exception of fats and oils. The carbs in your diet come primarily from the bread, cereal and grain food group, as well as the fruit and vegetable group. These foods are naturally higher in fiber, helping you feel full longer.arbohydrates are one of three macronutrients in your diet -- the others are protein and fat. Carbohydrates are converted to glucose as the primary source of energy for your body.", "So, what are examples of carbohydrate foods? Well, there are different types. So, what you need here are examples of: High carbohydrate foods; Low carbohydrate foods; Bad carbohydrate foods; Good carbohydrate foods; Addictive and bad carbohydrate foods", "This nutrient is your body's primary source of energy, so if you have a lot of activity planned, eating a food higher in carbohydrates than Granny Smith apples may be beneficial. Fiber. While Granny Smith apples are rich in carbohydrates, they are not a good source of fiber, as each 100 gram apple contains only 2 grams of fiber.", "The staple food of a population is what they rely on, usually a source of carbohydrate i.e. cereals, bread, pasta, rice, potatoes. This is what happened in Ireland during the potato famine, the people relied on a source of food, which failed. See link.", "High-protein and high-carb foods are valuable for endurance athletes and people looking to gain weight, but can fit into any diet plan. Carbohydrates are the body’s primary source of energy.", "Used as a primary source of protein in vegetarian diets, beans are a healthy source of carbohydrates. They are high in fiber and help the digestive system since they are a form of slowly digested carbohydrates.", "Food Articles and Tips. Complex carbohydrates are created when three or more simple sugar molecules link together in a chain. Complex carbohydrates are found mostly in plant foods. They form the starches that plants use to store energy, as well as the cellulose that forms the structure of plants. Complex carbohydrates should make up about half of your daily food intake, since they’re your body’s primary source of fuel.", "1. Sugar (sucrose) is a carbohydrate that occurs naturally in every fruit and vegetable. It is a major product of photosynthesis, the process by which plants transform the sun's energy into food. Sugar occurs in greatest quantities in sugarcane and sugar beets from which it is separated for commercial use.. Carbohydrates-Sugar (sucrose) is an important source of carbohydrate, the body's primary energy source. Surveys indicate that we are eating more than enough protein and probably too much fat. Carbohydrates are the only calorie source in which an increase in consumption is recommended.", "Because certain foods, such as carbohydrates, directly impact your blood sugars, your diet is one of the most important factors in managing diabetes. Carbohydrates are found in foods such as: starches, fruit, milk/yogurt, legumes, sweets, and candy. When metabolized carbohydrates turn into sugar (glucose), which is the body's primary source of energy. Insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas, takes glucose from the blood stream to the cells to use for energy.", "Glucose is a carbohydrate, meaning that it's composed of the elements carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. It's one of the most common organic, or carbon-based, molecules in nature, and is the primary source of energy for many living organisms. There are many sources of glucose in nature, both in food items and elsewhere.", "What Enzymes Are Used to Break Down Carbohydrates. The complex carbohydrates in whole-grain bread are broken down by enzymes during digestion. Carbohydrates, abundantly present in foods such as breads, cereals, fruits and vegetables, are the main source of energy in a diet. During digestion, a series of enzymatic reactions break down the carbohydrates in these foods into simple carbohydrates that are easily absorbed in the small intestine." ]

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[ "In this week's on-air puzzle, we start with a clue in a category, then name something else in the same category that starts with the second and third letters of the original clue. For example, if the clue was Minnesota, the answer would be Indiana — because the second and third letters of Minnesota are \"I-N,\" which begin Indiana — and both Minnesota and Indiana are states. Challenge from Last Week: From Jeffery Harris of Nashville, Tennessee: Think of a word that can follow the word \"peanut\" to form a familiar two-word phrase. If you take the first letter and move it to the next-to-the-last position, you get another word that can also follow \"peanut\" to form another familiar two-word phrase. What are the words? The answer: Peanut GALLERY and Peanut ALLERGY The winner: Rabbi Barbara Penzner of West Newton, Massachusetts This Week's Challenge: Name something you might wear in the summer. The answer will have two words, with five letters in the first word and three letters in the second. Remove the next-to-last letter and read the result backward and you'll get a word that means \"blocks.\" What words are these? LIANE HANSEN, host: From NPR News, this is WEEKEND EDITION. I'm Liane Hansen. And joining us is puzzle master Will Shortz. Hi, Will. Have you recovered from the Sudoku championship? WILL SHORTZ: Yeah. Well, it took me a few days. First of all, hello. HANSEN: Hi. SHORTZ: And… (Soundbite of laughter) SHORTZ: And the championship was great. They had about 900 contestants, as it turned out. The winner was not a surprise. His name is Thomas Snyder. He's a postgraduate student in bioengineering at Stanford - just a brilliant guy. In the first round, he solved an easy, medium and hard puzzle in about nine and a half minutes, which was, I think, seven minutes faster than anybody else in the entire room. HANSEN: Wow. SHORTZ: It's fantastic. HANSEN: Yeah. It was nice to have a story about the winner and the championship right after a segment last week. This past week, I actually had to have - had a little bit of fun. Everybody wanted to know about you. I was down in Columbia, South Carolina, visiting with the folks at ETV radio. And it was nice because that's where \"Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz\" originates. And I was able to record a few congratulations to her for getting into the National Radio Hall of Fame. So that… SHORTZ: Nice. HANSEN: Yeah. That's real nice. So - but again, I mean, everybody wants to know, you know, what's the answer, and what are you like and - I lie. SHORTZ: Thank you. (Soundbite of laughter) HANSEN: And do I know the answers ahead of time and all of that. And of course, I tell them, no, I don't. It happens every week and it begins with your reminder of the challenge that you left us with last week. SHORTZ: Yes. It was a real nice one. It came from listener Jeffery Harris of Nashville, Tennessee. I said think of a word that can follow the word peanut to form a familiar two-word phrase. If you take the first letter and move it to the next-to-the-last position, you get another word that can also follow peanut to form another familiar two-word phrase. What words are these? HANSEN: Well, I got stuck on butter and brittle and none of them worked. What was the answer? SHORTZ: The answer is peanut gallery and peanut allergy. HANSEN: Oh, nice. We had over 3,000 entries from people who solved the puzzle. Our randomly selected winner is Rabbi Barbara Penzner from West Newton, Massachusetts. And I understand I can call you Barbara. Welcome to the program. Ms. BARBARA PENZNER (Rabbi): I'm delighted to be here. HANSEN: And your congregation is in Boston? Ms. PENZNER: That's right. HANSEN: How long have you been playing the puzzle? Ms. PENZNER: My husband reminds me that we were doing this in graduate school, before we came to Boston. So that's about 20 years. HANSEN: No kidding. Wow. That's about as long as the puzzle's been on the air. Ms. PENZNER: I think so. SHORTZ: Have you been submitting answers throughout those years? Ms. PENZNER: Off and on, we did. Yeah, there were two years we were in Israel. And when we came back, I had missed you so much, so we started submitting a lot more regularly. HANSEN: And lo and behold, you get to be our player today. Are you ready? Ms. PENZNER: I hope so. HANSEN: All right. Well, Will, say hi to Barbara and let's play. SHORTZ: All right. Barbara, I'm going to name something that's in a category. You name something else in the category that starts with the second and the third letters of the name I give you. For example, if I said Minnesota, you would say, Indiana because the second and third letters of Minnesota are I-N -those start Indiana - and they're both states. All right. Number one is Green. Ms. PENZNER: Red? SHORTZ: Red is right. Number two is Madison. Ms. PENZNER: Advertising? HANSEN: Huh. Good one. But I don't think that's what - I don't think that is what he's looking for, right? SHORTZ: Right. What is Madison an " ]

[ "Many news accounts covering the Missouri kidnapping case claim that more than 800,000 are missing in the United States. The figures are fairly reliable, but often misinterpreted. Andy Bowers of the online magazine Slate offers an explanation of how those figures are calculated. MADELINE BRAND, host: In their coverage of the Missouri kidnappings, many news reporters have cited the same statistic. Eight hundred thousand children disappear every year, or about 2,000 a day. But how reliable are those numbers? That's the question for the explainer team at the online magazine Slate. And here with the answer is Slate's Andy Bowers. ANDY BOWERS: Those figures are fairly reliable, but easily misinterpreted. Saying a child is missing can mean any number of things. A child who has run away from home counts the same as a kidnapping victim. For officials, the total number includes those who fall into several different categories - family abduction, non-family abduction, runaways, abandoned children, or lost and so-called otherwise missing children. Local police departments register missing children with federal authorities, specifying what type of abduction it is. So it's true that according to a 2002 study, nearly 800,000 people under 18 were reported missing in a one-year period. But of those cases, just over 200,000 were family abductions; 58,200 were non-family abductions; and only 115 were so-called stereotypical kidnappings. Even these categories can be misleading. Overstaying a visit with a non-custodial parent, for example, could qualify as a family abduction. But in other ways, these figures may understate the problem, since many short abductions or runaways never get reported. BRAND: Andy Bowers is a Slate senior editor. That Explainer was compiled by Christopher Beam.", "Hurricane Ike grew to a Category 4 storm with 135 mph winds as it headed toward the Turks and Caicos islands Saturday. Forecasters say if it remains on its present course, Ike could hit the Gulf Coast early next week. Emergency management officials have ordered a mandatory evacuation of all visitors to the Florida Keys. In Haiti, authorities tried to move thousands of people into shelters ahead of Ike, while they struggle to recover from Tropical Storm Hanna. The storm has been blamed for disastrous flooding and more than 160 deaths. Rescue workers feared the death toll could rise and that aid efforts could be further hampered as Ike approaches. Hanna did not pack the same punch while racing up the East Coast of the U.S. on Saturday, but it did cause one death in a traffic accident on Interstate 95 in Maryland. It also brought fits of wind and pelting rain on its trek toward New England. It didn't linger long enough to cause widespread damage, although more than 100,000 people lost power at some point. Forecasters say Ike could become the fiercest storm to strike South Florida since Andrew in 1992. That hurricane did more than $26 billion in damage and was blamed for 65 deaths. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has declared a state of emergency, and Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez warned residents to take preparations. \"Ike is a major hurricane. For those of you who remember 1992's Hurricane Andrew, which was a Category 4 and later reclassified as a Category 5, the effects can be devastating,\" he said. Officials in Miami-Dade and other southern coastal cities say they may call for voluntary costal evacuations, beginning Sunday. In preparation for Ike, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was positioning supplies, search and rescue crews, communications equipment and medical teams in Florida and along the Gulf Coast — a task complicated by the hurricane's changing path. From NPR and wire reports.", "The Annual Gracie Awards, presented by The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation, has honored the achievements of women working in media for over four decades. Named after the late actress and radio host Gracie Allen, these awards recognize exemplary programming created by, for, and about women. Today, NPR is proud to announce that NPR Reporting has won six awards: In the Interview Feature [Radio – Nationally Syndicated Non-Commercial] category: Noel King, Matt Kwong, Ashley Westerman, and James Doubek for the piece \"How A Mother Protects Her Black Teenage Son From The World,\" which aired on Morning Edition. In the Crisis Coverage/Breaking News [Radio – Nationally Syndicated Non-Commercial] category: Emily Feng, Amy Cheng, and Nishant Dahiya's work on the series\"China's Coronavirus Crisis,\" which aired on All Things Considered. In the Investigative Feature [Radio – Nationally Syndicated Non-Commercial] category: Julie McCarthy, Ella Mage, Nishant Dahiya, Ned Wharton, and photojournalist Cheryl Diaz Meyer for the radio documentary version of \"Reconciling History: The Ordeal of One Last Surviving \"Sex Slave\" of Wartime Philippines,\" which aired on Weekend Edition Sunday. The radio documentary was produced in tandem with the digital version, and that team included: Nicole Werbeck, Ben de la Cruz, Xueying Chang, Malaka Gharib, Marc Silver, and Preeti Aroon. In the Series [Radio – Nationally Syndicated Non-Commercial] category: Pallavi Gogoi, Andrea Hsu, Scott Horsley and Alina Selyukh for the series of stories around \"Stuck-At-Home Moms: The Pandemic's Devastating Toll On Women,\" which aired on both All Things Considered and Morning Edition. In the Public Affairs [Radio – Nationally Syndicated Non-Commercial] category: Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Peter Breslow and Ed McNulty for their coverage of MIS-C, the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children associated with COVID-19. In the Reporter / Correspondent / Host [Radio – Nationally Syndicated Non-Commercial] category: Ina Jaffe for her work on Morning Edition and Weekend Edition, reporting on family caregivers of nursing home residents who were unable to visit their loved ones while watching them deteriorate. Her editor on the story was Denise Rios. And called out as an honorable mention in the Radio National, Documentary category: The Invisibilia team for \"An Unlikely Superpower.\" This is the 46th Annual Gracie Awards, and the fourteenth year in a row NPR women have been recognized for their work. Congratulations to our NPR and public media winners on this accomplishment, as well as the producers, editors, and many others who made these award-winning pieces possible. You can find the full list of winners on the Gracies Awards website.", "A group of meteorologists says global warming probably isn't responsible for an apparent dramatic increase in the strength of extreme storms during the past few decades. The group says that, until 1990, even the best satellite data tended to underestimate the wind speed of storms. While weather experts agree on many things -- that global warming is real, for instance; or that ocean temperatures are rising. And they agree that warmer oceans allow for more intense hurricanes. But they disagree about whether global warming has produced a measurable change in the intensity of these storms. Some raw numbers suggest it has. For example, they show that the frequency of extreme storms -- Category 4 or 5 -- has doubled worldwide since the 1970s. But Chris Landsea of the National Hurricane Center says those raw numbers may be misleading. \"The concern is that the data is so unreliable,\" Landsea says, \"that this doubling in the number of category fours and fives may just be an artifact of monitoring things better.\" Landsea says the problem is that before about 1990, satellite images were far less precise. And so were the techniques to analyze them. Landsea led a team that reviewed satellite images of storms in the North Indian Ocean during the past 30 years. Things may become clearer after a team at the University of Wisconsin re-analyzes satellite data from the 1980s. That result is a year or more away. In the meantime, weather experts on both sides of the global warming debate have issued a joint statement. It says that whether or not global warming is a factor, the immediate question is this: What to do about the millions of people who have moved to vulnerable coasts? ROBERT SIEGEL, host: Global warming is making hurricanes more intense. Or is it? The answer depends on which experts you talk to, and what's interesting is that all the experts in this debate are relying on the same set of satellite data to argue their case. That ought to simplify things. Instead, it has led to another debate - about the satellite data itself. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports. JON HAMILTON reporting: Weather experts do agree on a lot of things. They agree that global warming is real. They agree that ocean temperatures are rising. They agree that warmer oceans allow for more intense hurricanes. But they disagree about whether global warming has produced a measurable change in the intensity of these storms. Some raw numbers suggest it has. For example, they show that the frequency of extreme storms, Category�4 or 5, has doubled worldwide since the 1970s. But Chris Landsea of the National Hurricane Center says those raw numbers may be misleading. Dr. CHRIS LANDSEA (National Hurricane Center): The concern is that the data is so unreliable that this doubling in the number of Category 4s and 5s may just be an artifact of monitoring things better. HAMILTON: Landsea says the problem is that before about 1990, satellite images were far less precise and so were the techniques to analyze them. Landsea led a team that reviewed satellite images of storms in the north Indian Ocean during the past 30�years. The review appears in the journal Science. Landsea's team found that since 1989 there have been seven extreme storms, but before that only one storm was officially classified as extreme. Landsea says that by applying modern techniques to storms before 1989, his team discovered several that today would probably be classified as extreme. Dr. LANDSEA: We found five additional ones from 1978 through 1989, essentially showing that there really wasn't a change between the earlier period and the later period, or no jump in the number of Category 4s and 5s for that region. HAMILTON: Weather experts in the other camp aren't impressed by this argument. Judith Curry of Georgia Tech says a few misclassified storms in one ocean doesn't change the overall picture. She says there has clearly been a big rise in north Atlantic storms since the 1950s and in this ocean, she says, satellite readings are usually confirmed by airplanes or ocean buoys. Dr. JUDITH CURRY (Georgia Institute of Technology): Already this last decade in the north Atlantic is 50�percent higher in terms of the total number of named storms, number of hurricanes and number of Category 4 and 5 storms. HAMILTON: Curry says the debate about global warming's effect on hurricanes isn't just academic. She says if current storm activity is just part of a natural cycle, then it will all diminish in a few years. Dr. CURRY: But on the other hand, if there's a global warming component, it's just going to keep going up. Okay? And things are going to get worse. They're going to stay high and they're going to keep getting worse. HAMILTON: The lack of agreement is posing a challenge for weather experts who explain things to the public. Mr. DAVID ADAMACK(ph) (Oceanographer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center): It's not that one is right or the other. It's just the way normal science evolves. ", "While images of destruction caused by last year's battery of hurricanes are still fresh in the minds of many Americans, including those living on Puerto Rico where after six months power is not fully restored, forecasters are cautioning the public to brace themselves for another busy hurricane season. Researchers at Colorado State University predict this will be a slightly above-average season, with 14 tropical storms in 2018. Seven are expected to become hurricanes, which have a wind speed of at least 74 mph. Three of those seven are expected to be major hurricanes, Category 3 or higher, with winds reaching a minimum of 111 mph. The Atlantic Hurricane season runs from June 1 through the end of November. \"Coastal residents are reminded that it only takes one hurricane making landfall to make it an active season for them, and they need to prepare the same for every season, regardless of how much activity is predicted,\" researchers say. By comparison, 2017 had a total of 17 named storms — with 10 becoming hurricanes and six of them major hurricanes — including Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, which ravaged Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico. But that number exceeded forecasters' expectations, including the team from CSU. The university had only anticipated 11 tropical storms with four becoming hurricanes. Before Harvey made landfall it was predicted as merely a tropical storm or Category 1 hurricane with wind speeds up to 85 mph. But within a few days and by the time it hit the ground near Corpus Christi, Texas, it had developed into a Category 4 with 132 mph winds. \"We issue these forecasts to satisfy the curiosity of the general public and to bring attention to the hurricane problem,\" the university said. \"There is a general interest in knowing what the odds are for an active or inactive season.\" The report also includes the probability of major hurricanes making landfall: 63 percent for the entire U.S. coastline (average for the last century is 52 percent) 39 percent for the U.S. East Coast, including the Florida Peninsula (average for the last century is 31 percent) 38 percent for the Gulf Coast from the Florida Panhandle westward to Brownsville (average for the last century is 30 percent) 52 percent for the Caribbean (average for the last century is 42 percent) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will issue its forecast in May. For readers curious about the names of this year's storms the monikers are selected by the World Meteorological Organization and are usually common names associated with the ethnicity of the basin that would be affected by the storms. When a storm is particularly deadly or costly, its name is retired and replaced by another one. Here are the names you can expect this year: Alberto Beryl Chris Debby Ernesto Florence Gordon Helene Isaac Joyce Kirk Leslie Michael Nadine Oscar Patty Rafael Sara Tony Valerie William", "Isaac might not be in the same league as Hurricane Katrina seven years ago, but the latest storm to batter Louisiana's Gulf Coast is punching above its weight class in more ways than one, scientists say. The 2005 Hurricane Katrina, which devastated Louisiana and parts of Mississippi and Alabama, was a Category 3 storm (sustained winds of 125 mph) moving at about 15 mph when it made landfall on the Gulf Coast. By comparison, Isaac was a weak Category 1 storm as measured on the Saffir-Simpson scale, with sustained winds of 74-95 mph. By Wednesday afternoon, Isaac had been downgraded to a tropical storm, although it still was close to the Gulf Coast and continued to dump torrential rain. While Isaac is considerably less intense than Katrina, it is large and slow — a dangerous combination — and it's moving west of the Mississippi River, a track that intensifies storm surge, says Timothy Schott, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Tropical Cyclone Program. \"This storm has sustained tropical storm force winds currently extending out to about 175 miles from the center and the hurricane force about 45 miles from the center,\" Schott told NPR at about noon ET Wednesday. Measuring Isaac on three criteria — storm surge, rainfall and wind — Schott would rate the storm \"high impact\" on all of them. Even though the winds are Category 1, the slow movement of the storm increases their effect, he says. \"There's also a connection between the size of the storm and the storm surge,\" Schott says. \"We're seeing the storm surge inundation values coming in at 8, 9, 10 feet in those southeast Louisiana parishes.\" When it comes to predicting storm surge, a lot of factors come into play, says Brian McNoldy, a senior research assistant at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami. Among the questions: How large is the storm? How far do the tropical-force winds extend? How fast is it moving and how long has it been moving in the same way? How deep is the ocean offshore? \"Then the onshore land makes a difference too,\" McNoldy says. \"If the land is really, really flat, like New Orleans, the storm surge can go a lot farther inland.\" Putting 'The Cork' In Place And, with Isaac moving overland at less than 10 mph, Isaac will have plenty of time — perhaps 20 hours in some areas — to bottle up storm surge in the Mississippi, effectively placing a cork in the bottom as it continues to add more water in the form of torrential rainfall. It's not uncommon for hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico to be relatively slow movers and Isaac had been forecast to be just that, Schott says. \"Not every storm moves quickly and sometimes along the Gulf Coast and at these lower latitudes, the storms can slow down as this one has and as it was expected to do,\" he says. McNoldy calls Isaac's stalling out over one of the most vulnerable flood plains in the country just \"bad timing,\" but says it could have been far worse. \"We just got really lucky that this didn't strengthen more as it was moving across the Gulf of Mexico these last few days,\" he says. Better forecasting has also been a boon. It turns out that models are getting quite good at predicting a storm's path, its speed and even the elusive storm surge. But predicting a hurricane's intensity has proved more difficult, McNoldy says. \"For intensity, in some cases we don't even know if we're putting the right data into the models,\" he says." ]

[ "Glycidol is converted into glycerol carbonate (GC) by coupling with CO2 in the presence of tetrabutylammonium bromide (TBAB) under mild reaction conditions (T=60 °C, PCO2 =1 MPa) in excellent yields (99 %) and short reaction time (t=3 h). The unusual reactivity of this substrate compared to other epoxides, such as propylene oxide, under the same reaction conditions is clearly related to the presence of a hydroxyl functionality on the oxirane ring. Density functional theory calculations (DFT) supported by 1 H NMR experiments reveal that the unique behavior of this substrate is a result of the formation of intermolecular hydrogen bonds into a dimeric structure, activating this molecule to nucleophilic attack, and allowing the formation of GC. Furthermore, the glycidol/TBAB catalytic system acts as an efficient organocatalyst for the cycloaddition of CO2 to various oxiranes." ]

[ "Stereochemically inert cationic cobalt(III) complexes were shown to be one-component catalysts for the synthesis of cyclic carbonates from epoxides and carbon dioxide at 50 °C and 5 MPa carbon dioxide pressure. The optimal catalyst possessed an iodide counter anion and could be recycled. A catalytic cycle is proposed in which the ligand of the cobalt complexes acts as a hydrogen-bond donor, activating the epoxide towards ring opening by the halide anion and activating the carbon dioxide for subsequent reaction with the halo-alkoxide. No kinetic resolution was observed when terminal epoxides were used as substrates, but chalcone oxide underwent kinetic resolution.", "The new catalyst system of chiral SalenCo(OAc)/chiral ionic liquid was developed to catalyze the asymmetric cycloaddition reaction of CO2 and epoxides yielding the chiral cyclic carbonates. The synergistic effect between them is discussed.", "A structured catalyst has been fabricated by immobilizing cobalt phthalocyanine tetrasulfonate (CoPcS) on a MgNiAl mixed metal oxide (MgNiAl-MMO) film derived from calcination of layered double hydroxide (LDH). The resulting CoPcS/MgNiAl-MMO catalyst exhibits excellent activity, stability, and recyclability for the reaction of mercaptan sweetening. SEM images show that the structured catalyst is composed of thin MMO nanoflakes perpendicular to the Al substrate. The synergistic effect between the oxidation center (CoPcS) and the abundant moderate basic sites on the surface of the MgNiAl-MMO substrate plays an important role in the sweetening process, accounting for the largely enhanced catalytic behavior (conversion: 92.8%; selectivity: 100%). In addition, the structured catalyst exhibits superior catalysis regeneration performance, owing to its specific architecture and strong mechanical stability. This work demonstrates a facile approach for modulating the synergistic effect between the active center and...", "A well structure-defined dinuclear silver complex [Ag2(PDP)]OTf, where HPDP—bispyridylpyrrole ligand, OTf−—triflato, was used as catalyst for coupling of CO2 with epoxides to generate exclusive cyclic carbonates. Yield up to 87% was obtained for various substrates at a low loading of 0.1 mol%, at ambient temperature and pressure under solvent-free condition. The catalytic reusability of 1·OTf was also studied. Although coupling reaction of CO2 with epoxides can be catalyzed by dinuclear silver complexes with low catalyst loading at ambient temperature and pressure, the experiment of reusability of catalyst displays the dinuclear silver complex is decomposed due to the excess Br− in co-catalyst TBAB. The formed silver triphenylphosphine complex or inorganic silver materials provide real catalytic reactivity to the coupling reaction.", "Two epoxidations of chiral allenamides are described here. While treatment with m-CPBA led to highly stereoselective formation of an α-keto aminal that can be useful synthetically, DMDO oxidation led to conclusive evidence for both nitrogen-substituted allene oxide (via mono-epoxidation) and spiro-epoxide (via bis-epoxidation) using intramolecular nucleophilic trapping experiments. NMR studies provide reliable evidence for a 3-oxetanone that can be derived from the spiro-epoxide and also suggest the presence of an allene oxide. Despite a facile second epoxidation as evidenced by the predominant formation of the 3-oxetanone, in the presence of furan, [4 + 3] cycloaddition of the nitrogen-substituted allene oxide or oxyallyl cation with furan occurs faster than the second epoxidation efficiently leading to cycloadducts. This rate difference plays an invaluable role for the success of a stereoselective sequential epoxidation−[4 + 3] cycloaddition reaction via DMDO epoxidations of chiral allenamides.", "Abstract Kinetics of the reaction between oligomeric diane epoxides of different functionality with respect to epoxide groups, and dicyandiamide in the presence of hexamethylenetetramine has been investigated. The reaction rate is proportional to the concentration of epoxide groups. Curing of oligomers proceeds - up to the complete conversion of epoxide groups - as two concurrent reactions: epoxide-amine and epoxide-hydroxyl. The ratio of the initial rates of the two reactions is 3 : 1 and their respective activation energies are 49·9 and 54·0 kJ/mole. The total reaction heat is 101 kJ/mole.", "The hydrolytic kinetic resolution (HKR) of terminal epoxides catalyzed by chiral (salen)CoIII complex 1·OAc affords both recovered unreacted epoxide and 1,2-diol product in highly enantioenriched form. As such, the HKR provides general access to useful, highly enantioenriched chiral building blocks that are otherwise difficult to access, from inexpensive racemic materials. The reaction has several appealing features from a practical standpoint, including the use of H2O as a reactant and low loadings (0.2−2.0 mol %) of a recyclable, commercially available catalyst. In addition, the HKR displays extraordinary scope, as a wide assortment of sterically and electronically varied epoxides can be resolved to ≥99% ee. The corresponding 1,2-diols were produced in good-to-high enantiomeric excess using 0.45 equiv of H2O. Useful and general protocols are provided for the isolation of highly enantioenriched epoxides and diols, as well as for catalyst recovery and recycling. Selectivity factors (krel) were determined ...", "The purpose of this work is to improve the epoxidation of a long-chain olefin. The conversion and yield from the epoxidation of 1,7-octadiene is greatly enhanced by using a new cocatalyst in the presence of hydrogen peroxide in an organic solvent/aqueous solution two-phase medium. An active intermediate of the catalyst [Q3PW12(O)nO40, where Q = R4N] produced from the reaction of phosphotungstic acid (H3PW12O40), hydrogen peroxide, and Aliquat 336 is employed as the cocatalyst. The structure of the active intermediate of the catalyst was identified by instrumental analysis. A rational mechanism of epoxidation is proposed to account for the reaction from the experimental evidence. The organic-phase reactions, including two series reactions, are the rate-controlling steps to produce two products, viz., 1,2-epoxy-7-octene and 1,2,7,8-diepoxyoctane. The kinetics of epoxidation, including the characteristics of the catalysts and the effect of the amount of cocatalyst, agitation speed, quaternary ammonium salts,...", "A hydroxy group chelation-assisted stereospecific oxidative cross-coupling reaction between alkenes was developed under mild reaction conditions. In the presence of palladium catalyst, the alkenes tethered with hydroxy functionality can couple efficiently with electron-deficient alkenes to form the corresponding multi-substituted olefin products. The hydroxy group on the substrate could play dual roles in reaction, acting as the directing group for alkenyl C−H bond activation and controlling the stereoselectivity of the products.", "Dicobalt octacarbonyl mediated cycloaddition of dienynes in the presence of carbon monoxide has been studied. Three main competing reaction routes, two carbonylative cycloaddition reactions and a Diels-Alder reaction, have been recognized depending upon the substrate and reaction conditions. Judicious design of the substrate and selection of reaction conditions allow control of the reaction pathway.", "A versatile and efficient approach to (3S,5R)-methyl 3-(benzyloxy)-5-(methoxymethoxy)hexadecanoate, a key chiral building block and a common polyol fragment of the anti-tumor and anti-obesity agents tetrahydrolipstatin 3 and tetrahydroesterastin 4 using both hydrolytic kinetic resolution (HKR) and proline catalyzed sequential α-aminoxylation, followed by HWE-olefination reaction is described.", "The diastereoselectivity in the nucleophilic epoxidation of γ-hydroxy α,β-unsaturated compounds using lithium-tert-butylperoxide is highly dependent on the reaction solvent but not influenced by the temperature. The free hydroxyl is key for stereoselection.", "Abstract α,ω-Disubstituted derivatives of 2,3-anhydro- dl -threitol ( 2 ), 2,3-anhydro-erythritol ( 4 ), 2,3:4,5-dianhydrogalactitol ( 8 ), and 2.3:4,5-dianhydroallitol ( 12 ) have been synthesised by epoxidation of the appropriate alkenes and dienes. Benzyloxycarbonyl groups were used for protecting the primary hydroxyl groups during epoxidation.", "Isopolyoxomolybdates exhibited high selectivities for the industrially useful products (cyclohexene oxide and 2-cyclohexen-1-ol) catalyzing effectively the reaction of initial product cyclohexenyl hydroperoxide with cyclohexene in the oxidation of cyclohexene by molecular oxygen.", "The combination of the oxidants produces the active species tert.-butyloxidanyl which allows a direct conversion of the substrates to carbonyl derivatives.", "Manganese supported titanium tungstate {TiMn(II)W} was synthesized by ionexchange method and characterized by DSC and FTIR techniques. Its catalytic activity for epoxidation of cyclohexene using dry tert-butylhydroperoxide (TBHP) as an oxidant was studied. In the epoxidation reaction, under optimized condition cyclohexene was oxidized to cyclohexene oxide, cyclohexenol and cyclohexenone. A maximum 67.49% selectivity for epoxidation of cyclohexene was observed for Ti Mn(II)W/dryTBHP system after 6 hours of reaction when concentrations of the catalyst and the substrate were 0.20 mmole and 20 mmole respectively.", "A variety of cyclic and acyclic allylic alcohols undergo efficient chemo-, regio- and/or stereoselective epoxidations in neutral aqueous solutions of amphiphilic carbohydrates (sucrose, L-arabinose, methyl or ethyl β-D-fructopyranoside) by using dilute hydrogen peroxide in the presence of molybdic or tungstic salts.", "Commercially available ruthenium catalyst, Cp*RuCl(COD), was found to be active in catalyzing Bis-Homo-Diels-Alder [2+2+2] cycloaddition reactions between 1,5-cyclooctadiene and various alkynes giving moderate to good yields (35%–92%). The presence of electron donating groups, especially hydroxyl groups, greatly enhanced the reactivity of the alkyne moiety in the cycloaddition. The reaction was also found to be successful even in the presence of bulky substituents on the alkynes.", "An efficient synthesis of novel 1,2,3-1H-triazolyl glycohybrids with two or more than two sugar units or a chromenone moiety via copper-catalysed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC), a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of glycosyl azides to 2,3-unsaturated alkynyl glycosides or propargyloxy coumarins is described. The synthesised glycohybrids were screened for their α-glucosidase, glycogen phosphorylase and glucose-6-phosphatase inhibitory activities. A few of the glycohybrids showed promising inhibitory activities against these enzymes.", "The invention discloses a metal organic framework material as well as a preparation method and an application thereof. The material comprises components of raw materials as follows: zinc halide, a nitrogen-rich ligand and a second ligand, wherein the nitrogen-rich ligand is imidazole or adenine, and the second ligand is isonicotinic acid. The metal organic framework material facilitates adsorption and activation of CO2; the cycle opening capacity of epoxides is improved and CO2 is further activated due to introduction of nucleophilic halogen, so that the CO2 reaction is promoted, and the material has high catalytic activity for a CO2 cycloaddition reaction.", "C-Glycoside analogs of α-galactosylceramide (KRN7000) were synthesized in 19 linear steps with Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation as a key reaction. Opening of a hydroxy epoxide with sodium azide provided an anti vicinal azido diol with inversion of configuration at the azide-bearing carbon while opening with Ti(O-i-Pr)2(N3)2 gave syn vicinal azido diol with retention. The latter, unusual outcome could be rationalized either by invoking Ti-catalyzed intramolecular double SN2 inversion or by epoxide opening/intramolecular delivery of azide from the Ti complex.", "Using an O,Se-acetal, activated by copper(II) chloride, a new, simple and chemoselective method for the preparation of differently substituted alcohols as 1,4-dioxan-2-yl derivatives has been accomplished.", "A conceptually distinct approach to the aminolysis of 1,2-epoxides, which involves Lewis base-Bronsted acid catalysis employing N-formyl-L-proline as an easily accessible bifunctional organocatalyst and water as a solvent is presented. The potential of N-formyl-L-proline as organocatalyst for the sulfide oxidation reaction using aqueous hydrogen peroxide as environmentally benign and readily available oxidant is also demonstrated. Good to high yields are achieved for both reactions.", "Under Lewis acid activation, the new α-hydroxy-spiro epoxide scaffold 1a underwent an original tandem Payne/Meinwald rearrangement affording the cyclopentyl hydroxymethylketone 6 in a stereospecific manner, while a Meinwald-type epoxide rearrangement occurred when the derived α-trimethylsilyloxy-spiro epoxide 2a was treated with MABR, yielding stereoselectively the cyclohexane carbaldehyde 9.", "Two indirect processes for synthesis of glycerol carbonate by reaction of CO2 with glycerol derivatives 3-chloro-1,2propanediol(3-CPD) and glycidol,respectively,were proposed.Some unknown thermodynamic functions and constant pressure heat capacities were estimated by making use of the group contribution method,which and some data from the references quoted were used to calculate the changes of enthalpy,Gibbs free energy and equilibrium constants as well as the pressure needed for the spontaneous reactions at room temperature for synthesis of glycerol carbonate via the proposed processes.The results show that the synthetic reaction based on 3-CPD and CO2 is difficult to occur at ambient temperature,and compared to the reaction based on glycerol and CO2 in 298.15K to 538.15K,its equilibrium constant is even much lower at low temperature and has the same order of magnitude(10-9) at high temperature,however,the reaction based on glycidol and CO2 is thermodynamically favorable.", "An environmentally friendly water-based pathway to form the azide derivatives of soybean oil and fatty esters is reported. This entails first the formation of epoxides and then the azidization of the epoxides. The azidization reaction is carried out at high yields in water with only a small amount of an ionic liquid as a catalyst. The distribution of azide and alcohol functionalities on the fatty acid moiety is approximately random. This reaction has been applied to methyl oleate, methyl linoleate, soybean oil, and methyl soyate. The resulting structures have been studied by NMR.", "The title compound, [Gd(C5H2N2O4)(C5H3N2O4)(C12H8N2)2]·2H2O, was obtained from a solvothermal reaction of 2,4-dihydroxy­pyrimidine-5-carboxylic acid (H3iso), GdCl3·6H2O and 1,10-phenanthroline (phen). The GdIII ion is located on a twofold rotation axis and is coordinated by four N atoms from two chelating phen ligands and four O atoms (5-carboxyl­ate and 4-oxido O atoms) from H2iso− and Hiso2− ligands. The mol­ecules are linked into a three-dimensional network by N—H⋯O, N—H⋯N and O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds. The H atom involved in an N—H⋯N hydrogen bond is disordered around a twofold rotation axis with half occupancy.", "Abstract Methanation of carbon oxides (CO and CO2) was studied over Ni-based catalysts supported on CeO2, Al2O3, and Y2O3 oxides. Catalysts were synthesized by solution combustion synthesis and characterized by N2-physisorption, XRD, H2-TPR, TEM, CO-chemisorption, UV–vis DRS, XPS, and CO2-TPD. The effect of reaction temperature (250−500 °C) was investigated under atmospheric pressure, space velocity (GHSV) of 10,000 h−1, and stoichiometric reactants ratio of (H2-CO2)/(CO + CO2) = 3. It can be concluded that the nature of Ni-support interactions played a crucial role in enhancing CO and CO2 hydrogenation at low reaction temperature. Ni/CeO2 catalyst deactivated rapidly due to coke deposition, while the formation of NiAl2O4 spinel explained the lower activity of the Al2O3-supported system. Activity data for Ni/Y2O3 catalysts were closely related to the degree of Ni dispersion as well as to the medium-strength basicity. Good anti-coking and anti-sintering ability were observed after 200 h of lifetime test.", "Limonene dioxide is a platform molecule for the production of new biopolymers. First attempts at limonene epoxidation were made by using low-coordination titanium supported on SBA-16 as the catalyst using tert-butyl hydroperoxide as the oxidizing agent, but no limonene dioxide was obtained. When limonene was substituted by 1,2-limonene oxide, the yield of limonene dioxide was only 13% in the same conditions. Two other techniques, both using in situ generated dimethyl dioxirane by the reaction of acetone with Oxone, have been studied and compared. These reactions are carried out in semibatch conditions and at room temperature. The first double epoxidation of limonene was performed in a conventional biphasic organic–water system and the other in excess acetone. The former epoxidation of limonene using ethyl acetate as the organic phase allowed reaching 95% conversion and yielding 33% of limonene dioxide. In comparison, when the reaction was performed in acetone, a limonene dioxide yield of 97% was observed ...", "We have explored the use of molecular oxygen as the oxidant for the selective oxidation of cyclohexane using cobalt catalysts in supercritical CO{sub 2}. We have chosen to use supercritial CO{sub 2} as a co-solvent for reasons: (1) oxygen, cyclohexane and acetic acid are miscible in supercritical CO{sub 2} and therefore oxidation can occur in a homogeneous phase; (2) C02 is inert for oxidation and can be easily separated from the reaction mixture; (3) CO{sub 2} is environmentally benign. Adipic acid was formed at 80 % selectivity with 5% conversion. Reaction rates and product selectivity will be reported as a function of temperature and pressure.", "The diastereo- and enantioselective organocatalytic epoxidation of alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehydes in aqueous solutions is presented. By the screening of the reaction conditions for the epoxidation of cinnamic aldehyde applying hydrogen peroxide as the oxidant and 2-[bis-(3,5-bis-trifluoromethyl-phenyl)-trimethylsilanyloxy-methyl]-pyrrolidine as the catalyst, a highly stereoselective reaction has been developed. The scope of the diastereo- and enantioselective organocatalytic epoxidation in aqueous solutions is documented by the asymmetric epoxidation of alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehydes with enantioselectivities up to 96% ee.", "The present invention (the counter 30mol% or more is phenyl), at least an organopolysiloxane resin containing a directly bonded to silicon alkenyl, hydroxyl and phenyl, organo hydrogen oligosiloxane or containing a direct bond to at least silicon phenyl organohydrogenpolysiloxane addition reaction relates to a curable organopolysiloxane resin composition comprising (20mol% or more thereof is a phenyl) and addition reaction curing catalyst. The addition reaction-curable organopolysiloxane resin composition, organopolysiloxane resin, organo hydrogen oligosiloxane, organohydrogenpolysiloxane, an addition reaction curing catalyst" ]

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[ "The Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, hit with a one-year delay due to the pandemic, concluded Sunday with a closing ceremony celebration that was both joyful and contemplative. Athletes, masked and some donning the medals they won, filled the floor of the mostly empty Olympic Stadium, where they were met with a light show and musical performances from groups like the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra. The number of athletes present was smaller than usual, given the pandemic-related requirement that athletes return home shortly after their final competition. At the end of the ceremony, the Olympic torch will go out and Tokyo will hand over its hosting duties to Paris, the next city to hold the Summer Olympics, in 2024.Because of the delay in mounting the Tokyo Games, it'll be just six months before we start the Beijing Winter Olympics in February of 2022.", "With the Olympics underway, Tokyo has set a new, unfortunate record: for coronavirus cases. Tokyo had 3,177 new positive cases on Tuesday, according to the city's government. The city has become Japan's biggest COVID-19 hot spot and is host to most of the Olympic events. That's the highest number of cases for the city — topping the previous record, set just a day before — and it's far higher than when Olympic personnel began arriving in the city on July 1, when the number of daily new cases was under 700. The rise in new cases nationally is also setting records, according to local news outlets. Japan's Kyodo News reported that the number of new cases confirmed in the country on Wednesday was 9,583 — a big jump from a week earlier. One bright spot: For the first time in four days, no Olympic athletes tested positive for the coronavirus in the preceding day. But 16 Olympics-related personnel did test positive, including two members of the media. Since the start of July, 169 Olympic-affiliated people have tested positive, including at least 17 athletes. A majority of the Japanese have told pollsters that they are opposed to hosting the Games during the ongoing pandemic. Japan has a low rate of vaccination, with 26% of the population fully vaccinated. The country remains highly susceptible to coronavirus outbreaks, and many Japanese fear they will get the virus from people who are in the country for the Olympics. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga urged people to stay home and watch the Olympics on TV.", "The timing couldn't be worse: with Tokyo the focus of world attention after the start of the long-delayed Olympic Games, health officials in the Japanese capital report a never-before-seen daily count in coronavirus infections. Tokyo's metropolitan government confirmed that the city recorded 2,848 new cases on Monday, a number that surpasses the previous high of 2,520 cases on Jan. 7. Since even before the opening ceremony for the Games last week, the number of new infections has been trending up. Less than a week ago, the daily count was at just over 1,800. The record, announced on Tuesday, marked the eighth consecutive day that daily increases exceeded 1,000 for the city, which postponed the Games last year due to the ongoing pandemic, but forged ahead this year amid a state of emergency and without spectators as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19. . Broadcaster TBS said Tuesday that Tokyo hospitals were preparing more beds to cope with the surge. The hospitals were also reportedly postponing planned surgeries. As recently as May, public opinion polls showed that a large majority of Japanese didn't want the Olympics to proceed due to the pandemic. Protesters gathered outside the Olympics opening ceremony on Friday to loudly demonstrate their anger that the Games were going ahead despite the danger they might pose to public health. Meanwhile, Olympics organizers reported Monday that three athletes were among 16 new coronavirus cases linked to the Games bringing the total since July 1 to 148, according to Reuters. The news agency reports that support for Japan's prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, who faces election this year, has suffered over the decision to go ahead with the Games and the public's perception that the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in Japan has been inadequate.", "Athletes from around the world wound their way through Tokyo's Olympic Stadium on Tuesday, wearing masks and waving to a largely empty stadium, accompanied by performers and upbeat music. NBCSN will rebroadcast the ceremony Tuesday night at 7 p.m. ET. The \"Parade of Athletes\" was lead by the Refugee Paralympic Team, a six-member delegation that organizers say represents \"the more than 82 million people around the world who have been forced to flee war, persecution, and human rights abuses, 12 million of whom live with a disability.\" The teams range in size from a single athlete to more than 250 competitors. A total of 4,403 athletes are taking part in the international competition getting underway Tuesday, according to the organizing committee for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. That bests the previous record for athletes competing in the Paralympics of 4,328 set in Rio in 2016. Among those competing in the Tokyo Paralympic Games, 1,853 are women, another record. Previously, Rio 2016 had the most female athletes with 1,671. Team USA was one of the last to enter the stadium because it is hosting the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The 240 U.S athletes include 21 with military affiliations (three of whom are active duty). The flag-bearers are Melissa Stockwell, a veteran and a Parlympic bronze-medalist; and Chuck Aoki, a two-time Paralympic medalist and member of the Athletes' Advisory Council. Read more about them here. Afghanistan's Paralympic team is unable to compete since the Taliban took control of the country and airports have been slammed with people frantically trying to flee. In a show of solidarity, a representative of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees carried the Afghanistan flag during the parade. The opening ceremony included a performance that served as an ode to movement, even in the face of headwinds. The story featured a one-winged plane, played by 13-year-old Wago Yui, who doesn't think she can fly but is shown by other characters that she can symbolically fly. NBC said many of the performers had never acted before, including the central character. Reporting for this story originally appeared in the Morning Edition liveblog.", "Records have been set nearly every day lately in Tokyo, but not all of them have been by athletes competing in the Olympics. Japan's capital has exceeded 4,000 coronavirus infections for the first time — 4,058 cases, to be exact. That's a record high and nearly four times as many cases were reported just a week ago. Tokyo set new case records every day from Monday to Wednesday, experiencing just a slight dip on Thursday, when they totaled 3,300 — still one of the city's highest daily counts on record. Within the Olympic bubble, 21 games-related personnel have tested positive in the past day, none of which were athletes. Since July started, 241 people connected with the Olympics have tested positive for the coronavirus. On Friday, Japan extended a state of emergency to areas around Tokyo and to Osaka to combat the overwhelming COVID-19 surge. Tokyo's state of emergency will be extended through the end of August. New COVID-19 cases have topped 10,000 for two days in a row, while officials continue to say the Olympics have nothing to do with the surge. Josie Fischels is an intern on NPR's News Desk.", "The opening ceremony of the Tokyo Summer Olympics is set for this Friday, but some of the competition gets underway Tuesday. Already this week, there have been a number of positive coronavirus cases of athletes, team officials and others who&#8217;ve come in for the games. We set the stage for the games with NPR&#8217;s Mandalit del Barco, who has been documenting the Tokyo lockdown experience on her Facebook. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.", "This week marks the start of the Paralympic Games in Tokyo. And while the audience for the games is large, equal treatment for the athletes has taken time. It took until this year for the Paralympics to be covered on prime-time television and for Paralympians to be paid comparably to their Olympic counterparts. This year, over 4,000 athletes with a range of disabilities from all over the globe will compete in 28 Paralympic sports. Of course, it's a little different during the pandemic. Spectators are banned just as they were during the Olympic Games. Japan's Covid-19 cases hit a record high just days before the opening ceremony. We talk through what to expect this year and why it's taken so long for the Paralympics to make it to prime time. Brad Snyder, Ahmed Fareed, Caroline Casey, and Julie Dussliere join us for the conversation. Like what you hear? Find more of our programs online.", "Despite skepticism over holding the Tokyo Summer Olympics, organizers, athletes and the main rights-holding TV broadcaster are charging ahead. NBC announced a record 13 days of Olympic trial coverage.", "Organizers for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics announced they will allow some local spectators into each venue as long as no state of emergency is in effect. Up to 10,000 domestic fans will be allowed at events, or 50% of the venue's capacity, whichever is less, organizers said Monday. The coronavirus situation in Japan has improved in recent weeks with increased vaccinations, though critics still believe it would be safer to close the games to all spectators. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga lifted a third state of emergency in Tokyo and other coronavirus restrictions in other regions last week. Suga shared Monday that a push in the country's immunization program has resulted in at least 31 million inoculations to date. Now, an average of more than 1 million people per day are getting shots in Japan, he said. The push is due in part to loosened restrictions on who can receive shots and the opening of mass vaccination centers throughout the country. Critics of the decision to allow local spectators into the Olympic Games warned of the potential for the massive event to lead to an increase in infections. Government advisers said it's safer to ban all spectators. Underscoring the risk associated with holding the Olympics during an ongoing pandemic was a report that an athlete traveling to Japan tested positive for the coronavirus. One athlete from Uganda tested positive at Narita International Airport outside Tokyo over the weekend and was denied entry into the country, according to NPR's Anthony Kuhn. The government said that the athlete can enter the country after testing negative. The unnamed athlete was part of a delegation of nine Ugandan athletes and coaches, competing in swimming, boxing and weightlifting. The rest of the Ugandans headed for a pre-game training camp.", "It's Opening Ceremony day in Tokyo, heralding the official start to another Olympics. Although we've already had two days of sports competition, there's the knowledge that once the smoke settles after tonight's ceremony-ending fireworks, the gates are flung open to 16 straight days of unprecedented drama. As a reporter, it'll be fine to have a daily plan — but as always, I'll be ready to wad it up and throw it away as unforeseen stories capture the imagination. So at this point, there is a sameness about these Tokyo Games. But in so many ways, they are hugely different from the 12 previous Olympics I've been lucky enough to cover. Never have I been through an hours-long gauntlet of paperwork and QR codes and of course a saliva test at the airport on arrival. Never have I quarantined in a tiny hotel room for four days before getting a real view of the host city. Never have I seen in that city, once sprung from isolation, so little fanfare or physical evidence that it's about to host the globe's biggest sports spectacle. Never have I seen the level of dissatisfaction and even anger among the locals, about the Olympics coming to their home. And as a long-time chronicler of Olympic doping, never have I seen so much talk of positive tests that have nothing to do with steroids, EPO or other performance-enhancers of choice. Will those increasing numbers of positive coronavirus tests drive the daily drama? We're about to find out. The athletes will do all they can to keep the narrative focused on their stories — irresistible stories of sportsmen and women who've toiled for years in obscurity, and now get to emerge on a world stage for the briefest of moments. We root for them, not the Olympic leaders who many believe are unwisely forcing these Games into a surging pandemic. And in those cheers for the competitors ... cheers that will come from living rooms and not the empty, lifeless Olympic stadiums ... these Games are exactly the same as they've always been.", "Organizers at the Tokyo Summer Olympics have reported one of the highest daily increases of coronavirus cases since they started keeping records on July 1. Since Wednesday, 24 people linked to the Games have tested positive — including three athletes. That brings the total of Olympic-related officials to catch the virus to 193 people, including 20 athletes. The increase comes the same day government officials in Tokyo reported the highest-ever number of daily cases (3,865) in the capital since the pandemic began last year. Health experts in Japan warn that the surge is straining local hospitals. But organizers of the Tokyo Olympics are downplaying the danger. \"We've been trying to minimize the impact to the local medical system. And in that respect, we've been absolutely right on track to deliver the safe and secure games for both perspectives,\" said Takaya Masa, a spokesman for Tokyo 2020. Speaking during a news conference at the Olympic media press center, Masa did say that two non-Japanese people who tested positive during the Games are now in the hospital, but their cases are not serious. The Summer Olympics are being held without spectators in Tokyo as the city remains under a state of emergency because of the coronavirus.", "Women and men will compete together in mixed relays at the next Summer Olympics, the International Olympic Committee says, announcing a slate of changes for Tokyo 2020. The IOC says it will get close to gender balance among Olympic athletes, boosting women to nearly 49 percent, from 45.6 percent in Rio. The Tokyo Games will feature 18 mixed events, up from nine at the Rio Olympics. The IOC's executive board approved the new event program for Tokyo at its meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, Friday. Both swimming and track will hold mixed relays, as well as a triathlon team relay; other sports will also allow national sporting federations to blend their male and female athletes, from mixed doubles in table tennis to team events in sports such as judo, cycling and fencing. Arriving along with five new sports, the shifts represent what IOC President Thomas Bach is calling \"a step-change in the Olympic program.\" The changes are part of a plan to attract younger viewers. The new sports include surfing, sport climbing, skateboarding, karate, baseball and softball. Existing sports will add new competitions, such as 3-on-3 basketball. \"I am delighted that the Olympic Games in Tokyo will be more youthful, more urban and will include more women,\" Bach said. To rebalance the gender participation rates, the IOC shifted a number of men's events, reclassifying them as either women's or mixed. Both the canoe and shooting sports saw three events transferred from men to women. For the U.S. team, women have outnumbered men in the past two Summer Olympics — in Rio, the margin was 292 to 263, and the women won 61 medals, compared with 55 for the men. The IOC's moves will also have other effects. While they will bring an overall increase of 15 events, the board also cut athletes' quotas in a variety of sports, for a net loss of 285 athletes. The biggest cut hit one of the biggest sports: Athletics, which includes track and field, will have 105 fewer athletes in Tokyo. Weightlifting will lose 64 athletes, while wrestling will lose 56.", "Organizers of this year's Olympics in Tokyo are putting a new meaning behind \"look, but don't touch.\" The Games are ordinarily a place where many young athletes mix, mingle and, naturally, get very close. As they have since the 1980s, organizers ordered thousands of condoms so athletes can safely hook up. To be specific, Japanese organizers ordered 160,000 condoms to be handed out to athletes in the Olympic Village. But because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tokyo organizers also want participants to refrain from any kind of intimate physical activity outside their sport. That means: Those condoms we gave you? Don't use them — at least not while you're inside the Olympic bubble. Organizers say athletes should take the condoms home as souvenirs and use them to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. But under no uncertain terms are participants to use them or engage in any one-on-one philandering while they are in Japan for the Games, organizers said. The topic may elicit a giggle, but the penalties that athletes face if they violate these rules are serious, as are the reasons for implementing them. Athletes are under strict coronavirus protocols as Tokyo and other regions of Japan are under a state of emergency because of COVID-19. They must follow social distancing guidelines and abide by bans on handshakes, high-fives and other types of physical, close contact, according to the rulebook. Any participant who violates the rules could face fines, disqualification and the loss of Olympic medals if the person is found to be a repeat offender. If athletes choose to flout the rules on intimacy, they'll also have to contend with the small cardboard-frame beds that are provided to Olympians.", "Ousted from the London 2012 Games by the International Olympic Committee, baseball and softball might get a reprieve, thanks to a proposal from Tokyo 2020 Olympics organizers. They'd also like to see skateboarding and surfing — but not bowling. Baseball and softball were on a list of five sports released by the Tokyo Organizing Committee on Monday, under a new Olympics process that allows hosting countries to propose sports that reflect their own culture. Sports climbing also made the cut, as did karate — a move in which the organizers chose a Japanese martial art over a Chinese one, wushu, that had been on the Tokyo committee's short list this summer. Bowling and squash were also on the short list but were omitted from Monday's proposal. Together, the five sports would bring an additional 474 athletes to Tokyo. Here's the list of proposed events, along with the number of athletes: Baseball/Softball: 234Karate (Kata and Kumite): 80Skateboard (Street and Park): 80Sports Climbing (Bouldering, Lead and Speed Combined): 40Surfing (Shortboard): 40 All of the events reflect an even split of male and female athletes, except for baseball, which would have 144 participants to softball's 90. The organizers say, \"Tokyo 2020 believes the proposed additional events will inspire young athletes involved in these events around the world to strive to achieve their cherished dream of competing in the world's greatest sporting spectacle.\" The final decision is up to the International Olympic Committee, which will make its choice(s) at next summer's Rio 2016 Olympics. The move to cut baseball and softball was controversial, particularly in the U.S., when it was first announced 10 years ago. At the time, baseball was faulted for not bringing the sport's stars to the Olympics; softball was omitted because of what were deemed to be low participation rates worldwide. Baseball nearly made it back into the Olympics rotation in 2013, but IOC members instead chose to reinstate wrestling, just months after cutting the sport that's been part of the international games for more than 100 years.", "Updated at 6:13 p.m. ET The Tokyo Summer Olympics will not begin in late July and instead will be held \"by the summer of 2021,\" Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Tuesday. The delay comes after an increasing number of athletes and sporting federations called for the games to be delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the first time an Olympics has been postponed, though the games were canceled three times, because of World War I and World War II. Abe revealed the decision to journalists moments after speaking by phone with International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach. The prime minister's office said via Twitter that \"the two have agreed that the Tokyo Olympic Games would not be cancelled, and the games will be held by the summer of 2021.\" The IOC and Tokyo organizers released a joint statement saying the games won't be held in 2020 in an attempt \"to safeguard the health of the athletes, everybody involved in the Olympic Games and the international community.\" While Japan has benefited from strenuous efforts to contain the coronavirus, the virus is spreading quickly in other areas. And health experts warn that it will likely be months before people can return to the normal routines of everyday life. \"The unprecedented and unpredictable spread of the outbreak has seen the situation in the rest of the world deteriorating,\" the IOC and Tokyo organizers said. Until this week, Olympic organizers had insisted that the Tokyo Games would go on as planned, dismissing any talk of forming contingency plans for dealing with a deadly respiratory disease that is now found in nearly every country in the world. It wasn't until Sunday, Tokyo organizers said, that they \"agreed to proceed with detailed discussions of different scenarios, including postponement.\" But from there, the situation changed very quickly. On Monday, Tokyo officials warned that a final decision might not emerge for up to four weeks. By the next day, however, the fate of the 2020 Games was sealed. The Tokyo Olympics had been scheduled to start in about 120 days. But Abe and Bach concluded that it must be rescheduled to a date beyond 2020, citing the most recent updates from the World Health Organization. \"The pandemic is accelerating,\" WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday. When Tedros spoke, the number of coronavirus cases worldwide had recently shot past 300,000. As of Tuesday morning ET, that figure was already closing in on 400,000 and at least 17,000 people had died from COVID-19. In announcing the decision to delay the Tokyo Games, the organizers said the Olympic flame — which recently reached Japan after being lit in Greece — will remain in Japan until the postponed games are held. They also said the name of the games — which is plastered on signs, toys and all manner of branded materials — will not change. Despite being held in 2021, the upcoming Olympics will retain the formal title of \"Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020.\" The organizers say they hope that eventually, \"the Olympic flame could become the light at the end of the tunnel in which the world finds itself at present.\" In addition to the potential risks to public safety that massive Olympics crowds would entail at a time when a pandemic is raging, athletes in many countries have seen their training disrupted or interrupted. The coronavirus has also forced a number of high-profile qualifying competitions to be canceled or postponed. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee joined those calling for a postponement, releasing a statement saying that after speaking with athletes on the team, the committee had concluded that \"the enormous disruptions to the training environment, doping controls and qualification process can't be overcome in a satisfactory manner.\" The U.S. committee urged the IOC to ensure that the Tokyo Games are \"conducted under safe and fair conditions for all competitors.\" The postponement of the quadrennial competition was also hailed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which called the decision \"sensible.\" \"The health and safety of the athletes remains the number-one priority for WADA and the anti-doping community,\" WADA President Witold Bańka declared in a press release, \"and it is clear that the correct decision has been taken in this challenging and unprecedented situation.\" But he also noted that the coronavirus pandemic could complicate ongoing anti-doping monitoring. \"It is clear that there are a number of challenges being faced related to the testing of athletes at this time,\" Bańka said. \"WADA is working closely with Anti-Doping Organizations, athletes and other stakeholders to ensure the integrity of the global anti-doping program is maintained as far as possible during this time and to ensure that the system returns to full power as quickly and effectively as possible once this crisis has abated.\" Others voiced concerns about athletes who have been sanctioned for doping violations. Those who", "The Tokyo Paralympic Games are going to be more visible and have more participants than ever before, even in the face of the pandemic. Here's a look at the records and other \"firsts\" happening in this year's Games, which officially opened on Tuesday and run through Sept. 5. The Games will be in prime time For the first time, the opening ceremony and events are running in a prime-time slot on network television. This year's Games are carried by NBC. NBC is set to air more than 1,200 hours of programming across its TV and digital channels in the days ahead (compared with some 70 hours of total coverage during the 2016 Rio Games, The Associated Press reports). To learn more about why it has taken so long and what to expect this year, check out this conversation about Paralympics coverage on 1A from NPR and WAMU. Two new sports kick off Two of the 22 summer sports sanctioned by the International Paralympic Committee are new to the Games: badminton and taekwondo. Although the IPC announced that badminton would become an official sport in 2015, it is just now making its debut. Taekwondo will be the first full-contact Paralympic sport ever. Read more about the rules for badminton and taekwondo. More women will compete than ever There are 4,403 athletes taking part in the international competition, according to the organizing committee for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. That bests the previous record for athletes competing in the Paralympics (4,328 set in Rio in 2016). Among those competing in the Tokyo Paralympic Games, 1,853 are women, another record. Previously, Rio 2016 had the most female athletes with 1,671. LGBTQ representation is growing At least 28 publicly out Paralympians will compete in the Summer Games in Tokyo, more than double the number that took part in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, according to Outsports. The athletes on the list come from at least eight countries and are mostly women. The only man on the list is Lee Pearson, an equestrian from Great Britain. There are also \"at least three non-binary or neutral athletes\" participating in the Games, according to the site. Medalists will be getting more money For the first time, Paralympians who win medals in Tokyo will earn the same as Olympians in Tokyo, thanks to a 2018 decision by the U.S. Olympic Committee board. The move gave Paralympic athletes a 400% increase for each medal win, finally putting them at parity with U.S. Olympians. Reporting for this story originally appeared in the Morning Edition liveblog.", "This year's Olympic Games has been an event unlike any other before it. The ongoing pandemic has changed so much, most noticeable being the ban on spectators with even families barred from attending. Still, despite these difficulties, athletes are blazing trails and making history. San Marino became the smallest country to ever medal The first week was a whirlwind for San Marino, a tiny country in Southern Europe with a population of only 34,000. (To put it into perspective, consider that Wyoming, the U.S. state with the smallest population in the country, has around 580,000 residents). When Alessandra Perilli earned a bronze medal in women's trap shooting on Thursday, San Marino became the smallest country to ever medal at the Games. Perilli's medal is also the first-ever Olympic medal for San Marino. The Philippines won its first gold in nearly 100 years The first week of the Olympics was also a big deal for the Philippines. Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz won the gold on Monday, a first for her country despite nearly 100 years of participation in the Games. And if that weren't note-worthy enough for you, she also set an Olympic record in the process, lifting a combined weight of 224 kilograms, or around 493 pounds, across two lifts. Turkmenistan had a major first as well Fellow weightlifter Polina Guryeva made history for her country, too: her silver medal is the first Olympic medal Turkmenistan has earned since gaining independence from the Soviet Union. Bermuda ended a 40-year wait This week saw Bermuda win its first ever gold medal at the Games. Flora Duffy earned the top spot in women's individual triathlon on Tuesday, making her home island proud. It was no easy feat, either: the individual triathlon involves open-water swimming, biking and running. Duffy's win came more than 40 years after Bermuda took home its last Olympic medal: a bronze for heavyweight boxing in 1976. Swimmer Katie Ledecky continued her reign Katie Ledecky lived up to expectations and became the first female swimmer to earn six individual gold medals over her career with a win in the 800-meter freestyle. Gymnast Sunisa Lee made history Gymnast Sunisa Lee made her hometown of St. Paul, Minn., proud when she won gold at Thursday's individual all-around competition. But even before winning gold, she'd already made history as the first Hmong American to represent her country on the U.S. Olympics team, and her supporters were moved to tears after her monumental win. Surfer Carissa Moore entered the record books — again American surfer Carissa Moore became the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal in her sport on Tuesday. However, she's clearly no stranger to making history, after having been named the youngest world champion in surfing when she was 18 years old. It was a major year for LGBTQ representation This Olympics also saw the inclusion of the first ever openly non-binary athlete, Alana Smith, an American skateboarder. Their goal for the Games was \"to be happy and be a visual representation for humans like me,\" they said in an Instagram post. Quinn, a member of the Canadian women's soccer team, is one of the first openly transgender athletes to compete in the Olympics. Of such a huge achievement, they said they feel \"optimistic\" that more change is coming. Alongside Quinn is Chelsea Wolfe, a BMX rider who is the first openly transgender athlete to compete on Team USA. New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard was also the first trans athlete to ever qualify for the Olympics and will make her debut on Monday. It's a big year for LGBTQ representation in the Games: there are more openly LGBTQ athletes at the Tokyo Games than in any Olympics before, according to Outsports. And they've won medals at a rate that would outpace lots of countries. We saw the debut of new sports The Tokyo Games saw the inclusion of four entirely new sports and the return of two that hadn't been featured for over a decade. Softball and baseball returned to the Olympics after 13 years, while skateboarding, surfing, sports climbing, and karate made their Olympics debut. It's not an easy process to make the cut for the Olympic Games; plenty of popular sports don't land a spot on the program. It was quite a victory for skateboarding in particular, which had already struggled historically to be categorized as a sport. Thanks to the inclusion of skateboarding, Japan hit a new milestone: 13-year-old Momiji Nishiya, who earned the top spot in women's street skating, is now her country's youngest gold medalist. Lots and lots of new world records were set Rowers Grace Prendergast and Kerri Gowler, hailing from New Zealand, set a new world record on Thursday during the women's pair semi-final after having their previous world record beaten by a pair from Greece earlier that day. New Zealand rowers have excelled in their sport during the Games: Emma Twigg took home the gold in single sculls rowing on Thursday and set an Olympic record while she was at it. Her win is a", "Two days before the Olympics' opening ceremony, Tokyo is reporting new COVID-19 cases at levels not seen since January — when Japan was enduring a record spike in coronavirus infections. The 1,832 new cases represent a sharp rise from last Wednesday, when the Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported 1,149 cases. \"There is a high risk of a resurgence of the virus,\" Tokyo's government said in a bulletin issued on Wednesday. It added that the caseload has put Tokyo's health system under pressure, in terms of providing non-COVID-related care. Tokyo and other Japanese regions are already operating under a state of emergency — a condition that will persist throughout the Summer Olympics. The Games' opening ceremony is slated for Friday, with competitions running through Aug. 8. Ahead of the opening ceremony, large tournament-format sports such as Olympic softball and soccer kicked off their opening rounds of group play on Wednesday. Coronavirus cases have been rising in Tokyo since June. Health officials say they're very concerned that things are about to get worse. \"If the increase rate rises further, in less than two weeks, we will face a critical situation with the number of infections far exceeding that of the third wave,\" the government said. \"There is an urgent need to prepare crisis management systems for hospital care, as well as for designated hotels for recovery and at-home recovery.\" On the national level, Japan's health ministry reported 3,743 new cases on Wednesday. Japan avoided the massive spike in COVID-19 cases that some countries saw last spring. But it has endured two large spikes since then, at the turn of the new year as well as in weeks spanning from April into May. In Tokyo and nationwide, officials reported the highest numbers of new cases in early January.", "A record number of openly LGBTQ candidates are running for office this November. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Amelia Marquez of Montana, Gina Ortiz Jones of Texas, and Dan Innis of New Hampshire.", "The Summer Olympics ended last month, but Beijing is still playing host to the Paralympics. Associated Press sportswriter Stephen Wade, who is covering the games, says wheelchair rugby has lots of testosterone and tattoos, too.", "As the Olympic games concluded in Tokyo, the next city to host, Paris, has already started its celebration. During the closing ceremony on Sunday, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo received and waved an Olympic flag in the Tokyo stadium, a traditional pass to the next city. But the celebration then had a few twists to how the handover is usually done. The French national anthem was played by the National Orchestra of France in a filmed video that took viewers all over sites in Paris. Then, a live broadcast took viewers straight into the handover celebration in the streets of Paris. The Paris 2024 Olympic flag was unfurled from the Eiffel Tower, which organizers said set a world record as the largest flag ever flown — it's almost the size of a football field. And the Patrouille Acrobatique de France, conducted a flyover that displayed the country's flag in the sky. Visuals presented at the event also showcased what the Paris games may look like in three years. Organizers are planning to put the competitions in the center of the city, with the opening ceremony slated to take place along the Seine River in the middle of Paris, rather than a stadium. French president Emmanuel Macron delivered short remarks, saying the updated Olympic motto: \"Faster, Higher, Stronger. Together.\" On stage near the Eiffel Tower were also French Olympic athletes who had returned from the Tokyo games. The handover even took viewers out of this world — literally. Aboard the International Space Station, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet tweeted that he and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide held their own Olympic handover and displayed the Olympic flag together. Paris has not hosted the Olympic games in almost 100 years; the last time was in 1924.", "If all of the publicly out LGBTQ athletes at the Olympics represented a country under a single rainbow flag they'd be coming in 14th in the world for their medal count. That's the assessment of Outsports, which has been tracking the athletes — 168 of them — and the group is tied with Brazil and Switzerland. British diver Tom Daley, who is competing in the games for the fourth time, is the only gold medalist in the group. French judoka Amandine Buchard won a silver medal in just 16 seconds, while three members of the USA women's softball team — Ally Carda, Amanda Chidester, Haylie McCleney — also nabbed second place. Meanwhile, Larissa Franklin and Joey Lye on the Canadian women's softball team took home bronze. And, British equestrian Carl Hester earned a bronze to add to his gold and silver medals collection from previous Olympics. Following his first gold medal win on Monday, Daley offered an inspiring message for LGBTQ youth. \"I hope that any young LGBT person out there can see that no matter how alone you feel right now, you are not alone and that you can achieve anything and there is a whole lot of your chosen family out here ready to support you,\" Daley said. \"I feel incredibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champion,\" he added. The jump in openly out gay, transgender and non-binary athletes this year underscores changing attitudes around the world and within the Olympic Games. The Associated Press reports as recently as the 2012 Olympics there had been just two dozen publicly out competitors, among more than 10,000. \"It's about time that everyone was able to be who they are and celebrated for it,\" U.S. skateboarder Alexis Sablone, told the AP. She added: \"What I hope that means is that even outside of sports, kids are raised not just under the assumption that they are heterosexual.\"", "Gus Kenworthy and Adam Rippon made history in 2018 by being the first openly out, gay male athletes representing the United States in the Winter Olympics. It's been a momentous year for LGBTQ representation, with a reported record number of 15 out LGBTQ athletes, according to Outsports. That's an accomplishment, after the 2014 Sochi Winter Games saw the arrests of 4 LGBTQ rights activists. \"To put it mildly, the Russian government is not friendly to gay and transgender people,\" wrote NPR's Barbara King during the games. Openly gay, two-time Olympic snowboarder Belle Brockhoff, of Australia, said her parents were worried for her safety during her time in Sochi. \"The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play,\" reads the Olympic Charter. In that spirit, NPR has compiled a non-exhaustive list of out LGBTQ women athletes competing at this year's games — \"out\" meaning that these athletes have publicly confirmed their LGBTQ identities. Ireen Wüst, Netherlands Wüst became the youngest Dutch Olympic champion in the 2006 Winter Games, where she won the gold medal in 3000 meter speed skating event. In Pyeongchang, she took home a gold medal in the 1500 meters and a silver medal in the 3000 meters. The most decorated Dutch Olympic athlete ever has eight medals, and is openly bisexual. Daniela Iraschko-Stolz, Austria Iraschko-Stolz competed in the first women's ski jumping event at the 2014 Winter Games, earning a silver medal. She was one of 15 athletes who sued the organizers of Vancouver's 2010 Winter Games, which featured only men's ski jumping events, for gender discrimination. \"It's like a fairytale to win silver at the first\" women's event, she told The Telegraph. Iraschko-Stolz married her wife in 2013. Cheryl Maas, Netherlands \"When liberties are violated there, the IOC must be able to say: we will not go there,\" the two-time Olympian slopestyle snowboarder said before the Sochi games. \"I think the IOC should be more critical when choosing a country.\" In Russia, the openly lesbian Maas held up a rainbow glove to a camera after finishing a run. She is married to X Games gold medalist Stine Brun Kjeldaas, with whom she has two daughters. Belle Brockhoff, Australia Brockhoff, a two-time Olympic snowboarder, came out as a lesbian ahead of the 2014 Sochi games. \"I want to go there because I'm not afraid of these laws [targeting LGBTQ people] and I want others that live in Russia, who are homosexuals, to see that,\" she told the BBC. Brockhoff finished 11th in the 2018 women's snowboard cross, just two months after a surgery treating an ACL tear. Emilia Andersson Ramboldt, Sweden Ramboldt, a three-time Olympian ice hockey defenceman, was named Sweden's Female Hockey Player of the Year for the 2014 - 2015 season. She married her wife in 2015, with whom she has a young son. \"Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?\" she wrote this week. Simona Meiler, Switzerland Three-time Olympian Meiler placed 22nd in snowboard cross in Peyongchang, after coming back from a spinal fracture just two years ago. Athletes \"have to be ready to give everything and perform wholeheartedly, and in my eyes that's only possible if they can accept and express their sexuality,\" she said in 2014. Šárka Pančochová, Czech Republic Pyeongchang is the third Winter Olympics for Pančochová, and her first as an openly gay athlete. She competed in the women's slopestyle and \"big air\" skiing events, and placed 16th in slopestyle. Pančochová told Outsports that she was \"stoked\" to come out publicly. Kim Meylemans, Belgium The 21-year-old told a Belgian outlet that she has been harassed and threatened because of her sexuality for years. The first-time Olympian is the first athlete to represent Belgium in skeleton at an Olympic Winter Games. Meylemans placed 14th, and says her ambition is to medal.", "The Tokyo Summer Olympics are 10 weeks away. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with <em>The New York Times</em>' Motoko Rich in Tokyo about the games' unpopularity in Japan, where the pandemic is still out of control.", "With just nine days left until this year's Summer Olympics begin in Tokyo, the coronavirus pandemic has forced a change to yet another longstanding tradition of the Games. Out is the traditional, familiar medal presentation, where athletes, standing atop a podium, dip their heads as dignitaries drape gold, silver or bronze medals over their necks. In: a contactless medal ceremony. \"The medals will not be given around the neck,\" Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, said on Wednesday. \"They will be presented to the athlete on a tray, and then the athlete will take the medal him or herself.\" Bach announced the changes in a conference call with international reporters, according to The Associated Press. \"It will be made sure that the person who will put the medal on tray will do so only with disinfected gloves so that the athlete can be sure that nobody touched them before,\" he said. Additionally, he said, there will be no handshakes or hugs during the medal ceremonies. COVID-19 cases are rising ahead of the Tokyo Games The announcement comes as this year's Olympic Games are set to open amid a state of emergency in Japan and without spectators at events in the capital. With the opening ceremony just nine days away, cases in Japan have begun to tick up, sparking anxiety about the arrival of thousands of athletes, staff and media. According to the IOC, more than 8,000 Olympic-related personnel have arrived in Japan over the last two weeks. All were subject to a screening regimen, including pre-departure tests and tests upon arrival. The IOC said that about 85% of athletes and officials who will live in the Olympic Village are vaccinated. The IOC has reported three positive cases in Tokyo Of those who have arrived in Japan, the IOC announced three positive cases, all of whom have been isolated and any close contacts subjected to \"relevant quarantine measures.\" The pre-departure screenings have delayed the arrival of some participants, including nearly the entire Refugee Olympic Team after a team official tested positive before departing for Tokyo. The team is made up of 29 refugee athletes, including those whose families fled Afghanistan, Syria, South Sudan and Venezuela. The athletes and team officials had gathered together this week in Doha, Qatar, for a welcome ceremony, after which the official tested positive. The other team members in Qatar tested negative but were unable to travel due to their exposure. \"The IOC, in cooperation with the Qatar Olympic Committee, is supporting the team and evaluating the situation,\" the IOC said in a statement Wednesday. \"The next steps will be communicated once they are decided.\" Two other athletes on the Refugee Olympic Team had not attended the welcome ceremony in Doha and are due to arrive Wednesday in Tokyo.", "This year&#8217;s Olympics in Tokyo will be one to remember. As it enters its final week, host Peter O&#8217;Dowd talks with NPR national correspondent Leila Fadel about what to look for before the closing ceremony, how athletes adapted to having no spectators, and the major highlights and upsets everyone is talking about. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.", "Thursday is day seven of the Summer Olympics. Another big moment is on tap for American swimmers Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte. The host country looks to add to its suddenly growing tally of medals. And badminton marches on, its image battered by scandal. Renee Montagne talks to NPR's Tom Goldman about all things Olympics.", "TOKYO — At the Tokyo Olympics, more elite athletes than ever are speaking out about the need for more support for mothers. When the starting pistol went off at the Olympic Stadium for the women's 400-meter final on Friday, two mothers were on the starting line – Allyson Felix and Quanera Hayes. Felix took bronze in the race, which brings her total up to 10 career Olympic medals. That's a record number of Olympic medals for a woman in track and field. It also brings her even with Carl Lewis' record Olympic medal count for a U.S. track and field athlete. Hayes placed seventh. \"It was really special,\" Felix said of running with Hayes in this race. \"Obviously, you know, we're working to change industry standards. I think that's going to be a long battle.\" Felix, 35, is competing in her fifth Olympics, and Hayes is making her Olympic debut in Tokyo. Both gave birth in 2018. And both have highlighted the joys of motherhood and the obstacles that female athletes face that men don't. Felix very publicly broke with her sponsor, Nike, saying it wasn't supportive enough of its athletes who wanted to become mothers. \"If we have children, we risk pay cuts from our sponsors during pregnancy and afterward,\" she said in a 2019 op-ed in The New York Times. \"It's one example of a sports industry where the rules are still mostly made for and by men.\" Felix has teamed up with her new sponsor, Athleta, to launch a $200,000 fund for athletes to support paying for child care. After her race Friday, Felix said she was able to FaceTime with her daughter, Camryn. \"She kind of gets it now when I'm running, she's always like, 'Mama's at work, Mama's running, and she's kind of into it. She likes to cheer,\" Felix said. Hayes has spoken about her journey back into competition after giving birth to her son. \"He's my everything,\" Hayes told HBCUGameday after the Olympic trials. \"I have so much pride and so much joy knowing that I have bounced back from giving birth to him and letting him, having him see me come out here and not give up and continue to fight for what God has blessed me to do.\" She has said she's inspired by Felix. \"I just told her that I was grateful for all she's done for mothers,\" Hayes told The Register-Guard in June. \"How she fought for us and paved the way for me as an athlete.\"", "LGBT activists from the Russian city of Arkhangelsk are making the rounds in Washington, lobbying the U.S. government to keep up the pressure on the Kremlin over its anti-gay legislation as Russia prepares to host the winter Olympics.", "NPR's A Martínez talks to freelance sports journalist Britni de la Cretaz about what a potential IOC rule change could mean for transgender athletes at future Olympics.", "TOKYO – The Olympic flame is officially out in Tokyo. The closing ceremony in Olympic Stadium was fairly relaxed, and perhaps most poignantly, it aimed to show the athletes a small taste of ordinary life in Japan --something they haven't been exposed to due to pandemic restrictions. It wrapped up more than two weeks of athletic competition and the largest international gathering to take place during the pandemic. The ceremony celebrated the athletes, the volunteers and the organizers of the postponed Tokyo Games, which involved about 230,000 people, including more than 41,000 people who traveled from abroad. \"You inspired us with this unifying power of sport. This was even more remarkable given the many challenges you had to face because of the pandemic,\" Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, told the athletes. \"You give the world the most precious of gifts – hope.\" And the Japanese organizers have now passed the torch to the next city hosting a Summer Games – Paris. A moment to relax, and move forward After the heated competition of the Games, the ceremony organizers tried to create an atmosphere of relaxation for the athletes and spectators, acknowledging that the \"atmosphere was far tenser than usual.\" And the athletes did appear relaxed, freely mixing with each other and dancing on the field as music played. Some even lay down on the field. Of course, this event is happening in a stadium with only dignitaries and a small group of press in the seats. And the actual group of competitors present for the Parade of Athletes is much smaller that usual, because they were required to depart shortly after their competition wrapped up. The organizers said the closing ceremony is celebrating the world coming together to make these Games happen, despite the enormous challenges. Celebrating the last 17 days of competition The ceremony kicked off with a video showing some highlights from the events of the Games, and fireworks lit up the sky. The scenes — across countries and sports — celebrated the efforts of all the athletes, not medals in particular. A musical theater troupe performed the national anthem of Japan, wearing formal traditional Japanese dress in many colors. Then, flag bearers from each country walked in together, in a parade of colorful flags. The U.S. flag bearer is javelin thrower Kara Winger who was selected by fellow athletes. Japan's flag bearer was karate gold medalist Ryo Kiyuna. When the athletes entered, they streamed in from four corners of the stadium, waving flags and smiling to the cameras. They came in to the sounds of the \"Olympic March,\" written by a Japanese composer and played at the 1964 Games in Tokyo. Unlike the opening ceremony, when each walked in as a group with their compatriots, the athletes all walked in at the same time. According to the organizers, it's the first closing ceremony where the athletes all came in en masse. Then, the shape of the Olympic rings formed over the field using lighting effects. Bringing the athletes into Tokyo The athletes have not been able to explore Tokyo during their time at the Games due to pandemic restrictions. For nearly 15 minutes, the field transformed into an \"imaginary park in Tokyo,\" to try to give them the impression of being around a stylized version of ordinary life. With the athletes walled off from them by cast members, actors did normal things you'd see around Tokyo, like ride bikes, play soccer, throw a ball around, dance or do yoga as a group. A DJ scratched on turntables as breakdancers spun on stage. The highly choreographed number was a bittersweet acknowledgement that despite a full competition schedule, the kind of cultural exchange that usually characterizes the Olympics was not possible for these athletes. The ceremony also took a moment for two final medal ceremonies — the winners of the men's and women's marathon. Showcasing Japanese culture The ceremony took a moment to remember and reflect on the difficult past year. A single dancer stood on stage, wearing a green and brown costume meant to evoke a tree. \"Even if the outer layer is no longer alive, the trunk continues to live on and strengthen its centuries-old connection to the earth and land in which its roots stretch deep,\" the organizers said. People surrounded the stage and slowly walked, holding softly lit lanterns. A video highlighted traditional festivals from around Japan, another way to show the athletes more about the country. Dancers in traditional dress performed four dances from different parts of the country. The program ended with a handover to the Paris organizers, and a preview of the Games to come there in 2024. A video from the Paris organizers included a bike ride around the rooftops of Paris starring French BMX athletes, and a massive flag with the Paris 2024 logo unfurling over the Eiffel Tower. According to the Paris organizers, it is the largest flag ever flown — nearly the size of a football field", "Japan's Olympic minister, Seiko Hashimoto, says the Tokyo Olympics should go forward in 2021 \"at any cost.\" Multiple Japanese and International Olympic Committee officials have stressed in the past week that the games will proceed regardless of the state of the global pandemic. \"I think we have to hold the games at any cost,\" Hashimoto told a news conference Tuesday, according to The Japan Times. \"I want to concentrate all our efforts on measures against the coronavirus.\" The Tokyo Summer Olympics had been scheduled to start in July but were pushed back a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. On Monday, IOC Vice President John Coates told Agence France-Presse that \"these will be the Games that conquered COVID, the light at the end of the tunnel.\" \"It will take place with or without COVID. The [Tokyo] Games will start on July 23 next year,\" Coates said. Similarly, Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee CEO Toshiro Muto said last week that the games would take place even if a vaccine were not yet available. \"A vaccine is not a requirement,\" he was quoted as saying by The Associated Press. \"Of course, if vaccines are developed we'll really appreciate it.\" Organizers and Japanese government officials are in the process of reviewing how to protect athletes and other attendees from the coronavirus. A task force organized by Tokyo 2020 had its first meeting Friday about coordinating efforts against the coronavirus. It highlighted the many issues that would need to be sorted out should the games happen when the pandemic is still active, such as testing regimes, rules of behavior in the Olympic Village, rules for spectating, and how to handle an outbreak among athletes. The IOC Executive Board is scheduled to meet virtually on Wednesday — and according to the AP, Coates \"is expected to give an upbeat assessment of Tokyo's prospects.\" There is some evidence that the Japanese public is uneasy about holding the games amid uncertainty about what the state of the pandemic will be more than 10 months from now. A survey from Kyodo News found that fewer than 1 in 4 people in Japan want the Tokyo Olympics to go forward as scheduled. More than a third of the people polled said they should be postponed, and another third said they wanted to see the games canceled." ]

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Nessuna esclusione punitiva, ma il tempo eliminera&#39; certi eccessi. Manca solo lo stop dopo il punto al &#39;telegramma&#39; che Marcello Lippi invia", "Roma, 16 set. (Adnkronos) - Disco verde di Montecitorio al Senato federale. L&#39;aula della Camera ha approvato l&#39;articolo 1 del ddl di riforma costituzionale che prevede che &#39;&#39;il Parlamento si compone della", "L&#39;ormai storico team di coppa America, con l&#39;unione tra il gruppo Prada e Telecom, avrà un budget di 85 milioni. L&#39;australiano Spithill è il nuovo timoniere. GENOVA, 24 settembre 2004 - “Una società di", "PERUGIA, 6 SET - L&#39; ex campione del mondo di pugilato Gianfranco Rosi, compiuti i 47 anni, torna di nuovo a combattere. L&#39;annuncio è stato dato durante una conferenza stampa in cui il pugile si è presentato", "Il leader ancora all&#39;interno del suo compaund. Israele dà l&#39;ok al ricovero in ospedale e intanto prepara un piano per il dopo-rais. RAMALLAH (CISGIORDANIA) - Incapace di cibarsi da solo o di stare in piedi. «Confuso», quasi sempre addormentato.", "VIENNA - Sara&#39; il ministro del Petrolio del Kuwait Ahmad al Sabah il nuovo presidente dell&#39;Opec a partire dal primo gennaio 2005. Al Sabah prendera&#39; il posto dell&#39;attuale presidente, l&#39;indonesiano Purnomo Yusgiantoro.", "Sciopero, ma non solo. L&#39;Associazione nazionale magistrati prepara l&#39;astensione dalle udienze del 24 novembre contro la riforma dell&#39;ordinamento giudiziario, la terza da quando il provvedimento ha iniziato", "L&#39;Italia ha battuto per 4-3 la Bielorussia e torna al comando nel Gruppo 5 con 9 punti. Dopo un inizio molto difficile l&#39;Italia, bloccata dall&#39;assetto scelto da Lippi, è riuscita a sbloccare l&#39;incontro grazie", "(AGI) - Milano, 27 set. - Il terrorismo &quot;e&#39; una sfida che si puo&#39; vincere solo nel segno dell&#39;unita&#39; del Paese e della comunita&#39; internazionale, mettendo da parte l&#39;illusione fragile ed autolesionista di poter", "L&#39;ultimatum di 48 ore lanciato dall&#39;Esercito islamico al governo di Parigi e&#39; stato prorogato di altre 24 ore. Il gruppo che detiene i due ostaggi ha inviato a Al Jazeera un comunicato, in cui si fa sapere", "06.11: L&#39;Empoli pareggia 3-3 a Cesena e si conferma da solo in vetta alla classifica di serie B dopo 14 giornate. Ad un solo punto il Genoa, che a Marassi batte 3-0 l&#39;Ascoli. Terzo posto per il Perugia, che", "Iraq. Najaf: si applica l&#39;accordo tra Sistani e Sadr. Consegnate le chiavi del mausoleo di Ali&#39;. A Najaf, dopo settimane di sanguinosi combattimenti, si applica l&#39;accordo fra l&#39;ayatollah Ali al Sistani e il leader ribelle sciita Moqtada al Sadr.", "Manca soltanto il sì dello Shakhtar per il passaggio di Cristiano Lucarelli al Parma. L'attaccante l...", "Roma, 9 ottobre 2004 - Lui, lei el&#39;altra, solo che a scegliere l&#39;altra ci pensa lei, per riconquistare il marito distratto. Esce il 15 ottobre nelle sale italiane &#39;Nathalie&#39;, il nuovo film della regista francese", "ROMA - Se in una rete al buio come e&#39; oggi Canale 5 (nella fascia 20,30-22,30 ieri si e&#39; fermata a meno del 19%), il Grande Fratello 5 ottiene al giovedi&#39; circa il 30% di media essendo tra l&#39;altro trasmesso a breve distanza dalla quarta serie eC&#39;e&#39; posta", "(AGI) - Roma, 20 ago. - Tocca il nuovo record di 42,60 dollari al barile il paniere Opec. Lo ha annunciato l&#39;Opecna, l&#39;agenzia di stampa del cartello petrolifero. Il record precedente era stato toccato mercoledi&#39; a 42,07 dollari.", "Dopo l&#39;accordo coi piloti, altro passo avanti nella trattativa. I lavoratori in esubero sono 2.500. Tagli a stipendi e festività. Alitalia, c&#39;è l&#39;intesa con il personale di terra Rinviato al pomeriggio il confronto con hostess e steward.", "GINEVRA, 03 SET - L&#39;Oms esaminera&#39; le conclusioni di una ricerca olandese secondo cui il virus H5N1 dell&#39;influenza aviaria puo&#39; infettare anche i gatti. &#39;I risultati di una ricerca pubblicati oggi dalla rivista", "Oggi a Roma si è svolta l&#39;assemblea di Lega. Approvato il nuovo statuto federale e annunciate alcune novità per i prossimi campionati. ROMA - L`assemblea straordinaria della Figc ha approvato all`unanimità il nuovo statuto federale.", "(AGI/AFP) - Sydney, 11 set. - L&#39;Australia si sente nel mirino dell&#39;estremismo islamico e corre ai ripari. Dopo l&#39;attentato di giovedi&#39; scorso contro l&#39;ambasciata di Canberra in Indonesia, il governo di John", "Roma, 22 set. (Adnkronos) - &#39;&#39;Rivolgo al nuovo presidente della Corte Costituzionale, Valerio Onida, l&#39;augurio sincero per l&#39;alto e prestigioso incarico che ha appena assunto. Sono sicuro che la sua alta professionalit?", "Roma. &#39;&#39;Quello che e&#39; successo domenica a Gaza e&#39; solo l&#39;inizio. L&#39;attaccheremo. Siamo disposti anche a ucciderlo&#39;&#39;. In un&#39;intervista al &#39;Corriere della Sera&#39; lo afferma un leader delle brigate Al Aqsa, che", "La Virtus Bologna ha annunciato il nuovo assetto per la stagione 2007: Andrea Luchi assume l'incaric...", "Prende il via la Settimana Europea contro il cancro e fino al 15 ottobre l&#39;Europa si mobilita contro il fumo. 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Cosmo Francesco Ruppi che", "(ASCA) - Roma, 17 nov - Il pranzo tra Silvio Berlusconi e il vicepremier Gianfranco Fini si e&#39; concluso con un &#39;fatto nuovo&#39; che riporta in alto mare l&#39;accordo sul fisco raggiunto nell&#39;ultimo vertice di maggioranza.", "BELLUNO - Si e&#39; schiantato nel bellunese l&#39;aereo Cessna 182 di cui ieri si erano perse le tracce dopo il decollo: il pilota, l&#39;imprenditore milanese Angelo Reolon, e&#39; morto. Il relitto e&#39; stato individuato" ]

[ "A County Antrim woman at the centre of a legal wrangle over an elderly farmer's estate has gone into hiding." ]

[ "A Salem woman who tried to hide from police early this morning was arrested after a police dog tracked and bit her.", "A Florida woman accused of hiding her dead mother's body and collecting federal benefits for six years has pleaded guilty to a theft charge.", "A WOMAN was rescued from Campbeltown Loch on Boxing Day following a disturbance in a town centre flat.", "Legal wrangling between the Sunrise School Division and the Winnipeg River Learning Centre means the centre's recently-acquired $3.3 million grant is in limbo.", "The woman was allegedly hiding drugs in her vagina.", "An elderly woman suffering from dementia was blindfolded ``like a prisoner'' before being snatched from her daughter's home in a raid by social workers and police.", "THE notorious Inverness eagle owl which has swooped on three men in the city centre has gone into hiding.", "A LOCAL dentist accused of assaulting a Chinese woman goes on trial at the Magistrates Court yesterday.", "There was drama at the Harare Civil Courts yesterday as people jostled to get a glimpse of a woman going by the name Joyce Mujuru who had come to claim maintenance from her estranged husband.", "The ``mystery'' woman who authorities say swindled her estranged husband out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, claiming CIA legal harassment, waived her right to a preliminary hearing Friday.", "A TERRIFIED New Mills woman ran naked from her home into the street to escape an onslaught by her partner, a court heard.", "Police say a 19-year old woman's struggle and screams frightened away her alleged attacker on Blackmarsh Road.", "The first lady says she sneaks out of the White House ``as much as possible.''", "The Rineyville woman accused of killing her grandmother and then hiding her in a trash can was arraigned Monday morning in circuit court.", "A Japanese woman brewed up an unusual escape plan to free herself and her six-month-old daughter from a suspected armed robber: tea and a chat.", "A heavily pregnant woman narrowly escaped a jail sentence in a cliffhanger of a verdict delivered by Judge Kevin Phillips in the Invercargill District Court yesterday.", "A homeless woman was raped while she was sleeping rough on an Oxford city centre street.", "Bail was set at $50,000 Wednesday afternoon for a 51-year-old man charged with hiding a corpse after a missing Chilton woman's body was found in a field in northern Manitowoc County.", "SHAREMARKET bottom-feeder David Tweed has bowed out of a courtroom battle with an elderly widow.", "A woman died in a skydiving accident at the Durban Skydive Centre at Eston, near Cato Ridge, on Sunday afternoon.", "A Dunedin woman accused of smothering her 22-month old baby daughter has narrowly escaped a jail term.", "A Clark County woman has been sentenced in a sexual assault case that goes back about 10 years.", "A LITHERLAND woman has been given 14 days to leave her home for breaching a postponed possession order.", "A WOMAN has been indecently assaulted in the public toilet of a southern suburbs shopping centre.", "A mother accused of abducting her 4-year-old daughter turned herself in at the Prince William County Adult Detention Center early Thursday.", "A boy fell off an escalator and onto a woman at a shopping centre at Commonwealth on Thursday.", "A homeless woman who sneaked into a man's house and lived undetected in his closet for a year was arrested in Japan after he became suspicious when food mysteriously began disappearing.", "A 25-year-old Dutch woman is suspected of having killed her four babies and hiding the corpses in the attic of her parents' house, the police said Friday in a press release, Xinhua reports.", "BUSINESS briefly came to a halt on Tuesday morning when a Gweru woman gave birth in a city centre street.", "A woman in her 30s was stabbed and seriously injured in Dublin city centre this morning.", "A 23-year-old woman is fighting for her life after being hit by a taxi in the city centre.", "One Midland woman is accused of firing a gun inside an Odessa home and then refusing to come out." ]

[ "There is more to a CS degree than programming and more to programming than Design Patterns. I'm actually an expert in such things and have designed and published a few as a committed member of the patterns community. If I were teaching you programming in some object-oriented language you would certainly learn about and use many such patterns, but you might never hear the names, just the usage as good ways to write programs in a certain set of languages. \n\nHowever, I have a friend, also in the community, who is well known and has designed many things fundamental to areas of programming languages who doesn't use the standard design patterns you are probably thinking of at all. The reason is that he programs in LISP and CLOS, not Java and C++. His informed opinion about the design patterns is that they are merely corrections for flaws in certain languages, primarily C++. Many of the kinds of things that design patterns accomplish in C++ are done in more natural ways within Common Lisp itself without needing any such mental tricks. \n\nSo, it may well be that your curriculum is flawed, but not teaching the patters in the Gang of Four book is not the only indicator. (Some of those authors are friends of mine, in fact). \n\nMoreover, there is more (much more) to CS than programming. Have you learned data structures and algorithms? Have you learned architecture and databases? Have you learned data communications and concurrency? Have you learned to work in teams on large projects? Have you learned to think abstractly and to decompose problems and compose solutions? Those are vitally important too." ]

[ "The Wirth formula, Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs is still valid. It is also complete. A program is nothing more than algorithms acting on data structures. That formula does not make explicit the difference between a bad, error-riddled program and a good, error-free efficient program. Looking at the formula, however, can show how to improve the first and make it into the second.\n\nStating that programs are built of exactly two components, data structures and algorithms, means that the only way to improve a program is to improve one, or both, of its components.\n\n\n Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs\n Sloppy Algorithms + Mediocre Data Structures = Buggy Programs\n Better Algorithms + Data Structures = Better Programs\n Excellent Algorithms + Efficient Data Structures = Superior Programs.\n\n\nThe Science part of Computer Science in programming is finding the way to create the better, or excellent, algorithms and develop the efficient data structures. That's where the skills, whatever the instructor wants to focus on, come in to effect. Design patterns help to sort out the options, and provide an established pattern to follow when creating a new algorithm or data structure. Unit testing helps to validate the operational correctness of the written code. Low level knowledge of the target system may allow the coder to increase efficiency, and low level knowledge of the chosen language might allow the coder to utilize \"tricks\" or \"quirks\" built in to the language (be they bugs or features is unimportant).\n\nBottom line is that the only way to make a program better is to make its components better. There are only two components to work with; data structures and algorithms.\n\n\n Will you tell students that Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs now(21st century)? \n\n\nNot only will we tell students that, we should have that on the door lintel\nof every classroom and lecture hall where programming is taught.", "Here are books in print that address a range of issues within teaching computer science, synthesize pedagogical questions and research-based answers distilled from research, and include extensive references to the literature.\n\nFrieze and Quesenberry. (2017). Kicking butt in computer science: Women in computing at Carnegie Mellon University.\nSummarizing the efforts at CMU to diversify CS undergraduate enrollment, the book is intended to help CS teachers duplicate CMU's success by focusing on benefits of diversity rather than gender differences.\n\nGuzdial. (2016). Learner-centered design of computing education.\nIntended as a review of literature on teaching CS to people who are not aiming to be CS professionals, the seven chapters define the problem, summarize the research, and ask many questions yet to be answered in the literature.\n\nHazzan, Lapidot, and Ragonis. (2014) Guide to teaching computer science, 2nd edition.\nIntended as textbook for a CS teaching methods course, the Guide helps a CS Methods instructor model active learning techniques by structuring the text around 110 activities in which the CS teachers are the participants.\n\nKafai and Burke. (2014) Connected code: Why children need to learn programming.\nDescribing educational programs that have worked with children, and the programs' results, this book aims to help teachers and influencers lead cultural changes toward computational participation and new ways of thinking and learning.\n\nKrauss and Prottsman. (2017). Computational thinking and coding for every student.\nAiming to help the K-12 teacher with no CS experience, this book offers lesson plans, resources, and pedagogical advice mirroring the consensus of the CS community. Self-described as a &quot;getting-started guide,&quot; it is not a review of literature, the the References list about 50 sources, some of which are research articles.", "Unity has a \"Create with Code\" curriculum that is aligned to ISTE standards:\n\n\n Most importantly, Create with Code is designed to work in the classroom. Aligned to ISTE Standards for computer science education, educators can leverage the free course curriculum to support instruction inside and outside of class. Flexible teaching materials are provided in addition to the learner-facing instructional videos...\n\n\nThe above site has an ISTE standards alignment document, as well as a scope and sequence, set of lesson plans, and a course syllabus. Many of the ISTE standards map pretty well to to AP CSP standards.\n\nAP CSP is pretty flexible in terms of which set of tools you use, so I think you'd be safe with Unity:", "If the students in this course are the same ones, or similarly educated, that finished the last course, you could be over thinking the issue. They don't yet have the exposure to know they want to become programmers.\n\nDesign the next course as an Introduction to Programming. To borrow from the course catalog for KCTCS pg. 253:\n\n\n Computational Thinking\n \n Promotes understanding of computer programming and \n logic by teaching students to think like a computer. Covers \n skills needed to develop and design language-independent \n solutions to solve computer-related problems. Covers \n development and design basics including use of variables, \n control and data structures, and principles of command-\n line and object-oriented languages.\n\n\nThat should give the enough knowledge to choose programming as a second career if they want. As an alternative, you could do web page development. That gives a faster return on their work, and allows you to also cover programming using JavaScript. Web page creation is something that more of your audience can potentially utilize in personal life, without having to make a career out of it.\n\nAs a third course you could get into the theory and \"nitty-gritty\" of programming.", "I read through most voted questions tagged object oriented on softwareengineering.stackexchange.com and stackoverflow.com. I feel some questions on softwareengineering site are quite common when learning OOP while questions on stackoverflow are more related to practical programming questions that are more likely asked by professionals.\nSo I listed some questions from softwareengineering site,\n\nWhy is it good to split a program into multiple classes?. This question was indeed asked by a high school student.\nDo objects in OOP have to represent an entity?. My students do ask me this question.\nWhat's the benefit of object-oriented programming over procedural programming? this one is somewhat related to the &quot;manage software complexity&quot; question in my question and I do discuss with my colleagues another interesting question that was asked on quora How does Linux maintain such a large code base when C isn't an object oriented language? Is the code base all messed up?\nDoes OOP fulfill the promise of code reuse? What alternatives are there to achieve code reuse? I am not sure if students will ask this question and I have my own double to the question too.\nWhen writing object-oriented code, should I always be following a design pattern?. This site also has a question about design pattern, How bad is a Computer Science course that doesn&#39;t teach Design Patterns?\nExplanation on how “Tell, Don't Ask” is considered good OO. Only after they gain some coding experiences can they ask/appreciate the question. But it is a good one.\nShould I create a class if my function is complex and has a lot of variables? One answer there was also my recommendation to my students when they have such question, &quot;Use a class, but also provide a free standing function, that only constructs the object, calls the method and returns the result, the class that you use internally really becomes just an implementation detail of your public function&quot;\n\nQuora also has some interesting questions I feel people will ask when they first learn OOP, I list some here:\n\nCan anyone (in a programmer's position) survive in the modern tech industry (software or no software) without OOP?\nHow often do software developers use OOP?. One answer there by Kurt Guntheroth is interesting &quot;Any time you write a program longer than about 1,000 lines, you should use OOP. 1000 lines? Why’s that ...?&quot;\nWhen is object-oriented programming not a good fit?\n\nHopefully I can get some other answers.", "You could try the Bootstrap curriculum, the materials are free and can integrate with existing curriculum instead of being electives. A talk about the design of the program, and how to design highschool computer science curriculum in general is given here by one of the Co-directors of Bootstrap, Professor Shriram Krishnamurthi from Brown University.", "There are quite a few solutions which allow you to make a VCS part of your teaching.\n\nFor example, GitHub Classroom allows you to create assignments with some starter code, then invite your students to work on it and submit their changes through Git. They provide a promotional video here, which shows the workflow with it.\n\nScaffolding Version Control into the Computer Science Curriculum states:\n\n\n VCS and other professional tools are often introduced\n later in the educational curriculum, possibly in a software\n engineering course, generally a second-year or later course,\n and may not be reinforced through repetition and application\n in later classes. This is unfortunate, because powerful\n tools such as VCS can also be difficult for new users and\n especially those new to programming and software in general.\n The power and flexibility of new distributed VCS can\n make them especially challenging, unfriendly, and distracting\n for students already fully engaged in developing core\n competencies required in the computer science curriculum.\n\n\nThey propose GitSubmit as a helpful solution here, describing it as \"A Custom Environment for Introducing\nVCS to Novice Developers\". Clearly, it's helpful here to introduce VCS as soon as possible, to avoid the issues described later in the paper, where higher level students have virtually no experience of using a VCS, despite its importance in industry.\n\nFor the pedagogical challenges, the presentation Challenges and Confusions in Learning Version\nControl with Git seems interesting. They conclude:\n\n\n \n Introduce authentic/relevant use cases to motivate the use and\n learning of the system\n Authentic practical courses cause students to see the value of\n VCSs\n However, use VCSs throughout the curriculum, as, for instance,\n limited resources available during authentic project courses may\n limit how the system is adopted", "I don't know how common this is now, but about 15 years ago I was a visiting assistant professor in mathematics at a small liberal arts college in the U.S., a position that became available because, in trying to fill a tenure-track computer science position, no suitable candidates were found by late March or early April, and so the search was ended and a new search was started for a visiting math position, with one of the math faculty members helping out by teaching a couple of beginning computer science courses and one or two of the computer science professors teaching an extra class. In fact, I had consecutive visiting positions at TWO different colleges/universities back then for this same reason (no suitable computer science candidates were found for a tenure track position), and in each case the reason the visiting position was for math and not for computer science was due to the overwhelming greater number of experienced (in teaching) candidates that a math search would generate this late in the hiring season.\n\nThe same department tried again the next year, with the same result (I believe the other place I had a visiting position at was successful the second time), and the same math faculty member pitched in again, this time I believe teaching only computer science. Over a period of several years this faculty member transitioned to computer science, and has since written two textbooks in computer science. For what it's worth, I do not think this faculty member originally had much of a background in computer science (maybe a couple of courses as an undergraduate), but I believe this person had started being interested in computer science at least a couple of years before I was there.", "It is true that these issues can be problematic in some cases, however, this depends on the context and the usage of the class.\n\n\nThe \"design problem\" that you were hoping they would find also depends on the context and usage of the class. We have no idea whether the users of this class are obeying your JavaDoc. In fact, I could see an argument that your \"design problem\" is invalid because anybody who violates the JavaDoc is going outside the bounds of your design in the first place! Compare that to the functions with no JavaDoc, and honestly I'm more convinced by your students' answers than I am of your intended answer.\n\nAsking \"what is wrong with the design of this class\" is too broad. You need to provide more context: perhaps provide the UserSystem class and then another class that uses it incorrectly (by creating a new UserSystem instance for every user, for example), and then ask what the design problem is in that code and how it could be prevented in the future.\n\nIf you want a specific answer, you need to ask a specific question. All of the answers your students provided sound perfectly reasonable to me.", "I reject a lot of the assumptions implicit in the question. Computer science isn't just for geeky or \"smart\" students. And I don't think it's fair to say that students in other classes are \"more expressive, outspoken and creative.\" Computer science is full of art, creativity, and expressiveness. It's a teacher's job to show that to students and encourage every student to try it out.\n\nI advise you to work on your own assumptions first. If the teacher thinks that computer science is not for creative students, then what hope do the students have?\n\nThings to consider:\n\n\nHow are you \"advertising\" the computer science courses? Are you highlighting the artistic and creative aspects of it? Are you appealing to students who might not self-identify as programmers?\nWhat types of programs are you using in your lessons? Are they \"boring\" command line applications, or are they interactive and visual?\nWhat types of programs are you assigning for homework? Do they encourage students to express creativity?\n\n\nIn addition to working on the assumptions of both your students and yourself, I'd also advise you to consider the needs of students from \"non-traditional\" backgrounds. More things to consider:\n\n\nAre you \"making room\" for students who often get drowned out by louder or more active students? \"We've heard from Grace already, why don't we give somebody else a chance to answer?\"\nAre you recognizing the work done by every student? I'd like to show you all a really creative example of how Ada used for loops in the last homework assignment...\nAre you calling out bad behavior? Are you encouraging good behavior? Hey Grace, I know you know this stuff really well, so during lab today would you mind helping me out by answering Ada's questions?\n\n\nThese types of change have to start with you. I don't agree with a lot of the assumptions in the question, and I encourage you to take a harder look at some of the assumptions you're bringing to the classroom (which your students pick up on and perpetuate). Fix those, and you'll be able to help your students fix their own assumptions.", "I didn't go through all the details, but can share an experience. I once taught a database course to a bunch of good students. The course covered lots of things such as relational theory as well as the internal structure of the data in such a database system. \n\nFor one assignment I gave the students a choice, either a simple one or a rather harder one. The harder one was to implement B+ trees if I remember correctly. \n\nThe easier one had something to do with hash maps or such. \n\nThe instructions were that you could choose which, but if you'd already in your life built a hash map then you would find the easy one boring and the other would be interesting. A surprising number actually did the harder assignment. \n\nThey were weighted and graded the same. There was no benefit to the harder one other than learning. \n\nBut the students were eager to learn and that made it possible. \n\nBut I'd recommend against a system in which only low grades could be earned from a simpler assignment. I think that is psychologically damaging. Like deciding to fail before you even start.", "Should he start learning Java on his cell phone or would he better off learning how to program Java on his PC?\n\n\nThese aren't your only options.\n\nIMVHO, Java, especially Android, has a pretty steep learning curve. I would recommend starting with something like Processing to learn the fundamentals, and then I would use those fundamentals to transition to core (desktop) Java. When you have a good grasp on that, then I'd move to more advanced topics like mobile development.\n\nSince you've tagged your post with curriculum-design, here's how I would design a curriculum. I would split it up into at least 3 different courses:\n\n\nCourse 1: Intro to Programming. Use Processing to introduce the fundamentals: functions, variables, loops, control flow.\nCourse 2: Advanced Programming. Use Java to introduce OOP, inheritance, data structures, algorithms. (In the US I believe this is the standard AP CS class?)\nCourse 3: Mobile Development. (After course 2 you can branch out into many topics, not just mobile development.)\n\n\nThat's my two cents, but I know other people approach it from other directions. For example I know many folks teach web development first. And Google has at least one curriculum that uses Android to teach the fundamentals.\n\nThe question of how to learn the fundamentals of CS has been asked here a few times before, so I'd recommend starting with a search. Here are a few posts to get you started:\n\n\nHow to teach a person to enjoy programming?\nProgramming language for teenagers\nOrder to Teach Topics in an Intro Programming Class\nExplain to someone that programming isn't just all “if”s and “else”s\nProgramming languages specifically designed for beginners\nUsing Processing as an entry point in an Introductory Course\n\n\nThere are many potential paths through computer science education, and I think the best thing you can do is try a few out and see which one works best for you.\n\nAlso, like Buffy said, you probably don't want to program on a cell phone. Even if you're programming a mobile app, you're almost always programming on a computer, and then exporting the app to a phone.\n\nShameless self-promotion: I've written a series of tutorials that take you from Processing all the way through core Java and onto web development and Android, available at HappyCoding.io.", "The College of St. Scholastica in Minnesota has a Computer Science Education graduate certificate program. It is a four-course sequence designed to add a CS endorsement to a high school teaching certificate, though no state-issued endorsement exists yet in Minnesota. The courses:\n\n\nComputational Thinking and Standards for the K-12 Teacher\nCS Principles, covering the AP CS Principles course description with additional material covering pedagogy and CS pedagogical content knowledge\nProgramming and Teaching Java, a Java-based course covering the AP CS A course description with additional material covering pedagogy and CS pedagogical content knowledge\nCS Methods and Capstone, covering pedagogy and CS pedagogical content knowledge, CS education research, and development of a CS curriculum unit", "Rather than providing experience, let me add a bit to a way you can think about the issue and, perhaps, resolve it. \n\nYou are correct that the scientific method, the mathematical method, and the computing sciences method are all distinct. So, experiments in the Chemistry sense are much less important and frequent in CS. However, there are some synergies, and the sciences can provide useful examples for the creation of programs and systems. Also, Computing can be useful in the sciences, handling Big Data, for example or executing theoretical models. \n\nI'd suggest three things to think about. \n\n\nIs this a bottom up (faculty driven) initiative or top down (administration wanting changes)? The latter is likely to be much less successful. \nAre the faculty already knowledgeable cross-discipline? It will be much less successful otherwise. \nHow important is it to you to have pair-teaching (co-teaching, team-teaching) of several courses in your institution? Especially pair teaching with instructors of different core disciplines. Without that, I wouldn't expect a lot of benefit other than needing fewer \"department chairpeople\". \n\n\nSynergy is possible and valuable. But forcing it won't work very well.", "It sounds like you've already answered your question, but I'll throw in my two cents:\n\nIt depends.\n\nDoes every software engineer need to simulate the differences between direct-mapped, 2-way set associative caches, and 4-way set associative caches? Absolutely not. I've been a programmer for about 10 years now, and I think I have a pretty successful career, and I have no idea what those things even mean.\n\nHowever, should some students, who are particularly interested in these kinds of things, take a deeper dive? Absolutely yes.\n\nSo, it comes down to a question of: is this course designed for students to get a high-level overview of computer architecture, or is this a more specialized course designed for students to get more information about the low-level details? In other words, is this a breadth or depth course?\n\nYou might want to give students a high-level overview, and then point particularly interested students at further reading, more advanced courses, or specialized fields they might study in grad school.", "What this pattern is doing is using access modifiers on constructors to limit construction to factory methods that have a hard coupling to other classes that are using setter injection. Why it's doing that is really anyone's guess but it offers control over construction at the expense of coupling. Similar tricks are used by the singleton pattern.\n\nLike the singleton pattern this pattern very much feels like it was born out of paranoia. The control over construction being gained here is far outweighed by the coupling caused. I mean, come on. Unsustainable has to KNOW about it's test? That's just soooo wrong. \n\nI think the only practical use this code has is to show people that just because something is amazingly tricky doesn't mean it's good. Maybe that's what your instructor wanted you to see.\n\nI was once boxed into a corner writing something very much like this. In the end I couldn't stand the coupling and opened up the constructor to the package level so at least my factory methods didn't have to all live in the same class.", "These are the words of someone who has found success and ignores people that try to tell him what to do in pattern jargon that he doesn't understand.\n\nDesign patterns and best practices are not the same thing. Some people think they are and drive people who know what they're doing nuts. Even if they don't know the proper name for what they are doing.\n\nDesign patterns existed before they had names. We gave them names to make talking about them easier. A pattern having a name doesn't make it a good thing. It makes it a recognizable thing.\n\nThis guy is likely using patterns neither one of you ever heard of. That's fine, until you need to talk to him about how something is done. He's either going to have to learn how to talk to you or you're going to have to learn how to talk to him. Has nothing to do with who is \"right.\"", "I suggest you pickup a good design book instead. Professional code usually does not explain important details such as \"this is a factory pattern.\". It also often contains loosely implemented patterns (if any) and custom requirements. \n\nDesign patterns are just far too complex to just figure it out on your own. It took the Gang of Four years to lay out the fundamentals. So its better to learn to do it correctly then see what others are doing.\n\nHead first design patterns is a solid Java dp book.\n\nDesign and simplicity do not necessarily go hand in hand. Good design is heavily focused on proven use cases for a particular pattern. Not that the pattern is simple per-se, but that it works. Simplicity is as much an art as a science. It also requires a good understanding of the business requirements, framework and the customer. Keeping it simple takes years of practice. Even then time limits and reality plays a huge role in what's possible. Remember the triangle.", "In considering Canadian immigration, Timothy Lethbridge, Professor of Software Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa offered the a particularly cogent overview on Quora. It should help you to decide what best suits your credentials.\n\n\n Software engineering and computer science are two of the five areas in the IEEE/ACM Computing Curricula. I helped write the software engineering part of that document.\n \n Essentially, software engineering degrees focus on teaching students to become expert at the various core tasks in the software lifecycle: Requirements, design, programming, etc. along with project management, user interface design, engineering economics and certain other topics. A full course (40 hour academic unit) would typically be devoted to each of these areas. In a computer science degree you would also expect to become a good programmer, but most computer science degrees would not focus a full required course on each of the above areas. Instead, a computer science degree would have full courses in many other areas of both theory (e.g. formal languages, complexity theory) and application areas or technologies (artificial intelligence, robotics, graphics, advanced databases, networking, etc.). A software engineering student might only have space in their program to take a small number of electives in these areas, since they would be spending most of their time studying the core SE topics in depth.\n \n Both CS and SE degrees would teach basic computer science concepts including basic data structures and algorithms. Usually there would be courses in operating systems in both types of degrees, and computer science degrees would almost always have one introductory course in software engineering.\n \n Software engineering degrees are extremely common in Canada, Australia and parts of Europe. They are also increasing in number in China. In the US there has been only slow growth, with most universities just offering computer science.\n \n In many jurisdictions, a software engineering degree can lead you to become licensed as a Professional Engineer (after you have practiced for some years following graduation). This is the case in Canada, and is becoming the case in many US states.\n \n In the US, Computer Science programs and Software Engineering programs are accredited by ABET. Computer Science accredited degrees are recognized in many countries through the Seoul Accord, while Software Engineering programs are recognized through the Washington Accord. That means that if you move to another country in either of these accords, you may find it easier to obtain professional recognition. \n \n In Canada, the CEAB accredits software engineering degrees (with recognition through the Washington Accord) and the CSAC accredits both kinds of degrees (with recognition through the Seoul Accord). I am currently the chair of CSAC.", "Design Pattern: It is a \"good practice\". It can be considered as a possible solution for a problem that may ofter occur. The solution usually comes from the experience. Examples are MVC and Identify Field.\n\nMetamodel: It can be considered as a set of rules, constraints and constructs that allow to model a problem.\nAs an example you can consider a map.\n\n\n\nA map allows to model the reality, so a map can be considered the model. The metamodel of a map is the legend: the constructs that you need to use in order to represent borders, rivers, lakes,...\n\nIn your case Identify Field is just a good practice that you can decide to follow or not. It's not a constraint/rule.", "About IB Computer Science. \n Computer Science is regarded as an experimental science, alongside biology, chemistry, design technology, physics and environmental systems and societies – and sits in the Group 4 list of subjects. The IB Computer Science course is a rigorous and practical problem-solving discipline.\n\nAP Computer Science Principles is ideal for students who are less interested in Java or who would like a big picture view of computing. ... Both computer science classes have a great deal to offer high school students. Since they vary in several important ways, students should research each course before enrolling.", "Some ideas to ruminate on.\n\nWith you as the guest in another department, thoughts are:\n\n\n$\\LaTeX$ presented to a writing class, preferably one where they've already had to submit three or more papers that were graded on presentation as well as English usage\nWeb design (for portfolio usage maybe) to any arts or photography class\nMathematica, if available, to any advanced mathematics or lab sciences class\nSQL (any flavor) to any business-related classes, if any exist at your school\n\n\nAt these engagements you can show how the program can be used in real-world application to what they are learning, and/or be useful to them in their class now. Best of breed for that would be the use of $\\LaTeX$ for the writing class - freeing them from formatting and presentation details to work on their writing skills\n\n\n\nAs a guest in the computer class, you could look for any instructors that rely on computer programs in their course material. Especially useful would be any that employ a program that is Free/OpenSource software. (If it is hosted on GitHub where they can also look at, that's even better.) A good candidate might be an art class that uses GIMP.\n\n\n\nIf you find a significant portion of your students have a common interest in another field, you could engage that department for a collaborator who can show how the computer is used in their field, even if it's not applied in the classroom itself. (Of course that could also include teaching those instructors as well, so that they are in a position to understand the tools at least as well and the students they teach.)\n\n\n\nLastly, to get things rolling, you could offer to do a session or two in another class to teach their students extra features of the Office software that they use, if any, with the students. Lab science classes probably need at least Excel for processing and presenting measurement data from experiments.\n\n\n\nThe first set of ideas is to present how the use of computers can help them now with their classwork. The second set is to show your students the application of what they are learning in your class to things they already know, or will be taking soon. The third set of ideas shows how computers are being used in the work-a-day world to make things easier, or better, in the field they are really interested in. The final idea is a method of beginning the idea of collaboration in your school before the other instructors realize it's even possible.", "Basically some experience with Discrete Mathematics and Probability , elementary Calculus is also recommend. And students are expected to be familiar with mathematical proofs, proofs by induction and good knowledge of a programming language.\nAn Excerpt From CLRS\n\nWhat are the prerequisites for reading this book?\n\nYou should have some programming experience. In particular, you should understand recursive procedures and simple data structures such as arrays and linked lists.\n\n\n\nYou should have some facility with mathematical proofs, and especially proofs by mathematical induction. A few portions of the book rely on some knowledge of elementary calculus.\n\nFrom a OpenCourseWare course thought by Prof. Charles Leiserson (The L in CLRS) based on CLRS in Fall of 2008\n\nThis course teaches techniques for the design and analysis of efficient algorithms, emphasizing methods useful in practice. Topics covered include: sorting; search trees, heaps, and hashing; divide-and-conquer; dynamic programming; amortized analysis; graph algorithms; shortest paths; network flow; computational geometry; number-theoretic algorithms; polynomial and matrix calculations; caching; and parallel computing.\n\n\nPrerequisites: A strong understanding of programming and a solid background in discrete mathematics, including probability, are necessary prerequisites to this course.\n\nThese are the prerequisite courses recommended for Introduction to Algorithms\n\n6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs\n\nThis course introduces students to the principles of computation. Upon completion of 6.001, students should be able to explain and apply the basic methods from programming languages to analyze computational systems, and to generate computational solutions to abstract problems.\n\n\n\n6.042J / 18.062J Mathematics for Computer Science\n\nThis course covers elementary discrete mathematics for computer science and engineering. It emphasizes mathematical definitions and proofs as well as applicable methods. Topics include formal logic notation, proof methods; induction, well-ordering; sets, relations; elementary graph theory; integer congruences; asymptotic notation and growth of functions; permutations and combinations, counting principles; discrete probability. Further selected topics may also be covered, such as recursive definition and structural induction; state machines and invariants; recurrences; generating functions.\n\n\nProfessor Cormen's answer on this subject\n\nWe assume that the reader has some programming experience, including recursion, and knows how to read and write rigorous mathematical proofs. The discrete mathematics facts needed to analyze the algorithms in the book appear in the appendices.\n\nMore of Professor Cormen's answers\n\nFirst, it’s possible that you do not have the mathematical sophistication to follow all the mathematics in the book. You should have had a discrete mathematics course or, at the very least, know how to read and write proofs. The mathematical foundations appear in the four appendix chapters.", "I don't think you need to know quantum physics to understand quantum computing - similarly to how you don't think about the hardware implementation of the classical computers when you write high-level code for them. \n\nThe field of quantum computing has grown to the point where one cannot really teach all of it in one course, so different approaches to teaching emerge. Some courses indeed start with quantum mechanics, introducing qubits as particles and operations as physical processes on them. Others choose to abstract the physics away and to discuss the quantum computing algorithms in mathematical terms - representing states as vectors, operators as matrices and so on. Examples include: \n\n\n\"Introduction to Quantum Information Science\" course by Scott Aaronson\n\"Introduction to Quantum Information Processing\" by Richard Cleve\n\"Quantum Computation\" course by Umesh Vazirani (which mentions physics now and then but more as an illustration)\nOur group took a similar approach when we taught a class \"Introduction to Quantum Computing and Quantum Programming in Q#\" last year.\n\n\nThere is plenty of material to cover even without diving deep into physics, and there are lots of programming languages that allow the learner to focus on studying and implementing the high-level algorithms instead.", "I'm not so sure what you're talking about is a great idea.\n\nStudents should be writing a lot of throwaway code, especially at the beginning of their education. They should be learning, writing code to test what they learned, and then moving on to the next thing.\n\nPart of being a student is writing code that, 6 months from now, will look like garabge to them. \"Why would I have done it this way?\" This is a completely normal thing that everybody feels, and it's a sign that they're learning and improving as developers. But it also means that students shouldn't spend a lot of time polishing their code. Instead, move on to the next thing.\n\nThe rest of it comes with experience. Don't worry about \"design\" so much, and just focus on writing code that works. Forcing students to work with code they wrote weeks or months ago is just punishing them for learning and improving.", "There are different questions being asked here. It is important to keep in mind that most courses on this topic are designed to clearly communicate and deepen a student's understanding of the concept of computation.\n\nHistorical motivation and precedence is not usually required to communicate the current understanding of the concepts or even their current relevance. Moreover, historical and philosophical issues are often subtle and doing them academic justice requires time and training that is not usually part of a computer science curriculum. \n\n\nThe creation of Turing Machines I think it is simplistic to believe that Turing Machines were created only to address the Entscheidungsproblem. The theory of computation was an idea whose time has arrived. There were several equivalent models of computation developed in that period with different motivation. The different models were not developed in isolation. Post developed a model of mechanical calculation in addition to more mathematical models of Church and Kleene. Electro-mechanical calculational devices were also in the background of such developments. Turing may have developed his model specifically motivated by a specific problem, but he did not work in a vacuum and his historical and intellectual context should not be discounted. \nThe creation of Finite Automata I would disagree that finite-automata were over two decades apart from the development of computational devices. McCulloch and Pitts proposed a model similar to finite automata while studying human cognition in the early 40s. The modern heritage of finite automata goes back to Rabin and Scott. Their paper is a model of clarity and is one search away. The first two words \"Turing machines\" show that they were clearly aware of Turing machines.\nThe modern presentation of computability theory It is not true that the material we learn and teach about finite automata was developed independently of work on Turing machines. The material you are taught was developed in the awareness of results of Turing machines and the motivation for these results is clearly available in the work of Rabin and Scott. \n\n\nI appreciate the desire to know about historical origins, but it is very important to appreciate that this is a nuanced topic and you cannot always find simple answers. Often, we do not even know when or why a concept was developed.\n\nRegarding your last paragraph, the historical origins are, in my opinion, not a good source of motivation for or understanding about the essence of computation. In fact, they are a pretty bad source for undergrads. There are many contemporary essays, books, talks and the like about why computation is important, universal, beautiful, fascinating, and deep. That's where you should be looking. Here are a few random starting points in no particular order.\n\n\nThe Algorithm: Idiom of Modern Science\nThe emotion universe\nThe Computational Universe\nGreat Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science\nThe Computational Universe\nComputers Ltd. What They Really Can't Do\nThe Unusual Effectiveness of Logic in Computer Science\nAnd Logic Begat Computer Science: When Giants Roamed the Earth", "The course that I offered was all about gdb, hexdumps, buffer overflows, and format string vulnerabilities. As a textbook, we used Hacking, by Jon Erickson.\n AP CS A was a prerequisite of the course, though I permitted students to join the class if they were currently enrolled in that course, as long as we had a discussion outlining expectations first. There were no mathematical prerequisites.\n\nThe course was designed with the assistance of a Navy officer. The students practiced fuzzing and hacking (admittedly insecure) programs on old, virtual systems. This was quite deliberate! I didn't start by asking, \"what will the kids be able to gain entry into at the end?\" Instead, I posed this question to the officer: \"High school students are also quite young, so there is little pressure to give them useful skills right now. CTF competitions abound, and my students are already joining those. What is hard to pick up from CTFs, but nevertheless is ultimately quite central? What can we offer them that will help them develop into top minds in this field in the future?\" And that became the central mantra of the course.\n\nEverything was done by hand at a *nix prompt, and they got a fair amount of practice reading and examining hexdumps. By the end, they could look at a hexdump and see at a glance where, for instance, the text strings were stored.\n\nIt was ultimately a computer science course on binary and hexadecimal, on system variables, and on the intricate operations of a runtime stack. As an additional bonus, they all got pretty adept at navigating a bash prompt. The students kept asking for network hacking as well, though we didn't have time to get that far. \n\nThe material was quite dense and unintuitive. (Though, I suppose, if these practices were intuitive, they wouldn't have been vulnerabilities in the first place.) It was an extremely difficult class, although the material itself kept the kids pretty interested, so you will have that working in your favor if you go down this road.", "On a more practical level, it sounds like this probably just stems from a typo on the instructor's part. If this is in the context of a big-O exercise, I'd just fix the typos and move on. Instructors do make mistakes too!\n\nGetting a bit more abstract, if a program won't run, it doesn't really make sense to speak of its time complexity because it has no runtime.\n\nGetting even more abstract - you actually can use big-O analyses to show that certain pieces of code cannot be correct. For example, suppose someone proposes a new comparison-based sorting algorithm. If you do a big-O analysis and see that it runs in time O(n) in the worst case, you are guaranteed that the code has to be wrong because of the requirement that all comparison-based sorting algorithms run in time $\\Omega(n \\log n)$ on average. This is different than talking about code that won't even compile, but it does show that analyzing the time complexity of incorrect (here, legal but wrong) code may be worthwhile.", "The course is often theoretical, taught like a math course, which it is, actually. In fact, my daughter has a doctorate in Philosophy and this was one of her doctoral courses since it relates to Epistemology. \n\nThere is actually more material than can be covered in a single course, I think. Formal language theory could be introduced as part of a Languages and Compilers sequence to separate it out a bit. This is how I taught formal languages so as to motivate scanners and parsers. \n\nAutomata and Computability is quite a lot on its own. \n\nThere is a third way to teach the course, actually, which is to teach the insights, rather than going through the proofs. What does it all actually mean if you look at it from a bit of a distance. What does it mean for problems to be equivalent? \n\nBut if you want to have a course that includes programming, you should at least look at JFlap, which is a system for teaching the course and was developed by Susan Rodger at Duke. The system lets you simulate finite automata and can support either a theoretical or insight driven course. \n\nThere are a couple of old books, now somewhat hard to find, that I consider classics and excellent introductions. Both are by V. J. Rayward-Smith:\n\nA First Course in Formal Language Theory\n\nA First Course in Computability\n\nThese are both small books but are good for the basics and for generating insight. They are worth having, even if you don't use them as course texts. \n\nThere have been a lot of books published since I studied this subject. If I had to teach a complete course, the first book I would consider would be\nIntroduction to the Theory of Computation by Michael Sipser. I expect it would be clear and deep.", "I think that the purpose of such a course is not to teach you a language. After all, Scheme, with its abstract syntax, is pretty minimal as a language. The purpose of a course like that is to teach you to think abstractly. If you can do that now, several years later, you can probably thank the course for getting you started. Abstraction, after all, is the big idea about computer languages. \n\nA course in Python or another language can do similar things, but not in quite the same way, since in those languages you also need to learn the language syntax, idioms, and other structures. Scheme pushes all that aside for the opportunity to focus on abstraction. The things that are not in the language make it easier to focus on the big ideas. \n\n\n\nThis isn't really related to your question, but I note that many language designers start out with a lisp- (scheme-) like syntax to try out ideas in the language before they think very hard about its concrete syntax. It turns out to be very good for such experimentation.", "I'll say upfront, I'm familiar with both life sciences and CS, but I've never applied one to the other.\n\nIn life sciences, computing is used for a lot of heavy processing. Stuff in genomics and molecular modeling, for example. It's not fast work. Efficiency, then, must be important for researchers to know about. The course you're designing should cover Big-O and and related topics in its discussion of algorithms.\n\nThat theory won't be much use if the researcher can't communicate with the computer. I'd say Java may not be the best language to use. The upside that's usually cited is that it's very common, and similar to other languages in industry, but these students aren't going to be professional programmers, so that doesn't really count for much here. With Java, you'll also be spending a lot of time teaching semantics about the language itself rather than CS principles; time you can't afford to waste if you get only a single course with these students. Alternatives: Python seems to be used more in science, and Ruby has a nice learning curve. Both are well-established languages with plenty of documentation and communities available online.\n\nDoctors and vets who are frontline healthcare provider types rather than in-the-lab researcher types are more likely to be users of software than writers of it. Depending on specialty, they'll be dealing with assorted medical records suites and similar programs. They should understand principles of cybersecurity, including more technical things like how passwords really work (or, just as important, fail, e.g. lack of salting or e-mailing in plaintext) and what makes them important as well as less technical ones such as social engineering, which are often both easier and more effective.\n\n\n\n(Thanks, xkcd 538.)\n\nDoctors and researchers are already looking at images on computer screens a lot, and I don't think I'm predicting the future too much by saying that's only going to increase. Understanding how lossy compression works, or JPEG format tradeoffs, and why the \"zoom in and clean that up\" CSI magic from TV doesn't happen in real life could be useful.\n\nBeyond all that, there are some fundamentals that everyone should know, life sciences or not. The basics of how a computer operates, so that it's not a mysterious magical process between pressing keys or tapping the screen and pixels lighting up. Some brief coverage of programming, algorithms and data structures. The fact that no matter how fast we make computers, there are some problems they can't solve, and we can prove that using math (even if you don't go through the proof itself).", "I think so, yes. However, I also believe teaching assembly isn't valuable because it could hypothetically teach students how to write \"faster programs\" -- compilers these days are smart enough that most of the time, you're just better off using a systems language and relying on the compiler if you're interested in that.\n\nRather, I believe the value in teaching assembly (and systems in general) is it gives the students a much deeper understanding of how computers work, which is highly valuable if they want to move on to other subfields of computer science.\n\nFor example, suppose a student is interested in exploring security. If they want to learn how things like buffer overflows work, what ASLR is, be able to understand the latest innovations in kernel research, how whatever the vulnerability-of-the-day works (right now, it seems to be Spectre and Meltdown), it's essential they have a good understanding of how exactly their computer, the hardware, the OS ticks.\n\nTeaching assembly (and more importantly, things like calling conventions, the stack vs the heap, and so forth) is a pretty decent stepping stone to help prepare students travel down this path. Of course, I'm not claiming teaching assembly is the only way, but it's certainly a well-trodden and popular route.\n\nWe can do the same kind of analysis for other fields -- systems knowledge is potentially valuable for people interested in compilers/PL research, in software validation and correctness analysis research, for people who want to build on top of new tools like Webassembly, for people who are interested in writing hardware accelerated code (using GPUs, FPGAs, SIMD instructions, etc)...\n\nOf course, not everybody is going to be interested in these fields, and even if they are, that doesn't necessarily mean that assembly is going to be directly useful or relevant to them.\n\nBut I don't think that's any excuse not to teach the material -- the goal of teaching, I believe, is to prepare students to be successful in a wide variety of different fields, whether that's industry, research, or something else. And if that means sometimes teaching them material that they won't directly need for the foreseeable future, I think that's fine. It's better to be over-prepared then under-prepared, yeah?\n\n\n\ntl;dr: having systems knowledge is useful. And if you're going to teach systems, I would imagine that you're basically obligated to teach at least some assembly." ]

[ "Depending upon your level of dedication, a business administration major can take the following time to complete: Associate's degree programs, which provide entry-level opportunity, usually take two years. A bachelor's degree program takes four years. Master's degree programs and MBAs generally require one to two years." ]

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A student's enrollment status affects the timeline.", "How long does it take to get a bachelor's degree in history? Traditionally, a 120-credit bachelor's degree in history takes a student about 4 years to complete.", "How long does it take to become a Journeyman Electrician and how long does it take to become a Master Electrician? Not sure where you are, but in Ontario Canada it takes minimum 5 years to get your Journeyman license, and you need 5 years experience IIRC before you can apply for your Masters License.", "How long does it take to get an e-Visa for Kenya? The processing time is 2 business days.", "How long does it take to receive my Master Business License? If you register online, you can print your Master Business License immediately and an official copy is emailed to you and then mailed within two business days. If you are registering by mail, it can be 10-20 business days.", "How Long Does It Take to Get a Bachelor's in Human Resources? Like many bachelor's degrees, it takes about four years to earn an undergraduate degree in human resources.", "How long does it take you guys to get to master prestige? Took me around 7 days of playtime. Probably around 3-5 years.", "How long does it take to be a forensic psychologist? Most forensic psychology positions require a doctoral degree. Most professionals in this field spend four years on their bachelor's degree, two years on their master's degree, and four years on their doctorate.", "How Long Does it Take to Get a Biomedical Engineering Degree? Standard B.S. degree courses take about 4 years, but there are degrees with emphasis on many specialties, a number of which are covered in the first section.", "How long does it take to become a geologist? 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Journalism degrees typically require students to complete 120 credit hours of coursework. Full-time undergraduate students usually complete their degrees in four years.", "How long does it take to get the PhD degree? The average time to earn a PhD degree is between 4-1/2 and 5-1/2 years. Some students finish a little earlier and some a bit later.", "How long does it take to get an apostille for an FBI background check? It takes about ten business days, or two weeks, to receive an apostille from the Federal Authentications Office.", "How long does it take to discharge a mortgage? Generally it takes between 14-21 business days to complete the discharge process.", "How long does it take to get my business cards? It can take anywhere from 1 to 3 weeks depending on the size and complexity of your order. If you order from Staples, expect your cards within 3—7 business days.", "How long does it take for me to get a refund? 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[ "I’m an oral biologist and may be able to explain. Aside from lubricating your throat to aid eating, another function of saliva is to start breaking down food. Basically the enzymes in your saliva continue to break down the small remnants of food and the funny taste/breath you get after sleeping (even if its just a nap) is the outcome of this process – it’s broken down food. You still swallow while you’re asleep - however your mouth is far less active, and by being awake and talking and opening/closing your mouth etc, it effectively ends up being swallowed and replaced by ‘new’ saliva. This process is called ‘gherking’." ]

[ "Sodium Lauryl Sulfate This is the detergent part of the toothpaste, the stuff that makes most of the lather when you brush (it shows up in shampoo for the same reason). It has a strange side effect, though: It desensitizes the taste buds that register sweetness. That's why orange juice tastes so awful right after you brush your teeth — your tongue is picking up only the sour and bitter flavors. As the amount in your mouth diminishes after brushing, your taste buds return to normal. (From _URL_0_)", "At night your mouth doesn't produce saliva. Saliva helps to reduce the amount of bacteria in your mouth. But when your mouth is dry at night, bacteria multiplies because there isn't much saliva to control it. When you brush your teeth before going to sleep it doesn't get rid of all the bacteria. Bacteria is everywhere and you can't get rid of it all.", "It's the bacteria in your mouth eating whatever's left over. If you brush/floss your teeth and use mouthwash your mouth will take longer to start smelling/tasting bad. Also, try chewing gum. That'll get the bad taste out of your mouth, and you won't break your diet. Edit: All hail /u/um3k and his/her floss", "Plaque build up on your teeth. The conditions when you are sleeping, such as a relatively dry mouth, can help them build up even better than they do when you are awake. These teeth, when exposed to some foods, make acidic products which can weaken and even permanently damage your teeth by removing the material that makes them up. Brushing regularly removes some of the plaque, so that when you eat food, there is less production of that acid. Additionally, while we often brush before going to bed, many dentists recommend brushing before eating dinner instead, because the primary goal of brushing is to remove that plaque, not bits of food. Once you are eating, any damage is already done.", "The thing that does the most cleaning of your mouth isn't actually brushing. It's the constant movement of your lips/tongue, the constant production of spit, and the constant swooshing of the spit. That's what does most of the work in cleaning your mouth. When you sleep, those three things come to an almost stop. This is also why brushing when you wake up is the most important time to brush. It starts your mouth off fresh so the constant internal factors can keep up with keeping you clean.", "You'll have to be more specific, water sitting on your counter or stagnant in the pipes will be warmer and have more oxygen or minerals dissolved in it making it taste different. Other wise factors like brushing your teeth, or having a lot of build up of bacteria in your mouth while you sleep can affect the taste as well.", "Mint gums have minty additives that irritate the mouth and give you the impression that flavor is still there. Think of toothpaste. Toothpastes have additives that irritate the mouth and give your mouth a sensation that we come to associate with being \"clean\". So the sensation from mint gums lasts longer than the actual flavor does. Think of drinking something right after you brush your teeth, even if you've rinsed your mouth well. There's obviously not still any minty toothpaste stuff in your mouth, but you can feel the effects in your mouth and it affects your taste.", "You tongue can detect different tastes. It detects salty, sweet, sour, bitter and umami. When you brush your teeth, the toothpaste becomes foamy. The foam is made by a chemical called sodium lauryl sulphate (SLS). SLS makes lots of foam and bubbles that make your teeth feel clean. SLS makes your sweet taste buds stop working so well. SLS also destroys fats that block your bitter taste buds. SLS hides the sweetness of orange juice and makes it taste bitterer. That's why it tastes horrible after brushing your teeth. SLS is in most toothpastes.", "Your mouth would taste like nothing if it's very clean. If it's not clean it still tastes like nothing because your used to it. If you want to taste it drink some water. You'll say \"eww! The water is gross.\" Turns out the water is just fine. It just brings out the bad flavor in your mouth. Brush your teeth and the same water will taste much better.", "You don't need to go through a full sleep cycle to experience benefits from napping because your brain does different things at different stages of sleep. REM sleep (which takes about 1.5 hours) is important for making new connections in the brain and solving creative problems, but you don't need to do that in order to rest during the day. Shorter naps may allow to experience benefits of rest without the grogginess associated with longer nap times. Personally I think naps are terrible and nothing is better than a full night's sleep. I was living life wrong when I used want to nap all the time.", "Sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) is a foaming agent used in some toothpastes (it basically makes the toothpaste lather in your mouth as you brush) that affects how you taste things for a short time. The bitterness in orange-flavored things is much stronger right after you brush your teeth with an SLS-containing toothpaste.", "There's a chemical in most toothpaste that blocks your tongue's ability to taste sweet stuff. That's why orange juice tastes so bad after you brush your teeth.", "The taste buds is only part of the tasting experience. Most of the taste comes from the smell of the food as it is in your mouth. Some foods will change their smell when you chew on them and mix it with spit but a lot of food smell the same in your mouth as it does outside. In that case it tastes like it smells and the only additional taste you get from tasting it and not smelling it is from the taste buds.", "Sour food, like lemons or pickles, contains acid. Acid corrodes your teeth, so your mouth produces more saliva to coat the teeth for protection. When you think of sour food in your mouth, your brain tells it to prepare for it. This is also why we salivate rapidly when we are about to vomit, because of all the stomach acid that is coming up. Edit: I think my answer didn't really address the question. You don't actually taste the sour, you react to the sour.", "cause they don't floss and brush their teeth. that bit of tendon that come from the racoon a week ago is still stuck between his teeth. same like when you eat beef stew and that one sliver of meat just got between your teeth. except you use a toothpick or floss or brush it out.", "If you sleep on your right side then [you are more likely to experience acid reflux](_URL_0_). Acid will also pool on the right side of your mouth and damage those teeth first. You are [slightly better at brushing on the side of your dominant hand](_URL_1_) though.", "It *could* damage them. The reasoning behind brushing your teeth is to clean the surface; once the surface of your teeth are clean; you're simply scraping against the enamel of your teeth. Some people have weaker tooth enamel than other people, Dentists will usually inform you of this if you've gone to them for a long period of your life. Your teeth will not necessarily become healthier from brushing. Toothpaste does contain fluoride which can strengthen tooth enamel, but brushing your teeth intensely will not heal cavities (though it may prevent them from become larger as fast as they would otherwise). Your teeth will become whiter depending on the amount of bleach, or baking soda your toothpaste contains, but the brushing part (I.e. without toothpaste) should not whiten your teeth because it would mean you are scraping enamel off them (I.e. damaging them). source: I have tons of cavities and research teeth a lot.", "The toothbrush. While toothpaste assists in the removal of detritus (it's basically mouth soap) and helps strengthen teeth with its fluoride content, it's the toothbrush that removes food particles and plaque responsible for turning all the sugar in your mouth to lactic acid that wears at your teeth. As mfigueiredo said, floss is also important to get at the tooth surfaces that a manual brush can't reach, like between teeth. (If you use proper technique your teeth shouldn't bleed, either) Toothbrushes are also much more effective if you brush your teeth properly. Brush all the tooth surfaces in a circular motion, and don't brush too hard.", "Were you eating them after brushing your teeth? That tastes awful!", "brushing your teeth before bed, without a good rinse especially, causes dry mouth which in turn causes bad breath. try a good rinse and drink water before bed.", "Bacteria in your mouth grow and multiply as they snack on the left over food and sugars. Also, these bacteria create some waste. The waste isn't harmful to us, its just there. Brushing your teeth before bed reduces the strength of morning breath, but doesn't get rid of it entirely. It's recommend you brush your teeth at least twice a day, as you wake up and before bed. Too many times in a day and you can actually strip the enamel from your teeth and damage them.", "Other species would probably benefit from brushing their teeth. It's common for pet owners to give their pets \"dental chews\" to clean their teeth. Humans are pretty long-lived. Our teeth are important to our diet (we eat a lot of stuff that requires chewing for optimal digestion). There have been studies about how human life improved when we started brushing our teeth. Brushing our teeth helps remove bacteria and gross buildups. That makes us less susceptible to illness or infection. If our immune system isn't constantly under attack from our mouth, it is more effective at fighting off other assailants. Also, take a look in an animal's mouth. Google primate teeth. The look disgusting. Humans have just recognized the benefits of brushing. Long story short, we're the only species that has developed teeth-brushing, but other animals' teeth would benefit from some scrubbing.", "Unless you're sticking the straw to the back of your throat, it won't make a difference. It's not the \"contact time of drinking\" that does the damage to your teeth. It's how long the sugar stays in the mouth after. If you're drinking through a straw, and you can taste the soda, the sugar is on your teeth. If you don't rinse your mouth after, drinking, it's no different from drinking soda normally. It basically makes no difference.", "Psychological point of view: Long naps confuse the body and disrupt your original sleeping schedule, which already decreases your quality of sleep, while a short sleep can give you a quick burst of energy without disrupting sleep pattern. The brain does understand that short naps are normal and don't directly interfere with sleeping patterns, but will be confused at longer sleeps. Biological point of view: Adrenaline and other stress hormones are reduced further in longer sleeps than short sleeps, leaving you more 'awake' after a shorter nap because you have the proper chemicals ready to respond to stimuli properly.", "bristles wear out, get bent, or too soft and no longer scrub the tooth, or enter the gaps between the tooth and the gumline, or between the teeth as well as they could have when the brush was new. Older brushes might have bristles that have broken off or become worn and are shorter than a new brush. But it's your mouth, your brush, replace it when you want.", "When you're tired after waking up, its because you weren't prepared to wake up and the chemical that makes you sleepy is still wandering about. When you're going to sleep your body knows its safe and will be sleeping shortly. The big difference is when you go to sleep the hormone is just being released and when you wake up it now has a higher concentration of that hormone.", "You'll have to define \"weird\", but try this, as an experiment: eat some spicy food and then drink water. Does your mouth also feel weird? Does the water wash away the spicy feeling? The \"minty\" taste is caused by [menthol](_URL_1_), the \"spicy hot\" taste is caused by [capsaicin](_URL_0_), and both of them have analgesic effects (pain numbing), and longer-lasting effects that go beyond just tasting stuff with your taste buds while it's in your mouth. Your mouth is numbed, slightly, sort-of like getting a mouth-full of lidocaine (the stuff dentists use to numb your gums / teeth) and then drinking water with a numbed mouth.", "It mostly comes down to we're used to it. Most of us have them through childhood and it becomes a mental/habitual thing. Just like you wouldn't normally brush your teeth in your front lawn or sleep on the kitchen counter.", "It's plaque, also known as calculus (unrelated to the mathematical field). This forms when you allow the normal bacteria in your mouth to build up layers of biofilm on your teeth. You prevent it by brushing your teeth (properly and for the full two minutes or more), flossing, and rinsing with a mouthwash twice a day. To really prevent plaque, brush your teeth after meals if you can. The dentist will still spend time cleaning your teeth even if it's aesthetically spotless because the best way to ensure dental health is to regularly detail clean the teeth with their equipment.", "To protect your teeth from stomach acid, which essentially turns your enamel into gum. This is also why you shouldn't brush your teeth directly after, and not at all if you don't have fluoride mouthwash to use prior to brushing.", "I would imagine you have chlorine byproducts that have dried on your lips and possibly in your mouth depending on if you swallowed any water as you swam. Then when you drink, those redissolve into whatever you're drinking. Should've showered thoroughly and maybe brushed your teeth first! Edited to add: Smell is a powerful component of taste. It could be you either got chlorinated water up your nose, or that your nose is so accustomed to the smell that your brain is processing as if the chlorine was still present, making the water taste bad.", "Menthol (what makes things minty) actually sets off certain taste receptors in our mouths. Our tongues pick up salty, sweet, bitter, sour and savory flavors. When menthol hits the tongue it basically shuts off the sweet receptors. So when you drink orange juice after brushing your teeth, you only get the bitter and sour parts of the flavor" ]

[ "Model Mom! Miranda Kerr Gives Birth to 2nd Baby With Husband Evan Spiegel" ]

[ "A model didn't know she was pregnant until she gave birth. This can happen to as many as one in 2,500 women.", "Parenting double-duty! Elin Nordegren emerged for the first time since giving birth to her third child. The model, 39, and boyfriend Jordan Cameron cheered on her 10-year-old son, Charlie, at a soccer tournament in Florida on Friday, October 18. The couple brought along their newborn for the family outing. Nordegren glowed in a black, floral-print maxi dress and white sandals. She chatted with Cameron, 31, as he held their first child together. The proud mom took in the game from a chair on the sidelines. The Sweden native shares daughter Sam, 12, and son Charlie with ex-husband Tiger Woods. The pair split in 2010 following his highly publicized cheating scandal. Us Weekly reported in June that Nordegren was pregnant. She showed off her baby bump at Charlie's flag football game at the time. A source told Us in June that she and Cameron were \"very happy about the pregnancy\" and preferred to stay out of the spotlight. \"Elin maintains a low profile and has a normal, boring life,\" the insider revealed. \"Florida allows her to live that quiet life. I hear she's surprised that people care this much that she's pregnant.\" Woods, for his part, opened up about his coparenting relationship with Nordegren in October 2016. \"She's been one of my best friends and I've talked to her about so many different things and she does the same thing with me back and forth,\" the golf player, 43, said during an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. \"We communicate so much better now, it's incredible. I wish we would have done that earlier on, but it's been incredible to have a best friend like that.\" The athlete elaborated on the amicable development. \"It becomes two simple things, OK?\" he explained. \"We have Sam and we have Charlie. And we love them so much that we are going to [do] whatever it takes to make that work. That's how it happened.\" Woods admitted on Good Morning America in March 2017 that his kids \"now dominate my life and I think that's a good thing.\" Scroll to see more photos of Nordegren's post-baby outing!", "A new mom took an Uber from the NICU to a consignment shop to buy her baby some new clothes. After hearing the mother's story, the Uber driver got out of the car with her and bought the baby boy 30 new outfits", "Bachelor in Paradise's Carly Waddell and Evan Bass Welcome a Son", "Pregnant Shawn Johnson Marks 2nd Anniversary of Her Miscarriage", "A Central California woman has been charged with murder after giving birth to a stillborn baby boy with toxic amounts of methamphetamine in his system, sparking concern among some who say that pregnant women are being prosecuted under laws that were never intended to apply to them. Chelsea Becker, 25, of Hanford, was arrested Wednesday and is being held at Kings County Jail, with bail set at ...", "When a mom crowdsourced a group on Facebook to find a living liver donor for her 11-month-old, another mom stepped up to the plate, noting that it's best for all parents and kids when moms lift each other up.", "Jessica Simpson made headlines for losing 100 pounds in six months after giving birth. Amy Schumer says she's lost 10 pounds and $100 to her sister playing poker.", "There's no reason to be prickly when you're this cute! The Smithsonian National Zoo announced Friday that 2-year-old Beatrix, a prehensile-tailed porcupine, was a new mom. Beatrix gave birth overnight between Nov. 5 and 6, to a porcupette weighing less than a pound, whom appears to be healthy. Beatrix mated with the zoo's adult male porcupine, Quillbur, six months ago, and zookeepers had been monitoring Beatrix closely for several weeks after...", "New moms have a lot of baby gear to buy and cute baby gear to add to their registries .", "Two Under 2! Tori Bates Is Pregnant, Expecting Second Son", "After the birth of her second child, Leanna Baucum said, \"I was overweight and had a closet full of clothes I wasn't able to wear.\" Now, she's competing in bikini contests.", "New York Post columnist Miranda Devine gives her take after day one of the public impeachment hearings that did not include the whistleblower.", "'Tis the season for porch pirates. Police said they are getting more aggressive, even going so far as to follow delivery trucks to quickly steal whatever is left on homeowners' porches before they even know something was delivered. Sign up for our Newsletters Joseph West's doorbell camera caught a man coming up to his porch and making off with a recently delivered box. \"It's very uncomfortable feeling knowing someone's standing there with the...\thttps://assets.msn.com/labs/mind/BBWucg4.html\t[]\t[]\nN57966\tnews\tnewsus\tLori Loughlin pleads not guilty to new charges in college admissions scandal\tActress Lori Laughlin and her fashion designer husband both pleaded not guilty to a new charge of conspiracy to commit bribery in a superseding indictment. Laughlin waived her next court appearance in a signal she is heading toward trial.\thttps://assets.msn.com/labs/mind/BBWKL3O.html\t[{\"Label\": \"Lori Loughlin\", \"Type\": \"P\", \"WikidataId\": \"Q234712\", \"Confidence\": 1.0, \"OccurrenceOffsets\": [0], \"SurfaceForms\": [\"Lori Loughlin\"]}]\t[]\nN37438\tsports\tsoccer\tParadigm-Altering Signing of Sam Kerr Makes Chelsea Challengers to Lyon's Throne\t​The Women's Super League is braced for the arrival of Australia forward Sam Kerr from Chicago Red Stars in time for the second half of the season. To put it bluntly, this could be the most significant moment's in the league's nine-year history to date. Kerr is nothing short of world class and her decision to make the move to ​Chelsea and England over her pick of top European clubs, reportedly Lyon for one, is momentous. \"The WSL is the best...", "The gymnast took to Instagram on Friday to share a cute snap showing her and her husband, Andrew East, kissing the newborn's cheeks.", "Jessica Simpson knows that one of the secrets to losing weight is to keep yourself accountable. And she did so with one great trick during the period of time she lost 100 pounds after the birth of her third baby, daughter Birdie, in April: a simple email message.", "The 34-year-old musician and her husband, Adam Weaver, announced the pregnancy in a video posted on Instagram on Tuesday.", "As the tornado whipped through North Texas Sunday night, destroying homes and buildings, a baby girl was born. In a laundry room. Without power. By candlelight. \"Baby girl born in our laundry room with the tornado sirens going off, a tornado on the ground half a mile away,\" stated a Facebook post by The Bump Birthing Center in Rowlett. \"Welcome to the world beauty!\" The baby, whose ...", "Pregnant Celebrities: Who's Due Next? Celebs Who Are Expecting", "If you happen to see Keanu Reeves wearing a hot pink maternity T-shirt reading, \"I'm busy growing an eyeball,\" it's due to Ali Wong.", "Shay Mitchell Defends Going to Drake's Birthday Party After Giving Birth", "Former Teen Mom star Jenelle Evans accuses David Eason of abuse in court documents obtained exclusively by E! News", "She's a baby with a baby!\" my mom joked to the cashier when I was 18. We wereshopping for maternity clothes for me, and looking back now, I guess I was ababy. But at the time I thought I had a plan.I met Larry when I was 16, working my first job at Red Lobster. I was ahostess and he worked in the kitchen. He was 20, kind and living in anapartment with friends. We started dating and then decided to get married onlya year later. My mom wanted us...", "A woman in China has given birth to a healthy baby girl at the same hospital where she used to work. The hospital says she used her medical knowledge to naturally get pregnant.", "As Keira Knightley walks the red carpet for her political thriller 'Official Secrets' in London, she admits she hasn't 'a clue what's going on' in politics right now, as she nurses her 6-week old baby. (Oct. 11)", "Find out how the actress, entrepreneur, activist and mom of two ages with grace.", "These are the endangered white tiger cubs from the Tierpark Nadermann in Germany. Coming out of there den all they want is their mother. They call out to her. Just look at that fluffy gorgeous face with their stunning blue eyes. Tiger mom Bianca is not far away. She picks one of the cubs up by the scruff of its neck. The white tiger baby is not moving and just hanging out of mom's mouth, but once she puts the baby on the grass and licks it, the cub then starts to play. The other siblings, gender yet unknown, start to join and play with mom as well. Five cubs were born on the 3rd of August 2019. More to come from these little cuties!", "Carrie, Miranda, Dolly gang's all here!", "The 39-year-old looked blissfully happy as she cuddled up to the 6ft 5ins Canadian celebrity. 41, before the Critics' Choice Documentary Awards at BRIC in Brooklyn, New York City, on Sunday.", "The pop stars spent time with Miley's mom and in bed together -- and Cody's mom went public to share her approval.", "A European Solheim Cup veteran, Karine Icher was an LPGA mainstay until pregnancy and the birth of her daughter sent her back to Q School", "As soon as Glenn Robinson III was old enough to understand, his mother, Shantelle Clay, told him about how she had been preparing to return to Purdue in January 1994 for spring semester of her freshman year when, suddenly, her water broke. When she arrived at Methodist Hospital in Gary, Ind., a nurse asked her to prepare for the worst. Clay's due date wasn't for another three months. Within an hour, her first child, Glenn III, entered the world..." ]

[ "Trevor Bolton, 78, from Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, targeted his victims over 20 years at the former Carmel College.\nBolton was convicted of 16 counts of indecent assault, six counts of indecency with a child and three other sexual offences.\nThe sentence was welcomed by police and one of his victims.\nPeter Gluckstein, 56, from London, was one of two men who waived anonymity after Bolton's conviction.\n\"I'm stunned but glad. I feel even more vindicated,\" he said after the sentencing.\nAdrian Foster, chief crown prosecutor for Thames and Chiltern Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said Bolton lived in a flat above the boys' dormitories.\n\"He abused his position of trust and took advantage of his status to systematically prey on vulnerable or homesick young boys by inviting them to his flat to watch TV and smoke.\"\nMr Foster praised the courage of victims in exposing Bolton's behaviour.\n\"The emotional impact, on the victims and their families, of the abhorrent actions of this man is impossible to quantify,\" he said.\nDet Con Trish Coyne, of Oxfordshire child abuse investigation unit, said: \"The length of these sentences reflect the severity of Bolton's crimes.\n\"While the offences took place some time ago, and despite the fact that Bolton's eight victims are successful individuals, every single one of them has admitted the offences have had an impact on them well into their adult lives.\"\nCarmel College was founded in 1948 and closed in 1997\nIt was originally based at Greenham Common, Berkshire, but moved to Mongewell Park in 1952\nDuring its life the school was attended by about 4,000 students - a third from overseas\nA 1973 edition of the Observer described it as \"the Jewish Eton\"\nSource: Carmel College website" ]

[ "Gerard Singer, 69, was found guilty of abusing former pupils at St George's School, based in Norfolk and then Suffolk, between 1978 and 1981.\nOne witness said he was given wine, tied face down to a bed and awoke with a \"pain in his bottom\".\nSinger was convicted of 27 offences, including performing oral sex and gross indecency.\nProsecutor David Wilson told Ipswich Crown Court Singer \"abused his position of trust\" while a teacher at the school, which was first based at Wicklewood, Norfolk, and then Great Finborough in Suffolk.\nThe court heard Singer, who lives in northern France, was employed as a language teacher at St George's, which moved to Suffolk in 1980 when the Wicklewood school became girls only.\nMr Wilson said the teacher took advantage of his position by \"befriending pupils before then engaging in acts of a serious sexual nature\".\nRead more on this story and others on the BBC Suffolk Live page\nHe said gifts including a calculator and sweets were given to pupils to win their favour and the abuse also happened on trips abroad.\nMr Wilson said Singer left the country in 1981 after he had been confronted about the abuse.\nThe court heard that in 1998 he was convicted of offences of sexual aggression on minors under the age of 15 in France, relating to offences committed between 1994 and 1997.\nHe is due to be sentenced on the week beginning 29 August.\nSuffolk Police began an investigation in 2009 when former pupils of St George's made allegations about abuse during their time at the school.\nFormer headmaster Derek Slade was found guilty in 2010 of abusing 12 boys and was jailed for 21 years. He died in March.\nAlan Brigden, who taught maths at the school, was jailed for five years in 2012 after admitting 14 sex crimes against two boys.\nIn 2011 another teacher, Alan Williams, killed himself after being arrested on suspicion of sex assaults at St George's, when it was at Great Finborough, in the 1980s.\nOne victim, Gary, 48, who was abused by Singer when he was an 11-year-old child, said the verdict made him feel \"he had been believed\".\n\"The abuse affects me in many ways and how you live your life,\" he said.\n\"Always in the back of my mind for me is the trust issue...it has been difficult to trust another person. It has been very difficult, almost impossible, to have trust in a person because at school I had trust in a person and was abused.\n\"We can only learn from this. It's important people do come forward.\"\nSpeaking after Singer was convicted, Det Con Karen Crowther said: \"This trial brings to a close one of the longest child sex abuse investigations carried out by Suffolk Police.\n\"I hope that now these matters have been dealt with it will help them to deal with the awful events that took place at St George's school.\"", "More than 200 men claim they were abused at St William's residential school in Market Weighton between 1970 and 1991, run by the De La Salle order.\nThe order has apologised \"unreservedly\" to those affected by the abuse and for the actions of its former principal.\nJames Carragher is in jail for sex offences against children at the home.\nIf the compensation claim succeeds, the eventual payout could run into millions of pounds.\nThe school, which closed in 1992, provided residential care and education for boys aged 10 to 16 with emotional and behavioural problems.\nIt was run by the De La Salle brothers on behalf of Middlesbrough Diocese.\nThe order said it \"deeply regrets what happened at St William's\".\nNigel Feeley was sent to St William's in 1972, when he was 13 years old. In 2004, James Carragher was found guilty of sexually abusing him at the home.\nMr Feeley said Carragher \"had a gold card to sexually abuse children\".\n\"It was like giving candy to a baby.\"\nA former worker at the home told Inside Out in an anonymous interview that \"brothers came and visited [the home] quite regularly and they would take children out\".\nHe said: \"it was a perfect opportunity for abuse\".\nSolicitor David Greenwood, acting for those claiming compensation, said St William's was \"the biggest single home where boys were abused\" that he had seen.\nBBC Inside Out Yorkshire and Lincolnshire discovered that the Catholic Church had several opportunities to investigate the abuse but failure to act meant boys continued to be abused for decades.\nThere have been three criminal investigations into abuse at the home.\nJames Carragher, of Cearns Road, Merseyside, who was principal from 1976-1990, is serving his third prison sentence for physically and sexually abusing boys there.\nHe was jailed for nine years in January after being found guilty of 21 indecent assaults and three serious sex offences. He was cleared of a further 30 charges.\nFormer chaplain Anthony McCallen, formerly of Whernside Crescent, Ingleby Barwick, Stockton-on-Tees, was jailed for 15 years after being convicted of 11 charges including a serious sexual offence. He was acquitted of eight other charges at the same trial.\nCourt documents seen by the BBC state that on 6 April 1970 an incident was investigated by a \"sub-committee of managers\" at the home.\nThe investigation concluded: \"Brother James [Carragher] is a conscientious and useful member of the staff and having expressed his regret, no further action should be taken.\"\nAllegations of abuse continued into the 1980s. The BBC has seen written testimony from a boy at the home describing how Carragher hit him on the head \"with his fist\", \"dragged\" him onto the landing and \"kicked\" and \"pulled\" him down the stairs.\nDocuments show Carragher was subjected to an internal disciplinary hearing following the assault and was given a warning.\nAccording to a letter sent to Humberside County Council in 1992, complaints at the home were deal with by the principal, meaning that for 14 years allegations were dealt with by the man - Carragher - who was carrying out the abuse.\nA spokesman for the De La Salle Order said: \"We repeat our total condemnation of the serious criminal behaviour of James Carragher, a former member of the De La Salle Brothers, during his time on the staff at St William's.\n\"We condemn, without reservation, any action or behaviour which harms young people.\n\"We deeply regret what happened at St William's and the harm that was done there through the behaviour of James Carragher. We unreservedly apologise to all who have been affected by his behaviour. Our hearts go out to all victims of abuse and their families.\"\nA spokesman for the Diocese said: \"Abusive behaviour has absolutely no place in the Catholic Church, or anywhere in society, and is against everything we stand for.\"\nThe compensation case is expected to last three weeks at the High Court in Leeds.\nWatch a full report on BBC Inside Out - BBC One on Monday 31 October at 19:30 GMT in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.", "Anthony McCallen and James Carragher were convicted of a total of 35 sex offences against 11 boys between 1970 and 1991 at the former St William's Children's Home in East Yorkshire.\nMcCallen, 69, was jailed for 15 years and Carragher, 75, for nine years.\nLeeds Crown Court heard it was the third time former head Carragher had been jailed for offences at the home.\nSentencing the pair, Judge Geoffrey Marson QC said: \"Each of you targeted some of the most vulnerable boys. You groomed them and abused them for your own sexual gratification.\n\"The victims were effectively trapped and there was no escape from you.\n\"They were confused, frightened and in turmoil.\n\"It has blighted their lives and each of you had contributed significantly to their misery.\"\nHe said the 11 victims suffered \"severe long-term, continuing psychological harm as a result of what you did\".\nIn court, the judge said he had taken into account Carragher's previous convictions for offences he committed at the now defunct home - the first time in 1993 when he was jailed for seven years and then in 2004 when he was given a 14 year sentence.\nHe told Carragher he had to take into account the sentence he would have passed if he had heard all the evidence from all three trials and said this would have led him to a sentence of 30 years in prison, from which he deducted the 21 years Carragher had already served.\nThe jury heard how former chaplain McCallen had also been convicted before, of abusing two boys in the 1990s when he was found in possession of indecent photographs of boys, some of which he took through spy-holes as they showered and used the toilet.\nJudge Marson said: \"Each of you has a long standing, deeply engrained sexual interest in teenage boys.\n\"It's an interest, I have no doubt, that continues to persist.\"\nBoth will be required to serve half their sentences before they can be considered for release on licence.\nDuring a 10-week trial at Leeds Crown Court, the pair denied 87 sex offences against children at the home, which closed in 1992.\nCarragher, of Cearns Road, Merseyside, was found guilty of 21 indecent assaults and three serious sex offences, but was cleared of a further 30 charges.\nMcCallen, of Whernside Crescent, Ingleby Barwick, Stockton-on-Tees, was convicted of 11 charges, including a serious sexual offence. He was acquitted of eight others.\nThe jury was unable to reach verdicts on 13 charges and was discharged by the judge.\nSt William's, in Market Weighton, was owned by the Diocese of Middlesbrough and run by members of the De La Salle Brotherhood.\nThe diocese previously said it had condemned child abuse and McCallen's behaviour while he was a priest was a betrayal of the trust that was placed in him from the Diocese of Middlesbrough.", "Former care workers Colwyn Baker, 71, David Hennessy, 74, and Nigel Putman, 62, abused youngsters at the now-closed Swaylands School in Penshurst, Kent, between 1963 and 1979.\nBaker was sentenced to 20 years in prison for 20 offences.\nHennessy was jailed for 12 years for six offences and Putman sentenced to three years for two offences.\nSentencing the three men at Maidstone Crown Court at the end of a 12-week trial, Judge Philip Statman said: \"This is one of the worst possible breaches of trust a court can deal with.\"\nHe said to Baker: \"You must have thought as you entered your seventh decade you'd got away with it.\"\nBaker, of Craighouse Avenue, Morningside, Edinburgh, had denied 24 indecent assault and three serious sexual assault charges.\nHennessy, of Westfields in Narborough, King's Lynn, Norfolk, had denied 17 indecent assault charges, one of gross indecency with a child and one serious sexual assault.\nPutman, 62, of Kings Road, Slough, Berkshire, had denied three indecent assaults.\nThe three were found not guilty of 15 charges, and the jury was unable to decide on five counts.\nOne victim said in a statement issued after sentencing: \"At the time I didn't realise it was wrong because the abuse was done in a way that made it seem OK.\n\"I was sent to the school because I needed looking after. I was a little boy and I wasn't looked after. I was made to do things that I shouldn't. This will always affect me.\"\nDuring the trial, the jury heard that Baker had been convicted in 1994 of four counts of indecent assault on a boy aged under 16 and one count of gross indecency.\nIt was also disclosed that Hennessy was convicted in December 1993 of four counts of indecent assault on a boy and two sex offences against a pupil.\nThe judge praised the victims for their \"courage, dignity and restraint\".\nSpeaking to the three men he had just jailed, he said: \"What those pupils, as they then were, suffered at your hands is seared in their memory banks, in my judgment, for the rest of their lives.\n\"They remained scarred by what happened to them and it's clear from their victim impact statements of their shame and embarrassment.\"\nSwaylands School, which was run by Barnet council in north London, was a residential facility for boys with emotional and behavioural difficulties.\nIt was closed at the end of the summer term in 1994, 18 months after the council and Kent Police became aware of allegations of sexual abuse of students at the school by two staff members.\nFollowing the verdicts, the council said it was \"truly sorry\" that young boys had suffered at the school.", "Father Benedict Seed, 83, is charged with assaulting eight pupils in the 1970s and 1980s. He denies the charges.\nAppearing under the name Thomas Michael Seed, he has given evidence in his trial at Inverness Sheriff Court.\nHe told the court that caning pupils at Fort Augustus Abbey school \"was very rare\" and belting was \"pretty rare\".\nThe jury in his trial has heard from five former pupils that Father Benedict Seed would cane or belt them until they bled, with one accusing him of using a spiked golf shoe.\nAnother said he was repeatedly punched, kicked and hit in the private parts with a hockey stick because he refused to go to sports as he was ill in bed.\nThe witnesses each described how they would be punched or kicked and sometimes dragged along floors or down stairs to Father Seed's study where he would inflict corporal punishment.\nThe boys, now adults, were aged between 11 and 15 at the time, and claimed the priest was excessive in his use of the cane and/or tawse. They also accused him of being \"in an uncontrollable rage\".\nHis defence counsel John Campbell QC asked Father Seed: \"You have been characterised as an intemperate, quick to anger, aggressive and disproportionate with your punishment man - a monster on the loose who explodes with temper.\n\"Does that ring true for you?\"\nFather Seed replied: \"No. It is not me. I could have been impatient or mistaken. None of us are perfect all the time.\"\nBut the former priest conceded: \"I think there may have been some times that I could have been excessive but not all the time. That is not my general character. No.\"\nHe said that after he had been a housemaster at the school, he was promoted to headmaster.\nHe said: \"The housemasters gave corporal punishment. The headmaster did not.\n\"Another monk told me that I was the one who abolished corporal punishment at the abbey. But I don't remember that.\"\nHe added: \"Caning was very rare, belting was pretty rare.\"\nA police interview given by Father Seed, who was himself a former abbey school pupil, was read out to the trial earlier.\nIn it he revealed that when he was a pupil at the abbey, he was a \"bad boy\" and got caned for 40 successive days.\nHe also told officers that when he became a housemaster he tested tawses on himself.\nHe also insisted that the pupils preferred the \"short sharp punishment of the tawse\" rather than the alternatives of lines, detention or physical labour like weeding or going for a half-hour walk.\nDetails of the allegations being made against him by the former pupils were given to the priest and he denied knowledge of all of them but one.\nIn the case of Paul Curran, who was the first to tell the trial that his wrists bled after a belting, Father Seed denied he had been excessive.\nMr Curran told the jury that he was belted until his hands bled and the monk was in \"a rage\".\nThe former priest said he remembered Mr Curran, that he had belted him and said he was \"high-spirited\" but \"a good influence on the school\".\nHowever, he denied that he had lost control.\nThe trial continues.", "Talbot, 67, was convicted at Lanark Sheriff Court of seven charges of indecent assault.\nThe offences, against boys aged 15 to 17, took place between 1978 and 1981.\nThey happened during separate trips to two locations - one near Moffat in southern Scotland, and one on the Caledonian Canal in Inverness.\nThe four-year sentence will start on 14 August, at the end of the punishment part of a five-year jail term Talbot is already serving for previous sex offences.\nSheriff Nikola Stewart said the former This Morning presenter had taken advantage of the innocence of his victims.\nShe told Talbot the boys \"all trusted and all liked you\".\nSheriff Stewart added: \"They were keen to go on the camping trips and sailing trips that you organised, both informally and as official school trips.\n\"That trust and affection was grossly abused by you on repeated occasions as you preyed upon these young boys - some away from home and away from parental care for the first time, and all utterly unsuspecting of the sexual threat you posed to them.\"\nTalbot was a regular on the floating weather map in Liverpool's Albert Dock for ITV's This Morning show during the late 1980s and early 1990s.\nAt the time of the attacks, he was a biology teacher at a school in the Manchester area and took boys away on camping and boating trips.\nDuring the trial, a succession of witnesses, now men in their 50s who cannot be named for legal reasons, told how Talbot abused his position of trust.\nOne man told the court he was indecently assaulted as a teenage boy after a visit to a pub on a camping trip left him \"very much the worse for wear\".\nA further witness said he was left \"petrified\" when Talbot indecently assaulted him on a trip to the Caledonian Canal in 1979.\nStone Roses frontman Ian Brown, 54, who was not an alleged victim, also gave evidence at the trial and said he had never forgotten the moment Talbot invited one of his young friends to sleep in his tent on a school camping trip.\nTalbot was previously jailed for five years at Manchester Crown Court in 2015 for the indecent assault of two 14-year-old boys.\nNSPCC Scotland described Talbot as \"a prolific abuser who carried out a series of attacks on children in his care\".\nA spokesman for the charity said: \"Thanks to the bravery of his victims, he has again been brought to justice.\n\"Abuse ruins childhoods. Talbot used his position of trust as a teacher to prey on his victims and the attacks he carried out will have had long-lasting effects on them into adulthood.\n\"We hope the sentence imposed on him will help his victims finally overcome what happened to them.\n\"This case shows once again how important it is that those who have suffered abuse are able to come forward and see justice done.\"", "The 65-year-old was cleared of eight other indecent assault charges by a jury at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court.\nHe was accused of abusing four former pupils at Altrincham Grammar School in Greater Manchester and a fifth schoolboy from the Newcastle area.\nTalbot was remanded in custody for sentencing on 13 March.\nJudge Timothy Mort told Talbot, from Bowdon in Greater Manchester, his sentence should start immediately bearing in mind his \"abuse of trust\".\nThe Edinburgh-born former ITV star displayed no obvious reaction while the verdicts were read and nodded at the judge as he was taken down to the cells.\nHe had denied abusing boys aged 14 to 17, but was found guilty of two counts relating to former pupils at Altrincham Grammar School on canal boat trips.\nThe jury heard Talbot staged a naked orgy involving 10 drunken schoolboys on a canal barge.\nHe was said to have asked some of the pupils to pretend they were girls and lie on top of each other as photographs were taken.\nOne victim, who said he thought he was 14 at the time, said Talbot abused him after he was told to share a bed with him.\nAnother boy was abused on another barge trip in similar circumstances.\nHe said boys would take turns to sleep in Talbot's bed during the trip and when it was his turn Talbot \"started talking to me about sexual stuff\".\nThe incidents are said to have taken place on school trips in the 1970s.\nIt can now be reported that a number of similar complaints against Talbot have been passed by police to the Procurator Fiscal about alleged offences said to have been committed in Scotland.\nTalbot was also questioned by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) about a serious sexual assault allegedly committed on a former pupil but the matter was withdrawn after the complainant died.\nTalbot worked as a biology teacher at the boys' school until May 1984.\nThe court heard his teaching career came to \"an abrupt end\" following an indecent proposal he made to two pupils he invited to his home to look at his telescope.\nThe jury was told he was said to have been \"obsessed\" with teenage boys throughout his teaching career and \"could not help himself\" around them when under the influence of drink.\nDuring the investigation, police seized a number of diaries Talbot kept during his teaching career.\nPolice found entries \"highly suggestive of inappropriate behaviour\".\nDet Con Chris Doggart, of GMP, said: \"Talbot was an extremely popular and well liked individual - both as a celebrity weatherman and formerly as a science teacher - who earned not only the trust and adulation of many of his peers and pupils, but also much of the nation.\n\"Now he has been exposed as an opportunistic sex offender and that reputation is rightly in tatters.\n\"Even when he was not committing offences against the two vulnerable young boys, his behaviour was wholly inappropriate and so far removed from his duty as a teacher to nurture and safeguard those under his care it really does defy belief.\"\nThe investigation was triggered in December 2012 following publicity into a separate historical abuse inquiry at another Altrincham school, St Ambrose College, which led to a nine-year jail term for ex-teacher Rev Alan Morris.\nNazir Afzal, chief prosecutor for the North West of England, said Talbot's offences were a \"gross betrayal\" of the trust placed in him.\n\"Parents and pupils saw him as a popular, likeable teacher who was willing to give up his time to take children away on school trips.\n\"In fact he used those situations as opportunities to sexually assault two teenage boys who should have been safe in his care.\"\nIn a statement, Altrincham Grammar School for Boys said: \"These awful events took place over 30 years ago and naturally our thoughts go out to those former pupils who were subjected to this abuse.\n\"We are confident that our present pupils and their parents know that the school is totally committed to ensuring the safety of our students and staff at all times and that these historical offences have no bearing on the school's outstanding reputation today.\"\nTalbot is best known for presenting the weather forecast on a floating map in Liverpool's Albert Dock for ITV's This Morning programme.", "Gavin Bowie, 64, targeted vulnerable children who boarded buses he was driving in Glasgow and Cumbernauld.\nHe was found guilty of 15 sex offences against 11 boys, aged 12 to 16, dating back more than 20 years.\nThe High Court in Livingston heard he was caught after a victim recognised him after boarding a bus he was driving in Halifax, West Yorkshire.\nJailing Bowie, judge Lady Wolffe told him: \"The boys you preyed on were all impressionable young boys in their early teens.\n\"You were a calculating and predatory individual, preying on the young and vulnerable for your own sexual gratification.\"\nLady Wolffe said it was \"extremely concerning\" that the background report on Bowie recorded him as having neither remorse for his crimes nor insight into his actions and their consequences for others.\nThe judge also ordered that Bowie's name should remain on the sex offenders' register indefinitely.\nThe court heard that Bowie picked out his victims from boys who boarded the buses he drove throughout the west of Scotland.\nHe allowed them to travel free then lured them to his home in Cumbernauld with promises of cannabis, alcohol and sweets.\nBowie also threatened some of the boys, saying he would hurt them or their family if they did not comply with his demands.\nHe was brought to justice after a passenger who boarded a bus he was driving in Halifax recognised him as his childhood abuser.\nThe court was told that it had been a complete coincidence that both Bowie and his victim, who was then aged 36, had moved to the English town from Scotland.\nWhen the man reported Bowie to the police in 2013, it emerged that another victim had come forward 13 months before.\nThe chance encounter also led detectives to other victims who had used bus routes Bowie had worked on in Glasgow, Cumbernauld, and elsewhere in Scotland more than 20 years ago.", "The 75-year-old, from London, admitted the abuse of 11 boys as young as eight. He denied three other offences.\nDenning, who was arrested in a police inquiry into the Walton Hop Disco for teenagers in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, will be sentenced on 6 October.\nHe was part of the original line-up that launched Radio 1 in 1967, but left two years later.\nThe prosecution said it did not intend to proceed with a trial on the three charges to which Denning had pleaded not guilty.\nHe is currently serving a 13-year jail term for sexual assaults against 24 victims aged nine to 16 from the 1960s to 1980s.\nHe will be sentenced at Southwark Crown Court by the same judge who jailed him for those offences in 2014.\nThe latest offences Denning admitted included indecent assaults on men and boys and inciting boys aged under 16 and 14 to commit acts of gross indecency.\nThe offences he denied were three counts of indecent assault.\nSurrey Police said the case against the former DJ formed was part of its Operation Ravine investigation into non-recent sexual offences linked to the Walton Hop Disco which ran between 1958 and 2001.\nDet Ch Ins Jo Hayes said: \"Denning, who was looked up to and sometimes idolised by many young people, has used his status to prey on innocent children which he has now admitted to.\"\nFour of Denning's victims were in court to see him plead guilty.\nDet Ch Insp Hayes said: \"The four boys who Denning abused had moved on with their lives and were now adult men with families and careers. Often, they had not spoken to those closest to them about their ordeal as a child and only recently, as part of this investigation, have been able to do so...\n\"We can never go back and take away the abuse these four men suffered as boys but I hope, in some way, today's guilty plea brings some closure for them.\"\nChris Denning rose to prominence in the 1960s on BBC television and radio.\nHe was one of the first announcers heard on BBC Two when the channel began broadcasting in 1964 and went on to be one of the original Radio 1 DJs.\nDenning helped launch the careers of the Bay City Rollers and Gary Glitter, and ran his own music and video production business.\nHe remained a well-known DJ and presenter into the early 1970s.\nThe allegations that led to his conviction in 2014 arose after the sex abuse perpetrated by late Radio 1 DJ Jimmy Savile came to light.\nDenning's arrest was under the strand of the investigation into offences not connected to Savile, but the court heard he did use his fame to \"entice\" boys.\nThis included taking some victims to recordings of Top of the Pops, and in other instances, introducing them to celebrities including Savile.\nDenning had a number of previous convictions for abusing young boys.\nIn 1974, he was convicted of gross indecency and indecent assault but was not imprisoned.\nHe was then jailed for 18 months in 1985 for gross indecency, and in 1988 he received a three-year sentence, this time for indecent assault and possession of indecent images.\nIn 1996, he was handed a 10-week sentence for publishing indecent articles.\nHe was arrested in the Czech Republic in 1997 and eventually jailed in 2000 by a Prague court for four and a half years for having sexual contact with underage teenage boys.\nThe UK tried and failed to have Denning extradited from the Czech Republic, but in 2005 he was arrested at Heathrow Airport, having arrived from Austria.\nIn January 2006, a British court jailed him for four years after he admitted five charges of indecent assault on boys under 16 during the 1970s and 80s.\nHe was then extradited to Slovakia, where he was given a five-year sentence in 2008 for producing indecent images of children.", "Peter Righton gave \"considerable assistance\" as an expert in child care to a government report in 1970.\nHe had earlier left a teaching job over complaints of child abuse. He later became a member of a pro-paedophile campaign group. Righton died in 2007.\nThe Home Office said it was \"absolutely committed\" to stamping out child abuse.\nIn July, Home Secretary Theresa May announced an overarching inquiry into how public institutions had handled historical claims of child sexual abuse.\nThis followed a campaign by MPs whose concerns included evidence of a wide paedophile network in documents seized from Righton's home in 1992 after his arrest over child abuse images.\nThe report to which Righton contributed led to major reforms of 1970s children's homes.\nIt was authored by a Home Office advisory committee and set out how hundreds of new homes should be brought under local authority control.\nSo-called community homes replaced approved schools - residential centres for \"delinquent\" youngsters - and involved the employment of hundreds of social care staff.\nThe report credited Righton, who at the time was an academic specialising in social work, for \"considerable\" help in a chapter on the training of residential workers.\nA former care professional familiar with the events has told the BBC that Righton travelled extensively carrying out research work during the period he contributed to the project and had been to children's homes \"all over the country\" including Stoke-on-Trent, Wolverhampton, Rochdale and Preston.\n\"He [used to] go and interview, in approved schools, individual boys and he certainly went to speak to the heads of homes,\" the former care worker said.\nThe retired worker - who asked not to be identified - said that Righton \"networked\" at children's homes, adding: \"He was a very dangerous man because he was put in a position where he could abuse trust.\"\nRighton visited the Bryn Estyn approved school in Wrexham where he met staff and children, according to the care worker's account.\nThe former worker said that Righton had claimed that he \"took boys out\" and had also said he used \"sexual\" language with them.\nThe source added that the words Righton had exchanged with the boys were \"not something that you would have in a healthy conversation with a child\".\nBryn Estyn was later at the centre of an abuse scandal in which 140 former residents made allegations that they were abused between 1974 and 1984.\nAn official report described \"appalling\" abuse at the home and former housemaster Peter Howarth was jailed for 10 years for sexually abusing boys as young as 12. He died in prison.\nThe Waterhouse report into abuse at north Wales homes described how local councils were \"in a state of turmoil\" in the early 1970s owing to the new responsibilities imposed on them by the legislative changes of the time.\nHowarth had earlier taught at the same special school in Kent where Peter Righton had faced complaints of child abuse.\nBy the mid-1970s, Righton had become a founding member of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) which advocated sexual relationships between adults and children.\nAt the same time he became increasingly influential in the field of residential child care, according to Ian Pace, a lecturer at City University who has researched historical abuse at music schools and the influence of PIE.\nHe said Righton was \"deeply involved with the cult of the classical world that was very important to... the paedophile movement\", focusing on stories of \"Greek love\" between men and young boys.\nMr Pace said \"some of Righton's interests\" were reflected in the Home Office advisory report.\nThe section of the report which credited Righton called for residential child care workers to be trained in \"the growth of civilisation\" and \"aesthetic values\".\nThe Home Office declined to comment on the revelations about Peter Righton.\nA spokesman referred the BBC to the home secretary's comments to the House of Commons in July when she said the government would address two concerns: \"First, that in the 1980s the Home Office failed to act on allegations of child sex abuse.\n\"Secondly, that public bodies and other important institutions have failed to take seriously their duty of care towards children.\n\"As I informed the House on 7 July, the whole government take the allegations very seriously. That is why I announced two inquiries last week.\"\nIn 1992 Peter Righton was fined £900 for possessing images of child abuse and was cautioned over an earlier assault.", "Simon Harris, 55, carried out sex attacks on boys in the town of Gilgil, between 1996 and 2013.\nHarris, of Pudleston, near Leominster, was head of charity VAE, which placed volunteers in Kenyan schools.\nHe was convicted of eight counts of indecent and sexual assault, at Birmingham Crown Court in December.\nThe case is one of the first of its kind using legislation that allows British citizens to be tried for sex offences committed abroad if it is also an offence in that country.\nHarris was also convicted of four counts of possessing indecent images of children.\nHe was, however, cleared of 10 further charges, including rape.\nThe jury failed to reach a verdict on one remaining count of rape and the judge discharged them of their duty in relation to that.\nHarris, a former classics teacher, had preyed on \"very small children who have no families, nobody to look after them... sheltering in doorways\" with the promise of food and shelter, the jury heard.\nJudge Phillip Parker QC described him as \"intelligent\" and \"charismatic\", giving him \"a veneer of respectability\", which enabled him to design his life to be close to boys.\nIn Kenya, Harris had assumed a \"hallowed\" position, accountable to no-one, that allowed him to abuse street children who were amongst the most vulnerable in the world, the judge said.\n\"It had been urged upon me that I should give you credit for all the charitable work you introduced to Kenya but I am afraid, when your so-called charity work is the vehicle for abuse, I cannot buy into this concept,\" the judge said.\nHe described Harris as \"a significant risk\" to young boys and his Kenyan victims had been left \"used, degraded, and humiliated\".\n\"The mental scars will almost certainly never heal,\" Judge Parker said.\nDefence QC Jeremy Dein had told the court that Harris's charity work should not be entirely discounted, describing him as \"an exceptional philanthropist.\"\n\"He is ashamed of his behaviour - both as a teacher and when in Kenya,\" he said.\nThe abuse came to light after evidence was passed on by a Channel 4 documentary team making a film about the plight of Gilgil's street children.\nOfficers from the National Crime Agency, who travelled to Kenya in a bid to trace Harris's victims, described him as \"one of the most prolific child sex offenders\" they had ever encountered.\nIt emerged during his trial that Harris had been banned from travelling abroad after a 2009 conviction for possession of indecent images of children, for which he served 15 months in jail.\nHowever, the jury heard he successfully appealed to have the ban lifted, allowing him to travel back and forth to Kenya, where he abused more boys, until he was eventually arrested back in the UK in June 2013, by West Mercia Police.\nSpeaking after the conviction, officers said they had identified a number of potential victims during their inquiry but believe Harris could have abused hundreds of boys.\n\"The convictions and today's sentence sends an important message to people who have been the victim of crimes such as these to come forward, because time and geography is no barrier to justice,\" Det Ch Insp Damian Barrett said.\nLawyers representing Kenya victims also welcomed the sentence.\n\"This case is the first time a British man has been convicted for sex offences carried out in Africa, and should serve as a warning to paedophiles looking to sexually abuse children overseas, believing they are beyond the law,\" Nichola Marshall, from law firm Leigh Day, said.\nHarris's trial is thought to be the first involving the use of live video link technology from Africa to hear evidence.\nHe had denied all the offences in Kenya, but before his trial got under way he admitted six offences of indecent assault against three boys, aged between 13 and 14, when he was a teacher at Shebbear College, Devon in the 1980s.", "Paul Charles Wilkins, of Littleport in Cambridgeshire, travelled to California in January to \"engage in illicit sexual conduct\" with boys aged 10 and 12, US officials claim.\nUS Attorney Eileen M. Decker described the 70-year-old as a predator.\nWilkins was jailed in the UK in 2011 for child pornography offences.\nHe pleaded guilty to 16 charges and was jailed for 56 months at Cambridge Crown Court, the Crown Prosecution Service for East of England said.\nIn January, Wilkins arrived in the Coachella Valley in southern California with the intention of having sex with pre-teen boys, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials.\nThe Cambridgeshire man, who holds dual UK and US citizenship, was arrested on 11 February at a rented apartment in Palm Springs after allegedly paying an undercover Homelands Security Investigations (HSI) officer $250 (£170) to have sex with a nine-year-old boy.\nHe was charged with travelling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with boys and attempted sex trafficking.\nMs Decker, chief federal law enforcement officer in the Central District of California, said: \"When this defendant's original plan was thwarted, he made other arrangements to sexually abuse a child.\n\"He must be held accountable for these crimes.\"\nWilkins has been detained in custody in the US since his arrest, but two further charges of transporting and possessing child pornography were added to the indictment on 17 June.\nThe images were found on a laptop computer and storage device seized when he was arrested in Palm Springs, an ICE official said.\nWilkins was detained as part of HSI's Operation Predator, an international initiative to protect children from sexual predators.\nHe is expected to face trial in the US on 19 July.", "Peter Ball, 84, was jailed for 32 months in October 2015 after admitting a string of historical sex offences against 18 teenagers and young men.\nThe former bishop of Lewes and Gloucester was released from jail on Friday after serving 16 months.\nPhil Johnson said he had served \"less than a month for each of the victims\".\nBall was sentenced to 32 months for misconduct in public office and 15 months for indecent assaults, to run concurrently, after using \"religion as a cloak\" to carry out the abuse between the 1970s and 1990s.\nRichard Scorer, a lawyer representing a number of Ball's victims, said his early release was \"an affront to justice\" and \"a huge blow to his victims\".\n\"This was a man whose appalling crimes represented a gross and systematic abuse of trust spanning decades,\" he said.\nMr Johnson, from Eastbourne, who was not one of the 18 people Ball admitted abusing, alleges that Ball inappropriately touched him as a 13-year-old boy.\nHe said the sentence handed down to him was \"in no way proportionate to the crimes committed\", and it seemed he had been freed \"at the earliest opportunity\".\nA Church of England spokeswoman said Ball's offences were \"a matter of deep shame and regret\".\nIn February 2016, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Rev Justin Welby, commissioned an independent review of the Ball case.\nMr Johnson said its publication was not likely \"for several more months\".\n\"I think it's utterly ridiculous that it's taken longer to write a report on what happened than it has for Peter Ball to serve his jail sentence,\" he said.\nA Ministry of Justice spokesman said sex offenders were \"robustly risk assessed and subject to a strict set of conditions\".\n\"If they fail to comply, they can be recalled to prison,\" he added.", "Lead workers, stonemasons, coppersmiths, glaziers and conservators have been busy sprucing up the centrepiece of the 11th Century Buckfast Abbey.\nThe church was rebuilt in 1932 but the entire abbey and grounds are getting a makeover to mark the abbey's millennium in 2018.\nRestoration of the church, with a new limestone floor, is costing about £4m, according to the abbot, David Charlesworth.\nElsewhere, new workshops have been built, a terrace has been added to the restaurant and there are big plans to increase accommodation for visitors.\nIt is a huge turnaround from the 1980s when the monastery was in serious financial difficulties.\nAnd underpinning it all is the success of Buckfast Tonic Wine, which is made at the abbey.\n\"Clearly there were financial problems,\" said Abbot Charlesworth, 62, who has been at the abbey since he was a would-be monk aged 18.\n\"And there is no great fund in the Vatican that doles out money.\n\"A monastery is an independent entity which happens to be linked to Rome.\"\nAt the beginning of the 1980s, the monastery produced the tonic wine, but \"it was not the industry which it is today\", said the abbot.\nFrom a team of about 20 lay staff in the 1980s, the abbey now employs 123 across its shops, cafes, maintenance departments and a modern winery, opened two years ago.\nThe abbey's charitable trust, chaired by the abbot, is a 34% shareholder in the wine's seller, J Chandler and Co, and gets a royalty fee for every bottle sold.\nLast year the trust received £6.6m, which includes income from other activities such as the shops, restaurant, a conference centre and accommodation.\nThe conference facilities are located in the abbey's former prep school, along with an interactive education centre that draws in 11,000 young visitors a year.\nThe conference centre is on the site of a former preparatory boarding school.\nA former monk and headmaster, Gregory Miller, 80, was given a suspended prison sentence earlier this year for making and possessing indecent images of children.\nThe abbey community at the time spoke of its \"betrayal and dismay\" and said \"there is absolutely no place for this totally unacceptable behaviour\".\nOrdained priest William Manahan, 80, was jailed for 15 months in 2007 for sexually abusing boys at the school between 1971 and 1978.\nAnother monk at the abbey, Paul Couch, was convicted in 2007 of two serious sexual offences and 11 indecent sexual assaults against boys at the school and was jailed for 10 years and nine months.\nBishop Christopher Budd ordered an investigation by the NSPCC after Christopher Jarvis, 49, who was employed by the Diocese of Plymouth to investigate sex abuse allegations, was jailed for a year in 2011 after admitting 12 counts involving indecent images.\nThe school closed in 1994, with the abbey saying it had become financially unviable.\nAbbot Charlesworth said that today the tonic wine was the \"biggest part\" of the abbey's income.\n\"We use the income to consolidate what we are doing here, particularly to make sure the buildings are in good order.\"\nFather James Courtney, the abbey bursar, is the only monk still involved in the Buckfast production which is staffed by three lay workers.\n\"I look in from time to time and say you're all doing very well,\" he said.\n\"Monks have been making drinks for centuries. Dom Perignon invented champagne and Chardonnay was invented by monks.\n\"I feel a lot of satisfaction with the winery.\n\"A lot of hard work and resources have gone into what I think is the right direction.\"\nAdjoining the abbey is a huge former wool spinning plant which the abbey bought earlier this year.\nDetails of the plant's future are unclear, but the abbey hopes to create more jobs there.\nThe number of monks has declined - there were about 40 when the Abbot Charlesworth was elected abbot in 1992. Now there are 15.\n\"Monasteries don't exist in bubbles, they exist in societies,\" he said.\n\"It is a society that might talk a lot about spiritual things but it's a pick and mix way of dealing with it\n\"If I get bored with pilates, yoga, evangelical, fundamentalism, Christianity, Judaism, whatever, I can dump it.\n\"It's a very restless society and therefore it's very difficult for people to commit themselves to this way of life.\n\"So if you look at the bigger picture it's not surprising.\"\nHe has established a house of \"vocational discernment\" - a sort of stepping stone into monastic life without any commitment.\nThere are summer schools too - and other events aimed at bringing more people into the monastery.\nAnd like Abbot Charlesworth, who arrived as a teenager, he hopes that some will stay.\n\"All these things are bringing people here so they can investigate the potential of Buckfast and whether they have a part in something like this,\" he said.\n\"But it is not about numbers, but the spirit of those here.\"", "Father Michael Higginbottom was found guilty of the \"cruel and sadistic\" abuse of a teenage boy at St Joseph's College in Upholland, Lancashire.\nHe was convicted at Liverpool Crown Court of four counts each of a serious sexual offence and indecent assault.\nThe 74-year-old, of West Farm Road, Newcastle, was jailed for 17 years.\nThe court heard the victim, now in his 50s, was aged between 13 and 14 at the time of the abuse, which began about a week after arriving at the school.\nHe said he was locked in Higginbottom's living quarters and ordered to undress before being sexually assaulted.\nThe victim said he would be hit with a strap if he did not go to the physics teacher's quarters at allocated times.\nIn a statement read to the court, he said: \"My sexual abuse happened so often I became numb to what was happening to me.\n\"I cried so often I believe I could have drowned in my own tears.\"\nHe said he used to pray that he would die to escape the abuse.\n\"There are worse things than death - living with an evil man and being left alone at Upholland,\" he said.\nHigginbottom denied ever sexually abusing a boy in his care.\nThe court heard Higginbottom would give electric shocks to pupils as a punishment.\nSentencing, Judge Andrew Menary QC said: \"For a period of six months in the late 1970s you made a young boy's life a living hell.\n\"What you did to him there effectively destroyed the remainder of his childhood and did a good job of destroying any faith he ever had.\"\nHe added: \"You employed methods which today, if not then, would be recognised for what they were - cruel and sadistic bullying.\"\nDuring the trial, the court heard previous allegations had been made against Higginbottom in 2007 by another former pupil and the Catholic Church had settled out of court for £35,000.\nPolice had investigated the claims and, although Higginbottom had been charged, no evidence against him was offered in court and not guilty verdicts were entered.\nSt Joseph's College, in Upholland, which has now closed, was attended by boys aged 11 to 18, many of whom were considering becoming priests.\nThe court heard the victim also made allegations against two other priests at the school, but both had since died.\nHigginbottom was told he would have to sign the sex offenders register for life.", "Greater Manchester Police said the force had taken a \"number of calls\" alleging child sex abuse in the youth system following recent media coverage.\nThe force said they have had \"more than ten\" calls connected to \"a number of clubs\" in the city.\nIt follows ex-youth football coach Barry Bennell, at the centre of a sex abuse scandal, being taken to hospital.\nThe convicted sex offender, 62, was found unconscious at an address in Knebworth Park, Stevenage, on Friday, police said.\nAssistant Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) Debbie Ford said: \"We have now launched an investigation and our specially trained officers are supporting those who have come forward so far.\n\"We are co-ordinating our investigation with forces nationally and with Operation Hydrant, the national co-ordination hub for historical child abuse investigations concerning persons of public prominence.\"\nA NSPCC hotline was set up after footballers including ex-Crewe players Andy Woodward, Steve Walters and youngster Chris Unsworth and former Manchester City star David White and youth player Jason Dunford all spoke out about sexual abuse they suffered as children at the hands of coaches.\nEx-Crewe player Woodward, 43, was the first player to speak out on 16 November about his abuse by former Crewe coach and youth football scout Bennell.\nCrewe have begun their own independent review into the allegations and the Football Association has announced an internal review into the abuse claims.\nBennell, who also worked for Manchester City, Stoke and junior teams in north-west England and the Midlands, was given a four-year sentence for raping a British boy on a football tour of Florida in 1994 and a nine-year sentence in 1998 for 23 offences against six boys in England.\nHe was jailed for a third time in 2015 after admitting abusing a boy at a 1980 football camp in Macclesfield.\nGMP is the fifth force to launch an investigation into allegations of historical child sex abuse after Hampshire, Cheshire, Northumbria and Metropolitan forces opened cases.\nOperation Hydrant, which oversees the investigation of allegations of historical child sex abuse within institutions or by people of public prominence, is trying to work out the scale of the alleged abuse.\nIt has been in touch with all police forces in England and Wales asking them to forward details of allegations they have received following the recent publicity.", "Former headmaster John Farrell, 73, from Motherwell, was jailed for five years and Paul Kelly, 64, from Plymouth, for 10 years.\nThe offences were committed at the former St Ninian's school in Falkland.\nFarrell and Kelly had denied all charges.\nThey were convicted last month after a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.\nAs the men were led away, one woman in the court shouted: \"May God do to you what you did to others.\"\nThe school closed in 1983.\nThe man who launched a campaign to bring Kelly and Farrell to justice asked not to be named, but said outside the court: \"I started it for me, but it turned into a group thing. We have never got closure, but we have got justice.\n\"Back then nobody would have believe us if we had said what was going on. We were told: 'You are here because you're bad. No one will listen to you. We are men of God and they'll believe us before you.\"\nMinutes earlier Lord Matthews told Farrell and Kelly: \"St Ninian's List G school was meant to be, not only an educational establishment, but a haven for children in need of care and protection and a place of guidance for them.\n\"You were entrusted by the community and the Church with those duties of education, care, protection and guidance.\n\"You fulfilled these duties as far as a number of children were concerned and you were each acquitted of the vast majority of the charges which you faced.\n\"Nevertheless the jury found you guilty of a number of gross abuses of the trust placed in you in relation to some of the most vulnerable members of our society, children from difficult backgrounds with no effective voice.\"\nFarrell was found guilty of four charges and Kelly was convicted of seven charges last month.\nThe jury acquitted Farrell of 18 charges relating to the case, while Kelly was acquitted of 22 charges.\nThe pair, who were found guilty after a 13-week trial at the High Court in Glasgow, were both placed on the sex offenders register.\nThe victims were abused between 1979 and 1983, when they were aged between 11 and 15.\nFarrell, who was the headmaster, was convicted of physically abusing one boy and sexually abusing three others.\nKelly was found guilty of sexually abusing two boys and sexually and physically abusing a third.\nOne of the victims was sexually abused by both men on different occasions.\nDuring the trial, the court heard that Kelly's bedroom was described as an \"open area\" where pupils often spent the night.\nBoys said they were told by Kelly they were being abused for their \"sexual education\".\nThree other men linked to St Ninian's - ex-social worker Michael Murphy, 75; Edward Egan, 76; and William Don, 62 - had also faced abuse allegations, but these were thrown out during the trial.\nKenny Donnelly, procurator fiscal for serious sexual offences in the East of Scotland, said: \"These men have been convicted of serious sexual offences against vulnerable boys.\n\"Although these crimes took place decades ago, this case, and others like it, show that justice can be achieved after many years.\n\"We strongly encourage anyone who has been a victim of any such offences to report this to the police, even after a significant passage of time, and they can be confident that they will be treated with the utmost professionalism and sensitivity by the police and our expert prosecutors.\"\nCh Insp Nicola Shepherd, of Police Scotland, said: \"These sentences reflect the severity of the crimes committed against the young victims, who at the time were in the care of both Farrell and Kelly.\n\"The abuse took place over a number of years causing untold misery and suffering to the boys and was a complete betrayal of the trust they placed in these men.\n\"Thanks to the bravery of the victims, a significant case was built against them during this extensive investigation and the evidence and testimony of the victims ultimately led to their conviction.\n\"I would like to thank all of those who came forward to provide us with information for their courage and strength.\"", "The BBC DJ said Love, Paul Gambaccini would be a \"no-holds barred story\".\nGambaccini, who was arrested as part of Operation Yewtree, recently claimed he was used as human \"fly paper\".\nHe had always denied claims of sex offences against two teenage boys in the early 1980s.\n\"When I was sitting in a jail cell waiting for a solicitor, I made myself three promises,\" said Gambaccini. \"I would lose weight, become a better piano player and write a book about whatever was about to occur.\n\"I am glad to say I shed a stone, learned several of Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words and wrote Love, Paul Gambaccini.\"\nThe 66-year-old told a parliamentary committee in March that he believed his arrest was publicised by police in the hope that other people would come forward with allegations against him.\nThe DJ, who has been a fixture on UK radio for decades, only returned to the radio in November, having stepped down shortly after his arrest.\nHe said he forfeited more than £200,000 in lost earnings and legal costs during the time he was unable to work.\nGambaccini, whose book will be published in September, was told in October last year he would not face any charges.\nThe Operation Yewtree investigation into historic sex offences was launched by police following the exposure of Jimmy Savile's crimes.", "Simon Harris was convicted of eight charges of indecent and sexual assault on youngsters in Gilgil, and four of possessing indecent images of children.\nBirmingham Crown Court heard he would lure boys to his house in Kenya by offering them food, shelter and money.\nHarris, 55, of Pudleston, near Leominster, Herefordshire was cleared of 10 further charges, including rape.\nThe jury failed to reach a verdict on one remaining rape charge. He will be sentenced in the new year.\nIt was the first prosecution to use legislation that allows British citizens to be tried for sex offences committed abroad against children if it is also an offence in that country.\nBefore the trial, Harris also admitted six offences of indecent assault against three boys aged between 13 and 14, when he was a teacher at Shebbear College, Devon in the 1980s.\nDet Ch Insp Damian Barratt, of West Mercia Police, said Harris used his work to exploit some of the most vulnerable children on the planet.\n\"He was a predatory sex offender who, over a number of years, groomed and exploited children and those around him in order to perpetrate his abuse,\" he said.\nHarris had faced 23 charges in total, including 18 allegations relating to assaults.\nThe offences in Kenya were committed while Harris was running a gap year charity he set up in the East African country, in the 1990s.\nDuring his trial prosecutors said he lured homeless boys to his home, known locally as \"The Green House\", by offering them food and shelter.\nThe court heard he would drive into Gilgil and encourage them to get into his Land Rover, with food and money.\nOne man who claimed he had been raped by Harris as a child, committed suicide shortly after giving evidence.\nMichael Kamondia was among several boys to testify across a live video link from Kenya but died on 7 December, days before the jury retired to consider its verdicts.\nThe abuse came to light when a Channel 4 documentary team making a film about the plight of Gilgil's street children was given information about his activities.\nThe offences at Shebbear College in Devon, where Harris taught Latin, all happened between 1982 and 1989.\nCurrent head teacher Simon Weale said the school acted promptly at the time to report the allegations to police after the victims made complaints.\nHarris was suspended and left \"during the course of the investigations\", the college said.\n\"Even though these offences took place more than 25 years ago, we utterly deplore these crimes and our overwhelming sympathies are with Harris' victims,\" said Mr Weale.\nIt also emerged during the trial Harris had spent 15 months in a British jail for possession of indecent images of children following a 2009 conviction.\nHe had originally faced 22 charges relating to assaults in Kenya, but Judge Philip Parker QC told jurors four had been removed from the indictment mid-trial.\nThe case was nearly thrown out after Channel 4 published a news item wrongly stating he had already been convicted, only hours after jurors began deliberating.\nJudge Philip Parker QC said he regarded the broadcaster's mistake as \"beyond unfortunate\".\nThe matter has been referred to the Attorney General to consider possible action under contempt of court procedures.", "Bartle Frere is accused of arranging or facilitating the commission of child sex offences against boys in India, as well as abusing two boys in the UK.\nBournemouth Crown Court heard the 50-year-old met boys from the sub-continent in hotels and lavished them with money and gifts, such as iPhones.\nMr Frere denies a total of 25 sex charges.\nA computer seized at his former home in Dorset in November revealed six years of online contact between the former pilot - who no longer works for British Airways - and teenage boys in India, the jury was told.\nProsecutor Elisabeth Bussey-Jones read out some of the messages Mr Frere had sent boys in India, including \"I want a hug and have a bath with you and cuddle you in bed\".\nShe said: \"The conversations indicate Mr Frere was meeting these boys during the course of his role as a British Airways (BA) pilot and flying to various locations, including India.\"\nThe court heard Mr Frere was arrested on 10 November 2013 when he returned to the UK from taking a BA flight to Bangkok.\nBefore landing in Thailand he had typed into search engines on his smartphone \"Where do you pick up underage boys in Bangkok?\", the court was told.\nMr Frere is accused of five offences of arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence, which relates to his alleged conduct with boys in India.\nHe is also charged with five counts of indecent assault; one count of indecency with a child and two charges of serious sexual offences in relation to one of the boys from the UK.\nWith regard to the second UK boy, he is charged with one count of sexual activity with a child and one charge of attempting to record a person doing a private act.\nThe defendant also faces six charges of possessing indecent photographs of a child and four charges of making indecent photographs of a child.\nThe court heard that the two alleged British victims did odd jobs at Mr Frere's home.\nThe trial continues.", "Brian Dailey, 70, assaulted and sexually molested children he was supposed to be looking after during abuse spanning a decade from 1973.\nAt the High Court in Edinburgh he was earlier found guilty of three indecency offences against boys and a girl and a further two charges of assault.\nDailey was placed on the sex offenders' register indefinitely.\nA judge told the pensioner: \"You have been convicted of five charges which involve the persistent, calculated, manipulative and predatory sexual abuse of two young boys and one teenage girl in relation to all of whom you were in a clear position of trust.\"\nLord Armstrong said the abuse inflicted on the boys included acts that would now be classified as rape and told the former councillor that he had callously robbed victims of their childhood.\nThe judge said that he took into account Dailey's current age and that the offences were historical, but added: \"Nevertheless these crimes of which you have been convicted are disturbing.\"\nLord Armstrong said: \"In the case of the boys you threatened them to ensure their silence.\"\nPolice were first alerted to Dailey as a predator 25 years ago when the girl victim revealed he targeted her for sexual abuse.\nHe was also investigated over abuse allegations at a different home six years later and reported to prosecutors but no action was taken at the time.\nDailey, from Edinburgh, had originally denied a total of seven charges of indecent behaviour and assault involving five children during his earlier trial.\nHe was acquitted of two of the indecency charges against two boys on not proven verdicts but was found guilty of the other five offences.\nHe subjected his first victim to sexual abuse at a home in Lanark in 1973 and 1974 when the boy was aged 10 and 11. He carried out serious sex acts on the child and also attacked him and forced his head under water.\nDailey's second victim was assaulted and sexually abused by him at a residential school run by an order of Catholic nuns in Edinburgh when he was aged seven and eight in 1974.\nThe third female victim was housed in a local authority children's home in Edinburgh when she was subjected to repeated abuse from the age of 14 in 1982.\nDefence counsel Derick Nelson said Dailey had been assessed now as posing a moderate risk of further offending and had health concerns.\nHe said: \"Whatever the sentence imposed today it will, of course, be very difficult for him, particularly at his age.\"\nA spokesman for NSPCC Scotland said: \"Justice has finally caught up with Dailey whose abhorrent crimes against a string of young and vulnerable children were not only reprehensible but an appalling abuse of trust.\n\"We hope his victims will feel some sort of solace following today's sentence.\n\"Child abuse can have a devastating impact on victims, the ripple effects of which can last long into adulthood.\n\"It is never too late to speak out and it is vital that people who have suffered despicable abuse at the hands of criminals such as Dailey have the confidence to come forward by knowing that they will be listened to and supported by the authorities.\"", "A major Police Scotland investigation was launched in November after the force received reports of \"non-recent child abuse within football\".\nSince then, the force said it had made a total of 11 arrests.\nSimilar allegations of sexual abuse have been made by former players across the UK.\nIn its latest update on the investigation, Police Scotland said a total of 162 people had come forward to either report or provide information about child abuse in Scottish football, with the force also having \"proactively made contact with a number of victims and witnesses\".\nDet Ch Supt Lesley Boal said: \"As of 30 June 2017, 11 people have been arrested, more than 150 people have reported being sexually abused as a child within a football club setting and 295 crimes have been recorded.\"\nShe said the force's specialist investigation team was \"progressing well\" with the inquiry.\nUrging any remaining victims to contact either the police or the dedicated NSPCC helpline, she said: \"Our assurance to anyone who has not felt able to report so far is you are absolutely not alone.\n\"We will listen, we will investigate regardless of where or when the abuse occurred, and we will take prompt action to ensure that no-one else is at risk of harm.\"\nShe also urged anyone with any information or concerns about anyone who may pose a risk to children, or who may have abused a child, to the police or their local social work department.\n‎A BBC Scotland investigation revealed in December that former youth coach and referee Hugh Stevenson was allowed to carry on working in football for several years after being reported to police and the SFA over child sex offences.\nAnother BBC documentary earlier this year revealed fresh allegations of child sex abuse against the founder of Celtic Boys' Club, Jim Torbett.\nTorbett was jailed for two years in 1998 after being convicted of abusing three former Celtic Boys' Club players, including former Scotland international Alan Brazil, between 1967-74. He \"vehemently denies\" the new allegations against him.\nJim McCafferty, a former youth coach who was the kit man for Celtic, Hibernian and Falkirk, was arrested in Belfast after allegations were made against him.\nSeparately, allegations have also been made against coaches who were formerly involved with clubs including Motherwell, Partick Thistle and Rangers.\nThe allegations involve incidents said to have happened between the 1970s and early 1990s.\nThe Scottish Football Association has set up an independent review tasked with examining child protection \"processes and procedures\" in place both currently and historically in Scottish football.", "Simon Danczuk, Labour MP for Rochdale, said: \"I don't think it is a racial crime but race is involved.\"\nNine men have been jailed for being part of a child sex ring in Rochdale which groomed girls for sex.\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said the case was about \"adults preying on vulnerable young children\" and not race.\nThe nine defendants, eight of Pakistani origin and one from Afghanistan, received sentences of between four and 19 years at Liverpool Crown Court.\nJailing them, Judge Gerald Clifton, said: \"All of you treated (the victims) as though they were worthless and beyond any respect.\n\"One of the factors leading to that was the fact that they were not part of your community or religion.\"\nPolice maintained throughout the trial that the offences were sexually motivated and not racially motivated.\nGMP Assistant Chief Constable Steve Heywood said: \"It just happens that in this particular area and time, the demographics were that these were Asian men.\"\nMr Danczuk said: \"There is a subculture of a small group of males that are Asian, that are collaborating to abuse young white girls who are vulnerable.\n\"The subculture is under the radar. Some people in communities are in denial about it but we need some home truths if we are going to address this.\n\"It would be daft not to believe that race plays a part.\"\nLabour MP and chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee Keith Vaz, said: \"I do not believe it's a race issue.\"\nHis belief, he said, was based on ACC Heywood's comments and evidence from the Deputy Children's Commissioner Sue Berelowitz.\nShe said the problem of men grooming young girls and boys for sex was not a problem confined to the Pakistani community and it was happening across every single religious and ethnic group.\n\"What we need to do is to have a far reaching investigation into these crimes and the causes of these crimes,\" said Mr Vaz.\nMartin Narey, former head of the Prison Service, said: \"Sex offenders are overwhelmingly white and I think there is evidence that those guilty of online grooming are overwhelmingly white but for this particular sort of crime, the street grooming and trafficking of girls in northern towns - Derby, Leeds, Blackpool, Blackburn, Oldham and Rochdale - there is disturbing evidence that Asians are overwhelmingly represented in the prosecutions for such offences.\"\n\"Most Asians would abhor what we have seen in the Rochdale trial,\" he added.\nMr Narey, who is also a former chief executive of children's charity Barnardo's, said: \"I spent my last two or three years in Barnardo's listening to people muttering about the reality of this but not wanting to say anything publicly.\"\nIIrfan Chishti, from the Rochdale Council of Mosques, which represents 14 mosques in the town, said that to say street grooming was a racial issue was too simplistic.\n\"Race is one element in this case,\" he said. \"But what I want to focus on is the many other issues, that of criminality, exploitation and the vulnerability of our young children.\"\nFive girls gave evidence in the Rochdale case but police believe up to 47 may have been involved.", "Robert Smith, 67, attacked the boys, who were aged between nine and 12, while managing the team in the Easterhouse area between 1978 and 1987.\nHe was caught after one victim contacted police, who traced others.\nAt Glasgow Sheriff Court, Smith, from Maryhill, was ordered he be supervised for 11 months following his release.\nHe was also placed on the sex offenders' register for 10 years.\nJailing him, Sheriff John McCormick told Smith: \"You involved yourself in a football team and used that opportunity to perpetrate a series of serious sexual offences against young boys over a number of years.\"\nSmith was convicted of three charges of using lewd and libidinous practices towards the schoolboys on various occasions over the nine year period until 1987.\nThe court heard that one victim, who is now an adult, had told a friend about the abuse before losing touch with her.\nIn 2012 when they met again, she urged him to report his ordeal to police.\nTheir investigation uncovered two other victims.\nThe men, now aged between 43 and 47, each gave evidence at Smith's trial.\nThey recalled being abused in the school where the football team gathered, given special treatment and taken aside from the others.\nSmith denied the charges and claimed the victims had colluded and given false evidence.\nIt later emerged that he had a previous lewd and libidinous practices conviction from 1968 - 10 years before becoming involved with the football team.", "Home Secretary Theresa May said the government would make the \"minimum possible changes\" to comply with a 2010 Supreme Court ruling.\nShe said ministers were \"appalled\" by the ruling and the bar for appeals would be set as \"high as possible\".\nSex offenders will only be able to appeal 15 years after leaving prison.\nThe Supreme Court ruled that denying offenders the right of appeal was incompatible with their human rights.\nBut shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the ruling did state that it should be \"open to Parliament\" to maintain the current position if it saw fit, so long as there was provision in law to review matters in future if it became appropriate to do so.\nShe also said Labour was not convinced the new regime was tough enough to guarantee public safety.\n\"Given the current evidence on repeat sex offending, it is hard to envisage any circumstances in which people will think it is justified to take someone who has been convicted of a serious sex offence off the register,\" Ms Cooper said.\n\"Yet the home secretary's scheme makes it possible for the police to do exactly that with no appeal for victims or the public, and no consideration of Parliament's views on the wider risks and the importance of a strong precautionary approach.\"\nBy Norman SmithChief political correspondent, BBC Radio 4\nThe ruling to allow sex offenders the right to have their names removed from the sex offenders register is one of those issues governments dread.\nIt almost guarantees them sackloads of irate letters and coruscating tabloid headlines.\nAnd yet the inevitable row might not be as painful as ministers fear.\nFirstly, unlike the recent judgement on prisoners' votes, this was a decision made by Britain's Supreme Court, not the European Court of Human Rights.\nSecondly, it's not clear whether any change in the way the register is managed would require primary legislation, avoiding the possibility of a protracted Parliamentary tussle.\nAnd lastly the Scottish government has already implemented the change without suffering undue damage.\nAndrew Flanagan, chief executive of the NSPCC, said adults who sexually abused children should stay on the register for life, adding: \"We can never be sure their behaviour will change.\"\nOnly individuals sentenced to more than 30 months for a sex-related crime are required to register with police for life.\nIt is estimated that about 24,000 sex offenders who were required to register for life, including paedophiles and rapists, could be affected by the ruling.\nQualifying sex offenders are currently required to notify the police of their personal details, any change of address and when they travel abroad.\nThere is no centrally held register of sex offenders in the UK, but the Home Office says the system of notifying the police is commonly known as the sex offenders register.\nLast year, two convicted sex offenders used human rights laws to challenge the system and won the right to appeal against their life-long registration.\nThe two offenders were a teenager convicted of rape and a 59-year-old man guilty of indecent assault.\nThe teenage boy, known only as F, had been jailed for 30 months in October 2005, aged 11, for raping a six-year-old boy.\nThe second case involved a man named Angus Aubrey Thompson, who was jailed in 1996 for five years.\nBoth the offenders said their life-long registration with no chance of a review was a disproportionate interference in their family lives.\nIn the case of F, he said he had been prevented from taking a family holiday abroad and from playing rugby league.\nMrs May told the Commons the government was \"appalled\" by the Supreme Court ruling, but there was no possibility of further appeal.\n\"This government is determined to do everything we can to protect the public from predatory sexual offenders,\" she said. \"And so we will make the minimum possible changes to the law in order to comply with this ruling.\"\nShe said the Scottish government had already amended its laws to allow convicted adults to seek a review after 15 years on the sex offenders register, but the rules in England and Wales would be \"much tougher\".\n\"Offenders can only apply for consideration of removal after waiting 15 years following release from custody - in England and Wales there will be no automatic appeals,\" she said.\n\"The final decision of whether an offender should remain on the register will be down to the police, not the courts as in Scotland.\n\"There will be no right of appeal against the police's decision to keep an offender on the register. That decision will be final.\"\nShe added the government was about to launch a consultation on closing down \"four existing loopholes\" in the registration system, including making it compulsory for offenders to notify the police if they intended to travel abroad for even one day, as opposed to the current three days or more.\nBBC political correspondent Gary O'Donoghue said the ruling meant ministers were now \"committed to introducing a review process\".\n\"They were due to bring proposals forward around now to amend the Sexual Offences Act 2003 but government sources have told the BBC an appeal system won't be introduced to Parliament until the spring,\" he said.\nHe added the move was likely to infuriate backbenchers on both sides of the Commons who last week registered their disapproval over plans to give prisoners the vote in elections following legal decisions based on human rights laws.\nMark Williams-Thomas, a former police officer who worked in child protection, is concerned about the decision - particularly in relation to child sex offenders.\n\"These people are like leopards, they don't change their spots,\" he said.\n\"What we will end up with is potentially a very dangerous situation where someone has committed offences in the past and be able to say they haven't committed any new offences and therefore don't present a risk.\n\"But they are a risk in the same way as an alcoholic is always an alcoholic.\"", "Daniel Dawson, 36, of Darcy Lever, Bolton, had pleaded guilty to 19 offences of possessing and making indecent images of children.\nAt Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court, he was jailed for 12 months.\nHe was also given a sexual offences prevention order and made to sign the sex offenders register for 10 years.\nPolice said Dawson was caught in April following an international investigation into the activities of an online retailer based in Canada selling films containing child pornography and indecent images of children.\nWhen warrants were executed at the Canadian premises, customers from around the world were identified and cases were passed to the relevant police forces.\nGreater Manchester Police raided Dawson's home and seized a number of computers and media storage devices and a total of 1.5m images were recovered.\nA computer specialist sampled more than 15,000 of these images and identified more than 6,500 indecent images of children aged six to 14 years old.\nDue to the sheer volume of indecent images, the specialist could not examine all of the pictures.\nOfficers also recovered evidence that Dawson had repeatedly searched the internet for indecent images of children.\nAt the time, Dawson was working as a welfare officer at Glossopdale Community College in Derbyshire and coached at Middleton Lads and Girls FC.\nHe was suspended from both roles immediately following the initial police involvement.\nDawson previously held similar positions in other schools across the region.\nThere was no evidence to suggest Dawson committed any offences against the children he came into contact with in a professional capacity, police said.", "Andrew Dale Iveson, 48, of Anchorage Hill, Richmond, began abusing the girl in 2005 when she was under 10. The abuse continued until 2013.\nIveson had denied nine child sex offences, 11 counts of rape and five other sexual offences.\nHe was jailed for 20 years and put on the sex offenders register for life at Teesside Crown Court.\nSpeaking after sentencing Det Insp Shaun Page, of North Yorkshire Police, said it had been the \"most horrific\" abuse he had dealt with in 19 years as a police officer.\n\"The ordeal he put his victim through when she should have been enjoying her childhood was downright evil and I can only describe him as a monster.\n\"I would like to acknowledge the bravery of the victim for coming forward and telling the police what happened to her.\n\"Her courage has ensured that a vile and dangerous paedophile has been jailed for a long period of time.\"", "More than 20 ex-footballers have come forward with allegations of historical child sex abuse in the sport, and five police forces are investigating claims.\nBut Bristow, 59, questioned why they did not \"sort out\" their abusers \"when they got older and fitter\".\nOne of the ex-players, Steve Walters, was \"disgusted\" by Bristow's remarks.\nWriting on Twitter, Bristow, who was made an MBE in 1989, said darts players were \"tough guys\" and footballers \"wimps\".\nHe added the victims should not be able to look themselves in the mirror for not \"getting their own back\" on their abusers in adulthood.\nSeveral former footballers have waived their right to anonymity in order to go public and raise awareness of alleged historical abuse in football, a step which has won praise from politicians, sport administrators and abuse charities.\nWalters has alleged he was abused as a youth player by convicted paedophile and former Crewe coach Barry Bennell.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nFormer Crewe player Andy Woodward was the first to speak out about the abuse he suffered as a child at the hands of Bennell.\nEx-Crewe youth team players Walters, Chris Unsworth and Jason Dunford later told BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme they had also been abused by the former coach.\nEx-England and Manchester City striker David White also says he is another victim of Bennell, while former Tottenham, Liverpool and England midfielder Paul Stewart also waived his right to anonymity to speak publicly about being sexually abused by an unnamed coach.\nStewart said the sport could face allegations on the scale of the Jimmy Savile scandal.\nBennell, who also worked for Manchester City, Stoke and junior teams in north-west England and the Midlands, was given a four-year sentence for raping a British boy on a football tour of Florida in 1994 and a nine-year sentence in 1998 for 23 offences against six boys in England.\nHe was jailed for a third time in 2015 after admitting abusing a boy at a 1980 football camp in Macclesfield.\nOn Monday, it emerged that Bennell had been taken to hospital after being found unconscious at an address in Stevenage on Friday.", "Mr Justice Bernard McCloskey accused them of \"frankly shameful\" behaviour during a delayed immigration tribunal.\nThe four men, led by Shabir Ahmed, 63, were convicted in 2012 of preying on girls as young as 13 in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.\nThe law firms involved declined to comment while the case was ongoing.\nMr Justice McCloskey, president of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber, said the men's barristers and solicitors had failed to submit the necessary papers to the court and had repeatedly asked for adjournments.\nHe said: \"The Upper Tribunal has been treated with sustained and marked disrespect. The conduct of these appeals has been cavalier and unprofessional. The rule of law has been weakened in consequence.\"\nThe judge, who is expected to deliver his decision on the men's appeal against deportation this month, also criticised government lawyers representing the Home Secretary after they produced \"only a skeleton argument\" at the \"11th hour\".\nHe has urged government legal officials to mount an investigation into such cases.\nRochdale MP Simon Danczuk said: \"The perpetrators of these crimes are trying to avoid languishing in a Pakistani jail, which is where they should be. The law is far too easy to manipulate in this area.\"\nThe Rochdale grooming gang plied teenagers with drink and drugs before they were \"passed around\" for sex, the trial was told.\nAhmed was given a 19-year sentence at Liverpool Crown Court in May 2012 for a string of child sex offences, including rape. He was also jailed for 22 years, to run concurrently, in July 2012 for raping another child 30 times over a decade.\nThree other men convicted of child sex offences in the same case, Abdul Aziz, Adil Khan and Abdul Rauf, are also appealing against deportation.\nTheir solicitors, Nottingham-based firm Burton and Burton, were approached for comment by the BBC.\nA spokesperson for the Government Legal Department said it had apologised to the judge where it had failed to \"comply with a direction\".\nRajiv Sharma, the barrister who represented Ahmed, said he had been instructed at very short notice and was no longer handling the case.", "Aaron Hughes, 35, was jailed for life in 2014 for drugging and raping a sleeping three-year-old.\nWhile in prison, Hughes was charged with 10 sexual offences against three teenage boys and pleaded guilty to some of the charges at Newport Crown Court.\nOn Friday, a minimum tariff of 11 years was imposed, to run concurrently to his existing sentence.\nAt a previous hearing in April, Hughes pleaded guilty to one charge of rape he carried out in 2008.\nHe also admitted three charges of sexual activity against two 13-year-old boys and one charge of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, which were all committed in 2004.\nProsecutors did not seek a trial on five further counts of sexual activity with a child.\nFollowing the sentencing, South Wales Police Det Insp Stuart Wales said: \"We would like to thank the many witnesses who supported this investigation and pay tribute to the three complainants who each demonstrated significant fortitude and courage throughout.\"\nIn 2014, Cardiff Crown Court heard Hughes had been given the three-year-old child by babysitter Claire Semmens, who herself was jailed for 16 years after admitting two charges of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and possessing indecent images.\nHe was caught when police did a routine check on his computer because they believed he had breached a court order by downloading indecent images of children.\nHe was jailed for life for sex attacks on the toddler.", "He was released on bail until mid-December, after being questioned at a London police station.\nGlitter, 68, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was jailed in Vietnam in 2006 for child sex offences.\nPolice are investigating allegations TV star Savile sexually abused some 300 young people over a 40-year period.\nMet Police confirmed officers from Operation Yewtree had \"arrested a man in his 60s in connection with the investigation\".\n\"The man, from London, was arrested at approximately 0715 on suspicion of sexual offences. The individual falls under the strand of the investigation we have termed 'Savile and others'.\"\nScotland Yard has said it is following about 400 lines of inquiry as part of the operation - which is looking into claims Savile, who died last year aged 84, abused hundreds of young girls and some boys.\nPolice described former BBC DJ Savile as a \"predatory sex offender\".\nKarin Ward - a former pupil at Duncroft approved school for girls in Surrey - told the BBC she had once seen singer Glitter having sex with a schoolgirl in Savile's dressing room at the BBC. Glitter has denied the allegations.\nGlitter is the first person to be arrested in connection with the Met's Savile abuse inquiry.\nThe glam rock star rose to fame during the 70s, selling 18 million records by 1975.\nElsewhere the deputy leader of the Labour Party Harriet Harman has called for a judge-led inquiry into the Savile abuse claims.\nShe told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"The trouble is that there are a multiplicity of inquiries. What we need is one over-arching inquiry.\n\"It should be independent because there are big lessons to be learned here, not just for the BBC, although the epicentre of it was at the BBC.\"\nSavile is also alleged to have carried out abuse at a number of institutions, such as the high security psychiatric hospital Broadmoor, Stoke Mandeville Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary.\nJustice Secretary Chris Grayling told the same programme while what had happened was \"horrendous\" it was important not to \"rush into a judge-led inquiry,\" arguing it would take \"much longer to get to the truth\".\nThe BBC Trust's chairman Lord Patten, writing in the Mail On Sunday, said the corporation must face up to the truth, warning it \"risks squandering public trust\".\nAlleged victim Ms Ward was interviewed for the BBC's Newsnight programme last November in which she made abuse claims, but the interview was only shown on Panorama this week as the Newsnight investigation was shelved.\nMr Patten told the paper: \"Like many who work for the BBC, I feel a sense of particular remorse that abused women spoke to Newsnight, presumably at great personal pain, yet did not have their stories told as they expected.\"\nIt also emerged on Sunday that Savile's former house in the Scottish Highlands has been vandalised and painted with abusive slogans.\nThe BBC has already announced inquiries into the Savile abuse claims. The first, led by former Sky News head Nick Pollard, is examining whether there were any failings in the BBC's management of the Newsnight investigation into Savile abuse claims.\nOn Monday, former Court of Appeal judge Dame Janet Smith will begin a review into the culture and practices of the corporation during Savile's time at the BBC. A further review will examine sexual harassment policies at the BBC.", "Dubbed \"swirl face\" due to efforts he made to disguise himself, Neil is classed a \"high-risk sex offender\".\nThe 42-year-old Canadian was arrested in Thailand in 2007 following a global manhunt and a worldwide appeal for public information by Interpol.\nHe has spent time in jail in both Thailand and Canada for sexually abusing young boys.\nCorrections officials from the province of British Columbia (BC) issued a public warning following Neil's release on Sunday.\nBC Corrections spokeswoman Cindy Rose said in a statement that Neil will be \"subject to an intensive level of monitoring and supervision in the community\".\nIt includes:\nNeil was arrested 10 years ago when Interpol, the international police agency, appealed for help after experts unscrambled his digitally-swirled internet photos.\nIt was the first time Interpol had made a direct worldwide appeal for public information in a case.\nOnline images of Neil showing him abusing young boys had been manipulated to disguise his face with a swirl pattern, but German computer specialists were able to produce identifiable images.\nNeil was jailed in Thailand between August 2008 and September 2012 following a conviction for sexual offences against two boys. He was released and deported to Canada.\nIn December 2015 he pleaded guilty to five new charges involving the sexual abuse of young boys in Cambodia and possession of child pornography in Canada. His sentenced was reduced due to time already served.\nNeil, originally from Maple Ridge, BC, had spent about 15 years in Asia teaching English." ]

[ "Mount Tabor" ]

[ "Did Not Finish", "Did It for the Party", "taking it or taking nothing", "Where's the beef?", "JP Did This 1", "Simpsons Already Did It", "I Did It for Love", "eight takes", "Take No L's", "It Takes a Thief", "Taking Chances", "Take Courage", "It Takes Two ''", "Takings Clause", "Take It Easy", "one take", "Take Flight", "It Takes a Muscle", "taking no prisoners" ]

[ "Pakistan's Supreme Court urges the government to release people being held by the intelligence agencies." ]

[ "Profits abound, but free cash flow goes missing.", "Should suburban schools that barely miss federal learning targets be allowed to escape penalties, while inner-city schools that never even hit the dart board are required to give free tutoring and let students transfer to better schools?", "Don't miss the opportunity! Obtain a FREE SSL Trial ID today.", "The automaker is free from a relationship that probably never should have happened.", "New York Giants free safety Omar Stoutmire is going to miss the rest of the season with a knee injury.", "Despite recent acquisition, DRM-free music should launch in the iTunes store as planned.", "Abusive A&E patients should lose the right to free treatment, the Lib Dems have suggested.", "Despite facing the possibility of missing the NCAA tournament for the third consecutive season, the Terps are playing loose and free-spirited.", "Wireless technologies should mean a more clutter-free future, says Click Online's Ian Hardy.", "Sexual health care should be funded nationally to ensure people do not miss out, campaigners say.", "A college is to hand out free iPods to 250 of its students so they can listen to missed lectures.", "WWE's revenue rundowns no longer shock investors. But the drop in earnings and free cash flow should.", "Young people should be given free condoms to reduce high teenage pregnancy rates, an MP says.", "Despite cultivating a nucleus of gifted offensive playmakers, the Redskins are missing big plays at a time when they should be prevalent.", "Comment is free: Simon Jenkins: The chattering classes should not forget why the corporation really matters.", "The IAAF is set to decide how Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou should be punished for missing drugs tests.", "Mark/Space has released a free update to its Missing Sync for Palm OS, supporting PDAs and smartphones.", "A US court rules that a Cuban, wanted on charges of bombing a plane by Cuba and Venezuela, should be set free.", "David Beckham should be ready to play this weekend for Real Madrid after missing a month with two cracked ribs.", "Comment is free: Henry Porter: The views of people such as geneticist James Watson should be countered by logic, not law.", "Connecticut missed shots, made turnovers, and struggled at the free throw line. None of the mistakes caught coach Geno Auriemma off guard.", "Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou get a delay from the panel that will say whether they should be banned for missing a drug test.", "The Phoenix Suns on Wednesday introduced Grant Hill as their newest member, signing a free agent they hope will be the missing piece in the quest for their first NBA title.", "Turkey’s election is being cast as a battle between Islamists and secularists. But the real struggle is not over whether the country should be more religious but over whether it should be more European--and more free.", "WD-40 misses earnings expectations and reduces its outlook for the year. Should you ignore such news and buy the stock?", "Former Gov. George Ryan should not remain free while appealing his racketeering conviction and should start his prison sentence as scheduled Jan. 4, prosecutors said Friday.", "Comment is free: Zoe Williams: Chef-polemicists should work on changing the law, instead of preaching to the less well-off", "Comment is free: David Talbot: Tellingly, Gordon Brown misses what made Bobby Kennedy brave: opposing his party's disastrous war.", "Free condoms should be given away in pubs, clubs and taxis to reduce the levels of unwanted pregnancies and sex infections, experts say.", "MIT intends to reach an epic milestone soon: By the end of the year, its entire curriculum should be available online for free.", "Free-agent Michael Peca, who missed the last half of the season with a broken leg, has agreed to a one-year deal with the Columbus Blue Jackets.", "The state retirement age will not be raised beyond 65 but people should be free to work longer, the work and pensions minister says." ]

[ "more than 29,000" ]

[ "Mani", "Many, Many Times ''", "how", "many decades", "many centuries", "Mani Kaul", "railway employee", "Ehsan Mani", "How Come, How Long", "many hectares", "Many Clouds", "Mani, Greece", "many years", "Kalabhavan Mani", "Many Mansions", "Mani peninsula", "many seasons", "many kilometres", "Mani Ratnam", "Many Moons", "The Path of the Mani", "Many a Mile", "Here's Howe", "Mani Sharma", "Howe street", "George Howe", "many parts", "Clarke & Howe", "many days", "how they look", "How to Be a... Zillionaire", "many months" ]

[ "If it fucks, makes a baby, and that baby can fuck and make a baby? Same species. Fuck, make a baby, but that baby cab only fuck and not make more babies? Related genus but not the same. Can fuck bug not make babies? Completely different species. Can't even fuck one another? Not trying hard enough. Can't fuck but can impregnate you? Xenomorph. Or even worse, a wasp species." ]

[ "It's bliss. No stupid sun. There aren\"t a ton of people everywhere. So much less stressful than the daytime.", "Why does anyone have double-standards or make statements that aren´t 100% based in fact and logic? We are all people, women that do say that probably just think that tampons are more important to their daily lives then other things. Maybe they also think they are too expensive compared to other toiletries or they just don´t see the connection between those items. Edit: Since it seems unclear, I am talking about why women would be against luxury tax on tampons and not against luxury tax on other toiletries and hygiene necessities. I´m not talking about whether a luxury tax on tampons is justified or whether the above is even true i.e. tampons really are taxed the same as toilet paper.", "Punctuated equilibrium, aka 'everything is calm until an asteroid hits' Punctuated equilibrium (also called punctuated equilibria) is a theory in evolutionary biology which proposes that once species appear in the fossil record they will become stable, showing little evolutionary change for most of their geological history. This state is called stasis. When significant evolutionary change occurs, the theory proposes that it is generally restricted to rare and geologically rapid events of branching speciation called cladogenesis. Cladogenesis is the process by which a species splits into two distinct species, rather than one species gradually transforming into another.[1] _URL_0_", "The short answer is, we do. There are numerous flightless birds _URL_0_ and several amphibious fish _URL_1_ Since we know new evolutionary paths split off from these guys, we know there couldn't have been a very secure niche for them to fill, so it's not at all surprising we aren''t inundated with them.", "> Why is it assumed that u(x,t) = X(x)T(t) and not something else like X(x) + T(t)? You *can* do additive separation of variables as well. An example of this would be solving the [Hamilton-Jacobi equation](_URL_0_) in classical mechanics. You often assume that Hamilton's characteristic function S(**q**,t) is a sum of a coordinate-dependent function and a time-dependent function.", "There were different [species of humans](_URL_0_), but we've outcompeted or outbred them. Given enough time, we could begin to speciate again, but at this point there is so much interbreding that it's hard to really say that, in the long run, any group of humans will be isolated enough for long enough to speciate.", "We must first make a clear distinction between a \"species\" and a \"body plan\". Most species only live on the order of ~1 million years, and many will go extinct before this time or speciate into a new set of species. The oldest known species is the [Triops cancriformis - a Shrimp](_URL_1_). Based on body plan you are asking about [Living fossils](_URL_0_).", "When you are isolating EA on one side of the equation you need to consider the following... The other side of the equation has R,T,k(rate),A. If the temperature(T) changes, it DOES NOT mean EA also changes. Instead you will find that as T changes so will k(alot) and A(a little). The variables A and k will change in such a way that as T changes EA will remain pretty much constant.", "It does not. Because t~a^3/2 then v~a/t is proportional to a^-1/2 and angular velocity~v/a or ~1/t is ~a^-3/2 . Kepler's third law is an empirical law, but the theoretical underpinnings come from Newton's law, that the force between two objects is GmM/r^2 where G is a constant and m and M are the masses and r is the separation between them. If you just consider circular orbits (such that a=r), you can equate Newton's law with the centripetal force, mv^(2)/r, and re-derive the predictions of Kepler's law, that v~r^-1/2 and t~r^3/2 .", "Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: Why does Health Care not cover Dental, Seems like teeth rotting out is bad for your Health? ](_URL_0_) 1. [ELI5: Why is dental care considered to be \"separate\" from other kinds of medical care? Is it this way outside the US/Canada? ](_URL_4_) 1. [ELI5: Medical vs. Dental: Why is there a difference? If your teeth are part of the human body why is dentistry kept completely separate -- even requiring separate insurance? ](_URL_2_) 1. [ELI5:why are dentists their own separate \"thing\" and not like any other specialty doctor? ](_URL_1_) 1. [Why is dentistry its own branch of medical care? ](_URL_3_)", "If you're interested in the topic of cannibalism, I highly recommend the book *Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History* by Bill Schutt. It goes into quite a bit of depth on cannibalism in many species: where, why, and how it occurs under various circumstances. Overall, it's more common in invertebrates than vertebrates. Relatively uncommon among mammals (but of course, it still does occur in mammals). Many times it occurs only in situations where there is overcrowding and/or serious hunger, i.e. it's more of a stress/survival response than a preference. But there's so many different situations where it occurs in different species, that you can't really generalize without getting into all the nuances.", "Most insectivorous bats feed in flight. However, there are some species of bat that forage for insects on the ground. [Pallid Bat](_URL_0_) It's been mentioned that evolution is not predictable. But any novel behavior has the potential to lead to speciation.", "On a more basic level, there are other base pair options - for example, in RNA, Thymine (T) is replaced my Uracil (U). As for WHY, there is an argument that A, T, C, & G are rooted in the primordial soup from which all life stems. Using these four base pairs reduces he probability of errors occurring during coding operations. You can read more about that here: [Why DNA is spelled ATCG](_URL_1_)", "Please help me understand why this vote is occurring in the first place? Why would the Scottish people want to separate from the UK?", "> wouldn't evolution take its course again and have the same mutations that produced humans at first to re-occur? No. Evolution is not a guided process - it can't choose which mutations an organism has any more than than a rock and choose which way it falls off a mountain. Evolution occurs in all species even to this day (including humans) but since the mutations are random there is almost no likilhood of extinct species reforming. Also, the conditions under which those species came about no longer exist (things like the amount of oxygen in the air being different, global temperature being different, etc), so they wouldn't have the same advantages they had back in the day. Also also, speciation takes many generations - probably more than we will witness in our lifetime (unless you're talking about fruit flies).", "Take a representative template DNA sequence: (primer sequence)-ATGC The primer sequence is not determined by this method. You extend the primer based on the sequence of the template. Bases are incorporated based on the template (i.e., A, T, G, and C). You add to the mixture mostly normal A/T/G/C. But you also add a very small number of labeled A, labeled T, labeled G, and labeled C. The extension occurs and will usually incorporate normal A/T/G/C, but will rarely incorporate one of the labeled bases at the position of A, T, G, or C. The labeled bases also terminate the reaction. Thus, you get a small number of each of the following molecules: (primer sequence)(labeled T) (primer sequence)(normal T)(labeled A) (primer sequence)(normal T)(normal A)(labeled C) (primer sequence)(normal T)(normal A)(normal C)(labeled G) when you separate these by size you get a chromatograph with the following output: Size 1: T Size 2: A Size 3: C Size 4: G You've thus sequenced the original template (ATGC)", "When the Western Roman Empire still existed the \"Byzantine\" or Eastern half of the empire didn't really consider itself separate. At the time the East and West were just giant adminstrative units with a great deal of independence from each other, but neither considered themselves not to be part of the Roman Empire. Therefore, the Empire never switched to considering themselves just the Roman Empire because they always had before.", "Its pretty much a thought experiment that tries to explain why there are no other aliens. It proposes that each civilization hits a \"great filter\", where either the civilization overcomes it and flourishes or completely destroys itself. According to this, no other species has made it past the \"great filter\", which is why we cant detect anyone. Some think that this \"great filter\" could be considered making nuclear weapons, which implies we're past the filter (implying thats not what kills us all in the future, which is very possible), or its something unknown thats still in the future Again, important to note that this is not scientific in any way. Its a thought experiment", "They disappeared at the P/T extinction, which killed 96% of all marine species. Now, they survived previous extinction, so why did this one kill them ? Well, a [2011 study](_URL_0_) pinpointed the eruption of the Siberian super-volcano as one of the cause of the P/T extinction. The event was particularly catastrophic for arthropods, because of the acidification of the oceans that followed. Arthropods rely on a calcified exoskeleton, which dissolve in acid waters. Note that no one knows for sure, but it does make a lot of sense. Plus, as /u/lyft_promo_mn123 said, they had been in decline since the Devonian.", "OK, so all the responses so far seem to be about how horrible he was. The OP didn't ask that - they asked 'What's so great about...?'. So can anyone explain why people *do* think he's great? (T-shirts aside?)", "Why? Mostly random chance. How? Your body produces T cells that trigger an immune response when they encounter an antigen (a protein or molecule that either causes disease or is on the surface of something that does, such as a virus). Each T cell binds to **one** specific antigen that is decided randomly when the cell is made. Your body produces tens, if not hundreds of millions of T cells over a lifetime, each one of them different. Sometimes, a T cell is made that binds to a harmless, everyday protein (like an egg protein) and triggers an immune response. That T cell then replicates over and over to make sure that your body will be ready to respond when you see that egg protein again. Congratulations, you've just developed an allergy.", "This is a great question but also a pretty complex one. An important thing to ask in answering this question is what you mean by \"possible.\" Do you mean A) would it have been possible at all, beginning with the first organism which would have reproduced? or B) would it be possible if the errors stopped NOW, i.e. would species that currently exist cease to evolve given perfect gene replication? In situation A, it's hard to say whether or not evolution could have been possible without mutations/errors in genetic code. This is because we aren't sure of the origins of life. If life came from one small, single-celled organism which split to reproduce, it's likely that mutations would have been necessary for genetic variation and thus speciation. In situation B, it's an entirely different answer. There's already plenty of variation, so given perfect gene reproduction starting now, sexual selection and environmental pressures would still be enough for evolution and speciation to continue readily.", "The [Epicureans](_URL_2_) came the closest to formulating something like Darwinian evolution. In [*De Rerum Natura*](_URL_1_), Lucretius noticeably anticipates the concept of natural selection as one of his applications of atomism, but does not account for speciation, mutation, and several other key components of Darwinism. Basically, the Epicureans argued that the first living things came about as the result of random collisions of atoms and matter. Since then, many of those species proved unsuitable to survive. Therefore, only the species that are capable of reliable reproduction are alive today. Sounds pretty Darwinist! However, they incorrectly believed that species are not subject to change. Still, it's a pretty amazing set of conclusions for one to reach with nothing but [simple observations](_URL_0_) to draw from. SOURCES: *The Handbook of Epictetus*, *De Rerum Natura*", "I don't think there have been extensive studies on the Great Wall in particular, but I was able to find one: _URL_0_ The key figure is Fig. 3, which demonstrates the genetic separation between plants on either side of the wall. Similar studies have been done in other places though: _URL_1_ indicates some kind of behavioral effect on deer separated by a wall, and there have been numerous studies showing that highways have been detrimental to genetic diversity, as the species on either side are prevented from interacting. That's why more of those overpasses are being built along highways.", "Ionizing radiation, by definition, ionizes chemical species and produce new products. So there are _many_ chemical reactions going on, especially when [radicals](_URL_0_) are produced. When reactive oxygen species are formed in a cell, and disrupts cellular content, molecules are broken and chemical reactions have occurred. Even with non-ionizing radiation, light can catalyze reactions that normally doesn't occur. For example, some [pericyclic reaction](_URL_1_) can only occur when electrons are excited to a certain molecular orbital.", "The easy answer to this is because the rate of return on capital investments is greater than the rate of growth. It's the central thesis of Thomas Piketty's *Capital in the Twenty-First Century*, and he does a great job of explaining how and why it occurs, and obviously the implications of it happening. It's a very good read, and it answers your question directly and in laymans' terms.", "It is all about being a mutual care system. You don t pay when you need it and you don t benefit when you want. See this like road work. Are you paying when you use a road ? Is it cheaper to construct a road for everyone or that each people construct its own road. Would you consider pay for your army, police when you need it? I don't understand all the rage about tax. The French system cost less to the community, rich or poor. Stop thinking you ll always be healthy you have no idea. If you prefer gamble, don t forget the house always win. ( And consider that in fact you can t stop playing ....)", "Corporations aren't considered people. They're considered to have many of the same *rights* as people, in very specific situations. For instance, corporations are considered to be the same as people when it comes to signing contracts. This allows you have have a cell phone contract with AT & T, rather than with \"Bob, the AT & T employee in the kiosk down at the mall\" that you then have to re-draft and re-sign every time the previous employee quits.", "> Why does eugenics not work? It does. It's just considered to be highly immoral.", "Not so famous? Very famous. There are many reasons why this happens. Certain painters become very famous and so you can use their painting like investment pieces, like gold but with a better interest. I don´t know how to explain why Gauguin is a great painter, but he is. Trust me.", "In any healthy economy, inflation just happens. There isn't really a point to it because it's just natural. Asking what's the point is like asking what's the point of a mountain, or of mars, or of some natural law. Your question can be split into two separate questions. The first being, why does inflation occur? Here is a thread about just that: _URL_1_ The second, why is inflation sometimes a good thing? You find here: _URL_0_", "They have been defined as 'enemy combatants.' The same rules don't always apply. Also, it's worth noting that constitutional rights aren' alwayst extended to citizens of other nations." ]

[ "Lockdowns and evacuations continue around the world since the coronavirus outbreak was first reported three weeks ago in Wuhan, China. With an estimated 564 deaths in China alone, Hong Kong has mandated visitors from mainland China self-quarantine during the incubation period, which is believed to last for about two weeks. Meanwhile, the global economy takes a hit as companies and airlines suspend operations in China to prevent further outbreaks. Among suspended airlines and evacuated flights on lock down, a cruise ship in Japan carrying 2,000 passengers sits quarantined as the government braces for more cases. A report by Human Rights Watch found over 200 cases of people being abused and killed in El Salvador, after deportation by the U.S. Though the Human Rights Watch report dates back to 2013, under more restrictive immigration policies implemented by the Trump Administration, many asylum seekers have been denied entry and have been forced back into dangerous conditions. While the report comes after a year and a half of collecting documents, research and personal interviews, there are no other organizations or governments who have examined the outcomes of individuals being deported back to El Salvador. The leader of Al-Qaeda in Yemen, Qassim al-Rimi, is believed to have been killed in a CIA airstrike. U.S officials await confirmation after initial reports and tweets from President Donald Trump broke the news. The news comes after the group took responsibility for an attack on a U.S naval base in Florida that killed three U.S sailors. As we do every week, we recap this week’s top global headlines." ]

[ "A federal judge has halted the planting and sale of genetically engineered alfalfa. He's expected to hear arguments Friday about whether the ban should stay in place while the government carries out a lengthy environmental study. The debate will focus on the likelihood that bees will carry human-modified genes from one field of alfalfa to another. STEVE INSKEEP, host: Today a federal judge in San Francisco hears evidence on whether to extend a temporary ban on the planting of genetically engineered alfalfa. It's known as Roundup Ready alfalfa. The ban was imposed last month because genes from the alfalfa can spread to other plants. From Boise, Idaho, Dan Charles reports. DAN CHARLES: Thousands of farmers who were stopped from planting genetically engineered seed this spring can blame Phillip Geertson. Geertson filed the lawsuit that took Roundup Ready alfalfa off the market. And here, he says, on a rocky hillside overlooking Idaho's Snake River, are the reasons why - a straggly line of bushy green alfalfa plants growing wild. Mr. PHILLIP GEERTSON (Plaintiff): You know, nobody planted this alfalfa. This just got here. CHARLES: Maybe an animal carried alfalfa seeds here from a nearby field. Maybe they blew off a passing truck. These probably aren't genetically engineered plants yet, but Geertson's point is: what if they were? Mr. GEERTSON: Then the pollen from this - if some years later they decide to raise alfalfa seed over there, the pollen from here will go right over there into the field. CHARLES: Farmers in this part of Southwestern Idaho grow alfalfa seed that's planted across the rest of the country. So unintentional cross-pollination here could mean that farmers in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin would end up growing some genetically engineered alfalfa without intending to. Alfalfa is the country's fourth biggest crop, covering 25 million acres. It's mostly fed to cattle and horses. Geertson is one of the smaller sellers of alfalfa seed. Last year he tested some of the seed and found that it contained the Roundup Ready gene. Bees, apparently, had carried pollen into his seed production fields from a Roundup Ready seed field a quarter mile away. Mr. GEERTSON: We've got about 80,000 pounds of seed that is now contaminated. What are we going to do with it? I wouldn't feel right to sell that to some hay producer and not tell him how much contamination is in it. CHARLES: Judge Charles Breyer from the U.S. District Court in San Francisco decided that the U.S. Department of Agriculture should have studied the possible spread of Roundup Ready alfalfa more carefully before approving or deregulating it in 2005. Breyer overturned the USDA's decision. Judge CHARLES BREYER (U.S. District Court, San Francisco): I'd say that we are quite surprised. You know, there's no precedent for a deregulation decision to be reversed like this. CHARLES: Mark McCaslin is the president of Forage Genetics International, the alfalfa seed company that in partnership with Monsanto created Roundup Ready alfalfa. McCaslin says his company takes precautions to limit the spread of Roundup Ready genes. It doesn't produce any Roundup Ready seeds within 900 feet of any conventional seed field. And in California, where farmers grow a lot of seed for export markets, the fields are at least three miles apart. The goal, McCaslin says, is coexistence. Farmers should be able to grow what they want - organic, conventional or Roundup Ready alfalfa. This alfalfa can tolerate doses of the popular herbicide Roundup so farmers can use Roundup to kill all the weeds. Mr. MARK McCASLIN (President, Forage Genetics International): So we're committed to grower choice. We think grower choice helps keep farmers prosperous. And so we're committed to doing what's required over the long term to make sure that all these markets coexist. CHARLES: McCaslin admits the Roundup Ready gene has spread to some batches of conventional seed, but he says the amounts were small - half a percent or less of any sample. And the vast majority of farmers, he says, don't mind a little bit of Roundup Ready alfalfa in their crop. No one really knows how many farmers or horse owners will demand alfalfa with no traces of genetic engineering, nor is it clear how hard it would be to produce hay like that if Roundup Ready alfalfa went back on the market. That's something the USDA will now have to study in a lengthy, court-ordered environmental impact study. For NPR News, I'm Dan Charles in Boise, Idaho.", "Bayer will pay more than $10 billion to end tens of thousands of lawsuits filed over its Roundup weedkiller, the company announced Wednesday. The settlement also resolves many other cases over the herbicide dicamba as well as water contaminated with toxic chemicals called PCBs. Many plaintiffs say Roundup's active ingredient — glyphosate — caused them to develop cancer. Roundup was developed by Monsanto, which Bayer bought in 2018 for $63 billion. The decision to resolve the Roundup cases, Bayer CEO Werner Baumann said, will \"return the conversation about the safety and utility of glyphosate-based herbicides to the scientific and regulatory arena and to the full body of science.\" The Roundup settlement does not cover three cases that have already gone to trial and that will continue through the appeals process. In one of those cases, a California jury awarded a couple more than $2 billion in damages before a court sharply lowered that amount. Five years ago, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as \"probably carcinogenic to humans.\" Government health agencies in many countries have determined glyphosate is safe to use, but plaintiffs in more than 100,000 lawsuits say the chemical harmed them, including allegations that it caused non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The settlement calls for Bayer to pay from $8.8 billion to $9.6 billion to resolve current Roundup lawsuits. The company will also set aside $1.25 billion to fund payouts for potential claims in the future. Parts of the deal are pending court approval, including from Judge Vince Chhabria of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. In addition to claims over the Roundup product, the agreement will also settle many cases filed over dicamba. Farmers say that when the chemical is sprayed it drifts into neighboring fields and gardens, inflicting broad damage there. Bayer says it will \"pay up to a total of $400 million to resolve the multi-district litigation pending in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and claims for the 2015-2020 crop years\" related to dicamba claims. That portion of the deal does not include a decision from earlier this year when a jury ordered Bayer and its codefendant, BASF, to pay a Missouri peach farmer more than $250 million. The settlement also includes some $820 million in payments over claims that Monsanto polluted public waters with PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls. As State Impact Pennsylvania has reported: \"In 1979, the EPA banned the use of PCBs, but they still exist in some products produced before 1979. They persist in the environment because they bind to sediments and soils. High exposure to PCBs can cause birth defects, developmental delays, and liver changes.\" Monsanto legally manufactured PCBs before halting production in 1977. The company will pay $650 million to settle local lawsuits, and $170 million to the attorneys-general of New Mexico, Washington and the District of Columbia. NPR's Dan Charles contributed to this report.", "The controversial herbicide Roundup has been accused of causing cancer in humans and now scientists in Texas argue that the world's most popular weed killer could be partly responsible for killing off bee populations around the world. A new study by scientists at the University of Texas at Austin posit that glyphosate — the active ingredient in the herbicide — destroys specialized gut bacteria in bees, leaving them more susceptible to infection and death from harmful bacteria. Researchers Nancy Moran, Erick Motta and Kasie Raymann suggest their findings are evidence that glyphosate might be contributing to colony collapse disorder, a phenomenon that has been wreaking havoc on honey bees and native bees for more than a decade. They hope their results will convince farmers, landscapers and homeowners to stop spraying glyphosate-based herbicides on flowering plants that are likely to be pollinated by bees. \"We need better guidelines for glyphosate use, especially regarding bee exposure, because right now the guidelines assume bees are not harmed by the herbicide,\" Motta, the graduate student who led the research, said according to the university. \"Our study shows that's not true.\" The company that owns Roundup contests the findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week. \"No large-scale study has ever found a link between glyphosate and honey bee health issues,\" Bayer said in a statement, adding that the new study \"does not change that.\" In June, German-based pharmaceutical giant Bayer bought the agriculture behemoth Monsanto, the company that developed Roundup. Bayer noted the study relied on a small sample of individual bees and that it does not meet regulatory research criteria on pesticides stipulated by international guidelines developed by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development and other international organizations. Additionally, the company suggested it is \"questionable whether the concentrations of the substance tested could at all be absorbed by bee populations in the open over a relevant period of time.\" According to the report in the journal, the researchers focused on honey bees and used \"hundreds of adult worker bees from a single hive\" and treated them with varying levels of glyphosate. \"Native bumble bees have microbiomes similar to honey bees, so Moran said it's likely that they would be affected by glyphosate in a similar way,\" notes a release from the University of Texas at Austin.", "Less than six weeks to go and President Obama seems to have opened up a lead in the battleground states of Ohio, Virginia and Florida. Aside from poor economic numbers and worsening international events, Mitt Romney's best hope lies in the debates, which begin next week. Also to no one's surprise — and Sen. Claire McCaskill's delight — Todd Akin stays in the Missouri Senate race. Join NPR's Ron Elving and Ken Rudin for the latest political news in this week's roundup.", "A California jury has awarded a couple more than $2 billion in a verdict against Monsanto, a subsidiary of Bayer. This is the third recent court decision involving claims that the company's Roundup weed killer caused cancer. The jury in Alameda County, just east of San Francisco, ruled that the couple, Alva and Alberta Pilliod of Livermore, Calif., contracted non-Hodgkin's lymphoma because of their use of the glyphosate-based herbicide. They were each awarded $1 billion in punitive damages and an additional $55 million in collective compensatory damages. Many legal experts believe the damages will be drastically reduced on appeal. The verdict represents the third such legal setback for the company in California since mid-2018. In March, a San Francisco jury awarded $80 million to a man who blamed his cancer on his extensive use of Roundup. In August 2018, another San Francisco jury awarded $289 million to a fourth plaintiff. On appeal a judge later slashed that payout to $78 million. Bayer is appealing each of these verdicts. The company insists there is no link between Roundup and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. \"Bayer is disappointed with the jury's decision and will appeal the verdict in this case, which conflicts directly with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's interim registration review decision released just last month, the consensus among leading health regulators worldwide that glyphosate-based products can be used safely and that glyphosate is not carcinogenic, and the 40 years of extensive scientific research on which their favorable conclusions are based,\" the company said in a statement. At least one environmental group praised the verdict. Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group, said: \"The cloud hanging over Bayer will only grow bigger and darker, as more juries hear how Monsanto manipulated its own research, colluded with regulators and intimidated scientists to keep secret the cancer risks from glyphosate.\" Four years ago, a United Nations-sponsored scientific agency declared that Roundup probably causes cancer. As NPR's Dan Charles reported, the finding from the International Agency for Research on Cancer caused Monsanto to launch a fierce campaign to discredit the IARC's conclusions. \"Internal company&nbsp;emails, released as part of a lawsuit against the company, show how Monsanto recruited outside scientists to co-author reports defending the safety of glyphosate, sold under the brand name Roundup. Monsanto executive William Heydens proposed that the company 'ghost-write' one paper. In an email, Heydens wrote that 'we would be keeping the cost down by us doing the writing and they would just edit & sign their names so to speak.' Heydens wrote that this is how Monsanto had 'handled' an earlier paper on glyphosate's safety.\" More than 13,000 other lawsuits have been filed against its subsidiary, Monsanto, the maker of Roundup. After three jury verdicts in California, a trial is scheduled for August in St. Louis County in Missouri, the site of Monsanto's former headquarters.", "A superior court judge in San Francisco has upheld a jury verdict against Bayer's Monsanto, maker of the weedkiller Roundup, but slashed the punitive damages by more than $200 million. The jury had awarded $250 million in punitive damages and $39.25 million in compensatory damages to Dewayne Johnson, a groundskeeper and pest-control manager at a Northern California school district who contracted cancer. But San Francisco Superior Court Judge Suzanne Bolanos wrote on Monday that the ratio between the compensatory damages and the punitive damages was required to be 1 to 1 — thus, she reduced the amount of punitive damages to $39.25 million. As The San Francisco Chronicle reported, Judge Bolanos had indicated earlier this month that she might overturn nearly the entire damage award, writing that the plaintiff's lawyers did not present sufficient evidence that any Monsanto employee believed that exposure to Roundup causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Johnson had testified that he sprayed a high-concentration version of the herbicide Roundup called Ranger Pro about 20 to 30 times a year for 2 to 3 hours a day. Several of the jurors wrote letters to the judge, lobbying her not to overrule them. \"You may not have been convinced of the evidence, but we were,\" one of them wrote. The letters may have influenced Bolanos, who wrote on Tuesday, \"In enforcing due process limits, the Court does not sit as a replacement for a jury but only as a check on arbitrary awards.\" Johnson must decide whether to accept the reduced award; if he does not, there will be a new trial solely considering punitive damages. Johnson's case was fast-tracked due to his prognosis, and it could have lasting consequences for German multinational company Bayer, which completed its acquisition of Monsanto in June. It no longer uses the Monsanto name. \"The Court's decision to reduce the punitive damage award by more than $200 million is a step in the right direction,\" Bayer spokesman Christopher Loder told The Chronicle. \"We continue to believe that the liability verdict and damage awards are not supported by the evidence at trial or the law and plan to file an appeal with the California Court of Appeal.\" Bayer stock had dropped 9 percent as of Tuesday morning. Bloomberg News reports that there are an additional 8,700 plaintiffs who argue that they were sickened by glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundup. Extrapolating the award given to Johnson would mean a liability of $680 billion for Bayer, according to analyst Ian Hilliker of Jefferies LLC in London. Glyphosate herbicides such as Roundup are legal in the U.S., though as NPR's Bill Chappell reported in July, \"Claims against Monsanto received a boost in 2015, when the International Agency for Research on Cancer – part of the World Health Organization — announced that two pesticides, including glyphosate, are 'probably carcinogenic to humans.' \"", "This Google Earth image of a mysterious building in Northern Burma posted by the New America Foundation's Jeffrey Lewis on the Arms Control Wonk blog has been making the Internet rounds. It may look like an Olympic-sized swimming pool, but the thing is huge — 80 meters long on each side and seems to roughly match up with the Sydney Morning Herald's report of a Burmese nuclear reaction construction project. The Institute for Science and International Security has more. No one seems to have a conclusive idea about what the thing is yet, but it does seem worth keeping an eye on. Via James Fallows, the Lowy Interpreter has a useful roundup of the latest Burma nuke speculation.", "In March 2016, Cuban President Raul Castro stood next to President Obama and proclaimed a new age in U.S.-Cuba relations had begun. Now, Castro will soon hand power to someone who doesn’t share his family name. When that moment comes, it’ll be the first time in over 60 years that a member of the Castro family will not lead the country. And that change could have implications for the entire region. That turmoil kept Will Grant busy for decades. A BBC correspondent in the region, Grant recently wrote “Populista: The Rise of Latin America’s 21st-Century Strongman.” Find more of our international news coverage on the global edition of the News Roundup.  What would a Castro-less Cuba look like? And what does it mean for the rest of the region?", "Even though deep snowdrifts cover his fields in eastern Kansas, Luke Ulrich, a corn and soybean farmer here, is thinking about spring. It's time to buy seed again, but hundreds of seed companies have gone under in the past two decades. Ulrich remembers the days before genetically modified seeds upended the industry. Critics of the big agriculture biotech company Monsanto say its popular Roundup Ready technology is to blame for that. Roundup Ready is a line of gene-modified seeds that inoculate plants against a herbicide, Roundup, also made by Monsanto, that kills just about everything else. \"Ever since they've come out with the Roundup Ready trait and that became popular and basically took over farming, we've seen significant increases every single year,\" Ulrich says. Ulrich says his seed costs shot up almost 50 percent last year. That's because farmers are contractually prohibited from saving seeds and planting them the following year. Farmers face lawsuits if they try to save and replant the genetically modified seed because they don't own the technology. While they bristle at that, they love the Roundup Ready seed. \"There's nothing like Roundup. A monkey could farm with it,\" Ulrich says. 'Amazing Amount Of Leverage' More than 9 out of 10 soybean seeds carry the Roundup Ready trait. It's about the same for cotton and just a little lower for corn. \"Farmers will not buy soybeans without Roundup Ready in it. So, that gives Monsanto an amazing amount of leverage,\" says Jim Denvir, a lawyer working for DuPont. DuPont owns Pioneer, a competing seed company. Pioneer licenses the Roundup Ready trait from Monsanto, as do about 150 other seed companies. Those agreements control which other genetics competing companies can mix with the Roundup Ready trait. Last year, Monsanto sued to stop Pioneer from \"stacking\" Roundup Ready with another trait. Denvir says Pioneer complained to the Justice Department. \"A seed company can't stay in business without offering seeds with Roundup Ready in it, so if they want to stay in that business, essentially they have to do what Monsanto tells them to do,\" Denvir says. Monsanto's critics say it used this \"platform monopoly\" to crush many competitors. Chris Holman, a patent lawyer who teaches at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, likens it to Microsoft and its dominant Windows operating system. \"Because of the structure of the industry, they are able to really drive participants in the industry into using their technology,\" Holman says. Monsanto spokesman Lee Quarles says those allegations are unfair, though he concedes they're coming at the company fast and furious. \"We're actively working to address questions from regulators, both the Department of Justice and state attorneys general as well as other parties in the industry, to address any questions they have about our business,\" Quarles says. But Monsanto is pushing ahead. It will soon market a corn seed combining eight separate genetically engineered traits. Roundup Ready 2 Yield Roundup Ready technology was developed at Monsanto's world headquarters in St. Louis. Jim Tobin, a vice president of Monsanto, says it sells itself. \"Farmers get to vote every year before they plant, and it's that vote each year that determines who has the largest market share or volume,\" Tobin says. Monsanto spent huge amounts of money and took big risks to develop the Roundup Ready trait. Tobin says it has revolutionized agriculture. But now, \"Well, we've invented something new,\" he says. It's called Roundup Ready 2 Yield. It uses the gene as the original, just placed in a different spot in the genome. Monsanto says that boosts yield. Interesting timing: Monsanto's patent on Roundup Ready 1 expires in 2014 and with it, a revenue stream of maybe half a billion dollars a year in royalties. That's unless it can switch farmers over to Roundup Ready 2. \"We'd like to have everyone in the soybean business, seed business using the trait,\" Tobin says. Monsanto's putting the new trait in all its best soybean seeds. And Paul Schickler, president of Pioneer, says Monsanto is forcing its licensees to do the same. He charges that Monsanto is trying to make Roundup Ready 1 disappear. \"That's our concern: bridging or switching from one patented product, Roundup Ready 1, to the next-generation Roundup Ready 2 Yield, doesn't allow competition for the original technology,\" Schickler says. Unlike in many other industries, there's no clear path for a genetically modified crop to go generic. As it stands, generic providers would probably still need access to Monsanto's proprietary data to get federal approval to sell the Roundup Ready trait. They'd also need closely held technical data to update licenses that keep the trait legal in big, important markets like China and the EU. Meanwhile, the end of the Roundup Ready patent will very likely give farmers a chance to do something they haven't for years: plant the seed they've harvested. Luke Ulrich is read", "Tiffany Stanley is a reporter and researcher at The New Republic. On Thursday, the House oversight committee held the second of two hearings on a critical question: “Are ‘Superweeds’ an Outgrowth of USDA Biotech Policy?” Evidently, farmers are up against a Superweed invasion, and it’s not pretty. These mutant, herbicide-resistant plants are choking up to 10 million acres—and growing—of U.S. farmland, and farms have struggled to adapt. Here’s CropLife America’s Jay Vroom: “There is nothing particularly ‘super’ about the weeds that have developed resistance to any particular herbicide.” So who’s to blame? A key suspect is Monsanto’s Roundup, one of the most widely used weed-killers in the country. In the 1990s, Monsanto developed genetically engineered seeds — such as soybean and corn — that were resistant to Roundup. Farmers started buying the seeds and herbicide en masse and spraying with abandon. The result? A new wave of weeds evolved that were resistant to glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundup. As the congressional hearing explored, the problem may have lay with a glitch in regulatory oversight. USDA regulates the Roundup-resistant crop, while the EPA regulates the herbicide itself. But no one was looking at the unintended effects of the combo becoming so widespread — namely, superweeds. Back in a July hearing, the USDA got hammered by scientists and watchdog groups for being “too quick to approve” biotech products. Agribusiness representatives proposed at least two solutions to the superweed crisis. There’s the low-tech road: Farmers could go back older tillage techniques to remove weeds. These techniques were replaced by herbicide because they produced a lot of run-off — in hindsight, though, that tradeoff doesn’t seem so bad. But, on the other hand, the industry could develop crops that are resistant to even stronger chemical pesticides than Round-up — chemicals like dicamba and 2,4-D. In other words, create new biotech crops that are essentially resistant to Agent Orange. What could go wrong?", "The NPR Politics Podcast, in partnership with NPR Member station WAMU, is bringing its must-listen political analysis and discussion to a live audience at The Warner Theatre on Thursday, January 18, 2018. Tickets are on sale now at NPRPresents.org. This taping of the NPR Politics Podcast Live: President Trump... One Year In, will feature co-hosts Scott Detrow, congressional reporter, and Tamara Keith, White House correspondent, along with other members of the NPR politics team. The NPR Politics Podcast is the most downloaded political podcast in the United States, according to industry watcher Podtrac, which has ranked the top 20 podcasts in the country by monthly audience since last year. 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My favorite part: Usually when someone is awarded the keys to a city, it's an honorary gesture. But the next person to get the keys to the city of Albert, Texas, really gets the keys to the city.", "You have probably heard of sugar cane. But half of all sugar in the United States comes right out of the ground — from sugar beets. And this spring, thousands of American farmers are hoping to plant sugar beets that have been genetically engineered. The American Crystal Sugar factory in Moorhead, Minn., which processes sugar beets into the granular sucrose we know, is a steaming, belching, coal-burning monster. On the day I visited, it was 11 degrees below zero and blowing hard. But for sugar beets, that's perfect. In this part of the country, millions of tons of beets sit all winter long in enormous open-air piles. And they have to stay frozen; otherwise, they'll rot. The homely vegetables arrive in 25-ton truckloads. They look like very fat, white carrots. Following the trail of beets, David Berg, the CEO of American Crystal Sugar, leads the way through the factory. First the beets are washed. They're then sliced into thin strips and fed into a gigantic steel drum filled with hot water, where the actual process of extracting the sugar begins. You get sugar water, boiled down to the point where it's so thick that it turns into a mass of sugar crystals. And at the other end of the factory, a stream of dry white sugar fills an endless parade of five- and 10-pound bags. \"The sad truth is, the 10-pound bags aren't very popular anymore because people don't bake at home as much as they used to,\" Berg says. The New Sugar Beet The real sugar factories, though, are silent ones: green, leafy beet plants that turn sunlight into sucrose. The new sugar beet that farmers here in North Dakota want to plant has a gene inserted into it that lets the plant withstand Roundup, the popular chemical weedkiller. Farmers who plant these sugar beets can spray Roundup on their fields and kill the weeds, while the sugar beet plants survive. Alan Dexter, a weed scientist at North Dakota State University, met a group of farmers last week at a hotel in Fargo, N.D., to talk about this new weapon in the war on weeds. \"This is a very big deal,\" Dexter says. \"Typically we've been using mixtures of four herbicides, applied four times, at a seven-day interval. It's very complicated. Roundup is a lot easier and a lot more reliable... Farmers are going to adopt it as rapidly as they can.\" Actually, they have been waiting years for these beets. Roundup resistant soybeans, cotton and corn have been on the market for almost a decade, and government regulators approved so-called Roundup Ready sugar beets back in 1998. But until now, the sugar beet industry — including American Crystal — has held back. \"Five years ago, my impression was, there was some very serious customer concern — at the industrial customer level, the people we sell the sugar to, and certainly at the consumer level... about biotech agriculture,\" American Crystal's CEO David Berg says. \"Since that time, the resistance has just diminished. People have become more comfortable with it.\" Not everybody, though. \"A lot of the American public simply disagrees with the idea of genetically engineering life forms,\" says Kevin Golden at the Center for Food Safety in San Francisco. \"It's an invasive technology, where you're transporting foreign genes into the genome of a plant, using a viral vector, and a lot of people think that's just wrong, morally and environmentally.\" Last month, Golden's group and several others filed a lawsuit to stop the new sugar beets. They say the U.S. Department of Agriculture violated the law when it approved these beets, because it didn't look carefully enough at several environmental risks. For instance, sugar beet seeds are harvested in the same part of Oregon as ordinary table beets and Swiss chard. And all those plants are so similar that they can pollinate each other. So, Golden says, gardeners could find themselves growing the occasional hybrid: part Roundup Ready sugar beet, part Swiss chard. \"It may look like chard, it may look like table beets, but in fact it will have the Roundup Ready property in it, or at least the Roundup Ready gene,\" Golden says. Accidental cross pollination between these crops was always possible, but Golden says it now could be a problem for organic farmers who aren't supposed to use any genetically engineered seed. A similar lawsuit, using similar arguments, stopped the planting of Roundup Ready alfalfa last year. Sugar beet farmers are now awaiting word from the court. Planting time arrives in just a couple of months. MELISSA BLOCK, Host: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block. MICHELE NORRIS, Host: And I'm Michele Norris. Attention all of you with a sweet tooth. American farmers want to change the way they make sugar. You know about sugar cane, but in fact half of all sugar in the U.S. comes right out of the ground - from sugar beets. And this spring, thousands of American farmers are hoping to plant sugar beets that have been genetically engineered. Groups that oppose genetically modified", "John Draper and I are sitting in the cab of a tractor on the research farm he manages for the University of Maryland, alongside the Chesapeake Bay. Behind us, there's a sprayer. \"So, away we go!\" Draper says. He pushes a button, and we start to move. A fine mist emerges from nozzles on the arms of the sprayer. We're spraying glyphosate, killing off this field's soil-saving \"cover crop\" of rye before planting soybeans. Farmers have been using this chemical, often under the trade name Roundup, for about four decades now. But now it's under fierce attack, accused of causing cancer. In three civil cases so far, U.S. juries have ordered Roundup's inventor, Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, to pay enormous damages to cancer survivors. Thousands more lawsuits have been filed. For this chemical, and for Monsanto, it's a stunning change in fortunes. Farmers felt that they could spray glyphosate with a clear conscience. It doesn't persist in the environment as much as, say, DDT did. It doesn't build up in groundwater like another widely used herbicide, atrazine. And it's certainly less toxic than some alternatives. \"If we were spraying Gramoxone [the trade name for paraquat, another herbicide], even for you to be standing next to the sprayer, you'd have to have a respirator on. I'd have to wear a respirator even in the tractor, spraying,\" says Draper. Monsanto started selling Roundup in 1974. For 20 years, it didn't attract much attention. That was Act 1 of the glyphosate drama: the quiet years. Act 2 began in the late 1990s. In 1996, Monsanto started selling genetically modified crops, or GMOs. They were modified so they could tolerate glyphosate. This meant that farmers could now spray this chemical right over their \"Roundup Ready\" soybeans, corn and cotton, and the crops would be fine but the weeds would all die. It was a farming revolution built on glyphosate. Monsanto quickly became the world's biggest seed company. And farmers started spraying a lot more Roundup. Sales of the chemical increased more than ten-fold. It all happened so fast that it scared a lot of people. There were anti-GMO protests around the world, and glyphosate came under increasing scrutiny. The International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, decided to carry out a new assessment of glyphosate's risks. On March 20, 2015, IARC announced its conclusion: Glyphosate is \"probably carcinogenic to humans.\" That conclusion rests on three kinds of studies. First, IARC found \"strong evidence\" that glyphosate can damage DNA in cells. This kind of damage, inducing mutations, is the first step in causing cancer. Second, there are studies showing that when mice ate glyphosate, they got more tumors. Kate Guyton, a senior toxicologist at IARC, told reporters at a news conference that \"these two studies gave sufficient evidence of cancer in animals.\" Finally, IARC says there's \"limited evidence\" that people exposed to glyphosate had higher rates of a particular kind of cancer — non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Guyton has been studying the causes of cancer for decades. Nothing she has ever done, she says, provoked as much of a reaction as the glyphosate announcement. \"The Internet kind of exploded,\" she says. Anti-GMO groups felt vindicated. Monsanto's top executives were furious and launched a public relations campaign attacking IARC and its report. And in the small town of Orange, Va., a personal injury lawyer named Michael Miller started lining up clients — people with non-Hodgkin lymphoma who'd used Roundup. \"I decided that these people needed a voice in the courtroom,\" he says. The scientific picture got more complicated, though. Other government agencies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the European Food Safety Authority, took a fresh look at glyphosate. And they concluded that it probably is not giving people cancer. David Eastmond, a toxicologist from the University of California, Riverside, helped conduct one of these glyphosate reviews for another part of the World Health Organization, the Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues. \"From my reading of things, if glyphosate causes cancer, it's a pretty weak carcinogen, which means that you're going to need pretty high doses in order to cause it,\" he says. Eastmond says that there are several reasons for this apparent disagreement between IARC and the other agencies. First, IARC just looks at whether glyphosate can cause cancer; regulators, on the other hand, have to decide whether it actually will, considering how much of it people are exposed to. Second — and most important, according to Eastmond — different agencies considered different evidence. Eastmond's committee and regulatory agencies like the EPA considered a large number of studies that aren't publicly available because Monsanto paid for them and submitted them to the agencies. \"I have never seen a chemical with as many animal cancer studies as glyphosate,\" Eastmond says. IARC, however, didn't ", "This week's roundup of NPR's best arts and cultural story includes a Scott Simon interview with country star Shania Twain described as a \"killer listen\" by peerless rock critic Ann Powers (who recently defected to NPR after decades of outstanding work at the country's top newspapers). She points out that little of their conversation revolves around Twain's actual music, but over the course of the chat, it becomes obvious how music has come to function as a haven for Twain from her extraordinarily tumultuous life. Tumultuousness certainly feeds the creativity of the scores of young Libyan musicians, graphic artists and multi-media types frenetically responding to the revolution by making art and throwing concerts. An NPR producer in Benghazi hung out with a bunch of 20 and 30-somethings heady with the country's change --and changing culture. We've also got a great piece about how publishers speedily churn out books ripped from the headlines — like about the death of a certain scary international supervillain. Mandalit Del Barco reports from Los Angeles about the establishment of a brand new cultural center that honors the city's deep, complex Mexican roots. And a profile of artist Glenn Ligon takes you though the artist's politically provocative new show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Subscribe here or listen below.", "Glyphosate, widely known by its trade name, Roundup, probably gets more attention than any other herbicide. It's one of world's most-used weedkillers, and it is also closely linked to the growth of genetically modified crops. Monsanto invented Roundup, and also invented crops that grow well when it's used on them. Farmers find that combination almost irresistible. So in March, when the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as a probably carcinogen, it set off a furor. Monsanto was outraged, and vociferously questioned the IARC's judgement. Opponents of GMOs welcomed the agency's conclusion as a scientific validation of their cause. The IARC's announcement was especially noteworthy because glyphosate has long been considered among the least toxic pesticides used by farmers. Now, another group of cancer experts has weighed in, further complicating the scientific debate. The group, which was convened by the European Food Safety Agency, has reviewed the available scientific data on glyphosate and concluded that it probably does not cause cancer. The European group took pains to explain why its assessment differs from that of the IARC. The European group considered a slightly different group of studies, for one thing. It only looked at studies of glyphosate by itself, for instance, rather than studies of glyphosate as it is sold to customers. These commercial formulations generally include a mixture of chemicals, and some of these other ingredients may be more more dangerous than glyphosate itself. Any regulatory decisions in Europe about glyphosate-based herbicides will involve a close look at those commercial mixtures. The next act in this scientific drama, though, is set for this side of the Atlantic. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been carrying out its own review of glyphosate's risks. The agency reportedly has finished a \"preliminary risk assessment\" of the chemical, and could release results by the end of the year.", "Protests have continued in the streets of Dakar, Senegal, after the arrest and release of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko. Reuters reports at least five people have died during these demonstrations and describes the protests as “the worst in a decade.” Sonko was arrested after a woman accused him of raping her, though he denies that in addition to other charges of disrupting public order. Sonko is popular in Senegal and critics of the government say the charges are the latest in a series of legal attacks on leaders who oppose President Mackey Sall’s government. Globally, about one in three women have faced physical or sexual violence at least once in their lives, according to a new report from the World Health Organization. The WHO described their work as the largest-ever study of violence against women. About 736 million women are affected. The data comes from 2000-2018 and does not include figures from the last year of the pandemic. NPR unpacked the WHO’s findings: U.N. Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka called violence against women “the most widespread and persistent human rights violation” in the world. While the problem of violence against women is pervasive globally, it is not distributed equally. Social and economic inequities are a leading risk factor, and women in low- and lower-middle-income nations and regions are disproportionately affected, the report found. For example, in Melanesia – a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean – 51% of women will experience violence from an intimate partner in their lifetime, compared with 25% of women in North America. Mexico’s legislature has passed a bill to legalize recreational marijuana. Now, the legislation heads to the desk of Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has previously expressed support for marijuana legalization. If he signs the bill, the country could now become the world’s largest legal market for marijuana. And the fallout from Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey is ongoing. British presenter Piers Morgan has left his job as a host of “Good Morning Britain” after an investigation was undertaken by the U.K.’s media regulator about his comments following the couple’s interview. We get to all those stories, plus the latest on the global vaccination effort, on the international edition of the News Roundup. Vice News’ Todd Zwillich hosts this edition of the Roundup.", "<EM>Slate</EM> entertainment columnist Marshall Heyman offers this week's roundup of what the nation's movie critics are saying about the coming weekend's new releases.", "A jury in San Francisco has awarded a California man $80 million in damages after he claimed that the weedkiller Roundup caused his cancer. The same six-person panel earlier this month sided with 70-year-old Edwin Hardeman, whose lawyers argued that the glyphosate-based herbicide was a \"substantial factor\" in causing non-Hodgkins lymphoma in Hardeman. The Sonoma County man was diagnosed in February 2015. Hardeman had used Roundup on his 56-acre property for more than two decades, according to his lawsuit. In a statement by Bayer, the company that owns Roundup-maker Monsanto, the company insisted the product is safe and said that it will appeal the verdict. \"We are disappointed with the jury's decision, but this verdict does not change the weight of over four decades of extensive science and the conclusions of regulators worldwide that support the safety of our glyphosate-based herbicides and that they are not carcinogenic. The verdict in this trial has no impact on future cases and trials, as each one has its own factual and legal circumstances.\" Bayer and Monsanto face hundreds of other Roundup lawsuits in the San Francisco federal court. As NPR's Vanessa Romo reported on the verdict in the Hardeman case, \"The verdict is the second in the U.S. to find a connection between the herbicide's key ingredient, glyphosate, and the disease. In August, another San Francisco jury determined Roundup had caused cancer in a former groundskeeper. It also decided Monsanto, the company that developed the popular weedkiller, deliberately failed to warn consumers or regulators about the product's risks. \"In that case, jurors awarded the plaintiff, Dewayne Johnson, $289 million. However a judge later slashed the damages payout to $78 million.\" Monsanto is also appealing the August verdict. \"It is clear from Monsanto's actions that it does not care whether Roundup causes cancer, focusing instead on manipulating public opinion and undermining anyone who raises genuine and legitimate concerns about Roundup,\" the law firm representing Hardeman said in a statement. \"Today, the jury resoundingly held Monsanto accountable for its 40 years of corporate malfeasance and sent a message to Monsanto that it needs to change the way it does business.\"", "As New York Fashion Week draws to a close, here's a roundup of the latest trends that could make their way from the runway to our closets.", "Since it seems to be Pest Resistance Week here at The Salt, with stories on weeds and insects, we might as well just pull out all the stops. So, next up: Why didn't Monsanto's scientists foresee that weeds would become resistant to glyphosate, the weed-killing chemical in their blockbuster herbicide Roundup? In 1993, when Monsanto asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to approve Roundup-tolerant soybeans, it dispensed with the issue of potential resistant weeds in two modest paragraphs. It told the agency that \"glyphosate is considered to be a herbicide with low risk for weed resistance.\" The company also wrote that several university scientists agreed \"that it is highly unlikely that weed resistance to glyphosate will become a problem as a result of the commercialization of glyphosate-tolerant soybeans.\" Oops. Since then, resistance to glyphosate has emerged in 20 different weed species. Continue Reading I called up several people who were at Monsanto at that time. Why didn't people there think resistance would happen? They all told a similar story. First, the company had been selling Roundup for years without any problems. Second, and perhaps most important, the company's scientists had just spent more than a decade, and many millions of dollars, trying to create the Roundup-resistant plants that they desperately wanted -- soybeans and cotton and corn. It had been incredibly difficult. When I interviewed former Monsanto scientists for my book on biotech crops, one of them called it the company's \"Manhattan Project.\" Considering how hard it had been to create those crops, \"the thinking was, it would be really difficult for weeds to become tolerant\" to Roundup, says Rick Cole, who is now responsible for Monsanto's efforts to deal with the problem of resistant weeds. Cole went to work at Monsanto in 1996, the same year that the first Roundup Ready crops went on the market. So how did the company's experts react when weeds began to prove them wrong? \"The reaction was, 'What is really going on here?' \" says Cole. Monsanto began a \"massive effort\" to figure out how the weeds withstand glyphosate. Some weeds, Cole says, appear to keep glyphosate from entering the plant at all; others sequester the herbicide in a spot where it can't do much damage. Monsanto's genetically engineered crops use a different technique entirely. \"You sit back and you think, 'What could I have done differently?' \" says Cole. Even if the company had tried to restrict the use of Roundup, Cole isn't sure it would have been successful. \"Roundup Ready crops were such a revolution, and people embraced them so fast, that even if we had tried to do something different, people might not have done it,\" he says.", "NPR news poet and University of California, Berkeley, professor Tess Taylor has a spring roundup of poetry books that are all debut collections.", "September 12, 2017; Washington, D.C. -The NPR Politics Podcast, in partnership with NPR Member station WBEZ 91.5 Chicago, is bringing its must-listen political analysis and discussion to a live audience at Athenaeum Theater on Sunday, October 22. Tickets are on sale now via the venue's ticketing site. This live taping of the NPR Politics Podcast will feature Scott Detrow, congressional reporter who covered Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign; Tamara Keith, NPR White House correspondent who covered the Democratic side of the campaign; Danielle Kurtzleben, political reporter focusing on policy and data; and Ron Elving, senior editor and correspondent at NPR, providing history, context and a dry sense of humor. The NPR Politics Podcast is the most downloaded political podcast in the United States, according to industry watcher Podtrac, which has ranked the top 20 podcasts in the country by monthly audience since last year. In the month just before the 2016 election, more than 1,000,000 unique listeners a week downloaded the podcast. Launched in November of 2015, the NPR Politics Podcast has produced more than 250 episodes — including weekly roundups of top political news, breaking news, deep dives into policy and listener mail episodes where the team answers questions sent in by its listeners. Among recent accolades, the NPR Politics Podcast was named as one of the best podcasts of 2016 by Vulture and earned nods from Esquire and The Atlantic in their roundups of must-listens and reliable news sources during the 2016 election. About NPR NPR's rigorous reporting and unsurpassed storytelling connect with millions of Americans everyday—on the air, online, and in person. NPR strives to create a more informed public—one challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of events, ideas, and cultures. With a nationwide network of award-winning journalists and 17 international bureaus, NPR and its Member Stations are never far from where a story is unfolding. Listeners consider public radio an enriching and enlightening companion; they trust NPR as a daily source of unbiased independent news, and inspiring insights on life and the arts. Learn more at npr.org/about or by following NPR Extra on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. About WBEZ Podcast Passport WBEZ's Podcast Passports bring podcasts from across the country to Chicago audiences who love podcasts. We know that Chicago audiences love WBEZ too. This series provides an opportunity for WBEZ fans to engage with their favorite podcasts, as well as introduce new people to the exciting work WBEZ is doing in their communities. Past live shows in this series have included the hit podcasts Death, Sex & Money (WNYC Studios), Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR), Another Round (Buzzfeed), Hello from the Magic Tavern (Earwolf) and The Axe Files (CNN), among others. For more information, visit wbez.org/events. Press Contact Hugo Rojo, NPR Media Relations mediarelations@npr.org", "U.N. ambassador Susan Rice says that Lybian leader Moammar Gadhafi sounds \"delusional,\" citing the ruler's interview with ABC's Christiane Amanpour Monday in which he said that the Libyan people love him. Gadhafi also denied using force to suppress demonstrations against his rule. \"When he can laugh in talking to American and international journalists while he is slaughtering his own people, it only underscores how unfit he is to lead and how disconnected he is from reality,\" Rice said. According to a Newscast report by Ari Shapiro from the White House, Rice also repeated the Obama administration's view that Gadhafi needs to step aside. She spoke at the White House after the president met with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. In Libya, pro-Gadhafi loyalists fought rebels holding the two cities closest to Tripoli. The AP reports that Gadhafi has warned tribal leaders that if rebels remain in Zawiya Tuesday, they will be attacked by military aircraft. The town is 30 miles west of Tripoli. Roundup Of Other Updates Here's a roundup of other updates on the crisis in Libya: The Pentagon says it's shifting air and naval assets in case they're needed. U.S. teams are heading to Libya's border to help cope with refugees, according to Secretary of State Clinton. Installing a no-fly zone is one option, Clinton said Monday, adding that \"No option is off the table.\" Anti-government groups who control Benghazi have now set up their first leadership council. Some $30 billion of Libya's assets have been frozen, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. Libya's oil production is down by about 50 percent, according to officials. But news that some of Libya's ports have been reopened — and that Saudi Arabia will boost exports — helped ease some pressure on oil prices Monday. And on a side note, Canadian singer Nelly Furtado says she will donate the $1 million she was paid by the Gadhafi regime for a short concert in 2007. Furtado made the announcement on her Twitter feed. According to the AP, other performers who have been hired by the Gadhafi family include singers Beyonce, Usher, and Mariah Carey.", "It's a speed roundup this morning, so buckle up. Black Swan is making a pretty big splash for an artsy Darren Aronofsky movie -- it managed to finish in sixth place at the box office this weekend, despite the fact that it only played in 90 theaters. Reuters has your basic primer on the way Glee and its music are affecting the music industry. If you love Project Runway, maybe you'll really love Project Runway: Accessories, which is -- yes, it's true -- the spinoff. Julie Taymor is all over the news these days for both her upcoming remake of The Tempest and her Spider-Man musical, which is ... troubled, and Cinematical has a chat with her about things various and sundry. Also from Cinematical: The Social Network won the L.A. Film Critics top prize over the weekend. And finally: Thanks to The A.V. Club for this roundup of awful celebrity Twitter feeds.", "Some links we didn't get to mention: NBC's The Today Show and Pepsi recently gave the Jazz Foundation of America a nice little $50,000 grant. Couldn't have happened to a better organization, from what I know about the group. Here's the TV feature, featuring New Orleans pianist Davell Crawford. There was a minor conflagration over this well-intentioned but critically flawed (IMHO) Nextbop post regarding jazz opening acts. Writer Anthony Dean-Harris was gracious enough to post some of the feedback he received, including some from this blog's Twitter feed, in a separate post. The Jazz Education Network, presumably a successor to the defunct International Association for Jazz Education, just had its first conference. DownBeat publisher Frank Alkyer was there, and wrote about it. Destination: Out on AACM members Steve and Iqua Colson. Jamie Cullum's top 10 jazz musicians of all time. Terry Teachout notes that there is now a third book on Kind Of Blue, and asks if we might be better off not celebrating our overexposed masterpieces (in all artistic disciplines) so much. Read More &gt;&gt; The Colored Musicians Club, a great Buffalo, N.Y. jazz institution, recently won $600,000 in funds to build a museum. Which is cool, but does anyone else wonder if they could have won that much money for gigs instead? Nat Hentoff on Myron Walden. John Hollenbeck made a funny video. The Jazz Session this week interviews New York club managers Spike Wilner of Small's and Seth Abramson of the Jazz Standard. The Checkout this week features Travis Sullivan's scaled-down Bjorkestra, Pete Robbins' sILENT Z band and bassist Joe Sanders' iPod. Plus, online we get a sneak preview of next week's show, with Orrin Evans' trio plus Bobby Watson. RIP Edgar Bateman, the Philadelphia drummer who recorded with Walt Dickerson, Eric Dolphy and Orrin Evans, among others. More info here. And some we did mention: Scott Robinson, jazz's mad scientist. Josh Sinton talks about his Steve Lacy repertory band -- and posts some rare Thelonious Monk. Ozier Muhammad's work, including his \"Songs From Uncommon Spaces\" feature, for the New York Times photo blog. Make any song \"swing\" with the Swinger. Amy Winehouse's dad, jazz singer. Finally, a roundup of jazz elsewhere at NPR Music: Charlie Haden and Keith Jarrett talk about their new duo record, Jasmine. Our Artie Shaw centennial roundup, including this Take Five introduction to the man's music. Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz taps the archives for its Rosemary Clooney episode. JazzSet this week features Christian McBride and Inside Straight, recorded in Detroit.", "At 42, Dewayne Johnson developed a bad rash that was eventually diagnosed as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Four years later Johnson — now near death, according to his doctors — has been awarded a staggering sum of $289 million dollars in damages in a case against agricultural giant Monsanto. The former school groundskeeper sued the company, arguing that an herbicide in the weed killer Roundup, likely caused the disease. His lawyers also contended Monsanto failed to warn consumers about the alleged risk from their product. On Friday, a San Francisco jury agreed. They deliberated for three days before awarding Johnson $250 million in punitive damages and $39 million in compensatory damages. \"The jury found Monsanto acted with malice and oppression because they knew what they were doing was wrong and doing it with reckless disregard for human life,\" said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of Johnson's attorneys, according to the Associated Press. \"This should send a strong message to the boardroom of Monsanto,\" Kennedy added. Johnson's is the first of hundreds of cancer-patient cases against Monsanto and could be a bellwether of what lies ahead for the company. As NPR's Bill Chappell reported: \"Claims against Monsanto received a boost in 2015, when the International Agency for Research on Cancer – part of the World Health Organization — announced that two pesticides, including glyphosate, are 'probably carcinogenic to humans.' Monsanto is now facing hundreds of lawsuits, many of which were filed after that 2015 announcement. Dozens of the suits were joined to be heard in the court of U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria – who, even as he allowed the case to proceed, said the plaintiffs 'appear to face a daunting challenge' in supporting their claims at the next phase of the case.\" \"We were finally able to show the jury the secret, internal Monsanto documents proving that Monsanto has known for decades that ... Roundup could cause cancer,\" Johnson's lawyer Brent Wisner said in a statement, according to The Guardian. Monsanto has consistently denied that glyphosate-based herbicides cause cancer. \"We are sympathetic to Mr. Johnson and his family,\" Monsanto Vice President Scott Partridge said in a statement following the verdict. \"Today's decision does not change the fact that more than 800 scientific studies and reviews ... support the fact that glyphosate does not cause cancer, and did not cause Mr. Johnson's cancer.\" He confirmed the company will appeal the decision \"and continue to vigorously defend this product, which has a 40-year history of safe use and continues to be a vital, effective, and safe tool for farmers and others.\"", "A big part of the ranching ethic is the yearly cattle roundup, when ranchers gather the herd, separate the calves, and inoculate and brand the animals. Some families have picnics or play softball at the reunions. One family has been getting together for roundups in South Dakota for five generations." ]

[ "The Chancery Lane Safe Deposit" ]

[ "What's Your Mama's Name", "personal name origin", "What Yo Name Iz?", "vaulting horse", "The Naming of Names", "pole vault", "names", "equestrian vaulting", "The Originals", "name ''", "their names", "naming", "No Name", "barrel vault canopy", "name number", "bones of the cranial vault", "name change", "My Name Is My Name", "originalism", "baptismal name", "originality", "screen names", "Original", "The Name of the Jam", "IUPAC name", "That's Not My Name", "The Boy with No Name", "named person", "a royal name", "In the name of God", "A Horse with No Name", "a sender's name" ]

[ "Have you ever played with the toy with the hundreds of metal rods on one side and the other side has a glass square to prevent the rods from spilling off? When you pressed you hand on the rod side it would push the rods to the glass side revealing the imprint of your hand. We have machines that do that and reveal the image of the atomic structure." ]

[ "There is certainly room on the upper end of the periodic table (atomic number > 118) for more elements, but not below. An element is defined by its number of protons, so since there are only integer number of protons we have all the possible elements categorized between 1-118 protons. Above 118 protons (the limit might be higher now, I'm basing this off of a specific periodic table that might be outdated), elements presumably exist that we haven't been able to create or observe because of how quickly they decay and how much energy it requires to make them.", "Are you asking how we know what the composition of materials is? I.e. how we know it's CaCO3 and not CaCO2? Or how do we know it has Ca in it? Or do you mean how do we know what minerals are present in a rock? These all have different answers, and I can do my best to answer what you want to know!", "> Within different sizes of atomic nuclei what governs changes in the size of the proton? What conjecture is there? What do we know? And how does this affect the density of atomic nuclei? The different sizes of nuclei are not really caused by individual nucleons having larger sizes. It's determined by how the nucleons are distributed within the nucleus. Some nucleon orbitals are very tight near the core, and some are spatially extended. For example, see [here](_URL_0_).", "Going off of what has been said already, it made seem like a huge coincidence that the proton has exactly the opposite charge of the electron, but to me it calls on the anthropic principle. Life and atoms themselves as we know them would not be able to exist if the proton and electron had any difference in the magnitude of their charges.", "The word \"solvable\" in the context of differential equations means \"solvable in terms of elementary functions,\" not \"solvable, period.\" We know perfectly well how to apply it for larger atoms, but the solutions are not expressible in terms of basic operations, trig functions, exponentials, and logarithms. They must be computed numerically. This is often the case for complex sets of differential equations. If we didn't know how to apply it to larger atoms, we would never be able to tell you about the physical basis of the chemical properties of the elements, which of course we can.", "Honestly, we don't know. We don't know if the universe is entirely deterministic (determinism is a term that essentially means if you know how things started, you can always figure out how they'll end). What we do know is what we've seen so far: certain effects at the atomic/quantum level appear to be entirely random to us. We have no way of predicting when they'll happen. These include: * atom decay * light traveling through a tinted window (which actual photons make it through?) * thermal noise", "A follow-up or tag-along question. How do reptiles display affection or bonding? Do we know how to determine or measure a reptile's bond? We know and recognize a dog or cat's bond based on the similarity in their affection style to ours, eg., touching, cuddling, vocalizing, etc. What does a display of affection look like for a reptile?", "A tree uses plant hormones to tell what to grow and where, how it decides is dependant on the environment, how much food/water it's getting etc. Most tree's grow symmetrically in a set pattern that's optimal, there are small differences caused by what's going on around the tree. We still don't fully understand how plants know and decide what to do, how they are aware of the environment etc. a plant deep down is energy, the same energy as we humans are, the same as all life and we are still trying to understand it.", "The processor industry chose to use Moore's law as a goal to achieve, so they managed to achieve it. By doing so they are able to design chips and circuits knowing how many transistors they will have available before the technology to make that circuit exists. There's no actual law, it's just what the industry has strived for. That being said, Moore's law is soon to meet it's end. We are running into physical limits, as in transistors are reaching the size of dozens of atoms, and we can only get so much smaller. Advancements will shift to new materials allowing faster clockspeeds, more efficient circuit designs, etc.", "It's an interesting question; do you mean for something you are doing for the first time, something you have practiced, or something you do often without thinking too much about? The same question could be asked about how people are able to react in sports to balls, for example. How does a tennis player know exactly how and when to hit a ball, how do they calculate in real-time, the exact direction and path of an incoming ball etc. Is the answer simply trial and error? Are our brains simply advanced enough to calculate spatial awareness, coupled with intuitive movements that we know we are capable of?", "Follow up question: what do we know about the ancient Greek understandings of (im)mortality, afterlife, reincarnation, etc? How did they change with time?", "It really depends on how you count it. Do filibusters count? What about the Texas Revolution? How about times the government of a tinpot dictatorship invited the US to help it crush popular dissent? Do we count the occupation of Veracruz and the expedition to catch Pancho Villa as two separate invasions or both as part of American intervention in the Mexican Revolution?", "What type of element an atom is is defined by the number of protons in the nucleus. Within the same type of atom, the number of neutrons in the nucleus defines the type of isotope it is. Therefore, each type of atom has multiple isotopes. When we say that an isotope is unstable, we say that this particular configuration of neutrons and protons is unstable, or that it will eventually radioactively decay. When we say that an atom is unstable, generally it means that all isotopes of that element (that is, all nuclei with that same number of protons) will radioactively decay.", "Simplest explanation of the LHC: A giant racetrack for protons, where they go around and around, faster and faster, and then smashed head-on into other protons. This breaks them apart, just like slamming a car into a wall. Then we watch and see what tiny pieces come out of the proton to try and discover the inner workings of the atom, just like picking up the pieces of the destroyed car to figure out how the car works.", "We know tons about the brain. There are literally tens of thousands of papers on the brain. Neurosurgeons exist. We can even tell what parts of the brain do what. However, we don't know the most important stuff. What is consciousness? Where does it come from, and how does it work? How do elements from our conscious mind imoact the mechanical functioning of the brain? We know what neurotransmitters like dopamine and seratonin do, but how do the cells that release them when we look at our crush know what we're looking at? So on.", "nope, no other elements. the periodic table is sorted by the number of protons in that element. there are no gaps in the sequence, 1 through 1XX we have identified and labeled every possible element based on the quantity of protons in the atom. Now, we will likely continue to tack on new elements at the end, these are massive elements, extremely unstable, likely nonexistant in the entire universe. but we can create them in a lab for a nanosecond. With that said, while the periodic table counts protons, you can have ions that have varying amounts of electrons, and isotopes that have varying amounts of nuetrons. These do not show up on the periodic table, and though we know about most of these, certainly most of the stable ones atleast, it is likely that we will continue to sythesize new versions of these as well. But when the movies talk about aliens that found elements not of this earth, thats pure scifi. elements are universal.", "No. Elements are identified by their atomic number, which is the number of protons in an atoms nucleus. There is no way you can have an atom with a different number of protons than the ones we know. Because physics and chemistry adhere to a strict set of rules it is this information that allows us to know and predict so much about the universe. It is possible there are elements with atomic numbers higher than 103, but our evidence so far suggests that they have such short half-lives they do not exist for long anyway.", "It's a branch of philosophy that deals with reality and existence. Questions that can't be answered or measured in science, like how do we know what reality is, what does it mean to exist, what is consciousness, what is there beyond time and space etc.", "We know what the final count of bitcoins will be - 21 million. There are 12 million now, but we know the rate at which they're being uncovered and how many can exist. Because of that, there's no real inflation to it - the market is adjusted to 21 million total bitcoins, even though only 12 million are in circulation.", "To answer that we would need to know how thinking, memory and the information processing structures of our nervous system work. We don't know that. We DO know that instincts are encoded in a heritable form-- or, genetic. We can do tests to prove such. It is a very interesting and hard question though. What makes an instinct different from a thought? Instincts can be localized to parts of the brain but so can conscious thought. Instincts are not malleable like other behaviours, and are generally very fixed and structured responses to specific stimuli. To say how instincts come about in a brain is to be able to say a LOT about the brain.", "Temperatures for stars are easily determined - different elements produce very specific light signatures, and the signature changes very predictably as it is heated. These signatures are produced by the glow of the element itself, and by what wavelengths of light it absorbs at that temperature. So the color of a star tells us what it is made of and what temperature it is (at the surface). Estimating core temperatures is more complicated, and involves comparing the total thermal radiation at the surface, guessing changing composition of the planet with depth, etc. What we are really doing is quantifying how much total energy is within the object, then guessing at how concentrated that energy is. Temperature of nuclear reactions are far more accurate, if not simpler. Since we know exactly how much energy is produced by each type of reaction, on an atomic level, we simply apply that to the number of reactions expected to take place in a given time and volume. It's a bit more complex, but that's the crux of it.", "> So people always say there's like 10^(82) particles in the universe or something like that. For clarity, I believe that figure is the upper limit on an estimate for the number of *atoms* in the *observable* universe. > But how many particles are estimated to be in the actual universe? In order to estimate this, we need to know how big the actual universe is, and ... > I know we don't know the size of the universe ... since we don't know that, we cannot answer this question. :( > but assuming it's finite and we know what the expansion rate is would it be possible to estimate it? Not knowing just the expansion rate, no. We would need to know *how finite* it is. If we can determine an estimate for the volume of the entire universe some way, we could calculate it. But just knowing the expansion rate and the fact that it's finite does not give us enough information to derive what the volume would be. Hope that helps.", "It's to do with the chemistry of how acids work. Basically acids give up protons to other chemicals which changes the nature of whatever atom receives the proton. Materials that are resistant to acids are less prone to receiving those protons.", "Survival, by knowing what how and why we can learn if it poses a risk to us and how we can minimise that risk. It also enables us to access foods that would normally be inaccessible, cracking nuts or digging roots etc.", "Formula itself, no. Knowing the structure (i.e., where the bonds are), then yes. This is especially true for organic compounds. We know how a functional group behaves with regards to accepting or donating a proton, so their presence in the compound will give clues to what it will do. However, as with all areas of chemistry, the presence of some groups will influence how others behave - for example, a chlorinated site in the vicinity of a carboxylic acid may make it more acidic. At the end of the day, how well one can predict the properties of a compound is a mixture of fundamental knowledge and experience.", "Find an area where you are able to count individuals - and get to a nice round number (10, 50, 100, 1000, etc), and then just guesstimate from there. They usually overlay a grid and count how many squares have max-density of people. They'll count one of them and do the resulting math, then extrapolate for less populated squares.", "> How do cars know how fast they're going? They know how big their tires are and count how many times they turn.", "all watches are based on counting the periods. Pendulum watches are counting swings. The each swing period is constant and depends of the weight and length. Quartz crystal is oscillating with certain frequency when there is a voltage applied. This may be measured by some kind of processor/digital counters. Because the frequency, thus period is known, we can calculate how many periods are needed to get to 1 second, we can measure the time precisely. There are also atomic clocks, that counts how the atoms are vibrating. The main difference between all 3 watches is the accuracy of time measurement. That means if the watch shows that 48 hours have passed, was it really 48:00:00.0 hours or just 47:59:59.3", "Like most questions about dreaming, we don't know. Furthermore, your question is based on an assumption that isn't even proven yet. We THINK sleep is used for low level processing of the day and conversion of memory from short to long term, but we don't really know. We also aren't really sure how people lucid dream, how to recreate it, or predict who will be able to do it. Plus, lucid dreaming is just one dreaming abnormality, what about sleep paralysis, sleep walking, night terrors, etc. All these suggest a disconnect between our consciousness and our lower brain functions, but again, it isn't known and is very difficult to study. So, the answer to your question is, nobody knows why we even sleep, so the rest of the question makes no sense.", "Yarr! Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5:How do historians or linguists decode and translate an ancient language that hasn't been spoken in a long time? ](_URL_3_) ^(_23 comments_) 1. [ELI5: How do we know that our translations of hieroglyphics are correct? ](_URL_1_) ^(_ > 100 comments_) 1. [How linguists are able to translate an ancient languages? ](_URL_4_) ^(_26 comments_) 1. [How do modern humans take ancient language and figure out what it's conveying? ](_URL_0_) ^(_3 comments_) 1. [ELI5: How do we translate languages of ancient civilizations? How much of them can we translate at all? ](_URL_2_) ^(_10 comments_) 1. [ELI5: How do people decipher ancient writing systems? ](_URL_5_) ^(_5 comments_)", "Why are some metals shiny, why are some magnetic etc etc. It's all about the atomic properties, in what kind of structure do they bond? _URL_0_ and how strong are the bonds between the individual atoms? _URL_1_", "Judging from the answers, I don't think I am able to get my point across, so my apologies. I get that what we see happened millions of light years ago and that we might be able to see the forming process of stats and galaxies etc. What I mean is this : Consider that there is a star just outside the observable universe. The light from that star will reach us for the first time ever next month and if we look up in the sky in that stars direction, all we would see is darkness (and maybe other stars In the way). Fast forward next month. The first proton from that star to ever hit earth goes inside your eye. How would that experience be and has it ever been documented?" ]

[ "Heard the one about the golf course which banned golf buggies? Or the chip shop which stopped customers using salt and vinegar? They might sound like bad jokes - but they are actually just some of the bizarre excuses which have been trotted out in the name of health and safety. In the most recent example, a customer in Northumberland was told he could not put his own salt and vinegar on his take-away fish and chips. Scroll down for video . Barmy: A customer was stopped from putting his own salt and vinegar on his takeaway fish and chips for 'health and safety' reasons . It later emerged that the shop had stopped customers using the shakers because they were not sure where customers' hands had been. The bizarre incident was referred to the Health and Safety Executive's 'myth busting' panel, which works to ensure rules are not used irrationally. Since it was set up in April 2012, the panel has dealt with nearly 350 cases of gone-wrong health and safety rules, once described by David Cameron as the 'national neurosis'. Another example from last month's panel included a primary school banning parents from bringing young babies to sit on their laps during the nativity play. But the panel concluded that the school had probably just made the ruling to prevent the children disturbing the performance - and that it had nothing to do with health and safety. This year, Brighton and Hove City Council also decided to close the beach on Christmas Day over 'safety fears' after a swimmer had to be rescued while taking part in the event three years ago. The so-called 'myth busters' at the HSE are now calling on businesses to stop blaming health and safety for poor or over-the-top decisions. It comes as researchers at the University of Exeter found that half of all cases came related to shops, cafes and leisure centres - which the HSE said is usually a cover-up for poor business practice. Judith Hackitt, Chair of HSE and the Myth Busters Challenge Panel, said: 'HSE wants to encourage everyone, especially those working in leisure and retail, to make a resolution to stop using the health and safety catch-all excuse. 'Give the real reason for the decision you take. We want people to be honest - giving health and safety the blame is lazy and unhelpful. Brighton and Hove City Council banned a Christmas day swim after two previous incidents due to health and safety. Pictured: The Christmas Day swim in 2011 . One customer was not allowed to return headphones because the packet was open (left) while another customer was confused when a trolley assistant on his train insisted they physically put his coffee onto his table for 'health and safety reasons' (right) 'Customers are at the heart any business. Getting rid of over-the-top decisions blamed on health and safety will improve the service customers receive and enable the business to prosper.' In another bizarre incident this year, a DIY store refused to cut a door to size, claiming that cutting the wood would compromise the strength of the door, thereby contravening health and safety legislation. A customer was also left baffled when a trolley assistant on his train journey insisted she had to put the coffee cup on the table rather than handing it to him, again for 'health and safety'. Earlier this year, a local furniture store told a customer's wife that she could not collect her foot stool from the store due to health and safety - even though the item would have fitted perfectly in her car. The business stated that the item had to be delivered, which cost around £30. The panel concluded this was a 'poor excuse'. In another incident, a high street clothing store would not open their fitting rooms on the first day of a sale, apparently due to health and safety. Mark Harper said over-the-top interpretations of health and safety rules 'get in the way of what the law is for' And a customer who bought some headphones from a high street store was told that if the packaging was opened the headphones could not be returned, even though they had not been used. Researchers found that 60 per cent of cases were due to a generic 'better safe than sorry' risk averse mind-set, which was especially strong in instances of poor customer service. In 32 per cent of cases, there was an assumption that there is a rule in place when there is not. And the study also found that 20 per cent of the health and safety myths affect children, meaning they were 'frequently prevented from engaging in activities in educational and leisure settings on the grounds of health and safety that are found to be baseless'. Dr Claire Dunlop said: 'Identifying these trends will enable the HSE to develop more focussed communications strategies that tailor advice and raise awareness in specific sectors and about particular populations. 'It will also enable them to support organisations to address the weaknesses in capacity that make health and safety myths more likely.' In previous cases, a local council was refusing to allow hanging baskets for a Village in Bloom competition until engineers had assessed the lampposts to show they were capable of holding the bracket and basket. The panel ruled this was a 'classic case' of rules being applied in an 'overly-cautious and inappropriate way'. Earlier this year, a six-year-old from Hampshire was also told that she could not take a baby chick into school for a presentation amid fears that children could contract bird flu. The little girl's father, Mike Montgomery, described the rule as 'ridiculous' and said he had even offered to bring in gel for the children to clean their hands with. In another case, a local council in Scotland banned a dog training club over allergy fears. The club, which had been running in a community hall for 60 years, was banned because the council claimed that those using the hall next door might be allergic to dogs or catch a disease from the pets. One council refused to put up hanging baskets for a Village in Bloom competition until lampposts had been checked . The myth buster panel said: 'This is a clear example of health and safety being misused. Any concerns about allergies and cleanliness can be easily managed.' In June last year, a mother in Gloucester was told by the headteacher that her seven-year-old daughter was no longer allowed to wear her homemade frilly socks because they could become a tripping hazard. But the Health and Safety panel again dismissed the rule. A spokesman said: 'There is nothing in health and safety law which stipulates how long or short frills on school girls' socks should be. 'These socks are unlikely to be a serious hazard unless they are torn and trailing on the floor. If you tried to ban everything children could trip over, they wouldn't be able to do anything. 'Schools are free to set their own uniform policies but these decisions shouldn't hide behind spurious references to health and safety law.' In the golf example, buggies were prohibited because they were not 'health and safety authorised'. Other examples include a council which stopped a nursery teacher taking children to an allotment, and a manager who banned a woman from wearing flip flops in the office because they did not have enclosed toes and a supported back. Department for Work and Pensions Minister Mark Harper said: 'The Health and Safety Executive has done fantastic work over the past 40 years to keep working people safe. 'Elf n safety' myths get in the way of what the law is for – saving lives, not stopping people living them. 'No employer or worker should hide behind the health and safety excuses, if they act in a sensible way. If you hear of a bogus health and safety myth, report it to our panel.' Set up in April 2012, the myth-busting panel invites those who believe they are victims of a ludicrous health and safety ruling to email in and get a professional view. The panel may then contest decisions made by insurance companies, local authorities and employers. There have been nearly 350 cases. In Northumberland, a customer was told they were not allowed to put their own salt and vinegar on their take-away fish and chips. This Christmas, a primary school stated that parents could not bring young babies to sit on their laps at the nativity play for 'health and safety' reasons. Earlier this year, a local furniture store told a customer's wife that she could not collect her foot stool from the store due to health and safety - even though the item will fit perfectly well in her car, . The business stated that it had to be delivered costing around £30, which the panel said was a 'poor excuse'. In Derbyshire, small wooden canes protecting daffodil canes were pulled out of the ground in case someone tripped over them and fell into a flowerbed. A primary school in Cumbria told pupils that they needed to wear goggles - if they wanted to play with conkers at school. The rule came after the local council attempted to ban children from playing conkers in the playground. Previously, a local council was refusing to allow hanging baskets to be placed on lamppost for a Village in Bloom competition until engineers had assessed the lampposts. In 2012, a Santa was not allowed to ride his float in Sutton - despite the tradition being around for decades. The ban was imposed after health and safety assessments found the sleigh too dangerous, instead Father Christmas had to walk alongside his sleigh . In 2008, children were banned from taking part in a sack race in Durham because teachers feared they would hurt themselves. Instead pupils was asked to run or skip. A town council near Manchester created a policy preventing loose flowers and pots being placed on graves." ]

[ "Furious fish shop owners have slammed a council after it spent £3,000 of taxpayers' cash on a guide on how to make their chips. The six-page document goes into minute detail on how thick each chip should be, as well as recommending exact temperatures for frying and informing workers that fries should be 'golden' in colour. Chippie owners criticised Cheltenham Borough Council bureaucrats for the guide, calling it patronising and unnecessary. A council spent £3,000 on the guides on how to cook chips, which advises chippie owners to cut chips to at least 14mm, slightly more than half an inch, in width . Chip shop owners are advised that chips should be served when they are a 'pale, golden colour' The detailed document, written by the Food Standards Agency, explains to workers how they can 'make the food they serve healthier' while saving money. The initiative, launched by Cheltenham's local authority, then explains that the best chips are made  'using a cutter with at least a 14mm (just more than half an inch) cross section'. Chip shop workers are then told to heat their fryer to 175C before putting potatoes in, cooking them for 5-6 minutes until they are a 'pale, golden colour'. Despite the lengthy description on how long a chip should be cooked for - 5-6 minutes - the guide says it is sometimes better just to follow instructions on the packet. The guidance reads: 'Frozen chips may only take 2-3 minutes – businesses should follow the manufacturer’s instructions.' They should also make sure they wash their fryers and change their oil often. The council document also suggests using rapeseed or sunflower oils, which are 'high oleic' - or high in unsaturated fats. The guide also recommends using salt shakers with fewer holes in and asking customers whether they want salt on their fries. Andreo Michael, who owns Norwood Fish Bar in Cheltenham, said: 'If you've been in the business like me since 1980 you don't need to be told how to do chips. 'Some people might need telling, but I don't need them telling me what to do.' Chips tips: Banging and shaking chips before serving them can reduce oil for customers, the advice says . Chips should be fried on their own to ensure oil quality is not affected, according to the document . The document also advises on the correct oils to be used to fry chips, suggesting 'high oleic' oils . The six-page document, branded as patronising by chip shop workers, suggests using salt shakers with fewer holes and asking customers whether they want salt . James Ritchie, 28, who owns Simpsons Fish and Chips in the Gloucestershire town, said: 'We try really hard to make sure we know these things anyway. 'We have our food nutritionally tested so for us this would not be a good experience for us. 'I would go to the National Federation of Fish Friers for advice and not the council. They couldn't tell us anything. There is nothing they could tell us that we don't already know.' Gloucestershire County Council has allocated £40,000 to Cheltenham Borough Council to fund health improvement schemes in 2013/14 and 2014/15. The guide says: 'By shaking the chips and banging the wire scoop several times, you can reduce fat absorption by 20% and make your chips crisper. 'This is because chips carry on absorbing fat after they come out of the fryer. 'If you bang and shake you’ll use less oil, need to top up less often, and need to empty the drain in the chip box less often.' Just over £20,000 has been awarded to five projects in the town this year - including the so-called 'healthy chip' scheme, which costs £3,000. It is hoped that the scheme will help reduce the amount of oil absorbed into deep fried foods, consequently reducing obesity levels in low-income areas. A spokesman for the TaxPayers' Alliance branded the guide a 'ludicrous' move. He said: 'When we're trying to make savings it beggars belief the council is doing takeaway training. 'The idea that it's appropriate to spend taxpayers' money telling chip shop owners how to cut chips is just ludicrous. 'They must think again - even the beneficiaries of this bizarre scheme don't seem particularly keen on it. 'If the Council wants people in low-income areas to be able to buy healthier, but often more expensive, food it should think about cutting council tax.' Jamie Ritchie, owner of Simpsons Fish and Chips in Cheltenham, said the council could not tell him anything he did not already know . Chips should be served when they are a 'pale, golden colour', the document says (file picture) But Councillor Rowena Hay, cabinet member for healthy lifestyles on Cheltenham Borough Council, defended the policy. She said: 'The project is about encouraging and supporting takeaways in low-income communities to serve healthier food. 'Its aim is to encourage small takeaway businesses to implement simple procedural changes to the way they fry food so as to produce a healthier product. 'We want to actively encourage healthier eating in any community in order to reduce obesity and long term illness and this project will help in doing this.' According to the guidance, shops should use liquid oils, such as sunflower and rapeseed, heated to 175C before each batch, for 'crispier, more appealing chips'. The document's advice on cutting down on salt reads: . 'Lots of people are trying to cut down on the amount of salt they eat. You can help your customers to do this by doing these things. • 'Use a salt shaker with fewer holes – just ask your supplier if they provide five-hole tops. • 'Ask your customers if they want salt before adding it. • 'Don’t add salt to batter mix. If you buy batter mix, check the ingredients and try to choose one that doesn’t contain salt or sodium. • 'Read the label on foods like sauces, sausages and pies and choose the one with less salt (or it might say ‘sodium’). If there’s no information on salt, ask your supplier.' The advice on cooking healthy chips was also condensed into a two-page document, pictured here . Researchers claim the oil is essential when it comes to frying and it should be sieved and reheated at the end of every batch. The guide adds that 'the ratio of food to oil should be 1:6' and 'baskets shouldn't look more than half full'. Research suggests that most retailers complete a full oil change every 2-4 weeks, but this should actually be done after 20 frying hours, it explains. Chips must be cooked in a fryer without any other food contact and the chef should shake them and bang them with a wire scoop several times after cooking. Research suggests this simple movement can reduce fat absorption by 20 per cent, making the chips crisper. They are also advised to offer smaller portion sizes, 'for people with smaller appetites'.", "KFC opened up their kitchens to skeptics and fans alike on Saturday and there were no mutant chickens to be seen, the deep fryer was as clean as a whistle and the salad was crisp. It was no-doubt enough to convince some critics of one of the world's biggest fast food chains that it isn't all bad, but health experts still say that no matter how hygienic the conditions of the 612 KFC outlets in Australia are, the food they make just isn't good for you. The franchise allowed hundreds of people to take a look behind the scene of 219 stores and roam from freezer to fryer while watching staff continue their daily cooking and preparation tasks, in a bid to prove their chicken is fresh and there's nothing to hide. Scroll down for video . KFC allowed hundreds of people to tour the back of 219 stores across Australia and roam from freezer to fryer on Saturday . The fast food giant hoped to dispel myths around the quality and freshness of their ingredients and prove their chicken was fresh and cooked in the kitchen of each store . 'They'll see exactly what happens, we haven't airbrushed anything,' Nikki Lawson, Chief Marketing and Development Officer for KFC, told Daily Mail Australia. 'They'll see exactly how it's done, they'll get to look in the fridges at the ingredients and the products we've got, they'll be able to watch the cooks making the chicken and the burgers being assembled and how its eventually served to the customer.' Ms Lawson said the fast food giant hoped to dispel 'blanket perceptions' of negativity around the quality and freshness of their ingredients. 'It's not something that's made in a factory offsite somewhere and it gets delivered here and we reheat it,' she said. 'If you look at the ingredients and processes we use, it's actually like fabulous home cooked food, and it's just done in a slightly bigger commercial kitchen.' Daily Mail Australia attended an earlier tour of the KFC store outside Sydney's Airport in Mascot, alongside four couples who had registered as skeptics and fans . In one of two cool rooms, selections of raw chicken were seen packed in boxes marked with use by dates and the type of cut: whole chickens, zingers cuts, wings etc. A senior cook was then seen flouring and seasoning batches of the selections by hand, before distributing them between one of the six fryers . Daily Mail Australia attended an earlier tour of the KFC store outside Sydney's Airport in Mascot, alongside four couples who had registered as skeptics and fans. In one of two cool rooms, selections of raw chicken were seen packed in boxes marked with use by dates and the type of cut: whole chickens, zingers cuts, wings etc. A senior cook was then seen flouring and seasoning batches of the selections by hand, before distributing them between one of the six fryers. However everything else in the kitchen was delivered in boxes: chips, nuggets and popcorn chicken were stored in another of the cool rooms, fresh vegetables are delivered pre-cut in bags and bread is also delivered from a bakery and stored in boxes. A store manager confirmed that the gravy was made from a combination of the run off from chicken cooked in the store and packets of potato. However everything else in the kitchen was delivered in boxes: chips, nuggets and popcorn chicken were stored in another of the cool rooms, fresh vegetables are delivered pre-cut in bags and bread is also delivered from a bakery and stored in boxes . The skeptics on tour with Daily Mail Australia expressed their surprise and approval at KFC's high standard of hygiene, including the two coloured handles fitted on each of the cool room doors - red for hands that had touched raw chicken and silver for those that hadn't - as well as multiple sinks. However Alexandra Jones from The George Institute for Global Health warned consumers not to equate KFC's attempt to build customer trust through displaying respectable food safety standards and their message of 'freshness', with healthiness. 'Regardless of the freshness of the chicken, KFC's biggest selling products are still prepared in a manner that leaves them high in things like fat and salt,' Ms Jones told Daily Mail Australia. 'We would encourage attempts by KFC to increase the transparency of their operations and provide interested customers with an insight into how their food is prepared. At the same time, it's important not to pretend that this is about the healthiness of KFC's range. Alexandra Jones from The George Institute for Global Health warned consumers not to equate KFC's attempt to build customer trust through displaying respectable food safety standards and their message of 'freshness', with healthiness . 'Regardless of the freshness of the chicken, KFC's biggest selling products are still prepared in a manner that leaves them high in things like fat and salt,' Ms Jones told Daily Mail Australia . 'KFC is still in the business of deriving profits from fried chicken, which is provided free to tour participants. 'We'd like to see KFC demonstrating innovation in progressively reducing salt, sugar and fat from its products together with other initiatives like restricting portion sizes and continuing to offer healthier options in the product range.' Each of the skeptics invited to the Mascot store's back-of-house claimed to have had their minds changed by the tour. 'It is much fresher than I ever expected it would be. I thought the chicken was frozen and it was actual fresh chicken… there was pieces of cut up chicken; soft, squishy, real, fresh chicken, even with feathers,' Melissa Graham, 35, told Daily Mail Australia. Each of the skeptics invited to the Mascot store's back-of-house claimed to have had their minds changed by the tour. 'It was really good to see all the hygiene standards that they've got,' Nic Wittison (pictured) said . 'It's still deep fried chicken, but knowing that its cooked properly and that it doesn't just sit there all day makes it somewhat better,' he added . 'It was really good to see all the hygiene standards that they've got, especially the hold times for the chicken [20 to 90 minutes] and the checking of the chicken so they make sure its cooked every morning,' Nic Wittison, 26, said. 'It's always hard to tell whether the people that work actually care enough to follow all the procedures, but they have quite detailed things like how many times you have to shake the chicken [when flouring]. 'It's still deep fried chicken, but knowing that its cooked properly and that it doesn't just sit there all day makes it somewhat better.'", "(CNN) -- Occupy activists and law enforcement authorities found themselves at odds in several U.S. cities over the weekend, including yet another tense showdown late Sunday afternoon in Portland, Oregon. Police in riot gear and holding batons lined up for hours along a city street, face-to-face with activists who refused to clear the road and go onto the sidewalk. This confrontation came hours after Portland police Sgt. Pete Simpson said more than a dozen people were arrested as authorities cleared Chapman Square, the last city park where protesters had gathered. Simpson said the officers were in riot gear as a precaution, and were joined by other assisting agencies. \"We needed the manpower because we used up a lot of resources yesterday (Saturday),\" he said. Mayor Sam Adams said late Sunday afternoon that \"a series of increased drug overdoses... an arsonist that used the camp as camouflage and almost a 20% increase in crime surrounding the encampment\" prompted the move. \"All of us are working really hard at keeping the peace and protecting freedom of expression,\" Adams told CNN. \"I support a lot of what the encampment stands for ... (But) it shouldn't be focused on port-a-potties and tents and encampments attracting criminal elements. I think this movement needs to evolve.\" Kari Koch, one of the activists, told CNN that she was \"extremely disappointed that the mayor chose to crack down on these parks when the outpouring of support (among area residents) has been so strong.\" \"Homeless people exist, drug addicts exist, mentally ill people exist. We were a safe place they could go, and that created some problems,\" she said. \"And we were working to deal with those problems, and the mayor cut us off.\" Video from earlier showed authorities dismantling tents at the camp. Once the parks -- which Simpson said are \"pretty beat up\" -- are cleared, temporary fencing will be erected so repairs can be made. One officer was struck in the leg earlier Sunday by a projectile thrown from a crowd, and was taken to a hospital, but the injuries were not life-threatening, authorities said. One protester was arrested in a separate incident overnight, Simpson said. Video from that scene showed masses of protesters -- about 7,000, according to Koch -- on downtown streets. In the early-morning hours Sunday, police told demonstrators to leave the streets or face arrest. All but two of the demonstrators followed that order, many retreating to several parks, CNN affiliate KGW reported. Yet hundreds returned by early Sunday morning -- some of whom have not been affiliated with the Occupy movement until now -- apparently hoping to witness a police confrontation, police Lt. Robert King said. On Sunday, Mayor Sam Adams praised police for showing professionalism and restraint, noting the lack of serious injuries incurred over several police actions and stressing a calm, well-communicated approach. \"I'm prioritizing patience,\" he said earlier in the day. \"In order for us to do this peacefully, we need the time and folks on the ground need the time to do their work right.\" In Denver, meanwhile, two police officers were injured and two Occupy activists were arrested late Sunday afternoon, according to a statement from that Colorado city's police department. Protesters became upset when police began removing a food table from a park, some of them surrounding a police car. One woman then pushed a Denver police officer, according to the police statement. She and a male who came to her aid were arrested. One officer twisted his knee, while another was treated and released from an area hospital after being hit in the head, police said. This scuffle took place after, on Saturday night, police in riot gear arrested 17 people as they cleared furniture and tents from an Occupy encampment near the city's civic center, police spokesman Sonny Jackson told CNN. The main issue, he said, was that the items were blocking a right of way. \"People are welcome to come back and protest, but we don't want them to do it in a way that's not safe,\" Jackson said. What started as the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York in September has spread across major cities worldwide as a call to action against unequal distribution of wealth. In Philadelphia, Mayor Michael Nutter said Sunday he was increasing police presence near the Occupy Philly camp and asking the city's police commissioner to \"establish structures and strategic positioning and deployment of officers on a regular basis in that location.\" What began as a peaceful protest 39 days ago has given way to increasing public safety and public health concerns, Nutter told reporters. \"Occupy Philly has changed,\" he said at a noon press conference. \"We're seeing serious health and safety issues playing out on an almost daily basis... The people of Occupy Philly have also changed and their intentions have changed. And all of this is not good for Philadelphia.\" A woman reported she was sexually assaulted Saturday night in a tent at the encampment, Nutter said. CNN affiliate WPVI reported a suspect was arrested in the alleged assault. In addition, there is the threat of fire near historic City Hall and concerns about litter, public urination, defecation and graffiti, according to the mayor. Numerous reports of thefts and assaults in the encampment have been made, and 15 emergency medical runs were made between October 6 and November 11, he said. Also, a maintenance project is set to begin soon on City Hall, one of several, he said. A $50 million renovation is planned for Dilworth Plaza, where protesters have camped. Occupy Philly's general assembly voted Friday night not to move from the plaza, and members have not responded in recent weeks to expressions of concern from the city, which has repeatedly tried to work with the protesters, he said. \"Many of the people that we talked to in the beginning of this event and activity are now gone,\" he said. \"We have things we need to do,\" Nutter said. \"I understand that they have things on their mind as Americans and wish to express their free speech. I understand that, I get that, I've defended that. The things we're talking about, the activities that are going on, are not about free speech. They're public health and public safety concerns that have nothing to do with Wall Street and corporations.\" The protesters are \"purposely standing in the way of nearly 1,000 jobs for Philadelphians at a time of high unemployment,\" Nutter said. \"They are blocking Philadelphians from taking care of their families.\" \"Misconduct is not about free speech,\" the mayor said, \"and the behavior we're now seeing is running squarely into the needs of our city government that also represents the 99%. As mayor of the city of Philadelphia, I represent the 99% also.\" Meanwhile, in Salt Lake City, police said on Twitter 19 people were arrested Saturday night as authorities moved in to clear an Occupy Salt Lake encampment at a downtown park. Police had ordered protesters to leave the park after a man was found dead late Thursday night. The cause of death was thought to be carbon monoxide poisoning and a drug overdose, CNN affiliate KSTU reported. \"We can no longer tolerate individuals camping on our streets,\" Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank told reporters. However, \"only camping is over,\" Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker's office said on Twitter -- protests can continue at the park. KSTU reported authorities said protesters would be allowed to have a 24-hour presence and one building, but the tents had to go. Since camping began at the park, Becker's office said in the statement, \"local law enforcement has responded to a dramatically increased amount of criminal activity in the park, and has made over 90 arrests in the area since early October.\" A melee involving 30 people on Wednesday night led to four arrests, Becker's office said, and public safety \"has become increasingly questionable. Additionally, the amount of human and animal waste, as well as drug paraphernalia, is an escalating public concern.\" As police moved in Saturday evening, according to video from the scene, protesters chanted, \"This is what a police state looks like.\" \"Our rights to assembly, which are embodied in the First Amendment, are still being violated,\" protester Jesse Fruhwirth told KSTU. \"Our forefathers are speaking to us, telling us that this is what assembly looks like. Not being able to camp here severely limits the ability of us to keep our coalition together.\" \"Many thanks to all for a peaceful resolution,\" Salt Lake City police tweeted late Saturday. In Oakland, California, police issued a third notice for demonstrators to vacate city parks on Saturday, police spokeswoman Officer Johnna Watson told CNN. The protesters had not complied with that order, Watson said. A second notice was issued Saturday morning after a fatal shooting near the camp, according to CNN affiliate KCBS. A man in his early 20s was shot Friday. Authorities said one of the suspects has been \"a frequent resident at the encampment over the past several days,\" KCBS said. Also Saturday, 27 protesters were arrested in St. Louis after defying an existing park curfew, authorities said.", "Tragic L'Wren Scott's family have spoken of their fury at Sir Mick Jagger over the Rolling Stones' legal battle to claim $13million from insurers after canceling tour dates in the wake of her death. Miss Scott's closest loved ones are astonished by Jagger's 'unbelievable' decision to reap financial settlement and question his commitment to his girlfriend of 13 years, who hanged herself on March 17. Miss Scott's sister Jan Shane was so upset by the Rolling Stones front man's actions, who the family accuse of 'opening up old wounds,' she couldn't bring herself to comment. But her husband Rob, 58, spoke for the family and told MailOnline exclusively: 'We just can't believe Mick's doing what he's doing. Scroll down for video . L'Wren Scott's death prompted the Rolling Stones to postpone a concert tour of Australia and New Zealand, but their insurers are battling with the band to not pay out for losses . Jan Shane, 53, left, and her husband Rob Shane find it hard to believe that money is so important to Mick Jagger he would  show so little regard for L'Wren . 'Jan is trying to put it all behind her, it's a really troubling part of her life losing her sister, and he's in a legal battle with some insurers.' Speaking at the couple's home near Salt Lake City, Utah, he said: 'The guy [Jagger] doesn't need the money, I laughed when the insurance company turned down his claim. 'All the s*** that Mick is claiming about being unstable, it's ridiculous he's trying to get his way. In a way, I'm not surprised he's doing it. The guy is just unbelievable.' The band postponed the Australian and New Zealand dates of their world tour when Miss Scott died in March of this year, then made a claim for the costs against their insurance policy. But the insurers are refusing to pay out, saying the policy did not cover suicide. A judge has ruled that the insurers will be allowed to seek documents and testimony from Miss Scott's brother, Randall Bambrough, to find out more about her mental state. However, Mr Bambrough told a local newspaper that he had yet to receive a summons. The documents, filed by the insurers and obtained by MailOnline from the federal court in Salt Lake City, claim Jagger's 'acute traumatic stress illness' was 'due to known, pre-existing physical, psychological and medical conditions of Miss Scott'. It's alleged Miss Scott 'had been suffering from a mental illness' and 'either received, or at least had been recommended, medical attention', therefore her death should not be considered to be 'sudden and unforeseen'. The underwriters make reference to Miss Scott's 'lack of care, diligence and/or prudent behavior in committing suicide by hanging herself', which they believe 'increased the risk and/or likelihood of a loss otherwise recoverable under the policy'. In the 105-page document the eight insurers, led by Cathedral Capital and Talbot 2002 Underwriting Capital Limited, both based in London, claim these points are suitable reasons for denial in settling the claim from the Rolling Stones. The Stones' insurance policy was covered for $24million, while the tour was expected to make $44million. An autopsy confirmed Miss Scott's death was suicide after she was found in her luxury Manhattan apartment. Family portrait: Childhood photos of L'Wren Scott in Utah. The intimate family photos were shared by L'Wren's sister Jan Shane. Pictured: (back row from left) Randall Bambrough, Ivan Bambrough, Lula Bambrough, (front row from left)  L'Wren Scott and Jan Shane in 1967 . Jagger greets his late partner L'Wren Scott before her catwalk show last year . Jagger developed the acute traumatic stress disorder after losing his long-time partner, according to the papers. Symptoms include flashbacks, nightmares, feelings of guilt and emotional numbness. If the disorder persists for more than one month, it becomes traumatic stress disorder. The singer was subsequently instructed by doctors to take a month off, forcing the Stones to cancel live shows in Australia and New Zealand. However the underwriters have accused the rocker of failing to be examined by a qualified psychiatrist before abandoning the scheduled dates Down Under. Rob, shaking his head in disbelief, told MailOnline: 'I read that he's claiming $12.7 million due to the cancellation of the [Rolling Stones] tour and I can't understand that. L'Wren left her entire estate to him and that was valued around the same amount. 'It seems heartless. How distraught could he have really been, seriously? It was only a month or two after L'Wren's death he was with this ballerina or whatever. I mean how distraught [was Mick]?' Defending his late sister-in-law Miss Scott he says: 'L'Wren wasn't mentally unwell, you know it's just some times life catches up to you.' Rob told how Jan, 54, is 'finding it hard' to discuss her sister right now, adding: 'The whole situation is a big ball of weight being dragged behind her and it's opening up old wounds.' The underwriters claim suicide was not covered in the $13million policy taken out by the Stones if they were forced to cancel their tour. The Rolling Stones frontman published a statement on his website soon after  L'Wren Scott's death saying he was struggling to understand why she would end her life . Last month, the insurers also  filed a lawsuit in New York's Federal court, and subpoenaed Adam Glassman, the executor of Scott's will; the New York City medical examiner; and Brittany Penebre, her British assistant. The move was an attempt to gain access to any emails or messages about an 'actual or alleged attempt at self harm by Miss Scott' as well as her general mental health, or an 'actual or alleged suicide attempt'. Miss Scott, a fashion designer and model, was 49 when her body was found in her Manhattan apartment by Miss Penebre. An autopsy confirmed her death was suicide. Her fashion business had been £4.6million in debt and she had abruptly cancelled her show at London Fashion Week, supposedly due to technical difficulties. There were also reports she and Jagger had split up, leaving her 'devastated', although Jagger's spokesman denied this. Documents filed at the district court in Salt Lake City, Utah, reveal Miss Scott was on a long list of family on the Stones' insurance policy. Also on Jagger's list were his ex-wives Jerry Hall and Bianca Jagger, former girlfriends, seven children and four grandchildren. The documents give a fascinating insight into how the insurance policy worked. The revenue for the tour was expected to be £28million, and this could have gone up if 15 extra European dates were added. The insurers agreed to pay out up to 50 per cent in case of tragedy. A spokesman for the Rolling Stones declined to comment. Lawyers for the insurers did not return calls for comment. * The Samaritans can be contacted by phone in the US 1 (800) 273-TALK and in the UK on 08457 909090 or www.samaritans.org. Hell-raisers: Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards . The Rolling Stones may still be going strong, but their court documents reveal that their disgruntled insurers are well aware of the toll taken by years of the rockstar lifestyle. Hidden among the fine print of their tour insurance policy is a long list of exceptions – health issues for which each member of the ageing band is not covered. For example, and perhaps not surprisingly, the insurers say they will not pay out if anything happens to guitarist Keith Richards related to 'alcohol abuse, liver failure and/or disease and osteoarthritis'. More unusually, anything to do with the injury that he suffered in 2006, when he was hit on the head by a coconut, will not be covered either. For Ronnie Wood, anything to do with 'alcohol abuse' is also not covered. The exemptions for drummer Charlie Watts include any conditions related to the cancer he was diagnosed with in 2004 or his sciatica. The documents show the band expected to receive $46.6million for their tour. Just three shows in Japan were worth $14.3million.", "THE UTOPIA EXPERIMENT . by Dylan Evans . (Picador £14.99) How many thousands of books and films are there containing stories about visionaries who set up utopian societies — with untoward consequences? This book addresses the same subject, but it is not fiction. Dylan Evans tried it for himself, and it drove him mad. Less than ten years ago, Evans was a professional scientist, conducting research into robotics and artificial intelligence. But during a holiday to Mexico in 2005, he perceived striking parallels between the collapse of the Mayan empire 1,000 or so years ago and the state of civilisation today. Could our certainties founder in the way theirs did? Dylan Evans returned from his trip to Mexico with the determination to create a community that could exist without technology and the home comforts we take for granted (picture posed by models) As he describes, many societies collapsed in the past ‘because their energy requirements began to outstrip their energy resources’. But what if a community could rise from the rubble and exist without technology and the home comforts we take for granted? He returned, determined to create such a community as an experiment, simulating what life after an apocalypse might be like. He built it in the Scottish Highlands, mainly from sticks and canvas, and called it Utopia. Alarmingly, but intriguingly, his book starts with a 3am scream in a psychiatric hospital. The scream isn’t his, and it’s at the end of the experiment, not the beginning, when — for his own safety — he has been detained under the Mental Health Act. He recounts how Utopia tested, and finally broke, his sanity. It is a fascinating, troubling and, at times, hilarious tale. The inescapable truth is that Evans wasn’t entirely stable to start with. He became a committed ‘doomer’ — someone who thinks the end of the world, if not exactly nigh, is approaching. He began to envisage his self-sufficient, post-apocalyptic community, not just as an exercise in social observation, not as The Good Life writ large, but as a kind of dress rehearsal for the real thing. Inevitably, once news of the project spread, it attracted a motley collection of fellow-utopians: from engaging idealists to raging crackpots, with a few blissed-out hippies in between. But he didn’t blunder into the experiment unprepared. Evans checked out other ‘eco-villages’ and ‘alternative communities’, including one near where I live in Herefordshire. Indeed, parts of this book reminded me of my own family’s move to the sticks some years ago. Like Evans, I had a romantic notion of becoming ‘a horny-handed son of toil’, only to be completely at a loss the first time I had to wring an ailing chicken’s neck. For Evans, the killing of a pig called Fatso proved similarly traumatic. Very quickly, he also found the utopian ideology was about as watertight as one of his leaky yurts, and the egalitarianism lasted about as long as it took for one volunteer to be more forceful than another. Evans does note, perceptively, that ‘utopias also attract misfits, whose inability to integrate may not be due to the society they blame, but to their own cantankerous personalities’. Adam, given to ululating late at night, was a prime example. Moreover, the society on which they were all trying not to rely had a nasty habit of encroaching on their commune. Terrified that one of his volunteers might get hurt, or worse, Evans took out third-party liability insurance. Which, he concedes, ‘felt like cheating, like I wasn’t fully embracing the radical uncertainty of primitive living’. And though they resourcefully made their own toothpaste by mixing baking powder, sea salt and peppermint, they had no idea how to make the baking powder, so bought it from a local supermarket. Not very hunter-gatherer. Evans’ relentless self-questioning about these small, but forgivable, transgressions against the spirit of his own experiment did nothing for his mental health, which further deteriorated as he realised he had invested so much thought and energy into a project that was doomed to failure. But this book is much more than an account of a naïve undertaking in the life of a rather strange man. For one thing, it radiates an intense intelligence and a candour that is never less than touching and, sometimes, downright heartrending. To have written so elegantly and often humorously about his mental health means Evans must now, to a great extent, be ‘better’. But it’s still an exercise in agonised soul-searching.", "Frozen chicken breasts sold at some high street supermarkets are pumped up with 20 per cent of water and additives, it emerged today. Shoppers are forking out 65p a kilo for water after the meat, imported from Brazil, is 'tumbled' in a cement mixer-like machine in the UK . The poultry - processed by Westbridge Food Group - is repacked and sold at Asda, Aldi and Iceland in their own-label bargain ranges. Workplace: Chickens are processed at a slaughterhouse near Sao Paulo, Brazil, which are then 'tumbled' in the UK, repacked and sold at some supermarkets . Sainsbury sells frozen chicken fillets from the same Westbridge factory with added water but not as its own label, a Guardian investigation has revealed. The imported raw frozen chicken, which has already had salt or a mix of corn oil and salt added, is  'tumbled' with water and water-binding additives by Westbridge which is based in Malvern, Worcestershire. Supermarkets are not breaking the law by selling chicken with added water if the amount is stated on the packaging. But there are concerns by the Food Standards Agency [FSA] over the interpretation of the rules by the supermarkets who have told the paper they do not believe they are breaking regulations. Food process: Workers at the slaughterhouse in Brazil: When the raw meat arrives in the UK it is pumped up with as much almost 20 per cent water and additives . The legal question is whether the chicken . is defined after tumbling as a 'preparation' or a 'product' that no longer retains the characteristics of raw meat. Supermarket: An Aldi spokesman said: 'We take these allegations very seriously' The Dutch Food Safety Authority has swooped on several factories in Holland to stop the practice of tumbling of imported chicken which would be later resold as raw meat. It told the paper that chicken produced like that was illegal if sold in its country. Additives in discount ranges include phosphates to stop water leaking out during cooking and the sugar dextrose which hides the saltiness of raw meat, making it more succulent. But the Guardian study revealed that most shoppers were unaware they were paying for large quantities of water in their meat. The probe revealed that Asda and Aldi packs have 18 per cent  added water in their chicken while Iceland and the Valley brand in Sainsbury's have 15 per cent. Following the research, the food watchdog is  asking Westbridge for information on its processes to see if  their chicken meets regulations. A spokesman for the FSA told the paper: 'This is a complex area of EU food law which, as the European commission itself has acknowledged, is subject to interpretation. 'The FSA is investigating and working with local authorities to visit relevant premises in the UK to … to identify the precise legal status under regulations.' Asda declined to comment, but the Guardian has learned that the supermarket is talking to the supplier and regulator over the legal status of the chicken it has been selling. Selling discount frozen chicken breasts: High street favourite supermarkets Iceland and Asda . Aldi said: \"We take these allegations very seriously and are working closely with our suppliers to determine whether any further action is required to comply with our high requirements.\" A spokeswoman for Iceland said the supermarket never misled its customers. 'We are confident that all of our suppliers meet the required regulatory standards and that they are interpreted correctly.' Sainsbury's responded  that it had been reassured the trading standards and environmental health authorities had found the supplier fully compliant with current regulations. Frozen chicken outlet: Sainsbury's sells the meat under a brand name but not its own label . There was no answer from the Westbridge HQ at the weekend and the company did not respond to requests for comment by the paper. Importers buying processed chicken from Brazil save millions of euros a month because they are charged a lower EU tariff than . untreated chicken.", "Suspended: Alleged Oregon rapist Brandon Austin was suspended at Providence College in Rhode Island due to allegations of sexual misconduct . A woman who says she was sexually assaulted by three University of Oregon basketball players filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the school and head basketball coach Dana Altman. The suit alleges Altman knew when he recruited Brandon Austin that the player had been suspended from Providence College in Rhode Island due to allegations of sexual misconduct. It also claims that the university put off disciplinary action against the players in order to help the basketball team and that it illegally accessed her campus counseling records. The woman, who is still a University of Oregon student, alleges the school was negligent, violated her civil rights and privacy, and deprived her of her right to an education. 'UO delayed taking any action on the sexual assaults for over two months while it prioritized winning basketball games over the health, safety, and welfare of its students,' the lawsuit alleges. Interim President Scott Coltrane said the university disagrees with the allegations in the lawsuit and believes it acted lawfully. He said the university is trying to improve its code of conduct and its handling of student discipline. 'It's our primary job to keep our students safe,' Coltrane said. Austin and the two other players told authorities they had consensual sex with the woman, and prosecutors said there was insufficient evidence to file charges. Laura Fine Moro, a lawyer who has represented Austin, could not immediately be reached for comment. The woman met the players at a party March 8, the same night the Ducks finished the regular season. The woman's father soon called police. Suing the college: The woman suing the school, who is still a University of Oregon student, alleges the school was negligent, violated her civil rights and privacy, and deprived her of her right to an education . Negligence: The suit alleges coach Dana Altman (pictured) knew when he recruited Brandon Austin that the player had been suspended from Providence College in Rhode Island due to allegations of sexual misconduct . The university was informed of the ensuing investigation but allowed two of the players, Dominic Artis and Damyean Dotson, to compete in the NCAA tournament. Austin could not suit up because of NCAA transfer rules. All three players were later suspended from the university. Austin was accused of sexual assault and suspended from the Providence team late in 2013. The reason for his suspension was not made public, and he transferred to Oregon. Altman has said he didn't know why Austin was suspended from Providence when he recruited the player. At a news conference last year, the coach acknowledged that his questioning on the matter \"probably didn't go deep enough.\" Austin was never charged with a crime in Providence. The woman, who is identified in the lawsuit as Jane Doe, is seeking reimbursement of her tuition and expenses, payment of expenses incurred as a result of the alleged assault, as well as damages for emotional pain and loss of enjoyment of life. Suspended: Brandon Austin was suspended from  Providence College in Rhode Island (pictured) due to allegations of sexual misconduct .", "SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment is requesting the U.S. Department of Labor investigate the conduct of employee Lara Padgett, alleging she violated the ethics code for government employees. Padgett is an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) agent who investigated SeaWorld for safety violations after the death of Dawn Brancheau, a veteran trainer killed by a 12,000-pound orca named Tilikum in 2010. As a result of some of Padgett's findings, OSHA determined SeaWorld violated the Occupational Safety and Health Act, saying it exposed its workers to a \"known hazard\" in the workplace. OSHA fined SeaWorld and restricted the interaction between trainers in the water with the killer whales, a decision that SeaWorld has appealed. In a 228-page complaint filed Thursday, SeaWorld said it has obtained information showing Padgett is biased against the aquatic park and accused her of engaging in cronyism with the producers of the documentary, \"Blackfish,\" produced by Magnolia Pictures and acquired by CNN Films last year. The film explores the concept of keeping killer whales in captivity for entertainment. It set off a national debate resulting in significant backlash for SeaWorld. SeaWorld has long called \"Blackfish\" one-sided and claimed it is the product of animal activists. A spokesman for the Department of Labor's inspector general said the office had received the complaint but could issue no further comment. Attempts to reach Padgett were not immediately successful Friday. Department of Labor spokesman Jesse Lawder said OSHA referred the matter to the inspector general in January, immediately after allegations first surfaced, and that the agency is awaiting the results of that investigation. In the complaint, SeaWorld alleges Padgett attended the 2013 Sundance Film Festival with \"Blackfish\" producers and accepted lodging free of charge. SeaWorld provided CNN with several purported photos of Padgett, lifted from what appear to be her personal social media accounts, showing the federal employee in various photos with the film's cast and crew -- including a picture of the group in a \"Charlie's Angels\" pose, complete with air guns, at the film's premiere in New York. The company also accused Padgett of disclosing confidential information. \"Blackfish\" associate producer Tim Zimmermann asked to borrow a witness' thumb drive and was subsequently seen working with Padgett on a laptop computer, the complaint says. The witness then found new documents related to OSHA's investigation on the drive after it was returned -- documents, the complaint states were clearly labeled as SeaWorld trade secrets. The complaint does not identify the witness. Zimmermann told CNN no confidential documents were shared with him. \"I have no idea what to make of these accusations,\" he said. \"Lara Padgett never shared documents with 'Blackfish.' There are no documents in the film.\" What's more, Padgett was not invited to Sundance by the \"Blackfish\" crew, Zimmermann said. She stayed in the house where the crew stayed for a few nights due to a lodging shortage in the area, but she \"came on her own dime,\" he said. \" 'Blackfish' does not have any, did not use any confidential documents,\" Zimmermann said. \"We obviously knew who she was. We tried to interview her, but ... all of OSHA declined to participate.\" He added, \"Any feelings she had on SeaWorld, it was on her own.\" Government employees are prohibited from divulging trade secrets. They face imprisonment, fines or termination if found in violation. \"We believe that this conduct demonstrates that she was influenced by improper considerations, and failed to bring the appropriate objectivity, in the investigation of the death of whale trainer Dawn Brancheau,\" the complaint states. \"SeaWorld further believes that Ms. Padgett's disclosure of confidential information and other conduct reflect an intense bias and a desire to assist those in the animal rights community who have publicly, and for many years, demonstrated a desire to damage SeaWorld as a viable business.\"", "Celebrity chef James Martin turned on the Health Secretary today and told him his new plan to improve hospital meals 'is going to do nothing'. The Saturday Kitchen presenter, a hospital food standards campaigner, also said he has tried persistently to set up meetings with Jeremy Hunt but the minister is always 'too busy'. It came as disgruntled patients sent pictures to MailOnline of hospital meals they considered 'pitiful' and 'disgusting'. Jeremy Hunt has ordered a review into hospital food, asking NHS trusts to meet specific standards and threatening fines for the worst offenders, but chef James Martin said today 'it will do nothing' Hospital canteens have been blasted for serving unhealthy options such as pie and chips and the Health Secretary says trusts will be forced to overhaul their menus . Today the Health Secretary announced new rules to ensure hospitals improve their food or face fines, and made it compulsory for trusts to serve meals that meet basic standards and ensure staff help patients to eat them. He ordered trusts to overhaul canteen food so healthier options are available rather than burgers, chips and pies and stop salt being added to vegetables. But James Martin accused Mr Hunt of not thinking through his proposals. He wrote on Twitter: 'For 5 years I've worked in hospitals all over the country and this idea is going to do nothing. 'Providing tap water is brilliant one... though that must've taken a lot of thought'. Urging Mr Hunt to meet with him he said: 'I'm here if you want me to help and will be available anytime, 7 days a wk as you're office says you're \"too busy\" all the time. 'I'm here from now until the election'. Jeremy Hunt has not responded. Jeremy Hunt has vowed to raise food standards in NHS hospitals and visited the Royal Marsden in Chelsea today to see how their meals are made . Diane Jeffrey (right, with Hunt) said: ‘Getting hospital food and drink right is critical... No hospital can afford to neglect this’ Pictures have emerged of substandard food in hospitals, including this cheese and tomato sandwich . Yesterday the Mail published shocking photographs of hospital food sent in by patients including congealed rice pudding and soggy broccoli. Others were served chicken pie with raw pastry, mince burned on to the plate and, in one case, a half bowl of tomato soup and salad. Dieticians said the meals were either so unappetising or meagre that they hindered patients’ recovery because they would not get enough nutrients. But starting from December, a basic set of standards governing hospital food will be written in to each trust’s NHS contract. These include checking patients for malnutrition when they are admitted and ensuring they are given enough help at mealtimes by nursing staff. Trusts will also have to provide fresh fruit and offer healthy options at canteens that are low in sugar, salt and fat. From today patients will be able to see how the food was rated on the NHS choices website . Standards will be monitored by the Care Quality Commission as part of routine hospital inspections. If a trust breaches these standards they could be fined by the local GP-led Clinical Commissioning Group. From today patients will also be able to see how their local hospital has been rated for food on the NHS Choices website. Each trust has been given a score out of 100 for quality and choice and the website also states whether they provide fresh fruit and food between meals. Mr Hunt said: ‘We are making the NHS more transparent, giving patients the power to compare food and incentivising hospitals to raise their game. ‘Many hospitals are already offering excellent food. But we want to know that all patients have nourishing and appetising food to help them get well faster and stay healthy, which is why we’re introducing tough new mandatory standards for the first time ever.’ But Alex Jackson, of the Campaign for Better Hospital Food, said the new measures were ‘woefully inadequate’. He pointed out the standards which hospitals were required to meet were very basic, including that they provide tap water. He said: ‘We’re left feeling that he has pulled the wool over our eyes. We want to see hospital food standards set down in legislation, similarly to school food standards. ‘But the Government still refuses to do this and has only committed to including the standards in NHS commissioning contracts, which are long documents full of clauses that without proper enforcement and monitoring can be ignored.’ Dianne Jeffrey, chairman of Age UK, which led the review of hospital food, said: ‘Getting hospital food and drink right is critical and should also be considered an important part of someone’s medical care. No hospital can afford to neglect this.’ The NHS in England receives 480 written complaints a day, with hospital doctors and surgeons among those bearing the brunt of patients’ frustrations. There were almost 175,000 complaints in 2013/14 – 3,300 a week – according to the Health and Social Care Information Centre. Have you been served poor food in hospital? Email your pictures and stories to pictures@mailonline.co.uk .", "The former fattest man in the world has lost almost two thirds of his weight  - but now wants an operation to remove his excess skin. Paul Mason, 51, once weighed an incredible 70 stone - almost half a ton - and firefighters had to demolish the front of his house so he could be removed using a fork lift truck and taken to hospital. But after NHS surgery two years ago, the former postman from Ipswich, Suffolk, has slimmed to only 25 stone. Former world's fattest man Paul Mason has shed almost two thirds of his weight after NHS surgery to reduce his stomach size . Mr Mason, who once ate about 20,000 calories a day, says he is now desperate to lose more weight but has been told by the NHS he cannot have the surgery until his weight is at a 'stable level' for at least two years. He said: 'It's OK them saying that, but that only applies to people who don't have much weight to lose. 'It needs doing now and probably in . another four or five years. It doesn't matter how much toning up you do, . it's only going to get worse.' He said the excess skin was hampering his efforts to walk, which would help him lose even more weight. He added: 'My skin splits. The skin behind my knee tears because of the weight of the excess skin.' Mr Mason is now writing a book about his . experience and looking into the prospect of consultancy work, talking to . people about eating disorders. He has also started his own jewellery business and says he wants to work towards a life where he can learn to drive, go on holiday and settle down with a partner. Mr Mason said: 'I've always been interested in the jewellery. 'Eventually, when I'm a lot more mobile . and don't need the wheelchair, I will have a proper work shed and a kiln . and will melt down scrap silver - and make my own custom-made silver.' 'He hopes to sell his work online and at a stall in Ipswich town centre. He added: 'When you get your life back . under control it's rewarding, you can do what you want and look at . things in a new angle.' Paul Mason says excess skin is preventing him from losing more weight because it makes it difficult to walk . New life: Mr Mason first met Miss Mountain when she got in touch to help him in his quest to have a second operation to remove layers of excess skin . Mr Mason ballooned to his incredible . size by eating ten times the amount needed by a normal man due to a . compulsive eating disorder. He claimed his binge eating began in his 20s at the time of his father's death and a . deterioration in his mother's health. Mr Mason quit his job as a postman when his weight prevented him from completing his deliveries. As his weight soared he was left unable . to stand or walk before finally becoming bed-ridden and being looked . after full time by council carers. Firefighters had to demolish the front . wall of his former home so they could drive a fork lift truck inside to . lift him out and put him into an ambulance when he needed a hernia . operation in 2002. Mr Mason was later given a purpose-built housing association home with extra wide doorways so he could move around. His care bill cost taxpayers an estimated £100,000 a year and is believed to have topped £1million. At the height of his food addiction, he . was gorging an entire packet of bacon, four sausages and four eggs . complete with bread and hash browns for breakfast. He would then eat quadruple portions of . fish and chips along with two kebabs for lunch followed by a roast . dinner, curries or pizza and more chips in the evening. Mr Mason would also eat up to 40 packets of crisps, sausage rolls and pasties as snacks during the day. His weight loss has meant he is able to go out and about again in his motorised wheelchair, and can walk short distances.", "She's a household name, having hosted several TV shows, edited the Australian Women's Weekly, and launched her own wellness website 'Balance by Deborah Hutton'... and now Deborah Hutton has added another accolade to add to her merit - she's releasing a cook book of favourite recipes that she has compiled over the years. This week Hutton has released 'My Love Affair with Food' in collaboration with the Australian Women's Weekly, featuring over 40 recipes as well as some of her cherished food memories and personal photos. The 53-year-old media personality shared her favourite recipes from the book with Daily Mail Australia. Scroll down for recipes . Cooking credit: Media personality Deborah Hutton has added 'cookbook author' to her accolades . Despite having a health and wellbeing website, Hutton has chosen not to buy into the 'diet/health cookbook' trend and is bringing back wholesome cooking and real food recipes that make her happy - salt and carbs inclusive. 'I've always had a love affair with food, I love cooking food, shopping for it and while it's always been a challenge since my modelling days to both enjoy food but still fit into the clothes I like, I think if you set yourself up for a too strict routine you’ll fall off the wagon at some point,' says Hutton. 'There’s enough health books out there, I'm not about to do one,' she said. 'While it’s good to have your diet cookbooks and no sugar, these recipes are about the things that make me happy.' And if Hutton's confession that 'a gin and tonic and salty chips' after a day on the golf course is one of the things that makes her happy, the cook book is sure to appeal. Confessed carb lover: Hutton bucks 'health trend' in favour of wholesome food - salt and carbs included . Crisp comfort: The 'Crispy Cheese Ravioli' as featured in 'My Love Affair with Food' Ingredients . Method . 1. Place the egg and breadcrumbs in separate bowls. 2. Half fill a deep-fryer or large saucepan with oil and heat to 190°C (the oil is hot enough when a cube of bread dropped in the oil turns golden in 30 seconds). Dip each ravioli in egg, then toss in the breadcrumbs, to coat. Working in batches of five, fry the ravioli for 1–2 minutes or until golden and crisp. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towel. 3. Meanwhile, heat the pasta sauce in a small saucepan over low heat until hot. Season to taste and stir in chopped basil; transfer to a heatproof serving bowl. 4. Arrange the ravioli on a platter, sprinkle with the extra parsley or basil and serve with the sauce for dipping. Note: If you prefer not to use a cheese filling, any ravioli works just as well. Time: 25 minutes . Serves: 4-6 . This dish makes you look like a star without really trying. I like to quickly cook these after everyone has arrived, so the cheese is still warm and gooey. Just ask your guests to pass the platter. While she is an advocate of juicing, Hutton also believes overall diet trends just don't work. 'I’ve tried just about everything but as a general rule of thumb I don't think fad diets are sustainable, you need a balance. So while I don’t like things too deep fried or have a sweet tooth, I will take salt and carbohydrates any day, that’s my weakness.' Not to say Hutton isn't a advocate of good health though. In 2011 she was diagnosed with skin cancer (only two years after her brother had lost the battle to liver cancer) and spent weeks thereafter in hospital with a face full of stitches. This scare put her life in perspective and now other than a glass or two of wine in the evening, health is her number one priority. Hutton is now an ambassador for the Skin and Cancer Foundation, the founder of Balance by Deborah Hutton - a community website for women 40+ that focuses on sharing health and wellbeing information, and as mentioned, is an avid golfer who regularly spends time on the course. She also confesses that while known for religiously slip, slop, slapping, in an ironic twist of fate, her doctor recently told her she's now lacking in vitamin D and calcium. Sexy soufflé: Hutton says her banana soufflé is the ultimate date night dessert and is sure to impress . And in Hutton's good humoured nature, she is taking it in her stride and using the news to her foodie advantage. 'When she told me I was highly deficient in both vitamin D and calcium I said - \"so basically I get to play out in the sun and eat cheese?\" and she said yes, and I laughed and told her I loved her!' In her new cook book, you can expect both 'naughty things' 'and 'really good things'. Ingredients . Method . 1. Cook penne in a large saucepan of boiling well-salted water until just tender; drain, cover to keep warm. 2. Heat oil in the same saucepan over medium heat. Add the garlic, chilli, zucchini and rind. Cook gently for 1-2 minutes or until softened but not browned. 3. Return the hot pasta to the saucepan with the butter and fetta. Toss together and season to taste. Serve topped with parmesan. Note: Remove the seeds from the chillies for a milder flavour. Cooking time: 20 minutes . Serves: 4 . Trust me when I say, that once you’ve had this, you’ll be back for more. There’s something really refreshing about the crunch of the raw zucchini and the zesty lemon. 'You won’t find it heavy in the dessert section or deep fried, or too many ingredients or eight hours of preparation,' she said. 'There is an amazing chocolate panettone in there. I'd only have that maybe once a year, so not often but I had to include it!' Another favourite is the 'Mediterranean Chicken' which she says is not only delicious but a regular on her entertaining menu because it's easy and means 'you’re not strapped to the kitchen while everyone else is having fun.' Day on the green: An avid golfer, Hutton loves nothing more than a gin and hot chips after a day on the course . And at 53, life is only getting better for Hutton. She has a second cook book in the works focusing on her love of entertaining and she's more invested than ever in inspiring and supporting women via her website Balance by Deborah Hutton. 'Turning 50 I wanted to be the best version of myself and it really is just getting better. Originally I was excited to turn 40 but I love what I’m doing now. I’m invested in this business - I want to help and connect with women and I also want to inspire people to get in the kitchen,' says Hutton . 'Afterall, there’s no time like the present and I’ve never felt more empowered.' Cheers to that: The 'Venice Dusk' cocktail as featured in 'My Love Affair with Food' Ingredients . Method . 1. Cut rind from watermelon; cut flesh into 2cm cubes, place in a ziptop bag; freeze for 1 hour or until ready to use. 2. Half fill a jug with ice cubes, frozen watermelon and mandarin rind. Stir vodka and sugar in a small bowl until sugar dissolves; stir mixture into jug with remaining ingredients. Serve immediately. Note: Aperitifs are made by infusing herbs and/or fruit in alcohol and water; they have a bitter taste and are characterised by their dark red colour. Use an aperitif such as Aperol or Campari. Cooking time:15 minutes + freezing . Makes: 8 cups . Deborah's perfect menu for date night that is sure to impress any guest . Drink one: A Vodka Martini . Entrée:  A dozen freshly shucked oysters . Main: The sexy pea and mint risotto with additional seared scallops on top. Drink two: A Dry Riesling from the Clare Valley . Dessert: The banana soufflé - it's low fat, has no sugar and the presentation makes you look like a killer chef! Fresh off the press: The new book is on sale this week for $14.95 .", "The 21-year-old son of a Utah doctor found guilty of murder in the 2011 death of his cancer researcher ex-wife has spoken out about how he fought for three years for his father to be convicted. Salt Lake City pediatrician John Brickman Wall, 51, was convicted of killing Uta von Schwedler in September 2011 amid a bitter custody dispute. He faces up to life in prison. The case was highly contentious, with prosecutors alleging Wall had murdered his wife while defense attorneys claimed von Schwedler killed herself. Their son, Pelle Wall, said that though his father told him and his three siblings that their mother had killed herself, he didn't believe it. Scroll down for video . Pelle Wall, 21, publicly believed his Salt Lake City pediatrician father, John Wall, was guilty of murdering his mother, Uta von Schwedler in 2011 . After spending his entire inheritance from his mother on a campaign to convict his father, Pelle wants a confession. 'As I thought about... my dad's behavior before and after her death, it became more and more apparent to me that - that he was responsible for killing her,' Pelle told CBS's 48 Hours. Prosecutors alleged Wall attacked 49-year-old Uta von Schwedler with a knife, dosed her with an anti-anxiety drug Xanax and drowned her in her bathtub. Defense attorneys countered that the theory was unbelievable, and it was more likely von Schwedler killed herself. Her death initially was treated as a suicide. But family and friends pushed for more investigation, saying the researcher showed no signs of wanting to end her life. Pelle told CBS that he feared for his and his sibling's lives, worrying that they might be living with a murder. 'Part of the reason I was concerned for my safety as well as my sibling's safety - was that I saw this anger that he had towards my mother,' Pelle said. 'It didn't die with her. It jumped and it expanded.' The couple's oldest son, Pelle Wall (left) had testified at the trial claiming that his father was acting bizarre after the family learned von Schwedler had died. John Wall (right) was found guilty of murdering his ex-wife in March . Uta Von Schwedler's body was found in an overflowing bathtub in September 2011 and her death was initially ruled a suicide but further investigation led to the conviction of her ex-husband John Brickman Wall . Salt Lake City officials made no effort to remove the children from Wall's home and the investigation was put on hold. On the day before his 18th birthday in January 2012, Pelle moved out of his father's house into the home of his best friend, Jessica Oglesby, and was welcomed by her parents with open arms. But he had left his siblings behind. 'I realized that my presence there was not protecting my siblings,' he told CBS, adding that his father was upset that he had moved out. 'And once I had that realization and I moved out, then I could take active steps to protect them.' Pelle then fought for custody of his siblings and eventually won. The children were all moved into homes of family friends. His father sued him for a number of family scrapbooks that had been treasured items within the family. One of the books had been found next to von Schwedler's body. Pelle countered his father's lawsuit with a wrongful death suit, holding his father responsible in the death of his mother. Wall was eventually arrested and put on trial for the murder of von Schwedler. The evidence in the case was unusual: A medical examiner thought the shallow cuts on von Schwedler's wrists and leg looked like she was defending herself from an attack, but he couldn't explain the fatal level of Xanax in her system. Forensic experts had very different interpretations of the scene. Pelle Wall (left) spent his entire inheritance from his mother (right) campaigning for his father's conviction. He said now he wants a confession from his father . For the prosecution, spilled antihistamine pills on the floor, a house in disarray and bloodstains in von Schwedler's bed showed she was attacked. The defense said the home revealed signs of a troubled woman who died trying to calm herself with medication. 'The state just can't throw up a whole bunch of theories,' John Wall's lawyer Fred Metos said during closing arguments Thursday. He added self-injury is a rare side effect of Xanax. Prosecutors said von Schwedler studied childhood leukemia and recently made a discovery that could help find new treatments for the disease. She had no prescription for Xanax, but John Wall filled a large one for his mother months before his ex-wife's death. 'He resented her efforts to see the children, to talk with the children, to text the children, to email the children,' prosecutor Nick D'Alesandro said during closings. 'He just couldn't stop talking about how much he hated her.' The night of their mother's death, the former couple's four children were staying at John Wall's house. The next morning, he wasn't at home when they woke up. Instead, he went to a car wash and had the interior of his car cleaned, including a pinkish stain, according to prosecutors. Von Schwedler was a Cancer researcher who studied childhood leukemia and recently made a discovery that could help find new treatments for the disease . He came to work with a scratch on his face and injury to his eye; he said the family dog scratched him while he slept. Police knocked on John Wall's door that night, hours after von Schwedler's boyfriend found her body. During an intense interrogation, John Wall denied having anything to do with her death. The couple's oldest daughter, 19-year-old Malkie Wall, testified that her father returned home deeply troubled and asking his children if he was a monster. His lawyers said he broke down after police made him question his sanity, but there's no proof he was in von Schwedler's house. The jury of three women and five men deliberated for about seven hours before reaching a guilty verdict. After the verdict was read, the Pelle thanked police for years of investigation and 'uncommon persistence. He spoke at the courthouse in Salt Lake City surrounded by more than two dozen supporters. 'We have spent the last three and half years seeking justice for my mother, and today that quest is finally at an end,' he said. The victim's sister, Almut von Schwedler, said the Wall children will never be the same, but the verdict is the first step toward closure. 'Johnny never succeeded to destroy Uta's joy for life, but he ended up taking her life,' she said. John Wall, pictured last year awaiting his trial, faces up to life in prison for the murder of his ex-wife. A sentencing hearing will take place in July . John Brickman Wall, center, listens to blood pattern expert Rod Englert testify for the prosecution with his defense team Jeremy Delicino, left, and Fred Metos in February . 'Revenge was certainly not what drove us in those dark days, and dark and desperate days we had many of,' she added. Prosecutor Matthew Janzen said Pelle Wall played an important part in the case, one of many pieces that formed the largely circumstantial case. As the verdict was read, John Wall sat with his hands folded and shoulders bent, staring down and blinking rapidly as his frown deepened. The defendant's sister, Wendy Wall, maintained her brother's innocence. 'This verdict will not bring Uta back,' she said in a statement. 'Now, to that tragedy has been added the conviction of an innocent man.' Though Pelle has no regrets in fighting for his father's conviction, Wendy Wall is disappointed with what Pelle has done to his father. 'I think that Johnny felt devastated when, you know, when Pelle - in some ways you could say turned on him, I suppose,' she said. 'Everybody in our family Johnny included still very much loves Pelle, and I think that we're all trying to remember that… he's gone through incredible trauma.' Wall will be sentenced on July 8. Pelle said that he expects he will speak to his father 'once he's in prison'. 'I mean, I think I can ask him the questions. But, I don't expect that he'll answer. He'll just, you know, shake his head... and, basically, maintain the victim stance that he's always maintained,' he said.", "By . Jennifer Smith . A coroner ruled the 'neglect' of tour guides and The Adventure Company played a part in the death of Rachel Burke (pictured) A coroner has blamed an adventure company for the death of a woman who died while hiking in the Himalayas as guides 'insisted' she undertake a gruelling descent despite suffering severe altitude sickness. Rachel Burke from Opington, Kent, had become so unwell she was unable to tie her own shoelaces during the Nepalese excursion, it was revealed. But the 28-year-old was allegedly told by 'untrained' guides at Himalayan Encounters to trek downhill for 10 hours, rather than being taken to a nearby health post, a court heard. The Ministry of Defence scientist died after attempting to complete the 1,000ft descent in April, one week into the trip arranged by The Adventure Company. Coroner Andrew Harris described the 'neglect' of one of the guides with whom the woman was left, ruling he was untrained in dealing with altitude sickness. 'I find there was a failure of both companies to ensure the guide taking her down the mountain had the training,' he said. 'Sending Rachel down the mountain with a guide who didn't have those skills was found by Dr Nicholas Mason (an expert in altitude sickness) to be a factor contributing to her death and I accept that. 'Having heard all the evidence it is not entirely clear why Ashok decided not to take Rachel to the health post in Marchermo,' he told Southwark Coroner's Court, adding: ‘It does seem to me that he underestimated the severity of her illness.’ Ms Burke had struggled to keep up with the group as they trekked through Gokoyo Valley in Nepal, it is believed. Friends who were accompanying the scientist on the trip said she had been unable to carry her own rucksack or tie her shoelaces in the days before her death after climbing 4,470 metres. On the sixth day of the trip, Ms Burke allegedly told guides she felt too unwell to continue after becoming short of breath. Rather than accompanying the 28-year-old to the health post that was 15 minutes away, two guides insisted they trek back down the mountain, a feat that would take 10 hours. The 28-year-old had become so unwell she could barely tie her shoelaces and was unable to carry her own rucksack during the hike in Nepal . One of the guides is alleged to have returned to camp half an hour later, leaving Ms Burke in the hands of an assistant, Ashok, who had not been trained in altitude sickness. With no satellite phone to call for help, the scientist managed only to descend 100metres in three hours. She was pronounced dead the following evening in Dole, Kathmandu, after trekking for most of the day. Dr Nicholas Mason, an expert in altitude sickness said: 'The chain of events that led to Rachel's death began with the decision to send her down.' It was revealed the group had been asked to climb 600 metres in one day, twice the recommended distance given by tour operators The Adventure Company. A health and safety executive at the company failed to properly assess the trip's level of risk, the court heard. Paul Medley, Product and Commercial Director of the company, admitted the itinerary included a 610-metre ascent, but told the court The Adventure Company was 'not aware' of a rescue post in the area. The scientist has been memorialised at Everest Base Camp in the 'Valley of Death'. Her mother has said she hopes the tragedy makes other adventurers aware of the risk involved . Recording a narrative verdict, Dr Harris said: 'I conclude that death was caused by high altitude cerebral oedema and high altitude pulmonary oedema altitude sickness.' He is due to issue a report to insist that tour companies routinely consult . safety guidelines issued by the Wilderness Medicine Society. Rachel’s mother Maureen Burke said in an online statement: ‘My daughter went on an adventure holiday and came home in a crate. 'I would really like to know more about my daughters last day on this . planet and I would like to think that she had the best treatment that . could have been given, but most of all that her life ended easily . without any pain and her realising what was happening to her. ‘I just hope that this story is told so that it will make people aware that high altitude sickness can be fatal.’ The 28-year-old had just completed a half marathon and played squash at least once a week. The Adventure Company have increased the safety equipment taken on treks and examined their procedures in light of the tragedy. 'We will spend time reviewing the coroner’s findings in detail, and continue to review our processes to ensure that every trip we offer operates safely,’ the company said in a statement.", "By . Mail Online Reporter . The Great British Bake Off winner Frances Quinn says she was in 'complete and utter shock' after being crowned victor of the TV show. Children's clothes designer Quinn, 31, beat former model Ruby Tandoh, 21, and psychologist Kimberley Wilson, 30, in the hotly anticipated BBC Two final. The programme drew an astonishing peak of 9.1million viewers, drawing more than twice as many viewers as ITV’s UEFA Champions League clash between Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund and BBC1’s Holby City, both seen by 4.1 million. The episode, which had an average of 8.4m viewers, also had more successful ratings than last Saturday night's X Factor show - proving just why it will be moving to BBC1 next year. Scroll down for video . Showing off her trophy: Frances Quinn regains her composure to pose up for the cameras after being declared the winner of The Great British Bake Off . Towering: Frances impresses with her three-tiered cake, despite the judges being a little critical of the use of rhubarb in her ginger and rhubarb tier . Champion: Frances beat off competition from Ruby Tandoh and Kimberley Wilson, much to her surprise . Do you think Frances was the right Bake Off winner? Amateur baker Quinn wowed judges Paul . Hollywood and Mary Berry with a rainbow-style savoury picnic pie and . showstopper three-tier wedding cake, inspired by Shakespeare's A . Midsummer Night's Dream, on the show. But she said it had been hard to keep her win under wraps for so long following the pre-recorded last episode. 'I've been back at work and trying to keep a poker face,' Quinn said. 'I remember watching the Wimbledon final the following week and getting so emotional... and thinking at least Andy Murray doesn't have to hide his trophy under his bed for the next three months. Competitors: Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry pose with Frances Quinn, Ruby Tandoh and Kimberley Wilson . The final three: Kimberley, Ruby and Frances enjoy an embrace for they begin their final challenges . 'I'm looking forward to being able to celebrate with my incredibly close family and friends.' Quinn dismissed reports about chemistry between Hollywood and Tandoh, who was crowned star baker three times, saying: 'We were not thinking about any of that in there... There was no flirtation.' But she admitted there was some flirtation elsewhere in the Bake Off tent. 'We [the contestants] were each flirting with each other if we needed to, for more parchment paper or another spoon if they were still being washed up out the back,' she admitted. Group shot: Frances posed up with Paul and Mary and her all important reward . Now Quinn said that her next quest is to find herself the perfect man - with one specific attribute. She told The Sun: 'Whoever he may be, I hope he will have a healthy appetite. Someone who is 6ft would be good!' Frances added: 'Being on the show has not quite been blind date to baking date.' But Frances also revealed that her future partner will have to get used to some of her own unique personality traits. She told the Mirror: 'I . know I’m random and slightly eccentric. But if I can bring that . eclectic mix of things into the kitchen, into the bowl, then so be it.' The time has come: Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry had a hard task ahead of them as the show kicked off . Nervous: Frances struggled with nerves as the first task started . Result: Frances impressed the judges when she presented a rainbow picnic pie in the first challenge . Quinn, who decorated her wedding cake . with edible confetti made from beetroot, mango, rhubarb and sweet . potato, said she had a rest from baking after winning the show. 'I thought my blood sugar levels would go through the roof. I had a bit of a sabbatical,' she said.Quinn has been approached by agents and wants to produce a coffee table book. 'I . don't know what the future is going to hold but it does excite me,' she . said. 'What I'd love to do is combine both passions, baking and design. Let's go: Kimberley made a chicken and pig pie for the first challenge . Reflective: As per usual Ruby wasn't particularly confident about her skills . Support: Ruby found she had Sue on hand for support during the first challenge . Rare smile: Ruby relaxed a little bit when she realised she had managed to create layers . 'The baking market is completely . saturated so I don't want to do a book that's anything like one that's . already out there. I'd like to create a book that's got all my rough . sketches and ideas.' Quinn, . who lives in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, said she was not . considering leaving her design job any time yet - but any extra cash on . the back of her success will go down well. 'I'd . start to get a bit more furniture in my house. The kitchen looks very . well stocked but the rest of the house, not so much,' she said. 'But . forget millionaires, it's going to be about creating more millionaire . shortbreads. Falling short: Frances came last in the technical challenge with some disappointing sweet and savoury pretzels . Winner: Kimberley impressed with her pretzel and won the second challenge . Struggle: Ruby complained that she couldn't remember what a pretzel looked like . 'Work has been so, so supportive. I'm not going to say yea or nay to anything at the moment. I've got a mortgage to pay.' Quinn . said she could not believe her ears when the judges announced she had . won the fourth series of the show, which has seen viewing figures rocket . and is set to move to BBC1 next year. 'I . don't think I could speak for a little while. It was complete and utter . shock. It was so close, such a close final,' she said. 'I think it was . the wedding cake at the end that really did swing it.' Not enough: Ruby's wedding cake was lacking in the flavour it needed . Presentation: Kimberley was let down with the decoration on her wedding cake . Upset: Ruby once again breaks down in tears after her cake isn't quite the success she hoped . Off: Paul told Ruby that the colours of her cake didn't quite work . Quinn, . who had been criticised by the judges for style over substance, said . she was persuaded to apply for Bake Off by family and friends. She added: 'I had thought of . applying. But it was just, I didn't know whether I was good enough or . whether I wanted that exposure. I didn't know whether I should go about . it in my own way.' She insisted there was no antagonism between the all-women finalists. 'We . all get on. People want to feel there was more competition than was the . case. The emotions you go through in that tent, you never want to see . anyone get that criticism. Outside the tent we're just supportive of . each other. IngredientsFor the shortbread . 200g/7oz unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing100g/3½oz golden caster sugar300g/10½oz plain flour1 tsp vanilla extractFor the topping . 100g/3½oz hard banana chips 150g/5½oz unsalted butter150g/5½oz golden caster sugar50g/1¾oz golden syrup1x 397g/14oz tin condensed milk1 large slightly ripe banana, mashed until smooth100g/3½oz chewy banana chips, cut up with scissors1 tbsp sea salt flakes250g/9oz dark chocolate To decorate (optional)gold leaf-covered hard and chewy banana chips Preparation method1.Preheat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/350F/Gas 4 and lightly grease a 20x33cm/8x13in square-cornered Swiss roll tin.2.Place all the ingredients for the shortbread in a food processor and pulse to form a smooth dough. 3.Press the mixture firmly into the base of the tin, to create a flat surface and clean edge. Prick all over with a fork and bake for 20-30 minutes, or until lightly golden-brown and firm.4.For the topping, grind the hard banana chips in a food processor to a coarse powder. Set aside.5.To make the caramel, place the butter, sugar, syrup and condensed milk into a saucepan and stir over a low heat until the butter has melted, stirring all the time. Boil the mixture gently for 10 minutes, stirring all the time until deep golden-brown and thickened, stirring in the mashed banana a few minutes before the end. 6.Remove from the heat and allow to cool slightly before stirring through the banana chips and reserved banana powder. Pour over the baked shortbread base and sprinkle over the sea salt flakes. Allow to cool slightly while preparing the chocolate topping. 7.Melt the chocolate in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water (do not allow the bottom of the bowl to touch the water). Pour the chocolate over the banana salted caramel layer and leave to set in the fridge. 8.Cut into bars with a very sharp, heavy knife and stack up on a serving plate. Decorate with gold leaf-covered hard and chewy banana chips if you like. Deliberating: The judges sit down with Mel and Sue to discuss how they have fared over the competition . Prestigious: Frances was able to walk away with the coveted Bake Off stand . 'It's a reality show but we know the actual reality that went on.' She . said of the judges: 'We didn't really have that much time to spend with . them. We got to know [presenters] Mel and Sue a lot more. A lot of . people said that the judges were quite severe with their criticism but I . took it as constructive.' Quinn's . savoury pie contained two types of trout and five different vegetables, . while her wedding cake consisted of ginger and rhubarb, lemon sponge . and raspberries and a third tier of carrot, orange, pistachio and . apricot. Following the airing of The Great British Bake Off finale on Tuesday night, tickets to judge Paul's show Paul Hollywood Live: Get Your Bake On spiked by 216% after going on sale on Wednesday morning, according to viagogo. Viagogo spokesperson Steve Roest said: 'Paul Hollywood’s tour is the icing on the cake for fans of the show looking for another baking fix. 'He will not only be sharing his tricks of the trade, but also choosing a select few from the audience to bake with him, making it an unmissable event for enthusiasts looking to improve their skills under the critical gaze of ol’ blue eyes.'", "By . Kieran Corcoran . Walked free: Jason Blackwell, 29, admitted leaving a cerebral palsy sufferer in his care outside in the cold . A care worker who locked a naked man outside in the cold and fed him disgusting meals of salted banana covered in ketchup has been spared jail. Jason Blackwell, 29, admitted abandoning his victim - who suffers from cerebral palsy - out in the cold and feeding him the vile concoction while he worked at The Dell care home in Sudbury, Suffolk. But despite the judge in the case admitting that the offences warranted a prison sentence, he decided that Blackwell shouldn't be jailed - so that he could get another job in a care home. Ipswich Crown Court heard how Blackwell had abused the man - who has not been named but is in his 40s - once in March and again in October last year. He pleaded guilty to two counts of ill treatment, but walked free from court with a suspended prison sentence and instructions to do 250 hours' unpaid work. Blackwell had been working at the care home for five years when the two incidents occurred. The court was told that there was no obvious motive for the crimes, while his defence lawyer described it as 'a way of getting attention'. Sentencing him, Judge John Holt told Blackwell: 'Your victim suffered from cerebral palsy and was wholly reliant on care and you were employed as one of his carers. 'On one occasion you locked him outside his accommodation on a cold night when he was naked and on the second occasion you poured ketchup and salt on his banana'. Locked out: The victim - a man in his 40s - was a resident at The Dell care home in Sudbury, Suffolk . Judge Holt warned that he could have been sent straight to jail. But he said that as Blackwell had no previous convictions and would not be able to work in care homes again he was prepared to suspend the sentence. Freed: Judge John Holt, pictured, said he was sparing Blackwell from prison because it would stop him working in care . Robert Sadd, prosecuting, said the victim, who was almost totally reliant on the care of others and was unable to speak, lived in a bungalow at the home with several other patients. Mr Sadd said his carer Blackwell had once locked him naked outside on a very cold night. 'We don’t know the motive for this act of cruelty,' he admitted. Mr Sadd said that on another occasion, Blackwell had fed the man, who was very trusting, an 'unpleasant concoction' of salt and ketchup on a banana which 'caused distress'. In a victim impact statement, the victim’s furious mother said she was 'shocked' that something like that could happen and it had made her question her son’s safety. Frances Coles-Harrington, defending, said Blackwell had no previous convictions and had acted completely out of character. She said that in the five years he had worked at the care home there had been no disciplinary matters or complaints against him. Mrs Cole-Harrington said Blackwell had enjoyed his work and felt genuine remorse for his attention-seeking actions. She told the court: 'It wasn’t vengeful or spiteful but an ill-thought out way of getting attention'.", "Lib Dem Care Minister Norman Lamb has been through the ordeal of his son being 'blackmailed' A minister last night told how he became drawn into a 'nightmare' blackmail plot over a video of his son taking cocaine. Norman Lamb, the Lib Dem Care Minister, had to call the police after his son Archie's flatmate demanded cash from him and sent threatening messages. He paid the lodger £7,500 to move out but says the man then tried to ruin Archie's career in the music business. Mr Lamb, 57, said: 'This man has a violent past. We were worried for our safety.' As his party unveiled the £1 billion boost to mental health services that Mr Lamb has campaigned for, the senior MP admitted his son has been through 'very dark periods'. Archie, now 27, was diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder at the age of 15 and has been on medication ever since. He went into the music industry, founding a record label called Takeover Entertainment and becoming an early champion of rapper Tinchy Stryder, who went on to top the charts. But his father said that Archie had also fallen in with a bad crowd, leading to the blackmail attempt. 'He's had amazing success and he's also had some very dark periods, and that led to him drinking too much and, as we understand it, getting into bad company and drugs,' said the North Norfolk MP. Mr Lamb added he was 'immensely proud' that his son had escaped from his problems and rebuilt his career, and bought him a London flat where he could find 'peace and tranquillity'. But then the alleged blackmailer, who is also thought to be 'the source' of the drugs that Archie took, moved in. Mr Lamb took legal advice on how to evict his son's flatmate and was told he should offer him £7,500 – money his son owed plus compensation for having to move out. Archie Lamb (left) with rapper Tinchy Strider. Mr Lamb said he is 'immensely proud' his son had escaped from his problems and rebuilt his career before the recent alleged blackmail attempt . Despite handing over the cash, the tenant refused to leave – 'and at that point I concluded we were being blackmailed and we had to go to the police,' Mr Lamb told the Sunday Mirror. He found out just last week that the man said he had a video appearing to show Archie snorting the Class A drug. 'This guy sought to blackmail my son,' the Minister said. 'We were confronted with threatening emails, text messages saying things like 'underestimate me at your peril'. We have been confronted by a criminal who has sought to blackmail us.' The Sunday Mirror said the former flatmate insists he was simply trying to recover money he was owed. Police are reportedly looking into the case. The senior Lib Dem referred to the issue when he took to the stage at the party's spring conference in Liverpool. He said: 'Before I begin my speech I just wanted to say a few words about . The senior Lib Dem referred to the issue when he took to the stage at the party's spring conference in Liverpool . a personal matter, something you may have read about or heard about this morning. 'My family has had our own experience of mental health problems, as our oldest son was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder at the age of 15. 'It's something he has made a decision himself to be open about. 'This has been a very painful time for our family. As a parent you just want to keep your children safe, to look out for them and to know that they are going to be OK. 'But my family is not unique. Our experience has made me even more determined to bring mental health out of the shadows and to fight for better care for all of the families affected.' Mr Lamb, whose words were met with applause by the audience, added: 'Can I thank so many of you who have been so kind and supportive this morning. It is enormously appreciated, not just by me but by Mary my wife, and our whole family.'", "A man whose grandfather was a Second World War soldier has hit out at his daughter's school after she was banned from wearing her poppy wristband because of health and safety fears. Maggy Lane, 13, was ordered to remove the Poppy Appeal band - a symbol of remembrance sold by the Royal British Legion - by teachers at Shepshed High School in Leicestershire. The teenager was told the wristband was forbidden because it breached the school's uniform code and it was feared the rubber bangle could get caught on something during a lesson. Outrage: Myles Lane, seen left holding his grandfather's collection of war medals, has hit out after his daughter Maggy, right, was banned from wearing a poppy wristband at school because of health and safety fears . The schoolgirl's father Myles Lane, 39, questioned why the rubber bands were banned because of the potential safety risk when students are allowed to wear poppies secured to their uniform by a pin. 'I feel quite passionate about it,' said Mr Lane, who added that his grandfather Arthur Witherbed, who died last year at the age of 90, was part of the Royal Leicester Regiment which fought in Norway in 1940. 'I have always drummed into my daughter the importance of Poppy Day and she had bought the band out of her own money. Remembrance: The schoolgirl's great-grandfather Arthur Witherbed (centre) served with the Royal Leicester Regiment in WWII . 'They told me it was a health and safety risk, but they are okay to wear a poppy with a pin on it. 'I can appreciate the school has health and safety issues with bracelets but I think they should be able to make an allowance with a poppy band,' said Mr Lane, a draughtsman. 'Perhaps they could ask students to remove them in potentially hazardous situations like for P.E. and in cookery lessons, then let them wear the bands at other times.' Mr Lane, from Shepshed, said Remembrance Day held extra significance for his family since his grandfather's death last year. When the Germans invaded Norway in 1940 Mr Witherbed escaped by walking to neighbouring Sweden. From there he made his way back to England, and he was stationed with the military police at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. Adrian Stephenson, joint head teacher at the school, said: 'We don’t allow children to wear wrist bands at school. It is as simple as that. 'We have to stick to the uniform code,' he said. 'When governors put the dress code together, health and safety is part of the issue of wearing jewellery. 'It is important to stress we want the children to understand all about remembrance and it is a central part of what we do, but at the same time, if you want to run a good school you have a set of rules and you have to stick to them,' Mr Stephenson added. Health and safety: Maggy's school told her to remove the poppy wristband because it did not fit in with the uniform code . His co-head Stewart Goacher said the wristband was forbidden under the same rules that prevent pupils from wearing bracelets. Mr . Goacher added that the school sells lapel poppies, holds an annual . remembrance assembly and supports the charity Help for Heroes. David . Hobday, chair of the Loughborough British Legion, said: 'In theory, I . am upset because it is a promotional time particularly for us, but if it . is school policy and they have been asked to take them off then that is . the school’s prerogative.'", "A mother-of-two lost 12st after being embarrassed by photos taken when she was her sister's maid of honour. Sharon Osawe, 34, of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, ballooned to size 34 partly due to an addiction to fizzy drinks which saw her consume up to 18 litres of cherryade a week. Facing mounting obesity-related health problems Ms Osawe decided to seek help after being humiliated by pictures of her in a drab, extra-large grey suit she was forced to wear as maid of honour at her sister Julie's wedding. Sharon, pictured on her sister's wedding day, had struggled with her weight since childhood . By the time of her sister's wedding Sharon weighed 25st and wore size 34 clothing (left), forcing her to wear a suit instead of the dress worn by the other bridesmaids (right) She was approved for a gastric band operation on the NHS and went on to slim down to the 13st, size 14 she is today. She said: 'I was so upset when I tried to fit into my bridesmaid's suit that I actually cried. I'd ordered three suits, and two of them wouldn't get over my thighs. It was humiliating. 'Now that I've lost the weight I feel so much happier. I know I'll never go back to the way I was.' Ms Osawe, who has struggled with her weight since adolescence, felt that her eating habits were out of control by the time she gave birth to her son Austyn, now five. Sharon used to eat two steak and kidney pies with a large plate of chips or fish and chips with four rounds of bread and butter for her evening meal and drink two litres of cherryade a day . She said: 'I used the pregnancy to make excuses to overeat and after Austyn arrived I found myself reaching for convenience food before anything else. 'I would go all day without eating a thing, then eat quick and easy, high-fat foods and stodgy bread all evening. 'My biggest downfall was definitely cherryade. I drank at least two litres of it a day. I got a sugar rush from it - it was quite addictive.' Sharon lost a stone the first month after her operation and continued to drop the pounds, reaching 13st (right) By the time her sister Julie, 32, announced she was getting married in 2009, Ms Osawe weighed 25st and wore size 34 clothing. She said: 'I was thrilled when Julie asked me to be maid of honour. It took me hours to find an outfit which was in any way suitable, and even then I was very unsatisfied with it. 'Julie looked amazing as we drove to the church, but I felt as if I stuck out like a sore thumb in my huge suit. There were two other bridesmaids, but there were able to wear beautiful purple dresses. The change in Sharon's appearance is dramatic, having dropped from a size 34 (left) to a size 14 (right) 'My sister and I are close and it should have been one of my proudest moments, but it felt terrible.' It was only when the photos of Julie's big day came back that Ms Osawe realised how far she had let herself go. She said: 'The suit looked even worse on me than I'd thought. My face looked like it had been blown up with an air pump. 'I'd told myself I'd been trying my best to lose weight through fad diets but I realised I'd been in denial until that moment, and I knew that something needed to change. ' Ms Osawe was given a three-month subsidised gym membership after she appealed for help from her GP. She said: 'I was so big that progress was painfully slow. I found it really hard to stay motivated, especially while I focused most of my efforts on Austyn. 'I was starting to suffer from health problems including the onset of diabetes and osteoporosis in my knees, so I applied for a gastric band.' Ms Osawe finally underwent the operation in January 2012 at The Royal Derby hospital . She said: 'I was nervous before the surgery but once I had gone through with it, things seemed to fall into place. Breakfast: Nothing . Lunch: Nothing . Dinner: Two steak and kidney pies and chips or fish and chips with 4 pieces of bread and butter . Snacks: Six packets of crisps or pack of digestive biscuits, 2 litres of cherryade . Breakfast: Toast with marmalade . Lunch: A small cheese sandwich . Dinner: Beef stew and rice . Snacks: Nothing . 'I lost around a stone a month. The results were even better than I expected.' Before the operation Ms Osawe typically ate nothing for breakfast or lunch, followed by two steak and kidney pies with a large plate of chips or fish and chips with four rounds of bread and butter for her evening meal. She would snack on up to six packets of ready salted crisps or a packet of chocolate digestive biscuits throughout the day, washed down with at least two litres of cherryade. Sharon with her fiancée Kingsley and her sons Jamayne (in her arms) and Austyn (far left) Today, she typically eats toast with marmalade for breakfast, followed by a small cheese sandwich for lunch, and beef stew with rice for evening meal. She tends not to snack. Shortly after her operation she met her current partner Kingsley Osawe, 31, a field engineer, with whom she would have a son, Jamayne, born in November 2013. She has since officially changed her surname to his. She said: 'I put on around a stone during my pregnancy but as soon as I'd given birth the weight came off really easily again, so I never felt as out of control as I did before. 'I felt better equipped to be able to deal with the challenge of looking after my children and a new relationship because I wasn't so overweight. It was as if I was a completely new person. 'It feels amazing to be able to fit into size 14 clothes now. I used to hate shopping because there were very few shops which sold clothes big enough for me. Now I can shop anywhere I want.' Ms Osawe and her partner are now planning to marry in 2015. She said: 'I can't wait to wear a wedding outfit which actually suits me.'", "A 'totally perverted' couple who got a 15-year-old boy high on party drug meow meow before pressuring him into having sex have been jailed. Nicola Mason, of Holyhead, North Wales, had sex with the boy while her partner John Ford watched getting 'some sort of perverted pleasure', a court heard. Now the 25-year-old mother-of-two, a former chip shop worker, has been jailed for three years while Ford, 47,will spend four-and-a-half years behind bars. Nicola Mason (left), of Holyhead, North Wales, had sex with a 15-year-old boy while her partner John Ford (right) watched getting 'some sort of perverted pleasure', a court heard . The boy was offered drugs to loosen his inhibitions and Mason performed a sex act, then full sex on a second occasion a few weeks later, Caernarfon Crown Court heard. Judge Rhys Rowlands said the victim had been 15 in the summer of last year. 'You both took advantage of him for your own quite depraved sexual desires,' he said. He said Ford encouraged what happened and they no doubt thought it was funny as they were 'using' the victim. Ford had taunted the boy that he 'must be gay' if he was not interested in Mason. Ford watched as they had sex, getting 'some sort of perverted pleasure,' the court heard. Judge Rowlands added: 'The two of you took advantage of the victim on two occasions.' The prosecution had alleged that the couple liked to involve others in their sex lives. Ford was alleged to have encouraged other men to have sex with his partner who he met when she was 18. They denied being 'swingers.' Mason, left, a former chip shop worker, has been jailed for three years while Ford, right, will spend four-and-a-half years behind bars . Ford had pleaded not guilty to inciting sexual activity and she denied sexual activity with a child. But the judge, who described their behaviour as 'totally perverted', told them : 'A jury saw through your lies.' He also criticised Mason for becoming pregnant again with the case hanging over her, saying: 'Your behaviour in seeking to expand your family shows at best precious little judgement on your part.' Prosecuting counsel Myles Wilson outlined statements from the victim in which he stated he felt 'horrible' when he thought about what happened. It was his first sexual experience and 'something he will never forget.' Mr Wilson said the teen had been worried that he could be the father of one of Mason's two children. 'He's struggling to come to terms with it,' the barrister said. Andrew Green, barrister for Ford, said he had been trying to run a taxi business. Simon Rogers, defending Mason, said she was of previous good character and due to give birth in February. Mr Rogers said: 'An immediate custodial sentence of any length is going to have a profound effect upon her and her life.' The couple, both from Holyhead, must now register as sex offenders indefinitely and a sex offences prevention order was made.", "By . Martin Robinson . PUBLISHED: . 03:23 EST, 4 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:20 EST, 13 March 2013 . Pressure: Sir David Nicholson was in charge of the regional health authority responsible for Mid Staffs when 'the appalling and unnecessary suffering of people' took place - but will not resign . Civil servants 'neutered' the Francis report into 1,200 deaths at the Mid Staffordshire hospital trust to protect the Head of the NHS over his role in Britain’s worst-ever health scandal, an expert said today. Professor Brian Jarman, who was a key figure in highlighting sky-high death rates at Stafford, said the final version of the £13million report was 'muted' and failed to mention criticisms of Sir David Nicholson given in evidence. Sir David, dubbed the man with no shame, is under huge pressure to leave his role after presiding over the Mid Staffordshire scandal. Many MPs, relatives of the 1,200 dead and health service professionals believe patient care will not improve under his leadership, but the NHS chief executive maintains there is no chance he will resign. Robert Francis QC's damning 1,782 page report shocked Britain after it found ‘failures at every level’ which led to the scandal, while not a single nurse or doctor has been disciplined or struck-off. Patients at Stafford Hospital were left lying in their own urine and excrement for days, forced to drink water from vases, given the wrong medication or sent home with life-threatening conditions. 'I feel the final report was muted. The 2010 report and the closing submissions to the Francis inquiry were much clearer with regards to the evidence,' Professor Jarman told the Daily Telegraph. 'You have to remember that the final version of these inquiries are written up by Department of Health officials. They neutered it. Although Professor Jarman admits it is . 'difficult to prove' Whitehall was seeking to protect Sir David . Nicholson, he added: 'I think it probably has the effect of protecting . him.' Professor Jarman claims that the report only briefly mentioned an allegation that Sir David told hospital regulators to ignore campaign group Cure the NHS, set up by family and friends of those who died at unnecessarily Stafford. Tomorrow Sir David will come under further pressure when he appears before MPs on the Health Select Committee. They are expected to ask him why he ignored warnings from relatives . about Mid Staffordshire a year before the scandal came to light. Fury: Relatives and campaigners who lost loved-ones blame Sir David Nicholson for not getting to grips with problems on his watch . The Francis report was put together with the help of civil servant Alan Robson, the inquiry's secretary.  Disagreeing with Professor Jarman, Peter Watkin Jones, Solicitor to the Inquiry, said, ’To suggest that the report was “neutered” by “mandarins” is wholly wrong. The Department of Health was not given a draft of the report and therefore did not “write up” the final or any version of it. The decisions about what went into the report were the Chairman’s. Alan Robson was seconded from his job at the Department of Health and acted entirely independently of the Department as Secretary to the Inquiry.’ A spokesman for Robert Francis QC said that Professor Jarman's allegations were 'unfounded concerns'. 'The report was written by the Chairman with the editorial support of his inquiry team,' the spokesman said. 'This team included the Secretary to the Inquiry who was seconded on a full time basis from the Department of Health to work for the inquiry, but who has acted throughout independently of the Department, and subject to the instructions and decisions of the Chairman. 'The Department of Health was not given any draft of the report and therefore did not “write up” the final or any version of the report. The decisions about what went into the report were the Chairman’s.' Sir David has faced growing calls to resign since a report criticised him for his role in the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal, where up to 1,200 died needlessly. Last Thursday, for the first time since the report was published three weeks ago, he met directors from the NHS Commissioning Board. Families of patients who suffered poor care at Mid Staffordshire had attended the meeting in the hope that Sir David would be given a vote of no-confidence. But they left the room when the chairman of the board, Professor Malcolm Grant, made it very clear that Sir David would be staying in his £211,000-a-year post. Struggle: Sir David has faced calls to resign since a report implicated him in the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal - but experts say it was 'neutered' to 'protect him' Earlier, when Sir David was asked if there was any chance he would resign, he defiantly replied ‘no’. Backing: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and other cabinet members continue to support Sir David in his job . Addressing the meeting later, he said: ‘As many of you know I’m very passionate about improving services for patients. 'I’m very ambitious about the NHS and what that sometimes turns into is intolerance of poor performance which results in the kind of response “Just get it right” when actually we need to be more reflective, think about why people are doing the things they do. 'Patient safety is the top of the tree. We need zero tolerance of failures of patient safety.’ Sir David was in charge of the regional body supposedly overseeing Mid Staffordshire but which failed to pick up on the horrific standards of care. As chief executive of the Department of Health, he is said to have dismissed warnings from relatives of patients who died, saying they were ‘simply lobbying.’ A group of 20 members of Cure the NHS staged a silent protest outside the building in Manchester where the meeting was held. Some carried placards with the words ‘The man with no shame’ while others held up pictures of a gravestone with the words ‘Too many deaths, no accountability’. Julie Bailey, 51, who founded the group after her mother Bella died at the trust said: ‘Our long campaign for a public inquiry into what happened at Stafford Hospital will have been pointless if this man remains in charge of the NHS. ‘He’s part of the problem, and while he’s still there we have no faith that the health service will be led towards the caring culture it needs.’", "By . Corey Charlton for MailOnline . A young father died of a massive electric shock as he fixed a cooker in a primary school just months before his third child is due to be born. Jason Haslem, 24, was knocked out by a massive electric shock whilst working on the electrics system in the days before pupils were due to return for the first day of the new term. He and his wife Jessica, who married in March last year, are expecting a third child due in March 2015. The incident occurred on Thursday when he had been assigned to check over the cookers at Fir Bank Primary School in Royton, near Oldham, which teaches 202 pupils. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said it was likely to visit his employer Acme Refrigeration's . headquarters in Blackburn today after it launched a joint investigation, . alongside police, into his death. Jason and Jessica Haslem (pictured) married in March last year after first meeting each other seven years ago . Mr Haslem pictured with his sons Toby, aged 4, and 22-month-old George . Mr Haslem was a gas engineer and worked out of the firm’s Blackburn site in Philips Road. He had been employed by Acme for the majority of the past five years after starting work there as an apprentice. And Mrs Haslem, 25, said becoming an engineer was all her husband had ever wanted to do. The stay-at-home mother from Penwortham, near Preston, said: 'I don't know anyone who had a bad thing to say about Jason, there was not a single person he met who didn't like him. 'We met through mutual friends and knew each other for a long time before we got together. There was just nothing I could dislike about him. 'He was an amazing person and an absolutely amazing father - there was nothing he wouldn't have done to make life as perfect as he could for our children. 'I obviously struck lucky to have him as the father of my children - he was so supportive of me, and I was of him, even when we had some crazy hair-brained ideas.' She added: 'He had such a drive and always wanted to learn more and better himself as a person, especially for the kids sake and to set a positive example for them. 'But I don't think he could have possibly bettered himself. 'George is far too young to understand what is going on, but I have told Toby that his daddy has gone to be a star, and he understands that. 'No amount of time will heal this, there is just no replacement for Jason. We will talk about him and remember him every day. 'I just feel lucky that in such a short space of time we shared so much, we didn't do things by halves and that was just the type of person he was. 'We all loved him so much and are going to miss him so much.' Jason and Jessica Haslem pictured together. Following her husband's death, Mrs Haslem said she could not have asked for a 'better person to have dedicated my life to' In a . statement posted on Facebook soon after the tragedy, she wrote: 'I want . to thank everyone, from the bottom of my very empty feeling heart, for . all of your kindness and thoughts. She . added: 'Numbness is wearing off, it's all starting to feel too real. Take me back a week please, I won't let Jason out of my sight.' Mr Haslem's employers yesterday described Mr Haslem’s death as ‘a tragic accident’ and offered its condolences to his family. Mr Haslem, from Penwortham, near Preston, is survived by two young sons - George, 22 months, and Toby, four. Hazel . MacKay, head teacher at Fir Bank Primary School, in Grasmere Road . school, said the work was being undertaken to refurbish the school’s . kitchen. She said: 'Our thoughts are with this man’s family at this time and we offer our deepest condolences. 'The . school was closed at the time this incident occurred due to the . holidays. This matter is now being investigated by the Health and Safety . Executive and we will co-operate fully with them.' Mr Haslem died while working on the cooker at Fir Bank Primary School, in Royton near Oldham (pictured) Jason Haslem, from Penwortham, near Preston, died after receiving a massive electric shock at the school . 'It is with enormous sadness that we confirm the death of one of our employees, Jason Haslem. 'This is clearly a tragic incident for everyone at ACME Facilities Group Limited and for everyone who knew Jason but, above all, our thoughts and profound condolences are with Jason’s wife and family. 'Our priority now is to support them, and Jason’s colleagues, at what is an extremely difficult time. 'It is very important that the circumstances surrounding the incident are thoroughly investigated and we will of course continue to provide all necessary assistance to the authorities involved in that process. 'It would be wrong to say anything else whilst that investigation takes place.' A spokesman . for Greater Manchester police said: 'At 4.45pm on Thursday, August 28, . police were called to Fir Bank Primary School following reports a man . had been injured in an industrial accident. 'Officers . arrived and discovered a 24-year-old man had been hurt and was . unconscious. Paramedics tried to revive him but the man was sadly . pronounced dead at the scene. 'At . this stage, it would appear to be a tragic accident and a joint . investigation is underway between Greater Manchester Police and the . Health and Safety Executive to establish the exact circumstances leading . up to this man’s death.' A spokesman for the HSE said: 'The police are looking at it and if they decide there is no case for corporate manslaughter then they will hand it over to us.' Details of Mr Haslem’s death will not be passed to the coroner for the District of Manchester North, Simon Nelson, until the police’s initial report is completed.", "Two veterans in a Veterans Affairs psychiatric facility languished for years without proper treatment, according to a scathing letter and report sent Monday to the White House by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, or OSC. In one case, a veteran with a service-connected psychiatric condition was in the facility for eight years before he received a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation; in another case, a veteran only had one psychiatric note in his medical chart in seven years as an inpatient at the Brockton, Massachusetts, facility. Examples such as those are the core of the report released Monday by the OSC, an independent government agency that protects whistleblowers. Read the OSC letterThe agency said it is still investigating more than 50 whistleblower disclosures involving patient health or safety allegations at the VA nationwide, and \"these cases represent more than a quarter of all matters referred by OSC for investigation government-wide,\" according to the report. Fear kept the VA scandal a secret . The report also slams the VA's medical review agency, the Office of the Medical Inspector, or OMI, for its refusal to admit that lapses in care have affected veterans' health. For example, when the office reviewed the Brockton psychiatric cases, it confirmed the patient neglect yet \"denied that... (it) had any impact on patient care.\" \"The VA, and particularly the VA's Office of the Medical Inspector (OMI), has consistently used a 'harmless error' defense, where the Department acknowledges problems but claims patient care is unaffected,\" the OSC said. \"This approach hides the severity of systemic and longstanding problems.\" In response to the OSC's letter, Sloan Gibson, the VA's acting director, issued a statement: \"I respect and welcome the letter and the insights from the Office of Special Counsel. I am deeply disappointed not only in the substantiation of allegations raised by whistleblowers, but also in the failures within VA to take whistleblower complaints seriously.\" Gibson said he has directed a \"comprehensive review of all aspects of the Office of Medical Inspector's operation, to be completed within 14 days.\" As part of its review, the OSC looked at whistleblower allegations at 10 VA hospitals, where it found the VA's review of cases \"appears to contradict its own findings.\" According to the OSC, at a VA hospital in Jackson, Mississippi, the Office of Medical Inspector substantiated a number of allegations, including \"improper credentialing of providers, inadequate review of radiology images, unlawful prescriptions for narcotics, noncompliant pharmacy equipment used to compound chemotherapy drugs, and unsterile medical equipment.\" \"In addition, a persistent patient-care concern involved chronic staffing shortages,\" which led to the creation of \"ghost clinics\" in which veterans were scheduled for appointments without an assigned provider and as a consequence were leaving the facility without receiving treatment. Despite the numerous lapses in care at the Jackson VA, the Office of Medical Inspector did not acknowledge any impact on the health and safety of veterans, according to the OSC letter. Monday's letter also outlined whistleblower complaints ranging from unsterlized surgical equipment in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to neglect of elderly residents at a geriatric facility in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to a pulmonologist in Montgomery, Alabama, who \"copied prior provider notes in over 1,200 patient records, likely resulting in inaccurate health information being recorded.\" Other facilities with substantiated complaints include Grand Junction, Colorado; Buffalo, New York; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Harlingen, Texas. The OSC said all these cases are \"part of a troubling pattern of deficient patient care at VA facilities nationwide, and the continued resistance by the VA, and the OMI in most cases, to recognize and address the impact of health and safety of veterans.\" The agency also expressed concern that the VA hasn't adequately addressed whistleblower complaints of wrongdoing. Referring to the scandal of a secret wait list at the Phoenix VA facility, the OSC found that \"the recent revelations in Phoenix are the latest and most serious in the years-long pattern of disclosures from VA whistleblowers and their struggle to overcome a culture of non-responsiveness. Too frequently, the VA has failed to use information from whistleblowers to identify and address systemic concerns that impact patient care.\" At a facility in Fort Collins, Colorado, the Office of Medical Inspector substantiated allegations made by a VA employee, including a shortage of providers that led schedulers to cancel veterans' appointments. It found that 3,000 veterans were unable to reschedule appointments and that staff was instructed to alter wait times. In May, CNN interviewed Lisa Lee, who worked as a scheduler at the VA clinic in Fort Collins. \"We were sat down by our supervisor ... and he showed us exactly how to schedule so it looked like it was within that 14-day period,\" Lee told CNN. \"They would keep track of schedulers who were complying and getting 100 percent of that 14 day(s) and those of us who were not.\" Despite its findings in Fort Collins, the Office of the Medical Inspector wrote that it \"could not substantiate that the failure to properly train staff resulted in danger to public health and safety.\" In Monday's letter, the OSC disagreed with that determination, saying the VA's conclusion in this case \"is not only unsupportable on its own, but is also inconsistent by other VA components examining similar patient-care issues.\" Since November 2013, CNN has been investigating and publishing reports of wait lists and deaths of veterans across VA hospitals across the country. In April, details of the secret wait list in Phoenix, and allegations of 40 veterans dying there while waiting for care, emerged when retired Phoenix VA physician Dr. Sam Foote stepped forward; Dr. Foote first appeared on CNN with details of what happened in Phoenix. Congress had chances over the years, but action on VA not enough . Performance reviews at troubled VA showed no bad senior managers .", "EXCLUSIVE By . Sam Webb . It appears that even the Queen's own bodyguard are not immune from absurd health and safety rules after these Household Cavalry troops were pictured wearing high visibility jackets on the streets of central London. The photograph was taken in Kensington, close to Hyde Park where the Household Cavalry is based, and shows around half a dozen riders wearing the safety clothing as they rode along a busy street. One onlooker said: 'It's bizarre and hardly very dignified for these soldiers. It's not like you can miss them anyway, they're on massive great horses and they're taking up a whole lane.' The Household Cavalry is made up of the two most senior regiments of the British Army, the Life Guards and the Blues and Royals. The troops are garrisoned at Hyde Park Barracks, close to Buckingham Palace, and is part of the Household Division and is the Queen's official bodyguard. Scroll down for video . Elf 'n' safety: These soldiers in the Household Cavalry were pictured wearing high-visibility jackets as they rode through central London, close to their Barracks in Hyde Park . These street cleaners - also wearing high-vis jackets - watch as the troops ride towards their barracks . An MoD spokesman said: 'The Highway Code states that “horse riders should wear light coloured or fluorescent clothing in daylight and reflective clothing if riding at night or in poor visibility\". 'The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) also states that high visibility clothing should be worn by horse riders. 'In addition to the advice issued,  the Commanding Officer expects all his soldiers and Officers to comply with this advice to ensure safety for both other road users and themselves. 'The Department takes the safety of all its employees seriously and would expect them to take all reasonable measures to ensure they are safe and secure in whatever activity they are undertaking be it horse riding or otherwise.' Modern times have now caught up with tradition and RAF personnel were ordered to wear high-vis vests over their fatigues due to health and safety reasons as they took part in a march to mark 70 years since the Great Escape of Allied airmen and to honour 50 of them who were caught and executed . Yesterday airmen were ordered to wear . high-visibility vests over their fatigues due to health and safety . reasons as they took part in a march to mark 70 years since the daring escape. The . bright yellow jackets are being worn by 50 British Royal Air Force . personnel as they march from the site of the Nazi prisoner camp to a war . cemetery in western Poland to honour the fearless servicemen who were brutally executed during The Great Escape. A source involved with the march said: 'It is common sense. And there are some really bad Polish drivers.' One onlooker told The Sun: 'It's bonkers - they are trying to honour daring and secrecy by ticking all the health and safety boxes. Our war heroes would be turning in their graves.' In four days, the British airmen . are to walk more than 100 miles to the British war cemetery in Poznan, . where the ashes of those executed were buried after the war. The bright yellow jackets are being worn by 50 British Royal Air Force airmen as they march from the site of the Nazi prisoner camp to a war cemetery in western Poland . One onlooker said: 'It's bonkers - they are trying to honour daring and secrecy by ticking all the health and safety boxes. Our war heros would be turning in their graves' One of a group of some 50 members of the British Royal Air Force, carrying a picture of an executed British airman . Marek Lazarz, director of the Stalag . Luft III Museum near Zagan, said the British group started in pouring . rain from a monument marking the place where 76 prisoners of war . emerged. During . observances this week, they have met two British former Stalag inmates, . retired RAF airmen Andrew Weisman and Charles Clarke, who were held at . the camp after the time of the Great Escape. The plot became the inspiration . behind the classic war film The Great Escape starring Hollywood legend . Steve McQueen. A group of about 250 prisoners, started . to digging tunnels, in which they were going to escape the 59-acre site, . which had five miles of perimeter fencing. Time for a change? A mock-up of what the Horse Guards Parade would look like if they decided to wear a high-vis jacket over their red uniform . If the concept of wearing a high-vis jacket was deployed across all units it could look like this. Left, a patrol searching for IEDs and Taliban fighters and right, the Royal Guards at Buckingham Palace . Left: A mock-up of what Prince Harry would have looked like if he had been made to wear a high-vis vest during his time in Camp Bastion and left, how Steve McQueen would have looked in The Great . Escape if he too had fallen victim to the health and safety zealots . More than 600 prisoners were involved . in the construction of three tunnels - codenamed Tom, Dick and Harry - . at the camp in the German Province of Lower Silesia, 100 miles southeast . of Berlin. Tom and Dick had to be abandoned with Harry becoming the focus of their escape route. It was approximately 300ft long and 28ft deep. Only 200 of the higher ranking . captives, those who could speak German and had put a lot of work into . digging the tunnels, would have time to escape in the plan. But there was a series of problems on the night of the escape. The main issue was that the Harry tunnel came up short and in close proximity to a guard tower. The plan: 250 officers spent 11 months building Harry, a 300ft tunnel out of the camp in Zagan, Poland . The site 100 miles south of Berlin was built to hold 10,000 prisoners of war during World War Two . This is a shot of the entrance of the Harry tunnel which captured the hearts of the world when it emerged . A commemorative stone has been laid over the track listing the names of the men who concocted the idea . As the 77th man exited the tunnel, . they were spotted by a guard who alerted the rest of the camp and 73 of . the escaped prisoners were captured. Fifty of those were shot. An RAF spokesman said:  'There are 50 current serving RAF personnel currently walking towards Poznan, which is the final resting place for Sqn Ldr Roger Bushell, who was the mastermind for the Great Escape; when these personnel are walking on busy main roads, which are not closed to traffic, they are wearing hi-vis jackets to ensure they reach their destination safely.'", "Michael Grimm, a Republican who has represented New Yorkers in Congress since 2011, plans to enter a guilty plea Tuesday in federal court, admitting that he helped prepare a fraudulent tax return for a restaurant he partially owned. The federal felony could bring him up to three years in prison, but a person who is familiar with the congressman's negotiations told DailyMail.com on Monday that the congressman doesn't expect to go to prison. Grimm is a former FBI agent and is a rare Republican in the Democrat-friendly Big Apple. His fate will be up to Federal Judge Pamela Chen, however, when she hears the terms of a plea agreement. Grimm was originally charged with 20 separate federal crimes and has been serving his constituents while under the terms of a $400,000 bond granted in the spring. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEOS AND THE CRIMINAL INDICTMENT . ON HIS WAY OUT? New York Republican Rep. Michael Grimm is expected to plead guilty on Tuesday to a federal tax felony . Grimm maintained his innocence throughout the 2014 congressional campaign season but will cop to a crime now that he's won re-election . Loretta Lynch, the sitting U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, N.Y., brought the indictment against Grimm this year making him the first federal lawmaker to face criminal charges since 2008. Lynch later became President Barack Obama choice to succeed Eric Holder as U.S. attorney general. By pleading guilty to a single tax charge, he will avoid a trial that was scheduled to convene in January. Jurors would heave heard details of Grimm's alleged scheme to hide more than $1 million of his restaurant's sales and wages in order to dodge taxes between 2008 and 2010. He was also accused of hiring illegal immigrants to work for him. The plea hearing is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. Tuesday in a Brooklyn federal courtroom. Neither prosecutors nor Grimm's attorney has commented for the record. The person who spoke to DailyMail.com, and two others who talked to the Associated Press, said Grimm will enter a guilty plea on a single count of 'aiding and assisting in the preparation and filing of a false or fraudulent tax return.' The Staten Island Republican easily won re-election in November despite campaigning under a cloud of suspicion for nearly five months. He beat Democrat Domenic Recchia by a 55-42 per cent margin to win a third term in office. If Grimm avoids a prison sentence, the shoulder-chipped GOPer is expected to argue that he should remain in office during a period of probation. That decision, however, will depend on the leanings of his fellow House Republicans, who hold a sizable majority and could vote to expel him. The House Ethics Committee has let its own investigation idle while the wheels of justice turn. But if he admits to a crime on Tuesday, the committee could quickly move to throw him out of Congress. House Speaker John Boehner's office kept mum on Monday, declining to speculate to DailyMail.com about Grimm's prospects to keep his job. Grimm owned a 45-percent interest in 'Granny Sayz,' a company that did business as Healthalicious, a Manhattan health food restaurant. Lynch's indictment accused him of helping the company avoid paying taxes on more than $1 million in income, and using cash to underpay workers under the table. Some of those employees were allegedly illegal immigrants and earned less than the minimum wage. The government alleged that Grimm kept two separate payroll ledgers, one of which was fictitious, allowing him to skirt income taxes, payroll taxes and workers' compensation costs. When some of the employees sued the company for back wages, Grimm was deposed under oath. Prosecutors claim he testified, falsely, that he had never paid the restaurant's workers in cash. In January, Grimm became a household name when a New York City journalist caught him on video threatening to throw him off a U.S. Capitol balcony for asking him a tough question about an unrelated federal probe into his 2010 campaign finances. Grimm posted a $400,000 bond to remain free while tax fraud charges pended against him in a case revolving around alleged illegal cash payments he made to illegal-immigrant restaurant employees in order to avoid paying taxes . Grimm went ballistic when NY1 reporter Michael Scotto strayed away from the approved interview topics after President Obama's State of the union Speech on January 28. The congressman waled out of range of the camera suddenly when the topic came up, saying he didn't want to speak 'off-topic.' Michael Scotto, a video journalist for the NY1 television station, was on the receiving end of a Grimm threat in January at the US Capitol . Grimm 'does not want to talk about some of the allegations concerning his campaign finances,' Scotto said, closing his televised segment. But the camera kept rolling as the congressman barked. 'Let me be clear to you,' he said. 'You ever do that to me again I’ll throw you off this f***ing balcony.' 'Why? It’s a valid question,' Scotto responded. 'No, no, you’re not man enough, you’re not man enough,' Grimm sniped back. 'I’ll break you in half. Like a boy.' Grimm apologized the following day. His long-time girlfriend, Diana Durand, pleaded guilty in September to illegally funneling money to his campaign by paying 'straw donors' to make the contributions. In some cases she reimbursed them after the fact. The scheme obscured where the donated money originally came from and allowed Grimm to reap more of Durand's campaign cash than the law allowed. Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D-Souza pleaded guilty to the same crime in May. He paid his friends back for their donations to college friend Wendy Long's failed U.S. senate campaign. Michael Grimm UNSEALED Indictment uploaded by DailyMail.com .", "Parents angrily confronted a head teacher after he gave primary children books about tackling homophobic bullying. Police were called after the protest, which had been orchestrated by religious campaigners, became heated. Head teacher Jamie Barry is said to have faced aggression and verbal abuse at the meeting at Welford Primary in Birmingham, one of the schools linked to the ‘Trojan Horse’ scandal earlier this year. Head teacher Jamie Barry (pictured) is said to have faced aggression and verbal abuse at the meeting at Welford Primary in Birmingham, after children were given books on tackling homophobic bullying . It was one of 21 schools inspected by Ofsted amid claims of a conspiracy by hardliners to impose strict Islamic practices. While Welford, which has a large Muslim intake, was given a clean bill of health, inspectors reported some children saying they believed it was wrong to be gay. The protest occurred at a regular parents’ meeting last month. Mr Barry was expecting about 20 attendees to discuss routine matters, only to find around 100 parents there demanding to know about the introduction of teaching materials called Challenging Homophobia in Primary Schools (Chips). The parents had been encouraged to attend by anti-abortion group the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (Spuc), which shares common ground with conservative Muslims on several issues. Welford (pictured) was inspected by Ofsted amid claims of a conspiracy by hardliners to impose strict Islamic practices - while given a clean bill of health, inspectors reported some children saying it was wrong to be gay . An email obtained by the Daily Mail was sent to some parents by Antonia Tully, who coordinates Spuc’s Safe At School campaign. She listed 13 questions she asked to be forwarded to as many parents as possible to support Spuc’s view that young children should not be taught about homosexuality. The email said the head teacher ‘needs to hear the same concerns’– such as ‘teaching children about sexual orientation isn’t making them safe [but] putting ideas into children’s heads’. As a result, the meeting – involving parents from a variety of religious backgrounds – became heated. Some complaints were ‘very personal and very aggressive’, Mr Barry said. Staff called the police and the head was advised to leave the room, although he denies police escorted him from the premises for his own safety. An email was sent to some parents by the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children's Safe At School campaign - the anti-abortion group shares some common ground with Conservative Muslims . Mrs Tully said she got involved at Welford after being contacted by parents earlier this year. ‘They told me that someone phoned the police which was a very inflammatory reaction. 'They said nothing that happened at the meeting warranted any police involvement,’ she said. She has helped dozens of parents to complain to Birmingham Council about the school. Chips, which features a series of story books, is being used in about 35 Birmingham schools. Mr Barry said he had not been surprised to hear that some pupils had made anti-gay remarks. ‘We were aware that they might do, because culturally, within the community we serve, we know those views are heard,’ he said. ‘But it made us think that as a school we need to do a little more in terms of teaching children about diversity and relationships. ‘While we respect everyone’s right to a personal view, same-sex marriage is legal and some same-sex couples adopt or foster. 'Our children will come into contact with these people and we don’t want it to be a shock to the system.’ Rob Kelsall, senior regional officer for the National Association of Head Teachers, said the Government must give its ‘full support’ to heads who deliver the Chips programme. Mr Barry said he had not been surprised to hear that some pupils had made anti-gay remarks .", "By . Lizzie Parry . A teenager who choked on spaghetti as a child is today so terrified of food that she refuses to eat anything apart from chicken escalopes. Charlotte Snow, from north London, has shunned most other foods since she was three years old, despite her parents' desperate attempts to improve their daughter's diet. Her mother Carla Snow, 42, said she believes Charlotte's phobia stems from a near-death experience when she was three. Charlotte Snow, 18, from north London, has a phobia of food, resulting in her eating nothing but chicken escalopes . Her mother Carla Snow (pictured left) believes her daughter's phobia stems from a near-death experience when she was three, when she choked on a piece of spaghetti . Despite her poor diet, repeated visits . to the doctors have revealed she is suffering no health complications as . a result of her phobia. She said: 'I’ve been scared to try other foods since I can remember. 'Just . the thought of putting other foods in my mouth and then not liking the . taste makes me feel anxious. I don’t know what I would do if I ate . something I wasn’t keen on.' Her mother Mrs Snow, who works at a children's centre, said: 'When Charlotte was a . baby, she ate everything and we had no problems at all. 'But one day, I . was feeding her some spaghetti and she choked on the food. 'We . patted Charlotte’s back and managed to get the spaghetti out. But that . experience scarred her and ever since then, she’s turned her back on . most foods and has been very fussy. 'We . kept trying to put other foods in front of Charlotte but she would turn . her nose up at them and rather starve. She could never get over her . fears. Charlotte (pictured left age five and right now) said: 'I've been scared to try other foods since I can remember . Until the spaghetti incident when she was three, Charlotte would eat most foods, her parents Carla and Nick (pictured) said . Despite her parents' desperate attempts to encourage Charlotte to expand her diet, the 18-year-old has resisted, only adding white bread, crisps and cereal to the equation . 'Once, we even . arranged for Charlotte to have an internal examination so we could find . out if there was any deeper reason for her phobia. 'But she refused to . eat the egg sandwich that she needed to consume before the test.' The 18-year-old has been persuaded to add chips, crisps, bread and cereal to her limited list of foods she will eat. But even with these foods, Charlotte is specific about the brands and varieties she will eat, preferring Walkers' Salt and Vinegar, Hovis white bread and Kellogg's Rice Krispies. Charlotte admits her phobia impacts on her everyday life and makes socialising difficult. She said: 'I find my phobias very embarrassing at times. If I go out to dinner with my friends and there’s no food there that I like, I’ll just starve the whole night and won’t eat. Despite her poor diet, Charlotte has suffered no detrimental affect to her health . 'If some boys that I don’t know well are joining us for dinner then I will arrive after the meal. 'I would be mortified just eating chips in front of the guys so it’s better to avoid the situation altogether. 'Often though, I will go for the whole day without food if there’s nothing available that I can eat. 'The other day I went to a party with my family and there was nothing on the menu I could eat. I was so famished that I had to rush out to the nearest McDonalds to get some chips.' Despite doctors' assurance that Charlotte's health is not affected at the moment, her mother Mrs Snow said she is worried her poor diet could catch up with her. 'We regularly go to the doctor so that Charlotte can take a blood test but the results always come back fine. The doctors continually tell us that Charlotte’s healthy and growing,' she said. 'Nonetheless it does worry me that her poor diet will catch up with her and she will suffer health problems in the future because she’s not getting the nutrients she needs.' Charlotte added: 'I would love to be able to eat more foods one day. It would be great to enjoy dinner with my friends and socialize more.' A spokesperson for Triumph Over Phobia, the phobia charity said: 'Charlotte needs to have a course of exposure therapy to help her overcome her fear of food. 'She will only recover if she faces her fear and she can do this by taking little steps each day.'", "Tiger Woods will be looking to prove he can still be the force he once was against two of golf's young rising stars when the Phoenix Open gets under way on Thursday in Arizona. Woods will be making yet another comeback from injury at TPC Scottsdale in his first event of the 2015 season and first tournament since he finished joint last at the Hero World Challenge in December. He will play the first two days paired with 21-year-old world No 9 Jordan Spieth and 15th-ranked Patrick Reed, 24 - the two players who probably left Gleneagles with the most credit after the United States' third straight Ryder Cup loss last year. Tiger Woods will compete in his first tournament of the year at the Phoenix Open  in Arizona . Woods says he is driving better than ever and feels confident in his technique . Woods was all smiles as he addressed the media after a practice round in Scottsdale on Tuesday . Woods could not compete in Scotland as he continued to recover from the effects of back surgery, but the 39-year-old is confident those problems are behind him. And Woods also believes his driving, which was notably erratic even at his peak and has been put in the shade by the game's new big-hitters, is as strong as when he last played this event 14 years ago. 'My driving has come around a lot faster,' he told a press conference. 'I'm a lot longer than I thought I ever could be again. My speed is way back up, and that's fun. I'm touching numbers that I did 15 years ago, so that's cool.' He added: 'I'm driving it. It felt great, driving my ball.' Woods' disappointing week at the Hero World Challenge was notable for his poor chipping, and the 14-time major winner feels he has now adjusted to his new methods with swing consultant Chris Como. Woods says he has adjusted to a new chipping technique after working with new coach Chris Como . Woods gestures as he goes around the TPC Scottsdale during a practice round . 'I was caught between techniques, between my old release pattern and body movement when I was working with Sean (Foley) and then my new release pattern,' he added. 'We had to basically just hit thousands upon thousands upon thousands of chips and just get it out of there, and now it's better.' Woods was clearly more relaxed facing the media in the desert than he often is and, while he seemed confident, he admitted he had some obstacles to overcome over the 7,152-yard lay-out. 'I think I need to work on a little bit here, getting the speed of these greens, because in your head, you assume hard greens with a lot of spring to them are going to be fast, but they're not fast,' he said. 'They spring, but they putt slow. So I need to do some work to try to overcome the mental hurdle to make sure I can hit the putts hard, even though I know coming into the greens I have to throw the ball straight up in the air, play for a big hop, chips, play for two big hops before the ball starts thinking about stopping.' Patrick Reed (in action at the Humana Challenge) will partner Woods at the Phoenix Open . Robert Allenby will play in his first tournament since his alleged kidnapping and beating in Hawaii . Woods may be the main attraction at TPC Scottsdale, but he will have competition from a strong field including world No 4 Bubba Watson, last week's Humana Challenge winner Bill Haas and FedEx Cup champion Billy Horschel. Defending champion Kevin Stadler will not be playing due to a wrist injury, but Robert Allenby returns to action following his alleged kidnapping and beating in Hawaii, and the notoriously raucous crowds will be backing Arizona State alumnus Phil Mickelson. Jamie Donaldson and Francesco Molinari lead the European charge, with Scottish duo Martin Laird and Russell Knox, England's Brian Davis and Irish veteran Padraig Harrington also in the field.", "Facing run: Whistleblower David Ore . A hospital manager who spoke out about staff locking up vulnerable patients said last night that he faces ruin despite a government pledge to protect whistleblowers. David Ore told his NHS bosses children and pensioners were being restrained and locked in hospital cubicles for up to 12 hours without food or drink. He said guards were being ordered almost every day to throw patients to the ground and drag them to rooms before holding the door shut so they could not get out. Pensioners were being restrained to ease the burden on overstretched  doctors and nurses, Mr Ore said. He said the violent security policy even led to the death of an elderly man at failing Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley in the West Midlands, the largest of the three run by the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust. Mr Ore managed security staff across the three hospitals, but after repeatedly raising concerns with his bosses he was suspended in November 2012 and sacked five months later after a disciplinary hearing. He won an appeal but was again ordered out on  ‘special leave’ in January – two days after an article about Russells Hall Hospital restraining patients appeared in the media. Bosses have since written to Mr Ore to say he was being removed because speaking out about his ‘concerns about the alleged illegal restraint of patients’ could have put him in ‘a very difficult position’. Now, despite repeated reassurances from Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt that whistleblowers will be protected, he has been given 30 days’ notice of his potential redundancy. It is thought the hospital – which is under investigation over high death rates – has spent around £100,000 of taxpayers’ money on the case. Last night Mr Ore told the Mail he felt forced to speak out, but now faced ruin. ‘Because I spoke out I was treated awfully,’ he said. ‘As a whistleblower, I have been treated worse than a common criminal. The hospital just deny, deny, hide, hide.’ He added: ‘This is about people in that hospital who are being harmed psychologically and physically every day. Their rights to self-determination are being totally disregarded. That could be a relative of yours being put through hell – not just for a few hours, but for days and weeks.’ MPs and campaigners said there were serious questions over Mr Hunt’s ability to crack down on the vilification of whistleblowers. The Health Secretary says creating a culture of ‘openness and transparency’ in the NHS is vital to prevent a repeat of the Mid  Staffordshire scandal in which up to 1,200 patients died needlessly. Jeremy Hunt has given repeated reassurances that whistleblowers will be protected . He banned gagging clauses last year after the Mail revealed the case of former Lincolnshire hospitals chief Gary Walker who broke a £500,000 gagging clause to speak out about high death rates. Mr Hunt then made urgent changes to the NHS constitution last week after the Mail reported that whistleblower Sandra Haynes Kirkbright had been threatened with the sack for speaking out about hospital bosses in Wolverhampton fiddling death figures. Abandoned: Mohammed Yasin . A frail pensioner died after being removed by security guards at  Russells Hall Hospital in a shocking incident hospital bosses allegedly tried to cover up. Grandfather Mohammed Yasin, 73, had become angry and upset when he was taken to A&E by ambulance after collapsing on a freezing November evening in 2008. The academic, whose family live in India, was taken outside in a wheelchair by guards at 1am and left alone at a bus stop. Mr Yasin, who lived alone in Lye, West Midlands, was discovered dead just over four hours later by a passerby 50 yards from the hospital. Last night his friends said his death was ‘despicable’ and claim they were asked to keep quiet. The Dudley Group said Mr Yasin’s friends were visited after his death by then chief executive Paul Farenden and a senior consultant. The trust denied the friends were told not to speak to the press. At his inquest, registrar Dr David Raven said: ‘I would have assumed a taxi would be called or another method found.’ The coroner recorded an open verdict. He said NHS contracts would now . include a ‘right’ to raise concerns about care and a national helpline . would be set up to offer advice to potential NHS whistleblowers. Mr Ore’s case suggests hospital bosses are continuing to defy  government orders. Tory . MP Andrew Percy, a member of the Commons health select  committee, . said: ‘If we continue to see this sort of behaviour we will need to look . at whether the law is strong enough.’ Mr Ore’s local Labour MP Ian Austin has now written to the Health Secretary demanding to know if and how Mr Ore will be protected. Former policeman Mr Ore, 58, repeatedly raised concerns with his bosses about the restraint of vulnerable patients from 2010. He also contacted children’s charity Barnardo’s who drafted a damning report warning bosses the practice violated civil and criminal law. Mr Ore was accused of gross misconduct for showing ‘aggressive behaviour’ and parking in hospital bays he wasn’t allowed to use, which he denies, before being  suspended in 2012. He says the case against him ‘has everything to do with whistleblowing’. The trust denies Mr Ore’s claims but admits security staff raised concerns about restraint. The Dudley Group accepted Mr Ore spoke out about restraint and this has formed part of a claim he is making at an employment tribunal. However, it said he did so simply as part of his job and he had not done so through the hospital’s  official whistleblower policy. Chief executive Paula Clark added: ‘There are occasions where patients have required restraint to be used for their own safety and the safety of our staff and other patients. However, we emphatically refute the suggestion that we unlawfully restrain patients. ‘We encourage our staff to raise genuine concerns at the earliest opportunity using our whistleblowing policy.’ A spokesman for Jeremy Hunt said: ‘These are very serious allegations, and that’s why the Care Quality Commission has already been asked to carry out an investigation at this hospital.’ The Department of Health said Mr Hunt has been ‘absolutely clear that NHS staff who have the courage and integrity to speak out in the interests of patient safety must be protected and listened to’.", "By . Richard Spillett . A 42-year-old man who posted abusive Twitter messages about the murder of school teacher Ann Maguire has been pictured for the first time. Robert Riley, of Port Talbot, South Wales, appeared before magistrates in Leeds yesterday where he admitted sending a grossly offensive, abusive or malicious message. Wearing a tracksuit top over a grey T-shirt and a pair of jogging bottoms, Riley was brought into court after being detained overnight for his own safety due to anger about his shocking messages. Troll: Robert Riley posted offensive messages about the death of teacher Ann Maguire online . Court: He admitted posting the tweets in before magistrates yesterday and will be sentenced later this week . The messages were not read out in court but the bench heard that some of them related to the murder of Mrs Maguire, 61, at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds a week ago. The magistrates were told that Riley needed to be sentenced where the messages were sent and agreed to transfer the case to Swansea Magistrates' Court. Riley, of Dan Y Coed, Cwmavon, Port Talbot, was given bail on condition that he does not use social networking sites or the internet generally between now and his next court appearance on Thursday. During the 10-minute hearing his solicitor Michael Walsh said: 'He is mortified by his own behaviour and he apologises for any upset that may have been caused to everybody.' Mr Walsh asked the magistrates to free his client on bail, telling them the only reason he had been held overnight was for his own safety. He suggested that Riley may be in more danger in a Leeds prison than he would be walking the streets. Shame: Riley hid his face with his tracksuit hood as he left court yesterday . Tragedy: Teacher Ann Maguire was killed while she taught a class at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds last week . Earlier, Sandra White, prosecuting, told the court that Riley had posted a number of offensive tweets, only some of which related to the murder of Mrs Maguire. She said the offence had come to the attention of West Yorkshire Police because of the latest incident, but told the bench that it should properly have been charged in South Wales. Riley is the second person to be charged with sending a 'malicious communication' in the wake of the death of Mrs Maguire, who was stabbed to death in her classroom. Jake Newsome, 21, from the Harehills area of Leeds, was released on bail after being charged over alleged abuse, police have said. He is due to appear before Leeds Magistrates' Court on Wednesday May 14. Mrs Maguire died after she was attacked during a Spanish lesson at the school where she had taught for more than 40 years. She was due to retire in September. The . killing is thought to be the first time a teacher has been stabbed to . death in a British classroom and the first murder of a teacher in a . school since the 1996 Dunblane massacre. Scene: Corpus Christi has been rocked by the death of a woman called 'the mother of the school' Heartbroken: Mrs Maguire's husband of 37 years, Donald, and their two daughters Kerry, 32, and Emma, 30, view the wall of floral tributes placed outside the school . Prayers were said for Mrs Maguire and her family on Sunday. Deacon Sean Quigley included the family of the 15-year-old boy charged with murdering the 61-year-old in his homily at Corpus Christi Church in Leeds which is attached to the school. Mr Quigley, a retired teacher at the college who knows the Maguire family, told the congregation: 'The school, staff and pupils have been consoled by messages from around the world and by many gifts of flowers, and also of food and books. 'The family of the young man involved also have been consoled in their great distress by the messages of love they have received.' A 100m-long wall of floral tributes now runs from the church to the school gates. A book of condolence has also been opened for those who want to express their sympathies. A 15-year-old boy appeared in court last week charged with mother-of-two Mrs Maguire's murder and was remanded in custody.", "By . David Baker . PUBLISHED: . 13:51 EST, 27 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 03:01 EST, 28 November 2012 . Killjoy council chiefs have been branded scrooges after they banned SpongeBob Squarepants from turning on the Christmas lights - because of health and safety fears. Hundreds of children were left in tears when officials ruled the yellow costume of the children’s TV favourite was too wide to walk up five steps on to a platform. Around 2,000 people, many families with young children, turned out to Wolverhampton’s Market Square, West Midlands, on Friday night, last week, expecting to see the cartoon character switch on the Christmas lights. Killjoys: SpongeBob Squarepants walks around at ground level under the stage meaning he could only be seen by people at the front of the crowd . Wolverhampton City Council forked out £2,000 on hiring the SpongeBob Squarepants costume but officials banned it from both the platform and the back of a float which was due to carry it around town. The character was only allowed to walk around at ground level under the stage meaning he could only be seen by people at the front of the crowd. Yesterday furious parents blasted the ruling - branding the council 'health and safety scrooges.' John Williamson, 45, from Wolverhampton, said his nine-year-old daughter Lola was reduced to tears after she was unable to see her idol. Disappointment: Hundreds of children were left in tears when cartoon character SpongeBob was banned from turning on the festive lights . Children's favourite: The character has become a huge hit with children after he first made an appearance on our screens in 2000 . He stormed: 'It’s ridiculous to ban a children’s character from a Christmas lights switch on. 'You would hope the council wouldn’t be such health and safety scrooges and let the kids have a good look at their character. 'Lola had been talking about seeing Spongebob Squarepants for days but was inconsolable when she couldn’t even get a glimpse of him.' SpongeBob Squarepants had been expected to switch on the lights alongside Corrie star Sherrie Hewson but the soap actress was forced to press the button on her own. Switched on: Star of Coronation Street and Loose Women, Sherrie Hewson, was forced to turn the lights on by herself after SpongeBob getting on stage was considered a health and safety risk . Schoolgirl Jessica Drew, 10, who went along with her guide group to watch the lights, said: 'The fireworks were really good and we enjoyed it but we were disappointed that we didn’t see SpongeBob. 'We just thought that he hadn’t turned up because we never saw him once. There was no sign of him on stage at all.' Yesterday the council stood by the health and safety ruling. Mark Blackstock, outdoor events manager for the council, said: 'Unfortunately, the character actor playing SpongeBob Squarepants was unable to climb the stairs on to the stage because of his costume. 'Health and safety considerations meant we were unable to lift him on to the stage using the tailgate of one of our vehicles because of the high numbers of people around the stage. 'This meant that SpongeBob Squarepants was unable to appear on stage during the event. 'As the actor could only be permitted to stay in his suit for 40 minutes at a time, again for health and safety reasons, we arranged the two 40-minute meet and greet sessions to enable the public to see him close up. 'During this time, he met as many young fans as possible at both locations, though we of course apologise to anyone who couldn’t see him on stage and was unable to meet him in person.' It is not the first time the council has left children in tears after imposing strict rules on kiddy’s characters. In 2010 Peppa Pig caused a stir when the person wearing the costume had to restrict meetings with youngsters over fears she would overheat in her suit. Staff even offered to don the suit themselves after the actor said she had gone overtime, to avoid the scenes of disappointed children and parents, but were told they could not take over.", "Managing director Graham Mackereth and electrical engineer Paul Keddie have been cleared of health and safety breaches after Alan Catterall (above) was burnt to death at a factory in Runcorn,  Cheshire . Two businessman on trial over the death of a worker who was accidentally trapped inside an industrial oven by his future son-on-law have had the case against them dropped – but their company still faces corporate manslaughter charges. Managing director Graham Mackereth and electrical engineer Paul Keddie have been cleared of breaching health and safety regulations after father-of-three Alan Catterall, 54, was burnt to death at a kayak factory in Runcorn, Cheshire. Mr Catterall, a grandfather, had gone into the oven to fix a fault when operator Mark Francis, not realising he was still working inside, switched the machine on and locked him in. Mr Francis was engaged to Mr Catterall's eldest daughter. A judge at Liverpool Crown Court today agreed there was no case to answer against Mr Keddie and Mr Mackereth, 64, and the pair were discharged from court. However, their company Pyranha Mouldings continues to face a corporate manslaughter charge and oven designer Peter Mackereth, 59, from Llangollen, Wales, faces a charge of breaching health and safety laws. The court heard today that prosecuting QC Andrew Thomas had conceded the evidence against Graham Mackereth was insufficient for a conviction. He opposed the application involving Mr Keddie, who designed the electrics and electronic systems for the oven, but the judge, Mr Justice Macduff, ruled there was no case to answer. He said that Mr Keddie had designed the systems for the oven according to Pyranha's brief and therefore couldn't be held accountable for how they were used. The judge added: 'There is no evidence that any danger was due to his undertaking'. During the trial, which began almost a month ago, the court heard how no one had realised Mr Catterall was inside the oven on December 23, 2010, until smoke started seeping out and the 'horrific' circumstances of his death were discovered. A jury heard how the huge oven had been switched off for an hour after a fault developed and, after it was fixed, it was switched on by Mr Francis. As it was switched on, the doors automatically shut and locked with metal pins which dropped into place on the outside. Mr Catterall was trapped within the oven with no means of escape and no means of raising the alarm. Mr Thomas told jurors: 'After a preparation cycle lasting several minutes, the burners were turned on and the oven was raised to operating temperature. 'The evidence indicates that Mr Catterall made efforts to escape using a metal crowbar but it was to no avail. He suffered severe burns and died as a result of shock. Pyranha Mouldings Ltd in Runcorn, Cheshire (pictured), continues to face a corporate manslaughter charge and oven designer Peter Mackereth, 59, from Wales, faces one charge of breaching health and safety laws . 'The first anyone knew about the problem was when smoke started seeping out of the oven.' Rotational moulding expert Dr Paul Nugent gave evidence at yesterday's court hearing after inspecting the company's machines. He told the court that there weren't 'any of these machines in the world which have safety exit panels or any means of exit from inside.' An investigation by Cheshire Police and the Health and Safety Executive found the oven had been designed by Pyranha Mouldings and said the company was responsible for safety. The prosecutor alleged today that investigations later found there was no written procedure of any kind, no manual of operation, no written training record and no warning sign at the factory. Mr Catterall grew up in Liverpool and worked at a tyre factory in Speke before joining the Ford factory in Halewood where he worked for many years. He joined Pyranha in 1997 and was promoted to team leader at the company, which had between 90 and 100 employees including his wife of 34 years and daughter. The case continues. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.", "The government shutdown is \"extremely damaging\" to U.S. intelligence operations, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Wednesday. Clapper noted that he has worked in the intelligence field for 50 years, and \"never seen anything like this.\" The shutdown \"seriously damages our ability to protect the safety and security of this nation,\" he told a Senate panel. The law allows intelligence agencies to hold on to the employees needed to protect against \"imminent threat to life or property,\" he noted. Following that guide, approximately 70% of employees were furloughed, he said. \"We do not consider any of our employees 'non-essential,'\" and officials had to make \"very painful choices\" about who would be furloughed, he added. The shutdown affects the ability of the intelligence community to support the military, diplomats, and policy makers, Clapper explained. \"Damage will accumulate over time,\" and the danger \"will be insidious,\" he warned. And with intelligence workers facing financial struggles, particularly after already suffering through furloughs due to sequestration, \"This is a dreamland for foreign intelligence services to recruit,\" Clapper said. Intelligence services are setting up counseling to help employees handle financial issues, he said. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, took the opportunity to assail both Republicans and Democrats, including the president, over the situation. \"I think it's irresponsible for all of us to let it continue, but where the hell is the commander-in-chief?\" he said. \"If you really told him that, that our nation is less safe and every day that goes by we're being less capable of detecting potential terror attacks against the homeland, ... why aren't the members of the House and the Senate in the White House right now to try to solve this problem?\" \"For the president of the United States, for our House Democrats to not negotiate is not responsible. For our Republican Party not to try to find a way to end this mess is irresponsible,\" he added. At around the same time, President Barack Obama invited congressional leaders to the White House later Wednesday to discuss reopening the government and raising the debt ceiling. The shutdown came after Congress did not pass a budget. The holdup: House Republicans insist on provisions to defund, derail or otherwise chip away at the Affordable Health Care Act, also known as Obamacare." ]

[ "Believe it or not, illegal immigrants are eligible for workers' compensation, but not unemployment insurance. Labor standards laws also still apply to illegal aliens, such as the minimum wage, hours of labor or prevailing wage on public construction projects." ]

[ "In most states, an unemployed worker can apply for benefits even though she owes money to the unemployment office.", "['Step 1: Apply for regular unemployment. You must apply for regular unemployment benefits before you can apply for the expanded benefits for people impacted by COVID-19. ... ', 'Step 2: Apply for expanded unemployment benefits. (Pandemic Unemployment Assistance) ... ', 'Step 3: Submit your weekly claim.']", "Severance and Unemployment Benefits If the employer pays the employee severance fee in a lump sum, the employee can apply for unemployment insurance right away as they are no longer on the company's payroll. ... This means they cannot apply for unemployment.", "['Apply online at Unemployment Benefit Services by selecting Apply for Benefits. Read the Applying for Unemployment Benefits Tutorial. for help applying online.', 'Call a Tele-Center at 800-939-6631 and speak to a customer service representative.']", "Independent contractors in Michigan can apply for unemployment benefits today. MICHIGAN - Self-employed workers in Michigan that have been affected by COVID-19 can apply for unemployment benefits. ... The money comes as an addition to the benefits received for by the $2 trillion CARES act passed earlier this month.", "If you are fired from your job in Minnesota, you can apply for unemployment benefits. When you apply for benefits, you will be asked whether you quit voluntarily or were fired. ... If the state determines that you were fired for misconduct, you will be denied unemployment benefits.", "CAB likely to benefit non-Muslim immigrants. NRC is aimed at deportation of all illegal immigrants irrespective of their religions. CAB to grant citizenship to non-Muslim immigrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. NRC Assam was aimed at identifying 'illegal immigrants', mostly from Bangladesh.", "Freelancers, self-employed workers now eligible for unemployment benefits in Virginia. Under the CARES Act, self-employed workers and independent contractors can apply for temporary unemployment benefits. RICHMOND, Va. ... Click here to find the application and learn more about steps to apply for these benefits.", "If you are fired because you could not do the job, you can still get unemployment benefits. If you are laid off, the Department of Unemployment Assistance (DUA) will talk to you and your employer to find out if you can get benefits. ... If you are fired, you will need to contact DUA and apply for unemployment benefits.", "Answer: It can be a problem to collect unemployment benefits while applying for Social Security disability benefits because, when you file for unemployment benefits, you are saying you are willing and able to work, but when you apply for disability benefits, you are saying that you can't work, for at least a year.", "A green card is a document that grants an immigrant living in the U.S. permanent resident status. That status allows you to have certain benefits like unemployment. As is true for citizens, green card holders can only receive unemployment benefits if they lost their job through no fault of their own.", "Yes, they operate on a large scale. Especially in areas where there are many Japanese immigrants. Hawaii and California, and NYC in parts. In Japan, the Yakuza is not illegal, they operate in the open and have official headquarters in Tokyo, Kobe, and other cities.", "Can you collect unemployment and Social Security Disability at the same time? Yes, you can apply for and be awarded Social Security Disability benefits while collecting unemployment insurance.", "Quitting does have negative consequences in regard to unemployment benefits. In most cases, employees who quit will not be eligible to collect unemployment. Workers who are fired will generally be eligible for unemployment benefits unless they are fired for cause i.e. unethical or illegal activities.", "Can you collect unemployment and Social Security Disability at the same time? Yes, you can apply for and be awarded Social Security Disability benefits while collecting unemployment insurance. ... Maximum unemployment benefit in 2020 is $1100 per month in the state of Florida ($275 x 12 weeks).", "People filing for unemployment can apply for extended benefits by using the green button on the CT DOL website once they are notified that their PEUC benefits are ending. When approved for benefits, people will file online weekly by following the same process.", "Individuals receiving Social Security benefits can receive unemployment compensation benefits if they otherwise qualify. ... The deduction applies to payments made under a retirement or pension plan contributed to by an employer who is being charged for the claimant's unemployment compensation benefits.", "Technically, it is possible to receive both unemployment benefits and SSDI, but it gets tricky. ... These folks might apply to both programs but must actively seek work to maintain the unemployment benefit.", "Beginning February 8th, they reduced me to a 24-hour work week and took away my benefits. ... Please call your local unemployment office or apply online for benefits. Eligibility for Partial Unemployment. State law determines eligibility for unemployment benefits, including partial unemployment benefits.", "Your first unemployment benefits payment will always be in the form of a paper check. You will receive this check approximately 3-4 weeks after you apply for unemployment benefits.", "A labor dispute is a strike or lockout. Striking workers generally are not eligible for unemployment benefits. Workers locked out by their employers are generally eligible for unemployment benefits. ... Apply for unemployment benefits, and keep filing your weekly claims while you are waiting for our decision.", "Because there are no residency restrictions about who can enter US lotteries, illegal immigrants can buy tickets and can claim their winnings. However, claiming the lottery winnings might make an illegal immigrant feel vulnerable to deportation.", "File for Unemployment Benefits Eligible claimants may receive up to 20 weeks of unemployment insurance benefits through the state. Before applying, check to see if you qualify for unemployment benefits. Applicants must also register at Jobs.mo.gov.", "It is not that uncommon for someone to apply for unemployment benefits and long term disability benefits. ... Generally, someone who is receiving long-term disability (LTD) benefits cannot receive unemployment benefits at the same time because of the basic purpose of each benefit.", "Will unemployment benefits affect my Social Security benefits? Unemployment benefits do not affect or reduce retirement and disability benefits. ... However, income from Social Security may reduce your unemployment compensation. Contact your state unemployment office for information on how your state applies the reduction.", "Can I file for unemployment? Furloughed federal employees are eligible to apply for unemployment benefits, but excepted employees working on a full-time basis generally aren't eligible, according to OPM.", "How to apply for unemployment benefits. The best and fastest way to apply is online. You can apply by phone, but wait times are very long because of COVID-19. At this time, you cannot apply in person.", "Applying for PUA benefits can still be a challenge as this is a new unemployment program. ... Like the regular unemployment insurance, the $600 benefit you get from the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program is taxable. Your withholding options should be the same—upfront withholding or sending estimated payments.", "Are Boosted Boards Legal In NYC? ... Well unfortunately, riding an electric skateboard in NYC is neither legal nor illegal.", "A) You are generally not entitled to unemployment Insurance benefits for being off work due to illness or surgery. You are always entitled to apply for unemployment benefits if you have lost your job.", "If you're unemployed and disabled, it's generally a good idea to apply for SDI benefits before applying for Unemployment Insurance. You cannot receive SDI and Unemployment Insurance at the same time.", "That status allows you to have certain benefits like unemployment. As is true for citizens, green card holders can only receive unemployment benefits if they lost their job through no fault of their own. ... As a green card holder, you can collect unemployment benefits if you meet the eligibility requirements." ]

[ "Since $\\sigma_z^1 = I \\otimes Z$ and $\\sigma_z^1 \\otimes \\sigma_z^2 = Z \\otimes Z$ are commute with one another, that is\n$$ [\\sigma_z^1 , \\sigma_z^1 \\otimes \\sigma_z^2 ] = \\sigma_z^1 \\cdot \\sigma_z^1 \\otimes \\sigma_z^2 - \\sigma_z^1 \\otimes \\sigma_z^2 \\cdot \\sigma_z^1 = \\boldsymbol{0} $$\nwe have that\n$$ e^{i\\gamma_1 H_a} = e^{i \\gamma \\frac{1}{2}(\\sigma_z^1 + \\sigma_z^1 \\otimes \\sigma_z^2 ) } = e^{i \\gamma \\frac{1}{2}\\sigma_z^1 } e^{i \\gamma \\frac{1}{2}\\sigma_z^1 \\otimes \\sigma_z^2 } $$\nand now note that $e^{i \\gamma \\frac{1}{2}\\sigma_z^1 }$ has circuit construction as: (look here and here page 7 and 8)\n\nand similarly, $ e^{i \\gamma \\frac{1}{2}\\sigma_z^1 \\otimes \\sigma_z^2 } $ have the circuit construction as:\n\nand put them together, we have the circuit construction for $e^{i \\gamma \\frac{1}{2}(\\sigma_z^1 + \\sigma_z^1 \\otimes \\sigma_z^2 ) }$ as:" ]

[ "The Solovay-Kitaev algorithm is not practical. It is very useful theoretically because it proves that once you have a \"dense\" set of quantum gates (i.e. a set with which you can approximate any other quantum gate) you can approximate up to an arbitrary precision and quickly any quantum gate.\n\nIn practice, the Solovay-Kitaev works as follow:\n\n\nFill the space of implementable quantum gates as much as possible. This is performed by creating quantum circuits with the gate-set considered and storing them in memory alongside the unitary evolution they implement. The goal of this step is to fill the space of implementable quantum gates such as, for any unitary matrix, there is a entry in the set at distance at most $\\epsilon_0$.\nRecurse as explained in this article and when reaching the end of the recursion, find a circuit (pre-computed in step 1) that approximates sufficiently well the current unitary.\n\n\nSome obervations:\n\n\nPoint 1 only need to be done once for each circuit arity. Once you finished point 1 for $k$-qubit gates, you can just save the result on a hard-drive and reload it for the next approximation.\nPoint 1 is VERY GREEDY in computational resources. A quantum gate on $n$ qubits can be represented as a matrix in $SU(2^n)$, which is a space of dimension $2^{2n} - 1$. Filling uniformly a space with such a dimension requires a HUGE number of points (i.e. a huge number of quantum circuits).\nIn order to perform point 2, one of the most efficient method (asymptotically-speaking) is to use nearest-neighbour algorithms. There exist a lot of algorithms (the most used being probably the KD-tree approach), and some of them are designed for high-dimensional data (see this answer or this one). \n\nBut still, your search space (the circuits generated in point 1) \"suffer from the curse of dimensionality\" in the sense that its size grows really fast when the dimension increase. Even if you can search for a nearest-neighbour in $O(n\\ln(n))$, the $n$ is incredibly large here.\nDuring the recursion, a matrix decomposition needs to be performed. An efficient algorithm for the decomposition has been devised in this article for $1$-qubit gates (i.e. $SU(2)$ matrices), but no efficient implementation exist for gates on $2$ or more qubits: you end up diagonalising the unitary matrix you want to implement, which become quite costly when the unitary matrix becomes large.\n\n\nTo sum up:\n\n\nThe Solovay-Kitaev algorithm has only a very little practical application for $1$-qubit gates, nearly no practical application for $2$-qubit gates and clearly no practical application for $3$-qubit gates and above.\nRandomised approach can work way better and have a better scaling with respect to the number of qubits. You can also have a look at the Group Leader Optimisation Algorithm -- GLOA if you want to dig in this direction.\nThe theoretical scaling of SK is very good with respect to precision, but exponential with respect to the size of the gate.\nIn the case of large number of qubit, SK will fail or take days whereas the randomised approach might give you a decomposition with a low precision in seconds or minutes. As a side note, the randomised approach is trivial to parallelise, SK is not so easy (nearest-neighbour algorithms are hard to parallelise efficiently).", "Let's say you have a Hamiltonian of the form\n$$\nH=\\sigma_1\\otimes\\sigma_2\\otimes\\sigma_2\\otimes\\ldots\\otimes\\sigma_n\n$$\nThere's a straightforward circuit construction that lets you implement its time evolution $e^{-iHt}$. The trick is basically to decompose the state that you're evolving into the components that are in the $\\pm 1$ eigenspaces of $H$. Then, you apply the phase $e^{-it}$ to the $+1$ eigenspace, and the phase $e^{-it}$ to the $-1$ eigenspace. The following circuit does that job (and uncomputes the decomposition at the end).\n\nI'm assuming the phase gate element in the middle to be applying the unitary\n$$\n\\left(\\begin{array}{cc} e^{it} &amp; 0 \\\\ 0 &amp; e^{-it} \\end{array}\\right).\n$$\n\n\n\nIn general, if you want to evolve some Hamiltonian $H=H_1+H_2$ where $H_1$ and $H_2$ are of the previous form, then by far the easiest is to decompose the evolution as\n$$\ne^{-iHt}\\approx \\left(e^{-iH_1t/M}e^{-iH_2t/M}\\right)^M\n$$\nfor some large $M$ (although there are algorithms with much better scaling behaviour), and each of those small steps $e^{-iH_1t/M}$ can be implemented with the previous circuit.\n\n\n\nThat said, sometimes there are smarter things that you can do. Your extra example,\n$$\nH=X\\otimes Y\\otimes\\mathbb{I}+Z\\otimes\\mathbb{I}\\otimes Y\n$$\nis one such case. I'd start by apply the unitary rotation $U=\\frac{Z+Y}{\\sqrt{2}}$ to qubits 2 and 3. This is the equivalent to the Hadamard gate, but converts $Y$ into $Z$ instead of $X$. Now stop for a moment and think. If qubits 2 and 3 are in 00, then we're applying $(X+Z)$ to qubit 1. For 01, it's $(X-Z)$, for 10 it's $(Z-X)$, and for 11 it's $-(X+Z)$. Next, let's apply controlled-not from qubit 2 to qubit 3. This just permutes the basis elements slightly. It now says that we have to apply the Hamiltonian\n$$\n(-1)^{x_2}(X+(-1)^{x_3}Z)\n$$\nto the state of qubit 1, if qubits 2 and 3 are in the states $x_2x_3$. Next, remember that $X+Z=\\sqrt{2}H$ (Hadamard, not Hamiltonian), and that $X\\sqrt{2}HX=X-Z$. So, that gives us an easy way to convert between the two bits of Hamiltonian. We'll just replace those two $X$s with controlled-nots controlled by qubit 3. Similarly, we can use a circuit identity\n\nwhere this time we'll replace the $X$s with controlled-nots controlled off qubit 2.\n\nOverall, I believe the simulation looks like\n\nIt might look complicated, but there's none of the splitting up into little time steps that accumulate errors as you go along. It won't apply very often, but it's worth being aware of these sorts of possibilities.", "There is actually a nice way in Qiskit to transform a matrix of an optimization problem into an qubit operator that can be translated into a quadratic program. I'll put here the example, note this is possible for many optimization problems, find every one here in case you want to test something else! For example here it is done for MaxCut and TSP, it could show you with other examples how to do what I did here !\nimport numpy as np\n\nfrom qiskit import Aer\nfrom qiskit.optimization.applications.ising import stable_set\nfrom qiskit.aqua.algorithms import VQE, NumPyMinimumEigensolver, QAOA\nfrom qiskit.aqua import aqua_globals\nfrom qiskit.aqua import QuantumInstance\nfrom qiskit.optimization.applications.ising.common import sample_most_likely\nfrom qiskit.optimization.algorithms import MinimumEigenOptimizer\nfrom qiskit.optimization.problems import QuadraticProgram\n\n\nw = np.array([[-1., 2., 0.],\n [0., -1., 2.],\n [0., 0., -1.]])\n\n\nqubitOp, offset = stable_set.get_operator(w)\nprint('Offset:', offset)\nprint('Ising Hamiltonian:')\nprint(qubitOp.print_details())\n\n# mapping Ising Hamiltonian to Quadratic Program\nqp = QuadraticProgram()\nqp.from_ising(qubitOp, offset)\nqp.to_docplex().prettyprint()\n\naqua_globals.random_seed = np.random.default_rng(123)\nseed = 10598\nbackend = Aer.get_backend('statevector_simulator')\nquantum_instance = QuantumInstance(backend, seed_simulator=seed, seed_transpiler=seed)\n\nqaoa = QAOA(quantum_instance=quantum_instance, p = 3)\n\n# create minimum eigen optimizer based on qaoa\nqaoa_optimizer = MinimumEigenOptimizer(qaoa)\n\n# solve quadratic program\nresult = qaoa_optimizer.solve(qp)\nprint(result)\n\nAnd it will give you this result\nOffset: 0.5\nIsing Hamiltonian:\nIZZ (1+0j)\nZZI (1+0j)\nIIZ (0.5+0j)\nIZI (0.5+0j)\nZII (-1.5+0j)\n\n// This file has been generated by DOcplex\n// model name is: AnonymousModel\n// single vars section\ndvar bool x_0;\ndvar bool x_1;\ndvar bool x_2;\n\nminimize\n [ - 3 x_0^2 + 4 x_0*x_1 - 5 x_1^2 + 4 x_1*x_2 + x_2^2 ] + 2;\n \nsubject to {\n\n}\noptimal function value: -3.0\noptimal value: [0. 1. 0.]\nstatus: SUCCESS\n\nHope this helps, please tell me if something is not clear and I'll explain better! :)", "This depends on exactly what your criteria are. Let me give the easiest solution to your 3-qubit case: apply the Hamiltonian\n$$\nH=(X_1Y_2-X_1Y_2)+(X_2Y_3-X_2Y_3)\n$$\nfor a time $\\pi/(2\\sqrt{2})$. Apart from an extra $-1$ phase on the $|010\\rangle$ and $|101\\rangle$ terms (in essence, a controlled-phase between each pair of qubits), this does exactly what you want. It might be possible, in this 3-qubit case, to avoid some of those phases with a slightly different Hamiltonian, I'd have to experiment a bit.\nThis is essentially the content of a paper by Bose.\nOf course, you impose in your question that B would not be involved, while in this, during the time evolution, the state of B does leave the B qubit even though it comes back later. This is always going to be a feature of such solutions, so I assume you're going to allow it.\nIf you want to do the transfer over greater distances, this is basically the study of &quot;perfect state transfer&quot; (full disclosure: this is very much my area of research). The transfer over greater distances doesn't, as a general rule, leave the intermediate qubits unmoved (but you can easily think of doing two swap pulses: one for all N qubits on a line, and one for all $N-2$ qubits in the middle to move them back to where they started). One advantage of this method compared to doing a whole bunch of swap gates in the gate model is that you can achieve the transformation in about half the time. A second advantage is that there's effectively a controlled-phase gate automatically built in to this sort of interaction. You may want to check out these papers:\n\nperfect state transfer in single excitation subspace only, but long distance\nconsideration of higher excitation subspaces.\nMy review paper (shameless plug)\n\nNote that you might get annoyed by all the many controlled-phase gates that go on during the swapping process. If you undo the swap, it undoes all of them, so it's not so bad in that sense. However, you also have the option of encoding. If you encode a qubit as $(\\alpha|00\\rangle+\\beta|11\\rangle)$, that defeats all those controlled-phase gates.", "With just single qubit gate in your circuit, you can only generate a small subset of quantum states. In fact, the states that you can generate are called separable states. These states have no entanglement in them.\nHere is an example to see why you need to be able to generate entangle state to have successful VQE calculation, supposed you have the Hamiltonian $H = \\begin{pmatrix} 0 &amp; 0 &amp; 0 &amp; 1\\\\ 0 &amp; 0 &amp; 1 &amp; 0\\\\ 0 &amp; 1 &amp; 0 &amp; 0\\\\ 1 &amp; 0 &amp; 0 &amp; 0 \\end{pmatrix} $\nAnd you running VQE to find the lowest eigenvalue to this Hamiltonian. This means you need to be able to generate the eigenstate that correspond to the lowest eigenvalue. Now, if you look at all the eigenstates of $H$ and their correspondence eigenvalues:\n$$|\\psi_1 \\rangle = \\begin{pmatrix} 1/\\sqrt{2} \\\\ 0 \\\\ 0 \\\\ 1/\\sqrt{2} \\end{pmatrix} \\rightarrow 1, |\\psi_2 \\rangle = \\begin{pmatrix} 1/\\sqrt{2} \\\\ 0 \\\\ 0 \\\\ -1/\\sqrt{2}\\end{pmatrix} \\rightarrow -1, |\\psi_3 \\rangle = \\begin{pmatrix} 0 \\\\ 1/\\sqrt{2}\\\\ 1/\\sqrt{2} \\\\ 0\\end{pmatrix} \\rightarrow 1, |\\psi_4 \\rangle = \\begin{pmatrix} 0 \\\\ -1/\\sqrt{2} \\\\ 1/\\sqrt{2} \\\\ 0\\end{pmatrix} \\rightarrow -1$$\nHere you should notice that these states are all entangled.\nSo if you want your VQE algorithm to find the lowest eigenvalue (-1) in this case, it must be able to generate an entangled state. That means if you design your Ansatze only made up from $RY$ rotation, for example:\n\nthen you can't never generate such entangled state, which means you can never reach the minimum eigenvalue. So the complexity of the Ansatz depends on the complexity of the Hamiltonian that you consider.\n\nBut you are right about the fact that given a diagonal Hamiltonian, like those that you are interested in then the eigenstate will be one of the computational basis state! Thus, you do not need entanglement gate or any sort... in fact, you only need $X$ gates to generate such states. But then this means you have to iterate through $2^n$ states... which is not ideal.\nAnd since you know the solution you are looking for is in one of these states, it is quite easy to classically go through all the calculations of the expectation values (depending on how many terms in your cost function Hamiltonian). You do have to do $2^n$ check, so it's not ideal either, but these checks are very easy... you just look at the parity of the Pauli string and this can be done very quickly.... So this makes me wonder, giving the sophistication of classical computer systems (like this cluster), how many qubits do we need for quantum computer to beat classical computer? Classical computers can go through this check so fast... but since the number of terms to check do scale as $2^n$... we will reach a bottle neck at some point. But how many qubits is that going to take before quantum computer wins out? 100 or few hundreds?", "You're exactly right about the physical symmetry of $|0\\rangle$ and $|1\\rangle$. If I handed you a spin-1/2 particle in complete vacuum, the question of whether its in $|0\\rangle$ or $|1\\rangle$ is meaningless without a preferred coordinate system. So there needs to be some physically preferred direction to even set up computation.\n\nNow say I have the ability to turn on an external magnetic field $\\vec{B}$. When its turned on, its direction automatically sets a preferred coordinate system, and $|0\\rangle$ and $|1\\rangle$ are now defined as alignments of spins parallel or antiparallel to the field. Physically, this is because a spin-1/2 particle with some dipole moment $\\vec{\\mu}$ interacts with the field $\\vec{B}$ according to the Hamiltonian\n\n$$\nH = - \\vec{\\mu} \\cdot \\vec{B}\n$$\n\nwhich really just tells us how much energy our particles will have in the external field. Then, we'll choose a convention that $|0\\rangle$ is the low-energy state (say $E_0=0$ for simplicity) and we're ready to compute! \n\nIn this case a Z-gate would just be flipping on the external field for some known time $\\tau$, which corresponds to a time-evolution of $e^{-i H \\tau/\\hbar}$. This has the effect:\n\n\\begin{align}\n|0\\rangle &amp;\\rightarrow |0\\rangle \\\\\n|1\\rangle &amp;\\rightarrow -|1\\rangle \n\\end{align}\n\nNot only does this describe spin qubits, but also simple superconducting qubits like charge qubits. Charge qubits were originally called \"Cooper Pair Box\" because they work by trapping a cooper pair (of charge $2e$) on a superconducting island separated from the grounded material by some distance. In a toy geometry, we'll say this distance is $x$, so that the trapped CP creates an electric dipole $|\\vec{d}| = 2ex$. Now just add an external field to interact with this dipole and you're ready to apply quantum gates.", "TL;DR: Hamiltonian simulation does not just mean \"exponentiating $H$\". It means finding a quantum circuit $U$ that approximates the matrix exponentiation $e^{-iHt}$. More importantly, the size of the Hamiltonian matrix $H$ isn't the key concern here. The gate complexity (or query complexity, in case the Hamiltonian is described as an oracle) of matrix exponentiation is. Simulating arbitrary matrix exponentiations using quantum circuits is computationally very expensive. By imposing specific restrictions on the structure of the local interaction $H_k$ matrices (like, $H_k$ can act on at most constant $c$ number of systems), the complexity of the simulation can be reduced.\n\n\n\nDefinitions\n\nThe basic goal of the Hamiltonian simulation problem, given a Hamiltonian $H$ ($2^n\\times 2^n$ Hermitian matrix acting on $n$ qubits), is to find an algorithm that approximates $U$ such that $||U - e^{-iHt}|| \\leq \\epsilon$, where $e^{-iHt}$ is the ideal evolution and $||.||$ is the operator norm (aka spectral norm)\n\n$$||A|| := \\mathrm{max}_{|\\psi\\rangle\\neq 0}\\frac{||A|\\psi\\rangle||}{|||\\psi\\rangle||},$$ where $||\\psi\\rangle|| = \\sqrt{\\langle \\psi|\\psi\\rangle}$ is the usual Euclidean norm of $|\\psi\\rangle$. \n\nThe key that determines the hardness of this problem is not so much the size of $H$ but rather the gate complexity (gate complexity and time complexity are more or less proportional). In order for the Hamiltonian simulation to be efficient, we need $U$ to be approximable by a quantum circuit containing $\\mathrm{poly}(n)$ gates. Most Hamiltonians $H$ do not satisfy this criterion and are thus not efficiently simulable (you may ask for the proof for this as a separate question if you're curious!). \n\nCommuting Hamiltonians\n\nFortunately, most physically occurring Hamiltonians can indeed be simulated efficiently. A very special case is the class of $k$-local Hamiltonians - these Hamiltonians can be expressed as $H = \\sum_{j=1}^{m} H_j$ where each $H_j$ acts non-trivially on at most $k$-qubits. We generally assume that $m \\leq \\binom{n}{k} = \\mathcal{O}(n^k)$. Since $k$ is supposed to be a constant, $m$ is polynomial in $n$. \n\nIt can be proved from the Solovay-Kitaev theorem that each of the individual $H_j$ operators can be simulated efficiently (cf. Ashley Montanaro's lecture notes). Now if the $H_j$'s commute we have \n\n$$\\exp(-iHt) = \\exp(-i(\\sum_{j=1}^m H_j)) = \\prod_{j=1}^{m}\\exp(-iH_jt).$$\n\nFrom here it can also be shown that for any $t$ there exists a quantum algorithm that approximates the operator $e^{-iHt}$ to within $\\epsilon$ in time $\\mathcal{O}(m \\ \\mathrm{polylog}(m/\\epsilon))$. \n\nNon-Commuting Hamiltonians\n\nHowever, this technique does not work for non-commuting Hamiltonian $H_j$'s since the formula $e^{-i(A+B)t} = e^{-iAt}e^{-iBt}$ does not hold for non-commuting matrices $A$ and $B$. But the Lie-Trotter product formula comes to our rescue, which says\n\n\n Let $A$ and $B$ be Hermitian matrices such that $||A|| \\leq K$ and $||B|| \\leq K$, for some real $K$. Then $e^{-iA}e^{-iB} = e^{-i(A+B)} + \\mathcal{O}(k^2)$.\n\n\nApplying this formula multiple times, for any Hermitian matrices $H_1, H_2, \\ldots$ satisfying $||H_j|| \\leq K \\leq 1$ for all $j$. \n\n$$e^{-iH_1}e^{-iH_2}\\ldots e^{-iH_m} = e^{-i(H_1+\\ldots + H_m)} + \\mathcal{O}(m^3K^2).$$\n\nTherefore, there is a universal constant $C$ such that if $r \\geq Cm^3(Kt)^2/\\epsilon$, \n\n$$||e^{-iH_1t/r}e^{-iH_2t/r}\\ldots e^{-iH_mt/r}|| \\leq \\epsilon/r.$$\n\nHence, for any such $n$ \n\n$$||(e^{-iH_1t/r}e^{-iH_2t/r}\\ldots e^{-iH_mt/r})^r - e^{-i(H_1 + \\ldots + H_m)}|| \\leq \\epsilon$$\n\nfollows from the lemma which states that if $(U_i), (V_i)$ are sequences of $m$ unitary operators satisfying $||U_i - V_i||$ for all $1\\leq i \\leq m$, then $||U_m\\ldots U_1 - V_m\\ldots V_1||\\leq m\\epsilon$.\n\nGiven this result, any $k$-local Hamiltonian can be simulated simply by simulating the evolution of each term for time $t/r$ to high enough accuracy and concatenating the individual simulations. Larger the $r$, more accurate the simulation. This can be formalized as \n\n\n Let $H$ be a Hamiltonian which can be written as the sum of $m$ terms $H_j$, each acting non-trivially on $k = \\mathcal{O}(1)$ qubits and satisfying $||H_j|| \\leq K$ for some $K$. Then, for any $t$, there exists a quantum circuit which approximates the operator $e^{−iHt}$ to within $\\epsilon$ in time $\\mathcal{O}(m^3(Kt)^2/\\epsilon)$, up to polylogarithmic factors.\n\n\nThe $t^2$ dependency can be further lowered, and the complexity can be improved to $\\mathcal{O}(mkt)$. You're right that there are other techniques of Hamiltonian simulation like the Taylor series ($\\mathcal{O}(\\frac{t\\log^2(t/\\epsilon)}{\\log \\log \\frac{t}{\\epsilon}}$)) and quantum walk ($\\mathcal{O}(\\frac{t}{\\sqrt{\\epsilon}})$). With the quantum signal processing algorithm it is $\\mathcal{O}(t + \\log \\frac{1}{\\epsilon})$.\n\nReferences\n\n\nSpring 2016: Advanced Quantum Information Theory by Ashley Montanaro (University of Bristol)\nWikipedia: Hamiltonian Simulation\nAndrew Childs' lecture note and slides on quantum simulation \nUnderstanding Quantum Algorithms via Query Complexity (2017) by Andris Ambainis\nQuantum Computational Complexity (2008) by John Watrous", "The insight that suggests that sparse matrices are useful goes along the lines of: for any $H$, we can decompose it in terms of a set of $H_i$ whose individual components all commute (making diagonalisation straightforward),\n$$\nH=\\sum_{i=1}^mH_i.\n$$\nIf the matrix is sparse, then you shouldn't need too many distinct $H_i$. Then you can simulate the Hamiltonian evolution\n$$\ne^{-iHt}=\\prod_{j=1}^Ne^{-iH_m\\delta t}e^{-iH_{m-1}\\delta t}\\ldots e^{-iH_{1}\\delta t},\n$$\nwhere $t=N\\delta t$. For example, in your case, you can have\n$$\nH_1=\\frac14 X\\otimes(18\\mathbb{I}-6Z\\otimes Z-4Z\\otimes\\mathbb{I}) \\\\\nH_2=\\frac14(X\\otimes(11\\mathbb{I}+5Z)\\otimes X+Y\\otimes(11\\mathbb{I}+5Z)\\otimes Y)\\\\\nH_3=\\frac14(11X\\otimes X-Y\\otimes Y)\\otimes(\\mathbb{I}-Z)\n$$\n(the 3 terms corresponding to the fact that it's a 3-sparse Hamiltonian). I believe there's a strategy here: you go through all the non-zero matrix elements of your Hamiltonian and group them so that if I write their coordinates as $(i,j)$ (and I always include their complex conjugate pair), I continue adding other elements to my set $(k,l)$ provided neither $k$ nor $l$ equal $i$ or $j$.. This would mean for an $m$-sparse Hamiltonian, you have $m$ different $H_i$.\n\nThe problem is this doesn't necessarily work this straightforwardly in practice. For one thing, there's still exponentially many matrix elements that you have to go through, but that's always going to be the case with the way you're setting it up.\n\nThe way that people get around this is they set up an oracle. One possible oracle is essentially a function $f(j,l)$ which returns the position and value of the $l^{th}$ non-zero entry on the $j^{th}$ row. This can be built into a full on quantum algorithm. There are a few papers on this topic (none of which I've completely understood yet). For example, here and here. Let me try to give a crude description of the way they work.\n\nThe first step is to decompose the Hamiltonian as a set of unitaries, multiplied by positive scale factors $\\alpha_i$:\n$$\nH=\\sum_i\\alpha_iU_i\n$$\nFor simplicity, let's assume $H=U_1+\\alpha U_2$. It might be assumed that you're given this decomposition. One then defines an operation (constructed out of controlled-$U_1$ and controlled-$U_2$) that implements $V=|0\\rangle\\langle 0|\\otimes U_1+|1\\rangle\\langle 1|\\otimes U_2$. If we input a particular state $|0\\rangle+\\sqrt{\\alpha}|1\\rangle$ (up to normalisation) on the control qubit, apply $V$, then measure the control qubit, post-selecting on it being in the state $|0\\rangle+\\sqrt{\\alpha}|1\\rangle$, then if the post-selection succeeds, we have implemented $U_1+\\alpha U_2$, which happens with a probability at least $(1-\\alpha)^2/(1+\\alpha)^2$. You can do exactly the same with multiple terms, and indeed with exponentials of Hamiltonians (think about the series expansion), although in practice some better series expansions are used based on Bessel functions.", "$T_1$ and $T_2$ are two measurement of decoherence on a qubit.\n$T_1$ is known as the &quot;relaxation time&quot; or &quot;longitudinal coherence time&quot; or &quot;amplitude damping&quot;.... It measures the loss of energy from the system. You can calibrate/measure/determine the $T_1$ time by first initialize the qubit in the $|0\\rangle$ then apply the $X$ gate, where $X = \\begin{pmatrix} 0 &amp; 1\\\\ 1 &amp; 0 \\end{pmatrix} = |0\\rangle\\langle 1| + |1\\rangle \\langle 0|$ and wait for certain amount of time and measure the probability of the state being in the $|1\\rangle$ eigenstate.\n$T_2$ is known as the &quot;dephasing time&quot; or &quot;transverse coherence time&quot; or &quot;phase coherence time&quot; or &quot;phase damping&quot; ... and $T_2$ can be determined by again initialize the qubit in the state $|0\\rangle$ then apply the Hadamard gate $H = \\dfrac{1}{\\sqrt{2}} \\begin{pmatrix} 1 &amp; 1\\\\ 1 &amp; -1 \\end{pmatrix}$ to the inital qubit state $|0\\rangle$. We will also wait for some time, $t$, and then apply another Hadamard gate, then measure the probability of the qubit being in the state $|0\\rangle$. Here, as you can see, if we have no decoherence then the qubit will ended up back to the state $|0\\rangle$ with 100% probability, as $HH|0\\rangle = |0\\rangle$. But of course this is not the case with qubit, the longer the wait time, the closer this probability will get to $1/2$ as the qubit will go/dephase from the state $\\dfrac{|0\\rangle + |1\\rangle}{\\sqrt{2}}$ to $|0\\rangle$ or $|1\\rangle$ before the second Hadamard gate. Which will then put the qubit back in the superposition state.", "It depends on the Hamiltonian. There are three particular questions whose answers might influence your choice of strategy:\n\n\nDoes the Hamiltonian have any particular structure or symmetry?\nHow quickly does the Hamiltonian change in time?\nWhat do you know about the initial state in relation to the initial Hamiltonian?\n\n\nObviously, if the Hamiltonian has any particular structure or symmetry, you should start by taking advantage of it. For example, if your Hamiltonian $H$ satisfies $$\\left[H,\\sum_{i=1}^NZ_i\\right]=0,$$\nthen you can split $H$ into a series of subspaces $H=\\bigoplus_{i=0}^NH_i$, whose evolutions you can handle separately. This is particularly good if your initial state turns out to be supported on a small number of those subspaces. Another particularly trivial case is of $[H(t),H(s)]=0$ for all $s$ and $t$. In that case, you would start by decomposing the initial state in terms of the eigenvectors.\n\nIf your Hamiltonian is changing slowly in time, and your initial state only has support on a small number of eigenstates, it might be worthwhile investigating whether an adiabatic evolution is occurring. In that case, it may be \"just\" a case of finding the final Hamiltonian and some of its eigenstates.\n\nIf it's changing at a reasonable speed, but your initial state still has support only on a small number of the low-energy eigenvectors, then you might use matrix-product states (especially if your Hamiltonian has a one-dimensional structure).\n\nIf your Hamiltonian is changing very quickly in time, then the default option of Trotterising the Hamiltonian can work quite badly, with errors building quickly. There are improved techniques that work in these sorts of situations, but I've never seen them applied in the discrete setting of qubits (that said, I've never looked). Things like the explicit Arnoldi method, or explicit Fatunla method. You may find some useful details here.\n\nThe default method, which will always work (if you take a small enough $\\delta t$) is to split the Hamiltonian evolution into lots of little time steps $\\delta t$ and just evaluate\n$$\n\\ldots e^{-iH(5\\delta t/2)\\delta t}e^{-iH(3\\delta t/2)\\delta t}e^{-iH(\\delta t/2)\\delta t}|\\psi\\rangle.\n$$\nThis can be improved by using Runge-Kutta type techniques. You can also vary the size of the time step depending on how quickly the Hamiltonian is changing at a particular instant. Some of the quantum techniques for simulation may also be interesting. There have been recent advancements that massively improve the accuracy of those simulations by moving away from the standard Trotterisation.\n\nThere's probably plenty more that could be said, but I guess that's enough to get you started.", "I think you have a slight misunderstanding of what the $Z$ gate in the screenshot you attached is. It is, in fact, not a Z gate, but a (2-qubit) $CZ$ or controlled-$Z$. gate, also referred to as a controlled-phase gate (because the $Z$ operation is a flip of the phase of the $|1\\rangle$ state).\n\nThis $CZ$ gate is a lot like the $CX$ gate, however, it performs a $Z$ operation on the second qubit, but only if the state of the first qubit is $|1\\rangle$ state. If the first is in the $|0\\rangle$ state it performs nothing (i.e. $I$ operation) on the second qubit instead.\n\nIn more technical terms, we can write thus:\n\\begin{equation}\nCZ = |0\\rangle \\langle0| \\otimes I + |1\\rangle \\langle1| \\otimes Z.\n\\end{equation}\n\nThen:\n\\begin{equation}\n(I \\otimes H) CZ(I\\otimes H) = |0\\rangle \\langle0| \\otimes HIH + |1\\rangle \\langle1| \\otimes HZH.\n\\end{equation}\n\nWe can simplify the $HIH$ term easily: $HIH = HH = I$, from the properties of $I$ and $H$.\nThe $HZH$ term is actually equal to $X$:\n\\begin{equation}\n\\begin{split}\nHZH &amp;= \\frac{1}{2}\\begin{bmatrix}1 &amp; 1 \\\\ 1 &amp; -1\\end{bmatrix}\\begin{bmatrix}1 &amp; 0 \\\\ 0 &amp; -1\\end{bmatrix}\\begin{bmatrix}1 &amp; 1 \\\\ 1 &amp; -1\\end{bmatrix}\\\\\n&amp;= \\frac{1}{2}\\begin{bmatrix}1 &amp; -1 \\\\ 1 &amp; 1\\end{bmatrix}\\begin{bmatrix}1 &amp; 1 \\\\ 1 &amp; -1\\end{bmatrix} \\\\\n&amp;= \\frac{1}{2}\\begin{bmatrix}0 &amp; 2 \\\\ 2 &amp; 0\\end{bmatrix}\\\\\n&amp;= \\begin{bmatrix}0 &amp; 1 \\\\ 1 &amp; 0\\end{bmatrix} = X.\n\\end{split}\n\\end{equation}\nSo we can write:\n\\begin{equation}\n(I \\otimes H) CZ(I\\otimes H) = |0\\rangle \\langle0| \\otimes HIH + |1\\rangle \\langle1| \\otimes HZH = |0\\rangle \\langle0| \\otimes I + |1\\rangle \\langle1| \\otimes X.\n\\end{equation}\nThat is to say, an operation that performs the $X$ operation on the second qubit if the first qubit is in the $|1\\rangle$ state (and nothing if the first qubit is in the $|0\\rangle$ state). This is, of course, exactly the $CX$ gate which we are looking for.", "A bit is a binary unit of information used in classical computation. It can take two possible values, typically taken to be $0$ or $1$. Bits can be implemented with devices or physical systems that can be in two possible states. \n\nTo compare and contrast bits with qubits, let's introduce a vector notation for bits as follows: a bit is represented by a column vector of two elements $(\\alpha,\\beta)^T$, where $\\alpha$ stands for $0$ and $\\beta$ for $1$. Now the bit $0$ is represented by the vector $(1,0)^T$ and the bit $1$ by $(0,1)^T$. Just like before, there are only two possible values.\n\nWhile this kind of representation is redundant for classical bits, it is now easy to introduce qubits: a qubit is simply any $(\\alpha,\\beta)^T$ where the complex number elements satisfy the normalization condition $|\\alpha|^2+|\\beta|^2=1$. The normalization condition is necessary to interpret $|\\alpha|^2$ and $|\\beta|^2$ as probabilities for measurement outcomes, as will be seen. Some call qubit the unit of quantum information. Qubits can be implemented as the (pure) states of quantum devices or quantum systems that can be in two possible states, that will form the so called computational basis, and additionally in a coherent superposition of these. Here the quantumness is necessary to have qubits other than the classical $(1,0)^T$ and $(0,1)^T$.\n\nThe usual operations that are carried out on qubits during a quantum computation are quantum gates and measurements. A (single qubit) quantum gate takes as input a qubit and gives as output a qubit that is a linear transformation of the input qubit. When using the above vector notation for qubits, gates should then be represented by matrices that preserve the normalization condition; such matrices are called unitary matrices. Classical gates may be represented by matrices that keep bits as bits, but notice that matrices representing quantum gates do not in general satisfy this requirement.\n\nA measurement on a bit is understood to be a classical one. By this I mean that an a priori unknown value of bit can in principle be correctly found out with certainty. This is not the case for qubits: measuring a generic qubit $(\\alpha,\\beta)^T$ in the computational basis $[ (1,0)^T,(0,1)^T]$ will result in $(1,0)^T$ with probability $|\\alpha|^2$ and in $(0,1)^T$ with probability $|\\beta|^2$. In other words, while qubits can be in states other than computational basis states before measurement, measuring can still have only two possible outcomes.\n\nThere is not much one can do with a single bit or qubit. The full computational power of either comes from using many, which leads to the final difference between them that will be covered here: multiple qubits can be entangled. Informally speaking, entanglement is a form of correlation much stronger than classical systems can have. Together, superposition and entanglement allow one to design algorithms realized with qubits that cannot be done with bits. Of greatest interest are algorithms that allow the completion of a task with reduced computational complexity when compared to best known classical algorithms.\n\nBefore concluding, it should be mentioned that a qubit can be simulated with bits (and vice versa), but the number of bits required grows rapidly with the number of qubits. Consequently, without reliable quantum computers quantum algorithms are of theoretical interest only.", "What follows turned out to be a rather technical explanation, so I'll start with the main point: The qubit state can change the resonator's state, and the resonator's state can be easily measured only if there is a large different in frequencies between the qubit and the resonator.\n\nLet's model a qubit as a two-level system and a resonator as a harmonic oscillator. We need to give both a characteristic frequency, so let's call the qubit frequency $\\omega_q$ and the resonator frequency $\\omega_r$. We also need to characterize the strength of the interaction (how fast energy is transferred from one thing to another), and that's usually called $g$. \n\nNow we need to describe the dynamics of the qubit and resonator together. That's done by breaking the Hamiltonian down into three parts: qubit energy, resonator energy, and interaction strength.\n\n$$H_{\\text{qubit}} = \\frac{1}{2} \\hbar \\omega_q \\sigma_z $$\n\n$$H_{\\text{resonator}} = \\hbar \\omega_r \\ a^\\dagger a $$\n\n$$H_I = \\hbar g ( \\sigma_+a + a^\\dagger \\sigma_-)$$\n\n$$ H = H_{\\text{qubit}} + H_{\\text{resonator}} + H_I $$\n\nThis is the Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian. Note that the rotating wave approximation was used. Pauli operators are given by $\\sigma$, and creation and annihilation operators are $a^\\dagger$ and $a$. \n\nNow, if the frequencies of the resonator and the qubit are the same (that's called the \"resonance condition\"), then they will exchange energy back and forth, much like an LC circuit or potential and kinetic energy in a pendulum. That's not ideal for measuring a qubit (you want to avoid as much as possible the measurement apparatus influencing the qubit state), so we make the frequency of the resonator very far away from the qubit's. This is a called a dispersive interaction.\n\nFormally, if $\\omega_r - \\omega_q = \\Delta$, the Hamiltonian (now in the interaction picture) can be expressed as \n\n$$ H = \\hbar \\frac{g^2}{\\Delta} ( |1\\rangle \\langle 1| + a^\\dagger a \\sigma_z ) $$\n\nIf the interaction between the qubit and the resonator is dispersive, and if the resonator is driven to a coherent state $|\\alpha\\rangle$, then the qubit states of $|0\\rangle$ and $|1\\rangle$ can be distinguished.\n\nExamine the evolution of two initial states, $|0\\rangle|\\alpha\\rangle$ and $|1\\rangle|\\alpha\\rangle$:\n\n$$ e^{-iHt/\\hbar}|0\\rangle|\\alpha\\rangle = |0\\rangle|\\alpha e^{-i\\frac{g^2}{\\Delta}t } \\rangle $$\n\n$$ e^{-iHt/\\hbar}|1\\rangle|\\alpha\\rangle = |1\\rangle|\\alpha e^{i\\frac{g^2}{\\Delta}t } \\rangle $$\n\nThis is the point of the dispersive interaction: the coherent state of the resonator changes according to the state of the qubit, without having energy exchanged directly. You can see that the coherent state gets shifted counterclockwise for a 0 and clockwise for a 1. Furthermore, it's a simple matter to measure the state of a coherent resonator, since it can be described classically.\n\nThis is only an outline of the complete answer. I've assumed knowledge of basic quantum mechanics, changing reference frames (interaction picture, Schrodinger picture, etc), coherent states, and the rotating wave approximation. I also glossed over the derivation of the dispersive Hamiltonian, which you can find in \"Introductory Quantum Optics\" by Gerry and Knight.", "You can implement your gate $U$ with following circuit (note that I denoted qubits differently, i.e. qubits $q_0$, $q_1$ and $q_2$ are controlling qubits and $q_3$ is target qubit):\n\n\n\nI will start with description of gates acting on qubits $q_2$ and $q_3$. Gate $U1$ is defined as follows\n$$\nU1(\\theta) =\n\\begin{pmatrix}\n1 &amp; 0 \\\\\n0 &amp; \\mathrm{e}^{i \\theta}\n\\end{pmatrix}\n$$\n\nWhen gate $U1$ acts on qubit $q_2$ and identity gate $I$ acts on qubit $q_3$, they together \ncompose so-called controlled global phase gate denoted by matrix\n\n$$\nU1 \\otimes I =\n\\begin{pmatrix}\n1 &amp; 0 &amp; 0 &amp; 0 \\\\\n0 &amp; 1 &amp; 0 &amp; 0 \\\\\n0 &amp; 0 &amp; \\mathrm{e}^{i \\theta} &amp; 0 \\\\\n0 &amp; 0 &amp; 0 &amp; \\mathrm{e}^{i \\theta} \n\\end{pmatrix}\n$$\n\nThis gate changes a phase of $q_3$ only in case $q_2$ is in state $|1\\rangle$.\n\nHowever, we want the gate $U$ to act only in case qubits $q_0$, $q_1$ and $q_2$ are all in state $|1\\rangle$. This means that gate $U1$ has to be controlled by qubits $q_0$ and $q_1$ as well. Since there is only gate $U1$ controlled by one qubit, we have to use Toffoli gate (logical AND) to indicate whether both qubits $q_0$ and $q_1$ are in state $|1\\rangle$. The result of Toffoli gate is stored in ancila qubit $q_4$ and then used for controlling gate $U1$. Finnaly ancila qubit is uncomputed again by Toffoli gate (because this gate is inverse to itself) back to state $|0\\rangle$.\n\nEventuall, only in case qubits $q_0$, $q_1$ and $q_2$ are all in state $|1\\rangle$ (as indicated by $X$ gates in the figure), the gate acts and change the phase as desired.\n\nA matrix describing the circuits is this\n$$\nU = \n\\begin{pmatrix}\nI_4 &amp; O_4\\\\\nO_4 &amp; U_1 \\otimes I \\\\\n\\end{pmatrix}\n= \\text{diag}(1,1\\ \\cdots, \\mathrm{e}^{i\\theta},\\mathrm{e}^{i\\theta}),\n$$\nwhere $I_4$ is 4x4 unit matrix and $O_4$ is 4x4 zero matrix.", "We know that giving a single qubit starting in the state $|0\\rangle$, which is a state one can initialize very fast with high fidelity, then we can put it in the superposition state $|\\psi \\rangle = \\dfrac{|0\\rangle + |1\\rangle}{\\sqrt{2}}$ by applying a Hadamard gate. That is,\n$$H |0\\rangle = \\dfrac{|0\\rangle + |1\\rangle}{\\sqrt{2}}$$\nAnd we can do for $N$-qubit by applying each Hadmard gate to each qubit individually. That is,\n\\begin{align} \\overbrace{H|0\\rangle \\otimes H|0\\rangle \\otimes \\cdots \\otimes H|0\\rangle}^{n \\ \\textrm{times}} &amp;= \\overbrace{ \\bigg( \\dfrac{|0\\rangle +|1\\rangle}{\\sqrt{2} } \\bigg)\\otimes \\bigg( \\dfrac{|0\\rangle +|1\\rangle}{\\sqrt{2} } \\bigg) \\otimes \\cdots \\otimes \\bigg( \\dfrac{|0\\rangle +|1\\rangle}{\\sqrt{2} } \\bigg) }^{n \\ \\textrm{times}} \\\\\n&amp;= \\dfrac{1}{\\sqrt{2^{n}}}\\big( \\overbrace{ |00\\cdots0\\rangle + |00\\cdots1\\rangle + \\cdots + |11\\cdots 1\\rangle }^{2^n \\ \\textrm{terms} } \\big)\\\\\n&amp;= \\dfrac{1}{\\sqrt{2^n}}\\sum_{i=0}^{2^n-1} |i\\rangle\n\\end{align}\nYou can do these $N$ operations of applying Hadamard gate to each qubit in parallel as applying a Hadamard to qubit 1 does not effect the state of qubit 2 and etc. You can see this parallelization in term of quantum circuit as well:\n\nAll these Hadamard gates can be and will be execute at the same time on the quantum processor.\nFurthermore, each Hadamard gate can be executed pretty quick. In fact, if you execute a circuit with a Hadamard and do a measurement, the measurement process takes much much longer than the execution of Hadamard gate. See the pulse schedule for this particular circuit below: (The pink rectangular boxes indicate the measurement process)", "Let $\\rho$ be an arbitrary single-qubit state. Since $\\rho$ is Hermitian it has real eigenvalues and an orthonormal eigenbasis in which it is diagonal\n$$\n\\rho = \\lambda_1 |\\psi\\rangle\\langle\\psi| + \\lambda_2 |\\psi^\\perp\\rangle\\langle\\psi^\\perp|\n$$\nand since it has unit trace $\\lambda_1 + \\lambda_2 = 1$. Thus we can find an angle $\\beta$ such that $\\lambda_1 = \\cos^2\\frac{\\beta}{2}$ and $\\lambda_2 = \\sin^2\\frac{\\beta}{2}$. The first eigenvector can be expanded in the computational basis as\n$$\n|\\psi\\rangle = \\cos\\frac{\\theta}{2}|0\\rangle + e^{i\\phi}\\sin\\frac{\\theta}{2}|1\\rangle\n$$\nand the other one is fixed up to global phase by orthonormality\n$$\n|\\psi^\\perp\\rangle = -\\sin\\frac{\\theta}{2}|0\\rangle + e^{i\\phi}\\cos\\frac{\\theta}{2}|1\\rangle.\n$$\nThus, we see that $\\rho$ is completely described by three parameters: $\\beta, \\theta$ and $\\phi$.\nNow, recall that\n$$\nR_Y(\\theta) = \\begin{pmatrix}\n\\cos\\frac{\\theta}{2} &amp;-\\sin\\frac{\\theta}{2} \\\\\n\\sin\\frac{\\theta}{2} &amp;\\cos\\frac{\\theta}{2}\n\\end{pmatrix} \\\\\nR_Z(\\phi) = \\begin{pmatrix}\ne^{-\\frac{i\\phi}{2}} &amp; 0 \\\\\n0 &amp; e^{\\frac{i\\phi}{2}}\n\\end{pmatrix}\n$$\nand so\n$$\nU(\\theta, \\phi) = R_Z(\\phi) R_Y(\\theta) \\equiv\\begin{pmatrix}\n\\cos\\frac{\\theta}{2} &amp; -\\sin\\frac{\\theta}{2} \\\\\ne^{i\\phi}\\sin\\frac{\\theta}{2} &amp; e^{i\\phi}\\cos\\frac{\\theta}{2}\n\\end{pmatrix}\n$$\nwhere $\\equiv$ denotes equivalence up to unobservable global phase. We see that $U|0\\rangle = |\\psi\\rangle$ and $U|1\\rangle = |\\psi^\\perp\\rangle$.\nThis means that we can prepare a qubit in the $\\rho$ state by first initializing a data qubit in the $|0\\rangle$ state, applying $X$ gate with probability $\\lambda_2$, applying $R_Y(\\theta)$ and finally applying $R_Z(\\phi)$. In practice, we can realize the probabilistic $X$ gate using the CNOT gate targeting the data qubit and controlled by an auxiliary qubit prepared in the state $\\cos\\frac{\\beta}{2}|0\\rangle + \\sin\\frac{\\beta}{2}|1\\rangle$. The preparation can be performed using $R_Y(\\beta)$. After the CNOT gate the state of the two qubits is $\\cos\\frac{\\beta}{2}|0\\rangle|\\psi\\rangle + \\sin\\frac{\\beta}{2}|1\\rangle|\\psi^\\perp\\rangle$. Finally, we discard the auxiliary qubit leaving the data qubit in the state\n$$\n\\mathrm{tr}_1\\left[\\left(\\cos\\frac{\\beta}{2}|0\\rangle|\\psi\\rangle + \\sin\\frac{\\beta}{2}|1\\rangle|\\psi^\\perp\\rangle\\right)\\left(\\cos\\frac{\\beta}{2}\\langle 0|\\langle\\psi| + \\sin\\frac{\\beta}{2}\\langle 1|\\langle\\psi^\\perp|\\right)\\right] =\\\\ \\cos^2\\frac{\\beta}{2}|\\psi\\rangle\\langle\\psi| + \\sin^2\\frac{\\beta}{2} |\\psi^\\perp\\rangle\\langle\\psi^\\perp| = \\rho.\n$$\nIn summary, the circuit is:\n\nPrepare a data and auxiliary qubits in $|00\\rangle$ state.\nApply $R_Y(\\beta)$ to the auxiliary qubit.\nApply CNOT with the auxiliary qubit as control and data qubit as target.\nApply $R_Y(\\theta)$ to the data qubit.\nApply $R_Z(\\phi)$ to the data qubit.\nDiscard the auxiliary qubit.\n\nAlternatively, we can measure the auxiliary qubit after $R_Y(\\beta)$ and replace CNOT with a classically controlled $X$ gate. We discard measurement result after using it to control the $X$ gate.", "In the mentioned context, what is meant is that, between a pair of qubits that are coupled, an XX coupling means something of the form\n$$\nX\\otimes X\\equiv\\left(\\begin{array}{cccc} 0 &amp; 0 &amp; 0 &amp; 1 \\\\ 0 &amp; 0 &amp; 1 &amp; 0 \\\\ 0 &amp; 1 &amp; 0 &amp; 0 \\\\ 1 &amp; 0 &amp; 0 &amp; 0 \\end{array}\\right),\n$$\ntensored with identity between all other qubits, where $X$ is the standard Pauli matrix. You then sum these terms over every possible pair of coupled qubits, possibly with different strengths. For example, in a spin chain, qubits labelled 1 to $n$, with a nearest-neighbour coupling (i.e. between all pairs $i$ and $i+1$), the XX coupling means\n$$\n\\sum_{i=1}^{N-1}J_i\\mathbb{I}^{\\otimes(i-1)}\\otimes X\\otimes X\\otimes\\mathbb{I}^{\\otimes(n-i-1)} \n$$\nfor real parameters $J_i$. Similarly, $YY$ means replacing the $X\\otimes X$ with $Y\\otimes Y$.\n\nIn other contexts, the terminology can be used slightly differently. For example, in the condensed matter community, they usually talk about an \"XX Hamiltonian\". This does not mean a Hamiltonian with XX couplings. Instead, it means a Hamiltonian with terms of the form $XX+YY$ between coupled pairs of qubits. This is also called the exchange interation. To make this notation clearer, let me give further examples. An $XXX$ Hamiltonian, normally called the Heisenberg Hamiltonian, would mean couplings of the for $XX+YY+ZZ$, while $XXZ$ means $XX+YY+\\Delta ZZ$ for some parameter $\\Delta$. In other words, there are generally 3 terms that you have to worry about in a two-qubit coupling: $aXX+bYY+cZZ$, and a notation like \"XX\" or \"XXX\" tells you the number of non-zero terms $(a,b,c)$ which are the same. While \"XXZ\" tells you two values are the same ($a=b$), but that one value is different. The further complication is that this notation is not consistently used. Sometimes people use \"XY\" to mean $XX+YY$ and \"XYZ\" to mean $XX+YY+ZZ$.\n\n\n what purpose do they serve\n\n\nThe purpose is to change the maths. The whole point is that without these extra terms, D-wave's quantum computer is not universal - it is incapable of implementing an arbitrary quantum computation.\n\nLet me try to give some insight as to why that might be (I don't pretend that this applies directly). To that end, consider the simple geometry of a one-dimensional chain. You'd have some sort of Hamiltonian\n$$\nH=\\sum_{i=1}^{n-1}\\Delta_iZ_iZ_{i+1}+\\sum_{i=1}^nB_iX_i.\n$$\nThe great thing about this Hamiltonian, the transverse Ising model, is that it's exactly solvable via Bogoliubov and Jordan-Wigner transformations. But that means that we can classically simulate its effects and so it's not interesting from a computation perspective. However, if we add extra terms to make the Hamiltonian\n$$\nH=\\sum_{i=1}^{n-1}\\Delta_iZ_iZ_{i+1}+\\sum_{i=1}^{n-1}\\tilde\\Delta_iX_iX_{i+1}+\\sum_{i=1}^nB_iX_i.\n$$\nthen we don't know how to simulate it, and it has the potential to perform interesting computations (this is a long way from proving that simulation of this Hamiltonian is BQP complete).", "am I sure that the compiler will always be able to decompose this big gate into a succession of smaller, allowed gates, without breaking the complexity\n\n\nNo, you're not. This is the whole problem with algorithms, be they classical or quantum.\n\nHowever, in the specific case you're talking about, there is a nice implementation. Imagine that you want to apply the rotation $R_y(\\theta_x)$ if the main register is in the state $|x\\rangle$. Let me further more assume that there is a good $t$-bit approximation to the values $\\theta_x$ for which there is an efficient classical function. So, I have a function $f(x)$ that outputs the value $\\tilde\\theta_x$, the $t$-bit approximation to $\\theta_x$. Since it's a classical function, I can also write it as a quantum function $V$ that acts as $V|x\\rangle|0\\rangle=|x\\rangle|\\tilde\\theta_x\\rangle$, having introduced an ancilla system of $t$ bits. Implementation of $V$ is efficient because the evaluation of $f$ is efficient.\n\nNext, I know that if I apply phase gates on the $t$ qubits of the ancilla register (phase $\\pi,\\pi/2,\\pi/4,\\pi/8,\\ldots$), I can implement $|\\tilde\\theta_x\\rangle\\rightarrow e^{i\\tilde\\theta_x}|\\tilde\\theta_x\\rangle$. If I just inverted my original calculation at this point, $V^\\dagger$, then the net effect is $e^{i\\tilde\\theta_x}|x\\rangle\\rightarrow|x\\rangle$. However, imagine now that I replace the phase gates with controlled-phase gates, controlled off the single qubit target. Then the net effect of the gate is a controlled-phase rotation of angle $\\tilde\\theta_x$ between the $|x\\rangle$ register and the single qubit target. At this point, you're essentially there. You just need a basis rotation (e.g. $(Z+Y)/\\sqrt{2}$) on the target qubit to convert the gate from controlled-$Z$ to controlled-$Y$.", "Or should we input $[1 \\ 0]$ in each H gate, because we are applying H\n gates to just qubit of state $|0\\rangle$ each time?\n\n\nYes, when you have a two-qubit state (say you label the two qubits as $A$ and $B$ respectively), you need to apply the two Hadamard gates separately on each qubit's state. The final state will be the tensor product of the two \"transformed\" single-qubit states.\n\nIf your input is $|0\\rangle_A\\otimes|0\\rangle_B$, the output will simply be $$\\left(\\frac{|0\\rangle+|1\\rangle}{\\sqrt{2}}\\right)_A\\otimes\\left(\\frac{|0\\rangle+|1\\rangle}{\\sqrt{2}}\\right)_B$$\n\n\n\nAlternative:\n\nIf the two input qubits are entangled, the above method won't work since you won't be able to represent the input state as a tensor product of the states of the two qubits. So, I'm outlining a more general method here.\n\nWhen two gates are in parallel, like in your case, you can consider the tensor product of the two gates and apply that on the 2-qubit state vector. You'll end up with the same result.\n\n$\\frac{1}{\\sqrt{2}}\\begin{bmatrix}1&amp;1\\\\1&amp;-1\\\\ \\end{bmatrix} \\otimes \\frac{1}{\\sqrt{2}}\\begin{bmatrix}1&amp;1\\\\1&amp;-1\\\\ \\end{bmatrix} = \\frac{1}{2}\\begin{bmatrix}1&amp;1&amp;1&amp;1\\\\1&amp;-1&amp;1&amp;-1\\\\1&amp;1&amp;-1&amp;-1\\\\1&amp;-1&amp;-1&amp;1 \\end{bmatrix}$\n\nNow, on applying this matrix on the 2-qubit state $\\begin{bmatrix}1\\\\0\\\\0\\\\0\\end{bmatrix}$ you get:\n\n$$\\frac{1}{2}\\begin{bmatrix}1&amp;1&amp;1&amp;1\\\\1&amp;-1&amp;1&amp;-1\\\\1&amp;1&amp;-1&amp;-1\\\\1&amp;-1&amp;-1&amp;1 \\end{bmatrix} \\begin{bmatrix}1\\\\0\\\\0\\\\0\\end{bmatrix}=\\begin{bmatrix}1/2\\\\1/2\\\\1/2\\\\1/2\\end{bmatrix}$$\n\nwhich is equivalent to $$\\left(\\frac{|0\\rangle+|1\\rangle}{\\sqrt{2}}\\right)_A\\otimes\\left(\\frac{|0\\rangle+|1\\rangle}{\\sqrt{2}}\\right)_B$$\n\nJustification\n\nTensor product of linear maps:\n\n\n The tensor product also operates on linear maps between vector spaces.\n Specifically, given two linear maps $S : V \\to X$ and $T : W \\to Y$\n between vector spaces, the tensor product of the two linear maps $S$\n and $T$ is a linear map $(S\\otimes T)(v\\otimes w) = S(v) \\otimes T(w)$\n defined by $(S\\otimes T)(v\\otimes w) = S(v) \\otimes T(w)$.\n\n\nThus, $$(\\mathbf H|0\\rangle_A) \\otimes (\\mathbf H|0\\rangle_B) = (\\mathbf H\\otimes \\mathbf H)(|0\\rangle_A \\otimes |0\\rangle_B)$$", "An example of constructing (with help of Qiskit) a controlled version of some simple 4x4 unitary matrix:\n\n$$\nU = \\begin{pmatrix}\n\\mathrm{e}^{i g_1} &amp; 0 &amp; 0 &amp; 0 \\\\\n0 &amp; \\mathrm{e}^{i g_2} &amp; 0 &amp; 0 \\\\\n0 &amp; 0 &amp; \\mathrm{e}^{i g_3} &amp; 0 \\\\\n0 &amp; 0 &amp; 0 &amp; \\mathrm{e}^{i g_4} \\\\\n\\end{pmatrix}\n$$\n\nwhere $g_s$ are some given constants. It can be shown that this corresponds to the following circuit:\n\nfrom qiskit import *\n\ng_1 = 1.2\ng_2 = 1.5\ng_3 = 0.7\ng_4 = -0.9\n\nq = QuantumRegister(2, \"q\")\ncircuit = QuantumCircuit(q)\n\ncircuit.cu1(g_4, q[0], q[1])\ncircuit.x(q[1])\ncircuit.cu1(g_3, q[0], q[1])\ncircuit.x(q[0])\ncircuit.cu1(g_1, q[0], q[1])\ncircuit.x(q[1])\ncircuit.cu1(g_2, q[0], q[1])\ncircuit.x(q[0])\n\n\nto obtain the controlled version of the circuit we will use Qiskit's get_controlled_circuit() method:\n\nfrom qiskit.aqua.utils.controlled_circuit import get_controlled_circuit\n\ncontrol_qubit = QuantumRegister(1, \"a\")\ncontrolled_circuit = QuantumCircuit(q, control_qubit)\n\ncontrolled_circuit = get_controlled_circuit(circuit, control_qubit[0])\nprint(controlled_circuit.qasm())\n\n\nHow I understand the steps of the get_controlled_circuit() method: \n1) it takes your given circuit \n2) changes your gates to Qiskit's basis gates (u1, u2, u3, cx). \n3) for each given basis gate it modifies and replaces it with the controlled version of it (it has a \"dictionary of methods\" that implements the controlled circuits for all basis gates).\n\nSo, to sum up. Firstly one needs to decompose the given $U$ operator into gates, then for each gate construct the controlled version of it. In other words, if one has a circuit gate_1 gate_2 gate_3, the controlled version of it will look like this controlled_gate_1 controlled_gate_2 controlled_gate_3. If the control qubit is in the $| 1 \\rangle$ state all gates will be executed, and if it is in the $| 0 \\rangle$ state nothing will happen (as is expected by definition of the control operations). And if you want to implement a controlled version of $U^n$ operator, you can just apply $n$ controlled $U$ circuits.\n\nFinal Notes: To obtain a circuit from a given unitary matrix is not a trivial problem and I don't know a general solution for that. Usually, in QPE algorithm implementations, one is given a Hamiltonian $H$ operator expressed by a sum of Pauli product terms and the problem is to simulate $e^{iHt}$ unitary operator to estimate the phase $\\varphi$, from $e^{iHt} | \\psi \\rangle = e^{iEt} | \\psi \\rangle = e^{i 2 \\pi \\varphi} | \\psi \\rangle$, where $| \\psi \\rangle$ is some eigenstate of $H$. The $H$ is given in this form:\n\n$$H = P_1 + P_2 + P_3 + P_3$$\n\nwhere $P_s$ are the Pauli terms (like $X \\otimes Y \\otimes Y$ or $Z \\otimes Y$). Simulation of the $e^{i P t}$ for a given $P$ Pauli term can be done as described in J.D. Whitfield et al [1] paper. If we have all circuits for Pauli terms we will be able to simulate the whole Hamiltonian with the use of Trotterization techniques (more info can be found in [1] paper).", "Probably the easiest way to understand this is to pretend that the mixer is NOT there and see what happens. So, let's assume you have some initial state $\\lvert \\psi \\rangle = \\sum_x \\psi_x \\lvert x \\rangle$ and you want to use QAOA to find the ground state of some cost Hamiltonian $H_C$. I'm using the notation $\\big\\{\\lvert x \\rangle : x \\in \\{\\pm 1\\}^n \\big\\}$ for the $\\sigma^z$-basis (the computational basis). Note that the cost Hamiltonian $H_C$ will be diagonal in this basis.\n$$\nH_C = \\sum_x E_x \\lvert x \\rangle \\langle x \\rvert\n$$\nApplying the phase-shifter $U(\\gamma) = \\exp(-i \\gamma H_C)$ to $\\lvert \\psi \\rangle$ one obtains\n$$\n\\lvert \\psi(\\gamma) \\rangle \\equiv U(\\gamma) \\lvert \\psi \\rangle = \\sum_x e^{-i\\gamma E_x} \\psi_x \\lvert x \\rangle\n$$\nLet's stop here for now. If you measure the new state $\\lvert \\psi(\\gamma) \\rangle$ with respect to the computational basis you get a configuration $x \\in \\{\\pm 1\\}^n$ with probability\n$$\np_x = \\lvert \\langle x|\\psi(\\gamma) \\rangle \\rvert^2 = \\lvert e^{-i\\gamma E_x} \\psi_x \\rvert^2 = \\lvert \\psi_x \\rvert^2\n$$\nwhich is exactly the probability you would have got if you had measured the state $\\lvert \\psi \\rangle$ to begin with. Evolution with respect to $H_C$ has not changed this probability distribution so we haven't really gained anything.\nNote that this implies that for any observable that is diagonal in the $\\sigma^z$-basis, e.g. for the cost Hamiltonian $H_C$, we have\n$$\n\\langle \\psi(\\gamma) \\rvert H_C \\lvert \\psi(\\gamma) \\rangle = \\langle \\psi \\rvert U^{\\dagger}(\\gamma) H_C U(\\gamma) \\lvert \\psi \\rangle = \\langle \\psi \\rvert H_C \\lvert \\psi \\rangle\n$$\nsince $\\langle x \\rvert H_C \\lvert y \\rangle = E_x \\delta_{xy}$. This is bad since the average energy functional (here I'm suppressing the dependence on the mixing time $\\beta$ since we're pretending we're not using a mixer)\n$$\nf(\\gamma) = \\langle \\psi(\\gamma) \\rvert H_C \\lvert \\psi(\\gamma) \\rangle\n$$\nis used by the classical optimization part of the QAOA in order to optimize the state $ \\lvert \\psi(\\gamma) \\rangle$: you want to find a value $\\gamma$ that minimizes $f(\\gamma)$. But we just saw that $f(\\gamma)$ is a constant function of $\\gamma$ so there's nothing to optimize here. You can't go down in energy (that is, in &quot;cost&quot;) by choosing different values of $\\gamma$.\nFrom a physical point of view this is perfectly obvious: the system is evolving under closed-system dynamics and the energy (represented here by $H_C$) is conserved.\nAll of this changes if you then apply a mixer (where e.g. $B= \\sum_i \\sigma_i^x$)\n$$\nU(\\beta) \\equiv \\exp(-i\\beta B)\n$$\nto your state $\\lvert \\psi(\\gamma) \\rangle$ so that you get\n$$\n\\lvert \\psi(\\gamma,\\beta) \\rangle \\equiv \\exp(-i\\beta B)\\exp(-i\\gamma H_C) \\lvert \\psi \\rangle\n$$\nSince $H_C$ and $B$ do not commute, the dynamics generated by $B$ will not in general conserve the &quot;energy&quot; (i.e. the cost) $H_C$.\nNow the (correct) QAOA energy functional\n$$\nf(\\gamma,\\beta) = \\langle \\psi(\\gamma,\\beta) \\rvert H_C \\lvert \\psi(\\gamma,\\beta) \\rangle\n$$\nis no longer a constant function of $\\gamma,\\beta$ and you can use your favourite classical optimizer to minimize its value. That is, you will (in general) be able to find values $\\gamma^*,\\beta^*$ such that\n$$\n\\langle \\psi(\\gamma^*,\\beta^*) \\rvert H_C \\lvert \\psi(\\gamma^*,\\beta^*) \\rangle &lt; \\langle \\psi \\rvert H_C \\lvert \\psi \\rangle.\n$$\nThe exact same argument applies to any depth $p$ of the QAOA variational Ansatz." ]

[ "Japan's Nikkei average closed 0.72 percent lower on Tuesday after weak industrial output data sapped investor appetite for technology issues, but declines were limited as the dollar firmed against the yen for a second day." ]

[ "The Nikkei average ended nearly flat on Tuesday as exporters rose on a weaker yen, but gains were capped as Lehman Brothers lowered its rating on Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (4502.T) and the drug sector.", "Asian stocks mostly rose on Monday, as steel makers such as POSCO gained on the prospect of global industry consolidation, but Japan&#039;s Nikkei closed lower amid jitters ahead of industrial output data.", "Tokyo&#39;s Nikkei average jumped 1.6 percent by the close on Friday as a rally on Wall Street and lower oil prices ignited broad-based buying, with weak Japanese GDP data causing only a brief stutter at the start.", "U.S. stocks ended lower on Thursday as investors took profits following data that signalled strength in the economy and revived interest-rate concerns.", "U.S. stocks ended lower on Tuesday, after data indicated that the critical holiday shopping season got off to a sluggish start for retailers.", "US stocks ended the week on a subdued note on Friday when economic data combined with heightened credit concerns sent leading indices lower.", "U.S. specialty apparel retailers saw sales rise 3.6 percent in holiday shopping, at the lower-end of expectations, according to data released on Tuesday by SpendingPulse.", "Japan's Nikkei average opened 0.43 percent lower on Thursday as investors took profits in Sony Corp. and other exporters that had risen in the previous three sessions.", "Tokyo shares end broadly higher TOKYO, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks broadly extended their gains on Thursday, sending the key Nikkei index 1.22 percent higher. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average rose 192.34 points, or 1.22 percent, to end at 15,942.39.", "Singapore shares ended lower Monday, hurt by below-expected third-quarter economic data that added to ongoing concerns over high oil prices and weakness on Wall Street.", "U.S. technology stocks ended lower on Thursday as concerns about business spending dragged down shares of bellwethers such as Intel Corp , while caution before Friday's payrolls data limited a broader market advance.", "U.S. retailers' sales rose 3.6 percent in holiday shopping, at the lower end of expectations, helped by a late-season spending surge on some items, according to data released on Tuesday by SpendingPulse.", "Tokyo's Nikkei average turned lower by late morning on Wednesday as concern over surging oil prices and their possible impact on the global economy hit exporters such as Toyota Motor Corp.", "The steep sell-off swept in global stock markets continued on Wednesday as Asian equities followed US markets lower, led by Tokyo, where the benchmark Nikkei 225 average tumbled nearly 3 per cent to close 501.95 lower at 16,7676.89.", "The Nikkei average rose 0.64 percent by midafternoon on Wednesday on gains in chip stocks including Advantest Corp but falls in metal stocks due to lower commodities prices curbed gains.", "TOKYO - Japanese stocks were lower Wednesday at midday in the wake of a military coup in Thailand and Wall Street's overnight fall. The dollar was lower against the yen. The Nikkei 225 index fell 177.78 points, or 1.12 percent, to 15,696.50 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange midday Wednesday.", "The dollar dawdled at the lower end of recent ranges on Friday after soft U.S. manufacturing data fueled a view that the Federal Reserve may slow or even temporarily halt its tightening campaign.", "U.S. stocks ended the first week of 2005 lower, as widely watched jobs data failed to excite investors by coming in close to expectations, while Wall Street showed caution ahead of a slew of earnings reports next week.", "Tokyo's Nikkei average opened down 0.58 percent on Tuesday with technology issues such as Advantest Corp. leading the way, hit by a drop in their U.S. rivals and unexpectedly weak production data at home.", "Tokyo stocks opened lower Tuesday due to concerns about rising oil prices, while the dollar rose against the Japanese yen. The Nikkei Stock Average was down 53.", "U.S. stocks ended the first week of 2005 lower on Friday as widely watched jobs data failed to excite investors by coming in close to expectations, but a strong showing by Apple Computer Inc. AAPL.O helped limit losses on the Nasdaq.", "Leading shares closed modestly lower, ending not far from mid-afternoon lows as Wall Street put in a cautious morning performance in reaction to weaker than expected US data and a fresh rise in crude prices, dealers said.", "Asian stock markets closed mostly lower Monday, with prices falling in Tokyo on profit-taking. Tokyo&#39;s Nikkei Stock Average of 225 issues shed 77.", "Tokyo's Nikkei fell 0.27 percent to close lower for the ninth day in a row on Wednesday, the longest losing streak in two years, as worries over the impact of high oil prices on earnings weighed on exporters.", "Company introduces a lower-cost way to keep up with data growth without the need for IT expertise.", "Japan's Nikkei share average rose to its highest close in four weeks on Friday as hopes grew for a seasonal year-end rally.", "The high-end retailer continues to perform better than its lower-end peers.", "Ford Motor Co. on Tuesday said its inventory at the end of July was lower than a month before, and inventory at the end of 2006 should be lower than a year earlier.", "Japan's Nikkei share average opened lower on Thursday amid worries over higher oil prices and their possible impact on global economies, but the downside was supported by bargain hunting following recent sharp losses.", "TOKYO - Stocks opened slightly lower Tuesday on the Tokyo Stock Exchange following sharp gains the previous day that led the benchmark Nikkei stock index to post its second-largest point gain this year.", "Weak manufacturing data and massive losses at Merrill Lynch send US shares tumbling sharply lower.", "Japanese stocks dipped sharply during Wednesday morning trading, falling in the wake of an overnight plunge on Wall Street. The dollar was lower against the yen. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index fell 512.04 points, or 2.98 percent, to 16,666.80 points on the Tokyo Stock Exchange by the end of morning session. The index had fallen 0.66 percent to finish at 17,178.84 points Tuesday." ]

[ "The level of productivity is the most fundamental and important factor determining the standard of living. Raising it allows people to get what they want faster or get more in the same amount of time. Supply rises with productivity, which decreases real prices and increases real wages." ]

[ "Iceland is one of the prominent countries in Europe without any McDonald's outlets. The tiny country closed all the outlets following the collapse of their currency (Iceland Krone) in 2009. The country's economic crisis at the time led to high cost of importing food products that were required by McDonald's.", "Tissue culture is seen as an important technology for developing countries for the production of disease-free, high quality planting material and the rapid production of many uniform plants.", "Importing Egg Products and Shell Eggs FSIS regulates the importation of egg products, which must originate from countries and plants eligible to export to the United States. Currently, Canada and The Netherlands are the only countries where plants are eligible to export egg products to the United States.", "Import tariffs—which are also called customs, import duties and import fees—are taxes levied against products imported into one country from another country. ... Let's look at a few areas with the most at stake, in terms of import tariff impact: Cost of goods sold (COGS)", "Tariffs and quotas are both imposed on import and export products by the government of a country. Tariffs and quotas both serve the purpose of protecting the domestic industry of a country in restricting the quantity of products imported or exported and also earn revenue for the government.", "Foreign trade provides foreign exchange that is used to remove the poverty and for other productive purposes. International trade plays an important role in increasing the production of any country. ... In countries where home market is limited it is necessary to sell product in other countries.", "Why is high fructose corn syrup illegal outside the US? It's not. The reason it's less common outside the U.S. is not regulatory restrictions, it's the sugar policy of the country of interest. The U.S. government manipulates the price of sugar in the U.S. to, nominally, support domestic production.", "['Import bans. General or product-specific quotas. Complex/discriminatory Rules of Origin. Quality conditions imposed by the importing country on the exporting countries. ... ', 'Occupational safety and health regulation. Employment law. Import licenses. State subsidies, procurement, trading, state ownership.']", "In general, third world countries are those countries which have a low standard of living, dependency on agri-production, high population growth rate, and high level of poverty.", "Why are environmental problems common in developing countries? Developing countries often specialize in manufacturing and providing raw materials, which can seriously harm the environment. ... The country's population has a high growth rate.", "A trade surplus is when a country imports more than it exports, while a trade deficit happens when exports exceed imports. ... A trade deficit is when a country loses money on products it makes, while a trade surplus happens when production leads to profits.", "One of the most important reasons why a peanut butter and jelly sandwich makes a great choice for lunch is due the high protein content found in peanut butter. While protein can also be found in beef, chicken, and dairy products, these items typically contain high amounts of saturated fats.", "International companies are importers and exporters, they have no investment outside of their home country. Multinational companies have investment in other countries, but do not have coordinated product offerings in each country. More focused on adapting their products and service to each individual local market.", "Why are rivers less productive than swamps? The water flow in rivers is too high.", "HS Codes are important for government officials to identify goods being imported and exported in order to collect the proper taxes. ... They identify products that are being imported or exported through a country's borders. They classify and categorize products in a worldwide system used for customs clearance purposes.", "There are three very important economic indicators that aid in measuring a country's development. They are Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Gross National Product (GNP) and Purchasing Power Parity (PPP).", "Exporting is the sale of products and services in foreign countries that are sourced or made in the home country. Importing refers to buying goods and services from foreign sources and bringing them back into the home country.", "MEANING OF “EXPORT PROMOTION”  Refers to the policy of the govt that offers encouragement to the exporters with a view to enhance the exports of the country. ...  Import substitution is a trade policy aimed to promote economic growth by restricting imports that competed with domestic products in developing countries.", "Why? Why are some skinny guys so strong? “Skinny boy” strength is the product of advantageous leverages, high concentration of fast-twitch fibers, advanced joint conditioning, and low-rep high-intensity training resulting in efficient force output.", "International companies are importers and exporters, they have no investment outside of their home country. Multinational companies have investment in other countries, but do not have coordinated product offerings in each country. ... Transnational companies are much more complex organizations.", "All ISANA products are decent, and I'll tell you, why I will choose them again. An important argument PRO - ISANA is vegan!", "Gross national product (GNP) is an estimate of total value of all the final products and services turned out in a given period by the means of production owned by a country's residents. ... Net exports represent the difference between what a country exports minus any imports of goods and services.", "International companies are importers and exporters, they have no investment outside of their home country. Multinational companies have investment in other countries, but do not have coordinated product offerings in each country. ... Global companies have invested and are present in many countries.", "Export represents domestic production selling to another country. That's why it is included in GDP (as GDP means the total market value of all final goods and services produced in a country within a given period).", "Mystery shopping allows you to closely monitor your people's performance and the quality of service they provide to every shopper; it teaches your employees why it's important to be mindful of every customer's needs and ensures you that every product being sold in your store are of high quality.", "To start an import business, you first need to identify your target products (preferably those products that are high in demand in Pakistan), and find suppliers and buyers. For instance, Pakistan is the 6th largest importer of rapeseed, with the import value of $532M in USD.", "The current account deficit is a measurement of a country's trade where the value of the goods and services it imports exceeds the value of the products it exports. ... The current account represents a country's foreign transactions and, like the capital account, is a component of a country's balance of payments (BOP).", "5. Why is it important to use professional makeup for film and theatre productions? Because you don't want the actors to look cheap and dull.", "Why are Portuguese salaries so low relative to other countries in Western Europe? ... Because Portugal produces low value products when compared with most of the other Western European countries. In the end it comes down to productivity and the value you create per working hour.", "DNA must perform three functions: Function: Function: Function: Storing information Copying information Transmitting genetic information Why this function is Why this function is Why this function is important: important: important: Its important because Its important because It is important to send you have to back ...", "International Trade Market Research Reports & Industry Analysis. International trade is primarily the exchange of goods and services (imports and exports) between countries – or across international borders. ... A product sold on the global market is considered an export, while products purchased are considered imports.", "GDP is a measure of a country's production. Exports are what we produce and make a profit from by selling to buyers outside our country. Imports are not produced by our country, so it shouldn't be included in the GDP, so it makes sense to exclude it from the calculation; ie." ]

[ "Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly The Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly is the political head of the Abia State legislative who serves as the preciding officer of the Abia State House of Assembly.[1] The Speaker is elected by Members of the House with the sole responsibilities of conducting meetings of the House, appointing committees and enforcing the Rules of the House. The current speaker is Chikwendu Kanu, a People's Democratic Party member who was sworn in on 30 December 2016, succeeding Kennedy Njoku.[2]" ]

[ "8th Lagos State House of Assembly The 8th Lagos State House of Assembly is the legislative branch of the Lagos State Government inaugurated on June 8, 2015. The assembly will run its course till June 3, 2019.[1] The assembly is unicameral with 41 representatives elected from each constituencies of the state.[2][3] The incumbent Speaker of the 8th Legislative Assembly is Rt. Hon Mudashiru Obasa and the Deputy speaker is Hon. Eshinloku Sanni.[4] The election of representative for the 8th legislative assembly was held on April 28, 2015.[5][6][7]", "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives The current House Speaker is Congressman Paul Ryan from Wisconsin. He was elected to the office on October 29, 2015, and is the 54th person to serve as Speaker.", "Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives In New Zealand, the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Māori: Te Mana Whakawā o te Whare) is the individual who chairs the country's legislative body, the New Zealand House of Representatives. The individual who holds the position is elected by members of the House from among their number in the first session after each general election. The current Speaker is Trevor Mallard, who was initially elected on 7 November 2017.", "Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives The Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the Texas House of Representatives. The Speaker's main duties are to conduct meetings of the House, appoint committees, and enforce the Rules of the House. The current speaker is Joe Straus, a Republican from San Antonio, who was first elected Speaker on January 13, 2009.", "Punjab Legislative Assembly The Punjab Legislative Assembly or the Punjab Vidhan Sabha (Punjabi: ਪੰਜਾਬ ਵਿਧਾਨ ਸਭਾ) is the unicameral legislature of the state of Punjab in northern India. At present, it consists of 117 members, directly elected from 117 single-seat constituencies. The tenure of the Legislative Assembly is five years, unless dissolved sooner. The current Speaker of the Assembly is Rana KP Singh, he is Pro-tem Speaker. The meeting place of the Legislative Assembly since 6 March 1961 is the Vidhan Bhavan in Chandigarh.", "Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines The current House Speaker of the 17th Congress of the Philippines is Congressman Pantaleon Alvarez from Davao del Norte. He was elected to the office on July 25, 2016; and is the 20th person to serve as Speaker.", "Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines The current House Speaker of the 17th Congress of the Philippines is former President and now Congresswoman Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from Pampanga. She was elected to the office on July 23, 2018, and is the first woman and 21st person to serve as Speaker.[1]", "Paul Ryan Paul Davis Ryan Jr. (/ˈraɪən/; born January 29, 1970) is an American politician who is the 54th and current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was the Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, running alongside former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, in the 2012 election.[1][2]", "House of Representatives (Nigeria) The current House of Representatives, formed following elections held in April 2015, has a total of 360 members who are elected in single-member constituencies using the simple majority (or first-past-the-post) system. Members serve four-year terms. The Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the house.", "Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom) The Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, the United Kingdom's lower chamber of Parliament. The office is currently held by John Bercow, who was initially elected on 22 June 2009, following the resignation of Michael Martin. He was returned as an MP in the 2010 general election and was re-elected as Speaker when the House sat at the start of the new Parliament on 18 May 2010. He was again returned as an MP in the 2015 general election and was re-elected, unopposed, as Speaker when the House sat at the start of the new Parliament on 18 May 2015[1] and again on 13 June 2017.[2]", "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election, 2017 An election for the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives took place on January 3, 2017, during the opening day of the 115th United States Congress. The incumbent speaker, Paul Ryan, was re-elected. The election took place following the Republican Party's victory in the United States House of Representatives elections, 2016.", "Georgia General Assembly The House of Representatives elects its own Speaker and a Speaker Pro Tempore. The Speaker Pro Tempore becomes Speaker in case of the death, resignation, or permanent disability of the Speaker. The Speaker Pro Tempore serves until a new Speaker is elected. The House also has as an officer the Clerk of the House of Representatives.", "Speaker of the Lok Sabha The current speaker is Sumitra Mahajan of the Bharatiya Janata Party, who is presiding over the 16th Lok Sabha. She is the second woman to hold the office, after her immediate predecessor Meira Kumar.[2]", "Not Too Young To Run The bill was first read at Nigeria's House of Representatives and was passed with votes of (86-10) in Senate on July 26, 2017 and 261-23 in House of Representatives on July 27, 2017.[15] The bill passed first and second reading in Nigeria's Parliament and was presented to Committee on Constitutional Review. For any constitutional amendments to become a law in Nigeria, the amendments needed to be presented to all the House of Assemblies of 36 states of federation and not less than 24 states are expected to vote Yes to the amendments. It was reported by 33 house of assemblies in Nigeria voted Yes, except Zamfara, Lagos and Kano. The bill was rejected by Taraba State of Assembly initially, but, was reversed after the group made a press release inaugurating the Taraba House of Assembly into the Hall of Shame.[16][17] On February 16, 2018, the conveners gave the Nigeria Parliaments and their president 30days ultimatum to conclude the processes of passage and signing of the bill into law.[18]", "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives The Speaker of the House is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. The office was established in 1789 by Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution. The Speaker is the political and parliamentary leader of the House of Representatives, and is simultaneously the House's presiding officer, de facto leader of the body's majority party, and the institution's administrative head. Speakers also perform various other administrative and procedural functions. Given these several roles and responsibilities, the Speaker usually does not personally preside over debates. That duty is instead delegated to members of the House from the majority party. Neither does the Speaker regularly participate in floor debates nor vote.", "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives In modern practice, the Speaker is chosen by the majority party from among its senior leaders either when a vacancy in the office arrives or when the majority party changes. Previous Speakers have been minority leaders (when the majority party changes, as they are already the House party leader, and as the minority leader are usually their party's nominee for Speaker), or majority leaders (upon departure of the current Speaker in the majority party), assuming that the party leadership hierarchy is followed. In the past, other candidates have included chairpersons of influential standing committees.", "Speaker (politics) The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives presides over the lower house of Congress, the House of Representatives. This post is second in line to the presidency—after the vice president—and is therefore the third highest-ranking national office overall. In practice, this post is the highest-ranking in Congress, because the president of the US Senate is the vice president, who has his/her office, and predominant responsibilities, at the White House, and therefore does not have a day-to-day presence at the Congress.", "Oshodi-Isolo Oshodi-Isolo is a Local Government Area (LGA) within Lagos State. It was formed by the second republic Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, also known as 'Baba Kekere' and the first Executive Chairman of the Local Government was late Sir Isaac Ademolu Banjoko. The LGA is part of the Ikeja Division of Lagos State, Nigeria. At the 2006 Census it had a population of 621,509 people, and an area of 45 square kilometers. Hon. Idris Bolaji Muse Ariyoh, has been re-elected for a second term into office July 25th 2017, as the Executive Chairman.", "House of Representatives (Nigeria) The House of Representatives is the lower house of Nigeria's bicameral National Assembly. The Senate is the upper house.", "Member of the Legislative Assembly (India) Similar to the Presiding officers of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council also have Presiding Officers. The Legislative Assembly has a Speaker and a Deputy Speaker and the Legislative Council has a Chairman and a Deputy Chairman. They are elected from among the members of the House.", "New York City Council The head of the City Council is called the Speaker. The current Speaker is Corey Johnson, a Democrat. The Speaker sets the agenda and presides at meetings of the City Council. Proposed legislation is submitted through the Speaker's Office. There are 47 Democratic council members led by Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer. The three Republican council members are led by Minority Leader Steven Matteo. There is one vacancy.", "Division of the assembly In the House of Commons, the Speaker says \"The Question is that…\", then states the question. Next, he/she says, \"As many as are of that opinion say Aye.\" Then, following shouts of \"Aye\", he says, \"of the contrary, No,\" and similar shouts of \"No\" may follow. If one side clearly has more support, the Speaker then announces his/her opinion as to the winner, stating, for example, \"I think the Ayes have it, the Ayes have it\". Otherwise, the Speaker declares a division.", "Chief Judge of Rivers State As of 2016, Adama Lamikanra is currently the acting Chief Judge of Rivers State.[3] She is preceded by Daisy W. Okocha, the first woman to ever serve in that office.[4]", "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives Unlike in Westminster style legislatures or as with the Senate Majority Leader, the House Majority Leader's duties and prominence vary depending upon the style and power of the Speaker of the House. Typically, the Speaker does not participate in debate and rarely votes on the floor. In some cases, Majority Leaders have been more influential than the Speaker; notably Tom DeLay who was more prominent than Speaker Dennis Hastert. In addition, Speaker Newt Gingrich delegated to Dick Armey an unprecedented level of authority over scheduling legislation on the House floor.[2]", "Chief Administrative Officer of the United States House of Representatives In 2007 then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) appointed Daniel P. Beard of Maryland as CAO. She tasked him to carrying out her Green the Capitol initiative, a move that would later prove not too popular with some Congressional Members. Beard also restructured divisions within CAO that handled such administrative functions as House payroll and benefits.[1][2]|-In July 2010 he handed the reins of the position over to Dan Strodel of Virginia, who prior to becoming CAO served as a senior adviser on the House Administration Committee. Strodel held the position until early 2014 when Ed Cassidy took over responsibilities. Cassidy retired from the position on December 31, 2015, and was replaced by Will Plaster. Plaster served as CAO until July 31, 2016. The current CAO, Phil Kiko, took office on August 1, 2016.", "Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives The speaker is elected from the legislature of Texas, by a vote of its fellow members.[1] On the first day of each regular session, the members may nominate a fellow member, and a record vote is held to determine who the speaker will be. The Secretary of State calls the House to order, and presides over the chamber until a speaker is elected.", "Florida House of Representatives The House is headed by the Speaker of the House. The Speaker of the House is elected by the members of the Chamber to a two-year term. The Speaker has the power to preside over the Chamber during Session, to appoint committee members and chairs of committees, to influence the placement of bills on the calendar, and to rule on procedural motions. The Speaker Pro Tempore presides if the Speaker leaves the Chair or if there is a vacancy. The Speaker, along with the Senate President and Governor of Florida, control most of the agenda of state business in Florida.", "United States House of Representatives The presiding officer is the Speaker of the House, who is elected by the members thereof and is therefore traditionally the leader of the controlling party. The Speaker and other floor leaders are chosen by the Democratic Caucus or the Republican Conference, depending on whichever party has more voting members. The House meets in the south wing of the United States Capitol.", "Rosaline Bozimo Rosaline Patricia Irorefe Bozimo (born 1 January 1946) is a Nigerian lawyer who was appointed Chief Justice of Delta State with effect from 23 March 2003.[1] She retired on 1 January 2011 and was succeeded by Honorable Justice Abiodun Smith.[2]", "26th South African Parliament 13 Different political parties are represented in this parliament.[4][5] The majority party in the 25th parliament, the African National Congress (ANC) retained its majority, although it was reduced to 249 (62%) seats, down from 264 seats out of 400 (66%), while the Democratic Alliance (DA) increased its lead of the opposition, taking 89 (22.23%) seats, up from 67 seats (16.75%) in the National Assembly of the 25th parliament. The Speaker of the National Assembly, Baleka Mbete and Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, Thandi Modise, both of the ANC, were elected on 21 May 2014 by members of parliament.[6][7] The presiding officers of parliament, Mmatlala Boroto, Cedric Frolick and Thoko Didiza were elected on 18 June 2014.[8]", "President of Ghana The President of the Republic of Ghana is the elected head of state and head of government of Ghana, as well as Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces. The current President of Ghana is Nana Akufo-Addo, who won the 2016 presidential election against the incumbent, John Dramani Mahama, by a margin of 9.45%. Nana Akufo-Addo was sworn into office on 7 January 2017.[1]", "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives The House of Representatives elects the Speaker of the House on the first day of every new Congress and in the event of the death, resignation or removal from the Chair of an incumbent Speaker. The Clerk of the House of Representatives requests nominations: there are normally two, one from each major party (each party having previously met to decide on its nominee). The Clerk then calls the roll of the Representatives, each Representative indicating the surname of the candidate the Representative is supporting. Representatives are not restricted to voting for one of the nominated candidates and may vote for any person, even for someone who is not a member of the House at all. They may also abstain by voting \"present\".[5]" ]

[ "The requirements for uninsured motorist coverage vary by state. In South Carolina, drivers are required to have the following uninsured motorist coverage limits: 1 $25,000 for bodily injury liability per person. $50,000 for bodily injury liability per accident." ]

[ "South Carolina is a diminished value state, which means you may be entitled to the diminished value of your vehicle after an auto accident. The statute of limitation on diminished value claims in South Carolina is 3 years, and South Carolina does have uninsured motorist coverage for diminished value.", "Uninsured Motorist Coverage. In Florida, insurance companies are required to provide their customers with underinsured and uninsured motorist coverage. The only way a person cannot have this coverage is if they purposely sign a waiver stating that they do not wish to be covered for uninsured or underinsured drivers.", "Uninsured Motorists. Uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage reimburses policyholders in an accident involving an uninsured, underinsured or hit-and-run driver. Twenty states and the District of Columbia have mandatory requirements for uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage. A handful of states, including Nevada and Texas, have passed laws and begun to develop and implement online auto insurance verification systems to identify uninsured motorists.", "states that require uninsured and/or underinsured motorist coverage. Because of the high number of uninsured drivers on the road, many states require drivers to carry at least uninsured motorist coverage, if not both uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage.", "Virginia Uninsured Motorist Law. Yes, Virginia uninsured motorist coverage is required. If an individual does not possess 25/50/20 worth of protection (in thousands) for bodily injury and damage to property, they is underinsured.", "State requirements are shown for uninsured motorist, bodily injury (BI), uninsured motorist property damage (UMPD) coverage, and underinsured motorist property damage (UMIPD) coverage along with required coverage limits, as of 2015. States with UM and/or UIM requirements. UM required.", "Uninsured Motorist Insurance. Uninsured Motorist insurance is a coverage that protects you if you're involved in an accident with someone who does not have Liability insurance or does not have enough Liability insurance to pay for your damages. Uninsured Motorist insurance options vary widely by state including coverage options, available limits and mandatory requirements.", "Do I Need Uninsured Motorist Coverage? Uninsured motorist coverage and underinsured motorist coverage are available in most states at the moment. While this coverage is not mandatory in every state, auto insurance companies typically have to offer it and I highly recommend you purchase it in an amount equal to your liability limits.", "Uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage not available under the basic policy but uninsured motorist coverage is required under the standard policy. Special Automobile Insurance Policy available for certain drivers which only covers emergency treatment and a $10,000 death benefit.", "Insurance companies who sell insurance in Florida are required to offer uninsured motorists coverage but this coverage is not mandatory and you may reject this coverage. If you choose to have uninsured motorists coverage and you want to insure multiple cars, you must select the same limit for each car.", "BREAKING DOWN 'Uninsured Motorist Coverage-UM'. An uninsured motorist is one who has no insurance, does not have insurance that meets state-required minimum liability amounts, or whose insurance company is unwilling or unable to pay the claim. A hit-and-run driver would also be considered an uninsured motorist. Without this coverage, a person holding a regular automobile insurance policy may not receive payments if they are involved in an accident where the other party is at fault and uninsured.", "Uninsured motorist coverage is required in some states, and optional in most others, and pays for injuries to the policy holder and his or her passengers, and in certain cases for damage to property. It is recommended to have UM coverage.", "Uninsured motor vehicle (UM) coverage is for the benefit of people who are injured or killed as a result of the negligence of the operator of an uninsured auto. This is an important protection because many people are injured in accidents with uninsured motorists despite Massachusetts laws requiring compulsory coverage.", "Underinsured Motorist coverage is included in Uninsured Motorist coverage in some states. Choosing Uninsured Motorist insurance is one more way to protect yourself from paying large amounts out of pocket if someone else is at fault for an accident. Limits and other details", "by an uninsured motorist) is available with a minimum limit of $25,000 per accident. select a limit up to your property damage liability limit or reject this coverage entirely. explanation of this coverage, refer to your policy. Under Georgia law we are required to offer you the New Uninsured Motorist Coverage ‐Added on. (referred to as Added on). You may reject this coverage, in writing, and select the Traditional Uninsured. Motorist Coverage ‐Reduced by (referred to as Reduced by).", "That's where uninsured motorist coverage may help. Underinsured motorist coverage is a protection that helps pay for your expenses if you're hit by an underinsured driver. In some states, uninsured and underinsured motorist coverages are bundled together and offered as a single protection on your car insurance policy.", "0 Comment. In the state of Georgia, drivers like you are not required to have uninsured motorist coverage on your automobile policy. You are only required to have liability coverage, which protects another driver/vehicle if you were to hit another car, but not your own.", "Uninsured motorist covers you and your passengers if the other liable party has no insurance. Underinsured motorist covers you and your passengers if the other liable party does not have enough insurance. Uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage is not required in Alabama. In Alabama you automatically get both unless you sign saying you don’t want them. Neither covers property damage claims.", "South Carolina’s car insurance coverage requirements are: 1 $25,000 for the injury or death of a single person (yourself, a passenger, another driver, pedestrian, etc.) $50,000 total for a single accident, and.", "(6) In addition, policyholders must also have coverage for medical payments. Amounts vary by state. (7) Basic policy (optional) limits are 10/10/5. Uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage not available under the basic policy but uninsured motorist coverage is required under the standard policy.", "Often, uninsured motorist coverage from your car insurance company covers hit and run accidents: Uninsured motorist bodily injury (UMBI) coverage pays for medical expenses. Uninsured motorist property damage (UMPD) covers car repairs.", "Uninsured Motorist Coverage. If you get into a crash with an uninsured driver, it’s likely that you’ll be dealing with someone who lacks (or is unwilling to disclose) financial means or proper identification, or is reluctant to undertake a task legally required by U.S. residents. In this case, uninsured motorist coverage is therefore your best protection.", "Uninsured/underinsured motorist liability. There are 2 types of uninsured and underinsured motorist liability coverage: bodily injury and property damage. Both are designed to protect you, financially, from drivers with minimal or no coverage. Some states require drivers to have some form of this coverage.", "1 In South Carolina, it is mandated that drivers have coverage for bodily injuries of at least $25,000 per involved person and $50,000 per accident, and property damage coverage of at least $25,000 per accident.cceptance offers many different types of coverage, including the following: State Requirements. 1 In South Carolina, it is mandated that drivers have coverage for bodily injuries of at least $25,000 per involved person and $50,000 per accident, and property damage coverage of at least $25,000 per accident.", "Uninsured motorist (UM) coverage provides coverage if you are in an accident and the other driver is both legally responsible for the accident and is not insured. It is an addition to a standard auto insurance policy that is required in some states and optional in most others.", "The Georgia Uninsured Motorist Act, or OCGA §33-7-11, states that uninsured motorist coverage applies to “damages for bodily injury [or] loss of consortium or death. . . of an insured sustained from the owner or operator of an uninsured motor vehicle.", "Alabama Uninsured Motorist Laws. Talk to a Car Accident Attorney. Uninsured motorist laws in the state of Alabama require all car insurance companies to provide “uninsured” (UM) and “underinsured” (UIM) coverage on every car insurance policy they sell in Alabama, even if the customer does not ask for this particular type of coverage.", "Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Coverage. This coverage will reimburse you, a member of your family, or a designated driver if one of you is hit by an uninsured or hit-and-run driver. Underinsured motorist coverage comes into play when an at-fault driver has insufficient insurance to pay for your total loss.", "Understand uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage, and uninsured bodily injury: learn how it works, where it is required, what it costs, whether or not you need it and more. Understand uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage, and uninsured bodily injury: learn how it works, where it is required, what it costs, whether or not you need it and more.", "You are only eligible to receive reimbursement of underinsured motorist benefits if your Underinsured Motorist Coverage limits are higher than the Liability Coverage limits of the other driver. All Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Property Damage claims require you to pay a $500 policy deductible.", "Yes uninsured motorist insurance is mandatory in the state of Virginia, and you need to get it, since recent studies performed by the Insurance Research Council show that around 10% of Virginia road users are either not insured or underinsured.", "Uninsured Motorist & Underinsured Motorist Coverage. Several coverages can help protect you if you are hit by someone who doesn't have insurance, or doesn't have enough insurance. Here's how these coverages generally work (keeping in mind that policies and the law vary by state): Uninsured Motorist Bodily Injury." ]

[ "A man is given a suspended jail term for ignoring an order banning him from his home town." ]

[ "Now it only has to worry about disgruntled punters Retailer TJX has reached a settlement with all but one of the seven banks and bankers' associations that sued it after a security breach put millions of customers' credit data at risk of fraud.…", "Lawsuit lists complaints -- breach of contract, breach of warranty and negligent misrepresentation -- stemming from glitches in the online gaming service.", "group of US states settles data breach complaints with ChoicePoint", "A security breach at TD AMERITRADE creates headaches.", "But should all breaches be publicised? The Financial Services Authority (FSA) could order all regulated financial companies to immediately inform customers of data security breaches, it has said.…", "Mandiant introduced new incident response automation technology that promises to perform the first set of post-breach analysis tests the IT security company would provide via its breach investigation services.", "Dale Earnhardt Jr. says he believes his late father, seven-time NASCAR champion Dale Earnhardt, had a lot to do with his surviving a burning wreck at a sports car event in July.", "Egyptian forces began closing the breached border with the Gaza Strip on Sunday, stemming the flow of Palestinians across the frontier breached by Hamas Islamists last month, witnesses said.", "Most large data breaches don't appear to lead to identity theft, and proposals that would require companies to notify customers of most breaches may lead to increased costs.", "Blog: Entertainment company says vendor breached terms of license agreement.", "Military contractors may be concealing data breaches by international cyberspies.", "The attack was the most serious breach of an Iraqi government building since November.", "(InfoWorld) - Most large data breaches don't appear to lead to identity theft, and proposals that would require companies to notify customers of most breaches may lead to increased costs without significant benefits, says a report from a U.S. government agency released Thursday. The report, from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), said only four of the 24 largest data breaches between January 2000 and June 2005 appear to have resulted in identity fraud. Wide-ranging data breach notification laws that would require nearly all breaches to be reported could lead to notifications that \"present little or no risk, perhaps leading consumers to disregard notices altogether,\" the report said. While a breach notification law would have several benefits, a law that requires notification for nearly all breaches could also create significant costs for businesses, the report added. The U.S. Congress is currently considering several breach notification bills, including some that would require notification for nearly all breaches. Instead, Congress may want to consider a notification rule based on the potential for the risk of ID theft, the report said. The U.S. President's Identity Theft Task Force has recommended a national standard for determining when government agencies and private companies should report breaches, the report pointed out. A risk-based standard \"could avoid undue burden on organizations and unnecessary and counterproductive notifications of breaches that present little risk,\" the report said. A data breach law would create costs for businesses, including the cost of developing incident response plans and notifying customers, the report said. While it's difficult to determine costs, a Ponemon Institute study in 2006 found that 31 companies with breaches incurred an average cost of $1.4 million per breach for notifying customers, staffing call centers, paying legal fees, and other expenses, the report said. The GAO researched 24 large data breaches reported in the media between 2000 and 2005, and found that 18 of them had no ID theft or fraud identified. Three of the breaches, at CardSystems Solutions, DSW, and CD Universe, had reports of fraud associated with existing customer accounts. And a breach at ChoicePoint had reports of unauthorized new accounts opened. In the remaining two breaches, GAO was unable to determine if there had been ID fraud. It's difficult to track ID theft resulting from data breaches, the report said. In some cases, thieves don't attempt to use the data until a year or more after the breach, the report said. A breach notification law could be beneficial because it would encourage organizations to improve data security, the report said. \"Care is needed in defining appropriate criteria for data breaches that merit notification,\" the report said. \"Because breaches vary in the risk they present, and because most breaches have not resulted in detected incidents of identity theft, a notification that is risk based appears appropriate.\" Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, a security research and training company in Maryland, praised the report, saying some in Congress have focused too much on data breaches. Some lawmakers have \"dropped the ball on the far more important area of attack-based defenses,\" he said. The report is important because it gives Congress more information about data breaches, added Thomas Lenard, senior fellow and acting president at the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a conservative think tank. \"It’s very good to have more data on this issue,\" he said. \"[The report] reinforces my view that we should only adopt new regulations in this area if it can be shown that their benefits are greater than their costs.\"", "A jury says Headwaters is entitled to the money because of a breach of contract.", "Feminism breaches walls of the fortress after over 500 years", "Five Premiership clubs named as having breached transfer regulations.", "Iceland is to begin exporting whalemeat, which campaigners say breaches wildlife trading rules.", "Mental health nurse Cerie Bullivant is found not guilty of breaching the terms of a control order.", "Security breach that may have exposed nuclear secrets was not a breakdown in security processes.", "And the breach goes on: Saturday's big security breach at anti-piracy firm MediaDefender isn't the only one. At least two others have surfaced, including an apparently leaked phone conversation about an earlier security problem.", "Customers are protesting about changes made by web firm Fasthosts following a security breach.", "'Concept might breach impartiality guidelines' The BBC has decided to can a planned Planet Relief TV special on climate change following senior executives concerns that it \"might breach impartiality guidelines\".…", "There was specific intelligence about an al-Qaeda threat to Parliament it emerges, after another security breach.", "Business & money: Business leaders oppose stronger powers to investigate breaches.", "A documentary about Princess Diana's death did not breach standards, media watchdog Ofcom rules.", "Inquiries into breaches of the ministerial code should be independent, Tory leader David Cameron is to suggest.", "Liza Minnelli is suing her former driver and bodyguard for $250,000 (£124,000) for breach of contract.", "Members of the Second Life online world criticise the handling of a serious security breach.", "The FIA fines Turkish GP organisers for breaching rules governing presentation ceremonies.", "The university estimates the data theft cost the school $167,000 to recover the system affected by the breach.", "Law Lords will consider whether the government's controversial anti-terror measures breach human rights.", "The second outbreak of foot-and-mouth virus this year did not involve a separate breach in biosecurity." ]

[ "Miami" ]

[ "Depression does NOT mean suicidal and vice versa" ]

[ "The following are some of the drugs named in the Mitchell Report that baseball players are accused of using." ]

[ "Shares of large drug makers fell on Thursday after a top U.S. cardiologist questioned the safety of new arthritis drugs and the performance of U.S. regulators in monitoring drug safety.", "US Food and Drug Administration staff reviewers on Tuesday questioned clinical data for non-Hodgkin&#39;s lymphoma drug Marqibo, made by Inex Pharmaceuticals Corp.", "An experimental eye disease drug has been a boon to Eyetech Pharmaceuticals. But as the drug nears approval, many doctors are questioning its effectiveness.", "The latest studies on Avandia, GlaxoSmithKline's blockbuster diabetes drug, have raised enough questions about the drug's safety to worry the American Diabetes Association.", "Amid questions about whether the arthritis drug Vioxx was taken off the market soon enough, a key senator suggested Friday that an independent board of drug safety might", "U.S. drug reviewers have questioned Pfizer Inc.'s data showing the pain reliever Celebrex was as effective as an older drug in treating juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, a summary released on Tuesday said.", "The federal Food and Drug Administration&#39;s ability to protect the American public is in question in the wake of the problems with this year&#39;s flu vaccine shortage and claims that it is allowing unsafe drugs to remain on the market.", "Soon after the anti-arthritis and painkiller drug Vioxx was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1999, credible questions surfaced about the risk of serious cardiovascular problems in people who took it.", "As the W.W.E. trumpets its drug-testing plan as a credible deterrent to the abuse of banned drugs, questions persist about whether it is stringent enough after the Chris Benoit family tragedy.", "A novel study may provide an answer to a question that has puzzled drug abuse researchers for years -- namely, why someone would try a drug like heroin for the first time knowing that it is highly addictive.", "The pitfalls of the government’s use of informants with questionable backgrounds are illustrated by the case of an Afghan drug lord and Taliban ally.", "New reports accuse another drug company of being too slow to pull a dangerous medication from the market and question the ability of the federal Food and Drug Administration to protect the public from such risks.", "The potential heart risks of GlaxoSmithKline Plc's diabetes drug Avandia are still not clear, the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration told lawmakers who questioned the agency's oversight of the widely used pill on Wednesday.", "An assistant state prosecutor in Mexico was detained for questioning in an investigation into the killing of an opposition politician and four others, and the passing of information to drug traffickers.", "Roger Clemens sidestepped a question about his coming appearance before a House committee investigating performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.", "The booming market for drug-coated stents faces an uncertain future as some heart experts question the long-term safety record of the devices.", "Soul singer Amy Winehouse has been questioned by police over an allegation of drug possession, a police source said on Wednesday.", "Following results of recent clinical trials on popular cholesterol drugs, cardiologists are questioning whether a patient’s cholesterol should be all that matters.", "A judge extended Beanie Sigel's supervised release after the rapper was questioned in federal court about a positive drug test and association with convicted felons.", "Questions about billing, coverage and prices of drugs covered under the new prescription benefit were routinely wrong, the government finds.", "Consumer advocates backed by some prominent doctors and researchers on Thursday questioned a new U.S. policy recommending wider use of statin drugs to lower cholesterol.", "Alex Rodriguez expects to be questioned repeatedly about drug use as he approaches Barry Bonds' career home-run record.", "Amid questions about whether the drug Vioxx was taken off the market soon enough, Senator Charles Grassley called for more safety precautions.", "A top Republican lawmaker called Wednesday for Merck &amp; Company to answer questions about its withdrawn drug Vioxx on Nov. 18 at the first Congressional hearing to address the drug&#39;s safety problems.", "Snoop Dogg was held by police overnight on suspicion of using illegal narcotics but was released after questioning and drug tests, a police spokesman said Monday.", "A graphic study of sex and drug addiction, “Rock Bottom” goes beyond the pieties of the recovery movements to confront deeper questions about the pursuit of sensation.", "(December 29, 2004) - Six clinical studies at the University of Rochester Medical Center have ended because of findings that question the safety of the drugs under investigation.", "A member of the Senate said a diabetes expert leaked a confidential journal article to GlaxoSmithKline last year, tipping it to the publication of safety questions involving its drug Avandia.", "Experts are questioning a study’s linking a 2004 increase in the suicide rate for children and adolescents to a warning by drug regulators about the use of antidepressants in minors.", "A Food and Drug Administration panel tomorrow will consider one of the most urgent questions in medicine: what to do about the risk of blood clots caused by drug-coated stents, tiny medical devices implanted in the arteries of millions of people.", "The controversy surrounding GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia mounted Wednesday as a medical expert prepared to tell lawmakers the British drug maker threatened him with legal action when he first raised questions about the treatment's safety.", "INVESTORS sent stocks sharply lower today as oil prices continued their climb higher and new questions about the safety of arthritis drugs pressured pharmaceutical stocks." ]

[ "As a dog ages, its just as important to keep its mind active as it is to keep its body active. Just because a dog gets slower as it ages, that doesn't mean that its mind has to slow down as well." ]

[ "Grooming is an important part of caring for your dog and keeping it happy and healthy. [1] However, it can be challenging to keep an older dog groomed because of the changes occurring to its coat and overall health.", "As dogs get older, their appetites can decrease. If your older dog isn’t eating as much as it used to, you should rule out underlying causes such as illness, disease, or mental distress.", "Canine cognitive dysfunction (CCD) is the equivalent of Alzheimer’s for dogs. This occurs in older dogs when their cognitive and mental function starts to deteriorate.", "Most dogs enjoy some physical activity each day, such as several walks and some outdoor play time. Keeping your dog active will ensure they feel loved and cared for.", "Contrary to popular belief, it is possible to teach an old dog new tricks. You can train an older dogs just like puppies. The only difference is that it may take an older dog longer to learn new commands.", "For various reasons ( behavioral problems , change in owner’s work schedule, etc.), older dogs sometimes need to be re homed. [1] Re homing an older dog can be challenging, though, because of the dog’s age and the possibility of costly health problems.", "Dogs need mental and physical stimulation on a daily basis to stay active. Dogs who live inside, however, may not receive as much as exercise as outdoor dogs do.", "A dog, also known as human's best friend, is happiest when he's healthy. Ensuring your dog's physical and mental well-being means keeping him stimulated, even when you are not home.", "Keeping a dog inside is the best way to keep it safe from cold and hot weather, and is often the best option for older dogs. Aside from protecting your dog, keeping it inside might be the most convenient option for you if you live in a high rise or other area with restricted outdoor access.", "Traveling with your senior dog can be a pleasurable experience. Before deciding to travel with your senior dog, you should assess his mental and physical health.", "Older dogs may experience changes in behavior and develop new phobias and anxieties. One common new anxiety in senior dogs is noise phobia. Due to the dog’s age, it is not advised to try to get the dog used to the sounds that make them afraid.", "As your cat ages, you should try to keep it active and engaged with the world around it. One way to do this is to give it toys that are good for older cats.", "Heart disease is a serious condition, especially in older dogs. Your vet will be able to help you determine what dietary changes you need to make if your older dog is suffering from heart disease.", "Diabetes is a common problem for older dogs. Though diabetes can cause many complications, your dog can also live a happy life with the condition. To help manage your older dog’s diabetes, work with your vet to come up with a treatment plan, make sure to manage your dog’s weight, and monitor your dog for any changes in symptoms.", "Active dogs make great companions for people who live healthy, active lifestyles. In general, an active dog will need 30 minutes of aerobic activity each day as well as space to run, romp, and play.", "As your dog gets older, you may want to bring it inside instead of leaving it out in the yard. With some patience and guidance, your dog can adjust to indoor life.", "Older dogs can experience many behavioral changes. One change may be sleep aggression. Your dog may be sweet and loving at any other time, but when they are woken up, they suddenly get aggressive.", "All dogs love treats, including senior or older dogs. But as a pet owner, you may be concerned about the type of treats you give to your older pet, especially if they are prone to obesity and health issues.", "In the article How to Train your Dog to Stay, it might not work for a puppy. Puppies, because the are younger, are not as obedient as older dogs. Not to mention that puppies are much more energetic.", "Many dogs are socialized when they are puppies, but it is just as important to socialize your dog when they are older. If your dog doesn’t continue to have social contact with people and other dogs, they may develop negative behavior patterns.", "Play is an important part of your dog’s mental and physical health. Not only is it a crucial form of physical exercise, but engaging in regular play also offers your dog a valuable means of stress-relief and mental stimulation.", "Dog dementia is like Alzheimer’s in people. As a dog get older, its brain function can start decreasing, leading to behavioral changes like disorientation, increased howling, and staring blankly into space.", "It goes without saying that large dogs usually need a lot of physical activity. But it's important to remember that small dogs need to stay active too.", "A dog’s body changes as it gets older. Sometimes these bodily changes, which progress over time and become irreversible, can affect a dog’s behavior.", "A bored dog can do a lot of damage to its surroundings and it may develop some psychological problems due to a lack of mental stimulation. If your dog is bored and exhibiting bad behavior, such as obsessively digging in the yard or chewing up things it shouldn't, then its life and activities need to be enriched.", "Cairn terriers are alert, cheerful, and active dogs. [1] Grooming your Cairn terrier will not only keep it looking good, but will also help keep it healthy.", "Slippery floors can be hard for all dogs to walk on but they can be particularly difficult for older dogs to navigate. Not only do they make the dog feel insecure on its feet, but slippery floors could cause your older dog to get injured if it falls or pulls a muscle while trying to prevent a fall.", "Senior dogs can develop aggression due to a medical problem, a lack of mobility, or diseases that affect their nervous system. Older dogs may also become aggressive if there are stresses in their environment, such as a new family member or a new pet.", "An older dog is more likely to experience dangerous complications during whelping, even if it was previously in good health. To be safe, avoid breeding a dog over the age of six, and always have a pre-breeding exam before mating your dog.", "Many pet owners find it difficult to provide their senior dogs with enough exercise. As a result, many dogs gain weight as they age, which negatively impacts their overall health.", "As a dog ages, its dietary needs will change. In order to feed your older dog a healthy diet , you will want to ensure that it eats foods that contain omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids.", "Urinary tract disease often develops in dogs older than seven years, as well as dogs that have diabetes. As your dog gets older, they may develop a weaker urinary sphincter muscle, which can then allow urine to “leak” out, often outside of your dog’s control." ]

[ "Georgian Communist Party" ]

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[ "It's drifting away. [Tidal locking](_URL_0_) causes a decrease in the rotational velocity of the Earth, which means it's losing angular momentum from that rotation - but angular momentum must be conserved, so the size of it's orbit increases to compensate. It's worth noting, however, that the Earth likely won't ever be completely tidally locked to the Sun. Tidal force is proportional to the mass exerting the force and inversely proportional to its distance. The moon is ~1/27210884 the mass of the Sun, but it is ~400 times closer, so the Sun's tidal force on the Earth is 27210884/400^3 = 0.4252 times that of the Moon. This means the Earth will tidally lock to the Moon well before the Sun." ]

[ "The energy comes from the Earth's rotation. The Earth is rotating more slowly as the moon drifts away.", "It's no accurate but keep in mind that we unconsciously flex our muscles to work against the gravity of earth. So if gravity would change to 0 right now we would probably all start to slowly drift away from earth.", "It won't drift away completely. For one thing, at the rate it's drifting away, the Sun will expand into a red giant and swallow up both Earth and Moon before anything significant happens. But let's assume that doesn't happen - the Sun is magically eternal. In that case, the Moon still won't ever drift completely away. It will instead drift away to the point where Earth becomes tidally locked to it. The reason that the Moon is drifting away is that the motion of the tides is \"stealing\" kinetic energy from Earth's rotation and giving it to the Moon's orbit. So the Moon is orbiting faster every year, and Earth's day is getting longer every year. Eventually, the day will get long enough and the lunar orbit fast enough that they'll become equal. Earth and Moon will be tidally locked, so that the same side always faces each other. A month will be equal to a day.", "The Moon is drifting outwards by 4cm per year, but this is only as it drains angular momentum from Earth's rotation, making our days longer. It will no longer drift away when all the remaining angular momentum has been drawn. Okay, *almost* all of it. The Earth will still rotate slowly and the length of the day will match the orbital period of the Moon, so that they always show the same face to each other. This is mutual tidal locking, like the Pluto-Charon system. The Moon will still be close enough to be in orbit around Earth by then. The timescale for this to happen is tens of billions of years. But the Sun only has 7 billion years to live and it may engulf the Earth during its red giant phase. So the Moon won't have time to make Earth tidally locked, let aside leave us. _URL_0_", "It is purely a coincidence in time. The moon has been and continues to drift away from Earth, it was once considerably closer to Earth (Larger apparent size) and it will one day be considerably farther away(smaller apparent size). Tides are slightly higher when the moon is on the same side as the sun or opposite side as the sun.. just slightly though. This is because the moon is the primary tidal body to Earth.", "The friction will slow down the Earth's rotation, as well as cause the Moon to ~~speed up~~ slow down. As a result, the moon slowly drifts away from the Earth (at a relatively insignificant amount) and the Earth's rotation slows infinitesimally. Edit: The moon steals angular momentum, causing it to have a wider orbit, causing it to slow down", "If you let go of the ISS, all that happens is that you carry on in your orbit, alongside the ISS. You don't \"fall\" down. You're feeling the same amount of gravity that you felt inside the ISS. You're going at about the same speed and feeling about the same acceleration, so you carry on at about the same path. You will only drift away very slowly. The ISS orbits at a speed of 7.7 km/s or 27,600 km/h. So you'll carry on at that speed. However, the ISS is low enough that it actually feels a little bit of drag from the Earth's atmosphere. So it slowly drops down and they have to boost it every month or so. You can see that quite clearly in [this plot](_URL_0_) of the height of the ISS over the last year. So, if you're not getting these boosts, your orbit will slowly drop down over maybe a year or a few years, and you'll *eventually* plummet onto the Earth.", "Yep, crazy happenstance. The moon is about 400 times closer to us than the sun, and is also about 1/400th the size of the sun. So things work out pretty well. Of course, this is only for a few million more years, as the moon is slowly moving farther away from the Earth. Once it's backed off a bit more, it won't be able to totally cover the sun, leaving us with only partial eclipses from then on. But I doubt we'll be around to be disappointed by that.", "The Moon is slowly moving away from the Earth due to tidal forces between the Earth and Moon. It has nothing to do with Jupiter.", "I'm by no means an expert, but they did bring back 100s of pounds of moonrocks. This probably helped the discovery that the moon was once a part of the earth that was cracked off after a mammoth collision with another planitoid of the early solar system. Also, we placed reflectors on the surface to let us accurately measure the moon's orbit vs time. This probably helped us to find that the moon is slowly drifting away from the earth. So.... we learned stuff, maybe not incredibly useful, profitable stuff, but stuff nonetheless.", "No. Earth-moon system is the only one where the satellite is the same apparent size as the sun. Having said that, it's not exactly true. Sometimes the moon is farther away in its orbit, and we get an annular eclipse (the sun shows a thin ring around the moon). Also, this is true for the current era in Earth's history. The moon used to be much closer to the Earth (billions of years ago), so it would have appeared much larger than the sun.", "A star like the sun is getting brighter! Really, chain reaction ideas and thing like that break down at this scale. Imagine that you make helium, then it will sink to the center because it's heavier right? Well that's now you have an inert helium core, and the \"shell\" of hydrogen combustion is getting bigger and bigger. This will happen slowly and slowly until the shell starts to push it's self away with the fusion pressure (which counters the gravity). This is the Red Giant phase, and will slowly cool off until the helium has enough mass to start helium fusion", "Water molecules are actually light enough that some can get enough energy to escape Earth's gravitational pull, so we are constantly losing water as it leaks into space. Thankfully it's a very slow process but in about 1-2 billion years, Earth may be completely dry as the rate of water loss increases due to the sun slowly getting hotter as it ages.", "When the earth's core cools completely, the continents will no longer drift, volcanos will quiet, and there will be no more earthquakes. Mountains will no longer be built and slowly wear down due to erosion. Hot spots like Hawai'i will stop growing and forming new islands. In short, all geologic activity related to plate tectonics will cease, and the earth will be a dead planet.", "Normal force that we reference is nothing but the electrons of the table repelling the electrons of the rock once they get too close. If you hold the rock a few centimetres away from the table, the table has no power. As gravity brings it closer the electromagnetic force slowly starts increasing. After a certain point, it overcomes the force gravity is applying, and things reach equilibrium.", "I saw a documentary about that once. Of course, around 8 minutes after the sun disappeared, it would get suddenly dark. The temperature would not drop immidiatly, our land and in particular the oceans storag a lot of heat. It would take month in which the earth becomes cooler and cooler, temperatures slowly dropping to an level that don't sustain human life. The complete earth wouldn't freeze solid, since we have still a hot core, but the humans would have to digg themselves in to come closer to the warm underground. Furthermore, the plantlife would be destroyed basically in no time. Without the sun, everything would die that depends on light, the only source of food would be fungi. Also, the human body would get problems because we need sunlight as well.", "First, the signal has to travel from earth to New Horizons, not from the Sun to New Horizons. Pluto's orbit is highly eliptical. It gets closer and further from the sun throughout it's orbit. Add in the earth's orbit, and the change in distance over time becomes pretty complex. When the Earth and Pluto are closest, it's a distance of just under 4 light hours. Presumably, we are at a current state of orbits that means pluto is now 4.5 light hours away.", "I've seen two proposals regarding this question. As the sun ages it will first steadily grow hotter and in about one billion years the Earth will receive too much energy from the sun to be able to sustain life anymore. Around four billion years later the sun will expand into its red giant phase and its outter surface will expand beyond the orbit of the Earth. In the first scenario I've seen the Earth will simply be consumed by the sun as the sun's surface expands beyond its orbit. In the second, it is thought that as the sun starts to slowly expand the orbits of the inner planets might push outwards, and it is possible that the Earth won't end up *inside* the sun but drift outward to around where the asteroid belt is now. Either way all life on Earth will be long gone before this time, although, as the sun does heat up it might be possible for us to move to Mars and then to Jupiter's moons. Ganymede and Callisto would possibly make nice, cozy homes one day.", "The earth orbits the sun, the sun orbits as part of a galaxy, objects in gravitationally bound structures move independent of the expansion of the universe. Thus very nearby objects can have their emissions blue shifted because their own velocity towards us (expansion independent velocity is called \"peculiar velocity\") can easily dominate over their Hubble expansion velocity. This is because the Hubble expansion speed is dependent on the distance of the object away from us (so close objects are moving away slowly).", "The earth also experiences a constant force due to the sun's gravity, but you don't ask why the orbit doesn't slowly get smaller. The effect of the solar wind is to reduce the force of gravity between the Earth and the sun by a tiny amount, which makes the Earth's orbit very slightly bigger than it would otherwise be. To really change the orbit of an object, a force needs to be applied in the direction of motion.", "Tidal Locking. _URL_0_ The moon is tidally locked with the Earth, it is slowly getting farther and farther away and is in fact slowing down our days. It does spin on its own axis once per month. But since it revolves around us at the same rate, we are only seeing one side.", "It can go slowly with a lot of power, but it will need to move a huge amount of fuel with it as it will have to keep burning for a very long time Escape velocity is the speed you need to get out of an object's(Earth's in this case) gravity well and continue off endlessly. The 11.2 km/s escape velocity of Earth is for an object near the surface that isn't impacted by air resistance, but if you move further away the speed requirement drops. By the time you get to 9000 km you only need to be moving about 7.1 km/s to escape Earth Your slow but powerful ship would just have to keep burning away from Earth until it gets far enough away that its speed exceeds the escape velocity at that distance. Unfortunately if you're going slowly you're going to need an obscene amount of fuel due to all the energy you lose to gravity, we go quickly so you spend as little time burning fuel to fight gravity as possible.", "When the sun is rising you're getting indirect, diffuse light which is slowly and steadily increasing, as the sun gets closer to the horizon - going from black to blue. It happens the exact opposite when the sun is setting. Direct light becomes indirect and diffuse, turning from blue to black. They don't actually look that different, just mirrored. But that's enough to make it seem very different. If someone showed you a still picture of dawn twilight and dusk twilight without labels, you wouldn't be able to tell which was which", "Mainly parts of the universe that are close to really strong gravity sources -- near neutron stars, pulsars, or black holes. As Einstein demonstrated, gravity bends space but also slows time. The closer you are to a source of gravity, the slower time passes -- in your frame of reference. The reality of this theory was demonstrated when we put GPS satellites into space, then found out that, for them, time passed slower by milliseconds because they were a bit farther from a gravity source: Earth. Normally, the effect is trivial -- you'll age billionths of a second more slowly per year in Death Valley than you will on the top of Mt. Everest. But sometimes it's not... get close to a neutron star and, if the gravity doesn't kill you (hint: it will) you'll find yourself aging much more slowly than you would on Earth.", "Breaks in underground piping cause exposure of running fluid to the surrounding Earth, slowly eroding it away. As the surrounding ground is taken away and moistened, the ground loses its structural integrity and collapses.", "The numbering is according to magnetic north, and earth's magnetic field is changing ever so slowly. After many years, it has moved enough that it's now closer to 15 (150 degrees magnetic) than 14 (140 degrees magnetic).", "Since GPS depends on synchronizing time between satellites and Earth (it uses time to determine distance), a GPS system without relativity compensation would probably see the location accuracy of the determined location slowly worsen over time. We would probably notice this, do experiments with stationary receivers on Earth, find some kind of function that approximates the time drift, and apply it as a correction to the satellite time that is transmitted. By this time we would probably be wondering why the same atomic clock, which is supposed to be super precise, would begin drifting apart when all that is different is its location and velocity. We would probably engineer the equation, based on empirical observation, before a theorist comes up with the theory.", "> wouldn’t the mountains be “closer” to the sun? How close features on Earth are to the sun is irrelevant to their temperature. Earth's orbit varies in distance from the sun by about 5 million kilometers, and this has nothing to do with the seasons. The issue is that Earth's axis of rotation is tilted and this exposes the hemispheres to more or less direct sunlight at different parts of its orbit. If a hemisphere is more angled away from the sun it will get less energy input and be colder (winter). More direct exposure and it is summer. The closer to the poles the more extreme this change is, as nearer the equator the angle is much the same. Mountains are colder due to altitude thinning the air, cooling it via expansion.", "Someone standing on the Earth will observe that time is moving more slowly on the ship, likewise someone on the ship will observe time moving more slowly on the Earth. This is just what is observed however, in reality since it is only the ship that has undergone acceleration, it is only the ship that will be moving more slowly through time.", "If the earth was a big long stick, then the poles would be geographically closer. However, since the earth is a sphere (well, almost a sphere) then the only way the poles would be closest to the sun is if the earth was tilted a full 90 degrees and the poles pointed straight at the sun. Since the earth is tilted I think 23 degrees, then the highest latitude you can get that is at some point of the year closest to the sun would be 23 degrees above and below the equator. Contrary to popular belief though, it's not distance that affects the seasons, but angle. Areas that are facing the sun get hit by more direct sunlight, and get heated more. The farther it slopes away from the sun, the less radiation is absorbed.", "There are two planets that are closer than are closer to the sun than Earth. There are millions or billions of stars we can watch for transits. Even if only a small fraction have planets and a smaller fraction of those can be seen from Earth, there are still many many more planets that we could see transiting than just two. There is also the issue that Earth moves around outside of Venus so the angles line up less often. Exoplanets are so far away that the Earth's position is not relevant.", "We experience the Earth's gravity, not the sun's. The Earth moves faster when it's closer to the sun, which is why Northern winter is shorter than Northern summer." ]

[ "With Facebook users numbering about a billion and Twitter drawing around 500 million as of June 2012, it is no surprise that many companies have taken notice and created pages to engage with their fans and supporters. NPR maintains a number of accounts across these two platforms too, each curated for the wide-ranging interests of our audience - from food to politics to NPR people, and everywhere in between. Here's a quick breakdown: - NPR's editorial Facebook and Twitter accounts focus on our stories and the content we produce across our different on-air shows, podcasts, news desks and digital spaces. - Our \"This is NPR\" Facebook page and Twitter account are managed by our corporate team and bring you behind-the-scenes details and insights into NPR life, events you may want to check out, the latest on what's happening with our hosts and staff, and announcements about upcoming programming features you don't want to miss. Taking part in social media is just one way NPR is connecting with our unique listeners and fans. That's what NPR Listener Services shared recently with Dennis, our Curious Listener. Read on to find out more: Send your questions about the inner workings of NPR, something you heard during a program, or anything else NPR-related to NPR Listener Services. Your question and the answer might even end up on the This is NPR blog." ]

[ "On Monday, August 21, thousands of spectators and families poured into the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., for their special eclipse viewing day activities. For more than a hundred curious listeners and their parents, the solar eclipse was an opportunity to meet a voice they only knew from car rides and living room listening sessions. Mindy Thomas, co-host of NPR's Wow in the World, worked with intrepid reporters-in-training to learn about the eclipse, what they liked most about the show and much more. NPR Extra gathered social media snapshots of the day's excitement and you can view some below. Were you at the National Air and Space Museum and got a picture with Mindy? Tag it on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter with #WowInTheSky. You can also upload images and video to tinkercast.com/contact We'd love to see them! The fun didn't stop at the museum or in Washington. Wow in the World listeners were encouraged to send dispatches from around the country as they experienced the solar eclipse. Check out some of the video and audio reports from our SKYwitness Reporters:", "Some women see the sexual misbehavior, date-gone-wrong allegations against comedian Aziz Ansari as an example of how a woman tries to navigate consent during a sexual encounter. But one author argues that view says something about the way young people are taught about sex at an early age. Here & Now&#8216;s Peter O&#8217;Dowd speaks with Cindy Pierce (@CindyPspeaker), author of &#8220;Sexploitation: Helping Kids Develop Healthy Sexuality in a Porn-Driven World&#8221; and &#8220;Sex, College and Social Media: A Commonsense Guide to Navigating the Hookup Culture.&#8221; Interview Highlights On her initial reaction to the Aziz Ansari story &#8220;This is about miscommunication, and when so many people start their connections, as did these two individuals, through texting, that&#8217;s where a lot of flirting happens and what they think is getting to know each other more. And when you&#8217;re connected by phones, and through text, you&#8217;re not really getting to know someone. The whole hookup culture really stands out for me; it&#8217;s just a recipe for misunderstanding and miscommunication. So I think both Aziz and this young woman had a hard time communicating and weren&#8217;t reading each other&#8217;s cues and weren&#8217;t being clear.&#8221; On the debate over whether it was assault or a representation of a broken sexual culture &#8220;I think it&#8217;s really a collision of factors between the tolerated hookup culture, which is all about being casual. Also adding to that the social media, which keeps people at a distance. Not practicing social courage. Social courage means you&#8217;re going to be in awkward situations, you&#8217;re going to have conflict, you&#8217;re going to be having to negotiate things, but people aren&#8217;t doing a lot of that. And, in addition to that, porn. I think porn is a major factor. Porn is the No. 1 sexuality educator. Parents kind of surrender because they think they put parental controls on it and they walk away from it, which kids work around. They think their kids are not online, where kids are curious and trying to get answers for things they hear on the bus or at recess or at school. Kids are being exposed to porn much earlier. The average age recently was 11, we&#8217;re starting to hear that&#8217;s 9, and in the trenches of talking to parents, it&#8217;s really 9 or 8. And what they&#8217;re exposed to &#8212; it&#8217;s not converting to their real experiences once they get to that point of having a partner. So I think between porn, hookup culture and social media, that collision of factors &#8212; and you add alcohol to that and that&#8217;s the recipe for disaster right there.&#8221; On the influence of porn &#8220;I think that&#8217;s where they get ideas. And the thing is &#8212; the porn industry is not going away. It owns the world. Thirty to 35 percent of what crosses the internet is porn, globally. I talk to young men in high school and college &#8212; I look like their auntie, they&#8217;ll tell me anything. I&#8217;m no threat to their lives. They are concerned about porn. They are concerned how it&#8217;s not converting to their sexual experiences. They&#8217;re worried about erectile dysfunction, they&#8217;re worried about the violence. Porn glorifies rape, in a way. The most viewed porn is quite violent and quite aggressive, and it skews expectations about how bodies respond and how bodies look. The young men I speak to &#8212; almost all young men are interested in giving pleasure to their partners. They&#8217;re interested in communicating and having a relationship. But the part they&#8217;re scared of is the awkwardness and the vulnerability required to make that happen. And so they depend on porn to get their ideas and kind of imitate that. And then it doesn&#8217;t really pan out and they&#8217;re confused.&#8221; On a disconnect between cultural strides like the #MeToo movement and what we&#8217;re doing behind closed doors &#8220;I think we&#8217;re in a time where we&#8217;re still raising girls to be compliant, be polite. And for boys, there&#8217;s still this pressure to prove your masculinity and your heterosexuality, whether you are heterosexual or not. And that is &#8212; your social survival for girls and boys, and I&#8217;m speaking in a very gendered, binary viewpoint here because hookup culture is quite hyper-heterosexualized, and this is where a lot of the dynamic is. It&#8217;s about social survival.&#8221; On consent &#8220;We are moving into a place where young people are starting to understand affirmative consent is verbal. It&#8217;s not of doing a checklist. It&#8217;s checking in every step of the way. Whoever wants to advance to another level needs to ask. Now, in her situation there was a power dynamic. But in her own account I only heard once that she verbally said &#8216;no.&#8217; And Aziz Ansari responded, but then he continued to pursue her. So reading non-verbal cues &#8212; I hear this and people in their 4", "With David Folkenflik The big social media platforms silence Alex Jones. What does this mean for free speech, for American democracy? We’ll dive in. Guests Adrian Chen, writer who has covered technology and internet culture for a number of outlets including The New Yorker, The New York Times and Wired Magazine. (@AdrianChen) Kate Klonick, assistant professor of law at St. John&#8217;s University. (@Klonick) Jeff Jarvis, he writes an influential media blog at Buzzmachine.com. Professor and director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. Author of &#8220;Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News,&#8221; and more. (@jeffjarvis) Bill Ogden, partner at Farrar & Ball LLP law firm in Houston, Texas. He represents three families who lost children in the Sandy Hook school shooting who are suing Alex Jones for defamation. Interview Highlights Our caller Russell of Rome, Georgia, on why he&#8217;s uncomfortable with companies regulating speech &#8220;I just think that it&#8217;s kind of a weird situation where you have a big tech situation sort of curating what is OK for you to listen to and not OK for you to listen to. I&#8217;m probably in a major minority where I love to listen to NPR every day, and I listen to Alex every day. And now, I can&#8217;t get on iTunes and get his podcast anymore. My market doesn&#8217;t carry him, so that&#8217;s the only way for me to listen to him. &#8220;It just kind of really bothers me that Apple is telling me what I can and cannot listen. While they do have that right, I feel like the social media companies and iTunes and all are sort of in a different category because that&#8217;s a huge revenue stream for InfoWars. It&#8217;s not the same as free speech just in general, it also hurts them monetarily really bad, and it&#8217;s just sort of setting a very dangerous precedent.&#8221; On how social media sites may be more &#8220;public&#8221; than other private entities Adrian Chen: &#8220;I think the size and the scope of it that you pointed out does make it a little different than something like a Barnes and Noble, where people are really using these things now as a public square. This is where so much of the discourse that goes into politics &#8212; and also our lives &#8212; happens, and so it&#8217;s really a privately controlled, sort of semi-public space, and that&#8217;s something that&#8217;s very new about the platforms versus old media.&#8221; On whether social media sites are taking controversial speech seriously, and issues that come up in that policy. Kate Klonick: &#8220;My research says that they&#8217;re definitely taking it seriously. I think that they&#8217;re working really, really hard to solve these problems and to kind of figure out how they want to respond to them. I think that one of the dangers that you brought up in the intro to the show, and something really interesting to think about, is you said like, &#8216;What do we want them to do?&#8217; And the caller who called in was bothered by the fact that tech companies get to control his access to information about things, that he just doesn’t feel like that&#8217;s right. He should have access to this information. &#8220;I guess there are two questions there, and one that you brought up is &#8216;Who is the “we” anyway?&#8217; Which I think is a really great problem, because these are global transnational companies, and so the standards that they are setting are enforced globally, and that’s kind of a very interesting problem, because the way they set their standard for speech in the U.S. is very different from norms and standards people want to be set in the EU or in Africa or in India.&#8221; On whether social media is a public square where free speech should be enforced. Jeff Jarvis: &#8220;I think the default of the platforms is toward freedom of speech, but again, you have bad actors trying to take advantage of that goodwill that you have. I think that they have a responsibility. I hear journalists say in the same breath, &#8216;Facebook has to go clean up this mess, but I don&#8217;t trust Facebook to make judgments.&#8217; What we are expecting them to do is to deal with Russian manipulation, we are expecting them to do a lot of things. [Facebook] is not the entirety of the internet. &#8220;Mark Zuckerberg is not responsible for free speech in the world. The internet is a public square, the internet as a whole, but the various platforms on it, including your show&#8217;s own website, and the New York Times&#8217;s comments, and letters to the editor of the Washington Post, those are all controlled ways in which the public has a conversation. Much more controlled than we have today.&#8221; Our caller Ali of York, Maine, on whether there&#8217;s a double standard in how Alex Jones has been treated.  &#8220;If his name was Imam Jones, and somebody went out and shot up a pizzeria, I feel like that they would h", "President Trump held a social media summit at the White House this week, giving a major platform to conservative activists, including some conspiracy theorists, who claim their ideas are censored by social media platforms. Major social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter were not invited to Thursday's event. Trump said he will be holding another meeting with the major social media companies in the coming weeks. Speaking to conservative activists on Thursday, Trump pledged to \"protect the free speech of all Americans\" and ensure they are not \"silenced.\" Conservative activist Joy Villa (@Joy_Villa), who attended the summit, says Trump made it clear he supports them. She says it's not just conservatives who are censored on social media. \"It&#8217;s liberals as well, it&#8217;s independents, it&#8217;s people who think outside the box. There is a clear and evident bias, and that&#8217;s why he joined us together,\" she tells Here & Now's Femi Oke. \"He said, &#8216;Listen, you guys are getting more views than many mainstream media out there. Keep posting, keep promoting, keep speaking, and I&#8217;m going to have your back.&#8217; \" Interview Highlights On doxing, the spread of someone's private information on the internet against their will \"I don&#8217;t believe in doxing. I mean, it&#8217;s very dangerous. CNN has publicly doxed a young boy who was 15 years old who did a meme. There was a meme where there&#8217;s a cartoon of Trump punching out CNN and it&#8217;s very silly and the president shared it, and that went viral and CNN doxed him, told everybody his age. \"I would say there&#8217;s a different thing besides reporting and doxing. If the person is, they&#8217;re public, then you can say their name. But finding them out, finding out when [they] obviously don&#8217;t want to be public. You don&#8217;t have to investigate as a journalist when someone makes a cartoon. This is not a criminal thing. That would be investigative journalism. This other thing is just making a mountain out of a molehill.\" On what she defines as \"fake news\" \"Fake news is having a clear bias and not saying, &#8216;This is an opinion piece. &#8230; Listen, I&#8217;m liberal and this is why I&#8217;m saying this, or I&#8217;m Republican, this is why I&#8217;m saying this.&#8217; That&#8217;s a slant, that&#8217;s fake news, that&#8217;s fraudulent, and it&#8217;s unfair to viewers and listeners.\" On her aim when she dresses up as the border wall or Planned Parenthood at events \"Well, it&#8217;s pretty obvious what I&#8217;m thinking. I support the wall. So what I&#8217;m doing is essentially protesting what everybody is saying is good, but we know when you do research, is not good. I believe in what I say, and I want to elicit a conversation. Not to troll, not to provoke, but you could say to provoke conversation. It&#8217;s OK to disagree, but don&#8217;t let me not say what I believe.\" Jill Ryan produced and edited this interview for broadcast with Todd Mundt. Samantha Raphelson adapted it for the web. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.", "Everyone has a different passion when it comes to NPR - books, news, social media, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! A great way to transition that enthusiasm into a job is with a NPR internship. Do you have aspirations of being the next Guy Raz (NPR intern with All Things Considered, circa 1997) or the next blogger on 'This is NPR'? (Yup, I was a Summer 2010 Communications intern). Give today's installment of \"The Curious Listener\" a read. The next deadline to apply for an NPR internship is July 27. If you're interested in working alongside NPR hosts, journalists and staff, visit the Internships page on NPR.org to get started on an application. Also, check out what our summer interns are up to right now on their Tumblr page.", "A plethora of social networks exist today. It seems like every day a new or niche version of a social network is popping up. For example Google+ - I've been invited (how special do I feel!?), but I don't think I need another social media account to manage. Some of the chatter on social media networks is about marketers (or brands). Naturally, in addition to quantifying the reach of brand messages, marketers would like to gauge whether this chatter generates a positive or negative sentiment among users. NPR has embraced the use of social media on many different fronts and it would be helpful to be able to tell a story about NPR followers/fans and their influence. To do this there is more than one right way to mine through these conversations as Quirk's Marketing Research Review has so clearly defined in its article, \"What can text analytics teach us?\" Read More One example of quantifying social media messages is ComScore stepping up to the challenge of social media measurement with the release of a new tool called Social Essentials . This enables marketers to measure paid, earned and owned campaign impressions. The tool is expected to tackle Facebook first and then move on to other social media sites like Twitter. The list of the features is quite impressive: The number of fans and friends of fans reached with paid, earned and owned social media brand impressions along with the total number of brand exposures. The ability to compute traditional media planning metrics such as reach, frequency and GRPs for social media brand impressions. The demographic composition of fans and friends exposed to social media brand impressions. The online behavior and brand engagement of these fan and friend segments. Competitive intelligence on other brands' social media audiences, including demographic and behavioral comparisons and audience overlap. The behavioral impact of exposure to social media messages, marketing and advertising campaigns. I'm interested to learn more since we have also attempted to understand our social media audience. However, I feel that describing these complex relationships in a few simple metrics, as these tools often do, will miss important pieces of the story. From an advertiser's point of view I get why it's helpful to quantify the audience, but from a marketing researcher's point of view a few metrics doesn't mean that you'll be able to fully understand why certain audiences react to messages in different ways. Will this tool really be able to measure which messages or techniques resonate most effectively among a set of users? Perhaps only if the tool is powerful enough to create personas then marketers could at least segment messages that really resonate with key influential users. For now I hold the same reservations for this tool as I do for text analytic tools. I'll believe it when I see the tool's success myself. I need more proof. Needless to say, I'll keep my eyes out for other commentary on whether or not this new tool is successful in its purpose. In case you're curious to know just how many social network sites are out there, perhaps this will tickle your fancy. Meredith Heard is the Research Analyst for NPR's Corporate Sponsorship and Development.", "Note: NPR's audio for First Listens comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify playlist at the bottom of the page. Never underestimate the power of social media. It can be used to inform, entertain, mobilize the masses and scandalize public figures. Yet it also potential to bring people from different walks of life together. Cool Uncle, the unlikely pairing of veteran smooth pop and soul singer-songwriter Bobby Caldwell and the contemporary hit-making producer Jack Splash is an excellent example of social media power made good. Soon after Splash, a Grammy winner for his work with Cee-Lo and Jennifer Hudson, and producer to Alicia Keys and Kendrick Lamar, mentioned in a number of interviews that collaborating with Caldwell was among his professional dreams, he received a curious Facebook message—from a dog. The message was actually from Caldwell's wife, Mary, sent through an account the family had set up for their pet. She'd caught wind of the producer's affinity for her husband's music and wanted to see if she could make Splash's dream a reality. Caldwell and Splash met, hit it off, and began working together. The result of this cross-generational collaboration is a 15-track album that blends the blue-eyed soul that made the crooner of \"What You Won't Do For Love\" famous, with Splash's eclectic musical palette. For the most part, Cool Uncle doesn't seek to make Caldwell's silky tone and signature phrasing style conform to the standards of today's R&B. Instead, it brings marquee guests like Jessie Ware (\"Break Away\") and Cee-Lo (\"Mercy\") into his zone, creating music that walks the line between contemporary sonic creation and anachronistic throwback. The genre borders between smooth jazz, R&B and pop get blurred as Caldwell revisits the familiar Quiet Storm topics of romantic entanglement and heartbreak. You want highlights? There's \"Breaking Up,\" a lilting electric piano and tight percussion groove that provides a great backdrop for Caldwell's passionate duet with Deniece Williams (plus, a well-executed, emotional guest verse from rapper Eric Biddines). Or there's \"Game Over,\" a panoramic Kaleidoscopic bit of easy-listening from the Chuck Mangione school, on which Mayer Hawthorne joins Caldwell to serenade the love that has taken them over (and includes the smoothest pop invocation of Rio this side of Peter Allen). Too often, when senior family members wind up a part of our social networks, things can get awkward. But there are times when unexpected intergenerational communication can lead to some inspired creations. Such is definitely the case of the Caldwell and Splash's union. Cool Uncle indeed.", "This week begins Congress&#8217; recess as members travel back to their districts in preparation for midterm elections. Here & Now&#8217;s digital and social media producer, Rachel Rohr, is traveling cross-country in a VW camper van, talking with young people about the issues that are important to them ahead of midterm elections. Her project is called &#8220;Alternate Routes.&#8221; Rohr tells Jeremy Hobson that while most of the people she&#8217;s met don&#8217;t care about politics, most do have issues they care about. Ways to Follow Along \nListen to Rachel&#8217;s entire interview with Jordan Bridges here.\nFollow Rachel&#8217;s travels on Here & Now&#8217;s Tumblr\nListen to podcasts and dispatches from &#8220;Alternate Routes&#8221; on SoundCloud\nFollow along on Instagram\n &#8220;If anything affects a young person directly, you can be sure they’re paying attention – many people mentioned student loans,&#8221; Rohr said. &#8220;A 25-year-old I talked with in Buffalo had just married a Canadian citizen, so he was following immigration closely. A 27-year-old medical student in Cleveland was following health insurance very closely – she’s concerned about access to care and wants a single-payer system, even though it would mean less money for her.&#8221; But the most politically-minded person Rohr says she has spoken with so far was Jordan Bridges, a 26-year-old coal miner in Logan, West Virginia. &#8220;He opposes environmental regulations that are hurting the coal industry,&#8221; Rohr said. &#8220;He says he’s seen many layoffs as a result, and in fact his own company is planning layoffs at the end of this month – that he and his young family are bracing for.&#8221; On the lighter side, Rohr has also seen a variety of regional culture. &#8220;The other night, in Louisville I went to the Episcopal Church of the Advent, because I got a tip about Louisville’s contra dance scene – contra dance is traditional partnered folk dancing,&#8221; Rohr said. &#8220;There were people of all ages there and in particular, people in their early 20s.&#8221; Guest\n\nRachel Rohr, social media and web producer for Here & Now, and host of the podcast &#8220;Alternate Routes.&#8221; She tweets @LionTalk.", "Social media users sometimes complain about the superficiality, the misinformation, the exhausting stream of content and, of course, the privacy concerns of the platforms. But how easy is it to delete online accounts? Here & Now&#8216;s Robin Young explores the challenges with Jen Golbeck (@jengolbeck), director of the Social Intelligence Lab at the University of Maryland. Interview Highlights On her advice to people who say they are done with social media &#8220;I think it&#8217;s fine to get out if you want to. But there&#8217;s a few options. You don&#8217;t have to do the ‘nuclear social media’ option, and just get off entirely and never be on there again. There&#8217;s really a spectrum. You can shift towards being less engaged, you can pull a lot of content off, but you could still kind of have a presence there if you want to. So, there&#8217;s a lot of ways to start getting out of the obsessive social media life.&#8221; On sites that can help users delete a social media account &#8220;Those sites are really helpful in directing you to the right place to start doing the deletion. But it&#8217;s not always clear what deleting your account means. Does it get rid of all of your posts and all of your photos? Does it just shut it down so people can&#8217;t see it? There&#8217;s steps you can take and there&#8217;s other tools out there. Facebook Timeline Cleaner is one that I use that&#8217;s an extension for your browser that will actually delete your posts and your comments and your likes. If you really want everything gone, you can use one of those tools, and then something like you suggested that will help you actually delete the account.&#8221; On why some sites make it difficult to delete an account &#8220;Money is always a reason to consider that. Though places like Evernote have free accounts for people, so it&#8217;s not necessarily the only motivator. It can just be a lot of work on their end to develop the code that&#8217;s going to delete all of your content that&#8217;s been there. They may just not want to deal with people leaving and then wanting to come back and wondering where their content is. But it is not a priority. Their business is not on people leaving, and so, how easy they make it really depends on what pressure they&#8217;ve put internally on allowing people to get out.&#8221; Array On choosing which sites to engage with &#8220;You want to think about, where do you want to be, and who you want to connect with online? I have a lot of social media accounts because study this as my job, but I use them all really differently. I have a LinkedIn account that I actually ignore, but it&#8217;s important professionally to have it. I&#8217;m super active on Twitter. Facebook I really use to talk to people that I don&#8217;t see that often who I have social accounts with. And so if I decide I want to get off, I may not want to disengage from all those platforms. I may decide, ‘Well, for work, I really need to have this LinkedIn profile.’ Or maybe all I care about is seeing pictures of my nieces and nephews, so I&#8217;m going to stay on Facebook, but get off everything else.&#8221; On caveats of deleting everything &#8220;If you really, fully disappear from social media and you can&#8217;t be found online, it looks really suspicious at this point, because we expect people to have some presence. I think that&#8217;s the kind of consideration to have. If you might have someone come look for you because you&#8217;re applying for a job, have that kind of professional presence. And LinkedIn is a good place to do that. It&#8217;s not a very personal information-revealing site. You really can just keep your professional things there without a lot of the privacy risks.&#8221;", "Have you ever wondered who your fellow public radio listeners are, and how their values and attitudes are different from others you know?&nbsp; Each year, we analyze reams of data from Mediamark Research in order to answer this question.&nbsp; While there&rsquo;s still plenty we don&rsquo;t know, here are a few core beliefs that have stood the test of time. Not all NPR station listeners share these values, of course, but they do tend to describe the audience in aggregate. Engaged in Lifelong Learning.&nbsp;&nbsp; Listeners&rsquo; dedication to public radio is indicative of a broader commitment to learning throughout their lives. The NPR audience reads and attends adult education courses at a much higher rate than the overall population. They are also 46% more likely to express an interest in theories, and 30% more likely to enjoy learning about art, culture, and history. Environmentally Conscious.&nbsp; NPR station listeners demonstrate a high level of environmental awareness, taking this concern into consideration when making life choices. Nearly 80% of listeners recycle, and they are significantly more likely than the average adult to believe that being in tune with nature is important.&nbsp; NPR station listeners are also keenly interested in the environmental impact of their purchases. More details on listeners' values and attitudes after the jump... Curious About the World.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Public radio listeners have a great curiosity about the world around them, and are more interested in experiencing other cultures than the average American. They are more likely to visit museums and travel outside of the country, and they have a greater interest in spending an extended amount of time outside of the U.S. Interested in Social Responsibility.&nbsp; Through their actions and ideology, NPR station listeners demonstrate a higher level of social consciousness than the rest of the U.S. population. More than three-fourths rate social responsibility as being &ldquo;very important.&rdquo; The NPR aud&nbsp;ence is also very likely to believe in the ideals of equal opportunity and working for the welfare of society. Independent Thinkers.&nbsp;&nbsp; In contrast to the population as a whole, listeners are more likely to have an iconoclastic streak. They are much less likely than the average American to look to tradition and faith as sources of information, and are less likely to place importance on what other individuals think of them. By and large, they enjoy trying new and different things, but are not motivated to do so by a sense of trendiness.&nbsp; Views on Religious Faith.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most NPR station listeners do not believe in creationism or support prayer in public school.&nbsp; Still, more than half of listeners (58%) say that religious faith is a &ldquo;very important&rdquo; influence in their lives, and they are more likely to contribute to religious organizations than the average American. Vincent Lampone is Research Manager for Corporate Sponsorship and Development in NPR's Audience Insight & Research group. &nbsp;", "An Indiana pizzeria received more than $840,000 in donations after voicing support for that state&#8217;s &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; law, saying it would refuse to cater a gay wedding. Comedian John Oliver traveled to Moscow to interview Edward Snowden. And actress Mindy Kaling&#8217;s brother, Vijay Chokalingam, said that he got into medical school by pretending to be black. Here & Now&#8217;s Robin Young talks to Annie Colbert, viral content editor at Mashable, about how these stories have been reverberating on social media. [Youtube] Guest\n\nAnnie Colbert, viral content editor at the news and social media website Mashable. She tweets @anniecolbert.", "This week's podcast of some of our favorite arts stories includes an interview with film critic/master of social media Roger Ebert. Ebert happens to have also provided commentary on the new Blu-ray DVD of Citizen Kane, released and reviewed on the occasion of the film's 70th anniversary. We've also got a profile of artist Tim Okamura, whose latest exhibition celebrates African-American women in New York City (and boasts a perfect title \"Bronx Brooklyn Queens\"). Also, a look at a buzzy first novel, The Night Circus, that's poised to capture fantasy fiction fans wondering what to do while waiting for the next season of Game of Thrones. (I'm among them.) And a visit to a Borders bookstore where customers making purchases will not have the opportunity for returns. Subscribe here or listen below.", "Kanye West, who can never resist a Twitter controversy, sent out a seemingly bland tweet to his 28 million followers on Monday. His tweet about the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals — a set of 17 goals to end extreme poverty, abolish inequality and improve the environment, among other things, by 2030 — has left the global development community scratching their heads. Many people, especially those working to reach the Global Goals, pretty much can't believe what just happened. Once heads stopped exploding, they began wondering: Why did he do it? And why three years after the goals were first adopted? Various theories are being put forth. Some speculate that West is out to redeem himself. He has made headlines over the past few weeks for saying in a TMZ interview that slavery was \"a choice\" and praising President Trump on Twitter. Others think it's part of some kind of performance art piece, with West taking us all along for a ride. The U.N., meanwhile, is just happy that he did it. Since 2015, the institution has been trying to make the SDGs, not known for being the sexiest topic, \"famous.\" The tweet from West is a welcome \"surprise,\" says Florencia Soto Nino, associate spokesperson for the U.N. in New York City. \"Kanye's tweet helped us reach people we normally would not have reached,\" she says. \"His fans may not be interested in U.N. issues, but maybe now they're more curious. The more people that know, the better.\" Others share the U.N.'s enthusiasm. But there was also criticism of the U.N.'s reaction. Shakira Taveras, a digital strategist at Corelab, an agency that creates digital campaigns for social justice groups, said she was \"baffled\" by West's tweet — and disappointed by the U.N.'s reply to West on Twitter. \"It's tone deaf,\" says Taveras, who has worked on social media campaigns for various U.N. agencies and groups like the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Malala Fund. \"It's like something a father who has no idea who Kanye West is would say.\" The U.N. could have used West's lyrics or \"some kind of cultural reference\" to connect with his audience, she says. \"The U.N. didn't even show what they've accomplished, or tell people what they can do to make the goals a reality.\" In response to this criticism, Nino from the U.N. says that \"the U.N. on Twitter tries to be as open and friendly as possible. It's not the U.N.'s job to troll Kanye's account.\" As for the question of whether the tweet will make people care more about the Global Goals, Taveras is skeptical. \"Tweeting about the SDGs one time is not going to make them 'famous,' unless he consistently asks his audience to take action,\" she says. \"In another hour, Kanye will tweet about something else.\"", "The Journal of the American Medical Association has identified a new disorder: &#8220;Snapchat dysmorphia.&#8221; It describes people &#8212; usually young women &#8212; seeking plastic surgery to make themselves look the way they do through filters on social media apps like Snapchat and Instagram. Here & Now&#8216;s Robin Young talks with plastic surgeon Matthew Schulman about what he&#8217;s seen in his practice. Interview Highlights On how body dysmorphia disorder is defined and how plastic surgeons look for it “Body dysmorphia disorder is a recognized mental health condition, where people become obsessed about a perceived imperfection of their body. The key with BDD, or body dysmorphia disorder, is that that imperfection is usually only seen by the person, and it doesn&#8217;t really become obvious to other people, so we&#8217;re talking about someone who looks pretty good and is obsessed, because they think that there&#8217;s something wrong with them that other people can&#8217;t see. “As a plastic surgeon, we are trained obviously in surgery, but we also have a lot of training in recognizing people with BDD. These are the exact patients we don&#8217;t want, because nothing that we can do surgically is going to make them feel better about that body part, because there&#8217;s really nothing wrong with the body part. So, we&#8217;re very in tune with BDD and try to pick up on signs that a person may have this disorder when we first meet them in consultation.” On social media&#8217;s effects on plastic surgery “One thing to keep in mind is social media is here. This is what everything&#8217;s about in 2018. The filters that are available on social media, such as Snapchat and Instagram, give people a really easy way to change the way they look, and we&#8217;re not talking about someone coming in with a silly rabbit filter, where they look like a rabbit and [say] make me look like a rabbit. We&#8217;re talking about people that are using these filters that make their skin look smoother or make their nose look a little smaller or make their eyes look wider. “That&#8217;s the thing that people are bringing into us to kind of show us what they want to look like, which on the surface, is really not unhealthy. Right? It&#8217;s just a way for someone to illustrate to the surgeon what their expectations are. “To some extent, it&#8217;s actually a good thing, and we like it. It&#8217;s when people take it a little too far and they fail to recognize what they actually look like, because they think that the filtered appearance is their real appearance.” On the pros and cons of social media in relation to plastic surgery “If someone comes in and they really want to look like a like a deer or a rabbit or a dog with their tongue hanging out, clearly that&#8217;s a problem. But, there are ways that we can we can kind of give the changes that they may like. Such as, a little bit of botox around the eyes can make the eyes look a little wider. If they bring a filter where their nose looks smaller, that may be a patient that is a good candidate for a rhinoplasty procedure. They are using that filter to show us what their ideal nose would look like. “It&#8217;s kind of a slippery slope: It can be very dangerous, but there can be some positives if it&#8217;s used the right way. “One thing to keep in mind too is if you think back to years ago, in order for people to change their appearance in a picture, they had to be very skilled, they had to use things like Photoshop and some softwares that you really had to know what you&#8217;re doing. With Snapchat and Instagram, with one swipe, the average person can just morph their face into something different, so it&#8217;s so easy for people to change their picture.” On the suggestion that some people become so attached to their Snapchat-filtered appearance that they don’t want to be seen any other way “As plastic surgeons, this is really kind of nothing new to us, because these are the things &#8212; like I was talking about at the beginning about body dysmorphia disorder &#8212; that we&#8217;re aware of and we look for signs of it. People that come in and exhibit unrealistic expectations or signs of a true dysmorphia, those are people that we clearly won&#8217;t operate on, and those are people that should be referred for psychiatric evaluation to help them, as opposed to having a surgical procedure done by us. “Those are things that we should look out for, and in the plastic surgery community, this has been around for 40, 50 years, we&#8217;ve known about. It&#8217;s just now that you kind of add the social media aspect to it and the Snapchat dysmorphia term, the public might becoming more aware of this.” On how Snapchat dysmorphia is being treated as a legitimate disorder, and how plastic surgeons respond to teenagers who want surgery “It&#8217;s a recognized psychiatric disorder, but obviously, I just want to be clear that not everyone that wants to change things about thems", "This series is produced in collaboration with The Conversation.  From an endless stream of political misinformation to inescapable lies on social media, are we living in a post-truth world? Guests Lee McIntyre, fellow at Boston University&#8217;s Center for Philosophy and History of Science. Author of &#8220;Post-Truth.&#8221; (@LeeCMcIntyre) Christopher Beem, managing director of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State University. (@McCourtneyInst) Interview Highlights When we say post-truth, what do you think that means? Lee McIntyre: “It’s easy to have a misconception about what post-truth means. And to say that we live in a post-truth era doesn&#8217;t mean that truth doesn&#8217;t matter anymore, or that no one cares about truth. It means that we live in an era where truth is at risk, where we&#8217;re in danger of losing sight of what truth means. In my book, I define post-truth as the political subordination of reality. So I think of post-truth as a tactic that&#8217;s used by authoritarians and their wannabes to control the flow of information so that they can then control the populace. It&#8217;s intended not just to corrupt our belief in some specific thing that&#8217;s true, but really to undermine the idea that we can know truth outside of political context.” What&#8217;s different now? Lee McIntyre: “It&#8217;s a great question, because the roots of this have been around forever. Politicians have lied. There have been, you know, enormous lies, enormous political subordination of reality, if you will: the Holocaust, American slavery. I mean, you just go back in history. It&#8217;s always existed. What&#8217;s different now? And I think the reason that the Oxford dictionaries named ‘post-truth’ their word of the year in 2016, is that this seems new in the following sense. &#8220;The extreme political partisanship, married to the social media, married to how quickly misinformation and disinformation can get out there, I think makes this sort of a unique challenge of our time. It&#8217;s sort of a pandemic, if you will, of disinformation and misinformation that is new. So maybe the … roots that I explore in the book ‘Post-Truth’ have been there for a long time. But we&#8217;re now facing something that I think is a unique threat. And it&#8217;s new, at least in the American experiment. Here we are.&#8221; What can we do to fix a post-truth society? Christopher Beem: “Well, you know, democracy is hard. It requires things of you that are unnatural. It requires you to be passionate and yet temperate. It requires you to accept the idea that this person with whom you disagree vehemently has as much right to their opinion, and as much right to express it as you do. And the other thing it requires of you is a commitment to reflect your perspectives accurately, honestly. And it means hearing things or being concerned about the world as it is, rather than the world as you want it to be. None of these things are easy. &#8220;And the only thing I can tell you is that in a democracy, we are all responsible. We are all sovereign. It&#8217;s not any one person&#8217;s job to run it. It&#8217;s all of ours. And so that means we all just have to commit to some things that are hard. And the truth is hard. Our biases push us in directions that make us disinclined to listen to things we don&#8217;t agree with; the things we don&#8217;t like. And so it&#8217;s only through a kind of personal commitment to the truth that any of this can be undone. And there&#8217;s so many things pushing us the other way right now.” How do we make our democracy work now?  Christopher Beem: “Well, I actually listen to a lot of my students ask the same thing. And &#8230; I did a TED Talk where I said one of things we need to do is to join something. Not political, but just anything that brings people together in service of some common interests, some common objective. So I said, you know, ‘Listen, if you&#8217;re a Penn State student, if you want to do ultimate or, you know, I heard that Penn State has a beekeeping club. It doesn&#8217;t matter. If you get together with people who are different from you and you don&#8217;t interact with them in terms of some kind of, you know, this is my name online and where there&#8217;s no accountability, but you actually interact with people face to face, it is much easier to come to understand that we&#8217;re very similar. In terms of what our objectives are for ourselves and our family and what we want out of the world.&#8217; &#8220;And it&#8217;s much harder to hate each other, right? Because you come to see this person as being just like you, you know, fallen, feet of clay, doing the best they can and not want to hurt anybody. And so I think that is one way out: is to find those opportunities. They’re out there. And my colleague is in a community band. And, you know, she says, ‘Well, we just don&#8217;t talk about.’ But, you know, ‘I know that if something happens, there&#8217;s ", "Twitter is beginning its IPO roadshow on Monday. Company officials and underwriters will travel the country making presentations to institutions and individuals, in hopes of boosting its stock offering next month. The social media giant plans to initially sell 70 to 80 million shares, roughly 13 percent of the company, for between $17 and $20 each. They hope to bring in between $1.4 and $1.6 billion with the IPO, trading under the name TWTR. The company is being valued at about $11 billion. That&#8217;s more than Yelp and AOL combined, but it&#8217;s still modest for the social media giant. Some analysis had predicted it would be valued at as much as $15 billion. The cautious valuation is being seen as a way to avoid the pitfalls that Facebook faced during its IPO. But as the finances of the company stand right now, the company had a third-quarter net loss of $64.6 million &#8212; though quarterly revenues more than doubled to $168.6 million. In an attempt to increase revenue, Twitter is expanding its ads. One key audience for those ads may be the people who live tweet while they&#8217;re watching TV. &#8220;They will figure out the best way to maximize this desire for people to interact with each other while they have this same media experience,&#8221; Here & Now media analyst John Carroll says. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s where the opportunities are.&#8221; Guest\n\nJohn Carroll, Here & Now media analyst and professor of mass communications at Boston University. He tweets @johncarroll_bu.\n JEREMY HOBSON, HOST: It's HERE AND NOW. As Twitter prepares to go public, it is valuing itself at about $11 billion, much smaller than Facebook, which is now worth about $128 billion. Twitter is heading out on the road to sell itself to investors and convincing those investors that growing its ad revenue will happen, will be key. Joining us to talk about Twitter's advertising options is HERE AND NOW media analyst John Carroll. John, welcome back. JOHN CARROLL, BYLINE: Nice to be here. HOBSON: Well, let's start with the promoted tweets, the ad platform that Twitter uses the most currently. CARROLL: Right. And that was the first one that they introduced a few years ago. And basically you pay to have your marketing message, your message, whatever it is, inserted into people's timeline, what they call the timeline, which is the Twitter stream. So it will be there. It will be marked a sponsored tweet, and it would just be part of the flow of the Twitter messages that you're getting. HOBSON: And I have to say that unlike, you know, a Facebook-promoted ad, the tweets, because they're so short, they actually do get read. I read the promoted tweet. Much as I don't want to be reading it, I do read it because it's right there. CARROLL: Right. And you see more and more digital publishers, more and more social media networks, what they're doing is they're incorporating the marketing messages into the content stream. So it looks like what you're seeing that's actual editorial content, it looks like it. And that, for a lot of publishers - digital publishers - is the most effective way to sell advertising at this point. HOBSON: But it's not enough for Twitter. I know because I was just out there in San Francisco and met with some of the people at Twitter, and they are talking all about TV. CARROLL: TV - because people are tweeting while they're watching TV in increasing numbers. So just the \"Breaking Bad\" finale, there were 1.24 million tweets... HOBSON: Yeah. CARROLL: ...during the - during that hour. So this is a platform where it's the second screen. And what's happening is a lot of TV viewers are engaging with each other through Twitter or Facebook or some other social media network. And so what you have is this opportunity to get some kind of engagement with these people who are obviously engaged with the show because they're talking about it. HOBSON: And you might be able to sell the advertiser that's advertising on the TV show a separate ad during the show on Twitter so that the person gets two hits of the same ad. CARROLL: Right. And so you know who the people are who are tweeting, so you direct the message directly to them and may get retweeted. One estimate is that for everyone who's tweeting about a show, they're reaching 50 times that number. HOBSON: Wow. CARROLL: So if you have a thousand people tweeting about a show, you've got 50,000 people getting that tweet. HOBSON: Now, Fast Company is also reporting that Twitter is hoping to get TV stars to be tweeting. What's that about? Where's the money in that? CARROLL: Well - and basically what they're doing is they have deals with the digital marketing operations ad networks. And they will do advertising. They'll promote the shows. They'll advertise themselves through Twitter. What they want is to get the stars to tweet because people may follow \"Breaking Bad,\" but it's much more likely that they would want to follow Bryan Cranston. And so if they can get these stars to engage o", "This March the leading podcast publishers join forces to expand the podcast audience Washington, DC; February 22, 2017 – For the first time, leading podcast publishers have joined forces to introduce new audiences to podcasts. During the month of March, the hosts of hundreds of shows including Stuff You Should Know, Planet Money, Missing Richard Simmons, and Crimetown, will encourage listeners to introduce a friend, relative or coworker to a new podcast, and, show them how to listen if they don't know how. Listeners will be asked to share stories of why they listen and their favorite podcasts using the hashtag #trypod. According to Edison Research, one in five Americans listened to podcasts every month as of early 2016 – a number that has grown by double-digits for five years. Even though podcasts are growing quickly and are available in more places than ever before, some people still don't know how to listen or where to start. Informally led by NPR, industry leaders including ESPN, HowStuffWorks, Pineapple Street Media, Midroll and WNYC Studios are working together to show new audiences how easy it is to listen. \"People come to podcasts for information and analysis to make sense of the world around them, to be entertained by excellent storytelling, to laugh and experience wonder,\" said Israel Smith, NPR's Sr. Director of Promotion. Research conducted by comScore and Wondery suggests that listeners turn to podcasts when they're feeling curious and then as a result of listening they feel more connected, intelligent and energized. \"As podcast fans are such loyal listeners, it makes great sense to reach out to our collective audiences, urge them to connect with friends who haven't yet caught the podcast bug, and share what makes their favorite podcasts so meaningful in their lives,\" said Julie Shapiro, Executive Producer at Radiotopia. Throughout March, more than 100 million people will hear and see messages from Guy Raz, Anna Sale, Bill Simmons, Tracy Clayton and Heben Nigatu, Meghna Chakrabarti, David Ridgen, Buster Olney, Jenna Wortham, Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant, Sook-Yin Lee, Michael Barbaro, Wendy Zukerman, Marc Maron, Manoush Zomorodi, Stassi Schroeder, Kai Ryssdal and Molly Wood, and dozens more in podcasts, in new videos, and on social media. The hashtag \"trypod\" stands for 'try podcasts.' Podcast publishers participating in Trypod include: AcastAmerican Public Media Audiosear.chCanadian Broadcasting CorporationCBS RadioEarwolfESPNFeral AudioFirst Look MediaFiveThirtyEightGimlet MediaHot PodHowStuffWorksiHeartRadioKCRWLibsynMidrollThe New York Times Night Vale PresentsNPRPacific ContentPanoply/SlatePineapple Street MediaPodtracPopUp ArchivePRIPRXPublic Radio stations including WHYY, WXPN, Louisville Public Media, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, WFIU, WDET, Montana Public Radio, WAMU, WJCT, WESA, Southern California Public Radio, Vermont Public Radio, Wyoming Public Media, WFUV, KCUR, KQED, WSHU, WUNC, WILL, KPBS, New Hampshire Public Radio and more.Quick and Dirty Tips RadioPublicRadiotopiaThe RingerStitcherThis American Life/SerialWBURWBEZWNYC StudiosWondery Press Contact Isabel Lara, NPR Media Relationsmediarelations@npr.org", "Facebook under fire again this week after its Easter murder video. Zuckerberg’s talking. We’re on it. So, the Facebook video murderer out of Cleveland is dead after a stop for Chicken McNuggets turned into a police chase and suicide. But the video that the murderer made of his killing of Robert Godwin lives on. Facebook has taken it down. But Facebook fame has left it all over. Now we’ve had beatings, rapes and murder on Facebook. Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg said his company has “a lot of work” to do. This hour On Point, like what? We’ll look at Facebook, social media, and performance murder. &#8212; Tom Ashbrook Guests Kris Wernowsky, criminal justice editor for Cleveland.com. (@kriswernowsky ) Emily Dreyfuss, senior staff writer at WIRED Magazine, covering technology and national affairs. (@EmilyDreyfuss) Kurt Wagner, social media senior editor at Recode. @KurtWagner8) Emily Dreyfuss On The Power of Facebook And The Meaning Of Feedback\n &#8220;Social media encourages this culture of sharing and getting feedback. Some people are going to be feeding off of negative feedback, and in this instance, Steve Stevens knew that social media would amplif it. Social media removes the middle man &#8212; it removes broadcast journalism. Earlier, when people were trying to get this kind of notoriety, they had to send a letter or video to a newspaper &#8212; they could put warnings, or say we&#8217;re not going to show this. So much research shows that exposure to this kind of media violence does create trauma. Facebook takes all of that away and lets anyone publish anything.&#8221; &#8212; Emily Dreyfuss \n\nFrom Tom&#8217;s Reading List Cleveland.com: Facebook killer Steve Stephens kills himself near Erie, PA — &#8220;Steve Stephens, the man accused of killing a random 74-year-old man and posting a video of the shooting, was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Tuesday in Erie, Pennsylvania, according to news reports citing Erie police.&#8221; WIRED: AI Isn&#8217;t Smart Enough (Yet) To Spot Horrific Facebook Videos — &#8220;It’s not technically feasible to immediately pinpoint and delete graphic material. The technology isn’t ready for algorithms to do it automatically, and it’s impractical to hire enough humans to do it manually. If Facebook gave an algorithm the permission to pull down videos, it would inevitably make mistakes. And even if the algorithm got it right according to Facebook’s terms of service (a big “if”), the company would be accused of censorship.&#8221; Recode: Is it time to close down Facebook Live? — &#8220;If Facebook limited the live broadcasting feature to selected partners, it wouldn’t need to worry about incidents where people accidentally broadcast a live murder, or talk about a murder they just committed. To be sure, in the Cleveland incident, limiting Live wouldn’t have prevented the video of the killing, but emphasizing vetted partners would set a more professional tone for Facebook video altogether.&#8221; Watch Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s Opening Address At The F8 Conference", "NPR GENERATION LISTEN PARTNERS WITH CASE FOUNDATION ON NPR LISTENING PARTY DIGITAL KIT AND HUB Site to launch on Giving Tuesday in honor of 4th annual international day of giving Washington, D.C., November 24, 2015 – NPR announced today that NPR Generation Listen received a grant from the Case Foundation to launch its first NPR Listening Party Hub and Kit. The site will launch on December 1st as part of #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration, created by the 92nd Street Y. Listening parties are intimate gatherings where fans convene to listen to public radio storytelling and discuss ideas surfaced through these stories. Thirty public radio stations around the country are working with NPR's Generation Listen to create this \"Giving Tuesday\" experience for their listeners. \"We are proud to support NPR in cultivating this unique community that brings together listeners who are passionate about causes and who share their time, talent and treasure,\" said Jean Case, CEO of the Case Foundation. \"This first kit leverages the art of storytelling to connect friends, family and colleagues around the power of giving and will inspire others to mobilize for good this Giving Tuesday.\" NPR Generation Listen, together with public radio stations around the country, is building a close-knit community of younger listeners who share public radio's values of being informed, conscious, and curious. The first Kit contains everything needed to plan and host an NPR Listening Party, including a curated collection of NPR stories that inspire dialogue around why people give, the future of philanthropy, and people's personal stories of giving. Starting today, people can sign up here to receive the kit in their email inbox on Dec. 1. \"Thanks to support from the Case Foundation, NPR Generation Listen is creating a new social listening experience online around Giving Tuesday that inspires deeper and more authentic connections, conversations, and ideas offline,\" said Danielle Deabler, NPR's Director of Audience Engagement & New Ventures. \"Listening parties encourage people to take a break from their screens, open up their ears and let the audio stories paint the pictures in their minds—carrying out NPR's mission to create a more informed public.\" The NPR Generation Listen team took a road-trip this summer from California to Washington, D.C., visiting nine public radio stations and hosting listening parties along the way. The new digital Listening Party Hub will serve as a destination for listeners to access NPR Listening Party Kits, which will change monthly based on a theme or topic. About NPRNPR connects to audiences on the air, online, and in person. More than 26 million radio listeners tune in to NPR each week and more than 30 million unique visitors access NPR.org each month making NPR one of the most trusted sources of news and insights on life and the arts. NPR shares compelling stories, audio and photos with millions of social media users on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube and Snapchat; NPR News and NPR One apps, online streaming, podcasts, iTunes radio and connected car dashboards help meet audiences where they are. NPR's live events bring to the stage two-way conversations between NPR hosts and the audience in collaboration with the public radio Member Station community. This robust access to public service journalism makes NPR an indispensable resource in the media landscape. About the Case FoundationEstablished by digital pioneers Jean and Steve Case, the Case Foundation invests in people and ideas that can change the world. For nearly two decades we have focused on creating programs and investing in people and organizations that harness the best impulses of entrepreneurship, innovation, technology and collaboration to address urgent social challenges. Our work is focused on three key pillars: revolutionizing the philanthropic sector, unleashing the power of entrepreneurship to create social change and igniting civic engagement through citizen-driven solutions. For more information, visit www.casefoundation.org and follow us on Twitter and Facebook.", "You&#8217;ve probably heard that there&#8217;s a huge industry devoted to inflating social media accounts. Italian security researchers found that creating fake Twitter followers generated between $40 and $360 million last year. Bogus Facebook activity brought in about $200 million. What you may not know is there are also &#8220;click farms,&#8221; where workers sit and tap away for as little as a half cent per click. There&#8217;s also an industry building to delete fake followers, including a London company called Status People, for those trying to get rid of fake accounts. Martha Mendoza of the Associated Press has taken a deep look and joins Here & Now&#8217;s Robin Young. \nRead Mendoza&#8217;s story, &#8220;Selling Social Media Clicks Becomes Big Business&#8221;\n\nGuest\n\nMartha Mendoza, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Associated Press. She tweets @mendozamartha.\n ROBIN YOUNG, HOST: It's HERE AND NOW. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, \"PAPARAZZI\") LADY GAGA: (Singing) We are the crowd. We're coming out. Got my flash on, it's true. Need that picture of you. It's so magical. YOUNG: OK. I'll stop singing along. This video on Lady Gaga's YouTube page boasts more than a hundred million views. That's probably true. There are, after all, so many of what she calls those little monsters, her fans. But last year, Lady Gaga was stripped of 156 million views on YouTube because they were fake. You've probably heard there's a huge industry devoted to inflating social media accounts. Italian security researchers found that creating fake Twitter followers generated between 40 and $360 million in revenue last year. Bogus Facebook activity brought in about $200 million. There are automated clicks - click bots. But did you know there are also click farms, where workers sit and tap away for as little as half a cent per click? And there's also now an industry building to delete fake followers. For instance, a London company called Status People is trying to get rid of fake accounts. Martha Mendoza of the Associated Press has taken a deep look, and joins us from KUSP in Santa Cruz, California. Welcome. MARTHA MENDOZA: Hi. Thanks. YOUNG: So, tell us how it works. First of all, these fake followers, how does someone buy them? I mean, is it advertised? MENDOZA: Yeah. You can go to any number of websites - we found more than a hundred - where you can buy clicks. The websites have names like Buy Plus Followers, Instagram Engine, which is going to sell you a thousand followers for 12 bucks. They will either dump them all at once, and you can have a whole bunch of new Twitter followers or other necessary clicks. Or they can also do drip clicks, they call, where they'll gradually add them. Even the U.S. State Department spent $630,000 buying Facebook fans. YOUNG: Well - and one can understand how the State Department might want to appear to have a lot of friends, or be liked in hotspots around the world, where they're trying to do good work. But the inspector general criticized the agency for spending that money to boost its numbers. But why would social media companies like Facebook not want this? Because we know that Facebook often purges these fake users. You'd think that some of the social media companies that are trying to stop this wouldn't care about it. MENDOZA: Everything they have, all their credibility is based on real engagement. And if it's actually a worker in a, you know, small room in Dhaka, that's not true engagement. And so that can really weaken their companies, and they fight back hard against this. YOUNG: Tell us about that worker in that small room. These are the click farms you write about. MENDOZA: Yeah. So I have colleagues who visited them in Jakarta, Indonesia, and another who interviewed a man who runs one out of Dhaka, Bangladesh, where a lot of them are based. In the past, people would use computer software to create clicks. And the social media firms got ahead of that and figured out how to stop that. So now these are people with real accounts, sitting in front of computers. They may have dozens of accounts. And they tap, tap, tap all day long to build social engagement numbers for clients. And there are firms that now track these back. So they'll find a Twitter member, for example, who has zero followers, who has three tweets, and who is following thousands. And those raise suspicion. YOUNG: But then what? I mean, is this legal? MENDOZA: At this point, the - nobody in law enforcement or, you know, attorney generals or the FTC, none of them have intervened with this. It could arguably be considered fraud, and it certainly violates the rules and regulations of the social media firms. So if people are caught buying clicks for any purpose, their accounts can be shut down. YOUNG: But as we said, there are companies - at least one that you write about - springing up that can help clients get rid of the fake ones they may have purchased. Why are people deciding now, well, I did this, I boosted my following, but I ", "Showing your humanity usually refers to an act of kindness or charity. Treating someone humanely means treating him fairly and with dignity. But are these traits really unique to humans? Psychologist Sarah Brosnan wants to find out. She argues that traits like fairness and curiosity are essential for any social animals to survive and live together. To show that, Brosnan works with capuchin monkeys at the Language Research Center, a part of Georgia State University. The capuchins here are \"living in a normal social environment,” she says. \"So they spend the vast majority of their day out here running around playing together, and we just separate them out for the testing.” The monkeys climb over branches in the cage, swing from the top of the cage, wrestle with each other. When it's time for testing, the animals go indoors. Equal Pay For Equal Work On this day Audrey Parrish is testing two capuchins, Liam and Logan. The test tries to get at the concept of fairness in capuchins. It isn't too tricky: Audrey hands Liam a granite token, and he hands it back to get a food reward. Audrey alternates between Liam and Logan. Now here's the twist. Sometimes each monkey gets the same reward, sometimes not. And there are two different kinds of rewards: a scrumptious, extremely desirable grape, or a ho-hum piece of only somewhat desirable cucumber. Think ice cream cone versus celery stick. Logan was perfectly happy to exchange the token for a cucumber when his pal Liam was getting a cucumber too. \"The question is now how is Logan going to respond to that cucumber when Liam is getting a grape?\" says Brosnan. What she finds is that more often than not, a capuchin offered the less desirable reward after his partner gets the good one refuses to hand back the token. \"What we're really testing is how do you respond when you're the one that gets the lower salary, not how do you respond when you hear there's a discrepancy between salaries in the environment,\" says Brosnan. \"So they don't necessarily have to have an ideal of fairness or an idea of the way the world should work. All they have to care about is they got less than someone else.\" Curious By Nature Brosnan sees this work as evolutionary proof that animals have some of the same complex social rules that humans do. Clive Wynne isn't so sure. Wynne, an animal psychologist at the University of Florida, says you don't have to invoke ideas like fairness or inequity to explain the capuchins' behavior. There's an older concept, a more basic concept of frustration that humans share with many other species: \"The tendency to act up if something they were expecting to receive is not given to them,\" says Wynne. \"So if a child is in the habit of receiving a piece of chocolate for completing their homework, and they don't get their piece of chocolate, they may throw a tantrum. And that kind of frustrative behavior is seen in any number of different species.\" Brosnan says whether or not you accept terms like fairness or inequity to explain what the capuchins did in the fairness test, she insists you can see unmistakable echoes of human behaviors in her capuchins. Take curiosity. Brosnan points to what the capuchins did the first time they saw me and my recording gear -- they all came over to have a look. \"They're curious about you,\" she says. \"They haven't seen you; they haven't seen a mic before. So they want to see what it is. Is it going to do anything to them like give them food, or is it going to be a threat?\" Brosnan says curiosity -- that desire to explore your world -- is key to human culture. Humans went beyond being curious about food and threats and began to wonder where we came from and why the stars twinkle in the night. You can also see beginnings of another important human social activity in capuchins: the desire to play -- to do things that have no immediate payoff. \"You're not acquiring food; you're not mating; you're not defending yourself from a predator,\" says Brosnan. But saying play is purely social is not to suggest it isn't important -- it helps juveniles learn the limits of acceptable behavior in their groups. Brosnan doesn't believe play is a behavior inherited from monkeys in a genetic sense \"but instead is a behavior that all sorts of intelligent, socially living species that live in complex social groups -- and need to know their ways around [the groups] -- have evolved.\" What humans and their big brains bring to the table is an ability to do more with these socially learned behaviors, to be curious about more things in our environment, and to extend concepts like fairness and inequity to make more complex societies. \"That probably explains why we're building city states, and other species are still in groups of 200,\" she says. In other words, we had the human edge.", "(Editor's note on July 27, 2017: Click here to go to an updated special section about the do's and don't's of social media.) On Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and other social media platforms, we've been doing lots of great work. Thank you for engaging with the audience in those places. It's very important. Now, a \"memmo\" wouldn't be a \"memmo\" without some nudging. Here goes: The political conventions are approaching. During them, you may be tempted to say some things on social media – especially when candidates are on stage and the urge to live tweet is strong. This is a good time to remind everyone about our thinking when it comes to social media. - Keep your politics to yourself. And that means on Facebook too. You may think only your \"friends\" are seeing what you say, but they may share it widely. - Control your cursing. NPR journalists don't swear on the air and we don't think they should be swearing in the digital world either. But we also know that language that isn't appropriate in one place is common in another. How about this: Don't use such words in anger and never in a way that might look like a political comment. - No personal attacks, even if you're trolled. - Speaking of trolls, don't feed them. Here's a tip: You do not have to respond to any obnoxious Tweet, Facebook post or other diatribe. They can be ignored. (If they feel threatening, please send a message about them to our internal distribution list, \"NPRThreats.\") - If you do respond, stay classy. Something along the lines of \"I'm sorry you feel that way and would like to hear more about why you do\" is far better than \"go back to the cave you crawled out of.\" Remember, \"we are civil in our actions and words, avoiding arrogance and hubris. We listen to others.\" - By the way, you can usually tell after one or two exchanges whether the person on the other end is willing to have a conversation or just wants to rant. If it's a conversation, great. If they're just ranting, disengage with something like, \"thanks, I'm out. We just disagree.\" There's more guidance in the Ethics Handbook, under \"Social media.\" There have also been several \"memmos\" on the subject: - Before Super Tuesday, A Reminder About Social Media - Reporter's Suspension For A Tweet Makes This A Good Time To Read Our Social Media Guidance - Read This If You Use Social Media; Everyone Should Know Our Thinking", "As newspapers and cable news cut science coverage, where can the science-curious get reliable science and technology news? Ira Flatow and guests discuss how the Internet — including blogs and social media — is filling the coverage gap. Plus, spicing up screenplays with science.", "Syed Kamall, a British member of the European Parliament, and a Muslim, was in Brussels during yesterday&#8217;s terrorist attacks. He tells Here & Now&#8217;s Robin Young that the radicalization of  young Muslims must be tackled at all levels. &#8220;There&#8217;s no silver bullet, you can&#8217;t solve this problem with one simple strategy,&#8221; Kamall said. &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to tackle it at the international level with intelligence and diplomacy. You&#8217;ve got to tackle it within our countries with rule of law and defense of our values. But we&#8217;ve also got to make sure we&#8217;ve got strategies to help local community projects that try and stop young people from being radicalized.&#8221; Kamall says he works with a local project in London called the Unity of Faiths Foundation that reaches out to children through soccer, and finds that &#8220;potential terrorists&#8221; are trying to recruit some of the children. Kamall says ISIS tries to recruit young people by making them believe Muslims in the West are victims. He said he met a girl through the soccer program who described how she was being recruited. &#8220;They would just send her via social media examples of Muslims being attacked in the UK. they would say, &#8216;Do you feel safe in the UK? Why don&#8217;t you come to a safer place,'&#8221; Kamall said. &#8220;There is this idea of trying to make you feel like a victim. One of the psychologists I work with on the soccer project said what you&#8217;ve got to do is give them a different narrative.&#8221; Guest\n\nSyed Kamall, member of the European Parliament, who chairs its European Conservatives and Reformists Group. He tweets @SyedKamall.", "Fake news has consequences. Back in 2016, before the term was even part of our national vocabulary, it threw the government of Twin Falls, Idaho, into chaos. Rumors of a government cover-up involving child molestation and Syrian refugees swirled. They soon leaped from the fringes of the Internet to kitchen tables and the mainstream media. \"Members of the local government, the mayor, the city council members, local judges, the county prosecutor, they were basically inundated for months on end with threats,\" says Caitlin Dickerson, who covered the story for The New York Times. \"Violent threats. Very visceral and descriptive threats from all over the world.\" But the outrage was not based on facts. The details were blurred in some cases, completely fabricated in others, depending on the storyteller and their agenda. It was a grave example of how misinformation can have a terrifying real-world impact. But falsehoods aren't hard to come by in today's information landscape. Here are five tips to help you spot misinformation. (Or if you would rather listen, check out the Life Kit podcast here.) 1) Exercise skepticism Take in any new information, whether it's the news or on social media or from a buddy at happy hour, with a bit of doubt. Expect the source to prove their work and show how they came to their conclusion. And try to compare information from a number of different outlets, even if you have a favorite. 2) Understand the misinformation landscape Misinformation, as a concept, isn't new. But the social media platforms for engaging with it are constantly changing and increasing their influence in the media world. Those platforms have no financial obligation to tell the truth — their business models depend on user engagement. Reducing your dependence on social media will be good for your news judgment (and your sleep). 3) Pay extra attention when reading about emotionally-charged and divisive topics Misinformation is most effective on hot-button issues and immediate news. Ask yourself: Is this a complicated subject, something that's hitting an emotional trigger? Or is it a breaking news story where the facts aren't yet able to be assembled? If the answer is yes, then you need to be ultra-skeptical. 4) Investigate what you're reading or seeing What does that skepticism look like in practice? It means asking some questions of what you're reading or seeing: Is the content paid for by a company or politician or other potentially biased source? Is there good evidence? And are the numbers presented in context? (The News Literacy Project created an app to help people test and strengthen their media literacy skills.) 5) Yelling probably won't solve misinformation It's important to value the truth, but correcting people is always delicate. If someone in your life is spreading objective falsehoods and you want to help, be humble. Don't assume bad intentions or stupidity, just meet the other person where they are and be curious — think about opening with common ground and a question. Try to have the conversation in person or at least in a private online setting, like an email. If you want more resources, Media Literacy Now is a good place to start.", "When big food corporations try to horn in on Twitter conversations about TV shows and other pop culture fare, it usually doesn't work. Remember when McDonald's tried to engage customers with the hashtag #mcdstories, only to have it turn into a way to share horror-story experiences at the fast food chain? Or when Snickers got busted for paying celebrities to tweet about its brand? Except sometimes, big food actually pulls it off. Take last night's Sound of Music Live broadcast on NBC. From a social media perspective, one of the highlights of the performance was the tweets coming from frozen supermarket pizza giant @DiGiornoPizza. Bad puns, silly lyric changes and just plain clever comments earned the company more than 2,000 new followers last night, says the marketer behind the tweets, who wishes to remain anonymous. Why choose a musical about a country and an era in which pizza very likely was unheard of? \"Just trying to make the most out of what everyone was already talking about,\" the @DiGiornoPizza tweeter tells us in — what else — a direct message on Twitter. And many of our anonymous tweeter's observations suggested familiarity with the songs and made a whole lot of people hungry, or at least interested in retweeting the comments. (Anonymous says it's a favorite musical.) To wit: I don't think those mountains are real you guys #TheSoundOfMusicLive and Still not over pizza getting overlooked in the favorite things song. #TheSoundOfMusicLive and BOOOOOOO ROLFE THE DELIVERY GUY BOOOOOO #TheSoundOfMusicLive show that the tweeter was actually watching the show as it unfolded. And lyric perversions like: DOUGH a crust an unbaked crust RAY, a guy that likes pizza ME a pizza liked by a guy named ray FAH no idea what fah is SO so LA a city T tee and YOU ARE 16, GOING ON 17 AND I'M ASSUMING YOU'D LIKE PIZZA FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY DINNERRRRRRR #BuyDiGiorno #TheSoundOfMusicLive and CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN, FORD EVERY STREAM, FOLLOW EVERY RAINBOW, UNTIL YOU FIND A SUPREME (PIZZA FROM DIGIORNOOOOOO) #TheSoundOfMusicLive \"I will say that this was unplanned. The Sound of Music was on, the brand trusts me and I ran w/ it,\" the marketer says. Of course, as the bump in Twitter followers shows, it's not just fun and games for DiGiorno or other big food manufacturers increasingly turning to social media to prove that their brand has got a personality. As Stephanie Moritz, head of PR and social media at ConAgra Foods, told Food Navigator-USA in an interview last October, \"Social listening is a critical factor in doing business in the 21st century.\"", "An Alabama woman who ran away from home to join the Islamic State in 2014 now says she wants to return to the U.S. Hoda Muthana used social media to call for attacks on the U.S. during her time with ISIS, but she now says she was brainwashed. Hassan Shibly (@HassanShibly), an attorney and chief executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations&#8217; Florida chapter, has acted as a spokesman for Muthana&#8217;s family since she left the U.S. He tells Here & Now&#8217;s Robin Young that Muthana fled ISIS with her 18-month-old son and turned herself in to the Kurdish Workers&#8217; Party (PKK). She is now living in a refugee camp in northern Syria, Shibly says. &#8220;She&#8217;s very fearful right now, very scared because she has spoken out against ISIS very publicly, and there are still ISIS supporters and sympathizers within that vicinity,&#8221; Shibly says. &#8220;But I also get the sense that she feels a burden lifted off her shoulders now that she&#8217;s come out publicly condemning ISIS and realizing how they had brainwashed her and manipulated her and really turned her into a person that she now is disgusted to have been.&#8221; Interview Highlights On her use of social media to call for attacks on the U.S.  &#8220;Those messages are horrible and disgusting, and frankly, they sound like a lot of hate messages I get by anti-Muslim bigots in America calling for all Muslims to be killed. So it&#8217;s nasty, it&#8217;s disgusting, it&#8217;s horrible. Nothing can justify such disgusting tweets. What we do know for a fact is that those tweets did come out in a period right after, I guess, her first husband was killed. We also know that she actually lost control over her social media while she was there, so we don&#8217;t truly know what tweets actually came out from her. We know that she had been wanting to leave for some time. &#8220;But listen, at the end of the day, we know that she is disgusted by the person she was. She deeply deeply regrets it. She, in fact, was only 19 years old when she was manipulated and brainwashed. I mean, these guys are essentially preyed on her, manipulated her, brainwashed her, brought her over there and took advantage of her for their purposes. And I think she&#8217;s finally awoken, and she deeply regrets [it] and she&#8217;s willing to pay whatever debt she has to society. And I think right now she really wants to be a powerful voice to condemn ISIS and to protect others from being manipulated in the way she was and protect others from making the same horrible mistakes that she had made.&#8221; On her background and family  &#8220;She comes from a normal Muslim family. You know, Muslims are a part of the society. You know, we&#8217;re human just like everyone else. You don&#8217;t have to be Muslim or Christian or Jewish to know that violence is wrong. These criminal organizations, they really don&#8217;t care about religion. At the end of the day, they are no different than sex traffickers and violent criminal gangs that prey on vulnerable young youth to recruit them for their nefarious purposes.&#8221; On the effort to bring her home  &#8220;She is willing to turn herself in. I actually called the FBI on her behalf yesterday, and said, &#8216;Listen, we know where she is. She wants to turn herself in, and she wants to face the legal system and then she will accept whatever outcome of that legal system is.&#8217; If she has a debt to society she wants to pay that debt and she wants to move on with her life, but before that she really wants to speak out to protect other vulnerable young women in particular from being manipulated and brainwashed in the same way that she was. &#8220;It almost seems to be falling on deaf ears right now. The government has known where she is for quite some time. In fact, one of her other attorneys contacted the government about a month ago to inform them of her whereabouts, and they&#8217;ve made absolutely no effort to go and interview her, to question her, to even determine whether she&#8217;s still a threat or not. And I think that&#8217;s very disturbing given that since she turned herself into the PKK, already The Guardian&#8217;s been able to interview her in person, The New York Times has been able to interview her in person, and it seems like those major media outlets are doing a better intelligence job than our own government officials at this point.&#8221; On her plan if the U.S. does not allow her to come back  &#8220;I think then she&#8217;s going to have to find a way to survive over there. There is a fear that the PKK may turn her over to the Syrians, which I think is very problematic. The Syrian government has the worst human rights record in the world. Otherwise, there is also a fear right now. And she&#8217;s taking a big risk by speaking out against ISIS because there is a legitimate fear that the PKK may exchange her with ISIS in a prisoner swap, and if she gets back into ISIS hands, that&#8217;s definitely", "Leaders, pundits and activists around the world took to social media this week leading up to and during the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany. We got several views of that meeting, from a &#8220;Handmaid’s Tale&#8221;-inspired protest to a viral Justin Trudeau image. Here & Now&#8216;s Lisa Mullins talks with Femi Oke (@FemiOke) of Al Jazeera English about what you might have missed.", "Snapchat is popular among child predators, who use the app to contact kids and to send and receive child pornography. And because the photos and messages disappear, it&#8217;s hard for investigators to gather evidence. Here & Now&#8216;s Jeremy Hobson talks with Adam Scott Wandt (@Prof_Wandt), assistant professor of public policy at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, about the problem. Interview Highlights On the amount of predatory behavior on Snapchat &#8220;Snapchat has become a haven for child predators to be able to both exchange child pornography with each other, and to be able to induce children to send pictures of them to the predator. And we&#8217;re also seeing difficulty in law enforcement being able to investigate due to the safeguards Snapchat has in deleting both snaps and &#8216;stories&#8217; after certain amounts of time.&#8221; On snaps disappearing within a few seconds in some cases &#8220;Snapchat supports different methods of communication: snap &#8216;stories&#8217; and chats. Some disappear as soon as they&#8217;re open and read, others stay around for a day or so. Some could stay as long as 30 days. But if law enforcement doesn&#8217;t know that this is going on and they don&#8217;t get to Snapchat on time with their legal process to request or to preserve the evidence, they lose it forever.&#8221; On challenges for investigators &#8220;It&#8217;s really difficult, unless an investigator is able to either get to snap chat within 24 hours of the snap being exchanged, or unless they&#8217;re able to pre-identify who the predator is and set up an operation with Snapchat where they&#8217;re monitoring that offender. It&#8217;s extremely hard to do. We have children all over the country that are being approached by people they think are children their own age, but really they are predators, they are adults who are significantly older than them, and have fake profiles to try to lure the children to send them photos that could either be nude or of them doing other things.&#8221; On what parents can do to protect their children &#8220;Parents are absolutely the first and most important defense in protecting their children from online predators. Parents have to be astute and educated as to what is going on in the online environment. They need to be able to monitor their children&#8217;s social media account. The Megan Meier Foundation, which looks at and studies online cyberbullying, they find that about 60 percent of parents check their kids&#8217; social media. Thirty-five percent of parents know their children&#8217;s password to social media accounts, which is important, too. But ultimately one of the things, one of the problems that we see happen over and over again are children who have multiple social media accounts that their parents don&#8217;t know about.&#8221; On possible steps toward solving the problem &#8220;Snapchat is unique because of that disappearing trick, or the fact that they clear the photographs from their servers after a certain amount of time. That makes it extremely unique for investigators to have to try to deal with, and it makes it a safe haven for predators who wanna be able to abuse children and exchange pictures with very little repercussions. I would think that certain things could be put in place to make it safer for children. The use of artificial intelligence and the ability to vet users as they sign up is something that&#8217;s gonna become much more important in the years to come, and ultimately we should be able to solve this problem over time, but it&#8217;s certainly not gonna be easy.&#8221; On Snapchat&#8217;s young user base &#8220;Snapchat has always had a younger clientele than the other social media networks. Snapchat is extremely popular with the younger elementary school [children] and the younger high school children in society today, and percentage-wise, it&#8217;s extremely interesting that more and more young people are abandoning Facebook and Instagram &#8212; which is where their parents and family are &#8212; and adopting Snapchat for their main method of social communication.&#8221;", "Facebook apologized for refusing to run an advertisement which featured plus-size model Tess Holliday in a bikini. It later reversed its decision, but the ad from the Australian feminist group Cherchez la Femme was originally rejected because the social media company said the image &#8220;did not meet Facebook&#8217;s health and fitness policy which does not allow depictions of, &#8220;a body or body parts in an undesirable manner.&#8221; The news comes as Facebook also announced it will alter its &#8220;Trending Topics&#8221; after accusations of bias. Peter Kafka of Recode speaks with Here & Now&#8216;s Jeremy Hobson about the company&#8217;s ad and news guidelines and how it is dealing with the criticisms. \nListen to Jeremy Hobson&#8217;s 2015 conversation with plus-size model Tess Holliday\n\nGuest\n\nPeter Kafka, senior editor of media for Recode. He tweets @pkafka.", "NPR's newly issued and updated ethics guidelines have a lot to say about being a journalist in the era of Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and any number of other social media channels that our staff uses every day. But less seems to have changed over the past couple of decades than you might expect. National correspondent Pam Fessler recently unearthed a one-page \"netiquette\" guide handed out to NPR staff in 1994, when the company first offered most employees at-work Internet access. The handout appears to be from an hourlong introduction to this new communication tool called email. The document lists nine common-sense tips, SUCH AS NOT TYPING IN UPPERCASE. A few other points that stand the test of time: \"Be brief.\" \"Be careful with humor and sarcasm.\" \"Don't overreact to spelling errors.\" The most relevant items in the 1994 guide, especially for employees at a national news organization like this one, are the first two on the page: \"Be careful what you say.\" \"Your message reflects upon you and NPR.\" Those clear simple statements come remarkably close to summarizing what we advised our staff 15 years later, in 2009, when NPR issued its first guidelines for another new form of digital communication — social media. And the two-part message in both documents echo throughout the updated guidelines that NPR just released: Take advantage of these powerful resources to do your work, but don't forget that you represent our organization, especially if you are an editorial employee. Sharing and social media have become deeply embedded in how NPR does business. These channels are among the ways our journalists cover their beats, cultivate sources and communicate with listeners and readers. They are vital listening posts that help us monitor events around the globe — from Haiti to Homs. Social media conveys our news coverage and our cultural coverage and helps promote our work and our mission. And, most recently, social media has become a recruiting tool for new employees — for us as well as other friends across public media. In fact, social media is now fully woven into our new ethics guidelines precisely because it is so woven into how NPR operates and communicates, both as a newsroom and as a media company. (You also can read a summary and standalone compilation of the guidelines that specifically relate to social media, if that's the part that's most of interest.) We tried to avoid being overly prescriptive about disclaimers or RT'ing policies for Twitter and the like. Instead we trust our journalists to be journalists, and to identify themselves as such when they use social media for reporting purposes. And we emphasize that our guidelines are a \"living document,\" intended to evolve along with the technology. And the technology has already evolved quickly. The overall message to our editorial staff is unchanged: Social media services offer powerful ways to do our work and extend the reach of our journalism. As in all aspects of our lives, we need to conduct ourselves online as journalists and remember that what we say and how we act will reflect on NPR. Oh, and be brief, be careful with humor and sarcasm and don't overreact to spelling errorrs. Mark Stencel is NPR's managing editor for digital news. He welcomes your feedback in the comments with this article or on Twitter: @markstencel", "When it comes to anti-bullying campaigns, Kortney Peagram has seen many: Wear this bracelet if you're not a bully, respond to something mean with something nice. They come and go like fads, she says: \"These awareness campaigns, if it's cheesy, they won't use it.\" Peagram is a psychologist who works with more than 30 schools in Illinois to help teachers and students deal with bullying and confrontational behavior — in other words, what most kids would call drama. Much of it is now online, where mercurial, youthful emotions fly at double-speed. \"It happens so fast and quickly and it never stops,\" Peagram says. \"Because of the invisible audience online, you think everybody saw that post and it basically becomes mass harassment. ... And when things are really bad, kids, they read all the comments over and over and they can't step away from it.\" The collective digital community has struggled to catch up with cyberbullying — and how do you? One in four teens told the Pew Research Center they frequently witness people \"stirring up drama\" on social media, in a study released earlier this year. And according to Pew's similar study from 2011, the most common response to mean behavior on social media is to ignore it. What's a good response when you don't really have something to say? ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ It was the developers picking apart Apple's latest iPhone operating system update who noticed it first: a new, weird emoji that looked like a cross between an eye and a speech bubble. \"Nobody knows what it is, or why it exists,\" emoji guru Jeremy Burge wrote in a blog post in September. This week, we know: It's the first-ever social awareness emoji. Or, as Ad Council CEO Lisa Sherman describes it, a digital arm wrapped around a cyberbullying victim. \"When you think about it, the emoji gives teens a way to say something when they don't know what to say,\" she tells All Tech Considered. The idea of the \"I Am A Witness\" campaign is to get the invisible bystanders to speak up against mean things on the Web. It comes wrapped in all kinds of social media packages: the emoji itself (one of a new batch with the new iOS update), a colorful website with more downloadables (including a special emoji keyboard + stickers), plus pushes on Twitter, Snapchat (ISeeBullying + geo tags + photo filter), Instagram (#IAmAWitness), YouTube and Facebook. The Ad Council has tested the emoji with 30 boys and girls between the ages of 13 and 16 who do a lot of things online and have witnessed cyberbullying over the previous month. The organization tells All Tech that the teens said they were somewhat or very likely to use the emoji keyboard and generally liked the campaign. \"Everyone is using emoji, so it may be a gateway to open up a new way of communication\" about cyberbullying, Peagram says. But she has her reservations: \"I think the missing component is there's no follow-up. ... We're trying to confront bullying, but we're not doing the preventive things, how to be a good citizen online, or what not to post.\" She says awareness is a big step, but lists off numerous other things it can't replace: not just better education of both victims and bullies but also a better grip on our online lives by teachers, parents and the communities. The social media companies, too, could do a better job handling reports of bad behavior. Still, Peagram says she is curious to ask her students about the campaign." ]

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[ "The lineup was loaded with guys who won&#39;t be playing in next week&#39;s playoff games. Not one of the relievers who came out of the bullpen has a shot to make the postseason roster.", "It&#39;s been a busy year for Hector Barreto and the US Small Business Administration. A rough January, when the agency temporarily stopped guaranteeing loans, didn&#39;t stop the momentum for small-business loans.", "However this election won&#39;t occur in November and it won&#39;t involve an electoral college. I&#39;m talking about next week&#39;s national elections in Australia.", "People are lining up by the thousands in the US, worried they won&#39;t get their flu shot this year. The US can&#39;t fill the demand because of a manufacturing problem.", "Because so many members of Red Sox Nation are expected in Boston today to celebrate the team&#39;s World Series triumph, the victory parade won&#39;t be making any stops and won&#39;t culminate with a staged rally, either.", "He may have won re-election and a majority in both houses of Congress, but George W. Bush shouldn&#39;t expect a free ride on Capitol Hill.", "An Anglican Church commission urging Canadian dioceses to stop blessing same-sex relationships isn&#39;t binding and won&#39;t likely have an immediate impact on the practices of individual", "The region&#39;s largest hospital alliance is worried that it won&#39;t have enough flu shots to provide to employees and patients for the upcoming flu season.", "Andre Ward and Andre Dirrell already know they&#39;re going home with Olympic medals. It won&#39;t be long before they find out the color of their prizes.", "Chief Justice William Rehnquist has thyroid cancer, but that won&#39;t stop him from returning to the bench next week for potential rulings that could again determine the presidential election, court officials said.", "The privately owned and operated SpaceShipOne spacecraft has won the $10 million Ansari X Prize by successfully making its second manned flight into space.", "Apple Computer&#39;s OS X, the operating system in its Macintosh personal computers, is Apple&#39;s most Windows-friendly OS to date, but it won&#39;t run Windows applications.", "I don&#39;t know why I bother with this. You won&#39;t listen to me. But after riding out Hurricane Charley in a darkened building in Punta Gorda one week ago today, hearing the roar of the 145 mph wind and the clang of ...", "Ministers are set to face a rough ride in the Commons over the shake-up of Scotland's infantry regiments.", "Mark Martin, 45, has never won the overall prize on NASCAR&#39;s elite circuit. He says he doesn&#39;t mind. OUDON - The old man will mix it up with the &quot;kids&quot; over the next two months to determine the Nextel Cup champion.", "Anxious about buying a house? 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Clinton and George W.", "FRANKFURT : General Motors&#39; European restructuring plans are heading for a further rough ride as wildcat strikes to protest the US automaker&#39;s plans to slash 12,000 jobs get set to spread on Tuesday.", "Dec. 15, 2004 -- Getting the flu could increase your risk of having a heart attack or stroke, but getting a flu shot probably won&#39;t.", "Thrill seekers are paying £100,000 to ride rockets that haven&#39;t even been built yet, and new airline Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years.", "Football players aren&#39;t into moral victories. It goes against the grain of their rough exteriors and win at all cost mentality.", "Louisville Coach Bobby Petrino may be on the verge of becoming the next coach at LSU, but that won&#39;t change anyone&#39;s preparations for Saturday&#39;s Capital One Bowl." ]

[ "Three French jihadis urge their fellow countrymen to kill the enemies of Allah, 'spit in their faces and run over them with your cars', in the latest propaganda video from ISIS militants. In the seven-minute long video, the men symbolically burn their French passports. They appear bearded and without masks, clutching assault rifles and long-bladed knives. Addressing the camera in French, one of the jihadis exhorts French Muslims to fight unbelievers at home in France if they are unable to travel to Iraq or Syria, saying they have 'cars and weapons available'. The video says it is also possible to kill using poison in either water or food. Scroll down for video . Three French jihadis burned their passports in the latest ISIS propaganda video released on the internet . The first unmasked terrorist, described as Abu Osama al-Faranci, addressed the camera holding a rifle . His comrade Abu Maryam al-Faranci, warned the people of France he would cut off their heads . The video, which has high production values, is subtitled in both Arabic and English. The burning of a passport is a common ritual ceremony practiced by new foreign fighters who have left their homelands and travelled to fight for ISIS. It is seen as a sign of loyalty to the group and a renouncement of their nationality and old identity. Thousands of foreigners are believed to have travelled Iraq and Syria to join ISIS, the militant group also known as Islamic State that has captured a huge area along the borders of the two nations and is imposing brutal rule. Military forces fighting the militants are being supported by bombing raids by British, US, French and other countries forces. ISIS regularly issues chilling videos showing beheadings of captured prisoners, foreign aid workers and journalists and other atrocities. The videos condemn governments and urge Muslims to follow their extreme version of the religion. The latest video opens with a masked fighter speaking in fluent French, praising the Muslims who have travelled to Syria and Iraq and denounced the Western ideas of democracy and nationalism. The camera shows a small group of ISIS fighters standing in a circle around a fire. They smile as they throw their passports into the fire. Some of the men take their time to slowly place their passport in the fire, while others simply throw their identity documents into the flames. Only four don’t have their faces covered with a scarf. The French speaking masked fighter declares: 'You have oppressed us, fought our religion and insulted our Prophet (peace be upon him.) And today, we disbelieve in you and your passports, and if you come here we will fight you.' Abu Salman al-Faranci, centre, warned that people living in France were not safe from ISIS . He urged French Muslims to poison the water and food 'of at least one of the enemies of Allah' The group are then shown sitting down, with the three unmasked French men positioned in the middle. The three French men take it in turns to urge Muslims in France to travel to Syria and Iraq and fight for ISIS. According the video, which was released by the ISIS propaganda unit Al Hayat Media Center, the men are called Abu Osama al-Faranci, Abu Maryam al-Faranci and Abu Salman al-Faranci. Abu Osama al-Firanci declares that jihad is 'the path of Allah' and questions why all French Muslims haven’t joined ISIS. One of the terrorists appears to be holding a US-made AR-15 assault rifle, pictured . 'What are you waiting for?' he says. 'Why do you not perform Hijra? How do you accept to work in the land of Kufr (disbelievers) when Allah has opened a door for you to perform the best of deeds.' He continues to berate French Muslims for paying taxes and strengthening the economy, insisting the French government use the money to 'fight us, and kill our sisters, our women and our children'. He urges Muslims to leave France, warning that 'a day may come when the borders will be closed and you will be left only with tears and regret'. He goes on to praise the French nationals who have travelled to Syria, particularly the pregnant women who have made the dangerous journey. He added: 'The road is easy so there are no excuses for you.' He even claimed they should 'kill them and spit in their faces and run over them with your cars' He warned that ISIS had weapons and cars available in France along with potential targets 'ready to be hit' Another French speaker, Abu Maryam al-Faranci, holding a large sword and an AK-47 assault rifle, boasts that ISIS fighters 'will not hesitate to cut your heads' if the French government keeps bombing Iraq and Syria. He warns that French civilians 'will even fear travelling to the market'. Abu Maryam calls on French Muslims to wage jihad. He refers to the banning of the niqab in France, declaring 'What are you waiting for? Do you not look around you?' He claims the Islamic State is 'ruled by the Shariah of Allah and gives every Muslim his due rights.' The final French fighter, referred to as Abu Salman al-Faransi, urged any French Muslim who cannot travel to Syria to wage jihad at home. Abu Salman says Muslims in France should target civilians on the streets and to use any means possible to cause maximum suffering. 'Terrorise them and do not allow them to sleep due to fear and horror. There are weapons and cars available and targets ready to be hit. Even poison is available, so poison the water and food of at least one of the enemies of Allah,' he says. He said: 'Kill them and spit in their faces and run over them with your cars. Do whatever you are able to do in order to humiliate them, for they deserve only this.' He ends the video by ordering women and children to come and live under Islamic State, vowing there will be 'generations who will fight you O crusaders.' One of the fighters in the video is seen brandishing a US-made AR-15 assault rifle. The video comes just days after a two French nationals were shown on video taking part in a mass systematic execution of 18 Syrian air force soldiers at an unknown site believed to be in the swathe of territory in northern Iraq and Syria captured by ISIS militants." ]

[ "Photographs of two teenagers who flew to Turkey in a bid to join ISIS were revealed last night, as a Muslim leader warned they could be followed by friends. Farouk Younis, the imam of the mosque used by relatives of Hassan Munshi and Talha Asmal, said Muslims must talk to other teenagers who ‘might be looking at them and thinking this is the way’. The 17-year-olds from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire - billed by their families as two ‘ordinary Yorkshire lads’ - are believed to have travelled to war-torn Syria after going to Turkey on Tuesday last week. 'Ordinary Yorkshire lads': Hassan Munshi (left) and Talha Asmal (right), both 17 and from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, are thought to have fled to war-torn Syria after travelling to Turkey on March 31 . Mosque: Farouk Younis, the imam of the Masjid e Zakaria (above) in Dewsbury used by relatives of the boys, said Muslims must talk to other teenagers who 'might be looking at them and thinking this is the way' And Mr Younis told The Times: ‘We need to talk to their friends and show them the barbaric things that are going on there [in Syria] which are totally against Islam.’ The imam of the Masjid e Zakaria in the Savile Town area of Dewsbury added that it was important for the teenagers’ friends to ‘understand the right thing’. The next-door neighbours are close friends and were seen playing snooker at Dewsbury Snooker Centre about a week ago, acquaintances told the newspaper. Earlier this week, police said the boys from Dewsbury were last seen by their families on the day they are believed to have flown from Manchester to Dalaman. Snooker game: The next-door neighbours were reportedly seen at Dewsbury Snooker Centre a week ago . Flew to Turkey: Teenage girls Amira Abase, Kadiza Sultana and Shamima Begum are believed to be in Syria . West Yorkshire Police said it has been supporting the missing teenagers' families and carrying out extensive inquiries alongside the North East counter-terrorism unit. Link: Hassan is believed to be related to Hammaad Munshi (pictured) - arrested in 2005 and convicted over his role in a plot to murder non-Muslims . A statement released on behalf of the two families on Tuesday said they are devastated at what has happened. It said: ‘Our number one priority is to get Hassan and Talha back home with their families and we implore anyone who may have any information whatsoever to get in contact with the police. ‘Naturally, we are in a state of profound shock and are trying to come to terms with the predicament we find ourselves in and we hope and pray that no other family finds itself in our situation. ‘These were just two ordinary Yorkshire lads who enjoyed the things that all young people enjoy at their age. ‘Both Hassan and Talha had a promising future, as an apprentice and an A-level student respectively, and we are praying they will be back with us soon and are able to realise that future.’ The families have urged parents to be extra vigilant, saying it is ‘near impossible’ to know if children have been groomed and brainwashed. Hassan is believed to be related to Hammaad Munshi, who was arrested by counter-terrorism police in 2006 at the age of 15 and later convicted over his role in a plot to murder non-Muslims, reported The Times. The Metropolitan Police believe around 600 Britons have travelled to Syria and Iraq since the conflict began, while around half are believed to have returned to the UK. Nine Britons - including the son of a Labour councillor - were arrested in Turkey last week on suspicion of trying to cross the border into the neighbouring country. Waheed Ahmed was one of five adults and four children being held by Turkish authorities after they were stopped in Hatay last Wednesday. Meanwhile, teenage girls Shamima Begum, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana are said to be inside Syria after flying to Turkey in February. It is understood the Bethnal Green Academy pupils from east London were following another 15-year-old girl who travelled to Syria in December.", "David Cameron has branded Islamic State terrorists who killed British aid worker Alan Henning 'brutal and repulsive' as the Prime Minister led a wave of global revulsion over the murder. He vowed to 'hunt down' and bring to justice the man who wielded the knife, who has become known as Jihadi John - as Barack Obama, Nick Clegg and Muslim leaders all spoke of their disgust. Mr Henning, 47, a father-of-two, was filmed being murdered in a video posted on the internet three weeks after he was last paraded in front of a camera. Scroll down for video . David Cameron has branded the Islamic State 'brutal and repulsive' tonight after British aid worker Alan Henning was filmed being beheaded by the terrorist dubbed Jihadi John . In a strongly-worded statement, Mr Cameron said: 'We will do all we can to hunt down these murderers and bring them to justice.' He added: 'My thoughts and prayers tonight are with Alan’s wife Barbara, their children and all those who loved him. ‘Alan had gone to Syria to help get aid to people of all faiths in their hour of need. 'The fact that he was taken hostage when trying to help others and now murdered demonstrates that there are no limits to the depravity of these ISIL terrorists. David Cameron received a security briefing this morning before calling the slaying of Alan Henning 'completely unforgivable' Aid worker Alan Henning, 44, a father-of-two, was kidnapped by Islamist rebels on Boxing Day last year . This morning, Downing Street revealed that Mr Cameron was meeting with officials from the intelligence agencies, the military and the Foreign Office at his official country residence Chequers to discuss the killing. Later this morning, he called the slaying 'completely unforgivable' adding that there was 'no level of depravity to which they will not sink'. 'No appeals made any difference,\"Mr Cameron told Sky News. 'The murder of Alan Henning is absolutely abhorrent, it is senseless, it is completely unforgivable. Anyone in any doubt about this organisation can now see how truly repulsive it is, and barbaric it is,' he said of IS. When asked whether he believed the extremists would kill more of their Western hostages, Cameron suggested the only way to stop them was through military action. 'The fact that this was a kind, gentle, compassionate and caring man who had simply gone to help others, the fact they could murder him in the way they did, shows what we are dealing with,' he said. Nick Clegg took to Twitter to praise Mr Henning, saying he worked to 'selflessly help those in need' 'This is going to be our struggle now. ... We must do everything we can to defeat this organisation. We must take action against it. We must find those responsible.' Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg praised Mr Henning on Twitter, saying: 'Sincere condolences to Alan Henning's family. Barbaric actions of ISIL are held in complete contempt. 'We are resolved to defeat this evil. Alan Henning was a man moved to selflessly help those most in need and we should remember that above all else at this difficult time.' Labour leader Ed Miliband said: 'The murder of Alan Henning by ISIL is appalling and barbaric. 'He was an aid worker, helping those in need. Those who killed him have revealed only their lack of humanity and brutality. 'My thoughts and deepest condolences are with his wife Barbara, his children and all those who knew him. 'We will do everything we can to support the efforts of the Government to bring those guilty of this terrible act to justice.' U.S. President Barack Obama said: 'The United States strongly condemns the brutal murder of United Kingdom citizen Alan Henning by the terrorist group ISIL. 'Mr Henning worked to help improve the lives of the Syrian people and his death is a great loss for them, for his family, and for the people of the United Kingdom. 'Standing together with our UK friends and allies, we will work to bring the perpetrators of Alan's murder - as well as the murders of Jim Foley, Steven Sotloff and David Haines - to justice. 'Standing together with a broad coalition of allies and parteners, we will continue taking decisive action to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL.' The American ambassador to the UK Matthew Barzun said this morning: 'Today, we stand with the UK in joint determination, resolve and commitment to achieve justice for Alan Henning.' Imams had joined forces before Mr Henning's execution to appeal to the terrorists to release the former taxi driver from Salford, who left his job to travel to Syria to take help to victims of its civil war. Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, a Muslim charity, called Henning 'a British hero.' His 'barbaric killing is an attack against all decent people around the world,' Shafiq said. Dr Shuja Shafi, Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, said: 'This reported murder is a despicable and offensive act, coming as it does on the eve of the Muslim festival of Eid Al-Adha. 'It is quite clear that the murderers of Alan Henning have no regard for Islam, or for the Muslims around the world who pleaded for his life. Barack Obama condemned the killing, and reiterated his promise to 'degrade and ultimately destroy' ISIS . 'Alan was a friend of Muslims, and he will be mourned by Muslims. In this period of Hajj and this festival of Eid, Muslims remember the mercy of God and the emphasis God places on human life. 'Alan Henning's murderers have clearly gone against that spirit of Islam. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family.' Hanif Qadir, founder of Active Change Foundation – the organisation behind the #Notinmyname campaign said: 'The fact that they have chosen to commit this barbaric act on the eve of the Eid al-adha, a global expression of forgiveness and mercy among Muslims, only demonstrates the extent of the evil and barbaric nature of these criminals. 'They have not shown any ounce of mercy or compassion and are therefore totally against Islam and are hell-bent on killing innocent individuals and must be stopped. 'As a British Muslim I urge every other Muslim in the UK to stand up and refute these terrorists and distance themselves from this brutality and false Islam.' In footage released on social media, Mr Henning is shown being beheaded by Jihadi John, the Islamist fighter who was also behind the killings of U.S. journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and British aid worker David Haines. Former Foreign Office minister Baroness Warsi, the first Muslim woman in the Cabinet, tweeted her condolences, saying the Mr Hennning was the 'true martyr.' Liberal Democrat party president Tim Farron said: ‘Alan Henning should be remembered for what he was - a kind hearted, selfless man who wanted to help others. My prayers are with his family.’ Inspire, an anti-extremist campaign group of British Muslim women, described Mr Henning's death as 'an affront to all Muslims across the world'. Co-director Sara Khan expressed her 'heartfelt condolences' to the family of the aid worker, who she described as an 'amazing man, a man of courage, a man of dignity, a man of integrity'. She said: 'The only thing that the killing of Alan has achieved is greater revulsion for ISIS and the fact that more people from across our world, within our communities, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, are united in their stance against their barbarity and inhumanity. Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, a Muslim charity, called Alan Henning (pictured) 'a British hero.' 'The murder of Alan Henning is a brutal and criminal act of terror that is an affront to all Muslims across the world.' Former head of the Army, General The Lord Dannatt said the deaths of hostages were sadly 'part of the harsh price' to be paid in confronting the 'abomination' of IS. 'Our Government is now standing up to its responsibilities and part of the harsh price, while this takes time, is that sadly if they have hostages in their hands, these atrocious things seem to be happening and seem to be going to continue to happen,' he told BBC Radio 4's Today. He renewed his call for the UK to extend military operations to Syria, where the US and other allies are conducting air strikes, saying this country was 'practically not doing enough'. 'Dealing with half a problem is not going to solve the problem,' he said. 'If the Americans have found a way to be able to do this then actually we should be doing it.' This morning, Mr Cameron met with officials from the intelligence agencies, the military and the Foreign Office at his official country residence Chequers to discuss the killing. Afterwards, a Downing Street statement said the Prime Minister had raised a second video showing a British ISIL fighter unmasked delivering a further message - and that police were investigating 'urgently' for 'possible terrorism offences' relating to it. A second video, published by Islamic State last night, shows an injured British fighter challenging David Cameron to send ground troops to Iraq. The fighter is believed to be a former Morrisons security guard who flew to Syria . It comes after footage emerged last night of an injured British fighter challenging David Cameron to send ground troops to Iraq. In a rant directed at ‘that despicable swine David Cameron’, the unmasked jihadi said: ‘Send them all, send your reserves and your backup and we’ll send them back one by one in coffins.’ It is understood the jihadist in the video is former supermarket security guard Omar Hussain. The 27-year-old from High Wycombe previously worked for Morrisons as a security guard. He lived with his mother and brothers before travelling to Syria in January 2014. The Downing Street statement said: 'The PM was clear that we must keep doing all we can to ensure that these terrorists are found and brought to justice for their heinous crimes and we will keep working with our US partners and those in the region to do this. 'ISIL’s brutality will not persuade us to change our approach. 'Indeed, the senseless murder of an innocent man only reinforces our resolve to defeat this terrorist organisation and to eradicate the threat they pose to Britons - whether those in the region or here on the streets of the UK. 'At the meeting, the Prime Minister also raised a second video released last night which shows an apparent British ISIL fighter unmasked delivering a further message. 'The police are urgently investigating the contents of the video, including possible terrorism offences relating to it.'", "British Muslims have greater belief in the police than the rest of the population according to new research published today. A study in the British Journal of Criminology found that six out of ten Muslims rate the police as either good or excellent, compared with 53 per cent of the non-Muslim population. Researchers analysed crime data surveys in England and Wales between 2006 and 2010. The findings were published in the British Journal of Criminology. British Muslims, such as these young women celebrating the festival of Eid in Trafalgar Square in London  have greater faith in the police than the rest of society according to new research published today . The survey also conducted 50,000 doorstep interviews, which the Home Office said provides a better indication of the true level of crime, as not all incidents are reported to police. According to the Independent, the survey also investigated the probability of Muslims being the victims of crime. However, the author of the report Julian Hargreaves of Cambridge's Centre of Islamic Studies said: 'It's often reported that Muslim individual are more likely to be at risk of violent crime than other communities. But not only is violent crime a rare occurance, it's no more likely to affect Muslims than others, such as Hindus and Sikhs.' Researchers admitted that the survey does not include attacks against property, possibly under-estimating the extent of anti-Islamic crime. The new research, affirming support in the British Muslim community for the police comes as fears grow over the number of people being radicalised by Islamic extremists. The Government has introduced a new counter-terrorism bill to combat the threat of British men and women becoming jihadists. Labour MP Khalid Mahmood believes British jihadists are being able to enter the country due to lax security . It is believed that several hundred British Muslims have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS and other extremist Islamic groups. Khalid Mahmood, MP for the Birmingham Perry Barr constituency, claimed that official figures on the numbers of British jihadis is grossly underestimating the size of the problem. UK security officials believe in the region of 500 men have travelled to Iraq and Syria, but Mr Mahmood claims this figure is widely inaccurate. He said: 'The authorities say there are 500 British jihadists but the likely figure is at least three to four times that. I think 2,000 is a better estimate. My experience in Birmingham is it is a huge, huge problem.' Mr Mahmood said: 'The Government does not have significant people at border control. The fact is these jihadists are coming in and going out without almost ever being arrested. We have had hardly any arrests. We have had people coming back in after six months in Syria and they are not being picked up.' Mr Mahmood's warning follows reports that British jihadis Abu Dharda, 20 and Abu Abdullah al Habashi, 21. The two men from London are believed to have been killed in heavy fighting in the Syrian border town of Kobane, which has been the subject of a major counter-offensive by Kurdish fighters, supported by US Air Force bombers. Al-Habashi grew up in north London in a British-Eritrean family and converted to Islam at the age of 16. He told the BBC back in August that he was one of the few British jihadists who fought with ISIS in Syria and Iraq. During the interview, he admitted that he was never going to return to Britain despite the pleas of his family. Dhardra grew up in west London and is from a British-Somali background. He entered Syria in December 2013 after crossing the Turkish border. Abu Abdullah al-Habashi, left, and Abu Dharda, right, are believed to have been killed in Kobane, Syria . Almost 30 Britons are believed to have been killed fighting for jihadist organisations although the Foreign Office confirmed that determining exact figures is incredibly difficult. A spokesman said: 'We are aware of reports of the death of two British nationals in Syria. 'The UK has advised for some time against all travel to Syria, where all UK consular services are suspended. 'As we do not have any representation in Syria, it is extremely difficult to get any confirmation of deaths or injuries and our options for supporting British nationals there are extremely limited.'", "A teenage British Muslim whose brother died fighting in war-torn Syria has also been killed, their father said today. Jaffar Deghayes, 17, is believed to have died at the weekend after leaving home near Brighton earlier this year in a bid to overthrow dictator Bashar Al-Assad's government. His brother, Abdullah, 18, died in Latakia province in April after leaving the UK in January to reportedly take up arms with Jabhat al-Nusra, an Al Qaeda-affiliated group. Scroll down for video . Brothers from East Sussex: Jaffar Deghayes (left), 17, is believed to have died at the weekend after leaving home near Brighton earlier this year for Syria. His brother, Abdullah (right), 18, died in Latakia province in April . From Britain to Syria: Jaffar left his home (above) near Brighton in Saltdean, East Sussex, earlier this year . Yesterday the pair's brother, Amer, 20, who also travelled to Syria, relayed news of the death of Jaffar to their father, Abubaker Deghayes, 45, back home in Saltdean, East Sussex. Mr Deghayes said: ‘Amer sent me a message via the internet. All I know is that (Jaffar) was fighting against Assad and was killed in battle. ‘I don't know much else. I can only hope and pray to God to accept him and have mercy on him.’ The Deghayes brothers are the nephew of Omar Deghayes, who was held by the U.S. as an enemy combatant at Guantanamo Bay detention camp from 2002 to 2007 after he was arrested in Pakistan. He wrote in Arabic on Facebook confirming the boy's death, saying: ‘As you grieve, know that we are remembering you and honouring the memory of a sincere and truthful young man (deceased).' BBC Newsnight reporter Secunder Kermani also said on Twitter: 'I spoke to Jaffer [sic] Deghayes a few times whilst he was in Syria, very polite and friendly person with me... Poor family.' Following the death of Abdullah, counter-terrorism officers raided the Deghayes' family home in May and seized material after a warrant was issued under the Terrorism Act 2000. There was no answer at the family home today and all but one pair of curtains remained drawn. Grieving father: Abubaker Deghayes (pictured), was told of the death of his son yesterday at home in Saltdean . 'Truthful young man': Omar Deghayes, uncle of Jaffar and Abdullah, posted on Facebook following the death . A woman who lives nearby, but did not wish to be named, said: ‘To lose one son is awful, but to lose two so close together is unimaginable. The family must be going through a terrible time. 'I don't understand why these teenagers are putting their lives at risk like this.’ Related: The Deghayes brothers are the nephews of Omar Deghayes (above), who was held by the U.S. as an enemy combatant at Guantanamo Bay until 2007 . Sussex Police urged anyone who has concerns or information about anyone locally planning to travel to Syria or Iraq to contact the force. A police statement said: ‘The south east counter-terrorism unit and Sussex Police are aware of recent social media postings reporting the death of a man who may have come from Brighton during fighting in either Syria or Iraq. ‘Whilst we will not comment on individual cases, reports like these remind everyone that the situation in Syria and Iraq is unsafe and that risk of injury, death or abduction remains for anyone travelling to that area. ‘The Government advice continues to be that no one should travel to these war zones and that the most effective way to help the affected population is through humanitarian support. ‘Anyone locally who has concerns or information about someone who is planning to travel to Syria or Iraq for whatever reason or are hearing or seeing negative tensions within communities can contact the Sussex Police prevent engagement team.’ Abubaker Deghayes has previously said that his three sons could have helped the cause in Syria from the UK by lobbying the government. But in a film shot by Vice News this year, Amer Deghayes said he had no intention of returning to Britain, adding: ‘My work here is not done. I came here to give victory to the people and make sure that they receive justice, and we still haven't reached the goal yet.’ He added: ‘I'm in the Syrian civil war because I believe it's my duty to fight here ...The Muslim nation is like one body. If one part complains, the other parts react, so I don't see it as a Syrian conflict. I see it as an Islamic conflict.’ Speaking in June Mr Deghayes, said: 'Amer, Jaffar, if you see me or this interview please, please come back home. Enough. This war has taken away Abdullah already. Family: Amer Deghayes (centre, in grey) was the first of his family to leave for Syria, telling his parents he wanted to be an aid worker. Brother Abdullah (front left) and Jaffar (front right) followed soon after . The Deghayes' parents had insisted their boys are not terrorists, and simply went to Syria to protect the weak . 'I'd like to see you live longer. I said [to them] \"why are you going there, it's not worth it? You have to stick to helping in the refugee camps and doing the humanitarian work\". I am scared for my children. I don't want to lose them obviously. But they are becoming men now.' After Abdullah died in April, his father described him as a 'martyr' and revealed he only learned of the death when he saw tributes on Facebook. Mr Deghayes said at the time: 'He was a youngster who didn't communicate a lot. With parents, once they grow, they don't tell you much about their lives.' And asked whether he believed Abdullah was a martyr, Mr Deghayes replied: 'Of course I think, as a Muslim, that my son is a martyr. Anyone who dies for a just cause is a martyr.' Counter-terrorism investigators have expressed concern about aspiring British jihadis travelling to Syria and becoming radicalised. It emerged this month that a fourth man from Portsmouth, Hampshire - Muhammad Mehdi Hassan, 19 - died fighting in Kobani. Three others from the same city - Iftekar Jaman, 23, Mamunur Roshid, 24, and Muhammad Hamidur Rahman, 25 - have also been killed after travelling there in October last year. In January alone, 16 people were arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences related to Syria compared with 24 arrests in the whole of last year. Spotted leaving Gatwick Airport: Three other men from Portsmouth - including Muhammad Hamidur Rahman (right) - have also been killed after travelling to Syria last year . Another death: A fourth man from Portsmouth-  Muhammad Mehdi Hassan (above) - died in Kobani, it emerged . Father-of-three: Abdul Waheed Majeed (pictured at a refugee camp on the border of Turkey and Syria), from Crawley, West Sussex, is believed to have driven a lorry to a jail in Aleppo before detonating a bomb in February . Others who have died include one man suspected of carrying out a suicide attack. Abdul Waheed Majeed is believed to have driven a lorry to a jail in Aleppo before detonating a bomb in February. The 41-year-old married father-of-three, who was born and raised in Crawley, West Sussex, left Britain in 2013, telling his family he was going on a humanitarian mission to Syria. A Foreign Office spokesman said today: 'We are aware of reports of the death of a British national in Syria. The UK has advised for some time against all travel to Syria, where all UK consular services are suspended. 'As we do not have any representation in Syria, it is extremely difficult to get any confirmation of deaths or injuries and our options for supporting British nationals there are extremely limited.' Around 25 Britons are believed to have died in the conflict in Syria and Iraq, and they are being killed at a rate of more than one every three weeks, according to researchers at King’s College London. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said last week that five British extremists are joining ISIS every week, with more than 500 already having travelled to join the conflict.", "One man more interested than most in what President Barack Obama will have to say in his address to the nation Wednesday night is al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. In his hideout somewhere in Pakistan or Afghanistan, he will likely be hoping that the President sets out a plan to exterminate the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a group that has eclipsed al Qaeda and made al-Zawahiri seem virtually irrelevant. Al-Zawahiri and the core of al Qaeda are locked in battle with ISIS for the leadership of the global jihadist movement -- offering very different visions and strategies. ISIS was expelled from al Qaeda in February after rejecting al-Zawahiri's demand that it restrict its activities to Iraq. ISIS has captured the imagination of a new generation of jihadists -- from Arab and European states alike -- with its ruthless pursuit of a Caliphate, dramatic territorial gains and relentless propaganda machine. Its chilling brutality toward non-Muslims and Muslims who don't share its rigid interpretation of Islam echo the behavior of its predecessor, al Qaeda in Iraq, whose vicious attacks on Shia Muslims and moderate Sunnis drew the ire of the late al Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden. In short, ISIS' \"traipse through Iraq represents a serious organizational, strategic, and ideological blow to al Qaeda,\" analyst Barak Mendelsohn wrote in Foreign Affairs in June. So far, the leaders of al Qaeda affiliates have remained loyal (if not enthusiastically) to al-Zawahiri. After the death of its leader Ahmad Abdi Godane last week, Al-Shabaab quickly reiterated its allegiance to the al Qaeda leader, and Nasir al Wuhayshi, al Qaeda's No. 2, remains at the helm of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Prominent jihadi preachers like Abu Muhammad al Maqdisi and Abu Qatada have blasted ISIS for deviancy. Appealing to a new generation of jihadists . But the younger generation of jihadists appears to be more impressed by action than sermons. Al Qaeda foot-soldiers -- from Yemen, Libya, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere -- are flocking to ISIS' standard. To them, its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is confronting the apostates and building the Caliphate, while al-Zawahiri talks. It's impossible to know the scale of this exodus. But last week, a group calling itself The Supporters of the Islamic State in Yemen released a video pledging allegiance to al-Baghdadi, calling him the \"Caliph of the Muslims... the mujahid in the first row of attack against America.\" Even AQAP -- the most effective of the group's affiliates -- has expressed solidarity with ISIS fighters, condemning what it calls the \"declaration of war\" by the United States on Muslims in Iraq, and calling on \"all Islamic groups to support their brothers by afflicting America.\" By contrast, it's been a long time since al Qaeda central has carried out any attack of note. Four years ago, a strategy document set out ideas for attacking targets such as cruise ships, dams and bridges as well as aircraft. But very little beyond \"lone wolf\" attacks by distant sympathizers of al Qaeda has happened since. Over the last three years, the most significant terror attacks against western interests have been against the U.S. Consulate compound in Benghazi, Libya, where there may have been some involvement by members of al Qaeda affiliates; the gas plant in southern Algeria in January 2013, carried out by a maverick group that pledged allegiance to al Qaeda but does not appear to have been acting on its instructions; and the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya -- the work of Al-Shabaab, apparently planned without reference to the al Qaeda leadership, even if it was exactly the sort of operation al-Zawahiri had urged. Attacks against U.S. military, diplomatic and government targets in Afghanistan have largely been the work of the Taliban and Haqqani Network, though al Qaeda fighters are enmeshed with these groups. Some al Qaeda affiliates have been forced on the defensive over the last couple of years. The French intervention in Mali pushed back groups linked to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which had taken over half the country. AQAP seized and then lost several towns in southern Yemen in early 2012, and resorted to suicide bombings and fighting Yemeni government forces from remote hideouts. Al-Shabaab lost its leader Godane in a U.S. missile strike last week and has lost large areas of Somalia it once controlled to ground offensives by Kenyan, Ethiopian and African Union forces. It has also suffered vicious infighting. And in Pakistan, the army has gone on the offensive against the Pakistani Taliban -- an al Qaeda affiliate also riven by division -- in the North Waziristan tribal area. Al Qaeda strongholds still exist . There are still plenty of places where al Qaeda supporters are active and their operations growing: eastern Libya, Syria and the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, where they have found breathing space amid a collapse of state authority. But amid these fast-moving events, al-Zawahiri has seemed more the cheerleader than the leader, reacting to events rather than directing them. Last week, in an effort to reclaim relevancy, he announced the creation of al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, led by Asim Umar, which will include at least one faction of the Pakistan Taliban. According to a translation by the SITE Institute, the new offshoot's spokesman, Usama Mahmoud, said its basic goals included jihad against America, supporting the Taliban and establishing a Caliphate (implicitly rejecting the Caliphate claimed by al-Baghdadi). The announcement steps up the philosophical battle between al Qaeda and ISIS about how the dream of the Caliphate, to which Muslims the world over would owe allegiance, is achieved. Mahmoud spoke of \"a Caliphate where the emirs are proud in their closeness to the honest scholars... a Caliphate in whose shadow even the disbelieving people of dhimma (non-Muslim citizens of an Islamic state) have a life of safety and security.\" The last condition was clearly aimed at ISIS and its merciless campaign against non-Muslims and non-Sunni Muslims in both Iraq and Syria. Not to be outdone, ISIS' propaganda machine recently posted photographs showing residents of the Iraqi city of Nineveh enjoying \"prosperity... under the shade of the Caliphate.\" Al Qaeda's hope for the future . Al-Zawahiri may be looking to the withdrawal of most U.S. combat forces from Afghanistan as his best chance of reviving al Qaeda's fortunes. Last week's announcement reiterated al Qaeda's allegiance to Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar as the leader of the Islamic Emirate. Several analysts have also noted a stream of statements from al Qaeda that hint at the coming of a \"counter-Caliphate.\" Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Thomas Jocelyn pointed out in Foreign Policy that despite the U.S. surge in Afghanistan, \"The remote provinces of Kunar and Nuristan are home to significant cadres of al Qaeda fighters, and al Qaeda continues to operate side by side with its allies in other parts of the country.\" There is also the prospect -- or as some would say, likelihood -- that ISIS will over-reach much as did its predecessor, al Qaeda in Iraq -- alienating the Sunni tribes, taking territory it cannot defend and mobilizing more enemies than it can resist. If the coalition now building against it can split ISIS' Syrian and Iraqi possessions and prize cities like Mosul from its grasp, the momentum crucial to its success and appeal will be lost. The Obama administration seems poised to borrow a page out of its strategy against al Qaeda to deal with ISIS. Last week, Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes noted: \"We've been able to significantly degrade al Qaeda core in Afghanistan and Pakistan, decimate its leadership ranks, reducing the threat that they pose.\" Now a repetition in Iraq of the U.S. strategy that reduced al-Zawahiri to a spectator may be his best chance of overcoming the challenge posed by ISIS. The risk is that Washington and its allies will neglect imminent challenges in Afghanistan while refocusing on the militant challenge in Iraq. We've seen that movie too.", "Frustrated holidaymakers faced long delays at airports yesterday on the first full day of increased security checks. Queues stretched outside the terminal doors at one airport because of the crackdown – brought in amid fears Al Qaeda has developed a ‘stealth bomb’ undetectable to scanners. Air passengers around the country were subjected to ‘vigorous’ body searches, with their shoes removed and swabbed for traces of explosives. Gatwick: Travellers faced delays getting inside the terminal building after the security crackdown . Queues at Manchester Airport this morning, the day after new security checks were brought in to search for so-called 'stealth bombs' which are feared to be undetectable to airport scanners . Passengers joined queues starting outside Manchester airport today, with many complaining of delays . They were also told to switch on their tablets, smartphones and laptops to prove they are not hiding something more sinister. Some customers said it took them 90 minutes just to get through security – and holidaymakers have now been warned to allow for least three hours before their flight time. Angry travellers branded the delays an ‘absolute joke’ and ‘like wading through treacle’. Airline chiefs are braced for further problems as one of the busiest weekends of the summer gets underway. The checks have been brought in due to fears that Al Qaeda’s top bomb-maker Ibrahim Al-Asiri has developed a non-metallic ‘stealth bomb’ that can be hidden inside human bodies or other devices. The use of body scanners, swabs and patting down have all been increased at UK airports while some bags are being searched twice. Passengers are removing shoes and belts as a matter of course, while those on US-bound flights are likely to face further screening and searches of bags at the boarding gates. The alert has sparked fears of a summer of travel chaos with holidaymakers facing invasive personal checks and long delays. Heathrow alone handles more than 190,000 passengers a day and across the country 24million people will fly abroad before September – 3million to the US. A spokesman for travel industry body ABTA said: ‘The main thing is to make sure that airports have sufficient measures in place to ensure all the available security gates are open.’ At Manchester Airport, officials said problems were made worse by many travellers arriving earlier than normal because of the extra checks. Some complained they were left standing outside the terminal building before they could even check in. Sam Lavelle posted pictures of fellow passengers queuing in the drop-off zone outside Terminal One, writing: ‘The queue is literally outside the door and onto the road.’ Elissa Corrigan described the wait as ‘soul destroying’. And Ian Moreno-Melgar, who was heading to Belfast for a wedding, tweeted: ‘Queuing in the car park for security isn’t normal.’ But at Heathrow passengers appeared resigned to longer and more intrusive searches as they were subjected to what one termed ‘American-style security’. Passengers wait at Heathrow Airport this morning as security staff carry out more stringent security checks . Queues to get to security at Glasgow Airport, where passengers complained of waiting times today . Christian Radnedge, who was flying to Houston, said: ‘Everyone is taking their shoes off, there are pat-downs on almost everyone after being screened, a few people are having their bags tested.’ A traveller flying to California said it was a price worth paying for ‘staying safe in a dangerous world’. And Paul Kenyon, 59, of Poynton, Cheshire, who was on his way to Bologna, said: ‘They were looking at Apple computer equipment closely and they took my washbag through the machine a couple of times as I had my contact lenses in liquid inside. ‘Nobody was moaning about the extra time and it’s not that much of a hassle. As long as you leave yourself plenty of time then you’ll get on your flight.’ Last night, traveller Matteo Pescarin posted a photo of a crammed North Terminal at Gatwick Airport as hundreds of passengers queued to go through security. Taking the chaos with good humour, David Silvester tweeted: ‘Just had my croissants x-rayed and then inspected...’ At Glasgow Airport, passengers also faced waits. Norma Decent, 59, from Stranraer, said: ‘I understand why they’re doing it, but it all seems a little excessive to me.’ Laura Macpherson, 42, from Paisley, added: ‘It’s better to be safe than sorry.’ Don't go to Syria, imams urge young Britons . Muslim leaders yesterday launched an unprecedented appeal to would-be young British jihadists: Don’t travel to fight in Syria and Iraq. Some 100 imams asked the UK’s Muslim community to help prevent radicalised youngsters joining militants abroad. Muslims should continue the ‘generous and tireless’ support for those caught up in the bloodshed – but from the UK in a ‘safe and responsible way’, they said. Chilling: British jihadists in a recruitment video aimed at youngsters in the UK . The call was made by leaders from different Islamic theological backgrounds and was echoed by imams during Friday prayers. It came as claims emerged yesterday that up to three Al Qaeda instructors tutored by master bomb-maker Ibrahim Al-Asiri are believed to have slipped in to Syria to teach British and other Europeans jihadists to make ‘stealth bombs’. And a British man who claims he has been fighting in Syria told the BBC he will not return to the UK until he can raise ‘the black flag of Islam’ over Downing Street and Buckingham Palace. Speaking with a northern accent, the man, who called himself Abu Osama, said he had received military training, making bombs and fighting with the extremist Al-Nusra Front, linked to Al Qaeda. He claimed to have been fighting for the establishment of a caliphate – which he referred to by the Arabic term Khilafah – across the Islamic world. ‘There is nothing in Britain – it is just pure evil,’ he said. ‘If and when I come back to Britain it will be when this Khilafah – this Islamic state – comes to conquer Britain and I come to raise the black flag of Islam over Downing Street, over Buckingham Palace, over Tower Bridge and over Big Ben. I don’t want to come back to what I have left behind.’ Osama said he initially faced opposition from his family but they now ‘understand that this is a good cause I am in’. It emerged yesterday that there are already believed to be three Al Qaeda instructors trained in bomb-making in Syria. It is feared they are poised to tutor young British Muslims who have travelled there in the art of making ‘invisible bombs’ – non-metallic devices that can get past airport scanners and can even be stitched inside a suicide bomber’s body. Security officers are said to have identified more than 100 of the 600 Britons currently fighting in Syria while US investigators have given their UK counterparts ‘dozens of names of interest’. However the US, which has demanded increased security at British airports, also accused the UK of ignoring for too long the threat posed by men like Osama. Frank Gaffney, former assistant secretary of defence under Ronald Reagan, said British governments ‘turned a blind eye’ to recruitment operations and ‘embraced extremists’. He said of the Western jihadists in Iraq and Syria: ‘What they learn there are the skill sets to bring violence to us.’ US officials say iPhones (left) and Samsung Galaxy phones (right) could be subject to greater checks . In 2010, an Al Qaeda group crammed explosives into computer printers before smuggling them onto planes .", "By . Inderdeep Bains . 'Could be jailed for war crimes': Reyaad Khan, 20, pictured above in an ISIS recruitment video, has boasted about executions and posted pictures online . A British jihadist could be tried for war crimes and jailed for life after using Twitter to brazenly boast about his role in the ‘execution’ of prisoners in Syria. Reyaad Khan, 20, has repeatedly uploaded bloodthirsty posts and pictures on social media bragging about the inhumane killings. In one he posted graphic photographs of the distorted corpses of alleged victims, tweeting: ‘Guys we caught & executed. This is how they looked less than an hr l8er’. The former college student from Cardiff also laughed about witnessing the ‘longest decapitation ever’ and boasted in another: ‘Executed many prisoners yesterday.’ His claims about his involvement in the crimes carried out by a unit of ISIS are now being investigated by the United Nations. Khan, who once dreamt of becoming Britain’s first Asian prime minister, could see his name added to the investigators’ list of suspected war criminals in Syria for future prosecution. Experts believe that Khan, who is one of three young men from Cardiff who joined the group, could also be put on trial for alleged war crimes in a British court if he ever returns to the UK. Gory: Khan uploaded pictures of men he said his militant comrades had executed, then seemingly disfigured . Propaganda: Kahn (left) appeared in a recruitment video encouraging young men to join ISIS's jihad in Syria and Iraq, alongside Nasser Muthana (centre) and former Aberdeen schoolboy Abdul Raqib Amin (right) Geoffrey Robertson QC, a former UN appeals judge, said: ‘Any boasts on social media – even a tweet – about killing will be jumped on by the prosecution as a confession and used in evidence. ‘If you fight for Isis, your complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity would be virtually inevitable.’ He added: ‘Young people contemplating travel to Syria to join a group like ISIS must be warned that if they return they can be prosecuted at the Old Bailey and jailed for long periods for the war crimes and crimes against humanity that these groups are committing. ‘Under an 1861 law, guilt of even one murder of a foreigner is enough to land them in jail for life.’ ISIS, which has recently changed its name to Islamic State, announced last month it has formed a caliphate across Syria and Iraq. Firepower: Boasting tweets posted by Khan include this picture of a modified machine gun . Risk: A QC and former UN judge said that tweets such as the above could lead to prosecution for murder . Up to 500 British Muslims are believed to be in the region with as many as half joining forces with ISIS, a group known for its extreme violence, including crucifying and beheading its enemies. Khan’s Twitter claims are being examined by the UN after details of his posts were passed on to investigators by the Sunday Times. The Welsh youngster who left for Syria earlier this year was first exposed as a jihadist in June after he appeared in an ISIS propaganda video brandishing a rifle urging other Britons to join him. Just last month, he used his Twitter account to boast about his part in the killings of rivals from the Islamist group Jabhat al-Nusra (JN) while fighting in the city of Deir Ezzor in Syria. Using his alias Abu Dujana RK he wrote on July 5: ‘Executed many prisoners yesterday, (they) sold their deen (religion) for $70 which they didn't even get.’ Terror: Khan's made flippant remarks about his jihad lifestyle, such as the above reference to suicide bombing . In response, another ISIS fighter said: ‘Epic executions bro, we need to step it up like the brothers in Iraq.’ Three days later on July 8, Khan, a former A-grade student, wrote: ‘Probably saw the longest decapitation ever. And we made sure the knife was sharp. Brother who was next decided to the use the glock (pistol) lol.’ When some of Khan’s Twitter followers morbidly asked for photographs, he replied: ‘Don't hav pics. Just vids. Not allowed to post. Bros un-masked in vid having fun.’ On July 16, Khan, whose parents have begged for him to return to their home in Riverside, posted several bloody images of bloated and disfigured corpses. His tweet added: 'JN guys we caught & executed. This is how they looked less than an hr l8er. Still think JN r knights of the Ummah (Muslim community)?’ Killings: Khan says he saw a man's head slowly removed, then includes 'lol', the acronym for 'laugh out loud' When one of his 1,500 followers, questioned the authenticity of the photos, Khan replied: ‘I was there when they got killed.’ Days later Khan also posted a picture of an automatic assault rifle with the caption, ‘Check this little badboy out’. And on July 20 he asked: ‘Anyone want to sponsor my explosive belt? Gucci give me a shout’ The head of the UN’s commission of inquiry on Syria, Paulo Pinheiro, revealed last week that UN investigation teams were currently compiling an exhaustive dossier on war crimes suspects including details of ISIS fighters. Mr Pinheiro said: ‘I can assure you we are now collecting information on perpetrators from all sides including non-state armed groups and ISIS.’ The UN human rights office added: ‘It is deeply tragic that young men like this are coming from abroad and getting sucked into this terrible conflict where the most appalling atrocities have become commonplace. ‘We will pass on any information we receive of serious crimes to the independent commission of inquiry on Syria.’", "Prince Charles (pictured wearing traditional uniform in Saudi Arabia last year) said he is alarmed at the number of young Britons radicalised online . Prince Charles says it is a 'great worry' that so many young Britons who are yearning for adventure and excitement are being radicalised by 'crazy stuff' online. The heir to the throne partly blamed the growing number of Islamic fanatics in the UK on a desire to 'want to take risks' but added that the most 'frightening part' was the role of the internet. His comments, in which he also urged young jihadists to show more respect to 'the values we hold dear', were broadcast in an interview with BBC Radio 2's The Sunday Hour, at the start of his six-day tour of the Middle East. He said: 'The radicalisation of people in Britain is a great worry, and the extent to which this is happening is alarming, particularly in a country like ours where we hold values dear. 'You would think the people who have come here, or are born here, and go to school here, would abide by those values and outlooks.' He added: 'But the frightening part is that people can be so radicalised, either through direct contact with somebody, or through the internet. 'There is an extraordinary amount of crazy stuff on the internet and clearly some people get particularly affected by it and join with others. 'I can see some of this radicalisation is a search for adventure and excitement at a particular age.' The prince added that he had been working with the Prince's Trust and other groups to try and find alternatives for those who are prone to radicalisation. He said he had been working in deprived, Muslim areas of the UK and had found 'interesting examples' of people who have been deradicalised after being 'horrified' by what they have learned. The prince also touched on the difficulty of preventing radicalisation, saying you cannot 'just sweep it under the carpet', but instead have to remind people of 'the distortions that are made of great religions'. He said: 'How you prevent radicalisation in the first place is the great challenge. You cannot just sweep it under the carpet. But the most important thing is to remind people of the distortions that are made of great religions, and the original ideas of the founders of these religions. 'Often you find their message is so distorted by their putative followers. That's the tragedy and, of course, traditional Islam does not permit this sort of thing.' During the interview, he also launched a staunch defence of the 'Christian standpoint', killing off speculation that he will take up the multicultural 'defender of the faith title' when he becomes king. Experts believe there are now thousands of young Britons fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the majority of whom are said to have been radicalised online. The prince's comments on Islam and Christianity were broadcast in an interview with BBC Radio 2's The Sunday Hour with Diane Louise Jordan this morning . Among those who have made it to Iraq and Syria - usually through the porous Turkish border - are a Cardiff trio, who appeared on a jihad recruitment video last year. The three school friends – gap-year student Nasser Muthana, 20, his brother Aseel, 17, and their friend Reyaad Khan, 20 – were said to have jetted-in on a tourist fight to Antalya, in southern Turkey, after paying for a one-week stay at a five-star spa resort. They then crossed over from Turkey, via the so-called 'Gateway to Jihad' or 'Jihad Express'. In July last year, Zahra and Salma Halane, both 16, of Chorlton, Manchester, also ran away from home to travel to Syria, where they married fighters. The pair - who have since earned the sobriquet the 'terror twins' - had 28 GCSEs between them and were planning to become doctors, having just finished their first year of sixth-form college. They were said to have been radicalised over the internet. The comments came at the start of his six-day Middle East tour, which began in Jordan (pictured) The prince, pictured during his tour with a group of Iraqi Christians who sought refuge in Jordan after having fled Iraq . The 'terror twins' Zahra (left) and Salma Halane (right), both 16, from Chorlton, Manchester, travelled to Syria where they married fighters after being radicalised online . Their father Ibrahim and mother Khadra had travelled to the region to try to bring them home, but without success. In December, it was also reported that 20-year-old Muslim convert Abu Abdullah al-Habashi, also known by a second nom de guerre of Abu Abdullah al-Britani, had been killed in action. Should Muslims living in the UK follow British values? Should Muslims living in the UK follow British values? Now share your opinion . Al-Habashi, from north London, was of Eritrean origin and converted from Christianity to Islam during his teenage years. He is understood to have travelled from the UK to join the Islamic State in Syria in December 2013. Al-Habashi was a well known and popular figure in Islamic State due to his media appearances. In August, he was interviewed on BBC Newsnight, where he admitted that his family had been trying to persuade him to return home but he had insisted there was 'no going back.' Days later, there were also claims that Abu Dharda, 20, also known as Abu Dhar Somali, was killed fighting alongside militants in the border town of Kobane. Abu Dharda, from west London, came from a British-Somali background and travelled to Syria via Turkey in the same month as al-Habashi. Another radicalised Briton said to have been killed in action is Ali Kalantar, 19, from Coventry, who was allegedly 'brainwashed' to fight overseas by a local imam in less than one month. The teenager - who had previously wanted to be a model - left the UK in March last year while studying for his A-levels. He left alongside two friends, including 18-year-old Mohammed Hadi, who has since been dubbed Osama Bin Bieber due to his youthful looks. Last year, Kalantar's father, who is of Afghan origin, described how he believed his son had been radicalised by an imam at a small mosque who sent him 'down this road'. Rahim Kalantar told the BBC that he worried about his son 'every minute' and that his grief is 'limitless'. Ali Kalantar (left), who was allegedly killed in action in December, had previously wanted to be a model and was due to study computer science at Coventry University, but left for Syria after being 'brainwashed', his family said. He is pictured with Mohammed Hadi, who was also radicalised . Abu Abdullah, 20 (left) and the man believed to be Abu Dharda, 20 (right) were two young radicalised Britons who are said to have been killed fighting for ISIS . On his Facebook page, Kalantar had also described how he had no intention of returning to the UK, despite members of his family travelling to Turkey to try and find him. Meanwhile, Mohammed Hadi's mother believes her son had no means of paying for transport to the Syrian border with his £14 per week pocket money and that religious leaders may have funded his journey. Other radicialised Britons include Glaswegian public schoolgirl Aqsa Mahmood, 20 - who was reported missing by her parents before surfacing in Syria in February last year -  and Khadijah Dare, 22, who arranged to marry an Islamic State fighter via Facebook and moved to Syria in 2012. She has previously posted photographs online of her son holding an AK-47.", "A Muslim convert was heard chanting that he wanted to kill non-believers hours before going on a knife rampage and trying to kill a police officer and firemen. The man was Tasered multiple times by police after launching his attack on a busy street. Officers were called around midday yesterday when the knifeman, armed with four blades, attempted to smash his way into  a neighbours’s property with an iron bar. Hours earlier he had been heard reciting verses from the Koran and making threats ‘to kill Kuffars’. Terrifying: Officers chased the subject down Falcon Road in Battersea, south-west London . Firemen at a nearby fire station in . Battersea, South London, confronted the 26-year-old after seeing him . throwing bottles at neighbours and threatening passers-by with kitchen . knives. But he went berserk and chased the firemen back to the station, where he attempted to batter down the doors. Within . minutes more than 20 police officers had arrived at the scene, blocking . off the road as the man sprinted up and down smashing police car . windows and screaming abuse. Hacked to death: The rampage has revived memories of the slaying of Fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, South London . Terrified onlookers cowered in local shops as police tried to contain him using a Taser. The . rampage has revived memories of the slaying of Fusilier Lee Rigby, who . was hacked to death in the street by two knife-wielding Muslim radicals . in Woolwich, South London, in May. Police said yesterday’s incident was . not thought to be terror related. Servet Kaplan, 22, a store manager at Battersea Food & Wine, said ‘People were trying to get into my store. ‘There . were so many they wouldn’t fit through the door. I saw the police Taser . the man and it didn’t affect him at all, he just carried on running.’ After 20 minutes officers managed to overpower the man who continued to . lash out, injuring one officer who received minor cuts to his hands. The . suspect, known locally as Michael. was later taken to Springfield . University Hospital in nearby Tooting with minor injuries caused by the . Taser device. He is thought to have been released from Springfield, a psychiatric hospital, two years ago. His . downstairs neighbour Gyare Patrick, 66, said: ‘He has always been . trouble ever since he got here from Springfield two years ago. ‘He . has always ranted and raved, swearing and shouting, ever since he got . here. But in the last three months he has started chanting in Arabic. He . has mental health problems. ‘Today he was chanting kill Kuffars and I’m going to Medina, which means kill non-believers and I’m going to heaven. Chanting: The man was Tasered multiple times by police after launching his attack in broad daylight on a busy London street (file picture) ‘I didn’t take any notice of it because when you live downstairs from someone like that you become immune to it.’ Last night the suspect was being held on suspicion of the attempted murder of a police officer. Chief . Superintendent Paul McGregor said: ‘There were a considerable amount of . people around. The incident bought the place to a standstill. ‘This is a really good example of how important an effective Taser use can be, in the right circumstances. ‘People would have been seriously injured otherwise. It was very frightening for people locally.’ Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.", "British Muslim extremists are offering teenage girls in the UK money to marry Islamic State militants waging bloody jihad in Syria and Iraq, it has been claimed. Supporters of the terror group are believed to be offering cash incentives to encourage schoolgirls as young as 17 to travel to the group's de facto capital Raqqa and marry fighters. It is understood that ISIS channels money for the would-be jihadis' payment and travel expenses through international money wire systems, enabling the group's UK cell to offer significant sums of cash to disenfranchised teenagers, many of whom are from poverty-stricken backgrounds. The whole grooming process operates using the same techniques of trust-building and reward-offering employed by sexual predators, and is designed to turn the teenage girls into jihadi brides. Grooming: Islamic State supporters are believed to be using British intermediaries to offer cash incentives to encourage schoolgirls as young as 17 to travel to the group's de facto capital Raqqa and marry fighters . 'Terror twins': Zahra (left) and Salma (right) Halane, who have 28 GCSE's between them, were groomed online and flew to join ISIS. The 16-year-olds ran away from their Manchester home on 26 June . Jihadi bride: Another Briton who left Britain to join ISIS is Lewisham-born Khadijah Dare (left). Here she is pictured alongside her Swedish terrorist husband Abu Bakr. Their marriage was arranged by his mother . News of ISIS' secret teenage terror trade was revealed in The Times today, following a three month investigation by the newspaper in which reporters posed as two schoolgirls. It exposes how vulnerable young British Muslims are to ISIS' chilling network or groomers - and reveals that police are taking seriously the idea that the terror group has already provided money and travel assistance to children under the age of 16. Posing as Aisha, a 17-year-old girl from East London, the reporters - who have not been named for their own safety - were swamped with approaches from ISIS sympathisers, and were eventually put in touch with an alleged Syria-based extremist of Lebanese origin named Abu Abbas al-Lubnani. Having built something of a rapport with the jihadi - including getting him to prove his authenticity by asking him to send photos taken in Raqqa with a banner reading 'Aisha' - al-Lubnani then offered to introduce 'Aisha' to a British intermediary, who would then pay for her to travel to the Islamic State. A surveillance operation followed, in which investigators identified a white British Muslim convert as the prime candidate for being the UK-based jihadi who offered to pay for two girls to travel to Syria. The man reportedly also offered intensive coaching on how the girls could avoid drawing attention to themselves before and during their journey to the Middle East. Terror: Aqsa Mahmood was reported missing by her Scottish parents a year ago before surfacing in Syria in February. She is now a prominent member of ISIS' all-female police force in de facto capital Raqqa . Shocking: Earlier this year Aqsa Mahmood posted this photograph of her holding the severed head of a Syrian man executed for criminal acts in Syria. She was standing alongside young children at the time . Yusra Hussien, 15, from Bristol, left home in September but instead of going to class went to Heathrow where she caught a flight to Turkey and went on to Syria . Police in Britain have been urging families to contact them if they believe their loved-ones are trying to leave for Syria so they can be stopped. Detectives say young women are being manipulated online with glamorous descriptions of life in Syria with ISIS, only to suffer a miserable existence when they arrive. Yusra Hussien, 15, from Bristol, left home in September but instead of going to class went to Heathrow where she caught a flight to Turkey. She boarded a plane with a 17-year-old British girl Samya Dirie, who she met online and the two are now believed to be in Syria, and may have married jihadist fighters. Police failed to stop schoolgirl Miss Dirie despite being told she had run away with her passport. Three hours after her panicked parents alerted officers that she was missing, she was allowed to fly from Heathrow to Turkey. Her exit may have prompted the urgent response in the latest Heathrow case. In June 'terror twins' Zahra and Salma Halane, both 16, of Chorlton, Manchester, are thought to have married in the war-torn nation since disappearing overnight from their home. Both have insisted that Allah had 'chosen' for them to be in Syria. The pair have 28 GCSEs between them and were planning to become doctors, having just finished their first year of sixth-form college, but were said to have been radicalised over the internet. Their father Ibrahim and mother Khadra travelled to the region to try to bring them home, but without success. The couple have 10 children and their 21-year-old son Ahmed is said to be fighting with Al Shabaab, a militant group in Somalia. Bodies of Islamic State militants killed during fighting in Koban, Iraq were photographed this morning . Details of the investigation came after it was revealed that police stopped a plane at Heathrow just seconds before it was due to take off because a 15-year-old girl on board was planning to fly to Turkey before continuing her journey on to join ISIS militants in Syria. The young girl had secretly saved up to buy a ticket from London to Istanbul and planned to continue her journey through Turkey and over the border into Syria. It appears it was treated as a missing person's inquiry and she was not arrested. Her family, who had no idea she harboured extremist views, reported her missing and Scotland Yard tracked her down to a passenger jet about to leave Britain. After rushing to Heathrow, officers realised the girl's plane was already taxiing along the runway, so the pilot was ordered to stop and the girl taken home. It later emerged that a second British 15-year-old girl was not spotted on board and was able to continue her journey to join the Islamic State in Syria. A United Nations official says one of the two Austrian girls who fled their middle class homes in Vienna earlier this year to fight in Syria has definitely died in the conflict. The two Viennese girls, Samra Kesinovic, 17, and 15-year-old Sabina Selimovic, whose parents are Bosnian refugees, disappeared in April after saying that they wanted to fight in Syria. They first went to the Turkish capital Ankara by plane, and then on into the southern Turkish region of Adana. After that, their tracks were lost. But they appeared on social networking sites branding Kalashnikov rifles and surrounded by armed men - photos which Austrian police said acted as recruitment posters for young girls. The teens appeared on social networking sites branding Kalashnikov rifles and surrounded by armed men . The two Viennese girls, Samra Kesinovic (left), 16, and 15-year-old Sabina Selimovic (right), whose parents are Bosnian refugees, disappeared in April after saying that they wanted to fight in Syria . David Scharia, a senior Israeli expert of the United Nations Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTED) said: 'We received information just recently about two 15-year-old girls, of Bosnian origin, who left Austria, where they had been living in recent years; and everyone, the families and the intelligence services of the two countries, is looking for them. He added: 'Both were recruited by Islamic State. One was killed in the fighting in Syria, the other has disappeared.' His confirmation comes three months after the Austrian government said it had informed both sets of parents of the girls that one of them might have been killed.", "Islamic State fanatics claim to have constructed a dirty bomb after stealing 40kg of uranium from an Iraqi university. Militants boasted of the device on social media, with one even commenting on the destruction such a bomb would wreak in London, four months after the chemical was reported missing from Mosul University. Among extremists making online threats to the West is British explosives expert Hamayun Tariq, who fled his home in Dudley, West Midlands, for the Middle East in 2012. Scroll down for video . IS fanatics have boasted of a dirty bomb they say has been made using 40kg of uranium stolen from Mosul University, northern Iraq (pictured), in July when extremists took hold of the city . Using the Muslim name, Muslim-al-Britani, he posted on Twitter: 'O by the way Islamic State does have a Dirty bomb. We found some Radio active material from Mosul university,' the Mirror reports. He continued: 'We’ll find out what dirty bombs are and what they do. We’ll also discuss what might happen if one actually went off in a public area. 'This sort of a bomb would be terribly destructive if went off In LONDON becuz (sic) it would be more of a disruptive than a destructive weapon,' before having his Twitter account suspended. Other jihadis echoed the claims a destructive 'dirty bomb' had been made, with one writing: ' 'IS has confirmed that we have acquired a dirty bomb from radioactive material from Mosul Uni! Mashallah #IS'. Jihadis boasted of the device on Twitter. British-born Hamayun Tariq, who uses the Muslim name Muslim Al-Britani is thought to have threatened that the bomb may be detonated in London, though his account on the social media site has since been suspended . In July nearly 40kg of uranium stored for scientific research went missing from Mosul University in northern Iraq. In a letter to the United Nations, Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim told Ban Ki-moon 'Terrorist groups have seized control of nuclear material at the sites that came out of the control of the state,' adding such materials 'can be used in manufacturing weapons of mass destruction.' 'These nuclear materials, despite the limited amounts mentioned, can enable terrorist groups, with the availability of the required expertise, to use it separate or in combination with other materials in its terrorist acts.' Yesterday, as news the uranium had been used to construct a bomb, one jihadi taunted Iraq's reported plans to retake control of Mosul. Tariq claims to have been contacted by the terror group (pictured in northern Syria) from his Pakistani home . Extremists are thought to have paid for him to travel to Syria where they operate in large numbers . 'Plan to retake Mosul from ISIS emerges, haha! Little do they know the resources of #IS! Good luck!' they wrote. Earlier this year, Tariq claimed to have had his passport cancelled by the Home Office after travelling to the Middle East. The former car mechanic fled to Pakistan almost immediately after being released from prison in 2012. After pledging his allegiance to the Taliban, he claimed to have been recruited by IS fighters who paid for him to travel to Syria to join them. The Home Office would not speak to Tariq's claims, saying it did not comment on individual cases.", "Prime Minister Tony Abbott has called on moderate Muslims to stand up to local extremists, warning the community shouldn't be complacent against a possible 'mass casualty event'. Mr Abbott is meeting community leaders in Sydney on Monday and in Melbourne later in the week, to try to sell sweeping new anti-terror powers aimed at stopping Australian militants fighting overseas. The government is facing a backlash from Islamic groups, who fear they will be unfairly targeted by the new laws. Mr Abbott says Australia faces a serious threat from radicals who travel overseas to fight with terror groups in Syria and Iraq and then become 'militarised and brutalised' by the experience. Scroll down for video . Mr Abbott says everyone should put the people and the values of Australia first . Australian jihadists have recently captured headlines for their actions overseas, including convicted terrorist Khaled Sharrouf (right) Addressing a 'multicultural media conference' in Sydney's inner-west, Mr Abbott said the laws were not about protecting 'one group of Australians from another group of Australians', in an apparent reference to concerns from the Muslim community. He said it was in the 'absolute interests' of every community to 'expose and to counter any potential for home-grown terrorism'. 'Because if there is one thing that could damage the rich and strong social fabric of our country, it would be a mass casualty event,' he told the forum. Mr Abbott is concerned that the 150 Australians involved in conflicts in Syria and Iraq may bring their radicalised view of Islam back to Australia. 'The last thing we should be is complacent about this,' Mr Abbott said. 'We've been successful up until now in identifying and preventing potential terrorism. 'I pray to God that we continue to be successful in this very important (area).' Australian terrorist Khaled Sharrouf last week posted this picture of his son brandishing a severed head on Twitter . On the threat of terrorism: 'We do have to be vigilant against it - and my position is that everyone has got to be on Team Australia.' Reporters from AAP, Fairfax Media and the ABC were prevented from attending the event and were told that it was intended for 'multicultural media'. Mr Abbott earlier urged moderate Muslims to join the 'Team Australia' fight against locally-bred extremists. 'What we need to do is to encourage the moderate mainstream to speak out,' he told Macquarie Radio. 'We do have to be vigilant against it - and my position is that everyone has got to be on Team Australia. 'Everyone has got to put this country, its interest and its values and its people first.' He was also asked about reports that shops in Sydney's southwest were flying Islamic State flags despite the group being listed as a terrorist organisation. 'I don't know what the legal position is, but frankly, the only flag that should be flying is the Australian national flag,' he said. 'If people want to fly other flags - a corporate flag for instance - fine, but the Australian national flag should always be part of it.'", "A radical British Islamist who stabbed a football fan in the head with a pen and skipped bail to join ISIS has uploaded a new photograph showing him posing with a notorious German jihadi in Syria. Abu Rahin Aziz, 33, from Luton, fled the UK before he was handed a 36-week jail sentence in absence for attacking a football fan in London's West End. Since joining ISIS he has spent much of his time of social media posting provocative message aimed at his largely Western audience - including threatening MPs at the coming general election and attempting to justify the brutal burning to death of murdered Jordanian pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh. Now he uploaded a photograph showing him posing arm in arm with notorious German jihadi Denis Cuspert, who had been a relatively successful rapper under the name Deso Dogg before trading in his faux-gangster lifestyle to wage jihad on behalf of the Islamic State terrorist group. Militants: Abu Rahin Aziz, 33, from Luton has uploaded a photograph showing him posing arm in arm with notorious German rapper turned jihadi Denis Cuspert, 39 (right) Aziz, an ex office worker from Luton, previously told his followers on Twitter that he 'stabbed a kafir [non-believer] in the back of a head [sic] with a pen in London for insulting the Prophet Mohammed.' Threats: Abu Rahin Aziz, pictured in Syria, told his Twitter followers to attack MPs and servicemen . Last year he was sentenced to 36 weeks for the offence - but by the time the case came to court, he had already skipped bail and travelled to Syria to fight for ISIS. Aziz, 33, who tweets under the name 'Abu Adbullah Britani', is an associate of hate cleric Anjem Choudary who was once a member of radical group 'Muslims Against Crusaders'. Although his Twitter pages have been repeatedly removed thanks to the Anonymous cyber activist group's #OPISIS campaign targeting jihadi social media users, Aziz repeatedly sets up new accounts, which he users to taunt the West. In January Aziz contemplated on Twitter which method he would use to destroy his British passport, confirming his intention not to return to the UK. He wrote: 'Still deciding to what to do with my British passport, could burn it, flush it down the toilet.' Also in January, Aziz used Twitter to incite violence from jihadis who are still living in the West. 'Muslims in the West given instructions to strike the enemies of Islam and Muslims within their own countries,' Aziz wrote. 'Wonder who will strike first? 'Could it be UK first to be attacked? They've attacked us with jets killing scores, plus they have many Muslims in prison as war on Islam. 'Maybe sit and wait outside TA offices? Maybe some other interests, maybe an MP. Hmm interesting. UK can blame foreign policy.' Jihadi: Aziz has posted several photos of himself on Twitter dressed in military clothes and holding a rifle . In another message, Aziz wrote: 'A call upon Muslims in Europe to carry out attacks whether by explosive devices, bullets, car, rocks or even stones.' A separate tweet made a reference to British aid worker Alan Henning, who was beheaded by ISIS' executioner-in-chief, Mohammed Emwazi - also known as 'Jihadi John' - in October last year. 'All kufar [non-Muslims] even if they were good i.e. Alan Henning, Mother Theresa will burn in hell because they died upon disbelief,' Aziz wrote. Aziz's latest tweets showed him posing with German rapper turned jihadi, Denis Cuspert. The 39-year-old, who now calls himself Abu Talha al-Amani, embraced radical Islam and travelled to Syria to fight with militants before becoming the group's main propagandist. In February it was revealed that the militant - who has starred in several grisly beheading videos for the Islamic State - was being spied on for the FBI by a Syrian woman he thought was his wife. The jihadist also posted a photograph of himself and Dr Mirza Tariq Ali, 38, on Twitter which was captioned: 'This is us breaking our bail conditions being together in UK.' Ali, a former NHS surgeon, fled the UK in 2013 . The spy transmitted critical information about the rapper and his ISIS colleagues before escaping to Turkey - where she was arrested and then turned over to the US, according to the German newspaper Bild. The paper said German and American intelligence sources confirmed the existence of the operation, Fox News reports. The unidentified woman fled Syria after her handlers told her it was no longer safe to continue the mission as militants had began to hunt and flush out infiltrators. She is now thought to be in the US. German newspaper Bild believe Cuspert may have been targeted for the operation because of his womanising past. In Germany he fathered three children by three different women, including one who he dumped just before embarking on his career as an ISIS poster boy. Cuspert arrived in Syria in 2013 from a so-called German jihadi colony in Egypt. German rapper Denis Cuspert is the best known of the three known rappers to have joined the Islamic State . Radical: Known on stage as Deso Dogg, the wannabe gangster (left) traded in his failing career to embrace the extremist group's radical brand of Islam . Rapping jihadis: Emino is no trendsetter - at least three other failed rappers - including Germany's Deso Gogg (left) and America's Douglas McAuthur McCain (right)  have joined ISIS in recent years . Last month the US added rapper Cuspert to its list of 'global terrorists' - freezing all his assets under US control and prohibiting any transactions with him in the future. The State Department said: 'Cuspert is emblematic of the type of foreign recruit ISIL seeks for its ranks -– individuals who have engaged in criminal activity in their home countries who then travel to Iraq and Syria to commit far worse crimes against the people of those countries.' Last November, Cuspert was compared to Nazi Minister for Propaganda Joseph Goebbels for his ability to appeal to young, disillusioned people in Europe while providing an alternative ideology. He spent several years as a major player in the Berlin hip hop scene under the name 'Deso Dogg' before embracing radical Islam. He has been known to oversee the group's sophisticated media operation and is reportedly using British fighters in an attempt to attract even more of their countrymen to the war-torn region. It is understood he leads a unit of German-speaking ISIS terrorists operating under the name 'The German Brigade of Millatu Ibrahim'." ]

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[ "Osteonecrosis of the jaws is a rare but serious complication that can be difficult to manage and may result in significant morbidity to the patient, including severe pain and loss of large portions of the mandible and/or maxilla. Osteonecrosis can have many etiologies and maybe multifactorial in nature. Osteonecrosis is defined by the exposure of mandibular or maxillary bone through lesions in the gingiva that do not heal. 1 Osteonecrosis can result secondary to necrotizing forms of gingival and periodontal disease, infections, such as osteomyelitis and sinusitis of both bacterial and fungal origins, malignancies, radiation, and medications used in the treatment of malignancies and other bone disorders. Of practical concern to the primary care physician and are 2 forms of osteonecrosis that every physician should be aware off, able to predict, possibly prevent, and aid in management of; these are osteoradionecrosis and bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaws." ]

[ "Bisphosphonates (BPs) have been used for the management of bone metabolic diseases. Currently their therapeutic use has increased, as also have their adverse effects, one of the most important being the bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (BRONJ), a complication of difficult treatment and solution. Until now, the physiopathology of BRONJ remains unclear, and its treatment is uncertain. Although the literature provides several treatment options, there is no defined protocol. We present a review about BRONJ, focusing on its pathogenesis and its reported forms of treatment.", "Ludwig's angina is a life-threatening cellulitis that involves the submandibular and sublingual spaces. It often occurs after an infection of the roots of the teeth. However, modern dental care and use of antibiotics for oral infections have made Ludwig's angina rare. We present here a cancer patient exhibiting the sequential features of bisphosphonate related osteonecrosis of the jaw on bone scan complicating with Ludwig's angina. This report highlights the need for medical practitioners to be alert to these rare combinations in the compromised patient after bisphosphonate therapy. To the best of our knowledge, no case of Ludwig's angina secondary to osteonecrosis of the jaw has been reported.", "CMS has unveiled its Open Payments website, revealing gifts to physicians. Here's what you need to know about the site and its information.", "Received: 05/06/2008 Accepted: 06/07/2008 Kyrgidis A, Vahtsevanos K. Novel evidence on bisphosphonate related osteochemonecrosis of the jaws suggests tooth extractions and overdentures as risk factors. Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bucal. 2009 Jan 1;14 (1):E1-2. © Medicina Oral S. L. C.I.F. B 96689336 ISSN 1698-6946 http://www.medicinaoral.com/medoralfree01/v14i1/medoralv14i1p1.pdf Indexed in: -Index Medicus / MEDLINE / PubMed -EMBASE, Excerpta Medica -SCOPUS -Indice Medico Espanol -IBECS", "The historical approach to physician compensation doesn't work in today's practice environment. Discover why, and what needs to be factored in.", "A brief review of the methodology of selective external carotid arteriography is presented together with its risks, complications, and contraindications. The indications for this procedure are described with illustrative case material to demonstrate its usefulness in both diagnosis and preoperative evaluation of various types of lesions of the head and neck that may be encountered in the practice of oral and maxillofacial surgery.", "Objectives ::: Bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (BP-ONJ) occurs in 1 % of patients with medication-induced osteoporosis treated with bisphosphonates. Sheep are an established large animal model for investigating osteoporotic skeletal changes. Zoledronate significantly reduces tissue mineral variability in ovariectomized sheep. The aim of this study was to analyze bone healing after tooth extraction in sheep with induced osteopenia and zoledronate administration.", "OBJECTIVE ::: The authors present the guidelines of the French Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and Head and Neck Surgery (SFORL) on patient information ahead of thyroid surgery. ::: ::: ::: METHODS ::: A multidisciplinary medical team was tasked with a scientific literature review on this topic. The texts retrieved were analyzed by an independent committee. A joint meeting drew up the final guidelines. The strength of the recommendations (grade A, B or C) was based on levels of evidence. ::: ::: ::: RESULTS ::: It is recommended that the results of preoperative exploration and the indications for surgery should be explained to the patient. Patients should be informed as to the type of surgery, surgical objectives, risks and consequences. It is mandatory to obtain the patient's written consent before surgery. ::: ::: ::: CONCLUSION ::: Appropriate medical information is a critical step in patient management.", "IDSs that have faced financial difficulties as a result of owning physician practices need to assess whether employing physicians remains the best way to maintain effective relationships with the physicians. IDSs should evaluate each owned physician practice individually, asking a series of specific questions. First the IDSs should assess the value of the physician practice to the organization to determine whether a future relationship is desirable. If so, the IDS should determine whether the relationship needs to be formally established. If the relationship is likely to remain productive whether or not it is formal, the IDS should consider divesting the practice. If, however, a formal business relationship is required, the IDS needs to decide whether employment is preferable to an alternative approach, such as involving physicians in joint ventures or equity relationships.", "Profiling is a technique that large, multispecialty group practices, like many insurers, can use to monitor and improve quality and efficiency. Groups can examine physician performance by calculating ratios of medical inputs to patient or population outputs. Physician control can help to achieve balance between clinical benefits and economic considerations. Profiles need to reflect a group's multiple missions, such as clinical care, research, and education; philosophy of care; and organizational ethos regarding physician compensation systems. Groups may need to customize standard approaches because of their emphasis on early utilization of specialists and the atypical case mixes often found in referral practices.", "Bornholm disease (or ‘devil's grip’) is a rare but highly contagious viral infection that begins with sudden, severe and intermittent pleuritic pain. Debbie Duncan explains what practice nurses need to know", "This chapter provides an overview of the collection and reporting of specimens. In all routine laboratories the quality of the specimen has an effect on the tests that are performed and their results. It is essential that physicians know what specimens to send for a particular investigation, what container should be used and how quickly it should be delivered to the laboratory. On the other hand, it is equally important that the laboratory help the physician in these matters. Hospitals vary with the way in which specimens are collected from the wards. After the specimen has been processed in the laboratory, it is essential that the information obtained be conveyed to the physician. Reporting systems vary from hospital to hospital and no universal reporting system would necessarily be accepted by everyone. Cumulative reporting, if carried out correctly, is probably the most helpful way both to laboratory and physician.", "Normal anatomy bone trauma miscellaneous conditions including avascular necrosis and osteochondritis infections of bone diseases of joints bone tumours bone changes in reticuloses and haemopoietic disorders endocrine and metabolic disease congenital abnormalities.", "Osteopetrosis is a rare hereditary bone disease characterized by osteoclasts malfunction and impaired bone resorption. Decreased vascularity of bone as well as compromised immune system may result in oral and maxillofacial complications. Osteomyelitis is life-threatening problem in these patients usually associated with dental caries or abscess. Dental practitioners could play a crucial role in early diagnosis of osteomyelitis and avoid inappropriate treatments and further complications.", "As a psychologist and a Muslim, I have often been asked to theorize about urban Africa for various Muslim organizations that are planning development and human services programs. I am intrigued and enriched by African cities though I don't have many theories about what is going on. Frequently what the organizations want to know and what it takes for me to get by are entirely different matters. The organizations want to know how Islamic practice is maintained in urban Africa. I often need to know how a \"good\" Muslim can help get me out of difficult situations fast.", "Dental clinicians are confronted with an increasing number of medically compromised patients who require implant surgery for their oral rehabilitation. However, there are few guidelines on dental implant therapy in this patient category, so that numerous issues regarding pre- and post-operative management remain unclear to the dental clinician. Therefore, the aim of the present review is to offer a critical evaluation of the literature and to provide the clinician with scientifically based data for implant therapy in the medically compromised patient. This review presents the current knowledge regarding the influence of the most common systemic and local diseases on the outcome of dental implant therapy, e.g., abnormalities in bone metabolism, diabetes mellitus, xerostomia, and ectodermal dysplasias. Specific pathophysiologic aspects of the above-mentioned diseases as well as their potential implications for implant success are critically appraised. In line with these implications, guidelines for pre- and...", "This guide shows you what you need to know about using Zotero as a powerful citation management tool.", "Training managers to train presents you with what you need to know to begin the training process. You will learn how to identify your training needs through determine and defining what task is part of the work, and than preparing a training plan. Then you will decide how to carry out training presentation and how to evaluate its effectiveness Coverage includes- To present practical tips for planning training programs for managers To show how to define a job To explain training methods To discuss follow-up of training Assessing Your Progress", "Osteoradionecrosis (ORN) of the mandible is a severe complication that follows ionizing radiation therapy in patients undergoing treatment for head and neck cancers. The occurrence of ORN usually implies other coexisting problems and should not be thought of as a \"bone only\" defect. For treatment to be effective, all tissues involved must be addressed.", "Whether pride, necessity, or inattention is at the root, some \"slowly boiling\" physicians find themselves working harder for fewer compensations of all sorts, and may not be fully cognizant of their circumstances. This article helps to diagnose and manage the health of physicians' practices and/or related enterprises. There are five levels of enterprise health, ranging from success (S-1) to shutdown (S-5), that serve as weather vanes about how the enterprise is adapting to changes in its environment. How should physicians respond to chaos and the threats of deteriorating enterprise health? A five-step approach is offered: (1) Discern what is important; (2) place and keep your program in alignment with those patient interests that will enhance your enterprise viability; (3) keep score with an internal balanced scorecard; (4) manage and shepherd your resources in a manner that demonstrably adds value to patient care; and (5) know the score and use it.", "Contributors. Preface. Chapter 1 Patient Evaluation and Medical History. (Dr. R. Thane Hales). Chapter 2 Surgical Extractions. (Dr. Hussam S. Batal and Dr. Greg Jacob). Chapter 3 Surgical Management of Impacted Third Molar Teeth. (Dr. Pushkar Mehra and Dr. Shant Baran). Chapter 4 Pre-Prosthetic Oral Surgery. (Dr. Ruben Figueroa and Dr. Abhishek Mogre). Chapter 5 Conservative Surgical Crown Lengthening. (Dr. George M. Bailey). Chapter 6 Endodontic Periradicular Microsurgery. (Dr. Louay Abrass). Chapter 7 The Evaluation and Treatment of Oral Lesions. (Dr. Joseph D. Christensen and Dr. Karl R. Koerner). Chapter 8 Anxiolysis for Oral Surgery and Other Dental Procedures. (Dr. Fred Quarnstrom). Chapter 9 Infections and Antibiotic Administration. (Dr. Thane Hales). Chapter 10 Management of Perioperative Bleeding. (Dr. Karl R. Koerner and Dr. William L. McBee). Chapter 11 Third World Volunteer Dentistry. (Dr. Richard C. Smith). Index.", "Rhinologic and oral maxillofacial complications from scuba diving are common, representing approximately 35% of head and neck pathology related to diving. We performed a systematic and comprehensive literature review on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of rhinologic and oral maxillofacial pathology related to diving. This included complications due to sinus barotrauma, barodontalgia, odontocrexis, temporomandibular joint dysfunction, partially dentulous patients, and considerations for patients following major head and neck surgery. Of 113 papers accessed, 32 were included in the final synthesis. We created a succinct summary on each topic that should inform clinical decision making by otolaryngologists, dive medicine specialists and primary care providers when faced with pathology of these anatomic sub-sites.", "This study examines the historical bases of what physicians ought to do as well as what they actually have done with regard to the treatment of diseases such as AIDS, which put them at risk for their lives. The earliest explicit statement of what ought to be done goes back only to 1847, when the American Medical Association was founded. However, this statement conflicts with a 75-year-old assertion that physicians have a right to choose whom they will serve. The conflict is compounded by the suspicion that both stated principles were based, at least in part, on socioeconomic considerations rather than moral imperatives. Of what physicians have actually done over the last 2,400 years, little more can definitely be said than that many have not tried to escape mortal risk while others have done so. Thus it is difficult to employ history as a basis for claiming that physicians have an obligation to treat AIDS.", "This report illustrates the spread of odontogenic infection to the orbit and the usefulness of the CT scan for the differential diagnosis of periorbital vs orbital cellulitis and abscess. It shows the necessity for close follow-up of patients with odontogenic infection so that life-endangering complications may be treated promptly. Finally, this patient illustrates the fact that, in some cases, a dental infection may be so virulent that drainage through the tooth and antibiotics do not provide control. Tooth removal and prompt incision and drainage are required for adequate treatment.", "A number of provider and patient barriers contribute to the underrecognition and undertreatment of osteoporosis. This article guides primary care providers through the assessment of at-risk patients and reviews the criteria for a diagnosis of osteoporosis. Preventive approaches and clinical decision-making surrounding treatment initiation are also reviewed. Finally, strategies to improve patient compliance and persistence with therapy are discussed. Available guidelines and recommendations are emphasized throughout.", "Anatomical and histological considerations biopsy and cytology inflammatory diseases and non-specific granulomas mycotic diseases Wegener's granuloma and pemphigoid polyps and oedema cysts and pseudocysts squamous cell papilloma invasive squamous cell carcinoma large cell carcinomas benign and malignant glandular tumours fibrous tissue tumours muscular tumours adipose tissue and synovial tumours lymphoreticular tumours laryngeal manifestations of systemic non-neoplastic diseases.", "On the basis of the practical experience of campus network project, author of this thesis puts forward a series of proposals as regards the construction of network, which cover questions such as how to plan the network, how to make the network model, and what network know-how are needed for the purposes.", "Abstract 1. 1. There is a postextraction pain syndrome in dentistry which should be recognized, and for which the classification of causalgia is justified. 2. 2. There are more patients who are victims of causalgia than heretofore has been assumed. 3. 3. Causalgia in dentistry has been confused with other neuralgias. 4. 4. The word causalgia deserves a place in dental nomenclature. 5. 5. Prevention is the surest treatment for causalgia. 6. 6. The patient who has a tooth to be extracted should be given at least as much attention as the tooth which he has. 7. 7. This is a preliminary study. All sources have not been consulted as yet. Consultation should be had with dentists and physicians who have had experience with oral causalgia. Reports, suggestions, and criticisms will be welcome.", "Osteoradionecrosis (ORN) is a serious condition following treatment for head and neck cancer with serious associated morbidity and mortality. While the use of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) in treating established osteoradionecrosis has been standard practice in many units for years, the evidence base for this remains remarkably weak. The published evidence has been made even more controversial by trial protocols that do not use HBO as it is generally advocated. This review describes the classification, incidence, and treatment of ORN, and explores the available published evidence with particular emphasis on randomised trials of treatment with HBO.", "In spite of advances in radiation therapy of malignant tumours, osteoradionecrosis cannot always be prevented. This form of therapy causes problems particularly in reconstruction of the mandible. Seven cases are presented, and the advantages of microsurgically revascularized tissue transfer (over other methods of treatment) are pointed out and discussed.", "Abstract : Contents: Historical Perspective; Treatment Goals; Anatomic Illustrations; Early Care; Triage and Patient Evaluation; Hypovolemic Shock Presurgical Considerations; Surgical Management; Care at Intermediate Facilities, Late Care (Reconstruction-Rehabilitation); Bone Graft Reconstruction; Preprosthetic Surgery; Case Reports; and Research in Acquired Craniofacial Disfigurement.", "To what degree should compliance with clinical practice guidelines protect you from a malpractice charge? And will physicians who are offered such protection practice less defensively, and thus less expensively? As guidelines proliferate, answers are emerging." ]

[ "Based on the Theis equation, increasing the transmissivity will increase the radius of influence and decrease the total drawdown. Drawdown is directly proportional to the pumping rate and inversely proportional to aquifer transmissivity and storativity.\n\n$$s = \\frac{Q}{4T\\pi}\\int_u^\\infty \\frac{e^{-y}}y dy$$\nand $$u = \\frac{r^{2}s}{4Tt}$$\nWhere s is drawdown, r is radius from well, t is time, T is transmissivity, Q is pumping rate, and u is the well function.\n\nApplying this equation, you can produce plots like this:\n\nfor these plots, I used Q = 500, S = 0.01, and t = 4" ]

[ "In an unconfined aquifer the 'storage' is that fraction of the saturated void space that can be drained. In a confined aquifer, what you are effectively measuring is the compressibility of the aquifer - that is, the water released by depressurizing the aquifer per unit head. They are really two different things. \nIn an unconfined aquifer, the water that is drained comes from a narrow cone of depression. In a confined aquifer, although the numerical storativity is very much less, the cone of depression extends very much further because it is a general pressure release which propagates far into the aquifer, in all directions, so the yield can still be very high.", "I have the same problem, but I solve in this way:\n\n1- Mask the raster\n2- Use hydrology/fill\n3- use Flow direction\n\nDone!", "The field line emerging through flat surface of the cone contribute to the flux through the cone. Some field lines pass just along the curved surface, but some, pass from the empty interior of the cone. The flux is actually due to flux emerging from the base of the cone. So the fraction of flux through cone will be solid angle subtended by vertex of cone divided by total solid angle($=4\\pi$)", "I'm confused about your misunderstanding as the answer to your question is in the Wikipedia link you posted:\n\n\n Regions receive a two-digit code. The following levels are designated\n by the addition of another two digits.[8] The hierarchy was designed\n and the units subdivided so that almost all the subbasins (formerly\n called cataloging units) are larger than 700 square miles (1,800 km2).\n Larger closed basins were subdivided until their subunits were less\n than 700 square miles.[7] The 10-digit watersheds were delineated to\n be between 40,000 and 250,000 acres in size, and the 12-digit\n subwatersheds between 10,000 and 40,000 acres.[6] In addition to the\n hydrologic unit codes, each hydrologic unit was assigned a name\n corresponding to the unit's principal hydrologic feature or to a\n cultural or political feature within the unit.[7]\n\n\nSo, once you are outside of the 2 digit regions, HUC boundaries (or dividing/outlet points along a continuous stream) that separate an upstream watershed from one a downstream one (that should incorporate the upstream HUC using the classic definition of a watershed) are set to evenly divide up the larger (or containing) HUC.", "I must admit that I was not well informed on the matter of offshore aquifers before reading this thread. Usually when I think about the hydrologic models I think of the water as a dynamic component of a system (snow, streams, moisture, glaciers) and not necessarily old water pockets somewhat trapped deep (and at the moment with no know perceptible input/ouput in the system). In line with those classical hydrologic cycle model.\n\nI searched a bit and found this paper on physorg.org which led me to other reads on the matter.\n\nApparently there is substantial offshore freshwater aquifers, trapped undersea. Water from Pleistocene, which probably got trapped during the glaciations, while the mean sea level was much lower. When the ice sheet (ex: Laurentidian) receded, sea level rose and freshwater in charged aquifers would be somewhat trapped and sealed. Multiple glaciation during the Pleistocene would have enabled the process to cycle multiple time during the last 2.5 M year.\n\nAnd yes - the related paper in Nature specify that some of those 30 inventoried undersea aquifers have an onshore connection (Perth among others is listed there).\n\nThis is pretty interesting but in my opinion there is not a ton of paper on the question. Yet I will keep this part of this (paleo!) hydrologic cycle in mind when such questions and discussions arise in the future.", "If you are interested into some global soil moisture products, I'd advice to see what is doing the research group lead by Wolfgang Wagner in TUWien, which is a world-leading research group in soil moisture products from remote sensing. This page is a gateway for 3 different products:\n\n\nMetop ASCAT Soil Moisture\nESA CCI Soil Moisture\n\n\nThe ESA-CCI soil moisture product (daily global soil moisture data) can be downloaded from this page after completing a form.\n\n\nASAR 1km Surface Soil Moisture\n\n\nIf you want to know how soil moisture can be retrieved from remote sensing, it is actually a quite long process and it depends a lot of what you are interested in (passive vs active sensors, time &amp; spatial resolution, depth of characterization). I'd suggest the following review article, although many other are available: \n\n\nWagner, W., Blöschl, G., Pampaloni, P., Calvet, J. C., Bizzarri, B., Wigneron, J. P., &amp; Kerr, Y. (2007). Operational readiness of microwave remote sensing of soil moisture for hydrologic applications. Hydrology Research, 38(1), 1-20.\n\n\nNote: I'm not involved at all in the Wagner research group. Other research group worldwide and publications are surely worth considering.", "This methodology won't work. Haude's method only gives a rough estimate of evaporation. Consider the hydrologic cycle: Rainfall = evaporation (or evapotranspiration) + runoff + surface detention + soil moisture storage + infiltration +/- interbasin transfer. It sounds like you don't have nearly enough data to estimate the aquifer recharge.", "This is a broad question, the best way to compare the models is to go through the manuals and compare the process algorithms to see how the various hydrologic processes are handled. There are other considerations as well, including:\n\n\nwhat environment/watershed are you modelling? How large, how urbanized, what type of soils/environment/precipitation vs evapotranspiration, how important are snow processes, etc., and compare that to what the models were made for\nwhat is the purpose of your modelling? Your choice of model will be different if you are looking at water balance vs flood forecasting vs water quality estimates\nwhat data do you have available? Some models are more intensive with data requirements than others, and if you only have daily precipitation and temperature (as is typical) than that will restrict some model types\nwhat level of accuracy do you need? The timestep options in the models will make a difference\n\n\nThat being said, generally my understanding from a broad perspective is that:\n- HSPF is a more detailed hydrologic model with larger data requirements for input forcings, and has also a more comprehensive process library with respect to water quality\n- SWAT as you said was developed for agricultural regions, has less strict data requirements and also some ability to model water quality parameters (though less detailed than HSPF)\n\nDepending on the purpose of your modelling, you may want to consider:\n\n\nstarting with a simpler model, such as GR4J, just to get the ball rolling before investing more time into complex models, particularly if just need simple answers from the model\nusing a flexible model where the processes can be modified on the fly and you are not committed to a particular set of algorithms when you choose the modelling framework, e.g. the Raven hydrologic modelling framework\n\n\nHope that helps!", "I presume you mean loose vs cartridge bearings.\nThey are both sealed. High grade shimano hubs are actually pretty well sealed.\nI can see cone nuts in that picture, so its loose bearings.", "Short vs long timeout expresses preference for LACPDU timeout - it's not negotiated. Each side sends LACPDUs according to its partner's timeout preference.\nSee 802.1AX Clause 6.4.1:\n\nd) Periodic transmission of LACPDUs occurs if the LACP_Activity\ncontrol of either the Actor or the Partner is Active LACP. These\nperiodic transmissions will occur at either a slow or fast\ntransmission rate depending upon the expressed LACP_Timeout preference\n(Long Timeout or Short Timeout) of the Partner System.", "To my mind, there are several reasons why this isn't the standard procedure. One reason is that Likert-type items are ordinal data, which means that standard statistical methods such as linear regression and t-tests shouldn't be used. Instead, non-parametric tests need to be used, and those generally confer lower statistical power. In contrast, a scale score (the sum of several Likert-type items) is per convention handled as interval data, which means that those standard methods can be used.\nAnother reason is that this might increase the probability of false positives. If a scale used to measure depression has 17 items and the significance level is set to p &lt; 0.05, there is a 1 - 0.95^17 = 58 percent chance of at least one false &quot;significant&quot; association between the test group (treatment vs. no treatment) and an item from the scale.\nFurthermore, the idea (which is questionable) is that there exists an underlying pathological &quot;depression process&quot; in the brain, which is expressed through different symptoms such as depressed mood, sleep disturbances, loss of interest etc. This is the medical model, and it is analogous to, for instance, pneumonia, in which there is a pathological infectious/inflammatory process in the body caused by bacteria, and giving rise to symptoms such as coughing, fever, etc. From this theoretical point of view, it makes more sense to assess the total score of the depression scales, which is thought to represent the &quot;latent variable&quot; that is the &quot;depression process&quot;, rather than just one of the isolated symptoms.\nHowever, there are examples in the literature of the approach you suggest. Below is one example of a meta-analysis of some trials of SSRI for depression. The study is not without flaws in my opinion, so the results should be interpreted with care, but it is an example of the idea you had.\nInfluence of baseline severity on the effects of SSRIs in depression: an item-based, patient-level post-hoc analysis", "Most likely this refers to the number of gears.\n\nThe phrase \"standard shift\" nowadays refers to the type of transmission: manual transmission or automatic transmission according to which is considered \"standard\" in a given context (e.g. manual is generally more common in Europe, automatic in the United States). However, automatic transmission was only developed in 1921, one year before the setting of The Great Gatsby, and didn't start being used in cars until the 1930s. From Wikipedia:\n\n\n The automatic transmission was invented in 1921 by Alfred Horner Munro of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada [...]. Being a steam engineer, Munro designed his device to use compressed air rather than hydraulic fluid, and so it lacked power and never found commercial application.[1] The first automatic transmission using hydraulic fluid may have been developed in 1932 by two Brazilian engineers, José Braz Araripe and Fernando Lehly Lemos; subsequently the prototype and plans were sold to General Motors who introduced it in the 1940 Oldsmobile as the \"Hydra-Matic\" transmission.[2]\n\n\nClearly this phrase in The Great Gatsby doesn't refer to manual vs automatic transmission, because automatic transmission in cars simply wasn't a thing back then. So what does it mean?\n\nWell, one thing which was changing in car gear systems even before the introduction of manual transmission was the number of different gears. From Wikipedia:\n\n\n Until the mid-1950s (earlier in Europe and later in the US, on average) vehicles were generally equipped with 3-speed transmissions as standard equipment. 4-speed units began to appear on volume-production models in the 1930s (Europe) and 1950s (USA) and gained popularity in the 1960s; some exotics had 5-speeds.\n\n\nWhat this paragraph doesn't mention is that 4-speed transmission was already a thing even in the 1920s on some very high-end luxury cars. In particular, the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, said to be \"the best car in the world\", was manufactured as a 4-speed transmission from 1913 to 1926, while almost all other cars were still 3-speed transmissions. (This is comparable to the modern Porsche 991 starting with 7-speed transmission which most of us have never seen.)\n\nGatsby's car, although its make isn't specified in the novel, is certainly high-end luxury and quite possibly a Rolls-Royce. Hence the question of whether the car's gearstick is standard shift (3-speed transmission) or the new alternative (4-speed transmission). This fits with Peter Shor's observation in a comment that, in context, the alternative to standard shift seemed to be harder than standard shift.", "There is pyTectnonics which should let you do your modelling for the plates and there are several python based hydrology GIS systems about you could possibly integrate them with the Blender Physics engine.\n\n\nAble to model plate tectonics for non-earth worlds\nDitto hydrology\n3D view via blender\nFree &amp; Open Source\nCross platform.", "It's likely the sum of a few factors.\n\nFirstly, although you state \"the same f-stop\", it's important to realise that the manufacturer stated focal length and aperture values are often rounded, and not always in the way you'd expect. It might be the case that the Samyang is f/1.45 in reality, not f/1.4.\n\nThe next factor is vignetting, wide aperture lenses are often darker in the corners due to the entrance pupil being viewed at an angle and thus being partially blocked (look at a toilet roll tube from an angle and you'll see less light gets through). You're cropping the 50mm image, so you're only getting the centre, without the vignetting.\n\nThe third factor is the T-stop (transmission) of the lens. The number of glass/air interfaces and the quality of the coatings determines how much light gets reflected (and thus wasted) on it's way to the sensor. The really expensive Zeiss cinema optics for example have a T-stop almost identical to the F-stop, i.e. very little light is lost. I don't imagine the coatings on the very affordable Samyang lens are quite up to this standard. \n\n\n\nHowever looking at the DXO mark tests the transmission of the Samyang lens is rated as T/1.7 vs. T/1.6 for the Canon. This takes into account both aperture differences and transmission of the lens (but not vignetting). This predicts the Samyang image will be darker, but only by 0.1 stops, which is less than we're seeing here.\n\nI'm afraid in the end the answer could be that your camera might be lying to you with regard to the ISO setting for the Canon lens. It's been widely reported that digital sensors are not able to record the entire light cone from a wide aperture lens, the depth of the pixel well cuts off light from the edge of the aperture, making the lens effectively slower. \n\nTo hide this effect from users some cameras have been shown to increase the real ISO value to give the brightness you'd expect from an f/1.4 lens. Given that the Samyang lens is unknown to your camera this hidden ISO increase is not happening thus you get the real f-stop.\n\nSounds like a conspiracy theory but it's well documented:\nhttp://www.dxomark.com/Reviews/F-stop-blues\n\nThere's also a simple way to prove it, retake the 50mm shot with the lens pins taped (or the lens partially unmounted) so the camera doesn't know what lens is being used.", "I prefer to use the BOM MJO index and the explanation provided over there -\n\n\n When the index is within the centre circle the MJO is considered weak, meaning it is difficult to discern using the RMM methods. Outside of this circle the index is stronger and will usually move in an anti-clockwise direction as the MJO moves from west to east. For convenience, we define 8 different MJO phases in this diagram. \n\n\nSo in your case your signal value is 0.6 and that means it is fairly weak in amplitude as it is inside the circle. You also need to mention the phase of the MJO phase diagram. There are eight phases\n\nPhase 1 &amp; 8 - Western Hemisphere And Africa\n\nPhase 2 &amp; 3 - Indian Ocean\n\nPhase 4 &amp; 5 - Maritime Continent\n\nPhase 6 &amp; 7 - Western Pacific.\n\nCurrently the signal is a weak one as seen in this phase diagram MJO Phase diagram \n\nWhen the MJO signal is strong it's amplitude will be greater than 1 and the contour line will be outside the circle. It should be noted that the MJO is an empircal index consisting of the 850 hPa winds, OLR and 200 hPa winds.\n\nMJO passage through phase 6 and 7 is always of global interest as the impact can be of planetary scale. Usually El Ninos are preceded by Westerly Wind Bursts and the forcing factor can be a MJO passage through phase 6 and 7. \n\nOne can look at the raw data of the signal here - RMM Index text. This provides the amplitude of the signal as well as the phase of the MJO. \n\nAnother version of the same can be seen here - MJO RMM index", "If you assume both hydrostatic and pure geostrophic balance, that is a valid assumption.\n\nIn Einstein notation, $$u_i=-\\frac{1}{f \\rho}\\frac{\\partial P}{\\partial x_j}\\epsilon_{ij3}$$\n\nIf we look at the equation for the streamline:$$u_i=-\\frac{\\partial \\psi}{\\partial x_j}\\epsilon_{ij3}$$, then we can see that \n\n$$-\\frac{\\partial \\psi}{\\partial x_j}\\epsilon_{ij3}=-\\frac{1}{f \\rho}\\frac{\\partial P}{\\partial x_j}\\epsilon_{ij3}$$\n\nwhich simplifies down to $$\\frac{\\partial \\psi}{\\partial x_j}=\\frac{1}{f \\rho}\\frac{\\partial P}{\\partial x_j}$$. Thus, for isochoric (incompressible) geostrophic flow on an f-plane, the streamfunction only depends solely on pressure.", "It’s kind of inaccurately stated—by comparing the SDF with a linearly increasing radius, the shape that’s being traced out is a cone with a hemisphere on the end, something like this:\n\n\n\nAt any point along the horizontal center line, if the distance to the nearest surface is less than the current test radius, the cone-plus-hemisphere has intersected that surface.", "The classic text has long been \"Karst Hydrology and Physical Speleology\" by Alfred Bogli, - which I highly recommend.\n\nKarstic dissolution and precipitation (to form stalactites, helictites, etc.) are basically hydrologic processes in which groundwater seeks to attain thermodynamic equilibrium with the carbonate rocks with which it is in contact. Water flows downhill towards the base-level of erosion - generally sea level. But bear in mind that during the last glaciation sea level was about -120 metres compared to modern sea level. To get very high mountain karst the system has to develop and then be lofted by other tectonic processes of uplift. In the Jebel Akhdar of Oman there are caves up to about 2 km elevation, but I guess that some limestone massifs have been elevated higher than that.", "with perfect run off and if time is not taken into account (instantaneous run off), your sink will be filled when the area of the catchment multiplied by the height of the precipitation is equal to its volume (assuming that there is no run off FROM the sink). So you want the volume of the sink divided by its catchment area. \n\nsee watershed if you need to find the catchment area. I won't tell more otherwise this is no more exercise ;-)", "The length of degree in north-south is about the same so you could use 1/110574 degree/meter as a factor. However, the farther to south or north you go the bigger the error is in east-west direction.\n\nFor example, take these two shapes which have a 1 degree buffer in EPSG:4326 transformed into EPSG:32630 (UTM zone 30N). First one is from 40°N and the second from higher north at 70°N.\n\nSELECT ST_Transform(ST_Buffer(ST_GeomFromText('POINT (-3 40)',4326),1),32630);\nSELECT ST_Transform(ST_Buffer(ST_GeomFromText('POINT (-3 70)',4326),1),32630);\n\n\nDraw them side by side and it is easy to see that in UTM projection the area of the degree buffer is oval and it gets quite narrow at 70°N. The height of both ovals is about 220 km and widths at 40° and 70° are about 170 km and 80 km, respectively. I wouldn't call even the oval at 40°N as somewhat precise. For more accurate results you can use this calculator http://www.csgnetwork.com/degreelenllavcalc.html", "If you can remove the coffee grounds/filter and replace just those, then yes it will be safe from a health perspective. The plastic in the filter \"cone\" should be food safe, though durability may be an eventual concern. The plastic cup base can definitely be reused, as is intended.\n\nAs far as the practicality concerns go, it may be more of a pain than it's worth. The coffee containing part of the filter funnel is going to be pretty well attached, in order to keep it from slipping into the cup below and steeping (like tea) vs. simply having the water run through it. You could probably remove the coffee filter and perch a coffee pod in it's place, but it would not be sealed to the plastic cone, and hot water may run around it without actually percolating through the coffee grounds in the pod.", "Yes. Antidepressants have been around for more than fifty years and are effective in treating depressive disorders. They do absolutely work. \n\n\n I've been seeing occasional studies..\n ..that the[y] primarily work by the\n placebo effect.\n\n\nI think I know where you might be getting this idea..... \n\nSome members of the press and general public are questioning the efficacy of all antidepressants based on the conclusions of a 2010 meta-analysis* in which two antidepressants, Imipramine and Paroxetine, where used in the six studies analyzed. The analysis team concluded the following (emphasis mine): \n\n\n “[E]fforts\n should be made to clarify to\n clinicians and prospective patients\n that whereas [antidepressant\n medication] can have a substantial\n effect with more severe depressions,\n there is little evidence to suggest .\n . . specific pharmacological benefit\n for the majority of patients with less\n severe acute depressions.”\n\n\nMuch of the confusion about the use of these drugs comes from using the term \"depression\" out of a medical context. There is a big difference between feeling depressed for a few days and having a depressive disorder. From the NIMH:\n\n\n When a person has a depressive\n disorder, it interferes with daily\n life, normal functioning, and causes\n pain for both the person with the\n disorder and those who care about him\n or her.\n\n\nSome general forms of depressive disorder (also from the NIMH)...\n\n\n \n Major depressive disorder, also called major depression, is\n characterized by a combination of\n symptoms that interfere with a\n person's ability to work, sleep,\n study, eat, and enjoy once–pleasurable\n activities. Major depression is\n disabling and prevents a person from\n functioning normally.\n Dysthymic disorder, also called dysthymia, is characterized by\n long–term (two years or longer) but\n less severe symptoms that may not\n disable a person but can prevent one\n from functioning normally or feeling\n well.\n Psychotic depression, which occurs when a severe depressive illness is\n accompanied by some form of psychosis,\n such as a break with reality,\n hallucinations, and delusions.\n \n\n\n**Meta-analysis can never follow the rules of science, for example being double-blind, controlled, or proposing a way to falsify the theory in question. It is only a statistical examination of scientific studies, not an actual scientific study, itself.*\n\n\n\n\n Anybody know something definite on\n this?\n\n\nJAMA Psychiatry is a good starting point for researching the research. \n\nSome random supporting research on antidepressants.....\n\n\nLong-term antidepressant efficacy\nand safety of olanzapine/fluoxetine\ncombination: A 76-week open-label\nstudy Conclusions: The\nolanzapine/fluoxetine combination\nshowed rapid, robust, and sustained\nimprovement in depressive symptoms in\npatients with MDD, including patients\nwith TRD.\nTreating Major Depression in Primary\nCare Practice Results:\nSeverity of depressive symptoms was\nreduced more rapidly and more\neffectively among patients randomized\nto pharmacotherapy or psychotherapy\nthan among patients assigned to a\nphysician's usual care.\nCognitive Therapy vs Medications in\nthe Treatment of Moderate to Severe\nDepression Results: The\nadvantage was significant for\nmedication relative to placebo, and\nat the level of a nonsignificant\ntrend for cognitive therapy relative\nto placebo.\nSerotonin Function and the Mechanism\nof Antidepressant Action \nEvidence of the Dual Mechanisms of\nAction of Venlafaxine\n\n\nAntidepressant classifications: \n\n\nSerotonin–norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs)\nSelective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)\nMonoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)\nTricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)", "You could use a stencil to do a multidimensional least-squares fit which will account for transverse components. I've seen this done in finite volume before, [Weller et al. 2009, Weller &amp; Shahrokhi 2014] give details of using upwind-biased stencil on unstructured two-dimensional meshes, but the same techniques can be straightforwardly applied to uniform Cartesian meshes.\n\nI have seen this technique used with flux-form advection that gives stable results, but my own tests with advective form suggest that such a scheme is not stable, likely due to Godunov's theorem.\n\nReferences\n\n\n[Weller et al. 2009] Voronoi, Delaunay, and block-structured mesh refinement for solution of the shallow-water equations on the sphere. Monthly Weather Review, 137, 4208-4224, dx.doi.org/10.1175/2009MWR2917.1\n[Weller &amp; Shahrokhi 2014] Curl-free pressure gradients over orography in a solution of the fully compressible Euler equations with implicit treatment of acoustic and gravity waves. Monthly Weather Review, 142, 4439-4457, dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-14-00054.1", "Another difference is that the Aerocinno tends to produce firmer and longer-lasting froth compared to a wand. It's designed to provide a one-size-fits-all solution for consumers accustomed to automatic machines, whereas a milk wand requires more skill to use but allows for a lot more customization. Think of it like an automatic vs manual transmission. \n\nNote that the type of milk you use can also make a difference. Keep this in mind when comparing the two.", "To me that sounds like your torque converter unlocking but your transmission not downshifting. Automatic transmissions have a torque converter in place of a clutch. The way that the torque converter works is by using turbines and stators which get spun using the transmission fluid. This process creates an enormous amount of heat and has the effect of making the engine rev at higher rpm's (not necessarily a bad thing). \n\nTo improve MPG's and also to reduce heat, the torque converter will lock up (i.e. make a physical mechanical coupling instead of a fluid coupling) which has the effect of reducing engine rpm's and reducing heat.\n\nThe transmission knows when it needs to upshift or downshift and before either happens, the torque converter will unlock (which will cause higher engine RPM's) and then lock back up again once the shift happens. There are times when it will stay unlocked for longer periods of time depending on the need.\n\nIf there is an issue with your car making a downshift, that would explain the higher RPM's and lack of power. Pushing the gas pedal enough will unlock the converter and letting off will lock it back up again. \n\nWhat I recommend is that you do a full transmission fluid flush and examine the fluid for clutch material (blackish sand type of consistency). Also be sure to replace your transmission filter. If you cannot do this yourself, go to a shop! I would also have them check your vacuum modulators (or which ever device is used to control the shifts). Sometimes these get too hot and melt or the lines get holes in them which prevents accurate shifting. If it uses a TV cable, then readjust the cable on the linkage or replace it as it may have stretched and cannot depress the TV plunger all the way.\n\nIt doesn't sound like you have a slippage, but then again you might not have added all the details. If your transmission is slipping you would feel the engine rev but not go anywhere or the car would start to buck as the clutches slip and catch, slip and catch. You would notice this when starting off from a stop light though or any time you mash the gas pedal (high engine RPM's).\n\nBe sure to change your transmission fluid (15k-20k) and check the levels regularly (every oil change, do this while the car is warmed up and running). It's also important that you use the CORRECT fluid type as they are not all made the same. Various types and levels of friction modifiers are used/required by different transmissions. \n\nEdit: A quick way to see what might be going on is to smell your fluid. Fluid should be red or pinkish and have a sweet smell to it. If it's brown and/or has a nasty smell than you have internal issues that need to be addressed.", "With the bacterial IE, it would look like the vegetations tend to colonize the lower pressure sides of the valve structure (REF1). Something that was made clear that distinguishes the IE vegetations frm the Libman-Sacks vegetations was overall motility. Specifically, Libman-Sacks vegetations exhibit no independent motion and are largely sessile, whereas IE vegetations can be motile (REF2). In terms of where they attach I think this makes sense, the more motile vegetations colonize the less turbulent area, and the sessile vegetations seem to hold up in either scenario. Reference 1 also rather usefully points out that IE vegetations may be located anywhere on the valve structure as well, they just tend to be on the low-pressure side.\n\nSo being said i would argue that the motility of the organisms is a deciding factor.", "If you know how many heads you have, and the GPM (gallons per minute) rating of each head, then you just do the math. This will give the worse case scenario, of course, assuming each head is adjusted for max. \n\nIf you can run each zone for 10 minutes, check the meter reading before and after, multiply by 6 to get the gallons per hour. \n\nI just found this from Toro. Each manufacture should have similar details. The pdf shows how you can determine you're available flow rate (GPM) vs pressure (PSI). This also shows the usage of their heads at a given PSI. \n\nSomething cool I did last summer. My friend lives in a condo, he wanted to know how long and what time his sprinklers were running. We could not tap into the timer, or the valve, so this is what I came up with. I put a funny pipe \"T\" into a head in his back yard. This was up against the foundation, made it easy. At the 1/2\" threaded port of the \"T\" I screwed an automotive oil sensor to it (using an adapter, standard NPT thread). This is the type used for gauges, not the switch type used for idiot lights. Previously I tested the sensor with my air compressor to see what the resistance was per PSI. Now all that was needed was to run a twisted pair of wires from the buried sensor into his basement. From there I designed and built a microprocessor circuit that would give him all the data he needed! We monitor date and time stamp, and continuos pressure. He can now tell what time of day he is watering, how long, and the pressure tells him if things are normal, or perhaps a broken head somewhere in the zone. You could use the same to monitor pressure, and convert that to GPM for a constant monitor of you're system. I went into this elaboration of detail, because I see you are a fellow EE guy from you're profile! Have fun with it!", "The picture you've provided includes the answer that you require, the water surface elevation is the elevation of the water as depicted on the upstream portion of the culvert.\n\n\n\nTherefore, the headwater elevation above the culvert pipe is providing a certain amount of pressure head that is contributing to pushing water through the pipe (in addition to gravity and velocity).\n\nTo clarify, the situation depicted in that image is a pipe in a pressure flow situation (as opposed to an open channel flow situation). The Normal Water Surface Elevation is what calculations would indicate the surface elevation should be when the system is analyzed without considering the downstream impacts.\n\nWhat's not depicted is what those downstream impacts are. For example, they could be a blockage or other constriction in the pipe or perhaps a tailwater elevation, which is when the elevation of the water surface at the point of discharge. Were the pipe to discharge partially or fully below the surface of a wet pond, that tailwater induces a back pressure on the system which affects the hydraulic grade line profile across the pipe network.\n\nIf you are dealing with a pipe network, it is extremely important to be cognizant about when and what causes your system to go into pressure flow conditions. Generally, though, if your observations or calculations indicate a headwater at some point, you've entered a pressure flow scenario for that pipe and it is very important to review the hydraulic grade line profile through the network to ensure you don't have water coming out of your inlets.", "Physiography explains the physical characteristics of the area more generally describing the physical processes or forces that formed the landscape, while topography describes particular features, typically associated with elevations. For example in geomorphology (as your post is tagged) the physiography of Canadian prairies may describe deep fertile soils, ancient lake bed remnants, multiple sloughs or ditches that fill with water, etc. The topography would describe the extreme flatness with many depressions in the landscape. In practice, physiography is quite broad and topography refers to elevation data (I.e. a topographic map would have elevation points or contours). \n\nTake a look here at WikiDiff as well.", "I have found these Tasseled Cap coefficients for use with Landsat Surface reflectance data.\nPlease refer to the source article for applicability to your work.\nhttp://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147121", "This likely means that the surface MSLP is less than 1000 mb.\n\nIf you are looking at a 1000 mb geopotential height, and the MSLP at a point is 995 mb, then the height of the 1000 mb geopotential surface would be below the ground, i.e. negative height.\n\nEffectively the question was what does a negative difference of distance from a pressure surface mean? The answer is that the surface must lie below the frame of reference. In the example, the frame of reference is the ground and the surface is the 1000 mb surface.", "I posit that the original use of control characters was strictly for non-textual usage. In other words, things that don't print. In ye olden times, that was the primary way to communicate anything other than actual text to:\n\nTerminals - initially printing, e.g., ASR-33, and later video terminals, e.g., ADM-3A, VT-100, etc.\nPrinters\nModems - to control the modems, not just to pass text through to terminals &amp; printers\nAny device with no capability for out-of-band control\n\nThe last is the key. In-band = control using the same transmission of data (typically, but not always, 8-bit bytes) used for the content. Out-of-band = control using some separate mechanism.\nA typical example of out-of-band control is disk drives. An ST-506 drive had 3 cables: power, data, control. The drive would know when to read vs. write vs. move not based on the data cable but based on the control cable. Well, a little more complicated than that, but the point is that it wasn't arbitrary characters in the data stream that determined when to perform different actions.\nIn-band control is a must when you only have one transmission path, unless your data is encapsulated inside something else, a packet. In the olden days, terminals, printers and similar devices were often a 3-wire system - send, receive, ground. Sometimes they would include hardware handshaking, but that was typically limited to start/stop and possibly answer/hang up (e.g., CD on a modem) or equivalent. Additional control, such as when to move the platen (CR, LF, VT), ring a bell (BEL), or sometimes more complex operations, were sent as Control Codes. Any other method might work locally, but would not work with a remote terminal or printer, transmitted over a modem, etc.\nSo what has survived?\nThe obvious ones are CR, LF and TAB. BEL is also still supported in many devices. But there is one more that is still very often used: ESC. While the average user never sees it, a typical non-GDI (don't get me started about GDI printers...) printer relies heavily on Escape Codes - traditionally ESC followed by a manufacturer-specific sequence of text. PCL is still huge, in almost every non-GDI laser or inkjet printer, but there are other variations still commonly used in receipt printers, label printers and other devices.\nANSI escape codes are supported by many common terminal programs &amp; operating system shells, even though the transmission process now is almost always either a directly attached device (memory mapped screen/video card) or a TCP/IP network connection.\nOn the other hand, codes related to flow control and some other actions are now handled out-of-band. Typically this is by encapsulating the textual data inside a packet, with transmission issues handled outside the packets (e.g., TCP/IP transmission) or other &quot;control&quot; information handled in a defined structured manner inside the packet. While out-of-band transmission of control information does complicate the process a bit, requiring either a second transmission path or packets of some sort, it allows for transmission of any data string, which was a real issue in the early days. For example, if you wanted to control a Hayes-compatible modem while connected, you would pause for a short time, send +++, then pause again, and the modem would switch from transmit/receive modem to control mode. Great if you wanted to do that. But a potential path for problems if you didn't want to do that. Murphy's Law says that any arbitrary string of characters + timing will occur when you least expect it." ]

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[ "In most contemporary educational systems of the world, secondary education comprises the formal education that occurs during adolescence. It is characterized by transition from the typically compulsory, comprehensive primary education for minors, to the optional, selective tertiary, \"postsecondary\", or \"higher\" education (e.g. university, vocational school) for adults. Depending on the system, schools for this period, or a part of it, may be called secondary or high schools, gymnasiums, lyceums, middle schools, colleges, or vocational schools. The exact meaning of any of these terms varies from one system to another. The exact boundary between primary and secondary education also varies from country to country and even within them, but is generally around the seventh to the tenth year of schooling. Secondary education occurs mainly during the teenage years. In the United States, Canada and Australia, primary and secondary education together are sometimes referred to as K-12 education, and in New Zealand Year 1–13 is used. The purpose of secondary education can be to give common knowledge, to prepare for higher education, or to train directly in a profession." ]

[ "The secondary and high school education system in Swaziland is a five-year programme divided into three years junior secondary and two years senior secondary. There is an external public examination (Junior Certificate) at the end of the junior secondary that learners have to pass to progress to the senior secondary level. The Examination Council of Swaziland (ECOS) administers this examination. At the end of the senior secondary level, learners sit for a public examination, the Swaziland General Certificate of Secondary Education (SGCSE) and International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) which is accredited by the Cambridge International Examination (CIE). A few schools offer the Advanced Studies (AS) programme in their curriculum.", "Public and private schools in Hyderabad are governed by the Central Board of Secondary Education and follow a \"10+2+3\" plan. About two-thirds of pupils attend privately run institutions. Languages of instruction include English, Hindi, Telugu and Urdu. Depending on the institution, students are required to sit the Secondary School Certificate or the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education. After completing secondary education, students enroll in schools or junior colleges with a higher secondary facility. Admission to professional graduation colleges in Hyderabad, many of which are affiliated with either Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH) or Osmania University (OU), is through the Engineering Agricultural and Medical Common Entrance Test (EAM-CET).", "Namibia has free education for both Primary and secondary education levels. Grades 1–7 are primary level, grades 8–12 secondary. In 1998, there were 400,325 Namibian students in primary school and 115,237 students in secondary schools. The pupil-teacher ratio in 1999 was estimated at 32:1, with about 8% of the GDP being spent on education. Curriculum development, educational research, and professional development of teachers is centrally organised by the National Institute for Educational Development (NIED) in Okahandja.", "Primary (or elementary) education consists of the first five to seven years of formal, structured education. In general, primary education consists of six to eight years of schooling starting at the age of five or six, although this varies between, and sometimes within, countries. Globally, around 89% of children aged six to twelve are enrolled in primary education, and this proportion is rising. Under the Education For All programs driven by UNESCO, most countries have committed to achieving universal enrollment in primary education by 2015, and in many countries, it is compulsory. The division between primary and secondary education is somewhat arbitrary, but it generally occurs at about eleven or twelve years of age. Some education systems have separate middle schools, with the transition to the final stage of secondary education taking place at around the age of fourteen. Schools that provide primary education, are mostly referred to as primary schools or elementary schools. Primary schools are often subdivided into infant schools and junior school.", "Greece's post-compulsory secondary education consists of two school types: unified upper secondary schools (Γενικό Λύκειο, Genikό Lykeiό) and technical–vocational educational schools (Τεχνικά και Επαγγελματικά Εκπαιδευτήρια, \"TEE\"). Post-compulsory secondary education also includes vocational training institutes (Ινστιτούτα Επαγγελματικής Κατάρτισης, \"IEK\") which provide a formal but unclassified level of education. As they can accept both Gymnasio (lower secondary school) and Lykeio (upper secondary school) graduates, these institutes are not classified as offering a particular level of education.", "Education in Nigeria is overseen by the Ministry of Education. Local authorities take responsibility for implementing policy for state-controlled public education and state schools at a regional level. The education system is divided into Kindergarten, primary education, secondary education and tertiary education. After the 1970s oil boom, tertiary education was improved so that it would reach every subregion of Nigeria. 68% of the Nigerian population is literate, and the rate for men (75.7%) is higher than that for women (60.6%).", "In the 1988–89 school year, 301 students per 10,000 population were in specialized secondary or higher education, a figure slightly lower than the Soviet average. In 1989 some 58% of Armenians over age fifteen had completed their secondary education, and 14% had a higher education. In the 1990–91 school year, the estimated 1,307 primary and secondary schools were attended by 608,800 students. Another seventy specialized secondary institutions had 45,900 students, and 68,400 students were enrolled in a total of ten postsecondary institutions that included universities. In addition, 35% of eligible children attended preschools. In 1992 Armenia's largest institution of higher learning, Yerevan State University, had eighteen departments, including ones for social sciences, sciences, and law. Its faculty numbered about 1,300 teachers and its student population about 10,000 students. The National Polytechnic University of Armenia is operating since 1933.", "In 1976 the future Labour prime minister James Callaghan launched what became known as the 'great debate' on the education system. He went on to list the areas he felt needed closest scrutiny: the case for a core curriculum, the validity and use of informal teaching methods, the role of school inspection and the future of the examination system. Comprehensive school remains the most common type of state secondary school in England, and the only type in Wales. They account for around 90% of pupils, or 64% if one does not count schools with low-level selection. This figure varies by region.", "Education remained mostly focused on the training of future clergy. The basic learning of the letters and numbers remained the province of the family or a village priest, but the secondary subjects of the trivium—grammar, rhetoric, logic—were studied in cathedral schools or in schools provided by cities. Commercial secondary schools spread, and some Italian towns had more than one such enterprise. Universities also spread throughout Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. Lay literacy rates rose, but were still low; one estimate gave a literacy rate of ten per cent of males and one per cent of females in 1500.", "Comprehensive schools were introduced into Ireland in 1966 by an initiative by Patrick Hillery, Minister for Education, to give a broader range of education compared to that of the vocational school system, which was then the only system of schools completely controlled by the state. Until then, education in Ireland was largely dominated by religious persuasion, particularly the voluntary secondary school system was a particular realisation of this. The comprehensive school system is still relatively small and to an extent has been superseded by the community school concept. The Irish word for a comprehensive school is a 'scoil chuimsitheach.'", "Education in Eritrea is officially compulsory between seven and 13 years of age. However, the education infrastructure is inadequate to meet current needs. Statistics vary at the elementary level, suggesting that between 65 and 70% of school-aged children attend primary school; Approximately 61% attend secondary school. Student-teacher ratios are high: 45 to 1 at the elementary level and 54 to 1 at the secondary level. There are an average 63 students per classroom at the elementary level and 97 per classroom at the secondary level. Learning hours at school are often less than six hours per day. Skill shortages are present at all levels of the education system, and funding for and access to education vary significantly by gender and location. Illiteracy estimates for Eritrea range from around 40% to as high as 70%.", "The largest expansion of comprehensive schools in 1965 resulted from a policy decision taken in 1965 by Anthony Crosland, Secretary of State for Education in the 1964–1970 Labour government. The policy decision was implemented by Circular 10/65, an instruction to local education authorities to plan for conversion. Students sat the 11+ examination in their last year of primary education and were sent to one of a secondary modern, secondary technical or grammar school depending on their perceived ability. Secondary technical schools were never widely implemented and for 20 years there was a virtual bipartite system which saw fierce competition for the available grammar school places, which varied between 15% and 25% of total secondary places, depending on location.[citation needed]", "Public education in Tajikistan consists of 11 years of primary and secondary education but the government has plans to implement a 12-year system in 2016. There is a relatively large number of tertiary education institutions including Khujand State University which has 76 departments in 15 faculties, Tajikistan State University of Law, Business, & Politics, Khorugh State University, Agricultural University of Tajikistan, Tajik State National University, and several other institutions. Most, but not all, universities were established during the Soviet Era. As of 2008[update] tertiary education enrollment was 17%, significantly below the sub-regional average of 37%. Many Tajiks left the education system due to low demand in the labor market for people with extensive educational training or professional skills.", "Polytechnics in Singapore provides industry oriented education equivalent to a junior college or sixth form college in the UK. Singapore retains a system similar but not the same as in the United Kingdom from 1970–1992, distinguishing between polytechnics and universities. Unlike the British Polytechnic (United Kingdom) system Singapore Polytechnics do not offer bachelors, masters or PhD degrees. Under this system, most Singaporean students sit for their O-Level examinations after a four or five years of education in secondary school, and apply for a place at either a technical school termed ITE, a polytechnic or a university-preparatory school (a junior college or the Millennia Institute, a centralized institute). Polytechnic graduates may be granted transfer credits when they apply to local and overseas universities, depending on the overall performance in their grades, as well as the university's policies on transfer credits. A few secondary schools are now offering six-year program which leads directly to university entrance.", "Scotland has a very different educational system from England and Wales, though also based on comprehensive education. It has different ages of transfer, different examinations and a different philosophy of choice and provision. All publicly funded primary and secondary schools are comprehensive. The Scottish Government has rejected plans for specialist schools as of 2005.", "Education in Swaziland begins with pre-school education for infants, primary, secondary and high school education for general education and training (GET), and universities and colleges at tertiary level. Pre-school education is usually for children 5-year or younger after that the students can enroll in a primary school anywhere in the country. In Swaziland early childhood care and education (ECCE) centres are in the form of preschools or neighbourhood care points (NCPs). In the country 21.6% of preschool age children have access to early childhood education.", "Education is free and compulsory between the ages of 5 and 16 The island has three primary schools for students of age 4 to 11: Harford, Pilling, and St Paul’s. Prince Andrew School provides secondary education for students aged 11 to 18. At the beginning of the academic year 2009-10, 230 students were enrolled in primary school and 286 in secondary school.", "In 2010, the literacy rate of Liberia was estimated at 60.8% (64.8% for males and 56.8% for females). In some areas primary and secondary education is free and compulsory from the ages of 6 to 16, though enforcement of attendance is lax. In other areas children are required to pay a tuition fee to attend school. On average, children attain 10 years of education (11 for boys and 8 for girls). The country's education sector is hampered by inadequate schools and supplies, as well as a lack of qualified teachers.", "A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to England and Wales, where comprehensive schools were introduced on an experimental basis in the 1940s and became more widespread from 1965. About 90% of British secondary school pupils now attend comprehensive schools. They correspond broadly to the public high school in the United States and Canada and to the German Gesamtschule.[citation needed]", "Secondary education in the United States did not emerge until 1910, with the rise of large corporations and advancing technology in factories, which required skilled workers. In order to meet this new job demand, high schools were created, with a curriculum focused on practical job skills that would better prepare students for white collar or skilled blue collar work. This proved beneficial for both employers and employees, since the improved human capital lowered costs for the employer, while skilled employees received a higher wages.", "In Bern, about 50,418 or (39.2%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 24,311 or (18.9%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 24,311 who completed tertiary schooling, 51.6% were Swiss men, 33.0% were Swiss women, 8.9% were non-Swiss men and 6.5% were non-Swiss women.", "Community Training Centres (CTCs) have been established within the primary schools on each atoll. The CTCs provide vocational training to students who do not progress beyond Class 8 because they failed the entry qualifications for secondary education. The CTCs offer training in basic carpentry, gardening and farming, sewing and cooking. At the end of their studies the graduates can apply to continue studies either at Motufoua Secondary School or the Tuvalu Maritime Training Institute (TMTI). Adults can also attend courses at the CTCs.", "Public expenditure of the GDP was less in 2002–05 than in 1991. Public education is theoretically free and mandatory for under-16-year-olds, but in practice, expenses exist. Net primary enrollment rate was 44% in 2005, much less than the 79% in 1991. The country has universities. Education between ages six and sixteen is compulsory. Pupils who complete six years of primary school and seven years of secondary school obtain a baccalaureate. At the university, students can obtain a bachelor's degree in three years and a master's after four. Marien Ngouabi University—which offers courses in medicine, law and several other fields—is the country's only public university. Instruction at all levels is in French, and the educational system as a whole models the French system. The educational infrastructure has been seriously degraded as a result of political and economic crises. There are no seats in most classrooms, forcing children to sit on the floor. Enterprising individuals have set up private schools, but they often lack the technical knowledge and familiarity with the national curriculum to teach effectively. Families frequently enroll their children in private schools only to find they cannot make the payments.", "Napoleon's educational reforms laid the foundation of a modern system of education in France and throughout much of Europe. Napoleon synthesized the best academic elements from the Ancien Régime, The Enlightenment, and the Revolution, with the aim of establishing a stable, well-educated and prosperous society. He made French the only official language. He left some primary education in the hands of religious orders, but he offered public support to secondary education. Napoleon founded a number of state secondary schools (lycées) designed to produce a standardized education that was uniform across France. All students were taught the sciences along with modern and classical languages. Unlike the system during the Ancien Régime, religious topics did not dominate the curriculum, although they were present in addition to teachers from the clergy. Napoleon simply hoped to use religion to produce social stability. He gave special attention to the advanced centers, notably the École Polytechnique, that provided both military expertise and state-of-the-art research in science. Napoleon made some of the first major efforts at establishing a system of secular and public education. The system featured scholarships and strict discipline, with the result being a French educational system that outperformed its European counterparts, many of which borrowed from the French system.", "Comprehensive schools are primarily about providing an entitlement curriculum to all children, without selection whether due to financial considerations or attainment. A consequence of that is a wider ranging curriculum, including practical subjects such as design and technology and vocational learning, which were less common or non-existent in grammar schools. Providing post-16 education cost-effectively becomes more challenging for smaller comprehensive schools, because of the number of courses needed to cover a broader curriculum with comparatively fewer students. This is why schools have tended to get larger and also why many local authorities have organised secondary education into 11–16 schools, with the post-16 provision provided by Sixth Form colleges and Further Education Colleges. Comprehensive schools do not select their intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, but there are demographic reasons why the attainment profiles of different schools vary considerably. In addition, government initiatives such as the City Technology Colleges and Specialist schools programmes have made the comprehensive ideal less certain.", "Guinea-Bissau has several secondary schools (general as well as technical) and a number of universities, to which an institutionally autonomous Faculty of Law as well as a Faculty of Medicine have been added.", "Despite the large number of philosophical schools and subtle nuances between many, all philosophies are said to fall into one of two primary categories, which are defined in contrast to each other: Idealism, and materialism.[a] The basic proposition of these two categories pertains to the nature of reality, and the primary distinction between them is the way they answer two fundamental questions: \"what does reality consist of?\" and \"how does it originate?\" To idealists, spirit or mind or the objects of mind (ideas) are primary, and matter secondary. To materialists, matter is primary, and mind or spirit or ideas are secondary, the product of matter acting upon matter.", "As an academic field, philosophy of education is \"the philosophical study of education and its problems (...) its central subject matter is education, and its methods are those of philosophy\". \"The philosophy of education may be either the philosophy of the process of education or the philosophy of the discipline of education. That is, it may be part of the discipline in the sense of being concerned with the aims, forms, methods, or results of the process of educating or being educated; or it may be metadisciplinary in the sense of being concerned with the concepts, aims, and methods of the discipline.\" As such, it is both part of the field of education and a field of applied philosophy, drawing from fields of metaphysics, epistemology, axiology and the philosophical approaches (speculative, prescriptive, and/or analytic) to address questions in and about pedagogy, education policy, and curriculum, as well as the process of learning, to name a few. For example, it might study what constitutes upbringing and education, the values and norms revealed through upbringing and educational practices, the limits and legitimization of education as an academic discipline, and the relation between education theory and practice.", "Ibn Sīnā refers to the secondary education stage of maktab schooling as a period of specialisation when pupils should begin to acquire manual skills, regardless of their social status. He writes that children after the age of 14 should be allowed to choose and specialise in subjects they have an interest in, whether it was reading, manual skills, literature, preaching, medicine, geometry, trade and commerce, craftsmanship, or any other subject or profession they would be interested in pursuing for a future career. He wrote that this was a transitional stage and that there needs to be flexibility regarding the age in which pupils graduate, as the student's emotional development and chosen subjects need to be taken into account.", "Nevertheless, whether and to what degree any of these types of intermediaries have secondary liability is the subject of ongoing litigation. The decentralised structure of peer-to-peer networks, in particular, does not sit easily with existing laws on online intermediaries' liability. The BitTorrent protocol established an entirely decentralised network architecture in order to distribute large files effectively. Recent developments in peer-to-peer technology towards more complex network configurations are said to have been driven by a desire to avoid liability as intermediaries under existing laws.", "According to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), 95.6% of the population over the age of 15 could read and write Spanish, and 97.3% of children of ages 8–14 could read and write Spanish. An estimated 93.5% of the population ages 6–14 attend an institution of education. Estimated 12.8% of residents of the state have obtained a college degree. Average schooling is 8.5 years, which means that in general the average citizen over 15 years of age has gone as far as a second year in secondary education.", "In a number of countries, although being today generally considered similar institutions of higher learning across many countries, polytechnics and institutes of technology used to have a quite different statute among each other, its teaching competences and organizational history. In many cases polytechnic were elite technological universities concentrating on applied science and engineering and may also be a former designation for a vocational institution, before it has been granted the exclusive right to award academic degrees and can be truly called an institute of technology. A number of polytechnics providing higher education is simply a result of a formal upgrading from their original and historical role as intermediate technical education schools. In some situations, former polytechnics or other non-university institutions have emerged solely through an administrative change of statutes, which often included a name change with the introduction of new designations like institute of technology, polytechnic university, university of applied sciences, or university of technology for marketing purposes. Such emergence of so many upgraded polytechnics, former vocational education and technical schools converted into more university-like institutions has caused concern where the lack of specialized intermediate technical professionals lead to industrial skill shortages in some fields, being also associated to an increase of the graduate unemployment rate. This is mostly the case in those countries, where the education system is not controlled by the state and everybody can grant degrees.[citation needed] Evidence have also shown a decline in the general quality of teaching and graduate's preparation for the workplace, due to the fast-paced conversion of that technical institutions to more advanced higher level institutions. Mentz, Kotze and Van der Merwe (2008) argues that all the tools are in place to promote the debate on the place of technology in higher education in general and in Universities of Technology specifically. The aspects of this debate can follow the following lines: • To what degree is technology defined as a concept? • What is the scope of technology discourse? • What is the place and relation of science with technology? • How useful is the Mitcham framework in thinking about technology in South Africa? • Can a measure of cooperation as opposed to competition be achieved amongst higher education institutions? • Who ultimately is responsible for vocational training and what is the role of technology in this?" ]

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[ "what's the deal with you?", "Reddit do what the Reddit says.", "Sex people of reddit, what's the sexiest sex you've ever sexed? (NSFW) (SERIOUS)\n\nor\n\nWomen of reddit, what can I do to make you attracted to me? Please?", "What do you do when you're not on reddit?", "What you want to make YouTube like Reddit and only allow one point of view?", "It is what it is. \n\nYou cannot change what you cannot change. Learning to live with circumstances and doing what you can do to change or improve is the best way to live.", "The freedom to do what you want when you want", "What tells you I want to live", "Just chillin, what are *you* doing on Reddit?", "depends on what you want to do", "If I didn't want it in my search history, what makes you think I want it in my reddit history?", "Nothing do what you want", "Blind people of reddit what do you see when you masterbate", "Do what you want forget church.", "What do you think is the most asked question on Reddit?", "What question do you want answered?", "You do what you want, however and whenever you like.", "If you have a serious question and y it want serious answers you would do that so your information would be accurate to the information you need to find out what the answer of the question is to further your knowledge", "I live in America, what do you think?", "Ask her what she wants to do with you on your day off. Take her to do it and be part of the experience.", "Church. Telling you what you can think and threatening you if you don't do exactly what they want.", "what if you are the reddit kid", "Make sure it's what you want, with someone you trust, be sober.", "That being an adult would be cool, you could do what you want and no one could tell you what to do.", "Scrolling through reddit , \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat do you mean i am a loser ?", "Do you want us to walk you through what a century is?", "This is reddit. What did you expect?", "Punishes you for what you want to do, rewards you for what you don't, and doesn't let you not play its game.", "Take a look at yourself as if you were outside of your body or a close friend, and ask if that’s what you want yourself to be in that moment, or if it’s worth it to waste energy on. Think about what you would do if a friend was feeling this way.", "What kind of asinine world do you live in where you have an actual enemy?", "What’s do you call it when an orphan takes a selfie\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA family photo", "life is what you make of what it throws at you !" ]

[ "Morgan Freeman" ]

[ "Narrator: It did not.", "Any movie that was narrated by the trailer narrator with the serious voice \n\n\n&gt;this year", "Maybe one day I’ll see your post in one of those YouTube videos where a robot narrator reads out some of the replies.", "Ignore those who judge you for what you truly want to do with your life.", "If children are present. Don't leave behind someone who would want to have revenge on you one day...", "Those videos where people narrate questions and answers from here. I watched those before I even had reddit.", "If you want someone to accept you for who you are, you need to be able to accept them for who they are too.", "Be someone you would want to be around.", "Batman dies shortly after Bane's rise in Gotham.\n\nTyler Durden turns out to be the narrator's long lost brother.\n\nDarth Vader was actually Jar Jar Binks the whole time.", "Hard to actually find people who want you for who you are, rather than your looks.\n\nPeople think it's easy to find someone but it's not.", "Someone who genuinely wants to hang out with you", "If you could punch someone in the face, who would it be?", "There will always be someone who wants to start a fight with you.", "Someone who is promiscuous that gets a bad rap bc we still live in a world where your sex life defines who you are", "If you have to work to keep someone in your life, they're not worth it.", "devotion, loyalty, and understanding, to a much higher degree than normal, but instead to someone you want to spend your life with", "Why are so desperate to want someone, just to have someone. Fix your life first, and be somebody career, car and apt/home and then they will come to you.", "It's fine if you want to do that in your relationships (with everyone's consent) but it's not what I want. I want a monogamous relationship with someone who also wants a monogamous relationship.", "A single mother is a slut who no one would want to be with, because who wants to raise someone else's child? A single father is an absolutely amazing person who can do no wrong.", "Who would WANT that?!", "Twitter is 110% the most toxic place on the internet. You could breathe on Twitter and someone would be at your throat ready to cancel you and end your life lmao.", "There is always someone who disagrees. You could say murder is bad and there will be someone who would say “but its not that bad”", "You make up your own meaning. The meaning *is* life. Whatever you want to be your meaning will be the meaning to you.", "The death of someone that you value more than your own life", "To me, a friend is someone who you see semi-regularly (at least) and have a common interest or things that bring you together. They don't judge you and they want to be your friend.", "That suicide only transfers your pain to someone you love and who loves you", "Be your self, and don’t want someone just for there looks. Also, don’t want someone just so you can have sex.", "You seem to start enjoying your own company.\n\nThen, someone else in your life seems like an intrusion.", "It’s depends who the hug is with- a hug with someone you don’t want to hug is unbearable and cringe...a hug with someone you want to hug is a blissful ball of energy and loveeee", "Away from the people you've known your whole life or from the people who are holding you bal or negatively influencing your life.", "Be kind to everyone you meet for you never know if your words, your actions can change someone’s life", "Any war movie, who would want to see a war film while trying to get to know someone" ]

[ "Study Materials for The Great Divorce cs lewis The Great Divorce This book, a response to William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, was first printed as a serial in a religious publication in 1944 and 1945, and in book form soon after. Lewis's diverse sources for this work include the works of St. Augustine, Dante Aligheri, John Milton, John Bunyan, Emanuel Swedenborg, and Lewis Carroll. George MacDonald, whom Lewis utilizes as a character in the story, Dante, Prudentius and Jeremy Taylor are alluded to in the text of chapter 9. Choosing Hell \"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.' All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it.\" - George MacDonald character, p.69 Not all paths lead home \"We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, ...and at each fork you must make a decision.\" - p. Going back to move forward \"I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their resue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.\" - p. Being in Love \"If it would help you and if it were possible I would go down with you into Hell: but you cannot bring Hell into me.... I cannot love a lie. I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go.\" - p. Killing the Red Lizard Ghost: \"How can I tell you to kill it? You'd kill me if you did.\" Spirit: \"It is not so.\" Ghost: \"Why, you're hurting me now.\" Spirit: \"I never said it wouldn't hurt you. I said it wouldn't kill you.\" - p. The Bleeding Charity \"What do you keep on arguing for? I'm only telling you the sort of chap I am. I only want my rights. I'm not asking for anybody's bleeding charity.\" \"Then do. At once. Ask for the Bleeding Charity. Everything is here for the asking and nothing can be bought.\" - p. outline and summary The book opens with the narrator in a grim and joyless city, the \"grey town.\" He finds and joins a queue with several unpleasant people who are waiting for a bus with an unspecified destination that is in fact the foothills at the entrance to heaven. During the bus ride, the narrator converses with some of his fellow passengers and discovers that they have strong opinions about the bus, the town, and their destination. He also discovers with a shock that they are dead. When the bus reaches its destination, the \"people\" on the bus, and the narrator himself, are gradually revealed to be ghosts. The country is the most beautiful they have ever seen, but every feature of the landscape (including streams of water and blades of grass) is unyieldingly solid compared to themselves: it causes them immense pain to walk on the grass, and even a single leaf is far too heavy for any to lift. Shining spirits, men and women whom they had known on earth, meet each of them, and urge them to abandon the town and enter heaven proper. They promise that as the ghosts travel onward and upward, they will become more solid and thus feel no discomfort. These figures, called \"spirits\" to distinguish them from the ghosts, offer to assist them in the journey toward the mountains and the sunrise. Almost all of the ghosts choose to return instead to the grey town, giving various reasons and excuses. Much of the interest of the book lies in the recognition it awakens of the plausibility and familiarity, along with the thinness and self-deception, of the excuses that the ghosts refuse to abandon, even though to do so would bring them to \"reality\" and \"joy forevermore.\" The narrator is met by the writer George MacDonald, whom he hails as his mentor, just as Dante did when encountering Virgil in the Divine Comedy" ]

[ "The Story of Noah's Ark From the Bible’s Book of Genesis - The Daily Beast Antediluvian The Story of Noah's Ark From the Bible’s Book of Genesis Read the passage from the book of Genesis of the King James Version of the Bible that is the source of Darren Aronofsky’s new epic, ‘Noah.’ The Daily Beast 03.24.14 9:45 AM ET And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed. And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto thern, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he. And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive", "20th Century Literature: Of Mice and Men Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ Friday, February 15, 2008 Of Mice and Men I hope you are excited, because you are about to read an amazing book! Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is his masterpiece. I know Kevin and Daniel enjoyed The Grapes of Wrath, so you know what to expect from Steinbeck - impeccable character development, fascinating plots, and gut wrenching moral dilemmas. Steinbeck desired to tell the stories of the people who lived on the margins of society. To do this he would go live and work with them. Before he wrote The Grapes of Wrath, he went to Oklahoma, joined some migrants and traveled with them to California. Once there he lived with them in their camps and worked alongside them in the fields and orchards of California. If anyone knew how the migrant farmers of the 1930’s lived, thought, talked, and dreamed, Steinbeck did. Of Mice and Men reveals the deepest dreams and fears of its characters. This book grapples with the dream of land ownership and friendship, and the fear of loneliness. I want you to note the different relationships between the characters, particularly Lennie and George, Curley and his wife, and Candy and his dog. There are many themes to explore in this book which makes it difficult to hone in on one, but I do not want to ruin the story by telling before hand what to look out for. So please enjoy the book, and we will discuss it once you have finished it. There are only a few questions for each chapter, most questions will be for when you have finished the book. A little different this time, hope I’m not confusing you. Also I am going to have the three of you answer different questions. This will lend a better exchange of ideas. Chapter 1 A cat house is a house of prostitution. 1. What types of images does Steinbeck use to describe Lennie? What is the purpose of this? 2. “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.” The entire dialogue after this line is important to contrast with the speech George makes about what he would do if he did not have Lennie. He does not really want that life, because that is the life of men who have no one. But this speech describes the typical life of ranch hands. It is a lonely empty existence. Chapter 2 A tart is a flirt. 1. What type of a guy is Curley? How about his wife? 2. What is your response to Carlson’s desire to shoot Candy’s dog? The event is very important and serves as foreshadowing to the larger story. Chapter 3 1. Slim is described as “God-Like” early in this chapter. Did you catch it? Why is he described this way? 2. What does the men’s discussion about Candy’s old dog show about them? IMPORTANT - after his dog is shot, Candy regrets that he did not do it himself. This sticks with George. 3. What does Curly do to Lennie? How does Lennie respond? This important scene shows the reader the great strength Lennie possesses. Chapter 4 “Pitchers” are movies. Back then they would have called movies “picture shows.” So Curley’s wife is talking about being an actress. 1. What do Lennie’s interactions with Crooks show about him? 2. Who else is lonely on this ranch? Chapter 5 If this chapter had a title it would be “Broken Dreams.” Here we see the dashed dreams of Curley’s wife as well as George and Lennie’s dream die. 1. What is Lennie’s response to the dead puppy? 2. What is Lennie’s response to the death of Curley’s wife? 3. What do George and Candy fear Curley will do to Lennie? Chapter 6 We are now back at the place where the book began. It is such a lovely spot, lush, green, peaceful. Yet the contrast to what is about to happen there is deep. 1. What do we learn about George and Lennie’s relationship in this scene? 2. George tells Lennie that they are going where, “ever’body gonna be nice to you. Ain’t gonna be no more trouble.” Why is George saying this? 3. How do the other ranch workers respond to what George does? I am going to assign certain questions to be a", "Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel - Brilliant Classics Home > Catalogue > Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel Readings: State Library of Victoria Cnr La Trobe & Swanston Str Melbourne VIC Music Store at the Opera Centre Leonardo da Vinci 28 Tel Aviv 03-6927888 www.arkivmusic.com About this release Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov showed musical promise as a child, but the pursuit of a Naval career meant that much of his grounding in musical theory was gained in between various tours of duty. Although best known in the Western world for his nationalist orchestral works, Rimsky-Korsakov brought Russian opera to the fore, so that by the end of his life, the genre was flourishing. The Golden Cockerel, written between 15 October 1906 and 29 August 1907, was inspired by Alexander Pushkin’s tale and caused concern among the Russian authorities, with the story detailing the murder of a Tsar and providing a critique of the power associated with Tsarism. This predictably led to trouble with the censor, which demanded that the prologue, epilogue and fourteen lines of the libretto should be cut; Rimsky-Korsakov refused and the work was permitted to only appear in print. At the centre of the opera is the juxtaposition of two of the characters and their respective musical language: that of the rigid marches demonstrating the power of King Dodon and the delicate, ethereal chromaticism of the Queen of Shemaka, designed to sound other-worldly. This recording includes the opera in full, containing none of the cuts demanded by the censor. Of this 1985 recording by the Sofia National Opera, conducted by Dimiter Manolov, BBC Music Magazine wrote that ‘the famous 19-minute coloratura show-piece … is beautifully encompassed’ by Elena Stoyanova, who sings the role of the Queen of Shemakha. The role of King Dodon is sung by Hungarian bass Nikolai Stoilov. Other information: - Recorded in 1985. - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is one of the most important Russian composers of romantic opera. His operas, often on themes taken from Russian folklore and fairy tales, abound in colourful and atmospheric scenes, with just the right tinge of spicy Russian melodic flavours. - The Golden Cockerel, based on a tale by Pushkin, was censored by the Russian authorities, accused of hidden political motives. This performance offers the complete, uncut version of the opera, one of Rimsky’s finest and best known. Excellent performance by great Bulgarian voices and forces, a superb recording from the Balkanton catalogue. - The Booklet includes the synopsis of the opera, as well as notes on the composer and the work. The Golden Cockerel: Prologue: Introduction: I am the master magician (Astrologer) 2 The Golden Cockerel: Act 1: The King’s monologue: I have summoned you here (King Dodon) The Golden Cockerel: Act 1: Guidon’s plan: Great father (Guidon/King Dodon/Chorus of Boyars) The Golden Cockerel: Act 1: Afron’s plan (King Dodon/Boyars/Afron/Polkan/Guidon) 5 The Golden Cockerel: Act 1: Hail, Majesty! Sire! (Astrologer) – Oh, that’s a fairy tale (King Dodon/The Golden Cockerel) 6 The Golden Cockerel: Act 1: Cock-a-doodle-do! The coast is clear – The Parrot Scene (The Golden Cockerel/King Dodon/Amelfa) 7 The Dodon’s siesta – Cock-a-doodle-do! Beware! (Chorus of the People/Amelfa/The Golden Cockerel) – Our King! Father of the people! (Polkan/King Dodon/Afron/Chorus of Boyars/Guidon) The Golden Cockerel: Act 1: King Dodon’s dream (The Golden Cockerel/King Dodon/Amelfa/Chorus) 9 The Golden Cockerel: Act 1: The Cockerel’s scene: Cock-a-doodle-do!... Oh! What misfortune! (The Golden Cockerel/Chorus of the People/Polkan/King Dodon) Disk 2 1 The Golden Cockerel: Act 2: Soldiers’ chorus: The silent night is ehispering fearful things (Chorus of Soldiers) – What terrible sight is this? – Behold, a tent! (King of Dodon/Polkan/Chrous of Soldiers) 2 The Golden Cockerel: Act 2: The Queen of Shemakha’s entrance: Hail, O ray of morning sun (Queen of Shemakha/King of Dodon/Polkan) The Golden Cockerel: Act 2: Whose heart rich", "Judy Duchan's History of Speech - Language Pathology Ancient Greece — 500 BC to 100 AD Overview Ancient Greece was in its heyday from around 5th century BC to 2nd century AD. That period is commonly referred to as the classical period and events in it led to major and long-lasting advances in medicine and rhetoric. Medicine in ancient Greece The ancient Greeks had two main theories that they used to understand bodily functioning, to understand the source of disease, and to guide them in healing diseases. The first theory was that specific gods had the powers to create disease as well as to restore health. The second was a theory of humors, which originated in Greek notions that body was made of four basic elements black bile, yellow bile, phlegm and blood. When the humors were in balance the body was healthy. Diseases resulted from an excess or deficiency in one or more of the humors. Asclepios , (8th C BC) a man who was among the first known physicians in Greece, eventually came to be worshipped a Greek god of health and disease. As a god he was considered to have powers even to raise the dead. Asclepios’ human son, Machaon, was also worshipped as the god—the god of surgery, and another son, Podalirios, was worshipped as the god of medicine. Like their father and brothers, Asclepios’s daughters, Hygeia , Panacea, and Iaso were also associated with health. Hygeia was the goddess of public health, Panacea was the goddess of therapy and Iaso was the goddess of cures, remedies and modes of healing. The Asclepiades, an ancient guild of doctors from the 6th to the 2nd century Greece, was made up of devotees of Asclepios. By 200 BC every large town in Greece had a temple where people could go to cure their ailments and appeal for help from the god Asclepios and his devotees. Temples and centers associated with Asclepios, such as the one at Epidaurus on Greece's mainland, contained spas, overnight sleeping arrangements, and sites of entertainment, such as theatres. Pilgrims would stay over night at the temples. They would request a health cure from Asclepios and then sleep before an image of the god. The god would visit them in a dream, or his snake would come to them, and when the person awoke from their temple sleep they would either be cured or have their dream interpreted by Asclepean priest-doctors to identify a cure. The ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes in his play Plutos , describes how Asclepios cured a pilgrim/god of his blindness. One aspect of the cure was that a priest/doctor would represent Asclepios and interpret the pilgrim’s dream so as to identify a cure. One rendering of this is found in Foucault (1975): Every morning a certain Aesculapius has fifty or sixty patients in his waiting room; he listens to the complaints of each, arranges them into four lines, prescribes a bleeding for the first, a purge for the second a clyster for the third, and a change of air for the fourth (from Foucault, Birth of the clinic p. 15, quote from Zimmerman Traite de l’experience, Paris, 1800, vol 2, p. 122). Besides appealing to the god, ancient Greeks also designed cures derived from their theory of humors. Humors, the fluids in the body, were seen by the ancient Greeks as basic to health and illness. Hippocrates of Cos (460--360 B.C.) was a Greek physician who founded his practice on the theory of humors. He was very important in his time not only for his writings and theories, but for his school of medicine. The writings Hippocrates and his followers have been preserved to form what is today called the Hippocratic Corpus. In the corpus are depictions of histories and clinical observations. The primary treatments by those in the Hippocratic School included herbal medicines and blood letting. They focused on prevention and health prescribing healthy diets, baths, and applying hot and cold compresses. Hippocratic surgery involved suturing wounds, cutting to drain infections, and trephining (drilling a hole in the skull). Hippocrates forwarded the idea that brain was the seat of sensation, thought, and emotions. His cephalocen", "Feast of the Annunciation (Lady Day) ``Where the Bishop is, there let the multitude of believers be; even as where Jesus is, there is the Catholic Church'' Ignatius of Antioch, 1st c. A.D Feast of the Annunciation Exactly nine months to the day before the Feast of the Nativity, we celebrate the annunciation that the angel -- the archangel -- Gabriel makes to Mary. Mystical significance is given to this date by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa in his \"Golden Legend\" written in 1275: This blessed Annunciation happened the twentyfifth day of the month of March, on which day happened also, as well tofore as after, these things that hereafter be named. On that same day Adam, the first man, was created and fell into original sin by inobedience, and was put out of paradise terrestrial. After, the angel showed the conception of our Lord to the glorious Virgin Mary. Also that same day of the month Cain slew Abel his brother. Also Melchisedech made offering to God of bread and wine in the presence of Abraham. Also on the same day Abraham offered Isaac his son. That same day St. John Baptist was beheaded, and St. Peter was that day delivered out of prison, and St. James the more, that day beheaded of Herod. And our Lord Jesu Christ was on that day crucified, wherefore that is a day of great reverence. It was this day on which Our Lord entered the world, and on this day, thirty-three years later, that He left it. It must be remembered that it was on this day, not Christmas, that Christ came to the world, as a baby inside Mary's womb; today is the feast of the Incarnation! The Gospel reading today is that of Luke: Luke 1:26-38: And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. Who having heard, was troubled at his saying and thought with herself what manner of salutation this should be. And the angel said to her: Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God. Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father: and he shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever. And of his kingdom there shall be no end. And Mary said to the angel: How shall this be done, because I know not man? And the angel answering, said to her: The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. And behold thy cousin Elizabeth, she also hath conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her that is called barren: Because no word shall be impossible with God. And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. Our Lady uttered her fiat -- her words \"Let it be done to me according to thy word\" -- and the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity condescended to take on a human nature and become man. God became man! Father Alban Butler writes in his \"Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principle Saints\" (1864) these beautiful words to indicate the import of Mary's \"yes\": The world, as heaven had decreed, was not to have a Saviour till she had given her consent to the angel's proposal; she gives it, and behold the power and efficacy of her submissive fiat! That moment, the mystery of love and mercy promised to mankind four thousand years before, foretold by so many Prophets, desired by so many Saints, is wrought on earth. That moment, the Word of God is for ever united to humanity; the Soul of Jesus Christ, produced from nothing, begins to enjoy God, and to know all things past, present, and to come: that moment, God begins to have an adorer who is infinite, and the world a mediator who", "Dolly Parton | New Music And Songs | Dolly Parton About Dolly Parton \"I’ve always been a writer. My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved,” says Dolly Parton of her incredible career, which has spanned nearly five decades and is showing no signs of slowing down. An internationally renowned superstar, the iconic and irrepressible Parton has contributed countless treasures to the world of music entertainment, penning classic songs such as “Jolene,” “Coat of Many Colors,” and her mega-hit “I Will Always Love You.” With 1977’s crossover hit “Here You Come Again,” she successfully erased the line between country and pop music without noticeably altering either her music or her image. “I’m not leaving country,” she said at the time, “I’m just taking it with me.” Making her film debut in the 1980 hit comedy 9 to 5, Dolly earned rave reviews for her performance and an Oscar nomination for writing the title tune, along with her second and third Grammy Awards. Roles in Steel Magnolias, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Rhinestone, and Straight Talk followed, along with two network television series, made for television movies, network and HBO specials, and guest-starring roles in series television. In 2006, Dolly earned her second Oscar nomination for “Travelin’ Thru,” which she wrote for the film Transamerica. Dolly Parton’s remarkable life began very humbly. Born January 19, 1946 on a farm in Sevier County, Tennessee, Dolly is the fourth of twelve children. Her parents, Robert Lee and Avie Lee Parton struggled to make ends meet in the impoverished East Tennessee hills. This hard rural life was the foundation of Dolly’s career, as she began singing almost before she could talk, according to her father. By age 10, Dolly was performing on local television and radio shows in nearby Knoxville, Tennessee. “I always wanted to be a star. It just seemed natural to me,” she said. “Making music is all I’ve ever known.” Dolly left for Nashville the day after her high school graduation. On her first afternoon there, she met a young man, Carl Dean, who would become her husband. Two years later, in May 1966, they were married. “He’s good for me, cause he’s so different in nature from me,” she smiles. In 1967, Dolly’s career took off when country music superstar Porter Wagoner began featuring her on his popular syndicated television show, exposing Dolly to over 45 million people in more than 100 markets and attracting the attention of record executives at RCA. Dolly and Porter had 14 Top Ten hits together, and Dolly quickly blossomed into one of the best-selling country artists in music history. By 1974, Dolly ended her working relationship with Wagoner. She was voted the Country Music Association Female Artist of the Year two years in a row, and in 1978, Dolly was named the CMA Entertainer of the Year. In 1974, “I Will Always Love You” topped the charts and did so again in 1982 when it was revived in the movie Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, making Dolly the first artist to earn a number one record twice with the same song. In 1992, the song was recorded by Whitney Houston for the movie The Bodyguard and went on to sell in excess of 4 million copies, topping the charts once again. “I Will Always Love You” was named BMI’s Most Performed Song of the Year in 1993. Dolly saw a cherished dream become a reality in 1986 with the opening of her own theme park called Dollywood, in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, at the base of the Great Smoky Mountains. The state’s number one tourist attraction, Dollywood was selected by the theme park industry as one of the top three theme parks in the world in 2006. In 1988, she began the Dollywood Foundation to inspire children in her home community to dream more, learn more, do more and care more. Currently the foundation funds the Dolly Parton Imagination Library across America and in Canada, by giving every preschool child a book each month from the time he or she is born until the child reaches kindergarten. With the help of local sponsors, this program has expanded to ove", "Heath Ledger favored to become second actor to win Oscar posthumously | Tampa Bay Times Heath Ledger favored to become second actor to win Oscar posthumously I want to see more articles tagged I'm already following articles tagged 2 Weeks Ago Times Film Critic Peter Finch awoke on Jan. 14, 1977, dressed, kissed his wife and began a familiar stroll to the nearby Beverly Hills Hotel. The 64-year-old British actor often visited the hotel's bar, but this occasion was different. Finch was to appear on Good Morning America with director Sidney Lumet, promoting their new movie, Network. Finch would later earn his second best actor nod (after Sunday Bloody Sunday), playing the mad prophet newsman Howard Beale, urging viewers to get mad as hell at life's injustice and not take it anymore. But he wouldn't be alive to relish the honor. Inside the hotel lobby, Finch felt tightness in his chest. He collapsed into a plush chair, felled by a massive heart attack. An hour later, Finch was pronounced dead at a hospital. Ten weeks after, he became the only actor ever to receive a posthumous Oscar. Sunday night, Finch will likely gain company in that distinction. Heath Ledger never had a chance to enjoy his best supporting actor nomination for The Dark Knight. The Australian-born actor died at age 28 of an accidental prescription drug overdose in a New York apartment, exactly one year before his nomination was announced on Jan. 22. After winning every major award in his category before the Oscars — the result of fond remembrance and a stunning portrayal of Batman's archenemy, the Joker — Ledger is expected to complete the sweep at the Kodak Theatre. It should be the kind of dramatic, spontaneous theater that makes the Oscars intriguing every year. Ledger's surviving family is rumored to be attending to accept the Oscar, as Finch's widow, Eletha, did in 1977. Posthumous Oscar nominations aren't uncommon; Ledger is the 70th person to receive one in the academy's 81-year history. Fourteen deceased nominees — Walt Disney among them — have won the Oscar, mostly artists behind the camera, anonymous to moviegoers. Actors are who we see when we watch movies, so we care a bit more about them. Ledger's nomination is only the eighth bestowed upon an actor who didn't live to enjoy the ceremony. The first went to Jeanne Eagles in 1930, for best actress in The Letter. The most recent was Massimo Troisi, for best actor in 1996 for The Postman (Il Postino). James Dean is the king of after-death honors, with two posthumous nominations in the mid 1950s: best actor for Giant and supporting actor for East of Eden. Sir Ralph Richardson (Greystroke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes) was a supporting actor finalist in 1985. Spencer Tracy was a sentimental best actor nominee in 1968 for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. None of those actors had Ledger's year-end awards momentum, or the Internet-era buzz that practically fills out academy voters' ballots. Sunday night, an envelope will open in the Kodak Theatre, and so will tear ducts. And somewhere in the hereafter, Finch will welcome Ledger into the Academy Awards' saddest, most exclusive club. Information from the Associated Press, Internet Movie Database, Los Angeles Times and Elaine Dundy's book \"Finch, Bloody Finch\" was used in this report. . FAST FACTS", "Vatnajokull Glacier in Iceland - What, Where & How Mar, 15 | admin | Iceland is a land filled with lots of interesting things to do and incredible places to see. Amongst its lovely attractions worth visiting is the Vatnajokull glacier. This glacier is Iceland’s largest glacier and the largest Icecap in Europe with an area of over 8,000 km sq. This glacier contains about 3300 km³ of ice. Tour Services A legendary tour operator that offers a wide variety of bus tours all around Iceland. All RE busses are equipped with FREE WIFI. Single day and multi-day tours in every corner of Iceland. You can also book private tours if you prefer being in a smaller group. Activities, daytours and even trips to Greenland. Iceland Excurcions is part of Gray Line. Themed packages, daytours and very helpful tour guides - all for a convenient price. Vatnajokull glacier has close proximity to Hvannadalshnukur, which is considered the highest peak in the entire country. It will be surprising to know that there are lots of volcanoes right under the ice cap. A volcanic eruption occurred here just recently in 2011. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Vatnajokull glacier is the location of the longest line of sight in the world, which is approximately 550 km. It has been used as the shooting location for several great movies including “A View to Kill”, a James Bond Series. Despite the fact that the shoot location of the movie was at Vatnajokull, Russia was given the credit as scene location. It is also considered to be one of seven natural wonders of Europe. The best way to see and experience Vatnajokull glacier is by booking a tour with any of the tour operators offering services to this part of the country. There are loads of them available out there. You will explore the area using a 4×4 jeep alongside a professional tour guide. Asides that, you can also take a boat ride to the Vatnajokull glacier. Exploring the glaciers through the waterways create a stunning landscape picture and offers you the chance to catch spectacular views of it. Remember to bring your camera along with you as lots of picture taking opportunities awaits you there. Vatnajokull glacier National Park is also considered a perfect place for camping and hiking. Also, travelers can also decide on skiing on the ice caps. This makes Vatnajokull glacier and surrounding areas one of the most visited tourist attractions in Iceland. The glacier attracts thousands of people annually. Covering about 8% of entire country, Vatnajokull glacier has an average thickness of 400m. Underneath Vatnajokull ice-cap are seven central volcanoes. One of the largest volcano underneath the glacier is The Kverkfjöll, located on the northern edge of Vatnajokull. So many travelers who had been opportune to visit the largest glacier in Europe consider it as a beautiful and serene place. It is definitely a beauty to behold. As a result of its massiveness, one can possibly catch spectacular views of this beautiful glacier from the Faroe Islands, which is about 340 miles away. In 2008, the entire glacier and surrounding areas including National Parks as well as several nature reserves, were declared the largest National Park in Europe. The perfect and safest time when visitors can go into the glaciers is during the winter months. Whenever you are planning a vacation to Iceland, be sure to visit the Vatnajokull glacier. Your trip to Iceland will be considered incomplete if you miss out on visiting this incredible place. With the help of a guide, you are definitely going to experience memorable moments here. The Vatnajokull Glaciers a sight you will not want to miss. Search hotels and more...", "Michael Caine’s Memoir, ‘The Elephant to Hollywood’ - The New York Times The New York Times Books |What It Was All About for Alfie, Now a Grandpa Search Books | Books of The Times What It Was All About for Alfie, Now a Grandpa Continue reading the main story Michael Caine ’s “Elephant to Hollywood” is an unabashedly old-school celebrity memoir. Its tales sound oft-told because they probably are. Mr. Caine is a charming raconteur, specializing in anecdotes packed with famous names. In these stories all the famous people do their famous-people things, whether it’s Jack Nicholson grinning “with that wolfish Nicholson grin” or John Wayne striding into the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel in full cowboy regalia. “You’re gonna be a star, kid” was the first thing Wayne said to Mr. Caine that day. Then “Call me Duke.” Then a funny off-color punch line. Mr. Caine has trod this territory before. He wrote about his life in an earlier book, the 1992 “What’s It All About?” But he is now Sir Michael Caine, so he has at least one new thing to talk about. Naturally, he has stories to tell about the day on which he was knighted. He noticed that in the queen’s handshake “there is a very slight push towards you in case you have forgotten it is over.” He also reports that there is a back room in Buckingham Palace where those who will be kneeling before the queen can practice a very important part of the ceremony: getting up again. Mr. Caine, 77, writes with a quality that has grown rare among memoirists: good cheer. His stories aren’t saccharine, but they aren’t mean spirited either. “Beverly Hills is a long way from my childhood home in the Elephant and Castle in south London,” he says early on, referring to a working-class neighborhood there. It may have been a long way, but he makes the journey sound like smooth sailing despite a few comedic comeuppances here and there. A producer once wanted to fire him from “Zulu,” claiming that “Michael Caine doesn’t know what to do with his hands.” But he was imitating what Prince Philip does with his hands, since the role called for an authority figure of military bearing. Advertisement Continue reading the main story When he gets from the Elephant to Hollywood, as per the title, Mr. Caine writes sunnily: “So off I went to the land of my youthful dreams. My expectations were so high that I thought the reality would be a disappointment. I was wrong — it was better than the wildest of those dreams.” Continue reading the main story This book starts with a vague promise of showbiz schadenfreude. It says it will trace the arc of a movie career that started big (“Alfie,” “The Ipcress File” ) and then hit the doldrums. There did come a time when Mr. Caine began to notice that he was being asked to play fathers instead of leading men and that he was being sent well-worn scripts that bore coffee stains; he took these as danger signs. But he has always seemed so indispensable on screen that it’s hard to picture him in trouble. And the trouble, if that’s what it was, didn’t last. Once he got into the “Batman” business (with “Batman Begins” in 2005) and became sought after by its director, Christopher Nolan (“Inception” this summer), the comeback was official. Photo Michael Caine Credit Terry O'Neill Mr. Caine appreciates what it takes to have an indelible screen presence. He’s surprised that it is now possible to be a leading man who stars in vampire pictures. His idea of a star — and that’s one of his favorite words, along with “glamorous” and “luxurious” — is Humphrey Bogart or Cary Grant. (Originally named Maurice Micklewhite, he took “Caine” from “The Caine Mutiny,” Bogart’s hit.) So he tells lots of stories about this old guard, even one about a Beverly Hills hardware store. Luckily he heeds the advice of Elmore Leonard and leaves out the boring parts. So even his hardware store anecdote has a point. In the same store where he spotted beloved notables like Fred Astaire and Danny Kaye, he was startled to see Klaus Kinski — a man scarier than anything teenage vampire fans can imagine — buying an ax. Most", "Dr No Dr No Certificate: pg Synopsis Sean Connery effortlessly stepped into the bespoke shoes of novelist Ian Fleming's James Bond in the first film of what would become the world's most successful cinema franchise. Pitted against pincer-handed megalomaniac Dr Julius No (Joseph Wiseman), Connery established 007 as a ruthless womaniser, ice-cool killer and sardonic cynic while the movie cast a template - Ursula Andress's bikinied Bond girl, Wiseman's over-ambitious villain and Monty Norman's Bond theme - which has held up for decades. Director \"I admire your luck, Mr...? \"Bond. James Bond.\" These immortal lines uttered during a game of chemin-de-fer (which he won, naturally) established both Sean Connery and the character of 007 at the beginning of a world-beating sequence of cinema successes that would see Bond reinvented by no less than six actors. Connery, a onetime coffin polisher, milkman and sailor, had enjoyed limited big screen success as a deckhand on the Titanic in A Night To Remember, a squaddie in The Longest Day and the hardman role of Johnny Kates in Hell Drivers. At the time - 1961 - the Bond novels did not enjoy mainstream popularity so the film's producers originally opted for a big name - Cary Grant turned them down - before settling on the untested Connery. They made the right choice. Despite his Scottish working class background, Connery slid easily into the role of the suave, sophisticated spy who was quite happy to kill in cold blood if the situation demanded it. Or even if it didn't. His first cinematic mission saw him despatched by MI6 chief M (Bernard Lee) to Jamaica to investigate the murder of a British agent. Hardly had the superspy-in-waiting touched down when he claimed his first victim - a henchman of Dr No (Wiseman) posing as a government chauffeur - bites into a strychnine-laced cigarette when Bond finds him out. Hooking up with CIA agent Felix Leiter (Hawaii's Five-O's Jack Lord), Bond becomes suspicious about the goings-on at the mysterious Crab Key, an island feared by the locals and home of the reclusive Dr No. However, it seems that Dr No is also interested in 007. He sends his henchman Professor Dent (Anthony Dawson) to kill the inquisitive spy...and Bond narrowly escapes death-by-tarantula-bite. During a second attempt, Dent is caught out by Bond who has counted the number of slugs pumped into a pile of pillows 007 has used as a decoy. \"That's a Smith & Wesson and you've had your six,\" Bond observes...and executes him with a shot to the chest. Landing on Crab Key, Bond beholds the now iconic scene of Ursula's Andress's conch-collector Honey Ryder emerging from the sea. (her singing voice for Underneath The Mango Tree was dubbed by British actress Diana Coupland, who is most famous for the TV comedy Bless This House). Captured by Dr No, Honey and Bond as imprisoned in his lair where - over dinner - the villain reveals himself to be a member of SPECTRE - SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) and has plans to disrupt the US rocket launches at Cape Canaveral. All the ingredients that would make the Bond franchise a going concern are present and (politically in-)correct. Apart from the perfect casting of Connery, there's the gun-barrel opening sequence, the concept of \"The Bond Girl\", the Ken Adam-designed super-sets and even 007's predeliction for a vodka martini \"shaken, not stirred.\" There's also the first mention of SPECTRE and Wiseman's villain - who lost both his hands in a radiation accident and had them replaced with statuette-crushing steel talons - was a chilling blueprint for that most enticing of roles: the Bond villain. Of course, it's dated - a Sunbeam Alpine isn't exactly cutting edge transport - but the elegant playboy spy with just a whiff of danger was clearly here to stay. As Bond says \"World domination. The same old dream. Our asylums are full of people who think they're Naploeon. Or God.\" For the next half century he was about to find out. Tim Evans", "The Young Queen Elizabeth - Royal Gowns From The 1950s | Edelweiss Patterns Blog The Young Queen Elizabeth Posted by Edelweiss Patterns on June 6, 2012 This weekend as the world celebrated 60 years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, we’ve had a wonderful chance to look back at how faithfully she and Prince Phillip have served the Commonwealth for the last six decades. Bright and chipper as ever, the Queen stills wears incredibly fashionable suits and hats, and insists that her umbrellas match each outfit. Her strikingly gorgeous white hair is styled in a curly coiffure reminiscent of the 1950s, and she is probably the only member of the Royal Family who sports bright red lipstick for every outing and event. So since we’re all in the “Royal” mood this week, I wanted to show some of my favorite pictures from her younger years and pass along a few things I learned about her wardrobe while studying in England. The quintessential \"princess\" gown! It has been said that Princess Elizabeth was rather conservative when it came to clothing choices, and while she was decidedly fashionable and chic she was certainly not a show-off. In the 1950s her evening gowns were always elaborately beaded and embroidered, but designed with a modest cut to befit a queen. A vast majority of her state banquet gowns were subdued hues of blue or cream, though on one grand occasion her childhood governess convinced her to wear red. This former nanny also recalled that in her teenage years she started making much more of a fuss about her appearance whenever Phillip arrived for a banquet or dance, though it wasn’t until her twenty-first birthday that their engagement was officially announced. The newly engaged couple had known each other for eight years before they could finally get married. Princess Elizabeth first saw Phillip when she was thirteen years of age, and was determined to marry only him ever since. Eight years later, she was finally planning the royal wedding she had dreamed of but had to be careful of extravagance due to the post-war rationing. Norman Hartnell designed this sumptuous silk wedding gown with embroidered flower motifs, which is now on display at Buckingham Palace for the Diamond Jubilee exhibit. Doesn't she look like a fairytale princess? Here are a few fun facts about Elizabeth’s wedding gown: Princess Elizabeth may have been royalty, but she still had to adhere to ration regulations. So since her ration books alone would never have supplied the money for a royal wedding dress, dozens of other engaged girls from around the country sent her their wedding dress coupons from their own ration books. (In the end, the government did designate some financial support for the expense, but I think it was such a touching gesture from these brides-to-be!) Norman Hartnell assigned the task of actually sewing the dress to one head seamstress and her three young assistants. The girl who had to sew all the buttonholes down the back had never done buttonholes before! So after a crash-course in buttonholing she feverishly perfected the hand stitch on scraps on fabric before slicing into the actual dress. (She later explained that the dress had already been embroidered by this time, so if she had made a mistake it would have been catastrophic!) Princess Elizabeth’s wedding dress had a total of 10,000 seed pearls embroidered in flower motifs! Norman Hartnell was unable to find such a great quantity in England, so one of his assistants flew to the United States in search of the precious beads. Upon arriving in London/Heathrow’s customs line, he was closely questioned as to what he was bringing back to the country. After declaring “Ten thousand seed pearls for Princess Elizabeth’s wedding dress,” he had to pay tax on the huge quantity of pearls before he was allowed to pass through customs! Princess Elizabeth arriving at Buckingham Palace after her wedding. What a sweet looking girl! The wedding itself was a glorious affair. Those who watched William & Catherine’s royal wedding would recognize all the same sights and locations – Elizab", "Music / Throw It In - TV Tropes Crystal Castles The track \"Alice Practice\" on the debut album was just a vocal demo featuring a load of distorted semi-incomprehensible roaring by singer Alice Glass over a chiptune-esque electronic beat. It was accidentally uploaded by the band and their fans reacted positively to it, so they decided to include it on the album, making it an entire song's worth of Throw It In . The track \"Love and Caring\" also qualifies - during a short instrumental section, Glass can easily be heard saying \"What the fuck is...? Oh, it's the bass... \" before launching into more distorted, noisy vocals. At the end of \"Riding Into Work In The Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)\" [sic] by Flaming Lips , while the singer is going \"Aaahhh...\" over and over, someone can be heard saying \"Alright... stop.\" In \"What Is The Light?\", the stopwatch function on someone's digital watch can be heard going off; it happened to do so on rhythm, and right before the drums kicked in. After \"I'm Still Alive\" by Stratovarius , two people can be heard talking. In the anthology film Urgh! A Music War, the band Magazine shows their awareness of a common Mondegreen of their song Model Worker . While the original studio version had the line \"I know the cadre will look after me,\" they changed it to its mishearing \"I know that Carter will look after me,\" and confirmed it by rhyming an original lyric, \"I have been indulging in ostentatious display\" with \"Playing in the Rose Garden, rolling in the hay\". The opening operatic blast which falters and fails in the Electric Light Orchestra track \"Rockaria\", before the song picks up as it should, was a fault by the diva they'd brought in; they left it in because the false-start-and-retake sounded right. At the end of the Tori Amos song She's Your Cocaine you hear Tori say \"cut it again,\" probably asking for another take. Whether she did or not, this was the version used. The Guns N' Roses song You're Not The First is an obvious rehearsal take with timing countdowns audible among other chatter, ending with \"to the bar!...that's a take!\" They liked the laid back feel of this so much they just kept it as the final. Ben Folds has done this much of his career. Studio chatter and random unplanned noises can be heard all through Ben Folds Five 's Whatever And Ever Amen, as one example. One song from his Speed Graphic EP has an entire phone call from his sister, who called in the middle of it being recorded. Metallica 's original The Garage Days Re-Revisited is intentionally lo-fi and not \"cleaned up\" post production very well. Studio chatter, the sound of amps being turned on and guitars tuned, etc. The (off key) intro to Iron Maiden 's Run To The Hills at the end of the CD was improvised last minute during the take of Last Caress/Green Hell used and they decided to keep it, really giving the whole thing a practice in a garage feel. At the end of the Sonata Arctica song \"The Power of One\" on the Silence album, there's about a minute of silence, followed by someonenote Nik Van-Eckmann, the voice on this track's intro and ending muttering \"And I fuckin' touched the mic, hold on.\" Draw Me from Winterheart's Guild has a conversation among the band (in Finnish) at the end of it, when a bird flew into the recording studio. If you can't understand it, the (clear) lines translate to \"You should get an award from Greenpeace.\" \"A bird roast.\" \"A bird roast... (Laughs)\" Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess played the last note of In the Name of God\" with his nose. Apparently Mike Portnoy liked it so much they decided to keep it. On a similar note, Rudess played an improvised, on the fly solo on his continuum at the end of The Dark Eternal Night while they were tracking the drums or something, and the band liked it so much that they stuck it on the record. Also, John Myung's bass solo in \"Metropolis Part 1\" was a tapping exercise he used to warm up. The rest of the band liked it and convinced him to throw it into a song. One famous example is Australian band Jet's \"Are You Gonna Be My Girl\", which begins with Nic", "And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists Shelves: favorites This book brought back the early 80s in hallucinatory detail. I remember when we first heard about Gay Cancer, and how hard it was to get any decent information. I remember when the world got wobbly and my friends were dying and it seemed like nobody cared. I was quite certain that, given my penchant for fey boys, I wouldn't be around to see the turn of the century. I vividly remember making up file folders for 1989 for my job and thinking that the ones for 1990 would be in someone else's handwr This book brought back the early 80s in hallucinatory detail. I remember when we first heard about Gay Cancer, and how hard it was to get any decent information. I remember when the world got wobbly and my friends were dying and it seemed like nobody cared. I was quite certain that, given my penchant for fey boys, I wouldn't be around to see the turn of the century. I vividly remember making up file folders for 1989 for my job and thinking that the ones for 1990 would be in someone else's handwriting. It was a scary time that was made electric for me by Shilts and Larry Kramer. I bought this book the week it came out, and it changed my view of everything. Absolutely everything. Reading it again some 20-odd years later brought back the anger and the sadness and that helpless, blistering rage. This is the book that made me understand viscerally that me and mine mattered nothing to the government. It's also where I learned that the best intentions can get snarled in the weeds- that people passionately devoted to an idea will serve that idea beyond all reason, that profit comes before people, and that it always takes a movie star to catch the public's imagination. All the mistakes, all the missteps are herein laid out in letters of fire. The Cassandras, dismissed, reviled and hushed at the time, are sadly proven right. Reagan is illuminated in the harsh light of retrospect and found wanting. A whole generation vanished because the health officials didn't want to talk about anal sex, the blood banks didn't want to admit they should have tested the blood, the gay rights organizations couldn't conceive of closing the baths, the government couldn't fund the scientists, the scientists couldn't let go of their need to be the first, the medical journals couldn't suspend business-as-usual, the FDA couldn't understand that double blind studies were inappropriate in the face of an epidemic of this magnitude, and on and on and on. A monumental comedy of errors that could so easily have been prevented. This book should be required reading for anyone entering any sort of health care profession or who might be a health care consumer some day. Infuriating, well-written, and tragically still timely. It could happen again. This book changed my life. I wish it hadn't had to. ...more \"AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals.\" -Jerry Falwell \"In this respect our townfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogey of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away, and from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away ...\" -Albert Camus, The Plague \"AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals.\" -Jerry Falwell \"In this respect our townfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogey of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away, and from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away ...\" -Albert Camus, The Plague Perhaps the most astonishing factor in this book, more so than the wasting disease of AIDS, is the totally pervasive sense of callous indifference. How th", "Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) Lyrics Meaning As long as the planets are turning, as long as the stars are burning As long as your dreams are coming true, you better believe it That I would do anything for love, and I’ll be there til the final act I would do anything for love, and I’ll take a vow and seal a pact But I’ll never forgive myself if we don’t go all the way tonight And I would do anything for love, oh I would do anything for love Oh I would do anything for love, but I won’t do that, no I won’t do that 3. He'll never forgive himself if they don't go all the way (The only reference to sex in the song) EG 3: But I’ll never stop dreaming of you every night of my life, no way And I would do anything for love, oh I would do anything for love I would do anything for love But I won’t do that No I won’t do that 4. He'll never stop dreaming of her. As he describes it in Storytellers (I have watched this sooooo many times) Its the line before every chorus. Fun Fact: Meat & Jim Steinman argued over whether people would understand what they meant, \"Of course they will, people aren't idiots.\" Now its the single most asked question when people meet him or in interviews. 1)\"But I'll never forget the way you feel right now Oh no, no way And I would do anything for love But I won't do that.\" 2) \"But I'll never forgive myself If we don't go all the way tonight! I would do anything for love Oh, I would do anything for love I would do anything for love But I won't do that No, I won't do that.\" 3)\"But I'll never do it better than I do it with you So long, so long And I would do anything for love Oh, I would do anything for love I would do anything for love But I won't do that No, no, no, I won't do that.\" 4) \"But I'll never stop dreaming of you Every night of my life, no way And I would do anything for love Oh, I would do anything for love I would do anything for love But I won't do that No, I won't do that.\" It's all right there in the lyrics! Hope this helped:) MeatLoaf4ever!", "Super League Dream Team includes Jamie Peacock for an 11th time | Rugby League News | Sky Sports Super League Dream Team includes Jamie Peacock for an 11th time Last Updated: 28/09/15 6:40pm Jamie Peacock has been named in the Dream Team for an 11th time Leeds forward Jamie Peacock has been named in Super League's Dream Team for a record-extending 11th and final time. The former England captain, who is retiring at the end of the season, was first chosen in the mythical form team of the season in 2000 when he was a 22-year-old second rower with Bradford. Now at the age of 37, he has been selected in the Dream Team front row for the third year running. \"It's an honour to be in there again,\" Peacock said. \"There's some really strong candidates in my position this year. \"Certainly [Castleford props] Andy Lynch and Grant Millington and [Warrington's] Chris Hill have been fantastic. \"I've tried to play consistently well this year. My aim was to play well in the games that matter, which are the knockout games and the Challenge Cup, and I think I've delivered on that. Peacock (centre left) lifts the League Leaders' Shield after victory at Huddersfield \"Also, to play well against the best teams - and I think my performances in those games have been as good as they ever have. I've enjoyed this year.\" Peacock admits he has considered changing his mind about retirement but says he will go through with his plans to hang up his boots next month and take up a role as football manager with Hull KR. \"I'm choosing to retire and I'm pleased about that but I know for sure that I could go round again,\" he said. \"It has gone through my mind but I want to finish this year and move on to a new challenge.\" Peacock is joined by three of his Rhinos team-mates who have completed two-thirds of a potential treble by landing the Challenge Cup and League Leaders' Shield. Leeds Rhinos lift the league leaders shield with victory over Huddersfield One of them, Australian forward Adam Cuthbertson, is one of seven newcomers, while Zak Hardaker and Kallum Watkins are among four players to keep their places from the 2014 team. The new faces also include Huddersfield winger Jermaine McGillvary, who finished the season as Super League's top tryscorer with 27 touchdowns, including 13 in the Super 8s as the Giants clinched a place in this week's semi-finals. Huddersfield's Jermaine McGillvary is the leading tryscorer in Super League Hardaker, Cuthbertson and St Helens prop Alex Walmsley are also in line for the major individual prize after being short-listed for the Man of Steel award, which will be announced next Monday in the build-up to the Grand Final at Old Trafford. The spread of clubs represented in the team, which is selected by a panel of journalists and broadcasters, reflects the close nature of the 2015 competition which went down to the very last second when Ryan Hall's 200th try for Leeds in Friday's epic clash with Huddersfield helped them secure top spot on points difference ahead of Wigan. 2015 First Utility Super League Dream Team: Z Hardaker (Leeds); J McGillvary (Huddersfield), K Watkins (Leeds), M Shenton (Castleford), J Burgess (Wigan); D Brough (Huddersfield), L Gale (Castleford); J Peacock (Leeds), J Roby (St Helens), A Walmsley (St Helens), Z Taia (Catalans Dragons), L Farrell (Wigan), A Cuthbertson (Leeds). Watch the Super League Super 8s semi-finals on Thursday (Wigan v Huddersfield) and Friday (Leeds v St Helens), live on Sky Sports 1 HD from 7.30pm.", "Is the God of the Old Testament a Merciless Monster? | CARM Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry Is the God of the Old Testament a Merciless Monster? edited by Matt Slick 07/13/10 ABSTRACT: Non-Christians sometimes assert that God is portrayed in the Old Testament as a cruel and ruthless deity that indiscriminately orders the execution of seemingly innocent men, women, and children, or directly carries out their deaths by various means. Such a God, the argument goes, in no way represents the loving Creator or Father figure that the New Testament offers, and should in no way be worshipped or venerated. However, a closer examination of Yahweh in the Old Testament refutes the charge of the Creator being a tyrant and instead reveals a righteous, patient, merciful, and loving God who does indeed mirror the picture painted by Jesus and the rest of the New Testament writers. Introduction In his book The God Delusion, atheist Richard Dawkins writes a scathing rendition of God as he sees Him in the Old Testament. Dawkins says: “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” 1 Such words are echoed by atheist Charles Templeton who states: “The God of the Old Testament is utterly unlike the God believed in by most practicing Christians … His justice is, by modern standards, outrageous…. He is biased, querulous, vindictive, and jealous of his prerogatives.” 2 What is it in the Old Testament that elicits such strong language from Dawkins and Templeton who want nothing to do with God? Are such portrayals of God accurate? Does the Old Testament paint a picture of God as nothing more than a cosmic bully with a hair trigger who is ready to torture or end the lives of anyone who so much as neglects a seemingly small request of Heaven? The answers to these questions are critically important because Christians today are quick to tell unbelievers about a God of love who is patient, forgiving, and slow to anger. Is there a disconnect between what Christians profess about God vs. what is actually recorded in the first thirty-nine books of the Bible? A Brief Look at Some Old Testament Examples The adversaries of God’s depiction in the Old Testament point to a number of Biblical references that seem to portray the Creator in a bad light. For example, front and center in their arguments is the Genesis flood that erased all life from earth except for one particular family: “Behold, I [God], even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.\" (Gen. 6:17). From this verse, it is crystal clear that it is God Himself who is choosing to cause the deaths of untold numbers of men, women, and children. Later in Genesis is found the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and all its people via a direct supernatural act of God: “Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven, and He overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground\" (Gen. 19:24-25). Charges of genocide are very common among the critics of God, with Israel’s charge of what to do with existing people in the promised land being called out as an example: “When the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you, and when the Lord your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them” (Deut. 7:1-2, emphasis added). To the skeptic, it seems pl", "Where was Jesus baptized? - NET Where was Jesus baptized? Written by Stephen Langfur with additional research and writing by Micah Key The Jordan today The place where John baptized Jesus is uncertain. Yet no one doubts the historical event. The early Church would never have preserved a tradition of Jesus' baptism by John if it weren't an actual memory. For it implies, on the face of things, that Jesus needed purification through the good graces of the Baptist. That is why the Gospels stress that John pronounced himself unworthy and that Jesus allowed it, saying, \"All righteousness must be fulfilled\" (Matthew 3:15). To Josephus, John was the better known of the two. It is likely that the Church preserved his works because of the following passage: Now some of the Jews thought that the destruction of Herod's [Antipas’s] army came from God, and that very justly, as a punishment of what he did against John, that was called the Baptist: for Herod slew him, who was a good man, and commanded the Jews to exercise virtue, both as to righteousness towards one another, and piety towards God, and so to come to baptism; for that the washing [with water] would be acceptable to him, if they made use of it, not in order to the putting away [or the remission] of some sins [only], but for the purification of the body; supposing still that the soul was thoroughly purified beforehand by righteousness. Now when [many] others came in crowds about him, for they were very greatly moved [or pleased] by hearing his words, Herod, who feared lest the great influence John had over the people might put it into his power and inclination to raise a rebellion, (for they seemed ready to do any thing he should advise,) thought it best, by putting him to death, to prevent any mischief he might cause, and not bring himself into difficulties, by sparing a man who might make him repent of it when it would be too late. Accordingly he was sent a prisoner, out of Herod's suspicious temper, to Macherus, the castle I before mentioned, and was there put to death. Now the Jews had an opinion that the destruction of this army was sent as a punishment upon Herod, and a mark of God's displeasure to him. (Josephus Flavius, Antiquities of the Jews XVIII 5.2, translated by William Whiston.) Note the reference to people coming “in crowds about him” and the “great influence he had.” After John’s death, we shall see below, these newly leaderless crowds may have been those for whom Jesus felt pity, calling them “sheep without a shepherd” (Mark 6:34). Matthew and Mark set the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River near the wilderness at a site accessible from Jerusalem . Luke 3:1-22 tells us that the Baptist received the Word of God in the wilderness and then \"came into all the region around the Jordan.\" John locates the event precisely at \"Bethany beyond the Jordan,\" but the name is unattested elsewhere. The Baptismal Site in Matthew and Mark Matthew (3: 1-17) has the Baptist \"preaching in the wilderness of Judea,\" and \"people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him…. Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.\" But John would have hindered him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?” But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him. Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him. Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.” Mark 1: 4-9 also places the event in the Jordan River, at a place accessible to people from Judea and Jerusalem. In line with these two evangelists, tradition has recognized the baptism in the River Jordan east of Jericho. This area in the wilderness of Judea would have been most accessible to people from Jerusalem. But where was the river 2000 years ago? It changes course unpredictably. In 1485 a m", "Seraphim, Cherubim & The Four Living Creatures -- whyangels?com The Four Living Creatures Three types of amazing 'heavenly beings' are described in the Bible. They don't sound like anything that we'd normally think of as 'angels'! These beings are the Seraphim or Seraphs , Cherubim or Cherubs & The Four Living Creatures . Each have important roles in heaven serving God. Seraphim or Seraphs The word Seraphim (one seraph, two or more seraphim) means “burning ones” or nobles. They are also sometimes called the 'ones of love' because their name might come from the Hebrew root for 'love'. Seraphim are only fully described in the Bible on one occasion. This is in the book of the prophet Isaiah, when he is being commissioned by God to be a prophet and he has a vision of heaven 1 . 1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another: \"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.\" 4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. 5 \"Woe to me!\" I cried. \"I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.\" 6 Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, \"See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.\" Isaiah 6:1-7 So these types of heavenly beings have six wings, but they only use two of them for flying. It sounds strange to use wings to cover your face and feet. They may well cover their face because, being so close to God, they would witness His full glory which would be too powerful to behold. Feet are considered 'unclean' and so not worthy to be shown to God. (Some scholars also think that 'feet' could actually mean 'genitals'.) We're not told how many Seraphim there are, but it's more than one. Their position is flying above God's throne, unlike the Cherubim who are beside/around it. Their primary duty is to constantly glorify and praise God and they may also be the personal 'attendant' angels of God. Their eternal song \"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.\" has been used by Jews and Christians for thousands of years to join with the angels in praising God. In Hebrew, to use the same word three times to describe something means that the person/object is utterly like the word. So calling God Holy three times means that God is utterly and perfectly holy. In Jewish folklore, and some later Christian works, the Seraphim are said to be the highest rank of angel. This is probably because of their very close proximity to God. In art, Seraphim are often red (because of their names 'burning ones') and are shown holding a flaming sword with the words 'holy, holy, holy' on the blade. The coal in Isaiah's vision, that touches his lips, is used to signify that Isaiah is now purified and fit to be a prophet. The coal came from the altar in heaven, so would have been very powerful. Fire is also used in many religions and faiths as a way of purifying and cleansing something. ^ Top of Page Cherubim or Cherubs When most people think of Cherubs they'll think of pudgy little baby-like creatures, with two little wings, who are rather cute. However, that's not how the Bible describes them! Cherubs (the correct pural is Cherubim) are described in two books of the Bible, Genesis and Ezekiel (a Jewish prophet). In Genesis they guard the Garden of Eden, following Adam and Eve's banishment from the Garden, and are described holding flaming swords 2 . After he [God] drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life. Genesis 3:24", "Judges 13 evil again in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the b hand of the Philistines forty years. 2 ¶And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not. 3 And the a angel of the Lord appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art b barren , and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. 4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and a drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any b 5 For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no a razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to b deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines. 6 ¶Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an a angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name: 7 But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death. 8 ¶Then Manoah entreated the Lord, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born. 9 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her. 10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day. 11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am. 12 And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him? 13 And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware. 14 She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe. 15 ¶And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee. 16 And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the Lord. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the Lord. 17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour? 18 And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is a 19 So Manoah took a kid with a a meat b offering , and offered it upon a rock unto the Lord: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on. 20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground. 21 But the angel of the Lord did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the Lord. 22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have a seen God. 23 But his wife said unto him, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these. 24 ¶And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him. 25 And the Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol." ]

[ "Cloud services like Google Play Music, Amazon Cloud Player, and Dropbox can sync your music library across your devices. By uploading music from your computer to the cloud and then install the service on your iPhone, you can enjoy and play the music from your computer on your iOS device without iTunes." ]

[ "How Do I Use iTunes on My iPhone? The iPhone's features include Internet capability, two cameras and \"apps,\" which are small mobile applications. The iPhone is designed to sync with iTunes, Apple's music software. iTunes lets you play, manage, organize and import music, as well as buy content from the iTunes Store.", "Adding all iTunes music into Serato DJ Click on the Files tab and then click on the Music folder/iTunes/iTunes Media to get to your iTunes Music folder. Drag and drop the entire iTunes Music folder directly onto the word all above your crates.", "I downloaded music from Bandcamp, now how do I get it into iTunes or Windows Media Player? To add music to iTunes, just launch iTunes and choose File > Add To Library.", "Click Erase [device] to erase passcode and unlock the disabled iPhone without iTunes. Step 6. After erasing, you can restore your iPhone from an iCloud backup. If you have another iOS device at hand, you can also use iOS devices' built-in feature - Find My iPhone to restore or unlock the disabled iPhone without iTunes.", "Mac OS X 10.6: ~/Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications/ Windows 7: C:\\Users\\Username\\My Music\\iTunes\\iTunes Media\\Mobile Applications\\", "Both are universal apps that run natively on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. iTunes' File Sharing is the way to get FLAC files onto your iOS device.", "Drag your iTunes folder from your desktop onto the external drive, and safely remove the drive once copying has finished. Connect your external drive to your new computer, and drag the iTunes folder from your external drive to the Music folder (Mac) or My Music Folder (Windows).", "Unless you have changed the location of your iTunes Music/Media folder, you can find it in your user folder on the computer. On a Windows PC, look in My Music and then the iTunes folder; on a Mac, open the Music folder and then the iTunes folder.", "To fix a disabled iPhone or iPad without iTunes, you have to erase your device. Click on the \"Erase iPhone\" option and confirm your selection. Wait for a while as the \"Find My iPhone\" feature will remotely erase your iOS device.", "Yes. Best Buy transferred all my info from my IPhone 8 to the 11 just by using my ICloud. Be sure your iPhone is up to date with all the upgrades because this feature was in one of the updates. Usually I used to go home and connect my phone to ITunes to finish my pictures & music but I didn't have to this time.", "['Run iTunes and connect your iPhone.', 'Wait until iPhone appears within iTunes; then click on the iPhone icon.', 'From the “Summary” screen click the “Restore Backup…” button.', 'Disable the “Find my iPhone” feature if necessary.']", "Turn off iTunes Match on iPhone If iTunes Match is turned on, iTunes won't let you sync music, so you have to disable it first and then try syncing music normally again. To do this, go to Settings > Music. Click on iTunes & App Store. ... You can also re-authorize iTunes and your device to see if your music will be synced.", "If you get the message”iPhone is disabled connect to iTunes”, according to Apple's solution, you have to restore the iPhone to the factory settings with Recovery Mode. All the data, settings and passwords will be removed, so you can get into the iPhone without a passcode.", "iPhone can play MP3 and other audio formats The reason for the confusion is that music downloaded from iTunes is in the AAC format. However, you can save music to iTunes from other sources, and most of those audio formats are supported on the iPhone.", "The Syncing process will generally overwrite the iPhone's content in those categories. If you have Music on your iPhone that does not exist in the iTunes Library on the computer you are syncing to, that music will be removed from the iPhone.", "['Turn off Find My iPhone via Settings > Apple ID Profile > iCloud > Find My iPhone > Off.', 'Connect your iPhone or iPad and open iTunes.', 'Choose your device and tap Summary.', 'Select either This Computer.', 'Select Restore Backup in iTunes.']", "Click \"Music\" to display it in iTunes, and copy the . m4r file from local to \"Music\". 10. Go back to the iTunes main screen, and click the iPhone device button within iTunes, go to \"Tones\", and you will see \"Sync Tones\", choose \"Selected tones\", click \"Sync\" and choose \"Apply\" to add ringtones to iPhone 8.", "At the June WWDC, Apple announced that it was getting rid of iTunes on Macs, which it had already done on the iPhone. As macOS Catalina rolls out beginning this week, iTunes will be replaced by three separate apps: Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple TV.", "Transfer iTunes to Android via USB Open Windows Explorer, and locate the iTunes folder on your computer. Drag and drop it into your device's music folder to copy the files onto your phone. The music will be visible in your chosen music player app once the transfer is complete.", "If you'd like to transfer contacts from iPhone to iPhone without iCloud, you can use iTunes instead. You'll need both iPhones and a computer for this task. Make sure you have the latest version of iTunes on your Mac or PC. Open iTunes.", "On a Windows PC, look in My Music and then the iTunes folder; on a Mac, open the Music folder and then the iTunes folder. ... When you open the iTunes Music subfolder, you should see nestled folders containing the MP3, AAC and other digital audio files you have been using.", "You can delete any of the songs in your iTunes library directly in iTunes. Open your music library. Click the Music button in the upper-left corner and then click the \"My Music\" tab. Find the song that you want to delete.", "iTunes Match lets you access your music library on any Apple device or a PC with iTunes for Windows. ... You can also manually sync music from your computer to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.", "How do I save / backup my iOS / iPhone notes? Notes from the stock iOS Notes app can be synced, backed up and viewed on a computer. If you take notes with an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, these are included in the default iTunes and iCloud backups. To view and edit notes on your computer, you must sync Notes with iTunes.", "The iTunes Media folder contains music purchased on iTunes, music imported from CDs and other iTunes files including iOS apps. You can transfer this folder to a USB drive just like you would any other file on Windows 7 or 8 -- drag the folder's contents onto the USB drive.", "Apple iTunes and Apple Music - the native music players across laptops and iPhones respectively - can play MP3, AAC, ALAC, WAV and AIFF audio files.", "How do I add ringtones to my iPhone? Step 1: Download and install Ringtones to iPhone Transfer and connect iPhone to the computer via a USB cable. Step 2: Click Music in the left > Select Ringtones in the right > Choose Add file from PC > Tick wanted music from the list > Click Select to add music to this program.", "Check the box beside Manually manage music and videos and click Apply. Now, drag the . m4r file into the Tones tab located under On My Device, which will automatically sync the ringtone with your iPhone. If you're using MacOS Catalina and don't have iTunes, then open the Finder, and click your iPhone in the sidebar.", "iTunes is the best method to erase your iPhone without passcode. It is Apple's proprietary device management software that allows users to make a backup of their device as well as restore it to default settings. You can use iTunes to restore your locked iPhone and erase it without a passcode.", "To add media to his iPhone, you need to first import it into iTunes. Have your friend download the file from Google Drive onto his PC. In iTunes, choose File > Add to Library, locate a file or folder, and click Open. Then sync the phone to iTunes.", "Find the iTunes Media folder By default, your iTunes Media folder is in your iTunes folder. To find it, go to User > Music > iTunes > iTunes Media. If you can't see your iTunes Media folder in the above location, here's how to find it: Open iTunes.", "The Wi-Fi option allows you to transfer data between iPad and iPhone using iTunes however without a computer. Therefore, to sync iPhone to iPad wirelessly, use iTunes Wi-Fi which is perfect. However, before you proceed, make sure that iTunes Wi-Fi is activated." ]

[ "Record store day sure yielded some goodies this year. Among the other buzzed about releases on Saturday was a Bon Iver/Peter Gabriel split 7-inch from Jagjaguwar. This is the first of what we hope will be at least a few more Peter Gabriel covers -- Gabriel put out an open-ended invitation/challenge to the artists whose work he covered on his recent Scratch My Back album. The goal is to eventually release an eclectic album of Peter Gabriel covers called I'll Scratch Yours. Details are sketchy on future covers, though. It sounded like we might get a Thom Yorke cover of the 1982 song \"Wallflower,\" but Gabriel told NME that Yorke isn't answering his calls right now. Even if all of the musicians don't come through, so far it looks like the ones who do are going to make up for it. Bon Iver's six-minute cover of \"Come Talk To Me\" exceeds all expectations. Flip the record over to find Gabriel's gorgeous rendition of \"Flume.\" You can listen to Justin Vernon's version of \"Come Talk To Me\" on Hype Machine, but, if you like it, for Pete's sake (and Justin's, too), just buy it. If not from a real record store, then it's available on iTunes, as well." ]

[ "On this edition of All Songs Considered: rare live recordings from Billie Holiday; remembering a classic from post-punk group The Jesus and Mary Chain that inspired new music from the Magnetic Fields; a new single from Peter Gabriel from his upcoming CD Big Blue Ball; the \"Upper West Side Soweto\" sound of Vampire Weekend; the wintry songs of Bon Iver; handmade music from Fire on Fire. Download this show in the All Songs Considered podcast. Sign up for the All Songs Considered newsletter and we'll tell you when new music features are available on the site.", "Remarkable falsetto singing, accompanied mainly (and sometimes solely) by acoustic guitar, was the calling card for Justin Vernon's breakout as Bon Iver. Since his widely praised debut, For Emma, Forever Ago, he's sung with pop superstars, produced for other artists and greatly expanded the sound of his own band. This week — after a five-year break — he takes another step away from his beginnings with Bon Iver's third album, 22, A Million. Shortly after Vernon released two songs from the new record this summer, the Bon Iver Facebook page was full of irate fans complaining about the \"electronic gadgets,\" \"vocoders\" and \"chipmunk vocals\" heard on the tracks. I get it — the guy's first record was recorded in a hunting cabin and sounded something like old-fashioned folk music. And this album definitely doesn't. But the more I listened to this record, the more I came to realize that in 2016, electronic music is folk music. Computers are how millions of people around the world make music; they've leveled the playing field and defined popular music for years. The question is, how do you use computers to make music that's soulful? That's something Vernon knows how to do. The sort of vocal processing on display in 22, A Million is really just a logical extension of how Vernon has long altered his voice — as in the 2009 track \"Woods,\" which later became the basis of a collaboration with Kanye West. Musically, this record showcases much more than just electronics. There are magnificent saxophone arrangements, fair amounts of acoustic guitar and samples of recordings both old and new. The result is like a hall of mirrors, music made by hand with wood and microchips that blurs folk, R&B, pop and gospel into something beyond genre. At least one person on the Bon Iver Facebook page thought this new music was even better than the group's earlier recordings, and I have to say I'm with them. As of right now, I haven't heard a more compelling record all year.", "Another week brings more surprises in our search for the albums everyone can love. According to our most recent poll, a third of you haven't heard the one record we've probably pimped more than any other on All Songs Considered: Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago. Really? A third of you haven't even heard it? Most of you also haven't heard Peter Gabriel's So (criminal) or Curtis Mayfield's Superfly. If nothing else, you should do yourself a kindness and check those out (along with all the others you haven't heard in these polls). Which brings us to this week's list of albums we might be able to agree on. Tell us what you think: Do you love them or not, or have you never even heard them? By the end of the summer we hope to have a top ten list of albums we can all (mostly) agree on. Hear songs from some of the nominees in this All Songs Considered spotify playlist. Or listen to some of the full albums in another playlist. Check out the previous polls in this series.", "These days, album-length covers collections tend to be minor footnotes in a musician's catalog, ranked somewhere just above live albums, holiday recordings and those greatest-hits packages that tack on one or two new songs. After all, covers albums at least seem as if they should be easy to assemble, in large part because they remove the artistic and logistical hurdle of writing songs. And, for their part, listeners tend to process them by way of comparison rather than raw appreciation. Leave it to Peter Gabriel, who's been recording at an ever more deliberate pace for the past quarter-century, to make the art of the covers album a slow and painstaking one. Back in 2010, he released one called Scratch My Back — on which he tackles songs by Bon Iver, Arcade Fire, Randy Newman, Regina Spektor, Lou Reed and more — with the stated intention that he'd follow it with an album of those same artists returning the favor. But loving an artist and soliciting his or her love in return are two different things, logistically speaking, and it's taken nearly four years for And I'll Scratch Yours to greet the world. Out Jan. 7, the latter album pulls off its mission, at least in part, with eclectic but frequently satisfying results. Several of these songs popped up in various places a couple years ago — including Arcade Fire doing \"Games Without Frontiers\" and Bon Iver tackling \"Come Talk to Me\" — which goes to show how long it's taken And I'll Scratch Yours to come together. But some clever, even revelatory moments have jelled in the time since. In one of his final performances, Reed gives \"Solsbury Hill\" an achingly intimate and characteristically gritty reading, while Newman is an inspired choice to take on the satirical \"Big Time.\" Feist and Timber Timbre have blended their alternately sweet and haunted voices before, and they make a fine match in a faithful reading of \"Don't Give Up.\" Speaking of Feist, she, Brian Eno and Joseph Arthur didn't have their songs covered on Scratch My Back, and their presence couldn't possibly make up for the absence of holdouts David Bowie, Neil Young and Radiohead. (Eno co-wrote David Bowie's \"Heroes,\" which Gabriel covered on Scratch My Back, but that's not exactly a 1:1 trade.) Radiohead's absence stings more than the others' — the band had agreed to cover \"Wallflower,\" but backed out after hearing Gabriel's version of \"Street Spirit (Fade Out)\" — but even that's appropriate in its own way. If our love were always reciprocated, we wouldn't need to sing about it, right?", "After winning over legions of fans with the deeply personal and hauntingly beautiful 2008 album For Emma, Forever Ago, Bon Iver is back with one of 2011's most anticipated follow-ups. On the forthcoming self-titled album, frontman Justin Vernon doesn't exorcise as many personal demons, and the songs aren't nearly as spare. But his heartbreaking falsetto is still the star. Bon Iver isn't due out until June 21, but you can hear the first single, \"Calgary,\" on this week's episode of All Songs Considered. Also on the program: The Lawrence, Kan.-based Hospital Ships (a.k.a. Jordan Geiger) channels The Beatles and Neutral Milk Hotel on its new album Lonely Twin; the bedroom recording project Dawn Golden and Rosy Cross (a.k.a. Dexter Totoriello); cosmic pop from Yellowbirds (a.k.a. Sam Cohen); a dystopian dance tune from the duo Yacht; and dark, brooding metal from the Japanese group Boris and the Swedish band Graveyard.", "On Monday night I saw Bon Iver play at Holecene in Portland. I had seen them play at SXSW but I wanted to view them in a different context, away from that strange beast of hype and amazement and anticipation that music festivals create. Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. The Portland crowd was full of love (and beer), and from the moment Justin Vernon and his bandmates took the stage, the audience hung on every note, in-between song banter, and a flood of feedback. I am not exaggerating when I say that people cried. Bon Iver's songs are delicate but they are not soft; the comfort in them is fleeting, their beauty uneven. In the live setting the songs are wilder, they screech and veer towards chaos before closing in on themselves. Vernon's voice is part songbird, part howl, and it is fearless. The chemistry between the players was fantastic, their delivery earnest and often dire. Whatever that strange magic is that certain people possess, Vernon has it. But both during songs and between them, singing or talking, he is himself: grateful, humble, aware of the moment. On of my favorite non-musical moments was when someone from the crowd yelled, \"F**k Jens Lekman!\" The comment was in response to our local weekly having set up an ersatz rivalry between Lekman and Bon Iver, who were playing on the same night. Vernon's response was, \"What? No! That guy is on our label\". Whoops. I guess a little research is needed before you drunkenly yell out what you think is a compliment. And since we've been talking about fans, I should add that Bon Iver's fans are pretty great, at least in Portland. We were even asked to sing along to \"The Wolves (Act I and II)\", and though this request usually makes me cringe, I sort of enjoyed it (though I didn't actually sing. Does mouthing the words count?). Anyway, if you haven't already heard it, listen to Bon Iver's song \"Skinny Love\" or stream the entire album here (thanks, Rick). You can also hear a full concert by Bon Iver, from NPR Music's SXSW series.", "Hear live shows from Spiritualized, Andrew Bird, Wilco, Bon Iver, Alabama Shakes, Beirut and many more. Recorded by NPR Music at venues and festivals across the country.", "It's shaping up to be a banner year for Peter Gabriel. The progressive-rock icon just turned 60. Genesis, the band he founded, will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Gabriel is also kicking off New Blood, a limited concert tour with full orchestra. And he's just released his first solo album in eight years. Scratch My Back features Gabriel performing a dozen cover songs by younger artists such as Bon Iver and Regina Spektor, as well as more familiar faces like Talking Heads and David Bowie. Gabriel set a single creative restriction for this project: \"No drums and no guitars.\" In the coming months, some of these artists will release covers of Gabriel's songs, as well. In an interview with Weekend Edition Sunday guest host Audie Cornish, Gabriel talks about the role of lyrics in deciding which songs he wanted to interpret. \"There are so many more things that I love the music of than the lyrics,\" Gabriel says. \"The lyrics was often the reason I didn't do a lot of songs that I like. 'Cause when you actually sort of strip them naked, it's not always that they're going to stand up. You know, some rock lyrics work well in one environment, but don't hold up if you separate them from their roots. And I think all of these lyrics are great lyrics regardless of the music.\" Gabriel and his team drastically re-orchestrated many of the songs on Scratch My Back, stripping them down and scoring them anew. \"For me, it's quite a grown-up record,\" he says. \"It's not easy listening. And I love stuff like that: that you don't necessarily like at all at first, but grows on you. And I think some of these songs are like that, or particularly these arrangements. \"And I think it's a record that we see as a journey,\" Gabriel adds. \"I know records are being seen very much as a selection of songs right now. And this is obviously, in its origin, a selection of songs. But I think the way we put it together, it's an old-fashioned album in the sense that you start at one point and end up at another.\" Gabriel also talks about recording songs by The Magnetic Fields, Regina Spektor and Paul Simon. He calls Simon's \"The Boy in the Bubble,\" from the album Graceland, \"one of the great pop lyrics of the last century.\" \"We sort of sucked out all the African elements, and you're left with the skeleton, which is an extraordinary thing in itself,\" he says. \"And I think a lot of people, myself included, heard the lyrics in a different way, in a new context.\" AUDIE CORNISH, host: 2010 is shaping up to be a banner year for singer Peter Gabriel. The progressive rock icon just turned 60. Genesis, the band he founded, will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Gabriel's kicking off New Blood, a limited concert tour, and he's just released his first solo album in eight years. It's called \"Scratch My Back,\" and it features Gabriel performing a dozen cover songs by newer artists like Bon Iver and Regina Spektor, and some familiar faces, like Talking Heads and David Bowie. (Soundbite of song, \"Heroes\") Mr. PETER GABRIEL (Singer): (Singing) We can be heroes just for one day. CORNISH: Gabriel set a single creative restriction for this project: no drums and no guitars. But there will be a full orchestra instead, and in the coming months some of these artists will release covers of his songs as well. Peter Gabriel joins us from his home studio in Wiltshire, England, to talk more about \"Scratch My Back.\" Peter Gabriel, welcome. Mr. GABRIEL: Thanks very much. CORNISH: All right. Let's get right to it. \"Scratch My Back\" features a cover of a song by one of my favorite artists, Regina Spektor. It's called \"Apres Moi.\" But first, let's hear the original. (Soundbite of song \"Apres Moi\") Ms. REGINA SPEKTOR (Singer): I must go on standing, you can't break that which isn't, isn't yours, yours. I must go on standing and on my own. It's not my choice. CORNISH: What about this composition were you trying to reinterpret? Mr. GABRIEL: Well, I think she's a very talented artist and I think it was the Russian quality of this song that I really was attracted to. And in fact when we were working on the arrangements, we tried to expand it in some ways. (Soundbite of song \"Apres Moi\") Mr. GABRIEL: Whereas a lot of the record is quite stark, this is not. (Soundbite of song \"Apres Moi\") Mr. GABRIEL: (Singing) I must go on standing, you can't break that which isn't, isn't yours, yours. I must go on standing and on my own. It's not my choice. CORNISH: I'm wondering what these lyrics mean to you. Mr. GABRIEL: I wasn't looking for specific storytelling with the lyrics, but there are sort of moods for me and emotions there that are very evocative. And it was, I think, on this track particularly, it was this melodic element that was the compelling component, although, you know, I think the words paint good pictures. CORNISH: When you were looking at songs, did you approach them first by taking on the arrangements and the music rather than the lyrics", "Hear the psych-rock revivalists in Black Mountain and art-folk singer Bon Iver recorded live in concert from Washington, D.C.'s Rock and Roll Hotel. Both performances originally webcast live on NPR.org Feb. 19, and will be available in the All Songs Considered Concerts podcast. Black Mountain's latest CD, In the Future, is an epic storm of prog-rock riffs, '60s psychedelia, and '70s metal. It's a gritty and potent mix that recall those classic eras without overloading on irony. Black Mountain features Matt Camirand, Stephen McBean, Jeremy Schmidt, Amber Webber, and Joshua Wells. The group formed in 2004 in Vancouver, B.C.; In the Future is its second album, following a self-titled debut in 2005. Bon Iver is a pseudonymn for singer-songwriter Justin Vernon. His debut CD, For Emma, Forever Ago, provides a comforting wash of gently strummed guitars set against distant atmospherics and layered harmonies that echo through the ether. Vernon wrote the songs while living in a remote cabin one winter in worthwestern Wisconsin, where he'd gone to exorcise some inner demons. For Emma, Forever Ago captures the isolation and chilly heartache of the period in which it's recorded. Bon Iver (pronounced \"bohn eevair\") is an intentional misspelling of \"bon hiver,\" which means \"good winter\" in French.", "In 2010, Peter Gabriel released the first half of a two-part project, singing favorite songs written by living musicians. He titled it Scratch My Back. Now comes the sequel, titled And I'll Scratch Yours. It features most of the acts whose songs he covered, returning the favor by performing Peter Gabriel songs. The lineup includes David Byrne, Lou Reed, Arcade Fire, Paul Simon and Bon Iver. On part one of Gabriel's covers project, all the songs he sang were arranged for orchestra, mostly at tempos ranging from slow to glacial. The songs were excellent, but it didn't always work. On part two, a bunch of Gabriel's best songs are performed any way the contributing artists wanted. So, for example, nothing stopped David Byrne from turning \"I Don't Remember,\" a spasmodic, paranoid song about amnesia, into a disco party anthem. It's fascinating to hear Gabriel's contemporaries cover his songs. Even he admits \"I Don't Remember\" might've been influenced by David Byrne and Talking Heads back when he wrote it. And Gabriel's \"Biko\" sounds almost like it was written for Paul Simon, another pop songwriter with a passion for South African music. Still, much of the brilliance of Peter Gabriel's songs came from his innovative arrangements and production. No doubt that's why some artists here, like Arcade Fire and Elbow, mostly xerox the originals, which isn't a bad approach. Yet for me, the record's most moving song is a radical re-imagining of \"Solsbury Hill,\" by the late Lou Reed. Gabriel's old friend sounds like a grizzled lighthouse keeper preparing to leave his post, as feedback howls around him. As for younger artists, Regina Spektor and Feist pull off lovely gender-reversals, while innovative singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur transforms \"Shock the Monkey,\" the first 45 single he ever bought as a kid. Later this year, Gabriel will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist. This covers project may be uneven, but it shows an artist still engaged with the present, still thinking outside the box — and who, clearly, still inspires. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The English rock musician Peter Gabriel released the first half of a two-part project in 2010 singing favorite songs written by living musicians like \"Boy in A Bubble,\" by Paul Simon. (SOUNDBITE FROM SONG \"BOY IN A BUBBLE\") PETER GABRIEL: (Singing) The way we look to a distant constellation that's dying in a corner of the sky, these are the days of miracles and wonder. Don't cry, baby, don't cry. CORNISH: Gabriel called the album \"Scratch My Back.\" Now comes the sequel, \"And I'll Scratch Yours.\" It features most of the artists whose songs he covered, returning the favor by performing Peter Gabriel songs. The lineup includes David Byrne, Lou Reed, Feist, Arcade Fire, Paul Simon and Bon Iver. It's an eclectic set and critic Will Hermes has a review. WILL HERMES, BYLINE: On part one of Peter Gabriel's covers project, all the songs he sang were arranged for orchestra, mostly at tempos ranging from slow to glacial. Excellent songs, great singer, but it didn't always work. On part two, a bunch of Gabriel's best songs are performed any way the contributing artists wanted. So nothing stopped David Byrne from turning a spasmodic, paranoid song about amnesia into a disco party anthem. (SOUNDBITE FROM SONG \"I DON'T REMEMBER\") DAVID BYRNE: (Singing) I don't remember. I don't remember. I don't remember. I don't recall. I have no memory of anything at all. I don't remember. I don't recall. I've got no memory of anything, anything at all. HERMES: It's fascinating to hear Gabriel's contemporaries covering his songs. Even he admits \"I Don't Remember\" might've been influenced by David Byrne and Talking Heads back when he wrote it. And \"Biko\" sounds almost like it was written for Paul Simon, another songwriter with a passion for South African music. (SOUNDBITE FROM SONG \"BIKO\") PAUL SIMON: (Singing) September '77, Port Elizabeth weather's fine. It was business as usual in police room 369. Oh, Biko, Biko, because Biko. Oh, Biko, Biko, because Biko. HERMES: Still, much of the brilliance of Peter Gabriel's songs came from his innovative arrangements. No doubt that's why some artists here mostly Xerox the originals, which isn't a bad approach. Yet for me, the record's most moving song is a radical re-imagining of \"Solsbury Hill,\" by the late Lou Reed. Peter Gabriel's old friend sounds like a grizzled lighthouse keeper preparing to leave his post, as feedback howls around him. (SOUNDBITE FROM SONG \"SOLSBURY HILL\") LOU REED: (Singing) I did not believe the information. I just had to trust my imagination. My heart going boom, boom, boom. Son, he said, grab your things, I've come to take you home. HERMES: As for younger artists, Regina Spektor and Feist pull off lovely gender-reversals, and experimental singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur transforms \"Shock the Monkey,\" which the first 45 single he ever bought as a kid. Later this year, Gabriel will be inducted into the Rock and Roll ", "As he does every week, NPR music writer and editor Stephen Thompson joins Here & Now’s Robin Young with a new song. This week&#8217;s song comes from a new album of Peter Gabriel covers called &#8220;And I&#8217;ll Scratch Yours.&#8221; Four years ago, Peter Gabriel made a record called &#8220;Scratch My Back&#8221; &#8212; it&#8217;s him covering songs by his favorite musicians, with the idea that each one would return the favor and cover a Peter Gabriel song. It took four years to gather all the recordings, and a few of the artists dropped out along the way, but the album of covers is finally out. One of its most inspired pairings is the song &#8220;Big Time&#8221; performed by Randy Newman. &#8220;To me, it&#8217;s a totally natural pairing of sensibilities,&#8221; Thompson says. &#8220;If you think of the original &#8216;Big Time,&#8217; it&#8217;s a satirical song from 1986 &#8212; it was making fun of Wall Street excesses in the 1980s. But some people also at the time interpreted it as glorifying that lifestyle, which fits right in with a lot of the way Randy Newman does his own satirical material, where he takes on the persona of an antihero in ways that can be misinterpreted.&#8221; \nMore song recommendations from Stephen Thompson\n\nGuest\n\nStephen Thompson, editor and reviewer for NPR music. He tweets @idislikestephen.\n ROBIN YOUNG, HOST: Well, it's the new year. Let's start it off with some new music. NPR music writer and editor Stephen Thompson is here. Stephen, what have you got for us? STEPHEN THOMPSON, BYLINE: I've got a song from a new album of Peter Gabriel covers. It's called \"And I'll Scratch Yours.\" YOUNG: This is getting a lot of buzz. THOMPSON: Yeah. Four years ago, Peter Gabriel made a record called \"Scratch My Back.\" It's him covering songs by some of his favorite musicians, with the idea being that each one would ultimately return the favor and cover a Peter Gabriel song. So it took four years to gather all of those recordings together, and a few of the artists dropped out along the way and that was this whole thing. But the album of covers is finally out. And one of its most, I think, inspired pairings is this song - the song \"Big Time\" as performed by Randy Newman. YOUNG: Let's hear. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, \"BIG TIME\") RANDY NEWMAN: (Singing) Big time. I'm on my way. I'm making it big time, oh, yeah. Big time, I've got to make it show, yeah, big time, big time. YOUNG: Boy, now hearing this, it feels like it could have been a Randy Newman song. THOMPSON: Yeah. To me, it is a totally natural pairing of sensibilities. If you think of the original \"Big Time,\" it's a satirical song from 1986. It was a big hit that was making fun of Wall Street excesses of the time, in the 1980s. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, \"BIG TIME\") PETER GABRIEL: I'll be a big noise with all the big boys, so much stuff I will own. And I will pray to a big god as I kneel in my big church. Big time. THOMPSON: But some people also at the time interpreted the song as glorifying that lifestyle, which fits right in with a lot of the way Randy Newman does his own satirical material, where he takes on the persona of an antihero in ways that can be misinterpreted. If you remember short people got no reason to live, he doesn't actually think that short people got no reason to live. Now, in part for that reason, this particular version of \"Big Time\" comes out sounding to me just like a Randy Newman song instead of just having someone remake a Peter Gabriel song with a different voice. YOUNG: Well, it just reminds us that we want to hear this whole album from Peter Gabriel with all the different takes on his music. But here's more of \"Big Time\" from Randy Newman. That new album of covers of Peter Gabriel called \"And I'll Scratch Yours\" from NPR music writer and editor Stephen Thompson. Stephen, thanks as always. THOMPSON: Thank you, Robin. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, \"BIG TIME\") NEWMAN: (Singing) They're always amazed. My heaven will be a big heaven. YOUNG: Actually, it's making me think I want to hear the Peter Gabriel song. So, we'll have that as well... (LAUGHTER) YOUNG: ...hereandnow.org.", "Audio for this feature is no longer available. Justin Vernon has to feel pressure every time he steps into a recording studio. As the leader of Bon Iver, he's gone 2 for 2, with a classic debut (For Emma, Forever Ago) followed by a lush and fussed-over album (Bon Iver) which won him a pair of Grammys, including one for Best New Artist. No matter his commercial ambitions, however reluctant he is to be viewed as a star, he's a star — and his career moves will be picked over accordingly. But Vernon also has capital to burn — not to mention favors he'd like to repay, friends whose careers he'd like to boost, and fun he'd like to have. So, a few years after recording a lovely album with his friends in Milwaukee's Collections of Colonies of Bees (under the name Volcano Choir), Vernon returns as part of an agreeably ramshackle, Tom Petty-esque blues-rock trio called The Shouting Matches. It doesn't even take 10 seconds for The Shouting Matches' debut album, Grownass Man, to present itself as something lighter in spirit than anything by Bon Iver; even before the opening riffs, a mere glance at the cover shows a smiling Justin Vernon, hanging out with his hometown pals. This isn't the stuff of mystery or misery, of yearning, of finding one's voice in a secluded cabin. It's the work of a guy who loves playing music — who's drawn influence from Talk Talk and Bruce Hornsby and many points in between — and saw an opportunity to have a blast on the side with friends he's joined on stage whenever possible. It's not that there are no stakes at work on Grownass Man — The Shouting Matches will play Coachella this summer, after all — but the trio benefits from a vibe of untethered looseness, even playfulness. Working with once and future bandmates Phil Cook and Brian Moen (the latter of Peter Wolf Crier), Vernon sheds his Bon Iver falsetto to showcase something closer to the deeper voice he employed in his DeYarmond Edison days. In \"Heaven Knows,\" Vernon gets to work out his raggedy blues moan amid blustery rock that stomps and wails, but Grownass Man eventually works in a bit of the fragility on which its star made his name. \"Seven Sisters\" sounds for all the world like a lost Tom Petty classic — it's urgent, but with an undercurrent of gorgeousness — while \"I'll Be True\" locates the tissue connecting The Shouting Matches to its Grammy-winning big brother. It's Bon Iver's tenderness, after all, that gave Vernon the clout to will Grownass Man into being, so he never quite lets it leave his sight entirely.", "Bon Iver has posted a new video on the band's YouTube page featuring frontman Justin Vernon and drummer Sean Carey performing five of the group's songs on dueling grand pianos. The video was shot at the stunning AIR Studio's Lyndhurst Hall in London and shows Vernon and Carey facing each other on opposing pianos as they work through stripped-bare versions of \"Hinnom, TX,\" \"Wash.,\" and \"Beth/Rest\" from Bon Iver, \"Babys\" from the Blood Bank EP, and the single \"I Can't Make You Love Me.\" Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard directed the shoot, with Jake Jackson and Brian Joseph at AIR Studios recording and mixing the audio.", "Electronica, piano solos, nashville guitar legends...you'd have to hear it to feel how it all fits together.", "Yeah, we know. When we made a list of our favorite records of the year so far, we left off Helplessness Blues and The King Is Dead. Among the other casualties: Let England Shake, So Beautiful or So What, Tomboy, Nine Types of Light and The King of Limbs. Good albums by musicians to whom we've shown no shortage of love, and yes, albums that had vocal supporters within our little group. So why did they get left behind? Simply because there was enough music we're excited about to make 25 slots seem tiny. Inevitably, there were disagreements, so we're using this space to give members of the team whose favorites didn't make the cut a chance to air grievances. Was making the big list easy? No. (Did you notice we left off Helplessness Blues and The King Is Dead?) But it was fun, even when we didn't agree.", "If you've paid even a tiny bit of attention to NPR Music in the past couple years, you've likely heard us gush (and gush) about Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. For a lot of us — I'm looking at you, Stephen Thompson — Bon Iver's 2008 album For Emma, Forever Ago was one of the decade's best records. It's the kind of album that makes you wish for more, in any form, from Vernon or anyone who had anything to do with it. So imagine our collective glee when we learned that Sean Carey, Bon Iver's drummer, was coming out with his own solo release. All We Grow is a stunningly beautiful album Carey pieced together, layer by layer, during brief breaks from touring with Bon Iver between 2008 and 2010. A lot of times, when drummers strike out on their own, they end up producing beat-heavy records where their own percussion work, for better or worse, remains the centerpiece of each track. In the case of Carey, who has a performance degree in classical percussion, the focus is on melody and voice, with carefully crafted piano lines, sweet harmonies and lots of moody ambience. There are still plenty of compelling rhythms — check out the guitar-drum dance in \"Action\" — but they take a backseat to the other sounds Carey creates. It also turns out that Sean Carey is a confident lead singer. He doesn't stretch into the plaintive falsetto range Justin Vernon employs so effectively on For Emma, Forever Ago. But Carey's voice is just as warm, rich and fragile. All We Grow is a meditative record, one you'll want to hear on headphones on a quiet night. Carey has a gift for crafting expansive, cinematic pieces that unfold and bloom slowly and delicately, so be sure to take some time with it. All We Grow comes out Aug. 24, but until then, you can hear the entire thing here. Please leave your thoughts on the album in the comments section below.", "NPR's Tony Cox checks in with music commentator Stephen Ivory about the recent $500-million back royalties judgment against several major record labels.", "On Wednesday, Bon Iver was nominated for four Grammy Awards, snagging nods for record of the year (for \"Hey, Ma\"), as well as album of the year, best alternative music album and best recording package for i,i. Now, the Wisconsin band has unveiled a thoughtful new video for \"Naeem,\" marking Bon Iver's first official foray into music videos since 2012's \"Beth/Rest.\" The video is a collaboration with Barcelona-born director AG Rojas, who taps into themes of connection, family and personal growth that run throughout both \"Naeem\" and i,i. \"'Naeem' is concerned with the potential for inter-generational healing, and how we choose to engage with that potential,\" Rojas says. \"All my admiration and love to Cynthia Rodriguez and her child, Azul, who brought this idea to life, and to Bon Iver for amplifying it.\" i,i is out now via Jagjaguwar.", "Let’s play a game. I’m scratchy and sometimes temperamental. I’m hard to travel with. And I may have collected dust in your parent’s attic for years. What am I? You guessed it. A vinyl record. Digital streaming has been the industry standard for years — allowing consumers to listen to audio with unprecedented ease. But analog formats that people can put their hands on are still alluring consumers. In April, 827,000 vinyl albums were sold during the 12th annual Record Store Day week. According to Nielsen Music, that’s the third-largest sales week for vinyl albums since 1991, when the company first began tracking sales. Cassette tape sales are also on the rise, and some artists are turning to analog recording practices. What is it about analog that&#8217;s bringing consumers to record stores? Here’s what Pitchfork’s Marc Hogan wrote about vinyl last year: After more than a decade of increasing American sales, vinyl’s comeback is no longer a quirky, look-at-those-hipsters novelty. Instead, the bustling ecosystem of turntables and records is surprisingly close to being mainstream. Last year, vinyl was featured in commercials for insurance companies and arthritis pills. It was on “The Price Is Right.” [&#8230;] The numbers — and observations from industry insiders — suggest that physical records will probably continue to remain a meaningful and lasting presence in many music lovers’ lives. In the years ahead, vinyl will likely maintain its status as a complement to the impersonality of streaming, a scruffy anachronism consistently hanging out at the margins. We discuss the analog appeal. Show produced by Bianca Martin. Text by Kathryn Fink. GUESTS Damon Krukowski, Writer-musician; podcast host and author, &#8220;The Ways of Hearing&#8221;; @dada_drummer David Sax, Author, &#8220;Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter&#8221;; @saxdavid Bill Skibbe, Head, Third Man Records Mastering studio in Detroit For more, visit https://the1a.org. &copy; 2019 WAMU 88.5 &#8211; American University Radio.", "Hardly anyone had heard of Bon Iver when we booked him to play our South By Southwest day party in March 2008. It was a magical time. Jagjaguwar had just released Bon Iver's breathlessly beautiful album For Emma, Forever Ago, the one Justin Vernon had famously recorded in a remote log cabin in the woods, where he'd holed up to exorcise some inner demons. He's adored now, but for many people in the audience, it was the first they'd heard of the record or of Bon Iver. Two memories stand out to me from that show: The first is the moment Bob Boilen grabbed me from the back of the room and led me to the center of the crowd, to a spot he'd determined had the best acoustics, just so I could hear \"The Wolves (Act I and II).\" (Thanks, Bob). The second memory is from after the show. As we were breaking down our gear in the empty club, Justin Vernon came out to ask if anyone had seen his fanny pack. My memory is that his whole life was in it and he couldn't find it anywhere. Four years later, when Justin Vernon was on stage with an armful of Grammys, I thought back to that tiny, entirely human moment when he couldn't find his damn fanny pack, looking under chairs and tables and behind the bar (and didn't have a team of people to find it for him). To be fair, hardly anyone had heard of NPR Music in March 2008, either. We'd only been around a few months and it was our first year in Austin. We'd only decided to go at the last possible minute and somehow got it in our heads that we could pull off three live parties/events in three different locations. In retrospect I think we must have been out of our minds given how little time and how few resources we had. But a small team of dedicated people with a lot of gumption managed to pull it off: R.E.M., My Morning Jacket, Vampire Weekend, The Shout Out Louds and Yo La Tengo were among our featured acts. The crazy (I mean really-not-a-good-idea crazy) thing was that two of the events were on the same day, with too little time between them, in two locations far away from each other. This means our crew of engineers had to break down all their gear at one place, speed in a van to the other, set it all back up, test it and go live with a tiny fraction of the time they normally needed. And they were going on no sleep. I remember they were still plugging in cables when the first band at the second location went live, but somehow we didn't miss a beat. At some point someone on the team accidentally kicked out a power cord that pulled the whole webcast down. In case you missed it, earlier this week we announced our lineup for the 2015 NPR Music South By Southwest showcase, a night of live music in Austin that'll feature (among others) TV On The Radio and Courtney Barnett. You can still hear Bon Iver's set with the link above, along with most of our previous recordings from all our years at Austin, in our archives. By the way, The Parrish, where we hosted that SXSW day party with Bon Iver, holds about 450 people. Here's a picture of a more recent live show Bon Iver gave at The Gorge Amphitheater in Washington state. Way to go, dude.", "NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to John Dimsdale of <EM>Marketplace</EM> about some major music labels that want online retailers to boost the price of downloadable music.", "Quick: without checking, what was the last album you bought, and which record label put it out? I'm wondering after reading a piece by critic Sasha Frere-Jones in this week's New Yorker magazine on the how The Suburbs, the new release by Arcade Fire, coupled with the band's two-night stint at Madison Square Garden, might signal a new era in the music industry, one in which indie bands succeed by cultivating fans via social networking, or a reputation for great live performances, or a reliable sound. That leaves labels -- especially indies -- to concern themselves with the production and distribution of recordings. (For more on the same topic, check out this All Songs Considered show from last year.) Frere-Jones calls it a \"scaling back, a return to a business model that involves fewer people, and concentrates on the product.\" But he also notes that independent labels have an easier time forging an identity connected to that product. In addition to Merge Records, the Arcade Fire's label, Frere-Jones mentions XL Recordings, which has released albums by buzz bands like Vampire Weekend and the XX, and Matador Records, which will celebrate its 21st anniversary in October with a party in Las Vegas featuring marquee acts from the label's past and present. The last album I bought solely based on the label that released it was Francophonic, a collection of songs by the Congolese guitarist and singer Franco, released by the British label Sterns Music. I picked it up after loving a collection -- also from Sterns -- by the other Congolese soukous master, Tabu Ley Rochereau. That collection was so well selected and sequenced, with great liner notes and photos, that when I saw the Franco disc on the shelf, I picked it up immediately, before I listened to a note of the music, before I read any reviews. It doesn't always work out that way. A month ago, I put down cash for a reissue of the self-titled album by the Brazilian singer Lo Borges, based pretty much entirely on its completely awesome cover. It's great. I've listened half a dozen times since then, but without looking, I can't tell you the name of the label that put it out.", "Audio for this feature is no longer available. \"Beth/Rest,\" the closing song on Bon Iver, is an absolutely diabolical bit of provocation. A plodding tangle of electric keyboards and guitar solos, the track seems at first as if its title ought to include the parenthetical, \"Love Theme From Tequila Sunrise 2.\" Bon Iver singer-songwriter Justin Vernon has compared \"Beth/Rest\" to the best-known work of Bruce Hornsby, and his appreciation is utterly sincere: The very opposite of an ironist, he boldly opts to close his massively anticipated new album with sounds 25 years out of style. Jarring as it is, \"Beth/Rest\" is like the plucky runt of this litter; the song you may well find yourself embracing with the expectation that it'll be unloved by everyone else. Whatever it is, it's not safe. Vernon understands that the most fearless musical expression is raw, naked emotionalism — that a wink is a pose, a pose is a mask, and a mask is a forgery, so why bother with any of that? When he belted out Bonnie Raitt's \"I Can't Make You Love Me\" on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon a few weeks back, the last thing Vernon was doing was kidding. For five minutes, warmth had become the new cool. Bon Iver is a grand, chance-taking record: It sheds the raw nerviness of 2008's perfect For Emma, Forever Ago and replaces it with arrangements so lush and vivid, it can be hard to make out much of what Vernon sings. Out June 21, the whole record dares to be dreamy, and to let Bon Iver's ever-growing backing band paint pictures while Vernon's words dissipate into the ether. Most of these 10 songs induce gasps at one point or another, for any number of reasons: from the forceful jolt of an orchestral boomlet, the delicate shhhhhinnnnng of finger cymbals, or an impeccable bit of vocal phrasing by Vernon, who can still make seemingly slight inflections hit like punches. Still, an overarching purpose here — the specific messages to these songs — can be oblique and hard to locate. Even the titles mostly signify and evoke places rather than feelings: \"Calgary.\" \"Minnesota, WI. \" \"Hinnom, TX.\" \"Lisbon, OH.\" Listen to Bon Iver 50 times, and you may still struggle to remember which title matches which song, and why. But the journey to familiarity with the record is circuitous to the point of impossibility. For all its emphasis on place, it beckons you to come get lost.", "Bon Iver is back with its first new recorded music in three years. The band this morning dropped two new songs with lyric videos. The first, \"Hey, Ma,\" is a glittering remembrance of childhood and a mother's love. \"Tall time to call your ma,\" sings Justin Vernon over faded home videos of his family. \"I was tokin' on dope / I hoped it all won't go in a minute / With the past that you know.\" The second track, \"U (Man Like),\" is a piano-driven, gospel-inspired ballad. Bruce Hornsby provides the piano tracks, with Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak, Moses Sumney and Elsa Jensen on backing vocals. The track also features the Brooklyn Youth Chorus with The National's Bryce Desner. \"This project began with a single person,\" says Justin Vernon in a press release announcing the songs. \"But throughout the last 11 years, the identity of Bon Iver has bloomed and can only be defined by the faces in the ever growing family we are.\" Bon Iver also announced a new tour today, with opening sets from Sharon Van Etten, Indigo Girls, Feist and Yo La Tengo.", "Starbucks, Pottery Barn and other retailers have been releasing mood and holiday-themed compilation CDs. Musician and writer David Was explains why releasing records this way proves almost risk-free, and he muses on how matching tunes with commercial brands is changing our collective taste in music.", "Back in April, during the early days of COVID-19, Bon Iver dropped a seemingly free-standing single called \"PDLIF\" — with its title doubling as an acronym for \"Please Don't Live in Fear.\" With its themes of unity and hope, the song felt very of-the-moment. Given that Bon Iver typically takes three to five years between albums, and that i,i came out just last year, \"PDLIF\" seemed to be a one-off, with proceeds going to charity. Now, Bon Iver just dropped another free-standing single with an acronym for a title: \"AUATC,\" which stands for \"Ate Up All Their Cake.\" Released with a press statement critiquing capitalism — as if the title weren't making that clear enough — the song features a throng of singers that includes not only Vernon, but also Elsa Jensen, Jenny Lewis, Bruce Springsteen and Jenn Wasner. Which means, among other things, that Justin Vernon has now appeared on songs with Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen in successive months. With its roughly two-minute running time and heavily processed vocals, \"AUATC\" feels more like an experiment than a hit single. But it hints at a broader plan than \"PDLIF\" suggested, from a larger theme of acronym-based song titles to a teaser in the song's accompanying art: \"SEASON FIVE Episode 2.\" (The art for \"PDLIF\" included the phrase \"SEASON FIVE Episode 1.\") Given that Bon Iver's four albums are themed around seasons — For Emma, Forever Ago was winter, Bon Iver was spring, 22, A Million was summer; and i,i was fall — those references to a fifth season are making more sense. The new song even has a video, in which Randall Riley's dancing abilities far outstrip his ability to model proper face-mask protocols. (The thing has to cover your nose, people!) \"AUATC\" is out now via Jagjaguwar.", "CD sales are down and record companies are in trouble. But the industry's first response is to go after computer users illegally downloading music off the Internet. Commentator Nick Thompson has some advice for the music industry, based on his first-hand experience playing his guitar for money in the Ney York City subways.", "Here's a video of Bon Iver (Justin Vernon) and Megafaun playing together at The Fillmore on September 22. Before their breakup in 2006, the indie-folk superstar and the North Carolina group played together in a band called DeYarmond Edison. Bon Iver has been touring with Megafaun for a number of shows this September, with six remaining shows in California, Arizona, and Texas. The bands came together at the end of the night to play the folk song, \"Worried Mind,\" off Megafaun's latest album, Gather, Form & Fly. The heartfelt performance features mandolin, fiddle, slide guitar, and banjo, along with gorgeous harmonies and some pretty impressive beards. The simple folk ballad transforms into a hymn as the audience begins to sing along, becoming more spiritual congregation than indie-rock crowd.", "These days musicians rely on Wal-Mart and Best Buy to sell their CDs. Or they can take it a step further with Home Shopping Network. Former Beatles lead singer Paul McCartney hit the channel last week, playing songs from his new album and ruminating on the world.", "It's hard to believe how much new and unheard music from our favorite artists has emerged in just a few days. This past week, Neutral Milk Hotel broke a decade of silence with the announcement of a new box set, packed with never-before-heard recordings from the band's mid- to late-'90s heyday. Not to be outdone, its friends in The Olivia Tremor Control also unveiled their first new song in a decade. Meanwhile, James Blake and Bon Iver, reigning kings of warbly falsetto, released a collaborative track. You can hear all of these cuts on this week's All Songs Considered, along with new music by Tom Waits, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Lisa Hannigan, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hearafter, and an unbelievably gorgeous collaboration between flamenco guitarist Pedro Soler and cellist Gaspar Claus.", "With so much new music from Colombia, Venezuela, Spain and more, it took some split-second matchmaking to get through all of this week's diverse, exciting picks.", "Even at great record stores, you can't always find the albums you want. Sometimes the store has a particular specialty, sometimes the local audience doesn't support a genre, sometimes the price of an album doesn't justify the shelf space. Each Tuesday, we call five record stores around the country and ask if they have three brand new CDs in their store. This week, we checked on 31 Minutes To Takeoff, the debut album from adenoidal R&Bro newcomer Mike Posner; Revelation by dub pioneer Lee \"Scratch\" Perry; and the soundtrack to the movie Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which features original songs by Beck and Broken Social Scene. The results, after the jump. Rhino Records235 Yale Avenue, Claremont, CA 31 Minutes To Takeoff: Yes (\"$11.99\")Revelation: Yes (\"$9.99\")Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: Yes (\"$11.99\") Offbeat Music905 W. Main St., Durham, NC 31 Minutes To Takeoff: NoRevelation: \"On order.\"Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: \"On order.\" Borders9205 S. Dixie Highway, Miami, FL 31 Minutes To Takeoff: YesRevelation: NoScott Pilgrim vs. the World: Yes Bull Moose151 Middle St., Portland, ME 31 Minutes To Takeoff: YesRevelation: YesScott Pilgrim vs. the World: Yes Homer's Old Market1210 Howard St., Omaha, NE 31 Minutes To Takeoff: YesRevelation: YesScott Pilgrim vs. the World: Yes (\"We have two copies on CD, and also the vinyl, which is, I believe, exclusive to indie record stores.\")" ]

[ "By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 15:40 EST, 29 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 17:10 EST, 29 October 2013 . A father branded 'Dad of the Year' after donning a pair of Daisy Dukes in protest to his teenage daughter wearing short shorts has began writing a parenting book and public speaking. In September, Scott Mackintosh, from Lehi, Utah became an internet hit after his 19-year-old daughter Myley shared an image of him wearing the tiny shorts online. Within days, the photos were seen across the country and he appeared on morning television, news segments and comedy shows which poked fun at his eyebrow-raising wardrobe choice and commended his original way of teaching his daughter a lesson in modesty. Getting his point across: In September, Scott Mackintosh's daughter . wouldn't change out of her short shorts before a family outing, so the dad slipped into a pair of his own. He is now writing a parenting book . 'Initially it was the funny picture that . took off,' his wife Becky told the Deseret News. 'But then when they read the story, it was a lesson of love. He did that because he loves his child. He brought embarrassment to himself, not to his . daughter.' Since their story spread, they have received messages of support from teenagers and their parents. Becky added: 'The ones who touched us the most came from . teens and a few adults referring back to when they were teens, saying,\" I wish I had a dad that loved me that much\".' The couple has now been inspired to pursue their dreams of writing a book and public speaking. After their story became national news, New York Times best-selling author Bridget Cook contacted the family and is helping them write a book: 'My Husband Wears the Short Shorts in THIS Family.' New ventures: Scott and his wife Becky are now writing a book and preparing for public speaking . Public speaker Chad Hymas has also worked with the couple to help them prepare for sharing their advice; photographs on their Facebook pages reveal they have already spoken with students. 'We don't claim to be experts, just sharing our own experiences as parents,' Becky said. 'We have a sense of humor, but we are also very serious. Yet you have to laugh and roll with things when you are a parent. It can be overwhelming.' They are also about to launch a website, Life's Short Lessons. The family's fame came after they were preparing to go on a night out and Myley opted to wear some tiny shorts. When she refused to change, her father took some scissors to his own jeans. The result was a . revealing pair of cut-offs designed to show his daughter her shorts . aren't 'as cute as she thinks'. 'I know it sounds weird to try to . embarrass her but I wanted her to know that she's of great worth,' Mr . Mackintosh, from Utah, told Good Morning America. Original: He made the wardrobe choice after his daughter Myley, pictured, put on her short shorts, right . Close: Mr Mackintosh embraces his daughter - he said he wanted her to know she is of great worth . At first, the children had their heads buried in their phones, Mackintosh said, and didn’t notice his revealing attire. 'Why are you dressed like that?' his daughter eventually asked when they were nearly at the restaurant. 'Oh well, I don't care.' Dinner . came and went without Mackintosh’s daughter breaking a sweat, so he . decided to take things to the next level and suggesting going miniature . golfing. Again, Myley claimed she was not bothered. But when they arrived at a local ice cream shop, she cracked. 'As I pulled into a stall, my daughter said, “Uh, no! We are not going in!” I said “Let's go through the drive up\".' Mackintosh, his wife, and their son went inside, but their daughter stayed in the car. 'It got a point across,' his daughter . said in an interview after the story came out. 'Mostly I just learned the lesson of how much he loves . me and that he really cares about it.'" ]

[ "Michelle Obama showed off her . enviably toned thighs as she powered past the President in tiny purple . cycling shorts on the first family's bike ride on Martha's Vineyard . today. Wearing a fashionable printed T-shirt . and Converse trainers, the First Lady showed that she still has style, . even when on vacation. But her husband looked goofy and . tired as he lagged behind wearing a baggy black polo shirt, and perhaps . more surprisingly jeans. Ahead of the pack: First Lady Michelle Obama was wearing a tight pair of purple cycling shorts . Ready for action: Mrs Obama looked more prepared for the ride than her tired looking husband . In the Massachussetts sunshine, the Commander-in-Chief looked uncomfortable in the heavy denim trousers. Mr Obama had rolled up the bottom of . the jeans, in perhaps an attempt to avoid them getting stuck in the . bicycle chain, or maybe because he was feeling the heat. The President seemed to have his clothing hoping for a more lesiurely paced cycle than his wife. The ride came as Mr Obama's approval rating reached a record low of minus 26. The poll for Tuesday showed that 19 per cent of the nation's voters strongly approve of his performance, compared to 45 per cent who strongly disapprove. Trip: The first family were riding in Manuel F Correllus State Forest in West Tisbury, Massachusetts . Fashionable: Mrs Obama wears a T-shirt printed with a trompe l'oeil necklace . Not hot Mr President? Mr Obama's choice of jeans for the ride on such a sunny day may have been surprising . Mr President? A bike rider smiles as he passes Barack Obama and his daughter Malia . Path: Barack Obama and daughter Malia ride past a fellow cyclist during their family vacation . This previous low was minus 24, which was reached yesterday and also in September 2010. Super-fit Mrs Obama revealed her smooth thighs on the ride this morning, showing the results of her gruelling exercise regime. She wore a white T-shirt with a print of a trompe l'oeil necklace. Mr Obama ignored a reporter's shouted . question on the whereabouts of Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi as he . cycled through Manuel F Correllus State Forest. Aides said Mr Obama got national security and economic briefings before . setting out under bright, sunny skies to hit the bike trail for a quick . spin. Safety first: Mr Obama was wearing a cycle helmet, unlike on his vacation two years ago . Vacation: First Lady Michelle Obama and her daughter Sasha ride bikes during their family vacation to Martha's Vineyard . Cycle: Barack Obama rides alongside his daughter Malia during their family vacation . Vacation: The President wore a black polo shirt and matching black helmet . The President arrived last Thursday for a 10-day break from Washington . that has been interrupted by developments in Libya. He is scheduled to . return to the White House on Saturday. The 5,100-acre forest has become a . favourite for the first family who also went cycling there during their . previous two summers on the island off the Massachusetts coast. The President, who was wearing a . cycle helmet, appeared to have learnt his lesson from his bike ride . there two years ago when he sparked complaints from bike-safety . advocates after he was photographed without a helmet. Relaxing: The president plays golf at Martha's Vineyard today while on his summer vacation . Concentrating: Mr Obama plays the first hole of the Farm Neck Golf Club before hearing about the earthquake on the East Coast .", "By . Laura Cox . PUBLISHED: . 15:45 EST, 23 June 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 16:11 EST, 24 June 2012 . A  mother is furious after a judge ordered her 13-year-old daughter to cut off her ponytail in return for a lesser sentence after she attacked a toddler with scissors and hacked off chunks of her hair. Kaytlen Lopan and an 11-year-old friend launched their assault on the three-year-old at a McDonald’s restaurant in Price, Utah, buying a pair of scissors from a nearby dollar shop and chopping off her long curly locks. Kaytlen was ordered to serve 30 days in detention, pay damages to the victims and serve 276 hours of community service for her part in the attack, at a hearing on May 28. Scroll down for video . Before and after: Kaytlen Lopan's three-year-old victim, pictured, had never had her hair cut before the attack . But her mother, Valerie Bruno, took up a judge’s offer of reducing the sentence if she performed a similar hack job to her daughter’s hair. District Juvenile Judge Scott Johansen said he would drop the number of hours by 150 in exchange for the amateur haircut, the Deseret News reported. ‘If she was my daughter, I wouldn't want her with the work crew,’ he said, to which Ms Bruno replied: ‘I know, I thought of that.’ Mr Johansen gave Ms Bruno a pair of scissors and consulted the victim’s mother, Mindy Moss, about what length the girl’s hair should be taken to, eventually ordering Ms Bruno to cut it level with the hairband tying it up. He even gave her advice on the cut, suggesting that Ms Bruno ‘take a little bit at a time’ when she complained that the scissors weren’t good enough. Haircut: Kaytlen after having her hair chopped off by her mother during her trial in Utah last month . Parents: Kaytlen's mother Valerie Bruno, left, has complained about her daughter's treatment, but the victim's mother Mindy Moss, right, saw it as only fair . Unorthodox: The bizarre punishment was invented by District Juvenile Judge Scott Johansen . Ms Moss said she was happy with the outcome, adding that her daughter’s hair had never been cut prior to the attack and had reached down to the middle of her back. But Ms Bruno was furious and has . since claimed to have filed a complaint against the judge, although that . has not been confirmed by the court. 'She . definitely needed to be punished for what had happened,' Ms Bruno told . said. 'But I never dreamt it would be that much of a punishment.' She added that she wishes she had never accepted the judge's bargaining offer. ‘I . guess I should have went into the courtroom knowing my rights, because I . felt very intimidated,’ she said. ‘An eye for an eye, that's not how . you teach kids right from wrong.' The . 11-year-old accused alongside Kaytlen was ordered by Mr Johansen to . have her hair cut as short as his, but was allowed to get it done at a . salon, rather than in the courtroom. ‘It . was not really unattractive. They tried to make it decent, but there . was really nothing left,’ he was heard saying in court, according to the . newspaper. Kaytlen also . admitted to charges in another case regarding eight months of phone . calls that she made to a Colorado teen, threatening rape and mutilation. Watch the video .", "They are the far-from-dapper dads who are taking the internet by storm, thanks to an assortment of socks with crocks, Hawaiian shirts and short shorts. Fashion Dads, a new account on Instagram, may have been more appropriately called Fashion Dags, but it's still become the must-stop profile of the week. Created by Ashley Hesseltine - author of the blog Witty + Pretty - and her friend Travis May, the pair decided it was a great way to show the questionable - but so normal - outfit choices of some fathers, while simultaneously poke fun at style bloggers who take their job way too seriously. 'We were talking about our own dads' ridiculous outfits and were like, ''We should create an Instagram account for this'',' Hesseltine told the Today show. Scroll down for video . Red hot: New Instagram profile 'Fashion Dads' has quickly become the must-stop online destination this week . Stylish: The account is a hilarious look at the clothes so many dad come to wear . Strike a pose: But the profile also pokes fun at the selfies, poses and hastags featured on fashion blogs . Trendy: The creators say anyone with a dad will be able to relate to the pictures . Nice one: The Instagram is quickly expanding as more people send in snaps of their own 'Fashion Dads' 'We started with pictures of our own dads then people started submitting them.' Then the idea came of using the profile as a send-up of ubiquitous fashion blogs. 'It's to showcase ridiculous dad fashion in a satirical fashion blogger style,' Hesseltine added. 'We think everyone with a father can relate.' Vacation wear: The pictures are combined with hilarious hashtags like #PassionForFashion #IfYouGotItFlauntIt and #BaeCaughtMePosing . Edgy: Some photos, like this one, also feature funny photos . Risque: The Instagram parody account features fashion-forward 'fathers on fleek' Really?: Most of the photos are genuine and not a parody . Matching: The profile pokes fun at certain fashion trends, like sneakers or loafers with baggy jeans . The account, with more than 45,000 followers and an average of 2,000 favorites per post. The pictures are combined with hilarious hashtags like #PassionForFashion #IfYouGotItFlauntIt and #BaeCaughtMePosing. Posts feature awkward outfit choices like sneakers, polo shirts or cut-off jean short .", "By . Daily Mail Reporter . The petite ballerina who has been comforting Sir Mick Jagger following the suicide of his longtime girlfriend L'Wren Scott cut a solitary figure as she wandered the streets of New York City today. Melanie Hamrick, 27, was the subject of much conjecture when a picture of her and Jagger embracing on a Zurich balcony just 11 weeks after Scott's death was published. Scott's family has reacted to the picture with opposing statements. Her sister Jan Shane called Jagger's behavior 'grotesquely disrespectful,' while her brother has said he has nothing but warm regards for the rocker, whose love for his sister he 'never questioned.' City girl: Hamrick was photographed today as she strode purposefully around New York City . Neighbors: Hamrick lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, just three miles from the home on 11th Avenue that Jagger and L'Wren Scott shared . But . the images of the great-grandfather being hugged and kissed by Melanie, . who describes herself as ‘goofy and awkward’, left Ms Scott’s family . seething. Speaking from . her home in Utah, her sister Jan Shane said: ‘These pictures make me . really wonder what Mick is really thinking and feeling. ‘His daughter says that he is still heartbroken and so devastated about losing my sister – and then you see these photos. 'He will never change. And people wonder why L’Wren was so depressed? The more I think about it – the more angry it makes me. ‘My . sister deserves so much more respect than that. It hasn’t even been . three months. I now believe that he was a bigger part of her troubles . that no one knew about. I am so hurt to know that she was so sad and . hurting inside and felt that she had nowhere to go.’ Jagger, who along with his Rolling Stones band mates, is due to play the ancient . Circus Maximus in Rome on June 22, hasn't commented on the relationship . rumors. But . sources close to Jagger said the tryst between Jagger and Hamrick . followed a chance encounter in a nightclub, but it later transpired that . they had first met three months earlier in Japan, just two weeks before Scott took her life on March 17, at the age of 49. The . pair didn’t hook up but remained in touch and Melanie ‘reached out and . they met in New York as friends,’ a source told The Sun following . Scott’s tragic death. ‘There was a spark there and she provided a distraction to the emotional hell he was going through,’ said the source. Hamrick, a ballerina with the American Ballet Theater Company, was also spotted alone on the streets of New York earlier in the week. Flying solo: Hamrick's rumored beau Mick Jagger, 70, is currently on tour in Europe . Meanwhile, Jagger celebrated Father’s Day on Sunday by meeting-up with his ex-wife, and two of their children. The singer was seen smiling with former partner Jerry Hall, 57, daughter Georgia May, 22, and son Gabriel, 16, as they left a hotel in Vienna, Austria, ahead of a concert the Rolling Stones gave in the city on Monday night. Jagger's nine-year relationship with Hall ended 15 years ago but the couple, who have four children together, are still close. It was the rocker's first public appearance since it emerged he met leading ballerina Melanie just two weeks before his girlfriend’s suicide. On March 6 this year, Melanie and a group of other dancers from the American Ballet Theatre were allowed backstage at the Rolling Stone’s sell-out concert in Tokyo’s Dome stadium to be introduced to Mick and the rest of the band. Melanie, who is a frequent user of Facebook and Instagram, excitedly posted messages and photos of her trip to Japan, but intriguingly, made no mention of the Stones concert. A spokesman for Jagger has confirmed that the pair met when Melanie and the rest of her group were taken backstage. But a source close to the star stressed that his first liaison with Melanie did not take place until Zurich – and that the pair had merely swapped contact details in Tokyo. Running errands: Hamrick was dressed casually in jeans and flat shoes as she wandered around Manhattan . The week before the concert, on February . 25, Jagger had attended a special reception for the ballet troupe in . Tokyo, hosted by U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, daughter of JFK and a . long-standing friend of the rock star, but Hamrick did not attend. She . lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, just three miles from the . home on 11th Avenue that Jagger and Ms Scott shared. It was there that Scott took her life on March 17, at the age of 49. Jagger and Hamrick were pictured on the balcony of his sprawling penthouse at the five-star Dolder Grand Hotel in Zurich earlier this month, looking as though they had just got out of bed.Mick, who himself took up ballet several years ago to keep fit, was in a blue V-necked sweater, while Melanie grinned next to him in a short-sleeved top with slashed sleeves. During the afternoon he ventured out bare chested and alone, apparently to talk on the phone. Five hours later he was seen wearing a smart, striped shirt and trousers as the dancer stood beside him clutching a glass of water. Still rocking: The aging lothario, performing June 19 in Dusseldorf, Germany, has apparently kindled a new romance with Hamrick just months after his girlfriend's tragic suicide . Longtime lovers: Jagger and L'Wren Scott had been a couple for more than 10 years when she committed suicide . The following morning they looked more dishevelled as she stole a kiss from him while sat outside the suite. Jagger was flooded with messages of . support after Ms Scott, his girlfriend of 13 years, committed suicide . while he was touring with the Stones in Australia. Soon . afterwards, he issued a statement saying: ‘I am still struggling to . understand how my lover and best friend could end her life in this . tragic way. ‘We spent many wonderful years together and had made a great life for ourselves... I will never forget her.’ Prima ballerina: Hamrick is a dancer with the American Ballet Theater Company . Since the band resumed the tour following Ms Scott’s death, rumours have been rife the father-of-seven has been entertained by several women after the shows. Friends claimed Mick, while performing in Berlin last week, spent the night with an old flame after arranging to meet her in the German capital. And actress and singer Noa Tishby posted a picture on the internet of herself and Jagger sharing a joke in a hotel room during the Stones’ stay in Israel a fortnight ago. A source close to the band said: ‘Mick’s way of dealing with L’Wren’s death was to get back on stage as soon as possible. It wasn’t long though before he was up to his old tricks. ‘The girl in Zurich was just a brief fling but she isn’t the first and won’t be the last. Mick is like an old dog who can’t be taught new tricks. Even before he started singing he was a womaniser and he still is. He knows no other way. ‘I’m not sure what the girl in Zurich thinks, but she is a goner.’ Perhaps all the traveling to be with Mick has affected Melanie’s performances on stage. A review last week of American Ballet Theatre’s production of Cinderella, singled her out for having ‘lamentably weak’ feet in her role as the Winter Fairy.", "Her older sister Kendall may be the model of the moment, but it looks like Kylie Jenner is fast following in her footsteps. The 17-year-old has been unveiled as the ambassador for Nip + Fab - an innovative skincare and body brand that promises to offer specially designed products to target specific skin and body concerns. Kylie joins Made In Chelsea alumni Millie Mackintosh, who was the first-ever face of the brand. Scroll down for video . Kylie Jenner, 17, has been unveiled as the ambassador for Nip + Fab - an innovative skincare range she loves . The youngest of the Kardashian/Jenner clan poses in head-to-toe leopard to announce the news on the brand's website. The reality TV star will host a live interview about all things beauty on Saturday at a top secret London location - and she's giving fans the chance to join her. Beauty aficionados who place an order on the brand's website between 9 -12 March will be entered into a draw to attend the event. Kylie has long championed the brand and cited the Glycolic Fix range as one of her #beautymusthaves one Instagram last year. As part of her new role, Kylie will host a live interview about all things beauty on Saturday at a top secret location in London . Beauty aficionados who buy something online will be entered into a draw to attend the event . She wrote: 'Obsessed with the new @nipandfab glycolic fix range from @target my new summer skin fav! #GlycolicPeel #beautymusthaves'. She also uploaded another with the caption: 'Time to remove make up - obsessed with these @nipandfab Glycolic pads that leave my skin so clean @ultabeauty #nipandfab #beautyobsession.' The £12.95 radiance-boosting pads are soaked in exfoliating glycolic acid, which claim to resurface and moisturise the skin in one hit. Kylie has long championed the brand on her Instagram feed, hailing the products among her her #musthaves . This is the latest in a string of successes for the young star, who recently landed herself a shoot in the highly acclaimed fashion bible Carine Roitfeld's Fashion Book. When Kanye West, who is married to her older sister Kim, recently debuted his first collection with sports brand Adidas, it was Kylie who he asked to star in his show in New York. Kylie also recently landed the cover of Fault magazine and looked high fashion as she posed in an Alexander Wang crop top with her hair pulled to the side in a fishtail plait. More experimental than her sisters in Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Kylie regularly posts pictures of herself trying out different make-up and hairstyles on her Instagram account so her latest coup is perfect for the starlet. This is the latest in a string of successes for the young star, who recently landed herself a shoot in Carine Roitfeld's Fashion Book . Kendall & Kylie for PacSun High Rise Lace Skinniest Jeans . Click to buy a pair now! Visit site . Did you know Kylie and Kendall Jenner created a clothing line for PacSun? No? Then let us enlighten you. The youngest sisters of the Kardashian/Jenner clan first launched the Kendall & Kylie collection with the brand back in 2013 and it's still going strong. In fact, their SS15 range just came out and Kylie clearly couldn't wait to wear it. Always a good sign! The reality television starlet was pictured out and about wearing the skinny white jeans and cute cut out cropped top she designed, showing off her toned tummy in the process. White jeans can be tricky. Stains of all kinds are always a danger but they just look so fabulous on a sunny day that they're well worth the risk. And if you take a closer look at Kylie's pair you'll notice a cute lace detail at the ankle. Isn't that adorable? It's very Free People-esque and there's nothing wrong with that! So why not treat yourself to a pair now? Click the right to buy them at PacSun and style with cozy knits in contrasting shades until the weather warms up enough to work them with the matching top (below). Come on ladies, it's time to ditch the boring black and embrace some spring time white. Kendall & Kylie for PacSun Lace Inset Tank . Visit site . J Brand Ryan Mid-Rise Stacked Skinny Jeans at Net-A-Porter . Visit site . River Island White Reform Amelie Super Skinny Jeans . Visit site . Levi's® Womens Hi-Rise Skinny Jeans at Zappos . Visit site . DKNY Jeans Soho Skinny Rolled Crop Jean in White at Zappos . Visit site . Sisters Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner pictured launching their exclusive spring collection at a PacSun store in San Jose, California in 2014 .", "The parents of a sweet six-year-old are using adorable videos of their daughter dancing to help raise awareness about her rare disorder - and the moving and grooving clips have quickly turned the youngster into an online star. Audrey Nethery, from Kentucky, has Diamond Blackfan Anemia (DBA), a life-threatening bone marrow condition that impacts her body's ability to circulate oxygen. Since Audrey is unable to produce enough red blood cells, her parents told the Mirror, she has faced a host of health issues in her short life. But the condition doesn't stop Audrey from dancing, which she does incredibly well to Bruno Mars’ chart-topping hit Uptown Funk in a widely-watched video that her family posted on her Facebook page. Scroll down for video . Girl can groove: Audrey Nethery, six, has a rare illness called Diamond Blackfan Anemia - but her condition doesn't stop her from dancing adorably in videos from her Zumba class . Family affair: Audrey danced while her dad Scott played guitar at a DBA benefit, pictured here . Audrey learned the cute choreographed routine to the Kidz Bop version of the song at her Zumba class in Louisville, Kentucky. Dad Scott Nethery and mom Julie Haise were quick to upload a clip of the six-year-old dancing to Facebook, and the internet was just as quick to watch it. The recording of her complete performance has already reached 2.8 million views since it was posted in March. But Audrey's cute videos don't just bring joy to those who watch them - they also help bring attention to DBA and raise funds for the Diamond Blackfan Anemia Foundation. Get your groove on: Audrey's most popular video sees her dancing along to Bruno Mars' hit Uptown Funk (pictured) Shaking her money maker: Audrey's parents are posting videos of Audrey dancing at Zumba class to raise money for the Diamond Blackfan Anemia Foundation; here, Audrey holds a check for $10,000 . Because of her condition, Audrey has already endured 20 blood transfusions, and will likely undergo more in the future. Half of people with DBA need a transfusion once every three to five weeks. She was also born with a hole in her heart and a cleft palate, and she isn't growing as fast as her peers, partly because of the steroids she needs to take for her illness. But despite her hurdles, her father Scott told Daily Mail Online, she has plenty of energy and a positive outlook: 'Audrey is a happy, loving, smart, little girl who loves to dance, listen to music, and collect dolls and stuffed animals. She is incredibly strong and leaves an impression on everyone she meets!' Feeling playful: Audrey's dad says she loves to collect dolls like the one she is holding in this picture with her mother Julie . Major music lover: Audrey's dad Scott, pictured here before taking Audrey to a father-daughter dance, says his little internet star is a big fan of Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift . The musically-inclined six-year-old, whose favorite musicians include Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, and the Beatles, has also left an impression on strangers on the internet. Posting cute videos and smiling photos of Audrey have helped the Nethery family to raise thousands of dollars, as well as promote blood drives which they host to give back to the community. 'Once people realize she has a life-threatening illness, it really touches their hearts,' her father told the Mirror.", "When Caitlin Miller first met Scott Worgan six years ago it was ‘love at first sight’. Now Scott's heart-warming proposal video has gone viral after the father-of-two enlisted his impossibly cute little girls to help him pop the question to the love of his life. The 29-year-old, from the Central Coast in NSW, wrote out a series of signs for his romantic proposal and asked his daughters Scarlett, 3, and Sienna, 20 months, to hold them up in front of the camera. ‘You’re so amazing in every way. Everything you do for us. Everything you do for daddy makes us feel so special,’ one card reads. At one point Scarlett holds a sign upside down and Sienna hides behind them. 'Wouldn't it be cool if we were your flower girls?,' they ask. Amazingly 27-year-old Caitlin had no idea what her partner had been planning for weeks, as he even managed to keep his little girls from spilling the secret. Scott Worgan (right) has asked Caitlin Miller (left) to marry him with a heart-warming proposal video . 'I'm still crying,' Caitlin told Daily Mail Australia as she revealed how Scott managed to film the proposal with their daughters in just one take. The couple met in 2009 while they were both working at the same insurance company and quickly fell in love. ‘We became friends first of all, with some flirting in the office. Things started progressing from there. It was a quick little thing and we just fell in love and moved in together five months later,’ Caitlin recalled. The pair had their first daughter, Scarlett, in 2011, and Scott has never stopped doing all he can to make Caitlin happy. ‘He’s a bit of a perfectionist and a romantic. He loves to cheer me up and do sweet things like making videos when I’m having a bad week,’ she explained. The Central Coast dad enlisted daughters Scarlett (right), 3, and Sienna (left), 20 months, to help him pop the question . Scott and Caitlin are seen her on holiday in Bali in 2010, celebrating their friends wedding . Scarlett held up a sign telling her mum 'you're amazing in every way!' The cute little girls told their mum Caitlin 'you would be such a beautiful bride' ‘He makes videos for my birthdays and our anniversaries and when I’m having a bad day. He always picks me up with these little things so he knew I wouldn’t catch on till half way through.’ The pair had often spoken about marriage since having their first child but never really made plans and Caitlin had ‘no idea’ on the day that he was about to propose. ‘I was in shock that my oldest didn’t say anything, she is a bit of a chatterbox and she just stood still in the video and they did one take.’ While Scott was making the video with the girls one Saturday, Caitilin was at work and came home to find all the blinds shut. This photo was taken in 2013 while 'celebrating another year together' This photo was taken on their Thailand trip in 2014 to celebrate another anniversary . The pair had often spoken about marriage since having their first child in 2011 . ‘My daughter came out and said “we made you something”. The next minute Scott came out with three cards saying “welcome home mummy” to cover it up,’ Caitlin recalled. What the touching video doesn’t show is Caitlin’s shocked reaction as Scott handed her a ring just as their daughters held up the ‘marry daddy?’ card. ‘I was sitting on the couch in the lounge room and he was sitting next to me and pulled the ring out,’ Caitlin said. ‘He was shaking I was shaking and crying and flicked the ring across the room. Meanwhile, my oldest daughter was sick at the time and lying down. It was just typical us as parents,’ she laughed. Once they’d picked the ring up off the floor, Caitlin saw the stunning Inverell sapphire Scott had bought her. This adorable photo was taken on Scarlett's naming day in 2012 . The happy couple have been inundated with messages about the proposal video . ‘The ring was made in Adelaide by Everett Brooke's. He walked in asking if they had sapphires and there they showed him an Inverell sapphire - the town where he is from. He had it made and sent to him a week later,’ she explained. The happy couple have been inundated with messages, not just their friends and family but also from strangers wishing them well. As for a date for the wedding, Caitlin said: ‘For one, it’s taken us six years and two children already. My sister is pregnant with twins and due in September and I want her to be a part of it so we are looking at after January for our wedding.’ As the little girls held up the 'marry Daddy?' sign in the video, Scott pulled out a stunning ring for Caitlin . Once they'd picked the ring up off the floor, Caitlin saw the stunning Inverell sapphire Scott had bought her . The couple are now hoping to marry in January 2016 with their little girls as bridesmaids .", "A Houston father was upset to learn that his five-year-old daughter was disciplined for wearing her rainbow spaghetti-strap sundress to school, where teachers said that it violated the dress code. Jef Rouner wrote in the Houston Press that his daughter was forced to cover up with jeans and a t-shirt when she was told that the spaghetti straps of her 'full-length' dress were 'against the rules'. 'We still live in a country where someone can decide the shoulders of, and I can't stress this enough, a five-year-old girl are so distracting that they must be sent away and decently hidden,' he said. Kiddie clothes: Jef Rouner said his five-year-old daughter was forced to cover up when she wore this spaghetti-strap sundress to her school in Houston, Texas . 'She'd had her heart set on wearing her rainbow sundress since the weather warmed up,' recalled Mr. Rouner. He didn't hesitate to let her wear the multicolor frock, which he bad bought from a store in the mall and previously let her wear to church. 'I didn't pick up my daughter's dress at My First Stripperwear,' he insisted. 'It's not repurposed fetish gear from a store for very short people.' But despite the striped dress being what Routner believes is completely age-appropriate, his daughter is now 'wordlessly accepting that a dress with spaghetti straps, something sold in every Walmart in America right now, is somehow bad.' Supportive pop: Jef said he finds it 'weird' that school dress codes tend to offer more restrictions for girls than boys . Favorite frock: As the weather has gotten warmer, Jef said, his daughter grew excited to wear the striped dress, which she had worn to church in the past . Mr. Rouner took particular issue with the fact that school dress codes almost exclusively target girls, banning items of clothing that aren't even sold in the boy's sections of stores. Though rules against exposing the chest and torso could theoretically apply to boys as well, he explained, boy's clothing simply isn't made to show skin in the same places as girls' clothing. 'Essentially, a school dress code exists to prevent girls from displaying too much of their bodies,' he said, adding that most restrictions in his own daughter's school dress code were female-specific. Taking a stand: The vocal father said he won't stop his daughter from wearing the dress again in the future . He went on to note that it is particularly outrageous to discriminate between boys' and girls' clothing at his daughter's age  Cut her hair, he said, and his five-year-old would look no different from a boy. Since he still sees no problem with the sundress, Mr. Rouner said he won't stop his daughter from wearing it in the future - and will tell her that she looks 'cute as a button to boot'. And if anyone tells her to change her clothes? The outspoken father said he will tell his daughter to ask 'why' until she gets an answer she likes.", "The mystery woman photographed on a hotel balcony with Sir Mick Jagger earlier this month is a leading ballerina 43 years his junior, who he met two weeks before his girlfriend L’Wren Scott’s suicide, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Stunning American dancer Melanie Hamrick, 27, was pictured embracing the 70-year-old singer ten days ago in Zurich, where the Rolling Stones were performing. At the time, sources close to Jagger said the tryst followed a chance encounter in a nightclub. But The Mail on Sunday has discovered that Jagger first met the New York-based dancer three months earlier – and 6,800 miles away – in Japan. Melanie Hamrick, 27, met Mick Jagger two weeks before L'Wren Scott's tragic suicide however the exchanged contact details three months earlier when they met in Japan after the Rolling Stones played a sell out gig . On March 6 this year, Melanie and a group of other dancers from the American Ballet Theatre were allowed backstage at the Rolling Stone’s sell-out concert in Tokyo’s Dome stadium to be introduced to Mick and the rest of the band. Melanie, who is a frequent user of Facebook and Instagram, excitedly posted messages and photos of her trip to Japan, but intriguingly, made no mention of the Stones concert. A spokesman for Jagger has confirmed that the pair met when Melanie and the rest of her group were taken backstage. But a source close to the star stressed that his first liaison with Melanie did not take place until Zurich – and that the pair had merely swapped contact details in Tokyo. The week before the concert, on February 25, Jagger had attended a special reception for the ballet troupe in Tokyo, hosted by U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, daughter of JFK and a long-standing friend of the rock star, but Melanie did not attend. When she first met Jagger, Ms Hamrick, left, was engaged to marry her co-star at the American Ballet Theatre Jose Manuel Carreno, right . There was no sign of Ms Scott on the trip, though she had previously travelled with Mick whenever he was on the road. At the time of the ambassador’s party, Melanie was said to be engaged to another older man, 46-year-old José Manuel Carreño, a fellow dancer. She lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, just three miles from the home on 11th Avenue that Jagger and Ms Scott shared. It was there that Ms Scott took her life on March 17, at the age of 49. Mick and Melanie were pictured on the balcony of his sprawling penthouse at the five-star Dolder Grand Hotel in Zurich earlier this month, looking as though they had just got out of bed. Mick, who himself took up ballet several years ago to keep fit, was in a blue V-necked sweater, while Melanie grinned next to him in a short-sleeved top with slashed sleeves. Ms Hamrick was photographed embracing Jagger on a hotel balcony in Zurich ten days ago, where sources close to the couple say the first 'liaison' took place . During the afternoon he ventured out bare chested and alone, apparently to talk on the phone. Five hours later he was seen wearing a smart, striped shirt and trousers as the dancer stood beside him clutching a glass of water. The following morning they looked more dishevelled as she stole a kiss from him while sat outside the £2,250-a-night suite. Normally Ms Scott, right, travelled with Jagger whenever he was on the road but was not with him when the band played Tokyo . Friends of Melanie, who has a penchant for older men, did not know why she was in Zurich, believing she flew to Switzerland alone. One said: ‘Ever since the photos emerged Mel has kept her head down hardly stepping out from her apartment. Talk has been rife about their fling with many believing it wasn’t just a coincidence the two were in Zurich together following the ambassador’s reception in Japan. ‘We all knew it was Mel but many others got the wrong end of the stick when they thought it was principal dancer Diana Vishneva. 'People put two and two together and came up with five because Diana was pictured meeting Mick during the party in Tokyo. But it was Mel on the balcony. They can look quite similar.’ On Friday Melanie braved torrential rain to step out from her New York apartment to do some shopping. Wearing a grey leather jacket, white T-shirt and skinny blue jeans, she had her hair tied back in the same style she wore when with Mick. After being approached by The Mail on Sunday, Melanie told a friend: ‘They’ve found me, they’ve found me!’ But she refused to comment directly. She has been romantically involved with Carreño for six years, and engaged since May 2011. They met in 2004, when she joined the American Ballet Theatre at the age of 17. He was then the Broadway-based company’s premier danseur. A father of two, who was previously married to fellow Cuban dancer Ana Lourdes Novoa, Carreño has been the principal dancer with the English National Ballet and the Royal Ballet, and has appeared on Dancing With The Stars, America’s version of Strictly Come Dancing. But earlier this year he moved to California – 2,500 miles from Melanie – after taking a job as artistic director of Ballet San Jose. In an interview in February, the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: ‘Carreno talks like a person who has come to the South Bay for the long run, which meant leaving behind his fiancee, American Ballet Theatre dancer Melanie Hamrick.’ Ms Hamrick pictured along with her colleagues from the American Ballet Theatre on a bullet train in Tokyo where she met with Jagger . Melanie’s friends have also noted that she has recently stopped wearing the engagement ring she once sported. Jagger was flooded with messages of support after Ms Scott, his girlfriend of 13 years, committed suicide while he was touring with the Stones in Australia. Soon afterwards, he issued a statement saying: ‘I am still struggling to understand how my lover and best friend could end her life in this tragic way. ‘We spent many wonderful years together and had made a great life for ourselves... I will never forget her.’ But the images of the great-grandfather being hugged and kissed by Melanie, who describes herself as ‘goofy and awkward’, left Ms Scott’s family seething. Ms Hamrick lives in New York's Upper West Side just 3 miles from the apartment Jagger shared with Ms Scott . Speaking from her home in Utah, her  sister Jan Shane said: ‘These pictures make me really wonder what Mick is really thinking and feeling. ‘His daughter says that he is still heartbroken and so devastated about losing my sister – and then you see these photos. 'He will never change. And people wonder why L’Wren was so depressed? The more I think about it – the more angry it makes me. ‘My sister deserves so much more respect than that. It hasn’t even been three months. I now believe that he was a bigger part of her troubles that no one knew about. I am so hurt to know that she was so sad and hurting inside and felt that she had nowhere to go.’ In the days following Ms Scott’s death it emerged her business based in London had been battling crippling debts. The latest accounts for LS Fashion Ltd, filed in the UK in October 2013, showed the firm had a deficit of £3.5 million. Her company also owed creditors £4.6 million. The label had been haemorrhaging money for several years despite Mick, worth £200 million, repeatedly bailing her out. The Tokyo concert was the first time Jagger and the Rolling Stones had played Japan in eight years . The Stones are due to play in Vienna tomorrow night as they continue their 14 On Fire world tour. Since the band resumed the tour following Ms Scott’s death, rumours have been rife the father-of-seven has been entertained by several women after the shows. Friends claimed Mick, while performing in Berlin last week, spent the night with an old flame after arranging to meet her in the German capital. And actress and singer Noa Tishby posted a picture on the internet of herself and Jagger sharing a joke in a hotel room during the Stones’ stay in Israel a fortnight ago. A source close to the band said: ‘Mick’s way of dealing with L’Wren’s death was to get back on stage as soon as possible. It wasn’t long though before he was up to his old tricks. ‘The girl in Zurich was just a brief fling but she isn’t the first and won’t be the last. Mick is like an old dog who can’t be taught new tricks. Even before he started singing he was a womaniser and he still is. He knows no other way. ‘I’m not sure what the girl in Zurich thinks, but she is a goner.’ Perhaps all the travelling to be with Mick has affected Melanie’s performances on stage. A review last week of American Ballet Theatre’s production of Cinderella, singled her out for having ‘lamentably weak’ feet in her role as the Winter Fairy.", "Millie Mackintosh may have made her name on catty reality show Made In Chelsea. But since leaving SW13 behind she has set her sights on world domination. As well as working with Xbox Fitness, posing for numerous beauty brands and even reportedly landing a spot on Celebrity MasterChef, Millie has been quietly working on yet another project. The 24-year-old Quality Street heir has just been unveiled as the new face of Claire's Accessories. Au natural: Millie Mackintosh sports minimal make-up and pared down clothing as she is unveiled as the new face of Claire's Accessories . The wife of Professor Green looks fresh-faced in the new campaign imagery for the accessories giant. Donning a white T-shirt, jeans and boho jewellery, Millie pulls off her new modelling gig with aplomb. As well as acting as their accessories horse, the former make-up artist has picked her favourite products from the store to curate a 'Millie's make-up bag' edit, which will be landing in shops and online imminently. It was also revealed today that she may well be taking part in the upcoming series of Celebrity Masterchef. A source told the Daily Mirror: . 'Millie loves cooking and thinks the show is great, so it would be a . perfect return to television for her. She’d be a brilliant signing for . the show.' Girl next door: Millie dons a pretty white T-shirt, boho accessories and wavy locks in the new imagery . In addition to being a fitness . fanatic, the confectionery heiress regularly posts snaps onto her . Instagram page of the culinary creations she has whipped up for her . rapper husband. The make-up artist bowed out of Made . In Chelsea last summer ahead of her September wedding to Hackney-based musician Professor Green - real name Stephen . Manderson - declaring that the series 'wasn't making her happy' anymore. He said at the time: . 'She's just had enough of it ... I'm happy with her to do anything that . makes her happy, and it really wasn't making her happy.' Nutritious and delicious: The confectionery . heiress regularly posts snaps onto her Instagram page of the culinary . creations she has whipped up for her rapper husband, Professor Green . But . Millie is said to have been inundated with television offers after her . hiatus from the small screen, and is even said to have been approached . about the possibility of launching a presenting career in the not too . distant future. A source added to the Daily Mirror: . 'Millie has been approached for a few different shows. Nothing has been . signed yet, so there are a number of different possibilities on the . table. 'There has been . some talk of her getting her own show or even doing some presenting . work, but it would have to be the right project.' Culinary champions: The 24-year-old reality star . could be trying her hand at impressing Celebrity Masterchef judges John . Torode and Gregg Wallace . Tasty treats: Millie is a big foodie, and . regularly keeps her Twitter and Instagram followers up to date with her . latest favourite dishes, including this one at The Good Life Eatery in . Chelsea . Just . last month, Millie - who shot to fame on the first series of Made In . Chelsea in May 2011 alongside the likes of Caggie Dunlop, Spencer . Matthews and Ollie Locke - revealed she had a new television project . underway. She told MailOnline: 'I have a new TV project this year and I'm going to be expanding my product range.' Last . year's series of Celebrity Masterchef, fronted as ever by culinary . experts John Torode and Gregg Wallace, featured the likes of boxer Joe . Calzaghe, journalist Janet Street-Porter and former Sugababes singer . Heidi Range. Comedian Ade Edmondson was crowned champion after winning the BBC cookery competition. MailOnline has contacted a representative for Millie Mackintosh for comment. Newlyweds: Millie and Professor Green tied the . knot last year and are settling into married life well; Millie even . makes packed lunches for her husband .", "She's the wife of a rock star and long-standing Victoria's Secret Angel, but Lily Aldridge has added another string to her bow by unveiling a fashion range. The 28-year-old has joined forces with Velvet to design a second clothing collection after her first range for the brand proved super successful. The SS14 offering is full of colourful body-con dresses, Breton-striped tees and cosy casual jumpers. Model-turned-designer: Lily Alridge, who found fame as a Victoria's Secret Angel, has designed a range for Velvet (dress,  £83) 'I've loved the whole process. It's every girl's dream to design the perfect wardrobe,' she told the Metro newspaper. The model explained that she has applied her own sense of style to the line: it features the kind of vibrant neon dresses that she loves to wear. The collection is full of wardrobe staples, such as a classic pair of jeans or printed sundress, and each item is named after one of her friends. Naturally, Lily, who got her big break when she . was photographed by legendary fashion photographer Bruce Weber when she . was just four years old, models the entire range herself. Casual cool: Lily, who is married to King's Of Leon frontman, has created a range of loose-fitted jumpers and cute denim shorts . Living the dream: 'I've loved the whole process. It's every girl's dream to design the perfect wardrobe,' she said of her new collection for Velvet (left, T-shirt, £46,  and, right, £47) Healthy: Lily, who showcases her slender physique in the images, says she practices a ballet routine four times a week (dress, £95) Lily, who was scouted at 16 and went on the become the face of Abercrombie & Fitch, revealed that she didn't always have dreams of becoming a model. 'I played soccer for ten years. My dad . is English and played for Arsenal’s junior team and was really into it . so I thought that was what I was going to do,' she told the paper. But, with a father who designed album covers for The Rolling Stones and Elton John, two model sisters and world-renowned photographer Miles for a half-brother, fashion is clearly in Lily's blood. Flawless: Lily, who radiates natural beauty, has hopes of creating her own beauty range (jacket, £107) The California native has been a . Victoria's Secret model since 2009, and she has also walked the runway . for Rag & Bone and Giles Deacon and appeared in ads for Coach, . Clinque and Anthropologie. Her husband also happens to be Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill and she couldn't speak more highly of him. 'I knew he liked me, so I played it cool. I never exchanged numbers as I just knew we were going to see each other again.' She was right - four years later, they were married. Lily the...footballer? Lily, who was scouted at 16 and went on the become the face of Abercrombie & Fitch, revealed that she dreamed of becoming a footballer (left, T-shirt, £47, right, £35) 'We’re so compatible; he’s the coolest guy I’ve ever met, and my best friend', she told Net-a-porter. The couple live on a farm in Nashville with their one-year-old daughter Dixie Pearl and Lily maintains that her health regime is fairly relaxed. 'I do a ballet routine four times a week, that's really all. I eat a lot of organic foods, I cook, I indulge. You have to balance and have what's good for you,' she told Grazia. It seems that this is just the start of the model's grand design plans. She hopes to follow in the footsteps of fellow Angels Miranda Kerr and Gisele Bündchen by launching her own lifestyle brand. 'I want to create an organic beauty line, a fashion line and I’d love to do kidswear,' she added. Soul mates: She describes husband, Kings of Leon front-man Caleb Followil, as the coolest guy she's ever met . Grand plans: Lily, pictured left in her Victoria's Secret get-up, wants to design an organic skincare line like Miranda Kerr (R)", "A Django Unchained actress is claiming she was 'handcuffed and detained' by police after being mistaken for a prostitute as she kissed her white husband. Daniele Watts, who played slave CoCo in the award-winning film, posted the news on her Facebook page on 2 September and said her arm was cut when she was handcuffed. Watts and her husband Brian James Lucas claim that they were kissing on a Hollywood street when police were called and they were asked to show their ID card to which Watts refused. Scroll down for video . Django Unchained actress Daniele Watts is claiming she was 'handcuffed and detained' by police after being mistaken for a prostitute as she kissed her white husband. She posted this photo of the alleged September 2 incident on Facebook . Watts and her husband Brian James Lucas claim that they were kissing on a Hollywood street when police were called and they were asked to show their ID card to which Watts refused . Watts posted the news on her Facebook page and said her arm was cut when she was handcuffed . Watt's husband wrote: 'So they handcuffed her and threw her roughly into the back of the cop car until they could figure out who she was. In the process of handcuffing her, they cut her wrist' Watts wrote on her Facebook page: 'Today I was handcuffed and detained by 2 police officers from the Studio City Police Department after refusing to agree that I had done something wrong by showing affection, fully clothed, in a public place.' She also posted a photo of crying as she stood in the street wearing patterned shorts, a t-shirt with 'New York' written on it and running shoes with a  policeman next to her. Watts, who plays Martin Lawrence's daughter on the new FX comedy Partners, continued: 'When the officer arrived, I was standing on the sidewalk by a tree. Watts and her husband pose for a photo on her Facebook page. He posted the social media network that he thought that the person who called the police had decided they looked like a prostitute and a client . The pair both wrote about the alleged incident on their respective Facebook pages . 'I was talking to my father on my cell phone. 'I knew that I had done nothing wrong, that I wasn't harming anyone, so I walked away. 'A few minutes later, I was still talking to my dad when 2 different police officers accosted me and forced me into handcuffs. 'As I was sitting in the back of the police car, I remembered the countless times my father came home frustrated or humiliated by the cops when he had done nothing wrong. 'I allowed myself to be honest about my anger, frustration, and rage as tears flowed from my eyes. The actress in her role as house slave Coco Quentin Tarantino's 2012 film Django . 'The tears I cry for a country that calls itself 'the land of the free and the home of the brave' and yet detains people for claiming that very right. Separately her chef husband posted on his Facebook page that he thought that the person who called the police had decided they looked like a prostitute and a client. He wrote: 'From the questions that he asked me as D was already on her phone with her dad, I could tell that whoever called on us (including the officers), saw a tatted RAWKer white boy and a hot bootie shorted black girl and thought we were a H* (prostitute) & a TRICK (client). 'What an assumption to make!!!Because of my past experience with the law, I gave him my ID knowing we did nothing wrong and when they asked D for hers, she refused to give it because they had no right to do so. 'So they handcuffed her and threw her roughly into the back of the cop car until they could figure out who she was. In the process of handcuffing her, they cut her wrist, which was truly NOT COOL!!!' An LAPD public information officer said there was no record of the incident as Watts was not arrested or brought into the station for questioning, according to the Chicago Tribune.", "With the exception of Kim Kardashian, most women would be wary of letting their boyfriends or husbands serve as their personal stylists for the day - let alone a week - but that is exactly what one writer did. After learning that her boyfriend Luke Winkie disliked her favorite pair of black shorts, Kelsey Lawrence, 25, from Austin, Texas, was inspired to give him complete control of her closet, allowing him to dress her without any limitations for an entire work week. 'I thought I had red-blooded, heterosexual dudes mostly figured out as far as what they think girls look most attractive in because I’ve spent a few years as an observant young female,' she wrote in an essay for xoJane. 'I was curious to put this to the test. What would he pick out for me?' Scroll down for video . Total trust: Kelsey Lawrence (left), a writer from Austin, Texas, let her boyfriend Luke Winkie (right) dress her for an entire work week in whatever he thought she looked most attractive in . Monday: Kelsey, 25, was 'pleasantly surprised' by Luke's first outfit choice (pictured), which mixed color and prints . The rules were simple. Luke, who knew nothing about women's fashion, had to pick out Kelsey's outfits based solely on what he found her most attractive in. For his first day of styling his girlfriend, Luke chose an A-line, forest green skirt from Madewell, a loose, black H&M t-shirt and a leopard print cardigan from Goodwill. Black stockings and black ankle boots completed Kelsey's look. Kelsey noted that she was 'pleasantly surprised' that Luke was mixing colors and prints, and more importantly the outfit earned 'approving stares' at her suburban office. She even got a few compliments in the break room. The next day Luke dressed her in a stomach-baring, polka dot L.A. Gear shirt, a pair of grey and white tie dye Levi's and a denim jacket. While the eclectic ensemble made Kelsey embarrassed to go to work, her worries were unfounded. Tuesday: Kelsey said she was embarrassed to go to work in this stomach-baring outfit that Luke put together, but she later received a genuine compliment on her new look from one of her female co-workers . Wednesday:  Luke's next look was somewhat of a dud because Kelsey was wary of wearing these old boot cut jeans from Aéropostale . Not only did a co-worker love her pants, she went on to tell Kelsey that she noticed 'something new was going on' with her. 'I am simultaneously flattered and also now uncertain of anything I’ve worn ever,' Kelsey wrote. 'The outfits I’ve worn the past two days have garnered more compliments than any look I’ve put together for the last month.' For the third day of her experiment, Luke opted for a casual look, putting Kelsey in 'very old' old pair of bootcut Aéropostale jeans, his baggy New Order t-shirt and a herringbone hooded coat. The entire look made her feel frumpy and 'mad unattractive', and she was shocked to learn that Luke wasn't a fan of the form-fitting leggings she usually wore. The following day, Luke stuck with some of Kelsey's favorite wardrobe items and dressed her in a black Stone Cold Steve Austin Christmas sweatshirt and her high-waisted black jeans from H&M. Kelsey explained that the playful outfit made her realize she hasn't been dressing like herself lately, noting that she has been 'very safe' when choosing her looks. Thursday: For day four, Luke picked out some of Kelsey's favorite wardrobe staples - a Stone cold Steve Austin Sweatshirt and high-waited jeans from H&M . Friday: On the last day of Kelsey's experiment, Luke dressed her in an eclectic outfit, which featured a football jersey, a fur coat and a shocking yellow miniskirt . For Luke's final day of styling, he paired a San Diego Chargers jersey with a tight yellow pencil mini skirt and a white rabbit fur coat that she recently purchased at a vintage boutique. The somewhat over the top outfit was worn to pick up gummy bears at a grocery store before she headed to Luke's apartment to hang out. 'My friend Andy told me I looked like an extra in a Cam’ron video,' she wrote. 'No higher compliment has been paid to me.' With the exception of the ill-fitting Aéropostale jeans, none of Luke's chosen outfits were even close to being failures. In fact, many of them earned some unexpected compliments. What's even more interesting is that Luke only spent a total of five minutes choosing Kelsey's outfits over the course of five days. The next time you're standing in front of your closet with 'nothing to wear', consider calling your boyfriend in for some help. Fresh faced: A year before Kelsey enlisted Luke to pick out her clothes, she dressed herself in a simple white t-shirt and form-fitting black pants . Personal style: She wore a white short-sleeved button down with grey shorts in 2013 .", "The Huntsman family may be looking to craft themselves into the next American political dynasty, after the Kennedys, Bushes and Clintons. Former Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman's 28-year-old pundit daughter Abby shied away from questions about a political future, but says she has not ruled out running for office. 'Never say never, right?' Huntsman told the Salt Lake Tribune on December 31. 'My dad has always raised us to serve. You've seen that with my brothers going in the military. … If there was an opportunity that made sense somewhere, where I felt like I had the right message to move it in the right direction and to help out, of course you take that seriously.' Preparing for office: Abby Huntsman refused to confirm nor deny that she would like to pursue a career in politics like her father in the future . Following in dad's footsteps? Abby Huntsman (left), daughter of former presidential candidate Jon Huntsman (right), says she hasn't ruled out running for public office . Bringing sex appeal to D.C. one day? Abby (left) with her sisters Elizabeth and Mary Anne became one of the stars of her father's own short lived presidential campaign for the 2012 elections . Huntsman first came to public attention in 2011, when her father stepped down as President Obama's ambassador to China to start his own run at the White House. Abby and two of her sisters were their father's secret weapon in the campaign, tweeting candid thoughts about the candidate, which made him more relatable. However, Huntsman's popularity never went over 5 per cent and he lost the GOP nomination to Mitt Romney. Abby is currently a co-host on MSNBC show The Cycle, where she offers a more Republican perspective on the liberal network show. If she were to run for office, Abby says it would probably be back in her home state of Utah. Political family: Abby (second right) supported her father's failed 2012 run at the White House by starting a Twitter campaign with her sisters Elizabeth (left) and Mary Anne (second left). Pictured above as her father announces an end to his campaign with mother Mary Kaye (third left) and sister Gracie Mei (right, who was adopted from China) However, her more moderate Republicanism could prove difficult in securing public office in the conservative state. Abby believes that politics in the state are changing and cites former Democratic Gov Scott Matheson and former Democratic Utah congressman Jim Matheson as examples of the right-leaning state, sometimes voting for candidates on the left. 'Utah has also changed a lot. You look at even Salt Lake City — the demographics are changing. I think we'll see in years to come that it's not going to necessarily be a hot spot for the tea party.' So far during her tenure on The Cycle, Abby has been the only panelist with a conservative point of view, but she finds herself agreeing with her co-hosts on a lot of issues. Abby adds that she considers herself a free thinker and never wanted to be another party talking head. The Republican viewpoint: Abby is currently a panelist on MSNBC show The Cycle where she offers a conservative point of view on the afternoon news show . She says the 'next generation of young Republications' is 'more like Republicans of probably 20 years ago. Socially, we aren't where the tea party is at all. We are a lot more compassionate when it comes to gay rights and immigration, because we've grown up in a different world.' While he may be biased, her father has given her a glowing review of her journalist integrity, telling the Tribune: 'She's not an advocacy journalist, which is what you see a lot of today. She's an old-school journalist. She wants to get the story right, wants to convey to the listening audience the passion, the emotion, the politics of the moment without the proverbial political spin.' But it still may be a bit early to be starting an political-action committees for young Abby, who says right now she's just 'trying to get the best that I can at what I'm doing'.", "By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 06:43 EST, 10 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 04:17 EST, 11 September 2013 . When Joseph Ford decided to merge his two passions for clothes and cameras his goal was to take the art of fashion photography to new heights. So the Brighton-based photographer flew around the world to source landscapes for the 'aerial' project - before spending up to 12 hours painstakingly arranging designer garments to blend with his photographs. His series includes leafy apartments in Mauritius paired with green-checkered Boss boxer shorts, while rips in a pair of jean blend with clouds over Sardinia. Elsewhere a Sicilian train track blends seamlessly with a Barbour jacket zip and the rolling sands dunes of Morocco merge into the folds in a Kenzo sweater. Pants: Brighton-based Joseph Ford series includes leafy apartments in Mauritius paired with green-checkered Boss boxer shorts . Fashion shots: Rips in a pair of jean blend with clouds over Sardinia . Two-track mind: Elsewhere a Sicilian train track blends seamlessly with a Barbour jacket zip . Joseph, 35, explains: 'I shot all the aerial images during a couple of advertising jobs in Sicily, Mauritius and Morocco, where I spent several days flying around over all sorts of terrain in a helicopter. I couldn't have done any of the pictures without the help of a couple of amazing helicopter pilots. 'I showed the aerial pictures to a couple of friends, Stephanie Buisseret (art director) and Mario Faundez (stylist) at a Paris streetwear magazine, and we came up with the idea of shooting a series mixing fashion and landscapes. Tight knit: The rolling sands dunes of Morocco merge into the folds in a Kenzo sweater . Buildings in Sicily matched with a Marc Ecko T-shirt: He said showed the images to two friends at a Paris streetwear magazine, and together they came up with the idea of shooting a series mixing fashion and landscapes . Flying high: This is a hospital carpark in Sicily mixed with a pair of Freeman T Porter jeans. Joseph shot all the pictures while working on an advertising job . Zingaro Nature Reserve in Sicily and a K-Way jacket: Some of the compostions match the two images seamlessly . 'That made an initial series of five doubles in 2012, which was selected for the Association of Photographers Awards in the UK and had an Honorable Mention in the International Photography Awards. 'A few months ago Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin got in touch and asked if I could produce another series along the same lines, with their stylist Almut Vogel. 'With both series, I made a selection of aerial images which I thought would lend itself well to the concept, and the stylists then made suggestions as to fashion items which they thought could match/contrast well. Buildings in Sicily and an Adidas shirt: Others aren't quite so seamless but match nonetheless . Sicilian road and a Swatch watch: Joseph clearly had more than a little time on his hands in between doing the advertising job . A caravan in Macari and a Missoni Sweater: He flew high above the earth in a helicopter to get the perfect shots . No tricks: Joseph said there was no retouching of the . images apart from 'a little tweaking of the colour balances to get the two . sides to work well together' 'We made a shortlist together before the shoot, and spent a couple of days shooting the fashion in studio. Very long days - the image of the desert & a sweater took about 12 hours to produce, making tiny adjustments to the lighting and the position of the folds in the material to match it up to the patterns of light and dark in the sand dunes. There was a huge amount of trial and error to get the pictures to match up just right. 'There was no real retouching of the images, just a little tweaking of the colour balances to get the two sides to work well together. I shot almost everything with a medium format digital Hasselblad.' For more info about Joseph, click here.", "Britain's mini 'hurricane' has seen women across the country flood to the High Street in desperate search of a weatherproof coat. With temperatures still in the late teens their over garment of choice, according to latest figures, is a trusty rainproof Mackintosh style. The Saturdays' Vanessa White and stunning actress Jessica Chastain stepped out in a macs this week joining Cara Delevingne, Kate Moss, Alexa Chung and Mariah Carey, who were all recently pictured in a variety of trench coats. Scroll down for video . Vanessa White exits the Myla party on Tuesday in a long belted mac (l) and Jessica Chastain dressed in burgundy trousers, trench coat and butterfly print silk scarf recently (r) New styles seen on the High Street hope to introduce a whole new generation of fashion followers to its charms. They include brightly coloured coats and even faux fur trims, which give a sprinkling of somethinmg extra to the faithful mac. Sales of that great British standby - in all its many forms - have shot up by 108 per cent at Debenhams compared to this time last year. The driest and fourth warmest September since 1910 is a distant memory as unsettled October continues to bring more heavy rain and cooler temperatures. For many of us the perfect coat is a classic Burberry trench. But with a hefty price tag of more than £1,000 owning one is just a distant dream. So to get you ready to brave the weather in style, Femail selects the coolest mac and trench coats from the High Street for all budgets. Just bring a brolly with you. Suki Waterhouse wears a Burberry trench recently (l) and a model shot of the Sandringha Heritage coat . Yasmin Le Bon in the stunning Winser Trench Coat, £250, in black . The Winser Short Trench, £195, seen in beige, was created for Emma Watson (l) a more straight style is this M&S Autograph Buttonsafe Belted Trench Coat, £149 (r) Debenhams spokesperson Elena Antoniou said: 'The great thing about the mac is that it is so versatile, it can be smart and even formal over an evening dress on a wet and windy evening, as well as being incredibly practical. Yet it can also be thrown over a casual top and pair of jeans for an effortlessly classic look. 'The new shorter, flared shapes are very flattering to most figures and the latest range of bright colours, including pillar-box reds and purples, are appealing to a whole new section of customers who maybe wouldn't have previously considered a mac.' Oasis Naomi Mac with contrast belt and cuffs, £85 (l) and Gap classic trench, £59.95 (r) Myleene Klass high shine mac, £69 Littlewoods.com (l) and South Beige mac, £57 (r) Fearne Cotton double breasted lace collar trench coat, £59, Very.co.uk . This mac from Debenhams' The Collection is on sale for just £15.20 (r) Scottish chemist Charles Mackintosh (1766-1843) is credited with inventing the Mackintosh raincoat, but the method of dissolving rubber and attaching it to fabric to make it waterproof was actually invented by the Scottish surgeon James Syme. Mackintosh, a contemporary of Syme, patented the idea in 1823 of cementing two pieces of fabric together with rubber to create a waterproof material, and went into the production of raincoats. The first was sold in 1824 and production of rubberised coats soon spread all over Britain. Every kind of coat was produced with rubberised material including riding coats and coats supplied to the British Army, British Railways and UK police forces. But the terms mackintosh and mac are now used to refer to any shower-proof or waterproof coat.", "Her children were left devastated after her husband - their father - passed away from lung cancer. So one Canadian mother found a way to keep his spirit alive - by making pillows out of his clothes. Using her late spouse's flannel shirts, the mother created memorial pillows, before attaching heartfelt notes 'from Dad' to the fabric. She then gave them to her two children as gifts on Christmas Day. Touching: A Canadian mother created this memorial pillow from her late husband's flannel shirt. She then fixed a note to it, reading: 'This is a shirt I used to wear. And when you hold it I’ll be there. Love Dad xoxo' One of the notes, written on brown paper by the woman's sister-in-law and sewn onto the pillow via a piece of string, reads: 'This is a shirt I used to wear. And when you hold it I’ll be there. Love Dad xoxo.' On Monday, one of the children posted a photo of their pillow to Reddit, saying: 'My father passed away from lung cancer in July. Mom had these gifts made for me and my brother.' The user, known only as Velaniswin, later uploaded a picture of their brother's pillow, as well as an image of their father donning the same flannel shirt that was used to create the keepsake. The photo of the first pillow, which Velaniswin described as 'the best gift I've ever received', was then shared on Parentdish Canada's Facebook page, where it has been 'liked' more than 166,000 times. Passed: The mother gave the pillows to her two children on Christmas Day. Above, her late husband is seen donning one of his favorite flannel shirts, which was sewn into a pillow after his death from cancer (below) Transformation: The blue-and-yellow flannel shirt is seen transformed into a memorial pillow for the children . 'Thoughtful': On Monday, one of the children posted a photo of their pillow to Reddit. It was later shared on Parentdish Canada's Facebook page, where it was deemed 'sweet' and 'creative' by many users (pictured) User Audrey Puntureri Phillips, from Pennsylvania, wrote: 'My mouth fell open when I saw this! How incredibly thoughtful, exceptionally sweet, and very creative besides!!' Subscribers also shared their own photos of memorial objects that have been crafted from passed loved one's clothes - dubbed the practice of 'upcycling' - including bears, blankets and quilts. Jodie Keast posted an image of a grey-colored pillow created from her late young daughter's favorite 'Cookie Monster' T-shirt, saying: 'My daughters favorite tshirt. I sleep with it every night.' Other memorial items: Subscribers also shared their own photos of memorial objects that have been crafted from passed loved one's clothes. Above, Jodie Keast made this pillow from her late daughter's T-shirt . Heart-wrenching: She captioned the touching image:  'My daughters favorite tshirt. I sleep with it every night' Tribute: Ashley Albers shared an image of bear and pillow made out of her passed father's T-shirt and jacket . Alongside the above image, Miss Albers wrote: 'My dad passed away 11 years ago.'My mom just recently got this bear and pillow made completely of his clothes! Even the eyes of the bear are from his Jean jacket' Upcycling: These carefully-crafted pillows were also made out of late fathers' clothes by creative relatives . Meanwhile, Sharon Shazza Morris uploaded a picture of a stuffed brown teddy bear, alongside the caption: 'My dad passed 7 years ago, I recently made this little bear from his jacket. 'I hope to make 10 more for my siblings, children, niece and nephew and mum. It still smells like him.' Ashley Albers shared an image of bear and pillow made out of her passed father's T-shirt and denim jacket, writing: 'My dad passed away 11 years ago. In all colors: Rachel Sweeney, from Belfast, UK, shared this picture of colorful teddy bears lined up on a bed . A lovely gift: Alongside the picture, uploaded to Parendish Canada's Facebook page, Miss Sweeney wrote: 'My dad passed away in May this year and my sister is law got us all teddy bears made out of his pyjamas' Cute: Sharon Shazza Morris uploaded this picture of a stuffed brown teddy bear (left), alongside the caption: 'My dad passed 7 years ago, I recently made this little bear from his jacket. Right, another memorial bear . 'My mom just recently got this bear and pillow made completely of his clothes! Even the eyes of the bear are from his Jean jacket.' And Rachel Sweeney, from Belfast, UK, posted a picture of a line of teddy bears, saying: 'My dad passed away in May this year and my sister is law got us all teddy bears made out of his pyjamas' Other photos on the page feature a pillow with a touching note 'from Papa', a quilt created from ties, a duvet stitched together with T-shirts and a teddy bear made from a late mother's floral blouse.", "By . Sara Malm . and Sam Webb . A 16-month old girl who was killed by her own father in a tragic car accident outside their home has now been named. Angel Pitts died in hospital after she was hit by the reversing vehicle in Leeds, West Yorkshire, earlier this month. Angel, who had just learned to walk, had wandered out into the garden while her mother Megin was distracted and ended up behind the car. Tragedy: Angel Pitts, 16 months, died earlier this month after her own father accidentally ran over her . Her father, Scott Pitts, was leaving . the home in the family car and failed to see her as he drove away, . reversing over the little girl. Despite . desperate attempts by neighbours and paramedics to save her, she was . confirmed dead a short time after arriving at Leeds General Infirmary. Megin and Scott Pitts later released a statement regarding their daughter's funeral, inviting mourners to wear Disney clothes or animal onesies. ‘Angel Jackie-Jean Pitts died aged 16 months. ‘This . was a tragic accident that her father did not see coming and could have . never imagined it happening. Angel suffered fatal injuries in the incident outside her home in a quiet cul-de-sac (pictured) in Leeds . Despite desperate attempts by neighbours and paramedics to save her, she was confirmed dead a short time after arriving at Leeds General Infirmary . 'We would like to thank everyone for their support at this tragic time. ‘Her funeral will take place on . Thursday, June 26, leaving from our house at one o'clock taking our last . walk with her to Cottingley Cemetery where the ceremony will begin at . two o'clock. 'We are hoping for people to be wearing animal onesies or Disney dress up, if not just bright colours. ‘Anybody . is welcome to pay their respects to her. Any donations are welcome, all . to go to the Sweet Dreams charity that provides memory boxes at . hospitals for parents that have lost a child’. A neighbour described the tragic event, which took place around 7.30pm on Saturday 14th June. 'He . [Scott Pitts] had nipped out on a quick errand on Saturday evening and . realised mid-journey that he had forgotten something and had rushed back . home,' the neighbour said. Her parents have requested that any donations should go to the Sweet Dreams charity that provides memory boxes at hospitals for parents who have lost a child . 'He'd . opened the garden gate and the family dog ran out into the street. 'The mother came out trying to catch the dog, all her attention was on . the dog. 'Nobody had seen that the little girl, who had just learned to . walk, had come out of the gate as well and had wandered towards the rear . of the car. 'Dad then came out of the house and reversed over the little girl.' Another neighbour said: ‘They are devastated. Even though it is an accident, the dad is blaming himself. 'It was horrendous, the other residents tried their best to help but there was nothing to be done to save her. 'She was a lovely 16-month-old girl who had just started to walk and wanted to explore the world.'", "(InStyle.com) -- The co-star of \"27 Dresses\" discusses his personal style. \"I just feel dirty,\" says James Marsden. Not to be alarmed: There's nothing indecent going on here. James Marsden talks about his favorite kind of clothes and how his style has changed over the years. The 34-year-old is explaining what it feels like to be sporting facial hair for a film he's working on with Cameron Diaz. Yet even the newly grown whiskers can't hide the finely chiseled features of an actor who seems to have cornered the Hollywood market on hottie-who-loses-the-girl roles (\"Enchanted,\" \"Superman Returns\" and, of course, \"The Notebook.\") But the Oklahoma-bred star doesn't mind his wholesome image. \"That's really me,\" he says. \"I'm a little dorky -- awkward.\" However, his onscreen luck could be changing with his latest film, \"27 Dresses,\" a romantic comedy co-starring Katherine Heigl. Scruffy or not, we'll be watching. You've played a prince in \"Enchanted\" and the superhero Cyclops in the \"X-Men\" movies. Is that a big deal to your kids and their friends? My daughter, Mary, is only 2, and my son, Jack, is 7. He has a Cyclops action figure, but he's really into Spider-Man and Pixar movies -- Buzz Lightyear is his guy. No \"Superman,\" no \"X-Men.\" I think he just assumes that everyone at his school has a dad who's a big superhero. You also played Corny Collins, the TV dance-show host in \"Hairspray.\" What were you like in high school? That's when I came out of my shell and became more social -- people thought I was funny. I got into a whole preppy thing -- Duck Head shorts and Dockers. How would you describe your style now? Functional comfort. For a guy, it shouldn't ever look like you thought about it too much, like the clothes are wearing you. Whose clothes do you like? Paul Smith off the rack -- it's a slim cut, and I don't need to have it tailored. I always feel like an 8-year-old when I dress up in a suit, like, when can I take this thing off? But I wore a black Dolce & Gabbana suit to the première of \"Hairspray\" that was like, OK, now I know what a great suit is. Classic, clean lines -- sharp, sharp, sharp. Do you change your style from coast to coast? In L.A. it's too easy to throw on a pair of American Apparel sweats, a T-shirt and running shoes and just wear those for days. In New York, I actually like looking nice. Maybe I'm just getting older, but young guys need to pull their pants up. Do you ever shop for your wife? I love shopping for dresses, and I actually do a pretty good job. When I was in New York, I went into J. Crew in Soho and got her a cool fifties type dress with tiny polka dots. Style-wise I'm good, but figuring out sizing is a different story. What do you find sexy on a woman? I like spaghetti straps for my wife -- she has great shoulders and a great neck. I love when she puts her hair up, because I can see the back of her neck, so delicate and vulnerable. It's the vampire in me. Or my obsession with cheerleaders -- their hair up in a ponytail. When I was young, I could never have that. Never got the cheerleader? Eventually -- my wife was a cheerleader. What does your wife find sexy on you? A button-front shirt with [baby] spit-up on the shoulder. That means a guy is taking care of the kids and is a good father -- that's sexy to a woman. The adult version of rose petals and champagne is if I let my wife sleep in and I get up to change the baby's diaper, feed the kids, and do the dishes. Who inspires you? Paul Newman. My middle name is Paul, and my grandfather once said I was going to look like Paul Newman. That stuck with me. Beyond being a good-looking guy, Newman is a great actor with a long career, and he's got a life. He's married with kids and lives in Connecticut, sells popcorn and marinara sauce, and gives the money to charity. Anyone else? George Clooney dresses like Gary Cooper might have. Cary Grant. \"A Streetcar Named Desire\"-era Marlon Brando. They all made it look effortless. Their clothes framed their personalities really well -- comfortable, classic, but sharp. These guys could pull off a great suit, or jeans and a T-shirt. Don't you agree that guys have it easy -- they are considered \"distinguished\" as they grow older? I don't think it's guy-specific. As women get older, they become more comfortable with themselves. Susan Sarandon is the poster woman for that. A lot of guys fantasize about being with women who are in their forties or fifties. So your advice is ...? Act your age. Dress your age. Look your age. That doesn't mean you can't have fun. And isn't it time you got the girl in one of your movies? There are a couple of things I need to do [onscreen]: One, get the girl; two, pack a gun. Don't you love my career philosophy? E-mail to a friend . Get a FREE TRIAL issue of InStyle - CLICK HERE! Copyright © 2008 Time Inc. All rights reserved.", "North West was clearly having the time of her life at dance class with her cousins Penelope and Mason on Thursday. But, of course, the ballet and tap session in Woodland Hills, California had to come to a close at some point and the 21-month-old appeared to be, understandably, a bit upset. However, the youngster looked like she got over it rather quickly while in the arms of her mother Kim Kardashian, who earlier that day debuted her newly dyed raven locks. Scroll down for video . Not yet, mommy! North West looked a little upset to be leaving her ballet and tap session in Woodland Hills, California on Tuesday but soon got over it in the arms of her newly raven-haired mother Kim Kardashian . Kim caused a stir as she debuted her polarizing platinum-blonde locks at Paris Fashion week earlier this month. But it seems the 34-year-old has grown tired of the damage and maintenance stemming from the new 'do as she returned to raven locks. She was back to her signature look as she took North to dance class with Kourtney and her children Penelope and Mason. Playing with her cousins: The 18-month-old was clearly having the time of her life at dance class with her cousins Penelope and Mason on Thursday . Auntie was there: Kourtney pictured leaving the class with her own little ones . Looking fit: Kim showed off her stunning figure in a form fitting black crop top, which she coupled with a pair of black leggings while Kourtney sported skinny jeans and booties . Kim showed off her stunning figure in a form fitting black crop top, which she coupled with a pair of black leggings. She accessorized the look with a pair of grey Yeezy Boost Adidas sneakers - the original design of her husband Kanye West. Her newly dyed black locks were slicked back, and she hid her eyes behind a pair of sunglasses, as she carried daughter North to her ballet class in Woodland Hills, California. Back to black: Kim revealed that she had returned to her raven locks when she stepped out on Thursday . Just the two of us! North was all smiles as mother Kim carried her to ballet class on Thursday . On trend: Kim looked chic in an all-black ensemble as she stepped out to bring young daughter North to ballet class . North looked cheery as she sported a long-sleeved white leotard, along with coordinating white tights and ballet shoes. Her short brunette locks were pulled back into little pigtails and she sported small golden stud earrings. Kim looked every bit the doting mother as she was spotted holding a pair of black tap shoes for North as she brought the little girl to her dance class. Supportive spouse: Kim donned a pair of Yeezy Boost Adidas sneakers - the original design of her husband Kanye West - while out on Thursday . Ready to dance: North looked every bit the prima ballerina, dolled up in a long-sleeved white leotard along with matching tights and ballet shoes . Kim's sister Kourtney joined the pair on the outing, along with her children, five-year-old son Mason and two-year-old daughter Penelope. Kourtney also showed her supportive side, donning a white T-shirt featuring the image of younger sister Kendall Jenner. The 35-year-old coupled that with a pair of form-fitting destroyed, light wash jeans, as well as heeled ankle booties. Fit figure: Kim showed off her enviable curves in a form-fitting black ensemble as she brought North to dance class . Her biggest fan: Kourtney Kardashian was spotted wearing a T-shirt which featured sister Kendall Jenner as she brought children Mason and Penelope to dance class on Thursday . Adidas Originals x Kanye West Yeezy 750 Boost sneakers . Shop here... Visit site . Kim Kradashian has got the fashion world at her feet. But one of the perks of being married to a Mr Kanye West is getting access to his hot off the runway designs for Adidas Originals! The star is the latest member of her family to sport these grey suede hi top trainers, which hail from Kanye's Fall 2015 collection. The Yeezy Boost is a limited edition design and features state of the art cushioning technology and a Velcro strap across the front. Kanye himself wore them at the collection presentation, and since then everyone from Brooklyn Beckham to Kris Jenner has followed suit. This super comfortable style has only recently been released, but is already proving to be hot property and tricky to get hold of, click the link (right) for more information. Or check out the too cool for school kicks we've found for you on the virtual high street. These Asos grey suede trainers will do the trick, or turn to one of Kimye's favorite designer labels, Maison Margiela. Shellys London Tread suede sneakers at Nasty Gal . Visit site . MM6 Maison Martin Margiela sneaker at Nordstrom . Visit site . Asos Defuse velcro strap suede hi top trainers . Visit site . Similar style: Kourtney's children both sported navy blue and white striped shorts for Thursday's outing . Her long dark locks were styled straight, and she hid her eyes behind a pair of wayfarer-style sunglasses as she carried daughter Penelope into class. Penelope and Mason both sported navy blue and white-striped shorts for the outing, with the young girl donning a studded tank top while Mason wore a graphic print T-shirt. Kourtney opted to cover her slim new waistline with the T-shirt, after having recently shared an Instagram snap celebrating her return to 120lbs, commenting: 'First day that I have seen this number in a while.' Hands full: Kim held onto North and kept a hand on Mason . Family affair: Mason followed his aunt and cousin after dance class . Family affair: Kim's sister Kourtney also brought children Mason and Penelope to dance class in Woodland Hills on Thursday . Heading home: The mother of one later flaunted her famous curves as she got ready to take daughter North home from ballet class . Kim, however, showed off another style transformation, having returned to black hair after a much-discussed platinum-blonde makeover. She debuted the shocking new look on March 5, just in time for Paris Fashion Week, but immediately returned to the salon for a touch-up, posting on social media just four days later: 'It's hard out here for a platinum pimp! Thank you @FredericMennetrier for touching up my blonde!' Then, last week, Mrs. Kanye West returned to dye her blonde locks yet again, posting: 'Being blonde is a full time job!' 'Being blonde is a full time job!' Kim shared this photo on Instagram, of her third visit to the salon for a touch up in just three weeks . Fraying: Kim likely returned to her signature color due to the stress constant bleaching was putting on her hair - she revealed dry, damaged locks while on a Malibu family outing on Sunday . Then, after bleaching her hair for the third time in three weeks, the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star was spotted sporting damaged locks while out with husband Kanye and daughter North. Her blonde hair was pulled back into a hasty ponytail and strands had fallen out and blew listlessly in the ocean breeze on the Malibu family outing on Sunday. Celebrity hairdresser Andrew Jose, ambassador for Salon Science, had warned that if she's not careful, Kim could suffer some serious breakage due to her blonde preference. Later that day: Kim was spotted clocking in some gym time . Zip up: The star wore a figure hugging jacket . Andrew, who has styled the tresses of Alanis Morissette, Jamie Campbell Bower and Louise Redknapp, said: 'This type of bleach blonde look goes beyond fashion and if done well can look high-end and powerful. 'Be warned though, this look is definitely not for the faint-hearted. Not only does maintaining the regrowth take a lot of commitment but the chemical process of bleach on the hair can be incredibly damaging.' He added: 'Overuse and repeated application of bleach to the scalp can strip the hair of moisture and damage the follicle. 'This may cause the hair to either fall out from the root or to break at the weakest point along the hair shaft.' Cool customer: Kim was dressed in all black as she slicked her dark locks into a tight pony tail .", "By . Sophie Jane Evans . Her mother and grandparents are accomplished equestrians. And Mia Tindall could be set to follow in their footsteps after she was spotted watching international riders in action at the Festival of British Eventing today. Donning a pink GAP top, white shorts and a sunhat, the adorable six-month-old joined her royal mother Zara Phillips at the festival at Gatcombe Park. Scroll down for video . Family time: Mia Tindall was pictured with her royal mother Zara Phillips at the Festival of British Eventing today . She was seen smiling as they shared some quality mother-daughter time at the three-day annual event, which attracts thousands of visitors and incorporates the British Open, Intermediate and Novice Championships. At one point, Mia was even pictured giggling as her mother changed her multi-coloured cardigan for the pink-and-white outfit. The pair were later joined by Zara's sister-in-law Autumn Phillips, her daughters Savannah and Lola and Prince Edward's children Lady Louise Windsor and Viscount James Severn, who all braved the rain to watch the riders compete. Zara, who won a silver medal in the . London 2012 Olympics, was dressed casually for the day in a blue T-shirt . and a dark blue gillet. Adorable: Donning a pink GAP top, white shorts and a sunhat, the adorable six-month-old joined Zara at the festival at Gatcombe Park. She was seen smiling as they shared some quality mother-daughter time . Royals: The pair were later joined by Zara's sister-in-law Autumn Phillips (second left), her daughters and Prince Edward's children Lady Louise Windsor (centre back) and Viscount James Severn (centre right) Grinning from ear to ear: At one point, Mia was even pictured giggling as her mother changed her multi-coloured cardigan for the pink-and-white outfit. Above, Zara holds her baby daughter before the change . But she later changed into her dressage . gear as she competed in the show with her London Olympics horse High . Kingdom ahead of the World Equestrian Games in Normandy later this . month. Mia was left in the capable hands of her father Mike Tindall, who was dressed in jeans, a blue jumper and a matching gillet, and her grandmother Princess Anne, who wore a long raincoat. Yesterday, Zara joined her mother, the Princess Royal, and her father Mark Phillips, currently Chef d'Equipe for the U.S. eventing team, for the opening of the equestrian festival. The trio appeared in good spirits, with . Captain Phillips pictured throwing a protective arm around his daughter, . while his first wife Princess Anne cracked a joke before rubbing her . nose. Horsing around: There was not a long face in sight as Zara tweaked Prince Edward's son James's ears . In good spirits: Autumn Phillips is pictured holding Mia as her sister-in-law Zara prepares to redress her . Showing her daughter how it's done: Zara, was dressed casually for the day in a blue T-shirt and gillet. But she later changed into her dressage gear as she competed in the show with her Olympics horse High Kingdom . Like the Princess Royal and Zara, Captain . Phillips has enjoyed enormous success in the world of equestrianism, . beginning with his gold medal winning appearance at the Munich Olympics . in 1972. As well as Olympics success, he won the Badminton Horse Trials in 1971 and 1972 riding Great Ovation, in 1974 on Colombus, and in 1981 on Lincoln. After he retired from the Army, he continued to style himself Captain Mark Phillips - which was allowed as junior cavalry officers whose civilian work involves equestrianism may continue to use their rank. While Zara is yet to win Olympic gold, . she will be hoping for a good performance in Normandy later this month, . with Team GB selectors for Rio 2016 expected to be in the crowd. Drawing a crowd: Mia was left in the capable hands of her father Mike Tindall (right), who was dressed in jeans, a blue jumper and a matching gillet, and her grandmother Princess Anne (third left), who wore a long raincoat . Parents: Zara and her husband Mikel prepare to put a rainhood on the pushchair before Zara takes to the field . Having a laugh: Zara is pictured joking with a friend during the Festival of British Eventing at Gatcombe Park . She will, at least, have the support of her London 2012 teammates William Fox-Pitt, Tina Cook, Nicola Wilson and Mary King, who are also expected to compete in France. The Festival of British Eventing takes place at the Princess Royal's Gatcombe Park estate in Gloucestershire, where Zara also lives. As well as eventing, it features a shopping village, arena attractions and family entertainment. Spectators: Peter and Autumn Phillips with their daughters Savannah and Isla and a friend at the festival . Catching up: Yesterday, Zara joined her mother, the Princess Royal (left) and her father Mark Phillips (centre), currently Chef d'Equipe for the U.S. eventing team, for the opening of the equestrian festival . Out and about: Zara Phillips and her sister-in-law Autumn are pictured at the Gloucestershire festival yesterday .", "Forget girly girls names and macho boys names - unisex is the latest trend when it comes to celebrity babies for 2015. Among the celeb offspring recently welcomed into the world are supermodel Coco Rocha and husband James Conran's little girl Ioni, Hollywood heart throb Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively daugher James and Mad Men actress Jessica Pare's son Blues. Rocha, 26, announced the birth of her baby girl on Twitter on Saturday and shared a snap of her bundle of joy, wearing only a nappy and mittens, with the caption: 'James & I are so proud to welcome into the world our healthy and beautiful baby girl, Ioni James Conran! #ioniconran'. Scroll down for video . Coco Rocha and James Conran have named their baby girl Ioni James - her first name means island . Coco Rocha and husband James Conran's daughter Ioni James is the latest celebrity baby with a unisex name . Last week Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively revealed the name of their daughter who was born in December. James is traditionally a boys name meaning 'supplanted', and is derived from the Hebrew name Jacob. In an interview with the Today Show Reynolds ended months of speculation and finally confirmed his daughter's name. He joked: 'It is Butternut Summersquash. No, it's out there! It's out there. It's James. Everyone knows and I told everyone who would listen that.' Coco Rocha with her daughter Ioni James . Finally! Ryan Reynolds revealed he and wife Blake Lively have called their daughter James . James Reynolds, who has been kept tightly under wraps since her birth in December, could be 'Jamie' for short like the actress Jamie King, who answered to James earlier in her career. And as well as choosing a non-gender specific name sports illustrated model Robyn Lawley says she plans to raise her daughter Ripley, born in February, in a 'gender neutral' environment with unisex toys and clothes. In her first interview since Ripley's arrival Lawley told Brands Exclusive magazine: 'I think we separate the genders too greatly by the toys and hobbies.' Actors Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher have gone down the same unisex route by naming their daughter Wyatt, an Anglo-French surname that means 'brave at war'. The couple came up with the moniker at a Lakers Game. Sixteen girls were named Wyatt in America last year compared to almost 8,500 boys, according to the baby name website nameberry.com . Model Robyn Lawley says she plans to raise her daughter Ripley in a 'gender neutral' environment . Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, left, chose Wyatt for their baby daughter while Kim Kardashian and daughter North West, right, both have unisex names . But reality TV stars the Kardashians trump the lot with four unisex names between them. There's 'momager' Kris, Kim, who shares her name with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, her daughter North West and model half-sister Kendall. And the Kardashians, like Taylor Swift, Cameron Diaz, Reece Witherspoon and Drew Barrymore, prove that having a traditionally male name doesn't hinder future success. Yet baby name experts and nameberry.com founders Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz say once boys names are adopted for girls, parents tend to abandon them for boys altogether. The duo told The Huffington Post: 'It's been a truism that once unisex names become widely used for girls, parents abandon them for boys. 'Now we see a welcome reverse of that sexist trend with boys reclaiming names that had long been going toward the girls.' 'Most recent statistics see boys taking back ground on such popular unisex names as Alexis, Carey and  Casey.' And it seems James could become an even more popular choice before the year is out. Ladbrokes have 6/1 odds on James being the name given to the new royal baby when Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge welcome their second child next month. And as we all know, where the Duchess of Cambridge leads, millions follow. Sarah Short with her daughter Robyn, who she says strangers sometimes mistake for a boy unless she is dressed in pink . First time mum Sarah Short, pictured, and her husband Adam, 32, decided to call their daughter Robyn because Robin is Sarah's dad's middle name and Adam's dad is called Robert, which is derived from Robin. But six months after little Robyn was born in September 2014 Sarah, 28, from Rotherfield, East Sussex, says unless she dresses her daughter in anything other than pink strangers think she's a boy. Sarah says: 'I do get asked a lot whether she's a boy or girl, and I've stopped correcting people sometimes when they think she's a boy. 'We didn't even think about that when choosing her name - I just thought Robyn was such a cute name. 'We wanted a name that nobody had and I don't regret our decision. When she's at school and spelling it everyone will know she's a girl. It's just when you're speaking to people that they don't realise.'", "A Broncos star and his pregnant country singer wife have posed for a photo spread in GQ showing off the latest jean trends and her baby bump. Jessie James is seven months pregnant with her first child and she posed alongside husband Eric Decker in the photo shoot for the men’s magazine. The couple are accustomed to working together as they starred in their own reality show about their romance and wedding last year. Baby on the way: Jessie James and her husband Eric Decker are expecting a daughter in March and he posed for a photo spread in GQ which had him modeling the fall trends for jeans . Dressed for different occasions: The football player and country singer did not sport their regular uniforms in the spread . The first season of the show, Eric and . Jessie: Game On, ended on November 3 when the football season started . back up and it has been a busy few months for the pair. Decker, 26, has become one of . the breakout stars of the Denver Broncos with career highs for both the . number of receptions he made and the number of receiving yards. The team is headed into the playoffs for the Superbowl this weekend as they match up against the Patriots on Sunday. He said that his teammates have been supportive of the reality show, which airs on E. Sharing with the world: Both Decker and James are very active on social media and regularly interact with their thousands of followers . On display: The couple described their show as being light on the drama and more like a 'romantic comedy' Dream home: The first season of the show depicted the engaged couple's road to the alter and getting settled down in Denver before ending the season on a high note with their wedding . 'You'd be surprised. A lot of guys wanted to try and get on the show after the first couple of episodes,' he said. James announced her pregnancy via Twitter in September and later revealed they were having a daughter due in March. She has been frequently updating her more than 264,000 followers with news about her pregnancy, posting photos from her baby shower in December and telling how morning sickness was difficult to deal with. Staying in the spotlight: Their reality show has been renewed for a second season which will air this year . Incorporating her music: James used the video of her wedding in the music video for the song 'I do' which she wrote for the occasion . In the brief interview that runs alongside the shots of Decker modelling the fall fashion trends- and James showing her pregnancy bump in short shorts and cropped tops- he said that she was the more fearless one in terms of their career. The photos were shot by photographer Ben Watts, who is the Academy Award actress Naomi's brother. 'It’s hard to replace the rush you get with football, the noise and the stadium and all that,' he told the magazine. 'But for Jessie, people are right there in front of you, no helmet on, nothing, and nobody to take their eyes off of you.' The couple that works out together: James shared this snap of them in a gym months before her pregnancy . Valuable asset: Decker had two career highs this year and the Broncos are headed to a playoff game this weekend to determine whether or not they will head to the Superbowl . Girl party: Jessie's mother and sister hosted a pink-themed baby shower for the country singer in December .", "By . Bianca London . PUBLISHED: . 03:59 EST, 27 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 03:12 EST, 28 May 2013 . Millie Mackintosh is the golden girl of . Made in Chelsea and is almost as famous for her dewy glow and good looks as . she is for her relationship with Professor Green. And as she prepares to embark on a festival tour across the UK following her rapper beau, she has exclusively shared her tips for getting festival ready with MailOnline. As . a fully trained make-up artist and beauty blogger, the 23-year-old has . plenty of tricks up her sleeve when it comes to getting ready. Festival chic: Millie Mackintosh is likely to be following Professor Green on part of his festival tour this summer so she has shared her tips for looking glam on the go . While most mere mortals spend their time glamming up in a tent or porta-loo before the night's festivities, Millie is lucky enough to be treated to a cushy VIP area, but she still has to pack her favourite beauty essentials into her rucksack. To keep her prized, flawless skin in tip-top condition, Millie swears by Manuka Doctor hydrating cleanser and their blemish cream. Speaking about the product, she said: 'I pop this in my handbag . and dab it on to instantly zap zits – it keeps my skin clear all . weekend.' To keep her visage refreshed, she swears by Eau Thermale Avene Water Spray and moisturises with STEAMCREAM, which she uses to keep her legs hydrated and silky smooth whilst wearing her famous denim shorts. Glow getter: To keep her visage refreshed, she swears by Eau Thermale Avene Water Spray and moisturises with STEAMCREAM . And when it comes to festival fashion, the starlet, who is famed on the show for having a great sense of style, is keen to snap up a certain pair of wellies. Speaking about the festival staple, she said: 'I have my eye on a Matthew Williamson pair with a gorgeous colourful print.' And as for the rest of her festival fashion accessories, she said: 'I like to wear my most eccentric sunglasses. 'It might be some bright Ray-Bans this year and a luxury hat – probably a felt Fedora. 'I will be taking an Accessorize boho rucksack with an ethnic print this year and a Barbour. 'They . have some really cool jackets this year – I will be getting a . camouflage one. It is a great cover up option for if it pours with . rain.' Favourite Fedora: Millie will be packing plenty of hats as she hits the campsite this summer . And the star, who is notorious for showing off her endless legs in tiny shorts, added: 'And I will be packing denim hot pants – no festival is complete without these!' Professor Green will be performing at the likes of Glastonbury and Ibiza Rocks, so Millie's summer looks set to be one big party as the circuit's most glamorous groupie. Millie Mackintosh, make-up artist and star of Made in Chelsea is brand ambassador for Manuka Doctor.", "TV show Undercover Boss has caused outrage among viewers after it featured a sports bar where the CEO fired a bartender for refusing to wear just her bikini top on camera and gave a waitress a 'work incentive' of free implants. Sunday night's episode focused on Bikinis Sports Bar and Grill, an establishment which prides itself on waitresses and bartenders who dress in bikini tops, jean shorts and cowboy boots and is a trademarked 'breastaurant'. CEO Doug Guller disguised himself to go undercover at one restaurant of his chain which has several locations in Texas, Oklahoma and North Carolina. Guller has said that his restaurant focuses on four things - booze, food, sports and sex - and boasted that makes it 'recession-proof'. Scroll down for video . Bikinis Sports Bar and Grill CEO Doug Guller (left in disguise) appeared on reality show Undercover Bosses on Sunday night where he assessed the work of his waitresses and bartenders who also must wear bikinis and jean shorts on the job (right) Waitress Gracie, 23, won her boss's approval and was offered free breast implants if she keeps up the good work and enthusiastic attitude for six months . On the show, Guller analyzed his employees' skills and hard work - before firing one who refused to wear only a bikini top while being filmed and offering a boob job to another staffer who impressed him. As a 'new employee' , Guller shadowed bartender Jessica and admitted he was 'p*****' to find she has chosen to wear a T-shirt while being filmed instead of her bikini top because she didn't feel comfortable. 'That's not what we do here at Bikinis,' Guller added. 'We wear bikinis, jean shorts, and cowboy boots.' The CEO went undercover at his sports bar dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. Jessica also confided that she was looking for a new job but was bar-tending to support herself as she was a logistics expert who lost her job when her old company went bankrupt. Bartender Jessica (left) did not fare so well and was fired by CEO Doug Guller (right) after she 'p***** him off' by wearing a T-shirt over her bikini top while she was being filmed . Guller (left) appeared on Undercover Boss disguised in jeans and a T-shirt. He said he was 'p*****' to find bartender Jessica wearing a T-shirt (right) instead of a bikini because she was uncomfortable in a skimpy top while being filmed . Guller ultimately fires Jessica at the end of the episode for not wearing her bikini and lacking in enthusiasm - but not before offering to put a good word in for her with other employers. Next up was waitress Gracie, 23, an employee who was fired four time times in the past three years but whose enthusiasm nevertheless impressed the bar owner. Culler gently chided Gracie for checking her phone at work - before offering her the incentive of a free boob job if she promised not to text at work and keep up the chipper attitude for the next six months. Following his starring reality TV role, Guller tweeted: 'Thank you very much #undercoverboss. Many thanks to Chris George & the Bikinis team, ya'll rock! #BikinisSportsBarAndGrill #eatwithyoureyes.' CBS seemed equally pleased with Sunday's episode of Undercover Boss, sharing multiple tweets including: 'What a wonderful moment on #UndercoverBoss! #TryNotToCry' and 'Do you think Grace will make the perfect bikini babe? #UndercoverBoss'.A . Another member of staff carries a drinks order at Bikinis where the recommended staff attire is bikini top, jean shorts and cowboy boots, as seen on the company's Facebook page . Dozens of fans posted comments following the airing. Jon Rojas tweeted: 'Hey @CBS @undercover_cbs, this a joke, right? #UndercoverBoss Someone at CBS needs to be fired #OutofTouch' Hannah D. Shatinsky commented: 'It's one thing for a close minded man like @DougGuller but I expected better from CBS.' Paul Butterworth added: '@undercover_cbs Sexism? misogyny? patriarchal oppression of women?' Eric Iverson wrote: '@DougGuller Rather than calling you names, I called your Arlington location and told the woman who answered that she deserved better.' MailOnline was awaiting a comment from CBS today. CEO Doug Guller seemed pleased following the broadcast of his Undercover Boss episode... ... However some viewers were less than pleased with the subject of Undercover Bosses reality show on Sunday night . One of the 'breastaurants' in Texas which also has venues in Oklahoma and North Carolina. The chain was featured on CBS show Undercover Bosses on Sunday night .", "A new brutally-honest style series set to premiere on TLC this evening will see a group of fashion-challenged individuals being critiqued by a jury of strangers, before being given a much-needed makeover by two style experts. In tonight's debut episode of Style By Jury, which is presented by British fashion expert Louise Roe and American Eagle's Style Director Preston Konrad, a 44-year-old mother-of-one receives a damning appraisal from the show's panel of critics, who are hidden behind a two-way mirror, with one comparing her look to that of a 'homeless person', while another questions whether she has 'stolen her husband's old clothes'. 'I like to be comfortable, I like to be casual,' the show's first 'fashion offender', Sloane, who was nominated to appear on the show by her cousin, tells Louise. 'My size dictates what I wear.' Scroll down for video . Fashion victim: Sloane, 44, is the first person to be critiqued by a brutally-honest hidden style jury . 'I got lazy': The mother-of-one confesses to host Louise Roe that she gave up caring about what she looked like and how she dressed . Dressed in a baggy, oversized orange T-shirt and a pair of distressed, worn jeans, which are riddled with holes, Sloane's less-than-stylish appearance prompts a series of shocked responses from the jury, who are remain hidden - and unheard - behind a concealed mirror. 'She looks dumpy,' one juror says, while another adds: 'She looks like she's getting ready to do some hard labor.' One particularly brutal juror goes as far as to say that Sloane's baggy clothing makes her look as though stolen 'the old stuff that her husband was donating to Goodwill', prompting her colleague to state: 'She looks homeless, that's what I want to say.' Sloane confesses that she has lost any and all motivation to make an effort when it comes to her appearance. 'I don't wear lipstick at all,' she admits. 'I might wear Chapstick, but that's it. 'My holey jeans are my favorite jeans. I can wear those for about everything. Those are my casual jeans, those are my dress-up jeans. I just maybe might try and put a nicer T-shirt on that might be a little bit more fancy.' 'She's ready for hard labor!' A hidden panel of critics assesses Sloane's look and delivered a series of damning verdicts about her appearance . Behind-the-scenes: The jury is hidden behind a two-way mirror, allowing them to make their observations in private, before they are revealed to Sloane . A hole load of problems: Sloane wears this pair of ripped jeans - her favorite pair - for any and all occasions, be they smart or casual . But while Sloane doesn't take much interest in anything to do with fashion or beauty, she confesses that her husband, whom she has been married to for 11 years, and their 11-year-old daughter, have both grown frustrated with her overly laid-back appearance. '[My daughter] is a little embarrassed about [how I dress],' she says, before adding: '[My husband] thinks I'm frumpy. He loves me but... 'I don't go anywhere. I work, I'm a mom. I do stop myself from going out to dinner with my husband, I'll make up excuses not to go out with my girlfriends. 'It might be a lot of times that I'm lazy... I don't find it important, the way I look.' But Louise, 33, is unimpressed with Sloane's excuses. 'You basically implied that you don't need to, and you shouldn't have to, make the effort because you work and you're a mom,' she says. 'So, you must be the only person in the world who works and is also a mom, right?' Family ties: The fashion victim admits that her husband and their 11-year-old daughter (pictured) find her laid-back appearance quite embarassing . Giving evidence: Sloane's cousin Sierra steps forward as a witness and tells Louise exactly why she feels her cousin is in need of a makeover . Then and now: Sierra explains that Sloane was 'absolutely beautiful' as a twenty-something, but that she let herself go following the death of her mother . After delivering her own damning appraisal of Sloane's sense of style, Louise calls her cousin and close friend Sierra to the Style By Jury witness stand in order to present her evidence for why Sloane is so desperately in need of a makeover. 'She is just so beautiful and it just doesn't present itself on the outside,' she explains. 'I know it, I know what's there, but on the outside you would never see it.' Sierra goes on to describe the series of tragic events in Sloane's life which she believes have lead to her becoming so disinterested in her outward appearance - adding that, during her early 20s, Sloane was 'amazing beautiful on the outside'. 'I think that a lot of stuff has happened in her life, one being her mother passing away,' Sierra tells Louise. 'And I think, hoenstly, from that moment on, she hasn't been the same. 'It has shown in the way she dresses, in her appearance.' Showing Louise an image of a glamorous-looking Sloane at age 20, Sierra adds: 'She was amazingly beautiful on the outside [when we were younger]. Everywhere we went, guys were after her.' On the stand: Sierra explains to Louise that she wants her cousin to look as beautiful on the outside as she is on the inside . Surprise! Sloane is shocked to discover that a hidden panel has been assessing her appearance . Baby steps: The first part of her makeover sees Sloane forced to try on a skin-tight body suit so that she can 'learn where her waistline truly is' The black and white image, which shows Sloane posing seductively, while wearing a flattering low-cut top, prompts gasps of shock from the jury - and from Louise, who then reveals to Sloane that a hidden jury has been appraising her look since she walked into the room. She reveals to Sloane exactly what harsh criticism the jurors voiced about her appearance when she first walked into the room, leaving the mother-of-one in tears. 'I'm not too shocked by a lot of what they said,' she tells Louise. 'I want my daughter to be proud of me. I want her to see mommy happy, and like herself and think that she's beautiful.' Sloane is then taken off to begin her makeover process - which starts with Louise and Preston forcing her into a skin-tight body suit, so that she can 'learn where her waistline truly is' and discover which parts of her body she can accentuate with the help of some new clothing. 'This is my kick in the butt,' Sloane tells the camera. 'This is what I need.' After undergoing a series of rigorous style lessons, Sloane, and her brand new look, will then be presented to a new jury, who will give their own verdict on her revitalized appearance. Style By Jury premieres on TLC tonight at 9.30pm EST .", "By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 08:42 EST, 4 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:12 EST, 4 October 2013 . Casey Kasem's children are being prevented from visiting their ailing father according to his daughter Kerri. Kasem, now 81, was known for his years as the host of the countdown show ‘American Top 40’. He is suffering from Parkinson's disease and retired from his radio hosting in 2009. Kerri, Mike and Julie Kasem say they have not been allowed to see their father for three months. Scroll down to hear a clip of Casey 'losing it'! Kerri, Mike and Julie Kasem say they have not been allowed to see their father Casey Kasem (right) for three months because of their step mother, Jean (left) Protest: Casey Kasem's three children along with friends and colleagues  attempted to see their seriously ill father in Holmby Hills, California on Tuesday . Refusal: Jean Kasem pictured with Casey, pictured back in 2003, 23 years after their marriage . His oldest daughter Kerri Kasem alleges Jean Kasem . has 'aggressively blocked the kids from the house.' ‘I don't get . it, I don't understand it,’ said Kerri to Fox News ‘He has . Parkinson's and all the research we've done indicates socialization . would help him. He needs help walking but this was three months ago. We . don't know how much he's deteriorated. We don't know about his medical . care. We don't have phone numbers for his caretakers, we don't have . phone numbers to the house. We're not allowed to know who his doctors are. We're pretty scared at this point.’ Kerri says she has no idea why she might be banned from seeing her father . however her father told he in the past that her step-mother was . insecure. She says that she hasn’t even been allowed in the house for 10 years. ‘Jean has never, once  in the 30 years called us up and said, 'Let's hang out, let's do something.' It just doesn't happen. Not your typical wicked step-mother: Casey Kasem's children say they know they have already been cut out from their fathers' will but do not regard Jean Kasem (pictured) as evil because there is 'no communication' She's . never wanted a relationship with any of us. It's not just the kids. This is his brother, our cousins, my Dad's best friends, people he's . worked with,’ she says. According . to TMZ, Kerri, Julie and Mike have hired a lawyer to negotiate with . Jean and say if she doesn't let them see their dad, their lawyer will go . to court and ask a judge to create a conservatorship for Casey and make . them the conservators. WARNING CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE . Listen below to hear one of Casey's legendary meltdowns . Police called: Jean Kasem called law enforcement to get the protesters to leave . Breaking it up: The police arrived at the house to try to calm the group of placard holders . Issues: Kerri Kasem says she has no idea why she might be banned from seeing her father however her father told he in the past that her step-mother Jean (pictured) was insecure. She says that she hasn¿t even been allowed in the house for 10 years . In fact, she and her siblings - from Casey's first marriage to Linda Myers - just want to see their father. 'Your children are here for you,' Kerri told the website. 'We have not abandoned you.\" The group held signs up with various messages imploring Jean to relent. One of his daughters held up a neon placard with the words: 'Jean, why won't you let me see my Dad.' Apparently, the protest has nothing to do with money. None of the children are beneficiaries in Casey’s will. Peacemaker: A police officer was seen ringing the buzzer in an attempt to speak to Jean Kasem . Loud and clear: Casey's kids haven't seen their father in so long and are anxious to know how he's faring . Kerri . Kasem told Fox News, 'She can have it all.' We've always said this to . our Dad, 'Give it to her. Come and live with people who love you.' We don't want any of it. We don't care about the money. We make good livings. We're all self-sufficient. We all have great jobs, great careers, self-esteem and we're proud of who we are. I am who I am today because of my Dad. I'm not after his money because of the morals and integrity I have because of how my father raised us. I just want to see my Dad before he dies, that's it! It's awful because . we are such a close family. I talked to my Dad every single day before . he got sick and couldn't talk on the phone.’ Kerri . Kasem believes that if her father is allowed contact with his kids, . receives the  medical care he needs and the physical therapy and the . love, his condition could improve somewhat. Taking a rest: The protesters took a break and sat down on a wall . Don Pitts, Kasem's agent of more than 35 years, told CNN he did not want to take sides in the argument, but he did say Casey is still of sound mind at age 81. 'He has Parkinson's, has it very bad. It took his speech, and for somebody who made millions of dollars using his voice -- for him to lose that gift, that beautiful instrument -- it must be frustrating. But he's handling it very well,' Mr Pitts said. 'His mind is very sharp, his brain works well. You can tell in his eyes he understands everything you're saying. He just has trouble translating it from the brain to his vocal cords.' Kasem was married to Linda Myers from 1972 to 1979 and had three children together: Mike, Julie, and Kerri Kasem. Kasem has been married to American actress Jean Kasem since 1980 and had one child together, Liberty Jean Kasem. Along with his successful DJ-ing career, . Casey was a prominent voiceover actor, famously voicing the character . of Shaggy in the Scooby-Do franchise. Return: One of the police cars was seen returning back down the driveway so hopefully something got settled .", "Elegant, seemingly resilient and as much of a perfectionist as her famous boyfriend, L’Wren Scott’s acquaintances would say she had ‘the legs of a gazelle and the hide of a rhino’. Following the shocking news of her suicide last night, we now know the latter must have been untrue. Indeed, she hinted at her terrible vulnerability in one of her final postings on Instagram, where she reproduced the saying: ‘Fashion is the armour to survive the reality of life.’ Scroll down for video . Jagger's girls: L'Wren with two of Mick's daughters Jade, left, and Georgia May . But why did she need armour? And can she have really felt so under attack? Those who knew her say she was suffering from depression and had only just recovered from an ‘incident’ a few weeks ago when she had harmed herself. From the outside, though, it seemed the 49-year-old former model was enjoying a halcyon period, professionally and personally. She had just released an eponymous perfume, on sale in the upmarket store Barneys in New York. Her cosmetics venture with make-up artist Bobbi Brown was also hitting stores, based, she said, on the colours of the roses she grew at the home in the Loire she shared with Mick. Striking: Those renowned 42-in legs - and the little girl she once was named Laura . Her spring clothing collection had been unveiled. She dressed Christina Hendricks at the Oscars and continued to win plaudits for her fashion line. However, there were thousands of miles between her and Mick, who has been performing in Macau and Singapore with the Stones and had moved on to Australia for the next leg of their tour. Last night, various theories were presented as to why she took her life: that she was distraught following failed attempts to start a family or that she was ill. However, one source close to the Stones said she had harmed herself a month ago, although it was hushed up. Fan: L'Wren and Sarah Jessica Parker in a L'Wren design . The source added: ‘L’Wren was really quite troubled and there were some issues over Mick and her standing in the family. It seems she suffered from depression.’ She wasn’t, it was noted, invited to the baby shower that Jerry Hall hosted for Jade Jagger and daughter Assisi in London at the weekend. She was also reportedly frustrated at being apparently consigned to the role of girlfriend rather than wife — not that she ever let on. L’Wren knew that, after divorcing first wife Bianca and second wife Jerry, Mick had no time for matrimony and little for monogamy. She seemed to be playing a long game. But after chalking up 12 years by his side, she could hardly be blamed for hoping for more. One who knew her said L’Wren was ‘one of those people who likes perfection,’ citing her designer glass bathroom and the impeccably furnished house she had created for Mick in Paris. His lack of commitment was far from perfect. Some thought she had fallen prey to the insecurities that are the lot of every rock ‘wife’ who waves a temporary goodbye to her man. The rock wives who stick at their marriages the longest tend to be the ones who go on the road with their men — such as Jo Wood, who gave herself a job as Ronnie’s road manager. L’Wren knew that. She usually liked to be right at Mick’s side. She was there at Glastonbury when the Rolling Stones headlined last summer, in a chic pair of wellies, and in the wings at their last Hyde Park gig. She also designed the stage outfits Mick has worn for the past two years — the snappy trilby hats, oversized coats and slinky jeans with a 28in waist. But for whatever reason, this time, she remained alone at their apartment in New York while Mick, 70, was on the road. The source connected with the Stones told the Mail: ‘She just wasn’t well enough to go on tour with them.’ Nicole Kidman and L'Wren attend The 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards in Los Angeles, California, 2011. Right, Princess Beatrice and L'Wren at the Serpentine Summer Party, Hyde Park, London June 2013 . Front row friends: L'Wren was seated next to Victoria Beckham at the Chanel 2006 Summer show in Paris . There were other signs of strain. L’Wren cancelled her show at London Fashion Week in January at the last minute, saying her chosen fabrics had arrived too late for samples to be sewn in time. Accounts for her business, filed in the UK in October 2013, show her company, LS Fashion LTD, had a deficit of £3,546,000 with the designer owing creditors £4,592,000. There was speculation last night that she was ‘too broke’ to stage her London show. However, she had just collaborated with the High Street store Banana Republic for a collection that would have paid her around £3million, so perhaps this is an overstatement. She told an interviewer she felt the financial pressure. ‘Every cheque, every penny, I have to be responsible for because it’s my own money.’ Her life story reads like an adventure novel. The adopted daughter of a Mormon store clerk, she dreamed of the big time and made it. Famous friends: L'Wren with actress Ellen Barkin in New York, 2002 . All smiles: Jagger was by Scott's side when she launched her Banana Republic partnership last fall . Humble beginnings: Scott (seen here in 2013 with musician Brian Adams) was the adoptive daughter of Mormon parents and grew up in Utah . Nicole Kidman was one of her closest friends and regularly wore her designs. By the time she met Mick she had already divorced her first millionaire. Given up for adoption at birth, she was named plain Laura by her adoptive parents Ivan and Lula Bambrough, and known as Luann. She grew up in a bungalow in the tiny town of Roy near Salt Lake City, Utah. Her father worked in a DIY store. It was a devout household, with both parents active in the Mormon church. She later said that her upbringing had been ‘like something out of Steven Spielberg’. By the time she was 12, she was a formidable 6ft. She went on to grow a further 4in. Known at school by the nickname ‘Lady’, she excelled at sport and sang in the choir. Loss: The New York apartment building where L'Wren Scott committed suicide. Right, a medical examiner van at the apartment . But she always wanted to work in fashion, and used to make dresses for her Barbie dolls and cut up and remake vintage dresses. At 18, she met the famous photographer Bruce Weber, who encouraged her to believe in her worth as a fashion model. So she applied for a passport and, knowing not a word of French, hopped on a plane to Paris. In a recent interview, she said she had left after her adoptive parents declined to fund a course in fashion design. She said: ‘I didn’t really feel that I was going to be able to achieve my goals in life if I’d stayed there . . . I think I would have felt much more scared not to do it. ‘I wanted to be in fashion. I’ve always thought if you want to do something, just do it.’ Some thought L'Wren had fallen prey to the insecurities that are the lot of every rock 'wife' who waves a temporary goodbye to her man . She began to call herself L’Wren when she became a model, working the catwalk for eight years, and became famous for her incredible 42in legs forming the hands of a clock in a famous David Bailey advert for Pretty Polly tights. While working in London, she met Andrew Ladsky, a millionaire property developer whose mother was a member of the Boucheron jewellery family. They were together for three years, but in 1991 the relationship ended in a bizarre legal wrangle over a couple of valuable paintings and a full-length sheepskin coat. After the split from Ladsky, L’Wren moved to Los Angeles and met another property developer, Anthony Brand. They married, but it lasted just three years and they were divorced in 1996. She met Mick in 2001 on a shoot for a French magazine. He took her on holiday to St Barts, and she was soon at his side at red carpet events. He had been dating Venezualan heiress Vanessa Neumann when they met but L’Wren’s success, independence and one-liners bowled him over. He found her physically bewitching, too, exclaiming she had ‘the best body I’ve ever known’. It was never about the music for L’Wren. As she said last year: ‘I loved Motown, and blues, and classical music, but never rock ’n’ roll. I get made fun of a lot. Mick used to tell me for years that this one particular song was Gimme Shelter, and I’d say: “Oh, I love that song,” but it wasn’t that at all!’ She launched her fashion line in 2005 and quickly acquired many celebrity fans — from Madonna to Angelina Jolie, Mariah Carey to Sharon Stone. Mick would come to all her shows to support her. Their life appeared stable — and was certainly luxurious. She and Mick lived together for several years in a Claridge’s hotel suite, eventually buying a house together in Chelsea. However, due to Mick’s tax arrangements, most of their life together was spent in New York. Long-term: She met Mick Jagger in 2001 on a shoot for a French magazine . 'Devastated': L'Wren Scott killed herself in her Manhattan apartment on Monday morning after texting an assistant to 'come by' while her longtime boyfriend Mick Jagger was on tour in Australia . Pricey: Her off-the-rack dresses sold for between $1,499 and $2,990 . Designer L'Wren Scott pictured with her family in 2000. From left to right, L'Wren, brother Randy, mom Lula, dad Ivan and sister Jan . The Chelsea house was renovated nearly ten years ago to include a nursery and nanny quarters, but no baby ever arrived. It was said that Mick went on various diets and attempted various spiritual remedies to try to  assist conception, but L’Wren never had the baby she seemingly so wanted. Her mother Lulu observed some years ago: ‘She usually knows what she wants and she gets it.’ And to the outside world it appeared as though L’Wren had everything — the model looks, a successful fashion line and a rock star boyfriend. Yet it seems even this wasn’t enough to save her from plunging into a depression that saw her take her own charmed life.", "Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian know fashion. This month they launch their first British clothing line for high-street stalwart Dorothy Perkins and to celebrate the sisters have been sharing their style secrets. Speaking exclusively to FEMAIL Kim, Kourtney and Khloe explain how they would style their favourite pieces from their eponymous line, the Kardashian Kollection, as well as share the style rules they live by and tell us what they love about each others' looks. Sister act: Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Kardashian model clothes from their Dorothy Perkins line . The siblings have created over 100 larger-than-life pieces for the brand, with a heavy emphasis on the party season, including sequined clutch bags, sparkling tops and, naturally, swathes of dance floor ready dresses. The collection is available from Dorothy Perkins from tomorrow, making it easy to emulate your favourite sister. Love Kourtney's bohemian chic, Kim's red carpet glamour or Khloé's edgy style? Here's how the girls rock their looks: . Kim: 'With my figure, I might belt a looser dress in to create focus on my waist line' What is your favourite piece from the collection? How would you style it three different ways? I absolutely love our sheer spot blouse, which comes in both ivory and black. This blouse is so chic and versatile for any occasion. The polka dot details are divine. and the feminine tailoring is so on trend at the moment. As soon as we could get our hands on the first samples we have been wearing this blouse everywhere! It is perfect for a business meeting with a tight black pencil skirt and simple black pump heels. I would pull my hair into a sleek ponytail or top knot bun and pair with our gold hoops, which I love! It's a great go-to outfit if you need to dress to impress for work. If I was heading to dinner with friends, I could pair the blouse with our cute black shorts, sexy heels or ankle boots and a fabulous little clutch. A statement ring and earrings would definitely complete the look. If it was a little colder, a black blazer is the perfect solution. For more relaxed weekend style, you can pair with leather pants, simple black heels and an oversized statement tote with hair down. What is the one style rule you live by? I always try and buy timeless pieces. I avoid fashion fads that are totally out by the next season. My sisters and I - with our Kardashian Kollection design partner Bruno Schiavi - always look to include timeless trends like lace and leopard print. Are your looks very different? What do you like about each others style? I think we all have a similar appreciation of style. Sometimes we do wear the same things and I love how my sisters can make something look so different. With my figure, I might belt a looser dress in to create focus on my waist line whilst Kourt looks fabulous in it worn loose. Who is the Kardashian/Dorothy Perkins girl? The girls and women that love fashion and style and are looking for affordable prices to look on trend. Short and sassy: Kim's favourite pieces from the Kardashian Kollection are the sheer spot blouse (£35) and the black shorts with satin trim (£30) Kourtney: 'Have fun with fashion! Life is too short to take it seriously' What is your favourite piece from the collection? How would you style it THREE different ways? I . love our gold sequin jacket - I think it's so stunning . and workable for so many occasions. This is definitely one of my . favourite pieces. I think sequins are fun and add a little boho flair. My . favourite way to wear this jacket is over a simple black top with faux . leather tights. I would definitely wear this to a family dinner with . black ballet flats or out with some suede black thigh high boots. A long . gold necklace would work really well with a fun ring. I think a big . black oversized bag would work best with this outfit. If . you want a way to really make a little black dress stand out then this . jacket is perfect. Add chic black heels and a cool clutch. If . you're looking to add a touch of glam to the perfect daytime lunch . outfit then this sequin blazer looks great with the sleeves rolled up . over a white t shirt and jeans. You can roll up the bottoms of the jeans . or leave them down depending on what works best for your body shape and . pair with great sandals. What is the one style rule you live by? Have . fun with fashion! Life is too short to take it seriously. I am a very . moody dresser...I dress for my moods, so if I'm feeling a like having . some fun, I will throw on a turban to spice things up a little bit. It's . all about how clothes make you feel. Are your looks very different? What do you like about each others style? I'm . definitely more adventurous with my style and am not afraid to go for . bolder colours and prints. I think my sisters are so fashionable in . general and really know how to rock their curvy figures. Kim always . looks stunning in a bodycon dress whilst I love love love a leather look . on Khloe. She can seriously pull off anything, especially with the amazing shoes she always has on. When packing for Miami, I told Kim that . I would most definitely be offending her with my bright colors and . prints, since she is an all black or an all white phase when it comes to . her fashion. Who is the Kardashian/Dorothy Perkins girl? We . really take inspiration from our fans - what they want, what they like . and what they are looking to spend. They are our Kardashian/Dorothy . Perkins girls because they look to us for style inspiration and we're . excited to finally be able to offer the UK our line. Gold sequin jacket: £50 . Azure top with lace detail: £32 . Blue leopard-print top: £30 . Khloe: 'Always dress for your body! Not every trend works for every body type' What is your favourite piece from the collection? How would you style it three different ways? One . of my favourite pieces of the UK line would be our Gold Bar Bodycon . dress. The dress comes in different colours and prints like leopard . print, green and red, but I can't go past classic black. The dress is . tight fitting with long sleeves and a cut out below the neck highlighted . by a gold bar. It's a super sexy dress, yet also conservative for a . work to dinner look. I am a big fan of long sleeve classy dresses. This . is a huge favourite of mine. The . dress is an ideal purchase in the lead up to holiday season and can be . paired with rocking black heels and classic gold jewelry with a black . clutch for the ultimate night out. This dress is perfect for an event . where you want to look your best and make an impression. For date night or dinner with someone special, throw a chic trench coat . over the dress to keep warm. Our Kardashian Kollection line has a . gorgeous lace trench coat that would go perfectly. Pair with heeled . black ankle boots and wear your hair in a sleek ponytail. I think you . should keep accessories to a minimum with this look. I am an earring . girl so I would personally go towards a basic but fab gold hoop. If . earrings aren't your thing, then keep it simple and wear a statement . ring. For a day time . event where you still need to dress up a little, pair the dress with a . great fitting denim jacket and gorgeous black flat sandals. A black tote . would match the outfit perfectly and help keep all your daytime . essentials with you. What is the one style rule you live by? Always . dress for your body! Not every trend works for every body type. But I . am a strong believer that every woman, no matter her size or age . can incorporate the current trends of the season in to her look. Just . remember to not lose yourself in finding the right way to wear a trend your way. Trendy doesn't mean you can't put your own personal signature . on it.Know the ones that work for you and always accentuate your . assets. Are your looks very different? What do you like about each others style? I . think Kim and I have a similar style whilst Kourt definitely rocks . brighter colours and prints more often. I take a leap out of her book . sometimes and try to work in something really bright like coloured . jeans. We notice our differences in our styles more when we are . designing our collection with Bruno. There are things we all . agree on like leopard print whilst there may be a top that one of us . really likes more than others but we'll keep it in the line because it . suits her style really well. We have learned so much from in our design process. We have learned over the . years that we cannot just design for ourselves. Our consumer is our . voice and that's who we have to focus on. We love constructive criticism . and we love fan feedback. We have always considered ourselves a social . media brand. A brand for our fans and we wholeheartedly respect their . wishes and we fight to give our consumers everything they wish for such . as Kardashian Kurves which is our plus size line in America. Who is the Kardashian/Dorothy Perkins girl? The Kardashian/Dorothy Perkins girl loves timeless fashion and has a focus on the latest trends. It's . a dream come true to be bringing our Kardashian Kollection line to the . UK because we get to make it accessible to so many more of our fans . through Dorothy Perkins. Our line includes all the things we love about . fashion - the trends we love, the details we are crazy for and pieces . that suit our body types - all designed for our fans and those who love . fashion as much as we do. Black dress with cut out: £40 . Floral print trench coat: £75 . Black bag with gold studs: £45 .", "She's only just unveiled her debut clothing range for Very.co.uk but style savvy Sam Faiers, who shot to fame on The Only Way Is Essex, has already got other projects in the pipeline. Sam, who is continuing her transformation from reality TV favourite to style entrepreneur, told MailOnline she's working on a secret project. The 23-year-old revealed: 'Next month I am launching a new eyelash range, which is amazing. They’re stocked on Very as well. 'After that, I’d like to continue designing - maybe venture into accessories and beauty more as well and keep up with modelling. I have a really exciting fitness project coming up as well.' Scroll down for video . New drop: Sam Faiers, who found fame on The Only Way Is Essex, recently unveiled her debut collection for Very.co.uk - and new snaps of her modelling the looks have been released . For now, the budding entrepreneur is focussing on her fashion duties with Very and she unveiled her debut collection earlier this week. 'I am so excited about working with Very, designing a collection for them is a dream come true. The collection is really fun and flirty with pieces to suit all ages.' Fashion star: The budding entrepreneur is focussing on her fashion duties with Very and she unveiled her debut collection earlier this week . Floral delight: Sam Faiers debuts her collection for Very in her own designs, including this figure-hugging blue, pink and red body-con dress complete with a lace hem. Items are on sale from 30 October . Speaking about the inspiration behind her new designs, she said: 'I was inspired by my style, which is often quite girly so there’s lots of cute babydoll dresses, floral prints and flirty skirts. 'Saying that, I have been working with a stylist who has been pushing me to try new things and I definitely took this into account when approaching my collection so there’s tailored back trousers and cute tops. 'We are also coming into the party season so there’s lots of glam pieces perfect for dressing up and looking gorgeous in.' There are 17 pieces in Sam's girlie range, with items including figure-hugging body-con dresses, embellished tops, jumpsuits and stylish separates. The pieces range from £25-£65 in sizes 8 to 20, and they're all available to buy on Very.co.uk from 30 October. Pretty in pink: Sam looks sultry in a fushia pink satin dress from her Very range, in which items range from £25 to £65, in sizes from 8 to 20 . Stylish separates: The former TOWIE star glows in her leopard print black mini shorts and black peplum top with embellished collar . In the campaign shots for the digital department store, Sam positively glows while modelling her self-confessed glamorous clothing, with her hair worn down and wavy. The TV star, who recently split from her on/off ex-fiance Joey Essex, combined two of the chic dresses in her collection with chunky black ankle boots, adding a modern, edgy vibe to the styling. Although this is the former TOWIE starlet's debut range for Very - who also has Fearne Cotton on its roster of showbiz designers - it's not the first time she has tried her hand at fashion. She, along with younger sister and business partner Billie, launched a range of clothing back in 2011 called GraciEve, an offshoot from her Brentwood-based store and online shop Minnie's Boutique. Sam Faiers' collection for Very is available to buy online from 30 October. Cut-out cutie: The beautiful model displays her toned legs in this short metallic dress, complete with cut-out on the torso . Other celebrities online: Rochelle Humes from The Saturdays, left, and Millie Mackintosh both sell their clothing designs on Very.co.uk .", "Tomas Berdych and his model girlfriend Ester Satorova have announced the news of their engagement ahead of upcoming Australian Open match against Jurgen Melzer. The men's seventh seed, Berdych and the Czech model began dating in the autumn of 2012 after his long-time relationship with WTA player Lucie Safarova ended. Clearly excited about the news, TV presenter and model Rachael Finch, who interviewed the duo for Australia's Channel Seven, shared the news on her Instagram page along with a shot of a gondola. Tomas Berdych and his model girlfriend Ester Satorova announced their engagement . Satorova showed off her stunning engagement ring during the interview with Rachael Finch . Berdych sported a very big grin as he walked along holding hands with his fiancée . She wrote: 'Botanical Gardens, Melbourne where I just interviewed Tomas Berdych and Ester Satorova to announce their engagement! Congratulations to the glowing couple!' The Australian Open Twitter page also shared the news stating: 'Love and love' along with a picture of the two making their announcement. An earlier tweet on their page read: 'Is that the sound of wedding bells we hear? Congrats, they're getting married everyone.' Satorova looked her usual perfectly groomed self wearing a pair of gold loafers with white cut-off shorts and a chic light pink blouse. Her fiancé sported a very big grin as he walked along in casual black jeans and T-shirt. The couple were all smiles after publicly announcing they were engaged . They posed next to a gondola in the Botanical Gardens to announce their big news . Speaking about dating a non-tennis pro last year, Berdych said: ‘Actually, yes, I see a big difference. 'I mean, in the past I was saying that it's probably the best thing just that we are both from the same thing. I didn't have any other experience. ‘But now I can say that this one is way better because, you know, I think it was too much tennis. 'If you do it like myself, and I'm dealing with everyday work that you have to play, practise, organise this stuff, then winning, losing, handle this situation, it's quite tough to have it from one side. 'If you have to deal with the same thing from the other side, it was quite too much. He added: 'So I'm really enjoying that, that it's different, that I met somebody with a different life. It's a nice experience.’ Berdych and his model girlfriend Satorova made the announcement during an interview with Finch (far right) The pair were like two teenagers as they walked along after making their happy news public . Finch shared this shot of the spot where she interviewed the tennis pro and his lady love .", "The Los Angeles Police Department is launching an internal investigation into the arrest of a Django Unchained actress who claims she was stopped by cops who thought she was a prostitute. Daniele Watts' boyfriend Brian Lucas filmed her crying as she was handcuffed and questioned by police for simply kissing her partner in public. Police also questioned Lucas and asked him questions like 'Do you really know her?' - seemingly insinuating that Watts was soliciting. The couple described the humiliating incident to Buzzfeed, saying they were kissing in Lucas' car outside the CBS Studio Center in Studio City on Thursday when someone in a nearby office walked by and told them to stop. 'A Caucasian guy in a business suit comes downstairs and says, 'Can you guys stop putting on a show? I have people who are trying to work up there,'\" Watts told ABC 7. Humiliating: Django Unchained actress Daniele Watts (left) was stopped by police in Los Angeles last week after she was reported for kissing her boyfriend Brian Lucas (right). She claims police thought she was a prostitute . The Los Angeles Police Department has long been accused of using racial profiling in their arrests . A 2008 study conducted by Yale economist Professor Ian Ayres found that blacks are three times more likely to be stopped in L.A. than whites. The study also found that of 1,200 complaints of racial profiling over a five-year period, none of the officers were actually found guilty of the charge and disciplined. And this isn't the only time in recent weeks that the LAPD has been accused of racial profiling. Last month, a black film and television producer was arrested on his way to an Emmy party and held for six hours by police who thought he was a robbery suspect. The producer, 51-year-old Charles Belk, was later released when officers realized he had nothing to do with the crime. Last year, the LAPD launched a program to address these complaints, bringing officers and the citizens who accuse them of profiling together for mediated talks. Officers who participated in the so-called 'Community-employee education pilot program' are rewarded by having the internal investigation into the incident dropped. Watts says she was fully dressed and only kissing when police were called to the scene, and asked for the couple's identification. Lucas handed police his ID, but Watts refused and started walking away from the scene. 'I didn't have the stomach for someone on a power trip when I knew I hadn't done anything wrong,' Watts told Buzzfeed. That's when police stopped and handcuffed her, bringing her back to the scene where the couple was questioned. Lucas found the kinds of questions troubling. 'How do you know her, what relationship, they were questions that quite frankly made me feel like that they were questioning me being like the client of a prostitute,' Lucas said. 'He didn't say anything ever about that, I just felt that energy from it.' Watts was eventually let go after providing photo ID. While the LAPD initially refused to comment on the incident, since there had been no official arrest, they have since released a statement saying they are investigating. They said two officers were dispatched to the scene on a report of 'indecent exposure' and briefly detained the two individuals. 'Upon further investigation it was determined that no crime had been committed. Ms. Watts and her companion were subsequently released,' police said. News of the arrest spread after the couple wrote about it on their social media accounts. Watts wrote on her Facebook page: 'Today I was handcuffed and detained by 2 police officers from the Studio City Police Department after refusing to agree that I had done something wrong by showing affection, fully clothed, in a public place.' She also posted a photo of crying as she stood in the street wearing patterned shorts, a t-shirt with 'New York' written on it and running shoes with a  policeman next to her. Watts, who plays Martin Lawrence's daughter on the new FX comedy Partners, continued: 'When the officer arrived, I was standing on the sidewalk by a tree. Django Unchained actress Daniele Watts is claiming she was 'handcuffed and detained' by police after being mistaken for a prostitute as she kissed her white boyfriend. She posted this photo of the alleged September 2 incident on Facebook . Watts and her boyfriend Brian James Lucas claim that they were kissing on a Hollywood street when police were called and they were asked to show their ID card to which Watts refused . Watts posted the news on her Facebook page and said her arm was cut when she was handcuffed . Watt's boyfriend wrote: 'So they handcuffed her and threw her roughly into the back of the cop car until they could figure out who she was. In the process of handcuffing her, they cut her wrist' The pair both wrote about the alleged incident on their respective Facebook pages . Happy: The couple pictured above in a photo posted to Watts' Facebook . 'I was talking to my father on my cell phone. 'I knew that I had done nothing wrong, that I wasn't harming anyone, so I walked away. 'A few minutes later, I was still talking to my dad when 2 different police officers accosted me and forced me into handcuffs. 'As I was sitting in the back of the police car, I remembered the countless times my father came home frustrated or humiliated by the cops when he had done nothing wrong. 'I allowed myself to be honest about my anger, frustration, and rage as tears flowed from my eyes. The actress in her role as house slave Coco Quentin Tarantino's 2012 film Django . 'The tears I cry for a country that calls itself 'the land of the free and the home of the brave' and yet detains people for claiming that very right. Separately her chef boyfriend posted on his Facebook page that he thought that the person who called the police had decided they looked like a prostitute and a client. He wrote: 'From the questions that he asked me as D was already on her phone with her dad, I could tell that whoever called on us (including the officers), saw a tatted RAWKer white boy and a hot bootie shorted black girl and thought we were a H* (prostitute) & a TRICK (client). 'What an assumption to make!!!Because of my past experience with the law, I gave him my ID knowing we did nothing wrong and when they asked D for hers, she refused to give it because they had no right to do so. 'So they handcuffed her and threw her roughly into the back of the cop car until they could figure out who she was. In the process of handcuffing her, they cut her wrist, which was truly NOT COOL!!!'" ]

[ "Because they activate the part of the brain that wants to hunt. When you hunt you shouldn't feel hungry or you're distracted so the appetite is suppressed." ]

[ "Actually what was discovered first is the cocaine and then the process to produce it. I know it sounds weird but bear with me. As you can see in the video cocaine is made from coca leaves,a plant that has naturally grown in south america for long times. Coca leaves can actually be chewed or made into tea that will then act as a stimulant (much similar to coffee). As far as we know the native Incas used coca leaves as much as 3.000 years ago. Even today coca leaves and tea are used as stimulants and as medicine in some South American countries. When coca leaves came to Europe scientists wondered what chemical produced the stimulating effect and then isolated the cocaine alkaloid, which is found in the leaves as the reason. Only after that they actually worked out the processes that would be required to extract the cocaine in pure form from the leaves.", "No, while this and taking a shower may be a common misconception there is really no way to \"sober up\" while high. THC stimulates the release of leptin which stimulates appetite (which is why you get the \"munchies\") however as THC is absorbed into the blood and crosses the blood brain barrier in your brain and other areas it acts on CB-1 and CB-2 receptors throughout your body and is stored in your fat cells (which is why THC stays in your system for so long). There is virtually no effect of food on the CB-1 and CB-2 receptors and therefore will not sober you up more rapidly. This is similar to the common misconception that drinking coffee, showering, etc. will help you sober up from alcohol (which they do not).", "The loss of volume was caused by the thermal contraction as coffee cooled down.", "Stimulation of the vagus nerve can do that. Basically if you shit too hard, it stimulates a nerve that causes sweats, hot flashes, dizziness, etc.", "Because the surface is non porous, so the drug doesn't get trapped in little pockets, which means no loss of drug and wasted money. You can see any left behind residue on a mirror. Just for the record, I've never done cocaine but I do believe that is why.", "If a signature is required and a charge is disputed, then the credit card company gets hit with the loss. If signature is not required, then the retailer takes the loss. So it's up to the retailer, restaurant, etc. whether to demand a signature or not... that's why it's most often places with low dollar amount, high volume of purchases that don't require signature -- quick serve restaurants, coffee shops, etc. Many grocery stores have a limit of something like $50 before you're required to sign because a grocery is not a likely place for a charge back situation, and it speeds up the lines a little.", "Different body functions (like appetite, alertness, blood pressure, etc), are all controlled by hormones. Hormones are produced in our bodies at different times of the day, based on circadian rhythm and based on the situation (like, if you just ate an enormous meal, you will have less appetite-stimulating hormone around in your blood). Appetite hormones are suppressed in the night. Those hormones start circulating in your blood again in the morning. Some people wake up starving. Other people, like you (and me) need to wait some time before feeling hungry at all. This probably has to do with how much of the hormone is present in the blood. Here is an ELI5 image that shows what body functions are most active at different times of day: _URL_0_", "This is a difficult question to answer but I'd say that dopaminergic stimulants like cocaine, amphetamines, etc. are the most likely to induce psychosis due to sleep deprivation + excess dopamine and weird thought patterns. Dissociatives like PCP don't turn you psychotic per se but PCP has a bunch of attributes to it that make it mania-inducing, which is why there are so many reports of it inducing psychosis. Getting psychosis from cannabis without beeing predisposed to it isn't that easy or common but its possible and I've seen things on it I wish I hadn't, it depends on how much you over-do it", "I think it would be helpful to compare exercise and cocaine. Although they both increase the heart rate and blood pressure, exercise is beneficial in many ways that cocaine is not. The increase in blood pressure with isotonic exercise (as with running) is modest by comparison to the increase that can occur with cocaine. Furthermore the increase in heart rate and pumping action of the heart is highly regulated by the nervous system and is in tune with the demands of the body during exercise. This is not the case with cocaine. Whereas exercise tends to cause relaxation of the blood vessels to your muscles and heart, cocaine can cause the heart vessels to spasm. Coronary spasm reduces blood flow to the heart at the same time that the cocaine is making your heart do more work which can result in heart damage or death.", "There is no safe or effective happiness treatment. Short term happy pills (e.g. cocaine, which causes elevation in levels of dopamine right in the areas that cause you to feel happy) don't work for long. > If we could, every other human activity would be pointless, as we only do such things to be happy( i.e. get dopamine rushing through our bodies), right? I think that's partly right. Rats that learn to electrically stimulate their own mesolimbic dopamine pathway get such a great high that given the choice between food or sex and another hit of stimulation, they can willingly starve themselves to death for another hit. Some heroin users have said that heroin fills a void that makes them feel fulfilled and all the yearning that they ever had for love, accomplishment, etc. is all addressed wonderfully and nothing else is needed anymore (during the high). Soon thereafter, of course, more heroin is needed.", "I don't smoke, but I do take adderall daily. I believe it has to with the way adderall works. Basically adderall is making my brain function the way it should. I still lose interest in things very quickly, and am very easily distracted still. I've noticed occasionally my adderall helps me focus on something I *like* and *enjoy* doing a little to much. If a smoker likes smoking, and how it makes them feel then maybe the adderall helps them focus on it.", "1. Fentanyl is extremely concentrated. A lethal dose is a small fraction of a lethal dose of heroin, for example. [Link](_URL_0_) So to keep from killing your customers, drug dealers probably put a relatively small amount of fentanyl in with other drugs. 2. If you cut your fentanyl, you are spreading it out. More money for the same amount of fentanyl! Woot! 3. Fentanyl is an opiate, while cocaine is a stimulant. It creates a different kind of intense 'high' than either an opiate by itself, or a stimulant or cocaine by itself. This combination has been used at least since the 1970's - I'm remembering that John Belushi died of 'speedballs' which combined cocaine and heroin.", "who's to say that tobacco and cocaine aren't \"the real laxatives\"? who's to say that other laxatives' manufacturers wish they could do what tobacco and cocaine do, but they can't because they can't sell tobacco and cocaine...", "I think a commonly overlooked downside of cocaine use is that it's royally fucking over entire communities in places like Columbia, I get particularly annoyed when hipsters ensure that the coffee they drink is fair trade but seemingly forget how shit their contribution to the drug industry makes peoples lives in the same country their coffee probably came from", "While we wait for a comprehensive and scholarly answer to this question to be written and posted, here are some previous discussions on similar topics in this subreddit to whet your appetite. [Is there evidence that the FBI flooded black communities with drugs in the civil rights era?](_URL_0_) [Did the CIA really introduce cocaine/crack to the U.S?](_URL_2_) [How accurate is the claim that the U.S. government is responsible for the flood of crack cocaine into urban areas during the 1980's?](_URL_1_) [Is there any truth to the claim that the CIA peddled drugs to black communities in the 70s and 80s?](_URL_3_) Paging /u/gent2012", "They do that too. It's called [liposuction](_URL_0_). But the root cause of that fatness is the person's excessive appetite. Stomach stapling fixes the cause, liposuction just temporarily relieves the effect.", "They have so many names to avoid detection by police. Foe example cocaine: want some white girl? This can be construed in different ways. Either they're offering cocaine or they're asking a question about white girls. White girl is far less suspicious than cocaine or marijuana etc", "Sugars found in fruit, namely Fructose is no better than the sugar you put in your coffee, cookies etc. The difference is that why you are eating a piece of fruit, the sugar within it also comes with additional beneficial nutrients, vitamins etc.", "Shock means the body has insufficient blood flow. Which is often caused by loss of blood pressure. Causes for loss of bloodpressure are e.g. blood loss, anaphylactic shock (e.g. extreme peanut or bee-sting allergy), septic shock (bacterial infection in blood circulation), heart failure, pulmonary embolism, etc. etc.", "It's because drugs as a term carries with it a sense of taboo, in that to do these things is, by societies' standards, wrong. Alcohol however is socially accepted, mostly, and therefore doesn't necessarily carry the same stigma with it. People don't categorize it as a drug, because it's not illicit. I know, just because it's legal doesn't mean it's not technically a drug, but every day we're bombarded by images of drugs and users, and likely these images refer to heroin, marijuana, cocaine, etc. Alcohol is portrayed mostly as a fun addition to an active social life. Technically, even caffeine is a drug, but try telling your coffee-mainlining friend that he's a drug addict. Edit: forgot a word", "Ground coffee loses its flavor when exposed to air, while tea does not. If you had a box of 'coffee bags' like you do tea bags, most of the box would taste terrible long before you reached the end. That's why the packaging for ground coffee is designed to seal the product away from air. It's also why coffee enthusiasts often grind their beans on the fly.", "Alcohol doesn‘t cause aggressive behaviors (as far as you‘re not an addict). People that react aggressive when drunk are always aggressive, they just can control themselves better when not drunk. Weed and alcohol attack different parts of your nervous system, weed just doesn‘t lower your ability to self control that much. On top people are differently sensitive to alcohol, some can drink 5 beer and are completely chill, others are close to a blackout. (What probably really causes people to act more aggressive are steroids and stimulants like cocaine)", "First things first, why would a 5 years old ask questions about cocaine?", "For starters, almost all forms of birth control DO NOT cause weight gain! It's a widely held misconception, but when compared to a control group, women on birth control gain the same amount of weight. That being said, there *is* one form that causes weight gain: Depo Vera (the shot). In fact, about 25% of patients experience weight gain! There's not a whole lot known as to *why* this happens or if it's a change in appetite or metabolism, but it's probably related to progesterone.", "New borns will lose heat much faster then an adult 1. Larger surface area to weight ratio 2. Less insulating capacity 3. Poorly developed shivering 4. They come out wet - increases heat loss via evaporation Which is why when babies are born they are vigorously dried with a towel (also stimulates respiration) then wrapped up. The foil blanket will reflect infrared radiation (a method of heat loss from individuals). So in answer to the question - babies are wrapped up to prevent heat loss and hypothermia.", "There are a few things that make you have to poop when you drink coffee some well understood, some less so. Caffeine in coffee increases gastric motility (moves things through your intestines faster) making more poo collect in your bowel faster which will make you more likely to feel as though you have to poop. There is also an effect on your rectosigmoid, the very end of your intestines, that can occur within 4 minutes that occurs from coffee both caffeinated or decaffeinated that last I knew they weren't sure what to properly attribute it to. It was theorized that it was there was something in coffee that caused the release of dietary hormones that stimulated the bowels, but I'm not sure. All I know is that I love a good coffee dump after a few cups at my local diner, but I don't have the same after a few cups of anything I make at home.", "*basically* it's because the part of your brain that causes the reflex of sneezing isn't very active. It also doesn't respond to stimulation of dust etc", "One of the most ideal animal models for studying influenza is the ferret. If you take virus directly from a human and give it to a ferret the animal will get the flu. Fever, lethargy, loss of appetite etc. This came about when ferrets started to become popular pets and it was noticed that when the family got the flu, so did the ferrets. This is not true for dogs and cats and other pets. As is mentioned in another comment, pigs and birds also can be infected with human influenza and and we can get theirs.", "How do you stop players from abusing adderall when their doctors are probably legally prescribing it?", "There still is moonshiners today but there was a marked decrease as legalization spread through the states, obviously if the tax isn't too *excessive* then there is much less demand for the black market. It's like drug legalization, would you continue to get cocaine from a gangbanger or get high-premium cocaine from your local mom and pop (thats comparable in price)? Do you get bathtub gin or regular gin? etc.", "It doesn't. When an experience stimulates multiple clusters of neurons at the same time, causing them to fire together, the links between those clusters get stronger. After that, the stimulation of one cluster is more likely to stimulate others that are frequently stimulated at the same time. So, for example, when your brain is stimulated by someone's voice, the area of the brain that integrates that information stimulates other conceptual areas that have to do with that person. You'll see their face, remember their name, etc. More importantly, each time you recall a person or event, that set of areas is stimulated again, reinforcing those connections and making the memory stronger. You can even change your memory of an event by misremembering it enough times.", "Yarr! Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [How is the caffeine removed from decaffeinated tea and coffee? ](_URL_1_) 1. [ELI5: How do they decaffeinate coffee and teas? ](_URL_5_) 1. 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[ "Sometimes an excellent song makes its writer work for it, and sometimes it pours out almost too fast to catch. The latter was the case for Spokane, Wash. singer Cami Bradley and Huntsville, Ala. singer/songwriter Whitney Dean, who met on a whim and, less than a year later, are making music that seems to contain decades of intimacy. Dean discovered Bradley when she was a contestant on America's Got Talent and he was coming off of a two-year stint with The Civil Wars' John Paul White. Dean reached out online. In an origin story strikingly similar to White's with Joy Williams, the pair had such musical chemistry when they did meet that they decided to take the project beyond a few isolated songwriting sessions and into a full-time partnership. Comparisons to Civil Wars extend to the Sweeplings' sound, which has similar close, coed harmonies and haunting folk lyrics. \"Carry Me Home\" is a dark, expansive piece of rootsy pop, and Dean and Bradley are more subtle players than Williams and White were as a duo. The Civil Wars disbanded in 2013, just before the release of their second album. The project for Dean and Bradley is to maintain their initial chemistry — and then blaze the trail for a lengthy career. The Sweeplings' self-released debut album, Rise & Fall, is out August 7." ]

[ "Vetiver's warm '70s folk sound seems a perfect fit for an afternoon in the woods, which is where the group happened to play during Pickathon last summer. San Franciscan Andy Cabic has led the band for more than a decade, during which he's written appealing songs like the blissful \"Current Carry,\" which appears on the group's latest album, Complete Strangers. Fruit Bats' Eric D. Johnson joins Vetiver on keys for this performance at the natural amphitheater under the trees. This premiere kicks off the spring season of releases from the Pickathon Woods Stage. Each month until this summer's festival, we'll premiere another video from the woods. Look for the next one on April 19. Pickathon also announced its full festival schedule today on its website, with Jeff Tweedy, Beach House, Yo La Tengo and others set to play multiple sets through the weekend festival, held August 5-7 at Pendarvis Farm outside Portland. SET LIST \"Current Carry\"", "It's a three-song set of American music for the Fourth of July, beginning with one of our substitute National Anthems, \"America,\" performed by the Marine Chamber Orchestra in the NPR studios. Then, Robert Spano leads the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a world premiere performance of music from \"Paul Revere's Ride\" by David del Tredici. And conductor JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic close out the set on a soft note with Aaron Copland's \"Letter from Home.\"", "When Anderson .Paak leaps behind the drums midway through \"The Season/Carry Me,\" he doesn't miss a beat. Instead, his vocals lock in and it becomes clear that everything he does — from drumming, to dancing, to rapping, to capitalizing on his buzz — is meticulously on beat. His band is right there with him; they nail the first single off Malibu, turning around the song during the transition and then setting it straight again for the pulse-pounding finish. Set List \"Green Light\" \"The Waters\" \"The Season/Carry Me\" \"Put Me Thru\" \"Am I Wrong\" \"Come Down\" \"Miss Right\" \"Room In Here\" \"The Bird\" \"Suede\" Credits Producers: Saidah Blount, Mito Habe-Evans, Otis Hart; Technical Director: Josh Rogosin; Director: Mito Habe-Evans; Videographers: Nickolai Hammar, Katie Hayes Luke, Cameron Robert, A.J. Wilhelm, Lizzie Chen; Editor: Cameron Robert; Audio: Timothy Powell/Metro Mobile; Assistant Audio Engineer: Loretta Rae; Production Assistants: Erin Conlon, Nathan Gaar; Special Thanks: SXSW, Stubb's BBQ; Executive Producer: Anya Grundmann. Support for NPR Music comes from Blue Microphone.", "\"You're all sexy,\" Anderson .Paak assures the audience, \"so don't be afraid to groove.\" He and The Free Nationals certainly aren't. Halfway through \"Miss Right,\" .Paak once again takes the drums for a lengthy instrumental breakdown. For minutes — from guitar solo to drum solo and back again — the group loses themselves in the groove without once losing their way. Set List \"Green Light\" \"The Waters\" \"The Season/Carry Me\" \"Put Me Thru\" \"Am I Wrong\" \"Come Down\" \"Miss Right\" \"Room In Here\" \"The Bird\" \"Suede\" Credits Producers: Saidah Blount, Mito Habe-Evans, Otis Hart; Technical Director: Josh Rogosin; Director: Mito Habe-Evans; Videographers: Nickolai Hammar, Katie Hayes Luke, Cameron Robert, A.J. Wilhelm, Lizzie Chen; Editor: Cameron Robert; Audio: Timothy Powell/Metro Mobile; Assistant Audio Engineer: Loretta Rae; Production Assistants: Erin Conlon, Nathan Gaar; Special Thanks: SXSW, Stubb's BBQ; Executive Producer: Anya Grundmann. Support for NPR Music comes from Blue Microphone.", "Note: This version of the podcast corrects a mistake we made with The Rentals song. The correct song is \"1000 Seasons.\" We kick off this week's episode of All Songs Considered with the sludgy, shoegaze-y sounds of Whirr, a band started by Nick Bassett, bassist for one of co-host Robin Hilton's favorite acts of 2014, Nothing. We follow up with a new track from The Bots, two young brothers from L.A. whose \"All I Really Want\" is a two-minute sugar rush of high-powered pop-punk. Later on the show we welcome NPR Music's Daoud Tyler–Ameen and Jacob Ganz to the studio to play some of their favorite new tunes. Daoud opts for \"Explanation,\" a punchy rock number from Ohio trio Delay, while Jacob plays Perfume Genius' surging new track \"Queen.\" Daoud and Jacob stick around as Robin puts on \"Hegemony,\" a super-melodic, percussion-heavy track from Zammuto, the project of The Books' Nick Zammuto, recorded in a Vermont shed. Finally, Bob rounds out the show with a premiere from long-dormant rock group The Rentals, called \"It's Time To Go Home\" that features Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of Lucius on vocals. Taking the words to heart, the studio empties out with the last ringing chord.", "Audio for this feature is no longer available. The first thing that jumps out about the Lafayette, La., band Givers is its emphasis on percussion, which comes in clattering, cascading, polyrhythmic waves. Live, that often entails multiple drum kits, and on In Light — the band's debut full-length after an EP and months spent building anticipation via web singles — it feeds Givers a sense of urgency and momentum that informs the alternately chipper and chanted vocals. This is no band of music revolutionaries: Givers' music fits neatly into the world of sunny kids who've figured out ways to incorporate Afrobeat into indie-pop. But the songs are there, and good songwriting trumps... well, pretty much everything else. The opening track from In Light, \"Up Up Up,\" says an awful lot about Givers' spirited sound and flair for skillfully deployed repetition, while other songs that have enjoyed a strong run on music blogs (\"Ceiling of Plankton,\" et al) get a nice second life, too. Givers' five members, three of whom sing and two of whom wield percussion at any given moment, are known for swapping roles with ease. Due out June 7, In Light reflects that knockabout, anything-goes vibe, just in time for the season that suits it best.", "We've all been dealing with so much unhappiness over the last week that hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton wanted to kick of this week's All Songs Considered with some celebrations. Bob leads off with some great pick-me up music from Moon Hooch. Robin continues to explore his love of \"shrug rock\" with a hilarious new song from the band PUP. Also on the show: Robin plays music from Sage and Ry X. Bob keeps up the energy with a new song by Sego. Like The Moth & The Flame, whose \"Young & Unafraid\" was on last week's show, Sego recently relocated from Provo, Utah to Los Angeles. Bob closes out the show with a premiere of Summer Cannibals' new song, \"Simple Life.\" Looking ahead: On May 2, Bob and Robin will speak with Carrie Brownstein at a book event at Sixth & I in Washington D.C. The next day, Bob will be at the Lagunitas brewery in Chicago with Tiny Desk Contest winner Gaelynn Lea and everyone's favorite GLTTRD band, PWR BTTM.", "On Oct. 5, guitarist, singer and songwriter Marcus King releases the new Marcus King Band album Carolina Confessions. It will be almost two years to the day since he released his self-titled Fantasy Records debut, and since then, King has managed to create a place for himself amongst the company of guitar virtuosos like Derek Trucks and Gary Clark Jr. in the current rock music scene. Produced and mixed by Grammy Award-winner Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell) and recorded at Nashville's iconic RCA Studio A, King and his hot band dive into songs about love and various affairs of the heart and soul. While his records have found their place on various blues music industry charts, to call King a blues guitarist is to diminish his incredible breadth. While the Greenville, S.C. native grew up on a steady diet of the blues, he imbues his songwriting and singing with plenty of soul, R&B and rock riffs. Fans of Southern rock and soul music might hear familiar touchstones like The Allman Brothers and Otis Redding in King's music. \"Gregg Allman as a writer, musician and as a human being has always been and will always be a tremendous influence on the way I carry myself and approach music,\" King writes in a statement to World Cafe. \"Duane Allman, Otis Redding, James Brown, are just a few other examples of musicians who spoke to me musically but also through their tenacious way of getting things done.\" The 10 new songs on the album feature King's band, including drummer Jack Ryan, bass player Stephen Campbell, trumpeter/trombonist Justin Johnson, saxophone player Dean Mitchell and keyboard player DeShawn \"D'Vibes\" Alexander. All the songs were written by King except for \"How Long,\" which was co-written with the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach and songwriter Pat McLaughlin. World Cafe premieres two of the 10 new songs here. About the R&B flavored song \"Homesick,\" King wrote that \"Homesick is a feeling almost everyone can relate to. For me, I wrote it about the home I found in someone's heart. When I'm with her I feel at home. I wanted the song to carry the emotion the right way. The R&B approach came about organically, There was never really a question for me as to what feel the tune would have. It was born as a soul song.\" \"Welcome 'Round Here\" starts with a dark, dirty, gritty and familiar sounding Southern blues rock riff, however it soon turns into a slamming and fiery horn and keyboard-driven blast of a jam, as King turns a psychedelic bridge into a searing and soaring guitar solo, long on dexterity and ferocity. The next time someone says to you that rock is dead, tell them to look no further than this King. \"Carolina Confessions focuses a bit more on songwriting,\" King writes. \"There were a lot of things I needed to say, to get off of my chest, a feeling of admitting wrongs I had done and also hurt I had felt. The concept is that songwriting and performing are my ways of confessing my sins and feeling a weight off my spirit.\" This fall, King and his band will embark on a tour that will include The Marcus King Band Family Reunion Festival on Oct. 5-6 in Black Mountain, N.C. as well as dates both domestic and European that will last through December. Carolina Confessions is out on Oct. 5 on Fantasy Records.", "The Infamous Stringdusters' members have been a major part of the bluegrass world since their debut, Fork in the Road, back in 2007. Now on its sixth studio album, Let It Go, the group has just returned with more great progressive acoustic music. This song, \"I'll Get Away,\" is peppered with the lush three-part harmonies and impeccable instrumentation that has cemented the band's place at the fore of the contemporary bluegrass circuit. The fluid vocal lines are buoyed by a rushing fiddle that hands the lead over swimmingly to brief, delightful banjo and dobro solos. Even as the words address getting away, the music carries it on a galloping journey.", "Here's the news: We will be webcasting, recording, photographing, videotaping and blogging from the South by Southwest Music Festival again this year. We'll also present a lineup of hand-selected bands, which you'll be able to hear live from the comfort of your home. Headlining our coverage at SXSW on March 18 at Stubbs Bar-B-Q: The Decemberists, premiering The Hazards of Love in its entiretyThe Avett Brothers, premiering music from a new, Rick Rubin-produced CDThe Heartless Bastards, playing songs from The Mountain Then, on March 19 at the Parish, starting at around 12:30 p.m. ET, we'll have: Blitzen TrapperDirty ProjectorsK'NAANBLK JKSBlind PilotThao Nguyen and the Get Down Stay Down This should be a thrill ride. I'll be there with NPR's Monitor Mix blogger Carrie Brownstein, NPR's Song of the Day editor Stephen Thompson and All Songs Considered producer Robin Hilton. We'll be ready with recording devices, cameras and blunt blogging instruments, finding the best new music, interviews and videos to send along. This blog is how we'll keep you most informed. There will also be Twitter, on which you can follow me @allsongs. Also on Facebook under Bob Boilen or the All Songs Considered fan page. And so the process begins. We've started listening to 900-plus MP3s from the bands in attendance to figure out what we want to hear from the 18th of March until the last band plays in the wee hours of the 21st. You can do the same by going here. Let us know which bands most excite you: Tell us what you want from our coverage, and we'll do our best to deliver. Please don't pitch your own band here -- we get plenty of that already. We want to know your passions and current obsessions. Let the SXSW Madness begin.", "The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space. Margo Price and her husband, Jeremy Ivey, performed a Tiny Desk (Home) Concert from their Nashville attic. Behind them are two handmade signs inspired by John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Bed-In For Peace that simply reads \"Stay Home\" and \"Save Lives.\" In addition to the rapidly spreading virus, Nashville was recently ravaged by tornadoes. Margo and Jeremy are safely quarantined with two children, a dog and cat, and guitars in hand. They played \"Stone Me,\" a song they co-wrote and included on Margo's upcoming album, That's How Rumors Get Started. Margo and Jeremy dedicated this concert to all those that are struggling right now and thank \"all the people still out there working, the doctors, all the sanitation people, everybody out there just doing what they have to do to so we can survive, all the people working in grocery stores. And to everyone who has lost their job, we feel you.\" They ended the set with a premiere, a song called \"Someone Else's Problem,\" that they wrote together on an airplane while Margo was pregnant. It's a song dealing with the guilt many of us have, being part of a problem instead of part of a solution. SET LIST \"Stone Me\" \"Just Like Love\" \"Someone Else's Problem\"", "Calexico is marking the release of its new album, Carried to Dust, with a series of videos that include some nice, live performances of their new songs. This is the Second installment: I've been spending time with Carried to Dust, and think it may be the band's best album. It's an elegantly produced collection of songs, with some wonderfully haunting moments. Joey Burns and John Convertino, the duo behind Calexico's music, draw heavily on their favorite sounds: Portuguese fado, spaghetti westerns, Mexican mariachi, folk and rock. It all comes together on Carried to Dust as a richly seasoned and mature mix. Here's the first video installment: Burns and Convertino have long been taken by what they see as the majesty and mystery of the American Southwest, particularly their hometown of Tucson, Ariz. (They talk a lot about this in the videos). The sprawling city, where they've lived since the mid-'90s, has been the subject and inspiration for much of their music over the years, and Carried to Dust continues to drink from that well with ghostly narratives about the \"strange people\" they've encountered. Calexico colors the scorched landscapes with enough romance and strange curiosities to make you want to linger. Stay tuned for more!", "\"I don't believe America was founded to be one dimensional,\" pianist Cyrus Chestnut asserts. \"It's various different people coming together, quote unquote, to develop something hip.\" Chestnut is referring, in part, to a conversation between jazz, gospel and classical music that has been ongoing for well over a century. But he's also describing Carry Me Home,his decade-long collaboration with the Turtle Island Quartet, the subject of this episode of Jazz Night in America. Now approaching its 35th year, Turtle Island — violinists David Balakrishnan and Gabriel Terracciano, violist Benjamin Von Gutzeit and cellist Malcolm Parson — stands apart from most other string quartets in its capacity to improvise and truly swing. Jazz Night caught the fourth-ever concert performance of Carry Me Home, at the Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre in the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech. The program — ranging from gospel spirituals to Senegalese chants to jazz standards — illustrates what Balakrishnan calls \"a blend kind of mentality.\" He was using that phrase to describe Chestnut, but on some level he could have been talking about the American experiment, which can only ever be a work in progress. Set List \"Subconscious-Lee\" (Lee Konitz, arr. B. von Gutzeit) \"Wade In The Water\" (trad, arr. Cyrus Chestnut) \"Down In The Depths\" (Wayne Shorter, arr. B. von Gutzeit) \"Chant Mouride\" (Diame Beniot, arr. M. Parson) \"Jeannine\" (Duke Pearson, arr. D. Balakrishnan) \"Come Sunday\" (Duke Ellington, arr. Cyrus Chestnut) \"Will The Circle Be Unbroken\" (Charles Gabriel, arr. Cyrus Chestnut) \"Lean On Me\" (Bill Withers, arr. Cyrus Chestnut) Musicians Turtle Island Quartet with Cyrus Chestnut: David Balakrishnan, violin, leader; Benni von Gutzeit, viola; Gabe Terracciano, violin; Malcolm Parson, cello; Cyrus Chestnut, piano Credits Producers: Alex Ariff; Production Assistant: Sarah Kerson; Senior Producer: Katie Simon; Senior Director of NPR Music: Lauren Onkey; Executive Producers: Amy Niles, Gabrielle Armand, Anya Grundman; Project Manager: Suraya Mohamed; Recording Engineer: Robert Gainer, mixed by David Tallacksen", "Chinese composer Tan Dun has written an opera for Placido Domingo and his works have been performed by the some of the world's greatest orchestras. In addition to writing music for the Beijing Olympics, he wrote the Oscar-winning score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Now, Tan Dun has turned his attention to his home province of Hunan for his latest composition. It is a multimedia work, comprising film, an orchestra and a harp soloist, entitled Nu-Shu: The Secret Songs of Women. The music tells the story of an ancient secret language used by women in Hunan province to communicate with friends and family after being sequestered into marriages that took them far from home. This Thursday, the Philadelphia Orchestra and harp soloist Elizabeth Hainen will present the American premiere of The Secret Songs of Women. NPR's Rachel Martin spoke with both Hainen and Tan Dun about the origins of the piece and its eclectic presentation of sound, including a passage in which water becomes a percussion instrument. Hear their conversation at the audio link. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC, \"NU-SHU: THE SECRET SONGS OF WOMEN\") RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Chinese composer Tan Dun has written an opera for Placido Domingo and his works have been performed by the some of the world's greatest orchestras. In addition to writing music for the Beijing Olympics, he wrote the Oscar-winning score for \"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.\" Now, Tan Dun has turned his attention to his home province of Hunan for his latest composition. It is a multimedia work of film, orchestra and harp soloist, called \"Nu-Shu: The Secret Songs of Women.\" (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC, \"NU-SHU: THE SECRET SONGS OF WOMEN\") MARTIN: That's a recording of the world premiere of the work this past spring, with harpist Risako Hayakawa and Japan's NHK Symphony Orchestra. The music tells a story of an ancient secret language used by women in Hunan Province, to communicate with friends and family, after being sequestered into marriages that took them far from home. This Thursday, the Philadelphia Orchestra and soloist Elizabeth Hainen will present the American premiere of \"Nu-Shu.\" We're joined now by composer Tan Dun, he is in our New York Bureau. Welcome to the program. TAN DUN: Hello, this is Tan Dun. (LAUGHTER) MARTIN: And harpist Elizabeth Hainen who is with us from WHYY in Philadelphia. Hi, Elizabeth. ELIZABETH HAINEN: Hi, Rachel. MARTIN: I understand that the women used to embroider characters from this language into pieces of fabric? DUN: They always write their secret language in mostly beautiful things; silk and fabric and - beautiful, yeah. MARTIN: That they would then pass on to as messages, as letters to their loved ones? DUN: Yeah. But the most important pass-on where is always singing actually from a mother to the daughter; teach them how to be a good mother, good daughter and good sisters. (SOUNDBITE OF A SONG, \"NU-SHU: THE SECRET SONGS OF WOMEN\") UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: (Singing in foreign language) MARTIN: Elizabeth, did you discover something new about your instrument? HAINEN: Well, I certainly was exploring the sounds that Tan wanted me to create. DUN: Because the interesting idea is... MARTIN: He would have me play something and he would jump up and down. Or, you know, touch the harp like this. And so it was very exciting and very engaging. It's given me a wonderful opportunity to make these effects and colors. And I feel like I'm masquerading like another instrument, like a Chinese instrument. Hmm. We have a recording of you playing an excerpt from \"Nu-Shu.\" Let's take a listen to this. (SOUNDBITE OF A SONG, \"NU-SHU: THE SECRET SONGS OF WOMEN\") UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: (Singing in foreign language) MARTIN: We can hear Chinese singing in the background. Is this from one of the films that's being projected during the performance, Tan? DUN: Yes, this is the first song the mother teaching the daughter to be a good mother. MARTIN: And these are actual field recordings that you had organized from your trips to Hunan? DUN: Yes. So, I'm sort of going back to the countryside always trying to find where I came from actually. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MARTIN: In one section, the last section of \"Nu-Shu,\" we hear water used as a percussion instrument. Let's play a little bit of that. (SOUNDBITE OF A SONG, \"NU-SHU: THE SECRET SONGS OF WOMEN\") DUN: To me, with the women washing and the singing every day in their pond. This pond, it's like a big water drum. So what I did and recorded some of those watching clothes songs. I synchronized all these rhythms with their singing, and made their banging laundry sounds and the washing vegetables sounds, basically as a rock 'n' roll or kind of a rhythmic piece with orchestra. (SOUNDBITE OF A SONG, \"NU-SHU: THE SECRET SONGS OF WOMEN\") UNIDENTIFIED WOMEN: (Singing in foreign language) DUN: The secrets women singing to me becomes something everlasting and echoes of ancient beauty. And orchestra becomes today's voice and future voice actually. And who could ", "Perfect for an outdoor summer night, Mac DeMarco's song \"Freaking Out The Neighborhood\" opens with the words, \"Sorry, mama, there are times I get carried away.\" But nothing about the song conveys worry at all, as DeMarco presides over a briskly paced arrangement that finds his voice set against Peter Sagar's ringing guitar. This was the last weekend Sagar performed with the band (he's since released a new album under the name Homeshake), which accompanied DeMarco for this nighttime set on the Woods Stage at Pickathon, recorded last summer. Each month through the start of the 2015 Pickathon festival, opbmusic and NPR Music are premiering another video recorded at the Woods Stage, hand-picked by opbmusic to showcase some of the most exciting performances from last summer's lineup. The next premiere will run on May 19.", "Though clowns are the source of laughs for some and nightmares for others, for Clare Muldaur Manchon, the front-women of husband-wife duo Clare and the Reasons, they became a source of inspiration. After reading an article in The New York Times called \"A Young Clown Follows in a Father's Giant Footsteps,\" Clare wrote the luminous yet sad, \"Make Them Laugh.\" The music video for this song, premiering here, features the band as circus performers subject to the desires of their twisted ringleader. This wicked bearded man strings the performers in the air, using their perfectly painted faces as targets in a whack-a-mole game. The stylish black-and-white video, swirling orchestration and poignant lyrics carry the viewer throughout this bittersweet circus tale, inspired by the NYTimes article. Clare sings, \"They left the show to raise you/But it's all you want/And it's all you know.\" Each verse is punctuated with her anxious, breathy laugh. Clare and the Reasons recorded the song in Berlin along with the rest of their upcoming album, KR-51. The album title is drawn from the model of moped the band rode through Berlin while writing and recording the album. They shot the video after returning home to Brooklyn. In an email, Clare writes, The \"bearded lady\" in the video is our dear young friend Jack Pearce. When he showed up to the shoot to be an extra, the director, Ryan Foregger said, \"Clare, can we please make him a bearded lady, just look how perfect that beard is, it's text book!\" So I slinked over to Jack and bashfully asked him. He looked at me with kind eyes and said, \"Ok, but I sure hope this video doesn't go viral.\" Clare and the Reasons' third album, KR-51, will be released on July 10th. The band is performing this Friday at Bonnaroo.", "This song, \"Black Gold,\" is the first single from the forthcoming Esperanza Spalding record, Radio Music Society. The Afro-centric implication of the title is no coincidence. The song was released yesterday, Feb. 1 — the first day of Black History Month. The video was premiered yesterday on a network called Black Entertainment Television. And to these ears, the music itself connects jazz aesthetics to sounds of black popular music today. In case that message wasn't clear, Spalding wrote some commentary on the track for members of the press: This song is singing to our African American heritage before slavery. Over the decades, so much of the strength in the African American community has seeded from resistance and endurance. I wanted to address the part of our heritage spanning back to pre-colonial Africa and the elements of Black pride that draw from our connection to our ancestors in their own land. I particularly wanted to create something that spoke to young boys. A sample lyric: Think of all the strength you have in youFrom the blood you carry within youAncient manPowerful manBuilders of civilization So there's that. UPDATE: The video, after the jump. Read More &gt;&gt; Yesterday, Spalding premiered the above video on BET's 106 and Park, the network's top ten hip-hop and R&B countdown program. That decision seems fitting, given the overall poppy direction of this record — it's called Radio Music Society, after all. (Though when was the last time music led by a jazz-proficient virtuoso instrumentalist made it to 106 and Park?) There will be a different video for all 12 songs on the record. Other notes: The other voice here belongs to guest vocalist Algebra Blessett. It would be a great acting job if the short guitar solo in the middle were by anyone other than Lionel Loueke. Spalding appears to be playing the electric bass guitar — much of her recorded work so far has centered around her acoustic bass — and the electric axe is prevalent throughout the album. And as a Twitter update confirms, the video features her sometimes collaborator, drummer Otis Brown III, and his own children: @ob3isme: Me and my little guys are starring in @EspeSpalding's new video premiering on 106+Park tonight! Check your local listings! RT RT RT! In a related vein, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention that the Robert Glasper Experiment debuted its own geared-for-radio lead single a while back. \"Ah Yeah\" is a slow jam featuring Musiq Soulchild and Chrisette Michele. More on his new album, and the connections with Spalding's, to come ...", "Before Rubblebucket played its Tiny Desk Concert, its members asked if they could bring a confetti cannon. And, though I said no — dear coworkers, I really do care about you — the band still brought a fun mix of brass and brash to the Tiny Desk. At the front of this band is Kalmia Traver and Alex Toth; she sings clever words, straps a tambourine to her foot and plays the flute, while he plays trumpet, flute and more. I really like this band and its attitude — party-friendly but with a serious side, perhaps informed by Traver's recent battle with cancer — which comes through nicely on Rubblebucket's new album, Survival Sounds. So set aside a few minutes to take this little carousel ride, courtesy of a band like few others. Set List \"Carousel Ride\" \"On The Ground\" \"Sound Of Erasing\" Credits Producers: Bob Boilen, Maggie Starbard; Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait; Videographers: Colin Marshall, Maggie Starbard, Susan Hale Thomas; Assistant Producer: Susannah Whittle; photo by Susan Hale Thomas/NPR", "On this week's All Songs Considered: Red-blooded rock-and-roll from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, a dramatic and cinematic turn for singer Lana Del Rey, the off-kilter, genre-bending sounds of Adult Jazz and more. Co-host Robin Hilton, riding high on a wave of caffeine and nostalgia, kicks off the show with \"American Dream Plan B,\" a straight-ahead guitar-rock cut from the upcoming Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album Hypnotic Eye. Bob Boilen opts for something a bit more subdued with Sean Rowe's \"Madman,\" the title track from the singer's new album, out Sept. 9 on ANTI-. The accompanying video, which premiered on All Songs TV, follows the folk singer on a recent tour as he brings his beautiful baritone to strangers' homes across the country. Also on the show: We premiere a startling new cut from the Leeds-based band Adult Jazz. The song \"Hum,\" from the band's upcoming album Gist Is, is a strange, epic journey through off-kilter soundscapes. Bob shares Lana Del Rey's \"Shades Of Cool,\" a song full of unexpected twist and turns, from the singer's new album Ultraviolence. We get all mushy inside with the beautiful and sentimental \"Dark Side Of The Moon\" from Chris Staples. \"Sing 2 Me\" by Walter Martin is a G-rated song the former bassist for The Walkmen recorded with Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Finally we close the show out with \"Birthday Song,\" a quirky cut from Frankie Cosmos. Clocking in at just 68 seconds, it's the perfect summation of the show: sweet, profound and a bit perplexing, too.", "The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space. Whenever I'm asked to name my favorite Tiny Desk concerts, Nick Hakim's 2018 performance sits near the very top. He and his four bandmates reset the bar for intimacy at the Desk with their hushed groove. That's why I was so excited to hear what he would do all alone from his home in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The Washington, D.C. native played from the corner of his dark bedroom with a keyboard, guitar and stacks of audio components. His recording environment is just what I expected. He performs a three songs from his upcoming album WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD: a haunting dedication to a fallen friend, \"QADIR,\" the newly released \"CRUMPY\" and the premiere of \"GODS DIRTY WORK.\" He also shows off his peculiar sense of humor, activating a mini applause effect between songs, sipping his beverage right into the microphone and breaking into laughter. While he doesn't engage in much banter, the lyrics in songs like \"GODS DIRTY WORK\" are eerily fitting for this moment we're in. SET LIST \"CRUMPY\" \"GODS DIRTY WORK\" \"QADIR\"", "Tampa Bay-based The Ditchflowers mix melodic power pop with roots music and singer-songwriter mini-epics. The band's latest CD is Carried Away. The Ditchflowers are led by guitarist Ed Woltil and vocalist Brian Merrill. Both are veteran musicians. Drummer Stan Arthur, bassist Mike Hoag and guitarist Steve Connelly round out the band's lineup. Recently, Woltil qualified as a Top Four Finalist in the Folk category in last year's John Lennon Songwriting Competition. Merrill's music has been featured in TV broadcasts on ESPN, the Disney Channel and the Tokyo Broadcasting System.", "On this edition of All Songs Considered, hear the first new song from The xx since the group's stunning debut in 2009. \"Angels\" is a sensitive love song, and fantastically sparse in instrumentation, aside from a booming bass. Also on the show: a masterfully restrained song from Frank Ocean's first full-length studio album; a premiere of the song \"Counter Charm\" from the Brooklyn-based duo, She Keeps Bees; euphoric electro-pop from Passion Pit; the wildly infectious artist Dan Deacon and his ecstatic new album,America; Iranian-Canadian producer Amirali; Canadian country singer Corb Lund; and singer Cate Le Bon channels Nico. The xx - Angels Frank Ocean - Pilot Jones Passion Pit - Carried Away Dan Deacon - Lots Corb Lund - Dig Gravedigger Dig Cate Le Bon - What Is Worse Amirali - Harmonious Song She Keeps Bees - Counter Charm", "Fifties girl group crooning and echo chamber drums. Sixties wall of sound. Seventies California canyon sway. Eighties laser-sharp production. Nineties alt-country twang. Aughts vocal callbacks from Neko Case to Jenny Lewis to Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast. Such is the stylistic chronology of indie-pop outfit Sydney Eloise & The Palms, whose latest single, premiering here, cherry-picks from 50 years of influences. \"Sorry, Not Sorry\" has an unmistakably millennial title, but every note of it nods to predecessors. And with decades of backup, what could have been a flippant, hashtag-ready kissoff sounds instead like a rich, substantial reflection on getting out from under a bad situation. Frontwoman Sydney Eloise said in an email that she wrote the song trying to maintain some dignity in the end of a relationship: It may seem like a song of rebuttal, retaliation or revenge, but really \"Sorry, Not Sorry\" is me putting my hands up — getting to that point of numbness in a relationship where you can no longer carry another person's emotions on your back ... For me, this song is about reaching that moment where I had to stop thinking about this other person's feelings because it was time to acknowledge my own. Like, \"sorry this may hurt, but I'm not sorry for speaking my truth.\" Her low voice, indulging in few flourishes, flirts with nonchalance in the same way Cosentino's does. Yet hearing this song that way would miss its affecting lyrics and the band's fearlessness in casting a wide and sometimes contradictory net of references. \"Sorry, Not Sorry\" came from a numb, disconnected place, but it's got a half-century of heart.", "Charles Bruffy conducts the Kansas City Chorale in a performance of the North Carolina folk song \"I'm Going Away\" arranged by Mack Wilberg. (Nimbus NI 5449)", "It began with a song. The roots of Portland's Alialujah Choir go back to Adam Selzer and Adam Shearer's collaboration on an all-Portland charity compilation, (D)early Departed. It seemed a natural choice to pair the Adams, the former known for his work as a producer at Type Foundry studios and as part of the band Norfolk & Western; the latter the affable and increasingly visible frontman of the local band Weinland. \"A House, A Home\" was the result — a song that builds a fictionalized doomed romance into the real-life historical backdrop of Dr. James Hawthorne's psychiatric hospital (and makes for a stunning video, which opbmusic recently premiered). Selzer and Shearer felt like they were on to something in the recording's aftermath, and a late-night text message or two later, the Alialujah Choir was born, with the piano and vocals of Alia Farah (a sometime member of Weinland) rounding out the trio. They set about establishing what might be called rules of creative conduct for the project — the first being that it remain enjoyable, the second being that it's all about the voices. You'll notice the sparse nature of the arrangements, which purposely throw the trio's harmonies into the spotlight. It's a rare moment on the record when you'll hear a lone voice singing. We joined the Alialujah Choir in the same Type Foundry studio space where its members recorded their album. There, they perform live versions of the songs, and also discuss the specifics of their formation, the reasoning behind their \"rules,\" and their extremely long-term plan moving forward. Set List \"Looking For A Gesture\" \"Way Too Soon\" \"A House, A Home\" \"Bones Crackin' In\" Credits Nate Sjol, cameras and video production Dave Christensen, cameras and video production Jarratt Taylor, cameras", "\"There was just nobody doing it,\" 25-year-old Fort Worth wonder Leon Bridges recently told a hometown reporter of his decision to pursue the sound of 1960 in his rhythm and blues. It seems like a strange comment, especially when you hear \"Coming Home,\" one of two songs that have propelled the former college dance major from coffeehouses to a major-label record deal in less than six months. This version of \"Coming Home\" — Bridges' debut single on Columbia Records, which will be available on iTunes at midnight tonight — was recorded with guitarist Austin Jenkins and drummer Josh Block of the band White Denim. The song sounds so much like Sam Cooke, a cardigan sweater may materialize on your back while you're listening to it. Yet this groove — and especially, the nimble, precise vocalization Bridges provides — does feel fresh. How is that possible? It's the commitment to detail that allows Bridges and his collaborators to move through the shell of this sound into its heart. Recorded live at Jenkins and Block's Niles City Sound studio, using only vintage equipment, \"Coming Home\" explores the reasons why gospel meeting soul worked so magically at the dawn of the 1960s: the swing, the intimate relationship between background and lead vocals, the way the descending organ line works a pirouette around the triplets Bridges sings. This kind of perfection is always relevant. That's why \"Coming Home\" helped Bridges become a huge SoundCloud sensation late last fall, and why, in this remixed and remastered version, it will take you away in a very right-now way.", "I'm thrilled to play new music from Luluc. The duo of Zoe Randall and Steve Hassett made two of my favorite albums from the 2010s, and now they're back with a unique sound. This sound came together after a visit to the PEOPLE Festival in Berlin and some help from The National's Aaron Dessner. It's also a treat to get the first new music from The Antlers in six years. The song is called \"Wheels Roll Home.\" The artist known as Squirrel Flower remakes an older tune into something new with her version of \"Chicago,\" and Danielle Durack musters the spirit of Mitski with her new song, \"Broken Wings.\" I have fiercely brilliant new music from Mdou Moctar featuring his North African guitar sounds. This week, Jake Blount won the Steve Martin Banjo Prize and has a fine new album of fiddle and banjo tunes. And we close out our set with one of NPR's Otis Hart's favorites from 2020, the English fiddler Sam Sweeney. 1. Luluc: \"Emerald City\" from DREAMBOAT 2. Danielle Durack: \"Broken Wings\" from No Place 3. The Antlers: \"Wheels Roll Home\" (Single) 4. Squirrel Flower: \"Chicago\" (Single) 5. Mdou Moctar: \"Chismiten\" (Single) 6. Jake Blount: \"Roustabout\" from Spider Tales 7. Sam Sweeney: \"Unearth/Steppy Downs Road\" from Unearth Repeat", "The first thing that jumps out as The Cinematic Orchestra's \"Breathe\" begins to unfold is that voice — a voice that sounds weathered by time, with a layer of sultry melancholy thrown in for good measure. Though not instantly recognizable (it sounds like a deeper version of Portishead's Beth Gibbons), it belongs to Fontella Bass, a hard-working soul singer best known for her 1965 R&B hit \"Rescue Me,\" who last recorded with The Cinematic Orchestra on its 2002 album Everyday. \"Oh, that song you're singing, singing in to me / over everything I used to be,\" Bass sings over a blissfully lulling track that features a sparse acoustic guitar, drums and gentle electronic loops, adding, \"It carries me out to sea and swallows me.\" The Cinematic Orchestra, whose core members (Jason Swinscoe and Phil France) are ardent jazz and film-soundtrack enthusiasts, made Ma Fleur with a screenplay in mind, each track representing a scene from their unmade film's storyline. (This isn't the first time the band has written music with a movie in mind; in 2000, they wrote a new score for the classic 1929 Dziga Vertov Russian silent film Man with a Movie Camera.) \"Breathe\" provides a more glimpse of what the rest of the album has to offer — songs that are intentionally overwhelming, evocative and, of course, entirely cinematic. Listen to yesterday's 'Song of the Day.'", "On the Motown-tinged \"Put Me Thru,\" Anderson .Paak does double-duty on the drums and vocals. The song gives ample opportunity for his band, The Free Nationals, to shine: Guitarist Jose Rios alternates between punchy chords and tasteful shredding, while bassist Kelsey Gonzalez plays gatekeeper to the song's ebb-and-flow groove. Set List \"Green Light\" \"The Waters\" \"The Season/Carry Me\" \"Put Me Thru\" \"Am I Wrong\" \"Come Down\" \"Miss Right\" \"Room In Here\" \"The Bird\" \"Suede\" Credits Producers: Saidah Blount, Mito Habe-Evans, Otis Hart; Technical Director: Josh Rogosin; Director: Mito Habe-Evans; Videographers: Nickolai Hammar, Katie Hayes Luke, Cameron Robert, A.J. Wilhelm, Lizzie Chen; Editor: Cameron Robert; Audio: Timothy Powell/Metro Mobile; Assistant Audio Engineer: Loretta Rae; Production Assistants: Erin Conlon, Nathan Gaar; Special Thanks: SXSW, Stubb's BBQ; Executive Producer: Anya Grundmann. Support for NPR Music comes from Blue Microphone.", "The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space. Having spent time with Collections from the Whiteout, Ben Howard's sonically adventurous fourth album, I was curious to see how he would adapt these songs to the Tiny Desk (home) concert format. So when the opening shot shows Ben in a room alone, an acoustic guitar in hand, it was both an \"oh yeah!\" and an \"uh-oh\" moment. Gone were all those textures that he, Aaron Dessner, and a load of talented musicians had worked on, but front and center was that delicate, reflective voice that I love. It's a voice that, in the recent past, was often swarming in effects and buried in reverb. So as Ben Howard opens his Tiny Desk with the album's opening track, I found myself zeroing in on the oblique and painterly images of \"Follies Fixtures\": \"Walk with me to the burning spire. / We can count the dеad on Ender's pyre. / The dusty towns whеre the number's found / Don't quite match the missing.\" He later premieres a new tune, \"Oldest Trick In The Book.\" \"Thanks for having me and allowing me to play the slight variations of songs that I'm forced to settle with at the moment,\" Ben says, and with that he kicks on the drum machine and plays the music that drew me to his work in 2021. Watch those fingers on the guitar and hear that tone. \"Far Out,\" indeed. SET LIST \"Follies Fixture\" \"Far Out\" \"I Forget Where We Were\" \"Oldest Trick In The Book\" MUSICIANS Ben Howard: vocals, guitar, drum machine CREDITS Video: Allan Wilson Audio: Richard Thomas, Josh Rogosin TINY DESK TEAM Producer: Bob Boilen Video Producer: Kara Frame Audio Mastering: Josh Rogosin Tiny Production Team: Maia Stern, Gabrielle Pierre, Bobby Carter Executive Producer: Keith Jenkins Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann", "Long distance is a drag, but we sure do get some aching love songs out of it: Karen O Yeah ties new places to new starts in Yeah Yeah Yeahs' vaguely hopeful \"Maps;\" George Strait holds onto love for strength in \"Carrying Your Love With Me;\" Mariah Carey won't hesitate \"Whenever You Call.\" But what if it doesn't matter whether you're just steps or 3,000 miles away? The distance between hearts can be an emotional chasm. Wild Moccasins looks to the glamour and wide-eyed sincerity of new wave to make wildly charming pop music that examines our flaws and triumphs with shimmering guitars and pulsing synths. The Houston band's new album, Look Together, comes after the dissolution of a decade-long romantic relationship between primary songwriters Zahira Gutierrez and Cody Swann, who still play in Wild Moccasins together. In part, the album raises questions about \"what society says what we can and can't do in love,\" Gutierrez recently told Rookie. \"Longtime Listener,\" premiering here with a video drowning in blue and white telephones, chronicles a new relationship for Gutierrez, but one marked by long distance, she tells NPR Music: As I was writing this song, I wanted it to read as if I was having a straightforward conversation with someone very close to me — no fluff at all, just pure honesty. While I did write the song about my current partner moving away and about the literal distance between us, the song also symbolizes the figurative distance that can form between partners in the same room. As I became more immersed in the process of making this record, it became harder and harder for me to stay up late to make the obligatory \"How are you?\" phone call. Throughout the whole process, I dwelled over the luck and timing of it all, but the relationship with myself grew stronger and I learned to have faith in fate. This is the kind of pop song made for crying on the dance floor, tears smeared into glittery eye shadow. But embedded in its swirling desperation is a growth that comes from hard love. Look Together comes out June 29 via New West Records.", "On this week's All Songs Considered: A premiere from Beach House, the first-ever solo project from Damon Albarn, and a brand new song from singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten. It's the snow-day edition of our show. With the District buried under a late-season blanket of ice and frigid air, hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton were stuck at their respective apartments, left to record the show in their home studios. But Bob warms things up at the top of the program with \"Gouge,\" a breezy sounding cut from the appropriately named group Eternal Summers. Robin follows with Slow Club, a group from Sheffield, England that makes equally warm, joyful sounds on a brand new cut called \"Tears Of Joy.\" Also on the show: Sharon Van Etten's latest album, Are We There? isn't out until the end of May, but we've got an early glimpse of it with the song \"Taking Chances\"; And after years of playing in Blur, Gorillaz, The Good The Band And The Queen (and many other projects), Damon Albarn returns with his first-ever solo record, called Everyday Robots. Plus, the disarmingly sweet sounds of Death Vessel; and Beach House take strange recordings made in space and turn them into music for a compilation called Space Project." ]

[ "Cleveland High School" ]

[ "DID", "Did Not Finish", "Go ''", "Where It's At", "Going to School in India", "Did It for the Party", "going", "Go", "to be going to", "Highland High School" ]

[ "Python, 147 chars\n\nN=input()\nS=lambda i,K:1+sum(0if len(set(j&amp;k for k in K)-K)-1 else S(j+1,K|set(j|k for k in K))for j in range(i,2**N))\nprint S(1,set([0,2**N-1]))\n\n\nQuick for N&lt;=6, slow for N=7, unlikely N>=8 will ever complete.\n\nIndividual sets are represented by integer bitmasks, and topologies by sets of bitmasks. S(i,K) computes the number of distinct topologies you can form by starting with K and adding sets with bitmasks >= i." ]

[ "The number of parameters depends both on the number of taxa and model of sequence evolution. The topology is not typically considered a parameter in the usual sense of statistical inference (as it is the a priori specified topology the likelihood was calculated on). \n\nSo, for example, if you infer a tree from nucleotide data for 25 sequences under the General Time Reversible (GTR) model with gamma distributed among-site rate heterogeneity and empirical stationary frequencies (this is commonly called GTR+F+G), then you would have 56 parameters with the following breakdown: 2n - 3 = 47 branch lengths (where n = 25, the number of tips), 3 frequencies (because these sum to 1, once three are known the other is automatically known, so we only count 3 estimated parameters), 5 substitution rates (there are actually 6 substitution parameters in GTR, but it is typical to set one, usually G > C, to 1, and estimate the others relative to this, hence only 5 estimated) and 1 alpha parameter for the shape of the gamma distribution of rates (gamma distributions actually have two parameters, alpha and beta, but for phylogenetics we usually constrain them to be equal). \n\nIn total, this gives 47 branch lengths and 3 + 5 + 1 = 9 model parameters, and 47 + 9 = 56", "Mathematica 118\nAlthough there are well-defined routines for computing the number of regions in a regular n-gon with all the diagonals drawn, they are quite cumbersome. I thought it might be fun to take an image processing approach: if we draw the n-gon with it's diagonals, would it be possible to count the regions from the drawn image (more precisely, from the rasterized and binarized representation of the image as an array)?\nThe following produces and processes an actual image of a polygon and determines the number of regions from the rasterized image.\nTable[MorphologicalEulerNumber@Binarize@Rasterize@CompleteGraph[k, ImageSize-&gt;1200,EdgeStyle-&gt;Thickness[Large]],{k,3,14}]\n\n\n{1, 3, 11, 24, 50, 80, 154, 220, 375, 444, 781, 952}\n\nThis is what might be referred to as an engineer's solution. It gets the job done, but only within some limited conditions. (And it's slow: the above code took 4.24 s to run.) The above routine works correctly up to and including a 14-Complete graph, shown below. I found this surprising, given that some of 952 regions are very difficult to see, even when the image is displayed at 1200 by 1200 pixels.\nThe picture below is the image before being rasterized and binarized.", "It is possible to speed up your existing code even without compilation. The idea is to count not all configurations, but rather the topologically different ones. \n\nThere are 3 topologically distinct possibilities to start a path\n\n\nCorner: 1, 3, 7, 9\nEdge: 2, 4, 6, 8\nCenter: 5\n\n\nThus, it is sufficient to count the number of paths starting from 1 (n[1]), starting from 2 (n[2]) and starting from 5 (n[5]). The total number of configurations is given by the sum weighted with symmetry factors.\n\nI keep your definitions of list and ps and perform timing of each part of the algorithm.\n\n(x=Permutations[Range[9],{4,9}];)//AbsoluteTiming\nOut[3]= {0.145363,Null}\n\n(y[1]=Cases[x,{1,___}];\n y[2]=Cases[x,{2,___}];\n y[5]=Cases[x,{5,___}];)//AbsoluteTiming\nOut[4]= {0.3311,Null}\n\nFold[Cases,x,ps]//Length//AbsoluteTiming\nOut[5]= {13.6685,389112}\n\n(n[1]=Fold[Cases,y[1],ps]//Length)//AbsoluteTiming\n(n[2]=Fold[Cases,y[2],ps]//Length)//AbsoluteTiming\n(n[5]=Fold[Cases,y[5],ps]//Length)//AbsoluteTiming\n\nOut[6]= {1.40567,38042}\nOut[7]= {1.60751,43176}\nOut[8]= {1.71645,64240}\n\n4n[1]+4n[2]+n[5]\nOut[9]= 389112 \n\n\nDiscussion\n\nThe results of the timing with respect to the original algorithm are as follows:\n\n\nGeneration of all configurations 1%.\nSelection of the corner, edge and center classes 2%.\nBrute-force selection of the valid configurations 99%.\nSelection of valid paths starting at the corner 10%, the edge 12%, and the center 12%.\n\n\nEven with this simplest idea the achieved time saving is 65%. This approach can be systematically extended further depending on the time one wants to invest in the topological analysis.\n\nChallenge\n\nThis problem can be easily generalized to any $n\\times n$ grid. However, only for $3\\times 3$ and $4\\times 4$ the solution is known. Can someone compute the $5\\times 5$ number ?", "For each $\\alpha \\in S^1$, the map $\\varphi_{\\alpha} \\colon \\mathbb Z \\to S^1$, given by $n \\mapsto \\alpha^n$, induces a topology $\\tau_{\\alpha}$ on $\\mathbb Z$.\n\nA basis of neighborhoods of $0$ for $\\tau_{\\alpha}$ is given by the sets\n$$U_{n,\\alpha} := \\left\\{k \\in \\mathbb Z \\mid |\\alpha^k-1| &lt; \\frac1n \\right\\}, \n\\quad n \\in \\mathbb N.$$\n\nI denote by $\\tau_{\\alpha} \\wedge \\tau_{\\beta}$ the largest group topology that is contained in $\\tau_{\\alpha} \\cap \\tau_{\\beta}$ - which is in general different from $\\tau_{\\alpha} \\cap \\tau_{\\beta}$.\n\nClaim 1: If $\\alpha,\\beta \\in S^1$ are irrational and such that $\\alpha/\\beta \\in S^1$ is also an irrational angle, then $\\tau_{\\alpha} \\wedge \\tau_{\\beta}$ is trivial.\n\nProof: Let $U \\in \\tau_{\\alpha} \\wedge \\tau_{\\beta} \\subset \\tau_{\\alpha} \\cap \\tau_{\\beta}$ and $0 \\in U$. There exists some $V \\in \\tau_{\\alpha} \\wedge \\tau_{\\beta}$ such that $V-V \\subset U$ and $0 \\in V$. Then, there exists $n$, such that $U_{n,\\alpha} - U_{n,\\beta} \\subset V - V \\subset U$. However, $\\mathbb Z=U_{n,\\alpha} - U_{n,\\beta}$. Indeed, for any $k \\in \\mathbb Z$, there exists some $m$, such that $|\\alpha^m-1|&lt;\\frac1n$ and $|\\beta^{k+m}-1|=|\\beta^{m} - \\beta^{-k}|&lt;\\frac1n$, because $(\\alpha,\\beta)$ generates a dense subgroup of $S^1 \\times S^1$ and thus can approximate the point $(1,\\beta^{-k})$ arbitrarily well. q.e.d.\n\nClaim 2: $\\tau_{\\alpha} \\vee \\tau_{\\beta}$ is the topology induced from the map $\\mathbb Z \\to S^1 \\times S^1$, $n \\mapsto (\\alpha^n,\\beta^n)$.\n\nIn particular, applying various automorphisms of $S^1 \\times S^1$, we see that $$\\tau_{\\alpha} \\vee \\tau_{\\beta} = \\tau_{\\alpha} \\vee \\tau_{\\alpha\\beta} = \\tau_{\\beta} \\vee \\tau_{\\alpha\\beta}.$$\n\nLet $\\alpha,\\beta \\in S^1$ be irrational angles, such that $\\alpha/\\beta$ is also irrational and consider the topologies $\\tau_{\\alpha},\\tau_{\\beta},\\tau_{\\alpha \\beta}$. Any pairwise meet (in the lattice of group topologies) is the trivial topology (by Claim 1) and any pairwise join yields the same topology (by Claim 2). Hence,\n\n\n\nembeds as a sub-lattice in the lattice of group topologies. Hence, the lattice of group topologies cannot be distributive.", "Is this what you want?\n\nMod[Total /@ Subsets[X, {2}], 2]\n\n\nIf you really only want to consider the first 100, you can use MapIndexed instead.", "For an n-ary function symbol, there are k^n elements of the domain; for each one you need to choose one of k elements to send it to. So the total number of possible function interpretations would be k^(k^n).\n\nFor an n-ary relation, you have 2 possibilities for each of k^n possible n-ary lists. So what would be the total number of possible relation interpretations?", "The answer to the question is negative. To construct a counterexample, choose a maximal almost disjoint infinite family $\\mathcal A$ of infinite subsets of $\\omega$.\nEndow $\\mathcal A$ with the discrete topology and consider the product $[0,1]\\times \\mathcal A$. For every subset $A\\subseteq \\omega$, let $$2^{-A}=\\{0\\}\\cup\\{2^{-n}:n\\in A\\}.$$\nLet $X$ be the topological sum $2^{-\\omega}\\cup([0,1]\\times\\mathcal A)$, and $\\sim$ be the smallest equivalence relation on the space $X$ such that $0\\sim (0,A)$ and $2^{-n}\\sim(2^{-n},A)$ for every $A\\in\\mathcal A$ and $n\\in A$. It can be shown that the quotient space $Y=X/_\\sim$ is a required counterexample: $Y$ is $\\Delta$-generated but not path-sequential (the latter follows from the fact that $S$ is not contained in a path-connected compact subspace of $Y$).\nTo be sure that everything works, let us write down the proof of the following\nFact. The space $Y$ is $\\Delta$-generated.\nProof. The space $Y$ can be identified with the union $$2^{-\\omega}\\cup\\bigcup_{A\\in\\mathcal A}([0,1]\\setminus 2^{-A})\\times\\{A\\},$$ endowed with a suitable topology. Let $q:X\\to Y$ be the quotient map.\nTake any non-closed set $C\\subset Y$. If there exists some $y\\in(\\bar C \\setminus C)\\setminus 2^{-\\omega}$, then there exists a unique set $A\\in\\mathcal A$ such that $y\\in ([0,1]\\setminus 2^{-A})\\times\\{A\\}$. In this case for the map $\\gamma_A:[0,1]\\to Y$, $\\gamma_A(t)\\mapsto q(t,A)$, has the desired property: $\\gamma_A^{-1}(C)$ is not closed in $[0,1]$.\nSo, we assume that $\\bar C\\setminus C\\subseteq 2^{-\\omega}$. First assume that $2^{-n}\\in\\bar C\\setminus C$ for some $n\\in\\omega$. Choose two real numbers $a,b$ such that $2^{-n-1}&lt;a&lt;2^{-n}&lt;b&lt;2^{-n+1}$.\nLet $\\mathcal A_n=\\{A\\in\\mathcal A:n\\in A\\}$. For every $A\\in\\mathcal A_n$, let $C_A=C\\cap (([a,b]\\setminus 2^{-A})\\times\\{A\\})$. If for some $A\\in\\mathcal A_n$ the set $C_A$ contains $2^{-n}\\times\\{A\\}$ in its closure, then the map $\\gamma_A:[a,b]\\to Y$, $\\gamma_A:t\\mapsto q(t,A)$, has the required property: the set $\\gamma_A^{-1}(C)$ is not closed in $[a,b]$.\nSo, assume that for every $A\\in\\mathcal A_n$ the set $C_A$ does not contain $2^{-n}$ in its closure. By the definition of the quotient topology on $X$, the set $\\bigcup_{A\\in\\mathcal A_n}q((a,b)\\setminus \\overline C_A)\\times\\{A\\}$ is an open neighborhood of $2^{-n}$ in $Y$, which is disjoint with $C$. But this contradicts $2^{-n}\\in\\overline{C}$. This contradiction shows that $\\bar C\\setminus C=\\{0\\}$.\nIf $C\\cap 2^{-\\omega}$ is infinite, then by the maximality of $\\mathcal A$, there exists a set $A\\in\\mathcal A$ such that $C\\cap A$ is infinite. In this case for the map $\\gamma_A:[0,1]\\to Y$, $\\gamma_A:t\\mapsto q(t,A)$, the preimage $\\gamma^{-1}_A(C)\\supset C\\cap A$ contains zero in its closure and hence is not closed in $[0,1]$.\nIf the intersection $C\\cap 2^{-\\omega}$ is finite, then we can find a real number $b\\in (0,1]\\setminus 2^{-\\omega}$ such that the intersection $C\\cap [0,b]$ is empty and $\\bar C\\cap [0,b]=\\{0\\}$. For every $A\\in\\mathcal A$ consider the set $C_A=C\\cap ([0,b]\\setminus 2^{-A})\\times\\{A\\}$. If for some $A\\in\\mathcal A$ the set $C_A$ contains zero in its closure in $[0,b]$, then for the map $\\gamma_A:[0,1]\\to Y$, $\\gamma_A:t\\mapsto q(t,A)$, the preimage $\\gamma_A^{-1}(C)=C_A$ contains zero in its closure and hence is not closed in $[0,1]$.\nSo, we assume that for every $A\\in\\overline A$ the closure $\\overline{C_A}$ does not contain zero. Since $\\overline{C_A}\\subset \\overline C$ and $\\overline C\\cap [0,b]=\\{0\\}$, the set $$[0,b)\\cup\\bigcup_{A\\in\\mathcal A}(([0,b)\\setminus 2^{-A})\\setminus \\overline C_A)\\times\\{A\\}$$ is an open neighborhood of zero, which is disjoint with the set $C$. But this contradicts $0\\in\\bar C$. $\\quad\\square$", "Python - 191 Bytes\n\nt=i=1L;k=n=input();f=2000*20**n;A=range(n+1)\nfor k in range(2,n):A=[(A[j-1]+A[j+1])*j&gt;&gt;1for j in range(n-k+1)];f*=k\nwhile k:k=(1-~i*n%4)*f/A[1]/i**n;t+=k;i+=2\nprint sum(map(int,`t`[-n-4:-4]))\n\n~4x faster version - 206 bytes\nt=i=1L;k=n=input();f=2000*20**n;A=[0,1]+[0]*n\nfor k in range(1,n):\n f*=k\n for j in range(-~n/2-k+1):A[j]=j*A[j-1]+A[j+1]*(j+2-n%2)\nwhile k:k=(1-~i*n%4)*f/A[1]/i**n;t+=k;i+=2\nprint sum(map(int,`t`[-n-4:-4]))\n\nInput is taken from stdin. Output for n = 5000 takes approximately 14s with the second script (or 60s with the first).\n\nSample usage:\n$ echo 1 | python pi-trunc.py\n1\n\n$ echo 2 | python pi-trunc.py\n14\n\n$ echo 3 | python pi-trunc.py\n6\n\n$ echo 4 | python pi-trunc.py\n13\n\n$ echo 5 | python pi-trunc.py\n24\n\n$ echo 50 | python pi-trunc.py\n211\n\n$ echo 500 | python pi-trunc.py\n2305\n\n$ echo 5000 | python pi-trunc.py\n22852\n\n\nThe formula used is the following:\n\nwhere An is the nth Alternating Number, which can be formally defined as the number of alternating permutations on a set of size n (see also: A000111). Alternatively, the sequence can be defined as the composition of the Tangent Numbers and Secant Numbers (A2n = Sn, A2n+1 = Tn), more on that later.\nThe small correction factor cn rapidly converges to 1 as n becomes large, and is given by:\n\nFor n = 1, this amounts to evaluating the Leibniz Series. Approximating π as 10½, the number of terms required can be calculated as:\n\nwhich converges (rounded up) to 17, although smaller values of n require considerably more.\nFor the calculation of An there are several algorithms, and even an explicit formula, but all of them are quadratic by n. I originally coded an implementation of Seidel's Algorithm, but it turns to be too slow to be practical. Each iteration requires an additional term to be stored, and the terms increase in magnitude very rapidly (the &quot;wrong&quot; kind of O(n2)).\nThe first script uses an implementation of an algorithm originally given by Knuth and Buckholtz:\n\nLet T1,k = 1 for all k = 1..n\nSubsequent values of T are given by the recurrence relation:\nTn+1,k = 1/2 [ (k - 1) Tn,k-1 + (k + 1) Tn,k+1 ]\nAn is then given by Tn,1\n(see also: A185414)\n\nAlthough not explicitly stated, this algorithm calculates both the Tangent Numbers and the Secant Numbers simultaneously. The second script uses a variation of this algorithm by Brent and Zimmermann, which calculates either T or S, depending on the parity of n. The improvement is quadratic by n/2, hence the ~4x speed improvement.", "i will try this one.\n\nA Hamiltonian system is (fully) integrable, which means there are $n$ ($n=$ number of dimensions) independent integrals of motion (note that completely integrable hamiltonian systems are very rare, almost all hamiltonian systems are not completely integrable).\n\nWhat this states in essence (and intuitively) is that the hamiltonian system of dimension $n$ can be decomposed into a cartesian product of a set of $n$ independent sub-systems (e.g in action-angle representation) which are minimally coupled to each other.\n\nThis de-composition into a cartesian product of $n$ independent systems (each of which has bounded energy as the whole system has bounded energy), means topologically is the $n$-dimensional torus $S^1 \\times S^1 \\times ... \\times S^1$ ($n$ factors) which is compact (bounded system is topologically compact). \n\nnote $S^1$, literaly means topological circle or topological $1$-dimensional sphere. What it means, is that it represents (since this is topology and not geometry) a compact, bounded 1-dimensional space (1-parameter space). So a hamiltonian system with $n$ independent parameters (integrable) is (should be, locally) topologicaly the cartesian product of $n$ (abstract) $S^1$ spaces ($1$ for each parameter/dimension)\n\nEach $S^1$ space represents a simple harmonic oscilator (a simple periodic system, or in other words a system moving on a circle, see the connection with $S^1$ spaces).\n\nWhen a (completely) integrable hamiltonian system is de-composed into $n$ indepenent sub-systems, in essence this means that (locally, at every neighborhood of a point of the system phase-space) it can be linearised and represented as a stack of (independent) harmonic oscilators (stacks of $S^1$ spaces). This is the basic theorem of Liouville-Arnold on hamiltonian dynamics\n\nFor a simple example of a 3-dimensional (actually 2-dimensional, since the configuration space is the surface of a sphere) hamiltonian system which is completely integrable, see the spherical pendulum and analysis thereof\n\n\n\nThe spherical pendulum is 2-dimensional system (thus the phase-space is 4-dimesnional) and has a second integral of motion the moment about the vertical axis.\n\n(a link on a more advanced analysis on the dynamics of pendula).\n\nIn other words the whole is just the sum of its parts.\n\nWhat would be the hamiltonian space of a (for example $2$-dimensional) system which the dimensions are not independent (not-integrable).\n\nThis means the dimensions are correlated and cannot be de-composed into independent sub-systems (i.e a $2$-dimensional torus $S^1 \\times S^1$), so topologically it is a $2$-dimensional sphere ($S^2$).\n\n\n\n\n\nIn a $2$-dimensional sphere the $2$ dimensions are correlated and cannot be made flat (i.e cannot be linearised and mapped into a flat space of same dimension, unlike a $2$-dimensional torus, in other words has what is refered as intrinsic curvature).\n\nElaborating a little on this.\n\nOf course, if one sees the 2-dimensional torus as a 3D object (in effect this means embedded in a flat 3D euclidean space), it has curvature. This is refered as \"external\" curvature stemming from the embedding into a 3D space. But if one sees the 2-dim torus as a 2-dimensional surface on its own, it has no (zero) curvature. This is refered to as (intrinsic) curvature (in the riemannian sense).\n\nIf one takes the 2-dim torus and cuts it and unfold it, one gets the 2-dimensional cylinder\n. If further one cuts the 2-dim cylinder and unfold it, one gets a 2-dimensional flat surface. This means the (intrinsic) curvature of the 2-dim torus is zero and can be mapped into a flat space of the same dimension.\n\nFor the 2-dim sphere, this is not possible. There is no way it can be cut and mapped into a flat surface of the same dimension. It has (intrinsic) curvature non-zero and this is also a measure away from flatness (and also a measure of dimension correlation). One example is maps of earth (2-dimensional spherical surface) on a flat paper, one can see that the map contains distortions, since there is no mapping of a sphere into a flat surface.\n\nOn the other hand if one takes a flat 2-dim surface and makes one boundary periodic, one gets a 2-dim cylinder, if further makes the other boundary also periodic, one gets the 2-dim torus.\n\nIn general the conditions under which any given hamiltonian system is (completely) integrable is a very difficult problem.\n\nStill another way to see this is an analogy with probability spaces. Consider 2 event spaces of 2 physical systems consisting of 2 parameters (lets say 2 coins) $\\Omega_{12}$ and $\\Omega_{AB}$.\n\nWhen the system is integrable (i.e the parameters are independent, meaning $P(1|2) = P(1)$) then the event space $\\Omega_{12}$ is the cartesian product of each sub-space $\\Omega_1 \\times \\Omega_2$. And each outcome of the total system is just the product of the probabilities of each sub-system.\n\nNow consider a second system where the coins are correlated, meaning $P(A|B) \\ne P(A)$.\n\nThis space $\\Omega_{AB}$ cannot be de-composed into 2 independent sub-spaces $\\Omega_A$, $\\Omega_B$ as their cartesian product since the sub-spaces are not independent. This corresponds to a non-integrable Hamiltonian system (and a topological $2$-d sphere).\n\nThe analog of statistical independence in probability event spaces for hamiltonian systems is exactly the existence and functional (more correctly poisson) independence of the appropriate number of integrals of motion (complete integrability).\n\nIn other words for a non-integrable system the whole is more than the sum of its parts.\n\nHope this is useful to you\n\nPS. You might also want to check: Holonomic System, Non-holonomic System, Integrable System", "New answer:\nThe number of pseudo line arrangements is 2^{Theta(n^2)} http://page.math.tu-berlin.de/~felsner/Paper/numarr.pdf . Which is in turn can be used to bound the number order type of n points in the plane. Thus if you want to check some concrete conjecture on point configurations in the plane, you are going to get your desired running time. Examples of algorithms using this approach and use this approach are here: http://www.ist.tugraz.at/aichholzer/research/rp/triangulations/ordertypes/ . If you do not aggressively cut the search space for the specific conjecture you are checking, you would get the running you want.\n\nIn a similar direction, checking if a generic property holds for all binary n*n matrices, would take this running time. This in particular, the time it would take to verify a \"generic\" property over graphs over n vertices. As a \"silly\" example, think about a Ramsey type conjecture: Every graph over n vertices contains either a clique or an independent set of size $\\Theta(\\log n)$. Ha! This running time is explicitly mentioned in the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey%27s_theorem#Ramsey_numbers.\n\n\n\nOld answer:\nSome variants of Cylindrical algebraic decomposition if my memory serves me right.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylindrical_algebraic_decomposition", "I finally managed to do it in R. Here is my code: \n\ninstall.packages('devtools')\nlibrary(devtools)\ninstall_github('santiagosnchez/rBt')\nlibrary(rBt)\n\nbeast_output &lt;- read.annot.beast('beast_output.trees')\nbeast_output_rooted &lt;- root.multiPhylo(beast_output, c('taxon_A', 'taxon_B'))\nunique_topologies &lt;- unique.multiPhylo(beast_output_rooted)\n\ncount &lt;- function(item, list) {\n total = 0\n for (i in 1:length(list)) {\n if (all.equal.phylo(item, list[[i]], use.edge.length = FALSE)) {\n total = total + 1\n }\n }\n return(total)\n}\n\nresult &lt;- data.frame(unique_topology = rep(0, length(unique_topologies)),\n count = rep(0, length(unique_topologies)))\nfor (i in 1:length(unique_topologies)) {\n result[i, ] &lt;- c(i, count(unique_topologies[[i]], beast_output_rooted))\n}\n\nresult$percentage &lt;- ((result$count/length(beast_output_rooted))*100)", "The general procedure for the identification of a Fréchet derivative is the following\n\nCalculate the functional derivative of the given functional, then\nverify its linearity and\nverify its continuity respect to the topology that is considered on the domain of the given functional i.e., for a Banach or Hilbert space topology, verify that the norm of the derivative does not depend on the structure of the variation but only on its size (norm).\n\nThe functional $w$ is defined on a vector space structure defined on $C^1(\\Bbb R^n, \\Bbb R^m)\\times \\Bbb R^n$, since we should be able to give a meaning to the word &quot;linear&quot;, and the topology considered on this vector space is the product topology between the Banach space topology on $\\Bbb R^n$ and the topology by $H$ on $C^1(\\Bbb R^n,\\Bbb R^m)$: following the above list we have\n$$\n\\begin{split}\nDw\\big[(f,x)\\big]\\big((g,y)\\big) &amp; \\triangleq \\frac{\\mathrm{d}}{\\mathrm{d}\\varepsilon}w\\big[(f,x)+\\varepsilon(g,y)\\big]\\bigg{|}_{\\varepsilon = 0}\\\\\n&amp;=\\frac{\\mathrm{d}}{\\mathrm{d}\\varepsilon}w\\big[(f+\\varepsilon g, x+\\varepsilon y)\\big]\\bigg|_{\\varepsilon = 0}\\\\\n&amp;=\\frac{\\mathrm{d}}{\\mathrm{d}\\varepsilon}\\big\\|f(x+\\varepsilon y)+\\varepsilon g(x+\\varepsilon y)\\big\\|\\bigg|_{\\varepsilon = 0}\\\\\n&amp;=\\left.\\frac{\\mathrm{d}}{\\mathrm{d}\\varepsilon}\\bigg[\\sum_{i=1}^m \\Big(f_i(x+\\varepsilon y)+\\varepsilon g_i(x+\\varepsilon y)\\Big)^2\\bigg]^\\frac{1}{2}\\right|_{\\varepsilon = 0}\\\\\n&amp;=\\frac{1}{2}{\\big\\|f(x+\\varepsilon y)+\\varepsilon g(x+\\varepsilon y)\\big\\|}^{-1} \\left.\\frac{\\mathrm{d}}{\\mathrm{d}\\varepsilon}\\bigg[\\sum_{i=1}^m \\Big(f_i(x+\\varepsilon y)+\\varepsilon g_i(x+\\varepsilon y)\\Big)^2\\bigg]\\right|_{\\varepsilon = 0}\\\\\n&amp;=\\frac{1}{2}{\\big\\|f(x+\\varepsilon y)+\\varepsilon g(x+\\varepsilon y)\\big\\|}^{-1}\\\\\n&amp;\\qquad\\cdot \\left.\\frac{\\mathrm{d}}{\\mathrm{d}\\varepsilon}\\bigg[\\sum_{i=1}^m f_i^2(x+\\varepsilon y)+ 2\\varepsilon f_i(x+\\varepsilon y)g_i(x+\\varepsilon y) +\\varepsilon^2 g_i^2(x+\\varepsilon y)\\bigg]\\right|_{\\varepsilon = 0}\\\\\n&amp;={\\big\\|f(x+\\varepsilon y)+\\varepsilon g(x+\\varepsilon y)\\big\\|}^{-1}\\\\\n&amp;\\qquad\\cdot \\bigg[\\sum_{i=1}^m \\langle\\nabla f_i(x+\\varepsilon y),y\\rangle+ f_i(x+\\varepsilon y)g_i(x+\\varepsilon y) \\\\ \n&amp;\\qquad\\qquad +\\varepsilon\\langle\\nabla f_i(x+\\varepsilon y),y\\rangle g(x+\\varepsilon y) +\\varepsilon f_i(x+\\varepsilon y) \\langle \\nabla g_i(x+\\varepsilon y),y\\rangle \\\\\n&amp;\\qquad\\qquad\\qquad + \\varepsilon g_i^2(x+\\varepsilon y)\n+ \\left.\\varepsilon^2 g_i(x+\\varepsilon y)\\langle \\nabla g_i(x+\\varepsilon y),y\\rangle\\bigg]\\right|_{\\varepsilon = 0}\\\\\n&amp;={\\big\\|f(x)\\big\\|}^{-1}\\bigg[\\sum_{i=1}^m \\langle\\nabla f_i(x),y\\rangle\n+f_i(x)g_i(x)\\bigg]=\\frac{\\langle 1, \\mathbf{J}_f(x)y\\rangle+\\langle f(x),g(x)\\rangle }{\\big\\|f(x)\\big\\|}\n\\end{split}\n$$\nThus, apart from errors, we have done step 1 and checked the linearity as required by step 2. Regarding step 3, we see that that if\n$$\n\\|f(x)\\|&gt;0 \\iff f(x)\\neq 0\n$$\nfor the given $x\\in\\Bbb R^n$, then the functional derivative norm depend only on the value $\\|g(x)\\|_H+\\|y\\|_{\\Bbb R^n}$ and not on the structure of the element $(g,y)$. Thus the functional derivative of $w$ is a Fréchet derivative.", "The number of unlabeled connected graphs on $n$ vertices with a marked vertex is Sequence A126100 in the OEIS. The first few values (starting with $n=0$) are 0, 1, 1, 3, 11, 58, 407, 4306, 72489, 2111013, 111172234.", "s... the way I did it in the end was\n\n$\\tilde x_l = \\sum_{k\\in\\Gamma_l}x_k$ where $\\Gamma_l$ are sets composed of randomly drawn indices. $l=1,...,N$", "Python 3, 86 * 0.9 = 77.4 bytes\n\n\n\ns=input()\nN=int(s.split('H')[1])\nprint(\"2%s + %dO2 &gt; %dH20 + %dCO2\"%(s,N*1.5-2,N,N-2))\n\n\nExtracts the number of H's rather than the number of C's from the input. This avoid special-casing CH4 and simplifies the output expressions in terms of N=2n+2.\n\nThe output has parameters plugged in via string formatting. The first summand is just the input string, and the rest have calculated numbers plugged in. Note that N*1.5-2 (same as N*3/2-2) gives a float, but the string formatting converts it to an int.", "The Lovász theta function is bounded between the independence number and the clique covering number (the chromatic number of the complementary graph). For even cycles, both numbers are $n/2$. For example, for the $6$-cycle with vertices $1,2,3,4,5,6$, there are independent sets of size $3$, e.g. $\\{1,3,5\\}$, and the graph can be covered with the $3$ cliques $\\{1,2\\},\\{3,4\\},\\{5,6\\}$.", ". 1 . | . . . | . . .\n. . . | . 2 . | . . .\n. . . | . . . | . 7 .\n------+-------+------\n. . . | . . . | 9 . .\n. . . | 3 . . | . . .\n4 . . | . . . | . . .\n------+-------+------\n. . . | . . . | . . 6\n. . . | . . 8 | . . .\n. . 5 | . . . | . . .\n\n\nI got 720 solutions having the 1 in the top left bloc.", "Retina, 114 bytes\n\n(.)(.)\n$1O$2X\n^\n123;;456;;789¶X\n{`(.)(.*¶)(.)\\1\n$3$2\n}`.*(.)(.)*\\1(?&lt;-2&gt;.)*(?(2)(?!))\\1.*¶(..)*\n$1$#3\n.*¶\nT\nT`d`Rd\n\n\nTry it online! Based on my answer to Tic-Tac-Toe - X or O?. Outputs X&lt;N&gt; if the first player wins after N turns, O&lt;N&gt; if the second player wins, T if neither wins. Explanation:\n\n(.)(.)\n$1O$2X\n^\n123;;456;;789¶X\n\n\nCreates an internal board, and also marks each move with the player whose move it is.\n\n{`(.)(.*¶)(.)\\1\n$3$2\n\n\nApplies a move.\n\n}`.*(.)(.)*\\1(?&lt;-2&gt;.)*(?(2)(?!))\\1.*¶(..)*\n$1$#3\n\n\nSearches for a win, and if one is found, then replace the board with the winner and the number of remaining moves.\n\n.*¶\nT\n\n\nIf the moves are exhausted and nobody has won then the game is a tie.\n\nT`d`Rd\n\n\nCalculate the number of the round from the number of remaining moves.", "There is a whole zoo of topological phases, and hopefully someone will provide a more complete answer, but here are some thoughts.\nSymmetry and dimension. The topological classification of a material with a gap (topological insulator or topological superconductor) depends on (i) symmetry and (ii) dimension. These relations are summarized by the so-called tenfold way shown in this table (from this paper):\n\nThe &quot;Symmetry&quot; columns correspond to time reversal symmetry (T), particle-hole symmetyry (C), and chiral symmetry (S), with &quot;0&quot; meaning no symmetry, &quot;$\\pm1$&quot; is the square of the antiunitary operator of the symmetry. The &quot;Dimension&quot; columns correspond to the spatial dimension (1, 2, and 3 are most relevant for real systems, but some higher-dimensional synthetic systems have also been explored). A well-known example are time-reversal invariant topological insulators (what are typically called topological insulators), which obey time reversal symmetry (and for electrons T$^2=-1$) and fall into class AII. You will see this means that there is no topological classification for 1D, and both 2D and 3D have a $\\mathbb{Z}_2$ classification, as is well-known for these materials. Another example are Chern insulators, which fall into class A and admit a $\\mathbb{Z}$ classification in even dimensions only.\nSo how do you figure what are the topological properties of your material? First you need to figure out what the relevant symmetries are and what the dimension is, so that you know where it falls in the tenfold way. For example for a &quot;topological insulator&quot; in 3D, the relevant symmetry is time-reversal symmetry and the dimension is obviously 3. Then, you need to figure out how to calculate the corresponding topological invariant, in this case $\\mathbb{Z}_2$. As Shahid Sattar described in their answer, in this case it can be done using a number of standard packages like Z2Pack or WannierTools.\nTopological quantum chemistry. Beyond the three symmetries described above, crystalline symmetries further constrain topological order. Additionally, semimetallic systems also admit a topological classification. The database that you refer to in your question uses the formalism known as topological quantum chemistry to classify these phases. In short, it uses the symmetry of the various high-symmetry $\\mathbf{k}$ points in the Brillouin zone to determine the degeneracies of the bands at those points, and then uses the symmetries along the paths connecting these points to determine the allowed connectivities of the bands. Each possible connectivity corresponds to a possible topological phase. Then depending on where the Fermi level is, one gets an insulating or a semimetallic phase.\nThe Topological Quantum Chemistry Database covers almost any material you may ever encounter, so they essentially have done the job for you. However, all their calculations are based on semilocal DFT, and this can be problematic (see for example this paper). Therefore, I would use the database as a good starting point, but then do your own calculations to figure out what is really going on (e.g. using hybrid functionals or the $GW$ approximation to get better estimates fo the bands).", "Here is a relatively quick way to get an approximate answer.\nLet $k$ be the number of steps to the end (in this case $12$), and $n$ the number of sides on the die.\nFirst you need to look at the end game.\n\n Once you land in the last $n$ squares, there will always be one value that finishes the game. This means that the expected number of throws until you get a winning value is $n$. It makes no difference that you sometimes move closer, and that the value of the winning throw changes accordingly, the expected value of the number of throws until you get the winning one does not change.\n\nNow to estimate the number of throws until we reach the end game:\n\n The expected value of a throw is $\\frac{n+1}2$, so that is the average number of steps you take per throw. You need to go $k-n$ steps till the end game, so this takes $$\\frac{2(k-n)}{n+1} = 2\\frac{k+1-n-1}{n+1} = \\frac{2(k+1)}{n+1} -2$$\n\nWe need to minimise this.\n\n The approximation of the expected total number of throws is:\n $$f(n) = \\frac{2(k+1)}{n+1} +n-2$$\n Set the derivative to zero to find the value of $n$ where it is minimal:\n $$f'(n) = -\\frac{2(k+1)}{(n+1)^2} +1 = 0$$\n $$(n+1)^2 =2(k+1)$$\n $$n =\\sqrt{2(k+1)}-1$$\n For $k=12$ we get $n=4.099$. This is closest to $n=4$, so most likely the best size die is $4$, but to be absolutely sure we would have to calculate the expected number of throws more exactly for $n\\in\\{3,4,5\\}$.", "There is no topology on 4 elements whose closeness graph is the $4$-cycle.\n\n(Proof: Let's call the elements $\\{A,B,C,D\\}$. Define a directed graph with these elements as vertices and a directed edge $u\\to v$ whenever every open set containing $u$, also contains $v$, this has to be transitive and contain all self loops, lets call this directed graph $H(X,\\tau)$. Two vertices $u,v$ in the closeness graph are connected iff there is a $w$ such that $u\\to w$ and $v\\to w$ in $H$. Now, we see that we can't have edges between $A$ and $C$ or between $B$ and $D$, however any orientation of the $4$-cycle $ABCD$ either includes a diagonal in the transitive closure, or it has edges $A\\to B$, $C\\to B$, or it has edges $B\\to C$, $D\\to C$. In each case the closeness graph must contain one of the diagonals.)\n\nUpdate: Every undirected graph $G$ can be realized as a connected component of the closeness graph of some topological space. To prove this, let $Y=V(G)\\sqcup E(G)$, and let $\\tau$ be the topology generated by the open sets $\\{e\\}$ for all edges $e$, and $\\{v,e\\}$ whenever $v$ is an endpoint of $e$. Then $G$ is a connected component of $G(Y,\\tau)$.", "Well, let's ignore the code, because having started coding at that stage is wrong.\n\nLet's look instead at a better starting-point:\n\n\nFind a closed formula for the number of rectangles in a grid of given size (x, y):\n\nN = \\$\\sum_{a=1}^x\\sum_{b=1}^y(x-a+1)(y-b+a)\\$\n\\$= \\sum_{a=0}^{x-1}\\sum_{b=0}^{y-1}(x-a)(y-b)\\$\n\\$ = \\frac 1 4 * (2x^2 - x*(x-1))(2y^2 - y*(y-1))\\$\n\\$= \\frac 1 4 * (x^2+x)(y^2+y)\\$\nSolve it for given y and N:\n\n\\$x^2+x-\\frac{4*N}{y^2+y} = 0\\$\n\\$x=\\frac{-1 \\pm \\sqrt{1 + \\frac{4*4*N}{y^2+y}}}2\\$\n\\$x=-\\frac 1 2 \\pm \\sqrt{\\frac 1 4 + \\frac{4*N}{y^2+y}}\\$\n\n(Only the positive solution is of interest)\nSimply iterate all possible rectangles starting with short side of 1 until our short dimension becomes the long one, and calculate the number of rectangles for a slightly bigger / smaller rectangle than the fractional one we calculated.\n\n\nThe solution will be found in \\$\\Theta\\left(\\sqrt[4]N\\right)\\$.", "For question 2 the first answer is &quot;yes&quot;: if $M$ is a $0-1$-nilpotent matrix, then it is the adjacency matrix of some digraph.\nNow $M^k_{i,j}$ is well-known to be the number of paths of length $k$ between vertices $i$ and $j$. Meanwhile, there exists some integer $\\nu$ such that $M^k=0$ for $k \\ge \\nu$, so there are no paths of size greater than $\\nu$ in the graph, in particular there cannot be any oriented cycle, hence the graph is a DAG.\nFor the rest of your questions, I have a mixed answer: indeed your going to get all adjacency matrices (as you're saying, this is just shuffling the topological order) ; and since the set of strictly upper triangular $0-1$-matrices of size $n$ along with the set of permutations of $n$ elements, each DAG of order $n$ will appear with positive probability.\nNow I'm guessing what you want is that this probability is greater than some bound for any $n$, and this seems doubtful. Take for instance the path of size $n$, up to relabeling there are $n!$ of them. But there are $2^{(n-2)n \\over 2}$ strictly upper triangular $0-1$-matrices of size $n$ and $n!$ way to shuffle each of them, so the probability of getting a path goes to $0$ exponentially fast.", "The total roundoff error for the sum of $N$ numbers is:\n\n$$\nS = \\sum_{i=0}^{N-1} E_i\n$$\n\nThe roundoff error for the $i$-th number is represented by the random variable $E_i$. If we assume that the random number generator used by the computer yields numbers $X_i$ taken from a uniform distribution, then the difference between each $X_i$ and the nearest tenth (which is the roundoff error $E_i$) is uniformly distributed on the interval $(-\\frac{0.1}{2}, \\frac{0.1}{2}) = (-0.05, 0.05)$.\n\nWhat we're concerned with, though, is the distribution of $S$. Since $S$ is the sum of $N$ independent, identically distributed (iid) random variables, then via the central limit theorem, as $N \\to \\infty$, $S$ will tend to a Gaussian distribution. If we assume that your case of $N=1000$ is \"large enough\" for the Gaussian assumption to hold, we can easily estimate the probability that you seek. It's certainly possible to exactly calculate the distribution of $S$, but the Gaussian assumption is likely close enough for most applications with such large $N$.\n\nA Gaussian distribution is characterized by its first two moments, so if we can find those for $S$, then we have all the information we need. These are easy to calculate for a sum of iid random variables. The mean of $S$ is equal to:\n\n$$\n\\mathbb{E}(S) = \\sum_{i=0}^{N-1} \\mathbb{E}(E_i) = 0\n$$\n\nThe variance of $S$ is equal to:\n\n$$\n\\mathbb{E}\\left((S - \\mathbb{E}(S))^2\\right) = \\sum_{i=0}^{N-1} \\mathbb{E}\\left((E_i - \\mathbb{E}(E_i))^2\\right)\n$$\n\nRecall that the random variables $E_i$ are distributed uniformly. It is well known that the uniform distribution over the interval $(a,b)$ has variance $\\frac{1}{12}(b-a)^2$. For this case, that yields a variance $\\sigma_{E_i}^2 = \\frac{0.01}{12}$. Therefore, the variance of the total roundoff error $S$ is $\\sigma_{S}^2 = \\frac{0.01N}{12}$.\n\nSo in summary, we can approximate $S$'s distribution as Gaussian with mean zero and variance $\\sigma_{S}^2 = \\frac{0.01N}{12}$. Based on those parameters, you can easily calculate the estimated probability distribution function (pdf), then integrate that result to arrive at whatever probability you seek. The probability that there is a total roundoff error with magnitude greater than one would be:\n\n$$\n\\begin{align}\nP(|S| &gt; 1) &amp;= P(S&gt;1 \\lor S &lt; -1) \\\\\n&amp;= 1 - P(-1 &lt; S &lt; 1) \\\\\n&amp;= 1 - \\int_{-1}^{1}f_S(s)ds \n\\end{align}\n$$\n\nwhere $f_S(s)$ is the Gaussian distribution's pdf that we arrived at before.", "If require that all faces have the same number of sides $s$ and require that all vertices also have a certain valency $t$. We see that the following relation between edges, and faces hold for a regular mesh:\n$$s\\cdot f = 2e,$$\n$$t\\cdot v = 2e.$$ Substitution in the Euler-Poincare formula yields:\n$$\\left(\\frac{1}{s} + \\frac{1}{t} - \\frac{1}{2}\\right)e = 1 - g$$\nIf we then take for instance a regular plane which can be said to have the topology of a torus with genus $g = 1$. We then set the valency of faces $s = 3$ then\n$$\\left(\\frac{1}{3} + \\frac{1}{t} - \\frac{1}{2}\\right)e = 0,$$\n$$\\left(-\\frac{1}{6} + \\frac{1}{t}\\right)e = 0.$$\nThe solution for $t$ is $6$, which says the valency of a vertex in a regular triangulation is 6.", "This problem is NPC; we can use it to decide whether there exist a $k$-clique.\n\nEach edge $(u,v)$ is transformed into a set $S_{u,v}$, we put $u$ and $v$ into $S_{u,v}$, as well as $U$ globally unique elements. Set $K=\\frac{k(k-1)}{2}U+k$ and $U=n^3$. Each share of the partition can contain $\\frac{k(k-1)}{2}$ edges, if they form a $k$-clique; otherwise it can contain exactly $\\frac{k(k-1)}{2}-1$ edges.\n\nWe add dummy edges to make sure the total number of edges has the form $C\\cdot (\\frac{k(k-1)}{2}-1)+1$. If there is no $k$-clique, we need $C+1$ shares, otherwise we need at most $C$ shares.", "Yo are taking only the one-to-one functions, while there are a lot of other functions, to name a few:\n\n00 00\n01 00 \n10 00 \n11 00\n\n00 01\n01 01 \n10 01 \n11 01\n\n00 00\n01 00 \n10 01 \n11 01\n\n\nas you already mentioned, each table can be represented with $n*2^n$ bits, i.e. strings from the set: $\\{0,1\\}^{n*2^n}$, each string from this set defines one function from $Func_n$, so the number of such functions is the size of the above set $=2^{n*2^n}$", "If $B$ is triangulated, $e(E)\\in H^n(B,Z)$ is only the obstruction to have a non-vanishing section on the $n$-skeleton of $B$, but if $\\dim B&gt;n$, it is possible that none of these sections extends to the $n+1$ skeleton : the obstruction lies in $H^{n+1}(B,\\pi_{n}(S^{n-1}))$, and may be non-zero if $n&gt;2$. This obstruction theory is exposed in Steenrod's classic \"Topology of fibre bundles\".", "Here is a suggestion take $SL_2(\\mathbb{Q}_p)$. Then it has the topology as a matrix group over $\\mathbb{Q}_p$. It has also the discrete topology. Finally you can embed $\\mathbb{Q}_p$ in $\\mathbb{C}$ (in many ways). So it has many topologies as a matrix group over $\\mathbb{C}$. Now, you can divide by the centre and get $PSL(\\mathbb{Q}_p)$. But I am not 100% sure that all of these topologies are distinct.", "Tally[Join @@ (AdjacencyList[Graph[nodeset], #] &amp; /@ given)]\n\n\n\n {{1, 1}, {4, 1}, {5, 1}, {6, 1}, {7, 1}, {11, 1}, {17, 1},\n {20, 1}, {41, 1}, {52, 1}, {71, 1}, {76, 1}, {105, 1},{109, 1}, {113, 1}}", "@The Pointer the $2^n$ came from the question: How many function do we need to have if each of the $n$ inputs can be missing?\nexample: $f_1(\\text{missing}, x_2, x_3, \\dots, x_n)$ for $x_1$ missing\n$f_2(x_1, x_2, \\text{missing}, x_4, \\text{missing}, \\dots, x_n)$ for $x_3$ and $x_5$ missing.\nSo this problem is a combinatorial one and the event for each $x_i$ is Missing or Not.\nEach function corresponds 1-by-1 with a possible set $(x_1, \\text{missing}, x_2, \\dots, x_n)$. So how many sets can you form $2^n$. Why?\nThis formula comes back to like tree developing. First variable $x_1$ missing or not (2 possbile events). Now after that, for EACH of these events 2 possbile events for $x_2$ so in total 2 \\times 2 (2 for $x_1$ , 2 for $x_2$ for each $x_1$'s event) and etc., $2 \\times 2 \\times 2 \\times \\dots$ $n$ times = $2^n$.", "Let $L$ denote the lcm of your $k$ numbers. If a number $\\ell$ below $L$ is divisible \nby one of the $k$ numbers, then $\\ell$ must have some common factor $&gt;1$ with $L$. Therefore \nthe number of elements you want is bounded above by $L-\\phi(L)$ (the numbers that are not \ncoprime to $L$). \n\nSo if the $k$ numbers are all below $n$, then the lcm of these numbers is some $L$ \nwhich divides $\\text{lcm}[1,...,n] =L(n)$ say. Thus the maximum proportion that may be attained \nis \n$$ \n1- \\frac{\\phi(L)}{L} \\le 1 -\\frac{\\phi(L(n))}{L(n)} = 1- \\prod_{p\\le n} \\Big(1-\\frac 1p\\Big). \n$$\n\nThis bound may be attained by taking your $k$ numbers to be the primes below $n$. \n\nIf the $k$ numbers are $a_1$, $\\ldots$, $a_k$ then we can work out $\\rho$ by inclusion \nexclusion. So $\\rho$ is the sum of the reciprocals of the $a_i$ - the sum of \nthe reciprocals of lcms taken two at a time + the sum of reciprocals of lcms taken three at a time etc. If $k$ is small compared with $n$ (if $k=o(n/(\\log n)^{3/2}$ I think) \nthen we can calculate the expected value of $\\rho$ (Question 2). Only the \nsum of the reciprocals of the $a_j$ should matter, and the expected value of $\\rho$ should be about $(k/n) \\log n$. When $k$ gets larger things seem more complicated ... .\n\nMore comments: It turns out that the problem you proposed of studying the multiples of \na set of numbers has been extensively studied. There is a Cambridge Tract (number 118) \n\"Sets of Multiples\" by R.R. Hall that deals with this problem. For example one situation \nthat was considered first by Erdos is the case when the set is the numbers from $n/2$ to $n$. Here the density of the sets of multiples goes to zero, with a curious rate related \nto the ``Multiplication table problem.\" Anyway Hall's book should contain what's known \non the problem." ]

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[ "It's become an annual tradition on Talk of the Nation to take some time on Thanksgiving Day to remember the family and friends and neighbors who won't join us at the dinner table this year. The son or daughter who can't get away. A nephew who is serving in Afghanistan. Perhaps, the favorite aunt who passed away. Neal Conan talks with listeners about the people missing from their Thanksgiving table today, and how they remember absent family and friends.", "It's a tradition for many of us to gather with family and friends on Thanksgiving. The menu and the festivities are often the same: A look at the big parade in New York City on TV, maybe a game of touch football. But some friends may not be able to make it to dinner: the loved ones serving in the military overseas, a family member who's passed away since this time last year, or maybe someone who has to work today. Host Neal Conan takes calls from listeners who want to share stories about who's not at their Thanksgiving table this year.", "NPR's Michele Norris has a Thanksgiving chat with Tom and Patty Erd, the owners of Spice House, a Chicago-area specialty store that not only sells spices but educates customers about the history of each spice. The couple discuss some traditional holiday spices -- the nutmeg and allspice of pumpkin pie, for example -- that make Thanksgiving smell so good.", "Here in the States, many folks play American-made football — touch, not tackle — on Thanksgiving Day after the megameal. But in other parts of the world, no one will be the wiser if you make a substitution — and play American-made baseball. Turkey Ball instead of Turkey Bowl, perhaps? That has become the tradition for Rachel Pieh Jones and her family in Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa. \"We cook, entirely from scratch,\" says Rachel — transplanted from Minnesota — whose husband, Tom, teaches at the University of Djibouti. \"Pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes, stuffing, dinner rolls. If we're lucky, we have a turkey. If not, we substitute rotisserie chicken or Chinese take-out.\" After the Thanksgiving repast, the Jones family joins \"other expats — not all Americans — for the annual baseball game,\" says Rachel, who blogs about the expat experience. \"We take over a soccer field and play until dark. Not all know how to play; some run the bases backwards, throw the bat or just play catch.\" At day's end, everyone from all over the world gets together for desserts — from all over the world. ** We hope American expatriates will share photos of Thanksgiving celebrations and tables and gatherings from around the world. Please send them to us on Thanksgiving Day — and over the long holiday weekend — at protojournalist@npr.org or post them using the hashtag #nprexpat. We will display as many as we can. ** The Protojournalist: Experimental storytelling for the LURVers – Listeners, Users, Readers, Viewers – of NPR. @NPRtpj", "For the past couple of days, we've been sharing nontraditional Thanksgiving Day traditions sent in by our listeners. Today, we have two more post-Thanksgiving ones. Melissa Block talks with Linda Shirley Reed of Columbia, S.C., about how she gets rid of leftovers. She also talks with Brian Merrell of Lee's Summit, Mo., about his family's yearly tradition of baking thousands of leibkuchen cookies.", "Listeners were asked to share their nontraditional Thanksgiving traditions. A family that watches <em>Star Wars</em>, one that e-mails poetry to each other in the weeks before Thanksgiving, and listener Becca Hutchinson, who makes sure to drop a brussel sprout to the floor before returning it to the serving dish, share their stories.", "Olson is a marketing company that promises its clients it will \"revolutionize engagement\" with its customers. In the case of client Oscar Meyer, this meant sending us eight packs of hot dogs, a loaf of bread, toothpicks, twine and instructions on how to make \"the Hot Durkey,\" in the hope that it would go \"viral,\" which is not the usual meaning of the word \"viral\" when applied to hot dogs. At Sandwich Monday, we love both Thanksgiving and free food, so we cooked and assembled the creature in the WBEZ kitchens, and then served it to our Wait Wait family, who, owing to NPR rules about vacation time, are forced to be together today against our will. Just like your family! Robert: Guys, I think the tradition is to watch football, not eat one. Miles: Knowing what we know about hot dogs, there's a good chance that at least some of this is turkey. Peter: The one at the kids' table is made of little Vienna sausages stuck to a dinner roll. Ian: I'm really excited to watch President Obama pardon a bunch of random pig parts in the Rose Garden. Lorna: You have to admire the hunters who spend hours sitting completely still, just waiting for a chance to bag a wild hot dog. Miles: Who could forget the story of the first Thanksgiving, when the Native Americans showed up in the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile to save the starving pilgrims. Ann: I look forward to making this for my immigrant parents, so they can finally realize their American dream ... obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure. Miles: I'm typically excited for day-after-Thanksgiving leftovers, but, let's face it, this whole thing started as leftovers. Peter: Honestly, if this was served when I was a kid, actual turkeys would have ended up being a horrible disappointment. Ian: Hot dogs don't have tryptophan, so I just crammed mine full of Xanax. Miles: Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the things you're most thankful for, which is important in this case, because we're all going to be dead soon. [The verdict: disgusting in concept, delicious in execution.] Sandwich Monday is a satirical feature from the humorists at Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me!", "In my family, I'm the member who's known to be absolutely fanatical about tradition. Some might say that just means I'm bad at change, but they're kind, so they see it the other way (mostly). This year, Christmas will be very different from our usual gathering... smaller. Usually my aunt and grandmother fly cross-country to be with us, but this year that's not possible, so it'll be just us Handels. I'm having a hard time adjusting to the new normal, and it's not even that drastic (I'm lucky to have my grandmother and my aunt, even if they won't be physically present). So thank goodness for Thanksgiving, a 30-year tradition that, so far, continues to grow and gain members. Every year, my family of four visits our favorite family of four outside Roanoke, VA (lucky for us, we drive, not fly!). It was a stable gathering for about 25 years, and now one of their four has added a wonderful wife and daughter... and then we added my sister's boyfriend... and this year, mine. Together, we'll participate in all our turkey traditions, from singing along with \"Alice's Restaurant,\" to visiting the Roanoke outdoor market (but, hopefully, not showing each other our mouthfuls of mashed potatoes at the dinner table... fun as it was 20 years ago, that's probably one to let go). How will your holidays be different this year, and what traditions see you through?", "We started a new tradition on the show last year, which I'm just going to blatantly steal for the blog today. My extended family will gather around a dining room table outside Chicago this afternoon, and they'll happily eat, drink, talk, laugh, argue, and do all the things families usually do when they get together. I will not be there. Thankfully, I am healthy and happy, and I will be sitting down to a lovely Thanksgiving dinner in my own home today. But many of you have people who are missing from the table this year -- for any number of reasons. Some are working or out of town, others are deployed or stationed overseas, and some have passed away. Tell us about those who are not at your table this year.", "Macy&#8217;s is opening its doors for Thanksgiving shopping for the first time. But some people are dismayed by the commercialization of the holiday. One of those people is Annie Zirkel, an author from Ann Arbor, Mich. She has started a Facebook page and a campaign to keep Thanksgiving from becoming the first day of the holiday shopping season, with mad crowds rushing through shopping malls. In an open letter on her website, Zirkel writes: Is Thanksgiving disappearing because of corporate profit chasing? Or has our disinterest and irreverence for protecting what is truly valuable invited this disregard for a once-cherished day of giving thanks? Well besides the answer being BOTH – I think the more important question might be: What can be done? Will a letter to my local mall or large retailer help? Not likely. But should I write those letters? Yes. Because Thanksgiving means something to me. Because I am not willing to passively watch as this headless, soul-less corporate world runs over something I value – gratitude. \nGuest\n\nAnnie Zirkel, author based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She tweets @anniezirkel.\n MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI, HOST: Well clearly, not everyone loves the idea of shopping on a day that's supposed to be about gratitude. Several online petitions are urging stores to stay closed today. One on change.org has nearly 400,000 signatures. Annie Zirkel of Ann Arbor, Mich., started her own save Thanksgiving Facebook page. She's spending today with family but when we spoke to Annie earlier, she told us why she's so opposed to shopping on Thanksgiving. ANNIE ZIRKEL: Well, where do I start? Probably the first thing I want to say is that the purpose of Thanksgiving is to be grateful for what you already have. So this idea of going out and getting more stuff is completely counter to the day. Then we move on to the fact that shopping on this national holiday really ruins a lot of people's Thanksgivings. So in order for you to get that sale, that deal, people have to leave their families. It's just one day of the year where we go the other way. If you want to shop, you have 363 other days of the year. Just give us one. CHAKRABARTI: You know, I'll admit that for me, personally, I am very sympathetic to your point of view. But I imagine that there might be some listeners out there who say hey, look - you know - being - we shop together as a family, and making that transition to the rest of the holiday season through those first days of shopping is part of what we do. So we don't mind doing it on Thanksgiving. I mean, what would you say to them? ZIRKEL: Sure, well, if you're shopping on Thanksgiving, it's a pretty new tradition because we haven't had this kind of creep into the actual day of Thanksgiving. I guess one of the things I say - and I've said this on the Facebook page because a lot of people have shared different stories - is that you're taking away someone else's holiday in order for you to have family time. And that's just an irony to me. That doesn't make sense to me. CHAKRABARTI: So you mentioned your Facebook page. What are some of the other stories or comments that people have been leaving on the page there? ZIRKEL: For the most part, people are very frustrated. They feel like this tradition, this national tradition is just - has been picked away, and they don't know where to put their frustrations. So they're coming on the page and they're sharing a lot of sadness, really, but also a serious commitment to not shop on this day; or to support retailers who are more connected to their employees, and aren't making them have to choose between work and family. CHAKRABARTI: Have you heard from any retailers? Have they chimed in on the Facebook page, or responded to your campaign to preserve Thanksgiving Day from the dirty hands of commerce? ZIRKEL: I have not heard on the Facebook page. But I've sent out my letters, I've made some phone calls; and I've gotten a pretty standard response, that it's customer demand. And I'd like to meet the customer who demanded that Thanksgiving Day be turned into a commercial holiday. But the other thing is - and I'm not actually anti-retail. I know it may sound like that. I'm anti-retail on this day. I'm anti-any opportunities to take family away. So of course you have the, you know, police, and you have hospital workers and firefighters and even news people who - you kind of have to be there. But let's keep that to a minimum. Let's not just go overboard, and hey, let's all sort of detract from this. CHAKRABARTI: I really take your point about the fact that Thanksgiving is, you know, one of the last national holidays where the purpose is to express gratitude rather than consumption. But I also wonder if you're kind of fighting a losing battle because isn't - doesn't it feel like de facto that the Christmas and holiday season has already taken over Thanksgiving? I mean, you walk into coffee shops and other retail establishments already, and they've begun sort of their Christm", "Even before you start picking at the turkey or swilling the early afternoon Beaujolais, you might be feeling a bit full of Thanksgiving. It's the run up, which we are now in the midst of. As the calendar ticks down to turkey day, we're being stuffed with advice, product promos and tips to \"master\" the feast and host the \"ultimate\" holiday meal. How will yours compare? Of course everyone can up their game. But the Thanksgiving table feels like the wrong place to chase perfection. What makes a holiday memorable is what makes it ours. If yours lines up with the shopping catalog images of ease and plenty and harmony, well, you have a different family than mine, but I bet mine is more common. It's a tapestry of traditions — some beloved, some simply tolerated and some gleefully deconstructed, all in the same kitchen. It's different tastes and temperaments within the same family. Here's some food for thought on your way to seconds. First, bad dishes aren't always failed dishes. The side dish cooked to mush, the packaged staple unceremoniously plopped down — these don't always show poor cooking or lack of effort. That frumpy dish may be someone's guilty pleasure, a once-a-year reminisce with a relic. Or maybe it's the one thing they know they can control at the holiday. No matter what else is happening in family life, they still always bring the canned green beans with waterlogged almonds. Make some room on the plate and play along. Next, consider that resistance to tradition is a tradition. Maybe it's the \"healthy dish\" someone slips into the Thanksgiving spread. You know the type — the barley pilaf with cashew cheese, the mixed mushroom soy product salad dressed with diet tonic water. Whether it comes from best intentions or an activist agenda, the annual healthy dish experiment belongs to its own essential Thanksgiving tradition. This is the loyal oppositon. It may never be the meal's centerpiece, but at least it can be a conversation piece. We also need to remember that it takes more than cooks to make Thanksgiving. There's the project manager for the groceries, the harbormaster overseeing the ebb and flow of the buffet, the head of sanitation at the sink, the umpire adjudicating family disputes, the therapist who's just there to listen. Some people are born into their specific roles, others were recruited, and they can change over time. Those once content at the kids' table eventually start taking the reins of family tradition, and transforming them as they grow. To watch it all mesh is to witness competing tastes, compromises and allegiances, the rise of one generation and the steadfast grip of another. It's not exactly Game of Thrones, but it does end with some serious blade work around that bird. Thanksgiving does not just come from cookbooks and pro tips. It comes from families — the ones we're born into, brought into or that we convene ourselves. So whether your holiday turns out like the Norman Rockwell version or something closer to the Charlie Brown edition, the recipe that makes it real is sitting right there around the table with you. Ian McNulty is a regular contributor to WWNO and covers food culture and dining for the daily New Orleans Advocate.", "NPR's Michel Martin talks with Erica Simon and her grandmother, Cora Whitlock, about sharing family recipes via Zoom and an unusual Thanksgiving during a pandemic.", "NPR's Scott Simon looks at unique Thanksgiving stuffing recipes from different U.S. regions.", "Former <em>Washington Post</em> reporter Patrice Gaines offers another dispatch from her hometown of Lake Wylie, S.C. In this post-Thanksgiving reflection, Gaines remembers how generations of good cooking and a tradition of homemade bread shape her own sense of family.", "As the child of immigrants from Hong Kong, Erica Woo didn't grow up with Thanksgiving. It was just a day off from school and a holiday she read about in books. \"But somewhere, about 25 years ago,\" Woo remembers, \"our neighbors and very dear family friends said, 'You've never had a New England thanksgiving? You're missing out! Come on over!'\" And since then, they've spent every Thanksgiving together. Over the years, Woo's neighbors have taken her under their wing. \"We talk weeks in advance, and we make our shopping lists, and debate over who has the best squash, and where to get the sweet potatoes, and how big should the leeks be.\" Woo says there's something so lovely about being invited into someone's family, and building a tradition you'll carry through to your own. This is the first year they won't be together. But Thanksgiving traditions go on — even without three kinds of cranberry sauce. \"There was no question in my mind that I was gonna order the turkey. It was just, 'How small could I get it?'\" Woo laughs. Drew Hansen is a fellow Thanksgiving evangelist — he and his daughter start menu-planning in June. He's also a state legislator, who gets regular briefings on what the coronavirus has done to travel plans and social gatherings. \"We'll celebrate Thanksgiving over FaceTime, just like how we celebrated Easter over FaceTime. Is that as good as being together?\" Hansen asks. \"No. Is it better than infecting everyone? Yes.\" For Hansen, the ritual is important. \"Barack Obama used to say we don't have much that pulls us together as Americans anymore. We have the Super Bowl. Well, we also have Thanksgiving, right?\" Rituals make meaning Rituals, by definition, have continuity because they're something you do year after year. They connect you to the people who've gathered around the Thanksgiving table long before you and to those who will gather long after you're gone. But rituals also evolve. Janine Roberts is a family therapist and former president of the American Family Therapy Academy, who wrote the book Rituals for Our Time: Celebrating, Healing, and Changing Our Lives and Our Relationships. \"If rituals don't change, and if they don't move with the cultural landscape that's changing, then they don't become meaningful,\" Roberts says. She says while Thanksgiving often gets a Normal Rockwell gloss, it has so many expressions, so many meanings. And it became a national holiday in 1863 — during the Civil War. \"That was, in some ways, probably the most divided time in our country,\" says Roberts. \"Even more divided than now.\" Roberts says maybe people want to take time this year to light candles for those who have died or write letters of thanks to people who aren't at the table. These acts make and mark human connections, even if that connection is from afar. And maybe these new practices will become traditions of their own. For Amanda Kopplin in Saint Paul, Minn., Thanksgiving has meant a pastry potluck at her family's coffee shop, Kopplin's Coffee. Regulars fill a folding table with homemade caramel rolls, maple scones and brownies. \"It's just this feeling that you can't recreate, of all these disparate people coming together, and falling into something that they can feel thankful for on Thanksgiving,\" Kopplin remembers wistfully. But this year, Kopplin's Coffee is closed (the cafe, that is, Kopplin stresses they're still shipping beans around the country). They cried the day they turned off the espresso machines, and they're just now beginning to sense of the loss of Thanksgiving. \"I don't know if it will really hit me until the actual day it happens,\" Kopplin says. It's OK to be sad about things that are sad. But, Kopplin says, we can figure our way through the holidays and the changed traditions, just like we've figured out everything else this year. Whether that means making a tiny turkey, or writing Thanksgiving letters or staying in pajamas and ordering takeout. And remember, these changes won't be forever. Which is something to be thankful for. \"The way that we can support each other is by not being together,\" Kopplin says. \"In some ways that's heartbreaking, right? But in some ways, it's like the best you can do is to hold on to the meaning of that in the spirit of community.\"", "While many Americans strive for the usual Thanksgiving fare, some listeners revel in their own, idiosyncratic family traditions this time of year. Gene Koo goes to White Castle with friends every year, and Kim Krzywy serves up a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving feast for her kids for the second meal of the day.A few weeks ago, NPR asked listeners to share some nontraditional Thanksgiving traditions — special family rituals that have become part of the holiday. Listeners shared some surprising ones — from coming up with bad poetry to breaking pinatas to an all-you-can-eat slider contest at White Castle. Drop The Brussels Sprout Whenever my brother and I have Thanksgiving at my mother's, we cook brussels sprouts together and make sure that one lands on the floor before putting it back in the serving dish. The tradition stems from childhood, when our dog sank her teeth into an errant sprout that had been dropped on the floor mistakenly and put — deliberately, by me — back into the dish, slobber and all. I was hoping my brother would get it — he didn't — and by the time the bowl made its way around the table back to me, the tooth-marked sprout was still in it, rolling around at the bottom, one of two or three left. As it turned out, everyone at the table knew about the taint and [they] were waiting for me to blow myself up with my own firecracker. We still laugh about it and honor the joke more than 20 years later. --Becca Hutchinson, Wilmington, Del. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving After an elaborate midday meal we prepared from scratch, our family has had the tradition for many years of having Charlie Brown Thanksgiving as our evening meal. This started when our kids (now 15, 13, & 11) were very small and we to this day re-create the meal prepared by Snoopy and Woodstock for Charlie Brown and his friends in the iconic Peanuts holiday special: jelly beans, pretzels, toast and popcorn. After spending several days in the kitchen baking and cooking and consuming a rather large feast, Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is a treasured and welcome finale to one of our family's favorite holidays. --Kim Krzywy, Durham, N.C. White Castle Sliders Contest Since 1991, when I was a high school sophomore, my closest friends and I went to White Castle after Thanksgiving dinner at our respective homes on Long Island [New York]. Every year we competed on how many \"sliders\" each of us could eat. I think it started as a bit of adolescent irony, but over the years it became an annual pilgrimage that pulled in friends, spouses and even in-laws. This year we will test whether our 19-year tradition will withstand the arrival of children and — let's face it — our aging stomachs. --Gene Koo, Washington, D.C. Bad Poetry When the calendar turns to November, our family and extended family turns to poetry. We exchange silly, odd, funny Thanksgiving-themed verse via e-mail right up until the holiday. I then print and bind the year's poetic offerings and have them available to enjoy at the feast. Here's a nibble of the ... ahem ... \"poetry,\" written by Grandma. (Keep in mind this was written last November.) OH, there you go again!Each holiday now we awaitboth the (bad) poetry and the plate...be it limericks or iambic feasts,roasted turkeys or rare roast beasts.Now look!In spite of the market bulls or bearsApproaching this year, there's much to cheer:Good health all around, blessings abound.Where we might have had trauma and pain(think: Ms. Palin and Mr. McCain!)Instead there's Obama and Joe...so raise your glass, go with the flow.What's coming next, only GOD knows! --Nancy Feehrer, Westford, Mass. Cookie Day In The Garage My wife was born in 1959 in Augsburg, Germany, where her parents were stationed with the Army. For two years, they rented an upstairs room from a local family. When they left to return home the woman gave her family recipe for lebkuchen cookies to my mother-in-law as a parting gift. My wife and I began dating in high school and that's when I began taking part in her family tradition of baking lebkuchen cookies on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. As we married and my wife's two siblings married, the tradition grew, then with six grandchildren, and their friends, it grew even more. \"Cookie Day\" became quite an event and quite a mess — so 20 years ago, we moved it to my two-car garage. Every year, I clean my garage and transform it into a bakery complete with an extra stove. Over the years, it's been fun to always improve our one-day production and a joy to see the kids and even their friends look forward to it. Extended family travels for miles to join in the fun. Rare is the time when anyone in the family has missed Cookie Day. There are routine jokes about the \"special water\" my mother-in-law uses for the frosting, flower fights and decorating contests. Each year, we bake around 1,500 cookies — most of which are given away in decorative tins as Christmas gifts. At the end of the day, we put everything away and I hose the", "The moment of last-minute head counts and late-night runs to the supermarket has nearly arrived. But a small but proud segment of the population simply smiles and puts their feet up. They're having Thanksgiving dinner served to them in a restaurant. The notion of Turkey Day away from home and hearth may sound sad. But 14 million Americans, or 6 percent, will be sharing food with family and friends while losing the toil and anxiety of cooking a feast, according to a new poll by the National Restaurant Association. (About 22 percent of those eating out say it's because they can't cook.) The lion's share — about 90 percent — of Americans will be in their home or someone else's home, the poll found. Continue Reading But that small crew of restaurant-goers is a happy one, according to The Salt's unscientific survey. Some have made Thanksgiving out a family tradition, while others use it as a Plan B in a pinch. Carolyn Grantham loves to cook and eat. But she usually works the Friday after Turkey Day. \"If I have just one day off, I don't want to spend it cooking and cleaning up,\" she says. So she and her husband have established a new tradition: They use Thanksgiving to revisit favorite restaurants near their home in Medford, Mass. She's blogged about their adventures with Alsatian and Italian cuisine, knowing that the restaurants also serve turkey with all the trimmings. This year they'll be returning to Eastern Standard because of its fabulous oysters, which were traditional Thanksgiving fare in the 19th century, and for its unusual cocktails, which most certainly were not. \"It's one of my favorite places to go, period, so getting to do Thanksgiving there is particularly nice,\" says Grantham. For others, restaurants offer pure convenience. Lila Guterman is an editor in Washington, D.C., who didn't have enough time off work to visit relatives. So her husband is off to Grandma's with their 4-year-old daughter, and she's going to the Old Ebbitt Grill, a descendant of the oldest restaurant in D.C., with her 17-month-old son and a friend. \"I think it'll be fun,\" Guterman says. She's a vegetarian, so she's not fussed about missing turkey. (She's on solid historical ground there; turkey didn't become the iconic Thanksgiving food until the 1800s.) Odds are this Thanksgiving day out won't be a repeat event. \"I'm sorry about missing the family,\" Guterman says. \"Food I don't care as much about, honestly.\"", "After a contentious election, families around the country are gathering for Thanksgiving and figuring out how to get along politically. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to comedian Jim Gaffigan, who has a big family of his own, about how to get through the holiday unscathed.", "Holly Tabor is hosting Thanksgiving for 14 family members in Mountain View, Calif. She pauses before putting the turkey in the oven to talk about how she's trying not to get overwhelmed.", "If you're going to be cooking Thanksgiving dinner next week, you've probably already started gathering the traditional ingredients — but your ingredients are most likely very different from those that made up the first Thanksgiving meal in 1621. (Marshmallows with those sweet potatoes, anyone?) Morning Edition has its own Thanksgiving tradition, a chat with music commentator Miles Hoffman. He joined host Renee Montagne to talk about a different set of ingredients — musical instruments — and how their role in orchestras has changed over the years. Hear their conversation at the audio link.", "Food is central to bringing people together for Thanksgiving. Some people are finding creative ways to share the flavors and dishes of the holiday, even when they're celebrating far apart this year.", "How do you celebrate a holiday during a pandemic? How do you maintain rituals and traditions when you can't safely be at the same table with the friends and family you traditionally celebrate with? 2020 is the year of thinking outside the box. We need to reinvent the holidays, focusing on safety and health. But how do we safely find the pleasures that so many of us look forward to each holiday season? The Centers for Disease Control recommends very strict guidelines. Although the guidelines vary from state by state, it's fair to say that if you're planning a holiday that includes more than just a few people in your immediate household or \"pod\" you are putting yourself and others at risk. The key is to keep your holiday small. Very small. Forget normal and create the new normal. I've been reading obsessively and talking to everyone I encounter about how they plan on celebrating Thanksgiving this year. And I've heard a wide range of responses. Some say: Just forget 2020, no holiday. Others tell me they will create an entirely new menu that has nothing to do with traditional foods like turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and pie. (One friend is having lobster. Another is making dumplings and stir-fried noodles. And another will be creating a vegetable lasagna.) Some people I spoke with told me they plan on eating alone or with one other household member and Zooming with loved ones, each at their own table in different houses, different cities, different states. And then there were those who told me they are cooking one dish and dropping off portions for each member of their extended Thanksgiving table. One person makes the mashed potatoes, another makes the turkey and stuffing, etc. Then they plan on Zooming and eating separately, but they will share the same food, experience the same tastes. And then a few friends reported: Forget it, I'm not cooking. We'll be ordering take out, trying to support our local restaurants. There is no one right way to celebrate this very unusual holiday, in this very difficult year. The key is to find something that feels special to you and your family. Creativity. Inventiveness. Thinking outside the box. I plan on creating a highly scaled-down Thanksgiving. I love cooking and eating the foods of this holiday: from roasting a turkey and mashing potatoes, to making creamed spinach and my annual batch of cranberry sauce. Even though there will traditional foods on my table, it won't look like a normal Thanksgiving. I will not make multiple types of potatoes, or two types of stuffing, or bake four desserts. My table this year will be very small and very simple. My wish is that next year I am seated at a long table with my daughters (and their husband/partners) and extended family and friends. My wish is that we all get through this holiday time finding some spark of joy, some way to express gratitude and thanks. These are tough times. But that doesn't mean we can't find a way to sit down and share a meal with whoever we live with and set out a special dish or two. What follows are some new recipes—as well as old favorites&#8211; and tips for scaling down the traditional Thanksgiving feast: Look for a smaller bird or buy a turkey breast or thigh and cook it slowly with lots of fresh herbs. Make your favorite holiday recipe. No reason not to. You just don't need to make all of them. With smaller groups you don't need as many dishes to make your dinner feel like a special meal. Focus on one or two favorites. Reduce recipes by half. This works well with savory foods but not as well with sweet baked goods. Remember, Thanksgiving leftovers are the best. Instead of reducing dessert recipes by half, simply focus on one special dessert: a pie you've been wanting to bake or a simple cake. Forget multiple desserts. Roasted Winter Squash with Maple-Cider Glaze Don't be deceived by the simplicity of this recipe. The sweet, earthy squash, with a maple syrup, ginger, and apple cider glaze is a perfect accompaniment to turkey, chicken, or any other vegetable dishes. Prepare the squash ahead of time and pop it in the oven as soon as you take out the turkey. Any leftover squash makes a great base for a seasonal salad. Serves 2 to 4. Ingredients 1 small to medium butternut squash, about 2 to 2 1/2 pounds 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil Salt and freshly ground black pepper About 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger About 1/3 cup apple cider About 2 to 3 tablespoons maple syrup, a darker variety is better Instructions Peel the squash with a wide vegetable peeler. Cut the squash in half lengthwise and scoop out the seeds and pulp. Cut the squash into 1/2-inch-thick slices. Place the squash slices on a baking sheet or shallow cookie tray. Drizzle the oil on top, and season liberally with the salt and pepper. You can make the squash hours ahead of time up to this point, cover and refrigerate. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Bake the squash on the middle shelf of the oven for 15 minutes. Remove and add the cider and", "The holiday season is full of family traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation. So when you become an adult and want to start your own celebrations how do you start new traditions without upsetting those who created the old? Here & Now&#8216;s Jeremy Hobson speaks with Juno DeMelo (@junodemelo), author of &#8220;Sorry, Parents: Why My Husband And I Are Celebrating Christmas Our Way This Year.&#8221;", "Host Rachel Martin catches up with a few Americans who've spent the Thanksgiving holiday far from home. From Korea, to Israel to Spain — she hears the stories of how five expats constructed the holiday with and without pumpkin pie.", "The second night of Hanukkah is converging with Turkey Day this year, forming a rare and delicious holiday that's being called \"Thanksgivukkah.\" As if cooking a 15- or 20-pound turkey isn't enough, many families will be trying to add traditional Hanukkah foods to the table. Joan Nathan, one of the country's foremost authorities on Jewish cooking, has some ideas on how to elegantly combine the two holidays: sweet potato latkes with celeriac root and apple (recipe below), ginger cookies decorated with menorahs and turkeys, and even kale salad with olive oil. For the record, Nathan does not advocate the deep-fried turkey, even though foods cooked in oil are common on the Hanukkah table. And she warns against getting carried away with new recipes on Thanksgivukkah. \"People want to see those same tired recipes,\" she tells Michel Martin, host of Tell Me More. \"Maybe a little bit spruced up. But that's what makes your family different from my family.\" Joan Nathan's Sweet Potato Latkes with Celeriac Root and Apple Note: Even though this year is the unusual convergence of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving, I am not going to find a Hanukkah substitute for my 100-year-old mother's sweet potato casserole with marshmallows, a standard at our holiday feast. But I will add, perhaps, a spinach or Swiss chard fritter for Thanksgiving and on another night of Hanukkah I will make these sweet potato, celeriac and apple latkes for my family. Sweet potato, celeriac root, and apples lend a Thanksgiving twist to this Hanukkah staple. To achieve the crispiest latkes, remove as much of the liquid as possible from the grated potatoes, onions, and apples, and be sure to fry the latkes in hot, but not smoking, oil. I like to use as little flour as possible and test a few latkes to see if they stay together before adding more. 1 pound sweet potatoes, peeled ¼ celeriac root (about 3 ounces) 1 apple, such as Granny Smith, cored and unpeeled 1 medium onion 1 large egg, lightly beaten 3-4 tablespoons flour 1/2 teaspoon thyme or marjoram, minced Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste Vegetable oil for frying Cranberry applesauce, creme fraiche or sour cream for dipping Using a grater or food processor equipped with the grating blade, coarsely grate the potatoes, celeriac root, apple, and onion. Place the grated foods together in a fine-mesh strainer or tea towel and squeeze out all the liquid. To the grated mixture add the egg, 3 tablespoons of flour, thyme or marjoram, salt, and pepper. Add more flour if necessary to make the mixture hold together. Heat a griddle or non-stick pan and coat with 1/8th inch of oil. Take about 3 tablespoons of the potato mixture in the palm of your hand and flatten to a circle 3 inches in diameter. Carefully slide the latke into the oil, then flatten with a large spatula and fry for about 5 minutes or until golden. Flip the latke over and brown the other side. Remove to paper towels to drain. Serve immediately with cranberry applesauce, creme fraiche or sour cream. Yield: 15 latkes MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: As Hanukkah continues tomorrow night, it will run smack dab into Thanksgiving. It's a rare event. The last time they overlapped was in the 1800s. And as if cooking a 15 or 20 pound turkey isn't enough, many families will be trying to add traditional Hanukkah foods to the table. So we thought we'd get some advice on how to do this without making your tummy hurt. So we've called in an expert, Joan Nathan. An author of many award-winning cookbooks and one of this country's foremost authorities on Jewish cooking. Welcome back, thanks so much for joining us once again. JOAN NATHAN: Thank you for having me. MARTIN: So why are we getting this mash-up this year? NATHAN: Well, because the Jewish calendar, which is a lunar calendar, has an extra month so it gets earlier. MARTIN: OK. NATHAN: And what's beautiful about it is Hanukkah will be its own holiday. It doesn't have to compete with Christmas. And it's a holiday of lights so Thanksgiving is one of the darkest times of year. I mean, darkest time really is at Christmas time. But it's beginning to be dark, and so you need light. And that's really - Hanukkah is a celebration of light. MARTIN: So it's a festival of light, and that's why - the menorah. But that's also why traditionally, foods that are cooked in oil are associated with the holiday. NATHAN: Well, that came - I think that came later. MARTIN: Well, we're happy about that, but still. So there are certain signature foods that people associate with Hanukkah... NATHAN: Right. MARTIN: ...Jelly donuts being my personal favorite, but... NATHAN: And that's new. MARTIN: But we're happy about it. But latke, which are - what, traditionally grated potatoes? And you're saying a way to Thanksgiving it up would be, what? NATHAN: Well, what I'm doing - tonight is my daughter's birthday - so it's first night of Hanukkah. So I'm going to have Swiss chard pancakes and a little bit of applesauce to go with them. But I'm also going to m", "In the introduction to his new book, Sam Sifton lays it out: \"Thanksgiving is not easy.\" Sifton knows whereof he speaks; he's now the national editor of The New York Times, but before he took on that solemn responsibility, he was the newspaper's restaurant critic and a food columnist for its Sunday Magazine. Sifton cites Thanksgiving stresses like drunk uncles, tense travel, itsy-bitsy ovens, family feuds and, of course, the dinner itself. But he offers to help with that last bit. He's written an entire book on Thanksgiving dinner — not a thick book, but a thorough one — intended to get you through the last crumb of pumpkin pie. It's called Thanksgiving: How to Cook It Well, and here's one of Sifton's central pieces of advice: Forget innovation. Be conservative. \"There should be no swordfish at Thanksgiving,\" he tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer. \"There should be no beef tenderloin at Thanksgiving. Ham is an abomination at Thanksgiving. There should be a turkey. Turkey is why you are here.\" Another pearl of wisdom: Gather up enough pots, even if you have to borrow some. And stock up on basics, especially butter. \"Butter is an incredibly important part of Thanksgiving,\" Sifton says. \"There's very little you can't fix with butter. I like that moment during my gambol through the supermarket in advance of Thanksgiving, when I load in the 2 pounds of butter, and think, 'Well, maybe I'll take a third pound of butter,' and put it into my shopping cart.\" You never know when butter will come in handy, he adds. \"You can put it into your dressing because it seems somehow wan. You should have a lot of butter.\" Sifton's turkey recipes come in two forms: simple and simpler. \"This is a stressful holiday, and there's no reason to make the cooking more stressful than that,\" he says. Most Americans, be they recent immigrants or Mayflower descendants, subconsciously compare their Thanksgiving turkeys to the giant, golden bird immortalized in Norman Rockwell's painting Freedom from Want. \"And ... in this book, at any rate, I want to make the argument that achieving that bird is enough.\" More confident cooks can, of course, try tougher tasks. \"You can even end up frying a turkey,\" Sifton says — though that can be a daunting undertaking. \"If you YouTube 'frying a turkey' and 'disaster,' you will find just an enormous number of terrifying and, at the same time, hilarious videos ... But if you follow my simple instructions and don't drink to excess, and wear shoes, you can end up with a really delicious bird.\" And to finish the meal, Sifton has one hard and fast rule for dessert: There must be pie. \"A lot of people feel, having been traditional about the turkey, that dessert is the time to go hog wild and create some kind of parfait, some chocolate extravaganza, and I'm not sure that's the right way to go,\" he says. Every family brings its own cultural traditions to the meal, \"but having that apple pie, American as apple pie, on this most American of holidays, it's just terrific, and I declare, a must.\"", "I've only been abroad for one American holiday: In the summer of 2007, I was in Yanai, Japan, living with a host family. I distinctly remember bounding down the stairs and announcing to my hosts, \"It's the Fourth of July!\" But that's all I did to observe the Fourth — no parades, no barbecue, no fireworks. It was just another day. Which made me wonder: How do Americans living in other countries celebrate a tradition-laden holiday like Thanksgiving? Would they still watch football before dinner? Would turkey and pumpkin pie still grace the menu? Who would they celebrate with? We put the question to our Facebook fans abroad. Among the more than 1,200 responses: Turkey with all the fixings plus pasta in Villasanta, Italy; buying a small turkey for $60 in Katmandu, Nepal; and sharing dumplings with Czech friends in Prague. We've charted their stories on this interactive map. Click and imagine for a moment how food, family, and friends still connect us, despite the challenges of time and distance.", "Parades, barbeques, picnics... many Americans spent this holiday in traditional fashion. But, others spent their day off in slightly different pursuit. Robert Siegel talks with people from Maine, California, Illinois and Texas about their holiday plans.", "Commentator Jake Halpern, looking for a way to bond with his Polish in-laws, has begun a holiday tradition. The family makes a Christmas movie every year: sometimes a gothic horror flick, sometimes a wacky James Bond spoof. Thanksgiving is a de facto casting session, where all the relatives compete for parts.", "For many Americans, Thanksgiving is a chance to reunite with friends and family, to watch college football games and to take a couple of days off work. Commentator Michael Eric Dyson talks with NPR's Tavis Smiley about what the Thanksgiving tradition means to him.", "Commentator Laura Lorson muses about her family's offbeat holiday rituals, which include thanking God for the oddly assorted silverware on their table and telling tales about now deceased relatives.", "For many people on Thanksgiving, the moment may come when all the drama and noise of the week dies down. The meal is on at the table, and everyone has pulled up their chairs. Some take it as a moment to say grace. We asked you to share your stories and traditions around Thanksgiving grace, and you didn't disappoint. From the heartwarming to the horrifying, you brought us right into your dining rooms. Some answers have been edited for length and clarity. Grace In Song For many of you, singing grace is a longstanding tradition. The Johnny Appleseed blessing and Doxology, a Christian hymn, are particularly popular. Check out the video below to hear it (and see one adorable grandma). Eva McPherson of Madison, Ala., says her family has made the Doxology a new tradition. \"Our youngest sister, a music professor, gives our pitch and we all jump in,\" she says. It's an old tradition for Joey Cottle of Big Rapids, Mich. Thanksgiving with his dad's family can involve as many as 60 people — many of whom are ministers \"in one form or another.\" \"Thankfully, we all share a reasonable talent for music, so, the song is on pitch and scattered with pleasant harmonies. We finish the song with a long, tonic 'amen,' creating this beautiful chord that always moves me,\" he says. Greg of Gustavus, Ohio, says his family's traditions have changed very little over the generations. They always end grace with the song \"Bless This House,\" using the same lyric sheets they've had for decades. \"These papers are reused every year and are most often stained with gravy, coffee or any other food item from years past, reminding us of all the people that have come and gone for so many years that we have had our Thanksgiving traditions. \"Many of us at the table are not religious, yet we still sing along despite the religious connotations of the song lyrics. The song represents so much more than religion. It represents family, tradition and love. It exemplifies all that thanksgiving dinner is supposed to be. And it is absolutely beautiful.\" Julee Thomas of Pawtucket, R.I., has fond memories of her grandfather every Thanksgiving when her family sings \"We Gather Together\" before dinner. \"The lyrics to three verses are handwritten on yellowed index cards in my grandfather's unmistakable cursive, and after grace, these cards are collected and kept in a safe place until next year's dinner. Since my Grandpa Bobby's passing almost five years ago, using the cards has taken on an especially poignant meaning.\" Blending Cultural Traditions A number of you shared stories of blending languages and cultural traditions. Nakeli Hendrix of Bentonville, Ark., fondly remembers her grandmother saying the Thanksgiving prayer in her native language, Tahitian. \"It connected us to our culture, even though none of us spoke [it],\" Hendrix says. After immigrating to the U.S., Eleanor Duff of Potomac, Md., and her husband brought their Scottish traditions to Thanksgiving by teaching their children the Selkirk grace. Some hae meat and canny eat,And some hae nane that want it;But we hae meat and we can eat,And sae the Lord be thankit. She says it's simple \"and yet captures exactly what giving thanks is all about.\" Sara Stinski of Madison, Wis., says her family is \"not religious in the least\" but has always said a Norwegian prayer at Thanksgiving. \"For years now, my dad has been in charge of reciting it and he sort of butchers it. OK ... he TOTALLY butchers it. Half of the tradition these days is how badly he says it, I guess. We all laugh our way through a very sentimental moment, which, really, is our family in a nutshell.\" Jim Ritter of Baltimore says his family plays a similar game of \"generational telephone,\" and says a prayer in German (or at least a prayer that was, at one point, in German, \"but is probably just gibberish now.\") He says, \"I don't speak a word of German, but I know this by heart and I look forward to teaching it to my future kids.\" From The Kids' Table At the kids' table or otherwise, children have injected humor into many a Thanksgiving grace. A few years ago, Kerrin Flanagan's toddler niece offered to say grace. She says, \"There was a long pause. 'Grace!' she yelled! And we all laughed.\" When Fred Theobald's brother was called on to say grace at age 8, he was under a lot of pressure. After taking a deep breath, he launched into it with \"Now I lay me down to sleep ... \" \"My older brother and I nearly fell off our chairs in laughter if it were not for the fact that Mom kicked me under the table at the same time Dad kicked my brother! Somehow, as we let him finish uninterrupted by either laughter or correction, we realized the importance of this moment to my brother, to our family, and, yeah, even to God. My little brother finished the prayer and as we joined in the, 'Amen' he suddenly realized his 'mistake.' To this day, my little brother turned a shade of red that I've never seen before, or since, and was on the verge of tears. Then with no promptin" ]

[ "If it seems there are a lot more animals in airports — and on airplanes — these days, you're not imagining it.\nMore than 30 airports around the country now have regular programs that bring certified pet therapy dogs and their handlers into the terminals to mingle with passengers and help ease the stress of traveling.\nAt both Mineta San Jose International Airport (the first airport to have an official pet therapy program) and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, they're called the K9 crew. At Los Angeles International Airport the PUP (Pets Unstressing Passengers) team roams the concourses. And at Denver International Airport it's the Canine Airport Therapy Squad (CATS) that welcomes passengers to hug, hang out and get their pictures taken with dogs wearing \"Pet Me\" vests.\nDuring 2016, some airport pet therapy teams broadened their membership beyond dogs.\nLast summer, when passengers were encountering excessively long lines at security checkpoints at many airports around the country, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport began welcoming miniature therapy horses and their handlers to visit several times a month.\nAnd as the winter holiday travel season went into high gear, two airports announced that pigs were joining their pet therapy teams.\nLiLou, a Juliana-breed pig, joined San Francisco International Airport's Wag Brigade to add \"more moments of surprise and delight for guests at our airport,\" said Christopher Birch, SFO's Director-Guest Experience, on LiLou's first day on the job.\nLilou, the pig will be at #sfo on 12/26/16 at 12 pm in T3. Please be patient, give her space, and always ask her mom before touching LiLou. pic.twitter.com/nekpaxYxXh — flySFO (@flySFO) December 26, 2016\nAnd a pot-bellied pig named Bacon Bits is now part of Albany International Airport's Canine Ambassador program.\nMore animals in the air\nOf course, not all the animals you see in airport terminals these days are just there to be petted.\nAccording to the American Pet Products Association, there are around 77 million pet dogs and 85 million pet cats in the United States — and a growing number of their owners take them along when they travel by air.\nAnd when they fly as carry-on passengers in the cabin, those pets need to have tickets.\nOn Alaska Airlines and JetBlue, the domestic fee for a pet in the cabin is $100 each way. On American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, its $125 each way. Frontier Airlines charges $75 each way, and on Southwest the fee is $95 each way.\nIn some cases, more than one small pet can travel in a pet carrier (and avoid an extra fee), but some airlines will tack on an extra fee if there's a stopover of more than four hours.\nSnakes on a plane?\nThe costs to take a pet on a plane can add up, which may be part of the reason an increasing number of passengers are claiming that their animals aren't just pets but official service or \"emotional support\" animals which, by law, get to fly for free.\nLike Frontier Airlines, which had an issue earlier this year with a passenger's emotional support marmoset, each airline website lists very specific conditions under which they will accept service animals or therapeutic/emotional support animals on their plane.\nAn official identification card and/or a written statement from a mental health professional is usually required, but many websites make it easy for pet owners to acquire 'fake' documentation — for a fee.\n\"It doesn't matter if it's a duck or a mini horse, as long as a passenger has the correct paperwork, they're allowed to fly with an emotional support animal and nobody can say anything about it,\" said veteran flight attendant Heather Poole, author of Cruising Attitude.\nPoole says it's not a flight attendant's job to determine which passengers are flying with true support animals or which ones have simply secured paperwork to avoid paying a fee for their pet to fly, but \"I can spot a fake emotional support animal a mile away,\" said Poole. \"It's usually growling or barking at other support animals. That, or it's dressed nicer than its owner.\"\n2017 may bring changes — or at least some clarification — in how airlines and passengers define service or emotional support animals.\nWhile noting that its ACCESS Advisory Committee was unable to reach agreement on updated rules regarding service animals, the U.S. Department of Transportation recently said it intends to draft its own rules.\n\"The guide dog and animal training groups all agree this is a problem, so does the community,\" said Eric Lipp of the Open Doors Organization. \"One solution floated is to have a national registry and certification for service animals so they are given ID. The DOT could also fine a passenger and make big news. That would help, but who wants to do that?\"" ]

[ "News / National\nby Staff reporter\nGOVERNMENT is planning to refurbish the underutilised Hwange National Park Airport into an international facility with some investors already showing interest in the project, a Cabinet Minister has said.Speaking after a familiarisation tour of the facility, Transport and Infrastructure Development Minister Dr Joram Gumbo said the airport refurbishment is one of the many projects identified as part of the 100 day programme.Dr Gumbo said some unnamed investors were willing to partner Government on the project as plans are at an advanced stage to introduce domestic flights connecting local tourist resorts.The Minister was making his first tour of the airport which is located a few kilometres away from Hwange National Park, making it the gateway to the Big Five game reserve.\"The 100 days we were given by His Excellence is the reason why I am here. We have projects that we have to complete as part of this target and because Matabeleland North is an important province to our country because of its wild life and tourism, it is critical that we refurbish this facility,\" he said.The airport started operating in 1971 and has a 4,6 km long and 30 metres wide runway with a capacity to handle medium and some big aircraft such as the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737.The airport has not been handling any scheduled flights for some years since Air Zimbabwe stopped flights there due to lack of traffic.Hwange National Park Airport already has an air traffic control, fire and rescue services as well as the runway which is regarded as one of the longest in the country.The familiarisation tour identified the runway, ramp, terminal building and navigation system as some of the areas that need refurbishment to promote tourism.Dr Gumbo said Government had noted recommendations from some tour operators that some tourists want to fly directly to the national park.\"There is a hotel and a lot of lodges nearby hence it will not be a problem bringing people here. We have tourists who want to fly directly to Hwange National Park hence it is important to refurbish this facility. The idea is to inspect, refurbish and make sure it's usable,\" he said.The Minister highlighted that as part of the 100 day-targets, Air Zimbabwe will be recapitalised with some small aircrafts already being sourced.He said Government has an open skies policy to allow many players for ease of doing business.\"We are trying to make sure we recapitalise Air Zimbabwe with smaller planes that can be used to fly locally to all resorts such as Hwange, Kariba, Victoria Falls and Mutare. As far as Air Zimbabwe is concerned, I am going to be working hard with management. There are about five or six small aircrafts that have been sourced and we can then be asking Air Zimbabwe to fly to Kariba, Victoria Falls and Hwange,\" said the Minister.Dr Gumbo said he will be engaging his Tourism and Hospitality Industry counterpart to start a marketing campaigns for the airport.From Hwange, the Minister and his delegation flew to Kariba Airport on a similar assignment.", "One year later. Have customers forgiven United Airlines?\nIn April 2017, United Airlines faced a crisis that went viral on social media in a matter of hours, brought an out-of-court settlement and, eventually, an apology from the company’s chief executive Oscar Munoz. It’s a painful reminder of how a PR disaster in the social media age can spread so fast that it becomes a cultural touchstone for everything people feel is wrong with air travel.\nOn April 9, 2017, a 69-year-old doctor, David Dao, was forcibly removed from a United flight at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport because the flight was overbooked. His face bloodied, the man was dragged up the aisle of the United UAL, -1.96% airplane by a airport security officer after he refused to get off the plane. It was a video that few people will forget.\nBut can they forgive United? Many customers have moved on and are once again focused on other issues like price and convenience, but a new survey found that some have yet to put the issue to rest. It didn’t help that in the year since Dao was removed from the United flight in such an undignified manner, the airline experienced several incidents of pets onboard that have either been injured or died.\nConsumer perception of United is still far below what it was this time last year. It currently stands at -6.9 compared to 17 in the days before the incident (on a scale of -100 to 100), according to consumer perception firm YouGov BrandIndex. (Granted, it fell to -40 a month after the video went viral.) So while it’s improved from those lows, it still has a long way to go to regain its previous high. (The airline did not immediately respond to request for comment.)\nDon’t miss: Have you heard the one about a Nobel Prize–winning economist getting ejected from a United Airlines flight?\nConsumers’ purchase consideration — a measurement of potential sales revenue — paints a different, brighter story for the airline. “With domestic airlines consolidated down to a handful, travelers likely had no choice but to put United back on their ticketing radars, even if they didn’t think much of them,” the report said. It’s still above the industry average for domestic airlines.\nOn April 10, 2017, 35% of travelers said they’d consider booking their next flight with United and that bottomed out at 18% one month later, YouGov found. Currently, 30% of travelers would consider flying United the next time they book a flight, six percentage points above the domestic airline sector average, but still below last year’s level.\nHowever, United’s purchase consideration fell to 25% in March when a flight attendant told a woman to put her dog in an overhead bin of a flight from Houston to New York’s LaGuardia Airport. The dog died. United said it would carry out a “thorough and systematic review of our program for pets.” It suspended new reservations for pet cargo after animal deaths on United doubled in one year.\nFor this latest piece of research, YouGov BrandIndex used its “impression score” and asked respondents: “Which of the following airlines do you have a positive or negative impression?” YouGov BrandIndex defined “travelers” as consumers 18 and over who said they were somewhat likely, likely, or very likely to travel in the next year.", "GETTY - STOCK A growing number of animal lowers are taking their pets on holiday abroad\nAlthough many women would have seized the moment to quaff champagne in the French sunshine it was tricky given that two of the girls in this group were of the four-legged variety: Molly, a miniature bull terrier, and Matilda, a bulldog. The saving grace was that as well as the woollies that Anna, 52, a broadcaster, canine trainer and nutritionist, had packed for her dog Molly, she had also thrown in a couple of special dog-cooling Equafleece T-shirts \"just in case\".\nAnna says that trip was a learning curve about how four-legged travellers can struggle to adapt to the different environment just as much as human holidaymakers. \"Travelling takes it out of pets just as it does for people. There is lots to consider when taking your pet abroad with you, such as how they will cope with the journey itself plus how to help them adjust to their new surroundings, climate and food.\nWhat happens when dogs go into a selfie booth? Thu, October 8, 2015 This is the amazing outcome of dogs in a selfie booth, take a look at these cute canines. Play slideshow PH 1 of 47 The cutest dog selfies\nA well-adjusted dog can avoid pet-lag and can cope with anything Anna Webb\n\"That first trip with Molly taught me a lot and I was much better prepared for subsequent holidays.\" For many animal lovers like Anna, packing their pet has become as essential as sun screen when they go on holiday. In fact according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) more than 320,000 pet passports have been issued since 2014 - most of them for dogs - and more than 40,000 this year alone.\nStuart McAllister Anna Webb in Paris with Molly and friend Jo with bulldog Matilda\nA pet passport is valid for the duration of a pet's life but owners must ensure that they have the passports stamped by their vet to prove vaccination for rabies and the likes of tapeworm and parasite treatments. Whether by plane, train or automobile, pets must travel under the rules and regulations of the Pet Passport Scheme. But legalities aside how do you help prevent your furry friends from suffering from pet lag? Anna is now a recognised expert when it comes to advice on travelling with pets and says that, whatever the mode of transport, preparing them for the trip is crucial. \"A trip abroad can begin with a car journey to the ferry, Eurotunnel or an airport so before you even think about taking your dog away it is essential to desensitise and acclimatise them to travelling in the car. \"Begin with short 'training' trips in the car, making the journey a fun experience that is rewarded with a great walk, tasty treats and lots of praise.\nDenise Elphick Denise Elphick in Italy with Heidi and Rufus\n\"Build up journeys very gradually and once the dogs can successfully manage up to two hours in the car you are ready to plan a trip to Europe.\" Anna prefers the Eurotunnel to travel to mainland Europe with her dog as it takes just 35 minutes to get from Kent to France and is the only way that you can remain with them during the journey. \"A ferry crossing involves your dog remaining in the car hold of the boat in a strange kennel while you are on the upper decks,\" Anna adds. \"This area is smelly, cold, noisy, lonely and potentially very stressful for your dog. \"Personally I would never take a dog on a plane unless I was relocating to a long haul destination such as Australia or the USA. I don't believe that it is an ideal mode of transport for dogs going on a summer holiday. \"Some airlines refuse to fly certain breeds such as bulldogs because they are prone to respiratory complications that can occur in-flight.\nGETTY - STOCK Travelling with a dog can be easy if you are prepared\n\"Most airlines don't let dogs travel in the cabin and those that do will only allow it if the dog is small enough to fit in a bag under the seat.\" Denise Elphick lives in London and is co-founder of PetsPyjamas.com, whose concierge service has helped to make it the leading company for booking dog-friendly holidays. Since 2013 she has been taking her two dogs Rufus, nine, and Heidi, five, both Norfolk terriers, on holiday from Italy and France to Switzerland and Germany. Like Anna, Denise and her husband Rory use Eurotunnel with their four-legged holiday companions. \"We always load the car up with their favourite food, blankets, toys and special cool jackets to wear when we are in hot places,\" says Denise. \"Our first holiday with them was a European tour where we took them everywhere from the Berlin Wall and the Leaning Tower of Pisa to a chateau in Burgundy and the chic Italian resort of Portofino. \"We've since had a summer holiday with them in Switzerland where we stayed in a ski chalet and this August we are taking them to the French Alps.\" Denise reveals that Heidi and Rufus have also found their sea legs, having been on a boat across Lake Como in Italy and on ferries in Scotland without suffering from any sea sickness.\nBritain's top 10 favourite dogs Wed, August 26, 2015 As the nation celebrates International Dog Day 2015, a survey of 2,000 dog lovers has found the Labrador Retriever is the nation’s favourite dog, but what other dogs topped the list. Play slideshow GETTY 1 of 14 1) The Labrador Retriever has been topped the poll\n\"It's important to make lots of breaks on long car journeys and we find French service stations are so welcoming to dogs. It's also vital to take a water bowl and lots of bottled water with you in the car to rehydrate your dogs whenever it is necessary. \"Heidi got a bit too hot in Italy but thankfully we had packed their doggy cool mats and cool coats. We keep her and Rufus in the shade in hot weather and take them to dog-friendly beaches in the early evening when it's cooler. And the other thing that we always do is to have their fur trimmed before we go away.\" These tips are also endorsed by Anna. Since Molly died in 2015 she has a new travelling companion, Prudence, also a miniature bull terrier. Their first trip was from Germany, where Prudence was born, to Anna's home in London when she was a four-month-old pup. \"I actually broke all of my own rules because Prudence had only ever travelled in a car for an hour previously,\" Anna admits. \"Fortunately she was a great passenger with no whining or travel sickness and she settled on to the passenger seat of my Mini in a tiny seatbelt just like Molly had always done. \"A well-adjusted dog can avoid pet-lag and can cope with anything providing their essential needs are catered for and if you offer them calm direction.\"\nGETTY - STOCK Ensure your dog is toileted and exercised before beginning the journey", "\" \" App developers make it difficult for users to opt-out of sharing their data. Wenjie Dong/Getty Images\nDon't have any plans this weekend? Spend some time checking out the latest articles and podcasts from HowStuffWorks. Here are some you may have missed this week.\nThe Spying\n20-year-old Nathan Ruser, an Australian student and analyst at the Institute for United Conflict Analytics, made headlines this week when he tweeted about a heatmap showing Strava-user activity. Strava is a fitness app for cyclists and joggers that tracks the speed and distance of a workout. In places like the continental United States and Western Europe, the map is very bright, but in Iraq and Syria, the only lit areas are the locations of U.S. military bases. What's so concerning to high-ranking officials at the Pentagon and other agencies, is that the map highlights frequently traveled routes inside and outside of buildings. Most everyone assumes that our apps are tracking us 24 hours a day, but even when we're careful, we can still be caught off-guard.\nThe Supportive\nEven though 2017 was the safest year on record for air travel, flying can still be scary. Some passengers quell their flight anxiety with emotional support animals, or ESAs. But after a passenger was mauled by a dog on board a Delta flight, the airline started cracking down on emotional support animals. ESAs are different from service animals. Service animals are trained to do specific tasks for the disabled, and Federal law dictates that they're allowed to go wherever their owner takes them. ESAs are untrained pets whose sole purpose is to provide comfort to their owners. Just about any animal can be an ESA, and it's likely that some travelers are claiming their pets as ESAs to avoid paying the $100-plus pet transportation fee.\nThe Shining\nThis week on the Stuff They Don't Want You To Know podcast, a fan asks hosts Ben Bowlin and Matt Frederick \"What exactly are 'Ghost Lights'?\" Ghost lights are a worldwide phenomenon that go by many names. The lights frequently hover in the middle of the street or over treetops, and the strangest thing about them is that they appear to be sentient, or at least able to move of their own volition. Possible causes for these apparitions range from the mundane to the supernatural. Join Ben and Matt as they check the validity of each theory.", "Woman arrives with an “emotional support peacock” at Newark Airport. United Airlines allegedly refused to let the woman board the aircraft with her peacock. https://t.co/1WYMoFOUNs pic.twitter.com/H3guu25Frg — ABC News (@ABC) January 31, 2018 Source: ABC News /Twitter\nMAJOR US AIRLINES are clipping the wings of “emotional support animals” hoping to take flight with their owners over safety concerns, as a would-be peacock passenger created a social media tizzy.\nUnited Airlines — which this week turned Dexter the Peacock away at New Jersey’s Newark Airport over health and safety concerns — announced on Thursday it was reining in regulations on emotional support animals, citing a 75% jump in customers taking creatures on board and a spike in related incidents.\nFederal guidelines support the right of passengers with disabilities to board with a variety of emotional support or service animals, but airlines can deny boarding to some exotic or “unusual” pets.\n“The Department of Transportation’s rules regarding emotional support animals are not working as they were intended, and we need to change our approach in order to ensure a safe and pleasant travel experience for all of our customers,” the airline said in a statement.\nQueried by AFP, United spokesman Charlie Hobart said the peacock kerfuffle had “no relevance whatsoever” to the policy change, which will go into effect 1 March, and the timing “was a complete coincidence”.\nWe’ve been working on this policy for some time, well before this weekend’s incident with Dexter.\nHe noted that the majestic bird with iridescent blue and green plumage was not allowed onboard under current policy, which prohibits from cabin travel for a menagerie including hedgehogs, rodents, non-household birds and “animals not properly cleaned or carrying a foul odor”.\nUnited’s move follows Delta’s decision to implement new documentation requirements for owners hoping to fly with their animals, a new policy it said “comes as a lack of regulation that has led to serious safety risks involving untrained animals in flight”.\n‘Comfort turkeys’\nSource: SIPA USA/PA Images\nThat airline said it had seen an 84% jump in reports of animal incidents since 2016, including an emotional support dog weighing over 30 kilograms that gave another passenger facial wounds requiring 28 stitches.\n“Customers have attempted to fly with comfort turkeys, gliding possums known as sugar gliders, snakes, spiders and more,” Delta said. “Ignoring the true intent of existing rules governing the transport of service and support animals can be a disservice to customers who have real and documented needs.”\nThe Association of Flight Attendants heralded Delta’s tightened requirements.\nAn American spokeswoman told AFP that the airline was reviewing its policy, while vowing to “continue to support the rights of customers, from veterans to people with disabilities, with legitimate needs”.\nDexter the Peacock, meanwhile, was forced to make the trek to Los Angeles via car, according to the bird’s Instagram account.\n“Spent 6 hours trying to get on my flight to LA,” read a caption next to an image of the peacock — which reportedly belongs to a New York-based performance artist — perched on a baggage trolley.\n“Tomorrow my human friends are going to drive me cross country!”\n- © AFP, 2018", "Image: Erik-Jan Leusink/Unsplash\nPrint\nI'm afraid of of pets – very afraid. This is difficult for several reasons. The first being that there are animals everywhere. My backyard aligns with a patch of woods, and at any moment you might turn around to find a bunny sizing you up from across the lawn. Then there are the hamsters in elementary school classrooms, petting zoos, a friend’s new puppy, the neighbor who doesn’t like leashes, and pigeons everywhere. I'm telling you, it is a minefield out there for people like me, and animal lovers will never truly understand that.\nMore: I have spooky dreams about my old cats before adopting new ones\nAnd I mean that – they really don’t. Some go so far as to hate me, if not blatantly, then at least covertly and on the internet. In their minds, “She's afraid of animals” gets translated to “She hates animals,” and from there it’s only a small leap to “She is a cold and heartless individual with no love for anything adorable.” This is not me being paranoid. How many memes have we seen about people who don't like animals being assholes or not having souls?\nIn the haters’ defense, I guess it does seem kind of weird to be like, “Back the fuck off with your precious fluffy kitten!” But I don’t know. I'm 44 years old, and it is what it is at this point. And I guess that is what I really need to tell the rest of the pet owners out there.\nNot the ones who know me well enough to just deal with me, and not the ones who hate me. I speak here of the ones who believe they can cure my fear in much the same way as those Christian fundamentalists aim to “cure” homosexuality. The following are some of the things they might say with the best of intentions, but always, always with the worst of results.\n“He won’t hurt you.” It's as if these words get scrambled on the way into my brain, so that what I actually hear is, “He hasn’t bitten or viciously mauled anyone yet today.” Just look up the word “animal” on Thesaurus.com. Some synonyms include: beastly, brute, feral, wild, untamed. Antonyms? Gentle. Mild.\nEgads.\n“They can smell fear.” Oh, well that’s fucking perfect. Let me just take my fear off and stick it in my purse then. Or better yet, I’ll run out and leave it in the car. I can’t imagine why I brought it in with me in the first place! Listen, I am perfectly aware that animals can smell fear and why do you not understand that this makes me even more afraid?\n“Just pet him!” This one usually only comes from dog owners, and I hate it because either way, no one wins. If I don’t pet the dog, then I'm snubbing the person’s four-legged baby, which I do understand is just as offensive as snubbing a person’s human baby. Not only that, but I'm now considered to be inflexible, uncooperative and generally no fun.\nMore: My animals give me the nonjudgemental support I need for my social anxiety\nOn the other hand, if I do pet the damn dog, I risk offending its owner just as much as if I’d refused. Mainly because of the way I look while petting a domestic animal, which is similar to the way anyone else looks while petting a pterodactyl, hesitant with absolutely no trace of affection. Only now, I have heart palpitations, and I've led the animal to believe that I want to be its friend, and that further petting might ensue at any moment. Now little Spike or Sammy or Sunshine will not leave my side. It gets awkward very quickly.\n“You’ll like my dog.” I feel bad about this, I do, but no. I will not ever like any dog. Still, it also makes me kind of mad. I wouldn’t find out that someone is violently afraid of heights and immediately say, \"No, no, no, you’ll like the rooftop terrace of my skyscraper!\" \"Oh, you say you’re agoraphobic? Come on, what’s to be afraid of, you’ll have fun at my party. \" \"Terrified of clowns? That’s just because you haven’t met the ones at my circus!\"\nBut it's OK, I at least have David Sedaris on my side. When I met him at a book signing and I mentioned I didn't have pets he replied, \"Good for you. Who needs pets? We have nature – that should be enough.\" So at least someone understand how I feel.\nMore: Pets aren't possessions, they're family\nOriginally published on BlogHer", "Article Tools Font size – + Share This\nELLEN F. O’CONNELL/Staff PhotographerThe P-25 Liberator “Witchcraft†taxis around the Hazleton Regional Airport Monday during the “Wings of Freedom Tour†. The planes will be on display until Wednesday. ELLEN F. O’CONNELL/Staff PhotographerShortly after 12 noon, the P-51 Mustang fighter plane is the first to fly over the Hazleton Regional Airport Monday as part of the “Wings of Freedom Tour”.\nFour relics will fly into Hazleton Regional Airport this month telling significant stories which place a part of World War II in perspective.\nThe Collings Foundation’s Wings of Freedom Tour, now in its 28th year, will land and stay at the airport, 5175 Old Airport Road, Aug. 21 to 23.\nThe four airplanes the tour brings are a WWII Vintage Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Consolidated B-24 Liberator, B-25 Mitchell and North American P-51 Mustang.\nThe event will also feature a car show Aug. 22 displaying classic, military, custom or collectible street legal vehicles and “Lady Lois,” a WWII Stuart tank built in nearby Berwick.\nThe tour, touting rare and fully restored bomber and fighter aircraft, has stopped in Hazleton for more than two decades as part of its national tour which begins in Florida in January, said Hunter Chaney, director of marketing at the Collings Foundation, a nonprofit educational foundation.\nChaney said the tour loops its way through the United States, visiting 110 cities while flying into the lives of millions.\nThe B-17 is one of eight in flying condition in the U.S., according to the foundation, and the B-24 is the only plane of its type flying in the world, while the B-25 is best known for being used in the daring Doolittle raid. The trio were the backbone of the American effort during the war from 1942 to 1945 and were known for their ability to sustain damage and still accomplish the mission, the foundation states.\nThe P-51 Mustang was awarded grand champion for restoration at EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) Oshkosh AirVenture and was affectionately known as the bombers’ “Little Friend,” saving countless crews from Axis fighters, according to information supplied by Chaney.\nThough their history is rich and deep, many aircraft were scrapped for aluminum used to rebuild post-war America, making surviving planes rare and their roles in telling the story of World War II important, which is why the Collings Foundation continues to fly and display them, a press release states.\n“It’s like an interactive flying memorial for our World War II vets,” Chaney said during an interview.\nPeople can get a good understanding of World War II-era aircraft by reading a history book, he said, but to see them in person is a totally different experience, engaging people in history and in the sacrifices made by veterans with something tangible.\nThe aircraft, he said, is a catalyst which honors veterans in a “deep” and “lasting” way. On a personal level, guests also remember their loved ones who served in the military when they peer into the pieces of history on display and hear veterans recall their duty. They reflect on the importance of serving in any war, he said.\nContact the writer:\nachristman@standardspeaker\n.com; 570-501-3584\nIf you go\nThe Collings Foundation’s Wings of Freedom Tour will visit Hazleton Regional Airport, 5175 Old Airport Road, Hazle Twp., from Aug. 21 to 23.\n❒ The schedule:\nAug. 21, noon to 8 p.m.\nAug. 22, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., with a car show from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.\nAug. 23, 9 a.m. to noon\n❒ Explore the aircraft:\nWorld War II veterans are admitted free of charge.\nAdults are admitted for $15 while children under 12 are admitted for $5 for up-close viewing and tours inside the planes.\nAircraft can also be viewed from the airport parking lot fence at no cost\n❒ Take a trip:\nA 30-minute flight aboard the B-17 or B-24 are $450 per person, while P-51 flights are $2,200 for a half-hour and $3,200 for a full hour. B-25 flights are $400 per person.\nFor reservations and information on flight experiences call 800-568-8924.\n❒ Venue information:\nThe event features free parking, ADA-accessible portable toilets, hand-wash stations and baby-changing stations.\nHazle Twp. Fire and Rescue will serve food such as hot dogs, hamburgers and beverages. Vending machines are also available.\nSmoking and vaping on the airport ramp or inside the fenced-in area is prohibited. Pets, drones, bicycles or alcohol are not permitted at the airport.\n❒ Get involved:\nVisitors and those interested in sponsorships or entry to the car show can find out more about the tour and foundation by visiting www.collingsfoundation.org or facebook.com/wingsoverhazleton. All proceeds benefits the Collings Foundation.", "Sure, social media influencers with millions of followers are impressive. But most of them are only human. Nowadays, Insta-famous pets are where it’s at: Animal celebs like Doug the Pug and Grumpy Cat can also make bank on their every post for a leading brand.\nWith the explosion of furry superstars in the past decade, many pet owners with fair to middling social followings (but very cute and special pets!) are wondering how they, too, can get in on the action.\nThat’s where special marketing agencies like #paid can help. Bryan Gold, the influencer platform’s co-founder, shared some hot tips with PEOPLE about how ordinary people with extraordinary pets can match up their animal family members with brands for authentic, money-making collaborations. #paid has a network of 13,000 influencers in more than 300 countries — including some very successful pets like @tibbythecorgi (232,000 followers) and @toby_littledude (156,000 followers) — and partnerships with top brands including Airbnb, Coca-Cola, Ikea and Visa.\nRead on to learn how to tweak your pet’s social media presence for maximum added value.\nDo cute pets, exotic pets or weird/unusual pets make the best influencers in terms of reach and paycheck?\nIn terms of which pets make the best accounts, it mirrors quite similar to human creators — having a unique look or being cute/good-looking can help — [but] what matters most is dedication toward creating content, building a community and engaging with other related content creators.\nAre cats or dogs most popular with brands?\nWe’re seeing brands work with all sorts of different type of pets/animal friends — cats, dogs and other more exotic pets included.\nAre looks or an interesting background story more important?\nBackgrounds and personality shine over everything! While a cute pet may get an initial glance, compelling stories and a personality capture people’s hearts and make them come back for more.\nHow do you know if your pet has what it takes to become an influencer?\nIf you are debating about sharing the love you have for your pet, you need to think about whether both you and your pet are ready to make that commitment together. Are you able to have your pet pose and be camera-ready for that perfect shot? Can you commit to producing enough content on a regular basis that you can post at least once a day? Are you ready to engage, follow, and comment with your followers, as well as other related pet accounts so new people can discover your account too?\nWhat are some best practices for getting your pet who has a small or moderate following to the 5,000-plus follower mark that #paid requires?\nOne of #paid’s editorial team members wrote an article about how to start becoming a blogger, Instagrammer or YouTuber, sharing these five tips:\nPick a niche: There are a lot of pet accounts, why do people want to follow yours? Differentiation is key.\nThere are a lot of pet accounts, why do people want to follow yours? Differentiation is key. Brand yourself: Ensure your usernames, profile photos and color schemes are consistent across all of your social media and creative channels for maximum recognition.\nEnsure your usernames, profile photos and color schemes are consistent across all of your social media and creative channels for maximum recognition. Get the necessary equipment : You can started with a phone, but eventually, you’ll want to invest in the right type of camera, website and editing software.\n: You can started with a phone, but eventually, you’ll want to invest in the right type of camera, website and editing software. Practice photography and editing: Creating high-quality content takes a lot of work, and honing skills like photography and video editing requires lots of practice.\nCreating high-quality content takes a lot of work, and honing skills like photography and video editing requires lots of practice. Be consistent by setting a schedule: Posting on a regular schedule can help to maintain your viewer base, as people will know when to expect new content from you.\nWhy are some brands using animals instead of people, and how can they tell if it’s helping with purchases of products or the brand’s popularity?\nMarketers need to rely on each pet account’s team to figure out the best way to bring the brand to life. Generally pets talk about their owners or find dynamic ways to integrate the products. People often underestimate the creativity and the power of pet influencer accounts. In many ways, pets can embed products into their feed without being deemed a sellout — their cuteness shines through.\nWhich brands and animal influencers has #paid matched?\nSome of our most recent animal influencer accounts include: @tibbythecorgi, @toby_littledude, and @iggyjoey. They’ve worked with clients ranging from the consumer goods space to music and entertainment, including Universal Music.\nHow much do your top pet influencers earn?\nThese influencer accounts have the potential to earn from hundreds to thousands of dollars per post — Tibby the Corgi, for example, earns well over $2,000 per post. One of the ways in how #paid helps creators is helping them learn how to price themselves accordingly. One of our general rules is pricing based on a Cost Per Engagement basis; you can learn how to price yourself at our creator page: hashtagpaid.com/creators. We’re continuing to bring creators and brands together and make it easier for them to collaborate, especially as we announced our latest financing round of $9 million, which will accelerate our growth and make influencer marketing even more accessible.\nWhat responsibility do owners have toward their influencer pets and what are the ethics involved?\nIf people are adopting or breeding pets for the sole purpose of monetizing them through Instagram, it’s important to remember that audiences will see through that. Treat your pets with respect and on the right side of the law. The creator ecosystem is tight-knit and people talk — karma has a funny way of working out.", "Family’s French bulldog died on a 3hr #United flight from Hou to NYC. Family says flight attendant made them put pup in the overhead bin. Stories differ on whether or not flight attendant knew dog was in this carrier. STORY ➡️ https://t.co/AMQBpLOcbA #abc13 pic.twitter.com/7mo605Le8H — Courtney Fischer (@CourtneyABC13) March 14, 2018\nA New York family is describing the moments they discovered their French bulldog dead after being placed in the overhead bin during a United flight from Houston.Sophia Ceballos, her mother Catalina Robledo and their dog named Kokito boarded the flight Monday at Bush Intercontinental Airport.They said that they were forced to put their puppy in the overhead bin.On the three hour flight to New York's LaGuardia Airport, the dog died.When the plane landed Sophia says she and her mother discovered the heartbreaking news.\"She's like, 'he died, he died. Kokito, Kokito. And he didn't wake up. She hit his chest so he could breathe, but he couldn't breathe,\" Ceballos said.There are differing stories about whether or not the flight attendant knew a dog was in the carrier.A passenger on the flight posted on Facebook that a flight attendant \"insisted\" the dog be placed in the overhead compartment.\"They assured the safety of the family's pet,\" June Lara wrote. \"So wearily, the mother agreed.\"However, once the flight landed, another passenger gave a different account. The passenger said the flight attendant seemed shocked to discover the dog inside of the bag.She said that she did not know there was a dog in the bag and if so, she never would have instructed it to be put in the bin above.Ceballos and her mother insist that the flight attendant knew, saying that Kokito barked.\"While we were flying, the dog started barking and barking and there was no flight attendants coming. We couldn't stand up because there was a lot of turbulence so we weren't allowed to,\" Ceballos described.The family claims they told the flight attendant several times that their puppy was in the bag.\"She said, 'Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know it was a dog. I thought it was a normal bag.' But we told her it was a dog, she's lying,\" Ceballos said.Ceballos says the flight attendant made them store the bag above because it blocked the aisle.The airline said in a statement to ABC News it assumes full responsibility for the incident.They could not say if anyone has been disciplined as a result of the incident, as the investigation is ongoing.Robledo says United called her asking to settle the situation with money.However, she says this isn't about money.The family described Kokito as a special, smart and sweet dog who loved to play around in parks.According to Department of Transportation statistics on animal incidents on U.S. carriers, United has the highest rate of incidents involving loss, injury or death of animals during air transportation, with 2.24 incidents every 10,000 animals transported.", "he should be barred from pilotting at this point Reply\nThread\nLink\nits def time to take away his plane Reply\nThread\nLink\nI like how you included that he's ok in the title, you just know some people would freak and think he died until they could read the rest. Reply\nThread\nLink\nI feel the exact opposite about the namesake of this airport as I do about the airport itself. It's pretty much the best.\nGet it together, Harrison. Reply\nThread\nLink\nActually Long Beach Airport is the best Reply\nParent\nThread\nLink\nI still need to try that one! Security at John Wayne is a breeze tho. I'm not complaining. Reply\nParent\nThread\nLink\nI mean Long Beach airport only has one terminal and its like the size of a Payless. Reply\nParent\nThread\nLink\npossible dumb question but i've never been on a plane\nwhat does flying on a plane feel like Reply\nParent\nThread\nLink\nJust like being in a car except when you look out the window there's clouds instead of McDonalds Reply\nParent\nThread\nLink\nI think it differs from person to person, but for me it feels... uncomfortable to say the least. I try to just wear an eye mask and listen to music and shut off my senses.\nThe take off and landing is the worst for me, like my heart is going to fall out of my butthole. Reply\nParent\nThread\nLink\nsluts for john wayne airport! Reply\nParent\nThread\nLink\nBob Hope Airport in Burbank is where it's at. No one in the security line, nice and quiet, not too crazy. I'm sad the closest airport I live to now is LAX. Reply\nParent\nThread\nLink\nOkay, maybe it's time to stop flying planes. Reply\nThread\nLink\nwe're not meant to be in the sky, man. i had some of the worst turbulence yesterday and i was freaking out -- AND i was 3 beers in at that point, attempting to calm my nerves. i can't imagine how scared i would have been if i was stone cold sober. Reply\nThread\nLink\nUmmm speak for yourself\nI love flying and I think we are meant to be in the sky Reply\nParent\nThread\nLink\nSame, sis. I would shed my corporeal form and become Master of the Skies if I could but I can't (YET) so I'll take airplanes over nothing until then. Reply\nParent\nThread\nLink\nIt might not be the worst thing to retire from flying (yourself) at 75. Reply\nThread\nLink\nCalista, come get your man. Reply\nThread\nLink\nharrison maybe stop tempting fate Reply\nThread\nLink\nyikes maybe he's losing it Reply\nThread\nLink\nlol why is fuck blurred Reply\nParent\nThread\nLink\nit definitely is lmao Reply\nParent\nThread\nLink\nHis mouth is blurred lol. Took me a second. Reply\nParent\nThread\nLink\nOHHHHHHH LOL Reply\nParent\nThread\nLink\nit's not blurred to me, lol, or did they edit? Reply\nParent\nThread\nLink\nam i losing it Reply\nParent\nThread\nLink\nok no one in this thread should be able to fly a plane either Reply\nParent\nThread\nLink\nlol Reply\nParent\nThread\nLink\nHarrison Ford is too damn old to be piloting planes.\nCalista Flockhart come get your husband. Reply\nThread\nLink\nHe could have almost killed 116 people because he landed in the wrong spot in the runway\nEdited at 2017-02-14 11:47 pm (UTC) Reply\nParent\nThread\nLink\n'John Wayne' by Lady Gaga is available on iTunes! Reply\nThread\nLink\nlmao god bless you and this promo Reply\nParent\nThread\nLink\nYasssss Reply\nParent\nThread\nLink\nMaybe he should stop flying. Reply\nThread\nLink\nhe was trending on twitter and i immediately thought the worst Reply\nThread\nLink\nAt least no one got hurt.\nIt's hard to give up the things you've become accustomed to doing once you reach a certain age, but sometimes it is for the best.\nEdited at 2017-02-14 11:46 pm (UTC) Reply\nThread\nLink\ni s2g if his license isnt revoked and he ends up hurting somebody.... Reply\nThread\nLink\nI'm reading Princess Diarist right now and I am SCANDALIZED at Carrie Fisher and he having an affair. I don't know why but my little 11 year old obsessed with Star Wars self is just unbelieving. LOL Reply\nThread\nLink\nthank you for putting that he's ok in the title. when i saw this on fb, i about had a heart attack. Reply\nThread\nLink\ncalista stop him pls Reply\nThread\nLink\nit makes me so sad he's getting old :( he was my first crush. Reply\nThread\nLink\nTime to hang up those wings. Or at least fly with a co-pilot. Reply\nThread\nLink\nYou're too kind putting that he's OK in the title, it's much more fun to let the people who don't read freak out Reply\nThread\nLink", "WOODLAND – February is Spay/Neuter Awareness Month.\nAccording to the Humane Society of the United States, four million cats and dogs—about one every eight seconds—are put down in U.S. animal shelters each year. Often these animals are the offspring of cherished family pets.\nSpay/neuter is a proven way to reduce pet overpopulation, ensuring that every pet has a family to love them. Many cats and dogs, which die as a result of pet overpopulation, could have made wonderful pets.\nA solution is possible and starts with each pet owner taking one small step: getting their own pets spayed or neutered. Many people want to have their pets spayed or neutered, but they hesitate because of the cost.\nLow-cost spaying and neutering is available in this area at the Allegheny Spay & Neuter Clinic, and specials are being offered during the month of February to provide additional assistance and to celebrate Spay/Neuter Month.\nThe clinic is located at 1380 Shawville Hwy., in Woodland, can be reached by phone at 814-857-5280 and is open Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.\nIt is open for referrals from animal rescue groups as well as the general public for the low-cost spaying and neutering of cats and dogs.\nThere is also a satellite clinic at 2481 General Potter Hwy., in Centre Hall, which can be reached at 814-364-1630.\nOther services offered at the Allegheny Spay & Neuter Clinic include flea and tick treatment, micro-chip lost animal protection, Clearfield County dog license, rabies vaccines, Lyme and distemper vaccines, affordable grooming, wellness, euthanasia and many others.\nAccording to the ASPCA here are the Top 10 Reasons to Spay or Neuter Your Pet:\nYour female pet will live a longer, healthier life.\nSpaying helps prevent uterine infections and breast cancer, which is fatal in about 50 percent of dogs and 90 percent of cats. Spaying your pet before her first heat offers the best protection from these diseases.\nNeutering provides major health benefits for your male.\nBesides preventing unwanted litters, neutering your male companion prevents testicular cancer if done before six months of age.\nYour spayed female won’t go into heat.\nWhile cycles can vary, female felines usually go into heat four to five days every three weeks during breeding season. In an effort to advertise for mates, they’ll yowl and urinate more frequently—sometimes all over the house.\nYour male dog won’t want to roam away from home.\nAn intact male will do just about anything to find a mate. That includes digging his way under the fence and making like Houdini to escape from the house. And once he’s free to roam, he risks injury in traffic and fights with other males.\nYour neutered male will be much better behaved.\nNeutered cats and dogs focus their attention on their human families. On the other hand, unneutered dogs and cats may mark their territory by spraying strong-smelling urine all over the house. Many aggression problems can be avoided by early neutering.\nSpaying or neutering will not make your pet fat.\nDon’t use that old excuse. Lack of exercise and overfeeding will cause your pet to pack on the extra pounds—not neutering. Your pet will remain fit and trim as long as you continue to provide exercise and monitor food intake.\nIt is highly cost-effective.\nThe cost of your pet’s spay/neuter surgery is a lot less than the cost of having and caring for a litter. It also beats the cost of treatment when your unneutered tom escapes and gets into fights with the neighborhood stray.\nSpaying and neutering your pet is good for the community.\nStray animals pose a real problem in many parts of the country. They can prey on wildlife, cause car accidents, damage the local fauna and frighten children. Spaying and neutering packs a powerful punch in reducing the number of animals on the streets.\nYour pet doesn’t need to have a litter for your children to learn about the miracle of birth.\nLetting your pet produce offspring you have no intention of keeping is not a good lesson for your children—especially when so many unwanted animals end up in shelters. There are tons of books and videos available to teach your children about birth in a more responsible way.\nSpaying and neutering helps fight pet overpopulation.\nEvery year, millions of cats and dogs of all ages and breeds are euthanized or suffer as strays. These high numbers are the result of unplanned litters that could have been prevented by spaying or neutering. To help stop pet overpopulation further, consider adopting your next pet from an animal shelter.\nThe Allegheny Spay & Neuter Clinic is owned by the Animal Welfare Council (AWC), a non-profit organization formed in 2006 by a group of individuals who share concern and passion for animals in the community and strive to fulfill the needs of local animals and their owners.\nFor more information about the Allegheny Spay & Neuter Clinic, contact the clinic at 814-857-5280.", "Get Daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email\nTens of thousands of holidaymakers have been blowing away the winter blues and jetting off from East Midlands Airport in search of much-needed sunshine.\nWith snow, freezing temperatures, rain and relentlessly miserable weather over the winter and early spring, many people have decided to escape and head for warmer climates.\nAs a result, East Midlands Airport has recorded an increase in passenger numbers this winter compared with the same period last year.\nDespite the wintry weather and interruptions to flight schedules due to snow, a total of more than 1.6 million passengers flew to and from East Midlands Airport, in Castle Donington, between October 2017 and March 2018. This is a three per cent increase on last year's winter season.\nBosses said this had been achieved thanks, in part, to new routes and increased frequency. Ryanair launched a new twice-weekly route to Seville at the end of last year, while Thomas Cook resumed flights to Egypt in February.\nThe lure of warmer climes has proved irresistible to visitors across the East Midlands following a prolonged and at times bitterly cold winter. As a result of an earlier Easter, holidaymakers have taken the opportunity to grab some sunshine.\nThis has led to passenger numbers at the start of April exceeding forecasts, which bosses said bodes well for the start of the summer season. At present, they are up 4.2 per cent on this time last year.\nThe top 10 destinations that passengers have been flying to this Easter are:\nAlicante\nTenerife\nMalaga\nPalma\nFaro\nDublin\nLanzarote\nBelfast City\nGran Canaria\nFuerteventura\nHoward Ebison, East Midlands Airport's commercial director, said: \"Despite a difficult winter which brought much of the UK to a standstill, our winter passenger numbers have exceeded last year's.\n\"We're delighted with the start of April too. Unsurprisingly, eight of the top 10 destinations that travellers have been flying to this Easter are places where prolonged spells of sunshine are more likely.\"\nBuilding on last year's summer season, the busiest since 2008, holidaymakers looking for guaranteed sunshine this summer will benefit from a selection of flights to the most popular holiday destinations such as the Canaries, the Balearic Islands, mainland Spain and Portugal, and even Mexico and Florida.\nNew summer routes are:\nJet2 Bodrum, Turkey\nRyanair – Seville (continuation of their winter service)\nNext winter, passengers will have even more choice as Jet2.com and Jet2holidays are flying its busiest winter flights and holidays programme from East Midlands Airport.\nThis will see more than 300,000 seats on sale to 16 winter sun, city and ski destinations for winter 2018 and 2019 - an increase of 11,000 extra seats.", "While You're At Work\nDay Care\nWith three locations, 24-7 operating hours, and everything from obedience classes to ear washes, Downtown Dog Lounge is the closest thing Seattle has to a canine-care hub. An annual day-care pass runs about $6,500, but they’ll update your pup’s kennel cough shot, and webcams let owners obsessively check up on pets.\nAdventures\nAfter running dogsled teams in Alaska, Less Talk, More Walk trainer Dustin Schmidt has deep doggie insight about their pack proclivities and disregard for human chatter. (You keep asking, “Who’s a good boy?”—but does he ever answer?) Schmidt picks up client pooches for vigorous day care ($96 per week) that produces well-behaved pets.\nRemote Play\nThe Seattle-born Furbo ($249) does everything but pet your dog; from their cellphone at work, owners fire treats from the rotating camera that has two-way audio and night vision. Picture a nanny cam that mated with a gumball machine. Also works for cats, if they will tolerate a squawking robot that pelts them with food.\nOver the Weekend\nDog Parks\nThough the city is dotted with off-leash zones (head under the interstate in Eastlake for a real post-apocalyptic vibe at I-5 Colonnade Park), the region’s biggest and best are at massive Magnuson Park (8.6 acres), Marymoor Park (40 acres on an old farm), and Off-Leash Area Edmonds (a just-for-dogs beach on Puget Sound).\nPlay Space\nIs Dogwood, Lake City’s indoor-outdoor dog-play park and bar ($12, memberships available), like a canine Chuck E. Cheese’s? Pretty much, with a Seattle Barkery treat bar, couches, stools overlooking the play area, a tennis ball vending machine, and booze. You can even bring your own food (dog or human).\nCat Toys\nFelines need much less entertainment than their canine counterparts. So might as well entertain yourself with the catnip-stuffed creatures made by Seattle’s Lara Doss at Cattywampus Cat Toys: They’re shaped like kraken, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or the Northwest’s own Bigfoot.\nWhile You're on Vacation\nPet Sitters\nBased in Belltown, Rover is the Uber of dog walkers and pet sitters, with a website or app that quickly sorts available caregivers by location, price, availability, or even whether they have their own pets. They do background checks and gather reviews, and the app neatly packages pics (and poop reports) from the stay or walk.\nPrison Boarding\nMany of Washington’s state prisons have dog training programs for inmates, but the women’s correction center in Gig Harbor actually offers boarding at the Prison Pet Partnership—just $23 per night. The big house also offers training sessions during a pet’s stay. And hey, what’s more secure than the clink?\nCat Hotels\nThough dogs usually go to kennels, Puget Sound cats have a bevy of fine accommodations to choose from: All My Kitties B&B in Leschi, with a garden-view “catio” ($28 per day) and Redmond’s Snuggles Inn that features private playroom time and fenced outdoor space ($34 per day).\nIn an Emergency\nMedical Care\nBecause pets never plan their vomit marathons around business hours, Wallingford’s Emerald City Emergency Clinic has a veterinarian available 24 hours a day, plus a full surgical suite, CPR capabilities, an isolation ward, and a slew of in-house imaging machines.\nPet Detective\nThe best man for a lost-cat job might actually be a dog. The staff at Three Retrievers Lost Pet Rescue all have specialties: pit bull–Rottweiler mix Komu tracks cats, poodle Fozzie sniffs out lost dogs, and human James Branson rents out humane traps, does the paperwork, and feeds the others.\nPet Psychic\nIf all else fails with a missing, misbehaving, or just mysterious pet, there’s always telepathy. Local animal communicator Joan Ranquet claims to sense why a horse is nervous or what will stop a digging dog from his destruction. In 2013, she was credited with finding a missing Redmond horse named Gemma, who was stuck in a ravine.", "Showroom features new, full-size cardboard cutouts of adoptable shelter pets\nCut out pet with John Marazzi and his rescue pets, Athena and Zeus\nContact\nBrandon Honda\n***@brandonhonda.com\nPhoto:\nhttps://www.prlog.org/ 12619879/1 Brandon Honda\nEnd\n-- A lifelong proponent of shelter animal adoptions, John Marazzi, Managing Partner of Brandon Honda is now making it easier for shoppers to picture adorable pets available at the Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center (PRC) in their lives and in their Hondas.Eighteen cardboard cut-outs of shelter cats and dogs are now romping throughout the Brandon Honda showroom at 9209 E. Adamo Drive to steal the hearts of visitors and raise awareness of all the deserving, healthy dogs and cats available for adoption through breed specific rescue groups, SPCAs and humane societies, or at county-run shelters and animal services.\"My family and I have always had a deep passion for saving, fostering, and adopting shelter animals,\" said Marazzi. \"They make wonderful pets when matched with just the right family for their personalities and needs. Sadly, crowded shelters simply can't feed and care for all the animals they receive, so many are forced to resort to euthanasia to keep their animal populations down to a manageable size. We feel a better solution is to encourage adoptions and foster arrangements, while raising funds for and volunteering at animal shelters.\"Local pet photographer Adam Goldberg took photos recently at the Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center located at 440 N. Falkenburg Rd, in Tampa, FL 33619. Goldberg originally found his passion for photographing animals at the Humane Society of Broward County.\"Rescue animals can be especially hard to photograph when they are anxious and confused in the transition from a home or the streets to shelters,\" said Goldberg. \"I've had to learn how to win their confidence so that they can relax and turn on their true personality for the camera.\"Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center is the only \"open admission\" animal shelter in Hillsborough County. They accept domestic animals regardless of breed, size or medical condition and are open from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. seven days a week. For more information call (813) 744-5660 or visit https://www.hillsboroughcounty.org/ en/locations/ pet-resou... See a video of Goldberg's photos for Brandon Honda at https://www.facebook.com/ agoldphotos/ videos/1730623017251... . His work is being sponsored by LotVantage, the leading provider of digital marketing solutions for automotive, marine, power sports, RV, trailer and outdoor power equipment dealerships. For more information, contact Adam Goldberg at 813-600-5474 or agoldberg@lotvantage.com.Brandon Honda, a division of Morgan Auto Group, is located at 9209 E. Adamo Drive in Tampa, FL 33619, one mile west of I-75. It is an award-winning, Green-Star Certified automobile service facility and works proactively to protect the environment. For more information, call 813-664-1234 or visit http://www.BrandonHonda.com.", "Courtesy of Margaret Chu\nA dome shape to the forehead and more bulging eyes are signs of hydrocephalus.\nPeople use many factors to choose a pet. One is appearance. While most people say that good health is important, many also want cute pets. So what exactly does a “cute” pet look like? Studies done in the 1970s by Konrad Lorenz suggest that humans prefer images of animals with smaller snouts, higher foreheads and larger eyes. Essentially, we prefer characteristics associated with babies or juveniles. The tendency for people to choose pets with these traits has likely influenced breeding programs.\nA perfect example of this is the Holland Lop rabbit. Breed standards for these animals include an arched or curved crown of the head and short muzzle. These characteristics make Holland Lop rabbits adorable. However, there is a negative side to breeding these types of physical traits. What is often forgotten is that external features often have huge implications for internal structures. By selectively breeding for shortened faces, Holland Lops are much more prone to dental disease because the size and number of teeth have not changed, but the length of the jaw and face has shortened. Thus, the teeth are forced into a smaller area, which some people believe leads to malocclusion.\nAnother animal that seems to have a genetically linked medical disorder related to appearance is the Syrian hamster . The disease of concern is hydrocephalus.\nCourtesy of Wendy Abrahamson\nCurrently there is no cure for hydrocephalus in hamsters. If clinical signs are mild, a hamster could live a relatively normal life with special care.\nHydrocephalus is a condition in which excess fluid, specifically cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), accumulates within the brain. Normally, there is fluid produced within spaces of the brain known as the ventricles. The CSF flows from the ventricles and around the brain to cushion it, distribute nutrients and remove waste products. In healthy bodies, the production of CSF is balanced by its reabsorption into the bloodstream.\nWhile hydrocephalus can develop due to the presence of certain infections or toxins, in hamsters most cases appear to be hereditary. When fluid builds up in the ventricles, it begins to put outward pressure on the surrounding brain tissue. This leads to neurological signs, such as seizures, lethargy, poor coordination, head pressing and visual impairment. In young animals, before the bones of the skull have fused, the expanding brain forces the skull to expand — leading to a high forehead and domed skull. Anecdotally, there have been reports by a few hamster breeders that some hamsters with hydrocephalus also have poor teeth development, but further studies are necessary to examine the extent of this correlation.\nWhile this condition has been mostly studied in laboratory animals, it has been suspected to also occur in the pet hamster population. The prevalence of the disorder in the pet population is unknown, as postmortem analysis of brain tissue from pet hamsters is rarely performed. In the laboratory setting, the condition is considered widespread and the severity of the disease varies significantly. Sometimes the disease is so severe that the affected animals do not live very long. However, one study demonstrated that many hamsters with hydrocephalus can live longer than expected. Even hamsters that appeared physically normal could produce offspring with hydrocephalus, suggesting that this condition is a recessive genetic trait. Interestingly, none of the wild-caught hamsters that were studied demonstrated any signs of hydrocephalus.\nIn humans, hydrocephalus is treated with surgically placed shunts to help drain fluid from the ventricles of the brain. To date, this is not possible in hamsters. At best, mild clinical signs may be managed with steroids and anti-seizure medication. However, euthanasia is the only humane option for those animals with uncontrolled clinical signs.\nConditions such as these underscore the need for selective breeding programs. While we may desire certain physical traits in our pets, I believe that it should never be at the expense of good health.\nNote: All articles by Dr. Materi are meant for educational purposes only and in no way represent any particular individual or case. They are not for diagnostic purposes. If your pet is sick, please take him or her to a veterinarian.", "JERSEY CITY, NJ--(Marketwired - April 18, 2017) - Furnished Quarters, the leading provider of temporary furnished apartments in the Northeastern United States and beyond, is collaborating with animal welfare organization, Bideawee, to host a pet adoption event in Jersey City, New Jersey.\nThe event will take place at the entrance to the Grove PATH Station (PATH Plaza), just steps from Furnished Quarters' residences at apartment buildings Grove Pointe and Marbella. Meet adoptable dogs and cats of all ages and sizes on Thursday, April 27th from 4 to 7pm. Bideawee's Mobile Adoption Van will be on site for passersby or pet-seekers to get to know these adorable four-legged friends. There will be giveaways for both people and pets at this special community event.\n\"We have a company-wide appreciation for animals, inviting our guests to bring their beloved dogs and cats with them when they stay at our locations,\" said Steve Brown, CEO of Furnished Quarters. \"That's why we are honored to work with Bideawee to help find welcoming homes for these pets with our guests and neighbors.\"\n\"Identifying great families for our pets is so important and we rely on adoption events to get the word out and find our rescue animals good homes,\" said Dolores Swirin-Yao, President/CEO of Bideawee. \"We thank Furnished Quarters for their support and assistance with our upcoming adoption event. They clearly share our enthusiasm for rescuing animals!\"\nAbout Furnished Quarters\nFurnished Quarters provides stylish, fully equipped temporary furnished apartments, both nationally and globally. The company, established in 1998 in New York City by brothers Steven and Gary Brown, is the largest independently owned and operated supplier of short-term housing in the Northeastern United States, with a focus on New York City and Boston. Corporate clients have one-call access to over 40,000 furnished rentals worldwide that are sourced, vetted and managed by Furnished Quarters' Global Solutions Center. Additionally, the company's Q&A Residential Hotel in Lower Manhattan offers hotel-style stays in full-sized apartments. Pets are welcome in most Furnished Quarters apartments, and at Q&A Hotel. For more information visit furnishedquarters.com.\nAbout Bideawee\nBideawee, which means \"stay awhile,\" in Scottish, is one of the country's oldest and most respected animal welfare and pet adoption organizations. Founded in 1903, Bideawee's mission is to be Greater New York's leader in rescuing, caring for, and placing homeless cats and dogs with people who love them. Bideawee provides an array of high touch services including adoption centers, animal hospitals, pet therapy programs, and pet memorial parks that serve pets and pet lovers on their lifelong journey together.\nBideawee is a not-for-profit 501(c) 3 humane animal organization and 100% of Bideawee's funding comes from private sources. Bideawee operates in New York City, Wantagh, and Westhampton. For more information, visit: bideawee.org.\nImage Available: http://www.marketwire.com/library/MwGo/2017/4/17/11G135997/Images/FG_dog-77ab1eed9c8690bfa569b973582f879c.jpg", "I took my first commercial flight a bit later than a lot of folks nowadays — I think I was about 13 — but since then I've flown on everything from Boeing 747s in South Africa to twin-prop Cessna puddle jumpers between Hyannis and Nantucket. I've crossed the Pacific and the Atlantic. I've soared above flyover country countless times.\nUnited Airlines' debacle with David Dao has highlighted the horrors of air travel. Some kind of barrier was crossed: for more than a decade, with greatly increased security and greatly decreased customer service, passengers have felt figuratively roughed up when they fly. Dao's experience took that to a whole new level. There was blood.\nA cry has gone up to reform the airline business and restore some dignity to this once-romantic and exciting form of travel. But it's not going to happen.\nThe airlines have figured out that they can segregate budget-conscious passengers who just want to get from A to B and will endure any indignity along the way from fliers who will pay extra to avoid leg cramps and get to drink the entire can of Coke. That's a big part of the business now.\nBut really, the business has irreversibly changed from how it functioned when those first silvery birds took the skies and opened up the world.\nAirlines make about $10 per passenger, and although that sounds dire, with cheap fuel costs and some efficient route management, as well as limited competition, the major US airlines have of late translated it into sturdy bottom lines.\nThey've also spent decades training the public to expect next to nothing in the way of service, a trend that's been accelerated by online ticket-buying sites that have driven down fares. Spirit Airlines has made this into a core brand value.\nThe good old days\nI actually saw the way it used to be, back in the good old days before deregulation and ritual disrobement in the security lines. My father traveled about two weeks a month, and my brother and I would often accompany my mother when we took him to the small airport that served the town we grew up in.\nThe old man would check in, surrender his single suitcase, and then breeze through the metal detector, offloading his keys and loose change in a single practiced move, before ascending the steps to a 727 and zooming off. The entire process consumed about 15 minutes. When he returned, the wait for the suitcase and the baggage claim was usually ten minutes or less.\nHe could smoke all he wanted on the plane and depending on where he was going, they'd give him dinner. He never flew first class and business didn't really exist yet.\nHowever, even the 1970s were a transitional period, with the glamorous 1960s Jet Set a vanishing memory. But compared with how I typically fly, my dad traveled like a king.\nIt is possible to do better. I flew to Paris last year on La Compagnie, a new all-business-class airline that's running just one route and charging prices that are miles below the usual business class fare. It was utterly worth it.\nI also flew Los Angeles to New York exclusively on JetBlue back in the mid-2000s when the upstart was truly tackling the miserable flying experience. The airline offered comfy leather seats, decent snacks, and individual TVs. Flying JetBlue back then, you could still see a faint glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel.\nGet real\nBut let's be real. Unless you're willing to spend a ton of money, flying is an ordeal. From fighting traffic to getting to the airport right up to the non-reclining seat you're liable to encounter, the whole experience is an ordeal.\nThe thing is, it's pretty much always been like this. On the infrequent occasions when I've enjoyed a legit business-class or first-class seat, the contrast with my decades-long experience has been mind-warpingly dramatic. And don't even get me started on flying private, which gives you the sense of having joined a separate species.\nAirports are providing some compensation. They now offer better food than anyone imagined in the 1980s, and many have seen whole terminals converted into shopping malls. Various unaffiliated lounges have sprung up, and even the ones connected with the big airlines will often let you hang out, for a daily fee.\nBut in watching United's PR mess unfold over the past few weeks, I was struck by how unsurprised I was by the chorus of dismay. Yes, Dr. Dao endured a level of mistreatment that led you to question humanity on several levels. But were we shocked that this happened on an airplane?\nThe last time I flew the Friendly Skies (actually, on a Continental plane absorbed with that airlines and United merged) I found that my usually advantageous 5'-7\" frame was very spatially challenged in coach; it wasn't legroom so much as a slot into which to wedge my regrettable human limbs.\nI usually fly because I have to. If I can figure out another way to get there, I'll usually take it. That's where my four decades of life with the airlines has led me. Admittedly, I always contrast this urge with my understanding that although air travel is astoundingly unpleasant, it's also astonishingly safe. We can't take this simple truth away from either the plane makers or the airlines. But that doesn't mean we can't be realistic about what boarding an aircraft circa 2017 is all about.\nAn understandable decline\nMy point here is that flying has gotten only worse since my maiden voyage. But even back then, it wasn't that great. I once took a long train trip, covering about half the USA in a two-week period. It wasn't like it was back in the glory days of rail travel, but it was magical by contrast with my plane voyages.\nFundamentally, the airline industry operates according to a pair of rudimentary objectives: get people to where they want to go fast, and get them there cheap. Deviate from this model, as the likes of JetBlue did for about 10 years, and pay the price (JetBlue has revamped it service-centric model to be more like everybody else). So we suffer in safety, for the most part, but we can cross oceans in less than a day and spend a fraction of what it cost when air travel was glorious.\nThere is some solace. A few flights back, crammed into my coach seat, wondering if I should ask for another Coke, my plane flew alongside a thunderstorm, miles and miles off the shoulder of the jet. The light show was a wonder to behold, impossible not to look at. I was among a tiny sliver of humans who have ever lived who got to witness this marvel of nature.\nIt reminded me of why we put up with all the crap.\nThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Business Insider.", "NEW YORK (AP) — From easy-to-clean floors to a grooming room to a color palette toned for dog and cat eyes, a building rising in New York is clearly a place for pets.\nBut it's not an animal hospital or a doggy daycare. Rather, it's what organizers say is the nation's first domestic violence shelter custom-built for victims to keep their pets in their apartments.\nExpected to open in October and house up to 100 people, it builds on a growing roster of shelters that accommodate animals so their owners won't hesitate to leave abusive homes. Organizers say it's the first specifically designed for every apartment to house people with pets.\n\"By doing so from the ground up, with not only humans in mind but pets in mind, it's going to allow for a fuller recovery for pets and the entire family,\" says Dr. Kurt Venator, chief veterinary officer of Nestle Purina PetCare Co., which is contributing supplies and expertise to the $20 million project.\nAdvertisement\nThe Urban Resource Institute, a shelter operator, is running the facility, financed through private donations and some government support.\nStudies have documented links between domestic violence and animal cruelty and have noted some victims' reluctance to leave without their pets. Some fear their abusers will retaliate by harming the animals.\nThe number of pet-friendly domestic violence shelters nationwide has grown from four in 2008 to dozens in recent years. But about 97 percent of shelters still don't accept pets, according to Urban Resource Institute CEO Nathaniel Fields. (Some of them do help arrange foster care.)\nURI has opened 52 pet-friendly apartments around New York City in the last four years but still got about 350 more requests than it could fulfill.\nAdvocates for pet-friendly shelters have faced questions about whether accommodating animals siphons focus and resources from abused people, or how people who fear for their lives can think about their pets.\nBut for many victims, Fields says, \"it's not an either-or.\"\nHope Dawson adopted her dog, Coco, to cheer up her two children after they awoke to sounds of thrown objects crashing and then saw police lead her boyfriend away from their Houston home in December 2015. She soon decided to move to New York to get away from him.\nShe had savings and a housing voucher but couldn't find an apartment and eventually moved with her kids into a no-pets shelter. An agency agreed to board Coco for 30 days; after that, the family would have to consider giving her up. Dawson still gets emotional thinking what that would have been like for kids who had already been through a lot.\n\"The way she just looks and interacts with us and makes us feel so comforted and cared for, that was something that would not be able to be replaced, and we needed it so much,\" says Dawson, 32. \"When she was reunited with us, it really did bring that light back into our situation.\"\nURI's facilities have welcomed 118 animals in four years — cats, dogs, turtles, birds, fish, a guinea pig and a bearded dragon.\nThe new seven-story, 30-apartment shelter will have a shared pet-grooming room and a secluded dog park, so residents fearful of abusers finding them don't have to leave to walk dogs.\nWindows won't open wide enough for cats to get out, but there may be shelves so felines can look outside. Flooring won't be too slippery or too sticky for paws. Paint won't be bright white, as some manmade white materials may appear fluorescent to cats and dogs, Venator said.\nDawson, meanwhile, moved her family into its own apartment after six months in shelter. She's working as a ride-hailing service driver, her kids are in middle school, and Coco is doing well.\n\"When life happens and it comes at you really hard, having a pet,\" she says, \"really does help.\"\n___\nOnline: Urban Resource Institute pet-friendly shelter program: http://urinyc.org/program/uripals/", "BJ's in Summerville, SC, hosts adopt-a-pet event with Dorchester Paws\nWESTBOROUGH, Mass., Dec. 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- BJ's Wholesale Club today announced a $10,000 donation to Dorchester Paws. The donation from BJ's Charitable Foundation® was presented to the shelter along with $500 worth of Berkley Jensen® pet products.\n\"At BJ's, we're committed to keeping families – including our pets – happy and healthy,\" said Kirk Saville, executive director of the BJ's Charitable Foundation. \"We are proud to support Dorchester Paws as they continue to provide compassionate and quality care to animals in need.\"\nThe company also hosted a pet adoption event at its Summerville, SC Club with the organization this past Saturday. BJ's members had the opportunity to visit with adoptable dogs, learn more about the adoption process and receive giveaways, treats and coupons.\n\"The donation from BJ's is the first major corporate donation received at Dorchester Paws and it pushes one step closer to ending unnecessary euthanasia in Dorchester County,\" said Kim Almstedt, executive director of Dorchester Paws. \"The donation will provide funds for the medical cases we see so frequently from heartworms, malnutrition, cruelty and neglect.\"\nDorchester Paws is the only open-admission shelter in Dorchester County. The shelter takes in all animals from Dorchester County Code Enforcement, public drop-off strays and owner surrenders, serving over 3,500 animals each year. \"We're still seeing an influx in animals brought to Dorchester Paws. There hasn't been a slow period this year, so this partnership helps us provide for the animals in our care,\" said Almstedt.\nBJ's offers a large selection of leading pet food brands and varieties and is committed to providing the best quality, value and assortment through its exclusive Berkley Jensen® line of dog, cat and bird food. Members can shop a variety of pet products from nutritional foods and treats, to flea and tick prevention, to accessories such as beds and travel accessories. The variety of products caters both to budgets and a pet's specific needs.\nTo learn more about BJ's, visit www.BJs.com.\nAbout BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.\nHeadquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts, BJ's is the leading operator of membership warehouse clubs in the Eastern United States. The company currently operates 215 clubs and 133 BJ's Gas® locations in 16 states.\nBJ's provides a one-stop shopping destination filled with top-quality, leading brands, including its exclusive Wellsley Farms® and Berkley Jensen® brands, along with USDA Choice meats, premium produce and delicious organics, many in supermarket sizes. BJ's is also the only major membership warehouse club to accept all manufacturers' coupons and, for greater convenience, offers the most payment options.\nVisit www.BJs.com, and for exclusive content, find us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram.\nBJ's is wholly owned by affiliates of Leonard Green & Partners, CVC Capital Partners and its management team.\nAbout Dorchester Paws\nEstablished in 1972, Dorchester Paws is the only open-admission shelter in Dorchester County serving all the lost, abandoned and abused dogs and cats. Dorchester Paws is committed to instilling humane principles into society through the prevention of cruelty to animals and taking every animal that comes to the shelter on the journey from victim to victory. Dorchester Paws strives to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, reunite lost pets with their owners, champion responsible pet ownership and find homes for as many stray animals as possible through adoptions.\nView original content with multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bjs-wholesale-club-announces-10000-donation-to-dorchester-paws-300569598.html\nSOURCE BJ's Wholesale Club", "Get to the airport two hours early, just to stand in line? Sure. Squeeze into an ever smaller seat? OK. Paying extra for overhead bin space? Yup. Deal with the guy next to you hogging the armrest? Fine. Sit in silence as the lady two rows back shouts into her cellphone? Absolutely not. No way. Never.\nThe put-upon people have spoken, and they have at long last drawn the line. The flying experience feels like it gets crummier all the time, and people trudge through it. But, it seems, other passengers’ phone calls would fly right past the breaking point, and keep on going.\nIn a bid to preserve sanity, the federal Department of Transportation is considering a ban on in-air calls using WiFi, and invited the public to share their thoughts. And boy did they: Over 8,000 of people logged on and left comments before the consultation ended Monday. And probably no surprise to anyone: The American people are gaga for this travel-related ban.\n“Having to hear others’ phone calls on any vehicle is an intrusion on one’s privacy. No voice communications by passengers should be allowed on airline flights, period,” says Steven Joyce.\n“Can you imagine hundreds of people confined in a small space all yelling into their phones for the entire duration of a flight,” asks an anonymous commenter. “I beg of you, please do not allow voice calls on flights.”\n“We are frequent travelers and airline travel is already stressful enough with long delays and security checks at the airports, fights for overhead space and cramped seating. Allowing cell phone conversational usage will only be the match that ignites numerous airline disturbances,” Albert Milo frets.\nSome of the loudest protests come from the keepers of the peace at 30,000 feet. “It threatens aviation security and increases the likelihood of conflict in the skies,” Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants, said in a statement. “No calls on planes. Period.”\nIf you’ve never suffered the degradation of flying economy and wonder why people are so worked up, science serves up part of the answer. A 2013 University of San Diego study found it’s harder to tune out a phone call than two people chatting, because your brain keeps trying to fill in the gaps on the side you can’t hear. That makes it harder to focus on anything else, which quickly becomes irritating if you can’t escape. And thus, the worries about violence.\nThe Federal Communications Commission has long banned in-flight calls using cell networks, but now wants to update the rules to allow airlines and passengers to take full advantage of new satellite services like Gogo’s 2Ku and Inmarsat’s Global Express poised to make in-flight WiFi fast enough to enable calls over Skype or FaceTime.\nThe DOT has reservations, hence the proposed ban, along with a proposal that airlines must notify passengers in advance if calls are allowed on their flight. Now, newly installed DOT chief Elaine Chao gets to pursue the rule, or drop the issue and let airlines decide for themselves.\nThe good news for you, dear traveler, is airlines have heard passengers’ loud objections over the years (especially during a 2013 debate over a proposal to allow cell network calls). Several, including Delta, United, and Southwest, already ban voice calls of all types.\nThe inevitable bad news is that where there’s a chance to make money, the airline industry tends to take it. Outside the US, airlines like Emirates, Lufthansa, and Virgin Atlantic connect passenger calls via satellite. For a price, fliers can chat as loudly as they like.\nThe future of aviation may deliver salvation. Airbus is working on a concept dividing cabins into areas like cafes and spas, so why not a quiet room? Until then, consider noise-canceling headphones your new best friend.", "A rabies vaccine blitz is intensifying on Six Nations after a third raccoon found on the territory this year has tested positive for rabies.\n\"More bait drops will be scheduled,\" Six Nations communications officer Victoria Racette said Monday.\nOn Aug. 2, Six Nations police said that the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry confirmed that a raccoon destroyed by a Six Nations officer tested positive for rabies. The animal was destroyed in the area of Mohawk Road, between Second and Third Line roads.\nPolice said they have responded to more than 20 calls from residents reporting raccoons exhibiting strange behaviour. In all cases, the animal was destroyed and tested for rabies.\nIn late February, the first raccoon this year tested positive for rabies after it was found as roadkill near Chiefswood Road and Third Line, just south of Ohsweken.\nThe second confirmed case was announced in March.\nOntario has been dealing with an outbreak of rabies since 2015. In 2016, 288 cases of rabies were confirmed in animals in the province.\nBaits were dropped at selected points across Six Nations, Six Nations council said in a previous public announcement issued on its website.\n\"To help with the prevention and spread of wildlife, Six Nations has and will continue taking part in a provincewide aerial baiting program,\" the announcement says.\n\"Exposure to the bait is not harmful, however, in the unlikely event that you or your pet come into contact with the vaccine, contacting a doctor or veterinarian as a precaution is recommended.\"\nThe latest notice says more bait drops will continue through the latter part of this month and into October.\nThe distribution of baits is conducted in rural areas by air with ministry aircraft flying low-level and by hand in urban areas by ministry wildlife technicians.\nIf found, the baits should be left for raccoons, skunks and foxes to consume, says the notice.\nTo protect family and pets from rabies, the notice advises:\nAvoid contact with live or dead animals, including raccoons, skunks, bats and any unknown dogs or cats.\nDo not feed, help or relocate any wildlife or keep them as pets.\nVaccinate pets again rabies and keep vaccinations current for dogs and cats to protect them and help prevent the virus from spreading other animals and people.\nDon't allow a pet to wander unsupervised, especially at night.\nDo not leave pet food outside because it can attract wildlife.\nIf you suspect your pet already has rabies, immediately call a veterinarian.\nReport all animal bites and scratches to Six Nations Public Health at 519-445-2671, and the report sick, injured or strangely behaving wildlife to Six Nations Wildlife Office at 519-445-0330.\nFor more information on the rabies virus and how you can protect family and pets, call Six Nations Public Health or visit www.snhs.ca/hpnsRabiesBrochure.pdf, or www.ontario.ca/rabies.\nAnyone on Six Nations in need of animal control services can call 519-445-2947 or, after hours, 519-445-4818.\nMMarion@postmedia.com\n@expMarion", "In the hot late-May sun, the only thing sunnier in Camden Yards than the dogs’ toothy grins were those of the players holding them.\nOn Wednesday, the Orioles shot photos for their 2019 Orioles Pet Calendar, which will feature players posing with adoptable pups and kittens.\nThe calendar, which will feature Joey Rickard, Miguel Castro and Manny Machado, among others, have raised over $320,000 for the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter, Inc. (BARCS) over the past eight years.\nBARCS is the largest shelter in Maryland, taking in over 12,000 homeless pets annually.\n“A lot of these animals are trying to be adopted, so we’re trying to get them used to being around humans again,” said Orioles right-hander Kevin Gausman, who posed with 2-year-old silky terrier Daisy and 8-week-old orange kitten Nemo.\nThe Orioles and OriolesREACH produce the eighth annual Orioles Pet Calendar with all proceeds benefiting the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter, Inc. (BARCS). (Algerina Perna / Baltimore Sun) (Algerina Perna / Baltimore Sun)\nIn 2017, Gausman and his wife, Taylor, started the program “Tails with Tales” in partnership with BARCS, pairing children learning to read with adoptable animals.\n“They have about a thousand animals that come in every month,” Gausman said. “Think of how many of those animals who need homes and people who are willing and able to give them a home. It’s such a great environment.”\nOther Orioles who will appear in the calendar include Richard Bleier, Chris Davis, Craig Gentry, Mychal Givens, Adam Jones, Darren O’Day, Chance Sisco and Mark Trumbo.\nThe animals, however, will likely be settled into new homes by then.\n“But this does give them some pre-exposure,” said Jennifer Brause, the founder and executive director of BARCS. “We also put on their cage that they’re going to be on the calendar to market them a little more.”\nThe full-color calendar will be available for purchase for $15 later this season.\nCAPTION The Orioles posed for the 2019 Orioles Pet Calendar, which benefits homeless pets at Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter (BARCS). (Ulysses Muñoz / Baltimore Sun video) The Orioles posed for the 2019 Orioles Pet Calendar, which benefits homeless pets at Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter (BARCS). (Ulysses Muñoz / Baltimore Sun video) CAPTION May 29, 2018 -- The Orioles lose to the Nationals, 3-2. (Denise Sanders, Baltimore Sun video) May 29, 2018 -- The Orioles lose to the Nationals, 3-2. (Denise Sanders, Baltimore Sun video)\nkfominykh@baltsun.com\ntwitter.com/katfominykh", "Keep pets in the back seats\nKeep pets restrained\nSelecting the right equipment\nRecently, Subaru teamed up with the Center for Pet Safety to determine the safest locations for pets to be transported in a three-row crossover , since the company was just about to launch the three-row Ascent , and Subaru has worked to associate itself with pets and pet owners. But not everyone owns a three-row SUV , so we as pet lovers wanted to get some broader information about safely transporting dogs and cats in cars . To do so, we called up Lindsey Wolko, the founder of the Center for Pet Safety . Here's what we learned.There are a few reasons for this. Among them is simply that pets are less distracting in the back seat. They can't climb into your lap, and you aren't distracted petting them. Cutting down on this distraction reduces the chance of a crash and keeps you and them safe. Besides that, Wolko tells us that having them in the front seat is a danger because air bags are not designed with pets in mind, and they could injure your pet in a crash. There's also a strong risk of them being thrown from the car when up front.When deciding where your pets should be in the back, Wolko said it mainly depends on where they fit. If the back seat has captain's chairs, only smaller pets such as cats and small dogs should be placed there. Larger pets such as big dogs should mainly be on bench seats. Another important aspect for pet seating is whether there's a strong attachment designed for restraint in a collision, and that's because of the next important thing to keep in mind.Your pets should be restrained for basically the same reasons we humans should be restrained. If a pet isn't restrained in a crash, it can fly forward and suffer severe injuries. It could even potentially hurt you if you're in the path of the pet. And if your pet doesn't collide with an object in the car, it could potentially be thrown from the car. There's also the possibility that in the aftermath of the crash, if doors and windows are broken and open, an unrestrained pet could run off and become lost. Even if the pet isn't seriously hurt from an impact, Wolko noted that some pets have suffered other injuries such as torn ACLs from trying to stay standing during a hard stop or crash. For all these reasons, you should really keep your pet in place in the vehicle.To do so, there are two key types of restraint Wolko and Center for Pet Safety recommend. The first kind is the carrier or crate type. You've surely seen these at pet stores, airports and many other places. Though not necessarily the softest thing in a crash, a crate will keep your pet from being thrown out or having a hard, high-speed collision with parts of the interior. The crate or carrier needs to be securely attached in the car to attachment points that will withstand a collision.The other key type of recommended crash protection are harnesses and seats. These strap onto your dog and are attached to secure points such as the seatbelts. Basically they're seatbelts for pets. They should not be used in conjunction with ziplines or long extensions because this can negate the protection of keeping the pet in place.Another type of restraint is the barrier. These don't offer as much protection, though they are effective for preventing distraction. Only barriers that are securely attached in the car — and ideally designed for that specific car — should be used. Generic barriers that fit in place because of tension bars likely won't be strong enough to keep a pet contained in a crash, and that type of barrier could itself become a projectile if it breaks loose.Between carriers and harnesses, Wolko said it all depends on what your pet is more comfortable with. If your dog or cat constantly squirms and hates a harness, then some type of crate is probably the way to go. Conversely, if your pet doesn't like being placed in a separate compartment, it would probably prefer some sort of harness.As far as choosing safety equipment that's crash-rated, that's more difficult. Wolko cautions against blindly believing marketing about crash testing . She recommends going with a product that has been tested by the Center for Pet Safety. She explained that CPS works with a third party to test products using a car-seat sled. The organization also analyzes the construction of restraints to ensure quality and that they use safe designs.Products that are certified by the Center for Pet Safety can display the organization's seal of approval. The complete list is also viewable at the organization's website . The list is fairly short at the time of writing. Sleepypod harnesses and the ZuGoPet Rocketeer Pack are the only harnesses listed, and Gunnar kennels, Gen7Pets carriers, and Sleepypod carriers are the only crates and carriers listed.", "Russian police arresting a football fan in Moscow (Picture: AAFP)\nFootball fans descending on Russia for next month’s World Cup should be aware they need to obey local laws or they could face a spell in prison.\nAmong the rules and regulations fans may not be aware of is one that bans people from flying drones without prior permission from the government and another that bans dirty cars.\nBut there might be good news if fans want to bring their dog to the tournament, while a doctor’s note for cannabis will allow spectators to smoke without fear of the long arm of the law.\nRussia has 11 time zones and a multitude of states, cities and republics – so there are a number of differing rules to follow.\nDrones with cameras need prior authorisation by the government (Picture: Getty)\nRussia is not keen on people taking pictures of its national monuments, or ‘strategically important sites’ like airports.\nAdvertisement\nAdvertisement\nThere could be a fine if tourists are caught taking photos where they shouldn’t be. Check out this website to find out where prohibited or military areas are.\nAnimal lovers who want to bring their pets to the World Cup are allowed to bring two animals into the country, providing they enter at Domodedovo Airport in Moscow or Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg.\nAlthough it is not illegal to be gay in Russia, the country has passed several anti-LGBT laws in recent years and there are currently no anti-discrimination laws in place.\nFIFA has promised to step in if there are any human rights infractions but the British Foreign Office warns visitors to Russia: ‘Public attitudes towards LGBT+ issues are less tolerant than in the UK, and can vary depending on location.\nBe careful taking snaps of the Kremlin and other landmarks (Picture: AFP)\n‘Public displays of affection may attract negative attention. The republics of the North Caucasus are particularly intolerant to LGBT+ issues. Since April 2016, reports continue to be received of state persecution of the LGBT+ community in Chechnya.\n‘In 2018 Russia was ranked 45th out of 49 European countries for LGBT+ rights by ILGA-Europe.\n‘There are no laws that exist to protect LGBT+ people from discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and/or gender identity.’\nFederico Addiechi, FIFA’s head of sustainability and diversity, said: ‘If there are any cases of abuse, or even possibility of human rights defenders or journalists being forced into a difficult corner, then according to our statutes and human rights policy, FIFA will intervene.’\nFIFA also has demanded Russian authorities allow World Cup events to be: ‘Discrimination-free environments, including concerning discrimination based on sexual orientation.’\nRamzan Kadyrov, head of the Russian Chechen Republic, presided over a gay purge (Picture: Getty)\nIn a more bizarre law, which saw the 2014 ban on the sale of lace knickers, it was deemed that Russian skin should not be covered by material with less than 6% cotton.\nAdvertisement\nAdvertisement\nTourists hoping to hire a car should be aware that dirty cars – especially with obscured number plates – could land drivers with a fine.\nBut away from the criminal law, there are also social rules which visitors to Russia would do well to observe if they want to fit in with the locals.\nFor those hoping to keep their heads hot during the tournament, it is deemed to be ‘weak’ to lower the ear flaps on a fur hat unless the temperature drops below -20C.\nBut most importantly of all, if someone in Russia offers you a vodka, no matter the time or place, it is the done thing to accept.\nMORE: World’s first 3D printed artificial eye cornea produced by British scientists\nMORE: Roseanne feels sorry for Trump as she likens racist tweet backlash to ‘what he goes through everyday’", "Alberta veterinarians have taken issue with proposed provincial government legislative changes that they say were made without consultation and that they fear will negatively affect animal care and welfare.\nThe changes include the option for veterinary practices to advertise their fees, a requirement that they disclose all fees before treating pets and that they acquire customer consent before undertaking treatment or procedures.\nBill 31, A Better Deal for Consumers and Businesses Act, was introduced for debate two weeks ago and is up for third reading this week, after which the session adjourns.\nADVERTISEMENT\nChanges for veterinarians were included in the wide-ranging bill, which also addressed ticket scalpers, automotive repairs and high-cost credit businesses.\nThe Alberta Veterinary Medical Association (ABVMA) called on Service Alberta Minister Stephanie McLean to withdraw the bill’s amendments to the Veterinary Profession Act.\nDr. Phil Buote, deputy registrar and complaints director for the ABVMA, said the legislation is not needed, some of the changes duplicate what veterinarians already do and some of them have potential to reduce the quality of pet care.\n“We see it as an intrusion, we view it as unnecessary and we see it as an overreach with no justification into the ABVMA’s privilege, if you will, and or authority granted under this legislation,” said Buote.\n“We have been presented with no evidence that the ABVMA has not appropriately discharged its duties. We have been undertaking all of our obligations responsibly and in the interest of protecting the public, and so we have no reason why the government would say we need to do this to your legislation without involving you in the process to try to improve things.”\nADVERTISEMENT\nService Alberta undertook a public consultation about treatment of consumers this summer with an online survey and several open-house events. That process revealed some customers’ desires for posted veterinary fees and cost estimates on pet care before treatment is provided.\nIn a statement, McLean said Bill 31 addressed those concerns.\n“We have also heard from ordinary Albertans who told us they want to be better informed when looking for veterinary services for their pets. That’s why we’re proposing reasonable new rules requiring fee disclosers that are in line with other provinces, like British Columbia and Ontario.”\nMcLean also said the changes apply to treatment of dogs, cats and other domestic pets to be specified, and do not involve veterinary treatment of livestock.\nOn the advertising issue, Buote said the council of the ABVMA has discussed whether to allow veterinarians to advertise their fees, but there are restrictions because it is difficult to accurately predict costs until the pet has been examined and its needs identified.\nADVERTISEMENT\n“In addition, there is a concern that certain members may take advantage of a competitive marketplace that’s driven by fees that would … lower the standards of care.\n“There’s only so many ways that a service can be delivered at a cheaper cost and that is to start cutting corners where perhaps the proper drugs for something like pain control, or the use of unregistered untrained (personnel), can result in a lowering of the quality of care provided and impact animal health and welfare.”\nBill 31 would require customer approval of treatment with exceptions in cases of emergency.\nBuote said veterinarians are now required to obtain approval for treatment including emergencies, so the bill’s provisions are actually a downgrade.\nThe minister said changes in the bill were made after consultation with veterinarians, but Buote disputed that assertion.\nHe said a Nov. 2 letter and a Nov. 10 phone call to the ABVMA provided no indication that legislation was pending. On Nov. 28 it was advised that legislation would be tabled the following day.\n“We found ourselves in a position of requesting, at that late hour, to even see a draft copy of the proposed amendments, which was denied.”\nADVERTISEMENT\nBuote said the association falls under the department of labour and it had a good relationship with Labour Minister Christina Gray.\n“We don’t have clarity as to why the ministry of Service Alberta has been able to make these proposed amendments and we have not been consulted even from our own minister,” he said.\nTina Fais, press secretary for McLean, said the ABVMA remains under the labour department, but Bill 31 is a broader strategy aimed at consumer protection.\nPortions of the bill pertaining to veterinarians were the subject of lengthy discussion in the legislature Dec. 4.\nDr. Richard Starke, MLA for Vermilion-Lloydminster and a member of the ABVMA though not in active practice, said the bill is an attack on the veterinary profession.\n“It’s a little bit offensive when our proud profession is lumped in with ticket scalpers, curbers and loan sharks, Mr. Speaker, but that’s what this bill does,” said Starke.\nHe said consultation on the bill was lacking and the bill essentially strips the profession of the privilege of self-governance. Starke added that he had received hundreds of emails from ABVMA members since details of the bill became known, many of them stating the proposals were invasive and infuriating.\nContact barb.glen@producer.com", "CLOSE Archaeologists find fossils, Mayan relics in underwater cave. Video provided by AFP Newslook\nJaguars may have been kept as pets by the ancient Maya. (Photo: Associated Press)\n\"Here kitty, kitty, kitty....\"\nSure, you may say that to your house cat, but the ancient Maya may have said that to a jaguar.\nAccording to a new study, the Maya kept animals such as jaguars and dogs in their homes, but whether they were pets, eaten as food or used for sacrifices — or all three, remains unknown.\nThe large cat in the study was found in a pyramid and may have been a jaguar. It likely lived off a corn-based diet.\n\"This may be evidence that wild cats were raised in captivity throughout Mesoamerica for many centuries, probably for the kings and other elites to show off their power,\" said study lead author Ashley Sharpe of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. \"So in a way, they may have been pets — although particularly dangerous pets.\"\nThe study also uncovered the first evidence of dogs traded among the Maya and used in their ceremonies.\n\"The first Spanish explorers reported that dogs were commonly eaten by people living in the Maya area, but we also know there were different dog breeds, so very possibly there were 'food' dogs and 'hunting' dogs.\"\nSmithsonian Tropical Research Institute staff scientist Ashley Sharpe shows some dog bones collected from Mayan archaeological sites in Guatemala at her lab on March 14, 2018. (Photo: Sean Mattson, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute)\nOne of the most important aspects of the study, according to Sharpe, is that the ancient Maya appear to have been \"manipulating animals a lot more often and a lot earlier on than we had thought.\"\nBy analyzing bones of animals found in Ceibal, Guatemala, Sharpe found that animal trade and management began in the Mayan pre-classic period some 2,500 years ago and intensified during the classic period. This means it was likely that organized ceremonies involving animal and human sacrifice and raising animals for food played important roles in the development of Mayan civilization.\nShe said the new study shows they were raising animals for meat as well, and probably some of these animals — like the cat — served non-food functions as pets or for ceremonial display.\n\"It's interesting to consider whether humans may have had a greater impact managing and manipulating animal species in ancient Mesoamerica than has been believed,\" Sharpe said. \"Studies like this one are beginning to show that animals played a key role in ceremonies and demonstrations of power, which perhaps drove animal-rearing and trade.\"\nThe study was published Monday in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.\nThe remains of dogs were found in the Guatemalan highlands at Ceibal, a lowland site, indicating that the Mayas were moving or trading dogs for ceremonial use. (Photo: Ashley Sharpe)\nRead or Share this story: https://usat.ly/2u0xLcN", "We might be suffering in the heat, but think about our poor, furry pets...\nThe summer season can be a tricky time for pets and with the latest weather predictions revealing that the heatwave in Britain is set to stay for another two weeks, and temperatures soaring up to 33 degrees, it’s important to keep your pets cool and calm.\nJenny Philp, managing director and practising vet at Vet’s Kitchen, gives her five top tips on keeping your dog or cat happy and healthy as temperatures continue to hit new heights.\n1. Avoid walking your dog during the hottest periods of the day\nBe sure to walk your dog either early in the morning or late at night as hot pavements can burn delicate paws. Even at cooler periods of the day, the pavement can still be warm so try to keep to the shade, wherever possible. If it’s too hot for you to hold the palm of your hand against the pavement, it will most certainly be too hot for your dog to walk on.\n2. Identify the coolest rooms in your home\nKeep your pets as comfortable as possible by encouraging them to stay in the coolest areas of your home. Rooms with tiled floors can provide a good space for them to relax away from the sun, whilst cooling mats and wet towels can help keep their body temperature down. Drawing the curtains will also prevent direct sunlight from heating up your home but your pets are still suffering from the heat, wetting their ears and paws can help to cool them down.\n3. Protect your pets’ skin and coat\nSimilar to humans, sunburn can affect animals too so it’s important to keep them protected with pet safe sun cream, by providing plenty of shade and using protective t-shirts for hairless breeds.\nCool coats have become increasingly popular items for dogs to keep their body temperature down and protect against sunburn however, these only work if the coat is kept wet at all times. If allowed to dry out, it will heat up and will make your dog even warmer. A good alternative would be to drape a wet towel over them and sitting them in front of a fan!\n4. Keep your pet hydrated\nHydration is very important, particularly in warm weather, so why not use ice cubes in your pet’s water bowl to keep the water cool? This will give them a cold, refreshing treat and by providing extra bowls in different areas around the home, you can ensure they are properly hydrated in the heat.\n5. Think creatively when it comes to treats and exercise\nVideo Of The Week\nFreezing treats in ice cubes can be a fun reward that will keep your dog cool. Also, why not get your dog a paddling pool? This provides a creative alternative to walking them and playing with toys in a shade covered pool can be just as rewarding and will keep them cool whilst ensuring they are still getting enough exercise.\nFor smaller animals, be sure to move hutches into the shade and use ice pods or frozen water bottles to keep them cool. To avoid sun stroke, it’s also important to ensure that protective rain covers are not covering the hutch and blocking air flow.\nHow will you keep your pets cool this summer?", "Miss Meow Grooming\nAirport Road, Al Khawaneej St. (Near Terminal 1)\nDubai\nU.A.E\nTelephone: +971 54 441 0202\nEmail: bookings@missmeowgrooming.com\nAny pet owner knows the importance of having a clean and healthy pet. However, not everyone knows how to groom their pet. It can be rather stressful when going about it alone. It is the reason there are experienced and trained pet groomers in Dubai that will assist pet owners with regular grooming. It is good to remember that as much as pet grooming is about bathing and brushing, it also means that any sign of illness or disease will not go undetected and can even save pet’s life.\nMiss Meow Grooming is a mobile pet grooming service that travels by mobile van to the pet owner’s home and provides pet grooming services. With a passion for all animals, it is a spa on wheels that comes to the doorstep, grooms the pet and showers it with attention as if it was their own. The mobile groomer in Dubai will create a stress-free environment in which the pet will be pampered and every need tended to.\nThe safety and comfort of the pet is the #1 priority for Miss Meow Grooming. They have a team of groomers who are well educated and understand how to groom any kind of pet. They are skilled and can answer any question related to grooming, for instance, on how often pets should be bathed, and offer advice on nail trimming and excess shedding.\nThe head of Miss Meow Grooming had this to say, “Every pet is different, some are relaxed while others are anxious. For the pet owners of anxious pets we are here to say that we know how to sooth your pet through positive reinforcement. And it is the best way to have your pet groomed without removing them from their familiar surroundings.”\nAbout Us\nWe are a leading mobile pet grooming company in Dubai, and no matter the size of your pet we are fully committed to ensuring your pet feels relaxed, comfortable and refreshed. Our goal is not just to groom your pet as part of our job, we also ensure the pet and pet owner thoroughly enjoy the experience. We offer a free consultation in which we analyze the fur and skin condition and create a personalized grooming plan for your pet. For more information, visit us on our website at http://www.missmeowgrooming.com/", "By JENNIFER PELTZ\nAssociated Press\nNEW YORK (AP) - From easy-to-clean floors to a grooming room to a color palette toned for dog and cat eyes, a building rising in New York is clearly a place for pets.\nBut it's not an animal hospital or a doggy daycare. Rather, it's what organizers say is the nation's first domestic violence shelter custom-built for victims to keep their pets in their apartments.\nExpected to open in October and house up to 100 people, it builds on a growing roster of shelters that accommodate animals so their owners won't hesitate to leave abusive homes. Organizers say it's the first specifically designed for every apartment to house people with pets.\n\"By doing so from the ground up, with not only humans in mind but pets in mind, it's going to allow for a fuller recovery for pets and the entire family,\" says Dr. Kurt Venator, chief veterinary officer of Nestle Purina PetCare Co., which is contributing supplies and expertise to the $20 million project.\nThe Urban Resource Institute, a shelter operator, is running the facility, financed through private donations and some government support.\nStudies have documented links between domestic violence and animal cruelty and have noted some victims' reluctance to leave without their pets. Some fear their abusers will retaliate by harming the animals.\nThe number of pet-friendly domestic violence shelters nationwide has grown from four in 2008 to dozens in recent years. But about 97 percent of shelters still don't accept pets, according to Urban Resource Institute CEO Nathaniel Fields. (Some of them do help arrange foster care.)\nURI has opened 52 pet-friendly apartments around New York City in the last four years but still got about 350 more requests than it could fulfill.\nAdvocates for pet-friendly shelters have faced questions about whether accommodating animals siphons focus and resources from abused people, or how people who fear for their lives can think about their pets.\nBut for many victims, Fields says, \"it's not an either-or.\"\nHope Dawson adopted her dog, Coco, to cheer up her two children after they awoke to sounds of thrown objects crashing and then saw police lead her boyfriend away from their Houston home in December 2015. She soon decided to move to New York to get away from him.\nShe had savings and a housing voucher but couldn't find an apartment and eventually moved with her kids into a no-pets shelter. An agency agreed to board Coco for 30 days; after that, the family would have to consider giving her up. Dawson still gets emotional thinking what that would have been like for kids who had already been through a lot.\n\"The way she just looks and interacts with us and makes us feel so comforted and cared for, that was something that would not be able to be replaced, and we needed it so much,\" says Dawson, 32. \"When she was reunited with us, it really did bring that light back into our situation.\"\nURI's facilities have welcomed 118 animals in four years - cats, dogs, turtles, birds, fish, a guinea pig and a bearded dragon.\nThe new seven-story, 30-apartment shelter will have a shared pet-grooming room and a secluded dog park, so residents fearful of abusers finding them don't have to leave to walk dogs.\nWindows won't open wide enough for cats to get out, but there may be shelves so felines can look outside. Flooring won't be too slippery or too sticky for paws. Paint won't be bright white, as some manmade white materials may appear fluorescent to cats and dogs, Venator said.\nDawson, meanwhile, moved her family into its own apartment after six months in shelter. She's working as a ride-hailing service driver, her kids are in middle school, and Coco is doing well.\n\"When life happens and it comes at you really hard, having a pet,\" she says, \"really does help.\"\n___\nOnline: Urban Resource Institute pet-friendly shelter program: http://urinyc.org/program/uripals/\nCopyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.", "(CNN) – Thank goodness it didn’t stay in Vegas.\nAn Idaho man says his new 8-week-old puppy appears happy and healthy despite being flown across the country to the wrong airport — landing in Las Vegas and Salt Lake City before finally arriving in his arms Sunday.\nOwner Josh Schlaich had vented his frustration with Delta Air Lines on Facebook when the white and brindle puppy failed to arrive Saturday as scheduled and he was unable to get any answers by phone.\nAccording to Delta, the dog left Richmond, Virginia, and was due to fly into Boise on Saturday evening, connecting in Detroit and Minneapolis. But Delta said the dog wasn’t going to make its connecting flight, so it was sent to a kennel in Detroit for the night.\nSunday morning, the puppy was flown to Minneapolis — but then Delta said it “misrouted” the puppy and it ended up in Las Vegas. The puppy was then put on a plane to Salt Lake City, finally making it to Boise on Sunday night.\nDelta said the puppy was given food and water and let out of its crate periodically throughout the journey. In his Facebook post, Schlaich said he received a call from someone at the Delta terminal in Detroit about his dog’s whereabouts, but then he got the runaround. “Was then given the number of the boarding facility — a disconnected line. Was not given a call back number by Detroit person, and the customer service would not give me their direct line. Tried calling Delta Cargo customer service, only to be yelled at by the rep and hung up on. No idea where my dog is, or what conditions he’ll be placed under for the next 24 or more hours. Don’t know when he will come into Boise tomorrow. No idea who to call. Absolutely ridiculous customer service.” After Delta responded, Schlaich posted two updates to say the dog was delivered and safe. “Local Delta reps (in Boise) did their best and were very helpful, but corporate and I will be having a thorough conversation tomorrow,” he wrote. Schlaich later said Delta was “working hard to make this right.” In a statement to CNN, Delta said it apologized for the mix-up and has fully refunded the dog’s shipping costs and started a review of its procedures. “We know pets are important members of the family,” the airline said. It’s at least the fourth airline error involving an animal in a week. On March 12, a French bulldog died on a United Airlines flight from Houston to New York after a flight attendant told its owner to put the dog, in its carrier, in an overhead bin. By the time the flight was over, the dog had died. A United spokesman said the passenger told the flight attendant there was a dog in the carrier, but the attendant “did not hear or understand her, and did not knowingly place the dog in the overhead bin.” Tuesday, United flew a 10-year-old German shepherd to Japan when it was supposed to land in Kansas. The dog was mistakenly switched with a Great Dane that landed in Kansas instead. Two days later, United diverted a St. Louis-bound flight to Akron, Ohio , when it realized a pet was loaded onto the flight in error.", "By\nDemocrats love to pass laws that won’t be enforce, can’t be enforce, but bring compassionate votes to their Party. To Democrats, it does not matter if a policy works, as long as they are labeled the “caring” Party. The Volsted Act failed—just made selling alcohol a crime—and helped create Al Capone. Making marijuana illegal got Lenny Bruce arrested—but millions of college students high. Now the Sacramento Democrats have declared the breeding of dogs in the State as illegal—as if that will stop the practice. “Ben Ashel has owned Puppy Heaven for 14 years and says he uses only local and responsible breeders. He says the new law will only drive the huge consumer demand online, to unregulated breeders outside California. “This is something that is going to increase a thousand fold because of this law,” Ashel says. “People will still want to get puppies.” But rescue organizations say there are plenty of puppies, kittens and dogs available for adoption. Animal advocates hope the new law will give animals a better chance at finding that permanent home. And some pet stores have adopted the model early. All of the animals in Los Angeles’ colorfully named Bark n’ Bitches pet store were rescued from shelters, rather than bought from breeders or “puppy mills” – commercial dog breeding facilities that many animal rights groups consider inhumane.” In a small way, this is another attempt by Democrats to control the actions of citizens. They ban the selling of dogs bred in California—but you can “adopt” a stray. No classy dogs for Californians—unless they go online, go to Arizona or Nevada—or are more than willing to buy on the government created black market of dog breeders. Instead of turning over criminal illegal aliens for deportation Jerry Brown wants to use our law enforcement tracking down dog breeders. Sick.\nFears Of A Black Market After Calif. Bans Some Commercial Breeding\nBy editor KPVR, 11/1/17\nCalifornia is now the first state to ban pet stores from selling animals from commercial breeders, thanks to a new law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in October. Animal advocates say it will reduce what they claim is the needless suffering of animals like puppies, kittens, and rabbits bred for sale. But critics say it will hurt pet store owners and force consumers to go underground.\nThe law goes effect in January 2019.\nPet industry and commercial breeders oppose the measure, as does the American Kennel Club. They say the law will make it more difficult for Californians to obtain dogs with the characteristics and traits they want, including breeds that are recommended for health considerations.\nHowever, individual breeders would still be able to sell to customers. The law applies only to retail pet stores like Puppy Heaven, a shop north of Los Angeles in Agoura Hills.\nThe store specializes in smaller dog breeds that have become increasingly popular in the last few years, like Yorkies, Maltese, Pomeranians, Maltipoos, and Morkies. These dogs can sell from $750 to $5,000, depending on the breed.\nBen Ashel has owned Puppy Heaven for 14 years and says he uses only local and responsible breeders. He says the new law will only drive the huge consumer demand online, to unregulated breeders outside California.\n“This is something that is going to increase a thousand fold because of this law,” Ashel says. “People will still want to get puppies.”\nBut rescue organizations say there are plenty of puppies, kittens and dogs available for adoption. Animal advocates hope the new law will give animals a better chance at finding that permanent home.\nAnd some pet stores have adopted the model early. All of the animals in Los Angeles’ colorfully named Bark n’ Bitches pet store were rescued from shelters, rather than bought from breeders or “puppy mills” – commercial dog breeding facilities that many animal rights groups consider inhumane.\nRatana Lin is an employee at Bark n’ Bitches, and it’s her job to find customers their perfect match. She recommends Bugsy, a 40-pound white, tan and gray dog, who was rescued from an animal shelter.\nStore manager Jeana Alessio says they’ve done thousands of adoptions since 2009. The customers become like family, she says, while homeless dogs like Bugsy get a second chance.\n“We’re a humane pet shop,” Alessio says. “So we rescue dogs from the high-kill shelters. We get calls just about every other day.”\nStores like this one will soon be the model when California’s new law goes into effect in 2019. It will require pet stores to only sell animals from shelters or rescue organizations.\nCalifornia Democratic Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell, one of the bill’s authors, says the new law will save animals’ lives by “cutting off the puppy mill train from the mid-west to California.”\n“It’s just solid policy,” O’Donnell says. “It will help us save animals’ lives.”\nJulie Bank, President and CEO of the Pasadena Humane Society, estimates that at least a quarter of the animals that come through the society’s doors are purebred – meaning they were likely sold by a commercial breeder.\n“It’s a pretty sad industry, a pretty abusive industry,” she says. “The consumers out there need to know, most of the times you were buying an animal you were supporting this industry rather than supporting the lives of an animal which are breathing living creatures that need our help and support.”\nCopyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\nARI SHAPIRO, HOST:\nCalifornia is the first state to ban pet stores from selling animals from commercial breeders. We’re mostly talking about puppies, kittens and rabbits. Animal advocates say the ban will reduce the needless suffering of animals in puppy mills. Critics say it will hurt pet store owners and force customers underground. Gloria Hillard reports.\nGLORIA HILLARD, BYLINE: When customers enter this Los Angeles pet store with the colorful name Bark n’ Bitches, they are met by a small stampede of smiling dogs of various sizes, colors and personalities. It’s Ratana Lin’s job to find customers their perfect match.\nRATANA LIN: So if you want a playful dog, I would recommend Bugsy.\nHILLARD: Bugsy, a 40-pound white, tan and gray sweet dog of undetermined lineage was rescued from an animal shelter.\nJEANA ALESSIO: We’re a humane pet shop. So we rescue dogs from the high-kill shelters. We get calls just about every other day.\nHILLARD: Store manager Jeana Alessio says since 2009, they’ve done thousands of adoptions. The customers become like family, she says. And homeless dogs like Bugsy get a second chance.\n(SOUNDBITE OF DOG BARKING)\nHILLARD: Stores like this one will soon be the model when California’s new law goes into effect in just over a year. It requires pet stores to only sell animals from shelters or rescue organizations.\nPATRICK O’DONNELL: It’s just solid policy. It’ll help us save animal lives.\nHILLARD: California Democratic Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell is one of the bill’s authors.\nO’DONNELL: It saves animal lives by cutting off the puppy mill train from the Midwest to California.\nJULIE BANK: At least 25 percent of the animals that come in our door are purebred animals.\nHILLARD: Julie Bank is president and CEO of the Pasadena Humane Society.\nBANK: It’s a pretty sad industry. It’s a pretty abusive industry. The consumers out there need to know, most of the times that you were buying an animal, you were supporting this industry rather than supporting the lives of an animal, which are breathing, living creatures that need our help and our support.\nHILLARD: Pet industry and commercial breeders opposed the measure, as does the American Kennel Club. It says the law will make it more difficult for Californians to obtain dogs with the characteristics and traits they want, including breeds that are recommended for health considerations. Individual breeders would still be able to sell to customers. The law applies only to retail pet stores like Puppy Heaven.\n(SOUNDBITE OF DOG BARKING)\nHILLARD: Located north of Los Angeles in Agoura Hills, the store specializes in smaller breeds which sell from $750 to $5,000\nBEN ASHEL: Yorkies, Maltese, Pomeranians, Shih Tzus, Maltipoos, Morkies – all the different kind of designer breeds that became very popular in the last few years.\nHILLARD: Ben Ashel has owned Puppy Heaven for 14 years and says he uses only local and responsible breeders. He says the new law will only drive the huge consumer demand online to unregulated breeders outside California.\nASHEL: This is something that’s going to increase thousandfold, you know, because of this law, I mean, because people will still want to get puppies.\nHILLARD: But rescue organizations say there are plenty of puppies, kittens and dogs available for adoption, like Bugsy at the Bark n’ Bitches pet store, trying to win over anyone who gives him attention.\nUNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: You want to go home? You want to go home with us, gorgeous?\nHILLARD: Animal advocates say the new law will give animals like Bugsy a better chance at finding that permanent home. For NPR News, I’m Gloria Hillard.", "Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email\nA big-hearted Rutherglen man has been honoured for his volunteering efforts.\nPaul Millan, 29, has been crowned PDSA retail volunteer of the year in the veterinary charity’s annual awards.\nHe has volunteered at the charity for two years and has been assigned lead volunteer status, which means he has added responsibilities such as volunteer recruitment and helping cover other stores in the area.\nPaul, who has lived in Rutherglen for seven years, volunteers for more than 30 hours a week at the Main Street shop.\nAnd he has also been assisting at PDSA’s Inverness, Galashiels, Wishaw and Shawlands shops when they had vacancies.\n“I feel overwhelmed,” he told the Reformer.\n“I work in the Rutherglen shop but a few others as well. It feels good to be acknowledged for all the hard work.\n“I feel animals get taken for granted sometimes and I always say to people they are not just for Christmas.\n“PDSA helps people pay for vet bills and surgery and it feels good to know they are helping animals and other people.”\n(Image: Daily Record)\nPaul said he was delighted to receive the award and added: “Volunteering for PDSA is a truly wonderful experience. I’ve met lots of lovely people and made many friends.\n“I love animals and the cause is so important to me. That’s why I was more than happy to help and felt I could make a difference.”\nPDSA provides veterinary treatment to the sick and injured pets of people in need.\nPaul was presented with a trophy, framed certificate and £50 Pets at Home vouchers by PDSA director Karen Hailes at the Rutherglen branch.\n(Image: Daily Record)\nStore manager Alex Blair said: “Paul is a very warm and genuine person and a real asset to PDSA.\n“He is a fantastic volunteer who quickly builds a rapport with his colleagues and that has earned him the respect of everyone both here and in Inverness.\n“He deserves this recognition and I’m very happy that he’s receiving this award.”\nVisit pdsa.org.uk/volunteer for more information on getting involved with the charity." ]

[ "Digestion time varies between individuals and between men and women. After you eat, it takes about six to eight hours for food to pass through your stomach and small intestine." ]

[ "1 Re: How long does it take for food to leave the stomach by Mark on 10/10/12 (2). 2 Re: How long does it take for food to leave the stomach by Libre on 10/10/12 (1). 3 Re: How long does it take for food to leave the stomach by Mark on 10/11/12 (0). Re: How long does it take for food to leave the stomach by Mark on 10/10/12 (2). 2 Re: How long does it take for food to leave the stomach by Libre on 10/10/12 (1). 3 Re: How long does it take for food to leave the stomach by Mark on 10/11/12 (0).", "How long does it take for food to move through the digestive system? Involuntary muscle contraction in hand; Involuntary stomach muscle contractions; How long does it take for food to pass through the digestive system? Movement of food from the current siphon through the digestive system of the clam; Food moves through the digestive tract by peristalsis which is produced by wavelike contractions of muscles", "How long does it take to digest and pass food? How long does it take to pass a miscarriage? How long does it take to pass a nicotine test? What is the shortest possible transit time for food to pass completely through the digestive system? How far does food travel in digestive system? How long does it take to pass a mouth swab drug test for thc?", "How long does it take for a shark to digest its food? How long would i take for a shark to completely digest its food", "A bowel transit time test measures how long it takes for food to travel through the digestive tract . After you chew and swallow your food, it moves into your stomach, where it is mixed with acid and digestive enzymes.", "How long does food stay in the stomach cats? 1 56% - What happened to the food if aet this morning how long does the food stay in the stomach? 2 57% - What hapened to the food i ate this morning how long does the food stay in the stomach? 3 76% - How long does food stay in your stomach medicine after food? 4 72% - How long food stay in stomach before 5 ... 5 54% - How long does a cats stitches have to stay in after surgery? 2 65% - How long do grains stay in a cats system? 3 58% - Does ingested food stay in stomach for 2 hours? 4 50% - What cause food to stay in stomach before a endosopohic test?", "How long does it take scrambled eggs to digest? 1 81% - How long do scrambled eggs take to digesrt? 2 65% - How long do scrambled eggs stay in stomach? 3 36% - How much histidine is in eggs? 4 79% - How long does it take for dogs to digest eggs? 5 63% - How long it takes to digest boiled eggs? 6 64% - Are scrabled eggs hard to digest? 7 55% - Are hardboiled ...", "How are carbohydrates digested? Starch digestion begins in the mouth. As food does not remain long in the mouth, only a little starch is digested by salivary amylase to maltose. No digestion of carbohy…drates occurs in the stomach; only proteins are digested in the stomach.", "How long does it take for a fruit to digest. (i.e mango,banana, grapefruit, pomegranate etc.etc.) and what i mean by 'digest' is from the stomach to the small intestine, i'm not talking about complete digestion (i.e from stomach, out the anus). 1 following.ow long does it take for a fruit to digest. (i.e mango,banana, grapefruit, pomegranate etc.etc.). and what i mean by 'digest' is from the stomach to the small intestine, i'm not talking about complete digestion (i.e from stomach, out the anus). Add your answer. Source. Submit Cancel.", "How long does it take for herbivores, carnivores and nectar feeders to digest their food? How long would it then take for a sheep, dog and honey possum to digest their food? Please be specified like days/ hours. Thanks :).", "How long does it take for flu to go away? How long does it take for stomach flu to go away? How long does it take for stomach flu symptoms to show? How long does it take to get stomach flu after exposed? How long does it take to get over a stomach flu? How long does it take to get the stomach flu after being exposed? How long does it takefor stomach to go down?", "this question has probably come up before. first, i'd like to know how long it takes for the the average digestive system, and second, how long it takes for someone with active symptoms of IBS-D. from the moment food is swallowed, how long does it stay in your system? does it depend on the type of food? and finally, does gum really stay in your intestines for 10 years?", "To answer how long does it take to get food poisoning is that in most cases of food poisoning symptoms tend to come on within twenty four to seventy two hours of eating the contaminated food, sometimes even as less as one hour. However, for some types of food poisoning, it can be as long as 90 days. How long does it take to get food poisoning and can also show some symptoms you experience. You can start to experience cramps, or nausea, or vomiting and diarrohea, usually at least three times in 24 hours. Cramp pains in your stomach. Fever, headache and body ache might occur. For how long does it take to get food poisoning depends on the poison in the food and how it affects your stomach.", "When deciding to eat something you should take into consideration how long the foods will stay in your stomach. The functioning of your stomach is influenced by how long food stays in it. Here are some tips to help you establish how long a food will remain in your stomach:", "How long does it take for food poisoning to kick in? If you eat something that your stomach doesn't agree with, about how long does it usually take for you to start throwing up after you eat it? Follow", "Gastrointestinal Transit: How Long Does It Take? How long does food stay in my stomach? How long is it before a meal reaches the large intestine? The answer to such commonly-asked questions is not necessarily simple.", "Stomach growling, which originates in the stomach and the small intestine, can be explained by a closer look at how the digestive system functions. The digestive system is, in essence, a long tube that starts at the mouth and ends at the anus.earn more about the twists and turns your food takes after your first bite by reading How the Digestive System Works. In some cases, excessive gurgling and grumbling may be a sign of an upset stomach or a medical condition like irritable bowel syndrome.", "the esophagus moves food from your moth to your stomach through muscle contractions called peristalsis. The esophagus moves food downward by peristalsis with digestion taking place. the main function of the esophagus is to get the food and water down, or if you are eating upside down up to the stomach from the mouth.he passage food takes from mechanical digestion in the mouth to digestion in the stomach. It's function though is to help and provide a place for the food to travel down to your stomach. It carries the food from the pharynx to the stomach.", "The passage food takes from mechanical digestion in the mouth to digestion in the stomach. It's function though is to help and provide a place for the food to travel down to your stomach. It carries the food from the pharynx to the stomach.It has smooth muscles that allow it to perform peristalsis.he passage food takes from mechanical digestion in the mouth to digestion in the stomach. It's function though is to help and provide a place for the food to travel down to your stomach. It carries the food from the pharynx to the stomach.", "How does the oesophagus assist in the digestion process? made up of a thick muscular wall for transporting food to the stomach. How does bile assist in the digestion process?", "You can't permantly change the size of your stomach, not unless you want surgery like gastro where they seal a part of your stomach. To answer you question of how long does it take, it takes a few weeks depending on your body, just like noticing weight loss takes a few weeks.hen you start limiting your food consumption, your stomach does not need to work to strech to take in the food, so it gets used to the amout of food you eat.", "Popular Posts. 1 How Long Does Mail Take. 2 How Long Does The Flu Last. 3 How Long Does Suboxone Stay in Your System. 4 How Long Does It Take To Get Mri Results. 5 How Long Does It Take To Digest A Meal. 6 How Long Does It Take To Become An Architect. 7 How Long Does It Take To Lower Blood Pressure.", "How does flatulence take place? Generally, flatulence comes in two air sources- from the swallowed air that mixes up with the food in the stomach and from the gas which produced by the intestines during digestion. An enzyme is needed to break down carbohydrates from food for easy digestion and absorption.", "How Long Does It Take to Get to Mars? How Long Does it Take Before a Body Starts to Smell; How Long Does It Take to Lose Weight? How Long Does It Take for a Body to Decompose? How Long Does Xanax Stay in Your System? What is the Difference Between 1080i and 1080p? How Long Does It Take to Digest Gum? Nature Activities for Children.", "The stomach is not the only part of your digestive system that absorbs food but rather is a part of the digestive system and important for churning food into a consistency that is easier to digest for the rest of your intestines.unction of the stomach. 1 The stomach is J-shaped and it can expand to temporarily store food. 2 Partial digestion of the food takes place here. 3 The stomach releases acids and enzymes for the chemical breakdown of food. 4 The stomach releases food into the small intestine in a controlled and regulated manner.", "http://www.BioMediK.com.au How digestion works stomach small intestine large intestine Where does food go? Anatomy and physiology of the digestive system? Wh...", "When we put food into our stomachs at these late hours there are not enough digestive enzymes to properly digest it. This undigested food sits in your stomach and will often disturb your sleep. Take a brisk walk after eating.", "The esophagus does not digestthe food, but it does the important job of pushing the fooddown into the stomach as well as keeping it from comingback up into the mouth.Once in the stomach, further digestion takes place. Thestomach produces acid that helps to kill bacteria and othergerms that may get into food.", "How does my digestive system break food into small parts my body can use? As food moves through your GI tract, your digestive organs break the food into smaller parts using: motion, such as chewing, squeezing, and mixing; digestive juices, such as stomach acid, bile, and enzymes; Mouth. The digestive process starts in your mouth when you chew.", "It is asumed as no. Even when the amount of food decreases along the way to stomach, it is still a no, here are the reasons: -- Digestion does not take place in the gullet a … s gullet does not produce any digestive juice.", "What about glucose, sacarose and starch guys? How long does it take from the moment it enters the stomach to the moment it goes to the blood? Sugars are digested in the small intestine. Other than that, it depends totally on what food the sugar is hidden in. Sugar in a liquid, like soda pop, will travel to the small intestine fairly quickly.", "1 54% - How long does a cats stitches have to stay in after surgery? 2 65% - How long do grains stay in a cats system? 3 58% - Does ingested food stay in stomach for 2 hours? 4 50% - What cause food to stay in stomach before a endosopohic test? 54% - How long does a cats stitches have to stay in after surgery? 2 65% - How long do grains stay in a cats system? 3 58% - Does ingested food stay in stomach for 2 hours? 4 50% - What cause food to stay in stomach before a endosopohic test?" ]

[ "Lmao. I have to watch the whole clip. I’ve watched people not allowed entry into establishments because they’re not wearing masks and went berserk and says “it’s just flu”." ]

[ "Covid-19 vaccine turns out to be a zombie virus", "Kill a character off and then downplay the reactions of the surviving characters compared to the Build up of what that character meant to the reader.", "A working COVID-19 vaccine.", "Not happening due to Covid-19", "A knight with tuberculosis", "The Pre Covid-19 era", "Covid-19 Vaccine for everyone.", "Donald Trump didn't actually catch Coronavirus, it was a lie to garner sympathy in election season and to further downplay the threat of the virus.", "If Covid-19 taught me anything, New Zealand.", "COVID-19.exe would need to be removed.", "TellMyWiFILoveHer\n\nCOVID-19 5G Test Tower", "\"Come one Eileen\" but sung like \"Covid 19\"", "A 103-year-old grandma beat COVID-19 and celebrated with a Bud Light.", "There is no ~~Dana~~ 2020. Only ~~Zule~~ Covid-19.", "that we have completely and entirely recovered from covid-19.", "I found roommates during COVID-19. Never thought of that.", "It’s just harder to achieve those things now a days compared to then.", "An s/o im almost 19 and haven’t had a first kiss or dated or anything related.", "No they are smart cause they have a lower chance of getting both STDs and COVID-19.", "Bambi”s mom dies. There’s nothing as an adult that can compare to that 6 year old mindfuck.", "China releasing covid-19 to stop the protests wuhan protesters.", "Surely the COVID-19 vaccine when all the clinical trials are complete!", "Sneezing in a public place in a city infected with severe cases of COVID-19", "Dont hold back. Say what's on your mind. That's what the therapist is there for.", "With the beginning of Covid-19 leaving a cliffhanger with a sequel that come out in four years", "Betty White will pass away from complications of COVID 19. That will be the endcap of 2020.", "Not really but it is interesting to see and compare irl people to those horoscope posts.", "Sadly, the bunny contracted covid-19. As it was coughing, it decided that it should just sit this year out.", "I've agreed to help stop the spread of covid-19, but I promised nothing about cholera." ]

[ "“The American Customer Satisfaction Index found that response rates for paper-based surveys were around 10% and the response rates for e-surveys (web, wap and e-mail) were averaging between 5% and 15% – which can only provide a straw poll of the customers’ opinions.”." ]

[ "In the realm of survey research, the response rate represents the number of people who completed your survey divided by the sample size (or number of people you tried to contact). Of course, here at FluidSurveys, we are interested in online research and will therefore be calculating the average response rate for only online surveys.", "Response Rate. Your response rate is the percentage of people who respond to your survey. To calculate the percentage response rate for your survey, use the following equation: # of responses to your survey. x 100. # of people you sent the survey to.", "But what exactly is a response rate? And how does it influence the quality of the survey results? The response rate of a survey is a measure of how many people approached, (i.e. 'sampled') actually completed the survey (expressed as a percentage from 0% to 100%).hese are examples of surveys with a very low response rate, often well under 1%. They represent an extreme example, however many other surveys also suffer from low response rates, and their results may also be misleading.", "Response Rate. Your response rate is the percentage of people who respond to your survey. You can find the total number of responses in your survey's Summary tab. To calculate your response rate based on the number of complete responses to your survey, filter by completeness and select Complete responses. The number of complete responses appears at the top of the page when the filter is applied.", "In addition to the actual number of responses, it is also important to look at the response rate. Employee satisfaction surveys typically have response rates in the 70% - 80% range (or higher).", "Customer surveys are challenging. By looking at customer survey examples, you can learn the core principles of what makes a well designed customer survey. It’s important to remember that a successful customer survey has high survey response rates, and accurate, actionable customer feedback.", "They get a 1% response rate when mailing to prospects. When they target current customers, their response rate doubles to 2%. As for industry averages, the DMA analyzed 1,122 industry-specific campaigns and determined that the average response rate for direct mail was 2.61%. If you assume 1%, 2% or 2.61% response rates, you might be disappointed. We've seen open rates as low as 0.2%. For some industries, that's acceptable.", "Of course, here at FluidSurveys, we are interested in online research and will therefore be calculating the average response rate for only online surveys. Our response rate will also exclude all forms of pop-up and embed surveys because these methods of online research do not have a set sample size.", "For many years, a survey's response rate was viewed as an important indicator of survey quality. Many observers presumed that higher response rates assure more accurate survey results (Aday 1996; Babbie 1990; Backstrom and Hursh 1963; Rea and Parker 1997). survey’s response rate is the result of dividing the number of people whom were interviewed by the total number of people in the sample whom were eligible to participate and should have been interviewed.", "The percentage of households in a sample that are successfully interviewed — the response rate — has fallen dramatically. At Pew Research, the response rate of a typical telephone survey was 36% in 1997 and is just 9% today.", "Response rates when conducting an employee survey are notoriously variable-anything from 20% up to 95% is possible. So why do employees sometimes respond to surveys and other times don™t? -And more importantly what can be done to achieve a response rate high enough to give you confidence in your own survey results. 5 good reasons not to take part in an employee survey Reason 1 - This survey is a waste of time-it™s not important", "The survey found that the average nonprofit donor retention rate is only 41 percent, compared to a customer retention rate of 94 percent for businesses. The average new donor retention rate is only 27 percent.", "Dun & Bradstreet / Open Ratings, Inc. surveyed Native Intelligence, Inc. customers about our reliability, cost, order accuracy, delivery/timeliness, quality, business relations, personnel, customer support, and responsiveness.", "Boosting online survey response rates. The most prevalent methods for boosting online survey response rates are: (1) repeat reminder emails to non-respondents (students); (2) repeat reminder emails to survey owners (academics); (3) incentives to students in the form of prizes for respondents awarded through a lottery.", "Questionnaire Review Examine and critique of an existing survey. The review is conducted to improve the quality of the survey, and to increase the likelihood the customer receives actionable information. Critiques are also performed to increase the probability of high response rates.", "Response rate (also known as completion rate or return rate) in survey research refers to the number of people whom answered the survey divided by the number of people in the sample.It is usually expressed in the form of a percentage. survey’s response rate is the result of dividing the number of people whom were interviewed by the total number of people in the sample whom were eligible to participate and should have been interviewed.", "A common question we receive from new or potential survey clients is “How do you get such high participation rates?” For an employee survey, a participation rate of 50% to 60% is considered industry standard for web-based surveys.", "Response rates for Pew Research polls typically range from 5% to 15%; these response rates are comparable to those for other major opinion polls. The response rate is the percentage of known or assumed residential households for which a completed interview was obtained.", "Provider Ratings. Provider Ratings - 221 ratings. The Provider Rating score is an average of all responses to care provider related questions on our nationally-recognized Press Ganey Patient Satisfaction Survey. Responses are measured on a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 being the best score. Care provider's friendliness and courtesy.", "Evaluate the survey results and find out what your customers expect. You can also guide the customers to submit the response by clicking on the link of the survey. After submitting the response, the results/reports can be saved and used for building better business strategies.", "Although the calculation of response rates for many types of surveys is straightforward, calculation of response rates in RDD surveys is more complicated and can be influenced by factors that are not readily apparent.", "A few significant factors that influence response rates are: 1 Does the employee survey have the support of management? Not surprisingly, the support of management is crucial in driving employee participation. 2 The larger the survey, the smaller the response rate. There is a direct correlation between survey size and response rate.", "The prime rate represents a survey of rates charged by lending institutions to their most credit-worthy customers. The rate was first published in 1947, when it stood at 1.75 percent. Since that time, the cumulative average prime rate has reached 9.842 percent.", "Commendable: 75% to 90%. The percentage of EngagedMetrics clients that achieve the “commendable” response rate range is 28.75%. With support from management and a well designed survey, it’s entirely possible to achieve a commendable response rate between 75% and 90% percent.", "If you ask only two questions, then you can expect a 50% * 50% = 25% response rate, or eight times more data. You'll possibly get an even more results, as the average response rate for users of Promoter.io, an automated NPS platform, hovers around 40%.", "Average Hourly Rate for Flagger Force Employees. Employees of Flagger Force bring in an average of $11.33 per hour, and when they are working overtime, they earn $16.89. This report is based on responses to the PayScale salary survey.", "While the most obvious reason why we want a high response rate is to provide a return on the investment in the survey, there is a more important statistical reason. If the people who didn't respond to the survey are different to those who did respond, then the results may be biased.hese are examples of surveys with a very low response rate, often well under 1%. They represent an extreme example, however many other surveys also suffer from low response rates, and their results may also be misleading.", "The first batch of surveys was successfully sent to: 1 23,310 business email addresses. 2 With a 15.34% unique open rate. 3 And a survey completion rate of 1.1%.", "Patient Rating Breakdown. The Patient Satisfaction Rating is an average of all responses to the care provider related questions shown below from our nationally-recognized Press Ganey Patient Satisfaction Survey.", "And we invite them to do a survey about their most recent flight; we tell them which flight, which section, we want them to evaluate. These samples are up to 25,000 people at a time, and our response rate is anywhere between thirty to forty percent. We have a pretty engaged group of customers..", "This is indeed a serious issue; the response rate in a typical Pew Research Center poll fell from 36 percent in 1997 to 9 percent today. Consumers of public opinion polls should always consider methodology and response rates when interpreting survey findings.", "Another 73 percent expect customer service to be easier and more convenient, and 61 percent want it to be faster. Complaining on social media about poor customer experience is the norm for 44 percent of consumers who admit taking to social channels in order to vent." ]

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[ "This work characterizes long channel trigate transistors with respect to the systematic influence of crystal orientation and body doping on performance issues like mobility and V th adjustment. A fin orientation of (100) is found favourable for n-channel, (110) for p-channel transistors. Experiment shows that body doping is suitable to taylor V th , but low doping levels are preferable to reduce V th variations. The applicability of these long channel results to short-channel transistors down to 20 nm gate length is demonstrated and good performance is obtained." ]

[ "N-p-n AlGaAs/GaAs heterojunction bipolar transistors of various emitter-mesa diameters have been fabricated to investigate the dependence on structural design considerations of the edge leakage current, mainly caused by surface recombination. It is shown that the inclusion of a thinned-emitter edge shoulder structure has a significant effect on the mesa edge leakage current of circular devices. MOVPE and MBE grown heterojunction bipolar transistors, with different base doping levels, were also assessed and the possibility of using a heavily carbon-doped base with doping levels varying from 1/spl times/10/sup 18/ cm/sup -3/ to 5/spl times/10/sup 19/ cm, was examined. It was found that MBE-grown wafers show good transistor action, but poor current gain, whereas MOVPE-grown wafers have both good transistor performance and high current gain. However, a five-fold decrease in base doping level of MBE-grown devices produces an increase in current gain.", "This work provides a detailed set of predictive data about FinFET and Trigate devices behavior considering process variability effects in ON and OFF currents. These evaluations help to understand the impact of variability sources identifying relevant behavior standards with respect to the use of FinFET and Trigate devices. The IOFF suffers the higher impact of geometric variability, mainly on FinFET devices. PFET devices and the LSTP model are also more sensitive than NFET devices and high performance models. Results highlights that Trigate devices are up to 10% less sensitive to gate length variations.", "Abstract The field-effect transistors (FETs) with 2,4,5-trichlorobenzene sulfonic acid (TCBSA) -doped polyaniline (PANI) and undoped polyaniline films as p-type semiconductor are fabricated. These FETs have ideal source current-drain voltage characteristics and their performances depend strongly on the materials for source and drain electrodes, the content of 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) in the PANI films, the doping level and the ambient environment.", "Abstract In this paper, the characteristics and device mechanism of InP/InGaAs pnp δ-doped heterojunction bipolar transistor are demonstrated. The additions of a δ-doped sheet and two spacer layers efficiently eliminate the potential spike at emitter–base junction, lower the emitter–collector offset voltage, and increase the confinement effect for electrons, simultaneously. The components of base current and the influence of δ-doped sheet on the potential spike are depicted. Experimentally, excellent device performances including a maximum current gain of 50 and a low offset voltage of 70 mV are achieved for the device with a δ-doped density of 2 × 10 12 cm −2 . The experimental results are consistent with the theoretical analysis.", "Absence of p-n junctions and associated electrical drawbacks coupled with the ease of fabrication of multi-gate (MG) architectures have rendered junctionless transistor (JLT) a promising candidate for future very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuits in line with the Moore's law. In this paper, we have presented a comparative analysis on the performance of double gate (DG) and Gate-all-around (GAA) JLTs along with the underlying analytical expressions used for such computations and the same has also been validated. The effect of variation of different device parameters such as oxide thickness, body thickness, doping concentration etc. on some electrical characteristics of DG and GAA MOSFETs have been investigated. We have also explored the impact of variation of aspect ratio and the use of multiple channels on the performance of GAA JLTs.", "The invention discloses an adjusting method and a manufacturing method of bipolar transistor performance in a bulk silicon CMOS integrated circuit. The adjusting method includes steps of defining the deviation amount of the performance parameters of a bipolar transistor in an integrated circuit, defining the ion implantation technological parameters of the deepest layer of a doped area in the integrated circuit according to the deviation amount of the performance parameters, and implanting ions to the deepest layer of the doped area according to the ion implantation technological parameters. The adjusting method and manufacturing method flexibly adjust the performance of the bipolar transistor without influencing the performance of an MOS element, which can meet different application requirements of the bipolar transistor in an integrated circuit, and can be used to avoid latch-up in circuit.", "ABSTRACT Orienting influence of femtosecond laser pulses on nematic liquid crystals has been studied. We have shown experimentally that in both a nematic liquid crystal doped with anthraquinone dye D4 and nematic matrix “mixture A” (consisting of azoxymolecules) the efficiency of the liquid-crystal director reorientation under the influence of femtosecond pulses is less than for continuous wave radiation. The mechanism responsible for this difference is associated with light-induced variation of the anchoring conditions.", "We created tri-gate sub-100 nm In0.53Ga0.47As metal-oxide-semiconductor-field-effect-transistors (MOSFETs) with a bi-layer Al2O3/HfO2 gate stack and investigated the scaling effects on equivalent-oxide-thickness (EOT) and fin-width (Wfin) at gate lengths of sub-100 nm. For Lg = 60 nm In0.53Ga0.47As tri-gate MOSFETs, EOT and Wfin scaling were effective for improving electrostatic immunities such as subthreshold swing and drain-induced-barrier-lowering. Reliability characterization for In0.53Ga0.47As Tri-Gate MOSFETs using constant-voltage-stress (CVS) at 300K demonstrates slightly worse VT degradation compared to planar InGaAs MOSFET with the same gate stack and EOT. This is due to the effects of both of the etched fin’s sidewall interfaces.", "Carrier transport and trapping effects, as they are influenced by molecular chain orientation, were investigated by Thermally Stimulated Currents (TSC) and Current-Voltage (IV) characteristics in the samples of poly(9-vinylcarbazole) (PVK) doped with 30% wt 4-dibutylamino-4′-nitrostilbene (DBANS). The orientation of DBANS, diode-like molecules, was performed by electric field above the glass transition temperature. We demonstrate that the orientation of polar molecules causes significant changes both in IV dependencies and the TSC spectra. Changes of the TSCs induced by orientation were expressed best in the temperature range of 280–290 K. They could be attributed to the thermally activated process with activation energy of about 0.38 eV.", "The critical factor that limits the efficiencies of organic electronic devices is the low charge carrier mobility which is attributed to disorder in organic films. In this work we study the effects of active film morphology on the charge transport in Organic Field Effect Transistors (OFETs). We fabricated the OFETs using different substrate temperature to grow different morphologies of C 60 films by Hot Wall Epitaxy. Atomic Force Microscopy images and XRD results showed increasing grain size with increasing substrate temperature. An increase in field effect mobility was observed for different OFETs with increasing grain size in C 60 films. The temperature dependence of charge carrier mobility in these devices followed the empirical relation named as Meyer-Neldel Rule and showed different activation energies for films with different degree of disorder. A shift in characteristic Meyer-Neldel energy was observed with changing C 60 morphology which can be considered as an energetic disorder parameter.", "Optimization of a LDD doping profile to enhance hot carrier resistance in 3.3 V input/output CMOS devices has been performed by utilizing phosphorus transient enhanced diffusion (TED). Hot carrier effects in hybrid arsenic/phosphorus LDD nMOSFET's with and without TED are characterized comprehensively. Our result shows that the substrate current in a nMOSFET with phosphorus TED can be substantially reduced, as compared to the one without TED. The reason is that the TED effect can yield a more graded n/sup -/ LDD doping profile and thus a smaller lateral electric field. Further improvement of hot carrier reliability can be achieved by optimizing arsenic implant energy. Secondary ion mass spectrometry analysis for TED effect and two-dimensional (2-D) device simulation for electric field and current flow distributions have been conducted. The phosphorus TED effects on transistor driving current and off-state leakage current are also investigated.", "Abstract Among Zn, Cd, Mg, Mn, and Be as the p -type dopant in InGaAs, Mg and Mn were taken as candidates for the dopant in the base region of InP/InGaAs heterojunction transistors. Properties of the two dopants were investigated in terms of doping reproducibility, diffusion in solid phase, and attainable optical gain in the InP/InGaAs heterojunction phototransistors. Mn was found to be suitable for the p -type dopant in the InGaAs base region of InP/InGaAs n - p + - n transistors.", "Abstract Alternative channels materials (like GaAs, Ge, …) are expected to lead to improved current drive capability in MOSFETs devices operating in the quasi ballistic regime. In this work, the previously predicted in-plane isotropy of ballistic drain current in double gate nMOSFETs on (0 0 1) and (1 1 1) in all zinc-blend semiconductor substrates, has been rigorously demonstrated on the basis of a generalized Natori model. Moreover, the anisotropy on (1 1 0) substrate has been further investigated, showing and explaining that, as already reported for Ge only [Low Tony, Hou YT, Li MF, Zhu Chunxiang, Chin Albert, Samudra1 G, et al. Investigation of performance limits of germanium double-gated MOSFETs. IEDM Tech Dig 2003:961–4], the best ballistic current of GaAs, InAs and InSb nDGFETs is also obtained on this surface, for channels aligned in the [ 1 1 ¯ 0 ] direction, opening new perspectives in quasi ballistic device optimization with alternative channel material.", "This article presents a large-scale molecular dynamic simulations of wave propagation in a cracked bcc (body centered cubic) iron crystal based on an N-body potential model which gives a good description of an anisotropic elasticity. The crystal is loaded by a stress pulse on its front face and the response is detected on its opposite face. The various shapes, amplitudes, and widths of stress pulse are considered. The simulations are performed also for a central pre-existing Griffith crack. The crack is embedded in a bcc iron crystal having a basic cubic orientation. The acquired results bring important information for further analysis oriented to new NDT nanoscale methods. c", "Si surface properties and electrical characteristics in n- and p-MOSFETs with 2 - 6 degree tilted off-axis (110) channel were reported. The transconductance of p-MOSFET with off-axis channel was significantly degraded compared with that of normal channel on (110) plane, whereas that of n-MOSFET was slightly improved compared with that of normal channel. The changes were larger than those observed in slightly off-axis (100) samples. The gate leakage current and 1/f noise in (110) samples were also sensitive to off-axis angle.", "The invention provides a preparation method of a PMOS transistor. After a stress filling layer is formed, before source leakage injection to the stress filling layer, B ion implantation is additionally performed on an area in adjacent to a source region and a drain region below a gate area to form a lightly doped source leakage extension area, furthermore, C ion implantation is performed on the area, and the doped impurities of the ion implantation B are fixed in the lightly doped source leakage extension area, so that the resistance in a channel region, the source region and the drain region are reduced, the electric field of the channel region is reduced, the working currents are improved, and the working performance of the PMOS transistor is improved.", "We report on the correlation between the morphology and electronic properties of α,α'-diethyl-sexithiophene (DE6T) thin films deposited on SiO2/Si substrates at different substrate temperatures. Highly ordered films with a 200 plane placing of d200=27.46 A are observed. When the substrate temperature is higher than 100 °C, increasing the substrate temperature significantly improves the molecular ordering of DE6T, and the lowest the full width at half maximum (FWHM) was obtained at a substrate temperature of 120 °C. The mobility of DE6T is strongly dependent on substrate temperature. Increasing grain size at higher substrate temperatures improves the mobility of DE6T TFTs, but gaps generated between grains degrade the performance of DE6T TFTs at a substrate temperature higher than 120 °C. When the deposition of DE6T is performed at a substrate temperature of 100 °C, the maximum field-effect mobility of 0.24 cm2 V-1 s-1 can be obtained.", "Abstract An oriented La2NiO4 cathode was successfully fabricated on a dense Gd2O3-doped CeO2 electrolyte pre-coated with conducting polypyrrole by electrophoretic deposition in a static magnetic field of 12 T for use in low-temperature operating solid oxide fuel cell. The orientation of La2NiO4 was based on an anisotropic magnetic property in its crystal structure. Firm adhesion of the La2NiO4 cathode to an electrolyte was made by the co-deposition of starch added as a pore former. The La2NiO4 cathode with the preferential orientation of the a-b plane perpendicular to the surface of the electrolyte showed a polarization loss lower than that with a random orientation, leading to an enhancement in the cell performance at 500 °C.", "We present the carrier transport properties in the vicinity of a doping-driven Mott transition observed at a field-effect transistor (FET) channel using a single crystal of the typical two-dimensional organic Mott insulator κ-(BEDT-TTF)2CuN(CN)2Cl (κ-Cl). The FET shows a continuous metal–insulator transition (MIT) as electrostatic doping proceeds. The phase transition appears to involve two-step crossovers, one in Hall measurement and the other in conductivity measurement. The crossover in conductivity occurs around the conductance quantum e2/h, and hence is not associated with “bad metal” behavior, which is in stark contrast to the MIT in half-filled organic Mott insulators or that in doped inorganic Mott insulators. Through in-depth scaling analysis of the conductivity, it is found that the above carrier transport properties in the vicinity of the MIT can be described by a high-temperature Mott quantum critical crossover, which is theoretically argued to be a ubiquitous feature of various types of Mott ...", "We review the electrostatic and transport properties of charge carriers in ultrathin single gate (SG) and double gate (DG) SOI transistors. Both electron and hole inversion layers are studied and the influence of silicon thickness and of different crystallographic orientations is evaluated. The origin of volume inversion effect and its consequences are investigated for both types of carrier and for the different surface orientations considered. Finally we discuss the importance of correctly modeling phonons in ultra-thin SOI structures by studying acoustic phonon confinement and its impact on carrier mobility.", "Ion‐implanted MOS transistors were fabricated and their electrical characteristics, such as threshold voltage, effective mobility, etc., were measured. In the 11B+‐implanted p‐channel case, threshold voltage VT can be shifted linearly with implant dose. These shifts ΔVT were entirely determined by the net dose entering silicon. On the other hand, in the 11B+‐implanted n‐channel case, threshold voltage shift ΔVT varied sublinearly with dose and showed strong dose profile dependence. The profiles were varied with changing implantation energies and annealing times. These results can be interpreted in accordance with the rapid decrease of the maximum surface depletion layer Xd max with the implant dose increase. Numerical calculations of threshold voltage shifts accounting for nonuniformly implanted profiles were compared with observed results. Good agreement was obtained. Effective mobilities μeff of 11B+‐implanted p ‐ and n ‐channel MOS transistors also showed different dose dependences. In the low‐dose reg...", "Single crystals of pure and Mg + ,B a + ,C a + and Cu + doped potassium pentaborate (KB5) have been grown by low temperature solution growth technique. The growth conditions and surface morphology of pure and doped single crystals of KB5 are optimized and the grown crystals are confirmed by XRD. The pure and doped crystals of KB5 are subjected to TGA and DSC studies. Using the TGA and DSC curves, the enthalpies, decomposition temperature (Td) and weight loss are measured and the results are analysed and discussed. The influence of the presence of added dopants on the microhardness behaviour of Mg + ,B a + ,C a + and Cu + doped KB5 crystals are also studied and discussed. The SHG of the pure and doped samples of KB5 is confirmed by Nd:YAG pulsed laser employing the Kurtz powder technique.", "Thermally induced optical damage and local \"bleaching\" of an optically inhomogeneous lithium niobate crystal doped with neodymium ions were observed under the influence of laser radiation.", "In order to enhance the electron mobility we use step graded channel structure in the heterostructure field effect transistor to reduce Coulomb scattering. The electrons are far away from the AlGaAs/InGaAs interface. We fabricated successfully and obtained high drain current density and large gate voltage swing. For a 1.2/spl times/100 /spl mu/m/sup 2/ gate dimension, the maximum saturation drain current density is 373 mA/mm and the maximum extrinsic transconductance is 148 mS/mm along with the gate voltage swing of 1.9V. Additionally, we use four period AlGaAs/GaAs buffer layer so that the variations of threshold voltages are insensitive to temperature.", "Abstract Our study revealed that wet chemically processed metal-ion (i.e., Al +3 , Cr +3 , Ni +2 ) doped TiO 2 thin films could convert its conducting nature from n-type to extrinsic p-type. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) showed shifting of valence band edges with increasing doping concentration. The metal-ion doped TiO 2 films were employed as active component in bipolar heterojunction devices, which recorded low turn-on voltage and showed rectification behavior. These results were analyzed to conclude that the doped TiO 2 is p-type in nature. Temperature-dependent responses of field effect transistors (FETs) with the p-TiO 2 films as channel component revealed efficient features. Conclusive results revealed that reliable and reproducible p-type conductivity could be obtained with Ni +2 doped TiO 2 .", "An experimental and theoretical investigation of DMOS transistors with widely varying substrate doping and channel lengths has been performed. A simple two-transistor model, which includes velocity saturation was used to give insight into the physics of DMOS devices. A more complete model will be presented.", "This paper investigates the negative bias instability (NBS) and positive bias instability (PBS) of titanium oxide (TiOx) thin-film transistors (TFTs) with different annealing temperatures. Structural analyses suggested that TiOx films annealed at 450 and 550 °C had average grain sizes of 200 and 400 nm, respectively. A TiOx TFT annealed at 550 °C exhibited respective threshold voltage (Vth) shifts of only −1.4 and 10.2 V under NBS and PBS conditions. The origin of the instability was found to be a charge trapping mechanism caused by different grain sizes, boundaries, and changes in band edge states below the conduction band, which acted as electron and hole trap sites.", "Most bipolar transistors suffer serious degradation of current gain at liquid nitrogen temperatures because of bandgap narrowing in the emitter which depends on the doping concentration in the emitter N E. In this paper an expresson for current gain versus doping concentration at low temperatures is obtained. The results indicate that current gain continues to increase with increasing N E at room temperature, but at low temperatures it starts to decrease rapidly with N E when N E > 1 × 1019 cm-3. This result will provide a case for the rational design of a silicon bipolar transistor for low-temperature operation.", "The influence of structure on hot-carrier-effect immunity for deep-sub-micron n-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (NMOSFETs) is studied using two-dimensional device simulator Medici and compared to that of counterpart conventional planar devices.The simulated structure parameters include negative junction depth,concave corner and channel effective length.Simulation results prove that grooved-gate device can deeply suppress hot carrier effect even in deep-sub micron region.The simulations also indicate that hot-carrier effect is strongly influenced by concave corner and channel length for grooved gate MOSFET.In the end,the results obtained in this work are explained from the point of interior physical mechanism of device.", "This paper has analyzed the relation of conduction path and subthreshold swing for doping profile in channel of asymmetric double gate(DG) MOSFET. Since the channel size of asymmetric DGMOSFET is greatly small and number of impurity is few, the high doping channel is analyzed. The analytical potential distribution is derived from Possion’s equation, and Gaussian distribution function is used as doping profile. The conduction path and subthreshold swing are derived from this analytical potential distribution, and those are investigated for variables of doping profile, projected range and standard projected deviation, according to the change of channel length and thickness. As a result, subthreshold swing is reduced when conduction path is approaching to top gate, and that is increased with a decrease of channel length and a increase of channel thickness due to short channel effects.", "The present invention relates to a gate drive circuit in a liquid crystal display for improving the display performance of the liquid crystal display. The gate drive circuit comprises at least one P type metal oxide semiconductor transistor and two N type metal oxide semiconductor transistor. The transistors are configured for modifying the drop edge of a corresponding scan signal according to a linear function, wherein the linear function defines a waveform of the scan signal. Simultaneously the invention discloses a liquid crystal display comprising the gate drive circuit and a method for modifying the scan signal of the liquid crystal display.", "A wafer process flow encompasses an arbitray repeated layered structure of heteroepitaxial layers of silicon based films with process control throughout the strata of chemical potential and recombination velocity, suitable for both high performance MOS and bipolar transistors with three dimensional transistor capability. A non-compensated doping technique preserves crystalline periodicity, as does the component delineation by means of anisotropic etching. The wafer is hermetic by means of the semi-insulation films polyimide, and the elimination of phosphorous doped silicon dioxide. A metallurgy system enables a high level integration." ]

[ "The kids enjoyed playing with these. However, there was a strong odor .. possibly from being shipped over seas. Two of the balls had holes on them and were useable." ]

[ "Keeps kids busy for hours of creative play First used them as a science substitute All grade levels thoroughly enjoy. Had to buy it for my grand kids", "My kids and I have really enjoyed this game, quick to learn and easy to play.", "My kids went crazy!!! I got all of the main characters for my kids to play with over the summer, I have to workI think they will enjoy them for years to come as well as I will...", "Not only the kids had fun playing but I did too! Disney infinity I consider to be more of a kids game with the figures and simplistic tasks but I still enjoy playing it with my son. And with these new state are characters and gameplay we can enjoy our favorite story. Another plus it there's a genial character so my little girl has been playing the game too! It's nice to have the kids join together for some fun during cold wet days.", "This is a fun toy for kids. My only complaint is that the horse slips a little on wood floors. Otherwise, my daughter enjoys playing with this.", "We gave these to the boys in my son's preschool class. The boys loved them.", "Great, family - friendly game. Good for kids. I know I played it back when I was a kid and loved it. I bought it for the nostalgic reasons I guess, but I did enjoy replaying it. :)", "5 year old nephew really liked playing for a few days of our visit. Hopefully he'll enjoy the other more complex ways to play as he gets older. No stars taken away for fickleness of kids.", "My mom had one of these and she loves seeing her Granddaughter play with this one. It's a great size and not annoying like most kids' battery powered toys. Enjoy.", "These are cheap little cars. But they worked well, come in a variety of colors, great for the kids to trade, play with, etc.", "My kids enjoy this game and love to play it. It's a fun combination of Chutes and Ladders and Candy Land. The slides can be difficult to turn over and distracts my kids from the game, but as they get older I'm sure it'll be less of an issue.", "My Kids, from 6 to 13, enjoy playing this game.\nThis game is for girls, boys, young, oldest...the whole family\nThe price is the cheapest.", "Easy game for kids of different ages to play together.", "We chose these for prizes after finishing an obstacle course at my daughter's bday party. All kids loved them.", "I bought this game because it was featured on an episode of TableTop and it looked like fun. So far, we've played it a handful of times. The first time my 6yo daughter played it, she was less than enthralled - it is a longer game than many in the younger crowd are used to playing, and although there's not a lot of rules to remember, there are some. The second time, the rules started sinking in and she really enjoyed it and is now looking forward to playing it again.\n\nWhen I played it with my husband, we both had a blast. So, IMO the game is a good fit for both kids and adults. It can be played with as little as two players but for adults I think it's more fun to have 3-4 folks playing.\n\nI'd recommend this to adults and kids alike but I don't this should be a kid's first exposure to tabletop gaming as it is a bit more complex than what you'd probably want to start them on.", "I recently purchased this item as a gift for my two younger kids (aged 5 and 9). They both really enjoy it. My two older children (11 and\n14) enjoy it as well. It's great having a toy suitable for children of all different ages. It allows for a lot of creative play.", "Box came damaged and it was a present, that was disappointing but the kids enjoyed being creative with the product.", "This is a ton of fun, easy to learn and brings kids (and adults) of all ages to the table to play together.\n\nGirls and boys have loved playing Ready, Set, Silhouette!, and my daughter has even played it by herself in a solitaire version; she was training for a game with the grown ups.\n\nThis is very much like the Spot It! games by Blue Orange with a twist - you're matching all of the items on the card to a card that has black silhouettes of those items. It's great fun and even challenging for the grownups.\n\nMatching strengthens visual perception skills. When you're playing against opponents or the clock, you strengthen cognitive speed. Its also easy to play cooperatively, which we really enjoy.\n\nThe silhouette cards are plastic and very sturdy. The image cards are heavy cardboard. This has lasted through more than one kid and is still going strong in excellent condition.", "kids are loving it and enjoying being able to play inside while Mommy works a bit....great thing for the whole family...My Son in law practices chin ups on it as well...", "These were a requested gift for my children and they seem to be quite happy with them--since they asked for more.", "I watched a friend's daughter play with this and could not resist trying it myself. What I love about is that you don't have to be aware of all its intelligence and sophistication, to simply enjoy it. The fact that it is simply a gorgeous, child-friendly, 3-D space for kids to play in. The imagery is beautiful and frees the imagination. Seems like the perfect antidote to all the over-directed learning that stresses kids out at school.", "This is a well-written book that I found captivating, as we're just entering organized sports. Normally we start classes at age 3 and teams at 5 or 6. During summer they do daily camps, many involving sports, but also nature and art. We LOVE it. And the difficult truth is, kids need an HOUR of physical activity a day. That's really tough to do. Trust me. Hence, I see the sports craze as a good thing (even though I'm unsure how the logistics will work with my 5 kids!), as long as sleep isn't sacrificed. We pile lots of stuff on weekends. I do know (especially after reading this book) that we'll never do travel or elite teams or anything other than local. Traveling to the local ball park is travel enough!\n\nMy kids are newborn, 1, 3, 5 and 6. The book notes that at the expense of family time, dinner, sleep, free play and playground time, kids are being shuttled to sports, and to activities. Yes, OK. BUT this is not \"back in the day,\" and kids who are not doing the sports are sitting home playing video games or watching TV. I know what the neighbors are doing! So, I'd argue unless you are sure your kid is NOT playing video games or vegging in front of the TV, and is for sure playing outside with other kids, then fine, organized sports don't need to take over your life.\n\nI don't expect scholarships, but I do expect my kids to get exercise. They don't get much exercise unless they are in organized sports. That's the absolute truth. The games are structured and my child RUNS for an hour. It's great!!! I can tell you he won't be running that much at home. By the same logic, you don't NEED an expensive gym to stay in shape, but the truth is, it works. I go to the classes regularly (schedule them in).\n\nSo, I would argue that the book needs to consider the kids who DON'T enter the sports craze. They might not be the family-centered, less-stressed peers that enjoy childhood more (though some probably are if their parents make a point never to buy video games, etc.) Or these kids might be the sloths in front of video games.\n\nGet out there and play on a team; not only is it fun, it's good for you! And yes, I agree multi-sports is best. I can't imagine playing the same sport all year, which would lead to injury.\n\nThe book includes special sections on specific kids and their lives; it's an interesting glimpse into their world of sports. If you are a parent or coach, this book is something you will enjoy.", "Used these as prizes for a school carnival. The kids loved them! Great Quality!", "Perfect for kids \"prizes\" at our family reunion. They loved them.", "This game is very family friendly, and it got interest of my son. It may not be as fast action as Lego City Undercover, but that's a relief in our fast moving world both in real life and in games. One can enjoy time playing it and forget about all the rush! It allows kids to relax and show their love for others.", "The baskets on the figures are much too small to hold all the cherries - I think they hold 3-4 before they start overflowing. Other than that, it's a fun game and my kids have really enjoyed playing it.", "My 5 year old daughter loves to play with these!!! Loves to watch them grow and then run her hands through them.", "design-your-own pet shop has lots of details to keep kids interested. Yes, there really are 135 pieces to this set, So, this set is versatile for both creative kids who like little details to work with, and children who enjoy imaginary play with animals. #gotifforfree #Hasbro my daughter and all her friends have play with it all night long. make sure you sign up for #bzzagent and get some free stuff!", "I used these for our Ninjago party theme. The kids really enjoyed them, I loved how they came in girl colors too!", "Just plain awesome! Many years of my youth were spent with my brothers playing indoor basketball with our low quality hoops that always broke and needed rolls and rolls of duct tape. But I purchased this for my kids and I couldn't believe the high end quality of this product once I set it up and had them playing on it. I couldn't help slam a few dunks as well. Amazing product, not if only I had this as a kid!! At least my children get to enjoy it and that's all a father needs. Highly recommended!!", "Im actually shocked how much my kids enjoy playing with this toy. I like that everything except the stethoscope can be stored inside the actual product. My kids love the keys (naturally), the shot and taking the dog and cat out of the kennels and putting them in new ones. Surprisingly fun for them and holds their attention!", "my sisters grand kids always touching her good set. So I got these so they could touch and play with them. They love it." ]

[ "Crop Production Fresh fruits and vegetables come in contact with water during various stages of the production process. Contaminated water that is used during crop production, harvesting, and processing can lead to health issues. Crops with contaminated water used for pesticide or herbicide application." ]

[ "If a food does not contain pathogens, or does not support the growth of a pathogen or toxin production, then it is not potentially hazardous. ... Foods with water activity or pH levels below these critical values are not potentially hazardous foods.", "Land degradation is caused by multiple forces, including extreme weather conditions particularly drought, and human activities that pollute or degrade the quality of soils and land utility negatively affecting food production, livelihoods, and the production and provision of other ecosystem goods and services.", "Climate change affects animal species in the following ways: They have to adapt to the changing climate – which has made their habitats less comfortable, and sometimes even inhospitable. They're dealing with increases in water, air, and solid waste pollution that affects the food they eat and the habitats they live in.", "[\"Water Conditions. Goldfish can tolerate many different water conditions, hard, soft, acid or alkaline, but they won't tolerate water with ammonia in it or low oxygen levels caused by pollution. ... \", 'Lots Of Space Or Filtration. ... ', 'Water Temperature. ... ', 'Food Type And How Much. ... ', 'Health.']", "The main differences between greenhouse gases and air pollutants are how they affect our health and the environment. ... The main problems caused by air pollution occur close to the ground, such as soiling of buildings and producing health effects, but greenhouse gases affect the whole of the atmosphere.", "How are desertification and human well-being linked? ... Desertification affects a wide range of services provided by ecosystems to humans: products such as food and water, natural processes such as climate regulation, but also non-material services such as recreation, and supporting services such as soil conservation.", "Environmental problems related to natural rubber production include air and water pollutions in dried rubber sheet（RSS and ADS）production. Problems in rubber latex industry are particularly water and odor pollution, while main problem in block rubber is odor.", "['How does water purity affect surface tension?', 'When is the best time to plant soy beans?', 'Which material is the best insulator?', 'How does arch curvature affect load carrying strength?', 'How do different foundations stand up to earthquakes?', 'What sugars do yeast use?']", "['High shrinkage in moulded sections.', 'Pollution problems.', 'Lack of stability.', 'Does not absorb water well.']", "How Does Ocean Productivity Affect Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide? ... The soft-tissue pump of carbon from the surface to the interior lowers atmospheric CO2 directly by simply shuttling carbon out of surface waters, which causes CO2 from the atmosphere to invade the surface ocean.", "How Does HPP Work? HPP protects and defends foods by subjecting sealed products to incredibly high pressures – up to 6,000 bar or 87,000 psi. It's an all-natural process that uses purified cold water to neutralize food-borne pathogens, like listeria and E. Coli, without preservatives or chemicals.", "Advantages and disadvantages of nuclear power stations Produces no polluting gases. Waste is radioactive and safe disposal is very difficult and expensive. Does not contribute to global warming. Local thermal pollution from wastewater affects marine life.", "How does climate affect your menstrual cycle? While climate change does not directly affect your period, it results in a lot of other changes that can throw your cycle off-balance. Here are some examples of how this plays out. Seasonal changes in the climate may lead to alterations in your food habits.", "How Does Boiling Water Make It Safe to Drink? Boiling water makes it safe to drink in the event of some type of biological contamination. You can kill off bacteria and other organisms in a batch of water simply by bringing it a boil. Other types of pollutants, such as lead, are not so easily filtered out, however.", "Like all living things, bacteria need food, water and the proper environment to live and grow. The food product itself supplies the food and water needed for bacterial growth. Most seafood products provide an abundance of food and water for growth.", "The three major types of pollution are air pollution, water pollution, and land pollution.", "How does electric car production affect the environment? Making electric cars does use a lot of energy. The emissions created during the production of an electric car tend to be higher than a conventional car. This is due to the manufacture of lithium ion batteries which are an essential part of an electric car.", "It is not difficult to feed torch corals. ... Just spray the food directly at the torch coral. The individual polyps will snatch bits of food from the water column. Feed enough that the corals -- or other aquarium organisms -- will eat it all within a few minutes, to avoid polluting the water with rotting food.", "A stormwater pollution prevention plan (SWPPP) is a fundamental requirement of stormwater permits. A SWPPP: identifies all potential sources of pollution which may reasonably be expected to affect the quality of storm water discharges from the construction site.", "Solar power is a 100% clean, renewable energy source. It reduces reliance on oil, coal and natural gas for electricity production. These fossil fuels produce harmful emissions that affect the quality of air, water and soil, and are responsible for global warming. ... In contrast, solar energy produces no pollution.", "[\"Various Advantages of Biofuels. Efficient Fuel. Cost-Benefit. Durability of Vehicles' Engine. Easy to Source. Renewable. Reduce Greenhouse Gases. Economic Security. ... \", 'Disadvantages of Biofuels. High Cost of Production. Monoculture. Use of Fertilizers. Shortage of Food. Industrial Pollution. Water Use.']", "['Color – pure water is colorless; colored water can indicate pollution. ... ', 'Turbidity – pure water is clear and does not absorb light. ... ', 'Taste and odor – pure water is always tasteless and odorless.']", "Hydroelectric power is not perfect, however, and does have some significant disadvantages: Hydropower is non-polluting, but does have environmental impacts. Hydropower facilities can affect land use, homes, and natural habitats in the dam area.", "The three major types of pollution are air pollution, water pollution, and land pollution. Sometimes, air pollution is visible.", "Which of the following activities does not help in the conservation of water resources (a)sprinkle irrigation (b) treating polluted water (c)excessive use of tubewells (d) rain water harvesting.", "['Does music affect on animal behavior?', 'Does the color of food or drinks affect whether or not we like them?', 'Where are the most germs in your school? (CLICK for more info.)', 'Does music have an affect on plant growth?', 'Which kind of food do dogs (or any animal) prefer best?', 'Which paper towel brand is the strongest?']", "Affect is a verb meaning 'influence or cause someone or something to change': ... New technologies continue to affect how we live. Effect is a noun that means 'the result of an influence': The pollution in the city had a bad effect on me.", "Mercury is a persistent, bioaccumulative, toxic pollutant. When released into the environment, it accumulates in water laid sediments where it converts into toxic methylmercury and enters the food chain.", "Plastic water bottles are typically made from crude oil. During their production, pollutants such as nickel, benzene, and ethylene oxide are released. These harm the environment and pollute the air we breathe. It takes 1.5 million barrels of oil to produce the plastic water bottles we use each year.", "How Does Water Affect Your Brain? Your brain is about 75% water. When your brain is functioning on a full reserve of water, you will be able to think faster, be more focused, and experience greater clarity and creativity. Water is also essential for delivering nutrients to the brain and for removing toxins.", "['How likely are you to recommend our brand to a friend?', 'How long have you been a customer?', 'What problem does [product/service] solve for you?', 'How does the [product/service] fit into your daily workflow?', 'How well does [product/service] meet your needs?']", "Plastic pollution causes harm to humans, animals and plants through toxic pollutants. It can take hundreds or even thousands of years for plastic to break down so the environmental damage is long-lasting. It affects all organisms in the food chain from tiny species like plankton through to whales." ]

[ "The number of applications for H-1B work visas has declined in the United States for the first time in five years, reported CNN. This comes at a time when US President Donald Trump has been railing against the visa policy and how it allegedly replaces American workers with foreign labour.\nOn Tuesday, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services said it had received 1.99 lakh H-1B petitions for 2018 within five days of opening the visa applications on April 3. The last time it fell below 2 lakh was in 2014, though even in that year, the number of applications grew from 2013. In 2016, the USCIS had received 236,000 applications. The number of applications received for the H-1B visas had been increasing since 2013.\n“On April 11, USCIS used a computer-generated random selection process, or lottery, to select enough petitions to meet the 65,000 general-category cap and the 20,000 cap under the advanced degree exemption,” the USCIS said in a statement on April 17.\nIn March, the US had suspended the premium processing option for H-1B visas, which allowed companies to bring in highly skilled workers in a few weeks, rather than several months, if they paid an additional amount. A large number of technology companies, among other industries, relied on premium processing to bring in skilled engineers to the US.\nTrump had promised his voters that he would overhaul the H-1B visa system to provide more jobs to Americans, whom he said were losing employment opportunities to “foreigners”. His stance poses particular problems for India, which sends the maximum H-1B workers to the US. The Indian government has been attempting to lobby with the White House to reconsider its efforts to tighten H-1B rules." ]

[ "For 15 years in a row, the number of applicants for H-1B work visas has far exceeded the program's cap of 85,000 available visas. The H-1B program, which allows US companies to bring in foreign workers in specialized fields like math, science and engineering, has long been a magnet for controversy. Tech companies say they need the visas to get scarce talent, while labor advocates contend that it allows companies to hire cheaper foreign workers instead of Americans.\nAmazon, Microsoft, and Google are just a few of the tech giants that rely on the H-1B visa to snatch up coveted tech talent, and as this chart by Statista shows, this trend has only increased in recent years. Among five prominent tech companies, each saw an increase in approved applications for H-1B working visas from 2016 to 2017, with Amazon taking up the largest share of applications.", "Highlights H-4 visa allows spouses of H-1B visa holders to work in US US plans to reverse 2015 rule that granted H-4 employment authorisation H-1B visa is most sought after among Indian IT professionals\nThe US government is planning to end H-4 visas , which allow spouses of H-1B visa holders to work legally in the US. US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Francis Cissna said in a letter to Senator Chuck Grassley dated April 4 said: \"Our plans include proposing regulatory changes to remove H-4 dependent spouses from the class of aliens eligible for employment authorisation, thereby reversing the 2015 final rule that granted such eligibility.\" The move could impact more than 70,000 H-4 visas holders. H-4 is issued to spouses of H-1B visa holders. H-1B visa is most sought after among Indian IT professionals. H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers. (\"As you may be aware, USCIS is reviewing existing regulations, policies, and programs and developing a combination of rulemaking, policy memoranda, and operational changes to implement the 'Buy American and Hire American' Executive Order (EO). These initiatives aim to protect the economic interest of United States workers and prevent fraud and abuse in the immigration system,\" Mr Cissna wrote in the letter addressed to Mr Grassley.\"USCIS has also announced that it is working on two proposed regulations to improve the H-1B program. The first regulation proposes to establish an electronic registration program for petitions subject to numerical limitations for the H-1B nonimmigrant classification...The second regulation will propose to revise the definition of specialty occupation...to increase focus on obtaining the best and the brightest foreign nationals via the H-1B program, and to revise the definition of employment and employer-employee relationship to better protect US workers and wages,\" Mr Cissna's letter adds.H-4 is issued to the spouse of H-1B visa holders, a significantly large number of whom are high-skilled professionals from India. Many spouses of H-1B visa holders had obtained work permits under a special order issued by the previous Obama administration. Here's the full text of USCIS Director Mr Cissna's letter to US lawmakers:", "WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump wants to retool the fabled H-1B visas for skilled workers sought by Silicon Valley heavyweights, a White House official said Monday.\nThere are, however, limits to the scope of his action in the absence of a broader legislative plan.\nThese time-limited work permits meant for scientists, engineers and computer programmers are an important gateway for many Indians attracted by Silicon Valley.\nTrump on Tuesday will sign a decree while in Kenosha, Wisconsin, ordering the Labor, Justice and Homeland Security departments to propose reforms so that the H-1B program goes back to its roots.\nIts “original intent (was) awarding visas to the most skilled and highest paid applicants — crucially, at such time as these reforms are eventually implemented, it will prevent the program from being used to displace American workers,” a White House official said.\n“For too long, rather than just allowing the best to come (…), the H-1B program has been applied in a bad way for US workers,” the White House said. The executive order will aim to support stated Trump priorities of “buy American, hire American.”\nImmigration authorities already announced earlier in April measures to combat “fraud and abuse” in issuing the visas.\nThe steps announced Monday come when the United States opens the annual allocation of some 85,000 H-1B visas.\nThe US president cannot, by a simple decree, change the number of visas allocated.\nBut the White House hopes, by signing the decree will build momentum before a possible legislative reform.\n“This is a transitional step to get towards a more skilled based and merit based version,” a White House official told AFP. “There is a lot we can do administratively, and the rest will be done hopefully legislatively.”\nThe United States offers 85,000 H-1B visas every year, most of which are snapped up by Indian outsourcers whose employees fill a skill gap in US engineering. Applications are vastly oversubscribed and are allocated via a lottery system. AFP\nAFP/CC", "More than 5,000 complaints of H-1B visa fraud and abuse have been received by a federal agency on a dedicated email helpline that was launched by the Trump administration last year, an official said.\n“As of May 21, 2018, the USCIS has received over 5,000 tips to the dedicated H-1B email address,” Philip Smith, a Spokesperson for the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) told PTI.\nAfter US President Donald Trump Signed “Buy American, Hire American” executive order last year, Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS) established email addresses dedicated to receiving information about suspected H-1B and H-2B fraud or abuse.\nFDNS leads USCIS’s efforts to combat immigration benefit fraud.\nThe USCIS, however, did not provide any other details with regard to the nature of complaints, the companies involved and which country’s high-tech professionals were the victims of H-1B visa fraud and abuse.\n“Pursuant to the Buy American, Hire American Executive Order, FDNS has helped the agency investigate the H-1B program to protect American workers,” Smith said.\nEmployers who abuse H-1B visa program may negatively affect US workers, decreasing wages and opportunities as they import more workers from abroad, it said.\nHighly popular among Indian technology professional, the H-1B visa is normally issued for three years and renewed for another three years.\nThe US Congress has a cap of 65,000 H-1B visas per year.\nIt also issues another 20,000 H-1B visas to those who have masters and higher education from a US academic institute.", "“We believe that campaign to discredit IT sector is driven by persistent myths,” it added.\nSpeaking on the H-1B Visa issue, Nasscom on Tuesday said that most of the legislative proposals have been offered before and not acted upon. “Nasscom member companies abide by all applicable laws and regulations and it supports efforts to root out any abuses of H-1B system,” it said. “We believe that campaign to discredit IT sector is driven by persistent myths,” it added.\nThe IT industry body recently said the US’ latest memo on H-1B visas would have “little impact” on Indian IT firms as they have already started applying for visas for higher-level specialised professionals this year. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has recently come out with a policy memorandum saying companies applying for visas must provide “evidence to establish that the particular position is one in a speciality occupation”. The new H-1B guideline rescinds a memorandum issued in December 2000.\nSeeking to play down the impact on outsourcing companies, Nasscom said the memorandum “reinforces existing practice by adjudicators and clarifies requirements for certain computer professionals”. “The clarifying guidance should have little impact on Nasscom members as this has been the adjudicatory practice for years and also as several of our member executives have noted recently, they are applying for visas for higher level professionals this year,” Nasscom said in a statement. Nasscom counts IT outsourcing firms like TCS, Infosys, Wipro as well as American firms like Cognizant, Microsoft and IBM as members.\nAlso watch:\nMeanwhile, US President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order that would tighten the process of issuing the H-1B visas and seek a review of the system for creating an “entirely new structure” for awarding these visas, the most sought-after by Indian IT firms and professionals.", "An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian:The administration official sad: \"Right now H-1B visas are awarded by random lottery and many of you will be surprised to know that about 80% of H-1B workers are paid less than the median wage in their fields. Only 5% to 6%, depending on the year, of H-1B workers command the highest wage tier recognized by the Department of Labor. [...] If you change that current system that awards visas randomly, without regard for skill or wage, to a skills-based awarding, it makes it extremely difficult to use the visa to replace or undercut American workers [...] It's a very elegant way of solving very systemic problems in the H-1B guest worker visa.\"", "United States President Donald Trump will introduce imminent changes to the H1B visa which is expected to affect 1,50,000 businesses in the US. It can be fairly expected that prospective candidates for the visa will be rejected despite being expertly qualified and the job being under specialty occupation.\nUS companies that look at India for IT recruitments and outsourcing will now have to focus more on deliberately hiring Americans.\nWhile some specific nationalities have special visas which allows them to circumvent the H-1B cap, India is unfortunately not among them. The alternatives for an H-1B holder or pursuant Indian national are:\nO visas\nThis is a highly restrictive programme which allows only foreign nationals who have displayed extraordinary ability in the sciences, education, business, athletics, arts or motion pictures. O visas will be granted for up to three years with possible indefinite extension.\nUsing Curricular Practical Training (CPT) and Optional Practical Training (OPT)\nSome foreign employees have OPT or CPT periods left whereby they can continue to work in the US until the H1-B filing date. Employees with CPT and OPT eligibility left will be able to continue their work.\nTraining/Internship program\nThe H-3 visa allows foreign nationals in the US to train in a specific field if that training facility is not available in the foreign national’s country. Work that is incidentally related to the training will only be entertained. H-3 trainees will have to prove that they have no intention of staying as immigrant in the country.\nAsking employer for permanent residence\nYour company, if it is interested in making a substantial commitment, can consider sponsoring lawful permanent residence. Although the process is long and arduous, it usually entails in procurement of a green card.", "'The government is killing off the 457 visa class, but skilled migration will continue albeit under tighter conditions.\nSkilled migrants will now apply for a two or four year visa, while the the number of professions covered by the system will be greatly reduced.\nLabor has long called for reform in this area but will wait for to see if the new policy is \"fair dinkum\" before giving their support.", "Washington: The Trump administration is planning to end allowing spouses of H1-B visa holders to work legally in the US, a top federal agency official has told lawmakers, a move that could have a devastating impact on tens of thousands of Indians.The move to end the Obama-era rule could have an impact on more than 70,000 H-4 visas holders, who have work permits.H-4 is issued to the spouse of H-1B visa holders, a significantly large number of whom are high-skilled professionals from India. They had obtained work permits under a special order issued by the previous Obama administration.Indian-Americans were a major beneficiary of this provision. More than 100,000 H-4 visa holders have been beneficiary of this rule.A 2015 rule issued by the Obama administration allows work permits for spouses who otherwise could not be employed while H-1B visa holders seek permanent resident status -- a process that can take a decade or longer.The Trump administration is planning to terminate this provision. A former communication is expected to be made later this summer, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Francis Cissna said in a letter to Senator Chuck Grassley.\"Our plans include proposing regulatory changes to remove H-4 dependent spouses from the class of aliens eligible for employment authorisation, thereby reversing the 2015 final rule that granted such eligibility,\" Cissna said.He said such action would comport with the executive order requirement to \"propose new rules and issue new guidance, to supersede or revise previous rules and guidance if appropriate, to protect the interests of United States workers in the administration of our immigration system ... \"As with other revisions to regulations, the public will have an opportunity to provide feedback during a notice and comment period, Cissna said.According to a recent study by the Migration Policy Institute, the US has issued employment authorisation documents to more than 71,000 spouses of H-1B visa holders, over 90 percent of whom are Indians.\"As of June 2017, USCIS had granted 71,287 initial (versus renewal) employment authorisation documents to H-4 spouses,\" the study which was released last week said.Of those H-4 spouses with work authorisation as of early 2017, a total of 94 percent were women, and the vast majority, 93 percent, were from India, while four percent were from China, the study said", "By Queenie Wong, Bay Area News Group\nThe Trump administration is bringing a new level of scrutiny to a temporary work visa popular among technology firms, costing employers more time and money as they seek to bring foreign workers to the United States.\nFrom January to August 2017, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services sent 85,265 requests for evidence in response to H-1B visa applications, a 45 percent increase compared to the same period a year earlier, agency data show. Immigration lawyers say these requests — made when an application is missing required documents or the agency determines it needs more proof to decide if a worker is eligible for the visa — could even discourage companies and individuals from seeking an H-1B visa in the first place.\n“It’s the most nonvisible and yet hugely impactful way to reach people, and it’s freaking people out,” said Cynthia Lange, managing partner for the Northern California practice of Fragomen, an international immigration law firm that works with some of the world’s largest tech firms.\nBut administration officials say the scrutiny is needed to ensure the integrity of the controversial visa program, which critics say has cost American jobs.\nOverall, about 27 percent of all H-1B visa applications USCIS received in the first eight months of 2017 got a request for evidence.\nFor the same eight-month period of the prior year, under the Obama administration, about 19 percent of all H-1B visa applications USCIS received got a request for evidence.\nSome applications received in both years may have received more than one request for evidence.\nAnswering requests for evidence increases the time employers spend on H-1B applications and legal costs for attorneys’ guidance in obtaining and submitting the additional information.\nThe increased scrutiny of H-1B visa applications could make some companies — especially small businesses with tighter budgets — think twice about hiring foreign workers. But with technology making it easier for employees to work remotely, others are looking at opening offices in Canada, Mexico and other countries, said Tahmina Watson, a Seattle immigration lawyer.\n“People and businesses don’t wait for the government,” said Watson, who works with small- to medium-sized businesses. “Businesses will continue conducting business. They’ll just find creative ways of doing it.”\nAs Apple, Google and other tech firms expand globally, companies also have the option to push jobs overseas, lawyers said.\nSilicon Valley tech firms and other employers argue they need more H-1B visas, which are limited to 85,000 annually, to hire talent they can’t find in the United States. But some lawmakers and unions have raised concerns that companies are using the visa program to replace American workers with cheaper labor.\nIndian outsourcing firms such as Infosys, WiPro and Tech Mahindra that rely heavily on H-1B visas paid lower average salaries in fiscal year 2016 compared to U.S. tech firms such as Google, Apple, Intel and Microsoft, data from USCIS show. The fiscal year 2016 data were the latest such figures immediately available. Silicon Valley tech firms also contract with these outsourcing companies, though, which means they can benefit by relying on these contractors with H-1B visas for certain tasks.\nWhile bills to overhaul the visa program haven’t become law yet, USCIS is asking employers for more proof to determine if a worker is eligible for an H-1B visa.\n“Everybody that uses a lot of visa workers knew that this was coming,” said Leon Rodriguez, the former director of USCIS. “The handwriting was on the wall frankly before President Trump took office.”\nRelated Articles On St. Patrick’s Day, a look at how the Irish came to America with other waves of immigrants through the decades\nThis city might try to opt out of California’s sanctuary law\nHere’s a look at 8 Mexican border wall prototypes\nRhetoric aside, Jeff Sessions suing California will test limits of states’ rights\nCalifornia’s sanctuary laws blasted in fiery speech by Jeff Sessions as he officially announces lawsuit against state But some lawyers said they felt like a different standard was being applied, compared to previous years. Applications they expected would get approval before Trump took office are either being challenged or denied.\n“In the eyes of some employers, there appears to be a perception that there is a political motivation behind this wave of RFEs,” said Justin Storch, the Council for Global Immigration’s manager of agency liaison, who has talked to the group’s members about dealing with requests for evidence.\nIn April, the president signed an executive order called “Buy American, Hire American” that asked federal agencies to suggest ways “to help ensure that H-1B visas are awarded to the most-skilled or highest-paid petition beneficiaries.”\nThis newspaper reached out to more than a dozen companies that relied heavily on H-1B visas, but they declined to comment, didn’t respond or suggested talking to an immigration lawyer. Concerned about retaliation and the political environment, workers who received a request for evidence were also hesitant to talk publicly.\nUSCIS spokeswoman Sharon Rummery pointed to a past statement by the agency’s Director Francis Cissna, who said the rise in requests for evidence reflected the agency’s “commitment to protect the integrity of the immigration system.”\nThe agency also cited a different set of data that showed 21 percent of H-1B applications received a request for evidence from October 2016 to September 2017 before they reached a point of denial or approval, a 1 percent increase compared to the previous fiscal year. About 93 percent of those applications were approved. When asked for the exact numbers instead of just percentages, Rummery said they were not immediately available.\nOne common type of request for evidence that lawyers said they’ve seen challenges whether a worker being paid an entry “level 1” wage would qualify as an H-1B “specialty occupation.” H-1B visas are for jobs that are so complex or unique that they require at least a bachelor’s degree or equivalent.\nAlthough level 1 wages are the lowest-paid of four tiers, the level 1 salaries can vary widely depending on the area and job.\nSan Jose immigration lawyer Arjun Verma, who works with mid-sized and smaller companies, said he thinks more employers could file H-1B applications for jobs with higher salaries this year to try to avoid the level 1 wage being challenged.\nAnd parents might also start questioning whether sending their children to study in the United States is worth the investment if getting a job here afterward becomes too difficult, he said.\nVerma said some of his clients are thinking about whether hiring skilled foreign workers through H-1B visas this year is even worth the financial risk.\n“For a lot of these employers,” he said, “it’s just money down the drain.”", "NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) - Employers applied for about 16 per cent fewer H-1B visas for highly skilled workers this year than in 2016, possibly reflecting concern that the Trump administration is taking a more restrictive approach to the programme.\nEmployers seeking visas for 2018 submitted 199,000 applications this year, compared with 236,000 last year, US Citizenship and Immigration Services said on Monday (April 17). The visa programme, which is designed to let companies hire highly skilled workers for technical jobs based in the US that they're having trouble filling, is a central policy focus of the technology industry.\nAs in past years, the number of applications far exceeded the 85,000 visas available. But this was the first time in the past five years that the total number of requests decreased.\nWhile the federal government made some incremental changes this year, it didn't make any fundamental shifts - much to the frustration of some officials who have been pushing for sweeping reforms. There are several bills in Congress that would implement bigger adjustments, but they wouldn't impact the programme until next year at the earliest.\nThe changes the new administration did make were intended to cut back on aggressive use of the visas by outsourcing companies. These companies tend to use the visas to hire less-skilled workers at much lower rates of pay. Indian information-technology companies have begun to prepare for a policy landscape that undercuts their current reliance on the programme. To the extent those changes would cut back on the use of the programme by India-based IT companies, it would benefit Silicon Valley giants that say they'd like to hire more employees on H-1B visas.\nBruce Morrison, who helped create the H-1B programme and is now a lobbyist for tech-worker advocacy group IEEE-USA, said that the drop in applications reflects a shift in strategy rather than a true change in demand for the visas. Because the visas are granted via a random lottery, many companies apply for far more than they actually plan on using.\n\"I don't think the demand is lower, either from outsourcers or from direct employers,\" he said. \"I don't think there were ever 230,000 jobs that were going to be filled.\"\nInfosys, one of the heaviest users of the H-1B programme, has said that it's looking for other ways to hire given the changing atmosphere.\n\"Because of the visa-related matters, we have to get more local hiring done,\" Vishal Sikka, CEO of the Bangalore, India-based company, told investors last week.\nAs a candidate, President Donald Trump was critical of companies who use the H-1B programme to displace American workers. It's too early to say how his administration's changes have affected the programme this year. As in past years, the visas were granted through a random lottery. The government didn't release any data on which employers won.", "The Trump administration is tightening the rules for companies that contract out high-skilled workers who are in this country on H-1B visas.\nThe U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency issued a new policy memo on Thursday that requires \"detailed statements of work or work orders\" about the work that will be performed when an H-1B visa worker is employed at a third-party work site. Employers will have to file more details that support the need for foreign talent.\nH-1B visas are controversial. American tech companies use them to hire highly skilled foreign workers, such as engineers, IT specialists, architects among others, in situations in which they say there is a shortage of U.S.-born talent. The visas are good for three years and renewable for another three-year term.\nCritics of the visas — 85,000 of which are issued every year — say American workers are aced out of competition with workers who can be paid less.\nAs CNN reports, \"Indian outsourcing firms will be the hardest hit. Indian workers receive more than 70% of all H-1B visas.\"\nThe USCIS memo says that if a visa beneficiary will be placed at one or more third-party worksites, the employer \"has specific and non-speculative qualifying assignments in a specialty occupation for the beneficiary for the entire time requested in the petition; and the employer will maintain an employer-employee relationship with the beneficiary for the duration of the requested validity period.\"\nThe memo says USCIS recognizes that visa-holders may wind up earning less money than promised or might perform \"non-specialty\" jobs when they are contracted out to third-party worksites.\nThe policy change comes as the Trump administration has signaled its desire to change the visa program with a \"Buy American, Hire American\" policy outlined in an executive order signed in April 2017. The order promised to root out fraud and abuse in the program.\nAs the Mercury News reports, the H-1B program has come under intense federal scrutiny.\n\"A Bay Area News Group report earlier this week found a sharp rise in the number of reviews immigration officials were conducting on H-1B applications. From January to August 2017, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services sent 85,265 requests for evidence in response to H-1B visa applications, a 45 percent increase compared to the same period a year earlier, agency data show. Such requests are made when an application is missing required documents or when the agency determines it needs more proof to decide if a worker is eligible for the visa. Immigration lawyers say the extra enforcement could discourage companies and individuals from seeking an H-1B visa in the first place.\"", "Fewer people want to come to America to work.\nOn Monday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that the number of H-1B applications fell below 200,000 this year for the first time since 2014.\nJust 85,000 H-1B visas (20,000 of which are reserved for master's degree holders) are granted annually, but the past few years have seen swelling demand.\nApplications for the visa opened on April 3, and it was the fifth consecutive year that the cap was met within five days.\nDuring that period, 199,000 applications were received. In 2016, USCIS received 236,000 applications -- and the number had been climbing since at least 2013.\nThe H-1B is the most common visa for high-skilled foreign workers, but it's also become the subject of much scrutiny. While H-1B visas are used to fill the U.S. skills gap, critics, including the Trump administration, have voiced concerns about abuse of the program.\nRelated: H-1B visa applications hit cap in 4 days\nIn some cases, outsourcing firms flood the system with applicants, obtaining visas for foreign workers and then contracting them out to tech companies. American jobs are sometimes replaced in the process, critics say.\nThe start of H-1B season was met with pointed reminders from the government that it is paying close attention to the visa. USCIS announced that it would take a \"more targeted approach\" in visiting the workplaces of H-1B petitioners. And the Justice Department issued a press release \"cautioning\" employers petitioning for H-1B visas to not discriminate against American workers. These are moves designed to cripple outsourcing firms.\n\"In an atmosphere of uncertainty, I suppose it is not surprising that fewer petitions were filed this year,\" said Betsy Lawrence, the director of government relations for the American Immigration Lawyers Association.\n\"Some IT firms in India announced they were reducing the number of lower-experienced workers they were filing petitions for, meaning more of those jobs will stay in India rather than being relocated to the U.S.\"\nLawrence said it will be difficult to know what contributed to lower numbers until there's more data.\n\"Many employers have been unsuccessful in petitioning in past years so they might have been less willing to go to the trouble and expense of preparing petitions,\" she added.\nRelated: India freaks out over U.S. plans to change high-skilled visas\nThis year, the expedited processing option was put on hold. For an additional $1,225 fee, premium processing had guaranteed that an H-1B petition was reviewed within 15 days (if selected in the lottery).\nNon-premium visa petitions can take as much as eight months before they're approved, immigration lawyers say. USCIS hopes to reduce overall processing times with the temporary freeze.", "US President Donald Trump (File Photo) US President Donald Trump (File Photo)\nUS President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order that would tighten the process of issuing the H-1B visas and seek a review of the system for creating an ‘entirely new structure’ for awarding these visas, the most sought-after by Indian IT firms and professionals. Trump is scheduled to travel to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the home state of House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, to sign the ‘Buy American, Hire American’ Executive Order.\nThis was a transitional step aimed at achieving a more skills-based and merit-based immigration system. The executive order would be signed a day after the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it has completed the computerised draw of lots from the 199,000 petitions it received for the Congressional mandated 65,000 H-1B visas for the fiscal year 2018 beginning October 1 this year. The lottery was held for the 20,000 H-1B visas for those applicants having higher education from US educational institutions.\nOpposing the traditional lottery system for H-1B visas, a senior administration official told White House reporters that these visas were being used by companies to bring in foreign workers at a low wage rate and displace local workers. The official argued that there were enough qualified people within the country to meet the demand of technology professionals. “With respect to the H-1B visa programme in particular, which deals mostly with STEM jobs, we graduate about twice as many STEM students each year as find jobs in STEM fields.\n“The issue of training workers for skilled manufacturing jobs is a different aspect of a policy then, say, the H-1B visa, which obviously is for STEM occupations,” the official said. The official argued that the reality was that the US has large numbers of unemployed American workers. “Right now we’re creating an environment with our guest-worker programmes where those workers are being bypassed,” the official said.\n“If you make it harder to abuse the guest-worker programmes, it creates more of a market for domestic workers, as well as more of a market for the kinds of job training and vocational training programmes that you’re talking about,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Trump had made the alleged abuse and fraud in H-1B visa system a major election issue during his campaign.\nThe executive order signed by Trump today will call for the strict enforcement of all laws governing entry into the United States of labour from abroad, for the stated purpose of creating higher wages and higher employment rates for workers in America, the official said. “It would further call on the departments of Labour, Justice, Homeland Security and State to take prompt action to crackdown on fraud and abuse, which should both be understood as separate problems, in our immigration system in order to protect workers in the United States and their economic conditions,” the official asserted.\n“As a practical matter, you’re creating an entirely new structure for awarding these visas. I mean, it is a completely…total transformation of the H-1B programme,” the official said. According to the senior administration official, these reforms were broadly supported by groups that represent American workers in the US, and that a lot of the driving action historically for these kinds of guest-worker reforms have been from groups that in fact even tilt Democratic.\n“This (executive order) would apply across the board, but in particular, the executive order has an additional clause on the H-1B visa programme, and calls on those same four departments to put forward reforms to see to it that H-1B visas are awarded to the most skilled or highest-paid applicants,” the official said.\nNoting that right now the H-1B visas were awarded by random lottery, the official said 80 per cent of H-1B workers were paid less than the median wage in their fields. Only about five to six per cent, depending on the year, of H-1B workers command the highest wage tier recognised by the Department of Labour, there being four wage tiers, he said. “The highest wage tier, for instance in 2015, was only five per cent of H-1B workers. So 80 per cent received less than the median wage and only 10 per cent received the median wage,” he noted.\n“And, so only five per cent were categorised at the highest wage tier of the four wage tiers that are in place for the H-1B guest-worker visa,” the official said. The result of that is that workers are often brought in well below market rates to replace American workers, sort of violating the principle of the programme, which is supposed to be a means for bringing in skilled labour, the official said. “And instead, you’re bringing in, a lot of times, workers who are actually less skilled and lower paid than the workers that they’re replacing,” he stated.\nThe official said Trump has done more to bring a national spotlight onto the abuses in the H-1B guest-worker programme than anybody in the country has at any point in recent history. “If you change that current system that awards visas randomly without regard for skill or wage to a skills-based awarding, it makes it extremely difficult to use the visa to replace or undercut American workers. These are not bringing in workers at beneath the market wage,” he said. The top three recipients of the H-1B visas, the official said, were Tata (TCS), Infosys and Cognizant.\n“Some companies oftentimes are called outsourcing firms. They’re like the top recipients of H-1B visa. You know, are companies like Tata (TCS), Infosys, Cognizant. They will apply for a very large number of visas; more than they get. Like putting extra tickets in the lottery raffle, if you will,” the official said.\n“And then they’ll get the lion’s share of visas,” the official said. As part of the executive order, the agencies have been asked to do everything they can, he said. “But you could be looking at things on the administration side like increasing fees for H-1B visas. You could be looking at things like if we could adjust the wage scale to have a more honest reflection of what the prevailing wages actually are in these fields,” the official said.\nFor all the latest World News, download Indian Express App now", "NEW DELHI: Indian IT engineers have been prized catches in the marriage market but slowly they are losing their hot status. Layoffs , pay cuts and US visa restrictions have taken the sheen off an Indian software engineer's job. Now the Donald Trump administration is terminating a provision which will further narrow the marriage prospects of Indian IT engineers.The Trump administration is planning to deny work permits to spouses of H1-B visa holders in the US. A 2015 rule issued by the Obama administration allows work permits for spouses who otherwise could not be employed while H-1B visa holders seek permanent resident status, a process that can take a decade or longer.H-4 visa is issued to the spouse of H-1B visa holders, a significantly large number of whom are high-skilled professionals from India. They had obtained work permits under a special order issued by the previous Obama administration.Last year in July, an ET report showed how the crisis in Indian IT industry was impacting marriage prospects of techies. Matrimonial advertisements reflected this change in preference. An ad placed by the parents of a prospective Tamil bride in a matrimonial column ended thus: “(Seeks) IAS/IPS, doctor, businessman. Software engineers kindly do not call.”,The report quoted Gourav Rakshit, CEO of Shaadi.com, one of India’s biggest matrimonial websites, as saying that the percentage of women seeking IT professionals had slumped since the beginning of 2017. “We have also simultaneously seen that the number of women looking for life partners in the US has been declining rapidly, especially since November,” Rakshit said. “What’s interesting is that the two may be correlated given political developments in the US.”A Mumbai-based matchmaker who specialises in the Tamil Brahmin community told ET last year that there had been a definite decline in interest in grooms who were software professionals.With the Trump administration planning to deny work permits to spouses of H1-B visa holders, matrimonial interest in Indian IT engineers will further go down.According to a recent study by the Migration Policy Institute , the US has issued work permits to more than 71,000 spouses of H-1B visa holders, more than 90 per cent of whom are Indians. Of these H-4 spouses with work authorisation as of early 2017, a total of 94 per cent were women, and the vast majority, 93 per cent, were from India.", "The Trump administration is planning to end giving work permits to the spouses of H1-B visa holders to work legally in the US\nExpressing disappointment over the US government’s proposals to tighten H1-B visa norms, Union Minister Suresh Prabhu today said he would take up the matter with the Trump administration.\n“We are very disappointed by some of the actions by the US administration,” the commerce and industry minister told reporters here.\nThe H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. The technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China.\nPrabhu said under the visas issued to the technology service providers, there is evidence that Indians have contributed significantly to the growth of the US economy. Indian companies’ investment into the US has created new jobs in America, he said, adding that if spouses of the Indian IT professionals are competent and qualified, they will only add value to the economy there and not snatch jobs of local people.\nThe Trump administration is planning to end giving work permits to the spouses of H1-B visa holders to work legally in the US, a move that could have a devastating impact on tens of thousands of Indians.\n“This is a very disappointing development. We have already taken up the issue with the US. We hope to take it forward by other negotiations,” Prabhu added", "The Federal Government's been forced to rethink its overhaul of 457 visas after complaints from the tech sector that the new system would make it harder to attract highly skilled talent.\nThe outgoing 457 skilled worker visa was replaced yesterday by the Temporary Skill Shortage or TSS visa, which no longer includes a path to permanent residency.\nThe IT industry argued the change was affecting its ability to attract top workers to compete on the world stage with hubs like Silicon Valley.\nThe government's now responded, introducing a new 12-month pilot program with the TSS known as the Global Talent Scheme.\nImportantly, it includes a path to permanent residency after just three years.\nSydney-based tech company Readytech, has welcomed the development, saying it's desperately in need of highly skilled IT professionals.", "Ambassador Sarna asserted that H-1B visas to Indian companies have propelled employment in the US\nIndia’s envoy in Washington Navtej Sarna on Monday told CNN that H-1B visas have in fact created jobs in the United States.\n“The H-1B scheme has been crucial in making US companies competitive globally in increasing their client base, in increasing their innovation. And it is the Indian tech industry, which has actually been creating jobs here,” Sarna said.\nH-1B visas allow skilled foreigners to work in the United States. Sarna said that if President Trump succeeds in slashing H-1B visas, it would be detrimental to the business interests of both the countries.\n“There are reports and analysis by very respected houses, which say that over 400,000 jobs have been directly and indirectly supported in the US,” he added.\nSarna said: “Out of every 100 H-1B visas have resulted in support to a 183 jobs in the US… This is very important because, you know, the US companies – nine out of the 15 top tech companies in India are American companies.”\nSarna told CNN that the Indian technology companies have invested about two billion dollars in the US, over the span of four years.\n“This is a relationship which is symbiotic and which has a potential of becoming even stronger for both countries,” he added.", "(Image: US Tech Workers)\nA few days ago, a Washington DC-based group with the name \"Progressives For Immigration Reform\" which has been previously dubbed \"anti immigrant\" by the Southern Poverty Law Center, flooded San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) stations and trains with ads targeting foreign tech workers, specifically those with H-1Bs.\n\"US tech workers! Your companies think you are expensive, undeserving, and expendable. Congress, fix H-1B laws so companies must seek and hire US workers!\" says the ads.\n\"The idea is to make immigration work for the citizens as a whole,\" Kevin Lynn, executive director at Progressives for Immigration Reform, told Buzzfeed -- which also observed that Lynn's mother immigrated to the US from Ireland in 1952.\n\"That's what we've done for a long time, but it's not doing that now,\" added Lynn. Apparently, Lynn's organization paid BART $80,000 for the right to plaster over 250 panel ads in subway stations around the city as well as 100 smaller in-train ads. The ads come at a pivotal time as the deadline for filing H-1B visas this year closes on April 2.\nIn its response, a BART spokesperson said that the First Amendment forbade them to deny the DC group its business. \"It is important for our riders to know the ads contradict our values,\" the spokesperson wrote in an email response. \"As a transit system we can't deny the ads. They comply with guidelines allowing advertisers to express a point of view without regard to the viewpoint expressed, consistent with First Amendment freedom of speech court rulings.\"\nThe H-1B visas -- the lifeblood of the $150 billion Indian IT service industry that gets some $70 billion of its revenue from the US and is responsible for a preponderance of H-1B visa filings -- has become a favourite punching bag for President Donald Trump, who has unleashed a veritable war against the H-1B ever since he took office. An executive order last year made qualifying criteria for computer programmers stricter and announced the beginning of targeted site visits to check fraud.\nA policy memo last month attempts to further clamp down on what the government says are abuses by upping the disclosure requirements considerably. In the past few decades, the visa was given for a three-year time period, renewable for another three. Post the memo, applicants will have to show that they have specific assignments in a specialty occupation, and that these assignments match the entire time period on the application. In other words, if the assignment is for one year, the visa will be issued for one year and not for the three that was previously a sure thing.\nAlso, shifting Indian employees from one project to another within the US is going to become supremely difficult. Plus, those thinking of transitioning from the H-1B to a greencard, as many luminaries in the tech firmament from other countries have done so far, will face considerable odds when doing so.\nThe real bone of contention surrounding H-1Bs is that they take away jobs unfairly from qualified US candidates. Certainly, there have been instances and firms -- many Indian -- who have tried to game the system by flooding the H-1B lottery with applications in order to up their success rates in securing visas. Also, the accusation that these H-1B hires command far cheaper salaries than their US counterparts is not unfounded. Yet, American tech companies insist that there is a serious shortfall of engineering talent in the US and H-1Bs, with special skills making up for the gap.\nCan the US survive without an influx of H-1Bs? Tech companies in the US have argued that there will be an Armageddon in their industry if they are not allowed to absorb the best and brightest from around the world into their workforces. It could cripple the very fabric of innovation, they say.\nNot so, says Lynn. \"I don't see where innovation necessarily comes from diversity,\" he said to Buzzfeed. \"What it comes from is having an environment where you can hire your college graduates, put them into a good paying job, and allow them to innovate.\"\nYet the recent history of the tech industry in the US reveals something entirely different. Both Microsoft and Google are led by Indian immigrants who migrated from H-1Bs to greencards and then to US citizenship. A study shows that in 2012, nearly 16 percent of startups in Silicon Valley were steered by an Indian co-founder even though Indians comprised just 6 percent of the region's population. The co-founder of Google came from Russia. eBay and Yahoo were started by immigrants. This is just the tiny tip of a giant iceberg.\nIn his piece on immigrants and Silicon Valley, Farhad Manjoo of the New York Times mentions a study by the nonpartisan think tank National Foundation for American Policy on the 87 privately held American startups that were then valued at $1 billion or more: \"More than half of them were founded by one or more people from outside the United States. And 71 percent of them employed immigrants in crucial executive roles.\" Also, immigrants or their progeny founded more than 40 percent of companies in the Fortune 500.\nJohn Collison, originally from Ireland and co-founder of payments startup Stripe, summed it up most poignantly in Manjoo's piece. \"Look at all the leading technology companies globally, and look at how overrepresented the United States is. That's not a normal state of affairs. That's because we have managed to create this engine where the best and the brightest from around the world are coming to Silicon Valley.\"\nPREVIOUS AND RELATED COVERAGE\n2018's $51B IT renewal deals may not be as sweet as they seem\nIn an era of fragmented deals, IT companies are seeing revenues decline over the duration of the deal, leading to increased pressure in maintaining margins.\nThe path to empowering and profiting off India's next wave of online users\nThe Omidyar Network's latest report offers entrepreneurs valuable tips on how to access India's next gigantic wave of online users.\nThis home for underprivileged coders will put the Indian government and IT industry to shame\nNavGurukul is a shining example of how easy it is to tackle poverty and a lack of self-belief and skilling all in one shot if there is a deep desire and commitment to do so. If only someone in India was listening.\nReport suggests US paranoia about H-1Bs largely unsupported by facts or stats\nFrom a rampaging imported Indian workforce to a shortage of STEM jobs, this paper by the National Foundation for American Policy suggests that a web of myths have dominated discourse around foreign tech workers, and that it could ultimately torpedo the American economy.\nTrump keeps H-1B, but imposes strict guidelines for applicants (TechRepublic)\nUnder US president Donald Trump, the USCIS has issued stronger guidelines for H-1B applicants, established an email address for reporting fraud, and set up a more targeted approach to site visits.", "WASHINGTON: More than 5,000 complaints of H-1B visa fraud and abuse have been received by a federal agency on a dedicated email helpline that was launched by the Trump administration last year, an official said.\n“As of May 21, the USCIS has received over 5,000 tips to the dedicated H-1B email address,” Philip Smith, a Spokesperson for the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) told PTI.\nAfter US President Donald Trump Signed “Buy American, Hire American” executive order last year, Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS) established email addresses dedicated to receiving information about suspected H-1B and H-2B fraud or abuse.\nFDNS leads USCIS’s efforts to combat immigration benefit fraud.\nAnyone (including both American workers and workers who suspect they or others may be the victim of H-1B or H-2B fraud or abuse) can email ReportH1BAbuse@uscis.dhs.gov or ReportH2BAbuse@uscis.dhs.gov to submit tips, alleged violations, and other relevant information about potential fraud or abuse, Smith said.\nThe USCIS, however, did not provide any other details with regard to the nature of complaints, the companies involved and which country’s high-tech professionals were the victims of H-1B visa fraud and abuse.\n“Pursuant to the Buy American, Hire American Executive Order, FDNS has helped the agency investigate the H-1B program to protect American workers,” Smith said.\nIn April 2017, USCIS FDNS created and implemented the Targeted Site Visit and Verification Program (TSVVP) as part of its continuous efforts to enhance the integrity of the immigration benefit process, he said.\n“This targeted approach focuses on H-1B dependent employers (those who have a high ratio of H-1B workers as compared to US workers, as defined by statute); Cases that we cannot validate the employer’s basic business information through commercially available data; and employers petitioning for H-1B workers who work off-site at another company or organization’s location,” Smith said in response to a question.\nFDNS officers resolve background check information and other concerns that surface during the processing of immigration benefit applications and petitions.\nResolution often requires communication with law enforcement or intelligence agencies to make sure that the information is relevant to the applicant or petitioner at hand and, if so, whether the information would have an impact on eligibility for the benefit.\nFDNS officers also perform checks of USCIS databases and public information, as well as other administrative inquiries, to verify information provided on, and in support of, applications and petitions.\nSmith said administrative inquiries may include targeted site visits Inquiries conducted in cases where fraud is suspected.\nFDNS uses the Fraud Detection and National Security Data System (FDNS-DS) to identify fraud and track potential patterns, he said.\nThe USCIS has formed a partnership with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in which FDNS pursues administrative inquiries into most application and petition fraud, while ICE conducts criminal investigations into major fraud conspiracies, he said.\nAccording to the USCIS, the H-1B visa program should help US companies recruit highly-skilled foreign nationals when there is a shortage of qualified workers in the country.\n“Yet, too many American workers who are as qualified, willing, and deserving to work in these fields have been ignored or unfairly disadvantaged,” the USCIS says on its webpage.\nEmployers who abuse H-1B visa program may negatively affect US workers, decreasing wages and opportunities as they import more workers from abroad, it said.\nHighly popular among Indian technology professional, the H-1B visa is normally issued for three years and renewed for another three years.\nThe US Congress has a cap of 65,000 H-1B visas per year.\nIt also issues another 20,000 H-1B visas to those who have masters and higher education from a US academic institute. PTI\nComments\ncomments", "Expressing disappointment over the US government's proposals to tighten H1-B visa norms, Union Minister Suresh Prabhu on Tuesday said he would take up the matter with the Trump administration.\"We are very disappointed by some of the actions by the US administration,\" the commerce and industry minister told reporters here.The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. The technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China.Prabhu said under the visas issued to the technology service providers, there is evidence that Indians have contributed significantly to the growth of the US economy. Indian companies' investment into the US has created newI jobs in America, he said, adding that if spouses of the Indian IT professionals are competent and qualified, they will only add value to the economy there and not snatch jobs of local people.The Trump administration is planning to end giving work permits to the spouses of H1-B visa holders to work legally in the US, a move that could have a devastating impact on tens of thousands of Indians.\"This is a very disappointing development. We have already taken up the issue with the US. We hope to take it forward by other negotiations,\" Prabhu added.", "Opposing the traditional lottery system for H-1B visas, a senior administration official told White House reporters that these visas were being used by companies to bring in foreign workers at a low wage rate and displace local workers. (Reuters)\nUS President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order that would tighten the process of issuing the H-1B visas and seek a review of the system for creating an “entirely new structure” for awarding these visas, the most sought-after by Indian IT firms and professionals. Trump is scheduled to travel to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the home state of House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, to sign the ‘Buy American, Hire American’ Executive Order. This was a transitional step aimed at achieving a more skills-based and merit-based immigration system.\nThe executive order would be signed a day after the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it has completed the computerised draw of lots from the 199,000 petitions it received for the Congressional mandated 65,000 H-1B visas for the fiscal year 2018 beginning October 1 this year.\nThe lottery was held for the 20,000 H-1B visas for those applicants having higher education from US educational institutions.\nOpposing the traditional lottery system for H-1B visas, a senior administration official told White House reporters that these visas were being used by companies to bring in foreign workers at a low wage rate and displace local workers.\nThe official argued that there were enough qualified people within the country to meet the demand of technology professionals.\nYou May Also Want To Watch:\n“With respect to the H-1B visa programme in particular, which deals mostly with STEM jobs, we graduate about twice as many STEM students each year as find jobs in STEM fields.\n“The issue of training workers for skilled manufacturing jobs is a different aspect of a policy then, say, the H-1B visa, which obviously is for STEM occupations,” the official said.\nThe official argued that the reality was that the US has large numbers of unemployed American workers.\n“Right now we’re creating an environment with our guest- worker programmes where those workers are being bypassed,” the official said.\n“If you make it harder to abuse the guest-worker programmes, it creates more of a market for domestic workers, as well as more of a market for the kinds of job training and vocational training programmes that you’re talking about,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.\nTrump had made the alleged abuse and fraud in H-1B visa system a major election issue during his campaign.\nThe executive order signed by Trump today will call for the strict enforcement of all laws governing entry into the United States of labour from abroad, for the stated purpose of creating higher wages and higher employment rates for workers in America, the official said.\n“It would further call on the departments of Labour, Justice, Homeland Security and State to take prompt action to crackdown on fraud and abuse, which should both be understood as separate problems, in our immigration system in order to protect workers in the United States and their economic conditions,” the official asserted.\n“As a practical matter, you’re creating an entirely new structure for awarding these visas. I mean, it is a completely…total transformation of the H-1B programme,” the official said.\nAccording to the senior administration official, these reforms were broadly supported by groups that represent American workers in the US, and that a lot of the driving action historically for these kinds of guest-worker reforms have been from groups that in fact even tilt Democratic.\n“This (executive order) would apply across the board, but in particular, the executive order has an additional clause on the H-1B visa programme, and calls on those same four departments to put forward reforms to see to it that H-1B visas are awarded to the most skilled or highest-paid applicants,” the official said.\nNoting that right now the H-1B visas were awarded by random lottery, the official said 80 per cent of H-1B workers were paid less than the median wage in their fields.\nOnly about five to six per cent, depending on the year, of H-1B workers command the highest wage tier recognised by the Department of Labour, there being four wage tiers, he said.\n“The highest wage tier, for instance in 2015, was only five per cent of H-1B workers. So 80 per cent received less than the median wage and only 10 per cent received the median wage,” he noted.\n“And, so only five per cent were categorised at the highest wage tier of the four wage tiers that are in place for the H-1B guest-worker visa,” the official said.\nThe result of that is that workers are often brought in well below market rates to replace American workers, sort of violating the principle of the programme, which is supposed to be a means for bringing in skilled labour, the official said.\n“And instead, you’re bringing in, a lot of times, workers who are actually less skilled and lower paid than the workers that they’re replacing,” he stated.\nThe official said Trump has done more to bring a national spotlight onto the abuses in the H-1B guest-worker programme than anybody in the country has at any point in recent history.\n“If you change that current system that awards visas randomly without regard for skill or wage to a skills-based awarding, it makes it extremely difficult to use the visa to replace or undercut American workers. These are not bringing in workers at beneath the market wage,” he said.\nThe top three recipients of the H-1B visas, the official said, were Tata (TCS), Infosys and Cognizant.\n“Some companies oftentimes are called outsourcing firms. They’re like the top recipients of H-1B visa. You know, are companies like Tata (TCS), Infosys, Cognizant. They will apply for a very large number of visas; more than they get. Like putting extra tickets in the lottery raffle, if you will,” the official said.\n“And then they’ll get the lion’s share of visas,” the official said.\nAs part of the executive order, the agencies have been asked to do everything they can, he said.\n“But you could be looking at things on the administration side like increasing fees for H-1B visas. You could be looking at things like if we could adjust the wage scale to have a more honest reflection of what the prevailing wages actually are in these fields,” the official said.", "Applying for an Australian work visa is set to become harder for Irish people.\nPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced that he's scrapping the 457 temporary work visa, which allows people work in the country for up to four years once they're sponsored by an emplyer.\nThe visa will be replaced with a new category to give Australians priority for jobs.\nOver 2,000 Irish people applied for the Visa last year. Current holders will not be affected by the move.\nTurnbull used Facebook to announce the new policy:", "Photo: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images\nDuring the campaign, Donald Trump promised to eliminate the H-1B visa program, though he flip-flopped on the issue many times. Now, with the end of his first 100 days in office quickly approaching, President Trump hopes to show he’s advancing his “America First” ideology by issuing an executive order cracking down on the H-1B visa program on Tuesday — though it’s just the first step in a complicated reform process.\nDuring a trip to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, Trump will tour the headquarters of Snap-on-Tools and sign an executive order intended to make good on his pledge to “buy American and hire American.” Senior administration officials told reporters that the order will direct Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to prepare a report by Thanksgiving on waivers and exceptions made to “buy American” rules across the federal government, and how to close those loopholes.\nThe “hire American” element of the order will focus on preventing H-1B visa holders from “undercutting American labor at less cost,” according to one senior official. Under the program, the government uses a lottery system to award 85,000 visas to high-skilled foreign workers each year. Tech companies say they rely on the program to make up for a shortage of Americans trained in science and engineering. But critics say these companies abuse the program, replacing Americans with foreigners who will work for a lower wage and who are often stuck in their position for years as their green card application is being processed. Administration officials said 80 percent of workers who enter the U.S. on H-1B visas are paid less than the median wage in their fields.\nThe order will direct the the departments of Labor, Justice, State, and Homeland Security to conduct reviews of the H-1B visa program and propose reforms. The Trump administration says current rules are going unenforced, and they want to see changes that ensure the visas are only going to “the most highly skilled workers.” According to the Washington Post, administration officials described various ways this could be accomplished:\nThe officials said reform could first come through administrative changes, such as raising the visa application fees, adjusting the wage scale to more accurately reflect prevailing salaries in the tech industry, and more vigorously enforcing violations. It could also change the lottery system to give foreigners with U.S. master’s degrees a leg up.\nThese are just possible fixes, and the executive order probably won’t offer tech leaders much clarification on what reform will actually look like. H-1B applications declined from 236,000 to 199,000 this year, with employers uncertain of what changes might come under the Trump administration.\nThere’s bipartisan agreement that the H-1B program needs to be fixed, and critics say Trump could have simply directed federal departments to start recommending reforms, without issuing an executive order.\n“One should not mistake PR for policy,” Bruce Morrison, a former Democratic member of Congress turned lobbyist for IT workers, told Wired. “The media just follows along and says, ‘Oh, the president is issuing another executive order. He’s changing the world,’ but he’s not.’”\nSigning an executive order lets Trump highlight his commitment to fulfilling his promise to protect American workers, but he can’t do a thorough overhaul of the program on his own. Changing certain fundamental elements, like how many visas are awarded each year, requires action from Congress. As NPR reports, a number of lawmakers have been trying to advance such legislation, but those efforts have stalled.\n“We’re encouraged that this is an important first step. It essentially means the president is turning his words into action,” Scott Boos, a senior vice-president at the Alliance for American Manufacturing, told the Post. Though, he added that “the true test” will be what the Trump administration does when it gets to actually proposing new policies.", "A powerful Republican Senator has said he does not expect President Donald Trump to weaken the H-1B visa scheme, sought-after by Indian IT professionals, as the programme benefits Americans and the US economy.\nSenator Orion Hatch, Senate Finance Committee Chairman, said that in his several meetings with Trump he had discussed the economic benefits of preserving and expanding H-1B visas programme, which is popular among Indian IT professionals.\nHatch told 'Morning Consult', a media technology company, that his time with Trump has convinced him that the President will take a pragmatic approach to H-1Bs.\n\"Anything that creates jobs, anything that moves this economy forward. And I think he can put political feelings aside. And I expect him to, and I'll make sure he does,\" the Republican Senator from Utah said yesterday.\nHatch is expected to roll out a tech-focused \"Innovation Agenda for the 115th Congress,\" in which he is likely to push for an increase in H-1B visa number.\nH1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows American firms to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. The tech companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year.\nHe had made a similar effort in 2015 when he introduced a bill to raise the annual cap of H-1B visas to between 115,000 to 195,000, based on market conditions.\n\"While some have expressed some reservations about the impact of high-skilled immigration on American jobs, I believe we can and will be able to make a convincing case for reform.\nThe data is on our side,\" said Hatch who met Trump some two weeks ago.\nHe said Trump appears to recognise the importance of the high-skilled guest worker programme for overall job growth and economic productivity.\nHatch exuded confidence that he can convince the President that the data on H-1B visas shows how the programme benefits American workers and the US economy, the report said.\nIndia is one of the top sources for international workers in the American tech industry, accounting for a major chunk of all H-1B visas. And any move by Trump, who has vowed to put an \"America First\" policy, will have an adverse impact in India.", "BY WAYNE CHARGUALAF\nJournal Staff\nU.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced the number of visas it will grant for the last three fiscal years of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands-Only Transitional Worker (CW-1) program in a Nov. 22 release. Congress mandated that USCIS eliminate the CW-1 program by fiscal year 2020. Starting from a cap of 9,998 workers for fiscal 2018, the number of workers allowed under the cap will be reduced by 50% each fiscal year until Dec. 31, 2019, at which point the program will end. The prospect of . . .\nThis content is available only to subscribers. If you are a member, please log in.", "President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Tuesday dubbed \"Buy American, Hire American\" that calls for sweeping reform of the H-1B visa process.\nIts centerpiece is the replacement of the H-1B lottery with a system that distributes visas on the basis of wages, skills and education.\n\"We want to switch away from a random lottery system, in which it's weighted toward the lowest wage workers, towards a system that prioritizes higher skilled, higher paid workers,\" said a senior administration official, in a background briefing to reporters on the condition that officials not be identified.\nSuch an H-1B reform \"would make it much more difficult to use it to replace American workers,\" the administration official said.\nWith this order Trump makes his H-1B reform effort official, but the changes that the administration wants will take time.\nThe White House intends to follow a two-pronged approach to H-1B reform. It will make administrative actions as it works with lawmakers on reform bills. But it's unclear how many changes it can make administratively, and how much cooperation it can expect from Congress. Many lawmakers support reform, but there are differences in approaches.\nTrump has been telegraphing these visa changes for a while. He was critical of the H-1B program during his election. Disney IT workers, who had trained H-1B holding replacements, spoke at some of his rallies, and the idea that the visa program is being being abused was major theme for Trump.\n\"An abuse of the H-1B visa program is to bring in a worker -- not because you need their skills or talent -- but for the purpose of undercutting an American worker,\" said an administrative official, who cited Government Accountability Official data that found about 80% of H-1B workers are paid below median wages.\nTrump is expected to sign the executive order as part of visit to Snap-On Tools in Milwaukee. The \"buy American\" part of the order will affect government contracting.\nThere are asterisks, as well as criticism, about this White House H-1B reform effort.\nThe White House order has no impact on the most recent visa lottery, and that means many of this year's visas will go to IT offshore outsourcing companies. That's a major sore point with critics.\n\"Countless thousands of American workers are likely to be training their replacements as a result of Congress and the Trump administration not taking action,\" said Ron Hira, an associate professor of public policy at Howard University.\nThe IEEE-USA had urged Trump to change the visa lottery in time for April 1, and was disappointed that he had not. The next visa lottery will be April 1, 2018 for the federal fiscal year 2019.\nWith this new Trump order, the administration will muster key agencies to make an administrative review and propose reforms. It will also review its legal authority to make changes. An administrative official on the briefing said they believe it's possible to improve wages administratively as well as increase some application fees.\nThere will be many questions. What kind of reform in wage tiers can be expected, and what academic credentials, or skills, will win favor in a new system?\nThe administrative official briefing reporters on the H-1B reform was asked about the Disney displacement, and whether the goal was to prevent similar instances. He said that the reforms that they have in mind \"would have the effect of making that kind of displacement impossible.\"", "The Trump administration is working on proposals to streamline the H-1B visa procedure, the most sought after by Indian IT professionals, to focus on attracting the best and the brightest foreign talents, according to a top federal agency official.The proposed regulation also aims to intensify efforts to crackdown on H-1B visa fraud, said Francis Cissna, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director in a letter to Senator Chuck Grassley.The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. The technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and ChinaThe US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is working on two proposed regulations to improve the H-1B programme. The first regulation proposes to establish an electronic registration programme for petitions subject to numerical limitations for the H-1B non-immigrant classification.\"This rule is intended to allow USCIS to more efficiently manage the intake and lottery process for these H-1B petitions,\" said Cissna.The later is dated April 4, the content of which was first reported yesterday by Axios news website.\"The second regulation will propose to revise the definition of specialty occupation, so as to increase focus on obtaining the best and the brightest foreign nationals via the H-1B programme and to revise the definition of employment and employer-employee relationship to better protect US workers and wages,\" Cissna said.In addition, Department of Homeland Security will propose additional requirements designed to ensure employers pay appropriate wages to H-1B visa holders, it said.The USCIS is also drafting a proposed rule to remove the International Entrepreneur Rule (IER), as announced in the regulatory agenda. Due to the court order which invalidated the IER delay rule, the International Entrepreneur Final Rule is currently in effect.\"We have not approved any parole requests under the International Entrepreneur Final Rule at this time,\" it said.Briefing the Senator on its efforts to prevent fraud in H-1B, Cissna said USCIS now has a dedicated email address to make it easier for the public to report suspected fraud and abuse in the H-1B and H-2B programmes.Other steps that the USCIS has previously announced include establishing a more targeted approach in our H-1B employer site visit programme.\"We initiated these targeted site visits to help us determine, among other things, whether H-1B-dependent employers are actually paying their workers the statutorily required salary to qualify for an exemption from recruitment attestation requirements,\" it said.The USCIS is also expanding its administrative site visit programme to include L-1B petitions.\"We are initially focusing on employers petitioning for L-1B specialised knowledge workers who will primarily work offsite at another company or organization's location to ensure that they are complying with the requirements from the L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2004. These requirements were meant to help prevent United States workers from being displaced by foreign workers,\" the USCIS said.Cissna said it also published a policy memorandum that instructs officers to apply the same level of scrutiny to both initial petitions and extension requests for non-immigrant visa categories. The guidance applies to all non-immigrant classifications filed using Form r-129, Petition for a Non-immigrant Worker.The previous policy instructed officers to give deference to the findings of a previously approved petition, as long as the key elements were unchanged and there was no evidence of a material error or fraud related to the prior determination.\"The updated policy guidance rescinds the previous policy. Under the law, the burden of proof in establishing eligibility for the visa petition extension is on the petitioner, regardless of whether users previously approved a petition,\" it said.", "US President Donald Trump on Tuesday will sign an executive order directing federal agencies to recommend changes to a temporary visa program used to bring foreign workers to the United States to fill high-skilled jobs.\nTwo senior Trump administration officials who briefed reporters at the White House said Trump will also use the \"buy American and hire American\" order to seek changes in government procurement practices to increase the purchase of American products in federal contracts.\nTrump is to sign the order when he visits the world headquarters of Snap-On Inc, a tool manufacturer in Kenosha, Wisconsin.\nThe order is an attempt by Trump to carry out his \"America First\" campaign pledges to reform US immigration policies and encourage purchases of American products.\nTrump's New Travel Ban Raises the Same Silicon Valley Objections\nAs he nears the 100-day benchmark of his presidency, Trump has no major legislative achievements to tout but has used executive orders to seek regulatory changes to help the US economy.\nThe order he will sign on Tuesday will call for \"the strict enforcement of all laws governing entry into the United States of labor from abroad for the stated purpose of creating higher wages and higher employment rates for workers in the United States,\" one of the senior officials said.\nIt will call on the departments of Labor, Justice, Homeland Security and State to take action to crack down on what the official called \"fraud and abuse\" in the US immigration system to protect American workers.\nThe order will call on those four federal departments to propose reforms to ensure H-1B visas are awarded to the most skilled or highest paid applicant.\nH-1B visas are intended for foreign nationals in \"specialty\" occupations that generally require higher education, which according to US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) includes, but is not limited to, scientists, engineers or computer programmers. The government uses a lottery to award 65,000 visas every year and randomly distributes another 20,000 to graduate student workers.\nIndia's Techies Fear US Crackdown on H-1B Visas\nThe number of applications for H-1B visas fell to 199,000 this year from 236,000 in 2016, according US Citizenship and Immigration Services.\nCompanies say they use visas to recruit top talent. More than 15 percent of Facebook Inc's US employees in 2016 used a temporary work visa, according to a Reuters analysis of US Labor Department filings.\nBut a majority of the visas are awarded to outsourcing firms, sparking criticism by skeptics who say those firms use the visas to fill lower-level information technology jobs. Critics also say the lottery system benefits outsourcing firms that flood the system with mass applications.\nThe senior official said the end result of how the system currently works is that foreign workers are often brought in at less pay to replace American workers, \"violating the principle of the program.\"\nSenate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, Republican Representative Darrell Issa of California and Democratic Representative Zoe Lofgren of California were not immediately available to comment.\nFacebook, Microsoft Corp and Apple Inc were also not immediately available after normal business hours.\nThe order also asks federal agencies to look at how to get rid of loopholes in the government procurement process.\nSpecifically, the review will take into account whether waivers in free-trade agreements are leading to unfair trade by allowing foreign companies to undercut American companies in the global government procurement market.\n\"If it turns out America is a net loser because of those free-trade agreement waivers, which apply to almost 60 countries, these waivers may be promptly renegotiated or revoked,\" the second official said.\n© Thomson Reuters 2017", "Temporary worker visa that brings tens of thousands to US annually will be revamped to address alleged abuses, as Trump plays to American working class\nIn a bid to court working class voters, Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday to revamp a temporary visa programme used to bring foreign workers to fill jobs in the US.\nThe president will use a visit to a manufacturing company in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a crucial state he snatched from Hillary Clinton in the election, to promote his latest “Buy America Hire America” offensive.\nThis includes an attempt to redress alleged abuses in the H-1B visas, which are used largely by the tech industry, and on which has Trump shifted position several times during the election campaign.\nUS suspension of fast track for H-1B visas leaves foreign workers in limbo Read more\nH-1B visas admit 65,000 workers and another 20,000 graduate student workers each year. Most of the visas are awarded to outsourcing firms, which critics say exploit loopholes to fill lower-level IT jobs with foreign workers, often at lower pay. The White House intends “a total transformation” of the programme from a lottery to a merit-based system, a senior administration official said.\nTrump’s executive order will call on government departments to introduce reforms to ensure that H-1B visas are awarded to the “most skilled or highest paid applicants”, the official told reporters.\n“Right now H-1B visas are awarded by random lottery and many of you will be surprised to know that about 80% of H-1B workers are paid less than the median wage in their fields. Only 5% to 6%, depending on the year, of H-1B workers command the highest wage tier recognised by the Department of Labor.”\nThe official added: “The result is that workers are often brought in well below market rates to replace American workers, violating the principle of the programme, which is supposed to be a means for bringing in skilled labour. Instead, you’re a lot of times bringing in workers that are less skilled and lower paid than the workers they’re replacing.”\nPerhaps the most notorious case cited during the campaign was at the Walt Disney Company in Florida, where American technology workers claimed they were laid off and forced to train foreign replacements. A judge dismissed a lawsuit that accused Disney of conspiring with outsourcing companies to violate visa laws.\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest Trump’s executive order will introduce reforms to ensure H-1B visas are awarded to the ‘most skilled or highest paid applicants’. Photograph: UPI / Barcroft Images\nThe senior administration official said: “If you change that current system that awards visas randomly, without regard for skill or wage, to a skills-based awarding, it makes it extremely difficult to use the visa to replace or undercut American workers ... It’s a very elegant way of solving very systemic problems in the H-1B guest worker visa.”\nHe added: “I could foresee scenarios, which I won’t get into now, where you just have a whole different way of looking at immigration. This is a transitional step to get towards a more skills-based and merit-based immigration system.”\nThe executive order will also call for the “strict enforcement” of laws governing entry to the US of labour from overseas, with a view to creating higher wages and employment rates for US workers.\n'My worst nightmare': high-skilled tech workers fear Trump visa crackdown Read more\nThe order will also call on government departments to “take prompt action to crack down on fraud and abuse” in the immigration system, a senior administration official said.\nThere was a tense moment at Monday’s off-camera briefing when a reporter asked about Trump’s own hiring of temporary foreign guest workers at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and other Trump properties. The official replied: “I think it’s important to understand that the job of the president of the United States is to set policy for federal government so any questions about a private company’s practices is not something I’m even able to speak to or answer.\n“But I think during the campaign the president addressed this at length. I’m frankly surprised that you didn’t brief yourself before coming here ... I don’t know if you’re asking because you don’t know or you’re pretending you don’t know.”\nReforming the distribution of H-1B visas was reportedly discussed during the presidential transition with chief executives of tech companies at Trump Tower in New York. Attorney general Jeff Sessions has been a long-time critic.\nAdditional reporting by Lauren Gambino", "President Donald Trump will Tuesday sign a presidential order which in time will change the rules for work visas for highly educated foreign workers.\nVisas of this type are used by many IT professionals from India.\nIt is believed that Trump assumes that various ministries now will propose changes to the visa program. The objective is that the American workforce will benefit, but no immediate changes are expected.\nCritics fear that there are not sufficient competent American labourers for these jobs, and that the regulatory changes might make companies moving activities abroad.\nThis includes the CEO of the Indian IT organization Nasscom, R. Chandrashekhar.\n– These jobs will either not be filled, or they move abroad. Neither option is good for America, he said.\nAnnually 85,000 people get temporary employment in the United States with work visas that last for a maximum of six years. Several thousand of these jobs go to Indian IT experts.\nSource: NTB scanpix / Norway Today", "WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is implementing a new hiring protocol that could make it significantly harder for foreign scientists to find jobs and research opportunities at the agency, according to interviews and newly obtained documents.The FDA recently began directing hiring managers not to extend any employment offers — including for fellowship and contractor positions — to any individual who has not lived in the U.S. for at least three of the five previous years, according to briefing materials shared with STAT that have been presented to some agency employees." ]

[ "this species is the most common and extensively cultivated of the five domesticated capsicums the species encompasses a wide variety of shapes and sizes of peppers both mild and hot such as bell peppers jalape os new mexico chile and cayenne peppers cultivars descended from the wild american bird pepper are still found in warmer regions of the americas in the past some woody forms of this species have been called c frutescens but the features that were used to distinguish those forms appear in many populations of c annuum and are not consistently recognizable features in c frutescens species moreover crosses between c annuum and c frutescens aren t likely because seeds obtained from pollination between those two species if the embryo survives will not germinate although the species name annuum means annual from the latin annus year the plant is not an annual but is frost tender in the absence of winter frosts it can survive several seasons and grow into a large shrubby perennial herb the single flowers are an off white sometimes purplish color while the stem is densely branched and up to tall the fruit are berries that may be green yellow orange or red", "cultivars of the plant produce fruits in different colours including red yellow orange green white and purple bell peppers are sometimes grouped with less pungent pepper varieties as sweet peppers while they are fruits botanically classified as berries they are commonly used as a vegetable ingredient or side dish peppers are native to mexico central america and northern south america pepper seeds were imported to spain in 1493 and then spread through europe and asia the mild bell pepper cultivar was developed in the 1920s in szeged hungary preferred growing conditions for bell peppers include warm moist soil in a temperature range of the name pepper was given by europeans when christopher columbus brought the plant back to europe at that time black pepper peppercorns from the unrelated plant piper nigrum originating from india was a highly prized condiment the name pepper was applied in europe to all known spices with a hot and pungent taste and was therefore extended to genus capsicum when it was introduced from the americas the most commonly used alternative name of the plant family chile is of mexican origin from the nahuatl word chilli the terms bell pepper us canada pepper or sweet pepper", "a mature jalape o chili is long and hangs down with a round firm smooth flesh of wide it can have a range of pungency with scoville heat units of 3 500 to 8 000 commonly picked and consumed while still green it is occasionally allowed to fully ripen and turn red orange or yellow it is wider and generally milder than the similar serrano pepper the chile pepper institute is known for developing colored variations the jalape o is variously named huachinango for the ripe red jalape o and chile gordo meaning fat chili pepper also known as cuaresme o the name jalape o is spanish for from xalapa also spelled jalapa the capital city of veracruz mexico where the pepper was traditionally cultivated the name xalapa is itself of nahuatl origin formed from roots x lli sand and pan water place genetic analysis of capsicum annuum places jalape os as a distinct genetic clade with no close sisters that are not directly derived from jalape os jalape os were in use by the aztecs prior to the spanish conquest bernardino de sahag n in the florentine codex writes of aztec markets selling chipotles smoked jalape os mole made", "some varieties of the pimiento type are hot including the floral gem and santa fe grande varieties the fruits are typically used fresh or pickled the pimiento has one of the lowest scoville scale ratings of any chili pepper spanish and portuguese both come from latin pigment coloring and came to be used for bell peppers in portugal and its former colonial empire the word also came to be used for other forms of pepper including black pepper in brazil it came to mean particularly chili peppers the english borrowed pimiento and pimento as loanwords for what is distinguished in spanish as and in brazilian portuguese as sweet i e neither sour nor savory pimiento peppers are the familiar orange stuffing found in prepared spanish or greek green olives originally the pimiento was hand cut into tiny pieces then hand stuffed into each olive to balance out the olive s otherwise strong salty flavor despite the popularity of the combination this production method was very costly and time intensive in the industrial era the cut pimiento was shot by a hydraulic pump into one end of each olive simultaneously inserting the pimiento in the center while ejecting the pit out", "frutescens the sweet pepper is called peperone plural peperoni in italian like most peppers the fruit is green or yellowish green when young and ripens to a red color in the english speaking world peperoncini are usually pickled comparatively mild most often the variety known in italy as friggitelli a fairly sweet cultivar of c annuum and commonly used whole sliced or chopped as a condiment on sandwiches in salads and in italian style or other mediterranean inspired dishes the peperoncino probably came to italy in the early 16th century subsequent to christopher columbus having taken samples from the new world to europe in 1492 like the tomato the peperoncino was first considered a decorative and possibly poisonous plant before it was adopted into italian cuisine it might have become popular as a food long before the cookbooks attest to its use these cookbooks were written for the upper classes while the peperoncino was a cheap and convenient food for the lower classes pietro andrea mattioli first described peperoncini in 1568 and mentioned how much hotter they were than other varieties of pepper from asia the earliest surviving published use of peperoncino in a recipe dates to a 1694 cookbook", "on 1 june 2000 it was classified as an aoc product and was confirmed as an apo product on 22 august 2002 chili pepper originating in central and south america was introduced into france during the 16th century after first being used medicinally it became popular as a condiment and for the conservation of meats it is now a cornerstone of basque cuisine where it has gradually replaced black pepper and it is a key ingredient in piperade aoc espelette peppers are cultivated in the following communes ainhoa cambo les bains espelette halsou itxassou jatxou larressore saint p e sur nivelle soura de and ustaritz they are harvested in late summer and in september characteristic festoons of pepper are hung on balconies and house walls throughout the communes to dry out an annual pepper festival organized by confr rie du piment d espelette held since 1968 on the last weekend in october attracts some 20 000 tourists this pepper attains a maximum grade of only 4 000 on the scoville scale and is therefore considered only mildly hot it can be purchased as festoons of fresh or dried peppers as ground pepper or pur ed or pickled in jars non", "pepper cultivars of c frutescens can be annual or short lived perennial plants flowers are white with a greenish white or greenish yellow corolla and are either insect or self pollinated the plants berries typically grow erect ellipsoid conical to lanceoloid shaped they are usually very small and pungent growing long and in diameter fruit typically grows a pale yellow and matures to a bright red but can also be other colors c frutescens has a smaller variety of shapes compared to other capsicum species likely because of the lack of human selection more recently however c frutescens has been bred to produce ornamental strains because of its large quantities of erect peppers growing in colorful ripening patterns capsicum frutescens includes the following cultivars and or varieties the capsicum frutescens species likely originated in south or central america it spread quickly throughout the tropical and subtropical regions in this area and still grows wild today capsicum frutescens is currently native to the majority of central america as well as northern and western south america it is believed that c frutescens is the ancestor to the c chinense species according to richard pankhurst c frutescens known as barbar was so important", "dried it is called ancho or chile ancho from the spanish word ancho wide stuffed fresh and roasted it is popular in chiles rellenos poblanos while poblanos tend to have a mild flavor occasionally and unpredictably they can have significant heat different peppers from the same plant have been reported to vary substantially in heat intensity the ripened red poblano is significantly hotter and more flavorful than the less ripe green poblano a closely related variety is the mulato which is darker in color sweeter in flavor and softer in texture the bush has multiple stems and can reach in height the fruit is long and wide an immature poblano is dark purplish green in color but the mature fruits eventually turn a red so dark as to be nearly black poblanos grow in hardiness zones 10 12 and do best with a soil ph between 7 0 and 8 5 they typically prefer full sunlight and may require additional support for the growing fruits during harvest in late summer a poblano takes around 200 days from seed to harvest and requires soil temperatures of at least 64 f 18 c to germinate preparation methods include dried stuffed in mole", "the name of the pepper is a reference to the mountains sierras of these regions mature serrano pepper plants reach a height of 0 5 to 1 5 m 1 5 to 5 0 ft tall each plant can hold up to 50 pepper pods the fruit can be harvested while they are green or ripe unripe serrano peppers are green but the color varies at maturity common colors for the ripe fruit are green red brown orange and yellow serrano peppers do better in soils with a ph between 7 0 and 8 5 in warm temperatures above 75 f 24 c with a low tolerance for frost the scoville rating of the serrano pepper is 10 000 to 23 000 they are typically eaten raw and have a bright and biting flavor that is notably hotter than the jalape o pepper serrano peppers are also commonly used in making pico de gallo and salsa as the chili is particularly fleshy compared to others making it ideal for such dishes it is the second most used chili pepper in mexican cuisine the mexican states of veracruz sinaloa nayarit and tamaulipas produce about 180 000 tons of serranos each year", "annuum c chinense c baccatum c frutescens and c pubescens due to the large and changing number of cultivars and the variation of cultivar namings in different regions this list only gives a few examples of the estimated 50 000 pepper varieties that exist there are perhaps fifty thousand capsicum cultivars grown worldwide the usda ars grin seed collection contains 6 200 capsicum accessions alone which include 4000 capsicum annuum accessions the other capsicum species in the usda germplasm repository include c chinense c baccatum c frutescens c pubescens c cardenasii c chacoense c flexuosum c eximium c rhomboideum c galapagoense and c tovarii there are five major species of cultivated capsicum c annuum c chinense c baccatum c frutescens c pubescens and within those species are several taxonomic varieties because of the ability of many of species to cross and generate inter specific hybrids albeit with low success there are also what is referred to as complexes within the genus capsicum of closely related and sexually compatible species this includes the capsicum annuum complex which consists of c annuum c frutescens and c chinense major species and their taxonomic varieties the species and varieties include many economically important cultivars", "also known as the halaby pepper it starts as pods which ripen to a burgundy color and then are semi dried de seeded then crushed or coarsely ground the pepper flakes are known in turkey as pul biber and in armenia as haleb biber the pepper is named after aleppo a long inhabited city along the silk road in northern syria and is grown in syria and turkey although a common condiment its use in the united states outside armenian syrian and turkish immigrant communities was rare until the 20th century with one source los angeles magazine dating its rise in use among the broader u s population according to the 1994 publication of the cooking of the eastern mediterranean by paula wolfert the aleppo pepper has a moderate heat level of about 10 000 on the scoville scale with some fruitiness and mild cumin like undertones its flavor is similar to the ancho chile but oilier and slightly salty salt is often used in the drying process it is fairly mild with its heat building slowly with a fruity raisin like flavor it has also been described as having the flavor of sweetness roundness and perfume of the best", "the mexican state of zacatecas is one of the main producers of guajillo chilies the two varieties are distinguished by their size and heat factors the guajillo puya is the smaller and hotter of the two puyar in spanish is to prick or poke in contrast the longer and wider guajillo has a more pronounced richer flavor and is somewhat less spicy its heat rating 2 500 to 5 000 on the scoville scale is considered mild to medium guajillo chilies have many applications and are used in a variety of mexican preparations for instance they are sometimes used to make a salsa for tamales the dried fruits chilies are seeded soaked or simmered then pulverized or mashed pureed into a paste then cooked with several other ingredients to produce a flavorful sauce guajillo chilies are used in marinades salsas pastes butters or adobos spice rubs to flavor meats and fat or oil with other ingredients the guajillo chili with its leaner flavor profile is used with fish and chicken or added to salsa as a side dish some mexican dishes where chile guajillo is a main ingredient are", "it is also known as the golden greek pepper sweet italian pepper or tuscan pepper in the united states they may be called pepperoncini they are quite distinct from italian peperoncini which are hot italian chili peppers in the united states they may also be called greek golden pepperoncini peppers or mild golden salonika peppers the friggitello is mild with a slight heat and a hint of bitterness and is sometimes pickled and sold in jars in italy the friggitello is most associated with tuscany the greek variety which is sweeter is commonly used elsewhere in europe and the united states like many other cultivars of capsicum annuum the friggitello requires a warm climate with a lot of sunlight and is not tolerant of frost the seeds take 10 to 14 days to germinate after which the plant will reach maturity in 70 to 80 days it appreciates slightly rich and well drained soils but overfertilized soil will result in fewer fruits the plant has the potential to grow plenty of fruits so it requires staking if it is to be prevented from falling over due to the weight of the fruits the fruits should be harvested when they are", "it is often confused with the jalape o pepper but has thinner walls often has milder heat and takes less time to mature it is however a new mexico chile which is genetically distinct from the jalape o and it grows point up rather than point down as with the jalape o the fruit starts out bright green changing to orange and red as fully matured a mature fresno pepper will be conical in shape 2 inches long and about 1 inch in diameter at the stem the plants do well in warm to hot temperatures and dry climates with long sunny summer days and cool nights they are very cold sensitive and disease resistant reaching a height of 24 to 30 inches the fresno chili was developed and released for commercial cultivation by clarence brown hamlin in 1952 hamlin named the chili fresno in honor of fresno california they are grown throughout california specifically the san joaquin valley fresno chili peppers are frequently used for ceviche salsa and as an accompaniment for rice and black beans because of their thick walls they do not dry well and are not good for chili powder in cooking they can often be", "it is short triangular and pointed at the end similar to a bottle cap with a fresh weight of between 17 20 grams a dry yield whole pepper about 18 20 and sweet the collection is done in steps three harvests and is unique because the fruits grow erect looking skyward paprika arrived in majorca in the late sixteenth century from america and it quickly became a popular condiment already in the nineteenth century archduke ludwig salvador of austria die balearen pointed out that its main use was intended as a condiment after being sun dried he also stresses that the quality of the local pepper was much higher than the pepper from outside the pepper tap de cort is cultivated in most villages of majorca felanitx sa pobla manacor sant joan santa maria sant jordi muro llucmajor and campos among others later between august and october the fa ade of the houses in these villages were completely covered with strings of pepper sun dried to keep their antioxidants or preservative power this gave a decorative touch to the majorca landscape nails can be found even today in some of the fa ades nevertheless these images are not as common", "it is often confused with a similar looking chili derived from the species capsicum frutescens the cultivar siling labuyo capsicum frutescens fruits are generally smaller and characteristically point to the sky it is used extensively in thai malaysian singaporean lao khmer indonesian kerala and vietnamese cuisines the bird s eye chili plant is a perennial with small tapering fruits often two or three at a node the fruits are very pungent the bird s eye chili is small but is quite hot piquant it measures around 50 000 100 000 scoville units which is at the lower half of the range for the hotter habanero but still much hotter than a common jalape o all chilis found around the world today have their origins in mexico central america and south america they were spread by spanish and portuguese colonists missionaries and traders together with many other now common crops such as maize tomatoes and pineapples this is now called the columbian exchange the chili varieties found in southeast asia today were brought there in the 16th or 17th century in vietnamese cuisine these chilis are used in soups salads and stir fried dishes they are also put in a wide", "the most common variety used for making paprika is tomato pepper sometimes with the addition of more pungent varieties called chili peppers and cayenne pepper in many languages but not english the word paprika also refers to the plant and the fruit from which the spice is made paprika originates from north america in particular central mexico where it has been cultivated for centuries the peppers were subsequently introduced to the old world when paprika was later brought to spain in the 16th century the seasoning is used to add color to many types of dishes in diverse cuisines the trade in paprika expanded from the iberian peninsula to africa and asia and ultimately reached central europe through the balkans then under ottoman rule which explains the hungarian origin of the english term in spanish paprika has been known as piment n since the 16th century when it became a typical ingredient in the cuisine of western extremadura despite its presence in central europe since the beginning of ottoman conquests it did not become popular in hungary until the late 19th century paprika can range from mild to hot the flavor also varies from country to country but almost all", "it is usually a moderately hot chili pepper used to flavor dishes cayenne peppers are a group of tapering 10 to 25 cm long generally skinny mostly red colored peppers often with a curved tip and somewhat rippled skin which hang from the bush as opposed to growing upright most varieties are generally rated at 30 000 to 50 000 scoville units the fruits are generally dried and ground to make the powdered spice of the same name although cayenne powder may be a blend of different types of peppers quite often not containing cayenne peppers and may or may not contain the seeds cayenne is used in cooking spicy dishes either as a powder or in its whole form it is also used as a herbal supplement the word cayenne is thought to be a corruption of the word qui nia also sometimes spelled kyynha or kynnha of the old tupi language once spoken in brazil which means pepper thus cayenne pepper means pepper pepper it is probable that the place cayenne in french guiana was named after the peppers not vice versa although it is commonly claimed that the pepper was named after the city nicholas culpeper for", "it is named after the town of chimayo new mexico where roughly of chimayo peppers are harvested annually it is considered one of the two best chilis in the state the other being those grown in hatch the pepper is so prized that powdered chimay pepper can cost as much as 45 the arid climate of the town of chimayo greatly influences the appearance of the chimayo pepper giving it a twisted shape when dried its color can be compared to that of the jalape o transitioning from green to red as the fruit matures chimayo peppers are of medium pungency and have a heat level ranging from 4 000 to 6 000 on the scoville scale chimayo pepper plants typically grow to a height of roughly while the fruits reach in length and wide chimayo peppers are commonly dried by being hung on ristras once dried they can be ground into chili powder or chili flakes the flavor is described as sweet earthy and smoky without being too hot and the fruit is also fleshier and drier the pepper can also be used fresh for salsas stir frys roasted or stuffed", "originating in the caribbean it is believed that the fish pepper was brought to the u s in the 19th century where it grew in popularity in the mid atlantic particularly in baltimore and in philadelphia in these cities the pepper became a popular ingredient among the black community and was commonly used in many crab and oyster houses hence the name fish pepper due to urbanization fish peppers declined in popularity in the early 20th century nearly disappearing however it was saved in the 1940s thanks to horace pippin a black folk painter who lived in pennsylvania who provided seeds to h ralph weaver a beekeeper in exchange for honey bees the bees were sought as a folk remedy to treat arthritis the seeds stayed within the weaver family until weaver s grandson william woys weaver introduced the seeds to the public via the seed savers exchange yearbook in 1995 as a result the fish pepper has regained some of its original popularity with some mid atlantic restaurants using it today the color of the fruit range from green orange brown white and red being spicy and hot what really makes this pepper stand out is its wonderful foliage", "the chili pepper is long slim and mild green unripe chili peppers measure around 1 500 scoville heat units in korean the chili peppers are most often called which means chili pepper green ones are called and red ones are called chili peppers which originated in the americas were introduced to east asia by portuguese traders in the early 16th century the first mention of chili pepper in korea is found in collected essays of jibong an encyclopedia published in 1614 farm management a book from ca 1700 discussed the cultivation methods of chili peppers gochugaru also known as korean chili powder is chili powder or flakes used in korean cuisine the name gochugaru derived from korean gochu garu gochutgaru where gochu means chili pepper and garu means powder in english gochugaru usually refers to the seedless korean variety of chili powder it is vibrant red in color and texture and heat level may vary from fine powder to flakes and from mildly hot to very hot traditionally made from sun dried korean red chili peppers called taeyang cho gochugaru has a complex flavor profile with spicy sweet and slightly smoky tastes gochugaru made from cheongyang chili peppers are finer" ]

[ "it belongs to the species capsicum frutescens and is characterized by triangular fruits which grow pointing upwards the fruits and leaves are used in traditional philippine cuisine the fruit is pungent ranking at 80 000 to 100 000 heat units in the scoville scale the cultivar name is tagalog and literally translates to wild chili it is also known simply as labuyo or labuyo chili it is also sometimes known as filipino bird s eye to differentiate it from the thai bird s eye chili both are commonly confused with each other in the philippines though they are cultivars of two different species siling labuyo capsicum frutescens is one of two common kinds of local chili found in the philippines the other being siling haba capsicum annuum siling labuyo is listed in the ark of taste international catalog of endangered heritage foods of the philippines by the slow food movement siling labuyo is officially known under the cultivar name capsicum frutescens siling labuyo it belongs to the species capsicum frutescens related cultivars to siling labuyo include tabasco malagueta and african birdseye the common name is tagalog for wild chili from sili chili and the enclitic suffix ng and labuyo growing", "while typically bright yellow it is possible for them to change to green red or orange as they ripen it is often pickled stuffed or used as a raw ingredient in foods it is a cultivar of the species capsicum annuum its flavor is not very hot 0 500 scoville units and as is the case with most peppers its heat depends on the maturity of the pepper with the ripest being sweeter than younger ones a mature fruit will be about 2 3 inches 5 8 cm in length and have a curved shape and yellowish color similar to a banana giving rise to the fruit s common name friggitelli pepperoncini are often erroneously referred to as banana peppers the hot varieties of banana pepper are called hungarian wax peppers the plant requires full sun like other capsicum annuum varieties and should be treated the same as most other plants in the pepper family plants can be grown from seed and cuttings a mature plant will reach 1 to 2 feet tall and can be grown in many climates but prefer warmer climates cultivars include early sweet banana hungarian yellow wax long sweet yellow sweet banana and sweet hungarian", "chili peppers are widely used in many cuisines as a spice to add heat to dishes the substances that give chili peppers their intensity when ingested or applied topically are capsaicin and related compounds known as capsaicinoids chili peppers originated in mexico after the columbian exchange many cultivars of chili pepper spread across the world used for both food and traditional medicine cultivars grown in north america and europe are believed to all derive from capsicum annuum and have white yellow red or purple to black fruits in 2016 world production of raw green chili peppers was 34 5 million tonnes with china producing half of the world total capsicum fruits have been a part of human diets since about 7 500 bc and are one of the oldest cultivated crops in the americas as origins of cultivating chili peppers are traced to northeastern mexico some 6 000 years ago they were one of the first self pollinating crops cultivated in mexico central america and parts of south america peru is considered the country with the highest cultivated capsicum diversity because it is a center of diversification where varieties of all five domesticates were introduced grown and consumed in pre", "longum is a type of chili pepper that grows in the districts of guntur andhra pradesh warangal telangana and khammam in india it is registered as one of the geographical indications of andhra pradesh pursuant to geographical indications of goods registration and protection act 1999 the guntur sannam pepper belongs to the species capsicum annuum it is a commercial crop used as a condiment and culinary supplement india stands first place in the production of chilies the province of andhra pradesh leads in its production providing 46 of all chilies produced in india the government of andhra pradesh started a regional research station at lam near guntur around 30 years ago which also studies the uses of chili etymologically the name guntur sannam has its origin in telugu and indicates two facts the origin of the fruit and more importantly the strong antecedents arising from andhra pradesh guntur has been associated with chilies for decades and hence the prefix guntur for the name of this chili the word sannani in telugu means thin the guntur sannam chili s unique characteristics have brought it international acclaim the sannam chili is traded as an s4 type chili and is mainly used for", "the existence of capsicum pubescens was documented by ancient peruvians of the paracas nazca moche and chimu cultures through textiles ceramics and domestic remains this chili pepper is the most important ingredient of the bolivian sauce llajwa it is also considered the flagship of peru and it is consumed fresh paste dried or ground it belongs to a species of the genus capsicum pepper and is known in peru and ecuador as rocoto quechua rukutu ruqutu locoto in bolivia and argentina aymara luqutu and as the manzano pepper in mexico which means apple for its apple shaped fruit this species is found primarily in central and south america and is known only in cultivation the species name pubescens means hairy which refers to the hairy leaves of this pepper the hairiness of the leaves along with the black seeds distinguish this species from others as they reach a relatively advanced age and the roots lignify quickly sometimes they are called tree chili of all the domesticated species of peppers this is the least widespread and systematically furthest away from all others it is reproductively isolated from other species of the genus capsicum a very notable feature of this species is", "its species are native to the americas where they have been cultivated for thousands of years following the columbian exchange it has become cultivated worldwide and it has also become a key element in many cuisines capsicum species have also been used as medicines and lachrymatory agents the generic name may come from latin meaning box presumably alluding to the pods or from the greek word to gulp the name pepper comes from the similarity of piquance spiciness or heat of the flavor to that of black pepper piper nigrum although there is no botanical relationship with it or with sichuan pepper the original term chilli now chile in mexico came from the nahuatl word ch lli denoting a larger capsicum variety cultivated at least since 3000 bc as evidenced by remains found in pottery from puebla and oaxaca different varieties were cultivated in south america where they are known as aj es singular aj from the quechua term for capsicum the fruit technically berries in the strict botanical sense of capsicum plants have a variety of names depending on place and type the more piquant varieties are commonly called chili peppers or simply chilis the large mild form is", "while it is rarely cultivated by humans it like all capsicum species produces edible fruit capsicum chacoense plants are compact perennial annual in cooler climates shrubs that grow close to the ground and grow approximately 80 cm and up to 1 meter in height and width the flowers appear in summer and are small white flowers with five petals the fruit with a roundish triangular shape grows to be around 2 5 cm long 0 5 cm wide when fully ripe and it matures from green to either yellow or bright red in color plants tend to crop heavily each season and in warm areas can easily keep producing for four or five years the plant s leaves are large flat and roundish with a point at the end the plant branches evenly forming a small to medium shrub in most cases the plant is known locally as tova or covincho in paraguay aj putapari in argentina and as aj puta madre in chile the latter two are euphemisms related to its heat often causing people to swear when eating it c chacoense is native to argentina the bolivian chaco and paraguay and for the most part is only known", "peplcv causes severe disease especially in pepper capsicum spp it can be found in tropical and subtropical regions such as thailand and india but has also been detected in countries such as the united states and nigeria this virus is transmitted by an insect vector from the family aleyrodidae and order hemiptera the whitefly bemisia tabaci the primary host for peplcv are several capsicum spp peplcv has been responsible for several epidemics and causes severe economic losses it is the focus of research trying to understand the genetic basis of resistance currently a source of resistance to the virus has been identified in the bhut jolokia pepper this virus consists of a single circular single stranded ss dna molecule 2744 nt in size and betasatellite which is a common distinction among viruses in the family geminiviridae the betasatellite associated with peplclv in capsicum was identified as chili leaf curl betasatellite chlcb this virus has similar coat protein structure and genome organization to that of other begomoviruses such as tylcv peplcv is transmitted by the insect vector bemisia tabaci in a persistent circulative nonpropagative manner transmission is most damaging when plants are infected at early growth stages preventing the proper formation", "the symptoms are a marked yellowing of the leaves an upright appearance to the leaves with severe cases resulting in early death of the plant tuber initiation and growth is affected many small tubers are formed frequently misshaped in some cases the tubers seem to have lost sprouting inhibition and have begun sprouting before harvest at later stages the tubers sprout weakly if at all it is thought that a toxin produced by the nymph stage of the psyllid causes these symptoms if pest control occurs at an early stage of the disease the plants appear to be able to recover a very similar disease has been described in tomatoes in addition to the foliar symptoms mature fruit is very much smaller tends to have a pointy end and frequently they occur in larger clusters of fruit than normal in severe cases the yellowing progresses to plant death in addition to psyllid feeding a new species of bacterium candidatus liberibacter solanacearum has been associated with this disease capsicum crops show a similar fruit effect but generally with no or very little foliar symptom a summary of symptoms from plants in new zealand with photos of tomato and capsicum plants this", "like other members of the potyvirus genus pepmv is a monopartite strand of positive sense single stranded rna surrounded by a capsid made for a single viral encoded protein the virus is a filamentous particle that measures about 737 nm in length isolates of this virus has been completely sequenced and its rna is 9640 nucleotides long this virus is transmitted by several species of aphids in a nonpersitant manner and by mechanical inoculation pepper mottle was first recognized as a new strain of pvy infecting peppers in arizona in 1969 in the early 1970s an atypical pvy isolate was also found in a survey of pepper fields in central florida up until then the two most important potyviruses infecting peppers in the us were tobacco etch virus tev and potato virus y pvy by 1975 it was clear that a third potyvirus pepmov pemv was contributing to crop losses in pepper growing areas of the united states it has also been found in california new mexico texas and in central america el salvador 3 in 2003 it was reported in c annuum in japan this virus infects many species of solanaceae including several species of capsicum i e c", "taxonomically it is classified within variety glabriusculum of the species capsicum annuum pequin has a compact habit growing typically 0 3 0 6 meters tall with bright green ovate leaves and small berries that rarely exceed 2 cm in length like most chilies the berries start out green ripening to brilliant red at maturity pequin peppers are very hot often 5 8 times hotter than jalape os on the scoville scale 30 000 to 60 000 units flavor is described as citrusy smoky if dried with wood smoke and nutty the name pequin is thought to come from the spanish peque o meaning small its fruit is oblong and is found in the wild from the american southwest to the andes it is grown both wild and commercially harvested in mexico common uses include pickling salsas sauces soups and vinegars the cholula brand hot sauce lists piquin peppers and chile de arbol peppers among its ingredients pequin peppers are highly valued in mexico often costing more than 10 times the price of other peppers but their cultivation is limited due to low seed germination 15 average germination rate and susceptibility to disease pequins prefer moderate shade levels 35 shade and", "it has a deep red color and is shaped like a cow s horn initially the pepper has a green color ripening into red after the 15th of august the red pepper is known in greece for its rich sweet flavor used in various greek dishes and is exported in various canned forms abroad usually hand stripped keeping the natural scents of pepper and topped with extra virgin olive oil salt and vinegar the seed was brought from brazil to western macedonia in greece in the 17th century and cultivated by the local macedonian greeks in florina prespes veroia aridaia and kozani but only in florina its cultivation was successful where it adapted to the macedonian greek climate and soil and eventually the other regions stopped cultivating the pepper leaving florina as its sole producer the pepper belongs to the capsicum genus of the nightshade family solanaceae florina s red peppers were awarded the recognition of protected designation of origin in 1994 by the world trade organization wto every year during the last days of august in a small local village in aetos florina a feast of peppers is held including celebrations with music bands and cooked recipes based on", "it is a hybrid of capsicum chinense and capsicum frutescens and is closely related to the naga morich of nagaland and bangladesh in 2007 guinness world records certified that the ghost pepper was the world s hottest chili pepper 400 times hotter than tabasco sauce the ghost chili is rated at more than 1 million scoville heat units shus however in the race to grow the hottest pepper the ghost chili was shortly superseded by the infinity chili in 2011 followed by the naga viper the trinidad moruga scorpion in 2012 and the carolina reaper on 7 august 2013 north of the brahmaputra river these peppers are widely called bhut jolokia or bhoot jolokia literally translating to ghost chilli in assamese bhoot means ghost in most other indo aryan languages as well bhut likely does not imply that their origin is bhutan as the translation of from bhutan in assamese is bhuitiya not bhut furthermore this pepper has never occurred naturally in the temperate climate of bhutan on the southern bank of the river brahmaputra this chili is called n ga z l kia believed to be named after the naga warriors inhabiting the plains and hills of nagaland a", "it is caused by members of the plant virus genus tobamovirus otherwise known as the tobacco mosaic virus family tobamovirus are viruses that contain positive sense rna genomes that infect plants symptoms of the disease vary depending on the cultivar typical symptoms include the chlorosis of leaves stunting and distorted and lumpy fruiting structures the virus is spread by mechanical transmission and infected seeds avoidance is the best means of controlling the disease because once a plant is infected it cannot be treated only seeds that have been tested and treated for the pathogen should be planted the origin of pmmov has been linked to tomato mosaic virus as they both reside in the tobacco mosaic virus family the tunisian journal of plant protection brought about the link between pmmov to tomv from a french study dating back to 1964 tomv affects a wide range of solanaceous crops and a strain of this virus likely mutated into pmmov pepper mild mottle virus is the major viral pathogen of peppers capsicum spp the host range of pmmov include most cultivars and species of pepper capsicum spp this virus strain does not infect tomato eggplant or tobacco however other members of the", "the fruit tends to be very pungent and registers 30 000 to 50 000 on the scoville heat unit scale pepper varieties in the c baccatum species have white or cream colored flowers and typically have a green or gold corolla the flowers are either insect or self pollinated the fruit pods of the baccatum species have been cultivated into a wide variety of shapes and sizes unlike other capsicum species which tend to have a characteristic shape the pods typically hang down unlike a capsicum frutescens plant and can have a citrus or fruity flavor the c baccatum species particularly the aj amarillo chili has its origins in ancient peru and across the andean region of south america it is typically associated with peruvian cuisine and is considered part of its condiment trinity together with red onion and cilantro aj amarillo literally means yellow chili however the yellow color appears when cooked as the mature pods are bright orange yellow aj is one of the ingredients of peruvian cuisine and bolivian cuisine it is used as a condiment especially in many dishes and sauces in peru the chilis are mostly used fresh and in bolivia dried and ground common", "it is an irritant for mammals including humans and produces a sensation of burning in any tissue with which it comes into contact capsaicin and several related compounds are called capsaicinoids and are produced as secondary metabolites by chili peppers probably as deterrents against certain mammals and fungi pure capsaicin is a hydrophobic colorless highly pungent crystalline to waxy solid compound capsaicin is present in large quantities in the placental tissue which holds the seeds the internal membranes and to a lesser extent the other fleshy parts of the fruits of plants in the genus capsicum the seeds themselves do not produce any capsaicin although the highest concentration of capsaicin can be found in the white pith of the inner wall where the seeds are attached the seeds of capsicum plants are dispersed predominantly by birds in birds the trpv1 channel does not respond to capsaicin or related chemicals avian vs mammalian trpv1 show functional diversity and selective sensitivity this is advantageous to the plant as chili pepper seeds consumed by birds pass through the digestive tract and can germinate later whereas mammals have molar teeth which destroy such seeds and prevent them from germinating thus natural selection may have", "it was first described by l leonian at the new mexico state university agricultural experiment station in las cruces in 1922 on a crop of chili peppers in 1967 a study by m m satour and e e butler found 45 species of cultivated plants and weeds susceptible to p capsici in greek phytophthora capsici means plant destroyer of capsicums p capsici has a wide range of hosts including members of the solanaceae and cucurbitaceae families as well as fabaceae under field conditions p capsici has been found to affect a wide range of hosts in the cucurbitaceae fabaceae and solanaceae families including cantaloupe cucumber watermelon bell pepper tomato snap beans and lima beans although beans lima beans and soybeans were previously thought to be immune to p capsici in 2000 and 2001 phytophthora capsici was isolated from five commercial cultivars of lima bean in delaware maryland and new jersey it was also recently isolated from commercial snap beans in northern michigan general symptoms on the solanaceous crops and cucurbits include seed rot and seedling blight which discolors the roots and causes seedlings to topple over preemergence and postemergence damping off are also possible symptoms that may occur include water", "sambal is an indonesian loan word of javanese origin sambel it is native to the cuisines of indonesia and popular in malaysia sri lanka brunei and singapore it has also spread through overseas indonesian populations to the netherlands and suriname various recipes of sambals usually are served as hot and spicy condiments for dishes such as lalab raw vegetables ikan bakar grilled fish ikan goreng fried fish ayam goreng fried chicken ayam penyet smashed chicken iga penyet ribs and various soto soup there are 212 variants of sambal in indonesia with most of them originated from java sambal is often described as indonesian relish and it was indeed developed within the indonesian archipelago however its main ingredient chili pepper of the genus capsicum is not native to southeast asia common variants used in sambal recipes include cayenne pepper capsicum frutescens and green chili pepper capsicum annuum these variants are native to the western hemisphere and were introduced to the indonesian archipelago in the 16th century by portuguese and spanish sailors during the columbian exchange curiously people of the indonesian archipelago were already familiar with a type of hot and spicy relish prior to the 16th century a hot spice called", "it s surrounded by dafu town and songmutang town on the northwest huangcai town on the northeast and xiangzikou town on the south census it had a population of 14 532 and an area of the township is divided into 1 community and 4 villages the xiaolongtan reservoir is located in the township and discharges into the wei river the local people grow industrial crops including tobacco tea peach tofu fish silicon and capsicum annuum which are important to the local economy the region abounds with iron huaguxi is the most influential form of local theater the huangcai weishan road runs east to west from huangcai town to weishan township the county road x107 runs south to north from xiangzikou town to weishan township intersecting the county road x036 and wu min road miyin temple was built in 813 on wei mountain by weishan lingyou in the eighth year of the yuanhe era of the tang dynasty 618 907 it is a well known buddhist temple associated to weiyang school in china the wei mountain is also a scenic spot in the township and has water sports such as fishing boating and rafting", "it is made from chili peppers and cheese ema means chili and datshi means cheese in the dzongkha language of bhutan different varieties of chilies may be used green chili red chili and or white chili green chili washed in hot water and sun dried which may be dried or fresh the chilies are called sha ema which is a capsicum annuum and seems to be a form of pepper much like cayenne poblano ancho or anaheim the cheese in ema datshi is home made from the curd of cow or yak s milk in the process the fat is removed from the curd to make butter and the remaining curd without fat is used to make the cheese after the cheese is made a watery liquid is left over which is used as a soup that can be taken with rice no part of the curd is wasted a related dish is called kewa datshi which substitutes the chili for potatoes a variant of ema datshi can be prepared if the bean is substituted for chili it is called bean semchum datshi if mushroom is substituted for chili it is called mushroom shamu datshi", "it belongs to the family capparidaceae it is commonly found in the rainy season the crushed leaves have been investigated as a treatment for stored seeds of cowpea to prevent weevil infestation the leaves are used as external application to wounds and ulcers the seed are anthelmintic and carminative the juice of the leaves is used as a remedy against discharge of pus from the ear in northern india the seeds called jakhya are used as a culinary herb mainly for tempering plants 10 30 100 160 cm stems viscid leaves petiole 1 5 4 5 8 cm glandular hirsute leaflet blade ovate to oblanceolate elliptic 0 6 2 6 0 5 3 5 cm margins entire and glandular ciliate apex acute to obtuse surfaces glandular hirsute racemes 5 10 cm 10 15 cm in fruit bracts often deciduous trifoliate 10 25 mm glandular hirsute pedicels 6 30 mm glandular hirsute flowers sepals green lanceolate 5 10 0 8 1 2 mm glandular hirsute petals arranged in adaxial semicircle before anthesis radially arranged at anthesis bright yellow sometimes purple basally oblong to ovate 7 14 3 4 mm stamens dimorphic 4 10 adaxial ones much shorter with swelling proximal to", "it is also known as old man s beard and yerba de chiva and virgin s bower though old man s beard may also refer to c vitalba and virgin s bower may also refer to c lasiantha it is native to north america where it is widespread across the western united states in streamside thickets wooded hillsides and coniferous forests up to 4 000 feet it was called pepper vine by early travelers and pioneers of the american old west they used it as a pepper substitute to spice up food since real black pepper piper nigrum was a costly and rarely obtainable spice like the rest of the genus clematis it contains essential oils and compounds which are extremely irritating to the skin and mucous membranes unlike black pepper or capsicum however the compounds in clematis cause internal bleeding of the digestive tract if ingested internally in large amounts the plants are essentially toxic despite its toxicity native americans used very small amounts of clematis for migraine headaches and nervous disorders it was also used as an effective treatment of skin infections a whole plant hot water extraction was used to treat eczema and a leaf compress is", "like other members of the potyvirus genus tev is a monopartite strand of positive sense single stranded rna surrounded by a capsid made from a single viral encoded protein the virus is a filamentous particle that measures about 730 nm in length it is transmissible in a non persistent manner by more than 10 species of aphids including myzus persicae it also is easily transmitted by mechanical means but is not known to be transmitted by seeds this virus infects many species of solanaceae agriculturally important crops that it infects include several species of capsicum i e c annuum c frutescens tomato lycopersicon esculentum and tobacco nicotiana spp it also infects many perennial weed species that can act as virus reservoirs for susceptible agricultural crops these weed species include solanum nigrum nightshade s aculeatissimum soda apple chenopodium album pigweed datura stramonium jimson weed linaria canadensis blue toadflax and physalis spp ground cherry thus recommendations for the control of this virus include the control of weeds in and around susceptible solanaceous crops symptoms seen on plants infected with this virus can vary depending on the plant however typical symptoms include vein clearing mottling and necrotic lines or etching symptoms can occur", "it is an acidophilic chemoorganotrophic bacterium containing menaquinone it is gram negative facultative anaerobic mesophilic non spore forming capsulated saccharolytic and rod shaped it is also motile by peritrichous flagella its type strain is jcm 7670 they can grow between ph 3 0 and 6 0 but not at ph 6 5 they give positive results in esculin hydrolysis galactosidase and catalase tests and are negative in oxidase and urease tests they can use glucose starch cellobiose maltose as a sole carbon source but cannot use elemental sulfur and ferrous iron as an energy source another characteristic of this organism is the presence of high amounts of exopolysaccharides coating the cells from soil isolates presence of exopolysaccharides helps in increased adhesion and allow the bacterium to acquire nutrients more readily from the environment a capsulatum are widely distributed in both aquatic and terrestrial environments though they were first isolated from acidic drainage studies based on rrna genes revealed that they are present in the soils sediments wetlands and wastewater systems due to their ubiquity and abundance in various ecosystems they play an important role in biogeochemical processes a capsulatum have also been reported to dominate soils rich in organic matter", "long pepper has a taste similar to but hotter than that of its close relative piper nigrum from which black green and white pepper are obtained the fruit of the pepper consists of many minuscule fruits each about the size of a poppy seed embedded in the surface of a flower spike that closely resembles a hazel tree catkin like piper nigrum the fruits contain the alkaloid piperine which contributes to their pungency another species of long pepper piper retrofractum is native to java indonesia the fruits of this plant are often confused with chili peppers which belong to the genus capsicum originally from the americas the oldest known reference to long pepper comes from ancient indian textbooks of ayurveda where its medicinal and dietary uses are described in detail it reached greece in the sixth or fifth century bce though hippocrates discussed it as a medicament rather than a spice among the greeks and romans and prior to the european rediscovery of the american continents long pepper was an important and well known spice the ancient history of black pepper is often interlinked with and confused with that of long pepper though theophrastus distinguished the two in the first", "it is a plant pathogen and part of a cryptic species complex of closely related and morphologically similar species it causes armillaria root rot in many plant species and produces mushrooms around the base of trees it has infected the symptoms of infection appear in the crowns of infected trees as discoloured foliage reduced growth dieback of the branches and death the mushrooms are edible but some people may be intolerant to them this species is capable of producing light via bioluminescence in its mycelium armillaria mellea is widely distributed in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere the fruit body or mushroom commonly known as stump mushroom stumpie honey mushroom pipinky or pinky grows typically on hardwoods but may be found around and on other living and dead wood or in open areas the species was originally named agaricus melleus by danish norwegian botanist martin vahl in 1790 it was transferred to the genus armillaria in 1871 by paul kummer numerous subtaxa have been described the basidiocarp of each has a smooth cap in diameter convex at first but becoming flattened with age often with a central raised umbo later becoming somewhat dish shaped the margins of the cap are", "they are pale pink with several inflorescences clustered on a stem the leaves are large on stout tall stems round with a diameter of with petioles up to it is also called bog rhubarb devil s hat and pestilence wort synonyms include p officinalis p ovatus p vulgaris and tussilago petasites l it is native to central europe extending from the british isles to the caucasus and from southern italy north to southern scandinavia it is present as an introduced species in north america in the british isles female plants are rarely found outside central and northern england and the species may be naturalized as clonal populations outside this area propagating via rhizome fragments the preferred habitats are moist fertile soils often by rivers streams and in wet meadows petasites hybridus leaves have been used in the traditional austrian and czech medicine internally as tea or cold maceration in ethanol and externally as compresses or maceration in vinegar for treatment of infections fever flu colds hay fever and allergies preliminary trials have shown a preparation of butterbur root to be effective in reducing the frequency and severity of migraine attacks a commercial extract petasol butenoate complex ze 339 has proved", "it is native to europe and western asia it was a popular vegetable in the 19th century this is a tall annual herb with fringelike divided leaves and large umbels of white flowers the plant is cultivated on a small scale in parts of europe for the edible tubers which look like a dark gray carrot with yellowish white flesh after the harvest they are stored for a few months under cold conditions during storage sugar content increases through hydrolysis of starch by amylases chaerophyllum bulbosum is a biennial plant in the first year its rosette of leaves produces large amounts of starch which are stored in the taproot to provide energy for the plant to flower in the second year in the second year it grows up to a height of 70 cm to 2 m the stem is smooth with nodes at intervals it is hairy around the base just above the ground and may show scattered red spots additionally the lower stem is often blue rimed subsequent leaves are alternate with a single leaf attached to a node spirally arranged and pinnately compound with leaf bases sheathing the stem as the plant grows the bases of the", "it was described by francis walker in 1859 it is found in the west indies and from the united states where it has been recorded from florida north carolina ohio oklahoma south carolina and tennessee south through mexico and central america including costa rica honduras and panama to south america including ecuador brazil guyana trinidad and tobago and suriname the length of the forewings is 8 2 9 7 mm for females and 9 5 10 mm for males adults are sexually dimorphic the wings are brown with blackish transverse lines adults have been recorded on wing year round the larvae feed on capsicum annuum nicotiana tabacum solanum hirtum solanum lycopersicum solanum melongena solanum nigrum and solanum torvum young larvae either mine the leaves of their host plant or feed on tissue near the leaf s midrib the mine has the form of an irregular blotch older larvae vacate the mine and either web leaves together or fold over the leaf edges young larvae are yellowish while older larvae are dark brown with two red brown dorsal stripes and light reddish brown markings they reach a length of about 20 mm", "in 2001 it was reported for the first time in the continental usa in florida m enterolobii is now considered as one of the most important root knot nematode species because of its ability of reproducing on root knot nematode resistant mi 1 gene carrying genotypes bell pepper and other economically important crops m enterolobii a sedentary endoparasite has very similar morphology as other species of meloidogyne the perineal patterns male stylet length values smaller for m enterolobii than m incognita and j2 tail length values greater for m enterolobii than m incognita of m enterolobii isolates from florida are useful morphological characters for the separation of m enterolobii from m incognita other methods such as enzyme analyses and dna analysis also have been performed to identify m enterolobii from other meloidogyne species m enterolobii is an apomictic species of root knot nematodes m enterolobii is a tropical or subtropical species reported in brazil venezuela china cuba france guatemala puerto rico martinique malawi senegal south africa switzerland trinidad and tobago united states and west africa ivory coast and burkina faso it has a variety of hosts such as eggplant solanum melongena bell pepper capsicum annuum soybean glycine max sweet potato", "the mushroom is readily identified by its irregularly shaped whitish cap fluted stem and fuzzy undersurfaces it is found in eastern north america and in europe near deciduous trees in summer and autumn the fungus was originally described as phallus crispus by the naturalist giovanni antonio scopoli in 1772 its specific epithet is latin adjective crispa wrinkled or curly the generic name was originally a type of italian herb but became associated with morels helvella crispa is creamy white in colour 6 13 cm 2 5 in in length with a cap 2 5 cm 1 2 in in diameter it is striking due to its irregularly shaped lobes on the cap but with a robust creamy white base 2 8 1 2 5 cm in size its flesh is thin and brittle the stem is 3 10 cm 1 4 in long white or pinkish in colour and ornately ribbed it gives off a pleasant aroma but is not edible raw the spore print is white the oval spores average 19 x 11 5 m occasionally white capped forms are found it can be distinguished from occasional white forms of helvella lacunosa by its furry cap undersurface and inrolled", "its inflammatory effects cause the eyes to close taking away vision this temporary blindness allows officers to more easily restrain subjects and permits people in danger to use pepper spray in self defense for an opportunity to escape it also causes temporary discomfort and burning of the lungs which causes shortness of breath although considered a less than lethal agent it has been deadly in rare cases and being pepper sprayed may have been a contributing factor in a number of other deaths the active ingredient in pepper spray is capsaicin which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the genus capsicum including chilis extraction of oleoresin capsicum oc from peppers requires capsicum to be finely ground from which capsaicin is then extracted using an organic solvent such as ethanol the solvent is then evaporated and the remaining waxlike resin is the oleoresin capsaicin an emulsifier such as propylene glycol is used to suspend oc in water and the suspension is then pressurized to make an aerosol pepper spray high performance liquid chromatography hplc is used to measure the amount of capsaicin and major capsaicinoids in pepper sprays determining the strength of pepper sprays made by different" ]