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"Uprisings: From the Middle East to the Midwest" By Amy Goodman
ColumnFebruary 23, 2011
Financial Meltdown
Koch Brothers
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
As many as 80,000 people marched to the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison on Saturday as part of an ongoing protest against newly elected Republican Gov. Scott Walker's attempt to not just badger the state's public employee unions, but to break them. The Madison uprising follows on the heels of those in the Middle East. A sign held by one university student, an Iraq War vet, read, "I went to Iraq and came home to Egypt?" Another read, "Walker: Mubarak of the Midwest." Likewise, a photo has circulated in Madison of a young man at a rally in Cairo, with a sign reading, "Egypt supports Wisconsin workers: One world, one pain." Meanwhile, Libyans continue to defy a violent government crackdown against masses seeking to oust longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and more than 10,000 marched Tuesday in Ohio to oppose Republican Gov. John Kasich's attempted anti-union legislative putsch.
Just a few weeks ago, solidarity between Egyptian youth and Wisconsin police officers, or between Libyan workers and Ohio public employees, might have elicited a raised eyebrow.
The uprising in Tunisia was sparked by the suicide of a young man named Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old university graduate who could not find professional work. Selling fruits and vegetables in the market, he was repeatedly harassed by Tunisian authorities who eventually confiscated his scale. Unbearably frustrated, he set himself on fire, a spark that ignited the protests that became the wave of revolution in the Middle East and North Africa. For decades in the region, people have lived under dictatorships—many that receive U.S. military aid—suffering human-rights abuses along with low income, high unemployment and almost no freedom of speech. All this, while the elites amassed fortunes.
Similar grievances underlie the conflicts in Wisconsin and Ohio. The "Great Recession" of 2008, according to economist Dean Baker, is now in its 37th month, with no sign of relenting. In a recent paper, Baker says that, due to the financial crisis, "many political figures have argued the need to drastically reduce the generosity of public sector pensions, and possibly to default on pension obligations already incurred. Most of the pension shortfall … is attributable to the plunge in the stock market in the years 2007-2009."
In other words, Wall Street hucksters, selling the complex mortgage-backed securities that provoked the collapse, are the ones who caused any pension shortfall. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston said recently: "The average Wisconsin state employee gets $24,500 a year. That's not a very big pension … 15 percent of the money going into it each year is being paid out to Wall Street to manage the money. That's a really huge high percentage to pay out to Wall Street to manage the money."
So, while investment bankers skim a huge percentage off pension funds, it's the workers who are being demonized and asked to make the sacrifices. Those who caused the problem, who then got lavish bailouts and now are treated to huge salaries and bonuses, are not being held accountable. Following the money, it turns out Walker's campaign was funded by the notorious Koch brothers, major backers of the tea party organizations. They also gave $1 million to the Republican Governors Association, which gave substantial support to Walker's campaign. Is it surprising that Walker supports corporations with tax breaks, and has launched a massive attack on unionized, public-sector employees?
One of the unions being targeted by Walker, and by Kasich in Ohio, is AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The union was founded in 1932, in the midst of the Great Depression, in Madison. Its 1.6 million members are nurses, corrections officers, child-care providers, EMTs and sanitation workers. It is instructive to remember, in this Black History Month, that it was the struggle of the sanitation workers of AFSCME local No. 1733 that brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis, Tenn., back in April 1968. As Jesse Jackson told me as he marched with students and their unionized teachers in Madison on Tuesday: "Dr. King's last act on earth, marching in Memphis, Tenn., was about workers' rights to collective bargaining and rights to dues checkoff. You cannot remove the roof for the wealthy and remove the floor for the poor."
The workers of Egypt were instrumental in bringing down the regime there, in a remarkable coalition with Egypt's youth. In the streets of Madison, under the Capitol dome, another demonstration of solidarity is taking place. Wisconsin's workers have agreed to pay and pension concessions, but will not give up their right to collective bargaining. At this point, Walker would be wise to negotiate. It is not a good season to be a tyrant.
Denis Moynihan contributed to this column.
Amy Goodman is the host of "Democracy Now!," an independent, daily global TV/radio news hour airing on more than 950 stations in the United States and around the world. She is the author of "Breaking the Sound Barrier," recently released in paperback and now a New York Times best-seller.
© 2011 Amy Goodman
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US Slaps Sanctions on 17 Individuals, 29 Entities From Serbia, Cyprus, Venezuela and Latvia
The sanctions were implemented under the Global Magnitsky Sanctions Act, which enables the US government to impose economic measures against those entities and individuals it finds complicit in violating human rights.
'Fake News is the Enemy': Trump Takes on Media, Leakers Again on Twitter
US President Donald Trump, dogged by reports that his behavior in Europe left allies shaken and confused, and beset in the US by allegations of impropriety within his cabinet, has again turned on the "fake news" as the source of damaging White House information.
Full Circle: Brazilian President Temer May Face Impeachment Amid Bribery Scandal
Political allies are deserting Brazilian President Michel Temer as he faces calls to resign amid a corruption scandal, Sputnik Brasil reports.
Watchdog: Canadian Mounties Plagued by Harassment, Can't Police Themselves
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Cameron Announces UK's Commitment to Create Int'l Anti-Corruption Center Amid Offshore Leak
British Prime Minister David Cameron announced Thursday his country's commitment to establish in London a coordination center to tackle corruption.
Chinese Prosecutors Repatriate 49 Suspects of Corruption in 2014
The fugitives were persuaded back or arrested from 17 countries and regions, including the US, Britain and Canada. Authorities called on all suspects of corruption-related crimes who are still on the run to make the right choice.
Jordan's Prince Ali to Challenge Sepp Blatter in FIFA Presidential Election
Jordanian Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein will challenge incumbent Sepp Blatter in upcoming elections for the presidency of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA).
China Negotiates Seizure of Ill-Gotten Offshore Assets
Chinese authorities are seeking to strengthen their collaboration with Western countries to recover ill-gotten assets which have been sent offshore.
Turkish Court Frees Teenager Arrested for Insulting President: Reports
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Xi Jinping Arrives in Gambling Hub Macau Amid China's Anti-Corruption Fight
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Amnesty International Urges IOC to Ensure Corruption-Free Sporting Events
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He turned his trial in Santiago into an indictment of the dictatorship. In his final courtroom speech, he reportedly concluded with the phrase: "Condemn me, it does not matter! History will absolve me!" (It would be years before scholars would note the ringing phrase was lifted from another dramatic courtroom oration by Adolf Hitler, on trial in Germany for an attempted 1923 coup.) In prison, Castro wrote furiously, converting his trial speech into a formal document smuggled out for publication. It became his platform during the struggle against Batista. Batista released Castro on May 15, 1955, as part of a general amnesty, 18 months into his sentence. Castro traveled briefly the same year to Miami, where he spoke at the old Flagler movie theater downtown, asking supporters for funds. "I swear to you," he promised the cheering crowd, "in Cuba, it'll be us or them." Then he went to Mexico, where he rebuilt his tiny revolutionary band and organized an invasion. blogThere Castro met and recruited Ernesto "Che" Guevara, a 27-year-old Argentine physician with Marxist ideas who had been expelled from Guatemala after a CIA-backed coup there the previous year. On Dec. 2, 1956, Castro, Guevara and 80 followers reached the shore of Cuba's Oriente province in a battered American cabin cruiser, the Granma, wretchedly seasick after a seven-day voyage.
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Have you ever created a comprehensive budget, started out following it religiously and then sort of let it slip away over time? No matter how good our intentions might be our willpower can sometimes just slowly fade away as we see that were not meeting our objectives. However, there are tools available that can make it infinitely easier for you to save money. Here are 13 items that can help you save money that you may already have around the house and, if not, many of them are very inexpensive.
These curtains can dramatically reduce your heating and cooling bills. They are now available in a multitude of patterns and colors so you should be able to find ones at your local Lowe's, Home Depot or even a hardware store that will match in your decor. If you live in particularly cold country put up liners in the winter to lock in heat even more effectively.
Ceiling fans can help lower both your heating and cooling bills as they run counterclockwise in the summer and clockwise in the winter. This diffuses cooled or heated air so less energy is needed to maintain whatever temperature you desire wherever they are mounted. During times when heat is only moderate the increased airflow created by a ceiling fan might mean you wouldn't even need to run your air-conditioner.
Why spend $10 for trashcan liners for your laundry room, bathrooms and guest rooms when you can use grocery bags instead? They're generally the perfect size and reusing them is also good for the environment. When you made your purchases you paid for them so they cost nothing extra. You can even use those bags to clean up after your pet in your yard or the park or keep several in your car for emergency spills.
Do you think it takes the same amount of water to flush both your number one and number two? If you don't think so, you're right. It doesn't. And the amount of water your toilets use each year just increases your water bill. You could spend $100 and get toilets that have dual flush options, which would mean you wouldn't have to use extra water unless you needed it.
The one appliance that can really run up your electric bill is your clothes dryer. You can reduce that bill by getting a clothes drying rack and drying your clothes on it. You'll be doing something good for the environment as well as saving money. You should be able to find a folding drying rack at your nearest home goods or superstore.
How many things do you have around your house that just eat batteries? If you're typical the answer is probably at least a dozen. There are flashlights, appliances, smoke detectors, cameras, TV remotes, radios and, of course, your children's' toys. While rechargeable batteries cost more and generally mean frequent recharging, they will save you money over the long term. And there's an nice bonus. You won't get that feeling of frustration when you find you're out of some type of battery you need to replace the two that just died. And do remember to unplug your battery chargers when you're not using them as anything plugged in will require electricity you'll be have to pay for.
Will you be meeting with friends soon? Think about picking up items from the store and stock them in a cooler. You could then meet your friends at a garden, beach or park instead of spending money to meet at a restaurant. Many parks, aquariums and zoos allow you to bring a cooler stocked with food from home, which can save you a lot of money versus buying stuff when you get there.
Stop those daily runs to Starbucks or your favorite neighborhood coffee bar and you'll save hundreds if not thousands of dollars. You could also have friends over and serve them freshly brewed cups of coffee in place of going out for costly weekend brunches.
If you don't believe you have time to cook and have been in the habit of picking up takeout meals on the way home, you could make that a thing of the past. Get a crockpot, toss in some meat and vegetables in the morning before you go to work, turn it on low and you'll have a great meal waiting for you when you get home from work. If you have extra portions left over just freeze them for another day, which would mean yet another meal you wouldn't have to cook.
If you have or get a heavy-duty blender you can make your own juices, smoothies and if appropriate baby foods. You'll both save money and get the flavor you like exactly right each time. You can lower your grocery bill even further by blending in-season vegetables and fruits.
If you run your computer and multiple devices such as a printer, a laptop and a stereo from your desk then a "smart" power strip is a must. It will focus power usage on the items that are in use and reduce the amount of energy it sends to the others, which means eliminating "ghost charges." And while you might think that unplugging gadgets when you're not using them to be a time waster you won't think so when those charges aren't so "ghost" and you see how much they increase your electric bill.
Are you regularly spending anywhere from $15-$25 to see a movie on the big screen? A better alternative would be to have your entertainment at home through Netflix, Amazon Prime or some other entertainment subscription service. Plus, at-home entertainment can be a cool option for a fun evening with friends or a date night and will save all of you money.
There is no reason these days to go to a Barnes & Noble and spend money buying books. And while it may be very easy and convenient to download e-books you can do without them as well by checking out books at your local library. Many of them maintain subscriptions to popular magazines and have DVDs available. You may not be able to check out the magazines but you should be able to take the DVDs home and enjoy a free movie with your friends or kids.
Use these to help you save more money so you can use it for something more important. For instance, the extra money to consolidate your debts into a single payment. Or you can use it to improve your current financial position.


Estrella Galicia has just announced a brand new Galician experience to be held this summer at Tapas Revolution in Shoreditch. Launching 26th July, this Galician experience, known as Little Galicia, will bring together the culture, history and quality of Estrella Galicia beer together with fantastic food and incredible live artists.
Little Galicia will be held over 6 weeks this Summer, taking place every Tuesday evening with a respective theme to the evening. Ranging from beer and food pairings to Galician steak nights, the evenings will encompass the beer culture, gastronomy and quality associated with Estrella Galicia.
2 August – Beer & Food Pairing will offer you a tasting menu with a Galician essence alongside a selection of Estrella Galicia beer, including Estrella Galicia 4.7%, 1906 Reserva and Black Coupage.
16 August – Beer & Food Pairing will offer you a tasting menu with a Galician essence alongside a selection of Estrella Galicia beer, including Estrella Galicia 4.7%, 1906 Reserva and Black Coupage.
The evenings will kick off at 6:30 pm with a welcome beer, with dinners to commence at 7:30 pm and will include Estrella Galicia beer with each course, live music performances and DJs until 10 pm. The Little Galicia pop-up has a limited amount of tickets and retails for £29.99/head, whilst the Galician steak night will retail for £39.99/head.


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Zimbabwe tour of Bangladesh, 2018 Results
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Australia tour of England, 2015
Thu, Sep 03, 2015
England won by 5 runs
Fri, Aug 28, 2015
India tour of Sri Lanka, 2015
Australia in Ireland ODI, 2015
Australia won by 23 runs (D/L)
New Zealand tour of South Africa, 2015
Sun, Aug 23, 2015
Australia won by an innings and 46 runs
New Zealand tour of Zimbabwe, 2015
England won by an innings and 78 runs
Sat, Aug 01, 2015
Pakistan tour of Sri Lanka, 2015
Pakistan won by 1 wicket
South Africa tour of Bangladesh, 2015
Match Drawn
Sri Lanka won by 165 runs
Pakistan won by 135 runs
India tour of Zimbabwe, 2015
Zimbabwe won by 10 runs
Australia won by 405 runs
Sri Lanka won by 2 wickets
Bangladesh won by 9 wickets (D/L)


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When Utrecht was founded, it was a simple Roman fort. During the Middle Ages, however, it evolved into a city, serving not only as the administrative centre of the Northern Netherlands, as well as the bishop's see which it remained until well into the 16th century. However, the Dutch Revolt in 1568 would eventually bring an end to Utrecht as the bishop's see. Initially, the authorities strove towards the peaceful co-existence of Catholicism and Protestantism. Responding to the tremendous pressure and terror exercised by strict Calvinists in the form of several outbreaks of iconoclasm, however, the city authorities banned the Catholic faith in 1580.
Following the Dutch Revolt and the Protestant Reformation, major spatial developments were carried out, as it became clear that the city needed more reinforcement. The Vredenburg stronghold, however, was demolished. The former grounds of monasteries and convents with their relatively open design were used to build housing and lay new roads. For example, Korte Nieuwstraat was laid on the site of the former Paulus abbey and the church of Oudmunster which was demolished in 1586. Several other Catholic sanctuaries also eventually made way for other roads.
A rather appealing cartographic depiction of the developments described above is the town plan of Utrecht engraved by Jan van Vianen and published by C. Specht in 1695. This is the later and unamended republication of the plan by the firm Ottens. Compared to other maps from the 16th century, this map shows the expanded fortifications at their most resplendent, the open space where the former Vredenburg stronghold once stood and the consolidation of the town.
'De stad Utrecht is gesticht in 't iaar 60. Bemuert tot de groote als jegenwoordig in 't iaar 930. Groot in syn omgang binnen de wallen 1300 roeden. Bevat in sig 12 kercken, 13 gasthuysen, 120 straten, 50 stene bruggen en ontrent 6000 huysen. Vermaert door d'Academie. Heeft de schoonste Plantagien Maaljebaan van gants Nederland.' In short, the days of monasteries, convents or abbeys in Utrecht were over!
Specht's plan is of superior cartographic quality. It is the first commercially printed map to faithfully reproduce the city's layout. Older printed maps rely too heavily on a rectangular outline of the city, while Specht's plan was the first to use a more realistic harp-shaped contours. In addition, the use of elevation in rendering the exceptional buildings reflects quite accurately the situation as it was then.
A notable feature of Specht's map is the system of canals shown to the west of the town (along the bottom of the map in which east is oriented 'up'), where market gardeners worked the muddy 'gardening canals' (moesgrachten). Created in 1664, this system of canals represented the first push in the expansion yet to be implemented by then-mayor of Utrecht, Hendrik Moreelse.
Utrecht's population remained more or less stable from the start of the 16th century to the start of the 19th century at about 30,000. Although the town was experiencing a period of economic malaise, the city – following the example of Amsterdam – nonetheless pursued ambitious expansion plans during the Golden Age. Moreelse's plan incorporated the newly excavated system of canals as part of a massive expansion drive, which included fortifications to the north, west and south of Utrecht. This expansion supposedly doubled the area of the town. The intention was to develop wealthy residential areas to compete with the old centre of Amsterdam. These districts, however, never materialised; only a few ditches were filled in. When Moreelse died in 1666, so, too, did the major driver behind the project.
Several years later, another Utrecht resident, Everard Meyster, began work on the town's expansion plans. His even more ambitious plans, which never made it from the drawing board, featured an oval-shaped area of expansion encompassing the entire city, including the eastern side, and even a port. Utrecht would have to wait until 1879 for the publication of the first expansion plan of note, which was fully implemented by means of a series of subplans, some of which were modified.
Donkersloot-de Vrij, M., Historische plattegronden van Nederlandse steden: deel 3: Utrecht ('Historical maps of Dutch cities: Part 3: Utrecht') (Alphen aan den Rijn, 1990), Map 11.
—, Kaarten van Utrecht: Topografische en thematische kartografie van de stad uit vijf eeuwen ('Maps of Utrecht: Five centuries of topographic and thematic maps of the town') (Utrecht, 1989), Map 20, p. 53-56.


When it comes to ensuring continuous oral health, one of the best ways to maintain a high standard of oral health is by keeping all of the natural teeth in your smile. However, in some scenarios, the teeth are severely damaged and may compromise the overall health of the dentition if not removed. To help patients keep their smiles healthy and functional, the dentists at Meadowvale Dental Centre offer tooth extraction as a permanent solution for impacted and severely damaged teeth.
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Tooth impaction often occurs with the third molar, also known as a wisdom tooth, attempts to break through the gums. As wisdom teeth are the last teeth to develop, there is often no space in the arch to accommodate the extra molar. This causes the tooth to grow incorrectly and push against the neighboring teeth in an effort to breach the arch, threatening the alignment of the rest of other teeth in the arch. In cases where the wisdom teeth are able to emerge, the partially emerged molars often create a flap in the gums, making it difficult for patients to properly clean their teeth. As a result, untreated impactions can increase the risk of tooth decay and gum disease.
For patients that suffer from recurrent tooth infections and unsuccessful root canal therapy, extraction may be the best way to protect the health of the dentition. By leaving a damaged tooth in place, patients risk the infection spreading to surrounding teeth, potentially compromising even more of the dentition than necessary. Additionally, tooth infection can yield secondary consequences for a patient's overall health. Recurrent infections can result in an increased likelihood that patients may risk secondary complications such as gum disease, sepsis, and spread of the infection to other organs.
In cases of severe periodontitis, the bone and connective tissue that hold the teeth in place may be extremely deteriorated, risking tooth loss and damaging the tooth roots. Restoring the dentition following gum disease treatment may require that these affected teeth are removed and replaced with dental restorations such as dental implants or implant-supported dentures.
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Peggy is an active lighting designer, technical theatre instructor, choreographer, dance instructor and arts administrator. She holds an MFA in Theatre Arts and an MFA in Choreography from the University of Iowa. Peggy is currently an Assistant Professor in the Theatre Department at Saginaw Valley State University where she designs lighting for the four or five yearly, main stage productions as well as mentors student designers and technicians. She is also the technical consultant for the Retical Hall at the Flint School of Performing Arts.
Her most recent lighting design was for SVSU's prodution of the Cripple of Inishmaan. She enjoys lighting for dance and recently did the designs for the Hollins University MFA Dance Program's Summer Dance Events in Roanoke, VA and she served as the Assistant to Lighting Designer Ted Sullivan for the May Dance Concerts at Juilliard. She has also designed for The Washington Ballet @THEARC's Summer Dance Intensive Showcase in Washington DC and Coe College's production of Tartuffe in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
She has taught dance in every place she has lived. To keep her "toe in the door" of the dance world, Peggy also teaches the Musical Theatre dance classes at SVSU and dance classes for the Flint School of Performing Arts.


We discuss a method to enhance the accuracy of a subset of the Ancient Greek WordNet based on the Homeric lexicon and the related conceptual network, by using multilingual semantic spaces built from aligned corpora.
Esponiamo un metodo per migliorare l'accuratezza di un sottoinsieme dell' Ancient Greek WordNet, basato sul lessico Omerico e sulla relativa rete concettuale, attraverso l'uso di spazi semantici plurilingui costruiti su corpora paralleli allineati.
1The Ancient Greek WordNet (AGWN) represents the first attempt to build a WordNet for Ancient Greek (Bizzoni et al., 2014).
4 For example, PWN links through ILI (Vossen, 1998) AGWN to IWN.
2The AGWN synsets are aligned to Princeton WordNet (PWN) (Fellbaum, 1998), to Italian WordNet (IWN) (Roventini et al., 2003), developed at the Institute for Computational Linguistic "A. Zampolli" in Pisa, to the Italian section of MultiWordNet,1 developed at Bruno Kessler Foundation and to a Latin WordNet (LWN) created with the same criteria of AGWN and linked to Minozzi's Latin WordNet (Minozzi, 2009) and (McGillivray, 2010), developed at the University of Verona. In this way the user is allowed to find the equivalents of a set of synonyms into different languages. The AGWN can be freely accessed through a Web interface,2 which allows enabled users to add or delete words in the synsets, adapt the glosses and validate the lexico-semantic relations.3We first created AGWN by bootstrapping Greek-English pairs from bilingual dictionaries and by assigning Greek words to PWN synsets associated to the corresponding English translations. As a drawback of this method, a large number of synsets and lexico-semantic relations are spuriously over-generated by English homonymy and polysemy. As exposed in (Bizzoni et al., 2014), to have PWN as a pivoting resource4propagates the same drawback to other connected WordNet in CoPhiWordNet Platform. In order to improve the accuracy of a subset of AGWN synsets related to the Homeric lexicon and the related conceptual network, we have automatically extracted word translations from Greek-Italian parallel texts by applying distributional semantic strategies illustrated in the following sections and verified how many of these translation were in CoPhiWn. According to the methodology explained in (Francis Bond and Uchimoto, 2008), trilingual resources (in our case the original Greek-English pairs extracted from dictionaries and the Greek-Italian pairs extracted from aligned translations) are useful to enhance the accuracy of a bootstrapped WordNets.
3We present a way to automatically improve the accuracy of Ancient Greek word translations by applying the principles of distributional semantics to aligned corpora (Dumais et al., 1997) and (Yuri, 2015). We will first explain the ratio of this method and then show how it is useful to improve AGWN in several ways (see Section 2.7). Although Ancient Greek obviously does not have native speakers, we dispose of a great variety of translations of the same classical texts written in several languages and different historical periods. The study of large diachronical corpora of translations is both relevant in classical studies and a valuable source of information to build or improve the accuracy of multilingual lexico-semantic resources (see Section 3).
4We applied a strategy to automatically align Greek-Italian parallel corpora through two main steps: in the first step we segmented texts in small portions; in the second step we linked those texts together. The result is that each Ancient Greek segment is aligned to its translations. After the segment-to-segment alignment, we applied the distributional semantics method illustrated below, in order to identify word-to-word translations.
5It is argued by several linguists (Miller, 1971) and (Firth, 1975) that one of the best ways to define the meaning of a word is the study of the relations with the other words in the close context. So it is possible to hypothesize that we learn the meaning of many new words thanks to the way they are linked to words we already know, and in general, that we learn the meaning of words by perceiving their verbal as well as non-verbal context. We can study semantic similarities between terms by quantifying their distribution: similar words will have similar contexts. In the same way, we can suppose that, in an aligned parallel corpus, a word and its translation will tend to appear in the same aligned segments. For this reason, the contextual segment of the original Greek word and the contextual aligned segment of the translation have the same identifier.
syntactic collocates: two words co-occur if they appear in a same syntactic pattern, for example if they are the direct objects of a verb, etc.
7Although the most typical approach to distributional semantics is the use of windowbased collocates, this kind of context becomes useless in multilingual corpora, since words in different languages do not share a common context. We use the method based on text regions collocates, which considers every couple of aligned segments as the default textual area. Word vectors of 0s and 1s in both languages are constructed accordingly to the absence/presence of the word in the aligned couple.
5 In our experiment the resulting vector has a dimension of ∼60k.
9With a similar procedure, Ancient Greek and Italian equivalent words will happen to have similar vectors, since they will appear in the same aligned chunks. Consequently they will be close in the resulting semantic space. To compute the proximity of vectors we used the cosine similarity measure (Sahlgren, 2006).
10Performance on nouns is higher than performance on verbs, adjectives and adverbs, due to larger translational fluctuations for the latter parts of speech. Anyway, although verbs are more polysemous than nouns, we apparently are able to find relevant verb translations: uccidere - kteíno (to kill), morire - thnésko (to die), amare - philéo (to love) and even essere - eimí (to be). The same holds for adjectives, but, however,we found acceptable results also in this category: bello - kalòs (beautiful), nobile - agauòs (noble). Interestingly, from color adjectives we were only able to retrieve black and white translations: neromélas (black), bianco-leukós (white). Color adjectives in Ancient Greek are naturally complex to analyze, since it is hard to retrieve their exact meaning in absence of speakers; this indetermination apparently propagates to our outcomes.
11Finally, it is also relevant to observe that extremely polysemous categories like adverbs in some cases find a correct translation: ek - fuori (out), non-ou - non (not).
12We extracted the five most similar items for 121 Ancient Greek words (randomly chosen from different groups of frequency) from a semantic space built on the original texts, i.e five complete Iliad translations and four complete Odyssey translation in Italian aligned to the original texts. The original data resulted in 605 rows (121 time 5pairs); when it comes to verify whether a Greek/Italian pair is mapped in CoPhiWn, we expect that the modern polysemy, the one inducted by English to Italian mapping will increase the number of pairs. Indeed, we found that 605 pairs correspond to 736 Greek-English-Italian possible triples. However, only 176 triples have been successfully found in CoPhiWn. A manual validation of the resulting set excluded 13 triples which are caused by the modern polysemy reducing the found triples to 164. Not surprisingly, the coverage of the triples in CoPhiWn ∼ 23% is quite close to the coverage of AGWN cf. (Bizzoni et al., 2014) (∼28%).
13If an Ancient Greek word is linked to an Italian word in CoPhiWn and it is distributionally near to the same Italian word in a semantic space, the probability that this link is correct is high. For instance, the word pólemos, frequent in Homer, is linked in CoPhiWn to an Italian synset composed by the words guerra, battaglia, ostilità. The first two terms appear also to be the nearest Italian terms to the word pólemos (war, battle) in our semantic space. This match helps us to increase the probability that guerra and battaglia are sound translations of pólemos, and thus that the Italian and Greek synsets are correctly interlinked.
14In CoPhiWn the word hémar (day) is linked to the synonyms giorno, giornata, and in our semantic space it appears very similar to the word giorno only. But the distributional information from our semantic space reinforces the association between hémar and the overall Italian synset.
6 This is one effect of the modern polysemy described in Section 2.6.
15This way to retrieve crosslingual information from textual corpora is highly helpful to discover errors due to the employ of polysemy in different languages. For instance, in CoPhiWn, the word astér (star) is linked both to the synset associated to the word stella, glossed as star in the sky and to the synset associated to the word divo, glossed as star in the show business, due to the intermediation of the English word star,6while, as expected, astér is distributionally similar only to stella in our semantic space. The word dóru (spear and mast) is linked on one hand to asta, arma synset and on the other hand to prora, prua, glossed as parts of the boat, which is synecdochically related to the mast, but in our semantic space it appears near only to the words of the first group, allowing us to score higher only the first equivalence. It is important to remember that we can incur in cases of stylistically biased translations and synonyms: árma(charriot) can be cocchio or carro in different translations. Additional examples are the following: the most similar terms to Italian mare in our semantic space are thálassa, háls, póntos, three words indicating the concept of sea clustered together by their common translation. scudo (shield) is associated both to aspís and sakós, soffio (breath) leads to pnóe and ánemos, through popolo (people) we find láos, démos and among the most similar words of dolore (pain) we find both pénthos and álgos. With the same mechanisms that allow to find word to word translations, we can find also some small sets of potential synonyms in the same language looking at their distributional behavior: so aithér is near to oúranos and hétor is near to thumós.
16A system based on distributional semantics tends to cluster together not only bilingual synonyms and translations, but also hypernyms and hyponyms. They tend to have distributionally similar, although not identical, behaviors, and it can easily happen that a word is translated with a hypernym, or more rarely with a hyponym, in another language. Systems to discriminate between hypernyms and synonyms in semantic spaces could become very useful in this context. See for example (Benotto, 2013) and Lenci et al. 2012.
17We have elaborated a system to enhance the accuracy of Ancient Greek WordNet. This system appears to be useful to verify the soundness of automatically generated links between the Ancient Greek WordNet and WordNet in other languages. The method aims at increasing the precision of the GreekItalian pairs within their translations, since it removes modern polysemy and discards translations in CoPhiWn that are not supported by actual texts' translations.
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3 In the following, when we use the term CoPhiWordNet Platform (CoPhiWn) we mean the three WordNets: AGWN, IWNand PWN.
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Look what you made her do.
Taylor Swift has lashed out at the founder of her old record label Big Machine, Scott Borchetta and Justin Bieber's manager Scooter Braun, after Borchetta sold the label and all of its rights - including Swift's entire past six-album catalogue - to the talent manager.
Braun previously represented Swift's nemesis Kanye West and currently boasts acts including Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato on his roster.
In a furious Tumblr post on Sunday, Swift, 29, accused Braun of being complicit with bullying she claims she suffered at the hands of West and Bieber, as well as blasting Borchetta's business tactics regarding her first six records.
Taylor Swift is not happy that Scooter Braun now owns her back catalogue. pic.twitter.com/GuCfxsYhwD
— Ryan Love △⃒⃘ (@RyanJL) June 30, 2019
"For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work. Instead, I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and 'earn' one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in," she wrote. "I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the label, thereby selling me and my future. I had to make the excruciating choice to leave behind my past. Music I wrote on my bedroom floor and videos I dreamed up and paid for from the money I earned playing in bars, then clubs, then arenas, then stadiums."
Taylor Swift has lost control of her back catalogue. Picture: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File
She added, "Some fun facts about today's news: I learned about Scooter Braun's purchase of my masters as it was announced to the world. All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I've received at his hands for years." To illustrate her point, she included a screenshot of Braun, Bieber and West that Bieber posted to Instagram in August 2016:
Swift shared this screenshot with her Tumblr post.
The You Need to Calm Down singer accused Braun of being a party to Kim Kardashian's infamous recording of Swift and West's "snippet" of a phone call in which she appeared to give her blessing to the lyrics to his song Famous.
Kardashian posted the video to Snapchat after Swift denied giving West permission to use her name in the song. She later claimed she objected to being called "that b - h" in the track, a detail which wasn't mentioned in Kardashian's clip.
This all happened about a year after West and Swift appeared to publicly make up and reportedly even discussed a potential collaboration.
In her furious missive, Swift claimed that Kardashian's video recording and release were illegal. She also pointed out that in the "Famous" music video, a wax figure of her likeness (and numerous others) appears nude, which she likened to "revenge porn."
Scooter Braun now owns Taylor Swift's entire back catalogue. Photo: Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for Fast Company
"Now Scooter has stripped me of my life's work, that I wasn't given an opportunity to buy," she fumed. "Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it."
The singer described the predicament as her "worst case scenario" and lamented signing a record deal with Big Machine when she was just 15 years old and alluded that sexism was partly behind Borchetta's decision to sell the label.
"When that man says 'Music has value,' he means its value is beholden to men who had no part in creating it," she wrote. "When I left my masters in Scott's hands, I made peace with the fact that eventually he would sell them. Never in my worst nightmares did I imagine the buyer would be Scooter. Any time Scott Borchetta has heard the words 'Scooter Braun' escape my lips, it was when I was either crying or trying not to. He knew what he was doing; they both did. Controlling a woman who didn't want to be associated with them. In perpetuity. That means forever."
Justin Bieber has today responded to the furore, posting an old photo of he and Swift together to his Instagram account - along with a lengthy caption addressed directly to the singer.
SJustin Bieber and musician Taylor Swift attend the 2011 Teen Choice Awards.
"Hey Taylor. First of all i would like to apologise for posting that hurtful Instagram post, at the time i thought it was funny but looking back it was distasteful and insensitive. I have to be honest though it was my caption and post that I screenshoted of scooter and Kanye that said "taylor swift what up" he didn't have anything to do with it and it wasn't even a part of the conversation in all actuality he was the person who told me not to joke like that. Scooter has had your back since the days you graciously let me open up for you.! As the years have passed we haven't crossed paths and gotten to communicate our differences, hurts or frustrations. So for you to take it to social media and get people to hate on scooter isn't fair. What were you trying to accomplish by posting that blog? seems to me like it was to get sympathy u also knew that in posting that your fans would go and bully scooter. Anyway, One thing i know is both scooter and i love you. I feel like the only way to resolve conflict is through communication. So banter back and fourth online i dont believe solves anything. I'm sure Scooter and i would love to talk to you and resolve any conflict, pain or any feelings that need to be addressed. Neither scooter or i have anything negative to say about you we truly want the best for you. I usually don't rebuttal things like this but when you try and deface someone i loves character that's crossing a line," he wrote.
Swift signed with Republic Records in 2018.
She and Kanye West famously have feuded since he interrupted her at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. She later described her beef with him and his reality star wife as "lower than [she'd] ever felt in [her] life."
Other artists, including Halsey and the band Haim, have today come out in support of Swift:
🦋 @taylorswift13 pic.twitter.com/1iI2tCr8my
— h (@halsey) June 30, 2019
📲 IG | @HAIMtheband voice their support of Taylor via Instagram story — thank you #WeStandWithTaylor pic.twitter.com/AA72INXRDn
— Taylor Swift News (@TSwiftNZ) June 30, 2019
feeling for @taylorswift13 rn. we know where the music came from regardless of who owns it now. i can't wait to see her rise above with "Lover" let's goooooo Taylor 💞
— CYN (@cynthialovely) June 30, 2019
My heart goes out to @taylorswift13 ❤ over the sale of her masters. You got this! You got a million more hits in you:)
— AdELA (@adelamusic) June 30, 2019
While Scooter Braun's wife Yael has called out the singer with a lengthy Instagram post of her own, accusing Swift of throwing an "embarrassing temper tantrum" because she "didn't get her own way." Toggle the arrow button on the right of the Instagram picture to read the rest of her statement:
@taylorswift, I'm here to talk privately anytime.
A post shared by Yael Cohen Braun (@yael) on Jun 30, 2019 at 3:53pm PDT
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i used to make fun of emo kids. i really did.
i always thought of them as over-sensitive, hyper-anxious, angst-ridden, slouching, shuffling, sniffling, sighing, moaning, mumbling, head-shaking, sneaker-wearing, hair-dying, makeup-obsessed, ratty-clothes-wearing crybabies. shoe-gazers. whiners. losers. with music to match.
but then i became one.
well, okay, no, really, i didn't. i was too much into the punk/goth scene to ever really admit to doing that.
but...i have to say that somewhere along the way i realized that for all their sensitivity and anxiety and angst, the emo kids weren't really so bad after all. because i don't think they're really that far off the mark in terms of life and living.
you see, underneath the hair and makeup and clothes, emo at its core is--as defined by its name--about one thing: emotion. the lifestyle. the attitude. the music. and all of it is sustained by undercurrents composed of equal parts loneliness, confusion, fear, anguish, alienation, and longing, all strung together by a fragile sense of wonder and hope and the realization that it, and we, are lost to live in a world of psychotic brutality.
the natural inclination, at least as displayed by so many people, is to resign ourselves to our fate and surrender and join the world in its suppression of the human spirit.
but emo goes the other way. if nothing else, it clings even tighter to the things most fragile, and holds them close, to protect them, and remind ourselves that--sometime, everytime, all the time--life is not about brutality; life is about living, and living means all the good things great and glorious in this creation, from great to small from high to low from far to near...beginning with us.
and once i realized that, it dawned on me that emo was saying the same things every other artist before or now or ever after has always said: life. love. learn. loss. gain. wonder. truth. faith. hope. glory. all of it a work of art. all of it humanity.
so now, even as emo has ventured into the dreaded emo-pop, when i compile my playlists for my training days, and take my journeys of miles upon miles upon miles, i find myself pulling up emo songs.
because it's easy to lose yourself out there in the distance, and to resign yourself to fate, and to surrender to the brutality of the world. but every time you do, you end up losing whatever lessons you were meant to learn, because by surrendering you lose before you even start. you lose the race. you lose yourself. in essence, you become a loser.
with the emo songs, i'm reminded to hold on. to not resign. to not surrender. remember why it is that i am in the distance: to learn the lessons i was meant to learn, to discover what it is that i was meant to find. and that's myself; that's my humanity.
in essence, to become a winner.
feel free to add to the list. doesn't matter which one. it's all the same.
well, i guess i found a part of the reason for my insomnia, exhaustion, soreness, lethargy, irritability, moroseness, and overall general bad mood.
oh yeah...that might certainly explain the past 2 weeks, during which time i'm sure i've managed to hurt other people's feelings, alienating most and essentially ignoring the rest. i'll have to extend some mea culpas and large apologies in the next few weeks (sorry guys, really).
i know, i know--how do i explain not having a clue?
well, my allergies have been acting up something fierce for the past month, giving all hellacious kinds of congestion, itchy eyes, headaches, wheezing, and coughing. which led me to believe that everything was just due to the pollen count.
but round about last Sunday i suddenly realized that i also had a fever.
oooooooooooooooh yeaaaaaaaaaaaah...little more than allergies now.
it's not that bad--not bad enough to be debilitating, but certainly bad enough to be annoying. and certainly enough to bring on the insomnia and make my life really really really not fun...and enough, i decided, to voluntarily shoot a self-inflicted hole in my training.
weighing the merits of resting (and thereby hopefully getting over this sickness, but at the price of a loss in fitness) versus training (and thereby extending the illness, and possible sinking me even deeper in fitness loss), i decided to heed to words of all the coaches i've ever had and just park things for awhile (the rule they always said: if no fever, play; if a fever, don't play--not just because exercise stresses the immune system beyond recovery, but also because you're really contagious...and that's just rude).
yeah, i know, this week of rest has made me a fat, pudgy, lumpy, snot-filled, sore-throat piece of lazy turd. believe me, i feel like it. but hopefully it'll nip this illness in the bud before it gets any worse, and before i take any more of a hit in fitness.
i'm feeling better already. at least now i'm not so ornery as i was a few days ago. and i actually got a full night's sleep last night.
i don't know what this was. it's certainly more than a cold, and i originally would have said the flu, except that i had a flu shot last November. it's possible that it was a flu strain, and my immune system was just taking it on. i know there's been another bug going around that's very similar, and people have been telling me it lasts for months (as in 2-3).
i certainly don't want it to be the latter. that's the last thing i need right now.
i hope to resume training this coming week. i've got some fitness to make-up. but hopefully it won't be too bad...hopefully.
World Naked Bike Ride Day.
i tried to forget about it, but i've had a macabre fascination over it that i just can't let go of. it's kind of like watching the proverbial train wreck in slow motion: you know it's inevitable, you know it's awful, but...you. just. cannot. stop. watching.
even though you don't want to.
this year it appears the World Naked Bike Ride Day is actually on 2 days at 2 very different times of the year, with the Southern Hemisphere taking its bow (oops...sorry, just couldn't resist saying that, just too easy) this Saturday, March 14, and the Northern Hemisphere having its uppance (ouch...sorry, just couldn't say the first without saying the second) on Saturday, June 13.
i have to note that the cause--yes, there actually is one--is surprisingly sublime despite the inanity (or insanity, depending on your point of view...oh wait, i did it again, sorry, couldn't resist saying that one either...or maybe it was just a Freudian slip...oh phooey, i did it again...and again...and again) of the event. it's ostensibly meant to 1) assert the rights and safety of cyclists on the roads, and 2) encourage the use of bicycles as an alternative form of transport to alleviate the consumption of non-renewable sources of energy.
of course, having said that, i still have to say that i think the visual onslaught of this protest sort of overwhelms its message.
just a little (oh damn...i did it again. sorry. this is just too easy. you can't make this stuff up).
it is a beautiful day, and you have decided to spend it outside.
you are drawn to look above. the day is aglow, translucent, shining. a glory of pure light.
with a sky as blue as the blue of creation's eye and as clear as the thought of forever in eternity's mind.
even as you are here, a creature of the earth, connected to the land, toiling upon its surface. a little more than just a hand-hold from heaven.
have you ever wondered what lies beyond the furthest reaches of the sky? have you ever wondered what lies beyond the deepest blue? what there is beyond the limits of your reality?
beyond your limited senses, and limited hands and limited feet, and limited arms and limited legs, and limited body and limited mind? beyond, in a universe that is most infinite?
you want to be more.
and that's why you now press on.
faster. stronger. harder. sharper. smarter. wiser. purer. truer. deeper. higher. farther. greater. more.
more than here, more than a creature of the earth, more than connected to the land, more than toiling upon the surface. a little more than just a hand-hold from heaven.


WASHINGTON — Juan Soto's two-run single highlighted a four-run eighth inning and the Washington Nationals rallied past the Milwaukee Brewers for a 5-4 win on Saturday night.
Milwaukee's Dan Jennings came on to face Soto, who singled up the middle on a 2-2 pitch, scoring Turner and Harper with his third hit of the night. Rendon then scored on a wild pitch by Jordan Lyles.
Washington's Greg Holland (1-2) retired Manny Pina with the bases loaded to end the eighth and Justin Miller survived Tyler Saladino's pinch-hit solo homer in the ninth for his second save.
Brewers starter Chase Anderson gave up a run and four hits over five innings.
Washington's Stephen Strasburg allowed two runs on five hits over six innings while striking out seven.
The game was delayed 1 hour, 57 minutes by rain in the top of the eighth and ended well past midnight.
After Mike Moustakas doubled, Jonathan Schoop's smash deflected off Rendon's glove at third and down the line. As Rendon jogged after it, Moustakas scored. With two outs and two on, Christian Yelich lined a single just beyond the reach of a leaping second baseman Wilmer Difo to make it 2-0.
Washington got one back on Difo's infield single in the bottom half.
Former National Gonzalez was the subject of a pregame video tribute and received a warm ovation. It's unclear how he'll be used by Milwaukee, which has named starting pitchers — none of them Gonzalez — through Wednesday. "He will play a role," manager Craig Counsell said. "He started (last Wednesday). He's not available to pitch right now. When he's able to pitch here, he will get outs for us."
Nationals: C Matt Wieters is dealing with a hip/groin issue that has bothered him since Washington's series in Philadelphia earlier this week. That prompted Severino's recall. ... RHP Jeremy Hellickson (right hamstring strain) threw a bullpen session Saturday.
Brewers: RHP Junior Guerra (6-9, 4.09) is 0-4 with a 7.28 ERA over his last eight starts. He's 1-0 with a 1.88 ERA in three career games — two starts — versus Washington.
Nationals: Rookie RHP Jefry Rodriguez (2-1, 4.54) has a 1.69 ERA over his last three starts. He's making his first start against Milwaukee.


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Texas Showdown: Baylor vs Texas NCAA Hoops Odds
Written by Henry Watkins on February 19, 2016
You often hear it said that everything is bigger in Texas. If that is indeed the case, then there should be no bigger match-up this weekend than that one that sees Baylor travel from Waco to Austin to face their in-state rivals the Texas Longhorns. Both teams are clinging to a spot in the top 25, but both also have a shot at making a move upwards this week after registering huge wins earlier in the week. Both Baylor and Texas still have an outside shot of getting to the top of the Big-12 before the season ends, but a loss here would likely mean the end of that dream. It was the Longhorns who took the earlier meeting versus Baylor, but they know that their rivals will be thirsty for revenge this time around. This could well be a close one, and it's going to be interesting to see what sort of college hoops point spread the bookies put in place.
How To Bet Baylor Bears Vs Texas Longhorns NCAAB Odds, TV and Game Info
When: Saturday February 20, 2 PM EST Where: Frank Erwin Center, Austin TV: ESPN Live Stream: WatchESPN NCAA Odds: TBA
Why bet on the Baylor Bears
The Bears (19-7, 8-5) were in danger of vanishing without a trace after losing 3 games in a 4-game stretch, but they responded brilliantly with a determined 100-91 OT win over Iowa State earlier this week. It was their first win against ranked opponents in three attempts, but more importantly, it brought to an end a losing skid that threatened to drop Baylor out of the realms of the ranked. The tough part now for the Bears is following that up with another big win, only this time on the road. The good news for Baylor is that they have won 4 of their last 5 road games, including a big one away at Iowa State. It's going to be a tough end of the season for Baylor, as their final 4 games after this one are against ranked opponents. A win here could well set them up for a strong home stretch run. The Bears are averaging 78.9 PPG, and are giving up 69.7 PPG.
Why bet on the Texas Longhorns
After taking back to back losses against teams in the top 25, the Texas Longhorns could very well have chosen to pack up their stuff and go home, but they got this week off to a great start with an 85-78 win over the #10 ranked West Virginia Mountaineers. The Longhorns are a lot like Baylor in that they have struggled recently, yet have still found a way to pull out a huge win when they needed it most. Perhaps the biggest reason to look at the Longhorns as a good value bet is the fact that they have only lost one game on home court all season long. That one came against Connecticut a while back, and Texas have been perfect ever since. The Longhorns are averaging 72.8 PPG, and are giving up 67.5 PPG.
Expert Pick and Final Score Prediction
It was Texas who picked up the win when they played Baylor in Waco earlier this season, and that has to give them a bit of a psychological edge. I like the Longhorns at home, and I think they will come away with a very tight win. Baylor Bears 72 Texas Longhorns 74


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        using Addr = Register::Address<0x4003e000,0x00000000,0x00000000,unsigned>;
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        ///no description available
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    }
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        using Addr = Register::Address<0x4003e004,0x00000000,0x00000000,unsigned>;
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    namespace RfvbatReg2{    ///<VBAT register file register
        using Addr = Register::Address<0x4003e008,0x00000000,0x00000000,unsigned>;
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Around Us | Aliados
The imposing Avenida dos Aliados is the heart of the city, a sloping boulevard lined with grand buildings and a central promenade. Most of the buildings are hotels or banks, while the central promenade used to be a garden but was remodelled in 2006 by renowned architect Alvaro Siza Vieira who also designed the city's Serralves Museum.
The name of this central boulevard translates as "Avenue of the Allies" and this refers to the treaty between Portugal and the United Kingdom in the 14th century. Still in place, the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in force. Avenida dos Aliados is generally regarded as Porto's city centre and is, as such, the most grandiose avenue.
At the top of the avenue stands the Town Hall, a palatial building with a tall bell tower (70meters high). Made of granite and marble, its design was influenced by the municipal architecture of Flanders and France. In front of the building is a modernist statue of Portuguese writer Almeida Garrett. At the other end of the avenue is Praça da Liberdade, a square adorned with a statue of King Pedro IV on a horse. There are also several cafes, including the historical Guarany, and what many call "The Most Beautiful McDonald's in The World", located where the old Café Imperial used to be. Sit at one of the tables on the pavement outside to watch the world go by, and pass by the city's main tourism office by the Town Hall.
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Your guide to the weekend's live music scene
Night life for Nov. 6 Your guide to the weekend's live music scene Check out this story on news-leader.com: http://sgfnow.co/1qpQCAJ
Published 11:00 p.m. CT Nov. 5, 2014 | Updated 1:01 p.m. CT Nov. 5, 2014
Eddie Gumucio & the Electrics are having an album release party at 9:30 p.m. Friday at Patton Alley Pub, 313 S. Patton Ave.(Photo: Submitted photo)
American Legion Post 639, 2660 S. Scenic Ave., 417-882-8639: Acoustic Suitcase, 7-10 p.m. Thursday, no cover
American Legion Post 676 and the Barnhouse Events Center, 5484 W. Sunshine St., 417-882-4676: Karaoke with Dave Spencer, 6:30-10 p.m. Friday, no cover
Archie's Lounge, 1817 E. Grand St., 417-864-4109: Sunset Strip, 9 p.m. Friday-Saturday, no cover
Cartoons Oyster Bar & Grill, 1614 S. Glenstone Ave., 417-889-6500: Allen Ross, 6 p.m. Thursday, no cover; Rick Gibson Band, doors at 5:30 p.m. Friday, cover; Heather Volz & The Divide with Paralandra, doors at 8 p.m. Friday, cover; Kricket Alley Band with RandyMan Band, doors at 7 p.m. Saturday, cover; Medicine Man Show, 6 p.m. Wednesday, no cover
Challengers, 5739 S. Campbell Ave., 417-889-6060: Open Fire, 9 p.m. Saturday, cover
College Street Bar & Arcade, 504 W. College St., Bad Cop, 9 p.m. Thursday, cover
Creek Side Pub, 3830 S. Lone Pine Ave., 417-893-8131: Swivel Sisters, 8 pm. Thursday, cover; Ozark Mountain Maybelles, 8 p.m. Friday, cover; Smokey Folk, 8 p.m. Saturday, cover; Karaoke, 7 p.m. Tuesday, no cover
Dennis' Place, 921 W. Sunshine St., 417-865-8373: Leather and Lace, 9 p.m. Friday, cover; Hey Jealousy, 9 p.m. Saturday, cover; Karaoke, 9 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays, no cover
Drunken Monkey Bar & Grill, 1816 W. Division St., 417-862-0809: Karaoke Queens, 8 p.m.-midnight Thursday, no cover; Ko-ed Karaoke, 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Friday-Saturday, no cover; Bike Night on the patio, 5:30-10:30 p.m. Tuesday, no cover; Karaoke Queens, 8 p.m.-midnight Wednesday, no cover
Dublin's Pass Irish Pub downtown, 317 Park Central East, 417-862-7625: Hendrix & Craig, 6 p.m.-midnight Friday, no cover; Mitchell Austin, 5 p.m. Saturday, no cover; Nate Fredrick, 9 p.m. Saturday, no cover; DJ Adam Bomb, 9 p.m. Tuesday, no cover; Open Mic Night, 9 p.m. Wednesday, no cover
Dublin's Pass Irish Pub south side, 2767 W. Republic Road, 417-877-7625: The Station Trio, 8-11 p.m. Friday, no cover; Toe Jam, 9 p.m. Saturday, no cover DJ Rolo, 9 p.m. Tuesday, no cover
The Dugout, 1218 E. Trafficway, 417-866-2255: Off Pitch Karaoke with Subpoena Teena, 9:30 p.m. Thursday, no cover; Pete and Dave, 9:30 p.m. Friday, no cover; Allen Ross, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, no cover; Pop Quizzo Team Trivia, 7:30 p.m. Sundays, no cover; Haus Jazz Quartet & Friends, 9 p.m. Wednesdays, no cover
Eagles Lodge 3934, 603 W. Plainview Road, 417-886-2701: Dave Spencer's Dixie Creek Band, 6:30-10 p.m. Sunday, cover
Ernie Biggs, 213 South Ave., 417-865-4782: Dueling pianos, 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Friday-Saturday, cover
Galloway Station, 1281 E. Republic Road, 417-881-9730: The Whiskey Shakes, 10 p.m. Friday, no cover; The Josh Jennings Band, 10 p.m. Saturday, no cover
The Hangout, 1906 E. Meadowmere St., 417-862-9911: Trash Angels, 8 p.m.-midnight Friday, no cover; Blues Society Memphis-bound Solo Duo Competition, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, cover; Jam Session, 7-10 p.m. Tuesdays, no cover
Haruno Sushi Bar and Grill, 3044 S. Fremont Ave., 417-887-0077: Hamm Aho Jazz Duo, 7-10 p.m. Fridays, no cover; Hamm Aho Jazz Duo featuring vocalist Christin Bohrisch, 7-10 p.m. Saturdays, no cover
Jo's Gather'n Place, 2931 E. Chestnut Expressway, 417-864-7723: Karaoke, 7-11 p.m. Friday, no cover; Open Mic, 7 p.m. Mondays, no cover
Just One More, 7530 U.S. 60, 417-882-2294: Sister Lucille, 9 p.m. Friday-Saturday, no cover; Turkey Cook-off, featuring No Strings Attanched, Big Rumor and CC Cactus Pickers, 2-10 p.m. Sunday, no cover
Lindberg's, 318 W. Commercial St., 417-868-8900: Belladonna, 6 p.m. Friday, cover; Fleetwood Mac Tribute Night, 9 p.m. Friday, cover; The Professors and Mary Ann, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, cover; Heavy Buffalo, 9 p.m. Saturday, cover; Michael Corwin, 9 p.m. Tuesday, cover
Luttrell's Auction, 2939 W. Kearney St., 417-861-6701: Juanita Lee and Kenny Key, 6 p.m. Saturday, cover; Kari Garrison with The Barn Band, Jerry Menown, Roger Blevins, George Geisser, Lloyd Hicks and Greg Klein, 7 p.m. Saturday, cover
Midnight Rodeo, 1773 S. Glenstone Ave., 417-882-0309: DJ Tommy T, 7 p.m.-1 a.m. Thursday-Friday (dance lessons 8-9 p.m.), cover DJ Tommy T, 7 p.m.-1 a.m. Saturday, cover
Misty's Place, 1109 E. Commercial St., 417-868-8808: Stormin' Monkey, 7 p.m. Thursday, no cover; Sean Clavin and the Dirty Truth, 9 p.m. Friday, no cover; Act A Fool, 9 p.m. Saturday, no cover; Open Jam with Steampunk Revolution, 3-7 p.m. Sunday, no cover
Mulligan's, 2820 N. Glenstone Ave., 417-869-3900: Terry Armes, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Friday-Saturday, no cover
Nathan P. Murphy's, 218 S. Campbell Ave., 417-771-5482: Bikes & BBQ with Kaps & Stems, 7-11 p.m. Sunday, cover
Nowhere, 2826 E. Division St., 417-865-3053: Ladies Night with Hot Mic Karaoke, 7-11 p.m. Wednesdays, no cover
The Outland, 326 South Ave., 417-869-7625: MonkAFunk, 9 p.m. Thursday, cover; Midnight Riders Tour, 9 p.m. Friday, cover; Yawpers, Deathrayz, Fuzz Beater, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks, 9 p.m. Saturday, cover; Mascara Metal Monday, 9 p.m. Monday, cover; Sarah Pearl and Pals, 9 p.m. Wednesday, cover
The Outland Ballroom, 324 South Ave., 417-869-7625: Every Time I Die with Silent Planet, This Above All and Messengers, 7 p.m. Friday, cover
Patton Alley Pub, 313 S. Patton Ave., 417-865-1188: Eddie Gumucio and the Electrics, 9 p.m. Friday, cover; Ben Miller Band with Justice Adams Band, 8:30 p.m. Saturday, cover
Springfield Brewing Company, 301 S. Market Ave., 417-832-8277: 180 degrees featuring Kristi Merideth, 8 p.m. Thursday, no cover; John Strickler Trio, 6-9 p.m. Friday, no cover; Ryan Talbot Experience, 6-9 p.m. Saturday, no cover; Molly Healey and Dallas Jones on the patio, 7 p.m. Sunday, no cover; Madison Avenue, 6-9 p.m. Tuesday on the patio, no cover; Ken Hopper, 6-8 p.m. Wednesday on the patio, no cover
Wacky Jacks Grill and Saloon, 3632 Missouri EE, Highlandville, 417-443-0223: Karaoke, 8 p.m.-midnight Thursday, no cover; Open Fire, 8 p.m. Friday, no cover; Karaoke, 8 p.m.-midnight Saturday, no cover
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'Fear the Walking Dead' hastens makeover with surprise twist
The following contains spoilers about the April 29 episode of "Fear the Walking Dead."...
Updated: Apr 30, 2018 10:49 AM
The following contains spoilers about the April 29 episode of "Fear the Walking Dead."
The wholesale fourth-season makeover of "Fear the Walking Dead" continued in the AMC show's third episode, with the sudden and surprising death of an original cast member.
AMC has sought to breathe life into the series with several key additions in its latest season, including Lennie James, who was brought over from the flagship drama "The Walking Dead," as the character of Morgan.
But Sunday's episode hastened the transformation of "Fear" into practically a new show with the slaying of Nick (Frank Dillane), who was shot and killed near the end of the hour.
Although the changes appear to represent a strategy to change a series that wasn't quite working creatively on the fly, the producers issued a statement saying the decision to exit originated with Dillane, and that they endeavored to craft a story that was "organic and impactful" and would offer him an appropriate sendoff.
According to the producers, during the third season, "Frank asked the producers and AMC to end his run on the show in order to pursue other opportunities. ... We have loved working with Frank, and while he'll be greatly missed, we're also excited about the storytelling opportunities these next chapters of the series present."
Death has been a fact of life on both "Dead" series, but Dillane was one of the few remaining players from when the show premiered. Kim Dickens and Alycia Debnam-Carey, who play his mother and sister, respectively, remain.
Dillane was scheduled to address his departure Sunday on "Talking Dead," the AMC talk show devoted to the series.
"Fear the Walking Dead" returned two weeks ago behind "Walking Dead's" eighth-season finale. Last week's episode, without the benefit of that lead-in, drew a little more than 3 million viewers, per Nielsen data, which represents marked improvement over the apocalyptic drama's third-season average.
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