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Why We All Resemble Fishing Lures
By Amy Obarski
First there’s the anticipation. Should I do it? Should I wait longer? What will my parents think? Is it going to hurt? Then there’s the rush. That feeling when the needle touches you and every hair stands on end as it penetrates your skin. And finally there’s the release. When the needle leaves your system and you are free to gaze upon this new addition to your body.
Body modification is anything but a new art form. Because various tribes and ethnicities around the world have practiced it, there is no recorded origin. It ultimately encompasses a wide range of practices that include more than your everyday piercing or tattoo.
Some of the more obscure forms of body alteration are neck rings (ancient African and Asian culture), pearling (genital beading), implants (insertion of metal between the skin and the bone) and eyeball tattoos/jewelry (involving corneal surgery). But despite these graduated forms of body modification, the basic tattoos and piercings have been around for thousands of years, and they continue to rise in popularity today. But why is body modification so popular? The answer is nothing short of “because it feels good.” It involves the chemical reactions that occur in your body when you experience pain. According to Dr. Helen Lathrop, a clinical psychologist based in Toronto, Ontario, you experience the common flight or fight response when you get something pierced or tattooed.
When your body experiences any sort of pain, your brain tells your body to send out pain-suppressing chemicals (adrenaline) which gives you a sense of strength (or rush) that empowers you. Like if you’re a mother and your child is stuck under a Hummer, you get this sudden burst of energy and you raise the massive automobile so your child can escape … then you blow up the Hummer production plant for faulty manufacturing.
But your body cannot sustain this level of chemical influence for very long, so your brain balances out the adrenaline with neurotransmitters (dopamine) that gives you a sense of euphoria. You can commonly experience this in a sneeze or orgasm.
Because of this chemical reaction, people become addicted to body modification and ultimately strive to recreate this sensation as many times as humanly possible. I speak from experience on this point.
In my first week in Ithaca, a few friends and I went down to Steihl’s Body Modification Station on the Commons, and I looked through their catalogue. I wound up getting my helix (the upper cartilage in my ear) pierced. In that split second when the needle broke through my cartilage, I felt this huge rush. I felt empowered, even though I was clutching the bench as hard as I could out of fear.
Honestly, I would have considered myself dangerous after that session. I wanted to go right upstairs and search for a tattoo. Thankfully, the shop was closing as I was leaving. Undoubtedly, I am going to return for another piercing.
The next time you look at someone decked out in body jewelry and art, don’t judge; just realize their expression is a result of human sensation. Billions of humans experience these sensations that others around the world have been feeling for thousands of generations, and we keep coming back for more.
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Democrats are going to lose this one. The first stage of the emerging deal doesn’t include revenue, doesn’t include stimulus, and lets Republicans pocket a trillion dollars or more in cuts without offering anything to Democrats in return.
The second stage convenes a congressional “Supercommittee” to recommend up to $2 trillion in further cuts, and if their plan doesn’t pass Congress, there’s an enforcement mechanism that begins making automatic, across-the-board cuts to almost all categories of spending. So heads Democrats lose, tails Republicans win.
It’s difficult to see how it could have ended otherwise. Virtually no Democrats are willing to go past Aug. 2 without raising the debt ceiling. Plenty of Republicans are prepared to blow through the deadline. That’s not a dynamic that lends itself to a deal. That’s a dynamic that lends itself to a ransom.
But Democrats will have their turn. On Dec. 31, 2012, three weeks before the end of President Barack Obama’s current term in office, the Bush tax cuts expire. Income tax rates will return to their Clinton-era levels. That amounts to a $3.6 trillion tax increase over 10 years, three or four times the $800 billion to $1.2 trillion in revenue increases that Obama and Speaker John Boehner were kicking around. And all Democrats need to do to secure that deal is...nothing.
This scenario is the inverse of the current debt-ceiling debate, in which inaction will lead to an outcome -- a government default -- that Democrats can’t stomach and Republicans think they can. There is only one thing that could stand in the way of Democrats passing significant new revenues on the last day of 2012: the Obama administration.
Republicans -- and even some Democrats -- think that the Obama administration lives to collect revenue. The truth is closer to the opposite. Senior administration aides view the expiration of the Bush tax cuts as less of an opportunity than a chore. About four-fifths of the cuts go to households making less than $250,000 a year, and they don’t want to raise taxes on those folks. They don’t like the politics of the issue, either. It’s an article of faith among Democratic strategists that debates on taxes inevitably favor Republicans, allowing Democrats to be hammered from the right and undermined from the left. White House aides would rather focus on “win the future” issues like infrastructure, education and energy.
The White House’s strategy in the debt-ceiling negotiations has reflected its ambivalence, with Obama trying to extract either as much revenue as Republicans would allow or as little as Democrats would accept. Obama even offered Boehner a deal in which the Bush tax cuts would be extended right now, so Republicans wouldn’t have to fear a subsequent negotiation in which they lacked leverage. Boehner rejected that deal and, in doing, might have saved the safety net.
But the Obama administration doesn’t want to take its second chance. They argue that the economy will still be recovering in 2013, and so it’s not an ideal time for a large tax increase. True. But what happens in 2012 is not simply setting tax policy for 2013. It’s setting tax policy for decades to come.
Health costs are rising and the Baby Boomers are retiring. If taxes don’t rise, none of these commitments are sustainable. And Republicans, in normal times, are perfectly capable of blocking any and all attempts to raise taxes. For Democrats, the expiration of the Bush tax cuts presents a unique opportunity in which GOP intransigence will mean more new revenues rather than no new revenues.
The alternative has been on clear display in recent months. Republicans can’t necessarily sell the country on big cuts in federal programs, but they can make them necessary. All they need to do is hold the line aganst taxes, allow deficits will continue to mount, and then use forcing events like the debt ceiling or the budget to demand huge spending cuts. A world in which the two parties can’t agree on tax increases but can agree on spending cuts is one in which the government eventually shrinks dramatically. Republicans understand this. Do Democrats?
A year ago, I was less concerned about the Bush tax cuts. I assumed, as did many in Washington, that the Republicans’ antipathy to taxes was a negotiating stance. Eventually, we would strike a “grand bargain” that would reduce spending and raise revenue substantially. The past few months have proved me wrong.
Republicans have shown, that they will block any and all tax increases, no matter what incentives they are offered in return and no matter how dire the consequences of their refusal. Next year’s deadline offers Democrats their only chance to negotiate from a superior strategic position. Republicans will still be able to refuse to raise taxes. But if they do, it won’t matter. The only way they can succeed in keeping taxes from rising is if the Obama administration and the Democrats stand shoulder-to-shoulder with them to extend the Bush tax cuts. | <urn:uuid:8a77adbb-8d1b-427b-9b71-844290a00baf> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/democrats-will-lose-now-but-they-can-win-later/2011/07/11/gIQARfWOlI_blog.html?hpid=z2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720153.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00323-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953373 | 1,055 | 1.539063 | 2 |
What does Adalley mean?
Associated with: noble.
1 more related form via Adalia: Adal.Creative forms:
(female) Adalla, Adalli, ..
(male) Adalla, Adalle, .. Middle name pairings:
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How popular is Adalley?
Adalley is an uncommon given name for females. Adalley is an equally rare last name for both adults and children. (2000 U.S. Demographics)
Which version is better?with its source form and related girl names. Adalee (#1127 the previous year), Adalie (#1502) and Adalia (#1846) are the popular variation forms of Adalley (outside Top 2000). These forms of Adalley are at the apex of their popularity today (adoption of 0.02%). (Top Baby Names, 2015)
Adalley is alike in pronunciation to Addalla, Adelei, Adelie, Adella▼ and Adellah. Other suggested similar names are Adaire, Adalena, Adalene, Adalheid, Adalin, Adalina, Adaline▲, Adaliz, Adallina, Adalyn▲, Adalynn▲, Addey, Adele▼, Adell▼, Adelle, Adley▲, Adollfa, Adorlee, Aedelle, Ailey, Ainsley▲, Aley, Alle, Alley, Allfy, Ally, Amalea, Amalee, Amalfey, Analee, Ardelle, Arley, Asheley, Atalee, Atalie, Avalee, Axelle, Azalea▲, Bailley, Bayley, Bradley, Cailey, Calley, Carley▼, Emilley (see Emily), Hailey, Haley▼, Halley, Harley▲, Hayley▼, Holley, Kahley, Kailey, Kalley, Karley, Kayley▼, Kaylley, Kealey, Kelley▼, Molley, Nelley, Polley, Railey, Raley, Reilley, Salley, Shelley▼, Talley, Tilley and Valley. These names tend to be more commonly used than Adalley.See names in meaning and etymology. | <urn:uuid:c9c38784-3975-40c2-a945-8b6496547c66> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Adalley | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00283-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.787511 | 512 | 1.851563 | 2 |
I, like many of you, will be watching the gripping miniseries, The Dropout. It unpacks one of the most bizarre cases of corporate fraud you will ever see. By a blood-testing start-up called Theranos, no less.
The company managed to dupe many high-profile investors. It shows me that I am never too old to learn an investment lesson.
Putting the Theranos case study into context
So, in 2014 Elizabeth Holmes was a 30-year-old billionaire. She had founded a company valued at $9bn (£6.5bn) for supposedly bringing about a revolution in diagnosing disease.
The only problem? The technology didn’t work.
Soon enough, Holmes was exposed as a fake. In honour of the high-profile debacle, here are five lessons from the Theranos story that continue to serve me well in my investment journey.
Always evaluate the track record of the management team
Firstly, a big clue is in the title of the miniseries – The Dropout. The fact the CEO of the start-up was a university dropout with no track record in the medical industry is an immediate red flag for me.
The saying goes, “there are no bad companies, only bad managers.” To invest, I must believe beyond doubt that the management team are competent and know what they are doing. Otherwise, I don’t!
Don’t worry about other people
As with many trends in life, herd theory occurs in finance when investors follow the crowd instead of their own analysis. In the case of Theranos, the crowd included bigwigs like Larry Ellison and Henry Kissinger. But, no matter how clever I believe my potential co-investors are, it will never be enough to convince me to invest in a stock. At least not unless I have justified this with my own view.
I never invest in businesses that I do not understand
At one point Theranos claimed to be able to perform all manner of tests, ranging from cholesterol levels to complex genetic analysis. All with just a single pinprick of blood.
Admittedly, I am no geneticist, and haven’t met many. This, in all likelihood, means that I will not understand complex genetic analysis. That is my personal signal to avoid investment.
If I don’t understand a stock, I do not invest in it.
I avoid concentration risk at all costs
Concentration risk occurs when I rely too much on a single investment; for example, a single company’s shares.
So, my prime objective is to avoid an over-reliance on a particular stock or security. My portfolio could be exposed to severe losses if the company goes bust. This turned out to be the reality for many an investor in Theranos.
As such, I counter this by spreading my investment risk by diversifying across sectors, asset classes and regions.
I will never invest in a business I do not understand
In conclusion, investment sage Warren Buffett once said “never invest in a business you cannot understand”. This is the rule I have found to be the most important in my stock-picking journey.
As an investor, independent thought and analysis has served me well.
In the end, I’d rather blame myself for my investment mistake, than someone like Elizabeth Holmes.
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The changing U.S. transportation environment has led to a renaissance in rail transport in the context of high energy prices, adverse environmental impacts of the present system, expensive infrastructure investments, highway and airport congestion, demand for urban rail systems, the vision for higher speed passenger rail, and the need for a truly integrated national transportation system. Consequently, there is a corresponding need to revitalize railroad transportation and engineering educational curricula, programs, and activities in the U.S.
Fortunately, over the past 15 years members of the NURail Center have recognized this need and begun to address it. UKY began teaching two rail classes in the 1990s. MIT continued to include strong rail content in its transportation systems and public transport classes. UIUC, which previously had been teaching only one rail course, hired a new faculty member in 1998 to rebuild their rail curriculum, increasing the number of classes in rail and public transport from one to seven. In the early 2000s, MTU developed an innovative international rail studies program and then rail classes. Most recently, UTK and UIC launched new rail courses, and RHIT incorporated new rail content into its existing courses.
As encouraging as these developments are, they are not nearly enough to meet the nation’s pressing need for a new generation of railroad transportation and engineering professionals. Addressing this challenge is a major thrust of the NURail Center. The table below shows each partner university and the rail courses they currently offer.
NEW Master of Engineering in Railway Engineering program. This non-thesis master's degree can be earned in 3 semesters and includes an international exchange semester with KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. This degree helps address growth in the rail industry which has led to a substantial demand for a new generation of professionals educated in the principles of railway engineering. It provides a broad interdisciplinary education in railway engineering for a variety of professional career-track students. For more program details, click here.
This course includes an introduction to highway-rail grade crossings and railroad track system design, components, roadbeds, and maintenance.
This course provides in-depth understanding of railroad track engineering concepts including track component and system design, construction, evaluation, maintenance, load distribution, and wheel/rail interaction.
The course begins with review of train resistance, power, speed and acceleration calculation and then covers stringline diagrams, train scheduling and train stopping distance calculation. Concepts of temporal and spatial separation of trains to ensure safe and efficient use of equipment and infrastructure are introduced.
This course provides a comprehensive, integrated understanding of the process of planning and designing a railroad-engineering project from concept through to operation.
Although the basic elements of the technology resemble conventional rail transport, there are numerous engineering design differences, including the subgrade, track system, motive power, rolling stock, traffic control, power distribution system, traffic control and station design. Recent plans for development of HSR in North America mean that engineers must understand these engineering elements, as well as the planning, economics, construction, operation, maintenance, management and other principles of HSR systems, in order to successfully develop them.
This course provides an introduction to planning of an HSR passenger transport system. Students learn about steps involved in HSR planning and methodologies for station and route selection, capital cost estimation, operation and maintenance costs estimation, ridership forecasting, economic analysis, project implementation and financing.
This course will review the characteristics of a HSR construction project, and introduce the phases and processes of constructing a HSR system.
This course provides an introduction to transportation risk concepts, risk management framework and risk assessment methodologies to address safety and security of freight and hazardous materials transport by railways, roads, waterways and pipelines
This course will examine the theory of track design; the practical application of track engineering principles; and technology advances in track evaluation, modeling and maintenance.
In this course, students learn details of the design, operations planning, management and optimization of the terminal facilities required for the railway network to function as an efficient freight transportation system.
Introduction to the engineering, operational and institutional requirements and challenges of operating higher-speed passenger trains on infrastructure also used for heavy axle- load freight trains.
This course describes the components of rail vehicles as well as their design to meet various demands, including railcar suspension and carbody tilting systems.
This course provides an understanding of the dynamic interaction between vehicle and track by describing superlevation and curve negotiation, vibration and ride comfort, hunting and conicity, wheel-rail contact, wheel and rail wear, and derailment safety.
An introduction to electric railway traction including traction mechanics, rail systems, electrical drives, and power supplies.
RailTEC affiliated courses are taught by other transportation and civil engineering faculty actively engaged in railroad research projects (RailTEC Affiliated Faculty). While not primarily focused on rail, these classes offer significant railroad content.
This covers occurrence and properties of surficial soils, soil classification systems, soil variability; subgrade evaluation procedures, repeated loading behavior of soils; soil compaction and field control; soil moisture, soil temperature, and frost action; soil trafficability and subgrade stability for transportation facility engineering.
This course provides an in-depth overview of the fundamental principles of efficient operations, management, and planning of public transportation systems.
This course will teach the students the design and analysis of railroad tracks, construction, evaluation, and maintenance of railroad tracks, load distribution, track subgrade, and it will familiarize the students with the AREMA code specifications.
The course covers presentations and discussion of current literature, research and development related to rail transportation. It will mix industry and academic presentations with reading assignments and topics will be selected jointly between the course members during the first week of semester.
The course introduces students to the design and development of construction documents for railroad projects, especially to the construction of a new, or modification of an existing track.
This course give student an introduction to public transit, user characteristics, management, transit modes, data collection and surveys, planning, operations, scheduling, transit finances, and future trends.
This course gives students an overview of basic elements and roles of rail transportation, history, organizations and economics, safety, intercity and urban passenger rail, freight operations, track-train dynamics, signals and communications, motive power and equipment, track components, construction and maintenance.
Targeted to Michigan Tech students from various disciplines with interests in the rail transportation industry, this mix of discipline specific and multi-disciplinary class requirements provide students with the basic skills and background necessary to rapidly become effective specialists and leaders in the industry. In addition to the courses in rail transportation and engineering, students also learn logistics, management, leadership, and/ or communications skills to meet the demands of rail industry careers. Click here to see the Rail Transportation Minor course requirements.
The course emphasizes the transportation engineering aspects of railway operations and efficient movement of freight and passengers. It provides students with instruction in the critical concepts and planning of railway operations.
This course provides civil engineering graduate and undergraduate students a transportation technical elective course emphasizing the civil engineering aspects of Railroad Engineering.
This course provides overview on the urban mass transit system, from its system and technology. As a technical elective course, the emphases include transit operation elements, service planning and scheduling, demand analysis, capacity, line and network design, special operations, and transit alternative analysis.
This course covers the basics of railway transportation, track deign, geometric design of railroad lines and terminals, construction and maintenance, train performance, signaling and communication, and capacity analysis and operation.
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storagedude writes "A recent study of hard drive reliability by Backblaze was deeply flawed, according to Henry Newman, a longtime HPC storage consultant. Writing in Enterprise Storage Forum, Newman notes that the tested Seagate drives that had a high failure rate were either very old or had known issues. The study also failed to address manufacturer's specifications, drive burn-in and data reliability, among other issues. 'The oldest drive in the list is the Seagate Barracuda 1.5 TB drive from 2006. A drive that is almost 8 years old! Since it is well known in study after study that disk drives last about 5 years and no other drive is that old, I find it pretty disingenuous to leave out that information. Add to this that the Seagate 1.5 TB has a well-known problem that Seagate publicly admitted to, it is no surprise that these old drives are failing.'" | <urn:uuid:e09202a5-ccb8-4572-8637-ab34f21c6b18> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/01/29/233259/hard-drive-reliability-study-flawed/interesting-comments | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00055-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980006 | 186 | 1.59375 | 2 |
The Bözberg tunnel is part of the big project of the Gotthard axis: a total of 270 kilometers between Basel and the Italian border will be developed by 2020.
The existing Bözberg tunnel between Frick and Brugg in the canton of Aargau does not meet the requirement of the SBB Swiss Federal Railways and will therefore be replaced by a 2.7 km long new tunnel.
KERN Tunneltechnick SA will provide for this project one invert shutter and two polycentric shutters.
The Invert Shutter consists of 4 main parts: the 12.5m long forms, the trelliswork, the carrier and the upper structure made with the TSK system. This last structure as a double function; contrasting the up-lift force due to the fresh concrete pressure and support the chain hoist to transport the material from one side of the machine to the other.
On the 02.02.2018 has been performed the first commissioning of the machine with the final client in the KERN’s workshop. The machine will be now partially disassembled and delivered to job site. | <urn:uuid:3ac1f793-6385-4470-bf5e-c50ca3a73e5f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kern-tunneltechnik.com/en/article/274/pre-assembly-of-the-invert-formwork-b-zberg | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.907199 | 276 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Fullbust adjustment for princess seams
Added Apr 20, 2008
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Adding width Can be done in three places the side seam, the side front font stitch line and the center front seam line. For the front center seams use the bust point for the mark and on the side pick a spot above the waist. draw a straight line in perpendicular from the grain line and draw a line up parallel to the grain line to the shoulder stitch line. cut alog these lines up to but not through the stitching line of the shoulder seam spread each the amount the difference in the bust line mark and tape in place. | <urn:uuid:806d5bfc-a8a4-4538-9218-29964e15090e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.burdastyle.com/techniques/fullbust-adjustment-for-princess-seams/technique_steps/8 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00562-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.872115 | 129 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Margarine Used To Be Pink, and More Colorful Tales From The Food Dye Industry
Geege Schuman stashed this in Food Hacks
Stashed in: Colors!
Beware unnatural colors:
It's common today to hear food experts raise concerns about the amount of artificial dyes in our foods today, but this is actually a problem that has decreased with time: we're in much better shape now than we were in the Victorian era.
At the dawn of the industrial age, food vendors realized they had to put bold, beautiful colors out there to ensure customers would buy their wares. Problem was, many such vendors were using materials that were far from edible. Lead, copper, arsenic? Those are just three of the things that might be hiding in those bright delicacies being sold on street corners back in the day.
Fortunately, German scientist Frederik Accum was there to call the food industry out for these nefarious practices. After living in London for decades and seeing the way food was messed with, he finally became disgusted enough to write a book on the matter, A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons. In the book, Accrum noted that vendors would dye spent tea leaves, reuse spent coffee, and contaminate both wine and cheese with lead. | <urn:uuid:ffefcc6b-991f-4c10-b1af-9f834c9575ad> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://pandawhale.com/post/67069/margarine-used-to-be-pink-and-more-colorful-tales-from-the-food-dye-industry | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00456-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977225 | 267 | 2.734375 | 3 |
In the early days of motoring, two major automobile trails, the Lincoln Highway and the Jefferson Highway (later, U.S. 30 and U.S. 65), crossed at this site, which also happened to be the southeast corner of a farm owned by Colo resident Charlie Reed. Spotting a business opportunity, Reed began to sell gasoline to motorists in 1923 and soon added food and lodging to his roadside services, creating a “one-stop” haven for travelers.
Reed was assisted in running his blossoming businesses by a nephew, M. Reed Niland, and the latter’s wife, Florence. In the mid-1930s they were succeeded by another nephew, Clare Niland, and his wife Margaret, who were joined by their son John in 1956. After Clare died in 1978, John managed these businesses, at first with his mother and later with his wife Joan, until all operations ended with the closing of the motel in 1995.
Because three generations of the two related Colo families served auto travelers at this place for more than seventy years, it came to be known unofficially as Reed/Niland Corner, or simply Niland’s Corner. The gas station, cafe, and motel have been restored to their appearance at mid-twentieth century, when business was brisk and travelers from the four points of the compass stopped here. | <urn:uuid:06a2c91f-fef6-4db8-93be-c3afc970dcdd> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://showcase.netins.net/web/reedniland/cgi-bin/album2_005.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718309.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00405-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985886 | 281 | 1.515625 | 2 |
10 rules for doing a beer festival the right way
Use these 10 tips to make a beer festival fun — but also to not be that guy. You know which guy we mean.
1. Eat before the festival begins
Put down a base for your beer, particularly the high-alcohol brews. You might think you're drinking an ounce of beer, but you're drinking an ounce of beer at each booth with the potential to drink more than 100 ounces of beer. Math isn't that hard.
2. Plan ahead
Have a plan, said Curt Foreman, who founded Brewfest Partners, a company that arranges beer festivals in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Florida.
Acknowledge that you need to be disciplined going into it. Don't hurry along. Beer festivals are set up as "a paced social event," he said.
Most festivals have a website and information on what breweries will be at the festival and where they are located.
3. Hydrate. Hydrate. Hydrate.
We can't say it often enough. Drink water between beers. Start a pattern. Time yourself for eight ounces of water each hour or have a glass after every five booth visits.
4. Be adventurous.
"Look for things you wouldn't normally drink, sours, darks, whatever," said George Jahn Bluvas, brewmaster for Water Street Brewery. "This is the time to experiment."
5. Ask questions.
"You are there to learn; don't just hold out your glass like you are at a keg party," Bluvas said. "Ask the brewers. We like to talk about our beer and, presumably, that is why you are there."
It looks dorky, but that pretzel necklace is really a good idea.
Pretzels help fill your stomach but they also help cleanse the palate. Breweries offer a variety of styles at beer festivals. Barrel-aged beers rich with bourbon won't let you get the full taste of a lighter-than-air wheat beer, and a double IPA is likely to burn your taste buds for the next three beers you try.
7. Pace yourself.
"This is a marathon, not a sprint," Bluvas said. "If you are there to drink as much as you can in the allotted time, then you are in the wrong place."
8. Take notes.
Use an app (untappd comes to mind) or take notes on which beers you enjoyed; who made them; and where they're available. Add information on what you liked about each beer. And if there's a beer you don't like, note it as well so you don't make the mistake of buying it or ordering it again.
9. Be in the moment.
Take notes, yes, but don't let it get in the way of anyone else's chance for beer. Some beer festival workers recount people who asked them to hold the bottle so they could take a photo of it like a trophy. Meanwhile, the line grew behind them.
10. Bring a designated driver.
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For more than 130 years, the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas has ensured everyone has access to vital community programs and resources that safeguard youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. Every day, we work to support the people and neighborhoods that need it most by addressing community issues. As a charity, we’re dedicated to nurturing the potential of every child and teen, improving the nation’s health and well-being, and giving back and providing support to our neighbors. We believe we can make our community better, but we need your help to continue our work.
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Take a moment to read this Valentine's Day story about a couple who met and fell in love at the Rockwall YMCA (now JER Chilton YMCA at Rockwall).
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There's more than one way to control boost on a turbocharged car. Some methods are more expensive than the turbo they're designed to control, others cost less than the burrito I had for lunch. There are electronic ones, manual ones, and strange homologations between the two. High-tech ones enclosed in fancy looking aluminum or plastic boxes accompanied with PC linking software for things like data logging, bare bones ones that look like a shut-off valve from Home Depot, and ones that really are just a shut-off valve from Home Depot. They all work. Sort of. And unless you're regulating boost solely off the wastegate's pre-set spring, or if you have a wastegateless turbo diesel truck or something, then chances are you have some sort of boost controller already. Or at least you've been meaning to get one.
World Electronics, maker of the pricey but effective TBC-1 boost controller, now offers the newer, more affordable but equally effective PBC-1. We've had a chance to use and get used to the PBC-1 over the last several weeks on Project Laser, but before we tell you what we think of this new addition to the land of electronic boost controllers let's take a look at why you need a boost controller and the different types you can get - or make.
Aside from pulling off to the side of the road and disassembling your external wastegate to swap springs, or change out your internal wastegate actuator, using a boost controller is really the only smart way to control how much pressure your manifold sees. But they do more than that. Wastegates begin working before we need them to. Their valves typically begin to crack open once 50 percent of an engine's desired boost level is reached. Not so good. Boost controllers can keep pressure on the valve to stop this from happening, in turn, improving boost response. There are two types of boost controllers: manual and electronic. Manual controllers consist of either a ball and spring or a bleeder valve. The first uses a spring-loaded ball to temporarily block the boost reference signal the wastegate is supposed to see. Once the desired boost level is reached based on spring tension via an adjustment knob, the ball is lifted from its seat and the wastegate goes back into action. Bleeder valves are somewhat less effective and are really just a more expensive way of poking a hole in the wastegate actuator's vacuum reference line. Ball and spring controllers are fairly cheap but are unpredictable and difficult to adjust on the fly. These are best suited for vehicles looking for high boost values that a typical wastegate spring can't provide, and leaving it there. Bleeder valves are for poor people who probably can't afford the repercussions of turning up the boost anyways. Smart people can make either type.
There's really only one choice for a boost controller if you're looking for in-car, predictable adjustability, and that's an electronic one. Electronic boost controllers control the pressure signal the wastegate actuator sees by using either a stepper motor or a solenoid. Stepper motors control the opening events of the controller's valve, while solenoids either open or close the valve, quickly. Very quickly. Solenoids typically react faster than stepper motors, which means wastegate control can be even more accurate. Electronic controllers also offer digital displays in which users can punch in boost levels and the controller does the rest.
World Electronics' PBC-1 Pro Boost Controller is electronic. It also uses a solenoid, not a stepper motor. There are a few reasons why you should care about the PBC-1. First, it can control boost pressure up to 50 psi. Electronic boost controllers of past have had trouble consistently regulating even half that pressure. Second, the PBC-1 has a scramble mode that allows users up to six different boost levels. And last, the box can record up to 20 seconds of boost data for playback. While we don't have the luxury of having any vehicles here to take advantage of World's 50-psi capability, we were able to test the controller under a more mild-mannered scenario and get used to its programming and data-logging functions.
We took the opportunity to outfit our recently revived Project Laser with the PBC-1. We just installed the Big 16G turbo from Road Race Engineering and we needed a way to crank up the boost pressure, even if only a little bit. Installing World's controller consists of little more than hooking up a few wires and plumbing the solenoid into the internal wastegate's actuator signal line and the transducer to any boost source. Setup is relatively easy too. To work effectively, the PBC-1 needs to learn the vehicle's wastegate spring pressure. Doing this is easy and consists of nothing more than following a few prompts and blasting down the freeway at wide open throttle in third gear. When you're finished the controller's solenoid ends up with a duty cycle that'll ultimately work best for the indicated target boost level chosen.
Our DSM is still relatively stock, including most everything from the intake tubing and filter to the downpipe and muffler. With this in mind, especially the high exhaust gas temperatures we could expect due to the small diameter exhaust system, we opted to keep the boost at a conservative 12 psi. Instead of turning the boost way up right away, we wanted to compare 12 psi among the different scenarios the PBC-1 allows for. Same boost, but the goal here was to see what we could do about spool-up and response time by playing with the controller's features. The PBC-1 has a number of features that let you control this stuff, including ramp, duty and gain settings. Ramp controls the rate of boost without increasing the target level. For instance, we were able to increase our ramp setting to allow the 16G to have a slightly stronger initial impact as boost began to climb. In turn, this helped spool-up the turbo about 500 rpm sooner by adjusting the ramp setting by a factor of 18. This isn't the type of change you need a dyno for but is one that can actually be felt. The solenoid's duty cycle can also be adjusted. We experienced issues building full boost when on the internal wastegate's actuator alone. Even when we plumbed and wired up the PBC-1, we still weren't able to realize the full 12 psi initially. Adjusting the controller's duty cycle fixes this. The PBC-1 allows users to increase the effectiveness of the solenoid through altering its duty cycle - or how hard it works - which is exactly what we did to keep our 16G at a steady 12 psi. This is a common adjustment that can be made whenever the specified target boost level just isn't being reached. Gain can also be fine-tuned with the PBC-1. Gain is really just what happens to the boost curve after target boost pressure is " reached. By adjusting gain inside the PBC-1's unit, it's easy to alter the remaining boost curve before shifting. Play with these three settings before allowing the PBC-1 to learn your wastegate's spring pressure at your own peril. Set the target boost level first and leave everything else at zero. Adjust as necessary -in some cases you might not even need to.
Like any other electronic boost controller worth anything, the PBC-1 also has a scramble boost feature, meaning users can switch between multiple target boost settings - including ramp, gain and duty cycle for each stage - via an external momentary switch. Six stages, one switch. The switch can be located anywhere from a clutch pedal for hands-free, gear-based boost changes, to a shift knob. World's electronic boost controller also features a simple yet effective boost data logger built in to the controller. Press the control-mounted record button and up to 20 seconds of boost and time data can be stored within the controller for playback. This can be an especially useful feature for diagnosing sudden boost dips and spikes if you don't have access to expensive data logging equipment.
Most of the time, there's little to differentiate one electronic boost controller from the next besides price, colors and buttons. But the PBC-1 has a few features that help it stand out. We think its best feature is just how intuitive it is when it comes to learning the wastegate's spring pressure. We were impressed with how little tuning we needed to do to get boost stabilized where we wanted it. In total, we logged in roughly a dozen passes to get it all dialed in. Tuning time was also cut down, in part, because of the controller's built-in boost logging function. This allowed us to avoid the usual 80 mph boost gauge read and instead view our results safely pulled off to the side of the road. Try doing that with your Home Depot shut-off valve. | <urn:uuid:236aec01-955a-4188-af23-9c1852a46ce3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.superstreetonline.com/how-to/engine/0707-turp-boost-controller/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718423.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00270-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9497 | 1,826 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Jewish World Review Jan. 25, 2001/ 2 Shevat, 5761
need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
THE RAIN and the snow that fell on George W. Bush's Inaugural washed away leaves in the gutters,
trash at the curbs, and an old way of doing things.
Between the time Bill Clinton left the Oval Office and George W. took up residence at 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue, workmen carried away the deep blue oval carpet and put down a more
elegant ivory and sage rug that graced the office when Ronald Reagan was president. Sofas in a
mellower cream color gave the room a lighter touch of airiness, if not innocence. Two new paintings
depict a boy fishing and a man on horseback. The bronze "Bronco Buster'' by Fredric Remington
More than the decor is different. Unlike Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush will not move into offices in the
West Wing. She believes in separating His and Hers. (Maybe she, like my Aunt Minnie, married for
love but not for lunch.)
Washington is reveling in a new sensibility of freshness. Hillary and Bill arrived in Washington in a
storm of jaded rumors of tawdriness. We were confronted with their past on "60 Minutes'' and
soon after they arrived we had to get accustomed to hourly bulletins on who had slept where, when
and with whom. It was hard to give Hillary that "zone of privacy'' she asked for. Reporters, as
presidents before the Clintons understood well, are like termites; when they get in the woodwork
they stay there, boring from within and gnawing away. But the wood has to be vulnerable to get
The Clintons were the first boomer First Couple and they brought with them a new set of rules to
break. If Elvis shocked our grandparents when he sang "You ain't nothin' but a houn' dog,'' Bill
Clinton came of age when it was commonplace (as well as common) to run with the pack of sexual
George and Laura grew up at the same time as the Clintons and are, technically, boomers. But to
paraphrase W.'s Inaugural address, it's as though the Clintons and the Bushes shared a continent but
not a country. The difference is as wide as the difference between traditional country and hard rock.
When the Bushes talk about W.'s wild days on booze, they sound like they're singing the lyrics of
something from Nashville. "It's Jim Beam or me,'' Laura told him. (Nothing here to inhale.)
Something real is what has been missing at the White House. George and Laura looked at home at
the prayer service at the National Cathedral. It didn't look like a photo-op. There was no oversized
Bible in George W.'s hand, and they seemed to know the words to the hymns.
We didn't get the feeling they'll leave Washington with $190,000 worth of china, silver and flatware
in gifts accumulated while in the White House, or ask friends to help them furnish the new house at
the ranch. The Bushes, of course, have the taste that comes from growing up with a sense of place
in a family accustomed to a life lived in public. Tackiness and vulgarity come naturally to folks not to
the manner (or manor) born.
Bill Clinton invoked his felicitously named hometown called Hope when it was convenient, but there
was no home in Arkansas to fly back to when his term was over. For the Bushes, Texas is more
than a place to leave, it's a place to return to.
"In a way, Laura and I will never quite settle in Washington because, while the honor is great, the
work is temporary,'' he told fellow Texans in his farewell to Midland. Bill Clinton, for whom every
"farewell'' is followed by a "hail,'' made a point of saying in his farewell to the White House that
"I'm still here.''
George W. is mocked for being inarticulate, for speaking hesitantly and not always getting the
pronunciation right. But he was clear enough in telling his staff that he expects them to hew to a strict
code of legal and ethical conduct and to avoid "even the appearance of problems.'' On his final day
in office, Bill Clinton tried to spin the reasons why the state of Arkansas took away his law license
for five years and imposed a $25,000 fine for "testifying falsely.'' That's lawyer talk for "lying.''
Decency, conscience, civility and citizenship were words we heard a lot on Inauguration weekend,
the private and public virtues George W. vows to restore to practice in Washington. He reminded
us that an angel directs the storm in the whirlwind of Washington, and with a lot of rough weather in
the forecast he'll need an army of angels. But Bob Dylan, the boomer icon, was right: "You don't
need a weatherman to know which way the wind
01/22/01: Poetry and religion in the Bush administration
01/18/01: Ashcroft can't dance (don't ask him)
01/15/01: Clothes make the First Lady
01/11/01: Pity Jerusalem in the 'peace' process
01/08/01: Laying the political race card
01/04/01: 'What women want' in the new millennium
01/02/01: This year, looking ahead is sure sweeter than looking back
12/21/00: Black power with a Republican face
12/21/00: First impressions of two First Ladies
12/18/00: Challenge for the 'better angels of our nature'
12/14/00: What we've lost sight of
12/13/00: Hillary in the lion's den
12/08/00: Return of the 'second sex' on campus
12/04/00: Politics as entertainment today
11/30/00: Winner vs. whiner
11/27/00: Measuring against history
11/23/00: Memories of Thanksgiving past
11/17/00: In defense of the Electoral College
11/16/00: More than one way to win an election
11/13/00: Sexual politics squared
11/09/00: A Middle East legacy
11/06/00: Filling in the dots at campaign's end
11/02/00: His own man in full
10/30/00: The Oval Office, through a glass brightly
10/23/00: There'll always be an England. Maybe.
10/19/00: The celebrity candidate
10/16/00: 'Ladies night' at the second debate
10/12/00: Gore vs. Bush: Volvo vs. Maserati
10/10/00: We weep for Rami for he is dead
10/05/00: Looking at Lieberman from inside the 'ghetto'
10/02/00: Campaigns, candidates, and kissy-face
09/28/00: Laughing and crying over Joe Lieberman
09/21/00: Targeting teenagers for money
09/21/00: Sexual politics in New York
09/18/00: Surviving the stereotypes and debates
09/14/00: Gloria Steinem runs cheerfully into captivity
09/12/00: Sex in the eye of the partisan
09/07/00: 'Sex and death' on the college campus
09/05/00: Joe Lieberman as a 'Menorah Man'
08/31/00: Rising suns of the conventions
08/17/00: Changing icons: From Loretta Young to Hillary Clinton
08/14/00: The Creator returns to the public square
08/10/00: Bursting with pride, but caution too
08/07/00: Brains, beauty and beastly politics
08/03/00: A candidate with a superego
07/31/00: The sizzling Lynne Cheney
07/27/00: The party of the aging Playboys
07/24/00 Hillary drives the Jewish wagon into a ditch
07/20/00 Conservatives gone fishin'
07/17/00: Snoop Doggy Dogg was a founding father, wasn't he?
07/13/00: When a teenager doesn't need a prime minister
07/10/00: Abortion as cruel and unusual punishment
07/06/00: Surviving 'survivor' TV
07/03/00: Independence Day with Norman Rockwell
06/29/00: Here comes 'something old'
06/26/00: Waiting too long for the baby
06/22/00: Good teachers, curious students and oxymorons
06/19/00: Wanted: Some ants for Gore's pants
06/15/00: Like father, like daughter
06/12/00: Culture wars and conservative warriors
06/08/00: Return of the housewife
06/05/00: Hillary and Al -- playing against type
05/31/00: The sexual revolution confronts the SUV
05/25/00: Waiting for the movie
05/22/00: Pistol packin' mamas
05/18/00: Journalists and the 'new time' religion
05/15/00: There's nothing like a (military) dame
05/11/00: 'The Human Stain' on campus
05/09/00: We've come a long way, Betty Friedan
05/04/00: From George Washington to Mansa Masu
05/01/00: Gore's ruthless doublespeak
04/28/00: Doing it Castro's way
04/24/00: Women's studies beget narrow minds
04/17/00: The slippery slope of anti-Semitism
04/13/00: A villain larger than life
04/10/00: When mourning becomes an economic tragedy
04/03/00: The last permissible bigotry
03/30/00: Seeking the political Oscar
03/23/00: The gaying of America
03/20/00: Pointy-eared quadrupeds on campus
03/16/00: The shocking art of the establishment
03/13/00: Sawdust on the campaign trail
03/10/00: Campaign rhetoric of manhood
03/06/00: The Amphetamine of the People
03/02/00: Elegy for Amadou
02/29/00: With only a million, what's a poor girl to do?
02/24/00: The changing politics of change
02/16/00: Tip from Hillary: 'Let 'em eat eggs'
02/10/00: No seances with Eleanor
02/07/00: Campaigning like our founding fathers
02/03/00: When neo-Nazis have short memories
01/31/00: George W. -- 'Ladies man' and 'man's man'
01/27/00: Dead white males and live white politicians
01/25/00: Smarting over presidential smarts
01/21/00: A post-modern song for `The Sopranos'
01/19/00: When personality is a long-distance plus
01/13/00: French lessons in amour --- and marriage
01/10/00: Reaching for the Big Golden Apple
01/07/00: Liddy Dole as the face of feminism
01/04/00: Hillary: From victim to victor
12/30/99: 'Dream catchers' for the millennium
12/27/99: In search of a candidate with strength and eloquence
12/21/99: The president as First Lady
12/16/99: Columbine with blurred hindsight
12/09/99: Homeless deserve discriminating attention
12/07/99: Casual censors and deadly know-nothings
12/02/99: Why mom didn't make general: A reality tale
11/30/99: Potholes on the road to the Promised Land
11/25/99: A feast for the spirit and the stomach
11/23/99: Fathers need to say 'I (can) do'
11/18/99: Adventures of a conservative pundit
11/15/99: Traveling with Jefferson on the information highway
11/11/99: Wanted: 'Foliage of forbiddinness' for the oval office
11/09/99: Eggs, art and rotten commerce
11/05/99: Al Gore, 'Alpha Male'. Bow wow.
11/01/99: Gay love
10/28/99: Lose one Dole, lose two
10/26/99: Rebels with a violent cause
10/21/99: Reforming parents, reforming schools
10/19/99: The male mystique -- he shops
10/13/99:The campaign of the Teletubbies
10/08/99: Money is in the eye of the art dealer
10/01/99: Lincoln's 'Almost Chosen People'
09/29/99: Introducing Bill and Hillary Bickerson
09/27/99: Must we wait for the next massacre?
09/24/99: Miss America meets Miss'd America
09/21/99: Princeton's 'professor death'
09/16/99: The Cisneros lesson
09/13/99: No clemency for personal politics
09/08/99: M-M-M is for manhood
08/30/99: Blocking the schoolhouse door
08/27/99: No kick from cocaine
08/23/99: Movies don't kill people
08/19/99: A rude awakening
08/16/99: Dubyah and that 'language' thing
08/09/99: Chauvinist sows -- oink oink
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Finding Value in Waste
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on the TechnoServe blog.
The great Peter Drucker once said, “Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.” The story of Liset and Ximena Contreras embodies this quote and much more.
As the number one exporter of Brazil nuts with 35 percent of the total market share, Bolivia cultivates approximately 20,000 tons of this product a year. Only 0.8 percent of the Brazil nuts are exported with their shell; the rest are cracked and their nutshells are discarded as waste. Liset, a 25-year-old Bolivian industrial engineer, came up with the idea of using discarded nutshells as a source of biofuel.
The nutshell waste is often produced in remote areas of the Amazon, and much of it is dumped in the Beni River, where it ferments and attracts mosquitoes with diseases like dengue fever. As Liset was researching this problem, she discovered that the nutshells had a higher calorific value than wood pellets, making them a potential source of fuel. Together with her sister Ximena, Liset founded PelletBol, a company dedicated to finding new uses for waste materials. As their first project, Ximena and Liset developed a method to compress the Brazil nutshells into pellets.
Pellets have an array of uses, the most common being food for livestock. Wooden pellets also are used as fuel for pellet-based heating machinery. Demand for pellets has grown in recent years because of rising fossil fuel costs and increasing awareness of global warming. In fact, biomass pellets are the most commercialized form of biomass in Europe, and it is expected that demand for biomass products will grow 44 percent between 2010 and 2020.
PelletBol is the pioneer firm in this niche market in Bolivia. The company entered a TechnoServe business plan competition and was selected as a winner, allowing the company to receive one-on-one assistance from a specialized consultant for 10 months. PelletBol received $15,000 to invest in processing machinery thanks to the U.S. Agency for International Development, which provided cash awards to some business plan competition winner.
TechnoServe also helped the Contreras sisters with their application to the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards, an international business plan competition that aims to identify, support and encourage projects by women entrepreneurs. Liset and Ximena were chosen as finalists for Latin America, and later this week in Paris they will present their business plan to a panel for judging. For their presentation, TechnoServe helped connect the sisters with Concepción University in Chile in order to analyze the energy content of the nutshells.
Impact and Future Challenges
As the world’s largest producer of shelled Brazil nuts, the Bolivian industry generates up to 100,000 jobs either directly or indirectly, and roughly 28,000 families depend on it for their income. The newfound use of Brazil nutshells will benefit impoverished communities in the Amazon region, where most of the Brazil nut trees are located. PelletBol obtains its shells through collectors and factories that process the product. The collectors make an average of $0.38 per kilogram. With an increased demand for nutshells, these men and women can sell their kilo at a price that is 7 percent higher.
The main challenge that this young enterprise faces is the lack of pellet-based heating systems in their home country. PelletBol is pushing for the implementation and promotion of these systems in Bolivia and hopes to reach the levels that Chile, Argentina and Brazil have. Their first goal is to provide heating fuel to the plateau area of El Salar de Uyuni, where there are low temperatures year-round and no natural gas available for heating. PelletBol also is investigating new ways of profiting on other forms of renewable biomass such as olive stones and quail dung.
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Drive an Audi? Love tech? Then you’ll probably be very pleased to see what the interior of the new TT looks like. Unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the most notable feature is the giant map where the instrument panel would usually be.
The 12.3-inch TFT monitor occupying the space means that drivers can switch between two display modes. In the classic view, the speedometer and rev counter are in the foreground, while in “infotainment†mode, the virtual instruments are smaller, creating room for things like the aforementioned map.
Along with the display, Audi seems to have gone for an aeroplane theme throughout the interior. In an official press release the German marque says:
From above, the instrument panel resembles an airplane wing; set low and with a turbine look about them, the round air nozzles, a classic TT feature, are reminiscent of jet engines.
That’s pretty masculine language for something which was once considered the quintessential hairdresser’s car.
Aside from that though, placing the navigation and infotainment system also seems a fair bit safer than placing it centrally in the cockpit, especially when it comes to navigation.
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Monday, October 24, 2016
About 60% of employed Indians aspire to become entrepreneurs over the next decade, indicating an openness to take risks and confidence to follow their passion in the country, a survey by GoDaddy, a technology provider dedicated to small businesses, has found. The survey covered nearly 1,200 responde...
Every year nearly two lakh students compete for barely 4,000 seats at the premier Indian Institutes of Management; in other words, 50 candidates for each seat. That statistic highlights the challenges in India’s higher education system. It also indicates the opportunities that a lot of ed-tech...
1 July, 2016 |
After Sachin Bansal, co-founder and executive chairman, and Binny Bansal, co-founder and CEO of Flipkart, Ankit Nagori’s was perhaps the most well-known face at the e-commerce company. Starting off in 2010 as a 24-year-old manager at India’s hottest consumer internet company, Nagori rose...
17 May, 2016 |
By Mukund Mohan, Chief Executive Officer of EOVL, a leading social commerce company. We (my wife and I) have reviewed 57 start-up ideas by budding Indian entrepreneurs over the last six months who are looking for angel investment. While 35 per cent of them (the highest number) were related to educat...
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Are your children approaching the age where they stop believing in Santa Claus? For a lot of us, children grow up too fast. The innocent years are all short. Believing in Santa Claus is one phase of childhood that ends all too soon. If your children still believe however are getting skeptical, you can arrange to have them receive personalized Santa letters and arrange to illustrate Santa’s visit with a Santa evidence kit.
Personalized Santa letters are a fairly new service supplied by many department stores, websites, and individuals. Many of these suppliers offer similar features. Form letters are developed in like a manner as to look like from Santa Claus. These form letters can be edited and personalized with information particular to each child. Names, ages, pets, and other personal information are provided through the parents and connected to appropriate places within the letters. Reference is normally made to the gifts requested from the child, specifically if the child has written a letter to Santa.
Personalized Santa letters will brighten each child’s Christmas and help to prolong the belief that Santa is real. It will be a higher point of the child’s Christmas season to get a personalized Santa letter. Many businesses that offer this service even add an “official” North Pole postmark. Seeing this will heighten the anticipation of reading the letter making it more believable.
Another method of prolonging the belief in Santa Claus is staging the scene on Christmas morning to create a night visitor look more real. Many families are making it a tradition to go out of milk and cookies out for Santa. Often the parent that places the Christmas gifts underneath the tree will eat one or more and drink some to all of the milk to really make it look as if Santa came and enjoyed a snack.
Some companies offer a new product known as a Santa evidence kit. This kit contains many different things that that might be dropped by Santa in the haste to depart and continue his rounds. A “thanks” card to get placed through the cookies and milk plate, a glove, Santa’s eyeglasses, a license plate for your sleigh, and a ribbon awarding a prize for best decorated tree are samples of items which could come in a Santa evidence kit. If placed carefully in various locations, the items in this kind of kit can make it appear that Santa came along with to leave in a big rush. Children prone to getting up in the center of the night, especially on Christmas Eve, will appreciate this. They know they are not meant to catch Santa.
With children growing up so fast in today’s world, helping them to keep a bit of innocence a bit while longer can become a huge blessing. Receiving Personalized Santa letters and finding the items in a Santa evidence kit scattered strategically can help children to carry on believing in Santa Claus a little while longer and hold onto childhood just a little longer.
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Each time a child receives a personalized letter through the big guy himself, his or her eyes light with an amazing joy and their very soul is full of enchantment of the different kind.
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- a mutual decision to allow such things is similar in that respect, then both parties are guilty of the same thing: Breaking the marriage agreement. I'm just asking you whether this principle is an ad-hoc thing that you only apply in the case of marriages, or whether you think it should apply to contract law as well. Makes sense to be consistent, right?
Not really, marriage is not a contract in that respect see; R v R 1 A.C. 599, House of Lords.
This case is about marital rape but the "marital contract" is discussed in obiter.
People don't get divorced because of a broken agreement they get divorced because of irreconcilable differences that may be evidenced by
adultery, abandonment etc...
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Mark Zuckerberg made a donation of $5 million to a college fund for undocumented immigrants.
The Facebook CEO and his wife, Priscilla Chan, gave the money to the “I’m In” campaign launched by TheDream.us, a national scholarship fund for undocumented immigrants.
The fund targets students who came to the U.S. as children and received Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival status, an immigration policy started by President Obama that gives them exemption from deportation and allows them to work.
Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page that he sees the fund’s efforts as an important step in educating marginalized youth in America.
“America was founded as a nation of immigrants,” he says. “We ought to welcome smart and hardworking young people from every nation, and to help everyone in our society achieve their full potential.”
Zuckerberg said his donation will go to more than 400 undocumented immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area over the next five years.
It’s not his first foray in this area. Two years ago he joined a number of other leading technology CEOs to form a public interest group to push for a significant increase in legal immigration and a path to citizenship.
TheDream.us is headed by Don Graham, who is on Facebook’s board of directors, and comes from the family that formerly published The Washington Post.
The “I’m In” campaign has raised at least $35 million. The campaign kicked off three weeks ago with two $15 million donations — one from Graham himself and the other from The Pershing Square Foundation. | <urn:uuid:afb453f2-96b1-4465-9470-1cd6f504f81b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rightvenuebd.com/mark-zuckerberg-gives-5-million-to-undocumented-immigrant-college-fund/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.976637 | 340 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Too much stress in your life can lead to brain changes linked to depression and Alzheimer's, scientists have warned.
Evidence from a major review of published research suggests that chronic stress and anxiety damage key brain regions involved in emotional responses, thinking and memory.
Lead author Dr Linda Mah, from the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care in Toronto, Canada, said: "Pathological anxiety and chronic stress are associated with structural degeneration and impaired functioning of the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex (PFC), which may account for the increased risk of developing neuropsychiatric disorders, including depression and dementia."
The review paper, published in the journal Current Opinion in Psychiatry, pooled together findings from a number of recent studies of stress and fear conditioning in animals, and people undergoing brain scans.
Dr Mah's team looked specifically at neural circuits linked to fear and anxiety in three brain regions, the amygdala, PFC, and hippocampus.
A see-saw pattern was seen in response to chronic stress with the amygdala, associated with emotional responses, becoming over-active and the PFC under-active.
The PFC contains "thinking" areas of the brain that help to regulate emotional responses by appraising them in a rational way.
Temporary episodes of anxiety, fear and stress - experienced before an exam or job interview, for instance - are part of normal life. But the scientists point out that when such acute emotional reactions become chronic they can "wreak havoc" on immune, metabolic and cardiovascular systems, and damage the brain.
On a more hopeful note, Dr Mah believes stress-induced damage to the brain may not be completely irreversible.
Treatment with anti-depressant drugs and physical activity had both been found to boost regeneration of the hippocampus, she said.
"Looking to the future, we need to do more work to determine whether interventions, such as exercise, mindfulness training and cognitive behavioural therapy, can not only reduce stress but decrease the risk of developing neuropsychiatric disorders," Dr Mah added. | <urn:uuid:427cbd7f-c3ba-48f9-95c3-292ac22ef336> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/too-much-stress-can-cause-alzheimer-s-say-experts-1-7693417 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00347-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939512 | 408 | 2.890625 | 3 |
AS THE WORLD TURNS: by R.J. StoveNews Weekly
Latest PC news flash - black child-killers absolutely OK
, October 23, 2004
In Hillsboro, Oregon, US, two-year-old Ryshawn Lamar Bynum died from the combined effects of brain injuries, a broken neck, broken ribs, and 70 whip marks on his legs, buttocks, back and chest.
His father and murderer Isaac Bynum came up with a novel defence: "Post-Traumatic Slavery Syndrome".
Isaac's lawyer Randall Vogt proclaimed that Isaac's killing of his child was part of this syndrome. According to defence witness Dr Joy DeGruy-Leary, from Portland State University's psychiatry department, "African Americans today are affected by past centuries of US slavery because the original slaves were never treated for the trauma of losing their homes; seeing relatives whipped, raped and killed; and being subjugated by whites.
"Because African Americans as a class never got a chance to heal, and today still face racism, oppression and societal inequality, they suffer from multi-generational trauma, says DeGruy-Leary, who is African American. Self-destructive, violent or aggressive behavior often results, she says." (The Oregonian
, Portland, May 30, 2004.)
The judge refused to accept this "post-traumatic slavery syndrome" defence in the preliminary hearing, but - hope springs eternal for the Politically Correct - has promised to consider it at the later trial.
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Hi, I tried asking this question to the pattern creator but have received no reply. I'm working from a pattern in US crochet terms, to create a small baseball cap for a doll. The pattern says: 'Row 20: turn, sc in next st, FLO – sc in each of next 52 sts, for both sides of the stitch – (1 sc, ch1, 1 sc) in one stitch, go to the lateral side, crochet from the lateral side of each row. (I added the full instructions for this part for context. I'm confused as to what the 'lateral' side is?) Thanks so much for any help. 💖 | <urn:uuid:b630ae16-3b8f-4d51-908a-8f19cdd18b9c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forum.crochetville.com/tags/pattern%20question/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.934967 | 152 | 2.203125 | 2 |
The most important online collection for genealogists is the Chronicling America, Historic American Digital Newspaper Project with over 11 million pages of freely accessible and searchable newspapers from around the United States. I have found this to be a valuable source for information about my own family members. You can search the entire collection or focus on one state or county with an advanced search. There is also a searchable list of most of the newspapers published in America since the 1600s. The list shows where and when each newspaper was published and repositories where copies are available.
This list of newspapers, called the U.S. Newspapers Directory, 1690 - Present, illustrates the fact that many researchers fail to use the resources that are available to find their ancestors. If you do a search in a specific county, you will likely be surprised at the number of newspapers that were printed during the time your family was living there.
You can also obtain items from the Library of Congress through interlibrary loan. But the borrowed items must be read or used in a local library; they will not be allowed to be checked out.
The Library of Congress also has an extensive online map collection and another extensive collection of photographs. Although not of primary interest to genealogists, the Library as a lot of video and audio files online. You may also benefit from the Preservation section of the Library. They have extensive resources concerning the preservation of all kinds of documents and artifacts. | <urn:uuid:c16ab67b-7f74-4846-bfb4-96de09b945e1> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/2016/07/where-is-all-genealogy-part-three.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719468.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00529-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960779 | 290 | 2.828125 | 3 |
It’s always a pleasant surprise when a government program works well and accomplishes what it was set up to do. And it’s always unpleasant, but never really a surprise, when a successful program is hampered by government’s tendency to micromanage. Both are happening right now.
First, some background.
In 1989, the Berlin Wall was finally torn down. Residents of countries that had spent decades behind an iron curtain celebrated the death of communism and their first taste of freedom. But when the dust settled, many found themselves wondering, “What next?”
To get their economies moving in the right direction, Congress passed the East European Democracy Act. The idea was to create enterprise funds to invest in existing companies, start new businesses and provide loans to individual entrepreneurs.
These enterprise funds were set up first in Poland and Hungary. Washington contributed $300 million in grants, but the funds were run by private individuals working pro bono.
Within 10 years, Poland’s economy was humming. So many people were eager to invest directly that an enterprise fund was no longer needed. Its assets were sold off, with half the money going to the U.S. Treasury and the rest used to fund the Polish-American Freedom Foundation. That organization is still paying dividends for the United States -- it works hard to promote civil society, democracy and the market economy, and it doesn’t cost American taxpayers a dime.
And here’s where today’s debate begins.
A number of similar enterprise funds, including those in Hungary,
Russia and Central Asia, are preparing to wind down. These areas have improved so much that, as in Poland, private investors are lining up. In Russia, for example, the enterprise fund established Delta Bank, one of the first banks in that country to provide credit cards to middle-class Russians. It was so successful that G.E. Consumer Finance paid $100 million to buy it.
So as the enterprise funds close, “victims” of their own success, the question is what to do with the capital they’ve built up. Some in our government want the same deal they got from the Polish fund: Half for the Treasury, half to promote freedom and democracy.
But this wouldn’t be a good deal for American taxpayers. When the Polish fund closed, the money it provided to the Treasury was simply swallowed up. Sad to say, but a few hundred million dollars doesn’t go very far in Washington, D.C.
This same investment would, though, make a big difference in Russia, where Vladimir Putin’s government seems to be sliding back toward autocracy. The U.S. needs to promote the rule of law, encourage open government and protect access to information in Russia. If our bureaucrats will allow it, we could set up a private foundation right away with the $330 million earned by the U.S. Russia Investment Fund.
This idea has broad support on Capitol Hill and in the administration. “At a time when U.S. funding is declining in Russia for pro-democracy, rule of law and civil society assistance programs,” Sen. Richard Lugar wrote this summer, such an investment would “provide an opportunity to make important contributions and achieve results in Russia.” And, he notes, these advantages would come “at no cost to the taxpayer.”
While in St. Petersburg for the G-8 Summit this year, President Bush announced plans to form such a foundation. But while parts of the government (State Department, USAID) support it, the Office of Management and Budget opposes it, because it wants the money now and apparently isn’t considering the long-term benefits a foundation could deliver.
It’s time to make this worthwhile project happen.
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About 40% of students say that when it comes to picking which college they will attend, the most determining factor is the "overall fit," according to a recent survey by the Princeton Review. Only about 9% of students cited affordability as the most important element in choosing their school.
That's happening, in part, because parents, and society as a whole, are allowing students to "take a kid's approach to an adult decision," personal financial coach Anthony ONeal said during a Debt-Free Degree Town Hall event with personal finance expert and best-selling author Dave Ramsey.
Students are focused on attending that all-important "dream school," rather than seriously considering what student loan debt will do to their lives 20 or 30 years down the line. While finding a school that works for you is important, it's perhaps not as important as finding a school you can afford.
"We're not against you going anywhere you want to go to school, as long as you pay for it — and don't justify [your college pick] and rationalize it based on stupid stuff," Ramsey said. "You don't want to be stupid about education, it's kind of oxymoronic," Ramsey added with his famous brand of sarcasm.
Ramsey cited an example of a recent caller from his radio program who wanted to go to University of Mississippi, known as Ole Miss. When Ramsey asked the high schooler why she wanted to go to that particular school, she responded that she liked the campus. "She's going to be $40,000 in debt because the campus is pretty," Ramsey scoffed.
During the town hall, Ramsey and ONeal, author of the upcoming book "Debt-Free Degree," said it is possible to go to college and get your undergraduate degree without taking out student loans. Here are four of the money-saving ways they recommend students and their families approach getting a degree.
Contrary to popular perception, going to community college is not a "dumb move," Ramsey said. These schools are not simply for students who didn't get into a more prestigious university.
About 8.7 million students are studying at public two-year colleges, or community colleges, according to the most recent figures from the National Center for Education Statistics. On average, tuition at these schools for the 2018-2019 school year was $3,660, but many students end up paying significantly less. In Tennessee, residents can attend the first two years of community college for free.
"We've got to start hyping up community colleges and stop saying as a culture that community colleges are horrible," ONeal said.
However, that doesn't mean all community colleges are worthwhile, Ramsey said. "There are two kinds of college professors: great and sucks," he said. Similarly, there are two types of community colleges, some of which are substandard.
That means you need to do your research, just as you would with any other university. Visit the school and talk with professors and former students.
As long as the school can provide a solid education, don't stress about its prestige. "Think about this: When you go in to get your taxes done and the guy or gal is a CPA, how many times do you ask them where they went to school?" Ramsey asks. Probably not often.
"That's the biggest lie we've ever believed: where you went to school has some correlation with your future success — it has almost zero," he said. Employers just want to know that you received an adequate education and that you can do the job.
If you don't have the cash to go to school and you're looking at debt, the biggest "mathematical change in the equation" you can make is the choice of college, Ramsey said.
Many times, a public, in-state university is a more affordable option than going out of state or to a private college. The average cost of annual in-state tuition at public colleges is $9,970, while out-of-state tuition averages $25,620, according to finance research site ValuePenguin. Private colleges charge a yearly average tuition of $34,740, but many are much higher.
"You can't work enough while you're in school to offset the difference between $10,000 and $50,000 a year," Ramsey said. "Choose to go to the cheaper school where you can afford, it's that simple."
When it comes to picking not only your school, but your major, evaluate what your chosen career will pay once you graduate. "Don't spend $450,000 getting a degree in something that makes you $50,000 a year — you'll be in debt the rest of your life," Ramsey said.
Room and board can really add up. The average yearly cost at a public college is $10,800, and goes up to $12,210 at the average private college, according to ValuePenguin.
It may be more cost-effective to live at home and commute to campus if you can, even if that means sacrificing a bit of freedom. "If you can see the college years as a temporary season of necessary sacrifice for the victory of debt-free living, you'll be able to get through anything," Ramsey writes on his website. "Even a few extra years under the same roof!"
Filling out scholarship applications can be time-consuming and, quite frankly, disheartening. But both ONeal and Ramsey say students and their families should persevere.
"You could apply for 1,000 scholarships and only get 40. But if you get 40, and they average $1,000 each, you just went to school for free at an in-state college," Ramsey said.
When applying, look for obscure scholarships, Ramsey recommended, adding that students typically have a better chance of getting scholarships that have fewer applicants. To help you find quality scholarships that fit your situation, ONeal has a scholarship search tool on his site where you can tailor your options by your GPA, state, school and major.
To stand out, your scholarship essays should talk about what you're going to do with your major and how you're going to further humanity, Ramsey said. Tell the scholarship committee how you're going to "add value."
In the end, it's a lot of hard work, but worth it. "Students just show up and they expect [school] to just magically pay for itself and the jobs to be there, and that's just not how the world works," John Delony, associate provost and dean of students at Belmont University, said during the town hall.
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- Yellowbird East Community League
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- A high Homes score means you’ll find a lot of available real estate listings in that neighbourhood.
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"Average Listing Price" is the average list price of all residential properties listed on the MLS® System in a given neighbourhood and includes condominiums, townhomes and single family detached homes. This is a market figure only and variations may not indicate a change in the price for any particular property.
The Keheewin neighbourhood began developing in the 1980s and was essentially built out by the late 1990s. It is bounded by 23rd Avenue to the north, 111th Street to the west, 17th Avenue to the south, and Calgary Trail to the east.
Single-detached housing accounts for just under 50 percent of all residential units within the neighbourhood. Remaining housing units are located in low-rise apartment buildings, row housing, and semi-detached homes. All residences are arranged along curvilinear streets.
The neighbourhood has an elementary school (Keheewin Elementary School), several parks, and a sports facility (Kinsmen Twin Arena). Keheewin’s main commercial element is located along 23rd Avenue. A greater variety of businesses are located in the nearby Century Park, which also houses a Light Rail Transit (LRT) station. Keheewin’s connectivity with significant roadways makes this neighbourhood very accessible to amenities outside the community.
Keheewin is named in honour of Chief Keheewin (in Cree, “Keheewin” translates to “Eagle”). He signed Treaty No. 6 in 1876, and the Keheewin First Nation located near Bonnyville bears his name. Keheewin died in 1887 at Onion Lake, Saskatchewan. | <urn:uuid:7531e2ca-838d-441b-aee0-8cbed2057e8b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yegishome.ca/community/168-keheewin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.95148 | 626 | 1.757813 | 2 |
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from python. Most likely with the wmi interface?
If it is possible, has somebody done it? Can I see some sample code
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Indian Traditional Clothing Coloring Page
The United States is made up of many different people, from many different countries, who wear many different kinds of clothing. Color in this picture of an Indian girl in a traditional dress. Do you know where India is?
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IoT-based Remote Facial Expression Monitoring System with sEMG Signal
2016 (English)In: 2016 IEEE SENSORS APPLICATIONS SYMPOSIUM (SAS 2016) PROCEEDINGS, IEEE, 2016, 211-216 p.Conference paper (Refereed)
Biopotentials including Electrocardiography (ECG), Electromyography (EMG) and Electroencephalography (EEG) measure the activity of heart, muscles and brain, respectively. They can be used for noninvasive diagnostic applications, assistance in rehabilitation medicine and human-computer interaction. The concept of Internet of Things (IoT) can bring added value to applications with biopotential signals in healthcare and human-computer interaction by integrating multiple technologies such as sensors, wireless communication and data science. In this work, we present a wireless biopotentials remote monitoring and processing system. A prototype with the case study of facial expression recognition using four channel facial sEMG signals is implemented. A multivariate Gaussian classifier is trained offline from one person's surface EMG (sEMG) signals with four facial expressions: neutral, smile, frown and wrinkle nose. The presented IoT application system is implemented on the basis of an eight channel biopotential measurement device, Wi-Fi module as well as signal processing and classification provided as a Cloud service. In the system, the real-time sEMG data stream is filtered, feature extracted and classified within each data segment and the processed data is visualized in a browser remotely together with the classification result.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE, 2016. 211-216 p.
Biopotentials sEMG, Healthcare Internet of Things, Remote Patient Monitoring, Facial Expression Recognition
Biomedical Laboratory Science/Technology Computer Science
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11th IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS), APR 20-22, 2016, Catania, ITALY
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Having some type of trust-centered planning is important whenever young (or not so young) children are involved. As every parent understands, the cost and effort to raise children is tremendous. Of course, children are not self-reliant or self-supportive, so providing for their needs often becomes a central component of a parent’s estate plan. In the event of a parent’s death (or incapacity) there must be in place a means of providing for the needs of their children—such as daily maintenance, clothing, housing, health care, educational and recreational expenses. Appropriate planning often involves a revocable living trust or a testamentary trust, as each of these place a designated trustee in charge of making important financial decisions and meeting the needs of child-rearing. With a trust in place, the designated trustee can be directed (and is thus legally bound) to use trust assets for the children and within the parameters set forth by the written trust document. This type of planning protects the child by assuring that their needs are met but also protects the trust assets from misuse (or over use) by the child. | <urn:uuid:69cc0992-2867-49c4-a908-6c74eaabc270> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://sch-law.com/articles/?p=313 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.970909 | 232 | 2.3125 | 2 |
We can’t start talking about this topic without mentioning this Japanese tycoon manufacturer. Roland is one of the best electronic brands for musician instruments, audio/video electronics and computer-related products. The company was founded in 1972 and currently owns; BOSS, Edirol, Roland System Group, Rodgers and Roland DG.
This Japanese multinational corporation was founded in 1962. The company has a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, audio processors, guitar pedals, recording equipment and electronic tuners, and after owning VOX they also manufacture guitar amplifiers and electric guitars.
Also, a Japanese multinational corporation with different types of products, such as; musical instruments, electronics, motorcycles and power-sports equipment. Yamaha is bigger than I thought that their info isn’t that easy to explore; but it was clear that Line 6 since 2013 is owned by Yamaha Corp.
The company’s main divisions are two; SamsonAudio & Wireless and Hartke. The American brand gained a good fame with their products variety either by quality or price ranges as they made it affordable for beginner users by average prices and the hi-tech quality for professionals too.
Their three main departments are; the tube shop, guitar shop and the parts shop. Within the tube section they own Electro-Harmonix, Svetlana, Sovtek and many others. However, when you go to the guitars, parts and accessories shops you will find the well-known Electro-Harmonix effects pedals and many else such as; knobs, speakers, capacitors, transformers, switches, semiconductors and many else.
I believe it’s time to talk about this Yankee giant! The company products varies among archtop, acoustic, electric and bass guitars as well as audio equipment. The company was founded 114 years ago, currently they own Baldwin Piano, Cakewalk, Cerwin-Vega, Dobro, Epiphone, Esoteric, Integra, Kramer, KRK Systems, Maestro, Onkyo, Stanton, Steinberger, TASCAM, TEAC Corporation and Tobias.
You were expecting this name too, didn’t you?! The corporate has a wide variety of electric, acoustic, resonator and bass guitars. Moreover, they manufacture banjos, mandolins, ukuleles, harmonicas, amplifiers, effect and audio equipment. Based on their website; “Today, FMIC brands include Fender, Squier, Gretsch, Jackson, Charvel and EVH among others.”
This Japanese manufacturer only has two subsidiaries; Ibanez Guitars and Tama Drums. The company was founded in 1908 and mainly focus on manufacturing guitars, acoustic, Electric and bass guitars, in addition to mandolins, effects units along with drum kits, tenor drums and snare drums. Both Ibanez and Tama are most used products within the Americas, Europe, Asia as well as within the MENA region.
Do you recognize this name from somewhere? No? But when I tell you Marshall Amplifiers, Washburn Guitars, Parker Guitars, Randall Amplifiers, Oscar Schmidt Inc. and Jay Turser Guitars then I will get your attention. Adding to what’s previously mentioned, they own Eden Electronics, Natal Drums, Hagstrom Musical Instruments, Warwick Basses, Framus musical instruments, Quik Lok, Onari Straps and Profile Musical Accessories. Actually, U.S. Music is a subsidiary of the Canadian giants Jam Industries, Ltd. | Jam Group of Companies.
Jim Dunlop founded the company in 1965 and it’s known for guitar accessories like; guitar picks, strings, straps, capos, slides and effects. Also, their subsidiary MXR as the well-known manufacturer of effects pedals.
Harman is another shocking tycoon for me, why? Well, they own JBL, AKG Acoustics, Crown International, DigiTech, Lexicon, Soundcraft and countless other brands. Based on their annual report of 2011 their net sales gained over $ 3M.
You didn’t find your brand yet? Don’t worry, part two will be up soon.
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Did you like this list? Then you may like other lists about the music industry:
- Top Record Labels Worldwide! – Part One and Part Two.
- Band Managers You Need To Know!
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When it comes to thinking about dissertations, it's useful to know how and where to look for material, both within Cambridge and further afield. The following is some guidance on finding various different types of material, whether primary or secondary.
For further help our LibGuide has lots of information about how to carry out research in History.
The best place to begin looking for secondary material is a specialist bibliographical database covering your area of interest, eg. the Bibliography of British and Irish History. Teaching staff will be able to advise on what databases there are in your subject area, or you can look at the Seeley's online resources pages, which break down electronic resources by Part I paper. However, there may not be a specialist database covering your topic, in which case a more general literature search may be the best way to begin. Literature searches may also help you to find supplementary material, and to identify what is available within Cambridge.
Before you begin looking for secondary material, you may find it useful to look at the following guidance, from the University Library's Research Skills Programme:
- How to do a literature search (PowerPoint slideshow)
Literature searches will help you to identify a viable topic of research, or a new angle from which to approach a subject, and they will also ensure that you do not duplicate work in progress. You will need to be compiling lists of material to consult at the same time as taking organised notes and writing; you should not wait to complete the reading before beginning to write.
Newton is a useful starting point in compiling a bibliography of subject material located in Cambridge; it can be subject-searched to create an initial reading list of local material. It is also useful if you're looking for material in a specific library. For searching across library catalogues in Cambridge, use iDiscovery; as well as libraries, it searches DSpace@Cambridge (the University’s digital institutional repository), ejournals and ebooks, and can be extended to search databases such as JSTOR. You can also turn searches into RSS feeds (for alerts when any relevant items are added to the catalogue), and create lists of resources with the My Discovery tool.
The University's ebooks@cambridge project subscribes to hundreds of ebook titles, including key resources such as the Cambridge Histories and Cambridge Companions. Some of these are searchable through Newton and iDiscovery; if there is an electronic copy of the book you are looking for, it will have the phrase "[electronic resource]" in the record after the title, and you can follow the link in the record directly through to the text. Ebooks are easy to use, can be accessed from home (with your Raven password), and can normally have several users accessing the text simultaneously, so access is almost always available.
Not all available ebooks are currently listed in the library catalogue, but a regularly updated list of the complete collection is available.
You may need to extend your search beyond Cambridge, to see if there is material available elsewhere which is not held by any of the libraries in the university. Copac is the best way for finding material held in libraries in the United Kingdom; it is the combined catalogue of the UK's major research libraries (including the British Library, National Library of Scotland and National Library of Wales), as well as various specialist research libraries and collections (there is a list of participating institutions). The catalogue contains over 32 million records. It is possible to search by subject, author, title or keyword, and you can restrict your search by date, place published, type of material (eg. periodicals, maps), or language. Search results will display where an item is held, and provide links to an electronic copy, if there is a freely available one. It is also possible to set up RSS feeds for alerts. There are help pages available.
Items not available in Cambridge can be borrowed via the UL's Inter-Library Loans service. If you are working away from Cambridge (for example, during the vacation), you may be able to get access to other higher education libraries in your area; see the UL's page on vacation access for more information.
You will need to look at journal articles as well as books, as journals are often where the latest, most up-to-date historical research is published. There are several citation databases which you can search for articles which might be relevant to your topic. As well as general historical databases, there are also more specialised ones, covering various regions, periods and topics. (Most of these will require a Raven password for off-campus access.) To search across the full range of electronic journals Cambridge subscribes to go to the ejournals@cambridge page. It is also possible to search across popular databases for article titles (as opposed to journal titles) using the articles tab on the eresources@cambridge page.
Key general databases
- Historical Abstracts: This covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). Published since 1954, it indexes over 3,100 academic historical journals in more than 40 languages; thousands of new citations are added every year.
- Web of Knowledge: This database encompasses the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Science Citation Index, multidisciplinary databases which index journal articles. Search results include an "@cam - find full text" button, which will search for electronic and hard copies of the journal in Cambridge.
Digital journal archives
- JSTOR: A digital archive of over 1,000 journals; it can be subject-searched and gives immediate online access to articles in titles to which the University subscribes. Online tutorials for using JSTOR are available.
- Project Muse: Full-text access to nearly 500 journals from over 130 scholarly publishers.
- America: History and Life: A companion title to Historical Abstracts. There is not online access, but the print copy can be found in the University Library (North Front, Floor 6, classmark: P660.b.31).
- Bibliography of British and Irish History: A bibliographical database of historical writing dealing with the British Isles, the British Empire and the Commonwealth, from 55 B.C. to the present, containing over 500,000 records. (It is worth noting that it is not an exhaustive bibliography of works relating to the British Empire and the Commonwealth; it covers the relations of those countries in the Empire and the Commonwealth with Britain.)
- Bibliography of Asian Studies: A bibliographical database covering articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.
- Index Islamicus: A bibliographical database of books, articles and reviews on Islam and the Muslim world.
- International Medieval Bibliography: A bibliographical database covering medieval civilization, containing over 440,000 records.
- Iter Bibliography: A bibliographical database covering the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), containing over 1.1 million records.
- ATLA Religion Database: A bibliographical database covering theology and church history, containing over 1.7 million records.
- Bibliography of the History of Art: A bibliographical database on European and American art from late antiquity to the present, covering material published between 1975 and 2007.
- History of Science, Technology & medicine: amalgamation of a few separate bibliographies. Includes historiography and the role of science in society and culture from prehistoric times onwards.
There are several different databases for searching for university dissertations and theses, whether produced in the United Kingdom or further afield.
- History Online: Contains a directory of history theses and research Masters produced in the U.K. since 1970, along with a list of theses currently in progress.
- EThOS: The national thesis service: a British Library-administered database of over 300,000 theses from U.K. universities. Those which have already been digitized can be downloaded for free, but if the thesis you want to look at has not yet been digitized, you will have to pay a fee. (Cambridge dissertations are listed on Ethos but not supplied by the service.
- ProQuest Digital Dissertations: A database of 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from 700 academic institutions worldwide, offering full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997.
- DSpace: Cambridge University's institutional repository. Includes a collection of voluntarily deposited Ph.D. theses.
For more information, see the University Library's Electronic Theses and Dissertations page.
The Seeley's online resources pages provide links to some useful electronic resources for history, broken down by Part I paper. These include primary sources, as well as bibliographical databases, and comprise both resources subscribed to by the University Library (which will require Raven passwords for off-campus access), and material which is freely available. You can access more online resources through the UL's eresources@cambridge page, which includes links to visual and sound resources, film and video services, and newspapers (both archives and current).
Some examples of online collections of primary source material:
- American Memory (Library of Congress): online collection of documents for American history, comprising written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music.
- British History Online: digital library of primary and secondary sources for medieval and modern history of the British Isles
- Empire Online: online collection of original documents relating to empire studies, including exploration journals, periodicals, government papers, maps.
- First World War: Personal Experiences: database of digital images of original documents, including diaries, letters, personal narratives, scrapbooks, and visual sources.
- German History in Documents and Images: digital collection of original historical materials documenting German history from the beginning of the early modern period to the present.
- House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1688-2010: digital library of House of Commons sessional papers from 1715, with supplementary material back to 1688.
The Seeley itself does not hold archival material, but it does have some microfilms of archive material.
In the United Kingdom
You may need to visit archives outside Cambridge as part of your research. To find out what archival material is held where, there are various union catalogues of archive material:
- National Archives: Formerly the Public Record Office, this repository holds the national archives for England, Wales and the United Kingdom (there are separate national record offices for Scotland and Northern Ireland). They have extensive online catalogues, which can be searched by subject, and you can access their online collections and download copies of documents via the Discovery catalogue.
- National Register of Archives: A register of over 44,000 unpublished lists and catalogues, detailing the nature and location of manuscripts and historical records relating to British history. These are "non-official" archives covering the holdings of local record offices, national and university libraries (including Cambridge), specialist repositories, museums and other bodies in the United Kingdom and abroad, as well as papers held privately by individuals, firms and institutions. The research guides on the website explain how the National Register of Archives can be used for locating material on particular topics.
- Archives Hub: A national gateway to descriptions of archives of over 180 UK repositories (including Oxford and Cambridge); again, you can search by subject.
- Access to Archives: A combined catalogue describing archives held in 418 record offices and other repositories in England and Wales, dating from the eighth century to the present day.
To search the holdings of archives outside the United Kingdom, try Archive Grid, a major catalogue of historical documents, personal papers and family history material held in repositories around the world; you can search for collections by topic.
Subject gateways are online portals to subject-specific resources, and can be excellent places to look for more information on your topic. Some gateways where the sites have been evaluated by experts include:
- Intute: A gateway providing free access to Internet resources, evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at U.K. universities. Intute's funding ceased in July 2011 and it is no longer being updated, but it remains a rich source of information on different resources.
- Internet for History: A free online tutorial to help history students develop Internet research skills; includes tips on useful sites for historians.
- History Online: Created by the Institute of Historical Research, this initiative indexes books and journal articles, details history lecturers in the U.K., digital history projects, and current and past historical research.
- History Data Service: This project collects, preserves, and promotes the use of digital resources, which result from or support historical research, learning and teaching.
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The Internet Essay, Research Paper
A life changing experience
Grolier Encyclopedia states that The initial design of the Internet came in 1969, a project named (ARPA) Advanced Research Project Agency (Internet). The Pentagon is the one who set abroad the project to build a network that could withstand a nuclear attack and still function as a network. There are allot of other factors that influence network’s performance, like power outages, equipment failure, and the amount of traffic over the telecommunication lines. These factors made other organizations apart from the military interested in making a more reliable network. Local Area Networks LAN started In the 1980 s they surfaced in colleges, businesses, and corporations all around the world. It did not take long before the administrators of these small networks realized the power and usefulness of the LAN s, so they began to link them to other networks. The Internet has changed our lives forever, making us more productive, and helping us communicate more efficient.
In the late 1980s the National Science Foundation (NSF) built its network consisting of five supercomputer centers. This would allow other people besides the military entrance to these powerful networks. These networks are being used for purposes such as electronic mail, and news groups for people to exchange messages about related topics. Business learned quickly, that using electronic mail saved them postage and telephone expenses. This saving was enough to make business start implementing their network.
The Internet has many possibilities, such as advertising, sales, and other marketing benefits. Allot of different ideas have emerged from the Internet to help get small businesses going, and growing. There has been some mixed feeling about the Internet and it s advertising potential. I think it has more potential than anyone can imagine, I personally have found items and shopped through the Internet. In the next 5 years the Internet will probably change considerably for the better. The security issues will not totally be resolved, but it will be safer and more reliable in the years to come. The Internet is by far the best communication tool on the planet, and it s only going to get better. More and more people are able to access the Internet every day, just think if everyone had the opportunity to get on the net how efficient we could communicate. The only thing that is holding us back now it the traffic on the phone lines, and they are working on that now. The cable company is implementing cable modems that are very fast and reliable. The phone company offers ISDN, a digital phone line that’s a good high speed connection. Both of these are steps in the right direction.
The Internet is making it easier for us to do things from our home. There was a time when you had to go out and shop for everything, in crowded malls or in numerous shop s that did not have what you wanted. The Internet has made it a little easier for you to shop right in your home, so you do not have to fight those crowds or go on a wild goose chase around town. The computer has allot of other uses in the home like financing, banking, and entertainment. The Internet has allowed many people the ability to buy and trade stocks with just a few mouse clicks. The banking industry has used the Internet s efficiency for our benefit. We are able to pay bills and download our up to date statements right from the convenience of our home. We cannot forget the most important use the computer has at home, entertainment of course this is my particular experience. There are numerous entertainment programs like chat rooms, games, and interactive web pages that make you feel as if you are actually there. Krol states that Whatever the sophistication, Internet users are, as a whole, looking for one thing: information (2). So whatever you use the Internet for games, banking, financing It all amounts to the one thing we are looking for information.
Another important effect the Internet has had is in the educational field. Schools have put together small networks in the classroom to help the student become aquatinted with the computer, and to keep their attention. This is a good idea because as children get older they will not be afraid to use a computer, like some of the older people that did not grow up with computers. I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to use computers since I was in the 6th. The only downside is that we depend on them too much for our school work, If my computer was to go down today I would be in a world of trouble. I think the greatest program around today is the encyclopedia on CD ROM, just think how much space you save compared to 30 or more books. It s also a great information resource, and if you do not have an encyclopedia at home, you can access one through the Internet free of charge. The word processor is another great tool for educational purposes it has helped me in many ways. Using a typewriter Is frustrating, and a waste of time, a word processor makes so much more sense. The Internet and the computer are definitely the educational tool of today and tomorrow. The business world has been changed by the Internet in many ways. The biggest change is communication. Businesses can communicate with other business all around the world, using chat rooms or high tech video conferencing. This in turn helps them to be more profitable by saving time in decision making and the closing of business deals.
Grolier Encyclopedia defines alienation as A state of estrangement of the individual from the natural environment, social life, or the self (Alienation). The natural environment specified by Grolier is the interaction between humans. This is begin influenced by the Internet and other types of computer equipment. The example I gave about shopping online is alienating us from the interaction of sales people and other people shopping. The ATM machine is alienating us from bank tellers. When you go to the gas station to fill up your tank, you do not have to leave the pump to pay for your gas. Does this mean that one day we will not need sales people, bank tellers, or gas attendants. It s hard to say but for now we definitely do not need as many service people as we did in the past.
There are pro s and con s to just about everything, and the Internet and computer are no exception. The pro s to all of this is that we can do the things that we need to do more efficiently. We can get our shopping done quicker and with less hassle. The ATM makes it easier to get money without having to wait in long lines, and filling out withdrawal slips every time you need cash. At the gas station the pay at the pump method is much quicker and eliminates the wait in line completely. We can communicate much more efficiently and more often than ever before with the Internet. The downside to all of this is the lack of interaction with other people. Our job security is a concern, these machines that are linked together make our lives easier, but will they take our place as workers. Allot of them already have taken our jobs, for example look at the automotive industry they have robots building the cars for them at a faster and more accurate rate. The communication aspect of the Internet is good, but it takes away that face to face contact we are so used to. We will always need humans to do certain task but the computer is wedging its way beside us more and more each day.
Where does mankind fit into this alien world that we have created. I think at one time we will be effected in one way or another by the Internet and computers in general. It helps us in more ways than it hurts us, but we need to be more aware of the long term affects it has on us. As Rheingold stated Because of it s potential to change us as humans, as communities, as democracies, we need to try to understand the nature of CMC, cyberspace, and virtual communities in every important context-politically, economically, socially, cognitively (15). The Internet has the potential to improve our lives considerably, our lives at home, school, work, and day to day interactions. The Internet is a life changing experience. | <urn:uuid:31b3c095-60dc-455c-b0c1-ca64f300591e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mirznanii.com/a/56179/the-internet-essay-research-paper-the-interneta | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00296-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967558 | 1,644 | 2.796875 | 3 |
In the summer of 2014, the U.S. Navy established an Electronic Warfare Range on large swathes of Washington’s Olympic National Forest and in airspace over it, plus airspace over Olympic National Park and surrounding communities. Its purpose was to conduct permanent, continuous electronic warfare attack and detection testing and training for an expanding fleet of supersonic EA-18G “Growler” jets housed on Whidbey Island. The initial justification as stated in documents was that flying to the Olympic Peninsula would save around $4 million in annual fuel costs, as opposed to flying to Mountain Home, Idaho, located in mostly uninhabited high desert where they’d previously flown. The shorter commute would allow trainees to spend more time with their families, said John Mosher, the Navy official in charge of the public process.
Neither the National Park Service nor the State DNR, nor one of the four western Olympic Peninsula Tribes, all of whom would be impacted, were consulted beforehand. Affected communities on the Olympic Peninsula and Whidbey Island were also unaware of this designation. It’s important to understand how it happened, because it triggered the arrival of more than 100 Growlers.
Regardless of whether or not you support the Navy’s mission or its expanding presence in our public lands, waters, communities, and in the airspace above us, it’s good to take a rational look at how we came to have an electronic warfare range for the loudest jets on the planet over the quietest national park in the Lower 48.
First, what is electronic warfare? It uses concentrated beams of electromagnetic energy or atomic or subatomic particles. These include lasers, electro-optical, infrared, and radio frequency weapons, high-power microwaves, and electromagnetic pulse weapons, “…to attack personnel, facilities, or equipment with the intent of degrading, neutralizing, or destroying enemy combat capability…”
So, it’s logical that residents might have concerns about electronic warfare testing and training nearby where it wasn’t before. It’s not only reasonable to be afforded the chance to ask questions, it’s a legal requirement.
Unfortunately for Olympic Peninsula residents in 2014, no notices were printed in newspapers serving their communities, that a public process was underway to establish an electronic warfare range, or that an Environmental Assessment analyzing impacts and alternatives was available. While the Navy claimed it mailed around 100 postcards, not one Tribe, elected official, government agency, or individual could recall or produce theirs (and many were asked.) Thus, not one public comment was received by the Navy or recorded in the official administrative record. The Navy made its final decision to establish the range despite these obvious procedural flaws.
In order for a public process to work, a citizen comment must be based on fact and submitted in writing during the official public comment period, which is usually 4 weeks long; it can take time to read and understand the agency’s analysis. Then the agency is obliged to either address the concerns or explain why they didn’t. The fact that nobody knew about this proposal for an electronic warfare range, and thus nobody asked questions or voiced concerns before the Navy’s 2-week comment period closed, meant that everyone unwittingly waived their legal rights to use the courts for redress of grievances. Most people didn’t learn about the warfare range until six weeks after the comment period closed. The only other way for public comments to have been officially recorded (and therefore to matter legally) would have required knowing the nonpublic email addresses of Navy officials, or by navigating a byzantine website to find the documents and where to submit comments in time. Had the Navy held actual public hearings, at least some of the people who might have attended could have had legal standing.
Mosher, the Navy official in charge, later publicly stated that they did not hold hearings because there was not enough money in their budget. But the law requires public hearings when a proposed action is controversial. When someone pointed this out, he used the rationale that since nobody had objected during the comment period, then hearings weren’t necessary. These are Catch-22 tactics; even recording these officials on video wasn’t enough to compel them to behave better.
Three months past their final decision, the Navy held “informational meetings” in Forks, Port Angeles, and Pacific Beach because of thousands of complaints had compelled Rep. Derek Kilmer to ask for them. Attendees thought these would be official hearings, and many held printed comments in their hands, ready to submit for the record. But both the Navy and Forest Service dismissed the idea of accepting comments on the record, despite repeated requests. “You’re too late,” they said. The general feeling in those rooms was “We’ve been bamboozled.” At the meeting in Pacific Beach attended by a hundred fifty people, I quietly asked Kent Mathes, the Navy’s Northwest Testing and Training Range Complex Manager, “Surely you must be getting an earful of public concern. Won’t it change anything?” Mathes replied, “We’re here to listen to what they have to say, but we’re not going to do anything about it because we don’t have to.”
When a 9-1-1 dispatcher expressed concern about radio interference to firefighting and Tribal radio communications from a large fixed emitter to be constructed 300 feet from the fire station, Mosher said, “There was an opportunity to comment, there were no comments received, it was advertised in three newspapers…”
“Which newspapers?” she pressed. “Obviously it was not in the North Coast News, which serves Pacific Beach, so how can you receive comments if we don’t have the information?”
Mosher: “We do our best to get the word out to the public.”
Dispatcher: “How can we get you to address our issues?”
Mosher: “You can address it through your elected representatives. We’ve completed the comment period.”
Dispatcher (angered): “You have extended the comment period right here.”
Mosher: “I’m not going to sit here and debate this.”
When someone asked why it was necessary to train in a rainforest with endangered species “…when you have White Sands [New Mexico] and Nevada and Arizona, which would be perfect for your training if you’re going after ISIS?”
Navy pilot Brian Danielson, in charge of training the Growler squadron, said, “We do that as well, but in the environment that we operate in, in the electromagnetic world that our mission is, it [the location] doesn’t really matter, it [the activity] is a transmission. So, I don’t have to do that in the desert if I have a transmitter here.”
The Navy’s written analysis, or Environmental Assessment, was so narrow in scope that when the Forest Service was deliberating on the permit to allow use of national forest roads for electronic warfare training, they could consider only the impacts from the truck-and-trailer rigs on the ground, and not from Growler jets flying overhead, despite the fact that you can’t have one without the other. No jet noise, emissions, fuel dumping, hazards from air-based electronic attack weapons, chronic radiation, wildlife impacts, fire danger, or other concerns that were brought up by the public were allowed. The Forest Service representative dismissed them as being “outside the decision space.”
The Navy cited a four-year-old Environmental Impact Statement as having covered the concerns now being expressed by the public, but it was removed from their website before most people could read it. I did read it and was surprised that, for example, its analysis of impacts to endangered species relied on an old Biological Opinion about a different location (the North Pacific Ocean) and different conditions (marine) that did not cover the Olympic Peninsula’s terrestrial species. When the public challenged this lapse, the Navy did not respond; instead, two years later it retrofitted their 2014 Environmental Assessment with a new Biological Opinion approving the impacts. This was unprecedented.
I asked Mosher if there had ever been any “findings of significant impacts” in any environmental analyses going back over a decade, and he said no. Nor have there been any since. But what is significance? Between the two extremes of significant and non-significant impacts is a large gray area with a lot of wiggle room. While “significance” has high thresholds, a major one is triggered when there is “substantial controversy on environmental grounds.” Since the Navy’s actions have been controversial, the question becomes: Who got to determine significance? And how was it done? When, for example, they used nine separate public processes to expand a pier, with none of them rising to the level of significance, it was almost impossible to follow and understand the total impacts. When they used seven separate analyses to incrementally add Growlers to their fleet, with each new piecemeal process claiming “no significant impacts” as long as you didn’t look at them all together, it made it impossible to assess those impacts, too.
In that fall 2014 Forest Service road permit process, there were 4,000 comments, all but one opposed. This was unusual for such a localized issue, but the comments ended up changing nothing. In every process since, and there have been dozens, no volume of substantive, thoughtful public questions or comments have made a difference; the Navy has always chosen its “preferred alternative,” with little to no mitigation. It takes a lawsuit, which is expensive and time-consuming, and only a few citizen groups have tried. In 2019, Washington State’s Attorney General sued the Navy over its failure to adequately analyze human health, environmental, and historic impacts of its Growler operations on Whidbey Island. That litigation is ongoing, and on Tuesday, a U.S. District Court judge said he is “concerned about the lack of noise monitoring, lack of analysis of differences between bird species and apparent disregard for how noise may impact [children’s] learning.”
The Navy did not act on a 2015 official request by Rep. Kilmer for a noise study until 2020, when it found that noise in Olympic National Park exceeds 100 decibels. This is as loud as holding a handheld drill next to your ear. A study published later that year in Northwest Science found 88% of noise came from military flights, with the majority of them Growlers, and that the noise affects underwater areas, too.
Military warfare testing and training on public lands, waters, and in and around our communities qualifies as multiple major federal actions that are subject to proper public processes under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, or NEPA. That law requires an agency to be responsive to citizen concerns, and it requires assessing all impacts cumulatively, not just in piecemeal subsets. It requires holding hearings in affected communities whenever there is controversy—not retroactive and meaningless “informational meetings.” Scientific evidence to back up their statements must be thorough, accurate, and available for public scrutiny. And comment periods should not be routinely held over holidays when people are busy with their families. With the arrival of all those Growlers, the public’s right to know and participate was severely abridged.
The most dangerous aspects of flying are the approach, landing and takeoff—in other words, most of the flight paths around the runways at Whidbey Island. These risks are particularly significant at the World War 2-era runway at Outlying Field (OLF) Coupeville, which is 3,000 feet short of standard for Growlers. Normally, the unoccupied buffer area for naval airfields would be 30,000 to 50,000 acres larger than what the Navy currently has at Coupeville, which is mostly a residential area. However, a self-granted waiver allows the Navy to continue using it.
Thus, Growlers circle at extremely low altitudes—a couple hundred feet above rooftops—over homes and businesses, the Port Townsend-Keystone Ferry, and over a significant chunk of Admiralty Inlet that sees heavy shipping traffic. There is no room for error when flying so low over densely populated areas that include schools and a hospital, where noise levels often exceed 100 decibels—including indoors. These pilots are mostly trainees flying the F-18 airframe, which records show is far more likely to crash than its EA-6B (Prowler) predecessor. From 2013 to 2017, for example, the number of accidents rose by 108 percent, from 45 to 94 per year. All Growlers and F-18s were grounded in 2017 due to a mechanical malfunction at Whidbey Island that severely injured two pilots.
Environmental, safety, and other concerns continue. The “let them train where they want!” refrain loses luster when one remembers that in Washington alone, the Navy owns 46 miles of shoreline and 151,975 acres of land, and that Government Accountability reports have shown for over a decade the Defense Department’s inefficient utilization of the millions of acres it already owns.
How did the Navy get a warfare range for the loudest jets on the planet over the quietest national park? Many who have paid attention might answer, “by being unaccountable.” A fair public process means playing by the rules. And that’s why so many are carefully watching the Washington Attorney General’s lawsuit.
UPDATE: State, Citizen Groups Win First Round in Lawsuit Against Navy:
On December 10, 2021, a federal magistrate issued a report that compared the Navy’s official behavior to a drunk who “uses a lamppost for support, not illumination.” Judge Creatura’s opinion reflected the outrage documented in five years of painstaking citizen work that ended up supporting the lawsuit. The Navy’s longtime habit of dismissing the substantive and well-informed concerns not only from individuals but also municipalities, federal and state agencies, and Tribes, was called out in a court of law.
The magistrate found that the Navy violated the nation’s most basic environmental and procedural laws by 1) failing to adequately examine El Centro Naval Air Station in California as an alternative to Whidbey Island for its fleet of noisy, often low-flying Growlers; 2) failing to assess how Growler training is impacting children’s learning at nearby schools; 3) severely underreporting Growler fuel usage and greenhouse gas emissions; and 4) failing to properly assess impacts on bird species.
While the magistrate’s report must now go before a judge who will make the final ruling, it’s still a testament to the power of ordinary people to come together in common cause to observe, document, and take action against wrongdoing by a federal agency. It’s also evidence of the power of citizens to initiate and sustain difficult community conversations, endure occasional harassment, and not give up, even though results can take years.
What’s next is an appeals process with the ultimate outcome that the Navy could be forced to revisit these issues via another Environmental Impact Statement that examines the alternatives it previously dismissed. What’s reassuring is the reaffirmation that nobody, not even the Navy, is above the law. | <urn:uuid:743ce826-c46f-42ed-b150-67c40a43439e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rainshadownorthwest.com/2021/11/01/the-loudest-jets-in-the-quietest-park/?fbclid=IwAR251DuxE47X_QGBPEBHNxiCU4Ne93P77M7gXBhBkDUnlr-CKTr1oplx7PA | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.964158 | 3,231 | 2.53125 | 3 |
The Blues has its roots in African-American folksongs, adding in some European melodies. It is usually played with guitar, banjo, and the harmonica using techniques from other genres, such as the gospel technique of call-and-response, and the trademark 12-bar rhythm. Blues lyrics lean toward soul-searching and bearing grievances, striking a chord in many listeners. An often popular, even stereotypical method is the way a blues song will say one line, repeat it again, then conclude with a different line. A good example is a song by Tracy Chapman called "Give Me One Reason".
Blues started sometime after the Emancipation Proclamation, from songs sung by African-Americans during slavery. Some of the original Blues lyrics were often filled with racy images, leading to it often being shunned by conservative groups. The then-budding record industry of the twenties didn’t see much of a difference between the Blues and another up-and-coming music genre, Country. They also categorized it as ‘race music’, much the same as R&B.
An influential person at the time was W.C. Handy, often called ‘The Father of the Blues. His songs worked their way into many African-American clubs, and eventually into Caucasian circles. At this time, the slide guitar, a technique where guitar is played with a knife or bottleneck, became an influential part of Delta blues. After WWII, there was more of an emphasis on using electric guitars, which definitely had a major influence on the creation of Rock ‘n Roll in the fifties. Several of the artists, such as Bo Diddley and and B. B.King, crossed over into rock.
Blues has continued to thrive, as Blues festivals and clubs embrace the tradition. Some artists, such as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton, have combined with rock to create a new sound. | <urn:uuid:e6e32146-4401-4803-b045-97c651c2b250> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.musicians.com/genre/blues/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.980084 | 401 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Several pork and pork organ products sold in Calgary are being recalled because of possible contamination with E. coli O157:H7.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says the meat products were supplied by Hillview Meat Processor.
The pork products, which were only distributed in Alberta, may have been turned into ground pork, sausages or ready-to-eat products, CFIA said in a release.
The recall was triggered by an ongoing investigation into a food-borne food illness outbreak in Alberta.
The investigation is continuing and could lead to other products being recalled, the agency says.
The products were distributed to the following Calgary companies:
- Paolini's Sausage and Meat Ltd — 5735 Third St. S.E.
- Trimming Fresh Meats — 3, 6219 Centre St. N.W.
- V&T Meats — 3111 17th Ave. S.E.
- Leung Ky Meat and Seafood Ltd — 1919 31st St. S.E.
- Community Foods —119, 3208 Eighth Ave. N.E.
- Hungarian Deli — 4020 26th St. S.E.
- Rocky's Sausage Haus — 37 Fourth St. N.E.
Food contaminated with E. coli might not appear or smell spoiled but can still make people sick. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramping and diarrhea. | <urn:uuid:115467f2-3d0e-45b2-9776-30e6b5fc5d36> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/pork-recall-ecoli-hillview-alberta-1.3451485?cmp=rss | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00144-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957844 | 295 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Subject: Re: Getting a hole exactly center on roundstock question
From: Robert Bastow <"teenut"@ hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 03:09:13 GMT
That's as good a method as I have heard Gary..with one proviso. Use a ground
center point (Every tool box should have a few!) rather than the rather iffy
point of a drill.
Given that, you "eyeball" method meets "teenut's exacting standards" (;^)..and
will get closer than any one has any right to expect in a drill press..Closer I
suspect than a lot of people can achieve in a mill with edge finder and DRO!!
Gary Wooding wrote:
> Here's a quick and easy method that is surprisingly accurate. Put a centre
> drill in the chuck, put the bar in the vice and line it up roughly by eye,
> then place a metal rule or strip of stiff lightweight metal across the bar
> at right angles to the axis (like a see-saw made of a plank across a log of
> wood) and lower the drill to gently pinch the rule between it and the bar.
> Chances are the rule will be forced so that one side lifts and the other
> drops - this is because the centre of the drill is not on the highest part
> of the bar. Adjust the vice so that the rule is as horizontal as you can
> get it - the drill is then accurately centred, so remove the rule and start
> the drill.
> If you use a 12" rule as the metal strip, when it is 1/2 degree out, one end
> will be 0.2" below the other and that translates into an accuracy of approx.
> .004 x the
> diameter of the rod. IE, 4 thou on a 1" diam. bar. Since 0.2" is very easy
> to see, it is quite feasible to aim for a difference of 1/16", which
> corresponds to an accuracy of around .0015 x the diameter of the bar. Is
> that accurate enough?
> Gary Wooding
> foxeye <fox@NONE.COM> wrote in message
> > How does one get the drill to go dead center through the diameter of
> > round stock when drilling on the drill press. What and how is it
> > setup. I usually clamp it in a dp vise, and then using a hermorpodite
> > cal, find center by scribing on the top of the round stock using the
> > vise jaws for parralells or by swinging an arc from detents that I
> > have drilled on my on my dp vise in line with each other but on each
> > jaw. Then prick punch this intersection mark, and drill. Is there an
> > easier way?
> > foxeye | <urn:uuid:cb83d334-9330-4239-b3d3-a0ec9c2d107b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://yarchive.net/metal/round_stock_crossdrill_centering.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00228-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924521 | 627 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Distance from Canada to Cameroon
Distance from Canada to Cameroon is 11,033 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 6,856 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Canada and Cameroon is 11,033 km= 6,856 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Canada to Cameroon, It takes 12.24 hours to arrive.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||56° 7´ 49.3320'' N |
106° 20´ 48.3720'' W
Canada Distances to Countries
|Distance from Canada to Liechtenstein||7,081 km|
|Distance from Canada to Tonga||10,726 km|
|Distance from Canada to Georgia||8,704 km|
|GPS Coordinates||7° 22´ 10.9920'' N |
12° 21´ 16.9920'' E
Cameroon Distances to Countries
|Distance from Cameroon to Ghana||1,476 km|
|Distance from Cameroon to Nicaragua||10,637 km|
|Distance from Cameroon to Mongolia||9,523 km| | <urn:uuid:4e68ba8b-51de-40f3-afea-e1f5541f3284> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.distancefromto.net/distance-from-canada-to-cameroon | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.732217 | 339 | 2.125 | 2 |
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Tracks the health conditions and risk behaviors across the United States.
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Report describing Michigan's health and well-being organized by four specific health topics (health outcomes, health related behaviors, health systems, and social, economic, environmental factors) with 25 related measures. It also provides information on many state initiatives to support better health in local communities and across the state. Regional and Local Health Department Tables
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Michigan Profile for Healthy Youth
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The Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) provide an overview of key health indicators for local communities. The report can serve as a starting point for community needs assessment, quantification of vulnerable populations, and measurement of preventable diseases, disabilities, and deaths.
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Uniform Data System
The Uniform Data System (UDS) tracks a variety of information, including patient demographics, services provided, staffing, clinical indicators, utilization rates, costs, and revenues. UDS data are collected at the grantee (individual Health Center), state, and national levels. It is released annually. The data is reviewed to ensure compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements, improve Health Center performance and operations, and report overall program accomplishments. The data helps to identify trends over time, establish or expand targeted programs, and identify effective services and interventions to improve the health of underserved communities and vulnerable populations.
HRSA, John Snow, Inc. and the Robert Graham Center have collaborated to develop a mapping and decision-support tool driven primarily from data within the Uniform Data System (UDS) and the U.S. Census. The UDS Mapper is designed to help inform users about the current geographic distribution and penetration of Health Center Program grantees and Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Look-Alikes. Registration is required to gain access, but access is open to all users.
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The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As the Nation’s Access Agency, HRSA focuses on uninsured, underserved, and special needs populations. HRSA Data provides access points to current HRSA information, health resources, and demographic data for reporting on HRSA activities. Click here to use the Data Warehouse as well as access other data resources.
In 2010 HRSA produced Data Resources for Demonstrating Need for Primary Care Services, a document to assist Health Centers in assessing need in their community and/or for their target populations. The data resources focus on barriers to care, health indicators, and disparities.
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Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. For three decades, Healthy People has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to:
- Encourage collaborations across sectors
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Includes original footage now featured on "What In The World Are They Spraying". Chemtrails Are: Persistent lines of chemical-infused aerosol spray dispersals from typically unmarked planes which are now seen in the sky all over the world. Unlike normal jet contrails formed from water vapor, chemtrails spread to form a thick blanket of cloud cover, held together by polymer fibers until they reach the ground, contaminating crops, water supplies and humans with radioactive soft metals and dessicated red blood cells which contain active human pathogens. Researchers discovered 6 different agendas or motives for these operations, some of which may overlap: environment or climate changes, biological, military purposes, electromagnetic, geophysical or global effects, and exotic propulsion systems. Analysis of material from chemtrails has revealed magnetic salts, including the toxic substance of barium. Fibers, submicron in size, have also been detected, and they bear a physical similarity to the filaments found in Morgellons Disease. This video was originally intended to include a Part II version which would have included interviews with Chemtrail debunkers. There are good references to chemtrail debunker websites on Wikipedia including interviews with NASA's Patrick Minnis. | <urn:uuid:9e05e50d-30d8-4688-b749-be5eff667b0a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.illuminatiarchives.org/nonprofit/danger-in-the-sky-the-chemtrail-phenomenon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00466-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940587 | 246 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Peace of mind is to allow awareness to be vulnerable, completely shieldless. Within this unguarded awareness, we can discover being invincible. That’s a paradox, a very interesting one. It is necessary to totally and utterly let go of freedom for it to be a reality.
Peace of mind therefore means to be genuinely transparent and to allow a vulnerability which is childlike and yet intelligent. Peace of mind is to be open rather than keeping the guard up, ready to strike back. Sustainable peace has to be the opposite of being on guard when something happens, or when something may invade my area of awareness and disturb me.
Peace of mind is to welcome life into this spacious frame of mind. This spaciousness has everything to do with with peace of mind, because a defensive attitude is not true peace. Peace of mind is not in opposition to sights, sounds or a thought, because there is plenty of room in being like space.
We can test this out at our own pace, that lowering defenses opens up to acknowledging the deeper and more basic strength of this insight: that spaciousness cannot be hurt.
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Brain cells tied to consciousness reported found
Feb 22,2008 00:00
In a study billed as an exploration into the realm of “consciousness,” researchers claim to have found brain cells that become very busy only when something is consciously noticed.
Trying to understand what creates consciousness—the sense of being alive and aware—is one of the all-time most exasperating problems in science. The key stumbling block: even if one knew every brain mechanism underlying consciousness, there would still be no apparent way to see or measure the actual production of consciousness.
For now, many researchers figure they may as well just do the best they can in unraveling those physical mechanisms. The new study, led by Quian Quiroga of the University of Leicester, U.K., is among those designed to attack that question.
Volunteers were shown pictures on a computer screen very briefly—for a time just at the edge of being long enough to be noticeable. The participants were asked each time whether they saw the picture or not. Sometimes the exact same visual input was noticeable on one trial and not on another, for the same person, Quian Quiroga said.
The researchers examined what was happening in the brain during this. Certain neurons, or brain cells, “responded to the conscious perception in an ‘all-or-none’ way,” Quian Quiroga said: they dramatically changed their rate of firing signals, only when pictures were recognized. These neurons were in the medial temporal lobe, a region deep inside the brain often associated with memory.
For example, in one patient, a neuron in the hippocampus—a structure also in that area—“fired very strongly to a picture of the patient’s brother when recognized and remained completely silent when it was not,” Quian Quiroga said. “Another neuron behaved in the same manner with pictures of the World Trade Centre.” The volunteers were patients who had to undergo epilepsy surgery.
“Based on the firing of these neurons it was possible to predict far above chance whether a picture was recognized or not,” Quian Quiroga said. Also, “a picture flashed very briefly generated nearly the same response—if recognized—as when shown for much longer periods of time.”
The findings are to appear this week in the early online edition of the research journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Potential applications of the work include the development of “neural prosthetic” devices to be used by paralyzed patients or amputees, Quian Quiroga said. A spinal injury patient, such as the late Christopher Reeve, can think about reaching a cup of tea, but the muscles don’t get the order. Neural prostheses are designed to read these commands directly from the brain and transmit them to bionic devices such as a robotic arm.
The findings, Quian Quiroga said, could also have implications treatment of patients with pathologies of the hippocampal formation, such as epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia.
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“Anagarika Dharmapala raised his voice during darkest era in Sri Lankan history”: President
Saturday, 20 September 2014 00:00
Anagarika Dharmapala worked relentlessly to uplift Sinhala Buddhists during the darkest era in Sri Lankan history when there was no opportunity for the people even to think about freedom, said President Mahinda Rajapaksa. “At that time there were no political parties in Sri Lanka. Also, there was not even a sign of such political groupings. Anagarika Dharmapala, living in a period in which on one side there were the colonial rulers and on the other, the people who lived with ignorance and subservience, but he succeeded in awaking Sri Lankans so that they could live with a certain amount of free movement,” he said.Speaking at ceremony marking the 150th birth anniversary of Anagarika Dharmapala which was held at the Independence Square in Colombo today (September 17), he said that the great Anagarika knew the best way to freedom was the removal of the weaknesses of the nation and that the nation should be raised not by disturbing another nation, but by strengthening itself.The President said that Anagarika Dharmapala did not say only the Sinhalese are great or only the Sinhalese should live in this world. “It was the people who did not like to see our motherland to progress who labelled Anagarika Dharmapala a racist even when he taught people to learn from other countries as well. Anagarika Dharmapala was neither a racist nor an imprudent anti-colonialist.” He added that Anagarika’s intention was to uplift Sinhala Buddhists by ending their subservient mentality toward colonial rulers.Following is the full text of the speech:Today we are here to remember a great son of our motherland who was born in the 19th Century and completed a great mission to the Buddhists in the entire world.
The Buddhist revivalist Anagarika Dharmapala performed his duty to uplift Sinhala Buddhists during a dark era in Sri Lankan history when there was no opportunity for the people even to think about freedom. At that time there were no political parties in Sri Lanka. Also, there was not even a sign of such political groupings. Anagarika Dharmapala lived in a period in which on one side there were the colonial rulers and on the other the people who lived in ignorance and subservience. But he succeeded in awaking Sri Lankans so that they could live with certain amount of free movement.
Anagarika Dharmapala started the fight for freedom after making the nation understand about the cleanliness, observing pansil and stop shameless, uncultured behaviour, through the books he wrote on the facts Buddhists should know.
We can imagine today how much difficulty he went through when he had to make people socially advance, giving the names for their identity and teaching them the pansil, to help the process of uplifting the nation. He knew the best way to freedom was the removal of the weaknesses of the nation. The nation should be raised not by disturbing another nation, but by strengthening our own nation. Though he was a nationalist, he learned not only about his country, but also about others’. He respected the other nations as well. He took examples from Greece, Japan and America. He asked Sinhalese to take examples from the development of those countries. In his sermons, he asked people to refrain from alcohol like Muslims, avoid eating flesh like Hindus, and earn money by working hard like English to lead to a good life.
He did not say only the Sinhalese are great or only the Sinhalese should live in this world. It was the people who did not like to see our motherland to be progressed, labelled Anagarika Dharmapala as a racist even when he taught people to learn from other countries as well.
Anagarika Dharmapala was neither a racist nor imprudent anti-colonialist. Also, he did not try to put himself in jail by indulging in false fights to win people’s sympathy. Once, when he was house arrested he had compassion even towards those who arrested him. And he wrote books for the betterment of the nation during the period of house-arrest.
If one wants to be a hero of the nation, he should have a comprehensive knowledge of your motherland. Anagarika Dharmapala did not work out his strategy merely by studying the Buddhists who lived in Colombo and suburbs. During his young age he had the opportunity to visit the places in the entire country as the interpreter of Sir Henry Steel Olcott. Hence he had an understanding of the people, lived in the country. That is why he had a forward vision. And that is why his program bore fruit more than the efforts of the others. Anagarika Dharmapala became a national hero with a wide knowledge of the heritage of this country.
It was Anagarika Dharmapala who spread Buddhism to most of the countries in the world, after the periods of King Dharmashoka and King Kanishka. He took the Buddhism to India where it was born but became lost later. And he propagated Buddhism to Europe and western countries as well. The Maha Bodhi Society which served the entire world was pioneered by Anagarika Dharmapala. It is reported that many British also became Buddhists after listening to the speech of Anagarika Dharmapala at the World Religious Parliament in Chicago. Though he was an anti-colonialist, the people respected him for the way he spoke. He did not preach in a manner for the people to distance from Buddhism.
He knew that through propagation of Buddhism alone is not sufficient to strengthen Sinhala Buddhists. Hence, taking a futuristic view, he created a chain of Buddhist schools such as Ananda College. The service rendered by the Anagarika by establishing 110 Buddhist schools is unparalleled. But, sadly, in some of those schools do not even have his name or the name of Mahabodhi Society today.
He was the first leader who realised the need for vocational studies for the Sinhalese. He used his family businesses to teach the Buddhist youth how to start match box industrial units. Today when we take effective steps to provide vocational studies to our youth, I can wonder about Anagarika’s great futuristic vision.
After King Dutugemunu the leader who received most insults and rancour was Anagarika Dharmapala. 10 years ago, people were afraid to say in public that they were Sinhala Buddhists. When I said I am a Sinhala Buddhist, many people criticised me. Nobody wanted to remember King Dutugemunu. Dharmapala was also labelled a racist. But we succeeded in changing that. We have brought this country to a position where we can proudly say we are Sinhala Buddhists or talk proudly about King Dutugemunu. Because we have given a backbone to our nation, today the films on kings and history are being made. We have given the nation a proud feeling that we could stand as equals among nations.
We have created a country where the people are not lazy and could live in a clean atmosphere and that is done to honour Anagarika Dharmapala.
During that era our people could not realise the true value of the services rendered by Anagarika Dharmapala. When that service is not understood, it is ridiculed and insulted. Today also the same thing is happening. Today’s efforts to build the nation are locally and internationally highly valuable. But when that value is not understood, people criticise saying, ‘What is the use of this development?’ But those patriots who love the country should realise this.
Although the services of Dharmapala were not understood then, it is highly valued today. Any service rendered may get recognition in future. Hence, the patriots who work for the progress of the country should not get discouraged by criticism.
The colonial rulers declared Keppetipola Clifton and others who fought for the freedom of the country as traitors. 60 years after independence, no government was ready to withdraw that gazette. But we, in 2005, declared that Keppetipola Nilame and others as patriotic heroes. Our intention is to end the subservience to colonial rule for once and all.
I declare today as Dharmapala Day to remember this patriotic leader and declare the entire year from today as Dharmapala Year. I remind that today, the 150th birth anniversary of Anagarika Dharmapala.
May you all be blessed by the noble Triple Gem.
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many people have the habit of drinking water in the morning in their life. Many people think that drinking water in the morning is good for the body, it can effectively relieve constipation, and it can also help us to replenish the water lost at night. In fact, drinking water in the morning also requires mastering the correct method to achieve better results, Otherwise, it will backfire. How about getting up in the morning and drinking water? Let’s learn about it.
how about drinking water in the morning?
it is reasonable to think that drinking cold boiled water will affect health. Why do you say that? Because if the water temperature is too cold, it will stimulate people’s five internal organs. After a long time, it will be unhealthy. In addition, in the morning, when Yang Qi rises, if too much water will also affect the rise of Yang Qi, too much water will cause the burden of water intestines, which will also have a great impact on health, Of course, if you drink water with the same temperature as the human body, it will not affect your health. On the contrary, it is also conducive to promoting intestinal peristalsis, preventing constipation, promoting metabolism and improving the body’s immunity.
and this raises a question for us, how to drink water in the morning is the healthiest?
it is said that drinking light salt water on an empty stomach in the morning is most conducive to health preservation. In fact, this is not the case. Not everyone is suitable for drinking light salt water. For some patients with hypertension, if they drink light salt water in the morning, they will raise their blood pressure. Moreover, modern people have too much sodium, so it is unnecessary to drink light salt water on an empty stomach in the morning.
it is also said that drinking honey water is the best. In fact, it is not. Honey water is of great help to prevent constipation and promote beauty. But in fact, boiled water is the best choice. The nutrients in boiled water are most suitable for human health. It can not only supplement water, but also reduce the consistency of blood, which is conducive to urination, What’s more, boiled water has no heat and will not affect health. It can promote blood circulation to the greatest extent and make people have a good spirit of the day.
and there are certain requirements for the water temperature. Under normal circumstances, the temperature of boiled water is best consistent with the ambient temperature. Some studies have shown that 25 ℃ water is the most conducive to health. If the water temperature is too low, it will stimulate the intestinal health, so it is not suitable for those who have a cold stomach or are old and weak, And if the water temperature is too high, it will also affect the oral health, so we should choose the water temperature suitable for ourselves.
it is also important to drink water on an empty stomach in the morning. You should try your best to drink water after brushing your teeth and before eating. If you drink water without brushing your teeth, it is easy to drink the bacteria in your mouth, which is not conducive to your health. If you drink water after eating, it can’t wash your intestines. Therefore, it is best to drink water after brushing your teeth and before eating, But you should also pay attention to a certain amount of water. If you drink too much water in the morning, it will increase the blood volume, make the body’s blood pressure suddenly higher, and even threaten the pressure of the glomerulus. So drink water should also pay attention to a quantity, the best to 150-200 ml is appropriate, when drinking water should be small mouthful of drink, never too fast, if too fast, it will cause blood pressure drop, and even nausea, headache and other side effects.
everyone has some of their own living habits, but everything needs us to master the correct method, the above is the introduction of drinking water in the morning, let us know through the above, try not to drink water on an empty stomach in the morning, and it is best to drink water before breakfast after brushing teeth in the morning, so as to make drinking water in the morning play a better effect. | <urn:uuid:e04a3853-bdaa-4e54-a2d7-9e1ea77442c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kaochepai.com/how-about-drinking-water-in-the-morning/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.958166 | 876 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Pregnant women who contractare more likely to have a severe infection, be hospitalized and need a ventilator, experts say. But as of last month, only 23% have received at least one dose of a COVID vaccine during pregnancy, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
“We need to impress upon women how serious COVID infection in pregnancy could be,” said Dr. Laura Riley, chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Weill Cornell Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
“Pregnant women hear a chorus of, ‘Don’t eat that, don’t take that, don’t put anything into your body.’ And so, the natural reaction is, ‘Oh maybe I shouldn’t.’ But here we’re saying, this is a prevention that is going to save you, potentially from something far worse,” Riley added.
A new study from the University of California, San Francisco found pregnant women infected with COVID-19 are at a significantly higher risk for pre-term birth.
“These are babies who are going to stay in the hospital longer, who may go through their lives with many more difficulties,” said Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski, a professor who is part of the California Preterm Birth Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco.
One reason for the hesitancy could be that the CDC was slow to recommend the COVID vaccine for pregnant women due to the lack of data. Pregnant women were not included in initial COVID vaccine trials. Last week, the agency beganto get the vaccine, citing new safety data.
“Scientists did not find an increased risk for miscarriage” among people who received the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines before 20 weeks of pregnancy, the CDC said. It also said available data showed no additional risk to people vaccinated later in pregnancy or to their babies.
Zara Zuckerman was among those hesitant to get the vaccine while pregnant with her daughter, Sophie, who is now four months old. But she said was more concerned about getting COVID-19. “Pregnancy is scary but this is something that can make it less scary,” Zuckerman said. “This is protecting you and protecting your unborn baby.”
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(Phys.org) —New analyses of NASA airborne radar data collected in 2012 reveal the radar detected indications of a huge sinkhole before it collapsed and forced evacuations near Bayou Corne, La., that year.
The findings suggest such radar data, if collected routinely from airborne systems or satellites, could at least in some cases foresee sinkholes before they happen, decreasing danger to people and property.
Sinkholes are depressions in the ground formed when Earth surface layers collapse into caverns below. They usually form without warning. The data were collected as part of an ongoing NASA campaign to monitor sinking of the ground along the Louisiana Gulf Coast.
Researchers Cathleen Jones and Ron Blom of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., analyzed interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) imagery of the area acquired during flights of the agency's Uninhabited Airborne Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), which uses a C-20A jet, in June 2011 and July 2012. InSAR detects and measures very subtle deformations in Earth's surface.
Their analyses showed the ground surface layer deformed significantly at least a month before the collapse, moving mostly horizontally up to 10.2 inches (260 millimeters) toward where the sinkhole would later form. These precursory surface movements covered a much larger area—about 1,640 by 1,640 feet, (500 by 500 meters)—than that of the initial sinkhole, which measured about 2 acres (1 hectare).
Results of the study are published in the February issue of the journal Geology.
"While horizontal surface deformations had not previously been considered a signature of sinkholes, the new study shows they can precede sinkhole formation well in advance," said Jones. "This kind of movement may be more common than previously thought, particularly in areas with loose soil near the surface."
The Bayou Corne sinkhole formed unexpectedly Aug. 3, 2012, after weeks of minor earthquakes and bubbling natural gas that provoked community concern. It was caused by the collapse of a sidewall of an underground storage cavity connected to a nearby well operated by Texas Brine Company and owned by Occidental Petroleum. On-site investigation revealed the storage cavity, located more than 3,000 feet (914 meters) underground, had been mined closer to the edge of the subterranean Napoleonville salt dome than thought. The sinkhole, which filled with slurry—a fluid mixture of water and pulverized solids—has gradually expanded and now measures about 25 acres (10.1 hectares) and is at least 750 feet (229 meters) deep. It is still growing.
"Our work shows radar remote sensing could offer a monitoring technique for identifying at least some sinkholes before their surface collapse, and could be of particular use to the petroleum industry for monitoring operations in salt domes," said Blom. "Salt domes are dome-shaped structures in sedimentary rocks that form where large masses of salt are forced upward. By measuring strain on Earth's surface, this capability can reduce risks and provide quantitative information that can be used to predict a sinkhole's size and growth rate."
Typically, sinkholes have no natural external surface drainage, and they form through natural processes and human activities. They occur in regions of karst"terrain where the rock below the surface can be dissolved by groundwater, most commonly in areas with limestone or other carbonate rocks, gypsum or salt beds. When the rocks dissolve, they form spaces and caverns underground. Sinkholes vary in size from a few feet across to hundreds of acres, and some can be very deep. They are common hazards worldwide and are found in all regions of the United States, with Florida, Missouri, Texas, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee and Pennsylvania reporting the most sinkhole damage. While sinkhole deaths are rare, in February 2013 a man in Tampa, Fla., was killed when his house was swallowed by a sinkhole.
The human-produced Bayou Corne sinkhole occurred in an area not prone to sinkholes. The Gulf Coast of Louisiana and eastern Texas sits on an ancient ocean floor with salt layers that form domes as the lower-density salt rises. The Napoleonville salt dome underneath Bayou Corne extends to within 690 feet (210 meters) of the surface. Various companies mine caverns in the dome by dissolving the salt to obtain brine and subsequently store fuels and salt water in the caverns.
Jones and Blom say continued UAVSAR monitoring of the area as recently as October 2013 has shown a widening area of deformation, with the potential to affect other nearby storage cavities located near the salt dome's outer wall. Because the Bayou Corne sinkhole is now filled with water, it is harder to measure deformation of the area using InSAR. However, if the deformation extends far past the sinkhole boundaries, InSAR could continue to track surface movement caused by changes below the surface.
Continued growth of the sinkhole threatens the community and Highway 70, so there is a pressing need for reliable estimates of how fast it may expand and how big it may eventually get.
"This kind of data could be of great value in determining the direction in which the sinkhole is likely to expand," said Jones. "At Bayou Corne, it appears that material is continuing to flow into the huge cavern that is undergoing collapse."
Blom says there are no immediate plans to fly UAVSAR over sinkhole-prone areas.
"You could spend a lot of time flying and processing data without capturing a sinkhole," he said. "Our discovery at Bayou Corne was really serendipitous. But it does demonstrate one of the expected benefits of an InSAR satellite that would image wide areas frequently."
"Every year, unexpected ground motions from sinkholes, landslides and levee failures cost millions of dollars and many lives," said Jones. "When there is small movement prior to a catastrophic collapse, such subtle precursory clues can be detected by InSAR."
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Developmental studies spanning from infancy to adulthood comprise the research portfolio of the CDS. These studies share an emphasis on understanding the processes that underlie child development as it occurs across multiple levels of analysis both within the child (e.g., genetic, physiological, neurological, affective, cognitive and behavioral) as well as at the intersection of children and their surrounding contexts (e.g., peers, families, schools, cultures). Over the last five years, research at the CDS has focused on applied outcomes in education, health, psychological adjustment, and risk behaviors as well as on understanding basic development processes such as family functioning, children’s memory development, and self-regulation in early childhood.
For a list of active CDS-affiliated research projects and associated weblinks, click here.
Highlights of current research studies at CDS include the following:
Long-term Effects of Parents’ Efforts to Foster Children’s Gratitude on Health, Well-Being and Character Development
Andrea Hussong, Ph.D., (PI), Center for Developmental Science
and Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Jennifer Coffman, Ph.D., (Co-I), Center for Developmental Science
Hillary Langley, Ph.D., (Co-I), Sam Houston State University
With funding from the John Templeton Foundation,
this research project is focused on why gratitude matters in children and what parents can do to best cultivate gratitude in their children and pre-adolescents. Building on a previous Templeton-funded study, researchers will follow a sample of children into pre-adolescence in order to examine whether a set of parenting practices foster future experiences of gratitude in children as well as greater health, well-being and character development.Using observational and survey data from parent-child dyads, this project allows for a description of the development of gratitude over ages 6-13, as well as an empirical base from which researchers can identify how to foster children’s gratitude, and discover the implications of gratitude for children on the brink of adolescence.In addition, an online training module for parents will be created and used in a randomized control trial in order to test whether parents who view the module show increases in socialization practices, as well as more positive attitudes, greater knowledge, and stronger behavioral interventions to use specific strategies in comparison to their peers, as well as have children who evidence more gratitude. Through this study, the research team will identify optimal ways for parents and children to discuss gratitude, highlight effective parenting strategies that foster gratitude in children and pre-teens, and take the first step toward translating these findings into effective programming for families.
Collaborative Research: PEARL: Peers Engaged as Resources for Learning
Jill Hamm, Ph.D., (PI), UNC Department of Education
With funding from the National Science Foundation, Peers Engaged as Resources for Learning (PEARL) is a collaboration with Horizon Research, Inc. PEARL is designed to provide foundational research on small group learning environments in mathematics classrooms, bringing together theories and evidence-based practices regarding high quality mathematics education and productive classroom social dynamics. Currently ongoing, PEARL involves design, testing, and refinement of small group tasks, instructional strategies, and tools, in collaboration with middle and high school math teachers. The aim of the project is both to develop a conceptual framework of small group work to guide research on and implementation of small group learning, as well as to develop evidence-based resources for educators to support student engagement and learning.
Developing a Teacher-Based Intervention Involving Memory-Relevant Language during Instruction
Peter Ornstein, Ph.D., (co-PI), and Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Jennifer Coffman, Ph.D., (Co-I), Center for Developmental Science
With support from the Institute of Education Sciences, this innovative research project involves the development of an intervention for first-grade teachers that will enhance children’s memory and academic skills. Students’ basic memory and cognition are critical for success in school across math, reading, science, and other educational domains. Strategies for remembering are essential for academic success and teachers can be trained to use instructional practices that facilitate children’s memory and, in turn, academic achievement. This research involves a series of studies in after-school programs in which researchers simulate classroom instruction through exciting educational experiences (Legos and Engineering or Reporting the News) to identify successful instructional practices. This information will then be used to develop and pilot test an intervention in local first-grade classrooms that is designed to improve both teachers’ instructional techniques and their students’ memory and academic performance.
The Durham Child Health and Development Study (DCHD)
Martha Cox, Ph.D. & Peter Ornstein, Ph.D. (co-PIs), Department of Psychology & Neuroscience
With support from the National Science Foundation, this multi-investigator team illustrates the benefits of a multi-level approach – from genes to environments – for understanding development. In this unique longitudinal and mixed-method study, a broad sample of 200 infants born in 2002-2003 was recruited and studied (along with their families) at up to 10 assessment occasions between 3 months of age and 2nd grade. This study has spawned collateral grants that provide qualitative approaches to understanding the experiences of these children and their families as well as quantitative studies of the child care environment, key indices of cognitive functioning, and emotion socialization and understanding just before the point of school entry. Health outcomes related to immune functioning and genetic expression, in relation to their early environment, will be assessed when children are in the 5th grade. Key findings from this project show the complex interactions among biological and environmental experiences in developing young children.
Below are active CDS-sponsored projects. More information can be found by clicking on the following weblinks for some of these projects. For those without weblinks, please contact PIs directly of the CDS for more information.
|Principal Investigator(s)||Project Title|
Andrea Hussong; firstname.lastname@example.org
(1) Human Development: Interdisciplinary Research Training;
Dan Bauer; email@example.com
(1) Harmonizing substance use and disorder measures to facilitate multi-study analyses;
Peter Ornstein; firstname.lastname@example.org
(1) Developing a Teacher-Based Intervention Involving Memory-Relevant Language during Instruction
Cathi Propper; email@example.com
(1) Prenatal Cigarette Exposure: The Role of Sleep and Parenting for Infant Outcomes;
Nisha Gottfredson; firstname.lastname@example.org
(1) The Impact of Affect Regulatory Mechanisms and Binge Eating on Drug Recovery
Jill Hamm; email@example.com
(1) Collaborative Research: PEARL: Peers Engaged As Resources for Learning;
Sherick Hughes; firstname.lastname@example.org
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|Miene Schönberg||Simon Marx|
On the website judaisme.sdv.fr I have found some detailed information prepared by Pierre Kogan about the family of the Marx Brothers' father Simon:
On the marriage certificate of the Marx Brothers' parents (which is full of spelling mistakes made by the official) the groom is named Samuel Marks, but he signs his name Simon(3) Marx. He is listed as being 24 years old and a tailor, born in Alsace, France. His father's name is given as Mark Marks and his mother's first name as Honne (Hanna). His wife is registered as Mine Schonberg, 20 years old, and she signs Minnie Schonberg. They lived at 330 East 85th Street. Minnie's parents are Levi and Fanny Schönberg. The witnesses are given as Adolphe Lefran and Kornelius Zimmermann.
In archives of the region of Bas-Rhin Kogan found information about Simon(3) and his parents: The Marx Brothers father, Simon Marx(3), was born 23 October 1859 in Mertzwiller.
Simon's(3) parents, the Brothers grandparents, were Simon Marx(2), born 02 July 1830, and Adel(e) Levi, born around 1835, who were married in Hochfelden. Simon(2) died in Strasbourg on 29 September 1901. Adele died in Strasbourg on 10 July 1910. They are buried in the Jewish cemetery in Strasbourg-Koenigshoffen, together with some of their children, Heinrich (1866-1898), Estelle (1869-1895) and Moritz.
The great-grandparents of the Marx Brothers were Simon Marx (1), born 29 September 1803 in Batzendorf, and Babete Weil, born 1804, who were living in Hochfelden.
Simon(2) and Adele had several children and on one of the children's birth certificate gave their profession as "door-to-door vendors". Their children were born in several villages in Alsace probably due to their travels as door-to-door vendors. The mother of these children is sometimes given as "Anna (or Johanna) Isaac" and sometimes as "Adele Levi". Also in some documents Simon(2) and Adele are listed as being married, whereas in others a child is listed with Adele being an unmarried mother, but the child being recognised by Simon(2). There was a Johanna Issac born on 12 March 1839 in Lorsch, near Darmstadt, Germany. Isaac, the son of Simon(2), reports her death on 10 July 1910 and give her profession as door-to-door vendor. Kogan concludes that Adele (the name on Simon's(3) birth certificate) and Hanna — in some documents spelled "Johanna" or "Honne" (the name on Simon's(3) marriage certificate) — are the same person. Adele/Johanne may have gotten married to Simon(2) in Germany. This explains why Kogan was not able to find and birth or marriage certificates in the French archives. That Simon(3) gave his father's name as "Mark" may be explained by the inscription on Simon(2)'s tombstone. A Latin inscription has the name "Simon" and the Hebrew inscription is "Mordechai", which could have become "Mark".
There is nothing to indicate that the family was ever known under the name "Marrix", which is mentioned in some books.
Miene/Minnie SchönbergThe Schönberg family comes from Dornum in northern Germany. Miene's grandfather was Abraham Moses Schönberg who had an affair with Schöntje Weiler (1789-1888). Weiler was married to the much older Gossel Lazarus Funk (1749-1826). Even before Funk's death she had two children with Schönberg, Levy in 1823 and Jetta in 1825. A third child, Prinzgen Abraham, was born in 1828. Abraham and Schöntje got married in 1827.
Levy was first named "Funk gen. (called) Schönberg", but the "Funk" was later droppped. 1851 Levy married Sophie "Fanny" Salomons. The Schönberg family lived in poor conditions. Levy was an umbrella maker and ventriloquist, Fanny played the harp and they may also have appeared at markets or fun fairs.
Levy and Fanny had eight children. Their daughter Miene was born on 9 November 1864 in Dornum in northern Germany. The Schönberg family came to New York in 1880. Miene's brother Abraham became famous under the name Al Shean as part of the "Gallagher & Shean" duo. Levy and Fanny lived with Miene, Simon and the Marx Brothers. Fanny had brought her harp from Germany and started Harpo's interest in the instrument. Levy died in 1919 and Fanny in 1908. Levy lived to the age of 96, but not to 101 as Harpo said in "Harpo speaks".
Groucho visited Dornum in 1956 with Eden Hartford and his daughter Melinda. Also with them was Robert Dwan the director of "You Bet Your Life".
The Marx family in America
Minnie met Simon at a dance. They got married in 1885. Simon was was a dancing teacher but later became a tailor, although not a very good one. His hidden talent was cooking, and he often bribed a landlord to wait for the rent with a meal. Minnie died in New York on 14 September 1929. When the Brothers moved to Hollywood, Sam followed them. Sam can been seen in the film "Monkey Business". He sitting on top of a stack of luggage on the pier and waving to the ship. Sam died in Los Angeles on 10 May 1933. | <urn:uuid:63a456ad-2943-48a3-a94d-6af9823b89db> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.marx-brothers.org/biography/parents.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719547.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00395-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984029 | 1,251 | 1.5625 | 2 |
|DR. ROBERT PUFF|
The Real News Archive (Archive Home)
February - March, 2005
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
The journey is his destination
EXETER - Like so many young children, Perrin
Hendrick had a penchant for drawing. But unlike most kids, who
pass up art for other interests as they grow, Hendrick remained
engaged by drawing. He would borrow the works of J.R.R. Tolkien
and other of his favorite writers from the library and spend
hours illustrating the fantastic tales.
He went on to major in art at the University of New Hampshire and at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo., supporting himself as an interior house painter along the way.
Now an adult, Hendrick, who lives in Exeter, makes his living as a freelance muralist. In his scant spare time, he works on illustrations for a childrens fairy tale that he wrote and hopes to publish.
Last month Hendrick, 29, won the L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Contest for new and aspiring illustrators, a prestigious award that Hendrick said he hopes will open the door to a full-fledged career as an illustrator, the kind of art he continues to favor.
Hendrick stays close to the philosophies that
evolved from the soul-searching of his youth, a search that led
him on travels from UNH to Mexico. He worked as an itinerant
house painter along the way before finally landing at Naropa
University in Colorado, an alternative school influenced by
About his artwork, Hendrick said, "The piece you end up with is just a document of the process you went through to get there. The process is a medium to your own soul, a bridge to spirituality, a way to know yourself." -read more-
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Research on twins supports 'God gene'
Based on an analysis of more than 500 identical
and non-identical twins, the study at Minnesota University in
America set out to discover whether spirituality was the result
of nature or nurture.
It concluded that children's religiousness was primarily the result of whether they had been born into a religious household. "But during the transition from adolescence to adulthood, genetic factors increase in importance while shared environmental factors decrease," it said.
The twins answered questions about their religious beliefs, from the regularity of church attendance to how much they relied on prayer. While the identical twins reported similar patterns over time, the non-identical twins diverged as they got older, said the study in the Journal of Personality.
However, the researchers stressed that genes were not the only factors that determined how religious people were. Laura Koenig, a co-author of the research, said: "There is still room for cultural and environmental influences.''
The debate about the "God gene" was prompted last year by Dr Dean Hamer, the director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Institute in America. After comparing more than 2,000 DNA samples, he concluded that the greater people's ability to believe in a higher spiritual force, the more likely that they would share the gene, VMAT2. -read more-
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Liberia is At a Brink of Irreversible Environmental/Ecological Impotency
, Liberia is at peril due to an assault on the
sacred reverence of its environment by those who have limited
knowledge on how we expressed our affinity with the environment.
And such a denial of Liberia's universal validity is nothing less
than an assault on its intrinsic values and spirituality.
Liberians must resist this assault now. Liberians must never
remain silent to the slow death of its environment. Indeed, there
are laws that cover some aspects of environmental controls. They
should be given "teeth", made stronger and clearer. For
example, Article 33 of the Health Ministry Laws of Liberia
prohibits the dumping of waste in Liberian waters. However,
during past administrations, the Minister of Planning, or
whichever ministry/department is responsible for contract
negotiation, allowed large companies like the National Ore Mining
Company at Mano River, LAMCO and Bong Mining Companies to pollute
the St. John River, the Mano River and their tributaries with
iron ore dust and other residues of the iron ore production
process. Even areas set aside by preceding governments for
conservation and or scientific inquiry like the Sarpo National
Park and Gola National Forest in Upper Cape Mount County and
Lower Lofa County are in and off of the hands of logging
companies or at the mercy of poachers, says Mr. Alexander Peal of
Conservation International/Liberia. Traditional deforestation or
small farming has become the order of the day as the result of
not having in place national programs for alternative and
The Liberian people who are spiritually, medically and nutritionally linked to the forests, will bear a disproportionate burden of the nation's environmental deforestation, pollution of coastal waters from oil residue and raw sewage problems. Thousands of acres of flora and fauna (rainforest) are ruined. Liberia is witnessing unprecedented changes in the quality of its environment. Forests are being lost at an unparalleled pace. In other words, if the flora is cut and burned, the topsoil suffers massive erosion, water supplies are polluted or destroyed, and the wildlife is driven into shrinking areas of refuge. Potential life-saving medicinal herbs are lost forever and natural resources are destroyed for short-term gain. For example, "Pygeum africanum" (http://www.wholehealthmd.com) herbal medicine for prostate gland enlargement or urinary disorders found around Mt. Nimba environment that can bring in million of dollars if properly harvested, is being destroyed from mining. In addition, Liberia's traditional universities (Poro and Sande), which can only be built and function in such a grove where discipline, survival, and leadership skills are taught by the College of Elders are being destroyed. One is left to wonder, is there anything in Liberia worth fighting for or saving with every fiber of one's Liberian souls? -read lots more-
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Mankiller to sign books in Pryor at Book Exchange
The Book Exchange & Bible Book Store,
downtown Pryor, is proud to announce the upcoming appearance of
Wilma Mankiller, former chief of the Cherokee Nation, for a
booksigning of her newest title, Every Day is a Good Day,
Saturday April 2, from 1-3 p.m.
Author and activist Mankiller has garnered the thoughts of 19 Native women on questions such as the meaning of spirituality, the importance of sovereignty, and what it means to be an indigenous woman today. Mankiller chose her participants well, for these women--a physician, an attorney, ranchers, professors of American Indian studies, an urban planner, a cultural anthropologist, artists, poets, musicians, and an Onondaga Clan Mother--really do have something to say.
Spirituality, which connects all indigenous peoples, means respect for the earth and all living things.
Land is crucial to all tribes, as shown by the Dann sisters, Shoshone ranchers struggling to defend the sacred ceremonial grounds of their ancestors, and Sarah James, who fights for her Gwich'in tribal rights to protect caribou birthing grounds from oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Profound yet simple words from strong women working hard to perpetuate their culture, an! d who have a lot to share, and who need to be heard.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2004, American Library Association.)
Wilma Mankiller is an author, activist, and former principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. Her roots are planted deep in the rural community of Mankiller Flats in Adair County, Oklahoma where she has spent most of her life. She has been honored with many awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and has received honorary doctorate degrees from such esteemed institutions as Yale University, Dartmouth College, and Smith College. Ms. Mankiler is the author of Mankiller: A Chief and Her People, and co-edited A Reader's Companion to the History of Women in the U.S. Wilma Mankiller lives on the Mankiller family allotment with her husband, Charlie Soap.
For more information please call The Book Exchange & The Biblebookstore at 918 825 6015 or email email@example.com - book info
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TV executive uses 'power of film' on behalf of poor
As a network television producer, Gerry Straub had all the trappings of success --- a BMW, nice homes on both coasts and financial security. But, he left that life of privilege after a profound conversion experience led the 58-year-old to his present vocation as the president of The San Damiano Foundation, a Burbank-based secular Franciscan ministry putting the power of film at the service of the poor.
Suddenly, something happened while Straub was sitting in the silence of the empty church.
"Without warning, I felt the overwhelming presence of God," said Straub. "I didn't see any images or hear any words. I knew experientially that God was real, that God loved me. In that moment of revelation, I was transformed from an atheist into a pilgrim." He felt so moved, he got up and bowed before the altar. "I'm still living off that one moment," declared Straub.
Following a three-hour period of prayer and reconciliation with a Franciscan priest a few days later, Straub went to confession and received the Eucharist at Mass for the first time in a decade. "St. Francis of Assisi became my spiritual guide," said Straub. He abandoned writing his novel on Vincent and Francis, and instead, began writing about the life of St. Francis and his faithful follower, St. Clare, intertwining the story of his own spiritual pilgrimage.
Straub is in the midst of working on a sixth film, "The Patients of a Saint," about Dr. Tony Lazzara, an American doctor who has spent more than 20 years ministering to sick children in the shantytowns of Lima, Peru.
Straub, who works 10 hours a day after attending daily Mass at his parish (St. Charles Borromeo in North Hollywood), recently returned from a speaking tour to Catholic and Christian colleges in Chicago and New York. He will soon be featured in an upcoming "Religion and Ethics News Weekly" program airing Sundays on PBS. Locally, he gives reflection workshops on the subject of poverty to parishes and hopes to branch out to schools as well.
"All the money and glory I got in network TV," he said, "could not compare with working on behalf of the poor and having these films make a difference in their lives." -read more-
Saturday, March 26, 2005
pianist's remarkable triumph over adversity
By Lawrence A. Johnson
Classical Music Writer
Posted March 16 2005
The Miami International Piano Festival always seems to have its share of glitches, and a disastrous one nearly ensued last weekend. Due to a flight cancellation and string of travel mishaps, Steven Osborne arrived in South Florida mere hours before his recital, scheduled to close the festival's Master Series.
His remarkable performance Sunday night at the Broward Center's Amaturo Theatre was a testament to Osborne's professionalism as well as his prodigious talent. Despite exhaustion, little rehearsal time, ringing cell phones and a problematic Steinway, the 33-year-old Scottish pianist delivered one of the most spellbinding musical events of the season.
Winner of the Clara Haskil and Naumburg competitions, Osborne offered an individual program that showcased his considerable keyboard gifts, with a staggering technique allied to a deep and subtle poetic sensibility.
Osborne opened with Brahms' Rhapsody in B minor, in which the pianist was entirely in synch with the mercurial shifts of this music. Osborne's blazing prestidigitation in the agitated sections was seamlessly blended with the meditative elements. His spacious phrasing in the middle F sharp minor passage was beautifully essayed, a calm new world beckoning beyond the present turmoil.
Osborne showed himself an inspired Lisztian in four excerpts from Harmonies poetiques et religieuses. Even with some sticky middle keys, the pianist had the full measure of Liszt's blend of derring-do and spare religiosity. He delivered the massive sonority of the chordal attacks in the Invocation with daunting force, as surely as he etched the unearthly delicacy of the Pater Noster. -Read more-
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challenges perception of his field
Philosophical discussion spurs thought.
The perception of philosophy as a discipline solely devoted to knowledge of the self only tells half the story, an Emory philosopher told audiences yesterday in Wilson Hall.
In a lecture titled "Philosophy as a way of life," Thomas Flynn, author of "Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason," spoke on the dual nature of Plato-Socratic philosophy, not only as a means to know thyself, but also to care for thyself. The quest for self-knowledge, what he denoted as the Delphic form of philosophy, complements a desire to harmonize one's life to one's beliefs, or Socratic theory, as the professor said.
Socratic philosophy, Flynn pointed out, could be derived most explicitly from Socrates' last plea at his trial that if his sons should value anything above virtue, the city should rebuke them just as he has rebuked others, that virtue should be supreme over all other values.
"Socrates is being not so much admired for what he says as for the harmony between what he does and what he says," Flynn said. -read more-
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The Amazing Journey' Opens at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and
- Rock Hall displays Pete Townshend's never-before-seen archives of the Who's concept album Tommy
CLEVELAND, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is pleased to announce the new exhibit "TOMMY: The Amazing Journey." The exhibit will open on April 7, 2005 at the Cleveland music museum and will remain until March 2006.
Tommy is one of the earliest and most important rock operas. The iconic rock opera had many incarnations, including an album, movie, soundtrack, a Broadway play as well as an orchestral version and a ballet interpretation. Conceived and primarily written by Pete Townshend, the Who's critically revered concept album, Tommy, was released in 1969.
March 18, 2005 marks the 30th anniversary of the motion pictures version of Tommy, directed by Ken Russell.
When the album Tommy was released over 35 years ago, the media divided in two distinctive groups. On one side, critics labeled it "shattering" and "remarkable." On the other side, some media viewed the work as exploitative. The story of Tommy is one of a handicapped child who is exploited and abused by family members and others and goes on to become a spiritual leader. This is an area that no pop album had dared to tread before Tommy. -read more-
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Native Americans Rediscover 'Two-Spirit' Identity
Editor's Note: Young, gay American Indians are rediscovering tribal heritages that often revered "Two-Spirits," people who manifested both masculine and feminine traits.
SAN FRANCISCO--Gabriel Duncan, 18, sits before a table covered with rich desserts and salmon salad sandwiches, glancing calmly at the mostly-older faces staring back at him. A California Paiute in a Minor Threat sweatshirt and brown beaded necklace, Duncan is reading his poetry aloud for the first time.
"I'd like to discuss just why we're so disgusting," he recites. "Why we can't marry, and just why the word 'equality' is rusty."
Like most of those gathered this evening at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, Duncan is a member of Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits (BAAITS), a six-year-old nonprofit that offers support and activities to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Native Americans. Similar groups exist in Oklahoma, Colorado and Minnesota.
The term "Two-Spirit" refers to a belief among some tribes that there are people who manifest both masculine and feminine spiritual qualities. According to Native American scholars, many tribes once revered Two-Spirits, viewing them as a third gender with a special spiritual connectedness. In these tribes, Two-Spirits filled important tribal roles as counselors, storytellers and healers.
This belief, scholars have also observed, has been eroded in many places by the imposition of Judeo-Christian views of homosexuality as sinful. -read more-
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by the Spirit
Some artists see their work as a soul-level undertaking
By MARK BAECHTEL
Anchorage Daily News
INSPIRE. It means, literally, to breathe in. But the word also shares Latin roots with "spirit." In Alaska's Bush, as artists who know will tell you, the connection makes sense. This is where art and spirit sink deep, intertwined roots into place, into people, even the materials the artists use.
"My grandfather would tell me, 'The driftwood timbers out in the Bering Sea already know what they are going to become,' " says John Pingayaq, a Cup'ik composer, dancer and mask carver who lives in Chevak. "Some will say they are to be bowls, harpoons, bows and arrows and many other things that we carve. Some say they are to be the dancing masks of the people. Most would think of (these timbers) as dead, but to our people they actually have souls."
For Pingayaq and other artists -- Native and non-Native, writers, musicians, makers of paintings and sculptures -- art is a response as natural as breathing. Their work is created where borderlands and extremes -- culture and weather, civilization and wilderness, endurance and understanding -- crash and grind against each other like cakes of floating sea ice. And whether one believes in an immortal soul or not, in a haunted landscape like this, the spirit and its movements become an inevitable part of the work. -read more-
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Speaks on Health, Faith
By Cary McMullen
Ledger Religion Editor
LAKELAND -- A noted authority in the relationship between spirituality and health, speaking at a conference Saturday, offered a biting critique of the idealization of modern health care in America and cautioned against reliance on prayer simply as a means to better health.
Dr. Keith G. Meador, a psychiatrist who holds dual professorships at Duke University Medical Center and Duke Divinity School in Durham, N.C., was the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Florida Center for Science and Religion at Florida Southern College. The subject of the meeting was "Spirituality and Wellness."
During the past 20 years, several medical schools and universities have studied the effect of faith on health and healing. Meador is co-director of a center at Duke that studies the relationship between the two. However, he seemed skeptical Saturday of methods that reduce beliefs and spiritual practices to tools for personal health.
"Spirituality is now a bandwagon," he said. "We need to be more discerning. Do we want to buy into a reductionistic definition of spirituality that locates it in a region of the brain?
"In a therapeutic culture, you live a life of entitlement -- if I've done my part, God owes me, and health will be mine to possess. . . . I'll own it because I've earned it."
Prayer and faith, Meador said, are not contractual bargaining chips with God in which health is received in exchange for devotion.
"People ask what religion is best. So spirituality is something to be used, and religious institutions become a kind of market for comfort and tranquility. I don't think we'd find anyone who says a cross is good for your health, but in the Christian tradition, it is central to our understanding of a suffering God."
In his 90-minute lecture, Meador offered an alternative vision of healing and health. Drawing on a quote from essayist Wendell Berry, he said, "Health is a sense of belonging to others and to our place. This holds rich potential for us as physicians and as a faith community. We have lost sight of health as a sense of community. I am convinced a substantial part of health is a sense of belonging to others." -read more-
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the heart and mind of an icon: Journals of Jack Kerouac reveal
the man behind the myth
By Chris Bergeron / Daily News Staff
Sunday, March 20, 2005
Douglas Brinkley reveals the man-boy behind the myth through Kerouac's own doubts and dreams in "Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954."
His 18-page introduction to "Windblown
World" is a marvel of compressed insight.
Brinkley examines Kerouac's urge to treat his own adventures as a paradigm for the American transit from its post-World War II doldrums to a rediscovery of its own spiritual possibilities.
He writes, "Kerouac's modus operandi in these handwritten journals is one of voluntary simplicity and freedom, of achieving sainthood by being lonesome and poor with empathy for every sentient creature."
Brinkley focuses on eight crucial years when Kerouac wrote his first two novels fulfilling a dream, perhaps a compulsion, to reinvent himself as a serious author.
"Windblown World" comprises two main sections written during the composition of "The Town and the City" and "On The Road" which turned Kerouac into a household name and a reluctant spokesman for his age.
Brinkley helpfully includes a 12-page "Cast of Characters," that ranges from boyhood chums to family members, from occasional girlfriends to long-suffering editors.
It also offers pages from Kerouac's notebooks and journals, including hand-drawn maps of a cross-country hitchhiking trip and a saucy pinup of a nameless woman who resembled one of the author's many crushes.
While many readers confuse Kerouac with his fictional personas, like the jubilant Sal Paradise in "On the Road," the journals reveal an earnest young writer struggling through the night to fashion a distinctive style that shattered literary conventions.
He routinely lists his production: "Wrote 2,000 words, good ones today" or "Wrote 3,500 strange and exalted words."
More often, Kerouac exhorts himself, treating writing as almost a religious discipline: "I will eventually arrive at a simplicity and a beauty that won't be denied -- morality, beauty, a real lyricism."
Any struggling writer can identify with Kerouac's labors: "Sometimes my effort at writing becomes so fluid and smooth that too much is torn out of me at once and it hurts."
Friday, March 25, 2005
Fulbright scholar Nathlie Provosty's paintings capture the mystic of Meher Baba
Nathlie Provosty.A look at Nathlie Provosty would make you think of her as one of the thousand other tourists that visit India. In reality, she is not quite from that category. Nathlie who completed her Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts (BFA) from the Maryland University is current a Fulbright scholar who has come to India to complete the project, 'Painting the Footsteps of Meher Baba.' Her paintings which are 21 in number focus on landscapes and interiors which are at times joined with illusory elements. These, in turn, create symbolic environments that are aimed at pointing one's consciousness inward. Still, the astounding part is yet to come. The young artist of 24 took a little less than four months to complete the paintings, having been in the country for six and a half months. Quite a feat to accomplish in such little time, considering she had other things at hand too. She is affiliated with the Government Chitrakala Mahavidyalay at Nagpur and lives in Meherbad, the location of Meher Baba's tomb shrine. She will continue staying there for the remaining duration of her nine month project.
The central theme in Nathlie's work is the exploration of her spiritual journey through simultaneous existing layers of space: outward architectural space, inner mental space and the innermost heart space. She describes her techinque, "The centre of my paintings carry the reality while the outside carry illusion."Natalie admits, "My stay in India has lead me to an emotional awakening that I cannot express verbally." She submits to be influenced by Baba's teachings which have aided her in personal growth.The exhibition on the paintings opened at the Hacienda Art Gallery yesterday. It was inaugurated by Professor Jane Schukoske, Executive Director of the United States Educational Foundation in India (USEFI). USEFI supports the Fulbright academic exchange programs between India and the U.S.A and advices Indian students about the U.S higher education system.The painings will be on view for a week, i.e. till the 30th of March.
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Good Friday to talk about Terri Schiavo
The lesson of this and every Good Friday is that life is changed, not ended, by dying. All of the political and emotional turmoil surrounding Terri Schiavo has made this Holy Week especially poignant.
Unfortunately, my flush of piety is dulled by a fierce anger at the despicable intrusion of Congress in this Florida woman's tragic circumstances.
I am sorry, but I get the unmistakable whiff of American Taliban in the swift Republican response to its core, Christian political base.
My faith and beliefs and my family's experience tell me the parents have to let go of their brain-damaged daughter trapped between life and death. For her spiritual journey to be complete in this season of life conquering death, they have to let go. -read more-
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embroidery is a spiritual meditation
Tomé Kathleen Lerner could use the colcha embroidery stitch an old-fashioned technique she's spent the last decade perfecting to craft a tablecloth and decorate it with a vibrant floral pattern.
But she'd really rather not.
The Peralta Elementary School third-grade teacher would much prefer that her pieces reflect something more substantial than roses and daisies. Lerner's favorite colcha subjects are saints because, with every batch of yarn she hand-dyes, with every stitch she makes, she feels something intense.
"It's spiritual to me. It makes me pray and think, and doing just floral pieces doesn't do anything for me. It's just an art form that doesn't have emotional attachment," says Lerner, whose work will be featured at the Third Annual Santos Show at Tomé Gallery this week. -read more-
Sunday, February 27, 2005
the Depths Of Soul Music
With industrialisation and changing values, a
world that was getting increasingly mechanised had begun to
seriously question, then undermine, the traditional spiritual
values of art. And then for centuries, the "art for art's
sake" theory was ridiculed by the rationalists who
relentlessly campaigned to give art a utilitarian purpose. Only
in the past century the moulds got broken once again, to
rediscover the abstract in art, returning to the maxim: "Art
for spirit's sake".
As a child, the presence of Ustad Amir Khan Saheb at home brought to me my first awareness of spiritual angst, for there was always this inward-outward dialectic to his presence. There he would sit, on the proverbial takht by the window, looking out-side, but with his gaze turned within, absorbed by a singing that was the real (inner) window, to the great ocean of music churning within him.
Often, when he sang a raga, the eyes of Khan Saheb's listeners would fill with tears. Yet, they would not let him stop even after hours of singing. At other times, they would plead with him to stop, for it was too overwhelming to continue to listen to him. One day, on one such occasion, while singing, Khan Saheb came down a level or two for his listeners, and said: " Naghma vahi naghma hai jo rooh sune aur rooh sunaye ". (A piece of music is a piece of music which the soul hears and the soul sings.) This was typical of Khan Saheb's style of communicating. He would 'tell' through embryonic sentences. And here, it was to share the secret that his constant mystic highs came from the 'stimulation' of the soul when singing. -read more-
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spiritual and literal journey
By Joanne Hammer
A Buddhist monk with native origins in Crawfordsville will begin a five-month pilgrimage walk next week.
Jotipalo Bhikkhu, born in Crawfordsville as Don Sperry, will begin the walk March 1 in New Orleans, La., and end in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Traveling with him will be layperson Austin Stewart, Gunnison, Colo.
His hope is to practice living on faith, surviving on less and showing peace to individuals.
Jotipalo, who has been a Buddhist for about 12 years and a monk for five years, considers Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in Redwood Valley, Calif., his home monastery. The monastery is affiliated with the Thai Forest and Theravada Buddhist traditions. In the tradition, it is common for monks and nuns to undertake pilgrimages, he said.
This walk is a continuation of that practice with an emphasis on living simply, meditation and dependence on the kindness and generosity of those that wish to see us succeed, he said.
Jotipalo, 39, is a 1984 Crawfordsville High School graduate and 1988 Wabash College graduate, where he studied art and the classics. He moved to New York to work as an artist, but began working as a salesperson for Norcote International.
His spiritual journey began after a near-death experience in the Himalayas in Nepal. For three days he was extremely ill and had an out-of-body experience, which caused him to realize the unimportance of material possessions, he said.
He began practicing yoga and meditation, gradually learning more about Buddhism. He also read about a woman named Peace Pilgrim, who from 1953-1981 walked more than 25,000 miles, sharing messages of inner and world peace.
It totally blew me away, Jotipalo said. It was a spiritual awakening of how individual peace can affect the community and keep expanding to world peace.
Jotipalo is uncertain as to what to expect in the 1,800 mile journey along U.S. 61.
Although he has few possessions, he will wear three robes, carry a backpack that holds a tent shaped like a large umbrella with netting and a 10-square-foot tarp. Since he cannot handle money, Stewart will buy food during the trip. They hope to travel small county roads along a river and balance public interaction with solitude and meditation.
The two plan to walk about 20 miles a day, traveling from New Orleans through Memphis, Tenn., St. Louis, Mo., Dubuque, Iowa, Minneapolis, Minn., and end at Arrow River Forest Hermitage in Thunder Bay, Ontario, by Aug. 20.
For future updates on Jotipalos walk, visit http://www.abhayagiri.org
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embrace the postindustrial
NEW YORK Landscape architects have long felt sidelined or devalued by their architectural brethren. But as the boundaries between the two professions slowly dissolve, it seems that landscape designers are advancing some of the most potent visions of how blighted cities can be revived.
"Groundswell," an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, showcases the results of this gradual shift.
Spanning nearly two decades of contemporary landscape design, this wide-ranging show surveys 23 projects - from plazas to waterfront parks to large-scale urban renewal efforts. The picture that emerges is of one of the most fruitful periods in landscape design in a century or more, with visions that range from the hyper-real to the atavistic. (Minimalism makes an appearance, but when it does it seems like more of a warning than an inspiration.)
If the show has a subtext, in fact, it is a forthright desire to come to terms with the postindustrial landscape, in particular its legacy of violence and decay. Many of the projects seem to have been plucked from a list of man-made horrors: the site of a terrorist bombing, a war-torn city center, poisonous dumping grounds and industrial wastelands. The show's underlying optimism is rooted in the power of landscape design to act as a healing agent.
Yet one of the show's strengths is that it never preaches. Even the most toxic landscapes are envisioned as part of a broader cycle of decay and renewal. And all are explorations of communal memory - an attempt to openly engage that dark history rather than cover it over. -read more-
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By ROBERT PLOCHECK / Dallas Morning News
A Year With Thomas Merton
(HarperSanFrancisco, 381 pages, $19.95)
These daily meditations, taken from Father Merton's journals, are arranged by calendar date. The entries range from 1941 when he entered the Trappist monastery in Kentucky to 1968, the year of his death in Bangkok, and correspond to the month of the year, if not the actual date.
The years are scrambled, however, leaving the reader to search out the time frame of Father Merton's own spiritual development. Although the prolific writer pursued a hermit's life, his musings here, as in all his many works, connect with all believers engaged in the struggle for holiness.
Politics enter into these meditations as they did in his life, and some seem slightly dated, with references to Reds and the "policy of deterrence," for example. Yet, this is a monk who struggled to stay focused on his contemplative vocation.
He wrote in 1965: "The great thing ... is to get out of all the traffic: peace movement traffic, political traffic, Church traffic. All of it!" Aside from the few political thoughts, most of these short meditations are timeless and universal. In 1962, he said: "This means always seeking the right balance between study, work, meditation, responsibility to others and solitude."
These selections are rich with honesty and wisdom, and provoke much soul-searching.
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Pulpits and Spiritual Exploitations
By Jasmyne Cannick
"I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves..." - Harriet Tubman
Recently, a group of Black pastors under the name of the Hi Impact Coalition, held a press conference and summit in Los Angeles to announce the kick off for their "Black Contract with America on Moral Values." Led by Bishop Harry Jackson of Washington and white Christian evangelical Reverend Lou Sheldon and his Traditional Values Coalition, the press conference and summit gave new meaning to the phrase "Sleeping with the enemy."
According to the newly formed coalition, topping the list of issues that Black Americans need to focus on is the protection of marriage. Never mind the war, access to healthcare, HIV/AIDS, education, housing and social security, the number one problem facing Black America is same-sex marriage.
Standing before the press in their Sunday best and eager to get their fifteen minutes of fame and achievable share of President Bush's Faith Based Initiative, these Black pastors seemingly allowed their pulpits to be purchased by the GOP and Lou Sheldon, who is to gay people what Strom Thurmond was to Blacks. Sheldon at one time even went so far as to support the quarantining of people with AIDS and accused the federal government of "running a network of whorehouses," when the U.S. responded to the AIDS crisis with resources.
Later that afternoon over one hundred Black pastors gathered at Reverend Fred Price's Crenshaw Christian Center, another prominent mega-church, where Sheldon showed his infamous "Gay rights, special rights" video and urged the pastors to have their congregations lobby African American legislators who hadn't taken a position on the issue of same-sex marriage.
Listening from the outside, one might have thought they were listening in on a Klan meeting, but after one look around the room, I remember thinking of Dave Chappelle's portrayal of a blind Black white supremacist who had never been told he was Black. -read more-
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Psycho-spiritual Dimension of Islam
HAZRAT ABU BABAJI
The word "sufi" literally means
woollen, although the wearing of wool does not appear to have
ever been current among the mystics of Islam. It was, however,
first used when referring to a small group of mystics who did
wear wool. In Arabic, 'sufi' comes from 'safi' which means
"pure", and Sufis are the "pure at heart".
A Sufi can be distinguished from others through his detachment from mate-rial life and his ecstatic devotion to "The Divine Life", free from pain and sorrow. The Sufis are people who prefer God to everything else and God prefers them to everything else.Sufism or tasawwuf, in Arabic, is the inner mystical or psycho-spiritual dimension of Islam. Today, how-ever, many believe that Sufism is outside the sphere of Islam. Despite its many variations and expressions, the essence of Sufi practice is that the Sufi surrenders to God in love, over and over; which involves embracing with love at each moment the content of one's consciousness as gifts of God or, as manifestations of God.
Allah uses many different ways of awakening people from slumber and attracting them to Him. Once awake, people become seekers and travel on the path or salek. As they start their journey Divine, their thoughts and feelings shift, and they begin to behave and live differently in varying deg-rees. Why the change?
Because it helps them distinguish between the 'reality' that they have always known and the reality that truly is. They begin to realise that the purpose of this life's journey has far greater depth and meaning than they had ever imagined. The innermost part of their self responds strongly to this realisation and the outer mechanics of the person therefore shifts.
There are various spiri-tual paths that attract people but, sooner or later, all these little roads lead to that one main road and unless one travels the distance of this grand highway, one will not get far. To travel on this highway, one must disable and break down the self or nafs, dethroning it from its position of King and ruler, making it the slave. While the terms used may differ, all the mystical paths are in agreement on this fundamental aspect. In Buddhism, they speak of suffering and killing the ego; in Sufism, they speak of servanthood of the nafs to Allah. This also marks the separation between the real traveller and the pseudo traveller. The vast treasury of Sufi teaching and writings points out this fundamental and uncompromising stage of spiritual unfoldment. This road is marked with many teachers and once one surrenders himself to be taught and becomes a salek, he is well on the road to God discovery.
Guided by his teacher or murshid, the salek follows and obeys the murshid, whose job is to prevent the salek from falling into the trap of self. The self uses every ploy to get the traveller off the road that will ultimately lead to the self's demise. Its tool include man's mind, emotions and belief systems a dange-rous and powerful array of weaponry. One must be most aware and equipped to defy the attempts of the nafs. The irony is that man is in the grip of his demanding self and is a slave to the material world, but he is not aware of it. Modern society promotes 'individuality', which in reality is 'slavery' to materiality, yet it ignores and/or shuns servanthood to God, which is the true purpose of Creation. It is only through servanthood to God that man can actually be freed from servanthood to material life. One cannot be a servant of God and a servant to oneself at the same time.
(Excerpted from 'Sufi Saint of Ooty' by Ramu Baba.)
Sunday, February 13, 2005
Bhutan's beauty buries message
It's not every week that Toronto sees two
Buddhist-themed movies (Travellers and Magicians and Ong-Bak)
opening on the same Friday, and that alone calls for a moment of
meditation. So inhale deeply: Who knows when it will happen
The fascinating thing is, as ostensibly different as the two movies are, they both tend to emphasize the fundamental contradiction in the very idea of "Buddhist entertainment." Because, as I understand it, if your Buddhist practice is working, you shouldn't need entertainment.
Where the contradiction in the ridiculously visceral Ong-Bak is embedded in the very concept of a pacifist martial-arts bonecruncher, in Travellers and Magicians you find it in the movie's setting, the startling natural splendour of Bhutan. For here is a place one cannot look at without wishing one was there, and yet this is a movie about learning to accept where one is.
The second feature by the monastery-raised high lama Khyentse Norbu, Travellers and Magicians is, like the 1999 soccer-fixated fable The Cup, a cautionary tale about earthly western temptations. But where the earlier film depicted the invasion of secular consumerism via electronic channels, his new film is about someone who has heard the ruckus and wants to find it. -read more-
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With fierce faith, Julia Bonds works to save the land and people of West Virgina.
by Beth Newberry
Julia Bonds wears her faith and her mission as an
environmental activist on a shirt that says "Stop
destroying my mountains! - God."
As outreach coordinator of the Whitesville, West Virginia-based Coal River Mountain Watch, a watchdog and advocacy organization that works to end mountain top removal strip mining, Bonds, 52, has raised the attention of her mountain neighbors as well as the ire of the coal industry. In 2003 she catapulted into the international spotlight when she was one of seven activists from across the globe to win the Goldman Environmental Prize, the largest award ($125,000) given to grassroots environmentalists, sometimes referred to as the "Nobel Prize for the Environment."
Bonds says of her awakening as an activist, "I think it was a process that started with what was happening in Marfork Hollow. The slap that woke me up was my grandson lying in bed at night plotting an escape route [from a potential sludge flood]. It broke my heart and made me wonder, why is my grandsons life forfeited for profit? Why are all these childrens lives forfeited for profit?
"I didnt have the heart to tell him that he wouldnt make it out of the house if the slurry dam would break, because there wouldnt be enough time to escape," she says. "That smacked me in the face. It turned my life around. I knew then that it was a spiritual journey."
As Julia Bonds struggles to protect and restore the culture and environment of Appalachia, she will continue to encourage her neighbors and other Americans to renew their covenant with God. "The mentality is that there is nothing you can do to fight this evil giant," says Bonds. "They ignore the obvious: the Bibles David and Goliath story.
"Sometimes people ask me, Why do you bang your head against the wall? Why do you even try? The fact of the matter is, I cant hide up in a corner and take it. I think the greatest mistake and the worst sin I could make would be to go back to my materialistic, vain life. I would know it in my own heart; its not the right thing to do. I cant ever give up." -read more-
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of spiritual writings reveals Americans to themselves
Reviewed by NATHAN KOLLAR
The Best American Spiritual Writing 2004 offers us 25 essays and 10 poems that touch our emotions. Through the skillful use of word and image, the authors allow us to tap into their thoughts and experiences. We are once again thankful to Philip Zaleski for providing us with the best of American spiritual writing, something he has been doing since 1998.
There are many wonderful essays in this years compilation. Three in particular show the diversity of content and purpose: A Texas Childhood by Rick Bass; Miss Ivory Broom by Robin Cody; and Good Grief by Thomas Lynch. Bass describes what he calls lightening strike moments where nature reveals more than any human artifact ever could. One example of such a moment is his realization gazing at a frozen pond one clear winter night that fish live in a world different from ours; that other worlds exist beyond our immediate sensations. Miss Ivory Broom describes the interaction between a school bus driver and a child with spina bifida.
Thomas Lynch has written and spoken a great deal about funerals. In his essay, he takes up the way some spiritualities avoid the importance of the body at death. In opposition to these modern spiritualities, he proclaims the Christian importance of the body:
In each case these holy people treated the bodies of the dead neither as a bother or embarrassment, nor an idol or icon, nor just shell. They treated the dead like one of our own temples of the Holy Spirit, neighbor, family -- fellow pilgrims. They stand -- these local heroes, these saints and sinners, these men and women of God -- in that difficult space between the living and the dead, between faith and fear, between humanity and Christianity and say out loud, Behold, I show you a mystery.
These three are a brief taste of the best in America. But why did Mr. Zaleski choose these as the best? He tells us that for a certain piece of writing to be considered spiritual, its author must always be striving to be the best, as a writer and as a person. There can be no mediocrity in either the writing or the person. A true spiritual writer must also recognize that writing is a moral act. Such recognition inoculates the writer against the three deadly literary vices of pandering to popular taste, creative laziness, and didacticism. No free grace here. -read more-
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Techno-Spiritual Web Epic Comes To DVD
posted by brokensaint
'Back in Jan 2001, ex-EA videogame producer
Brooke Burgess and two young artists launched a humble Flash web
comic series that hinted at heavy social, political,
technological, and especially spiritual themes. They didn't
expect a large audience to take note of their modest venture, but
since then over 4 million Flash-heads, comic/anime fans, media
critics, and tripped-out 'soul seekers' have opened the virtual
doors to Broken Saints.
'With themes that parallel works from the graphic novel greats - the likes of Grant Morrison (Invisibles), Neil Gaiman (Sandman), and Alan Moore (Watchmen) - Broken Saints has garnered countless industry kudos (including a Sundance Audience Award), and the first inklings of mainstream attention.
'And now, with the help of a timely grant from the Canadian government, the creative team has produced their crown jewel: a 4-DVD Special Edition Box Set that completely re-imagines the 12 hour Broken Saints saga and peers behind the curtain at a team of rogues who just wanted to wake some folks out of The Matrix in style.'
'Inspired by a South Pacific backpacking escape after his days in the cubicle barnyard, Burgess cashed in his stocks, sold anything of value, and joined his friends in using Flash to fuse text, images, and a haunting musical score (created by respected Berlin composer Tobias Tinker) to tell his archetypal tale. Broken Saints follows four unique strangers - a Catholic-American programmer, a Buddhist/Shinto priest, a Muslim Mercenary, and a mysterious Fijian orphan - as they are gripped by a series of Apocalyptic visions. With their individual faiths shaken and their waking lives pulled mysteriously to the American West Coast, the four converge and discover that their fates - and the spiritual destiny of humankind - is somehow tied to a global satellite network, a military implant project, and a terrifying plot to 'herald God's return'.
'Hailed by Wired Magazine as "Philip K Dick meets the Tibetan Book of the Dead", the mesmerizing 'cinematic literature' style of the Broken Saints series is entirely unique, and the DVD version builds upon the presentation with all-new art, intense visual effects, completely immersive Dolby 5.1 Surround, and acclaimed voice narration from a Vancouver cast that includes William B Davis (Cancer Man from The X-Files).
Sunday, February 6, 2005
by the Right, Dismissed by the Left
Many of us feel that our faith has been stolen, and it's time to take it back. In particular, an enormous public misrepresentation of Christianity has taken place. And because of an almost uniform media misperception, many people around the world now think Christian faith stands for political commitments that are almost the opposite of its true meaning. How did the faith of Jesus come to be known as pro-rich, pro-war, and only pro-American? What has happened here? And how do we get back to a historic, biblical, and genuinely evangelical faith rescued from its contemporary distortions? That rescue operation is even more crucial today, in the face of a deepening social crisis that cries out for more prophetic religion. -read more-
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Mike Scott and The Waterboys
Through the curtain the daylight crept
I looked at my lover as she slept
And as I watched her face I wept
It was a wonderful disguise.
Scott recites the strangers he encounters throughout the day: a driver turning to look at him in traffic; a blind man addressing him outside a museum; a fat woman in a queue; a drunk on the stairs as he returns home; and the president on the news at 10, looking like he could use a friend. All of them, he decides, wearing a wonderful disguise.
Stood in front of the mirror all alone
Examined my features, skin and bone
Looked at the face Ive always known
It was a wonderful disguise.
He explained the inspiration by email. I was living in the Findhorn community in the mid 1990s and started to see divinity in peoples faces, in their eyes. I told a more experienced community friend and she said you are seeing God in all his wonderful disguises. I knew in my heart then she was right and now I know it in my whole being.
(Findhorn) changed the way I look at life and other people forever, he noted on the Waterboys official website. I realized everyone really is the same deep underneath, with the same longing to love and be loved. Behind all our appearances, as one writer says, There is only one of us here. -read more-
Tuesday, February 1, 2005
Deepak Chopra plan film on Buddha: Modi:
[Hollywood News]: New Delhi, Feb 1 : Hollywood star Richard Gere plans to make an epic film about the Buddha, which is to be scripted by new age spiritual guru Deepak Chopra.
"The film's aim is to raise global awareness about Buddhist philosophy and the Buddha's message of love, compassion and equanimity," said B.K. Modi, president of the Maha Bodhi Society of India, Tuesday.
The $100 million film, to be produced by Gere, will be released in 2006 to coincide with the 2,550th anniversary celebrations of the Buddha, Modi said.
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Personal Hotspot was introduced many years ago as a way to turn your iPhone (and later iPad) into a conduit between a cellular data connection and one or more computers or other devices. Macworld reader Gabriel was hoping to use Personal Hotspot after his MacBook Air’s internal Wi-Fi system apparently conked out.
Gabriel is in ultima Thule, far from cellular networks, but has access to a Wi-Fi network. He tried to use Personal Hotspot to tether his Mac via Bluetooth and USB to the local Wi-Fi network, but couldn’t get it to work. “Every time I try to pair the two, the Wi-Fi connection drops off on the iPhone,” he writes.
That’s by design. Apple doesn’t have a way to use Personal Hotspot with Wi-Fi networks, even when you’re tethering through USB or Bluetooth, leaving Wi-Fi available. With Personal Hotspot turned on, any active tethering disables the Wi-Fi connection, and relies entirely on the cellular one. (It has been possible to relay Wi-Fi over USB with certain Android phones out of the box or when the default OS was replaced by a user.)
There’s a hardware alternative: a travel router. Several companies sell models of “3-in-1” travel routers, or similar products, which can act as a standalone Wi-Fi access point, a bridge (to plug in via ethernet to an existing network), or, most importantly here, as a client. The travel router plugs in via ethernet to a computer, and then connects to a Wi-Fi network just like it was a device adapter. These cost from $20 to $35. A typical one is the TP-Link N300 Wi-Fi Nano.
(By the way, Wi-Fi radios dying in Macs of all kinds is a common query we get at Mac 911. And, unfortunately, our best advice remains in this column from 2015. Wi-Fi hardware can fail, and you pick the travel router solution, get a USB Wi-Fi adapter with appropriate drivers, or have your Mac repaired or replaced. The USB Wi-Fi adapter we’ve reviewed has drivers for 10.12 Sierra, but not yet for 10.13 High Sierra. If you want to use USB-C, I haven’t found one with Mac drivers.)
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Occupations Code section 1702.169, which says:
Sec. 1702.169. FIREARM RESTRICTIONS. A commissioned security officer other than a person acting as a personal protection officer may not carry a firearm unless:
(1) the security officer is:
(A) engaged in the performance of duties as a security officer; or
(B) traveling to or from the place of assignment;
(2) the security officer wears a distinctive uniform indicating that the individual is a security officer; and
(3) the firearm is in plain view.
A private investigator is a type of commissioned security officer in Texas.
That is incorrect. I am in the process of starting my own PI firm to work child abuse/custody cases. A private investigator can carry a concealed handgun if they are CHL and have the required insurance. The following is from the DPS website reference this very issue. http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/RSD/PSB/La ... in_sum.htm
The Private Security Act addresses the carrying of firearms by security officers. It limits the carrying of firearms to those security officers who hold a commission as a security officer or as a personal protection officer. See Tex. Occ. Code §1702.161; §1702.206. Non-commissioned security officers are prohibited from carrying a firearm while on duty. See Tex. Occ. Code §1702.161(b).
The Concealed Handgun Statute expressly provides that a CHL does not exempt a licensed security officer from the duty to comply with Chapter 1702 or the Penal Code. Tex. Gov. Code §411.200. A security officer who holds a CHL must comply with the above provisions while on duty. This means that while on duty a non-commissioned officer cannot possess a handgun.
The statute does not regulate the possession of firearms by those who are not employed as security officers. The possession of firearms by locksmiths, alarm sales persons or installers, or private investigators, is not regulated by the Private Security Act but by Chapter 46 of the Penal Code. A private investigator, locksmith, alarm installer, etc., who provides no security or personal protection services need not be licensed as a commissioned officer or personal protection officer and may carry under the authority of a CHL.
It has been suggested that Chapter 1702’s insurance requirement is relevant to this analysis, such that a CHL-holding private investigator can carry concealed while providing investigative services only if he or she were to obtain the statutorily-required commercial liability insurance. However, the Private Security Act does not regulate the possession of firearms by private investigators and there is no license for a “commissioned private investigator.” The statute’s insurance requirement can only apply to services that are regulated under the statute. | <urn:uuid:454a1967-292b-4149-8891-46509368f9ae> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.texaschlforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=61186 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00099-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947579 | 591 | 1.742188 | 2 |
But what sets Kristi apart from the mainstream Republican leadership is when she starts talking about the last Republican President, George W. Bush.
In Britain, people tend to think of Bush as quite conservative. Not Kristi. 'Of course Bush was a good president, but he leaned too much to the middle and created programmes that put too many people on the government payroll. And once the Democrats got control of the House in 2006, he only used his power to veto their legislation once.'
...Beck, a former disc jockey and now a bestselling author, has launched his online 'Glenn Beck university', and among its teachings is that America started to go to the dogs at the time of the First World War, when government expanded far beyond the limits envisaged by the founding fathers with the establishment of institutions such as the Federal Reserve and publicly funded universal education.
In South Dakota, 52 per cent of all voters and 80 per cent of Republicans say they identify with Tea Party values. Kristi Noem says she agrees with Beck's analysis.
'His overall concept of more limited government and the need to go back to what our forefathers wanted is right,' she says.
'There are things that have to change but, as Beck says, not core values' [David Rose, "They see Obama as a hostile, alien force - like Hitler or Pol Pot: The glamorous, gun-crazy women preparing to blow the President away," UK Daily Mail, 2010.10.24].
Kristi Noem thinks George W. Bush wasn't conservative enough... and Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. So did Kristi, back in May, before she had to start thinking about what she was saying.
But a Republican Party moving from George W. Bush to Glenn Beck as font of good governing principles is a scary, scary party.
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Photography is probably the most interesting tool for businesses to accelerate innovation and growth. But how to start and what does it need to use it?
a camera, a cell phone camera is just fine something to upload the images to like an iPad or a laptop a training to learn how to read the images Not needed are:
technical photographic knowledge experience in photography expensive equipment What are the benefits?
Easy and instant access to insights and knowledge Accelerates innovation and learning process Allows access to until then untapped sources of information And not to forget, it is playful and fun using it.
The Masai Mara has spoilt us with incredible sightings, vast landscapes, beautiful weather, evenings at the bond fire, stories from the Masai people and the camp warthogs roaming between the tents.
It was an amazing photographic adventure with plenty of learning moments and fantastic images to take home. We don’t want to leave, but we have to, until we come back for another incredible photographic safari in the beautiful Masai Mara.
Asante sana (Swahili for “Thank you&rdquo Masai Mara.
After the extremely amazing and spectacular game drives of the last days we had a quiet morning. Although a quiet morning in the Masai Mara means many elephants, all sorts of plains game, breathtaking landscapes and a delicious pick nick breakfast on the slopes of the escarpment, with an amazing view.
Well some in our group were a bit bored and found it difficult to see the beauty in the small things after the spectacle we had witnessed. Yet during lunch we agreed that wildlife photography is a lot about patience and that patience is always rewarded.
And it was rewarded. In the afternoon we went straight to a spot were others had just spotted the pride of lion we tried to see in the open during the last game drives, but only had seen some ears and heads far away. At arrival we saw the two male lion resting under a tree. After photographing the two male extensively we carried on to see the rest of the pride, in total 16 female lion and cubs!
It was just such an amazing sighting. The lion were scattered over a clearing and started getting up, yawning and playing. It was not possible to get them all in one photo, but at least about 10 of them at one stage. And then one of the male lion walked over to watch over them. He was obviously in control and not approachable for play! as he made very clear!
Such a sighting makes one very humble and grateful, feeling rewarded for being out there the whole day and patiently waiting that the bush and the wildlife give some glimpses of their beauty and make the photographers heart beating faster!
In the early light of the morning we were out looking for the illusive big cats and we were lucky.
While heading to a spot where male lion with a kill were spotted the day before, suddenly a leopard was quickly glancing at us and just as quickly disappeared in the bushes.
When we arrived at the spot where the male lion were seen, nothing was there, not even a tiny piece of the kill, a young hippo. So we carried on and suddenly a herd of zebra, eland and impala ran out of a little forest. A cheetah came with them, obviously seeing something interesting while being carefully observed by the antelopes and zebras from a save distance.
That was not all. Our driver told us that he had spotted a lion on a termite mount, well at least he could see him, we didn’t, even with binoculars. We headed to the spot and there was a sub adult male lion enjoying the morning sun.
All that happened within the proximity of the camp and during about two hours of our game drive. Not to forget the beautiful sunrise and the several herds of elephant roaming the area as well.
Saying that this time of the year is not high season and no Great Migration is going on, doesn’t mean that one cannot see a crossing. And a crossing is what we saw today.
Several hundreds of zebra were gathering at the Mara River when we approached. They seemed to be determined to cross the Mara River to enter the Great Plains of the Serengeti for better food. Some of them were already on the other side of the river and such a situation usually causes them stress. The families want to stay together and they keep calling each other to encourage the rest of the family to cross.
But that was not an easy task. Plenty of hippos were lying in the river and crocodiles couldn’t be far away. The zebras made a couple of attempts and stopped them when they saw the hippos. After approximately two hours of trying they gathered all their courage and moved into the water, first to drink and then they moved on to the other side of the Mara River. But now the crocodiles were gathering as well and suddenly there were about eight of them heading for the crossing zebras. They were ready to attack. One crocodile was holding a zebra on its back leg, another crocodile came to bite into the other back leg and another crocodile took the zebra by its neck. They pulled the zebra into deeper water and started rolling with it and pulling it under water. It was over for the zebra. Now eight crocodiles were pulling it apart and swallowed whatever piece they got hold of.
This one zebra saved all the others. It kept the crocodiles busy and happy and that meant no other casualties for the herd. It was an exciting and moving sighting and an amazing photographic adventure.
The Masai Mara is probably one of the most famous wildlife areas Africa’s. These Great Plains are dotted with trees and spoilt with an abundance of wildlife. This time of the year is not high season, not the time of the Great Migration, yet the Masai Mara is always wonderful. At arrival zebra, buffalo and topi surrounded the airstrip. And on our first game drive we saw already two cheetah and two male lion, next to giraffes, zebra and several species of antelopes. There seems to be something magical about this place that attracts the animals in big numbers.
But not only the animals are heaven for photography lovers, also the landscape is very photogenic. It’s the place for wide angle lenses and at the same time for zoom as well. The Masai Mara is just a wonderful place to play with photography and to capture lots of beauty.
It was a clear morning. The wind had died and the Mount Kilimanjaro was beautifully visible. We went out to the little mountain/hill, serving as a viewpoint to photograph the Kilimanjaro. It was awesome and I enjoyed the serenity of that moment. A clear, calm morning in this majestic landscape, it was splendid. After a while we carried on with our game vehicle and followed for the rest of the morning the animals from swamp to swamp.
At lunch time the wind was back. 1.45 p.m. a rainstorm, 2 p.m. again a sandstorm, 2.15 p.m. sun and hot. This carried on for the whole afternoon rest time and there was no place without dust. At 4 p.m. I stopped practicing accepting and started thinking again. We need to change that. I got out of my tent and talked to Paul an Alex. We need to move the tents behind the bushes. They looked at me in unbelief but did move the tents, mine first still skeptical. But soon they were happy we did it. It worked!
4.30 p.m. we wanted to leave for the game drive but the battery was flat. With the help of a couple of Masai we got the car going and left the camp. Just around the corner on a smaller swamp was an elephant baby lying on the ground and two adults were standing next to it, watching and not moving. I thought the baby was dead and felt sad for them, but then arrived an elephant bull and the two adult females woke up the baby. It had been very deep asleep and needed some time to get up. I felt relieved.
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Pikmin are strange creatures that live on planet PNF-404, often hypothesized as Planet Earth. They are half-animal, half-plant. They appear in the series named after them, Pikmin.
- Red Pikmin: The first Pikmin Olimar met; they have long noses and are resistent to fire.
- Yellow Pikmin: These Pikmin were originally able to throw bomb-rocks in Pikmin 1, but in Pikmin 2, they only resisted electricity. In both games, they are thrown higher than any other. In Pikmin 3, they can work as an electricity generator, and they can throw bomb-rocks again, but this ability is no longer unique.
- Blue Pikmin: These Pikmin are the only ones that can breathe underwater. They have gills and a mouth.
- Purple Pikmin: The only ones with hair, these Pikmin are also overweight.
- White Pikmin: The only one with red eyes, the ability to see buried treasure, and resistance to poison.
- Winged Pikmin: The only Pikmin that can fly, they are smaller than white pikmin.
- Rock Pikmin: These Pikmin can break hard objects. They are immune to crushing attacks.
- Bulbmin The only appear in certain dungeons in Pikmin 2. They are immune to everything, but cannot leave the dungeon. They are dwarf bulborbs that have eaten a parasitic pikmin, which took control of them.
- Green Pikmin: The only one with a tail, the fanon-made one.
- Pale Pikmin: The only one able to walk on quick sand.
- Black Pikmin: These Pikmin have wings that allow them to fly.
- Icy Blue Pikmin: These Pikmin can survive the cold and thaw out other Pikmin.
- Brown Pikmin: These Pikmin can chew through wooden barriers.
- Orange Pikmin: This one is prickly all over, so its thorns counter Fleshy Squishing and eating. When an enemy tries to eat it, it spits all the pikmin it tried to eat out, so the Pikmin survive.
- Grey Pikmin: These Pikmin are able to mold themselves into any keyhole unlocking doors, however larger keyholes require more Pikmin
- Clover Pikmin: These Pikmin are able to poison enemies as well as create camoflauge for Olimar and Co. by huddling in large clusters forming what looks like a shrub. However some creatures can see through the disguise.
- Metal Pikmin: These Pikmin are heavy and immune to fire, poison, and wind. When in water they become rust and die. Since they aren't copper, they can't conduct electricity.
March of the Pikmin
It has been confirmed that Heaps of New Pikmin will be released in the new game.
Red, Blue, Yellow, Purple, White, Green and Orange Pikmin appear in the game. They can be throwable like normal Pikmin Games.
In this strategy game, Pikmin are both basic fighters and the workers for the Hocotate faction. They are spawned from the Onion, which can be built by a Ship Pod. For specific info on the five types, see the list of Smash Tactics units.
Because colours are reserved to indicate player ownership, the various Pikmin types have their distinctive features exaggerated, and they are renamed:
- Saplings are a new type of Pikmin. They spawn at the Onion, and are "sacrificed" at another building to be converted to other types of Pikmin.
- Red Pikmin are just named Pikmin, and spawn from the Candypop Bud. They're the most basic army unit, and can also construct buildings and gather some types of resources.
- Blue Pikmin are renamed Hydropikmin, and spawn from the Candypop Bud. They gain a ranged water attack.
- Yellow Pikmin are renamed Pikmin Artillerists, and spawn from the Candypop Bud. They throw exploding rocks, which damage units in an area.
- Mushroom Pikmin are a stronger army unit, spawned at the Puffstool, with the ability to infect enemies.
- Purple Pikmin are renamed Greater Pikmin, and are also spawned at the Puffstool. They have a large amount of health, but a very weak attack.
Pikmin, of course, will appear in the third installment of the Pikmin franchise. This game follows the story of Olimar attempting to earn 20,000 Pokos, to buy his ship back. The following colors are available:
- Icy Blue
In an installment of the Pikmin franchise, Pikmin reappear as the main focus. They appear in new types, an can now be used in formations (aka as a Pikmin bridge) by pressing various buttons on the Wii U screen. Also,Ecru Pikmins are First appeared In this game.The types are as follows:
- Red Pikmin: The first Pikmin Olimar meet; they are the third most powerful a resistant to .
- Yellow Pikmin: They are thrown the second highest and are invincible to .They are also conductive to electricity
- Blue Pikmin: These Pikmin aren't very powerful, but can swim through .
- Purple Pikmin: These Pikmin can break through rocks and some obstacles.They recently have their onion.
- White Pikmin: The one with red eyes, they can poison enemies and have resistence to .
- Brown Pikmin: These Pikmin are the strongest and can break glass.
- Green Pikmin: These Pikmin have their own Onions like the Red, Yellow and Blue Pikmin. They can find things in the ground, dig them out and use them sometimes.
- Orange Pikmin: These Pikmin can withstand Extremely bright light which is a new Hazard(Oversaturated Light)
- Ecru Pikmin: Ecru Pikmins are immune to Any Sandy Hazards.such as Quicksand and Sandstorm.They also First Appeared in this Game.also,They Don't have Onions.
- Maroon Pikmin: These Pikmin are immune to Lava,because they are coated with a material that cannot be melted in lava.
Pikmin: Spore Outbreak features all previously known canon Pikmin with three new ones.
- Mantis Pikmin: Olimar's son finds these bladed Pikmin. They can scale holed walls and can stay on enemies for longer, thanks to their sharp blades.
- Rose Pikmin: Olimar encounters Rose Pikmin when he is all alone on an island in the Prairie of Prosperity. They have a rose flower instead of the regular Pikmin flower. Rose Pikmin can walk through brambles safely because of their skin.
- Wogmin:The Crew spots these parasitic Pikmin types in caves. They have a resistance to water, and can be thrown very high, but cannot do much damage or cling onto enemies. They are immune to explosions, as well. | <urn:uuid:a06864b6-eaf7-48bc-8dcd-80eca414e835> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://fantendo.wikia.com/wiki/Pikmin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00218-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944279 | 1,532 | 2.390625 | 2 |
In 1852, following several years of negotiation, the British Home Office decided to relocate the people of Pitcairn Island to Norfolk Island. The people of Pitcairn Island, a community of descendants of mutineers from the HMS Bounty and Tahitians, had outgrown Pitcairn Island. With the penal settlement closure imminent, Norfolk Island was deemed to be a suitable place for resettlement.
The people of Pitcairn Island voted to make the transfer. They sailed on the Morayshire and landed at Kingston on 8 June 1856. The Pitcairn Islanders first stayed in ‘barracks’, and by 1857 they were in possession of the Kingston buildings that were left vacant when the penal settlement ended. Around 1858, each household head was allocated a fifty-acre lot, away from Kingston.
Few significant physical changes occurred in Kingston until 1900. The Pitcairners built a timber church on the former Parade Ground in 1870, but this was destroyed by a severe storm in 1874, and subsequently transferred to the altered former Commissariat Store. Some buildings were used by shore whaling companies, one as a school and many as houses. Throughout the 1870s and 1880s, a number of buildings at Kingston fell into disrepair.
Taking effect on 1 January 1901, the administration of Norfolk Island was transferred to the Governor of New South Wales. In 1903 the New South Wales Government decided to issue licenses for the occupation of the Kingston houses, in order to combat continued decay. Evictions of protesting residents and ongoing tensions resulted in the burning of a number of houses in 1908.
The Norfolk Island Act of 1913 established Norfolk Island as a territory under the authority of the Commonwealth of Australia. During the 1920s renovation and construction programs started. Similar restoration programs continue today.
Crowd including Melanesians and Pitcairn Islanders gathered for the laying of the foundation stone for St Barnabas Chapel, Norfolk Island, 22 November 1875.
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The Liberal Democrat leader said Britain believed it only joined the EU because it was no longer a world power.
He described the emergence of a hard-line Eurosceptic wing in the Conservative Party in years gone by as “nasty, insular and in some cases outright xenophobia”.
His comments are likely to anger voters who dislike the EU because of its interference in British laws, red tape and lack of accountability.
Mr Clegg believes Britain should join the euro. He worked as a trade negotiator at the European Commission and was an MEP for five years.
During an interview with two German publications on Wednesday, Mr Clegg was asked why the British remained so opposed to European unity. He replied: “If you’re one of the founding members, the creation of the European Union was a triumph, an absolute blinding triumph of peace over war, of democracy over tyranny.
“If you’re British, actually haltingly and begrudgingly joining in 1973 was a kind of admission of weakness, of loss of empire and a sense of that if you can’t beat them then you better join them.”
He insisted he was not fanatical about the EU, adding: “I’m second to none in my ranting and railing against our silly red tape. I was appalled by the secrecy of some of the decisions. ”
Asked how many Conservatives shared his views, Mr Clegg replied: “There are not many left. I used to work for one of them, for Leon Brittan, and they were being hunted down like a fast-disappearing species by their own party at the time. It was horrible to watch. It was really very unpleasant, this rise of a very nasty, insular and in some cases outright xenophobia.” | <urn:uuid:f16d9de4-e3f1-470e-a7bb-7241bc27766c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7647835/General-Election-2010-Britain-still-wedded-to-empire-says-Nick-Clegg.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00061-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978355 | 375 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Remodeling a fixer-upper to make it green is a tall order, but in Seattle, architect George Ostrow joined up with a team of builders to turn a shabby small home into something special and sustainable. For this project, most of the original house remained, but there were smart changes within. Interior walls were re-created to form new spaces that benefit from cross ventilation, eliminating the need for air-conditioning. A careful recycling plan ensured that 70% of the demolition debris was recycled. The house earned both Built Green and Energy Star certifications after the project was complete.
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Introducing a New Wellness Program that Mr. Ed Would Love – Therapeutic Riding Program
October 19, 2013For years horses have been used as part of senior wellness programs, providing benefits including increasing physical strength and cognitive function as well as fostering socialization. Recently, residents from Brightmore of Wilmington ranging in age from 84 to 92 enjoyed a morning of horseback riding at Randall’s Reach with the Coastal Therapeutic Riding Program, as an activity recently added to Brightmore’s wellness program. “Horseback riding is great exercise no matter what you’re age,” said Erin Rhyne, Fitness and Aquatics Director at the community. “Riding offers tremendous physical and emotional wellness benefits – improving strength, coordination, balance, joint mobility, flexibility, posture, circulation and muscle tone along with memory, sensation, self-esteem and confidence.”
According to the American Equestrian Alliance, “because horseback riding gently and rhythmically moves the rider’s body in a manner similar to a human gait, riders with physical disabilities often show improvement in flexibility, balance and muscle strength.”Resident Dorothy “Dottie” Weathersbee remembers taking her daughter to riding lessons and always thought it looked like fun. According to Erin Rhyne, “Dottie was nervous at first since it’s her first time in over 50 years being around a horse but as she approached the horse named Beans, she said, ‘Oh look at you, you’re not too bad. You’re such a gentle creature! And those big brown eyes are watching my every move.’ The entire time Dottie was riding, she was smiling from ear to ear!” Brightmore’s non-riding residents who attended got the chance to see the farm’s other animals including a Miniature Donkey, a registered American Miniature Palomino-Pinto horse, a Shetland Pony, a potbellied pig, hens, ducks and a Koi Pond. The horses are led by a PATH (Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship) Certified instructor. Coastal Therapeutic Riding Program provides equine assisted activities and therapies for individuals with special needs along with Occupational, Physical and Speech Therapy. Brightmore of Wilmington is proud to offer this program as a part of our overall wellness program, to learn more about the enrichment opportunities our residents experience each day visit our website. | <urn:uuid:ea0438ea-28f1-4d97-bf6d-e13378811548> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.brightmoreofwilmington.com/news/introducing-a-new-wellness-program-that-mr-ed-would-love-therapeutic-riding-program | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.946267 | 511 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Australia and Olympic Wrestling
Three Australians have won medals in freestyle events at the Olympics. In Los Angeles 1932, Eddie Scarf was third in the light-heavyweight division. Twelve years later in London, Dick Garrard won a silver medal as a welterweight and Jim Armstrong won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division. Garrard is the only wrestler to be inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame. Australia has never won a Greco-Roman Olympic medal.
Farzad Tarash was Australia's only wrestler to qualify a quota spot for Australia for the London Games after booking his ticket to the 2012 Games by finishing in the top two of his division at the African and Oceania Qualifying Tournament. Competing in the U/60kg division in London, Tarash had a bye through to the quarterfinals where he went down to North Korea’s Jong Myong Ri 3-0.
Some form of wrestling has featured at every modern Olympic Games, except for Paris 1900. Greco-Roman wrestling has been on every Olympic program except Paris (1900) and St Louis (1904). Freestyle wrestling, which rose to popularity in Great Britain and the United States in the 19th century, made its Olympic debut in St Louis and since then has only missed being an Olympic sport in Stockholm 1912.
Women competed in wrestling for the first time at the 2004 Athens Olympics, in four freestyle weight categories. Australia was first represented in women's wrestling in Beijing 2008 by Kyla Bremner.
Greco-Roman wrestling allows competitors to use only their arms to “attack” the upper bodies of their opponents. Freestyle wrestling allows competitors to use their arms and legs to perform holds on the whole body of their opponents. A wrestling bout comprises two three-minute periods, with a 30 second break. Wrestlers are awarded points from officials for technical manoeuvres against their opponent. The person who wins 2 out of 3 periods wins the bout. | <urn:uuid:5c4da2f5-c8f1-4490-81b7-fd5d402cb560> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://corporate.olympics.com.au/sports/wrestling | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00235-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963372 | 401 | 2.171875 | 2 |
5.1 channel home theater systems have been widely used for home audio systems and also for high reality game audio systems. In this research, we have conducted two experiments to improve the precision and clarity of sound image creation and reproduction in the side areas. The experimental setup was to change the intensity ratios between the two left speakers, L and SL, and ask the listeners about the directions and clarity of the sound images. From the results, we found the traditional amplitude panning method in the side areas is not linear and asymmetrical, and the motion is almost obtained on the middle range of intensity ratios. Based on the localization curve obtained in this experiment, we can compensate the non-linearity and asymmetry of sound panning. We also added the frequency characteristics of HRTF to the sound signals assigned to L and SL speakers by amplitude panning method. This changes of frequency characteristics can increase the reality of the sound signals to the near ear, and improve the precision and clarity of sound images in the side areas.
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1.The active power KWH meter of these series products fit the standard of GB/T15283-1994<<0.5,land 2 class AC active power KWH meter>> all kinds of requirement,reactive power KWH meters fit the country standard of GB/T15822-1994<> all kinds of technical requirements.
2.Electric energy meter can be made connection directly and through meter use current transformer or meter voltage transformer of connection two ways.
3.Starting:the electric energy meter’s dial can start and move around continuations when the reference voltage, reference frequency and cos=1load current is not more than KWH meter’s starting current.
4.Creeping:when the electric energy meter has no current,the voltage that added voltage wire is the reference voltage 80%-110%,the meter’s dial can’t move one around.
5.Current medium performance:the electric energy meter can be worked very well it through lashing wave shape is the standard 1.2/50 □ wave from,the crest value is 6Kv lashing voltage.The meter’s wire line can be tested for 1minute when the earth voltage is 2Kv,frequency is 45-65Hz actually sine waveform AC voltage.
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Dome Village is a self-governing community of "people unable or [...] unwilling to live in traditional [homeless] shelters". Located in Downtown Los Angeles, the complex consists of 20 geodesic domes and is inhabited by "up to 34 individuals and their family members". Operated by Justiceville/Homeless USA, a non-profit organization, members of Dome Village are politically active in homelessness, nonviolence, and environmental issues.
Prior to becoming the Dome Village, the site was a shantytown inhabited by the homeless. In 1993, the village was founded by activist Ted Hayes. The village setting is intended to create stability for residents who live an otherwise-precarious existence.
The dwellings were designed by architect Craig Chamberlain, a former student of Buckminster Fuller. The domes, which cost about $10,000 each and are easy to repair and maintain, are made of polyester fiberglass. Funding for the village provided by Arco, a subsidiary of British Petroleum.
In late 2005, the inhabitants of Dome Village were threatened with eviction as the result of an increase to the property's rent. The owner of the property, Milton Sidley, was quoted as saying that he, a Democrat, was "was tired of helping Ted and the Dome Village." The announcement about the increase came shortly after a Los Angles Times article about an address Hayes delivered to the Bel-Air Republican Women's Club.
According to Hayes, "When I founded the Dome Village 12 years ago, we had an understanding that he could ask for his property back at any time for any reason, and I would say "absolutely" without hesitation." Accordingly he has "no intention of causing any trouble for this property owner", and "will not go to court". However, he admitted that he "cannot help but be saddened by the whole business. ...his reason was prejudice against Republicans."
On August 31, 2006, Hayes announced that the the residents of Dome Village were being evicted and that domes would be auctioned off online. Residents, who must be out by October 2006, will live in traditional homeless shelters. They hope to recreate Dome Village elsewhere in Los Angeles with the proceeds from the auction. | <urn:uuid:b1d8214c-4c64-4914-ad70-d435223506f0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/dome-village-for-the-homeless/view/bing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00140-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978511 | 449 | 2.28125 | 2 |
I get asked this question very frequently. My basic rule of thumb is that all dogs should receive at least 60 minutes per day of physical exercise and 15 minutes of training to be happy, well-adjusted dogs. This is just a starting point. The numbers can vary greatly depending on the age, breed and individual requirements of your dog.
One very important factor to consider is that dogs need physical exercise in addition to mental exercise in the form of training or other tasks. I have worked with many dogs that have the proper amount of physical exercise but are still destructive or unruly because they are just bored.
How Can You Tell If a Dog is Bored?
Boredom usually presents itself in the form of barking, destruction, or digging. The challenge with assessing boredom is that some of the indicators are the same for separation anxiety, which is a separate issue. If a dog participates in the minimum amount of exercise per day and does not have signs of separation anxiety, I will recommend more training or physical exercise to see if that alleviates the problems.
What Breeds Need the Most Exercise?
In my experience, herding and working dogs historically need a lot of exercise. However, I have been surprised over the years with Pugs that have as much energy as a Border Collie, or a Visla that is really mellow and sleepy. You have to be prepared for a wide range of needs if you are thinking about getting a dog. Also, puppies of any breed require a lot more time and attention than most people realize. As they get older, the more mellow breeds often calm down by the time they are two years old, but sometimes they don’t.
My List of High-Energy Dogs
This list is from my experience. I usually don’t like to lump dogs into categories and risk unfairly labeling them, so please use this only as a rough guide. There are always exceptions to any list.
I use this list when someone calls and they tell me they are not super-athletic or don’t necessarily have a lot of time to run their dogs in the park. I would tell them that it is more risky to get one of these breeds because of their high energy. Even though I have worked with many exotic dogs over the years, I am going to stick to more mainstream dogs with this list. Keep in mind that if you are getting a mixed breed you can use this as a rough guide, but there is no way to know for sure what exercise requirements your dog will need as he or she gets older.
- Chesapeake Bay Retriever
- Golden Retriever
- Labrador Retriever
- English, Brittany and Springer Spaniels
- Irish Setter
- Most Terriers - especially Jack (or Parsons), Rat, Pit Bull, Staffordshire, Boston, Border and Wheaten
- Most herding dogs including Belgian Shepherd, Collie, Border Collie, German Shepherd, Shetland Sheepdog, Australian Shepherd, Australian Cattle Dog, Kelpie, and Briard
- Portuguese Water Dog
This covers a lot of different dogs, and is by no means a complete list. There are exceptions to every dog as I read through the list. I have worked with really mellow Labrador Retrievers, but mostly they need a lot of running and training. In general, Bernese Mountain Dogs are often thought of as low-energy, but I have worked with my share of high-energy Berners.
In my experience Corgis, even though they are a herding dog, don’t need as much exercise as many of the other herders. Sometimes people make the mistake of thinking a little dog like a Yorkshire Terrier doesn’t need that much time or exercise because they are so small. I have worked with some Yorkies that could give my Sheltie and Collies a run for their money. And, very consistently, ALL dogs need a lot of time to maintain their happiness and well-being.
Tragically I see dogs that are blamed for being unruly because they are not receiving the proper exercise and that they need to be happy. If you are going to get a dog, please make sure that you have thought it through and have the time and attention that your dog will need. Ranger, one of my Collies, needed 2-3 hours of exercise and training per day when he was a puppy. I still give all my dogs at least 90 minutes of time and attention every day, sometimes more.What has been your experience with your dog's energy level? Have you been surprised by a different level than you were expecting? Share your thoughts. | <urn:uuid:944a55cf-43d8-4b7f-bb3c-eb3f8086a442> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://watchandtrain.com/free-dog-training-tips/dog-training-blog/entry/how-much-exercise-does-a-dog-need.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.974978 | 982 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Exercise Red Flag
Exercise Red Flag is an advanced aerial combat training exercise hosted at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Red Flag – Alaska is held at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, being a successor to the previous COPE THUNDER exercise series in the Western Pacific and Alaska. Since 1975, air crews from the United States Air Force (USAF), United States Navy (USN), United States Marine Corps (USMC), United States Army (USA) and numerous NATO or other allied nations' air forces take part in one of several Red Flag exercises held during the year, each of which is two weeks in duration.
Under the aegis of the United States Air Force Warfare Center (USAFWC) at Nellis, the Red Flag exercises, conducted in four to six cycles a year by the 414th Combat Training Squadron (414 CTS) of the 57th Wing (57 WG), are very realistic aerial war games. The purpose is to train pilots and other flight crew members from the U.S., NATO and other allied countries for real air combat situations. This includes the use of "enemy" hardware and live ammunition for bombing exercises within the adjacent Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR).
The mission of the 414th Combat Training Squadron (Red Flag) is to maximize the combat readiness and survivability of participants by providing a realistic training environment and a pre-flight and post-flight training forum that encourages a free exchange of ideas. To accomplish this, combat units from the United States and its allied countries engage in realistic combat training scenarios carefully conducted within the Nellis Range Complex. The Nellis Range complex is located northwest of Las Vegas and covers an area of 60 nautical miles (111 km) by 100 nautical miles (190 km), approximately half the area of Switzerland. This space allows the exercises to be on a very large scale.
In a typical Red Flag exercise, Blue Forces (friendly) engage Red Forces (hostile) in realistic combat situations.
Blue Forces are made up of units from the Air Combat Command (ACC), Air Mobility Command (AMC), Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC), Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), United States Air Forces Europe (USAFE), Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), Air National Guard (ANG), Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC), and Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), aviation units of the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Army, the Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force, and Royal Australian Air Force, as well as other allied air forces and fleet air arms. They are led by a Blue Forces commander, who coordinates the units in an "employment plan" scheme of operation.
Red Forces (adversary forces) are composed of the 57th Wing's 57th Adversary Tactics Group (57 ATG), flying F-16s from the 64th Aggressor Squadron (64 AGRS) and F-15s from the 65th Aggressor Squadron (65 AGRS) to provide realistic air threats through the emulation of opposition tactics. The Red Forces are also augmented by other U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps units flying in concert with the 507th Air Defense Aggressor Squadron's (507 ADAS) electronic ground defenses and communications, and radar jamming equipment. The 527th Space Aggressor Squadron (527 SAS), an Active Duty unit, and the 26th Space Aggressor Squadron (26 SAS), an Air Force Reserve Command unit, also provide GPS jamming. Additionally, the Red Force command and control organization simulates a realistic enemy integrated air defense system (IADS).
A key element of Red Flag operations is the Red Flag Measurement and Debriefing System (RFMDS). RFMDS is a computer hardware and software network which provides real-time monitoring, post-mission reconstruction of maneuvers and tactics, participant pairings and integration of range targets and simulated threats. Blue Force commanders objectively assess mission effectiveness and validate lessons learned from data provided by the RFMDS.
A typical flag exercise year includes ten Green Flags (a close air support (CAS) exercise with the U.S. Army), one Canadian Maple Flag (operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force) and four Red Flags. Each Red Flag exercise normally involves a variety of fighter interdiction, attack/strike, air superiority, enemy air defense suppression, airlift, air refueling and reconnaissance missions. In a 12-month period, more than 500 aircraft fly more than 20,000 sorties, while training more than 5,000 aircrews and 14,000 support and maintenance personnel.
Before a "flag" begins, the Red Flag staff conducts a planning conference where unit representatives and planning staff members develop the size and scope of their participation. All aspects of the exercise, including billeting of personnel, transportation to Nellis AFB, range coordination, ordnance/munitions scheduling, and development of training scenarios, are designed to be as realistic as possible, fully exercising each participating unit's capabilities and objectives.
The origin of Red Flag was the unacceptable performance of U.S. Air Force fighter pilots and weapon systems officers (WSO) in air combat maneuvering (ACM) (air-to-air combat) during the Vietnam War in comparison to previous wars. Air combat over North Vietnam between 1965 and 1973 led to an overall exchange ratio (ratio of enemy aircraft shot down to the number of own aircraft lost to enemy fighters) of 2.2:1 (for a period of time in June and July 1972 during Operation Linebacker the ratio was less than 1:1).
Among the several factors resulting in this disparity was a lack of realistic ACM training. USAF pilots and WSOs of the late 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s were not versed in the core values and basics of ACM due to the belief that BVR (Beyond Visual Range) missile engagements and equipment made "close-in" maneuvering in air combat obsolete. As a result of this BVR-only mindset that reached its zenith in the early 1960s, nearly all USAF fighter pilots and WSO of the period were unpracticed in maneuvering against dissimilar aircraft because of a concurrent Air Force emphasis on flying safety.
An Air Force analysis known as Project Red Baron II showed that a pilot's chances of survival in combat dramatically increased after he had completed 10 combat missions. As a result, Red Flag was created in 1975 to offer USAF pilots and weapon systems officers the opportunity to fly 10 realistically simulated combat missions in a safe training environment with measurable results. Many U.S. air crews had also fallen victim to SAMs during the Vietnam War and Red Flag exercises provided pilots and WSOs experience in this regime as well.
The concept of Colonel Richard "Moody" Suter became the driving force in Red Flag's implementation, persuading the then-Tactical Air Command commander, General Robert J. Dixon, to adopt the program. At Nellis, Suter was well-known and well-liked. The first Red Flag exercise came off on Gen Dixon's schedule in November 1975. On 1 March 1976, the 4440th Tactical Fighter Training Group (Red Flag) was chartered with Col P.J. White as the first commander, Lt Col Marty Mahrt as vice commander, and Lt Col David Burner as Director of Operations. This small crew under Col White's leadership undertook the task of firmly establishing the program.
The "aggressor squadrons", the opponents who flew against the pilots undergoing training, were selected from the top fighter pilots in the U.S. Air Force. These pilots were trained to fly according to the tactical doctrines of the Soviet Union and other enemies of the period, in order to better simulate what then-TAC, as well as USAFE, PACAF and other NATO pilots and WSOs would likely encounter in real combat against a Soviet, Warsaw Pact, or a Soviet-proxy adversary. The aggressors were originally equipped with readily available T-38 Talon aircraft to simulate MiG-21, the T-38 being similar in terms of size and performance. F-5 Tiger II fighters, painted in color schemes commonly found on Soviet aircraft, were added shortly thereafter and became the mainstay until the F-16 was introduced.
Today, the 414th Combat Training Squadron (414 CTS) is the unit currently tasked with running Red Flag exercises, while the 64th Aggressor Squadron (64 AGRS) also based at Nellis AFB uses F-16 aircraft to emulate the MiG-29 Fulcrum. These aircraft continue to be painted in the various camouflage schemes of potential adversaries. An additional squadron at Nellis, the 65th Aggressor Squadron (65 AGRS), operated F-15 aircraft in various camouflage schemes of potential adversaries to replicate Su-27 Flanker and Su-35 Flanker threats. However, the 65 AGRS was inactivated on 26 September 2014 due to Fiscal Year 2015 budget constraints imposed upon the Air Force that zero-lined the squadron's budget.
—The U.S. Navy operates a similar large-force training exercise known as Air Wing Fallon at NAS Fallon and the Fallon Range Training Complex in northern Nevada. Air Wing Fallon is a monthlong evolution designed to enhance a carrier air wing’s war-fighting ability in both the air-to-air and air-to-ground arenas, with the primary focus being for the air wing to become familiar with the complexity of a large force strike (LFS). Previously under the aegis of "Strike University" (STRIKE U), an O-6 level command when it was formed in 1984, STRIKE U was later merged with the fighter community's TOPGUN and the carrier airborne early warning community's TOPDOME following those organization's 1993 BRAC-directed relocation from the former NAS Miramar, California, forming the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC) under the command of a naval aviation flag officer at NAS Fallon in July 1996. NSAWC then became the executive agent for Air Wing Fallon. In the 2010s, NSAWC incorporated the electronic attack community's HAVOC directorate, and in 2016, NSAWC was redesignated as the Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center (NAWDC). The Commander of NAWDC at NAS Fallon, the Commander of USAFWC at Nellis AFB, and their respective subordinate units and staffs maintain regular rapport with each other in areas of shared equities and the tactical development of the Joint Force.
Red Flag and Air Wing Fallon should not be confused with smaller, but longer duration, programs that the USAF and USN run to train individual weapons and tactics instructors. In 2009, the 416th Flight Test Squadron from Edwards AFB, California, also participated in Red Flag, the first time an Air Force Material Command (AFMC) unit had been part of the program.
Only countries considered friendly towards the United States take part in Red Flag exercises. So far, the countries to have participated in these exercises are:
- In 1979, an F-111A, AF Ser. No. 67-0105, of the 430th Tactical Fighter Squadron crashed, resulting in the deaths of Maj Gary Mekash and Lt Col Eugene Soeder.
- In 1980, a Royal Air Force (RAF) Blackburn Buccaneer S.2B, RAF Serial XV345 of No. 15 Squadron crashed after suffering a failure of the main spar, resulting in the deaths of Sqn Ldr Ken Tait and Flt Lt Charles "Rusty" Ruston.
Notable appearances in media
Red Flag was depicted in a 1981 made-for-TV movie, Red Flag: The Ultimate Game. Red Flag is also featured in a 2004 IMAX film, Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag. An add-on module depicting a standard Red Flag campaign is available for the PC flying combat Simulator Digital Combat Simulator. It allows the player to pilot either an A-10C or F15C.
- Anatolian Eagle Exercise for Real Fighters in Real-Like Environment at Konya Turkey
- Red Flag – Alaska – Exercise based out of Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska (formerly Exercise COPE THUNDER)
- MAPLE FLAG
- Opposing force
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Boulder, CO (January 30, 2007) – Sustainable Travel International (STI) announced today that it has expanded its services related to carbon offsetting in response to growing consumer and industry demand for market-based systems and user-friendly programs that help to curb global warming. The new precedent setting program involves seamlessly integrating custom carbon calculators into business web sites so that consumers can easily compensate for their personal and travel-related carbon dioxide emissions on-line.
Selected as the New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year in 2006, “carbon neutral” has become the new buzz word in the US. The rise in popularity of what was a foreign concept only two years ago has increased demand for transparent and credible carbon offset programs. “Current demand is skyrocketing. We get calls and email from consumers, businesses and the media all of the time, asking how they can get involved with carbon offsetting without a heavy investment,” explains Peter D. Krahenbuhl, STI Vice President who directs the non-profit’s Carbon Neutral Travel initiative. “More and more businesses – from large tour operators and expedition cruise ship companies to major resorts and non-profits – want to give customers the ability to take personal responsibility for neutralizing their own carbon dioxide emissions. At STI, we make it accessible and affordable.”
The carbon calculators STI offers start at only US$99 for a co-branded calculator that calculates the carbon dioxide emissions associated with flying, driving, home electricity, and hotel stays, whereas more customized calculators start at US$299. These fees include greenhouse gas emission assessments (additional charges may apply), education and training materials, and media outreach and marketing support.
“By giving consumers and businesses the information they need, we’re empowering them to address their own GHG emissions,” adds Brian T. Mullis, STI’s President. “Our holistic approach affords us an opportunity to determine how best to integrate a carbon offset program into any given business, and it helps to ensure our partners’ success.
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The gloves are off as Microsoft, for the first time, commits to a range of computers that bears its own name.
In a very Apple-like way Microsoft held a super-secret event in Los Angeles which got the Tech world speculating and claiming all sorts of inside info. Many were close, predicting a Microsoft tablet. The reality was far bigger than the hype suggested.
Microsoft launched a well-executed and extremely innovative range of tablets appropriately called Surface. The Microsoft Surface tablet is, in some ways, just the beginning of a new resurgence from the Redmond-based giant that has actually been in the pipes for a while now.
The strategies of Apple and Microsoft in our new, so-called post-PC world could not be more different. Apple broke the mould by leaping into the mobile world with the iPhone in 2007. Many were not convinced at the time if this was a wise move. How wrong they were.
The iPhone marked a turning point for Apple, and without that leap into the murky mobile waters, the iPad and the massive impact Apple has had on computing may never have happened. Microsoft on the other hand appeared to be sticking to a well-tried course of dominating the desktop, both at home and in the office with mobile computing a very secondary focus. Microsoft’s strategy now appears to contain the first sense of true convergence across all its platforms, from mobile to desktop.
Things have indeed changed significantly in less than five years. Most companies, not least Apple and now Microsoft, appear to be thinking mobile first. The new version of OS X, Apple’s desktop operating system, has many new features directly from its iOS mobile operating system. Many features are identical in functionality to the apps that run on the iPad and iPhone. Microsoft on the other hand has taken a completely different approach. Windows has been “completely reimagined”, to pinch a phrase directly from Microsoft marketing.
The reimagining of Windows with the release of Windows 8 is a make or break strategy. It may appear sudden, but in fact started years ago with a largely failed project called the Zune. The Zune digital media player was released in 2006 to compete with the Apple iPod. It featured a brand new fully touch friendly interface which became the underpinning of Windows Phone 7 and has now fully morphed into a brand new interface and, in fact, operating system featuring the Metro UI (user interface) in Windows 8.
The Metro UI could not be more different to anything that either Microsoft or Apple have produced in the past. OS X and Windows 7 had more similarities than differences, though many on both side would disagree. Windows 8 with Metro is a huge change, one that may cause serious consternation with the massive installed base of current Microsoft users. The benefit with breaking with the past, as Apple discovered with its iPhone, is that by starting with a clean slate so much more can be achieved, especially as hardware and user interfaces have moved completely away from keyboard and mouse, to touch, gesture, and moving forward, even voice. These are much more intuitive and human centric in approach and application.
With the launch of the Microsoft surface tablet, the path Microsoft has followed, in its quest to fully update not only its product line, but also its image, may have finally come full circle.
Windows 8 on your computer or laptop, and your Xbox in the lounge, and now on a tablet as well as on your mobile phone, completely closes the circle. The power of a unified interface, all running the same applications with a familiar look, feel, as well as functionality, is massive.
Microsoft also has all the necessary services both in the cloud, with SkyDrive, and in the enterprise space with Exchange, to fully integrate your entire computing requirements into one cohesive and more importantly pervasive platform across all devices.
As visionary and bold as Microsoft’s Surface tablet product is, Microsoft’s strategy has a major flaw, and that is apps. Apple has well over 500 000 apps available, and don’t forget Google with Android.
Microsoft may own the productivity suite market with Office, which will come to tablets in Metro App form, with the final launch of Windows 8. It does not however have any depth or scale in the general apps market that make the iPad, iPhone and Android devices so compelling. The app market overall, in my opinion, may have peaked, and integration and utility are now emerging as the new trends to watch. Microsoft still has a massive hill to climb in getting all the key apps up and running on Windows 8.
Microsoft Surface Tablets, both in Arm and Intel formats, are potentially the first products to pose a massive challenge to Apple’s iPad dominance, in the rapidly growing tablet market. The Microsoft Surface also addresses a key constraint in current tablets, that of productivity. Consumption of media was always a major strength of current tablets, Microsoft Surface tablets with their clever keyboard covers, and full Windows 8 functionality, may add the element of true productivity.
Challenges remain with Apples clear dominance under no immediate threat. Microsoft may well, in a year or two, fully emerge as the company that can truly compete with Apple, as computing converges on mobility by offering true productivity on tablet style devices. On the hardware front Microsoft has actually raised the bar. On the software front it may have also finally cracked the convergence code. My stance is let the games begin, competition keeps us all on our toes, and the mega foes of the computing world, Microsoft and Apple, are now fully engaged. | <urn:uuid:1b51586b-6b57-400f-a746-b6da2129a829> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://memeburn.com/2012/06/microsoft-may-have-finally-cracked-the-convergence-code-with-surface-tablets/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00450-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96015 | 1,131 | 1.789063 | 2 |
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Based on Darvin’s comment and my trust in his mycological knowledge, I updated this to S. squamosus. I then asked him for more reference data and he sent the following:
It turns out they were named in 1753 & 1774. About 50 years ago they were lumped together and forgotten. Older books list both, like McIlvaine: One thousand American fungi.
Phillips, 1981: Mush of Great Britain page 242 is Sarcodon squamosus, not S. imbricatum. Pelger, Roberts and Spooner, 1997 also have a good photo of it in their monograph: British Chanterelles and Tooth Fungi.
Sarcodon squamosus has recently been separated from Sarcodon imbricatus. This photo has all of the hallmarks of S. squamosus.
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Lookalike Toy Gun Ban Moves Forward in N.J. Assembly
A Republican in the New Jersey Assembly, who used to be a cop, argues her legislation, while well-intentioned, might backfire and empower criminals.
But Jasey is afraid children are going to be killed by cops because they are waving around toy guns that are too realistic.
"As a mother and a grandmother, I shudder to think that a child can be playing one moment and dead the next simply because an officer was unable to determine whether a gun was real or a toy," said New Jersey Assembly Democrat Mila Jasey.
As a result, Jasey is a co-sponsor of legislation that would outlaw toy guns that look too much like the real thing.
It is already a crime to use an imitation or toy gun to make people such as a crime victim believe it’s the real thing.
But the legislation sponsored by Jasey, Assemblyman Gordon M. Johnson (D) and Speaker Emeritus Sheila Oliver was approved by the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee in late September.
At least 11 other states and many municipalities already have similar laws and ordinances in place.
Oliver wrote the proposed legislation after 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot to death by Cleveland police officers who couldn’t tell if he was holding a toy gun or a real sidearm. It was a toy.
“I am sorry,” Oliver said in testimony before the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee. “I take umbrage with that when there is something like this that can be purchased in a confectionary store and a 12-year-old can be dead.”
Tragic, to be sure, but does that kind of thing happen all that often?
The Associated Press reported there have been 25 deaths since 1994 involving police officers thinking lookalike guns were the real thing and opening fire on the people holding them.
Still, the New Jersey bill (A-1119) would prohibit the sale of toy guns that are "substantially similar" to the real thing, and "are reasonably capable of being mistaken for firearms."
For a toy gun or imitation firearm to be legal for sale under the bill, it would have to be a color other than black, blue, silver or aluminum. It would also have to be marked with a non-removable orange stripe, except in the case of water guns.
It would also have to have a barrel at least one inch in diameter that is closed at least one-half inch from the front end of the barrel with the same material from which it is made.
A violation of the bill's provisions would carry a penalty of up to $500 for the first offense and up to $1,000 for each subsequent offense.
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Taxes can take a major bite out of your paychecks, but is possible to pay less in taxes by taking advantage of tax write-offs. Write-offs are certain expenses that the Internal Revenue Service lets you subtract from your total income when calculating your income taxes. Tax write offs can potentially save hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year in income taxes.
Tax Write-off Basics
The term "tax write-off" means the same thing as "tax deduction." The government offers tax deductions to reduce the burden of taxation on certain people or to encourage certain types of activities. For example, the government offers a variety of tax deductions for business expenses, which makes it easier for new businesses to achieve profitability and create economic growth. It is important to document deductible expenses, not only so that you remember to claim them on your return, but so you can provide proof of the expenses if you're ever audited.
Types of Deductions
The IRS offers three basic types of tax deductions: standard deductions, itemized deductions and above-the-line deductions. When you file a tax return, you have the option of taking a standard deduction -- an amount that is granted to all taxpayers of your filing status -- or the sum of your itemized deductions. You can't take both: you have to choose between standard or itemized. For example, in 2012 the standard deduction is $11,900 for married couples filing a joint return in 2012 and $5,950 for singles and married people filing separate returns. Itemized deductions include various qualifying expenses you incurred throughout the year. If the sum of these expenses is greater than the standard deduction, you'll save money by itemizing. Above-the-line deductions are special tax write-offs that you can take in addition to your standard deduction or itemized deductions, such as the tuition and fees deduction.
Common write-offs that taxpayers can include in their itemized deductions include real estate taxes, home mortgage interest, the cost of operating a home office and business travel expenses. Donations of cash or property made to certain organizations like religious institutions and other charitable nonprofits also count as itemized deductions. Common above-the-line deductions include contributions to IRAs, alimony, up to $2,500 in student loan interest and half of self-employment taxes.
Write-offs Vs. Credits
Tax write-offs differ significantly from tax credits in the way they reduce the amount of tax you owe. A tax credit directly reduces your tax liability, so a $500 credit saves you $500 in taxes. A tax deduction reduces your pool of taxable income, so the amount of money a deduction saves depends on your income tax rate. For example, if you are in the 25 percent tax bracket and you take a $500 tax deduction, the write-off saves you 25 percent of $500, or $125.
- The Free Dictionary: Tax Write-Off
- Internal Revenue Service: Standard Deduction Vs. Itemizing: Seven Facts to Help You Choose
- Internal Revenue Service: In 2012, Many Tax Benefits Increase Due to Inflation Adjustments
- Internal Revenue Service: Tax Topics - Itemized Deductions
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The website for the Winter Palace, which I blogged about a couple of posts ago, says the hotel opened in 1886, a date commemorated in the name of the hotel’s high-end French 1886 Restaurant (jacket required, no jeans). What a shame then that the hotel actually opened in 1907. There’s no doubt about it: the Egyptian Gazette of Saturday 19 January 1907 describes the inaugural party that took place with a lunch in the Valley of the Kings followed by congratulatory speeches and the distribution of meat to the gangs of workers who had laboured on the building. The hotel makes its guidebook debut in the 1908 edition of Baedeker’s Egypt (it wasn’t in the previous, 1902, edition).
I don’t know where the disinformation began, but it could have something to do with the Luxor Hotel. This long-forgotten hotel – which still exists, sort of – has the distinction of being the first in the world to be commissioned by Thomas Cook & Son. The English company had begun leading parties of tourists to Egypt in 1870, but once south of Cairo there was nowhere to stay other than the Nile boat they travelled on. This was fine if the visitor was happy with a few days sightseeing before moving on, but increasingly many wanted to spend longer enjoying the hot dry climate of Upper Egypt, which was believed to be good for the health. So it was that an 1888 edition of the Thomas Cook newsletter carried the following notice: ‘For the special accommodation of invalids and others desirous of deriving the full benefit of the Upper Egyptian climate, an hotel or health resort has been established at Luxor’.
The hotel was launched at the start of the 1877-78 season, in other words around November or December of 1877. It was sited just inland of the ancient Luxor Temple, beside which was Cook’s riverboat landing stage. For the Luxor’s second season, the hotel added a new wing, doubling its capacity to about 45 bedrooms. Not long after, it was extended again and in the process completely remodelled to accommodate 120 people, essentially becoming a new hotel. It’s possible this took place in 1886 and this may be where the incorrect date for the Winter Palace – which was built adjacent to the Luxor Hotel – comes from. But I’m just guessing.
The Luxor didn’t remain the only hotel in town for long, but prior to the building of the Winter Palace, it remained the most well known and best run – it also offered cheaper rates for Egyptologists. While serving as chief inspector of the Egyptian Antiquities Service (1899-1905), Howard Carter frequently called by for lunch or afternoon tea. Another regular was Edward Frederick Benson, better known as EF Benson, author of the tales of Mapp and Lucia. Benson had a sister called Margaret who was an archaeologist and who, in 1895-97, had a concession to excavate the Temple of Mut at Karnak; brother, Fred, who was also a trained archaeologist with field experience in Greece, came out to help.
The Luxor Hotel was the Benson’s residence and where they spent their evenings playing games of cards and charades. It’s also where Margaret was treated for a near fatal case of pleurisy by the hotel doctor who had to tap the fluid around her lungs – not an operation you’d want carried out in your double with river view even today. Fred later used the hotel as a setting in a novel of the supernatural called The Image in the Sand, published in 1905:
The garden at the Luxor Hotel is a delectable place of palms. Sixty to eighty feet high they stand, slender, slim, and dusky-stemmed, and high up at the top of the trees stretch the glorious fern-like fronds of the foliage beneath which hang the clusters of yellowing dates. Here rises a thicket of bamboos, tremulous and quivering, even on the stillest and most windless nights, and a great cat-headed statue, wrought in black granite, and taken away from the neighbouring temple of Mut in Karnak, looks with steadfast gaze out and beyond over the Eastern horizon, with eyes focussed beyond material range, as if waiting for the dawn of the everlasting day.
The statue he mentions, of the ancient goddesses Sekhmet, was one of a pair (click on the photo above to enlarge and you can see them either side of the entrance), both of which were removed some time ago. The hotel itself, which was not only the first in Luxor but one of the earliest in Egypt, was still admitting guests until as recently as the 1980s. In the intervening century it had undergone great changes but the main façade, which resembles a sort of Indian colonial bungalow, would still be familiar to Fred and Maggie today.
When I visited a couple of months ago the building behind the façade had been gutted and reduced to a shell. This isn’t a demolition, however, but a rebuild. The plan, apparently, is to restore the Luxor Hotel to working order. I saw the skeletal concrete frame of a new garden annexe and a great hole in the ground that will eventually be a swimming pool, although work is currently on a go-slow thanks to the economically uncertain climate. If they ever do finish I’ll be curious to see what date any website gives for the building of the hotel and what they call any new restaurant.
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The questions are:
Can the President refuse to defend the Constitutionality of a law;
Why did Obama seem to invite the Congress to intervene in the suit;
How can the President continue to enforce a law he thinks is Unconstitutional;
Exactly what is the Constitutional question in the DOMA cases;
If Obama's not defending the law, why is he staying in the case;
How can he think DOMA is Unconstitutional if he doesn't believe in gay marriage; and
Does this impact gays in the military following DADT repeal?
Can the President refuse to defend the Constitutionality of a law?
It doesn't happen often, but Presidents can refuse to defend laws that are challenged as unconstitutional. Holder's letter to Congress explaining the President's DOMA decision discusses the issue in general terms,
As you know, the Department has a longstanding practice of defending the constitutionality of duly-enacted statutes if reasonable arguments can be made in their defense . . . . However, the Department . . . does not consider every plausible argument to be a “reasonable” one. . . . Moreover, the Department has declined to defend a statute “in cases in which it is manifest that the President has concluded that the statute is unconstitutional,” as is the case here.
While this is a rare occurrence, the practice of not defending laws goes back for years as outlined in the article.
In 1989 . . . the George H.W. Bush administration refused to defend the constitutionality of federal affirmative preferences in the Metro Broadcasting case. In the 1982 Bob Jones case, the Reagan administration refused to defend an IRS policy denying tax exemptions to a university that practiced racial segregation for religious reasons. Significantly, both policies were ultimately upheld by the Supreme Court . . . .Congress even acknowledges that this can occur which is why they enacted a law that requires the President to notify the Congress in the event of such a decision,
The Attorney General shall submit to the Congress a report of any instance in which the Attorney General or any officer of the Department of Justice . . . determines . . . . to refrain (on the grounds that the provision is unconstitutional) from defending or asserting, in any judicial, administrative, or other proceeding, the constitutionality of any provision of any Federal statute . . . .
So people can question whether President Obama should have taken this action, but they cannot question its legality or say it is unprecedented.
Why did Obama seem to invite the Congress to intervene in the suit?
He did it because he obeys the law. The same law that requires the President to report to Congress says he must do so
. . .within such time as will reasonably enable the House of Representatives and the Senate to take action, separately or jointly, to intervene in timely fashion in the proceeding, but in no event later than 30 days after the making of each determination . . .
All those who would ascribe some nefarious motive to that part of his letter are uninformed. He is scrupulously obeying the law, nothing more, nothing less.
How can the President continue to enforce a law he thinks is Unconstitutional?
This really involves two separate and distinct issues. First, the Constitutionality of DOMA was challenged. As discussed above, the President is generally obligated to defend laws against Constitutional challenge. However, there are circumstances when Presidents can decline to defend cases. He has decided that DOMA is no longer Constitutionally defensible and will now take that position in court.
On the second issue, the question is different. The short answer is that the President has a duty to enforce the law regardless of what he thinks about it. The President swore an oath,
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
The President swore to faithfully execute the Office of President. Foremost among the duties of the office are to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." DOMA is the law. The President does not have the power to issue a binding ruling that DOMA is Unconstitutional. That power resides in the Supreme Court. Since the 1803 case of Marbury v Madison it has been accepted that only the Court can declare a law Unconstitutional. Unless that happens or until it is repealed, DOMA is the law of the land. If a President is presented with a law that he thinks is Unconstitutional he should not sign it. The same applies to every Member of Congress who votes on a law. But once passed and signed, it is the law.
There are some legal scholars who disagree, arguing that the President has no more obligation to enforce laws he thinks are Unconstitutional than to enforce the laws of another country. A detailed discussion of this position is beyond the scope of this article except to note that the real issue is "who decides if a law is Constitutional." If the President does, then there are only two branches of government and the Presidency can override the legislature at its will. If both the Court and the President decide, you have uncertainty and chaos. It the decision rests with the Court, you have certainty, order, and a true separation of powers. Thankfully, most Presidents have respected this third view and the circumstances where laws have been ignored are rare.
Exactly what is the Constitutional question in the DOMA cases?
The Constitutional issue presented in DOMA and the Holder's letter is straightforward, but a discussion requires some background. Section 3 of DOMA, says that for purposes of all Federal laws a marriage is only between a man and a women. In effect the Federal government will not recognize same sex marriages under state laws for purposes of anything the government does, from granting spousal benefits to child custody and alimony.
DOMA has been challenged in several different suits throughout the country. These suits challenge DOMA by arguing that it violates the Fifth Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law. Astute observers will note that the Fifth Amendment, unlike the Fourteenth Amendment, does not include the words "equal protection." Rather, it guarantees that no person shall be
deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
This creates an anomaly because the Fifth applies to the Federal Government while the Fourteenth applies to the states. The anomaly was resolved in the 1954 case Bolling v Sharpe, where the Supreme Court found that "the concepts of equal protection and due process, both stemming from our American ideal of fairness, are not mutually exclusive" and that it was "unthinkable that the same Constitution would impose a lesser duty on the Federal Government" than it does on the States. That ruling created the Fifth Amendment right of equal protection against the Federal Government.
Before getting to the President's DOMA decision we have to understand how courts analyze equal protection challenges to laws. First, the court decides the level of scrutiny that should be given the challenge. In cases of discrimination based on race, religion, and other so-called "suspect" classifications courts use something called "strict scrutiny." Suffice it to say, if strict scrutiny is applied in a case, the law is usually struck down. At the lowest end of the spectrum is the "rational basis" test, which is basically whether the challenged classification is rationally related to a legitimate governmental interest. In between is something called "heightened scrutiny," in which the government must show that the challenged classification serves an important state interest and that the classification is at least substantially related to serving that interest. Only after the court decides on the level of scrutiny does it look at the law to see if it satisfies that scrutiny.
The DOMA decision is all about the difference between rational basis and heightened scrutiny, which standard should apply to DOMA, and how it will affect the outcome.
This is what President Obama did. He has been defending DOMA challenges in Circuits where the courts have held that the rational basis standard applies to DOMA. In those case he has said DOMA satisfies that standard. But two recent cases arose in the Second Circuit, where no standard has been established. He and DOJ re-examined the question of the appropriate standard for those case and determined that the heightened scrutiny standard should apply. Furthermore, they determined that if that standard applies, DOMA will not meet the standard and is therefore Unconstitutional. The President also said since the United States was now taking that position in the Second Circuit, it would inform the courts in the other circuits that it would be arguing the same position in those cases.
If Obama's not defending the law, why is he staying in the case?
The simple answer is that DOJ is in these cases until the Court dismisses the case or dismisses the Government from the case. Defendants can't just drop out. Now Justice will argue that the new standard should apply and that the law is Unconstitutional under that standard but the court may not agree. While it doesn't happen often, there have been cases where a court has not agree with a DOJ interpretation that a law is Unconstitutional. In fact Holder recognized that a court may disagree with DOJ's position on heightened scrutiny, when he wrote,
If asked by the district courts in the Second Circuit for the position of the United States in the event those courts determine that the applicable standard is rational basis, the Department will state that, consistent with the position it has taken in prior cases, a reasonable argument for Section 3’s constitutionality may be proffered under that permissive standard.
Also, some of these cases involve other issues, such as in one case wether an employee can actually sue the Office of Personnel Management. Those issues still need resolution. Finally, there will be timing and implementation issues that DOJ will want to weigh in on.
How can he think DOMA is Unconstitutional if he doesn't believe in gay marriage?;
People who ask this question are either cynical or don't understand this is a strength, not a weakness, of President Obama. It is well know that the President has said that his personal views on gay marriage are evolving but as of now, based on personal moral beliefs, he does not support it. So what you have is a President who is refusing to let his personal morality dictate his legal analysis of a Constitutional issue. How refreshing. Wouldn't it be nice if all Presidents and all Members of Congress, both Senators and Representatives, acted the same way.
Does this impact gays in the military following DADT repeal?
The final outcome most certainly affects gays in the Military following the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. In the future gays will be able to openly serve. When they can it is a certainty that there will be same sex marriages involving members of the military. As long as DOMA remains in force the spouses of those service members will not get the same benefits afforded to other spouses. In that sense they will be in the same position that same sex spouses of Federal civilian employees are today. | <urn:uuid:11d08095-2d16-4c3a-85ff-d18708a1718c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://september1787.blogspot.com/2011/02/recent-questions-regarding-president.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719677.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00561-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963236 | 2,255 | 1.867188 | 2 |
A claimant may be awarded damages for chattels (personal items) which are damaged or destroyed in an accident. The aim of damages is to restore the claimant to the position he was in before the defendant committed the tort, so far as it is possible to do so. Therefore, damages are determined by whether the chattels have been damaged or destroyed.
Destruction of property
The general rule is that where the claimant has been permanently deprived of personal property he is entitled to the full market value of the property at the time the tort was committed. Effectively, a claimant is awarded damages amounting to the sum required to buy a replacement at the date of destruction.
The plaintiff's dredger was negligently sunk by the defendant. The plaintiff's needed the dredger to carry out an existing contract but could not afford to buy a replacement and therefore hired a substitute.
How should damages be calculated?
The value of a replacement dredger was determined by the market value at the time of the loss. The court also set out the recoverable damages:
(1) the market price of a replacement dredger,
(2) the costs of adaptation, transport, insurance necessary to fulfil the contract,
(3) compensation for disturbance and loss in carrying out their contract during the period of delay between the loss and substitution.
Uctkos v Mazzetta 1 Lloyd's Rep 209
The plaintiff's boat was an unusual design and was destroyed by the defendant's negligence. The cost of constructing the boat required very large expenditure. However, boats of comparatively similar design, construction and performance were available at a lower price.
How should damages be calculated?
As the cost of a replacement chattel was in excess of the value of the property destroyed, the plaintiff was only entitled to recover the value of a reasonable substitute.
Damage to property
A claimant whose property has been damaged is entitled to damages which will make good the damage. Generally, a sum is calculated by measuring the amount that the property's value has been reduced, usually the cost of repairs.
The Kingsway P344
The Court of Appeal found that the cost of repairs could be recovered, even if the repairs had not been carried out at the date of trial.
The York P178
The cost of repairs could be recovered, even if the repairs are never carried out.
.. Where the cost of repairs would exceed the market value of the article, and in the absence of special circumstances, the reasonable method must be to purchase a comparable article. By 'market value' in this connection is meant the price at which the article before damage, or a comparable article, could be purchased....
O'Grady v Westminster Scaffolding Ltd 2 Lloyd's Rep 238
The case confirmed the decision in Darbishire v Warran . If a damaged object is unique and there is no comparable replacement for it, the plaintiff may be entitled to the cost of repair at a cost considerably exceeding its value.
However, if the cost of repairs exceeds the market value of the property, a claimant is only entitled to the market value to enable him to replace the property.
Loss of use of property
A claimant should receive some compensation for the period he was unable to use the property, after it was damaged or destroyed and before it was repaired or replaced.
The Mediana AC 113
The plaintiff's ship was damaged by the defendant's negligence. The plaintiff had a spare ship for emergencies and therefore, the damaged ship was replaced with the spare one while the necessary repairs were being carried out.
Could a sum be awarded for loss of use of the damaged ship?
The plaintiff is entitled to claim for loss of use despite the fact there was another replacement ship available. A claim for loss of use is not dependent on the property being profit making. Equally, if a plaintiff needs to hire a substitute, he will be able to claim the cost of hire and if the property is profit making, the measure of damages will be the loss of profit.
.. where by the wrongful act of one man something belonging to another is either itself so injured as not to be capable of being used or is taken away so that it cannot be used at all, that of itself is a ground for damages....
Land or buildings
The same principles as applied to chattels apply to land and buildings damaged or destroyed by the defendant's negligence. However, land and buildings are more likely to be unique and therefore, the courts will often award sums which exceed the value of the property.
Mitigation of loss
A claimant has a general duty to mitigate their loss in relation to recoverable damages. Therefore, claims for damages should be kept to a minimum.
.. It has come to be settled that in general the measure of damage is the cost of repairing the damaged article; but there is an exception if it can be proved that the cost of repairs greatly exceeds the value in the market of the damaged article. This arises out of the plaintiff's duty to minimise his damages. Were it otherwise it would be more profitable to destroy the plaintiff's article than to damage it....
The claimant's car was damaged by the defendant's negligent driving. The claimant's car required extensive work and he needed a temporary replacement. The claimant was only able to obtain a hire car on an expensive credit arrangement.
Could the claimant recover in full?
The defendant was liable for the cost of credit because the claimant had to take out the expensive agreement as a result of the damage caused by the defendant's negligence. Essentially, the court applied the principle that a defendant must take his victim as he finds him.
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Qirina attempts to ascertain what sites are about based on an analysis of the text content on the front page. Did we get this one right? What do you think? If the niche has been incorrectly identified, disabilityworld.org's performance can probably be substantially improved by on-site SEO.
Here are some keywords which we've determined lie within the same circle of relevance as disability.
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Author: Helen Senderovich1, Nadiya Bayeva2, Basile Montagnese3, Akash Yendamuri4
Affiliation: <sup>1</sup> Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. <sup>2</sup> Department of Medicine, RCSI, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. <sup>3</sup> Department of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. <sup>4</sup> Department of Medicine, Baycrest Health Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Conference/Journal: Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord
Date published: 2021 Dec 30
Other: Special Notes: doi: 10.1159/000521140. , Word Count: 250
A growing trend in medicine is older adults and increased need for geriatric services. Falls contribute heavily to hospitalizations and worsening of overall health in this frail demographic. There are numerous biological and physical culprits which, if targeted, can prevent falls. The objective was to review benefits of different types of exercises for fall prevention for older persons who are community-dwelling or living in long-term care facilities.
A systematic review was conducted to determine the different types of exercises for fall prevention. Data extraction via a standardized protocol was performed to assess study design, outcomes, limitations, and author's conclusions. Corroborative themes were identified and the authors responsible for the contributing research were cited as they came up. Nineteen randomized controlled trials were identified, between 1990 and 2018, using MEDLINE, PubMed, Cochrane, CINAHL, and Web of Science databases. Studies involving adults greater than age 60 in high-risk community or nursing home populations in the English language with a duration longer than or equal to 6 weeks with focuses on either low-risk balance, strength, or combination of both and whole-body vibration.
Balance exercise training increased balance at 6 and 12-month intervals involving balance, strength, and cognitive training.
Insignificant results were seen in whole-body vibration and differing results existed for Tai Chi. It is important to recognize that although exercises help reduce the risk of falling and play a significant role in improving mobility safely, there will always be a risk of falls.
Keywords: Exercise; Geriatrics; Physical activity; Prevention; Rehabilitation; Risk assessment.
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Pathway to Sainthood
We are called with a high and holy calling in Christ Jesus to become saints of God (Romans 1:7; 1Corinthians 12) to whom the faith is delievered (Jude 3). But today saintly living which is the heart of the faith as delievered to us by the Lord Himself has turned a myth in the congregation of the professed believers. Being in the world which lies under the power of the wicked one, we have become so beaten by sin and sight walking that we could not see the pathway the Lord Himself made for us in His Word to tread out of the region of fears ( of the unknown, punishment of sin, and death) into the confidence of faith in Christ Jesus.
We dwell in the midst of many uncertainties; unspoken belief that victory over sin new life in Christ jesus offers according to the gospel is not experienced until the expiration of this age. Many in the secrecy of their hearts accused the Lord that bought them of sin. Some are even bold enough to speak it out. After having attempted to gain dominion over sin through the arm of flesh which is doomed to fail to no avail, they get offended and made God in their own image. Every thing we see and hear today gives the impression that man is thralled to sin and doomed to hell. "Who then can be saved?" is the question on the lips of every one awaiting the day of the Lord. What then is the secret of a saintly living in this evil world?
The Holy Spirit through the mouth of Asaph unveiled what the pathway to sainthood is. It is not by living by a set of principles or traditions as we see it done today. The only way to sainhood is through covenant. We hear the Lord declare this in the book of Psalms 50: 5, "Gather my saints together unto Me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice". God always works through covenants. We have the testimony of Noah after the flood. Abraham was called out by covenant sealed by blood. Isaac was born by covenant and he lived by the same. Jacob was chosen to be hier of the covenants given to the fathers from the womb. David's throne was established upon covenant. These and many more are evidences that God does all things through covenants. And in them all we see that God has ever been faithfiul to all His covenants and does fulfil them to the least of the letters since time began.
The term of the covenant of redemption the Lord entered with us is that the redeemed become the possession of the Redeemer. When we become His, He makes us like unto Himself and gives us the grace sufficient to walk in victory as He did when He was down here in the flesh. We simply become His when we cut this covenant of redemption with Him. He shows us the way to the place of covenant with Him in His Word.
God has made the only way to come into covenant with Him known to us. The covenant of God is accessed by sacrifice. This sacrifice is not that of animals in which the Lord says in Hebrews, "I have no pleasure" (Hebrews 10), neither is it our sacrificial duty; great exploits for the Lord as we do call it today.The only sacrifice which carries us into covenant with God is the sacrifice of ourselves upon the altar of our faith; the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. No other way!
Holy Spirit through apostle Paul says we should present ourselves "a living sacrifice" which is the only sacrifice to God "acceptable" and to us "a reasonable service". Any other sacrifice other than that of our "selves" is to God unacceptable and to us unreasonable. As we act in obedience to the word and place our "selves" as sacrifice unto God upon the altar of our faith, we part with our own life and become dead to the world and the world to us (Colossians 3:3; Galatians 6:14). There we receive a new life, the life of Christ by faith, which quickens our mortal bodies ane makes us alive to God. As we enter through the cross in the likeness of His death, we become qualified to be made alive with Him in the likeness of His life.
The nature of the cross accounts for why sin continues to reign in our world today. The road of the cross ahead of which the victory lies is an offence to natural mind. There is no appearance of beauty in it that it should be desired (Isaiah 53). All a natural eye sees in the cross are shame and curse. It can by no mean see into the realm of glory into which the road of the cross is emptied, for the glory can only be seen through the eye of faith--- only a glorified eye can behold the glory of the glorified Lord in the realm of glory! That is why we see men today searching the scriptures day and night and coming out with divers novelties rather than to come to Christ the Lord and be saved. They think by searching the scripteures they will be saved, having forgotten that by searching shall no man find God and that our salvation is not in the scriptures, but in the person about whom the scriptures were written, the Lord Jesus Christ (John 5:39-40).
Our Lord's reply when He was being tempted on payment of tribute is this: "Render therefore unto Ceaser the things which are Ceaser's, and unto God the things which are God's (Luke 20:25)." Jesus here established the truth that must be the foundation of our sacrifice to God. Whatever we give to God must be God's very own. We do make mistake in determining what belongs to God. That is why the Holy Spirit gives us the definition of what belongs to the Father out of all that we have. Oh, that must be tithe!, you said. But you are wrong. The Holy Spirit through Paul says "our body and our spirit... are God's (1Corinthians 6:20)" This is what God demands from us: the sacrifice of our "selves" which are God's. Nothing more, nothing less. But we often attempt to impress God by heaping what belongs to Ceaser to God in sacrifices, forgetting that the image and superscription of Ceaser is boldly inscribed on it (Luke 20:24)!
Whatever will be acceptable to God as an instrument of worship must bear a bold image and the superscription of the living God. Otherwise, it is never His! We must always walk in the light of the revealed truth of the Word of God whenever we present anything to God in worship that no amount of faith filled confession, prayers, and supplication can make the offering of Cain acceptable to God. It has neither the image nor the superscription of the living God in it. We must know that there is no substitute for the will of God in the whole creation. God desires His own sacrifice from us and not the one devise by human standard. We must give God what is God's and only what is God's.
The answer of our Lord to the question "who then can be saved?" beams light on the way out of the city of sin to the country of the saints. There is no saving power on the side of man as far as the salvation of human soul is concerned. Christ plainly declared for man it is impossible. But the goodnews to us is that with GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. This God accomplishes in us on the basis of leaving all things for His sakes.
We must also know that what we offer in sacrifice is as important as where we offer it. God specifically warned the israelites not to offer their offering anywhere they see, but in the place where the Lord will chose. Our sacrifice must be placed where the Lord has placed His name, and the place in the New Testament is on the altar of our faith; the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is the altar that sanctifies the offering , and not otherwise. It is the cross that sanctifies the offering and determines the acceptability of our offering (Exodus 20:24; Deuteronomy 12:13; Exodus 29: 37, 43).
As e offer our "selves" in sacrifice to the Lord upon the altar of our faith, like the sacrifice of Elijah the prophet on Mt. Camel, God willing to show His delight in and acceptance of our sacrifice sends His living fire from above in the presence of the watching crowd for a witness to them and baptises us by immersion in the same. As it was with the burnt sacrifice of Elijah on that day, our 'self' is daily consumed (1Corinthians 15:31) and He becomes increased in us (John 3:30), until nothing is left of us and the servant becomes like His Lord in all things. The smoke thereof ascends to Him who sits upon the throne as "a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God" and as a sweet savour which spreads the aura of the life of Christ to them arround us as He becomes glorified in our body and in our spirit which are His (II Corinthians 2:15-16; 4:8-11).
Yet a little while, He who will come will come to gather His saints unto Himself. He once came for sinners, but now He is coming for those who are sanctified and justified by the offering of Himself to God. On this truth will He not allow sinners in His kingdom; He once walked down here in the flesh, persecuted and tempted in every way, yet without sin. Let us all know that our God will not be pleased with our appeasement of false humility and devotion, when He requires nothing from us other than the sacrifice of our "selves" thgrough which all that we are, have, and know will be Him and Him alone.
He is coming for saints; those who have made covenant with Him by sacrifice. Only those who made covenant with Him will be able to stand for Him in the midst of this compromise and great act of betrayal, because the sign(mark) of the covenant is in their flesh to shield them from the wickedness of the world and its own. Let us remember where we have fallen and repent, and do the first work, lest He comes and finds us sleeping while we ought to stay awake and be on watch for Him. Do you have a covenant with Him? It is never too late to cut one with Him today and become His and His forever. God always honour His covenant. He even tells us in His Word "My covenant will I not break". We are on safer ground, standing in covenant with Him. Behold, He comes for His saints and saints alone! Are you one?
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The production of each piece takes several hours of professional and artistic manual work.
It all starts with an artistic design of a given shape based on which the plaster form has to be produced. The plaster form is filled with liquid clay. After several hours during which the form soaks up the water and the clay is deposited on the walls, the excess material is poured out, the form is opened and the new shape is carefully taken out. All bumps are removed and the surface is smoothed out using a wet sponge. The piece is then left to dry out and afterwards it goes to a furnace for first burning at a temperature of approximately 850 °C. The clay hardens due to the burning process and creates bisque - a semi-finished stoneware product.
At this stage, it is decorated using the stamp technique. The artists decorating the dishes create the stamps with particular patterns and then use the stamps and brushes to apply colors in various combinations to create a specific pattern or motif. It can take up to several hours to decorate one dish, depending on its size, shape, and the complexity of a pattern.
Decorated dishes are then immersed into the glaze and burned in a furnace at 1270 °C. This final burning is a magical trick that evaluates all the effort invested in every dish during the previous production steps. The clay shrinks (the volume decreases by 10 to 15%) and a transparent, bright, and firm layer of glaze is created on the surface. Colors become more apparent thanks to the burning.
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Barrie dentist Dr. Elston Wong is now a Kois Center graduate!
Posted: June 15, 2015
Last Modified: December 21, 2020
After a journey spanning over three years, Dr. Elston Wong is now a Kois Center Graduate! The Kois Center, a teaching Center for dentists interested in comprehensive patient management located in Seattle, WA, holds a nine course core curriculum taught by Dr. John Kois that provides dentists with an evidence-based systematic approach to dealing with widespread oral needs. As we’ve written before, the courses incorporate a risk-based approach to managing dental issues with a focus on long-term, predictable success that also aims to be affordable. It is a no-compromise center that has changed the way we now look at everything in our office, with a focus on prevention and an oral wellness model of care.
How does it differ from the way we used to do things? Focus and structure. The Kois system allows all oral problems to be approached systematically (so nothing is left out), and then managed using data-proven techniques. While the guts of the system will be largely invisible to our patients (it is mainly a method of thinking, after all), the results will hopefully be longer-lasting and more esthetic. And because dentistry is useless if the cost is too high, one of the goals is also to stage complicated treatment plans in such a way that they can be more affordable!
The Kois curriculum also does not stay static! Changing every few months as the available data changes, it is important to the Center that its graduates maintain a current set of knowledge. Every year, an annual symposium takes place which enables Kois Center graduates to stay current in diagnosis and management of the four areas of dentistry: Periodontal, Dental/Biomechanical, Jaw and bite, and Aesthetics.
We are proud to carry out this level of care, and look forward to deploying more and more of our skills acquired throughout the dental training. The changes never stop, and neither does the learning. Feel free to ask us how the Kois approach to dental management can benefit you!
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14th iPS Cell/Regenerative Medicine Study Seminar held at KU Hospital (1 July 2016)
26 Sep 2016
On 1 July, Kyoto University Hospital hosted the 14th iPS Cell/Regenerative Medicine Study Seminar at Shiran Kaikan. The Hospital launched the Seminar in 2009 as part of its efforts to promote development and applications of regenerative medicine research based on stem cells -- embryonic, somatic, and induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells -- as a contribution to the advancement of medicine. In attendance were over 100 individuals, most of whom were medical professionals from Kyoto University and elsewhere.
Hospital Director Nobuya Inagaki delivered opening remarks, followed by Dr Tomonobu Koizumi, head of Astellas Pharma's Regenerative Medicine Labs, discussing his company's efforts in regenerative medicine.
Academic lectures were then given by three KU scientists: "Analyzing Congenital Immunodeficiency Disorders Using iPS Cells" by Associate Professor Megumu Saitou, Department of Clinical Application, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA); "Investigating the Mechanism of Adrenocortical Cell Development and Differentiation Using Human iPS Cells" by Program-Specific Associate Professor (Endowed Chair of Metabolic Medicine) Masakatsu Sone, Graduate School of Medicine; and "Developing Drug Treatments for Hereditary Tumors Using Disease-Specific iPS Cells" by Program-Specific Associate Professor (DSK Project) Eijiro Nakamura, Medical Innovation Center, Graduate School of Medicine.
Finally, Dr Momokazu Gotoh, professor of urology at the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, delivered a special lecture on the School's development of regenerative therapies for lower urinary tract dysfunction.
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Only eight days separated the two government reports, yet they seemed to describe completely different realities.
The first showed a weak economy that – coupled with the highest inflation in 40 years – caused consumers nothing but grief. The second reflected a juggernaut creating jobs faster than workers could be found to fill them, with an unemployment rate matching the pre-pandemic low of 3.5 percent.
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“It is normal for different economic indicators to point in different directions. It is the magnitude of the discrepancies that is unprecedented at this point,” said Jason Furman, former top economic adviser to President Barack Obama. “It’s not just that the economy is growing on the one hand and contracting on the other. It grows incredibly strong on one side, while in another it shrinks at a pretty decent clip.
In Washington, President Biden took a job-growth victory round on Friday as he took credit for gas prices falling for more than 50 consecutive days. But he also acknowledged the discrepancy between the sunny employment report and the inflation headache that many households are battling.
“I know people will hear today’s extraordinary jobs report and say they don’t see it, they don’t feel it in their own lives,” the president said, speaking from a White House balcony. “I know how difficult it is. I know it’s hard to feel good about job creation when you already have a job and you’re dealing with rising prices, food and gas, and much more. I get it.”
The surprisingly robust job count seemed to call into question the president’s argument that the economy is undergoing a “transition” from last year’s faster growth rates to a slower, more sustainable pace.
No one expects the economy to continue producing half a million new jobs every month. No one thinks it could be without inflation remaining at uncomfortable levels.
Nearly five months after the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates to cool the economy and curb the highest inflation rate since the early 1980s, the labor market report showed the country’s central bank has more work to do. Average hourly wages for private sector workers have risen 5.2 percent over the past year, suggesting the kind of wage-price spiral the Fed is determined to prevent.
Last month, the Fed raised its benchmark rate to a range of 2.25 percent to 2.5 percent, the highest level in nearly four years. But in “real” or inflation-adjusted terms, borrowing costs remain very negative, spurring economic growth.
Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell said last month additional rate hikes are likely when policymakers meet on Sept. 21. we get between now and then,” he told reporters.
Rising dollar could help Fed fight inflation
Investors see a 70 percent chance of the bigger move, according to CME Group, which tracks purchases of derivatives tied to the central bank’s policy rate.
On Wednesday, the government will release inflation figures for July, which are expected to show a modest improvement from June’s 9.1 percent figure, thanks to falling energy prices.
Powell’s decision to stop telegraphing Fed moves by providing “forward guidance” to its plans is itself a sign that the current environment is darker than usual.
“Much of what is happening in this economy is being driven by the pandemic and then the pandemic response. And so we are in a very unusual time, in many ways [it’s] a challenge to read that data a little bit,” Loretta Mester, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and a voting member of the Fed’s Interest Rate Committee, told The Washington Post this week.
Fed rate hikes could signal the start of a difficult new economic environment
Nearly 22 million Americans lost their jobs between February and April 2020 in the early months of Covid. The unemployment rate reached 14.7 percent, the highest figure recorded by the Department of Labor in a series that began in 1948.
With July’s gains, the economy has now recovered all the lost jobs.
But the workforce has been reformed. Today there are more warehouse and logistics employees and fewer employees for hotels and airlines.
According to Gregory Daco, chief economist at EY-Parthenon, employers are reacting differently than before the pandemic to indications that the economy is slowing. Instead of immediately resorting to significant layoffs, they are instead scaling back hiring or taking targeted job cuts.
Weekly first-time unemployment claims have risen, but only to 260,000 from a 54-year low of 166,000 in March.
Consumers have also acted differently by buying more goods than usual while locked in their homes during the first wave of the pandemic. Retailers who ordered unusual quantities of furniture, electronics and clothing from foreign suppliers later misjudged the rate at which consumers reverted to traditional purchasing patterns, leaving stores full of unwanted goods.
In addition to the ongoing ills of the pandemic, the war in Ukraine has disrupted global commodity markets, contributing to higher inflation.
All these forces combine to produce economic data that is unusual and sometimes contradictory. Friday’s jobs report showed 32,000 new construction jobs and 30,000 new factory jobs created in the month. Still, house prices have fallen over the past two months and the latest ISM production reading was the weakest in two years.
“We are in a somewhat dizzying business cycle. We get economic data that fluctuates quite quickly and it’s very difficult to read exactly where the economy is at any given moment in time,” Daco said.
Individual data points also provide snapshots of the economy that are out of sync, said Kathryn Edwards, an economist at the Rand Corp.
The Labor Department’s report on Friday tallied the jobs won in July. The last reading of the consumer price index was in June. And the gross domestic product reading that kicked off the recession furore described the activity that took place between April and June — and will be revised twice.
“It’s a challenge for an economist, but also for a reader who wants to understand the risk of an economic downturn,” she said.
Labor market and output data tell different stories about the economy throughout the year. After six consecutive months of contraction, the economy is about $125 billion smaller than at the end of 2021, according to inflation-adjusted data from the Department of Commerce.
Yet, over the same period, employers hired 3.3 million new workers.
How can more workers produce fewer goods and services?
One explanation is that workers are less productive today than during the emergency phase of the pandemic, when companies struggled to keep producing their required orders with fewer workers, Furman said.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nonfarm productivity fell 7.3 percent in the first quarter, the largest drop since 1947. Preliminary results for the second quarter will be released Tuesday and will likely be the largest drop in two quarters in history, he said.
Those numbers may exaggerate the change. During the pandemic, companies may have been able to maintain production with a covid-thinned workforce by urging or incentivising the remaining workers to work harder or longer. But there is a limit to how long bosses can motivate people by calling emergencies.
“They worked extra hard, but they wouldn’t work extra hard forever,” Furman said.
World Bank warns global economy could suffer from 1970s ‘stagflation’
Similarly, the employment rate usually rises as employers add jobs and the unemployment rate falls. But since March, it has fallen, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Some Americans retired rather than risk working during the pandemic. Others – mostly women – who had insufficient childcare facilities stayed at home with young children or other vulnerable relatives.
An April paper by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond found that “the pandemic has permanently reduced participation in the economy.”
The participation of Americans in their prime working years, ages 25 to 54, has almost fully recovered. But for people over 55, there has been almost no improvement since the first plunge at the start of the pandemic. And for younger workers aged 20 to 24, participation is now lower than at the end of last year.
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Most of the Galapagos Islands are located south of the equatorial line; however, Genovesa is north of the equatorial line. The water temperature is warmer at this latitude compared with the rest of the archipelago. The flora and fauna have very special adaptations. Genovesa has the smallest marine iguanas of the six populations found in Galapagos. It also has one of the smallest prickly pear cactus trees due to the lack of terrestrial reptiles.
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N.U.S. and U.C. rekindle their relationship
The National University of Samoa (N.U.S) and the University Of Canterbury (U.C.) in Christchurch,, New Zealand have signed an agreement to rekindle their relationship.
This agreement was signed at the Fale Samoa at the National University of Samoa on Thursday last week.
Tofilau Dr. Faguele Sualii, Dean of the Faculty of Education (F.O.E.) at the N.U.S elaborated on this agreement.
“The main objective of this is to provide a framework of collaboration between the F.O.E. in our university and the U.C.,” he said.
“That is the purpose of this gathering today; to bring back the relationship between the National University of Samoa and the University of Canterbury.
“How it was back then, maybe 10 years back, we had an agreement where teachers from our university especially those who were in the Faculty of Education, got opportunities to study in the University of Canterbury as well as studying for the highest qualifications. But there was some changes made in that agreement and it brought our relationship to an end.
“But now it has been reinvigorated by the President of the National University of Samoa so that other recognized universities are able to help not only our teachers but our students as well, in terms of broadening their knowledge and skills to improve the quality of our education.
That is what our country needs.”
Tofilau Dr. Faguele Sualii believes this relationship will help improve the standards of our education.
“At the moment, the Faculty of Education is the first faculty that’s a part of this agreement because the help given is based on the same faculty in the University of Canterbury. But hopefully in the future, this help will be sharedwith all the other faculties so that they can get the same opportunities as well.
“The National University of Samoa plans to work together with the University of Canterbury so that we can come up with ways to improve the quality of our education system; in terms of courses to study as well as opportunities to share ideas and experiences that can help us in teaching our students.
“Not only that, but also getting opportunities where our local students can study abroad and learn about courses that we have no knowledge of.
“That is the goal of N.U.S right now. It is to carry on and continue our relationship with the University of Canterbury to help out in our development.
“As you can see, we have just signed this agreement between the two universities so hopefully there will be opportunities soon for not only the teachers but also the students as well to go out of this country and into the University of Canterbury to study and learn so that they can come back and use that new knowledge in the development of Samoa.
“Thank you for making the National University as your brother and sister here in Samoa and we are looking forward to our collaborations in the near future.”
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The mirrors are going through receiving and inspection and will then be stored in the Goddard cleanroom until engineers are ready to assemble them onto the telescope's backplane structure that will support them.
Technicians and scientists check out one of the Webb telescope's first two flight mirrors in the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
Ball Aerospace, Boulder, Colo., under contract to Northrop Grumman, is responsible for the Webb’s optical technology and lightweight mirror system. On September 17, 2012, Ball Aerospace shipped the first two mirrors in custom containers designed specifically for the multiple trips the mirrors made through eight U.S. states while completing their manufacturing. The remaining 16 mirrors will make their way from Ball Aerospace to Goddard over the next 12 months as they await telescope integration in 2015.
"These first two completed flight mirror assemblies arriving at Goddard are an important first step leading towards the integration of the mirrors onto the flight structure," said Lee Feinberg, NASA Optical Telescope Element Manager for the James Webb Space Telescope at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "These delivered flight mirrors meet their requirements, which is great news for Webb telescope being able to fulfill its scientific potential."
One of the Webb’s science goals is to look back through time to when galaxies were young. To see such far-off and faint objects, Webb needs a large mirror. A telescope’s sensitivity, or how much detail it can see, is directly related to the size of the mirror area that collects light from the objects being observed. A larger area collects more light, just like a larger bucket collects more water in a rain shower than a small one.
This photo shows one of the two mirrors, while the other awaits opening in its shipping canister. The mirrors have arrived at their new home at NASA, where they will be residing at the giant cleanroom at Goddard for a while as technicians check them out. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
Webb’s scientists and engineers determined that a primary mirror 6.5 meters (21 feet 4 inches) across is what was needed to measure the light from these distant galaxies. Each of the 18 hexagonal-shaped mirror assemblies that make up the primary mirror measures more than 1.3 meters (4.2 feet) across, and weighs approximately 40 kilograms, or 88 pounds.
The Webb will be the first space astronomy observatory to use an actively-controlled, segmented mirror. The Webb is critical for future infrared observations. The Webb will be the premier observatory of the next decade. It will study every phase in the history of our universe, ranging from the first luminous glows after the Big Bang, to the formation of stellar systems capable of supporting life on planets like Earth, to the evolution of our own Solar System. It is a joint project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.Rob Gutro
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Researchers from the University of Hamburg in Germany, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, have synthesized a new superconducting material by growing a few layers of an antiferromagnetic transition-metal chalcogenide on a bismuth-based topological insulator, both being non-superconducting materials.
While superconductivity and magnetism are generally believed to be mutually exclusive, surprisingly, in this new material, superconducting correlations...
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Among the general public, solar thermal energy is currently associated with dark blue, rectangular collectors on building roofs. Technologies are needed for aesthetically high quality architecture which offer the architect more room for manoeuvre when it comes to low- and plus-energy buildings. With the “ArKol” project, researchers at Fraunhofer ISE together with partners are currently developing two façade collectors for solar thermal energy generation, which permit a high degree of design flexibility: a strip collector for opaque façade sections and a solar thermal blind for transparent sections. The current state of the two developments will be presented at the BAU 2017 trade fair.
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At TU Wien, an alternative for resource intensive formwork for the construction of concrete domes was developed. It is now used in a test dome for the Austrian Federal Railways Infrastructure (ÖBB Infrastruktur).
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Although wonder has always peppered my travels, rarely did I come across the unexpected. When you go to Rome, for example, you may marvel at the sights, you may gawk at the buildings, but that is what you expect of Rome. You’ve probably seen numerous pictures beforehand, and bought the city guide.
But my visit to Beirut in Lebanon was unexpected in every way.
For one, it was far from Southeast Asia,
where I currently was. Visiting Beirut was a spur of the moment decision. And two, much like Byblos City, it went against the grain of what I envisioned it would look like. This was the Middle East. I expected the Middle East. Instead, I was received by a city which dwelled on dichotomies. I can’t remember ever visiting a place where I could go snow skiing at a nearby mountain in the morning, then hit up the beaches in the early afternoon–especially in the Middle East.
For the most part, the central part of Beirut defies its Arabic roots and leans towards a more European allure.
Its newly-paved roads, modern buildings, and ornamented lampposts suffuse romance into the soul of a city built with a purpose: to seduce. Here, patrons and tourists of faraway origins sit at Parisian-style bistros, savoring meals over drinks or coffee, as the sea-breeze shyly approaches, plants a kiss on their cheek, and quickly fades.
The best vantage point I found
was the peak of nearby Brumana. It displayed a city kissing the edge of a Mediterranean whose satin sheen is sure to capture a tranquil poem on your face.
And although the scars of a twenty year civil-war remain–with buildings riddled with bullet holes and rocket fire–the overhaul of the downtown area is especially astounding.
The new architecture resembles a coastal Italian city.
A city which broke off from Europe and beached ashore here, commanding the best real estate on this side of the Mediterranean. It is a definite mark of artful modernism amidst its Arabian neighborhoods.
But when I say it resembles Italy,
or even France, I don’t imply that it copies either one. It’s skyline, just like its culture, is unique in every way. Nothing can replace the light-heartedness of its citizens either, a people without worry and who live for the moment with a joie de vivre hardly found anywhere else.
This joviality pollinates the atmosphere of Beirut, but is quick to dissipate beyond the country’s borders.
As many Lebanese revolts,
or bombings, or faction wars as there have been, the city pulses with the electric ambiance of Arabian youth co-mingled with a Western element. I’ve included a picture to show you the spirit of my words. I chose not to show you the beautiful skyline, but instead a picture on a typical day, at a pool, of a joyful world which goes on despite the bombed-out hotel in the background.
For even in the depths of murky oceans,
nature has learned to adapt and fashion beauty from danger.
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In the short story A P John Updike uses an array of imagery and description to portray key themes of internal conflict and tension This story is seen through the eyes of a young man named Sammy Through this character we understand real life issues such as making decisions consequence of action adolescence and responsibility These are all areas that deal with coming of age Updike uses these elements to give the reader insight and understanding into the mind of a young man coming into manhood The entire story takes place in an A P supermarket where two clerks Sammy and Stokesie watch three girls in bathing suits walk through the aisles of the market John Updike uses descriptive imagery to help the reader understand what is going on in Sammys mind Detailed phrases such as sunburns right across under the eyes and chin that was too long demonstrate the detail and attention to which Sammy takes in observing the girls While Sammy is studying the girls he takes pleasure in their soft looking can and long white prima-donna legs The writer borders the line of suggested sensuality and humour with these teasing phrases describing the human anatomy Although such provocative statements may be offensive to some readers Updike openly portrays the innocence in the on look of an inquisitive young man As the story progresses there is a break at the end of the tenth paragraph where the story takes a turn Internal conflict in the protagonist Sammy begins When the girls are at the checkout counter Lengel confronts them over their choice of clothing Throughout the entire ordeal Sammy does not say one word However John uses this silence to illustrate the struggle in wanting to defend the girls yet also wanting to respect the boss When Lengel asks whether Sammy has rung up this purchase he responds with no however it wasnt about that he was thinking about It is
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Free French, French Françaises Libres, in World War II (1939–45), members of a movement for the continuation of warfare against Germany after the military collapse of Metropolitan France in the summer of 1940. Led by General Charles de Gaulle, the Free French were eventually able to unify most French resistance forces in their struggle against Germany.
On June 16, 1940, the government of France was constitutionally transmitted to Marshal Philippe Pétain, who had already decided that France must conclude an armistice with Germany. Two days later, a French army officer, General Charles de Gaulle, appealed by radio from London (whence he had fled on June 17) for a French continuation of the war against Germany. On June 28 de Gaulle was recognized by the British as the leader of Free France (as the nascent resistance movement was named), and from his base in London de Gaulle began to build up the Forces Françaises Libres, or Free French Forces. At first these consisted merely of French troops in England, volunteers from the French community resident in England since prewar times, and a few units of the French navy.
In the autumn of 1940 the French colonial territories of Chad, Cameroun, Moyen-Congo, French Equatorial Africa, and Oubangi-Chari (all in sub-Saharan Africa) rallied to de Gaulle’s Free France, and the smaller French colonies in India and in the Pacific soon followed suit. A Free French military expedition in September 1940 to capture the important naval base of Dakar in French West Africa failed, however, and the base remained in the hands of French forces loyal to the national government that Pétain had set up in Vichy.
In 1941 Free French forces participated in British-controlled operations against Italian forces in Libya and Egypt, and that same year they joined the British in defeating the Vichy forces in Syria and Lebanon. In September de Gaulle created the Comité National Français (French National Committee), a Free French government-in-exile that was recognized by the Allied governments.
Despite these gains, the Free French remained a small force until 1942, by which time an underground anti-Nazi Résistance movement had sprung up in France. In his efforts to obtain the support of the Résistance, de Gaulle changed the name of his movement to Forces Françaises Combattantes (Fighting French Forces) and sent his emissary Jean Moulin to France to try to unify all the various Résistance groups in France under de Gaulle’s leadership. Moulin came close to accomplishing this in May 1943 with his establishment of the Conseil Nationale de la Résistance (National Council of the Resistance).
The successful Anglo-American invasion of northwestern Africa in November 1942 resulted in the defection of most of the Vichy troops stationed there to the side of the Free French. De Gaulle then entered a power struggle with the Allied-backed commander in chief of the French forces in North Africa, General Henri Giraud. In June 1943 a Comité Français de Libération Nationale (French Committee of National Liberation) was constituted in Algiers, with Giraud and de Gaulle as its joint presidents. But de Gaulle soon outmaneuvered Giraud, whose resignation in the spring of 1944 left de Gaulle in supreme control of the entire French war effort outside of Metropolitan France. More and more Résistance groups were meanwhile acknowledging de Gaulle’s leadership.
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More than 100,000 Free French troops fought in the Anglo-American campaign in Italy in 1943, and, by the time of the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944, the Free French forces had swelled to more than 300,000 regular troops. They were almost wholly American-equipped and supplied. In August 1944 the Free French 1st Army, under General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, took part in the Allies’ invasion of southern France, driving thence northeastward into Alsace before joining in the Western Allies’ final thrust into Germany. In August 1944 the Résistance groups, now organized as Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur (French Forces of the Interior), mounted an anti-German insurrection in Paris, and the Free French 2nd Armoured Division under General Jacques-Philippe Leclerc drove into Paris to consummate the liberation. On Aug. 26, 1944, de Gaulle entered Paris in triumph. | <urn:uuid:3847874f-a3a0-482c-b374-55687f421334> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Free-French | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00247-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955545 | 926 | 3.9375 | 4 |
It is suggested that for social psychological theory and research on helping to provide an adequate general explanation of helping, more attention must be paid to supraindividual factors. Most studies of blood donation have failed to take into account a number of factors that may influence donations at the level of the organization, community or collectivity. This study examines the possibility that specific community norms may emerge that have an influence on the donating behavior of community members. Perceived normative support was found to exist in different degrees in communities that provide different levels of behavioral support for bloodmobile visits, and persons who report a greater degree of perceived community support for donation are more likely to have donated in the past year. Implications for donor recruitment procedures are discussed. | <urn:uuid:09983138-dfbb-4c6d-9e5d-fc94d58a208b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1559-1816.1983.tb01740.x/abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00031-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962369 | 146 | 1.796875 | 2 |
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The earth system and its ever-changing nature. Introduction ; 4.6 billion years of global change ; Abrupt climate change -- The human factor. A short history of human impacts ; The future: why some people are so concerned while others aren't -- Good intentions and geoengineering. Good intentions gone awry ; Geoengineering schemes ; The record on smaller-scale attempted modifications -- Further cautionary considerations. The possible fallibility of even a strong consensus ; The unknown future : model limitations ; Compounding social pressures -- Avoiding paralysis despite uncertainty. What are the alternatives? ; Closing plea. | <urn:uuid:ea8b4c3d-6659-4a9c-9323-d47751594d76> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://suncat.csun.edu/record=b3150689 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721141.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00417-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.823126 | 214 | 1.859375 | 2 |
The European Central Bank has shown it can conduct crisis management with the best of them, using a verbal commitment to buy government bonds of stressed countries to stabilize southern European debt markets and preserve the euro.
The question now is how successfully it conducts monetary policy in the face of a stagnant economy and very low inflation.
There are no easy answers. The euro zone has 17 member countries–18 when Latvia joins in January—with their own government bond markets and banking systems. That makes it hard for the ECB to engage in large-scale measures to pump newly created money into the financial system, a tactic called quantitative easing or QE, or other extreme measures to boost growth and inflation where they are needed most. | <urn:uuid:644c2a01-ac1f-4150-bb2a-f292b69edd82> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/01/05/european-central-bank-2014-outlook/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00508-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959106 | 142 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Women don’t just watch football, they play it. Take Adrienne Smith, a wide receiver for the Boston Renegades, a women’s semiprofessional team. Smith averages 24 yards per catch and has scored a touchdown in almost every game this month. Like many of the Renegades, she keeps her income flowing with a day job. Smith has two startups, a tour group for Harlem called Harlem Hip-Hop Tours and gridironqueendom.com, a website for women’s football. Download spoke with Smith about her digital habits.
You admit you don’t like to be tackled — that’s why you stay in shape, lifting and sprinting. How do you track your workouts?
I use an app called SenseMe that I downloaded from the Google Play store. It’s a pedometer and fitness tracker and also counts calories, automatically detects how long you sleep, and detects heart rate and pulse. I use a pen and paper to record my weights when lifting, but a lot of my teammates use a FitBit to keep track of exercise goals.
The Boston Renegades season just started in April — how does the team review game strategy?
Our team uses Google Hangout to do chalk talks. Coaches will go over defensive schemes and plays. Film of our practices is uploaded on huddle.com; that’s where we review footage of our games.
It helps to see yourself on the screen and get that out-of-body perspective. I can see where I need to improve.
With two startups to track, how do you manage all the information on these platforms?
I’m exploring Hootsuite to manage the social media aspects of the companies. And I have to applaud Instagram for finally allowing for multiple accounts without having to log back in and out. I also use ifttt.com (If That Then This), a way to create simple connections between Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other apps. That way, if I post on Twitter, it can automatically be posted on Tumblr, for example.
Do you see all-female football gaining fans?
I do, and I’m heavily into Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as they allow us to quickly create a community of female football enthusiasts. Wherever women are playing football — Poland, Finland, or Brazil — we can post pictures and videos of the game. It’s almost like we are one big team.
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The field of public administration concerns itself with government, public purposes, and getting the job done. The faculty of the School of Public Administration are here to build knowledge in the discipline through scholarship, and also to provide educational opportunities for those who wish to know more. There are many stimulating challenges facing the public sector, and we offer our five degree programs knowing that our students seek a superb education at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels.
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BP’s former CEO Tony Hayward agrees with OPEC that its strategy of maintaining the oil glut and thereby helping to drive down prices will quickly crush the US shale boom and that oil prices will rally sooner than many people expect.
Hayward, one of 42 speakers at the Financial Times’ Global Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland, on April 20-22, said the average global price of a barrel of crude will soon be around $80, up from the current price of about $60, demonstrating that OPEC is “the most successful cartel in history.”
The key, Hayward said, was deciding at its meeting in November to maintain overall production levels at 30 million barrels a day in an effort to undersell US shale producers, whose use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is more expensive than conventional drilling and isn’t profitable when the price drops to around $60. Related: Oil Prices Won’t Recover Anytime Soon Says Exxon CEO
“The peak of U.S. shale supply has arrived – earlier than anticipated,” said Hayward, who now runs Iraqi Kurdistan-focused Genel Energy. “The supply chain in the U.S. has been decimated … . It will take several years to take activity back.”
He pointed to the steep drop in the number of drilling rigs now in use in the United States. “The supply base is shrinking, [OPEC is] maintaining their market share,” Hayward said. “It seems like [the cartel’s strategy has] been a big success. … It’s having exactly the consequences they envisaged.” As a result, he said he believes that American output soon would slow down or even begin to fall.
These points could have been taken directly from OPEC’s Monthly Market Report, released April 16, which forecast US oil output will first rise this year to about 13.65 million barrels per day in the second quarter of 2015, but then flatten briefly and finally begin to drop for the rest of the year. It said this also applies to Canadian production.
“US [shale] oil and Canadian oil sands output are expected to see lower growth following the recent strong declines in rig counts,” the report said. Related: Oil Price War May Benefit Both US Shale And Saudi Arabia
In his speech, Hayward said OPEC’s strategy wasn’t the only reason for his optimism about oil prices.
He also gave credit to independent oil companies for sharply reducing their capital expenditures and work forces, which he said also “are laying the seeds for the next bull market.” He said the industry did the same during 1990s, eventually generating a price rally that lasted from 2003 to 2007.
OPEC isn’t Hayward’s only ally in expecting oil prices to rise. Paul Horsnell, director of commodities at the British financial services firm Standard Chartered, says what many call a glut is merely a slight edge in supply over demand, and virtually any shift in demand could reverse the price trend.
“There was never a glut,” Horsnell told The Wall Street Journal. “The global surplus in the first part of the year was 1 percent. It will be gone by July and the market will be in deficit as we move into September.” Related: What Happens To US Shale When The Easy Money Runs Out?
And, of course, there are those who disagree with Hayward’s view, arguing that production will exceed demand for a long time at a rate of between 1 million and 2 million barrels of oil per day, then going into storage when it can't be sold. Because of this, they argue, global output can’t fall fast enough to match demand.
One is Michael Coleman, the chief operating officer at the futures and commodities trader RCMA Asset Management in Singapore. He says many larger oil companies still have much of the money they earned when oil was selling at over $110 per barrel, so they can afford to keep producing even during the current price slump.
“From our perspective, we don’t think enough damage has been done yet to current production,” Coleman said. “Until demand starts to significantly chew into the big inventories that have been built up, I think … we’ll be in the school of [$]40-60 for [West Texas Intermediate crude] for some period of time.”
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(Aug. 19, 2010) On August 14, 2010, in Somalia's Puntland State, a court convicted a journalist affiliated with a Bosaso-based radio station of violation of Puntland's anti-terrorism laws, for conducting an interview with a local rebel leader with links to Al-Qaeda. Bosaso is a port town in Puntland. The court imposed a six-year prison term and a fine of US$500. (Puntland Court Jails Journalist for Six Years for Interviewing Islamist Rebel, REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS (Aug. 14, 2010), http://en.rsf.org/somalie-puntl
and-court-jails-journalist-14-08-2010,38153.html.) The trial was said to have been closed to the public, and to have lasted only a few minutes (id.).
Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based non-government organization that advocates for press freedom around the world, demanded the immediate release of the journalist, calling the sentence “flagrant and deliberate press freedom violations by Puntland authorities.” (Id.)
The Puntland Anti-Terrorism Law, which reportedly confers increased power on the state's security apparatus and courts to arrest and sentence individuals suspected of terrorism, was enacted by the 66-member Puntland Parliament only 25 days before the sentencing of the journalist, on July 20, 2010 (Hussein Farah, Puntland Parliament Passes Anti-Terror Law, HORSEED MEDIA (July 20, 2010), http://horseedmedia.net/2010/07/20/somalia-puntland-parliament-passes-an
titerror-law/). The journalist most likely was charged under the provisions of this newly enacted law.
Puntland, an area in the northeastern part of Somalia, is composed of the Bari, Nugal, Mudug, Sanaag, Sool, Ayn, and Karkaar regions. On May 5, 1998, it became the Puntland regional state, with its own three-branch governmental system. It is not seeking world recognition as an independent state; rather, it hopes to be part of a future Federal State of Somalia. (Puntland State Profile, Puntland State of Somalia official website, http://www.puntlandgovt.com/profile.php (last visited Aug. 16, 2010).) | <urn:uuid:d3058721-d5e0-41be-8b8a-7d222c9d54a7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.loc.gov/law/foreign-news/article/somalia-journalist-gets-six-year-prison-term-for-interviewing-man-with-al-qaeda-links/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00404-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922433 | 515 | 1.921875 | 2 |
I have witnessed both Christ-like hospitality and Southern hospitality, which often echoes Calypso more than Eumaios, especially as I waver between residence at a hearty Midwestern college, and the quasi-southern quasi-international metropolis of Houston, my family’s home. But, in the midst of having found genuine people in both settings, I have discovered that I have the opportunity to awaken others to the beauty of the transcendent. It is not because I am a saint, for I am not, but because I understand one simple concept which equips me to serve and welcome others—hospitality.
This word hospitality plays a vital role in the reflection of the human heart. From Eumaios’ care for the old man to Plato’s welcoming of intellectual discussion, as he invites others to join him in his quest for truth, from Abraham’s welcoming of the Divine to Christ’s open arms in heaven, from Babbitt’s feast to the shepherds sacrifice for Father Valiant in Cather’s “Death For the Archbishop”, true hospitality never ceases to reveal some aspect of the Divine. As individuals welcome friends and neighbors, coworkers and intellectuals, into their homes, they have the opportunity to manifest Christ’s sacrificial love—to give up their own comfort in order to give others a real sense of Christ’s love.
Russell Kirk and his wife, Annette, have always exuded this Christ-like hospitality, as they welcomed refugees, hobos, professors, students, and curious individuals into their home, which is why Piety Hill seems to be such a fitting name for that rather majestic house in Mecosta, Michigan. For, Russell Kirk knew what it was to be a Conservative because he understood the cult–that is, the community’s reverence for the Divine–to be the center of life on earth. He lived this transcendent ideal in his quaint, Gothic-style, catholic home. He was a host to Conservatism, both in the books he wrote and the life he lead, and we must aspire to open our doors in order to rekindle the cult.
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It’s never too late to learn something new, but in Wanda Schroder’s case, she already knows all of the steps; it’s her daughter who needs the instruction.
“The hard part for me, not for mom, is putting all of the steps together,” said Wanda’s daughter, Donna Bishop, a counselor at Allan Hancock College and a student, along with her mom, in the dance program’s beginning tap class.
At an agile age 87, Schroder is the oldest student in the beginning tap class and by far the most experienced. Her daughter is 62 years old and a dance neophyte who has never taken a class. While Bishop struggles a bit to string together new steps, Schroder wishes the class would move just a little bit faster.
“My balance isn’t what it used to be, so to hold the slower steps is harder for me than it would be to quickly put them all together,” she said.
Schroder has been dancing since she was 6 years old. In fact, she danced right through the Depression, offering dance lessons to neighborhood kids so that she could continue to afford her own.
“I’ve danced on and off my whole life; I just love to dance,” Schroder said.
During World War II, Schroder helped build airplanes and after the war she took a job in Santa Maria building circuit boards. Schroder admits she has a mathematical brain, and that preciseness lends itself to tap, which, according to instructor Monique Segura, gives her an amazingly clear tone to her steps.
“I’ve had Wanda demonstrate for the class because the clarity of the sound she produces is so fine-tuned,” Segura said.
Segura said that having Bishop and Schroder in the class has had its added bonuses for students.
“As a counselor, Donna has been so helpful, just having her available to answer their questions, the students have really loved that,” she said, “and Wanda, when she joined the class, had at least a half-dozen tap shoes that she gave to students.”
Schroder insisted that she doesn’t need them after what may be her last public tap performance at a student workshop at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Santa Maria campus Dance Studio (Building D, Room 10). She and Bishop will be dancing a piece choreographed by Schroder, with music chosen by Bishop.
The song, a dance hit by David Guetta and Akon, is better known by its original title but is also referred to as “Sexy Chick.”
“I said, ‘Oh, let’s do this song,’ and mom said, ‘Oh, that’s the right tempo,’” Bishop said. “It’s going to be a unique performance, that’s for sure.”
The duo may be performing one more time if Segura chooses them to represent their class in next Tuesday’s Dance Workshop. The Nov. 20 event will begin at 7 p.m. in the D-10 studio.
Either way, Schroder is hanging up her tap shoes, but she’s not going to stop dancing.
“I think I want to do line dancing next,” she said.
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Supporting a Biblical World and Life View
Our purpose in all of what we teach is to ultimately lead a child into a growing relationship with Christ, being prepared to serve Him in the community with a mind that has a Biblical world and life view. There are five means of accomplishing that goal:
The use of a Bible curriculum that thoroughly reviews the Old and New Testaments and teaches an understanding of God’s character, commandments, and how He deals with His people. You may view our current Bible curriculum document here.
Memorization of Scripture that tracks along with the particular part of the Bible that is being studied. This is the way that we pray the children will “hide God’s Word in their hearts,” later to be brought to mind by the Holy Spirit in order to live faithfully to God.
Bible Building Blocks of Faith
Systematically memorizing basic Biblical truths is a great way for children to build blocks of faith in their hearts. Children will learn the answers to approximately 20 questions each year. This method of teaching was the primary way that parents, schools and churches taught their children the faith in the early years of the Protestant churches. The total of 139 questions and answers start with “Who made you?” and hits the most important points in the Bible. The questions are divided into 7 sections (K through 6th grades). You will find an example below of the first 5 questions that are used in Kindergarten.
- Who made you?
- What else did God make?
Answer: God made all things.
- Why did God make you and all things?
Answer: For his own glory.
- How can you glorify God?
Answer: By loving Him and doing what He commands.
- Why ought you glorify God?
Answer: Because He made me and takes care of me.
Observation of the living curriculum- the teachers- that model Christ to the children on a daily basis. We must have teachers of great Christian character so the children can see that the Christian life is not just duty and responsibility, but love and joy!
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