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Best New York Comedy
The Best in NYC Live Comedy, Selected by Hy Bender; Most Shows $15, $10, or Free
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NYC Top Comedy Choices for October 2017 (updated 10/23)
For at least the rest of this year, I'm replacing the daily comedy listings on this site and HyReviews.com with monthly listings so I can more fully focus on several projects. These include my cross-genre short story anthology Ghosts On Drugs (for details, please click here), a comedy screenplay that needs a lot of research, and some other challenging items that'll require extra time and energy.
However, I'll still provide last-minute info on shows that especially merit attention, so please feel encouraged to check in regularly for updates. The best way to be instantly notified about new show postings is to subscribe to this BestNewYorkComedy.com blog and allow for email notifications, and/or to follow me on Twitter (@hybender) or Instagram (@hybenderny).
In addition, you can use the links below to explore the schedules of all the major comedy venues in NYC; and you can find excellent live comedy recommendations weekly via The New York Times.
All that said, here are a few extra special recommendations for the remainder of October (updated on Monday 10/23):
Comics give funny pseudo-scientific lectures about cancer, featuring John Reynolds (co-star of Search Party, cast member of Stranger Things), Jen Spyra (writer for Stephen Colbert), Mamoudou N'Diaye (Comedy Central), and Sachi Ezura (producer for The Rundown with Robin Thede), and then are fact-checked on the spot by Dr. Neal Shukla (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) and Malka Greene (Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation). It's all brought to you by seeker-of-truth hosts Blythe Roberson (The Onion, McSweeney's, TheNewYorker.com) & Madelyn Freed: The Scientists (Tuesday 10/24, 8:00 pm, $8, Brooklyn's Union Hall at 702 Union Street; take R subway to Union Street)
Comedy superstar Ricky Gervais visits from the UK for one night only to perform a self-revealing show about his childhood and more that at least some critics are calling his best yet: Ricky Gervais: Humanity (Wednesday 10/25, 8:00 pm, $56.50-$85.50, The Theater at Madison Square Garden at Seventh Avenue between 31st and 33rd Streets)
Two of the sharpest and most likeable comics in the biz, Natasha Leggero & Moshe Kasher, celebrate their getting married (back in October 2015) with this "Honeymoon Tour" in which each performs a long solo stand-up set and then the two of them play around on stage as a couple. Co-headlining at Carolines, it's Natasha Leggero & Moshe Kasher: The Endless Honeymoon Tour (Thursday 10/26, 7:30 pm; Friday 10/27 & Saturday 10/28, 7:30 pm & 10:00 pm; Sunday 10/29, 7:30 pm; $38.25 plus 2-drink min., plus 2-drink min., Carolines Comedy Club at 1626 Broadway)
For the 10th year of this fabulous annual event, over 40 NYC comics get a couple of minutes each to do a set as a famous comedian (e.g., Louis C.K., Amy Schumer, George Carlin, Jimmy Fallon, Rodney Dangerfield…the possibilities are endless) hosted by Mark Normand & Matt Ruby: The 10th Annual Schtick or Treat (Sunday 10/29 at 8:00 pm, $15, The Bell House at 149 7th Street; take R subway to 9th Street or F/G to Fourth Avenue)
Judah Friedlander (one of the quickest minds and very finest stand-ups in comedy; 30 Rock, Meet the Parents, Along Came Polly, author of bestselling cartoon book If the Raindrops United) releases a black & white stand-up special via Netflix on Halloween that he wrote, performed, directed, produced, and edited from numerous sets he performed this year at the West VIllage's Comedy Cellar. TItled America is the Greatest Country in the United States, much of the material is a response to our current insane Trump era. According to Judah, the 84-minute special "mostly satirizes American Exceptionalism, including U.S. domestic & foreign policy; it's a comedy about racism, sexism, imperialism, climate change, health care, LGBTQ rights, fascism, drones, and mass incarceration." For the trailer, please click here.
You can find the vast majority of notable NYC live comedy shows by using the links below to explore the schedules of the following top NYC comedy venues:
Best Inexpensive Stand-Up, Improv, Sketch, and Storytelling
Upright Citizens Brigade Chelsea
307 West 26th Street; 150-seater; one of the most respected comedy theatres in the world; especially strong on improv, sketch, solo shows, and one-act comedic plays; shows free-$12
Upright Citizens Brigade East
153 East 3rd Street; 99-seater; a top comedy venue that focuses more than sister theatre UCB Chelsea on stand-up and screenings, and on experimental shows taking big risks; shows free-$12
The PIT Striker (Upstairs) Theatre
123 East 24th Street; 88-seater; a top venue that's a powerful rival of UCB, and often surpasses UCB when blending comedy with music and/or theatricality; shows free-$20
The PIT Underground (Downstairs) Theatre
123 East 24th Street; 40-seater; often more quirky & experimental than upstairs Striker; shows free-$10
The PIT Loft
154 West 29th Street; 50-seater; the third of The PIT theatres, located separately on the West side, hosts a wide range of comedy, but is especially effective as a home for intimate solo and/or theatrical shows; free-$20
The Magnet
254 West 29th Street; 60-seat theatre; strong on improv, musical improv, sketch, and energy; shows $5-$10
The Creek and the Cave
Queens' Long Island City; 40-seat theatre upstairs, 25 downstairs; virtually all weeknight shows free; weekend shows free-$10
702 Union Street in Brooklyn; R to Union Street; 50-seat theatre; shows $5-$20
635 Sackett Street in Brooklyn; R to Union Street; 100-seat theatre; shows $5-$20
149 7th Street in Brooklyn; R to 9th Street or F/G to Fourth Ave.; 200-seat theatre; shows $10-$25
QED: A Place to Show & Tell
27-16 23rd Avenue in Astoria Queens; N/Q to Ditmars Boulevard; 40-seat theatre; shows free-$10
Best NYC Stand-Up Comedy Clubs
Comedy Cellar
117 MacDougal Street; among the finest daily stand-up lineups in the world; 2-item min.
130 West 3rd Street; Comedy Cellar's larger sister venue, just around the corner with the same top comics; 2-item min.
239 Third Avenue; recent competitor to Comedy Cellar; no drink min.—support this policy!
Carolines Comedy Club
1626 Broadway; focuses on the world's top headliners, who perform hour-long sets; 2-drink min.
208 West 23rd Street; headliners on weekends, specialty & lineup shows weekdays; 2-drink min.
85 East 4th Street; strong weekend lineups; no cover using code HyReviews; 2-drink min.
Greenwich Village Comedy Club
99 MacDougal Street; convenient if Comedy Cellar's sold out; no cover using code HyReviews; 2-drink min.
Comic Strip Live
1568 Second Avenue, off 81st; Upper East Side club with typically solid lineups; 2-drink min.
Stand Up NY
236 West 78th Street, off Broadway; Upper West Side club with typically solid lineups; 2-drink min.
The Standing Room
4738 Vernon Blvd., by #7 train; Queens LIC club; no drink min.—support this policy!
NYC Stand-Up Open Mics & Improv Jams
If you want stage time, you can find one or more stand-up open mics virtually any night at Manhattan's The PIT, Eastville Comedy Club, and Stand Up NY Comedy Club, and at Queens LIC's The Creek and Astoria Queens' QED.
In addition, at the East Village's UCB East you can typically find a stand-up open mic Thursdays at 6:00 pm, an improv jam Wednesdays at 11:15 pm, and a rare bring-your-own-group improv/sketch open stage Sundays at 11:00 pm. And in Chelsea, The Magnet offers an improv jam on Wednesdays at 6:00 pm, and a rare musical improv jam on Tuesdays at 6:00 pm.
All of the venues above typically provide you the stage time either for free or for $5.
There are also numerous other open mics throughout the city. For a more comprehensive list, please visit FreeMicsNYC.
From legendary NYC comedy site Brooklyn Vegan: Thank God for Hy Bender's religiously updated show bible BestNewYorkComedy.com…It must be exhausting keeping that monster of a website alive. It is your daily comedy itinerary and it scares me how on top of his shit this guy is.
Please feel encouraged to reach out to tell me about comedy shows, submit material to my short story anthology Ghosts on Drugs, or for any other reason by emailing me at hy@hyreviews.com.
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Today, we spent a wonderful day, organised by Arts Access Aotearoa in association with Wellington City Council and Toi Whakaari, learning from top experts Robyn Hunt and Nicola Owen the fascinating history and range of skills required for audio describing.
Audio describers provide a live, objective description of the action and visual elements of performance. This includes descriptions of the characters, costumes, movement and gestures, props, lighting, action and facial expression provided in between pauses in dialogue, sound effects and sometimes music.
The room was packed with representation from Wellington's arts scene and interested audio describer novices, all listening and laughing to Robyn and Nicole's experiences, exercises and feedback.
We learnt so much and how incredibly complex this kind of work is.
Thank you to Robyn, Nicole and Claire, for facilitating and making sure we were well looked after.
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Eventi
 1º gennaio: l'Inghilterra occupa la Birmania
 29 gennaio: Karl Benz realizza il primo veicolo con motore a scoppio
 1º marzo: A Milano si costituisce la Società di Mutuo Soccorso tra congedati e pensionati dai Carabinieri Reali
 29 marzo: A New Orleans lo scacchista austriaco Wilhelm Steinitz batte il polacco Johannes Zukertort e diventa il primo campione del mondo ufficiale della storia degli scacchi.
 4 maggio: A Chicago, nell'Illinois è in corso la Rivolta di Haymarket, dove dei lavoratori manifestano pacificamente. Lo scoppio di una bomba lanciata da uno sconosciuto, provoca la morte di undici persone e il ferimento di altre decine.
 8 maggio: Fu inventata dal dottor John Stith Pemberton la "Pemberton's French Wine Coca" ora conosciuta come Coca-Cola.
 15 maggio: A Parigi si apre l'ultima mostra degli Impressionisti.
 10 giugno: l'eruzione del Monte Tarawera in Nuova Zelanda, uccide 153 persone e distrugge le famose Pink and White Terraces.
 5 luglio: inaugurazione della linea ferroviaria Ivrea-Aosta, con locomotive a vapore.
 13 agosto: Caso di Nagasaki.
 18 settembre: Pubblicato il manifesto del Simbolismo.
 ottobre: Abolizione della schiavitù a Cuba.
 18 ottobre: Edmondo De Amicis pubblica  Cuore.
 28 ottobre: Viene inaugurata la Statua della libertà a New York.
 Viene fondata Banca Sella.
 Antonio Meucci ha la priorità come inventore del telefono
 Robert Louis Stevenson pubblica Lo strano caso del dottor Jekyll e del signor Hyde

 Ernesto Breda dà vita all'accomandita Ernesto Breda & Co., fabbrica meccanica e di fonderia della ghisa.
 Viene fondato l'Arsenal Football Club
 Viene fondata la birreria Privatbrauerei Erdinger Weißbräu Werner Brombach GmbH (meglio conosciuta come Erdinger Weißbräu).
 August Mustel costruisce la Celesta.

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 Vengono pubblicati Il ragazzo rapito e Lo strano caso del Dr. Jekyll e di Mr. Hyde di Robert Louis Stevenson.
 Viene pubblicato Cuore di Edmondo De Amicis.
 Viene pubblicato I ragazzi di Jo di Louisa May Alcott.

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Parliament 'serial sex offender' won't be immediately identified
Speaker Trevor Mallard says a "serial sex offender" and other alleged bullies won't be immediately identified on the back of a review into Parliamentary bullying.
On Tuesday, the review into bullying and harassment in Parliament, launched in November 2018 by Mallard, was released by inquirer Debbie Francis.
It revealed a toxic workplace and highlighted instances of sexual harassment and assault, abusive texts, frequent shouting at staff, character assassination and overall disrespectful conduct.
"You can't do anything about it. You feel completely helpless," one respondent said. "You've got a job you enjoy; you don't want to raise it in case no one takes your side."
I feel that the whole time. I just want to get out.
Mallard said Parliament was getting better, but the report highlighted there was still much more to do.
He said there was a "serial sexual offender", but the report didn't make clear the number of complaints against some individuals or if they still worked in the building.
"I am not surprised by it, I think there is some stuff there about a serial sex offender which has surprised me, but the general theme of it, the extent of the bullying, the way senior staff and some MPs act inappropriately is not a surprise to anyone who has worked here for anytime," he told The AM Show.
Trevor Mallard and Debbie Francis. Photo credit: Newshub.
The report also didn't identify who the accused bullies and sexual offenders were - which Mallard said was integral to the review.
"The basis of this report was that people were free to come and talk to Debbie Francis in the absolute knowledge that their positions would be secure, they wouldn't be reported and that they would be supported where appropriate to take complaints to the police, or to their management, or to their party leaders."
Not even he knows the identity of some of the bullies and it's unlikely he will unless victims go to police. All records of the inquiry will be destroyed to protect those who have given evidence.
"Debbie Francis has acted absolutely properly and has not passed on any names to me, and in fact the records will be destroyed because that was the undertaking given to the people who were giving evidence.
"If people want to make complaints, and they will be really supported if they do make complaints… then the people can be identified that way, but they are not going to be identified out of a process where they were guaranteed confidentiality because if we did that people would have never have come forward.
The police will be involved if the people who have been assaulted are prepared to have them involved.
On RNZ on Wednesday, Mallard said the assault could constitute rape.
"We're talking about serious sexual assault, well that, for me, that's rape... that is the impression I get from the report, yes."
Effect of the review
He said the inquiry wasn't about catching the perpetrators but putting a spotlight on the issues in Parliament.
One of the new mechanisms recommended is that if someone is complained about with sufficient proof to the Speaker's office, the office of the Clerk, the Parliamentary service or Ministerial services, then the MP's party leader would be informed.
He hopes that would lead to that MP not being selected by the party to return to Parliament.
The review revealed 50 people reported unwanted touching and 54 people reported unwanted sexual advances, with sexual messages via text a problem.
But extremely worrying was the revelation that there were 14 reports of sexual assault - 11 made by current staff members.
Newshub's Political Editor, Tova O'Brien, said that was extremely disturbing.
"One of the big takeaways from that report yesterday was the sexual assault and sexual harassment stuff, she told The AM Show.
The fact that 14 people reported sexual assault, that makes for extremely uncomfortable reading.
"The report needed to be anonymous, for the report to be this fulsome it needed to be anonymous, and it needed to have those alleged victims at the heart of it."
Allan Halse. Photo credit: The AM Show.
Culture Safe NZ director Allan Halse said the review would hopefully be a catalyst for looking at a wider issue across New Zealand.
We have been trying for years to get Government to take some action to support the hundreds of thousands of New Zealander workers who are bullied and sexually harassed."
"To date, they have not responded terribly well."
Because the spotlight has gone on them, we will finally see some change.
There were 85 recommendations made by Francis, including a parliamentary code of conduct. Francis said she wants everyone to sign it, including MPs, staff and the media.
Support services are a big part of it, including psychologists with sexual harm experience on site, and an anonymous tip line will be set up.
Party leaders will also be forced to take more responsibility for their MPs.
She recommended staff contracts be changed, the use of hush money minimised, and alcohol consumption be addressed.
If you have witnessed or experienced sexual harassment or assault and would like to speak to someone, you could call the HELP support service.
Auckland: (09) 623 1700 or visit helpauckland.org.nz
Wellington: (04) 801 6655 or visit wellingtonhelp.org.nz
The AM Show / Newshub reporter Jamie Ensor

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TRAM Working Group                                           A. Johnston
Internet-Draft                                                     Avaya
Intended status: Standards Track                               J. Uberti
Expires: April 21, 2016                                           Google
J. Yoakum
K. Singh
An Origin Attribute for the STUN Protocol
draft-ietf-tram-stun-origin-06
STUN, or Session Traversal Utilities for NAT, is a protocol used to
assist other protocols traverse Network Address Translators or NATs.
This specification defines an ORIGIN attribute for STUN that can be
used in similar ways to the HTTP header field of the same name.
WebRTC browsers utilizing STUN and TURN would include this attribute
which would provide servers with additional information about the
STUN and TURN requests they receive.  This specification defines the
usage of the STUN ORIGIN attribute for web, SIP, and XMPP contexts.
This Internet-Draft will expire on April 21, 2016.
Johnston, et al.         Expires April 21, 2016                 [Page 1]
Internet-Draft                 STUN Origin                  October 2015
1.1.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
2.  STUN ORIGIN attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
2.1.  Origin Matching Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
2.2.  STUN Usage  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
2.3.  TURN Usage  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
2.4.  NAT Behavior Discovery Usage  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
2.5.  ICE Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
2.6.  Media Keep-Alive Usage  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
2.7.  SIP Keep-Alive Usage  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
2.8.  Multiple Origins  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
3.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
4.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
5.  Implementation Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
6.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
STUN, or Session Traversal Utilities for NAT [RFC5389], is a protocol
used to assist other protocols traverse Network Address Translators
or NATs.  TURN, or Traversal Using Relays around NAT [RFC5766], is a
STUN extension that allows endpoints to acquire a relayed address for
media flows.  It is most commonly used in conjunction with ICE,
Interactive Connectivity Establishment [RFC5245], which is used to
establish peer-to-peer flows between endpoints through NATs and
firewalls.
STUN defines three authentication modes, depending on the STUN usage.
For STUN binding requests sent between peers, such as for ICE
connectivity checks, a short term authentication method is
recommended.  Each peer contributes random strings which are
exchanged over signaling and used to authenticate the connectivity
checks.  For TURN, a usage of STUN used to acquire and refresh relay
addresses, a long term authentication method is recommended.  This
authentication is similar to SIP Digest [RFC3261], which involves an
authentication challenge for each request.  A server, upon receipt of
a TURN request, generates an authentication challenge that includes a
realm and nonce.  The client resends the TURN request supplying a
user name and password based on the realm indicated by the server.
For a STUN binding request sent to a STUN server, no authentication
is recommended, as generating the response is less work for a server
than the server utilizing the short term or long term authentication
approach.  The server responds statelessly, so the only resources
used are those to process each request, which are minimal.
WebRTC, Web Real-Time Communications, adds peer-to-peer real-time,
interactive voice and video media capabilities and data channels to
browsers [I-D.ietf-rtcweb-overview] without a plugin or download, and
allows web developers to access this functionality using JavaScript
API calls [WebRTC-API].  WebRTC includes STUN, TURN, and ICE client
functionality built into browsers.  For a session established between
two browsers, if either browser is behind a NAT, a STUN server is
necessary.  Public STUN servers are currently available and a web
application can suggest a particular STUN server be used.  In cases
where a particular combination of NAT mapping and filtering and/or
firewalling is present, a TURN server is needed to establish a peer
connection.  In this case, TURN credentials need to be available to
the browser for the long term authentication approach.  A TURN server
for WebRTC might serve a number of different domains and realms.
From the perspective of the web application provider, providing
service for a number of different domains and realms, it is useful to
know something about the source of the STUN request when processing
the request.  For a web application provider STUN or TURN server, the
server will have no idea which web pages or sites are sending binding
requests to the service.  In conventional applications, the SOFTWARE
attribute would provide some identifying information to the service,
but that no longer works when the browser is the application.  For a
web application provider TURN server, the TURN server does not know
which realm to include in an authentication challenge.
In the web world, HTTP requests have the concept of origin.  The
origin of a web page, as defined in [RFC6454], is defined by the
URI's scheme, host or IP address, and port portions.  The HTTP Origin
header field inserted by the web browser carries this information and
is useful information for servers that receive HTTP requests
generated via JavaScript.  For example, Cross Origin Resource
Sharing, CORS, allows an HTTP server to serve HTTP requests from
multiple origins.
This specification proposes extending the origin concept to STUN
requests.  STUN requests generated by a web browser would include the
origin of the HTTP page that is initiating the Peer Connection.
Using this extra information, a STUN server could use the origin to
determine which STUN binding requests to respond to, reducing the
load on a STUN server.  Using this information, a TURN server could
use the origin to determine which realm to include in the
authentication challenge.  A TURN server can also use the origin
information for logging and analytics, and also as additional
information after authentication for providing service.  This
specification also defines an origin for SIP and XMPP users of STUN
and TURN.
An important use case that the STUN Origin helps solve is the
operation of a multi-tenanted TURN server (i.e. a TURN server that
serves multiple, perhaps tens of thousands of different domains).
The problem associated with this use case is described in paragraph 6
of Section 4 of [RFC7376].  While it is possible for a TURN server to
use the same authentication credentials across many domains, a more
likely (and more manageable) scenario is to have separate credentials
for each domain, and hence a different realm for each domain.  With
the TURN server configured with a mapping between a domain (conveyed
in the Origin) and the realm string (to be used in the authentication
challenge), a single TURN URI could be used across all domains, and
the resulting JavaScript code would be portable.
Note that the origin information is most useful as a hint in initial
STUN and TURN requests as received by a server.  However, origin
information still has value throughout the session even after
authentication for logging and other purposes.
The following sections of this document define the STUN ORIGIN
attribute and define its usage.
1.1.  Requirements Language
"OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC
2119 [RFC2119].
2.  STUN ORIGIN attribute
This specification defines how to apply the web origin concept and
syntax of [RFC6454] to the STUN protocol.
This specification defines a new Attribute to the STUN protocol
[RFC5389].  The attribute is called ORIGIN and uses the syntax
defined in Section 15 of [RFC5389].  The number used for this in the
type field is 0x802F, chosen in the comprehension optional range.
The value of ORIGIN is a variable-length value.  It MUST contain a
UTF-8 [RFC3629] encoded sequence of characters.  Senders MAY include
multiple ORIGIN attributes in a request, and receivers MUST support
parsing and receiving multiple ORIGIN attributes.  HTTP origins are
less than 267 characters (the maximum 253 character domain name plus
8 characters for the URI scheme plus 5 characters for the port
number).
For a web browser (HTTP User Agent), the contents of the ORIGIN
attribute is the unicode-serialization of an origin defined in
Section 6.1 of [RFC6454].  The origin value included is the same as
the Origin header field for an HTTP request generated from the web
page that is creating the Peer Connection.  It does not include any
string terminating (\x00) character in the serialization.
For a SIP User Agent [RFC3261] using STUN and TURN, the ORIGIN
attribute is set to be the URI of the registrar server used by the
User Agent (i.e. the Request-URI of a REGISTER method).  This is the
full Request-URI component of the SIP ABNF defined in [RFC3261].  For
example, a SIP user "sip:bob@biloxi.example.com" might register with
the Request-URI of "sip:registrar.biloxi.example.com".
For an XMPP client [RFC6120] using STUN and TURN, the ORIGIN
attribute is an XMPP URI [RFC5122] representing the full domainpart
of the client's Jabber ID (JID) as defined in the ABNF of [RFC6122];
for example, if the client's JID is "juliet@im.example.com/balcony"
then the ORIGIN attribute would be "xmpp:im.example.com".
Other contexts can define a usage of the ORIGIN attribute to use an
appropriate URI or URL.
If an ORIGIN attribute is not present in a request, it is up to the
server how to handle the request.  For example, it could assume a
default Origin.
2.1.  Origin Matching Rules
For any usage of ORIGIN, the following rules MUST be followed to
ensure privacy.  An ORIGIN attribute MUST NOT be included in a STUN
or TURN request if the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the
Origin does not match the FQDN of the STUN or TURN URI which was used
to reach the STUN or TURN server.  That is, only if the domain of the
Origin is the same as the origin of the STUN or TURN server is the
Origin information sent.  The FQDN comparison does not include ports
or URI schemes.  For example, a web origin from
http://foo.example.com:8080 would match a TURN URI of
turn:foo.example.com.  A SIP origin of sips:bar.example.org:5061
would match a STUN URI of stun:bar.example.org:999.
2.2.  STUN Usage
For STUN requests sent without authentication to a STUN server (i.e.
STUN binding requests sent to a STUN server), the STUN client MUST
include the ORIGIN attribute if it matches per the rules of
Section 2.1.  Otherwise, the ORIGIN attribute is omitted.
A STUN server can derive additional information for logging and
analytics about the request through the ORIGIN attribute, such as the
source of the request.  For example, an enterprise STUN server might
only reply to STUN binding requests from certain domains.
2.3.  TURN Usage
TURN [RFC5766] Allocate requests MUST include ORIGIN if it matches
per the rules of Section 2.1.  Otherwise, the ORIGIN attribute is
omitted.  For all other TURN requests, including the Send method, the
use of the ORIGIN attribute is NOT RECOMMENDED as it provides no
A TURN server can use the ORIGIN attribute to determine which REALM
to include in the authentication challenge.  A TURN server can also
use the ORIGIN attribute after authentication to provide appropriate
2.4.  NAT Behavior Discovery Usage
For the NAT Behavior Discovery Usage in [RFC5780], the rules for STUN
usage apply.
2.5.  ICE Usage
ICE [RFC5245] connectivity checks MUST NOT include the ORIGIN
attribute.  Including the ORIGIN attribute leaks information about
the site used by one peer to the other peer in the session.
2.6.  Media Keep-Alive Usage
For media keep-alive STUN requests described in Section 20 of
[RFC5245], the rules for ICE usage apply.
2.7.  SIP Keep-Alive Usage
For SIP keep-alive STUN requests described in [RFC5626], the ORIGIN
attribute MUST NOT be included.  No valid use cases for the ORIGIN
attribute have been identified to date, and as a result the ORIGIN
attribute will be ignored.
2.8.  Multiple Origins
Multiple Origins for HTTP Requests are described in Section 7.2 of
[RFC6454].  Multiple origins can occur when the same resource is
fetched by multiple origins at the same time (e.g. multiple tabs,
windows, frames, etc.).  In the context of WebRTC, it doesn't make
sense for a STUN binding or TURN allocation to be shared across
origins (e.g.  Peer Connections).  Based on their definitions,
multiple SIP and XMPP origins also do not apply here.  Therefore, if
a STUN request contains multiple origins, the first origin MUST be
used and the remaining origins ignored.
This specification, if approved, adds a new value to the IANA "STUN
Attributes Registry" created by [RFC5389].  The ORIGIN attribute
value is 0x802F.
The security considerations of [RFC6454] apply to this extension.
Servers using the information present in the STUN ORIGIN attribute
need to realize that this attribute could be set arbitrarily by a
non-browser client or modified by an intermediary.  The method
proposed in this document is not meant to replace existing STUN
authentication mechanisms but to provide additional information to
the server for logging and analytics and how to handle the request
after authentication.
Just as browsers do not allow a web application to set the HTTP
Origin header field via JavaScript, web browsers (HTTP User Agents)
MUST NOT allow a web application to set the STUN ORIGIN attribute
through JavaScript.
While the STUN MESSAGE-INTEGRITY attribute can provide integrity
protection for all attributes present in a STUN request, MESSAGE-
INTEGRITY is not present in the initial STUN message sent.  As a
result, an ORIGIN attribute could be modified or removed from a STUN
request without the server knowing.  DTLS or TLS transport SHOULD be
used when integrity protection for the ORIGIN attribute is important.
The STUN ORIGIN attribute has privacy implications.  As a result, TLS
or DTLS transport SHOULD be used.  If STUN requests containing the
origin attribute are not encrypted with TLS or DTLS, an on-path
attacker could determine this information by inspecting STUN messages
between the STUN client and STUN server.  This information is often
available in other messages sent by the browser, such as DNS or HTTP
requests.  However, in cases where secure HTTP is used, including the
ORIGIN attribute over an unencrypted transport could leak this
information.  In cases where privacy is paramount, but TLS or DTLS
transport is not available, the ORIGIN attribute MAY be omitted.
The STUN ORIGIN attribute also has privacy implications in that the
origin information is shared with a STUN or TURN server which
otherwise might not know this information.  This information could be
used to track usage of real-time communication services.  A STUN or
TURN server will always know the public IP address of each user, but
the ORIGIN attribute provides more information about which service or
provider is being used.  The particular STUN and TURN servers used
are usually selected by the real-time communications service provider
(i.e. the web provider for WebRTC or the SIP or XMPP service
provider).  In addition, they are usually also run by the same
provider, or by a trusted partner, especially for TURN.  However, a
service or provider using an untrusted third party STUN or TURN
server needs to recognize that the operator of the third party STUN
or TURN server will learn the identity of the service or provider
through this extension.  In order to prevent the leakage of usage of
information, the Origin and STUN or TURN URI matching rules defined
in Section 2.1 MUST be used.  These rules ensure that the inclusion
of the ORIGIN attribute does not provide any new information to the
operator of the STUN or TURN server than they already know.
5.  Implementation Status
Note to RFC Editor: Please remove this entire section prior to
publication, including the reference to RFC 6982.
This section records the status of known implementations of the
protocol defined by this specification at the time of posting of this
Internet-Draft, and is based on a proposal described in [RFC6982].
The description of implementations in this section is intended to
assist the IETF in its decision processes in progressing drafts to
RFCs.  Please note that the listing of any individual implementation
here does not imply endorsement by the IETF.  Furthermore, no effort
has been spent to verify the information presented here that was
supplied by IETF contributors.  This is not intended as, and must not
be construed to be, a catalog of available implementations or their
features.  Readers are advised to note that other implementations may
exist.
According to [RFC6982], "this will allow reviewers and working groups
to assign due consideration to documents that have the benefit of
running code, which may serve as evidence of valuable experimentation
and feedback that have made the implemented protocols more mature.
It is up to the individual working groups to use this information as
they see fit".
Two proof-of-concept implementations have been created in support of
this proposed standard.  One provides a WebRTC enabled browser that
includes the appropriate STUN ORIGIN Attribute with the Origin
insight known to the browser in STUN/TURN messages sent to servers.
The other provides an example of a multiple realms capable TURN
server that takes advantage of Origin insight provided in the STUN
ORIGIN Attribute.
A Chrome browser implementation has been created by Graham Yoakum and
Ryan Yoakum (Skobalt LLC) and is freely licensed under the standard
terms of the open source Chromium and WebRTC projects.  This proof-
of-concept version of the Google Chrome browser (nicknamed 'Chromeo')
sends Origin insight in STUN and TURN messages using the proposed new
STUN ORIGIN attribute with a value of 0x802F (as initially proposed,
however that value is easily changed in a single line of code).
'Chromeo' includes a Chrome flag to enable and disable this unique
feature (and is by default disabled to prevent any non-intentional
use of this feature until the standard is finalized).  This
implementation is based on is draft-johnston-tram-stun-origin-02.
Coordinated changes to both the WebRTC and Chromium open source
projects have been formally submitted for consideration.  The two
submitted change lists together implement the complete browser proof-
of-concept.  'Chromeo' has been built for Linux and STUN protocol
behavior has been verified using WireShark traces illustrating that
proper STUN Origin attributes are being included in STUN/TURN
messages sent by the browser to servers (screen captures of STUN
messages illustrating the Origin attribute and content are
available).
The WebRTC and Chromium open source projects can be found at:
http://www.webrtc.org/ and http://www.chromium.org/
Google can choose to accept or modify the changes proposed for Chrome
and other browser vendors can access and take advantage of the
publicly available WebRTC and Chromium open source submissions as
desired.  Hopefully this will enable browsers to quickly implement
STUN Origin enhancements.
A multiple realms capable advanced open source Origin enabled TURN
server (named 'Coturn') has been created by Oleg Moskalenko and is
freely licensed under the New BSD license.  This reference
implementation and proof-of-concept provides a clone (a spin-off) of
the rfc5766-turn-server project adding Origin-based multiple realms
'Coturn' is backward-compatible with rfc5766-turn-server project but
the code is more complex and it uses a different (also more complex)
database structure.  It is the intent to add all IETF TRAM TURN
server related capabilities to this project as they mature.  'Coturn'
is publicly available and can be found at: https://github.com/coturn/
coturn/
Thanks to John Selbie, Tirumaleswar Reddy, Simon Perreault, Marc
Petit-Huguenin, Andy Hutton, and Oleg Moskalenko for their feedback
and reviews.  Special thanks to Graham Yoakum and Ryan Yoakum of
Skobalt LLC and Oleg Moskalenko of rfc5766-turn-server project for
contributing open source proof-of-concept implementations for a
Chrome web browser and a multiple realms capable TURN server, quickly
demonstrating feasibility.
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.
[RFC3261]  Rosenberg, J., Schulzrinne, H., Camarillo, G., Johnston,
A., Peterson, J., Sparks, R., Handley, M., and E.
Schooler, "SIP: Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 3261,
DOI 10.17487/RFC3261, June 2002,
[RFC3629]  Yergeau, F., "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO
10646", STD 63, RFC 3629, DOI 10.17487/RFC3629, November
2003, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3629>.
[RFC5122]  Saint-Andre, P., "Internationalized Resource Identifiers
(IRIs) and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) for the
Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)",
RFC 5122, DOI 10.17487/RFC5122, February 2008,
[RFC5245]  Rosenberg, J., "Interactive Connectivity Establishment
(ICE): A Protocol for Network Address Translator (NAT)
Traversal for Offer/Answer Protocols", RFC 5245,
DOI 10.17487/RFC5245, April 2010,
Johnston, et al.         Expires April 21, 2016                [Page 10]
[RFC5389]  Rosenberg, J., Mahy, R., Matthews, P., and D. Wing,
"Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)", RFC 5389,
DOI 10.17487/RFC5389, October 2008,
[RFC5626]  Jennings, C., Ed., Mahy, R., Ed., and F. Audet, Ed.,
"Managing Client-Initiated Connections in the Session
Initiation Protocol (SIP)", RFC 5626,
[RFC5766]  Mahy, R., Matthews, P., and J. Rosenberg, "Traversal Using
Relays around NAT (TURN): Relay Extensions to Session
Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)", RFC 5766,
[RFC6120]  Saint-Andre, P., "Extensible Messaging and Presence
Protocol (XMPP): Core", RFC 6120, DOI 10.17487/RFC6120,
March 2011, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6120>.
Protocol (XMPP): Address Format", RFC 6122,
[RFC6454]  Barth, A., "The Web Origin Concept", RFC 6454,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6454, December 2011,
[RFC7350]  Petit-Huguenin, M. and G. Salgueiro, "Datagram Transport
Layer Security (DTLS) as Transport for Session Traversal
Utilities for NAT (STUN)", RFC 7350, DOI 10.17487/RFC7350,
August 2014, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7350>.
[I-D.ietf-rtcweb-overview]
Alvestrand, H., "Overview: Real Time Protocols for
Browser-based Applications", draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-14
(work in progress), June 2015.
[RFC5780]  MacDonald, D. and B. Lowekamp, "NAT Behavior Discovery
Using Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)",
RFC 5780, DOI 10.17487/RFC5780, May 2010,
[RFC6982]  Sheffer, Y. and A. Farrel, "Improving Awareness of Running
Code: The Implementation Status Section", RFC 6982,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6982, July 2013,
[RFC7376]  Reddy, T., Ravindranath, R., Perumal, M., and A. Yegin,
"Problems with Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
Long-Term Authentication for Traversal Using Relays around
NAT (TURN)", RFC 7376, DOI 10.17487/RFC7376, September
[WebRTC-API]
Bergkvist, A., Burnett, D., Jennings, C., and A.
Narayanan, "WebRTC 1.0: Real-time Communication Between
Browsers", W3C Working Draft http://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc/,
2013, <http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-webrtc-20130910/>.
Email: alan.b.johnston@gmail.com
Justin Uberti
Email: justin@uberti.name
John Yoakum
Email: yoakum@avaya.com
Kundan Singh
Email: kundan10@gmail.com


text:
Henderson County, Kentucky
INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC
INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC CLAIMED 152 LIVES HERE
War revelers failed to heed health official's warnings
Dr. George ROYSTER tried to warn residents of the danger they were facing, but the urgings of that Henderson County health officer fell on deaf ears.
People were convinced the worst of the flu epidemic that had swept the nation and felled hundreds here was over. After all, hadn't the city officials already lifted the ban on people congregating in schools, churches and theaters?
Therefore, they reasoned, why should they heed Dr. ROYSTER'S dire predictions of more influenza cases if the public came together to celebrate the official ending of World War I? It was simply too thrilling an event to stay inside and avoid others.
This was in November 1918, and sure enough the Armistice sparked celebrations in the street and resulted in impromptu parades like the one that saw jubilant East End miners marching to the downtown section.
As they moved down the streets, revelers happily joined them and the day was marked by hugs, handshakes and joy.
And, though the citizens didn't suspect it at the time, they spread more than cheer.
In the following week, there were numerous new cases of the virus that caused high fevers, chills, muscle aches, all-over weakness and - in far too many cases - resulted in life-threatening complications.
It was reported that the national epidemic had begun in Army training camps and the "bug" had been carried far and wide by the rookie soldiers. It made its appearance in Henderson County in October, and by the time it loosened its grip on the populace, nearly 2,000 cases had been reported here and 152 victims died.
By December, the city hospital could no longer accommodate the steady influx of flu-stricken patients and it was obvious an emergency hospital would have to be quickly equipped and opened.
The local ELKS club volunteered the second floor of its stately, white-columned building at Third and Elm Streets and the offer was gratefully accepted.
Also offered, and considered a reserve facility, was Zion Evangelical Church.
The Gleaner noted that the Elks site was ideal, as it "has large, well-ventilated, well-lighted rooms with bath room, kitchen facilities and all that could be asked for and is available, if desired, through the side stairway."
Appointed to oversee the hospital was a Miss KELLAR, who was visiting nurse for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company here. That company granted her a leave of absence.
The Gleaner reported that the public was "showing hearty cooperation" and assisting with the setting-up of the hospital. Two local men guaranteed milk for the patients for the duration of the emergency facility's operation, and a woman donated $25 "to the cause." There also were numerous contributions of sheets, pillow cases, kitchen utensils and cots.
If warranted, the newspaper said, the city and county would buy additional cots. "Nothing will be left undone to give the patients every attention and care," the paper related.
In addition, the local Klee Morton Company promised free ambulance service to carry patients from their homes to the Elks building.
The Gleaner told readers that "this offer was gladly accepted by the (emergency committee) as patients will be in no danger in being removed from their homes in a closed ambulance."
Reprinted with permission
The Progress Edition, The Gleaner, Henderson, KY, Saturday, March 30, 1996
Written by Judy Jenkins
Contributed by Netta Mullin, HCH&GS
Copyright 2002 HCH&GS


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vespucci group
producing non-fiction & fiction film, tv & podcasts.
In partnership with Topic Studios (SPOTLIGHT, THE LAUNDROMAT) and Indiana Production (THE LEISURE SEEKER) this limited series is based on the life and assassination of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, also known as the "One-Woman WikiLeaks." The series is based on the upcoming book Murder on the Malta Express, commissioned by Vespucci and written by Maltese journalist and Daphne's protégé Manuel Delia, award-winning BBC journalist John Sweeney, and Italian journalist, author of Suburra (now a Netflix series) and member of The Daphne Project, Carlo Bonini. The show will be written by Noah Stollman (FAUDA, OUR BOYS).
India's expanding billionaire class hosts a cast of characters that are hard to believe and fascinating to explore. In a deep-dive investigation into several of its most prominent and unscrupulous members, we witness the spectacle, chart the abuses, and follow the threads of their fortunes. This is an investigative series in partnership with Confluence Media (Josy Joseph, Adrian Levy).
Untitled Blumhouse Podcast
Gaining access to a world never before infiltrated by outsiders, a journalist uncovers a dark tapestry of secrets within. This is an investigative podcast series in partnership with Blumhouse and Gilded Audio.
An audio genius and media visionary, Tony Schwartz was an agoraphobe who rarely left his New York zip code. Through his invention of the first portable audio recorder, he went from capturing taxi drivers' chatter to recording America's political elite — all without leaving his neighborhood. When his "Daisy Girl" ad exploded on the nation's screens in 1964, US politics changed forever.
Phantom of the Orchestra
Based on the article by Chris Beam, and in partnership with Academy Award winner Glen Zipper (UNDEFEATED), this documentary tells the story of Japan's fallen Beethoven and the ghost writer that was living in his shadows for over a decade. Anthony Caronna (SUZANNE BARTSCH ON TOP) and Michael Beach Nichols (WRINKLES THE CLOWN) are attached to write and direct.
Based on the book Convictions: My Life with a Good Communist, the series chronicles the incredible life of Jo Langer, a woman whose socialist dream rapidly turns into a nightmare after her devoutly communist husband is wrongfully thrown in prison, and she must fight to save her family. The series will be directed by award winning filmmaker Tereza Nvotova (FILTHY, THE LUST FOR POWER) and written by Barbora Námerová (FILTHY) and former war correspondent, author (Six Months Without Sundays) and screenwriter Max Benitz. The series is co-produced with PubRes (THE PAINTED BIRD) and developed in partnership with Czech National Broadcasters.
Donald and the Whale
Taking a hybrid approach to storytelling, this feature will weave anime with live-action interviews and archival footage to tell the enthralling story of Donald Trump's encounters with Japanese gambling whale, Akio Kashiwagi, as well as the subsequent downfall of his casino empire. It is the story of a mythic clash between two titans, and a thrilling look into the psyche of an iconoclastic world leader—the pivotal moment when Donald learns to play big. The film is being written and directed by Emmy award nominated duo Eric Garcia and Leo Chou (BATMAN NINJA, AFRO SAMURAI, AFRO SAMURAI: RESURRECTION), and co-produced with Ross Dinerstein (JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI, SILICON COWBOYS).
Written by Palme d'or Winner Noé Debré (DHEEPAN) and Maxime Giffard (CAÏN), this dystopian series is set in the United States post-economic collapse, where hope lies on the other side of the Bering Strait—in Siberia—yet all who want to make the crossing must go through hell on earth: Tin City, a migratory hub run by brutal, ambitious and unpredictable people smugglers. The series is being developed in partnership with Elephant (MARIA BY CALLAS).
Museum of missing
A cinematic VR experience that will guide viewers through a virtual museum, allowing them to experience famous works of stolen art that have never been recovered. In collaboration with Marc Forster (FINDING NEVERLAND, QUANTUM OF SOLACE, KITE RUNNER), Academy Award winning producer Jean de Meuron (LA FEMME ET LE TGV), and world renowned architectural firm, Herzog de Meuron.
@war
In partnership with Angus Wall (ICARUS, 13TH, AMANDA KNOX, SOCIAL NETWORK), and based on the book War in 140 Characters by award winning journalist David Patrikarakos, this docu-series explores the way social media has redefined modern warfare.
Secret Court
A scripted podcast based on the hushed-up "court" that sought out, interrogated, and expelled gay students at Harvard in 1920. The inquisition was prompted by the suicide of one student—two more of the boys affected by the court went on to take their own lives. The series is being produced in partnership with Spoke Media (TERMS, FAMILY GHOSTS) as we approach to the centenary of the court, which was kept a secret for more than 80 years.
Mira Slovak
A film about the life of Mira Slovak—a survivor of the Nazis, an escapee from authoritarian communism, and a refugee who, against all odds, was taken under the protective wing of Seattle's Boeing family and became a legendary hydroplane racer. Based on the book A Race to Freedom: The Mira Slovak Story by David Williams. The film will be written by Max Benitz.
Hood CNN
With music—specifically rap—as his gateway, 30 year-old vlogger Zack Stoner explored Chicago's South Side until his murder last year. Calling himself the "HoodCNN", he ventured into places and asked questions that mainstream media avoided, in order to report on music and life in "Chiraq". His murder has not been solved. Vespucci is partnering with the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Invisible Institute to bring light to his untold story.
Everything is going according to plan
In partnership with Untold Studios, this feature documentary follows the treacherous journeys of modern day stowaways. Collaborating with journalists from Brazil and Cameroon, we uncover a community of men that regularly sneak aboard cargo ships in the hopes of bettering their circumstances. Currently in post-production.
Vespucci Group partnered with The Browser on their first ever live event, 'Writers We Admire'. The evening featured conversations with several prominent authors and thinkers including Jonathan Rauch, whose book Gay Marriage changed the terms of a national debate. Hermione Hob—whose writing The New York Times likened to that of Joan Didion and Renata Adler—also be talked about, and read from, her debut novel, Neon In Daylight. Additionally, Susan Schneider, a cognitive scientist and professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut engaged in conversation with Anatole Kaletsky, economist, co-founder of The Browser, author of Capitalism 4.0, governor of the Institute For New Economic Thinking, and a columnist for Project Syndicate.
Based in Los Angeles, New York and London, our team works with a vast network of journalists, helping fund investigations and narratives for a variety of audiovisual formats. We provide a platform and support system for fact-based storytellers to incubate and develop ideas that illuminate and entertain.
We currently have partnerships with journalists and publications in Brazil, Israel, Italy, Colombia, U.K., U.S., Canada, India, Argentina, Japan, Switzerland, Nicaragua, Malta and more.
We have an investment partnership with London based firm Dorfman Media Holdings, and we are represented globally by WME/Endeavor.
A COLLECTION OF STORIES AVAILABLE TO ADAPT.
Jim Learning and Eldred Davis had lived through years of being treated like obsolete furniture. First as indigenous people, second as old people. When a giant corporate energy company comes into town, threatening the food and water supply that has supported local communities for centuries, they decide it's time to make their voices heard. The river must be protected. Jim and Eldred never imagined that their friendship's next chapter would take place in a jail cell — but if protecting the river means changing their lives, so be it.
Story by: Matt Hongoltz-Hetling / Audio: Saksia Edwards / Blue Dot Sessions artists: Lobo Lobo, Coulis Coulis, Sylvestor / Voice: Wayne Mathews
Vespucci x The Economist
Known as "El Brujo"—the warlock—for his ability to smuggle money from place to place as if by magic, José Manuel Ramos was arrested and charged with two life sentences in 1991. Instead of digging his way out of his cell, he managed to escape in a more unusual way: by playing the U.S. justice system and by preying on the grandiose political ambitions of prosecutors. As part of "Task Force Guest", Swiss Attorney General Valentin Roschacher even flew the warlock to Switzerland, opened the golden doors of the Swiss banks, and paid him handsomely to point the finger at supposed criminals.
This is the true story of the Colombian narco—Pablo Escobar's right-hand man in the USA—who managed to fool the American, the Mexican, and the Swiss Governments, and ruin the lives of an ambitious Attorney General, the brother of a Mexican President, and a well known private banker.
Link to Economist's 1843 article, or a direct download link to a pdf.
Journalists: Jacob Kushner & Daniel Ammann
In August 2013, a team of federal investigators had eyes all over JFK. They were waiting for a man who was selling uranium or "yellowcake" to the Middle East in quantities that could explode into a giant mushroom cloud. The feds watched as a bleary-eyed Patrick Campbell picked up his small suitcase and made it through customs before apprehending him. Dubbed "the Uranium shoe man" by the BBC for bringing samples in his sneakers, Campbell would soon find out that he had gotten caught up in a huge 15-month Homeland Security Investigations sting. This is his story.
Journalist: Stuart Reid / Audio: Evan Phillips / Voice: William Christopher Stephens
Crime writer Diane Fanning was working on her first non-fiction book, spending time visiting and writing to a serial killer on death row. When Diane saw a case on the TV show 20/20 about a mother who was convicted of brutally murdering her 10-year-old son, she wrote about it in a letter to the convict. His letter back chilled her to the bone, He knew details about the case that only one person could have known...
Journalist: Nile Cappello / Audio: Diane Hope / Narration: Maggie Robinson Katz
Camels, sand storms, scorpions, and sand dunes towering like buildings—these are amongst Sidi's first ever memories. Raised in a nomadic tribe on the far edge of the Sahara desert, Sidi doesn't have a father like the other kids. He dreams of meeting him, even after his mom explains he's gone away to heaven, a journey from which he won't return. When Sidi discovers that many years ago a foreign documentary crew had visited the tribe, he sets out on a quest to recover this lost footage and see his father's face—a journey that takes him far from the only home he has ever known. Along the way, he begins to feel a lifeline connecting him to his father, Chighali, across distance, time, and memory.
Journalist: Sahar Zand / Audio: Evan Phillips
Lawyer, fraudster, and king of the party, Scott Rothstein had a gift––he could tell anyone's price. He used this gift to transform those around him into "players" in an incredibly lucrative game… transforming his law firm into a giant Ponzi scheme. With a cast of dirty cops, acquiescing employees, and thieving businessmen, Rothstein set the stage for the largest Ponzi scheme in Florida history and fourth-largest worldwide.
Reported by: Bob Norman & Richard Stout | Audio: Daniel Tureck | Voice: Ted Barton
When brutal murders in the community push the Reverend to his limits, he knows he needs to reach the people at the heart of the violence. But as he walks the streets by night, his own son is out on those same streets, immersed in gang life and drug dealing. While the Reverend advocates for peace among drug addicts and gang members, ready to face his own death rather than leave anyone out in the cold, the person he wants to save the most is the one who feels furthest out of reach: his son.
Journalist: Danny Gold / Audio: Oluwakemi Aladesuyi / Narration: Marc Samuel
When journalist Ada Petriczko pitched us this story, we were haunted. It sounded to us like a fairytale twisted out of shape, and reminded us of Benh Zeitlin's mesmerizing Beasts of the Southern Wild, a coming-of-age tale removed from time and place. We sent Ada to Kathmandu to report the story.
The Girl in the Red follows Rashmila, who at four years old was taken from her family to become a goddess. She grew up in a palace, dressed always in red, believing she could heal the people who came to worship her. At twelve years old, her world turned upside down: she was cast out from the palace. It was time to become a mortal again.
Journalist: Ada Petriczko | Audio: Lauren Arora Hutchinson | Voice: Sohm Kapila
We were fortunate to receive a tour of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution, which released many Tony Schwartz albums. Its curator, Jeff Place, first introduced us to Tony's story. Journalist and radio producer Michelle Harven, in classic Tony fashion, pored through hours of tape to produce this fascinating Audio Story.
Published in The Daily Beast by journalist Jessica Wapner, "The Deadly Internet Diet Drug That Cooks People Alive" is about DNP — a diet pill that has had an illegal and lethal resurgence in recent years. The article chronicles the journey of DNP, a drug that originated in a WW1 munitions factory, where it was discovered after workers began to lose weight, overheat and die. Not missing a chance to capitalize on a powerful new discovery, Stanford researchers developed it into a diet pill, which worked by burning its users/victims from the inside out. Although it is now illegal, the drug has had a resurgence in recent years, bought on the internet by teenage girls and bodybuilders, often with lethal consequences.
We have partnered with Elle Fanning, Cadance13 and Brittany Kahan Ward to develop this article as a podcast series. Coming soon...
Journalist: Jessica Wapner Publisher: Daily Beast (Jan. 23, 2020)
Available to read here.
If we are judged by the nature of our enemies, then Daphne Caruana Galizia should be remembered as a hero of our time. She was Malta's most fearless journalist until someone with money and power decided that she should be silenced forever. Her assassination on 16th October 2017 was a brutal blow to anyone who cares about the truth. MURDER ON THE MALTESE EXPRESS sets out the evidence on the dirty money merchants she exposed. It is written in her honour.
We have partnered with Topic Studios ("Spotlight"), Indiana Production, and Noah Stollman ("Fauda", "Our Boys") to develop the book into a scripted TV series.
Journalists: Carlo Bonini, Manuel Delia and John Sweeney. Publisher: Silvertail Books (November 8, 2019)
Available for purchase here.
October 1971, Darine Stern makes history as the first black covergirl to grace a national publication run by white people and meant, largely, for white people. The magazine? Playboy. Hefner's gamble pays off, and the October Issue sells over 6 million copies. But for Darine, where do you go if you start at the top? From a new frontier of black middle-class life in Chicago to the cutthroat fashion world of 1970s New York, Darine's story is not just the story of one woman, but of black culture and its connection to American history.
Journalist: Morgan Jerkins. Publisher: Zora (Feburary 10, 2020)
daniel turcan
Daniel is a Swiss producer living in New York. After graduating from NYU's Tisch Film School, he worked as an editor, before transitioning into production, where he worked in both non-scripted and independent film, including producing MARJORIE PRIME (starring Jon Hamm and Tim Robbins). The film premiered at Sundance where it went on to receive the Alfred P. Sloan Award. In 2016 he co-founded Vespucci.
Johnny Galvin
Johnny began his career working in advertising and fashion, with placements at Saatchi & Saatchi, M&C Saatchi and Vivienne Westwood. After graduating from St. Andrews University with a Masters in Film, he worked in development for producer Brad Fischer and screenwriter Jamie Vanderbilt. Films included WHITE HOUSE DOWN (starring Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx) and SUGE KNIGHT, a documentary for Showtime. After that he worked for director Marc Forster, developing and producing film, TV, and commercials—including the Amazon Studios original drama HAND OF GOD. In 2016 he co-founded Vespucci.
Bridie Bischoff
Originally from the UK, Bridie started her career in film and television in the documentary world, before moving into historical scripted drama. She worked in development and production in London, South Africa and New York before moving to Los Angeles and joining the Vespucci team. Bridie co-founded award-winning independent theatre company Atticist.
Peter Sale
Head of podcasts
Based in London, Pete has been making podcasts for over 15 years as both a producer and sound engineer. He has made series for BBC Sounds, The Guardian, New York Times, and Audible.
He is also an experienced radio producer making documentaries for the BBC across all their networks. He specializes in episodic narrative series and audio storytelling which fuses sound design and journalism.
Podcast highlights include: The Messenger (Audible), Dead Man Talking (Audioboom), Hometown: A Killing (BBC Sounds), and The Daily (New York Times).
Julia Natt
After graduating from Wesleyan University and completing the Columbia Publishing Course, Julia discovered a love for emotionally expansive, character-driven storytelling. Currently based out of Brooklyn, she worked as a freelance editor and interned at a literary agency before joining the Vespucci team.
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Georgia is a musician and writer based in Jersey City. A graduate from the Journalism + Design program at The New School, she has interned at several print and radio outlets, covering topics that span from gender inequality in jazz to fire-spinning communities in Brooklyn. An avid reader, listener, and viewer, she possesses a love for visceral storytelling in all forms.
India Witkin
India is a New York City native who started her career as an actor and singer then transitioned to the world of directing and producing, attending Syracuse University and shooting her first short film in Mexico. She moved to Los Angeles to pursue documentary filmmaking where she worked for Vice and Participant Media. Having worked in Berlin and Mumbai, she has most recently moved back to her hometown as she balances personal projects and freelance film development and production.
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Maggie is a performer, writer, and former mime. She started her storytelling career in the New York downtown theater scene developing and performing work in several theaters across the city. Maggie fell in love with audio storytelling after producing her own story, The Long-Distance Con for WNYC and The New Yorker Radio Hour. The Long-Distance Con was a Webby Finalist and a New York Radio Award Silver winner. Since then, she has collaborated and developed stories with a variety of people; from b-boys to sailors.
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Nicole grew up in sunny Miami, FL and attended the University of Pennsylvania for her undergraduate degree. She began her career in the Page Program at NBCUniversal, and then transitioned to producing documentaries in the digital department at VICE. After a few years in digital media, Nicole decided to pursue her MFA. She is currently a student in the NYU Graduate Film Program.
Marc has helmed a slate of major motion pictures of varying scale and genres for studios and independents alike, starring some of the industry's premier talent. His films include Academy Award winner MONSTER'S BALL and FINDING NEVERLAND, Golden Globe winner THE KITE RUNNER, QUANTUM OF SOLACE, WORLD WAR Z, Disney's CHRISTOPHER ROBIN and Amazon's series HAND OF GOD.
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Jason is a Global Opinions writer for The Washington Post and is a Global Affairs Analyst for CNN. He previously served as The Post's Tehran Bureau Chief where he was unjustly imprisoned in Iran for 544 days. He was released in 2016 and returned to America, where he began a Nieman journalism fellowship at Harvard.
LISA WOLOFSKY
Lisa has over twenty years of experience in the independent film and television industry in various capacities in both business and finance. For over seven years Lisa was the Associate Vice President of International Finance within the Film and Television Group at the National Bank of Canada (NBoC), where she oversaw all lending to non-Canadian borrowers. She is currently producing and consulting in the area of Independent Film Finance, Global Government Incentives, Co- Productions and Structured Financing for film and television production.
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Brad is President and Chief Content Officer of New Republic Pictures. His producing credits include Martin Scorsese's SHUTTER ISLAND, David Fincher's ZODIAC, Darren Aronofksy's academy award winning BLACK SWAN, WHITE HOUSE DOWN, SUSPIRA, and THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS.
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Raghav is the Global Strategy & Operations Leader at Ernst & Young's Media & Entertainment practice, where he leads revenue growth and oversees the development and deployment of new technology-enabled solutions and businesses for the firm's media and entertainment clients. Prior to joining EY, Raghav served as the Head of International Operations for India's largest independent record label, Phat Phish Records.
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(ii) With precise but costly abstract domains, the information computed by the abstract interpreter can be used, only once a post fix point has been reached; something that may take a long time for very large system analysis or with delayed widening to improve precision.
This talk presents a new, completely automatic, method to build abstract interpreters. One of its nice features is that its produced interpreters can provide sound invariants of the analyzed system before reaching the end of the post fix point computation, and so act as on the fly invariant generators.
Pierre-Loïc Garoche is a research scientist at Onera, the French Aerospace Lab. He graduated from École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France, and received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Toulouse, France in 2008. He was then addressing the static analysis of concurrency using abstract interpretation. At Onera, his work is mainly focused on the use of formal methods in critical embedded systems development, in a certified context. His primary interest is at the frontier between academic research and industry, combining analyses to achieve software verification and validation. He is participating with numerous research projects and industrial partnerships on these topics at both national and international levels.
He is currently on a sabbatical leave at the University of Iowa.


During the historic Free Speech Movement period at Berkeley, beginning in the autumn of 1964, I was a graduate student in physics at Yale University. There was no doubt that Berkeley students were playing a leadership role for us all across the country.
At Yale, the focus was primarily on civil rights. Racism and its destructive consequences were all around us. If you walked a few blocks from the Yale campus down Dixwell Avenue, the world changed from all White to all Black. I was deeply offended by this and, accordingly, started working as a volunteer, leading a group of teenage boys at the Dixwell Community Center in the heart of the projects. People said that it was too dangerous for White people to go into the projects but they were simply wrong.
At the same time, we organized at Yale a non-profit called Southern Teaching Program Inc., which recruited graduate students from universities across the country to teach in the South in historically black colleges and universities. This was an entirely student based and led organization; we expected little, if anything, from the generation before us.
As part of this, in the summer of 1965, I went to South Carolina and Georgia to teach and do civil-rights work. In South Carolina several of us from the Northeast joined up with two graduate students from Berkeley who had played a leadership role in the FSM. These were heady but also dangerous times. Indeed, just before I arrived, one of our group was murdered by an outraged local person in Columbia, S.C.
I will not recount all of our experiences at that time in the deeply segregated South; many were simply heart wrenching. In the end, the civil rights movement was successful; the back of segregation was broken, people of color could vote, etc. At the same time, racism and its deleterious consequences still pervade America; this is a struggle that may never end.
Students at Berkeley often say to me that our generation was lucky. We had the FSM, civil rights, and opposition to the war in Vietnam, all noble causes for the idealistic, activist students of our day to organize around and to pursue.
This could not be further from the truth. We have right in front of us, especially here in California, the most morally compelling issue of the last 50 years, namely the 11 million people who are forced to live in the shadows because they are undocumented. This is the civil rights issue of this generation. Our treatment of these people will define us as a nation.
We have already had one great success here in California, namely the ability to provide financial aid to our DREAMers, students whose parents brought them as children without proper documentation to the United States. Through the cooperative efforts of Berkeley students and senior administration, together with Sacramento politicians, we succeeded in getting passed and signed AB 130 and 131 which, for the first time in the United States, made legal substantial university-based financial aid for DREAMers. Next, we must provide these students a pathway to citizenship.
However, the great challenge ahead of us is to provide a pathway to citizenship for all 11 million undocumented immigrants. This will determine whether or not the United States will continue to be defined by the Statue of Liberty, offering the beacon of freedom for the oppressed.
I cannot imagine a more noble cause for Berkeley's students of 2014, 50 years after the FSM of 1964.
More Berkeley Berkeley posts on the Free Speech Movement may be found here.
Prof. Birgeneau, it's time to follow-up on the FSM and establish a Berkeley College To Save The Human Race.
Prof. Birgeneau, 50 years after the FSM we are still asking: How can we adjust to, and survive in, our changing world?
Tragically, we still don't have an answer or the world would be a far better place than the we have today with out of control violence and environmental disasters.
Thank you for what you have already done for the undocumented students, setting a model center withing the UC system and nationwide. And thank you for reminding us of the work ahead. May God bless you!
Kudos to you Dr. Birgeneau, kudos to your vision and experience. It is no wonder that an engineer with such sterling credential in humanity provided us with the best chancellorship Berkeley ever ever had. I know I share this with many of Berkeley recent graduates!


Fashion collection of Edwin Uy and flipflops by ABBYLYN Bags & shoes worn by Paula, Alvin, and Roxanne, styled by Dave Ocampo and photographed by Jan Tadoyo. The Heat Wave Summer Bazaar will run from April 15 to 17, 2011 at the World Trade Center!
From April 15 to 17, 2011 a summer bazaar and celebrity ukay-ukay, will happen at the World Trade Center in Pasay City, this is for the benefit of the GMA Kapuso Foundation (GMAKF) . Dubbed as "The Heat Wave Summer Bazaar" this will be a sizzling treat of the hottest summer essentials, from swimwear & cover-ups to accessories, footwear and this event will simply feature best summer getaway deals!
This is also the same venue for Ogie Alcasid and Regine Velasquez's Celebrity Ukay-Ukay, in where the celebrity couple will auction donated pre-loved belongings from their celebrity friends. Proceeds of this event will go directly to GMA Kapuso Foundation for it's Kapuso School Development project (formerly known as Kapuso School Rehabilitation Project) aimed at enriching the quality of education here in the Philippines.
To be auctioned at Ogie Alcasid and Regine Velasquez Celebrity Ukay-Ukay at Heat Wave Summer Bazaar that will run from April 15 to 17, 2010 at World Trade Center.
Kapuso School Development (KSD) is a school-based initiative which has goals to foster integral education by providing students of underprivileged public schools with decent and functional classrooms which are conducive for their learning. So you don't just save big on these fashion items, you also helped public school students to have their decent classrooms. With it's vision of "saving education by building classrooms" GMA Kapuso Foundation continues to touch the lives of many, the number of schools requesting to benefit form KSD is increasingly growing as well.
This presents the Heat Wave Summer Bazaar as the can't-miss event of the season. The Heat Wave Summer Bazaar will run from April 15 -17 at the World Trade Center. It will also feature "My Best Summer Getaway Photo" Contest, Fashion Shows, Sports Clinics, and Demos on Food Treats and Refreshments.


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Oxbow Animal Health is excited to announce the recipients of its 2020 Academic Scholarships. The Oxbow Academic Scholarships award annual financial support to students across the country pursuing education in the exotic and companion animal veterinary fields. Oxbow scholarship winners are chosen for interest and involvement in the field of exotic animal health, excellence in the areas of academic achievement, and expression of future career goals and interests.
This year's scholarship winners are:
Makenna Parks – University of Missouri, Columbia (Columbia, MO) Nebraska High School Scholarship
Tucker Randall – University of Nebraska – Lincoln (Lincoln, NE) Undergraduate Academic Scholarship
Victoria L. DeMeo, LVT, (R) ALAT – University of Florida (Gainesville, FL) Veterinary Technology Academic Scholarship
Bailey James – University of Cincinnati – Blue Ash Regional Campus (Cincinnati, OH) Veterinary Technology Academic Scholarship
Ivana Levy – University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine (Urbana, IL)
Veterinary Medicine Academic Scholarship
"At Oxbow, we are passionate about supporting tomorrow's leaders in exotic animal health," said Melissa Ross, Vice President of Marketing. "We are so proud to support the 2020 Oxbow Academic Scholarship recipients as they pursue their professional dreams of advancing the health, nutrition, and care of companion animals."
Veterinary Medicine Academic Scholarship – Ivana Levy
"As a future zoological companion animal veterinarian, I am honored to be the recipient of the 2020 Oxbow Animal Health Veterinary Medicine Scholarship," said Levy. "Veterinary medicine, especially exotic animal medicine, is constantly changing. I am excited to keep learning and contribute primary research to this field as a student and future veterinarian, which is something this scholarship can help me achieve. I aim to provide the highest standard of care for my patients and I know Oxbow strives to do the same. I am thrilled to be the recipient of this award and look forward to working with Oxbow in the future."
Undergraduate Academic Scholarship – Tucker Randall
"As a student who is planning and hoping to go onto vet school, it is very overwhelming to look at the cost of tuition and all the things that add up along the way," said Randall. "This scholarship will help me in pursuing my dream. I have a true passion for wanting to help animals and I strive to do anything I put my mind to. Being able to be recognized for my hard work truly is one of the best feelings."
Nebraska High School Scholarship – Makenna Parks
"I am so grateful to receive this scholarship! I look forward to exploring the world of Animal Science through my time at the University of Missouri-Columbia," said Parks. "Through this scholarship, I will be able to further my knowledge in the field!
Veterinary Technology Scholarship – Victoria L. DeMeo, LVT, (R) ALAT
"I am thrilled to find support through Oxbow's scholarship program to continue my veterinary forensics studies with University of Florida," said DeMeo. "I hope that I can continue to advocate for exotic pets and wildlife while working for NYC's animal control entity and hope to one day expand this focus to the international animal trade. I believe that Oxbow is fostering the human-animal bond one student at a time."


The International Paramedic Anxiety Wellbeing and Stress (IPAWS) longitudinal study is designed to map psychological wellbeing among an international cohort of paramedic graduates over a five year period.
IPAWS will be the first longitudinal study to explore the cumulative impact of trauma on paramedic mental health against occupational experience.
Baseline measures will be obtained in the final year of the participant's tertiary qualification, enabling the psychological health and trauma profile of paramedic graduates to be explored in depth, along with best educational practice when preparing and supporting the mental wellbeing of paramedic students worldwide.
The study's international remit will enable regional trends to be explored, leading to the identification of success among education institutions or employers when managing or teaching paramedic resilience and supporting psychological wellbeing. This will lead to the identification of optimal timing for intervention strategies, determined by international best practice, which in turn may lead to an improvement in paramedic mental health resulting in dramatically improved patient outcomes.


Fresh Off The Boat stars Randall Park as Louis, Constance Wu as Jessica, Hudson Yang as Eddie, Forrest Wheeler as Emery, Ian Chen as Evan, Chelsey Crisp as Honey and Lucille Soong as Grandma Huang. This week, Cattleman's Ranch serves as a polling place for the 1996 Clinton vs. Dole presidential election.
As Louis and the Cattleman's Ranch staff prepare to serve as a polling place for the 1996 election, Jessica suspects that one of the restaurant employees may be an undocumented immigrant. So when Jessica reports her findings to the I.N.S., she learns that her immigration status is also questionable. Meanwhile, Eddie and his friends have a heated debate over who killed rapper Tupac Shakur.
Guest starring are Jillian Armenante as Nancy, Prophet Bolden as Walter, Trevor Larcom as Trent, Dash Williams as Brian, Evan Hannemann as Barefoot Dave, Noel Gugliemi as Hector, Nick Gore as Ned, Kathleen Rose-Perkins as Mey-Mey, Ken Marino as Gus, Paul Mabon as I.N.S. Officer, Daniel Edward Mora as Eduardo, Armando Molina as Raul Ruiz and Christopher Kriesa as Jack Clovis.
"Citizen Jessica" was written by Sanjay Shah and directed by Claire Scanlon.


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Weather archive at the airport ( 19 km, +29 °C+84 °F )
5 hours ago at the weather station (6 km) it was +29.6 °C+85 °F, mostly clear, normal air pressure, high humidity (77%), moderate breeze (7 m/s) (25 km/h) (16 miles/hour) (14 knots) (4 Bft) blowing from the east.
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2 hours ago, the maximum air temperature ( +30 oC +86 oF ) was observed in Tarawa / Bonriki (airport).
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Pope Francis has sent a telegram of condolences for the death of Nadia de Munari, an Italian lay Missionary serving in Peru.
By Francesca Merlo
Pope Francis has sent a telegram for the death of Nadia de Munari, an Italian lay missionary of Operation Mato Grosso who died last Saturday after suffering a violent attack on Tuesday night. Nadia was attacked in her room at the "Mamma Mia" educational centre she ran in Nuevo Chimbote, Peru.
The Pope's condemnation of the violence
Pope Francis' telegram was sent as the community gathered for Nadia's funeral. Signed by the Cardinal Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, on behalf of the Pope, and addressed to the Bishop of Chimbote, through the Apostolic Nuncio in Peru, in it the Holy Father reiterated his firmest condemnation "for this new and unjustifiable episode of violence, which is added to the many others in which missionaries have lost their lives while performing, with self-denial, their service to the Gospel and assistance to the most needy and defenseless".
Prayers for Nadia and closeness to parents
"While offering prayers for the eternal repose of the soul of this volunteer and entrusting her to the intercession of the Mother of God," the Pope expressed his "paternal closeness to her parents, family members and relatives. He assured his remembrance in prayer and his blessing upon all those participating in the ceremopny in Peru ,and upon those who will participate in the funeral when Nadia's body will be finally brought back to Italy.
The funeral was presided over by Bishop Angel Francisco Simon Piorno of Chimbote, the Peruvian coastal city where the 50-year-old volunteer from Vicenza (in northern Italy) worked. She ran 5 kindergartens and an elementary school: a service beneficial to more than 500 children from the shanty town of Nuevo Chimbote, which welcomes migrants in search of a living, who come down from the very poor villages of the Andes. All the Italian missionary priests of Omg present in Peru and many others concelebrated. Many children assisted by the missionary were also present.
The days seem long for Nadia's family and community, as they await for clearence for her body to be returned to Schio, in Italy, where Nadia was born. They wait, in order to be able to give Nadia her last earthly farewell and burial after she spent more than half of her life in Latin America, at the service of the those in need.
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A blend of all organic beans from Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Mexico. Medium-heavy body with taste notes of molasses, sweet cedar, pear, and bakers chocolate.
"Delicious with great notes 10 for 10 would order again"
"Little lighter than expected for roast, good, but prefer others more. Made with french press, might be better served as pourover. Update- definetely prefer this in pour over method/chemex. "
"Not an abundance of flavor in my opinion. However, the coffee is smooth and has a slight smoky and apricot aftertaste. Average coffee overall."
"This aromatic coffee tastes like the ideal morning - bright, cheery, happy, and full. Its a great summer/fall brew that begs to be drunk outside in the fresh air. "
"Rich, smooth solid coffee. I enjoyed this as an espresso. "
"I use a coarse grind in my french press. This coffee is smooth and a little sweet, without being bitter at all. The tasting notes didn't quite come through to me, but the overall flavor was great. I really enjoyed this blend and I think it might be my new favorite!"
"chemex brewed this one. Very drinkable. Full bodied well rounded flavors something I would expect from a blend. The pot was gone before my wife and I were ready for it to be gone . Nice Balance between light and dark. Something her and I can agree on. Top 3 coffees I have gotten from bean box. "
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The Wizard of Oz Oak Grove is a seven-acre stand of pristine old-growth forest located behind the running track of North Syracuse Junior High School. Never plowed or completely cleared, it preserves a mix of native trees typical of the forests that blanketed this area prior to European settlement. It is one of the only such sites in Onondaga County. The grove has been owned by the North Syracuse Central School District since 1950.
Its name reflects the view that this grove was probably L. Frank Baum's inspiration for the Great Forest of Oz. It is located not far from Roselawn, Baum's childhood home in nearby Mattydale, and it is known that he played in the grove and knew its then-owners.
The grove includes large old trees named for historic figures, from Baum and his mother-in-law, freethinker and suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage, to Harriet Tubman, Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, Nelson Mandela, and many others. The Baum tree is a red oak alive since 1860; the Gage tree is a white oak alive since 1820.
Full information about the Grove is available here and here.
This map of the grove shows location of trees named for Baum (a red oak) and Gage (a white oak). Base map courtesy of Thomas Howard and the Native Tree Society.
This sign marks the entrance to the Wizard of Oz Oak Grove. Photo by Mike Walsh.
A winter view of the Wizard of Oz Oak Grove. Photo by Mike Walsh.


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Jeff Lindquist is a microfilm expert with over 40 years of experience in the greater Portland area, who uses his talents to bring Buddhist sutras and mantras to microfilm, so that they can be used in prayer wheels, statues, stupas, and other Buddhist artwork all over the world.
As an example, on one 2000 ft roll of microfilm, the above image of Medicine Buddha mantras is reproduced 64,000 times. Thus, on a single roll there are 34 million Medicine Buddha mantras.
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Advertisements are already bombarding us about holiday shopping days and deals! I'd like to share some of my recommendations for tech goodies that are on my shopping list. (Disclaimer: I'm not a shareholder in any of these companies!) I'm just sharing results from my experience and online searches for your benefit, with emphasis on cell phone accessories, some fitness related products, and Alexa or other WIFI connected devices. But I highly recommend that you do your own fact checking before deciding to buy any of these products. I assume that, as always, several of these products will be available for deep discounts during the holiday shopping season.
New cell phones are being released constantly. You might eye the new iphone Xs; it has the biggest screen for iphone ever, a better camera, up to 512GB storage, and more.
My youngest daughter, who teaches children with disabilities in Africa, loved the solar charging panels we gave her. It enables her to connect and charge her cellphone and other USB equipment, such as a small light. For myself, I bought some small battery packs that can be charged at an outlet and used later to recharge my phone. One thing I'm eyeing, but haven't gotten yet, is a bluetooth ear plug, which could be a fun gift for a phone-lover.
The other thing I would have loved to have had 20 years ago, while hunting for autographs of stars I met, is a pocket-sized instant printer. I could have taken a photo and asked to have it signed right away! By the way, they are selling still instant cameras from Polaroid, which are still popular. Other photography accessories that are available are smartphone lens attachments, which my wife wants to get for me this year. By attaching another lens in front of the existing one on your phone you can get better quality wide-angle and/or zooming capabilities.
The market for health monitoring devices is booming at the moment, and you might find great deals. I have an Apple iWatch, and Version 4 is coming out with a lot of additions and enhancements, so that is a holiday gift possibility. Fitbit is another company that created health-oriented wrist devices which features reminders to remain active throughout the day.
Consider a Tile for people who misplace their keys or other things often. By attaching small square "tiles" to your important items, you will be able to locate them quickly via the accompanying program on your cell phone.
Wireless communication devices such as Alexa and Google Home are booming! After Amazon released the Echo, a 9-inch tall cylinder speaker controlled by a cloud-based voice assistant called Alexa in 2014, Google Home followed with their own smart speaker and home assistant in late 2015. In February, 2018, Apple joined with the Siri-powered HomePod. I jumped on the bandwagon early, got the Echo and combined it with an unlimited music plan. Now I can walk into my living room and say "Alexa, play 'Don't worry be happy,'" and Bobby McFerrin's song starts playing. Even better, I can ask it auf Deutsch to play well known German songs. These devices can also access the internet, and even tell you jokes.
other appliances, such as some refrigerators, dishwashers, ovens, ranges, and microwaves all might now offer Wi-Fi connectivity and voice activation.
And believe it or not, you can now talk to devices such as your bathtub, showering system, and even a faucet to get the desired temperature, water amount, and more! Only the sky seems to be the limit.
For your pets, you can get a camera and food dispensing box that will allow you to monitor and feed your pet via smartphone. Soon, if the dog woofs in the right tune, it can dispense food as a reward.
Have you ever lost your hand luggage at the airport or missed another pair of hands to help schlepp your heavy suitcase? Worry no more, a new autonomous carry-on luggage case has been presented at the CES 2018 that has a built in camera with facial recognition to follow its owner wherever he goes. It offers a wristband communication device, as well. I and my wife would love to have one of these for trips back to Germany!
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Arne Mejlhede, Psychiatrist, Suspended, "administering incorrect treatment for ten years "
www.dr.dk
Psychiatrist suspended
Psychiatrist Arne Mejlhede
The Danish Health and Medicines Authority decided on Friday to suspend a psychiatrist from Funen with immediate effect after DR News revealed that he had been under observation for administering incorrect treatment for ten years without any action being taken to stop him.
Anne Marie Vangsted, the Health and Medicines Authority's director with special responsibility for inspection, told DR News that the suspension took effect as of Saturday. The decision was taken on the basis of information provided to DR News by the psychiatrist himself.
"There should never be any doubt with regard to patient safety, which is why we have suspended the psychiatrist's licence to practice while we investigate the case further," she said.
"Once we had examined the information we already have on the case and the psychiatrist's own letter to Danmarks Radio, we decided to take action. This is why we are undertaking a thorough investigation and have temporarily suspended the psychiatrist's licence to practice while we do," she said.
Vangsted said that the suspension would remain in force until the case has been thoroughly investigated.
Arne Mejlhede