September 22, 2004 • It's been nearly 17 years since the Junkies recorded their debut album, The Trinity Session. Singer Margo Timmins and her brother Michael stop by NPR.
August 27, 2004 • Los Lobos' new CD, appropriately named The Ride, celebrates the band's 30 years together. Hear their extended interview with NPR's Renee Montagne and live performance at NPR.
August 18, 2004 • Fred Child is on stage at the Bishop's School in La Jolla, Calif., for SummerFest 2004. He visits with cellist Hai-Ye Ni. She plays the Sarabande and Gigue from Bach's cello suite no. 3, and the Tibetan Dance from Seven Tunes Heard in China by Bright Sheng.
August 14, 2004 • Bob Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, has released a 2-CD career retrospective, Weir Here. The guitarist performs two songs and reflects on music and career with NPR's Scott Simon.
August 12, 2004 • Richie Havens is currently touring through November in support of his latest CD, Grace of the Sun. The disc features covers of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" and Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock." Hear his live performance — and his take on current summer concerts.
August 11, 2004 • Richie Havens will be forever remembered for kicking off three days of peace, love and music at Woodstock in 1969. He talks with NPR's Tony Cox about his performance of "Freedom."
August 5, 2004 • Guitarist David Russell recently stopped by NPR to chat with NPR's Lisa Simeone and perform music by Barrios, Granados, Brazilian composer Dilermando Reis and Spain's Joaquin Malats.
July 16, 2004 • Young Austrian pianist Till Fellner joins NPR's Fred Child in Studio 4A for a chat and a performance of a pair of Preludes and Fugues from Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2.
June 14, 2004 • The Yongblood Brass Band plays an infectious blend of Dixieland, soul, rock and hip-hop. NPR's Michele Norris talks to members of the group and they perform in Studio 4A.
June 4, 2004 • NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with singer-songwriter Patty Griffin in Studio 4A. She and her band also perform songs from Impossible Dream, her latest CD.
May 19, 2004 • Guitarist and singer Marty Grosz and cornet player Randy Reinhart join us for a special in-studio performance in honor of the 100th birthday of Thomas "Fats" Waller. He would have been 100 on May 21. Grosz and Reinhart will perform songs composed by the great pianist and vocalist. Waller wrote many hit songs, appeared in films in the 1930s and 1940s, and wrote Broadway musicals. Some of his best-loved songs include "Ain't Misbehavin'," "Honeysuckle Rose" and "The Joint is Jumpin'." There's a new CD/DVD set called Fats Waller: The Centennial Collection on Bluebird Records.
April 29, 2004 • Blues harmonica legend Charlie Musselwhite has played with some of the biggest legends of the genre, at a crucial time in the history of the blues. Now young lions such as Ben Harper are contributing to his latest CD, Sanctuary. Hear live tracks of songs the two musicians recorded at NPR West, and hear an extended version of the interview.
April 12, 2004 • After 18 years as a quartet, the vocal ensemble Anonymous 4 is retiring. Marsha Genensky, Susan Hellauer, Jacqueline Horner and Johanna Marie Rose are currently performing their last concerts and making their last recordings. And before they go their separate ways, they're spending an hour with PT to sing music from their newest CD, American Angels. In this first set of songs, "The Morning Trumpet," followed by two versions of "Amazing Grace" — a quiet version and a livelier "camp revival" version — and "Sweet Hour of Prayer."
April 9, 2004 • NPR's Fred Child recenlty welcomed the members of Canada's Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra & Choir Studio 4A for a performance and conversation.
March 7, 2004 • NPR's Liane Hansen chats with singer and songwriter Vienna Teng, who performs songs from her second CD, Warm Strangers. Since their first conversation in 2002 about her debut CD, Teng has toured the country, enjoying a bit of fame and recognition for her talent. She has no regrets about leaving her computer engineering job to pursue music.


Individuals looking to find the best franchise opportunities have a number of options to choose from. One of the options, the annual franchise ranking reports, are published on numerous websites and publications. These ranking reports include the Top 100 to Top 200 to Top 500 Franchises. The problem with relying on these rankings is they are limited. Many of them rely on the size and growth of a franchise system without analyzing important performance factors.
In order to find the best franchise opportunities, the prospective franchisee needs to rely upon a number of factors including how well a franchise performs in several categories. A recent article by franchise attorney, Jeffrey M. Goldstein on Blue Mau Mau entitled, What Does It Really Mean To Be Named A Top Franchise, looks into various franchise ranking reports where Goldstein questions their reliability and lack of detail.
If you're looking for the best franchise opportunities the majority of ranking reports won't provide the right answer. Most of these reports are based upon the size of the franchise system and growth, neglecting franchise performance indicators including franchisee turnover, litigation, Item 19 disclosure and quality of the territory. These reports are posted by franchisors on their website and become part of their franchise recruitment strategy.
When searching for the best franchise opportunities Franchise Grade can provide the important information you need. That's because you'll find grades on the important franchise performance indicators for 2,500 franchise opportunities. These performance indicators enable an individual to compare franchise opportunities and learn their strengths and weaknesses.
When beginning your search for the best franchise opportunities you'll need to have the right information. The franchise ranking reports fail to provide the important information needed to make an informed decision. Using Franchise Grade to find the best franchise opportunities will provide the information you'll need to make the right choice.


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How do I become a TESOL Teacher?
This was a question asked by a lovely friend who has taught children for many years. Well, it's a good question. To answer it, you need to consider what, who and where you would like to teach. There are many contexts for the profession….
You might consider Teaching English to adults or children (Teaching Young Learners) on short or extended courses at home, abroad or online. Many TESOL Teachers (including me!) work with students of different ages and with different goals both face to face and online.
Some learners want to communicate in English with people from all around the world. This is sometimes referred to as General English, or English for International Communication. Others need English language skills and qualifications to survive or thrive in their academic lives – (English for Academic Purposes) and careers – (English for Business). Many learners – and their parents- regard achieving a good command of English as being essential in life.
There is a variety of formal English Language Examinations which teachers can help students to prepare for. Students can use the results to demonstrate their English level to employers and academic institutions. Some examples of common exams are: IELTS, TOEIC, TOEFL and Oxford, Trinity and Cambridge Certificates at different levels. There are also specialist tests and qualifications to support specific professions and vocations, residency and citizenship in countries where English is spoken as the official first language. There are also suites of exams aimed specifically at young learners. There are so many ways for teachers to make a difference as they support learners in defining and achieving their goals.
The opportunities to make a difference to people's lives through teaching really are major. Whilst low earnings can be an issue in this kind of teaching, the day to day variety and enjoyment of the work and the real impact of knowing I am helping other people keep me coming back for more.
To explore online teaching opportunities – search online as the situation changes daily. At the moment there are many organisations operating, most of them offering lessons to children. Some examples include DadaABC and iTutor Group. Teachers tend to work part time for different ones according to demand.
Requirements and conditions vary, but many provide lessons for teachers to use and most offer initial training. In addition, most will pay a higher hourly rate to teachers with qualifications and experience.
There is an excellent introduction course on Futurelearn – 'Teaching English Online'. It is run by Cambridge Assessment. The course is free, with a fee for people who want to get a certificate.
Or ask me – I have designed and delivered 120 CELTA Courses and am a Cambridge ESOL Assessor.
If you are aiming to work with young learners in UK or international private colleges you need a Bachelor's degree and the Cambridge CELTA, Trinity Cert TESOL or another initial TESOL quaification with 6 hours of observed teaching practice. You will need additional training, much of which tends to happen on the job. You will also need police checks and training in sadeguarding and other issues as legally required for working with young learners.
For online resources check out BBC Learning English to start you off.
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Last night I had a nice glass of Bailey's for a nightcap. And this is where I think the problem began. Before getting into my comfy bed, I looked out of the window to check that the world outside was as it should be. Which it was.
And so to bed. And the most horrendous end of the world nightmare possible. As there had been a terrible but unexplained disaster, I had to live in my car. Why did everyone else who survived still live in their cosy flats and houses, while I had to live in my car? And why was my car parked outside the house where I grew up? And why didn't I just go inside and hang out with my family who were all inside? Who knows? But I didn't. Instead I plotted and schemed for a way to get inside secretly and rescue my most important possession. All night.
And what possession did I want to rescue? My slippers. That's it. They are great slippers – knee length Uggs. But seriously? When I finally woke up, I wondered why I hadn't rescued something more important. If I had the chance again, I'd rescue my passport. What would you rescue?
Last night I dreamed of Ho Chi Minh City. When I woke up I was surprised to be in Manchester. The dream was so real.
I immediately wanted to see my photos of the trip I made in 1994 but the photos are only in Australia – long story – stories actually – and in my head of course.
So I went to Google Images to find some, and – surprise, surprise- a lot has changed in 24 years and I could hardly recognise the place! The landmarks I remember are shadowed by towering buildings with pretty neon lights. All except one.
The Cao Dai Temple. The first time I saw it was with my sister in law Cathie who is a tireless adventurer, researcher of peoples and an incredible photographer – I must ask her for photos of that day.
It was a humid and heavy day but the building was glowing in colours impossible to describe or accurately capture in photos. It took my breath away. Seeing something like that makes me very emotional. But then we went inside.
And I was so stunned that I had to sit down a while. Inside was a riot of colour, ideas, chaos and order. In my travels before and since, no place has affected me in quite this way.
Cao Dai takes ideas and influences from a mix of sources and recognises prophets from a range of other religions as well as traditional ethical ideas from Vietnamese sources. In this context, every aspect of the architecture is completely logical and fit for purpose. What seems chaotic on first viewing makes complete sense – especially once the people come to worship. No part of the design is there by chance.
So you see you can go back. It just takes a dream and a bit of Googling to prompt you.
Taking a Future Learn Course is always good for professional development and confidence.
The Teaching English Online Course was designed and delivered by Cambridge Assessment. The mentors were highly experienced teacher trainers and there were hundreds of teachers from all over the world to interact and study with.
The course was three weeks long and there were lots of different practical tasks to complete. There were scripted videos, readings and links to useful tools and resources.
I'd recommend this course to teachers who are experienced face to face but who are novices to online teaching.


Philippe is Head of the Competition Group at Slaughter and May. He is responsible for the running and development of the firm's global competition practice, including through the Beijing and Hong Kong offices and 'best friend' firms.
Ilene Knable Gotts is a partner in the New York City law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where she focuses on antitrust matters, particularly relating to mergers and acquisitions.
Oliver is currently leading Google's EMEA competition team. The role involves leadership of a large cross-functional (Policy, Legal, Economists, Product, Eng, Comms) and international in-house and external teams. Responsible for strategic decision-making and negotiations, woking with General Counsel and other SVP level executives, and CEO.
Head of the Competition Law practice and member of TozziniFreire's Executive Committee, Marcelo was a commissioner of the Administrative Economic Defense Council (CADE), the Brazilian Competition Commission, from 1998 to 2000, and president of the Brazilian Institute of Studies on Competition, Consumer Affairs and International Trade (IBRAC), from 2010 to 2011. In addition, he has worked as an editorial writer and New York correspondent for the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, the largest daily paper in Brazil. He frequently lectures on Antitrust and Trade issues at events organized by the IBA, ABA, IBRAC and other entities around the world. Marcelo has also acted as a non-governmental advisor before the ICN (International Competition Networking).
Andrea Coscelli is the Chief Executive of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which was established on 1 October 2013 and assumed its full functions and powers on 1 April 2014.
Carles Esteva Mosso is Deputy Director General for mergers at the Competition Directorate-General of the European Commission.
Until recently, he was in charge of the Directorate for Policy and Strategy. His responsibilities included coordinating the European Competition Network and the international dimension of competition policy.
Laurent is a partner in our antitrust group. A Belgian qualified lawyer and a member of the New York Bar, he is highly regarded for both his EU/International and Belgian practices.
Cal Goldman is Chair of the firm's Competition, Antitrust and Foreign Investment Group. His practice covers all aspects of Canadian competition law, with a particular emphasis on Canadian and international mergers, abuse of dominance, cartels and civil reviewable matters and related litigation as well as foreign investment matters under the Investment Canada Act.
Mr. Harty, a partner in Davis Polk's Litigation Department, provides general antitrust counseling to U.S. and non-U.S. companies and represents clients in enforcement agency investigations, domestic and cross-border acquisitions and joint ventures, and litigations.
Bojana Ignjatovic is a Partner based in the London office of RBB Economics. Bojana has more than fifteen years' experience as an expert in competition economics, in both private and public practice.
Based in London as Global Co-Head of Hogan Lovell's Antitrust, Competition and Economic Regulation practice and with extensive experience of working in the Brussels competition environment, Suyong is one of only a handful of EU practitioners equally at home handling complex mergers and JVs, high stakes cartel and abuse of market power investigations, as well as the resulting appeals and damages litigation before the EU and national courts.
Tim is Competition Counsel at Facebook and manages a wide range of competition matters involving the company across Europe and APAC. He is currently based in the London office overseeing competition law and policy initiatives in Europe and beyond. Prior to joining Facebook, Tim spent a number of years at Freshfields in the UK and Asia advising on a broad range of antitrust matter ranging from merger control to regulatory investigations. Tim has written on aspects of EU and UK competition law and is a speaker at conferences.
Valérie Meunier is a Vice President with Compass Lexecon in the Paris office. Since joining Compass Lexecon in 2012, she has been involved in antitrust and merger cases in a wide range of industries including agri-food, advertising, building materials, consumer goods, pharmaceutical, and telecommunications. She has advised on competition enforcement cases investigating rebates, patent settlements, predation, vertical restraints and cartels.
Vassili Moussis is an English qualified lawyer whose practice focuses on EU and international competition law with a particular emphasis on inbound and outbound merger control and international cartel matters.
Edurne Navarro is the partner in charge of the Brussels office of Uría Menéndez. She joined the firm in 1992 and became a partner in 2002.
Her practice focuses on EU and Spanish competition law (principally merger control, state aids and cartels), as well as trade law (mainly antidumping and rules of origin). She acts for Spanish, European, North American and Asian undertakings in sectors such as telecommunications, energy, transport, pharmaceuticals, defence and banking.
Barry Nigro Jr. is Deputy Assistant Attorney General. He previously was chair of the antitrust department and partner in a national law firm. He served as Deputy Director for the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition from 2003-05, where he received a Commendation for Superior Service awarded by the Chairman. He received his BA from Georgetown University and his JD from George Washington University Law School.
Anna Numerova has outstanding experience advising on a wide range of antitrust issues, including M&A transactions and representing clients before the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (the FAS Russia) as well as in arbitration courts. Anna advises on various commercial and corporate law issues, conducts competition legal due diligence and overseas antitrust compliance across all industries.
Mr. Peredo has broad experience representing national and international clients in all areas of Competition Law, including pre-merger filings before the Competition Commission, investigations for cartel cases and abuse of dominance, leniency applications, compliance programs and general advice on competition matters.
Ms. Samuelson is an expert in antitrust, finance, and valuation, combining more than 25 years of experience applying economic and financial analysis to complex legal disputes with five years of experience as a practicing trial attorney. A key aspect of Ms. Samuelson's work is the direction of economic analyses for merger review, regulatory investigations, and large private litigations. She has managed economic analyses related to antitrust issues in more than 100 matters during her career, including numerous government, competitor, and consumer matters on behalf of MasterCard over more than two decades, and on behalf of Microsoft during a similar period.
Shweta Shroff Chopra is a Partner in the Firm's Competition Law Practice. She is involved in several high profile cases relating to cartels and merger control over a variety of industries and market sectors since 2009, when the law came into force. Shweta's clients encompass prominent names, including Vodafone, Temasek, Blackstone, TPG, Mitsui & Co., GE, Alstom, JK Group, LafargeHolcim, Hiranandani Hospitals and PVR Cinemas. She recently represented Vodafone India Limited in its USD 23 billion merger with Idea, before the Competition Commission of India.
Robbert Snelders focuses his practice on EU competition law. He has extensive experience in EU and worldwide merger control proceedings, EU and international cartel and abuse of dominance investigations, litigation before national courts and the European Courts in Luxembourg, and arbitration proceedings.
Marc Williamson, partner in the Washington, D.C. office, is a member of the Litigation & Trial Department, the Antitrust & Competition Practice, and the Communications Industry Group. He is also a member of the firm's Ethics Committee. Mr. Williamson focuses on representing clients in complex, global antitrust matters.
Natalie joined the firm in 2005 and moved to our Hong Kong office in 2009. She is an experienced competition and regulatory lawyer who represents clients in relation to cross-border M&A (with a particular focus on Chinese merger filings with the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM)) and the new Hong Kong competition legislation.
She has worked on a number of matters involving HK, EU and UK competition law, and her experience covers a range of merger control, anti-trust and sectoral regulation work. Natalie splits her time between the Hong Kong and Beijing offices.
Natalie has been responsible for coordinating the Chinese and Asian merger notifications on a number of global transactions.
How long are procedures taking?
Are non-competition law issues being raised?
Is the approach to remedies different from the EU and US?
15.45: Theories of harm: Have authorities allowed too many mergers to go through?
Should we be looking at the impact on innovation and consumer protection?


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    {
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President Ramaphosa lauds 2019 matric class
President Cyril Ramaphosa has congratulated the class of 2019 on achieving a 81.3% matric pass rate which is the highest since the advent of democracy in 1994.
"These results are a triumph and a clear signal that government's substantial investment in education, in pupil and teacher support and in educational infrastructure is yielding results," said President Ramaphosa following the announcement of the national results of the 2019 National Senior Certificate (NSC) matric exams.
The results were released by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga on Tuesday evening at VodaWorld in Midrand. This is the first time the combined matric pass rate has breached the 80% threshold.
Motshekga announced that 787 717 candidates sat for the NSC examinations countrywide.
The 2019 pass rate represents a 3.1% improvement from 2018 when the national pass rate stood at 78.2%.
"South Africans can be proud that education, like most aspects of our nation's development, is on an upward trajectory which should inspire all of us to work together to accelerate and maintain excellence," said the President.
The results also revealed that there had been an increase in the number of female learners achieving bachelor's passes.
"There has also been an increase in the number of female learners achieving bachelor's passes, the Eastern Cape recorded the highest improvement in the matric pass rate, and not one of the country's 75 districts performed below 60% - these are stellar achievements," said President Ramaphosa.
The President noted that the increase in the matric pass rate in quintile one, two and three schools was indicative that the divide between so-called 'rich' schools and poorer schools was steadily narrowing.
In announcing the results Minister Motshekga pointed to the increase in specialised schools offering subjects like agricultural studies and maritime studies as well as the introduction of subjects such as entrepreneurship into the national curriculum.
"These are critical subjects that will enable us to meet the needs of our economy and prepare our young people for the workplace of the future: in this regard the Class of 2019 are pioneers," said the President.
Meanwhile the President has encouraged successful matriculants to take advantage of the diverse opportunities on offer in the higher education system as well as programmes for the development of entrepreneurship and self-employment.
"To the Class of 2019, you have done yourselves proud and returned the investment made in you by your families, teachers, communities and mentors," he said.
Providing support to all learners
He also encouraged candidates who did not attain the Senior Certificate to make use of the Department of Basic Education's Second Chance programme.
"Do not be discouraged, but courageously persevere towards your goals," said President Ramaphosa adding that government would continue to provide support to learners to complete their education.
Government will also address weaknesses in the system that result in high numbers of learners who enter the education system in Grade 1 and end up not completing their schooling.
President Ramphosa also urged learners across all grades to embrace learning as a lifelong and pleasurable pursuit that not only adds economic value and enhances employability, but enhances people's outlook on life and their contribution to society beyond the world of work. –SAnews.gov.za

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Generally, a matter has three states: gas, liquid and solid. However, liquid crystal (LC) materials are the matter in a state that has characteristics between those of conventional liquids and those of solid crystals. As we know, in 1888, liquid crystal (LC) material was discovered for the first time by Friedrich Reinitzer. From then on, this special material had attracted more and more focus. In fact, people find that liquid crystal has such a structure which is partially ordered and anisotropic.
Figure 1 Schematic diagram of the position of liquid crystal in matter states.
Liquid crystal display field: Because of the advantages of low radiation, light weight and low energy consumption, liquid crystal display (LCD) has been well known. And now, it has been basic materials of display screens of mobile phones, televisions, laptops and computers.
Biological field: There are a lot of liquid crystal substances in human body, and liposome is one of them. By using the liquid crystal properties, drugs can be wrapped in the hydrophobic area of liposome, and molecular recognition substances can be installed on the surface of liposome, so as to achieve the purpose of targeted drug delivery. The relationship between lyotropic liquid crystals and life sciences opens a door for further study of life sciences.
Figure 2 LCD used as nanocarriers in biological field.
Organic solar cell materials: Discotic liquid crystal is famous for its unique structure and properties. The value of this type material is that it can reduce the cost of solar cells and can improve photoelectric conversion efficiency.
Organic optoelectronic materials: Discotic liquid crystals often have electron donors and electron receptors. This kind of structure can assemble into columnar phase structure, which has the advantage of low fluidity of charge carrier, and this is expected to be a new kind of organic semiconductor material.
Figure 3 An example of liquid crystal material applied as organic optoelectronic material.
High strength and high modulus materials: The molecular chain orientation is easy to occur under the action of external field force when the polymer contains the liquid crystal element in the molecular backbone or side chain. High strength and high modulus materials can be prepared by using liquid crystal.
According to the formation conditions of liquid crystals, liquid crystals can be divided into lyotropic liquid crystals and thermotropic liquid crystals.
Lyotropic liquid crystals: Lyotropic liquid crystals are formed by placing certain organic matter in a solvent that destroys the crystal lattice. Lyotropic liquid crystals are widely found in nature and organisms.
Thermotropic liquid crystals: Thermotropic liquid crystal is a liquid crystal phase because of temperature change. This type of material is crystalline at low temperature, but liquid at high temperatures. Based on molecular arrangement, thermotropic liquid crystal can be classified into three groups: smectic, nematic and cholesteric. Smectic liquid crystal has high viscosity and the molecules are not easy to rotate. Therefore, the response speed of smectic liquid crystal is slow. Nematic liquid crystal molecules are easy to move freely along the long axis direction, so the viscosity is small, and the fluidity is good. Nematic liquid crystal molecules are relatively free of arrangement and movement, and are quite sensitive to external effects, so they are widely used in many fields. Most of cholesteric liquid crystals are cholesteryl derivatives and exhibit certain colored liquid crystal phase with phase transition. Cholesteric liquid crystals are widely used in the display field.
Figure 4 Different phases of thermotropic liquid crystals.
Reinitzer F, Zur Kenernis des Cholesterins [J], Monathsh Chem, 1988,9:421-441.
Castellano, Joseph A. LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPLICATIONS: Past, Present & Future[J]. Liquid Crystals Today, 1991, 1(1):4-6.
Salim M, Minamikawa H, Sugimura A, et al. Amphiphilic designer nano-carriers for controlled release: from drug delivery to diagnostics[J]. Med.chem.commun, 2014, 5(11):1602-1618.
Iino H, Usui T, Hanna J, et al. Liquid crystals for organic thin-film transistors[J]. Nature Communications, 2015, 6(1): 6828-6828.


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by Sam Gardner on October 20, 2014 in Joe's Allison
A classic tune played by Joe's Allison trio, live at the Troubador, London. The trio plays classic soul jazz and some inspired new material. The trio features highly acclaimed keyboard player Joe Tatton. Joe has played Hammond Organ and Piano for 6 years with new funk stalwarts The New Mastersounds , recording 5 albums.
Touring primarily in the USA he has played legendary venues such as Filmore West and House of Blues in New Orleans. Along the way Joe has played full length sets with Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, Art Neville, George Porter Jr.
Previously Joe featured on Corinne Bailey Rae's first album playing keyboards on the Grammy nominated "Put your Records on".


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DIY Research (DIY Market Research) means marketing, customer or personnel research using online research methods that any individual or organization, whether they be a professional researcher or not, carries out via special online research software, or online survey tool. These survey software products allow users to connect and perform one-on-one online interviews, create online questionnaires, distribute them to an email list or internet access panels, and analyze the data in real time without outsourcing to a specialised research agency or data processing company.

DIY Quantitative Research

Quantitative research is a structured approach to gathering and evaluating data from different sources using different statistical tools. DIY quantitative research tools provide resources to individuals to identify sample needs based on specific criteria for their research study. Historically, quantitative research studies required several resources – a sampling provider that manages a panel of individuals that match the demographic and psychographic needs of the researchers, tools for creating and implementing surveys, and tools for analyzing the results of such a survey.

DIY quantitative research systems are frequently software as a service (SaaS), allowing for all participants in the market research process to collaborate in a single interface, while integrating with outside survey authoring and analytics tools.

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Federer forced to tear down kids' play area
Caroline Bishop - [email protected] • 30 Jul, 2014 Updated Wed 30 Jul 2014 11:03 CEST
Authorities have demanded that Swiss tennis champ Roger Federer remove a children's play area in the garden of his holiday home after neighbours objected.
Local residents complained that the stilted wooden playhouse and slide in the grounds of the property in Lenzerheide-Valbella, in the canton of Graubünden, impaired their view of the mountains, according to media reports.
Authorities upheld the complaint, judging that the playhouse breeched planning permission rules that prohibit construction in that part of the property's grounds.
Andrea Bianchi, lawyer for the complainants, said his clients had nothing against the play area in principle but that it should not have been constructed within the building exclusion zone, reports newspaper Blick.
Neighbours are also objecting to the presence of a two metre-high wire fence around the property and the planting of tall trees in the garden, for which Federer was granted permission.
Federer and his neighbours are trying to find an amicable resolution to the ongoing dispute, said Bianchi.
The tennis star and his wife Mirka bought the 8,000m2 piece of land in 2008 before demolishing the house and building two villas.
According to Blick, Federer, from Basel, has had a long association with Valbella, having spent his childhood skiing in the area.
The couple have two sets of twins. Girls Myla and Charlene were born in 2009, while twin boys Leo and Lennart arrived in May this year.
#Tennis #Federer
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- JoNova - http://joannenova.com.au -
My reply to Paul Bain: The name-caller is hurt by the names they throw
Posted By Joanne Nova On July 13, 2012 @ 1:49 am In Global Warming | Comments Disabled
Thank you most sincerely for writing to reply to my email. Thank you for taking the time to contact Nature, and thank you for the recognition that the term "denier" causes offense.
Do we also agree that the term denier fails basic English, and cannot be defined as a scientific label because you still are unable to say what deniers deny?
"I think if you understood where skeptics were coming from it would help you design surveys that produced useful results. Basic research, like reading what leading skeptics were saying, would seem a bare minimum requirement before designing a study."
As far as I can tell, I suspect what you feel deniers deny (though you appear reluctant to actually state it) is not any scientific observation, but the pronouncements of the highest authority of climate science (which you deem to be the IPCC).
"I do believe that the technical aspects of this debate should be between climate scientists, as with complex multi-disciplinary issues it is very easy for findings to be misconstrued by non-experts. Whether you like it or not, the majority of climate scientists agree that there is a high likelihood that anthropogenic climate change exists and is likely to be a problem"
Since the IPCC, and all climate scientists are government funded, "deniers" then are the people who doubt the propaganda, the dictat, and in other times you would call people like these "dissidents", or "heretics", or indeed, the true scientists — since they keep asking for evidence. You are essentially asking us to believe in authority, a fallacy known since Aristotelian times, and a concept deeply anti-scientific.
You say it's definitely valid to debate climate science, but then say that only "climate scientists"TM can do it. Which means, you do think it's invalid for us to debate climate science, or to ask questions of the registered approved government appointed hierarchy. We should all be obedient citizens right? — even if those experts broke the law by hiding their data, lost entire global record sets and make "skill free" predictions too?
Is Jo Nova inconsistent? She "talks about politics and funding too".
Should I chastise myself for delving into social issues? Dearest Paul, here's the brutal truth. I've been utterly consistent in my 850 articles — when I make conclusion about the climate, I use observations from the planet. When I make conclusions about socio-political matters, I talk money, politics, and people.
There are dual separate strain of topics of which evidence from one stream never crosses into the other:
Planetary Temperature (measured in C) -- > depends on Sun, moon, types of gases, orbits, dust, cosmic rays from the centre of the universe etc etc —> Uses observations from thermometers, proxies, coral slices, ice cores, stalagmites, tree rings, mud layers –> predicts (not much yet) … more cycles like the last ones.
Consensus (a "Yes-No" thing) –> depends on opinions, research, fashion, money, best estimates, personal motivations, political parties, demographics of peer group surveyed, and decade —> measured in dollars usually, and occasionally votes. (Subject to change rapidly)
I have never said: The IPCC are wrong because the government funds them (which would be an ad hom). The IPCC are wrong because 28 million weather balloons, 6,000 boreholes, 3,000 ocean buoys, and hundreds of thousands of original raw surface stations suggest the IPCC are exaggerating the future temperature increases by around 6 – 7 fold.
The reason why a science institution could be so wrong, when so much evidence points against them, is a socio-political discussion, and I go there, but I don't mix up the reasoning. (Will it stretch the friendship if I say that you do?). You ask me to believe the world will warm by 3.3 degrees because a government appointed agency (the IPCC) says so, and to corroborate that, you mentioned that the IPCC has "even" convinced governments to act on its' policies? Is there a more circular form of argument-from-authority that this?
I always know which point I'm making. But when you say the future temperature of the planet is measured in consensuses, I wonder what the standard deviation is, and I suspect it's not normal.
Here's Denial: The real socio-political evidence that many won't "see"
Since we are talking socio-political evidence (and I note you don't want to talk about the empirical climate kind) dig deep and ask yourself if you really believe that 1/ all fields of science are incorruptible, 2/ that peer review works when scientists are paid to ask one type of question, and none are paid to ask the opposite, 3/ if skeptics are influenced by big-oil, can't believers be influenced by big-government, or big banking? Then once you admit that, like any human endeavor, it's possible that even science can theoretically be corrupted, you might argue that it's only in the face of massive monetary forces. To which I would say, "Yes, Exactly".
Big oil (Exxon) at most, paid $23 million over ten years towards skeptics. Between 1989 and 2009 the US government paid $79 billion dollars towards climate change science and technology. Climate science is a monopsony – virtually entirely funded by one source: western governments. There are no jobs advertised for skeptics of climate change. There are no grants a skeptic can apply for. Skeptics like Will Happer, Hank Tennekes, Pat Michaels, and recently Nic Drapela have also been sacked.
(In some ways governments paid to find a crisis, and … got what they paid for.)
And you are no doubt unconvinced at this point, to which I ask, again — so where is the evidence that CO2 causes major, rather than minor warming? (Still can't name any?)
In any case, the government grants are the small dollars. It is apparently new information to you that the large monetary forces come not from an oil rig, but from the Carbon Markets ($176 bn turnover in 2011), the renewables investment market ($243 bn in 2010) and the potential financial rewards of brokering the once promising future Global Carbon Market valued at $2 Trillion per annum. Deutsche Bank doesn't want a "tax" to save the planet, they want a "market" (which they can broker). I don't need to spell out why, right?
Does any of this financial information tell us anything about the climate? Of course not. (Where is the climatic evidence? That question just won't go away.)
You claim the IPCC evidence was strong enough to convince governments to act, but we find that unconvincing (and unscientific). Think "Adam Smith" and the incentives.
What Minister of Climate Change wants to find a reason to make his or her department smaller and of lower status?
What UN official thinks the UN should shrink, and be less well funded?
Which politician would knock back a chance to regulate nearly every aspect of energy and say "No thanks" to extra trips to Bali, Copenhagen and Rio?
Who doesn't want to "save the Earth?"
The incentives are so skewed in favour of finding crises, that the IPCC could produce predictions that were outrageously wrong (where the actual temperatures for two decades fell below their lowest baseline) and western governments would still say "we're convinced in the IPCC's ability to predict global Armageddon". (How do I know? It happened already.)
What can skeptics do?
You suggested skeptics ought produce an alternate expert report — some thing like an" ISPCCE – Inter-Scientist Panel on Climate Change Errors". But it is such a good idea, that it's already been done. See NIPCC (Nongovernmental-International-Panel-on-Climate-Change): literally more than a thousand dense pages of peer reviewed references, purely scientific, non-politicized discussion of all the evidence. Unlike the IPCC, it doesn't quote activists, magazines, or ignore important papers. As I said, I think if you understood where skeptics were coming from it would help you design surveys that produced useful results. Basic research, like reading what leading skeptics were saying, would seem a bare minimum requirement before designing a study.
Climate Change Reconsidered 2011 NIPCC Interim report: More than 1,000 source citations.
Climate Change Reconsidered 2009 NIPCC report: 4,235 source citations.
Naturally the sheer number of citations does not mean anything scientifically. But it does tell you it was a comprehensive effort.
You said: " I expect you could find a source of funding for it (ISPCCE)" — to which we say? Where? Do tell? Heartland have produced extraordinary results with far less than the IPCC, but most of us work for nothing, unlike you. Do you think the ARC will help us?
The bias in the IPCC proves nothing about planetary atmospherics. I have never made that mistake. I did not say you should not research social and policy perspectives, I said your results are meaningless if you ignore the underlying driver. The underlying driver is the evidence, not the hopes of policymakers. If skeptics are right about the science, instead of being "deniers", they are the scientists, and you are researching why the propaganda machine is failing to convince people of a false message. In a moral debate, there is no winning exit with this approach.
As for manipulative deception?
There is no need to defend the survey — it was not the problem, it was your conclusions. The aim of the results was to find ways to change behaviour without changing people's minds. That is manipulative. It was to achieve one end while packaging it as something else. That's deception.
Whose views are illegitimate?
I'm not the one making out that some views are illegitimate (I'm saying some are illogical). In your world, my science views are illegitimate (I'm not a climate scientist — remember — I'm not allowed to question the experts). In your opinion, my views are so worthless they are not worth 10 minutes of research before silencing them with the label "denier". And even if you never use the term again, how much respect does it show not to understand the main arguments of the group you study?
The name-caller is hurt by the names they throw
In this case, when you call us deniers, you put up mental barriers in your own mind that appear to have stopped you asking the most basic obvious research questions, like:
Who are the "deniers" (If they are so stupid, why do some have PhD's in atmospheric physics, or Nobel Prizes in tunneling electrons?)
What do the leading deniers say?
What do deniers, deny?
Can I talk to one, do they bite, and are they infectious?
Using incorrect and insulting names runs the risk of producing meaningless results, based on untested base assumptions, and a paper (with luck) that could disappear into the vacuum of time. Without luck, it might be mocked in the history of science for years to come in PhD theses with titles like: The detrimental multivaried effects of monopolistic funding on science: How would-be scientists broke laws of reason and derided real scientists as "Deniers".
How Dr Paul Bain can deliver a knock out blow:
There is a way you can break new ground, prove all your research is valid, and not only that, but you can save the planet too. All you have to do, is send that email I talked about in the last letter, send it out to friends and colleagues, who very much want you to be right, and ask them what the empirical evidence is. (See this page again for the details).
Then forward the evidence to the "Deniers". Find the long term observations that show the models assumptions of net positive feedback are right, and you become the hero of the day.
Remember, the evidence is overwhelming. The science is settled. The experts and science associations of the world agree. Someone, somewhere among all of those people must be able to find some evidence.
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Alex Scoble (1)
Andrei Sakharov (1)
Anthony Arlidge (1)
Dan Jones (1)
David Carpenter (1)
Edward Kuznetsov (1)
Feng-hsiung Hsu (1)
Gladys Yang (1)
Igor Golomstock (1)
Igor Judge (1)
J.C. Holt (1)
Jennifer Bradshaw (1)
John Costello (1)
Luke Harding (1)
Mark Frankland (1)
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Oleg Tsarev (1)
Patrick McGinley (1)
Piers Paul Read (1)
Richard Lourie (1)
Richard Norton-Taylor (1)
Robert Chandler (1)
Robert Craft (1)
Terence de Vere White (1)
Zhang Jie (1)
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Biography & Memoir (3)
History & Classics (1)
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Cladistics
1 cladistics
1.1 Definition
1.1.1 Glossary of "Cladistics (2nd ed.)" by Kitching et al. (1998)
1.1.2 Glossary of "Plant Biology (1st ed.)" by Graham et al. (2003)
1.1.3 Glossary of Plant Systematics (1st ed.) by Simpson (2006)
1.2 文献(引用)
分岐学,分岐分類学(日本語)
Glossary of "Cladistics (2nd ed.)" by Kitching et al. (1998)
A method of classification that groups taxa hierarchically into nested sets and conventionally represents these relationships as a cladogram. See also phylogenetic systematics.
Glossary of "Plant Biology (1st ed.)" by Graham et al. (2003)
A formal method of organizing organisms on the basis of relationships established by the presence or absence of derived characters.
Glossary of Plant Systematics (1st ed.) by Simpson (2006)
A methodology for inferring the pattern of evolutionary history of a group of organisms, utilizing grouping of taxa by apomorphies phylogenetic systematics.
文献(引用)
Kitching, I. J., Forey, P. L. Humphries, C. J. & Williams, D. M. 1998. Cladistics, 2nd ed.: the Theory and Practice of Parsimony Analysis. -xii + 228 pp. Oxford University Press, New York.
Graham, L. E., Graham, J. M. & Wilcox, L. W. 2003. Plant Biology. -xxxv + 497 pp. Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River.
Simpson, M. G. 2006. Plant Systematics. -xi + 590 pp. Elsevier Academic Press, Oxford.
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Being a social media influencer is 'a full time job'
Contributed by Ashley Fisher
California Lutheran University alumna Ashley Fisher is a beauty influencer on YouTube.
Sam Hostetter, Reporter
If you are familiar with social media and the term 'influencer,' then you probably have a general understanding of the job. It is an industry that's evolving by the second–the only constant is change. The dynamic nature of social media platforms encourages creators to constantly adapt how they produce new content.
According to Business Insider, "the influencer marketing industry is on track to be worth up to $15 billion by 2022, up from as much as $8 billion in 2019, according to Business Insider Intelligence estimates, based on Mediakix data."
As someone who has been involved with both sides of the market when it comes to influencing, I can tell you firsthand that it most definitely is a job.
Being a micro-influencer or a larger-scale influencer requires creativity, business skills, planning time, attention to detail and an understanding of marketing in the digital world.
Through my internship with Beverly Hills Physicians my sophomore year, I had the opportunity to plan content, shoot and edit photos and videos and make sure our social channels always had fresh content on a weekly basis that was consistent with our brand image.
As a Communication student, these were skills I found to be essential in a marketplace that is constantly evolving and changing.
On the business side of the industry, I have had the opportunity to manage various influencers' by setting aside strict schedules for content as well as being the Creative Director for engagement and captioning once the content has been shot and planned.
More than just posting cute pictures
Ainsley Ross, a model and high school senior taking online classes, said in an email interview that she believes modeling and social media go hand-in-hand.
"Once I started modeling, I started to understand how important social media was. This motivates me to start putting more time into my content which started landing me collaborations with companies," Ross said.
Ross said being an influencer and content creator is time consuming and should be considered to be a 'real' job.
"I think it is a full time job. The amount of hours spent planning, creating, and networking is crazy. I would say I spend about 8 hours a day hardcore planning, networking, and creating. I'm always thinking of new things to do and create," Ross said.
Ashley Fisher, an alumna of California Lutheran University who majored in Communication with an emphasis in Advertising and Public Relations, is a beauty influencer on YouTube. She makes detailed videos of how to complete complex makeup looks.
In a Zoom interview, Fisher said she has goals of growing her audience since she is passionate about the creative side of everything that goes into content creation as well as influencing.
"Another goal would be more like, I guess you could say realistically speaking, would be to work with [a] reputable beauty brand doing like influencer relations, PR, so that I'm kind of doing it–but on the other side," Fisher said. "Cause when I was at Cal Lu and I interned with Lime Crime… I was really able to see how all that stuff worked on the business side of it and I really really enjoyed that."
Fisher said she is extremely proud of herself after recently an older post of hers was acknowledged by Benefit Cosmetics and she is excited for the future in influencing and content creation.
"I am so excited and grateful that Benefit Cosmetics felt I could represent them well enough to repost me to their Instagram page," Fisher said. "As an influencer it's not only one of my biggest goals to be reposted by a big brand that I genuinely love but it is a huge compliment, especially when I use their products on a daily basis."
Because of all the time, work, effort and planning that goes into content creating and influencing, it should be considered a job just as any other in the creative realm. There is a lot of work behind the scenes, not to mention blood, sweat and literal tears. It is a very fulfilling industry for creatives to come together through different mediums and share their creativity in the ways they see fit.
As the influencer market continues to grow and expand, be sure to remember that it is more than just pretty photos and should be considered as real of a job as any other.
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News Release 11-Jul-2019
Ancient genomics pinpoint origin and rapid turnover of cattle in the Fertile Crescent
IMAGE: A zebu-shaped weight from Tel Beth-Shemesh. view more
Credit: A. Hay, courtesy of the Tel Beth-Shemesh Excavations exhibition.
The keeping of livestock began in the Ancient Near East and underpinned the emergence of complex economies and then cities. Subsequently, it is there that the world's first empires rose and fell. Now, ancient DNA has revealed how the prehistory of the region's largest domestic animal, the cow, chimes with these events.
An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, have deciphered early bovine prehistory by sequencing 67 ancient genomes from both wild and domestic cattle sampled from across eight millennia.
"This allowed us to look directly into the past and observe genomic changes occurring in time and space, without having to rely on modern cattle genetic variation to infer past population events," said Postdpoctoral Researcher at Trinity,Marta Verdugo, who is first author of the article that has just been published in leading international journal, Science.
The earliest cattle are Bos taurus, with no ancestry from Bos indicus, or zebu - herds which were from a different origin in the Indus Valley.
"However, a dramatic change occurred around 4,000 years ago when we detect a widespread, wholesale influx of zebu genetics from the east," added Verdugo.
The rapid influx that occurred at this point - despite Near Eastern Bos taurus and zebu having coexisted for previous millennia - may be linked to a dramatic multi-century drought that was experienced across the greater Near East, referred to as the 4.2-thousand years ago climate event. At this time the world's first empires in Mesopotamia and Egypt collapsed and breeding with arid-adapted zebu bulls may have been a response to changing climate by ancient herders.
Professor of Population Genetics at Trinity, Dan Bradley, said: "This was the beginning of the great zebu diaspora that continues to the present day - descendants of ancient Indus Valley cattle are herded in each continental tropics region today."
Sequencing Near Eastern wild cattle, or aurochs, also allowed the team to unpick the domestication of this most formidable of beasts. Whereas their similarity to the early cattle of Anatolia concurs with a primary origin there, it is clear that different local wild populations also made significant additional genetic contributions to herds in Southeast Europe and also in the southern Levant, adding to the distinctive make up of both European and African populations today.
"There is a great power in ancient genomics to uncover new, unforeseen tales from our ancient history," added Professor Bradley.
This research was funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant awarded to Professor Dan Bradley.
Dan Bradley
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@tcddublin
http://www.tcd.ie/
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Maternal Career Disruption: The critical factors influencing women's return to the workplace and the effects of the length of disruption and activity of the woman during the disruption
Humphreys, Julie I. (2018) Maternal Career Disruption: The critical factors influencing women's return to the workplace and the effects of the length of disruption and activity of the woman during the disruption. Doctoral thesis, Anglia Ruskin University.
The disruption of a woman's career in order to care for children can have profound consequences. This research defines these consequences as the Maternal Career Disruption Effect. A quantitative study was carried out to answer three research questions that anchored this research in this newly named effect, using the theoretical lens of human capital theory: i) What were the critical factors affecting the decision to return to the workplace? ii) In what ways did the length of career interruption affect the women's re-entry to the workforce? iii) In what ways did the activity during the career interruption affect the women's re-entry to the workforce? The study focussed on women in the UK financial services sector and identified that short term and long term financial reasons were critical in the women's decision to return to the workplace. Discussion also focussed on the effect of the maternal career disruption and saw the women's human capital decrease as the length of career disruption increased and the human capital increase as the women's activity increased during the career disruption.
Thesis (Doctoral)
maternal, disruption, interruption, career, financial, women, activity
Theses from Anglia Ruskin University
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Chapter 24 - Sorcery
"He must have really been driven to desperation."
Translator(s): Zryuu
"Where's Feng Qianjun?" Xiang Shu rode onto the Official Road and led over ten thousand people to Ahfang Palace outside the city.
"Tuoba Yan sent someone to protect him!" Chen Xing said, "He's very safe."
A marble white colour appeared on the horizon. When day broke, the vast sky was still densely packed with dark clouds. The sun hid behind the clouds, and chilly winds blew everywhere. Xiang Shu rode onto a small hill and looked at the ancient Chang'an City -- a deathly atmosphere had already thoroughly permeated the city.
"I don't understand why Feng Qianyi would choose to act at this kind of timing," Chen Xing said, "He must have really been driven to desperation."
"He wants to save Feng Qianjun," Xiang Shu said, "Is that very difficult to comprehend?"
Chen Xing, "If that's what he wanted to do, why throw Feng Dage into the mirror?"
Xiang Shu said, "He's saving Feng Qianjun not out of brotherly affection, but because he wants to use him."
"What does he want to use him for?" Chen Xing uttered in disbelief. When he was reminded by Xiang Shu, he instantly understood: once Feng Qianjun got possessed by resentment and was able to use the Senluo sabre, he would be able to display an extraordinary strength. The family heirloom that had been thoroughly refined with resentment would also become Feng Qianyi's, the sorcerer's, greatest support. If it were to erupt, no one would be its match.
Fortunately, they had saved him. Otherwise, if he had landed in Feng Qianyi's hands, then it wouldn't just be a simple matter of an outbreak of living corpses.
Thirty miles outside the western outskirts of Chang'an, in front of Ahfang Palance.
The west bank of Zaohe River was packed with Chang'an people who were fleeing for their lives with their families, and more people were arriving one after another. After the Great Qin's imperial army experienced the sudden riot, they were quickly startled awake by the sudden event and assembled at the place where Fu Jian was located. The Northern Armoured Battalion was known for never losing a single war and now revealed the efficiency and discipline they had honed through their battles throughout the country. They gathered speedily under Fu Jian's unparalleled prestige: the imperial guards were first, then the troops within the pass, and the cavalry from the various tribes came after. The generals took only six hours before they urged their horses to rush to the main hall of Ahfang Palace.
"What on earth happened?!" Murong Chui shouted.
"Silence!" Tuoba Yan ordered loudly.
Fu Jian sat upright in the main hall and said, "This mattered occurred all of a sudden, there's no time to explain in detail. How many men do we have?"
Each tribe reported their military strength. Fu Jian still has 300,000 troops under his command. Murong Chui said, "Yesterday morning, a letter was sent to the governor of Pingyang. They're currently on their way here while leading 100,000 troops to serve the emperor and will arrive tomorrow morning."
The governor of Pingyang was Murong Chong. A letter sent out early yesterday morning and taking 100,000 people along to set out -- Fu Jian knew very well that this action was obviously not to serve the emperor, but to bring the troops here to get even with him for his older sister, Princess Qinghe's death.
Fortunately, Chen Xing's narration of the events that had transpired finally made Fu Jian sense that the Murong family was being slightly inappropriate. But looking at how Murong Chui and the others escaped in a flurry at night, they really didn't seem to be accomplices. After all, if Princess Qinghe was colluding with Feng Qianyi, then they shouldn't go so far as to kill the Murong family indiscriminately as well.
Fu Jian was filled with doubts but chose not to blow up because of this matter. He said in a low voice, "Take stock of kerosene in the palace and siege weapons. Each troop is to station themselves in advance, be prepared for my orders to retrieve Chang'an."
"What on earth are those things?" Before the incident had occurred, Wang Ziye was having dinner when he was carried onto a carriage by the imperial guards in a hurry before fleeing. Civil and military officers throughout the city were suddenly met with such an unforeseen event; without their hair crowns and shoes, they appeared to cut quite a sorry figure and were in a state of terror and helplessness.
"The Great Chanyu has arrived——"
All of the civil and military officials became restless. Murong Chui pressed down on his sword.
"The one who'll explain is here," Fu Jian sighed and sat down, then answered, "Listen ba."
Xiang Shu entered, his whole body covered in dust. His glance swept across the crowd, and he didn't seem to care about Murong Chui at all. Chen Xing came in afterwards.
"What's the situation?" Chen Xing saw that not a single sound was made in the hall and felt that something was wrong.
"We were waiting for you two." Fu Jian said, "Speak ba, make it clear."
Chen Xing glanced at Xiang Shu, who nodded as a signal for him to speak. Everyone in the main hall drew their swords in an instant. All of the generals of the Murong family were trembling slightly, as if they would rush forward and try to stab Xiang Shu to death at the next moment to avenge Princess Qinghe. But Chen Xing, who was used to witnessing Xiang Shu's skills, knew very well that as long as Fu Jian didn't participate in the battle, then even if everyone here were to charge forth at the same time, they wouldn't even be able to match up to even one of Xiang Shu's fingers. This guy is truly way, too, strong!
"Where should I start?" Chen Xing was tired too. He walked to the steps in front of Fu Jian and sat down, then said to everyone in the hall, "I think the true perpetrator behind everything that happened is actually His Majesty, and everyone else present here can't escape the blame either."
A clamour was instantly erupted within the hall, and everyone angrily denounced Chen Xing. After the crowd quieted down, Xiang Shu suddenly said, "The pitiful ones are the innocent people who died of unnatural causes because of your battles throughout the country, as well as your desire to do great things and be recognised for it."
"Zhen's achievements are unparalleled in the world!" Fu Jian said in an authoritative voice, "Only Qin Shihuang can stand on equal ground with Zhen. If Zhen had not recaptured the entire northern territory, only more people would have died today!"
Chen Xing retorted without giving him any face, "But how many people did you kill? Calculate it for yourself! Every time you wage a war, hundreds of thousands of people would die! How much hatred would that have released? How many mortals were reluctant to die? All their hatred and reluctance would wander around the world and converge into resentment, and it was from this that the chaos of the drought fiends arose……"
Chen Xing was now almost certain of the series of events that had transpired. He spoke with fervour and confidence in the hall, and from the fragments of events, he pieced together the entire process of the havoc wreaked by the living corpses that packed Chang'an—— in order to overthrow Fu Jian, the Feng family restrained their emotions for all these years. They bought the original site where the Exorcism Department had been located and rebuilt a new Xifeng Bank on Mt. Song.
While they were digging up the headquarters of the Exorcism Department and filling the canyon, the Feng family inadvertently found the Yin Yang Mirror left behind by their exorcist predecessors, as well as the method for controlling this magic weapon.
So in order to confront the ever expanding Qin State, Feng Qianyi turned deranged and let everything get out of hand. He began to find ways to transform people who died during wars into drought fiends, then absorbed the resentment in the world and used it to refine them. He refined the shadow warriors in the mirror world, as well as the general there, and waited for the right time before releasing this living corpse army from the mirror to overthrow Fu Jian.
"You provided him with his greatest strength," Chen Xing, "As well as the most suitable materials."
The palace suddenly fell silent.
"You still haven't answered this yet," Murong Chui said eerily with grief, "The Feng family was plotting a conspiracy, but why did they kill my niece? What does this have to do with Princess Qinghe?!"
Wang Ziye immediately interrupted and asked, "How did Feng Qianyi refine them into drought fiends? Does he have an innate familiarity with such secret arts?"
"It's a kind of sorcery," Chen Xing answered, "It was not recorded in the texts I've studied. As for the specific process, we can only obtain answers by asking him about it."
Tuoba Yan said, "We now have very little information on our side; we don't even know the military strength of our enemy. In view of the current situation, it shouldn't be less than 200,000……"
In the midst of all these questions and answers, they had avoided Murong Chui's query. No one wanted to mention how Princess Qinghe had participated in the rebellion conspiracy in front of Fu Jian, and they just wanted to get over it as soon as possible.
Fu Jian's brows furrowed slightly, and he began observing the faces of the Murong family. Some people had already noticed this and revealed alarmed expressions -- looked like they really were unaware of what was happening.
Xiang Shu answered, "Preliminary estimates suggest that there are at least 300,000 living corpses."
"So many drought fiends hid in just one mirror?" Wang Ziye uttered in disbelief, "Where on earth did he find it?"
Chen Xing answered "Yes. It was from this mirror, and it may have been found in the battlefield at the Central Plains. There aren't a lot of living people in this world, but dead ones are still quite easy to find."
Then Chen Xing held up the Yin Yang Mirror; a black vapour enshrouded the magic weapon in his hands as it gradually spun around in mid-air. Everyone got a fright and retreated one after another.
"Don't worry," Chen Xing said, "I've already recovered the magic treasure, and all the drought fiends have been released too. We can only wait for the right time to come, then find a suitable place to slowly release the resentment within the Yin Yang Mirror little by little and purify it. We'll have to try our best not to touch it again within a short period of time."
Wang Ziye said, "Since this little brother is an exorcist, then you must be able to purify this magic treasure."
Yet Xiang Shu said in a low voice, "Even if he were to succeed, the magic weapon won't be given to you to be used."
Chen Xing was about to answer when he got interrupted by Xiang Shu and thought, don't tell me you guys actually want this magic weapon?
Wang Ziye asked again, "Let's put aside discussing the magic weapon for now. I'll reiterate once more: since this little brother is an exorcist, then he should have an unusual way of dealing with that sorceror, Feng Qianyi?"
"No." Chen Xing answered, "To be honest, after silence fell on all magic, exorcists of the world can no longer perform any kind of exorcism. At present, I'm the only exception, and my only strong point is that I'm able to expel a little resentment in a limited manner, which is only good enough for self-defense. As for Feng Qianyi, what he's using is the plentiful amount of resentment in the world; when one waxes, the other wanes, and his is even more savage."
"If His Majesty isn't willing to stop the fighting and killing as soon as possible," Chen Xing continued, "Then today's tragedy will surely repeat itself in the future. That's all I have to say."
Fu Jian looked very glum. Ever since Wang Meng died, this was the first time someone dared to denounce him in such a direct way, and what he poked at was Fu Jian's sore spot as well. If they weren't in such an unusual situation, then just these few sentences would have infuriated Fu Jian so much that he would have ordered for Chen Xing to be flogged fifty times on the spot.
Tuoba Yan mediated the situation once again as he said to Fu Jian, "Since we're clear on the ins and outs of the situation, this servant would like to request for orders to kill our way back with the Great Chanyu and Chen Xing in order to apprehend Feng Qianyi!"
Fu Jian snapped out of his stupor. He pondered for a short moment and looked straight at Xiang Shu, while Xiang Shu raised an eyebrow at Fu Jian and answered, "Old den got messed up, this isn't a joke."
Fu Jian could only say, "The imperial guards will be assigned to you temporarily for you to manage. Great Chanyu, our grudges will be settled after this chaos is over. If anyone dares seeks revenge against you in the meantime, the offenders may be beheaded."
The whole hall should have erupted into another uproar, but the Murong family seemed to have realised what had happened, so they all looked at Xiang Shu with hatred in their eyes one after another without saying a word.
"You can keep the imperial guards," Xiang Shu said, "The two of us are enough to capture Feng Qianyi. Taking the soldiers back would just be sending them to their deaths."
"How could Zhen be a coward who's only interested in saving my own neck?!" Fu Jian said angrily, "Zhen can still fight! Wang Ziye! Issue an order to the three armies! Open up the armory!'
Xiang Shu and Chen Xing left the main hall. Chen Xing was preoccupied with his thoughts, but he suddenly heard something when he passed by Murong Chui.
"In order to stop the massacres of the world, little brother has been running around everywhere," Murong Chui murmured, "You must have been worrying yourself to death. After our brief encounter in Xiangyang, we haven't seen each other for a long time."
Then Murong Chui took off his mask to reveal the scars left behind by burns. Chen Xing got a fright and suddenly remembered the time when he took Xiang Shu to escape from the city, and when his carriage filled with kerosene rushed into the governor's manor, he had met face-to-face with Murong Chui!
Xiang Shu, however, blocked in front of Chen Xing almost imperceptibly.
"There's no time to find trouble with you right now, Murong Chui, behave yourself a little in front of Guwang." Xiang Shu said coldly.
Chen Xing's state of mind was rather perturbed. Right after he left the hall, he knew that there were some matters that would be difficult to put to rest. Even if they could clear themselves of the accusations regarding Princess Qinghe, Murong Chui would not let him off.
Xiang Shu slapped Chen Xing on his back, and Chen Xing almost vomited out a mouthful of blood from how much he jolted.
Xiang Shu mocked, "You're afraid of Murong Chui?"
Chen Xing settled down and said to Tuoba Yan, "How is Feng Dage doing?"
Tuoba Yan motioned for Chen Xing to follow him. Feng Qianjun was safe now and was being confined in a side chamber halfway up a mountain of Ahfang Palace. When Chen Xing entered, both sides cried in surprise at the same time.
"That's great, you're alright." Chen Xing said.
Feng Qianjun was exhausted. After hearing the story, he said, "This can't be redeemed anymore, no matter what is done, but I'll still have to go back and personally stop my Dage."
Chen Xing sighed and looked at Xiang Shu for his opinion, yet Xiang Shu said, "Although the general overview has been sorted out, there are still a lot of doubts that remain a mystery. Feng Qianyi……where did he get the technique to transform 'drought fiends' from?"
Within the room, Xiang Shu, Tuoba Yan, Feng Qianjun, and Chen Xing sat down. When it came to this sort of situation, the more urgent it was, the calmer they needed to be. They must first find a way to deal with Feng Qianyi. Otherwise, if they were to return to the inner city of Chang'an recklessly, they would just be sending themselves there to get killed together.
Chen Xing naturally had nothing to fear. He had the protection of Iuppiter after all, so he had always been able to get through any daunting experiences without mishap. But this was by no means the case for Xiang Shu.
Chen Xing thought about it over and over, then said, "There shouldn't be any methods for controlling resentment in the Exorcism Department or any sorcery arts for resurrecting the dead. I'm sure he didn't dig it out from underground."
"That is to say," Feng Qianjun, "Dage learnt it from elsewhere."
Xiang Shu, "Perhaps someone had taught him such sorcery."
Chen Xing interrupted, "Or he could have obtained some kind of secret scroll through a fortuitous opportunity."
Xiang Shu asked Feng Qianjun, "Did that bastard usually have any strange friends?"
Feng Qianjun had been separated from his elder brother since he was a child, and they would only meet every two or three years when he went back to the capital occasionally. He knew almost nothing about what his elder brother usually did.
Feng Qianjun shook his head.
"Remember the sorcerer we bumped into on Mt. Longzhong?" Xiang Shu asked.
Chen Xing remembered now. At dusk yesterday, Feng Qianyi also wore a mask similar to the one the mysterious man wore then.
Tuoba Yan said, "Which means that there's still someone orchestrating this behind the scenes."
Xiang Shu nodded slightly and murmured, "And that person is very likely in the palace."
Chen Xing said, "Could it be one of Princess Qinghe's palace maids? Although I'm also doubtful of how on earth that mirror managed to get back into Feng Qianyi's hands from the palace, that's not the most pressing concern in the present situation."
Yet Xiang Shu said, "No, that's also very important."
Tuoba Yan frowned slightly, so Chen Xing roughly described what had happened in Mt. Longzhong to him. The four of them started thinking and deducing and roughly put together a story that might be incomplete, but could sort of explain everything that had happened.
"Someone had mastered the sorcery of resurrecting corpses and creating drought fiends," Feng Qianjun muttered, "Conferred it onto my Dage and convinced Princess Qinghe as well. At least for now, the princess, my Dage, and that mysterious man in Mt. Longzhong are all henchmen of this sorcerous organisation."
Chen Xing instantly felt like he awoke from a dream. If it were put that way, it would make more sense! Feng Qianyi's legs were immobile after all, and he stayed in the capital most of the time, so going around everywhere to gather resentment to refine the Yin Yang Mirror and transporting hundreds of thousands of living corpses into the mirror world was obviously not very logical.
But he could sort of sense that Xiang Shu left a lot of things unsaid.
"Xiang Shu?" Chen Xing nudged Xiang Shu's arm.
Xiang Shu shifted his gaze in an instant and stood slightly guarded as he looked at Chen Xing.
"If you know anything, just say it ba," Feng Qianjun laughed bitterly, "Look at what my older brother has turned into, shouldn't you say what has to be said?"
Xiang Shu pondered for a long time. He pondered for so long that Chen Xing was about to say, 'never mind, never mind,' before Xiang Shu finally began to recall.
"Five years ago, when I was fifteen," Xiang Shu said,"A doctor named Kjera came from the Chi Le Covenant."
Chen Xing, "……"
Chen Xing had a hunch that the truth regarding the greatest mystery revolving around Xiang Shu ever since he had gotten to know him was about to come to light.
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Truckers Are Keeping American Supply Chains — and Americans — Alive
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Joel B. Pollak
Groceries began reappearing on American store shelves this week, thanks to the strength of a supply chain that includes farmers, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers — all of whom are literally risking their lives to stay on duty.
A crucial part of that supply chain is the American trucker, who makes sure that goods are delivered in a timely fashion. That is always the case, but it is especially true in the sudden global emergency we face today.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported last year that 3.5 million Americans are employed as truck drivers. Many work long hours, and a disproportionate number of them are military veterans.
They are on the front lines once again.
The American Trucking Association (ATA) noted Sunday:
Major national crises tend to expose underlying truths about society that otherwise go unnoticed during life's regular routines. They reveal the individuals among us who are truly essential to upholding the high standard of living we've collectively come to expect. They remind us of America's unsung heroes.
The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic is no different. The spread of Coronavirus in the U.S. will test government institutions, challenge private industry and place inordinate demands on our most critical workforce. It will marshal the full strength of our nation and elevate its essential core.
And just as they do when a hurricane strikes or a blizzard hits, America's professional truck drivers will be on the front lines delivering critical supplies and aid to fellow citizens.
Over the past week, Americans have rushed to stock up on goods as they prepare to hunker down to mitigate the impact of COVID-19. We've watched schools, businesses, major sports and other cultural pillars come to a complete stop as personal health and well-being take top priority.
But one thing that won't stop: trucking.
For the past few years, it became fashionable to talk about the advent of self-driving trucks, as technology improved and automation seemed inevitable. But in 2018, Uber abandoned its self-driving truck project, and other companies have also hit snags in development.
The idea is not impossible, and may even become necessary if, theoretically, too many truckers are sick to take to the roads. The world is likely to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic more automated, not less, than before.
Yet trucking — by human beings, men and women who have to go beyond "social distancing" to keep the supply lines running — remains the nation's indispensable defense against the pandemic.
"[T]here's one thing all Americans can do right now: Thank a trucker," the ATA concludes. "Especially during trying times like these. Because without them, the disruptions we're experiencing would be something much, much worse."
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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