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Wednesday, November 27, 2019
VIDEO: Avalanche Airbag Saves Rider's Life: Why They Are Crucial in the Backcountry
If you're like me then that video probably scared the shit out of you. Getting caught in a slide is a skier's worst nightmare and is the whole reason why we study avalanche safety so thoroughly before venturing out into the backcountry.
Having the proper gear in the backcountry is a MUST - especially when it comes to avalanche airbags. Although the basic avalanche gear is beacon, shovel, and probe, avalanche airbags will make a world of difference in the unfortunate event you are caught in an avalanche.
The basic goal of an avalanche airbag is to keep the victim at the surface of the avalanche. Research has shown that the upper portions of an avalanche flow pattern are made up of larger granular particles than deeper sections. The idea is that by inflating an airbag, a person caught in an avalanche becomes a large enough particle size to stay on the surface of the slide. This also means that the victim remains visible, so no beacon search is required, nor probing or digging. In floating to the surface early in an avalanche, the skier is much less likely to go for the full ride, which increases the skier's chances of being left behind on the surface of the slide.
The effectiveness of avalanche airbags is impressive: in a study of 85 accidents by the American Mountain Guides Association, airbags reduced mortality by 92% in the backcountry. Of course, the best way to survive an avalanche is to prevent being caught in one altogether by applying proper decision-making skills when selecting descents. Unfortunately, this is not always the case due to the extremely unpredictable nature of avalanches. That's why having an avalanche airbag is so crucial. Because although they tend to be pricey, no amount of money is ever too much when you consider the fact that it could be the deciding factor as to whether you live or die.
Avalanche Airbag
An avalanche airbag/backpack system by SCOTT. Credit: SCOTT
'Absolutely Historic' First Descent of Caroline Face on Mount Aoraki in New Zealand
Mt. Cook, NZ
The Caroline Face on Mt. Cook, NZ. Credit: Alpine Recreation
On October 27th, 2017, Italian mountaineer Enrick Mosetti and British mountaineers Ben Briggs and Tom Grant completed the first ski descent of the Caroline Face - the extremely challenging and dangerous southeast face of Mount Aoraki/Mount Cook (12,217') in New Zealand. Local media in New Zealand has labeled the feat as "historic."
Mount Aoraki, commonly known as Mount Cook, is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Located in the Southern Alps of the South Island of New Zealand, the Caroline face on Mount Cook was first ascended by John Glasgow and Peter Gough in November 1970. It was the last face on Mount Cook to be summited as it's the hardest face to climb on the 12,000+ foot peak. It had never been skied before, either. At least, not until Mosetti, Briggs, and Grant's arrival.
Caroline Face Ascent
The EXTREMELY technical ascent of the Caroline Face on Mt. Cook/Aoraki, New Zealand. Credit:
On the 27th of October, 2017 the trio of mountaineers began the ascent by climbing the East Ridge. According to Mosetti, the ascent was "a beautiful climb, through very deep snow… really tiring."
The team's ascent took a total of seven and a half hours before reaching the summit and dropping into the coveted Caroline Face. The three mountaineers experienced what one of them described as "The biggest thing I've ever skied, the biggest line I could imagine to ski, and in great powder conditions!"
The next hour and a half of extreme skiing involved the three navigating through giant, unstable seracs that litter the Southeast face to a steep but stable, skiable line. There, they had to rappel only thrice and were able to ski near-perfect snow conditions. All three mountaineers made history by successfully completing the first descent of the Caroline Face, safely and swiftly.
Mosetti ice climbing.Enrico Mosetti, one of the first of 3 mountaineers to ski the Caroline Face. Credit: Facebook/Enrico Mosetti
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
The 10 (Dating) Commitments of Choosing Backcountry Slopes
Skiing the backcountry is committing.Backcountry line selecting is a lot like dating. Credit: SnowBrains
Backcountry skiing is inherently dangerous. A lot goes into learning what slopes are safe to ski which day and which ones aren't. Having the right gear and checking the avalanche forecast before you go out is crucial. But there may also be a train of thought that can assist you when navigating the backcountry and deciding which lines to ski, brought to you by long-time IFMGA guide Mark Smiley and founder of the revolutionary online avalanche safety course Mountain Sense.
"Think of the slope you are about to ski as a dating relationship. How committed are you ready to be?
1. I'd swipe right!
2. Let's meet up for a date
3. Dating exclusively
4. Calling one another boyfriend/girlfriend
5. Changing FB relationship status
6. Engagement
7. Marriage with a prenuptial agreement
8. Marriage, no prenup
9. Marriage, no prenup, and a house
10. Marriage, no prenup, a house, and kids
As you decide to commit to higher levels, you need to answer more questions. Before I commit to level one, all I need to know is that it just snowed a bunch and I'm stoked. That would be like a low angle tree run. Level 10 would be like skiing the Caroline Face on Mt Cook (google it). You have to climb up a different way, drop-in, rappel and pull your ropes and ski under a bunch of seracs. So you better have all your personal skills in check and have eyes on the slope prior to going, and have a good rescue plan, and have your Will in order!
Use the LEVELS to start the discussion with your partner. How big is this line in your mind? What signs to we need to look for to increase our confidence? What dangers do we need to be mindful of? Is there an out?"
The main take away is that the more committing a line is the more info you better know in order to not be blindsided with a messy divorce!
Caroline Face Ascent
The EXTREMELY technical ascent of Caroline Face on Mt. Cook, New Zealand. Credit:
Friday, November 22, 2019
Mt. Chimborazo, Ecuador: Life and Death on Earth's Closest Point to the Sun
Mt. Chimborazo, Ecuador
When I arrived at the high-altitude Ecuadorian city of Riobamba, I was convinced I was dying of dysentery. Really, responsible was just a bag of bad plums I had eaten on the 7-hour bus ride with no other food options at hand. A lovely way to start the expedition to the top of Mt. Chimborazo - Earth's closest point to the sun.
You see, Mt. Everest is the tallest mountain on the planet, but due to the earth's equatorial bulge, it's not actually the furthest point from sea level. Mt. Chimborazo holds that title.
The dormant volcano seated on the outskirts of Riobamba, Ecuador is an intimidating-looking behemoth. It's all smooth, green rolling hills around the region and then BOOM! A giant volcano pops its snowcapped head out of seemingly nowhere. With a summit of 20,564 feet, you can't really take your eye off of it when you're walking around in the sleepy streets of Riobamba.
Street art in Riobamba
When I walked into the headquarters of Ecuador Eco Adventures - the expedition agency with whom I had booked to summit this beast of a mountain - the lady working at the desk was pale and anxious. She was not thrilled to see me, and even less thrilled to break the bad news to me.
"I'm sorry but we are going to have to post-pone the trek a few days. There has.. um. There's been an accident on the mountain," she said.
She told me that earlier this very morning that a client had died in a horrific accident on the volcano. She was visibly shaken. But she was not as shaken as her husband, Wlady, the founder and CEO of Ecuador Eco-adventures and one of the guides there, that day of the accident.
When Wlady arrived at the headquarters the next afternoon, he came in slowly, dragging his feet. He had tired, sorrowful brown eyes, like that of a man who had witnessed something gruesome and hadn't slept at all the night before. He apologized for the inconvenience of having delayed our expedition, telling me that he had spent the last 48 hours dealing with local police and getting the deceased client's affairs in order with his next of kin and so forth. With a heavy heart, he described what had happened.
That morning that I had arrived, he, the client, and the other guides had summited Chimborazo successfully by sunrise, without any major issues. It was all smiles and high-fives at the top, he told me. But then when they were descending from the summit, the client had suffered a fatal heart attack. There was nothing they could do and he died right there on the snowy slope of the volcano. It's still unknown the exact cause as to why the man had suffered the heart attack and died, but it is known that he was in his late 60's and human error was likely not the cause. Perhaps by a sudden twist of fate his heart had just given out on him. Who knows?
Our intended route to the summit of Chimboarzo shown in red
Wlady told me that this was the first death on his watch since he began taking people up Chimborazo for money over a decade ago. It wasn't exactly a confidence-inspiring beginning to our expedition. The next day his wife took me up to the 'refugio' where I would spend the next few days acclimatizing to the high altitude and getting over my stomach illness.
The refugio was essentially a small, two-story stone shack located on what felt to be the utter ends of the earth. There were no people here; no vegetation; not even sun. Just harsh wind, rain, and rocky mountainside. Here, I spent a couple of days alone working on my cabin fever and regaining my strength from the bag of bad plums I ate on the bus, all the while trying to keep warm. It was freezing in that humble little mountain shack. The only company I had was a homely indigenous lady who cooked me tasty local dishes and carried with her a newborn child in a pouch wherever she went, an eager teenage boy who wanted to know everything there is to know about American life, and a collection of National Geographic magazines from the late 1990s. A German couple joined me for the last day in the refugio, and we spent the whole day watching the wind whip the rain around and playing simple cards games that got old very fast.
Chimborazo, being of such high elevation, is almost always shrouded by cloud cover
The next morning the German couple wished me luck on my adventure as I loaded up the truck with my guide and another climber, both of whom I had just met. We headed towards the final refugio situated at 15,500 feet -- the last stop at the end of the road up from Riobamba where we would start our push for the summit. When we got there we were greeted by a herd of wild vicunas. They were a friendly contrast to the gray, alien landscape of this place.
An image from the first refugio. The indigenous lady there made me that hat I'm wearing from the skin of a llama.
This refugio was much larger than the previous, and it reminded me of a big ski lodge, like one you'd see halfway up a popular ski resort like Breckenridge or something, except for the fact that it was almost completely absent of people. At 15,000+ feet this place was at the end of the line.
When I got here my heart started beating fast. I spoke with the other traveler booked for the trek, and she said she felt a similar effect. The elevation was most likely the cause, but it also seemed like the immensely powerful energy of this place was a contributing factor. We were closer to the sun - the life force of this planet and gravitational workhorse for our solar system - than any other point on the earth, and I reveled in that.
We got a run-down from the guides as to how the climb to the summit would go, and we were told that at if any moment the guides felt it was unsafe to continue, we would have to turn back, no questions asked. We were given our gear for the climb -- crampons, harness, ice-ace, snow boots, helmet, ski pants - and were told to get what little sleep we could before pushing for the summit at midnight. We would hope to summit by sunrise.
I didn't get a peep of sleep that night as my mind was filled with gruesome images of that climber collapsing on the same route we'd be following up. But above anything else, I had wanted to do this thing. I wanted to summit the closest point on the earth to the sun and see what it looked like from up there; to harness its energy. Midnight rolled around with my guide's alarm clock on his phone going off. We got out of our bunk beds, suited up in silence, double-checked that we had all our gear in order and were off into the night.
It was eerily calm and quiet when we left the safety of the refugio. For being over 15,000 feet up in the sky on the side of a sleeping giant with no protection from the wind whatsoever, there wasn't any. There was hardly even a breeze. The only thing producing sound was our own two feet. It was peaceful, and the stars visible up from here were quite the sight. Looking up to the night sky, you could see what felt to be the whole celestial river that is the Milky Way, and then some. The beauty of this place was profound.
We hiked on loose rock until we hit the snowline and then we put our crampons on and roped up to each other. The ascent was actually mellower than I had thought, or at least it was compared to how it had been described by Wladly and the other guides in days prior. It was no harder than a lot of the stuff I bootpack during ski season. We probably trekked for a solid two hours under starlight when the guide leading the pack suddenly stopped and shined his headlamp back towards us, calling for the other guides to come up to his position. Something was wrong.
A little ways up the hill, the three guides convened in a casual huddle, like referees discussing the previous play of football game. Hand gestures and confirming nods went back and forth for a few minutes until it appeared as if they had reached a solemn agreement of some sort. They then walked back down to where the other climber and I had been anxiously waiting in the snow.
"You see this?"
One of the guides pointed to a series of large rollerballs just off to the side of the bootpack. I immediately knew what this meant, and what he was going to say next.
"This means we have to go back," he said reluctantly in his thick, Ecuadorian accent.
The same guide then pointed to a large stone boulder only feet away from where we were standing. He told us that this boulder was not here a few days ago when they were descending the summit with the previous, ill-fated party and that it had tumbled down the mountainside sometime between then and now. The boulder wasn't terribly large, but it was big enough. Big enough to kill someone, and big enough to prove that the current conditions were unfit for us to continue onwards. This, on top of the new rollerballs, signaled that the snowpack had become recently unstable and that the probability of an avalanche was high. I knew what the guide was saying was true due to my experience skiing in the backcountry. Disappointed yet content that we had made the right call, we took one final look at the summit which was shrouded in cloud cover and turned back.
On the way back down, the guides spoke reassuring words that this is just the nature of the beast when climbing Chimborazo, especially in this day and age when the climate is proving to be more unpredictable by the day. Too many lives had already been lost that week for us to push onwards, and once again I say that I am joyed that we made the right call. As disappointed as we may have been, we were all on the same page about this. Our decision to turn back would be reinforced as correct on the way down when a series of strangely shaped stones off to the side of the trail caught my eye...
Something about them seemed a little too out of place on this volcano, a little too unnatural. When we stopped and shined our headlamps on them, the engravings on the stones gave them away instantly. They were tombstones. They were tombstones for all the climbers who had died here over the years. And there were dozens of them. On them were engraved the names, nationalities, and life-spans of those who were not fortunate enough to make it back home to their families and tell them about the epic quest they had just pursued. A piece of fresh notebook paper showed where the next tombstone would be placed. On it was written some parting words by the deceased climber's buddy from the previous expedition.
The cemetery of climbers. The tombstones were made from surrounding rock
A note written by the deceased client's friend
We stood there for a moment and just looked at the stones, my guide and I not saying a word to each other. A silent, involuntary show of respect, I suppose. The tombstones were on the crest of a ridge, juxtaposed with the brilliant backdrop of the starry night's sky behind them. I turned my headlamp off for a few long seconds and just soaked up what was in front of my eyes. An artist couldn't paint this shit.
After what felt like a moment absent of time, my guide spoke.
"Come on. Time to go."
After a final glance, I took a deep breath and recontinued the descent. Despite not having made it to the summit, I was able to leave with something much more valuable than any sense of victory gained from just making it to the top. I left with the only thing that this sleeping giant they call Chimborazo had offered me. Appreciation.
Cherish the life you live
Monday, November 4, 2019
Will Human-Carrying Drones Make Ski Lifts Obsolete?
A human carrying droneWill drones one day be able to take us up to the tops of mountains? Credit: YouTube
Australian technology start-up, 'Drongo,' is predicting that drones powerful enough to carry humans will soon replace traditional ski-lifts. Drongo is a new company specializing in the research and development of automated drones big enough to carry people.
Drongo CEO, Dr. Ana Gram-Desnor said in an interview with Sugar Research Australia:
"Human payload capable drones have been around for a few years, but until now, no-one has produced one that is light enough or inexpensive enough for the average person!”
Drones are taking over Could drones replace big mountain ascents? Credit: Crosscut
Dr. Ana Gram Desnor is a skier with the dream of replacing conventional transportation methods with flying drones that will one day be able to transport skiers and snowboarders to the tops of mountains in a matter of minutes. Drongo is currently developing a human-carrying drone the size of a small car that, due to its unique carbon-fiber construction and patented folding technology, is able to be folded up and stored in a backpack.
The company has talked about plans to manufacture a recreational drone that will be available to the public. The drone will be able to transport humans where they see fit, and there's nothing stopping us from going to the tops of powder-filled mountains. Yet, there are concerns in the ski industry amongst talk of robots capable of flying skiers up the mountain.
Apart from variable mountain conditions that could cause a drone crash leading to human death, noise is also an issue. The buzz from the current Drongo drone models sound like a biblical swarm of mosquitos, and this is not the atmosphere most ski areas lean towards. However, just how high is the likelihood that we may begin to start using automated aerial vehicles to take us to where our hearts desire, which, for many of us, just so happens to be the top of that mountain over there?
Australian start up "Drongo" is developing a recreational human-carrying drone. Credit: Snowriders Australia Is Suing Anyone Who Uses Its Namesake is suing small business owners. (whose logo is a white mountain goat) has filed dozens of lawsuits against outdoor small businesses, from pants to avalanche safety clinics. Credit: Moldy Chum
The e-commerce behemoth is suing small business owners have trademarked the word "backcountry. A year ago, filed for trademarks protecting the word "backcountry," on their outdoor gear. Since then, the company has filed dozens of lawsuits and protests within the U.S. Patent and Trade Office targeting businesses that have trademarked the word "backcountry."
The fairness of this move by has come into question. Is this a strong-armed business tactic by the website, or just plain bullying?
“My feeling is that nobody should have the right to the term ‘backcountry,’” said Jordan Phillips, owner of Backcountry Denim in an article by the Colorado Sun. “It’s like trying to trademark ‘road’ or ‘beach’ or ‘mountain.’”
Phillips was sued earlier this year in California federal court by for the usage of the word backcountry in his company name.
In February, the e-retailer sued Utah bike-maker Backcountry eBikes and the company had to settle and is now known as Backcou eBikes. In March, sued Backcountry Denim, an American-made outdoor jeans company started by Jordan Philips in 2017. Then, in July, Backcountry sued Constellation Outdoor Education, which trademarked the name Backcountry Babes for its Colorado-born, women-focused avalanche education clinics.
Some are asking just how far will go, as the trademark database at shows 316 businesses using the word “backcountry.” The list of businesses in's potential line of fire is long, ranging from guiding outfitters, ski and safety gear, tires, liquor, film festivals, coffee shops, angling equipment, and much more., through a spokeswoman, declined to comment on the flurry of lawsuits.
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5 winning rental application tips
As many of you would know the rental market across a lot of Australia can be highly competitive. You may well have found yourself at a property inspection looking through an apartment with 40 other eager renters.
So how can you give yourself the best chance of being the successful applicant? How can you create a winning rental application?
To help shed light on this we spoke to Justin Butterworth, CEO and Founder of Snug.com, Australia’s first rental community platform, about what makes a winning rental application.
Justin stressed the importance of having a complete and verified online rental profile that is ready to go is key to success. One that contains up to date rental history, employment and completed background checks. He states that “timing is critical and having your profile ready ensures renters can act immediately and they don’t need to spend time collating forms and information. By being able to submit a completed rental application on line while you’re at the property inspection can prove to be the clincher in a rental race.”
So what information should be included in your online renter profile and where can you create this?
Creating your online rental profile
Creating an online rental profile that can be saved, amended and shared with agents is an important first step. Justin explained how his industry leading platform, snug.com can help here. “Our user friendly interface guides renters through the profile building process to ensure they have created the best possible rental profile. The service verifies each renter’s rental history and completes their background checks so their application is ready to go, giving them a decisive advantage over other renters.”
Justin explained “renters can re-use their Snug profile to securely apply for a property anywhere. By having a complete profile ready to go, saves time and trouble with multiple forms and enables prospective tenants to get their application in faster, maximizing their chance of success.”
Snug also enables renters to link their profiles when applying and submit a stronger joint application as a household group. The platform keeps all parties informed as their application progresses to approval.
What information do you need to create your profile?
Rental History
Rental history includes your current and previous rental information such as the address of the rented premises, lease start and end dates, amount of rent and details of the property owner / manager. The Snug platform requests a rental reference from the outgoing property manager to attach to the renter profile. This saves time for the ingoing property manager assessing your application suitability.
The key aspects property managers are looking for are that you paid the rent on time, looked after the property and were easy to deal with on matters such as repairs or inspections.
If you have a good rental report you’re more likely to be approved for a rental than if you have a poor rental history report. It’s important that you understand what’s in your rental history report so you are not faced with any surprises.
This can be a crucial addition to your application.
Employment & Income
Significant scope is placed on your ability to pay rent, as most often landlords will prefer tenants that have a constant and reliable source of income.
Adding a few recent pay slips and bank statements to your application will not only show proof of employment, but should also allay any fears a landlord may have over missed payments.
Keep in mind the property manager or landlord may contact your employer to validate you are still working there so it’s a good idea to word them up.
Supporting Documentation
Proof of identity. You will need 100 points of Identification to prove you are who you say you are. They must be in digital format and in some cases, legally witnessed and stamped.
Cover letter
Write a few paragraphs about who you are, what do you do for a living and perhaps the reason for your move. It’s a good idea to be professional but not overly formal that your personality doesn’t shine through. Give a brief overview of your rental history and make mention of any special circumstances such as pets. If you are applying for a number of properties and have some time – it may be worthwhile if you tailor each of the cover letters and mention the features of the property that appeal to you the most.
Find the best matching property
Snug.com doesn’t just finish there…its patent pending Snug Match score helps renters understand how their profile matches up to the property owner’s requirements and helps renters find their most suitable new home.
For instance, a property owner may be looking for an experienced renter willing to sign a long term lease and to be paid fortnightly for a studio apartment in Newtown. The renters profile would be analysed based on their rental history, employment and background checks and assigned a relevance score. Property managers would then use this score to identify the most suitable applicant. Snug Match enables them to systematically find the most suitable tenant for each property.
Snug Match helps renters understand how their profile aligns to the property owner’s requirements and gives renters an opportunity to personalize their application to help them lift their Snug Match Score to be more suited to a property they love.
This is a new age for renters and landlords – a transparent way to find the right tenant for the right property. Snug Match = happy landlords and happy tenants. We buy house in Daytona Beach.
6 Benefits of downsizing
Downsizing has a number of key benefits not just for empty nesters, but for us all as living large doesn’t always mean bigger is better.
If you love saving money, energy, resources and enjoy saving time on the up keep of a home, downsizing your home may be the answer. Here are 6 benefits of selling up and moving into something smaller.
Less stuff
There’s a problem with space in houses: you have to fill it. In most cases, you won’t want to simply have vast expanses of nothing and will require purchases like furniture, rugs, art and more to add colour to these areas. This means you won’t only be paying more for the bigger house but will have to take into account these extra costs as well.
Save stress and money
Living in a larger home requires more time spent on its up keep. From cleaning, maintenance, furnishing, outdoor home upkeep and the cost to run all of these can lead to a home that is stressful. By downsizing, you’ll have less responsibility, smaller workload, increased cash flow and greater flexibility which all help reduce stress. This frees you up for fun, spending time with family, getting more rest and just enjoying your home rather than being a slave to it.
Spaced out
If you have a family, there are some benefits that could result when buying a smaller home – family members are more inclined to bond, work together, be organised and compromise with one another. Nothing like sharing a bedroom and a closet with a sibling to learn how to share and be patient…let alone the fun of having someone to talk to when you lie in bed at night. A cosier home is often the way to a happier domicile.
Energy Bills
Energy bills, which continue to climb, are nothing to shake a finger at. For instance, according to Expatistan’s Cost of Living Index, the average utility bill for two people in a Sydney flat was $202 a month. Considering that larger homes require more power to stay warm or cool (depending on the season) and lit, you could shave quite a bit off your energy expenses by living in a smaller home.
Furthermore, you’ll be doing your part for the environment by consuming less energy that is often produced by dirty fuels.
Start of a new chapter
By downsizing and reducing your costs such as your mortgage along with maintenance and energy bills, it can often mean you have extra money in the bank that can be spent on you and enhancing your lifestyle. Perhaps it’s a trip to one of your bucket list destinations, or an annual visit to family interstate. Also travelling can be less of a hassle when you have downsized, especially if you live in an apartment as you can normally lock it up and go, rather than concerning yourself with ensuring your home has enough security while you have gone.
Interestingly by living in a smaller home, it will reduce your consumption. If there is no place to put it, you’re much less likely to buy it. That means less money is spent on clothing, food and consumer goods and more money that can be spent on enjoying your life.
Retiring and Downsizing
Have the kids left home and your finding yourself rattling around in the house that you bought for the family? Downsizing can help release capital and provide you with a significant lifestyle change. It also offers the added benefits of reduced outgoings on utility bills, council tax, repairs and maintenance which can offer peace of mind, given the rising costs of these items.
In addition, there are the practical benefits of downsizing your home for retirement and moving to a smaller property as they are easier to manage and maintain, particularly should your degree of mobility start to lessen.
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Friday, June 23, 2017
Discussion: Dice?
When I started playing games, everyone at the table needed to have their own dice, or a close friend who had pre-approved or pre-loaned dice to you. Touching another person's dice was grounds for a fight, and after the brawl was over you would be the one thrown out for starting it in the first place. Granted, it was a different time. People were a lot more cagey with all their stuff, and you didn't share your equipment list with the people next to you because that was a great way to have your stuff re-purposed into their stuff.
At the tables I've played at lately there has generally been a pool of communal dice. This is normally supplied by the host of the game, but enough of us have enough dice that we can loan them freely to the few without their dice. I specifically keep about 2 pounds of dice in a large tube near the table that are 'public' dice. You need dice? Grab a set or two of your choice from the tube. Just put them back once the game is over.
Basically, I've seen both extremes of treating dice. The groups where you didn't touch anyone else's dice and those where dice were just up for grabs on the table for everyone. Both groups worked fine - though the people who hoarded dice tended to be faster. I'm curious if that's bias or related to something else.
What about you though? Does your group have a strict dice policy? Do you have communal dice? Do people bring their own? If they bring their own, do they leave the sets in the house where game happens or do the dice travel?
Do you have a special set for your character?
1. I tend to be a set for a character kind of guy, but that tendency if what ended up with me having a lot of communal dice.
Also, once I realized that it didn't matter what dice I had, that my luck was going to be incredibly swingy I got a lot less weird about other people handling my dice.
2. The groups I've been in have never been overly concerned about other people handling their dice, but it's never really come up because everyone brings their own dice. Having my own collection of neat colorful dice is something I love, and the people I game with feel the same. I'm always tempted to buy new sets of dice when I go into a game shop and pause at the dice display.
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Calling User Portal – Hoteling
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Introduction to Hoteling
Hoteling enables a user’s phone profile of phone number, features, and calling plan to be temporarily loaded onto a shared (host) phone. It is comprised of two features: Hoteling Host and Hoteling Guest that work together to allow you to designate specific phones (hosts) that users (guests) can temporarily log into and use as their own phone. When a guest logs in to a host phone, their user profile is automatically transferred to the device. The host device then becomes the user’s primary device while they are logged into it.
The Hoteling feature is useful for companies with traveling users which enables workers to be in a remote office but still have the functionality of their main desk phone with the same features. It is also useful in a call center environment where a site may have a limited number of phones but need their employees to share their phones over multiple shifts while being able to maintain a specific profile acting as their agent identity in the call center.
Feature Set-Up
1. Log in to the Calling User Portal dashboard. You will be brought to the Calling User Portal Dashboard with the Voicemail page being the first thing you see.
2. Click on the Call Settings Page.
3. Click the Additional Features tab and find the Hoteling setting area.
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Are my missing JCPenney studio photos in the picture?
Are my missing JCPenney studio photos in the picture?
Troy Nicholas’ missing JCPenney studio photos of his grandchild disappeared at the start of the pandemic. He had prepaid for the images two weeks before he was supposed to pick them up. Now that the studio was closed, would he ever receive his photos?
Nicholas’ story provides a reminder that many businesses are unable to operate normally during the pandemic. Customers need to allow them extra time to deliver goods and services.
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On February 29, Nicholas and his wife, Vikki, took their grandchild to a JCPenney portrait studio in a mall in Knoxville, Tenn. They paid $142 for the sitting. A studio staffer told the Nicholases that the pictures would be ready on March 13.
But on that day, the coronavirus became a pandemic. The store closed before Nicholas could pick up the photos.
So what happened to the missing JCPenney studio photos?
Despite the pandemic and store closure, Nicholas still hoped he could get the photos. He tried contacting JCPenney multiple times over the next four months, without success. He had no idea what had happened to his missing pictures.
Then the Knoxville store reopened. The Nicholases visited the store several times to ask for the photos. But the studio was still closed. And nobody at the store could tell them when they could expect their photos. As both of the Nicholases are chronically ill and immunocompromised, they did not want to continue to return to the store personally.
Here’s what they wrote to the executive contacts we list on our website for JCPenney:
While we understand that the pandemic would cause some problems, the lack of service we have received is unsatisfactory. We have attempted to call the store and JCPenney 800 numbers numerous times throughout the past four months. In addition, our store has been opened up for business for several weeks now. We still have not been able to receive the pictures we ordered and paid for. My wife and I have stopped inside the store several times and have found the studio still closed. More importantly, no one in the JCPenney store was able to provide answers.
The Nicholases followed our self-advocacy advice and observed the three Ps — patience, politeness and persistence. They escalated their contacts to each executive after a reasonable time. But they received no assistance. And their missing JCPenney studio photos seemed to have disappeared into oblivion.
Promises, promises … during a pandemic
In an FAQ titled “How long does it take my order back from the studio?”, JCPenney’s website states:
After placing an order at the studio, it typically takes 7-10 business days to receive your items. … You will receive an email receipt which will include your order summary. If you have not received your items by the pick-up date, simply call us at 1-800-597-6453.
And to the FAQ “What should I do if I haven’t received my emailed order summary?,” the website reads:
You may call your local studio and request for them to resend the order information to you, or you may contact our Customer Care Department via chat or call 1-800-597-6453 and request a new email.
But exercising these options assumes that a JCPenney representative will be available to answer your chat or phone call. As many consumers, including the Nicholases, have discovered the hard way, promises of assistance don’t mean much during a prolonged store closure.
Had the Nicholases purchased digital images instead of prints, they might have received their missing JCPenney studio photos much sooner. JCPenney’s website indicates that digital image customers “will receive an email notification from Lifetouch + Shutterfly within 24-48 hours that will allow you to claim and view your images.” The Nicholases purchased traditional prints of their grandchild, so this option was not available to them.
Next stop: Elliott Advocacy helps retrieve the missing photos
Although the Nicholases received no help from the JCPenney executive contacts in our database, they still hoped to receive their photos. They turned to our advocacy team for help.
Our executive director, Michelle Couch-Friedman, reached out to the Knoxville JCPenney store. A week passed with no store response, which had not changed its telephone greeting since April. She then contacted JCPenney’s corporate office. Six days later, Nicholas notified us that he finally received the missing JCPenney studio photos.
Slow service during the coronavirus pandemic
Unfortunately, the pandemic has upended normal business operations, often resulting in major delays. Many businesses have either closed or are operating with limited hours and smaller staffs. We recommend allowing businesses additional time to fulfill prepaid orders, ship goods or provide services.
You can take the following steps to pursue a case of missing goods and services:
• Maintain a solid paper trail of confirmations, invoices, and receipts. It documents your interactions with the business and its obligations to you. Without a paper trail, neither the business nor third parties, such as our advocates, can help you.
• Use our executive contacts to reach out to the business. We advise beginning with the lowest-ranking executive and allowing him or her a week to respond. Then escalate to the next higher executive.
• Observe the three Ps of self-advocacy mentioned above. Be patient, polite and persistent. Use courteous language and refrain from text in all caps (the equivalent of shouting), sarcasm, accusations or threats in your communications. Businesses have no incentive to help customers who behave abusively or announce that they will not be returning.
• Just as businesses need extra time to fulfill orders, customer service representatives will need additional time to investigate and resolve your case. Allow more time for them to help you.
If you still don’t receive satisfactory service after taking these steps, contact our advocates. We are always ready to assist you!
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Extraction plants
SCHRADER extraction plants
Extraction is any separation process in which a (solid, liquid or gaseous) solvent is used to extract one or more components from a natural raw material, the extraction material. The extracted substance is called an extract. The substances to be extracted dissolve better in the solvent than in the raw material. The substances to be extracted can be solve with the solvent from the raw material. In addition, pressure and temperature usually increase the dissolve of substances significantly. SCHRADER uses mainly vegetable and animal raw materials such as vanilla, liquorice, curcuma or bacon in the extraction process and various alcohol-water mixtures as solvents.
In SCHRADER extraction plants, for example, vanilla extracts are obtained from vanilla pod using an ethanol-water mixture as the solvent. A heated ethanol-water mixture is circulated through the vanilla pod for a certain period of time, allowing this to absorb the aromatic components in the vanilla. The vanilla extract produced during this process can be further treated in downstream SCHRADER distillation or evaporation plants, while the ethanol can be recovered in SCHRADER rectification plants.
A distinction is made between various extraction processes, indicating first the aggregate state of the substance to be extracted and then that of the solvent:
Solid-liquid extraction
An extract/substance is extracted from a solid mixture with the aid of a liquid solvent, e.g. vanilla, liquorice or bacon
A liquid extractant is used to extract a dissolved substance from a liquid, e.g. curcuma, beetroot or dye plants
Liquid-liquid extraction
Solid-liquid extraction process
Steam distillation
Physical process for obtaining liquid plant extracts by passing a solvent through them. Often, an organic solvent or water is passed through plants or plant components.
Physical process for softening plant or animal tissue by means of prolonged exposure to liquids such as water, alcohol or oil. Here, only the soluble components of the tissue are transferred to the solvent. The choice of solvent depends on the solubility of the substances to be dissolved.
Steam distillation
Physical separation process to separate or purify volatile substances that are insoluble in water, e.g. oils or aromatics.
Soxhlet extraction is a continuous physical process used to extract soluble ingredients from solids. The siphon mechanism acts like a Pythagorean cup to continuously draw off the extract, while the extracted material is extracted with pure solvent. The solvent mixture is then evaporated, whereby the solvent is returned to the solids and the extract is enriched.
SCHRADER extraction plants for the
Food industry
Extraction of flavours, colours, vitamins or other nutritional additives from natural raw materials (vegetable or animal) using alcoholic solvents. The enriched extract is obtained from the resulting mixture of dissolved substances and solvent by distilling off the solvent.
Pharmaceutical industry
Extraction of ingredients from medicinal plants for the production of pharmaceuticals or cosmetics. Many herbal medicines contain only dried plant components or extracts thereof. A complex, multi-stage extraction and purification process is required to produce an extract, in the course of which the desired constituents are enriched and undesired constituents are removed. The composition and quantity of these constituents are standardised to ensure consistent quality.
Perfume and cosmetics industry
Fragrances and active ingredients are obtained by extraction. Rose oil, for example, is produced from rose petals by steam distillation, while aloe vera for creams is obtained by means of extraction with hot water from aloe vera plants.
SCHRADER extraction plants are built to customer specifications, up to the construction of turnkey plants.
Each system can be optionally extended by:
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An Alexa and Cortana Team-Up Won't Get Far Without a Phone
Alexa and Cortana can do more together than they can on their own, but Cortalexa has some real limitations.
Pull off the Amazon Echo Dot setup in minutes with easy guide.
In an unlikely union of voice assistants, Amazon and Microsoft have married up Alexa and Cortana. The partnership helps each company fill in important gaps in their "tech you can yell at" offerings, just as Apple and Google encroach on the Alexa-powered Echo’s home-speaker domain. But whatever comfort Alexa and Cortana find in each other’s code won’t mean much unless they can solve their biggest problem: the smartphone.
Alexa and Cortana can do more together than they can on their own. And they’ll both need all the help they can get against the increasingly ambitious competition. But the partnership’s limits—and it has quite a few—mostly underscore the urgency for both Amazon and Microsoft to sneak their smart assistants into mobile. Without that, they can only get so far; holding someone’s hand doesn’t help you ice skate uphill any faster.
A Full Complement
On paper, at least, the partnership makes sense. Amazon and Microsoft have different strengths, and their voice assistants reflect that.
“It does fill in some gaps for both companies that are important for both of them,” says James McQuivey, principal analyst at Forrester Research. No one beats Amazon at retail; Microsoft has no shopping component, and no real hope of forging one on its own. And Microsoft brings the kind of deep familiarity with your day, thanks to its Office 365 suite of products, that Amazon can only dream of.
“There are going to be multiple successful intelligent agents, each with access to different sets of data and with different specialized skill areas,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in a press statement announcing the team-up. “Together, their strengths will complement each other and provide customers with a richer and even more helpful experience. It’s great for Echo owners to get easy access to Cortana.”
Sounds good so far. But using Alexa with Cortana and vice versa requires a fairly liberal definition of “easy,” at least for now. To access Cortana via Alexa, you need to say “Alexa, open Cortana,” followed by your command. The process works the same in reverse. The joy of a voice assistant comes from its seamlessness; becoming bilingual introduces a significant seam.
Eventually, as Bezos tells The New York Times, Alexa and Cortana products will be able to automatically direct each request to whichever assistant makes the most sense. In theory, that sounds great. In practice, it could prove thorny.
“For one thing, the companies would have to agree on which domains are best handled by their assistants. For now, that’s fine because they’re largely complementary rather than competitive,” says Jan Dawson, founder of Jackdaw research, a consulting firm focused on consumer technology. But that makes the unlikely assumption of stagnant feature sets. As Alexa and Cortana continue to evolve—the latter’s already making a push into the living room—divvying up responsibilities becomes less obvious.
“Who wins then? Does it depend on whose device you’re using?” asks Dawson.
All questions for another day. Besides, there’s a bigger challenge for Cortalexa to overcome than the device you’re using to talk to them. It’s the one you’re not.
Phone It In
Alexa and Cortana live in millions of devices—smart speakers, peripherals, PCs—and they have terrific insight into how you spend very specific portions of your day. But they lack what Google’s Assistant and Apple’s Siri have: a mobile ecosystem that knows where you are and what you need, every single minute. That’s a significant handicap, one that this partnership doesn’t help overcome.
“Neither of them gets any significant boost on mobile, by far the largest voice-assistant category out there, and where they’re both virtually nonexistent today,” says Dawson.
Both Microsoft and Amazon have tried to make inroads, with varying degrees of success. The Cortana app has between 1 and 5 million downloads in the Google Play store. That's a decent number, but can't compete with how many iPhones have Siri, and how many Android devices have Google Assistant baked in. Amazon has gotten somewhat further, sneaking Alexa onto iOS through its hugely popular retail app. It even recently achieved first-class status on an HTC flagship.
Still, it’s not enough.
“There’s a lot of interesting pieces to this, but none of them solves that mobile problem,” McQuivey says. Microsoft declined an interview request, while Amazon did not respond to an inquiry.
By putting Alexa in a home speaker, Amazon carved out a significant voice-assistant lead. But by not having a broader ecosystem to tap into—unless you count your online purchases as an ecosystem—it has a major blind spot to where you eat, work, exercise, and more. Ditto Cortana, which lives mostly in PCs and can’t offer as many proactive services as Google Assistant or Siri can and will.
It works the other way, too. Amazon’s home supremacy hasn’t yet met a serious challenger, but that’s changing fast. Apple will ship its Siri-powered HomePod soon, a gorgeous—if expensive—smart speaker. Google just announced a trio of Google Assistant-powered speakers and appliances, with a flotilla more on the way. And in early October, audio darling Sonos is expected to announce a speaker that speaks multiple voice-assistant languages. A long-empty field suddenly looks a lot more crowded.
“As both Apple and Google make inroads into the home speaker space over the next few months, they’re in a really strong position to offer ubiquitous assistants that are with you everywhere you go,” says Dawson. For now, most people leave Echo and Cortana at the door. That’ll still be true when the two assistants work in tandem.
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No Really, How Long Does it Actually Take to Get Abs?
If you're working on your core strength, read this
How long does it take to get abs?
When you find yourself Googleing 'how long does it take to get abs?', you assume you need to do two things to speed up the process: plank and plank some more. Sound right?
Well, how about if WH broke the news that it's not as simple as training harder and for longer? The honest reality is, that genetics play a huge part too - definition will vary among women who eat and exercise the same amount.
Our bodies are unique, which means cutting a steely core will differ from woman to woman.
What is the core?
Your core isn't just your 'abs'—far from it. It's the full midsection of your body encompassing all the muscles in the area, aka the front, back and sides, and they all need to be strong and work together to provide stability for the entire body.
Your core muscles both control and stabilise your pelvis and spine, and so adequate core strength will make day to day activities easier and, in turn, prevent injuries. Further, recent research in the journal Medicina found that core stability training reduces both chronic pain and fatigue.
Keep this in mind when adding abs to your vision board - building muscle tone and strength around your tummy is not just for crop tops.
With this in mind, WH spoke to three experts to find out how long they think it takes to build a strong core and sculpt a defined tum, too.
How long does it take to get abs?
‘You all have the same core muscles, but some people are naturally more muscular than others,’ says Dr Colin Moran, lecturer in health and exercise science at the University of Stirling.
In other words, since body type differs amongst women, it follows that the healthy measures used by your gym pal might not work for you, or at the very least, show results at a different rate.
'We all have different body shapes, sizes, limb lengths and hip widths, as well different fitness levels and starting body fat percentage,' confirms PT Leigh Clayton.
All show ab definition differently—further emphasis on the 'no one size fits all'
As such, you will display ab definition at different points to others which means, 'it’s very hard to quantify the exact amount of time needed to drop body fat and in turn, show abdominal muscles, as there are so many factors that can influence that,' shares Clayton.
Clayton expands—factors such as the below can all play a part in whether your abdominals are showing:
• Your nutrition
• Your training split
• The amount of cardio you're doing
• The volume of NEAT (non-exercise activity thermogenesis) activity, aka how many calories you burn by living
• Your stress levels
• Your sleep quality
• Your food intolerances or dietary requirements
• Your current health
How should I get my abs to show?
While there is no definitive timeline for a toned tum, experts agree that there is a measured approach you can track to train for abs.
1. Don't compare yourself to others
There's healthy comparison and then there's self sabotage. Just because Mandy on the 'Gram has more defined abs than you, doesn't mean you need to throw in the towel and give up all hope for good.
Focus on your own training and what works for you—and no social media stalking.
2. Hone in on your nutrition
Secondly, getting in touch with your nutrition and working out how to fuel your training is important for if you want visible abdominal muscles.
Clayton explains: 'If you eating a realistic calorie controlled macronutrient balanced diet and following a progressive training programme that you increase every week, then you will increase the likelihood of your abs showing sooner.'
For more sports related nutrition, do seek advice from a registered nutritionist or dietician before making any drastic changes. After all, they are the experts.
3. Incorporate core moves into your workout routine
Thirdly, including core moves in your weekly workouts is important—but don't go overboard.
Clayton prefers larger compound moves for targeting the abdominal muscles, as he believes they offer the best bang-for-buck in working out your whole body. 'Training the abs can obviously affect how prominent they can become, but compound moves such as deadlifts and squats will both increase core strength and improve ab thickness over time.'
He stresses here that correct form is important—ask the PT at your gym for help if you're not sure if you're lifting a weight correctly.
Not a weights fan and prefer bodyweight moves? Add side planks or flutter kicks into your workout regime.
Side plank
a. Balancing on one side of your body, stack your ankles and brace your core.
b. With your top arm reaching towards the sky, reach underneath you. Return to the top and repeat.
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Flutter kicks
a. Lye down on back. Place your hands by your sides for support and lift your legs to the ceiling, toes pointed.
b. Now, bracing your core and keeping your back against the floor, slowly begin to kick your legs up and down. The closer to the floor, the more of a core workout.
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4. Activate your core before workouts
Launder advises all women start core workouts with muscle activation.
Try a few pilates based exercises to wake up your core muscles and start re-activating them gently.
For new mums especially, it's important to learn how to activate your deep core muscles correctly and safely.
For others, it's a lesson in warming up your muscles, plus will teach you how to manage your muscle pressure correctly, important for pushing yourself to the fullest in each workout.
Swiss Ball Deadbug
a. Lie on your back with your arms above your shoulders, a Swiss Ball held between your bands.
b. Bring your legs into tabletop. Keeping your arms straight, stable and strong, alternate lowering and lifting each leg, ensuring your lower back remains melted into the floor.
Swiss Ball Dead bug, how to do a deadbug
5. After a baby
Post-partum exercise specialist Charlie Launder stresses that it is 'impossible' to predict how long each individual will take to see stomach definition post-pregnancy.
'Rushing could end up not only causing you back pain and pelvic floor issues, but delay your results further and leaving you with a 'mum tum' for longer,' Launder warns.
But, if you follow the correct process and rehab your core properly, you could start to see great progress in a matter of months.
⚠️ Don't forget: the NHS advises waiting at least six weeks to exercise and it's important to get sign off from your doctor before beginning to move again at all. If you're wondering why, Launder warns that when you start doing typical ab exercises, such as crunches, before your body is ready, then you bypass the deep abdominal muscles which are vital for creating a strong core.
The NHS advises waiting six weeks and getting signed off by your doc before working out post-birth
Plus, many women experience diastasis recti post pregnancy—the widening of the gap between the two sections of the Rectus abdominis (the six pack muscles) and this weakens the core and often the pelvic floor, too.
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Find 1 Starting from 5/3, Assessment Variation
Alignments to Content Standards: 3.NF.A.2
The number line below shows two numbers, 0 and $\frac53$.
Where is 1 on this number line?
IM Commentary
Task Purpose
This is the third of three summative assessment tasks for 3.NF.2 that progress in difficulty. Each requires that students "understand a fraction as a number on the number line" and "represent fractions on a number line diagram." Part (a) of the standard is about representing unit fractions and part (b) is about representing fractions in terms of unit fractions. The first task involves (a); the second two involve both (a) and (b) at different levels of complexity. The tasks require attention to the whole when thinking about fractions; on a number line, the whole is the interval from 0 to 1.
Cognitive Complexity
Mathematical Content
The three tasks increase in complexity:
Mathematical Practices
Proficiency with the number line is an important component of students’ ability to reason abstractly and quantitatively (MP 2).
While the number line is an important tool, these tasks do not ask for strategic use of tools (MP 5) because the number line is provided. An item calling for MP 5 might be one that is easy if the student uses a number line, but difficult if not.
These tasks give students an opportunity to look for and make use of structure (MP 7), namely, the partitioning of the unit interval.
Linguistic Demand
The linguistic demand is low.
Stimulus Material
The stimulus material is not complex, consisting of only a short written prompt and a number line.
Response Mode
The response mode might be unfamiliar to students. However, they can mess around without penalty and there is a reset option. The spacing on the selector for the tick marks should be wide enough so that students can easily pick the refinement they want. The point has a fairly large radius relative to the scale of the number line.
Additional Notes
• All of these can be turned into multiple choice tasks, as in, for example, 3.NF Find 1 starting from 5/3. However, the multiple choice variation is less complex because the technology enhanced version asks students to construct a number line rather than select one.
• An instructional extension would be a task asking students to "Find 2/3 starting from 1/4." This would be more complex because it requires juggling two partitions of the unit interval, into fourths and then thirds.
• Here is a multiple choice version of this task:
Where is 1 on this number line?
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Entrepreneur, Producer, And Songwriter
Andreas Carlsson is a Swedish music producer, composer, and songwriter. Carlsson was part of the Cheiron Studios team until the studio was closed down in 2000. In January 2001, former Cheiron-members Andreas Carlsson, Kristian Lundin and Jake Schulze assumed the lease of the legendary Cheiron studios. Two years later they launched production company The Location and publishing company Location Songs, where writers such as Savan Kotecha and Carl Falk were signed.
In 2008 Andreas Carlsson formed production/publishing company Meriola with fellow producer, composer and songwriter Anders Bagge.
Worked with: Backstreet boys, Bon Jovi, Britney Spears, Celine Dion, Katy Perry, *NSYNC, Westlife and more.
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Glossary of Terms
In our industry, we use terms that are very specific to the work we do. People who aren’t familiar with aquaculture might not recognize some of these expressions. We hope this glossary will help our readers better understand our industry.
OIE: World Organisation for Animal Health. The Office International des Epizooties was created in 1924 to fight animal diseases at global level. In May 2003 the Office became the World Organisation for Animal Health but kept its historical acronym OIE. The OIE is recognised by the World Trade Organization (WTO) as the intergovernmental organisation responsible for improving animal health worldwide.
Risk Analysis: an objective and defensible method of assessing the disease risks associated with the importation of aquatic animals, aquatic animal products, aquatic animal genetic material, feedstuffs, biological products and pathological material.
Risk Assessment: the study and evaluation of potential hazards existing prior to the slaughter of animals or the primary processing of their products, which could be a source of risk to other animals or for end-consumers.
Aquaculture: the activities of aquatic food animal production (e.g. fish farming).
Veterinary Capacity Building: the process through which individual veterinarians, veterinary para-professionals, and veterinary organizations acquire, strengthen and maintain the capabilities to deliver and achieve OIE-defined standards for veterinary service and their own development objectives over time.
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Che Lingo: Meet the rapper signed by Idris Elba
By Mark Savage
BBC music reporter
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image captionThe south London MC has been called "one of the most versatile rappers of his generation"
"I've gone from playing youth clubs, not knowing what I'm doing, to having a conversation with Idris Elba about an album," says rising rapper Che Lingo, still slightly taken aback at his good fortune.
"It was wild, but I maintained my composure. I think I'm quite good at that."
The south Londoner only became a full-time musician three years ago, but he's already established himself as one of the UK's most versatile MCs, equally at home on a hard-hitting grime track as on a sultry R&B jam.
His star began to rise with the release of 2018's Charisma EP, whose lyrics explored themes of self-doubt and depression, millennial love and the tough choices facing young people on London's deprived estates.
It was when one of those songs - Same Energy - was selected for the soundtrack of the Netflix drama Top Boy, that Elba came knocking.
Che, who keeps his real name a secret, signed to the Luther star's record label in February this year. His first single under the deal, My Block, unexpectedly ended up soundtracking Black Lives Matter protests in London this summer. Some protesters even wore T-shirts bearing one of its lyrics, "black don't mean illegal".
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"I'm still kind of trying to catch up to that feeling," says the 28-year-old, months after the event.
The song was originally written about one of his friends, Julian Cole, a sports science student and semi-professional footballer who was left paralysed and brain damaged after being arrested outside a nightclub in Bedford in 2013.
Rather than being taken to hospital, Cole was driven to a police station. Only after police officers noticed he was unresponsive in the van was an ambulance called.
'No justice'
Three police officers were later sacked over the tragedy, after they were found to have lied in statements about Cole's condition when he was restrained.
"Bro, how can you call that justice?" asks Che in My Block. From his perspective, the misconduct ruling is too lenient - a technicality that doesn't reflect the impact on Mr Cole, who has yet to receive compensation for his injuries.
"Somebody's neck was broken. You're supposed to go to prison for that," says the rapper. "The majority of us know people who have gone to prison for a lot less."
Bedfordshire Police have always maintained that there is no evidence the officers were to blame for Mr Cole's injuries. No prosecutions were brought with two reviews concluding that the test to prosecute was not met.
image captionJulian Cole was left brain damaged and paralysed after one of his vertebrae was snapped in an incident outside a nightclub
But Che remains concerned about police brutality and believes that it goes unpunished in the UK as often as in the US, where the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor sparked the global Black Lives Matter protests earlier this year.
"In English culture there's a lot of etiquette and politeness. So when you when you bring vulgar things into that prim and properness, people have been turning their eyes for so long that, come now, it doesn't even feel like it's a problem.
"But it does happen here. It does. And people don't get the justice they deserve."
Che stresses that his music isn't deliberately political. Instead, he writes from a place of emotion - whether he's talking about his upbringing, his relationships or the expectations placed on his generation.
image copyrightChe Lingo
image captionThe rapper taught himself how to make music by listening to first-wave grime artists like Ghetts, Iceman and Chip
The rapper was raised by his maternal grandmother on Wandsworth's Surrey Lane Estate, after his mother and father split up.
Growing up as a child of a broken home, "it was hard to find a foundation in family values," he says, describing himself as "a misfit" who suffered "a lot of identity crises" over his appearance and his weight,
There was also a tension between home life - where his Jamaican grandmother instilled him with strict morals and a strong work ethic - and the drug dealing and violence he witnessed outside his front door.
"The community was good, but it wasn't a good place," he has said. "Sometimes you couldn't walk through the estate."
"There was a lot of things going on around me that I wasn't a part of - and looking back I'm happy that I wasn't a part of," he reflects.
His grandmother did her best to protect him from deleterious influences with strict curfews and extra lessons after school. But she also introduced him to reggae and R&B, as a counterpoint to the first wave of grime he was devouring on Tim Westwood's radio show.
"So you've got three very passionate, politically-driven, emotionally intelligent forms of music - and that's what I liked."
Music was something he could latch onto to define his character and bolster his confidence. He started rapping in the playground and, in his teens, became "a hobbit in the youth clubs," so he could learn the basics of recording.
'I didn't know what I was doing'
His first efforts were elementary at best, but with the encouragement of a youth club mentor known as "Sugar Ray", the youngster started to hone his skills.
"There's two sides to what made me a rapper," he says. "One was how articulate and clever can I be with the lyric. So, similar to a boy with a football, it's like what tricks can I do to impress the olders? And then the other side of it was, what am I doing in my real life that can relate to the music?"
He released his first EP, Trillingo, in 2012, with the stand-out track Level Up providing a showcase for his easy-going cadence and lyrical dexterity.
"I didn't really know what I was doing, but I knew what I wanted it to look like," he laughs when reminded of the early release,
"I saw myself as somebody with ability, do you know what I mean? And finding out how to cultivate that ability is one whole part of life for me."
Over the next few years, he studied production skills and improved his flow; shuttling between three different youth clubs to maximise his studio time.
At the age of 15, he moved in with his mother and two step-siblings in Harrow, adding a new layer of complication to his life.
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"Suddenly I had to assume a lot of new roles - big brother, little kid - and at the same time, I was still travelling back to south [London] to use the studios.
"Obviously, to do that I had to have money - so I had about 10 part-time jobs. My day would consist of going to work in the morning, going to college in the evening, going to the studio in the night, then getting back home at stupid o'clock in the morning."
By 2016, he'd signed a management contract and a publishing deal with Concord - which looks after the likes of Daft Punk, Mark Ronson and MIA.
"I paid my rent down for a year, I helped my family get away to Jamaica to see my great-grandma, and then I gave them money to fix the house in Jamaica as well," he says.
With the money left over, he built a home studio and started working on his breakthrough EP, Charisma.
The opening track, Freedom Is Scary, laid bare the excitement and fear that accompanied his transition into being a full-time musician.
"I'm taking a risk, leap of faith," he rapped. "It's frightening going after what you want in life."
His next release was a more introspective collection - the aptly-titled Sensitive EP - which he described as "a guide through my dating experiences of 2018".
But it was Same Energy - a sly, funny track that called out the producers and artists who'd ignored him at the start of his career, only to DM him begging for a hook-up when his star began to rise - that caught the attention of Idris Elba's label 7Wallace.
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"Fast forward a couple of months later, and Idris is on the phone calling me a genius and saying his son listens to me.
"I'm like, 'You're Idris Elba, bro! This is mad that you're talking to me, just casually, about how sick you think I am.'"
With the record deal signed, Che got to work on his debut album - The Worst Generation - which was released last week.
Sharp and incisive, it dissects the lessons he's learned over the years, from the autobiographical opening track, South, to the social commentary of Black Ones, which talks about the "suffocating" pressure of his neighbourhood.
"It's a day in the life of somebody who's perceived to be a road man. He's just the youth that made some bad decisions as a kid. Now he's grown up, he doesn't want anything to do with that lifestyle, but he can't escape it because things are still following him," he says.
image copyrightChe Lingo
image captionThe rapper says he wants to elevate understanding, rather than perpetuate stereotypes
The rest of the album discusses everything from masculinity and vulnerability to the healing power of love. On one song, he jokingly calls himself "the woke rapper" - but the unifying theme is genuinely a "cry for change and understanding".
The record is delivered "from the point of view of a young black kid that wasn't a bad boy or a road man or nothing," he says.
"So it's from that perspective as opposed to always being from what people perceive to be the 'worst of a generation'. I love who I grew up with, regardless of what happened in their lives and what hard decisions they had to make.
"It's coming from a very sentimental place. I just want better for us - and I want us to understand each other in a different way."
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Why did my family decide to buy the Cayenne E-Hybrid? What is the deciding factor?
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The other day,Cayenne E-Hybrid deliveredI wrote an article, but my husband said, "Why did you choose the hybrid model in Cayenne in the first place?He wrote an article about that point. I would like to be able to introduce my impressions of driving, riding comfort, fuel efficiency, etc. after running a little longer.
At first I was looking for a plain Cayenne
This time, I decided to purchase the Cayenne E-Hybrid with a fairly speedy development, soHow did that happen and why is Cayenne? And why is it a hybrid?I would like to talk about such things.
The previousCayenne deliveryAs I mentioned a little in the article, I have no plans to purchase a hybrid model this time.If you buy Cayenne, try to make it a plain (base model) CayenneI was thinking.
The reason is that I bought a Panamera turbo and rode it for 3 years,I understood the overwhelming power of "Turbo" well, so I decided to buy it next time as a plain or S model.The body. And when I compared the Cayenne's S and the element,It ’s more suitable for my home,This is because I thought that the powerful engine sound and feeling of S could be covered by other cars.
However,Considering the specifications that are worrisome from the stock cars of the original Cayenne, there are many spring suspension specifications, even PASM is not attachedThere were also many individuals. I'm a type that emphasizes driving above all else, so I don't really care about the exterior and interior, but I'm quite particular about whether or not there are options around here.
for that reason,"I want you to test drive the Cayenne of BanesasWhen I asked the dealer, there is no original Cayenne, but if it is a hybrid Cayenne, there is an individual Cayenne, so I decided to test drive it.
Test drive the hybrid Cayenne
To be honestI didn't dare to choose a hybrid model that weighs nearly 300 kg.However, there was a concern that it might feel dull compared to other grades.
On the day of the test ride, I wanted to observe the ride comfort well this time, so I rarely got into the back seat and asked Mr. H, who is in charge of driving, to say, "Please pass through ruts and rough roads as much as possibleI asked him to experience it.
When I started running, "Smooth!I said unintentionally. Even in the back seats, it can be seen that it is different from the smoothness of the rolling eyes of the tires. With a rolling feeling, it is moist and the quietness of the electric motor is combined.Full of "luxury car" feeling that is not like PorscheIt is.(I do not consider Porsche as a "luxury car". I think it is a "high performance car")
Even if you get over the swells and bumps on the road surface in a city with many stop-and-go, the backseat does not shake much. Of course, it is a tall SUV, so it is not as flat as Panamera, but I thought that the rear seats did not shake much.
this isIsn't the rear seat swaying less than the Cayenne S coupe of the air suspension I rode before?I felt it.
Imagine why you feel that way, and I think the hybrid model has a 138kg battery in the rear, which has some effect. As a general rule, SUVs are made on the assumption that heavy objects will be placed on the rear, so the rear is often made a little harder. Therefore, when riding with a small number of people, the rear is often bounced or shaken.
But,This Cayenne got the impression that the weight of the battery is working well, and the ride quality of the rear seat felt very calm.It is.
I let him sit in the driver's seat on the way and hold the steering wheel himself. When you step on the accelerator slowly, the tires start to rotate slowly with the feeling of stepping on it.The same transcendentally smooth rolling feeling that I felt in the back seatIt is.
After running a few tens of meters, the difference becomes even more apparent.The quietness of the motor is very high, and the torque output is excellent.Running only with the E-Power mode motor makes it easy to ride in the flow of the city, and you don't feel any tingling.
If you join at high speed, you can accelerate enough with just the motor. Of course, if you step on the accelerator and step on the pressure point in the middle of the accelerator pedal, the V6 engine will wake up even in E-Power mode, and the power to reach 0-100km / h in 5 seconds flat is You can get it anytime.
While drivingWhat is this ...I was impressed. Speaking of hybrids, I imagined a mysterious accelerator feeling that is not directly proportional to the speed of a domestic hybrid car, but it is completely different.
And I think the thick torque from the low revs of the latest European diesel engine is also wonderful, but it is still hazy in front of the electric motor.Anyway, it has a high-quality feeling and there is no sense of discomfort in driving.It is.
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1. SevenWinds
I always see it happily.
I will comment for the first time, but I also referred to this blog and have been riding the Panamera 4E Hybrid since this summer. (Already out of shape, but lol)
I have not tried Cayenne, but the smoothness described in the text has the same impression on Panamera's PDK. However, the number of gears changes, but is it really shifting? ?? is.
Also, the difference in behavior of each mode of the hybrid and how to use it are interesting. For example
1) Hybrid auto: If there is a chance, stop the engine and give priority to EV strike, and mainly use the motor until the battery runs out. The tachometer often goes to zero even at high speeds.
2) E-Charge: Regenerative braking is applied strongly, so you can enjoy unique pedal work, although it is not Porsche-like.
3) E-Hold: Battery consumption during EV is quite high, so I use it a lot to save the battery capacity for driving in the city. This mode gives the impression that switching between the engine and motor (not used together) is performed in the most balanced manner.
Although it is a home charging facility, it seems that the manufacturer does not have the mobile charger in stock, so the installation is delayed. In anticipation of the upcoming introduction of EVs such as Taycan, we plan to wire 200V 8KW.
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Thank you for always seeing the blog!
And thank you for your valuable information.
Each mode of the hybrid is also amazing ...!
Electricity costs and fuel consumption are likely to change considerably depending on the owner's command.
I would like to try various ways to use this mode so that I can get a feel for it.
> We are planning to wire 200V 8KW in anticipation of the upcoming introduction of EVs such as Taycan.
Oh, that's right! !! !! !! !! When the mobile charger arrives and is installed,
I would be grateful if you could tell me what it feels like.
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Nigel Pearson and Kevin Phillips.
The managers that Have succeeded here Keane, Reid Allardyce Etc all have one key thing in common Characters Pearson will not be phased By job, expectations etc he won’t accept any nonsense will push the players just what we need, Phillips with him would give place lift it needs.
Its a really good point - you could add in McCarthy into that group - all big characters.
This is the rumour in the papers if and when the takeover happens. I'm sure it just a rumour rather than based on any discussions. For me, when you appoint a new manager you look at both the short term boost that the likes of Warnock offers as well as the long term vision to take us up through the divisions. Pearson comes across as aggressive and arrogant but would offer both a short term boost and potentially someone who could take us through the divisions. Parkinson quite clearly offers neither. Add in Kevin Phillips and it would be a good appointment. Any thoughts?
There would be no slacking from the players that's for sure. I'd love it as he has that nutter vibe but with skills unlike di canio
Phillips has already stated he won't come near the club whilst SD is here.
Phillips would be purely sentimental anyway. It appears he hasn't coached for nearly two years. It doesn't appear that he has a particularly great reputation as a coach. For me, Pearson is the profile we need. A bit of spark and enthusiasm and a big enough personality to take on what is a tough job. I'd imagine he'd have players going out believing they would win as opposed to Parkinson's approach of getting them to negate the threat of the opposition.
Isn't Pearson without Shakespeare like Clough without Taylor and O'Neil without Robertson in his record?
Shakespeare's at Villa now and seemingly enjoying life.
Pearson did a really good job at Watford, presumably without Shakespeare. It was a bit bizarre when he was sacked at Watford after totally turning them round.
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Whether it's true or not, I'd be right behind this. Solid manager, club legend with coaching experience as no.2 - this is the type of momentum-changing appointment that could work.
L'Equipe (with English football) and the Guardian aren't exactly renowned for printing tittle tattle and I can't see how this story can't be mutually exclusive from their reports unless the (potential) new regime are already making a hash of things.
They wouldn't/shouldn't be choosing and sounding out managers when the appointment of a sporting director is still only at the shortlist stage.
I guess the alternative is they've chosen and got commitment from a sporting director since those initial reports and he has already chosen his preferred manager and this is the very latest news.
Very true. It’s confusing and the problem is we’ve no idea how up to date this is or the Dreyfus link is.
One ray of light is that both stories predict an outcome before the end of the month.
Personally I would go for Gus Poyet if the takeover happens. It would be a long term project that would take years to get us where we need to be and Poyet would have the vision and plan for that.
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Here’s How You Can Watch Tenet With Subtitles At The Theater
As previously reported, Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” features one of the directors key tenets: inaudible dialogue.
Since the film’s worldwide rollout, many viewers have taken online to point out the difficulty hearing dialogue and the desire for subtitles.
Here’s the good news: each American theater is legally required to provide you with such an option.
A Department of Justice ruling requires all U.S. theaters to provide closed caption devices to patrons upon request, as part of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). These devices are usually glasses or cupholder sticks, as seen on the images below. They are intended for deaf and hard of hearing guests, but can be requested by anybody.
While some smaller, independent theaters may not have such equipment on hand, both AMC and Regal have them available at all their locations.
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Sony’s closed caption glasses are commonly found at Regal and Showcase locations.
Described and Captioned Movies at Local Theaters
Closed Caption screens on sticks which fit into your cupholder are commonly found at AMC locations.
These devices can be requested for all Tenet screenings labeled with “CC”, which stands for Closed Caption. There are also “OC”, Open Caption shows which simply display subtitles for all audience members on the screen. However, OC shows are usually done upon request while all digital shows automatically have CC capabilities.
Screenings in 35mm or 70mm film are a different story due to the analog projection technology, but since a majority of shows are digital there should be an opportunity for everyone to access a CC show.
The theater staff has to ensure the devices are properly charged and set for the correct auditorium. Due to the pandemic and social distancing requirements, it may be a decent idea to call and alert staff in advance of your request. Some staff may also require you to sign in to ensure devices don’t get stolen.
It should be noted that such devices are expensive, limited and meant for disabled guests.
Alternatively, some theaters can choose to schedule open caption shows so no devices are necessary to follow along with the otherwise inaudible dialogue.
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Be it for creating a time card or planning, creating a flexible calendar where you can omit holidays will come in very handy. Using the WORKDAY function you can easily create such a table and incorporate it in your data models.
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The image above shows a colorful lizard (Anolis bahorucoensis) from the Dominican Republic. This lizard species is part of a broader adaptive radiation of lizards across the Caribbean. UMass Amherst biologists Craig Albertson, Duncan Irschick, Elizabeth Dumont and colleagues have proposed a new investigative roadmap for the field of evolutionary developmental biology, or “evo devo,” to better understand how innovation at the genetic level can lead to ecological adaptations over time. The way an organism interacts with its environment directly affects its survival. Evo devo seeks to understand the specific genetic mechanisms driving evolutionary change. Learn more.
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In several businesses and households, people utilize vacuum cleaners almost every day. For those who have allergies, children, or pets, a reliable and powerful vacuum cleaner is important. How can you prolong your vacuum cleaner’s life if you can’t invest in a new vacuum cleaner? If you want to maximize your own vacuum cleaner and prolong its life, here are the following tips you need to know:
Make sure that your vacuum is clean inside
Most of the time, vacuums can easily be dismantled and cleaned at the comfort of your house. Commonly, some cleaning items and a screwdriver are the only things that are required to be cleaned within your vacuum. Cleaning your vacuum regularly wipe out and brushes any additional dirt that surrounds the brushes. Moreover, the vacuum can get broken when excessive debris and dirt become trapped in the hose or when the bag gets extremely full. Because of this, it’s only reasonable to think about regularly changing your vacuum cleaner’s bags. If you own a bagless vacuum cleaner, then make sure to empty its canisters to maintain strong suction.
Examine the tor objects of your floor
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Wireless Industry: how to achieve network independence
You certainly want to offer a better technology for your company. After all, the availability of the machines and the improvement of the processes depend a lot on your vision. This is because industrial production is developing side by side with IT, and that is where the wireless industry comes in.
The concept of Industry 4.0 makes reference to a fourth industrial revolution, in which, through the Internet of Things, a communication between all the elements of an industry is created. However, the interesting thing of all this is to establish this communication without the use of signal cables, that is, only with wireless connections.
So, to better understand the advantages of the wireless industry and how it is possible to guarantee mobility in the industrial environment, continue reading this article. However, let’s see first why the network is so important in the industry.
What is the role of the network in the industry?
An industrial network connects the various components involved in the automation of a plant. As for automation, it involves the processing of a lot of information and a lot of controls. Since the increase in productivity is directly related to operational excellence, it is necessary to increase the efficiency of automation, which can be achieved with a well structured network.
This network provides communication between machines and computers, through actuators, sensors, PLCs and other components. This way, the operator can, from the control room, have an overview of the plant. Thus, with several information at his disposal, he can make the decisions related to the plant operation.
The ideal is that the industrial automation follows the advance of the technology, which leads us to the wireless industry, which involves establishing communication between the components of a plant without the use of signal cables, taking advantage of all the power of wireless technology.
What are the advantages of a wireless industry?
There is no denying that wireless technology has brought many facilities to us all in our daily lives. After all, it has eliminated the need for cables to connect to the Internet and other devices.
What about the industrial environment? Is wireless technology beneficial to industries as well? Here are the advantages of a wireless industry. You will notice that it is much more than just an alternative to using cables.
You know how laborious it is to have to provide cables and conduits to add equipment in the process. On the other hand, in an industrial wireless network there is no need for cables, making the task of including and excluding components a lot simpler.
The idea that cables are always more reliable than wireless solutions is well rooted in the industry. However, this thinking is changing because of the advances that manufacturers have made in wireless technology.
Even cables face certain drawbacks. For example, when they are connected to machines that vibrate a lot, they are subject to breakage and disconnection, no matter how tough they are. Wireless technology prevents this kind of damage without sacrificing reliability of operation.
One of the characteristics of a good operation is the ability to evaluate a large amount of information in real time and use it as a basis for right decisions with agility.
When the entire plant is connected to a network, the information is centralized in a control room. However, it is also possible to make available plant operation data on the intranet, so that managers can access it from smartphones and tablets, in order to make decisions with greater agility.
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Think about all the costs involved in cable installation and maintenance. In addition to the cost of purchasing the wires themselves, it is necessary to purchase and install conduit and cable conveyor belts. It is also necessary to perform preventive and corrective maintenance in order to keep the machines working properly.
Certain physical barriers can make the project even more expensive, given the need to include an extra amount of cables and conduits to get around obstacles. Wireless communication avoids all these inconveniences.
A wired network centralizes operations in a control room. On the other hand, the wireless industry creates the possibility to control a factory remotely, which is a great operational advance.
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Although it is possible to make several parallels between conventional and industrial wireless, the truth is that the latter has some differentiated characteristics, since the operation of machines requires extra security and availability.
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Willy Loman’s Character in the Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman
Willy Loman’s character can be viewed as a ‘worthless commodity in a capitalist society’ or as ‘a normal male’. Making close reference to the play, examine these 2 analyses and examine what you think Miller was attempting to reveal through his character. The 1949 Arthur Miller play, ‘Death of a Salesperson’ gave birth to Willy Loman, a male consumed with living life to achieve the American Dream unfortunately Willy did not attain the Dream however he might never ever accept that.
As his life went on Willy developed mental health issues which continued to degrade, he kept having flashbacks of times when his life was working and he was a healthy and delighted male. Willy and his wife Linda had two sons; Biff and Delighted, they couldn’t be more different, Happy followed his fathers failed aspirations and prospered nevertheless Biff rebelled versus his dad picking to go his own way. The playwright Arthur Miller was born in 1915 and grew up throughout the American Anxiety which result in many once effective services ending up being bankrupt and America saw a recession.
Death of a Salesperson, Miller’s most well-known work, has many resemblances to his own life and it can be seen that Arthur Miller used his life experiences as a building block for the play. The Miller family lead quite a poor life throughout Arthur’s youth, his daddy supplied the whole earnings through his ladies’s clothes shop which was among the businesses that became insolvent due to the Wall Street Crash. In 1938 Miller was provided his dream job, a scriptwriter for 21st Century Fox, nevertheless Miller turned down the offer.
This is very comparable to the scene where Charley provides Willy a job nevertheless Willy turns it down. For a short time in his life Miller worked as a Salesman which obviously is the main stem of the play. On August 5, 1940 he wed Mary Slattery, the daughter of a Salesman, they then had two children, Jane and Robert. Robert matured to become a director, producer and author, it’s unknown what occupation Jane was in.
This once again links back to the play as only one of Willy’s kid’s remained in the spotlight and enabled to follow his dreams. Throughout his marriage to Mary, Miller had an affair with Marilyn Monroe. This is yet another strong recommendation to the play as Willy had an affair with the female. Arthur Miller has won numerous awards for his works, such as the Pulitzer Reward and the Critics Award both for Death of a Salesman. He has been a popular and iconic figure in American Literature and cinema for over 60 years.
It is clear to see that a lot of Millers concepts for Death of a Salesperson have actually come from his own life experiences, such as his affair with Marilyn Monroe, he wed the daughter of a Salesman and he had 2 kids Miller utilizes the American Dream often in Death of a Salesperson this is particularly clear with Willy who is determined that all must think in the American Dream and tries to press his own beliefs onto his children. The American Dream is, the belief that anyone living in America can attain and fulfill their dreams through effort and commitment. Death of a Salesperson is set in late 1940’s America.
At that time, America was controlled by The second world war. The war pulled America out of the Great Depression finding thousands of jobs for the millions of jobless individuals in America. Women got ‘some’ self-reliance, as the males were at war, Females were left with the men’s jobs. After The Second World War, American ideals altered. The household farm was no longer a suitable. Blacks no longer accepted a lesser status (soon after the war, black individuals of America were provided the right to vote) and more males had a complete college education. By 1949, 8,120,000 million Americans were left completely jobless.
America was in National Financial obligation by around $43 billion. In the 1940s America was extremely centered around the concept of wealth and status which the American Dream was the only way to attain such wealth and status. Throughout the play, Willy can be seen in two methods, among which is that he is a ‘worthless product in a capitalist society’ we discover this when Willy sees that he is worth more dead than he would be worth alive. The other way we see Willy is that he is simply an ‘normal man’, Willy is attempting to accomplish something similar to many people, and also he isn’t best, like everyone else.
In this essay I will be evaluating these 2 interpretations of Willy Loman and likewise examining which analysis I think Miller was attempting to reveal through the character. One way that Willy is portrayed as a regular male is the truth that he has a household who loves and looks after him, “What, darling?” and “Just try to unwind, dear.” This reveals that Linda will always be there for Willy no matter what takes place, throughout the play some dreadful things happen to Willy such as; losing his task, crashing his automobile, mental illness issues however Linda has actually supported him and directed him through it.
Willy is typically viewed as the core provider for the Loman family, his job as a salesman produces the entire household earnings, Linda is the hard working homemaker arranging the kids and Biff and Delighted are the needy children struggling to attend to themselves. The Loman home can be seen as a stereotypical family, utilizing stereotypical family worths and roles. Another way we can see Willy as an ordinary man is that he requires money to pay for home bills and gas for his car, “A hundred and eight, sixty-eight. Since were a little brief again. This reveals that Willy is in the position of most people worldwide, needing to do extra tasks to acquire the amount of money required. Yet another way Willy can be viewed as a normal man is that he is very difficult- working, in his job as a salesperson, “I’m exhausted to the death.” From this quote it’s seen that Willy has been working practically non-stop nevertheless this likewise shows how Willy’s mental health problems emerged, through absence of sleep. Nevertheless in Millers’ Death of a Salesperson play we can see that Willy is also represented as a ‘useless commodity in a capitalist society’.
Willy’s affair with ‘The Female’ is an extremely substantial argument for him being an useless product in a capitalist society. It is obvious that ‘The Female’ is a cold and unemotional individual, it’s clear that she is only in the relationship for herself and that she is stringing Willy along. Willy buys ‘The Woman’ stockings which she doesn’t even require when Linda has to sew her own stockings together because they can not pay for to purchase any. “Just mending my stockings. They’re so costly.” Throughout this scene, ‘The Lady’s’ laughter can be heard faintly.
This shows that ‘The Woman’ is totally uncaring and doesn’t care about anyone but herself. ‘The Female’ also appears selfish, declining to leave the Boston hotel and then asking for more stockings, regardless of the reality she has lots currently. The fact that Willy constantly purchases ‘The Lady’ whatever she desires, and is terrified to state no to her shows his lack of knowledge to the apparent, and reveals he is a weak and heartless man. Another way that we can see Willy as a worthless product is when we compare him to his older brother Ben or to his next door neighbor Charley.
In contrast to these two characters Willy has attained practically nothing. In Willy’s eyes Ben is the embodiment of success, he is Willy’s idol and is whatever he is not, abundant, adventurous, self-confident. “When I was seventeen I strolled into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I left. And by God I was abundant.” This quote however reveals that Ben hasn’t actually worked to become rich and successful. The word jungle is quite considerable in the quote, I believe he is referring to the reality the world resembles a jungle and you must be prepared to fight to conquer the beasts that are out there.
Ben has also proved the American Dream wrong; he hasn’t worked hard yet has actually achieved a lot more that Willy who in fact works himself too hard in some cases. Charley, in some ways can be viewed as a living example of the wealth and success Ben had, this is seen when Willy mistakenly calls Charley, Ben. Charley appreciates Willy and likes him, he for that reason wishes to assist by offering him a job, “You desire a task?” Nevertheless this makes Willy irritated and he throws it back in Charley’s face.
I think he does this because he can’t deal with the truth that he will never be as popular and wealthy as Charley. Also, Willy’s mental health concerns contribute to his portrayal as a worthless product, throughout Death of a Salesman Willy continues to have flashbacks, and the most significant of these was when he envisaged his dead bro Ben, “This is your Uncle Ben, a great male! Inform my boys, Ben!” This reveals that Willy has severe mental health concerns however likewise shows that Willy misses his bro and that Willy admired Ben.
The way in which Wily keeps considering the past reveals that he doesn’t want to mature and fully grown. At the end of the play among the reasons that Willy kills himself is to be with his brother. This is due to the fact that among Willy’s most significant regrets in his life was not going to Alaska with Ben to make his fortune, therefore he believes killing himself will give him some better chance. Last but not least, my most important point of Willy being depicted as ‘a worthless commodity in a capitalist society is him deserving a lot more dead than alive (Act 2, Pages 96-97).
This is my greatest argument for the above, during this section of the play Willy considers dedicating suicide so his children can have twenty thousand dollars. This reveals that America was focused completely around commercialism, giving every man their price. If this were, the capitalist societies such as America have made human beings worthless commodities. The fact that Willy would in fact kill himself to offer wealth makes him an useless commodity. Arthur Miller’s, Death of a Salesman portrays the character of Willy Loman as both an ‘ordinary male’ and a ‘worthless product’.
Throughout various scenes in the play we see a soft, kind family man in Willy, attempting to whatever to support his family, we see him struggling to succeed yet he keeps trying. Isn’t this how life takes place? Male needs to find his feet, which’s what Willy was just trying to do. Yet at other parts of the play, he is seen as a ‘useless commodity’, when compared to many men he can quickly be viewed as an underachieving failure specifically to the characters that surround him, Ben and Charley, have succeeded in life yet never appeared to work exceedingly.
The reality that he focuses his entire life around the American Dream, and follows it word for word despite the fact its been shown to be completely incorrect, Ben didn’t work hard at all, yet accomplished more riches than anybody, this demonstrates how dim witted Willy is, and the audience discover some sympathy with that. His affair with ‘The Female’ was a key representation of an useless commodity, it reveals he has no true love for Linda, and actually illustrates his ignorance.
Although my argument for Willy Loman being a ‘worthless product’ may look more powerful, I don’t think Miller was trying to present him as this or ‘an ordinary male’. I believe he was attempting to depict him as somebody who is neither, somebody who remains in the middle of both of these interpretations. Although he may kill himself simply to supply cash, he does it since he sees it to be an aid for his family. What is ‘a regular male’? Doesn’t everybody have their own viewpoint of what is common, if so how can we class anybody as normal?
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Are shares priced based on rational expectations of the future? And do shares immediately adjust their price to incorporate all available information i.e. are markets "efficient"? Most people would have answered "yes" to both questions until a revolutionary publication by the economist Robert Shiller in 1981 completely changed our view of how markets are priced and set the stage for the new field of behavioural economics.
Shiller asked a simple question: why do stock markets move up and down so much? In finance the size of these up and down movements is called volatility and we measure it as a percentage price change per year.
Shiller laid out the four factors that investors could use to drive fluctuations in their estimation of the "fair" price of shares:
1. Changing rational forecast of future cash flows. We buy shares to get our hands on future earnings either directly as a cash payment (a fraction of earnings are paid to shareholders as a dividend) or indirectly via an increase in the share price.
2. Changing rational forecast of future interest rates. If we can earn a return risk-free then the risky return on shares less valuable. As risk-free interest rates rise this pushes down the price people are willing to pay for shares.
3. Changing rational forecast of future risk. If shares are going to become more risky then their value will decrease.
4. Price of risk. As investor appetite for risk decreases the price paid for shares falls.
Robert Shiller
Shiller 1980 Paper Title
Shiller set the problem up by calculating what the rational price would have been if markets had correctly guessed future changes in dividends. In this figure from his paper he calls this "rational" price p*. In the graph you can see the actual price of the S&P share index as a solid line and the rational price as a dotted line. The actual stock price wobbles about much more than the rational price.
Shiller 1980 Figure 1
Shiller went on to cross the mathematical t's and dot the statistical i's. But what is clear from this picture is that we can cross off item 1 from our list of rational drivers of share prices. The sedate variation in dividends simply cannot explain wild share price gyrations. Shiller gives the most catastrophic market crash ever as an example of market overreaction:
"For example, while one normally thinks of the great depression as a time when business was bad, real dividends were substantially below trend (i.e., 10-25% below trend for the Standard & Poor series, 16-38% below trend for the Dow Series) only for a few years: 1933, 1934 1935 and 1938. Clearly the stock market decline beginning in 1929 and ending in 1932 could not be rationalized in terms of subsequent dividends!"
In later work Shiller and others would go on to look at each of the remaining rational drivers of market prices; future interest rates and future risk. It turned out that the huge share price fluctuations that we observe cannot be explained by rational forecasts of future interest rates or risk.
By a process of elimination the primary driver of market volatility is risk appetite.
This assertion by Shiller caused a storm in the academic world because it showed that markets are not all-knowing or even forward-looking. Instead they are driven to a very large extent by emotion. This was a problem for economic models which never took this into account. The result was that Shiller revitalised a whole new field of research into behavioural economics and behavioural finance which has flourished ever since.
What does this mean for investors?
Firstly let's remember this doesn't mean that markets are not rational at all. Eventually prices come back into line with earnings. However, fluctuations in risk appetite can keep this from happening for long periods of time. In turn this means that markets can remain too expensive or too cheap for years.
Unfortunately this research provides almost no help with market timing over the space of a few years, but it can help over the space of a decade. In his book Irrational Exuberance, Shiller includes this graph of market valuation today (along the bottom axis) vs. the return on stock market in the following decade (left-hand axis).
Shiller CAPE vs 10y Return
When valuation is very high, when people are willing to pay above $25 to $30 for each dollar of earnings, the return over the next decade has tended to be poor. And when people pay $15 or less for each dollar of earnings return over the next decade has usually been much higher.
Markets are predictable over long periods of time.
If markets are driven by this mysterious force called risk appetite, what does that actually mean? A rough interpretation would be excessive pessimism or optimism. Shiller offers this definition:
More recent research has come up with two explanations for the fluctuations in risk appetite. One explanation is rational and the other is not.
Habit Formation (Rational)
John Campbell and John Cochrane came up with the Habit Formation Hypothesis. The maths behind this is really elegant and John Cochrane's book "Asset Pricing" goes through it in detail but Cochrane summarised it as follows:
"As consumption rises, you slowly get used to the higher level of consumption. Then, as consumption declines relative to the level you’ve gotten used to, it hurts more than the same level did back when you were rising. As I once overheard a hedge-fund manager’s wife say at a cocktail party, 'I’d sooner die than fly commercial again.'"
A key factor in the model is that we adjust slowly to higher levels of consumption, as can be seen in this stylised sketch of the model by Cochrane:
Cochrane Stylised Habit Model
The model shows that at the top of a market boom prices, (P) as measured relative to dividends (D) seem too high. Consumption (C) is high relative to a subsistence level (X), and risk aversion is low. Despite the representative investor knowing that expected return (ER) will be low from these price levels their thought process is along these lines:
"I know prices are so high that expected returns will be low. But my job's secure and I'm earning good money, so I can afford to take some risk, and what else could I do with the money? I'm going to reach for yield."
Everything does an about face during a financial crisis. The internal narrative of our representative investor now runs as follows:
"I know prices are now low so expected returns will be high. But I'm about to lose my job, my car is about to be repossessed, and what if the market carries on falling instead of rebounding? I can't take any risks right now."
By design this model can explain the excess volatility in markets via this slowly varying consumption creep amplifying rallies and crashes. And it can also explain how over the long-term the ratio of prices to dividends can be used to forecast returns.
Overextrapolation (Irrational)
Nicholas Barberis defines overextrapolation as follows: "when forming beliefs about the future, people put too much weight on the recent past". In fact for many problems where numbers vary smoothly like forecasting the average daily temperature, this approach works quite well, but not in financial markets where there are often rapid reversals.
"Recently good corporate earnings have been very strong, share prices have been rising as a result. Why shouldn't this continue in future?"
A poll of expected stock returns by individuals and institutional investors (pension funds, hedge funds, insurance companies) shows that this does indeed seem to be the case, which lends weight to this theory and cannot be explained so easily by the Habit Formation hypothesis.
Gallup Expected Return Survey
Animal Spirits
Robert Shiller co-authored another great pop economics book with George Akerlof which was published in 2009 just as the world was emerging from the Global Financial Crisis. They say that the most important driver of the economy and financial markets is the old idea of Animal Spirits. It really is an old idea. Here it is described by the economist William Wood in 1722 as the driving force behind Britain's hugely successful global trade.
William Wood Animal Spirits
William Wood, A Survey of Trade in Four Parts, 1722
Shiller and Akerlof develop the idea of animal spirits to explain economic booms and busts. They lay out five ideas that, they claim, explain how the economy works:
1. Confidence. Feedback mechanisms between consumers and the economy amplify booms and busts.
2. Fairness. The level of wages, which falls during busts and rises during booms, is concerned with fairness.
3. Corrupt and anti-social behaviour. When there are profits people are tempted to break rules, or even do away with regulation to lay hands on them.
4. Money Illusion. Inflation is extremely important to investors over the long-term but is usually ignored.
5. Stories. Normally we think about who we are and what we do in terms of anecdotes. Our individual stories can be aggregated into a national and international story which itself drives the economy. Stories spread via contagion like epidemics e.g. Bitcoin is soaring in value, houses will always be a safe investment, tech stocks will soar in value, markets are about to crash...
They describe how many market and economic phenomena can be explained with these five ideas, such as why we get economic depressions, the power of central banks, reasons for unemployment and its relationship with inflation, the volatility of markets (which we discussed above), why house prices go through cycles, and inter-generational poverty in minorities.
It is ironic that these two authors, both of whom have devoted their careers to building mathematical economic models, are describing things which don't fit easily into a spreadsheet. This may be why economic forecasts are so poor: to truly forecast you would need to model human irrationality which is beyond our current technology.
Using Animal Spirits to Invest
Animal Spirits can lead to speculative frenzy or complete capitulation and despair in markets. Given where we are in the current environment we will use the example of a bubble, but most of these indicators can simply be reversed for markets during a trough. Detecting that you are in a bubble is a little bit like telling that you are drunk. You can do it but it takes practice and brutal honesty. But there are some warning signs:
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• Remember inflation. If you hear stories about spectacular long-term returns consider what the return would be if you subtract the rate of inflation during the lifetime of the investment.
• News Story Epidemics. Avoid anecdotes, look at the big picture. If mainstream and social media are being swamped with stories about property, or a certain type of share (tech, biotechnology...), or a digital currency then it might be time to step back and consider the true value of those investments.
• "Sure Winner". Story epidemics during the final stages of a bubble often have this key phrase, which to any investor is self-contradictory as there can be no return without risk.
• Value models are irrelevant. When dot com valuations went through the roof for companies that hadn't generated a penny of profit this was said to be irrelevant. The future was so bright that the small matter of no profit was irrelevant. Similarly when shares were at their lows in February 2009 even companies whose business model was strong were discounted with the rest because valuation was irrelevant. | <urn:uuid:5323740a-e11a-4369-a621-db40001e29ba> | https://pensioncraft.com/animal-spirits-rule/ | en | 0.959837 | 0.165595 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Some cartridges on older consoles (like on the SNES) had battery save in them, so you can turn off the console, come back some time later and continue where you left off.
These use an actual battery that powers the RAM so it basically never turns off. But does that mean it can deplete over time? If so, how long can these last?
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• These absolutely do deplete. It may already be too late to recover your pokemon. (I had a Tetris cartridge in high school that wouldn't save high scores and I didn't [at the time] know why) – Random832 Jan 17 '17 at 19:24
Yes, they can deplete. More modern games (starting with the Nintendo 64, for instance) used EEPROM (similar to flash memory) so don't have this issue, but in the days of the SNES this was too expensive so battery-backed SRAM was used.
How long the batteries last depends on the game. Pokemon Silver for example has a real-time clock, which takes a lot more power than SRAM alone, so all copies of it you'll find will either have already run out, or had the battery replaced at some point. On the other hand, games that just have SRAM might still be going strong today. But if your save game is important to you you definitely shouldn't rely on the battery lasting. Use one of the many methods available to back it up.
After making a backup, the battery can then be safely replaced without risking data loss. Most of these batteries are soldered in place, unfortunately, so it's not always easy to change them; you can often solder in a battery holder to make future replacement easier, if there's enough space in the cartridge. Most of them are CR2032 or the very similar (and often interchangeable) CR2025.
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Some people hot replace the batteries rather than making a backup. And on interchangeability, CR2025 is smaller [so less capacity, will have to be replaced sooner] and may not fit snugly in CR2032 sockets. – Random832 Jan 17 '17 at 19:27
• It also seems to depend on how frequently the game is turned on. I have a copy of Earthbound that loses its save if you don't turn it on for a few months, but will save religiously if you play every day. – phyrfox Jan 18 '17 at 5:09
• @Random smaller batteries don't mean they hold less, only maybe if they're from the same time – Bálint Jan 18 '17 at 7:54
• EEPROM was already used for some Famicom (NES) games, but more rarely. – Bregalad Jan 18 '17 at 8:22
• @Random832 indeed, and I've had some success with that hot-swapping technique retaining data (SRAM tends to last a little while without power before decaying), but I wouldn't rely on that working for a game where I really cherish the save. And yes, you're right about CR2025 being smaller of course, hence why I said "often interchangeable" ;) – Muzer Jan 18 '17 at 9:35
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Opportunities for artificial intelligence in glaucoma
by Ellen Stodola Editorial Co-Director
Dr. Habash conducts a telehealth hybrid visit with a glaucoma patient. She is doing a live video slit lamp exam with the tech, so she is seeing the whole exam, reviewing the OCT/IOP, etc., and talking to the patient throughout.
Source: Ranya Habash, MD
“Technology helps us lift the weight, but we’re still the ones doing the work. AI and telemedicine won’t replace us, they will augment us.”
—Ranya Habash, MD
With increasing applications for artificial intelligence (AI) in ophthalmology, experts discussed ways that it might be applied to the field of glaucoma.
Valerie Trubnik, MD, said she thinks the retina field is “a little ahead of the game” when it comes to AI. However, there could be uses for it in glaucoma, though Dr. Trubnik noted that “glaucoma makes for a very complicated diagnosis” because there are so many modalities involved.
At this point, Dr. Trubnik said AI is being used more for screening and diagnosis and added that fundus photos and OCT are probably easiest to use, but visual fields can be included as well. With the growing number of glaucoma patients, “we need a better and faster way to sort through these images,” she said.
Ranya Habash, MD, stressed the multifactorial nature of glaucoma, noting that there is a lot of gray area and decision-making involved, making it uniquely suited for AI and telemedicine. When you can coalesce all that information, examine it, and interpret it with an algorithm, it’s helpful in guiding the diagnosis, she said. Dr. Habash also highlighted the ability to integrate datasets that synthesize demographics, age, race, medical history, family history, etc. Those are all important factors in formulating your response to the patient sitting in front of you or on the other side of the computer screen, she said. An AI algorithm would help give direction on target pressure and figuring out risk of progression with all of these factors taken into account. She described the potential of AI as like “having a spotter in the gym,” helping integrate all the info in real time. Eventually we will be able to give our patients a real-time risk score, she said.
Dr. Habash added that with the use of AI, a patient could be tested in the optometrist’s office for high risk or high progression, which would help determine when the patient needs to be expedited to the specialist’s office. This can help prioritize high-risk patients to get them in faster for quicker intervention. A telehealth consult with the glaucoma specialist would be a natural extension in these cases.
The realm of remote monitoring combines both AI and telehealth, Dr. Habash said. There is home IOP monitoring, home OCT (coming on the market soon), visual fields for home monitoring, and fundus photography.
Dr. Habash said that there could be exponential growth when an algorithm is developed for diagnosis based on paired data from visual fields, fundus, and OCT.
Retina may be the first step, she said, because there are fewer factors involved, and it’s more of a linear relationship between an OCT and what you do for patients than in glaucoma. But that’s exactly what makes AI and telemedicine so valuable when it comes to glaucoma, Dr. Habash said.
Dr. Habash pointed to recent work she’s been doing with Microsoft looking at fundus photography of optic nerve images and OCT images to start training AI models. This type of algorithm can become more robust and reliable if we can use different datasets from around the world, she said, including different geographic backgrounds, race, ethnicities, socioeconomic situations, etc.
Dr. Habash added that there may be potential challenges with AI. “We’re just going to get better and better with time and larger amounts of data,” she said, but she added that machine learning is “like teaching a child.” You need to keep reinforcing these lessons so the machine learns better, and that will come with time and repetition, Dr. Habash said.
Dr. Trubnik also noted potential limitations, particularly being careful that you don’t have confirmation bias with such a large sample size of data. She stressed the difference between association and causation. Just because you find the association doesn’t mean it leads to something and you have to act upon it, Dr. Trubnik said.
When talking about deep learning, Dr. Trubnik said there is a “black box” for how AI comes up with a diagnosis; there may be questions from patients on how the diagnosis was determined. “You develop a relationship with the patient and explain things to them, but if the diagnosis is coming from a machine, they may question how you arrived at the diagnosis,” she said.
Dr. Trubnik added that for big data to be useful, a lot of images are needed, and sometimes there aren’t enough to yield accurate information. Also, when sharing information, she said, sometimes it’s hard to know if the data is all equal.
Additionally, she said that rare diseases may be difficult to diagnose with AI because there is not enough data to recognize them. Specifically relating to glaucoma, Dr. Trubnik said that arriving at the same definition of glaucoma may be a challenge.
“The other thing is if the AI is screening fundoscopy or OCTs, usually it’s utilizing a ‘binary classification,’ so it will say ‘yes glaucoma’ or ‘no glaucoma,’ but when I examine my patient, I can also pick up cataract, epiretinal membrane, etc.,” Dr. Trubnik said. “So far, they haven’t been able to do that accurately with AI because when they incorporate multiple variables, it’s not as accurate at predicting.”
Going back to the gym analogy, Dr. Habash said, “Technology helps us lift the weight, but we’re still the ones doing the work. AI and telemedicine won’t replace us, but they will augment us.”
At a glance
• Physicians say AI will allow them to coalesce a lot of information, examine it, and interpret it with an algorithm to help in guiding a diagnosis.
• Telemedicine also factors into AI and glaucoma, with home IOP monitoring, home OCT, visual fields for home monitoring, and fundus photography potentially playing a role.
• Possible limitations of AI in glaucoma are the complex nature of the disease and the amount of images needed in order to yield accurate information.
About the doctors
Ranya Habash, MD
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Miami, Florida
Valerie Trubnik, MD
Ophthalmic Consultants
of Long Island
Lynbrook, New York
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: Microsoft
Trubnik: None
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sale i know someone tell
these idiots dad owns
half will not sell it by
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gematria and the word
gives us the power to
make war with the beast
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if involved in illegal
activities you will get
caught including murder
by mob intent
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i like my anonymity but
it would require respect
and honor from others and
i have not seen that
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well book of esther
doesnt mention god now
esther means star its
hebrew gematria is same
as the false prophet then
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i am goung to kill myself
and my blood will be
avenged you will be found
6239 4134 689 41
what is this is the year
two thousand and sixteen
hell on earth starts
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perhaps the government
should listen to what
children have to say
about their future x
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the covid pandemic is a
farce created by the
united front network of
satanic news media and
the u s military
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yod heh vav heh yod heh
vav shin vav ayin ruach
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noah was six hundred
years old when the
floodwaters were on the
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how can chronic fatigue
syndrome be treated sleep
away the vampirism and
invite the healing
6239 5058 843 21
head scrackers dont
belong here we know we
not of your kinds we the
childrn of rhe corn
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ladybug decode i am the
beast six six six of the
lord of hosts in edmond
frank macgillivray jr now
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gematria lets kill two
birds with one stone i
thought that would work
pindar a
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was zu kiffen und mit
gott abhängen er hat
immer zeit für mich
während ihr nur weg
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stop looking up its hear
its now its on earth as
it is in heaven as it is
paradise its always been
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deserts possess a
particular magic since
they have exhausted their
own futures and are thus
free of time
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university education in
america is simply judeo
masonic indoctrination
into the lies of the
american plutocracy
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si es tu santa voluntad
humildemente te pido
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washington dc
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and thou shalt bring the
levites before the lord
and the children of
israel shall put their
hands upon the levites
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my love for her is like
the finest wine ever aged
even as she is the
finest diamond and
precious jewel pearl ever
to be
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adrb told isktra that she
needed a shower because
you could smell her
stench from across the
entire downstairs
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for if they have believed
sincerely and judged not
in an unholy way the sin
was not of them but of
the adversary
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be careful with your
wishes they may come true
my wish is for satan and
his goons to go the way
of the dodo
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beyonce sizzles onstage
in pearl adorned bodysuit
as she joins husband jayz
for on the run ii paris
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united states government
canadian government
armenian government
united arab emirates
governments merged
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jesus birthday question
iran nuked haifa judas
birthday question
brasilia nuked atomically
by groom lake key
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i am not a threat andyet
u still attack insert
rooster song into cult of
personality and in evil
5261 6402 1067 159
why did i choose someone
who puts me down i think
that maybe im bedazzled
by narcissists perhaps
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and mary answered again
and said unto the saviour
my lord bear with me if i
question thee and be not
wroth with me
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i remem i reading the
seventh and eleventh page
of all wizard comics
guide it said supreme
sorcerer owen magnific on
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i am here with all of you
and i see all the things
you write and i hope
that life will get
better somehow for us
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but the godless will be
duly punished for their
reasoning for having
neglected the upright and
deserted the lord
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how do you go from being
an inch taller than me to
being an inch shorter
than me were you wearing
lifts in the past
6690 6402 1067 148
no more ever the battle
of armageddon all the
enemies of yeshua will be
defeated destroyed and
baptized in their own
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magnific king sigh en v
us it oure j onyx
pleasure tom cruise
duality as won focus also
pain please refrain
7019 6402 1067 145
ogmios might be a victim
of social security fraud
in the future loki might
be a victim of tax fraud
in the future
6012 6402 1067 145
zach arzmon proclaims
that the occult use
satanic ritual abuse on
their enemies as they
claim to be righteous
5350 6402 1067 144
edgar cayce was an
occultist his psychic
readings cant be trusted
the devil gives with one
hand then takes much more
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i just remembered that i
saved a black fuzzy
caterpillar yesterday by
putting it back out in
the wilderness
8168 6402 1067 139
now there is at jerusalem
by the sheep market a
pool which is called in
the hebrew tongue
bethesda having five
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mja how much hell can one
person bring to earth go
back to hell where you
came from and bring your
horse with you
7771 6402 1067 136
repent not and you shall
be consumed with hellfire
that will rain down with
expert percision from on
7396 6402 1067 136
they stopped bullying me
eventually because it had
no apparent effect but
they are still here and i
am still alone
5774 6402 1067 134
i thought richard simmons
was supposed to be a
healthy role model what
was he doing at the
hospital as a patient
6602 6402 1067 131
why rome couldnt colonize
ireland ark of the
covenant was moved there
thousands of years prior
to a rome
7713 6402 1067 131
then the dust returns to
the earth just as it was
and the spirit returns to
the true god who gave it
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well yeah of course
people hate it when they
try to use it because it
makes them feel obligated
to act a certain way
7588 6402 1067 128
the red head named
rebecca from glastonbury
has murdered and
cannibalized children and
her souls going to get
imploded for it
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hey melissa this is bryan
make sure devin shows you
the insanely funny story
about devin and his daddy
8254 6402 1067 125
don ogloren cleveland iii
and donato cayetano ortiz
and robert harold best
and jose adan ceja
hernandez and john
michael clarno
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kabbalah and talmud make
me ashamed to be jewish
but the holy torah makes
me proud jesus blessed
yeshua is our savior
7395 6402 1067 123
zeus exposed the
manhattan trump cern
genovese mafia connection
so the illuminati staged
a bombing in manhattan
5039 6402 1067 123
my dad will not admit he
is a mentally defective
parasite at least he
should own it instead of
his illogical rhetoric
6321 6402 1067 120
ein verkaufsoffener
samstag ist doch gut wenn
die arbeiter extra
bezahlt werden und es
freiwillig machen wollen
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irvine dynasty nicole
parker irvine controller
of california haarp
nevada haarp arizona
haarp and new mexico
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just because your family
paid for you to go to a
prestigious school doesnt
mean youre an
6295 6402 1067 118
i dream of heaven beauty
sleeping his spirit is
everlasting g o d and
heaven reflected h i s
voice moves upon the
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who wants to jump satans
ship and help me i am
betting the reward is
high but it would need to
come from the heart
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its zachary james carr
yeah actually money is
bad it feeds our pathetic
slavish lives when we
could all be hippies
8873 6402 1067 110
who destroyed gematria
wir da wir da wir gehn
nicht weg lala blödes
spiel wie wäre es mit
freiheit und frieden für
9265 6402 1067 99
terrified delicate little
girl jaden smith this kid
looks traumatized and i
would bet my life he was
not born a boy
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your swords are tarnished
with blood for this your
blood will be tainted and
the same punishment
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who wants to jump satans
ship and help me i am
betting the reward is
high but it would need to
come from the heart
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eleven is code meaning
activation of twin
spiraling human d n a
particularly austin and
sophia the devine twins
7518 6402 1067 84
and many will follow
steven james dishon
licentiousness and
because of them the way
of truth will be reviled
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what he said to them the
voice of god the most
beloved son consider what
he says to you consider
whats to come
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yaldabaoth samael mars
has been avenging the
aborted for thousands of
years against the corrupt
form of the feminine
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i am ashamed to admit i
would be tem p ted a lot
of power and money and
fame and luxury and they
get to talk to the aliens
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Why Is My Dyson Cleaner Overheating?
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Blockages in cleaning head tubes are a common reason for Dyson cleaners to overheat.
Dyson vacuum cleaners have a variety of components that can malfunction under operation and overheat. When a Dyson cleaner is equipped with a thermal cut-off safety system, it will shut itself down to prevent damage due to overheating. This will allow the operator to examine the cleaner in relative safety and troubleshoot the problem before there is further damage to the motor unit.
Dirty Filters
Filters in Dyson cleaners need to be maintained on a regular basis to keep them free of dust and dirt. To clean the filter, remove the cyclone unit from the vacuum cleaner, unlock the top of the cyclone and remove the filter. Soak it in cold water for five minutes, then rinse it off and squeeze the water out of it. Leave the filter to dry for 12 hours in a warm place before replacing it in the unit.
Blocked Tubes
When a tube becomes blocked on a vacuum cleaner, the unit will continue trying to suck in air. This will cause the motor to work harder which, in turn, heats it up. If your Dyson cleaner is overheating, try removing the cleaning head from the main body and putting your hand over the suction pipe in the machine itself. If the machine sucks, there is a blockage in the cleaning head tube that must be removed.
Blocked Brush Housing
In a similar manner to how a tube blockage can overheat a Dyson, blockages in the brush bar will prevent the unit from turning the cleaning brushes, meaning the motor has to work harder. Turn off the unit, unplug it from the power supply and lay it on one side. Try turning the brush bar and remove any dirt or other debris from the unit as this could be causing the blockage.
Malfunctioning Seals
The seals around the cyclone help produce and maintain the vacuum that allows a Dyson cleaner to function correctly. A damaged, badly fitting or missing seal will prevent the development of a vacuum in the cyclone assembly, causing overheating. Remove the cyclone assembly, check that the seals are fitted correctly then click the assembly firmly back into place.
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4 Spooky Symptoms That May Not Be As Scary As You Think
If your urine looks or feels suspicious, should you blame a medical goblin?
We understand if you do, especially this time of year. The extended darkness and cooler temperatures of Halloween season tend to make us more cautious, and that could extend to health. But if going to the bathroom is spooking you, there may be reasons beyond a potential illness. It could be an innocent change in bodily function.
The trick is knowing the difference between a condition you can manage yourself, and one that requires a doctor.
Here are four common urinary symptoms that, like the costumed children about to trudge to your door, are scary on the outside, but often harmless.
1. The sight of blood – or is it? You don’t have to be afraid of the dark. While amber-colored urine can indicate hematuria, or blood in the urine, it can also simply be the result of dehydration. Other causes include intense exercise, vitamin supplements and medications. Drink lots of liquids for a couple of days and see if there is a
change. If not, call your urologist. Kidney or liver infections, viruses and some medications can cause blood in the urine.
1. A burning omen? Painful or burning urination is a common sign of a urinary tract infection (UTI), which is usually treatable with antibiotics. However, it may also result from chemical irritations. If you’ve changed soaps or detergents, are taking more bubble baths or are using a new spermicide, try changing them out. Note: Painful bladder syndrome, or interstitial cystitis is another common culprit of painful urination and is frequently mistaken for a UTI. If you’re not sure, see a urologist.
2. Is my toilet becoming a cauldron? If your urine feels hotter than usual, but doesn’t burn, don’t be alarmed. Urine should reflect one’s body temperature, so those who have been working out, are pregnant or are in
warmer climates may notice their urine is hotter as well. If it does not cool down an hour after body temperatures normalize, the cause may be a fever caused by an infection.
1. I can’t hear my bladder scream. The brain normally tells the bladder when it’s time to pee. When the message doesn’t get through, it could be the result of a nerve disorder, such as from a stroke or diabetes. The urine flow also may be blocked due to a swelling urethra or prostate. However, some medications – including muscle relaxants, antihistamines, blood pressure-lowering drugs and hormonal agents – also affect the bladder muscle.
It’s easy to get worked into a fright when our bodies start acting differently, but sometimes there is no cause for alarm. If any of these symptoms persist after changing activities, if you have a history of health scares or if you just can’t shake that eerie feeling something isn’t right, call your urologist.
We should never be afraid of going to the doctor.
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Greechat is a global provider of the software, agents and expertise to deliver a fully managed 24/7 Live Chat programme to systematically delivering more sales.
Greechat is part of the Area Ten group of companies, a leading marketing technology and services organisation headquartered in Sydney, Australia that services large corporates to Start-ups both domestically and internationally. The creation of Greechat came about when we realised that the self-service model most websites provide nowadays is not suitable for a large portion of the population and was the key inhibitor to engagement and conversions for our clients.
This becomes clearer when we uncovered through our research and running live chat programmes across a diverse range of industries:
* 70% of queries we answer are based on information that's clearly on the site = visitors don't read your website; they browse it superficially irrespective of the quality of the design. They need something more to engage them.
* 40% of traffic is typically after hours = even if the business offers call or email support it's typically not available for 40% of visitors.
Through constant testing we developed a process that systematically delivers maximum results for minimal effort from the client.
The only way to deliver this is to provide a fully-managed end-to-end service which addresses all the issues that have arisen for businesses that have tried live chat either internally or through other third parties.
Unlike other options on the market we provide a proprietary technology and optimisation management layer on top of just live chat agents to make sure that all learnings are captured and systemised to deliver a progressively better experience which turns customer service into customer conversions.
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How do I get my cable and internet turned on before I move into my new Clearwater apartment?
It's a great feeling to move in to an apartment in Clearwater that already has everything that you need set up. Most complexes require proof that your water and electricity are set up before you move in. What they don't ensure is that all your other "nonessential" services are up and running. Setting up internet service in your home can be difficult if you don't already have internet service in your home. It's certainly possible to move in without having your internet and cable ready to go, but there's also no harm in being prepared!
Your first order of business will be to decide what company you want to buy your service from for your new Clearwater apartment. The good news here is that there are TONS of providers in the area. The bad news is that there are TONS of providers and you must pick out just one. If you're moving from within the area, you may want to see if you can keep your current provider. If you are unhappy with your current provider, or are moving from out of state, you will probably want to research which companies provide service to your new address. Currently, these are some (and just a very few) of the companies that offer cable and/or internet in the Clearwater area:
These providers should give you a general idea of all of the choices you have for setting up your apartment in Clearwater. Of course, not all will service every part of Clearwater, so you will need to make sure that they service your new address. A website that might be of use to you in your search is found here. After you select your new zipcode, it lists many, perhaps most, of the broadband internet service providers that service that zipcode, as well as some details about their prices and packages. This can definitely help to steer you in the right direction.
Once you decide on a provider, you will need to order the plan you choose either online or by phone. They will have you choose the date you want your service to start, and ship you any equipment that you need. After that's done, you can focus on moving into your amazing new Clearwater apartment! Once you move in, you're move will be made a bit easier without the worry of setting up your internet and cable.
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At present Notch interfaces directly with audio devices either via the standard Windows audio device interface or via ASIO.
Once setup, you can use audio with the following nodes:
Audio Devices Panel
The Audio Devices panel can be accessed from the menu: Devices -> Audio Devices…
Setting up audio devices for use in Notch Builder
To set up the audio devices to be used in Notch Builder:
1. Go to menu Devices -> Audio Devices…
2. In the Audio Playback Devices panel choose the playback device you wish to use (single click).
3. In the Audio Capture Devices panel choose the recording device you wish to use (single click).
Setting up audio devices for use in Blocks and Standalone Executable
Notch uses search strings to find matching devices when running in Blocks or Standalone. This allows you to choose the audio device to use on the target machine without having an identical setup on the Builder machine.
To set the audio devices to use when running as a block or standalone:
1. Go to menu Devices -> Audio Devices…
2. In the Exported Block / Application panel you can type all or part of the name of the device to be used for Playback (WDM) / Capture (WDM) or ASIO.
3. If you are using planning on using ASIO devices, select Use ASIO In Exported Block (if available)
If no audio devices are set in this panel, the Block/Standalone will use the default Windows audio devices for playback and capture.
Using ASIO
ASIO offers a number of distinct advantages over Windows Audio Devices:
1. Much lower latency capture, which is important in audio reactive applications
2. Multi-channel audio support, useful for taking stems from audio desks.
However, there can be limitations to ASIO audio:
1. ASIO driver quality varies from device to device. Pro audio devices (such as RME) generally have excellent driver support, but your ‘on-board audio’ ASIO driver may not be as robust.
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A non-compliant Bayh-Dole written agreement at Yale-3
We are working through Yale’s “Patent Policy Acknowledgement & Agreement.” The agreement requires personnel signing it to “abide” by Yale’s patent policy, as if that patent policy does not apply but for this agreement. That’s a bit odd. Even odder, then, is that the agreement appears to be focused rather on research rather than the other things identified by Yale patent policy as within the scope of auspices–teaching and “other intellectual activities.” Here’s the second requirement:
2. If in the course of research conducted under University auspices, as defined by the Patent Policy, I make any invention (whether or not patentable), I will provide to the Yale Office of Cooperative Research a written disclosure of the invention, . . .
Here we are well outside of the written agreement requirements and Bayh-Dole’s scope. The premise for requiring this “Acknowledgement and Agreement” is compliance with terms of research contracts. But here, the agreement eliminates that restriction and simply claims “course of research conducted under University auspices”–much broader than “conducted under the terms of an extramural contract for research.”
For Bayh-Dole, Yale’s scope is not right. Bayh-Dole’s definitions of funding agreement and subject invention do not have to do with what the “course” of “research” might be, but rather whether an invention has been made in “work” that has received, somewhere, federal support. It then does not matter for Bayh-Dole if an invention is made under Yale’s “auspices.” What matters is that the invention was made (i) in the work and (ii) is owned by a contractor engaged for some part of that work. An invention, then, could be made by an employee of a contractor outside the “course of research” and still be within the “performance of work” for which the federal government has provided support–but perhaps not to Yale for the bit that is outside the “course of research” that Yale is concerned with here.
Bayh-Dole’s scope is broader in another way, too. Bayh-Dole defines “made” to mean “the conception or first actual reduction to practice” (see 35 USC 201(g)). A patentable invention, then, comes within scope of Bayh-Dole if the conception part comes within the “work” that the federal government has funded some part of. That conception–a full mental image of the invention in all of its parts–might pertain to some part of the “work” other than the part contracted to Yale. Same with “actual reduction to practice.” That means, in practice, building a prototype, and if prototypes in that area of work routinely do not work as intended, then first actual reduction to practice means testing to demonstrate that the prototype indeed performs in all its elements as intended. Yale’s use of “make” carries none of this nuance. For a general situation–some abstract situation that covers all possible situations–Yale administrators might draft so broad that the words become nebulous. But to comply with Bayh-Dole’s patent rights clause written agreement requirement, Yale administrators have no standing to demand more than what the written agreement requirement requires. To try to take more is to be out of compliance, is to violate federal regulation, and if done negligently or deliberately is to be incompetent or corrupt. Pick your ugly predicate adjective.
Yale insists on dealing with inventions whether or not patentable. What is an invention that’s not patentable? It could be most anything, so long as someone decides to call it an invention. But if it’s not patentable, what is a patent policy doing making a claim of ownership on it? And what theory of ownership is in play? Certainly not patent law, since by definition the “invention” cannot come within patent law. Of course, Bayh-Dole has its own quirk this way, defining “invention” to include plant varieties–which are not patentable but come within a certificate program that has similar properties .(It appears someone pulled a fast one in drafting–Latker?–and substituted plant varieties for the plants that are proper subject matter for patenting.) So in a weird way, Bayh-Dole does concern non-patentable subject matter using the term “invention.” But at least Bayh-Dole is bounded in its scope of the term “invention.” Yale is not. Yale claims everything that is patentable and everything that is not patentable, so long as someone decides that the non-patentable things can be labelled “inventions.”
Now, in contracts with ambiguous wording, there are some rules of interpretation. One is that one should consider reasonable interpretations. A second is that among these reasonable interpretations, the priority of interpretation goes to the non-drafting party. Because Yale has wandered off into entirely vague language here–claiming everything–it is up to the Yale employee here to decide, reasonably, what constitutes an invention and decide to disclose it to Yale. Clearly, Yale does not consider patentability to be a determining criterion. Otherwise, Yale would have written–“if you or anyone else you know thinks what you have made is or may be patentable, then disclose it.” But Yale didn’t write that. Instead Yale wrote something so happily general that it is entirely vague what Yale is truly interested in.
Sure, an employee can reason that Yale is interested in anything that Yale is interested in–and if so, then there’s the “meeting of the minds” that, along with consideration forms a binding contract. But an employee can just as easily–and reasonably–conclude that Yale is only interested in inventions that are patentable or otherwise “practical.” In such a case, the employee would be perfectly justified (other than Yale’s history of persecuting folks) in interpreting the policy words here to limit what gets disclosed. In short, Yale drafts generally and therefore ends up in ambiguity, but Yale does not then get to tell employees later, in the moment, what Yale truly meant by the words it chose. If it did, the agreement would be an unenforceable agreement to agree. It would amount to servility–“You agree to do with your personal property (here, inventions) whatever I tell you to do.” Yale can do that, sure, but it’s not the subject matter for contracts. And it has nothing to do with complying with Bayh-Dole’s written agreement requirement.
I will and hereby do assign to Yale my rights in that invention as provided by the Patent Policy and I will cooperate with that Office in the preparation of any patent applications.
This is all very fine except that runs against the Yale patent policy. The Yale patent policy provides that inventions will be reported promptly to the Director of Cooperative Research, which will make an “initial screening” of the invention followed by a “detailed evaluation” (presumably because Yale determines that it might be interested), after which Yale or a partner may file a patent application. Any assignment of the invention comes at the request of the Office of Cooperative Research and comes after the detailed evaluation, and after Yale has decided to file a patent application. If Yale does not have an interest in patenting, then Yale “may release to the Inventor the University’s interest in the invention.” Releasing the university’s interest means waiving its claim, waiving the requirement that the inventor must assign. If the policy anticipated that Yale would take ownership of every invention upfront, then Yale would have to assign back that ownership, not merely release its interest.
The Yale patent policy procedure makes sense–evaluate disclosed inventions, and if Yale does not want to file a patent application, then Yale releases its interest, otherwise requests assignment. But the Patent Policy Acknowledgement & Agreement forces assignment upfront: “I will and do hereby assign to Yale my rights in that invention as provided by the Patent Policy.” The Patent Policy provides only that assignments take place upon request, after a detailed evaluation and a decision to file a patent application. The “hereby do assign” does not operate as a present assignment. It operates as a conditional promise to assign, to take effect upon the request of the Office for Cooperative Research, and then only after the Office for Cooperative Research has (i) made a detailed evaluation and (ii) decided that Yale or a partner will file a patent application.
Really, this attempt at a present assignment is an administratively wasteful step. University administrators have tried to use present assignments especially since Justice Breyer in Stanford v Roche argued that a promise to assign a future invention and a present assignment of that future invention should mean pretty much the same thing. In a sign of their clear incapacity to follow Breyer’s argument, university administrators then swapping out their promises to assign for “hereby assigns.” The basis for Breyer’s dissent was that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had let stand a lower court reasoning that there was somehow a conflict between Stanford’s patent agreement’s promise to assign and Cetus’s (which became Roche’s) later patent agreement’s promise to assign combined with a present assignment of those future inventions, so that when Stanford came to enforce its promise, the inventor had no rights to assign, having assigned them up front to Cetus. It’s a confused mess, though, until the Supreme Court sorted out Bayh-Dole. Stanford’s only basis to enforce its promise to assign, under its policy at the time, was that Bayh-Dole required Stanford to take ownership. The Supreme Court ruled that Bayh-Dole did no such thing. Therefore, Stanford had no basis to enforce its patent agreement’s assignment requirement, even though the lower courts had thought they did. Breyer’s argument makes sense. The university administrator response doesn’t. Yale’s doesn’t.
Worse, Yale’s use of a present assignment here violates policy and isn’t saved by the “as provided by the Patent Policy.” The wording is deceptive, given the Patent Policy doesn’t provide for a present assignment prior to Yale’s own review and decision to file a patent application. And by the time Yale does decide to file a patent application, it cannot rely on this Patent Policy Acknowledgement & Agreement–it will have to go get a written assignment from the inventor that specifies the claimed invention–the invention that is the subject of the patent application. All the “hereby assign” language does is create a false impression in the minds of employees that they have transferred ownership of inventions to Yale in advance as policy requires when they haven’t and policy does not require them to do so.
One last point here. Yale’s patent policy has this bit:
If the University decides that it does not wish, and has no legal obligation, to participate in the patenting or licensing of an invention, the University may release to the Inventor the University’s interest in the invention
Under Bayh-Dole, Yale has no legal obligation to file a patent application on any invention that it has not taken title to. Since Yale’s patent policy requires first a detailed examination followed by a decision to file a patent application before Yale requests assignment of any given invention, then Yale has no legal obligation under Bayh-Dole’s patent rights clause to do either–take title or file a patent application. If Yale has made the inventor a party to the funding agreement, then under the inventor’s patent rights clause, the inventor has no obligation to file a patent application–the inventor can publish and the federal government gains access via the public domain. If the inventor chooses to file a patent application, then the federal agency gets its license and if the inventor fails to prosecute or defend the patent, the federal agency can request title. If Yale hasn’t made the inventor a party to the funding agreement, then it is in breach of its patent rights clause, but the invention cannot be a subject invention, and if Yale otherwise chooses not to file a patent application, nothing in Bayh-Dole creates for Yale a legal obligation to “participate in patenting or licensing.” For any other–non-federal–“legal obligation” to patent or license, Yale has itself negotiated that obligation into the funding agreement.
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Alfred Métraux
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Alfred Métraux (1902 in Lausanne, Switzerland- April 12, 1963 in Paris, France), often described as "an ethnographer's ethnographer," was one of the most significant anthropologists and human rights leaders of the twentieth century.
Early life
Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1902, he spent much of his childhood in Argentina where his father was a well known surgeon resident in Mendoza. He received his secondary and university education in Europe, at the Classical Gymnasium of Lausanne, the Ecole Nationale des Chartes in Paris, the Ecole Nationale des Langues Orientales (Diplome, 1925). The Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Diplome, 1927) and the Sorbonne (Docteur es Lettres, 1928). He also studied in Sweden, in Goteborg’s Hogskola, and did research at the Goteborg Museum. Among his teachers were Marcel Mauss, Paul Rivet, and Erland von Nordenskiold. While he was still a student he entered into correspondence with Father John Cooper who introduced him to the American school of cultural anthropology. It is said that Father Cooper did not realize at first that his scholarly correspondent was only 19 and 20 years old. They actually met much later, when Metraux came to the United States; but Father Cooper seems to have had considerable influence on Alfred Metraux’s thought. Metraux combined in his work the best of both the European and the American tradition of historical anthropology.
Early career
His professional career was equally cosmopolitan. He founded and was the first director (1928 – 1934) of the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Tucuman, Argentina. In 1934-35, he led a French expedition to Easter Island, and in 1936 –38, he was a Fellow of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. In 1939, he returned to Argentina and Bolivia for field research on a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1940, upon his return to the United States from South America, he was in residence at Yale University with a renewal of his Guggenheim Fellowship. That next year, he worked with the Cross Cultural Survey (now the Human Relations Area Files) on South American data and was associated with such people as John Dollard, Leonard Bloomfield, and others of the Institute of Human Relations. In 1941, he joined the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution. There, from 1941 to 1945, he played an important role in producing the monumental Handbook of South American Indians. Perhaps no other writer contributed as many pages to this work. As the editor, Julian Steward, acknowledges, “The extent of his (Metraux’s) contribution is by no means indicated by the large number of articles appearing under his name. With an unsurpassed knowledge of South American ethnology and ever generous of his time, his advice and help to the editor and contributors alike have been a major factor in the successful completion of the work.” (Vol. I, p.9). In addition, Metraux taught briefly at University of California, Berkeley (1938), the Excuela Nacional de Anthropologia, Mexico (1943), the Colegio de Mexico (1943), and the Facuidad Latino-Americanan de Ciencias Sociales, Santiago, Chile (1959-60). At the time of his death, he was Professor of South American Anthropology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris.
Married life
Metraux was married three times. Each of his wives was in a different way a scientific collaborator. His first wife, Eva Spiro Metraux, translated anthropological materials from English to French. His second wife, Dr Rhoda Bubendey Metraux did research with him in Mexico, Argentina, and Haiti and was a well known anthropologist. More recently, he married Fernande Schulmann who accompanied him to Chile, Peru, and Brazil and who planned to work with him in Paraguay. He was survived also by his brother Guy Metraux (1919-2000) of Paris, his sister Vera Conne (1920--) of Lausanne, and by two sons: - Eric Metraux (1927-92) from his first marriage, and Daniel Alfred Metraux (1948-), the son of Rhoda Metraux.
In the early spring of 1945, Métraux went to Europe as a member of the United States Bombing Survey and he saw the physical and moral desolation of Europe. Although he had by then become a citizen of the United States, this experience seems to have reaffirmed, in a way, his traditional ties with Europe. It also strengthened his belief in the necessity for European unity and for the need of a firm basis for international, inter-cultural, and inter-racial understanding. His early view of war devastated Europe was important in his decision in 1946 to take a post on the secretariat of the United Nations. Thus, from 1946 until 1962, he worked for his ideals of international and inter-cultural understanding within the framework of international organization with only occasional excursions into academic life and into anthropological field research. In 1946 and 1947, he was a member of the Department of Social Affairs of the United Nations, but in 1947 he was assigned to UNESCO, and finally, in 1950, he became a permanent member of UNESCO’s Department of Social Science. As an international civil servant, he served the world and his profession well. He took part in the Hylean Amazon project in 1947-1948, led the UNESCO Marbial Valley (Haiti) anthropological survey from 1948 to 1950 with personnel from the international Labor Office, and studied the internal migrations of the Aymara and Quechua Indians in Peru and Bolivia (1954). He edited the series of pamphlets on The Race Question and Modern Thought and The Race Question and Modern Science, published by UNESCO since 1950. He also organized the research that led to a series of volumes on race relations in Brazil, such as “As relações raciais entre negros a brancos em São Paulo,” edited by Roger Bastide and Florestan Fernandes (São Paulo, 1955), Race and Class in Rural Brazil, edited by Charles Wagley (UNESCO, Paris, 1952), and others. At UNESCO, he was responsible for the participation of anthropologists in many important projects around the world, and he consistently emphasized the anthropological point of view in all of the many programs with which he was associated. Anthropology lost not only a productive scholar, but an effective translator of anthropological theory and knowledge into action.
Métraux valued field ethnography more than theory. He let the facts speak for themselves, and many of his facts modified anthropological theory. Yet, one felt that he was too restless and too eager to be on his way to produce detailed and lengthy field reports such as those of Curt Nimuendaju on the Brazilian . He was a sensitive field worker with many years of experience, and his articles on the Argentine Chaco and his book on Haitian Vodun indicate that he gathered careful and objective data in the field. He liked to think of himself as a field ethnologist. Any evening with him led to stories of nights around a fire with Argentine gauchos, his last stay with the semi-pacified Kayapo of Brazil, his period of residence on Easter Island, a Haitian vodun ceremony, or a Candomblé ceremony in Bahia which he had attended with his friend Pierre Verger.
He published landmark studies of South American Indians including the Incas, Haitian voodoo and the ancient cultures of Easter Island. He participated in the framing of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and later as director of the Dept. of Social Sciences at [UNESCO] , he presided over a series of studies which resulted in several publications demonstrating the absence of scientific foundation to theories of racial superiority. The 1951 UNESCO Statement on the Nature of Race and Race Differences enshrined these findings. A dedicated anthropologist and humanitarian, he brought the brilliance of South American Indian cultures to light, solved the mysteries of Easter Island, taught the world about Voodoo, and defined the United Nations' stand against racism. His books include "Voodoo," "The History of the Incas" and "Easter Island"".
Alfred Métraux died in Paris on April 12, 1963. He was one the world's foremost authorities on the South American Indian. His work and interests, however, ranged widely into other fields and other geographical areas. He was an influential teacher, a tireless field researcher, a productive writer, an efficient administrator, and an imaginative planner of projects in applied social science. Above all, he was a man of great erudition. "He was truly a citizen of the world."
External links
* [ Alfred Métraux Biography] at the Minnesota State University
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Build a Team
At the day job I delivered a lecture to degree students on maintaing a sustainable career through understanding the music industries. The focus was on learners own small businesses and how they could adapt and react to market changes.
Musicians don’t always appreciate that they effectively run cottage industries. Guerrilla industries that need to remain highly mobile, tactile and adaptable. The greatest threats to creatives are obscurity, debt and the laconic behavior that can be endemic.
To become sustainable and successful as a digital entrepreneur the music maker needs to be as creative in their business as they are with their music.
The internet brings DIY tools and information put its directly in to the hands of the users that need it.
The internet levels the playing field with regards to manufacturing and distribution costs. It enables the DIY ethic for creatives. DIY means doing it together, not by your self. With no man being an island trying to cover all bases remains an impossible feat. However by building the right team of highly motivated, passionate individuals around you and using their skills it is possible to develop a strong business.
The internet and social media tools enable like minded people with complimentary skill sets to come together irrespective of geographic location. This can build a team with a large skills base and the determination and desire to succeed. And building the right team is something all creatives need to consider.
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Multimodal research
For many people, the idea of a research report is that of a typed text, very possibly, with headings such as ‘introduction and background’, ‘research methods’ and ‘findings’, with additional modes of meaning such as layout, font, colour and emphasis, as well as graphs and, possibly, other graphics.
However, equally, a research report could consist of the spoken (recorded) word, perhaps with a video of someone explaining previous research findings or analysing research outcomes.
In order to understand the term ‘multimodal’ and its relation to action research, it may be helpful to reflect on a film, for example, or a website. In such contexts, multiple modes of meaning, including visuals, sounds, colour, layout, placement in relation to other parts, shape and so on, are critical factors when presenting information to the world.
Participants in the 2014-15 programme are encouraged to think of the audience for their final report and decide what would be an appropriate format.
To support them a Multimodal Reporting Guide has been produced.
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Endometriosis story
Beyond frustrated with doctors
by Jessica
(Great Falls, MT, USA)
For several years now I've been dealing with symptoms that point to endometriosis. My husband and I have gone from doctor to doctor trying to get them to listen to us and help me, but it's almost like the doctors don't believe me.
I finally found a doctor who listened and suggested a Lupron shot as a less invasive way to figure out whether or not it's actually endometriosis. This would shut down my body's hormone production and put me into chemically-induced menopause.
For about 3-4 weeks, my symptoms got worse and worse, almost unbearable, but my doctor had said this would likely happen, as my body was trying to compensate for being told to stop making hormones.
After the initial weeks, I began to feel better and better, and eventually, better than I probably ever have (I'm 27 now and in hindsight, have been dealing with these symptoms to some degree since I had my first period when I was 12). My doctor said you can only be on the Lupron therapy for 6 months, and then continuous birth control would be the next step of treatment.
About 2 weeks ago, I had a Depo-Provera injection, and by the next day, I began to experience all the wonderful symptoms I was having before: bloating, nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, migraines, cramps, and I'm still having hot flashes and night sweats (the only negative side effects I had from the Lupron).
I called and talked with my doctor's nurse to see if this was normal, and she said no. I was prescribed something for the stomach issues, and told that if it doesn't help, I should be referred to a urologist.
I feel like I'm once again not being listened to, and my well-being is being ignored. When my body had no hormones for 6 months, I felt better than I ever have, and as soon as I have hormones in my system again, all my symptoms come back. How can this not be related to hormones??!?!?!
Why am I having so much trouble getting good help and having doctors actually listen to me!?!?!?! I'm beyond frustrated at this point, and I'm just wondering if anybody out there has had a similar experience, or how have you gotten doctors to listen and actually treat you and your needs? Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Water Well Drilling Project
The swampy pond that is currently the source of water in Kirinda Village
The KidsCare Water Drilling Project has been formed in response to a general outcry for the initiative on natural resource management. It will be implemented by the KidsCare School. The overall project vision is a healthy and prosperous community capable of utilizing natural water resources in a sustainable manner. In order to realize this level of vision, the project perceives its mission in the following general objective:
• To maximize the sustainable water benefit to our local communities thereby restraining them from using wetland water to generate domestic water and sustain a disease-free environment in order to achieve maximum reversal of wetland degradation.
The project, therefore, aims at passing information on safe water and providing an alternative water source to deal with abuse of natural resource water and improve on the quality of water sustainable use of drilled water for domestic use.
The beneficiaries are staff and pupils of KidsCare Nursery and Primary School and the people in the Village community of Kirinda, with a total population of about 2,325 people. This project will be implemented by a community-based school called KidsCare Nursery and Primary School.
Project Profile
KidsCare Water Drilling Project will be located in the local community in Kirinda Lc1 Kalagala Parish, Mukungwe Sub-County in Masaka District, aimed at reversing of natural resource degradation by improving the quality of water for the local communities through provision of safe water by means of alternative water source through the structured committee within the organization of KidsCare Ministry in collaboration with school, local village council, and donor agency.
Specific Problems
1. People share a common water source with their animals
2. There is overuse of wetland water
3. There are widespread water-borne diseases
4. Our school children move long distances to the water source to fetch water and this leads to loss of classroom time
The people and pupils of KidsCare Nursery and Primary School and village are laden with the tendency of encroaching on wetland for fetching water for home use. Women and children alone cannot collect adequate water for domestic use. This phenomenon draws men away from concentrating on development projects and children from attending class at school in favor of fetching water (which is contaminated with impurities).
So, construction of water reservoirs (drilled well) within the center of the communities will enable us to collect enough water and also reduce the journey for water fetcher and protect the water of the wetlands. The drilled well will provide improved quality water source throughout the year. Otherwise, if the situation remains unattended to, it will cause the people to deplete the water table of the wetlands.
Vision of the Project
Caring for the natural resource in a sustainable manner.
Mission Statement
To manage water resources within local community in an integrated and sustainable manner in order to secure and provide water of adequate quantity and quality for all social and economic needs for the present and future generation in line with government policy of water of 2002.
• To conserve wetland from being drained of its water.
• To enhance the quality of life of the community through the provision of safe water and education.
• To ensure the availability of reliable water supply.
1. To provide access to clean water to 2,325 people in the village and most particularly our children who attend our school
2. To sensitize the local community the need for pure, clean water
3. To educate the community about the dangers of encroaching on wetland water
4. To promote and develop sustainable, management and equitable utilization of water resource
5. To ensure increased volume of water in Lake Victoria Catchment zones.
Description and Cost of the Project
The proposed project is water drilling. We intend to buy a water pump that will push water into our three existing water tanks. The project will be manned by the Project Co-Coordinator and The School Management Committee. The total cost for drilling the well, the pump, and associated equipment is: $5,953 USD.
General Information & Demographics of the Village:
KidsCare is located in Kirinda Village, Mukungew Subcountry, Mukungwe Subcountry and has a population of 35,113 people. KidsCare Primary School has a population of 1,029 pupils and 41 staff members. It is neighboring Notre Dame High School, with a population of 543 students.
Total Number of Households in the Community: 520 households
Average Household Size: 5 people
Approximate Population Size: 2,325 people
Population Density: Rural
Nearest Large Town: Masaka
Distance from Community: 1 mile
Terrain: Plains
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Status
1. The primary source of water in this community is a swampy pond.
2. Is the proposed water source for this project safe: Yes
3. Who owns and maintains the source: The community (Kirinda Village)
4. Is a fee charged to use the current source of water: No
5. Does the current water source provide enough water year-round: No
6. Is it likely that the current water source is contaminated? Yes
7. Describe the physical characteristics of the water: The community shares the same water with animals. It’s cloudy and smells badly.
8. Does the community consider the current source of water safe to use: No
9. Which factors are currently limiting access to the source (especially for the vulnerable and disabled: Location, Crowding, and Source Capacity
10. Does any water supply infrastructure already exist: Yes, KidsCare Primary School has built 3 water tanks and a gutter system to collect rain water (30,000 litres). However, because the current water source in the community and the severe drought, there has been a massive shortage of water.
Type of Equipment Necessary for Water Well Project
We intend to dig a standard deep well of 158 feet deep. A water pump will be installed to pump the water to our already existing water tanks.
Maintenance Plan
KidsCare Primary School has 1,029 children of whom, a majority pay some reasonable school fee of $86 per year. We intend to use some of the school income to maintain the equipment, as maintenance is part of our annual budget.
Ongoing Evaluation of Water Quality
Masaka District is normally hit by long periods of droughts, and thus leaves thousands of people without water as the major water sources are quickly drying up. In many urban and peri-urban communities of low- and medium-income countries, grey water discharge is of increasing concern as population in these areas continues growing, consequently bringing about an increase in water-related diseases.
In Uganda, Masaka water works has the highest unit chemical cost per cubic meter of water pumped in National Water and Sewerage Cooperation, with an average of 191shs/ms in comparison to the National Water and Sewerage Cooperation global unit chemical cost per cubic meter of 77shs/ms. Report made by Makerere University Institutional Repository.
Who Will Work on the Project
The KidsCare school management Committee is responsible for managing the whole project to ensure accountability of funds and making progressive reports to the donor.
Past Success
KidsCare is located in Kirinda Village, Mukungwe subcounty, Masaka District. In the water department, we managed to give out 125 water filters with the help of Go and Tell, Inc. We also put up two rain water tanks with 20,000 litres of water and this was a donation from funds raised by Go and Tell, Inc. The central government also gave us a water tank of 10,000 litres.
Partners and Contributors
KidsCare has partners from Uganda and overseas. From Uganda, we partner with the central government, local government, local council, local NGOs and CBOs, and churches. From overseas, we partner with organizations like Go and Tell Inc., Believers World Outreach, and Prisoners of Hope Ministry.
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(TheMadIsraeli reviews the new album by the North Carolina band Krosis, which was released last month by Unique Leader Records.)
These last three or four years we have witnessed a rather interesting demographic shift in US extreme metal that’s a bit unique to the current era. We’re seeing this in long form with bands such as Fit For An Autopsy, but in the case of bands like Krosis we’re hearing these guys in the middle of their musical journeys. To put it simply, a LOT of people who grew up with or got into heavy music via deathcore and djent primarily are now moving away from those sounds.
It’s only inevitable I think that these bands eventually realize how stifling those sub-genres are, and thus they turn to retaining the best parts about those sounds while embracing more front-and-center extreme metal along with modern progressive tendencies to create something that is wholly a post-2015 or ’16 phenomenon and that’s resulted in some of metal’s best modern music.
I was a big fan of Krosis’ debut Solem Vatem, which took more of a progressive space-themed route that kind of sounded like deathcore Fear Factory. It worked, and made for a fantastic listen, but Krosis probably knew they couldn’t keep going in that sort of direction.
A Memoir Of Free Will is an interesting album because it has so much going on, while it’s also a deliberate attempt to steer themselves mostly away from the deathcore and djent elements they’d started with on their debut. At this point, you’re kind of looking at a weird amalgamation of The Faceless, In-Quest, Obscura, Meshuggah, and even some Kartikeya in places, while they maintain some brutish elements from the space-deathcore movement like Aegaeon or Aristea.
The thing about A Memoir Of Free Will is that it’s a super-diverse record. I think they hit just about every type of approach to death metal riff-writing, with their use of eight-string guitar grooves and breakdowns being fitting complements as breaks from the madness. When the djent and deathcore elements do crop up, it doesn’t really feel like djent or deathcore. Where those genres use passive grooves as their primary method of carrying you musically, Krosis use it as an accent or for impact, and the resulting re-appropriation of those musical techniques keeps them feeling fresh, as opposed to stagnant background noise, a problem that’s been plaguing both those styles for years now.
There’s just some downright cool shit on here. “An Intramural Madness” is a straight-up legit “Destroy, Erase, Improve” tribute while opener “Gone, But Not Forgotten” is a grandiose symphonic progressive death metal powerhouse of a mood-setter. The Beyond Creation-esque “To Persist Or Adhere”, the frantic, desperate tech insanity of “Psychoticlysm”, and the Soreption-like machine precision of “Battles Are Won Within” demonstrate a band who definitely understand death metal, past, present, and future.
Easily one of the best albums of the year I’ve heard so far. Their debut was very slept-on; I’d like that not to be the case again.
One Response to “KROSIS: “A MEMOIR OF FREE WILL””
1. Great write up; great comparisons. Been loving this release. I kept waiting to get bored, but it just never happened. They cover so much ground sonically, yet they still have their own unique and cohesive sound.
Anyone want to start a deathcore band? I am thinking of the name “Beating a Dead Horse” or BADH as we will benevolently be referred to known for our oppressive breakdowns and strict formula of song structure that will surely stand the test of time.
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Easy Data Validation For Your Python Projects With Pydantic - Episode 263
One of the most common causes of bugs is incorrect data being passed throughout your program. Pydantic is a library that provides runtime checking and validation of the information that you rely on in your code. In this episode Samuel Colvin explains why he created it, the interesting and useful ways that it can be used, and how to integrate it into your own projects. If you are tired of unhelpful errors due to bad data then listen now and try it out today.
• Your host as usual is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Samuel Colvin about Pydantic, a library for enforcing type hints at runtime
• Introductions
• How did you get introduced to Python?
• Can you start by describing what Pydantic is and what motivated you to create it?
• What are the main use cases that benefit from Pydantic?
• There are a number of libraries in the Python ecosystem to handle various conventions or "best practices" for settings management. How does pydantic fit in that category and why might someone choose to use it over the other options?
• There are also a number of libraries for defining data schemas or validation such as Marshmallow and Cerberus. How does Pydantic compare to the available options for those cases?
• What are some of the challenges, whether technical or conceptual, that you face in building a library to address both of these areas?
• The 3.7 release of Python added built in support for dataclasses as a means of building containers for data with type validation. What are the tradeoffs of pydantic vs the built in dataclass functionality?
• How much overhead does pydantic add for doing runtime validation of the modelled data?
• In the documentation there is a nuanced point that you make about parsing vs validation and your choices as to what to support in pydantic. Why is that a necessary distinction to make?
• What are the limitations in terms of usage that you are accepting by choosing to allow for implicit conversion or potentially silent loss of precision in the parsed data?
• What are the benefits of punting on the strict validation of data out of the box?
• What has been your design philosophy for constructing the user facing API?
• How is Pydantic implemented and how has the overall architecture evolved since you first began working on it?
• What have you found to be the most challenging aspects of building a library for managing the consistency of data structures in a dynamic language?
• What are some of the strengths and weaknesses of Python’s type system?
• What is the workflow for a developer who is using Pydantic in their code?
• What are some of the pitfalls or edge cases that they might run into?
• What is involved in integrating with other libraries/frameworks such as Django for web development or Dagster for building data pipelines?
• What are some of the more advanced capabilities or use cases of Pydantic that are less obvious?
• What are some of the features or capabilities of Pydantic that are often overlooked which you think should be used more frequently?
• What are some of the most interesting, innovative, or unexpected ways that you have seen Pydantic used?
• What are some of the most interesting, challenging, or unexpected lessons that you have learned through your work on or with Pydantic?
• When is Pydantic the wrong choice?
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Tobias Macey
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Samuel Colvin
I'm Samuel. I am a software developer. I split my time usually between SAS company to to culture I have been working on for many years. And on now health, which is a very exciting health tech company, we do blood and genetic testing, to give people actual health data. And then I also spend too much of my time doing open source.
Tobias Macey
And do you remember how you first got introduced to Python? I do.
Samuel Colvin
I got offered an internship when I was at university by a company that used Python quite a lot. I actually didn't do the internship. But I played with Python and got hooked. I've done quite a lot of developing and other languages in MATLAB and C sharp and Julia and rust. I'd obviously like everyone JavaScript, but I've always come back to Python.
Tobias Macey
And so a few years ago, you started the pedantic project. And I'm wondering if you can give a bit of a description about what that project is and what it is that motivated you to create it in the first place.
Samuel Colvin
Yeah, I can remember problem I was trying to solve, I was trying to pass a dictionary of HTTP request headers into a kind of class a bit like a data class with some properties that had type annotations. And I was really frustrated that all of the validation libraries that I could find didn't respect or care about
type annotations. In fact, they directly conflicted with them. So I guess I started digging
around, you can get access to the annotations and went from there. And a few days later, I released version 0.0. point one and some people used it, it got quite popular on Hacker News, right, then
Tobias Macey
the rest is history. And so in terms of the main use cases that benefit from pedantic you mentioned, being able to parse a dictionary of headers into a class object, but what are some of the other ways that it's being used?
Samuel Colvin
So the fun and the challenging bit of pedantic is that it's used in quite a lot of different situations. So it's used for settings management, you can think of it a bit like the settings py file in Django or in any any server project where you would have a settings of DSN for connecting to databases and what port and 1000 other different settings, but it's also used for kind of API form data validation. And then for I think people use it at the library boundaries. So to confirm when people are using an external library that
they are parsing that library, the correct arguments,
and then it's also used by data scientists in a data processing pipeline kind of scenario. So the the range of different ways in which is used has been really interesting. But it's also been in certain situations is a bit confusing, I think for for developers who assume that everyone else is doing with it, what they're doing about a year ago, asked him a mirror. So I think you interviewed a couple of weeks ago, started fast API, which uses Python tick. And that's where the library really took off in terms of its popularity. But what's been really interesting is since then, its usage has really exploded, not just with fast API, so I don't think now has Just a bit over a million downloads a month. So quite a lot more than than fast API and the other libraries that use it. So it's obviously being used, I suspect somewhere by big corporations who are running ci thousands of times a day, which is why it's being downloaded so much.
Tobias Macey
And in terms of the use cases that you're seeing for it, you know, the Web API is one sort of obvious avenue for it. And then you also mentioned it being used in the data science and data engineering contexts. Are there any ways that it's being employed that you found to be particularly surprising or any types of feature requests that you're getting for given contexts that you have either been sort of surprised and delighted by or had to actively turn down in terms of trying to avoid feature creep?
Samuel Colvin
Yeah, the feature creep.
issue is definitely definitely challenging because of the of the demand for people. Well, people want to get to use it in lots of different situations. There's a issue around strictness in how you validate or pass data which I think we'll come on to in a Bit, which is definitely problematic because different people have strong and different ideas about how it should work in those regards. I guess when I first started using it, I was always thinking about kind of dumb data. So JSON type inputs, strings, mostly strings, but also obviously floats and ends. But obviously, a lot of the time, it's used in contexts where the inputs can be quite complex Python objects. And so a lot of its usage is, has expanded to do validation of those complex objects. That definitely wasn't how it was, it wasn't how it first started.
Tobias Macey
And there are a number of other libraries that exist in the Python ecosystem for being able to do various things like settings management, which pedantic is focusing on and that tried to enforce different sorts of best practices. And then there are also another suite of libraries for being able to do things like define data schemas, or define validation logic for input data structures, such as marshmallow and cerebrus. I'm wondering if you can give a bit of an idea of the comparison of how pedantic Duck fits in both of those different ecosystems and some of the reasons that people might want to choose pedantic over the other available options.
Samuel Colvin
So looking at the settings case, first of all, I'm a big fan of the 12 factor app approach to to building applications. And so a paid outtake base settings class will automatically read and infer environment variables or environment variables defined in a dot m file. So you can think of if you've ever used Django, you will have a settings file, but a great number of your default settings will have or stop getting around them to allow you to override that default, that's automatic in pedantic but of course, because it also coerces types it would automatically coerce a string to say an int or a path or whatever else you might want it to be. The main difference, of course, is that it uses type hints to define what your type should be. So you don't have to set that out twice or conflict with type hints. I also think that tests need to be first class citizen when you think about settings. So, settings class can also take arguments when you initialize it, which will overwrite the defaults, but also environment variables, making it really easy to use in a testing situation. And then lastly, pedantic isn't tied to any particular framework or ecosystem. So it can be used by tools like fast API, but it's not, it's not tied to them. So it can be used in any any library you like, in terms of comparing it to tools like marshmallow and Cypress. As I say, the first thing you'll notice is the type hints are are used, the second thing will be speed. pedantic, is about two and a half times faster than marshmallow. And, from our benchmarks, 26 times faster than Cypress, Cypress must have some, some problem there because I've I've asked it asked question on Stack Overflow, and I think on on their repo about why it's so slow, but I've never got an answer. So it seems that services in particular was very slow. But pedantic is fast as an all of the other libraries that we've that we've benchmarked or on a par with with the fastest ones. It's compiled with seitan. And there are binaries available on Linux for Linux, Mac, and Windows from pi pi, which is one of the reasons it's so fast. But even even without that it's among the fastest of the validation libraries. As you will learn when you start using pi downtick, we lean towards coercion over strictness. Unlike other libraries, which is confusing in some scenarios, but mostly it's useful if you think about passing like, get arguments, the values that will always be strings, if you had some values that say age that you want it to be an int or or time delta or a date time, you need to have that coercion, there's no way that you could do strict validations that the input value must be an insane when the inputs have to be strings. And lastly, I'd say I hope that we managed to be friendly and helpful on on GitHub, unlike lots of projects, pedantic allows people to ask questions on GitHub, and I try to always be as helpful as I can Which to put it mildly, in isn't true of all projects.
Tobias Macey
And because of the fact that you are addressing these two different use cases of being able to be used for settings validation, as well as being able to handle validation of input and output data or data as it traverses an application, what are some of the tensions are challenges that you face, whether it's technical or conceptual or just for in terms of requests from the community that you're facing in terms of being able to build a library that addresses these different use cases?
Samuel Colvin
So I said earlier that I don't take a leans towards coercion over strictness. So if you pass it a string of a number, so a string of characters 123 into a field, which is an integer, then it will convert that string to an integer that occasionally confuses and frustrates people, and they say, oh, it should be strict and say that it refused that string to be the input to an int. If you then say, Well, what would happen if I pass you a string to a path field, for example, they would say oh, well, it should definitely do. coercion then the conversation goes on. And what you realize is that the person you're speaking to, is thinking in the, in the JSON world where you have the seven types of data in JSON, and they assume that there should be no coercion between them. But there should be coercion from those JSON types to higher types, like, I don't know, you you IDs, or, or paths. So one of the problems I've seen, it's quite understandable is people assuming that other people's usage is similar to theirs. And therefore, they might assume everyone's using it for an API where everything's JSON, where actually it's being used in lots of other contexts. Or they might assume that the data being passed in is lots of different Python objects. And that JSON is like, it's not relevant. That's been a problem both both technically in how strict pedantic should be, but also, conceptually to explain to people that it's used to lots of different things, which is great, but it can also lead to slight confusion.
Tobias Macey
In terms of the actual usage of pedantic from looking at the documentation. It's largely based around building up these class objects that are As containers for the different data fields, and in a lot of ways, it's very similar to the data classes that were added in Python three, seven. So I'm wondering what you see as being the trade offs of using the built in data classes versus pedantic and what the sort of challenges were that you faced in when data classes were added as a first class concern. Given that it seems that you started the project before they were part of the mainline Python.
Samuel Colvin
Yeah, Python tick was released the first for Python, I think it was 3.6, which didn't have our data classes, and they had to we have to support them later. So pedantic has a its own version of data classes, which are really just validation on top of standard data classes. So the data class you you get when you initialize a data class that uses the pedantic decorator effectively will be a completely vanilla data class, just that validation will have gone on. More generally, the number one trade off, of course, is that data glasses don't do any data validation. So it might say food needs to be an end But if you pass it a string, or a nested Dictionary of you IDs, data classes isn't going to care, it isn't going to do anything. And so you're you're relying on my PI or static type analysis to check that that's actually true. Well, obviously, pedantic, does the runtime type checking. The second big difference is that data classes use the pattern or arguably anti pattern of generating a bunch of Python code and then calling a Val on that to create the data class, which is quite slow and avoid prevents you from doing things like compiling with seitan, which pedantic data classes don't do so by logic data classes, don't do any of that stuff. And so they can work with seitan. The only case implicitly when that happens is when we're using our own variant of standard library data classes where of course, we thought we have to use the standard initialization of a data class once we've done the validation. And then the third big difference is that, of course, pedantic has lots of other tools on top of it, whether that be parsing JSON, validators serialization of things like JSON nested data structures, all that stuff is available in pedantic that's not going to be available in the standard library data classes, which are kind of the building block. So simpler. And they're great. And I use them quite a lot. But they're, they're not right in every scenario.
Tobias Macey
So because pedantic is a library, and also because it's doing this runtime type checking, as opposed to just the ahead of time validation that you might get from a linter or something like my PI, what are some of the points of overhead or the potential complications that get added by using pedantic in place of the built in capabilities or doing this ahead of time checking? Well,
Samuel Colvin
it's gonna be a lot slower, of course, to call a function where you go through the whole of data validation before you call a function that's unavoidable. There are cases where it's better to use the kind of duck typing and catch the error approach rather than rather than doing the validation first, but of course, there are cases where you where you need validation compared to hand written validation. Because of the the compiling pedantic is generally on a par, maybe slightly faster or slightly slower than handwritten validators. So it is, of course, slower than not doing validation. But if you're going to do validation, pedantic, is pushing towards the fastest, you can do it in Python, I think.
Tobias Macey
And as far as the conversation that we started have strict validation versus type coercion, I know that you added some explicit points in the documentation to be able to call that out to avoid confusion because of some conversations that came up earlier in the lifecycle of the project. And I'm wondering if you can talk a bit more about some of the nuances of that strictness versus coercion and some of the ways that it manifests and some of the limitations that you see in terms of the use cases by explicitly not supporting that strict validation in favor of being able to do the coercion.
Samuel Colvin
Yeah, I mean, pedantic, started off trying to be fast and trying to be simple. And so I took the approach that if I want something to be an integer, then the simplest thing to do is called built in on that value. And if it succeeds, then you know you've got an integer. And if it fails, then you take that error and you use that as a basis for the exception you're going to throw. And in most cases, we still do that. And that does mean that, for example, if you pass it a string, that will that will be passed to an int. Or if you parse something to a list, it'll just call the list built in and give you back a list. There are cases where that makes no sense. So for example, virtually everything can be cast to a string because it has the string method on it. And so it wouldn't make sense just to call string on everything and say, if it can be passed to a string, then it is a string, it wouldn't make any sense to have if you pass a list of integers to field you expect to be a string for you just to get back the string representation of that list. But there were some other other weird ones that people came up with early on points that were mistakes that we fixed. For example before because you were just calling list on something to see if it's a list and then call calling for example, Intel something to see if it's an int if you pass a string of 123 to something Try to be a list of intz. You've got back the list 123, which was very confusing. So there are cases where we've gradually moved to be slightly stricter in the right places. I think that's the right approach to take the still to some degree and open open what there is an open issue. Literally, there's also open issue in my head about whether we should have a completely strict mode. But from what I've seen, when you explain to someone what a completely strict mode means things like pass has to be an instance of path, not a string, that generally isn't what people want. So I think we will avoid going completely strict and instead move towards slowly making things stricter in the right in the right ways, but only have one mode. And if you really want to be stricter, you can use validators to do that yourself in terms of cases where that means it doesn't work. If you had a kind of testing situation where you wanted to test the output of a web hook or of API pedantic wouldn't be the right tool because it will lean towards doing coercion instead of instead of just checking their assumptions. This is where you could lose data. For example, if you had a float of 3.1415, you pass that to an end, you'll silently lose data, because it would convert that to the three. But most of the problems, I think, really come from developer confusion that they assume it would be strict. And that's where they kind of end up getting confused and getting getting into trouble. And then I get a slightly irate issue saying, Why the hell does that work this way.
Tobias Macey
And for those cases, where there is the potential for data loss, I know that in some ways, it's potentially impossible to be able to determine ahead of time if there is any sort of lossy conversion that's going to happen. But have you explored the possibility of adding in some types of warning or being able to capture hooks of this is going to lose data and then being able to raise errors during the development cycle or anything along those lines for giving people that option of lossy versus lossless conversions? Well, we
Samuel Colvin
thought about this, the strict mode would be that I think would be the route there. So you would enable the strict version Data classes during testing, and then you would know that in testing it was it was working, that's just a lot more work and not something that I think people actually want. In the end. If you look at libraries, like I don't want to pick on service, but I know that you have to explicitly set up any collection that you want, which is in some ways more explicit and explicit is better than implicit. But it does also mean that every single place you want to use some higher order objects that will will require some coercion, you need to explicitly set that, whereas pay downtick tries really hard to just work out of the box in the most likely scenario. I mean, I also I built it for me for projects I needed. And so I built it the way I wanted. And to a degree, unless people pay me they can kind of have it the way I want it to be a bit blunt about it.
Tobias Macey
And that brings up an interesting point too, about the API design of the library and how you approach the overall philosophy of the structure of the project and the interfaces that you expose to users. And I'm wondering what your prior experience has been in terms of building out projects that are more widely used, and what your thoughts are in terms of how to design that API in a way that is easy to adopt, as well as being appropriately expressive for the problem space that you're working in? I think it's
Samuel Colvin
I think it's a difficult and nuanced problem. I think that humility is quite a useful attribute of a developer and probably an under considered one, trying to remember what it was like when you first started developing. And remembering how little you understood is really valuable when you're building open source code that will be used a lot by junior developers. And I mean, Sebastian Ramirez, who built fast API has helped me a lot on pedantic is the is the master of that he seems great at creating open source projects and getting them to grow and doing it in a way which arguably isn't even always the technically perfect way, but which allows the most people to use this code and to get something done. Then there are there are like more practical things you can do. I know Sebastian was talking on your podcast previously about things like setting every key word document explicitly in the public facing interface public facing API. So the With ID type IDs, you can kind of get there without having to use the documentation. Lots of projects don't do that. And it's really frustrating. So I definitely try and get things like that right and make it easy to use, I suppose my overall approaches as long as it's fast, and it's easy to get started with, I'm happy to skip some edge cases and allow people to fix them themselves or, or use use another tool. I guess it's better to be right to the majority of people and usable and do everything.
Tobias Macey
And in terms of how pedantic itself is implemented, can you talk through the overall design of the project and some of the ways that it has evolved since you first began working on it?
Samuel Colvin
I will say that the biggest changes that we got to version one, late last year, there were a few understandable complaints from from big projects using pedantic that it was a moving target pre version 0.1 I was quite rushed, and one I was quite keen on on breaking things to make it better. And that understandably, frustrated people who were had it as one of many dependencies, so we got to version one, and I've tried really hard to talk Avoid any backwards incompatible changes since then, the main other change in pedantic over over the years has been the fact that there are now four main interfaces to by downtick. So there's the base model approach, which is the primary one, then there's pedantic data classes, which I talked about earlier. Then you have paths as object which allows you to pass or validate any object you like. So you give it the type and you give it the raw data, and it will either succeed or fail. And then most recently, in version 1.5, we released validate arguments, which is a function decorator that allows you to validate the arguments of any function. And then Sebastian added back when he was first working on fast API schema generation using JSON schema, which was another another big step forward for for by downtick in terms of other changes. David Montague worked a lot on getting pedantic to compile to syphon, which has made a big difference to performance. That was one of the big changes we made last year
Tobias Macey
and for the actual internal architecture of With the project, I'm wondering how the actual class definitions are structured to be able to do things like gain access to the type attributes of the arguments to the class or of the fields within the class. And also in terms of the typing capabilities in Python itself. I'm wondering what you have found to be some of the well considered aspects of it and any challenges that you face in terms of shortcomings of the typing system, because I know that whenever this conversation comes up, people will invariably look to things like Haskell for some of the more complex and elegant ways to handle complex types. But I'm wondering what your just overall thoughts are on typing in Python and the ways that you approach leveraging it within the project.
Samuel Colvin
So the first bit of that question is super easy in the in the metaclass. It's really easy to get access to the attributes, object annotations object on a class and then use that as your as the basis for your validation. The tough bit is introspecting. The types to work out what they are and then developing code to to suitably parse or validate data to check whether or not it's compliant with that. That's that that's been the tough bit. I think that somewhere that I was looking for it before this and couldn't find it. Guido has said that he explicitly doesn't think that type annotations are designed for runtime type checking. I think originally, they said they're here, do whatever you like with them. And then later on, it was clarified that they weren't for runtime type checking. And that kind of shows when you try and start introspecting types, they're hellishly complicated to get access to what they are. It's one of the things that was a lot of the work early on in, in pedantic and still to this day, one of the frustrations is that you have even if you think about a sequence of different integers, let's say you have collection, sequence, list, set, frozen set iterable. There are many different versions of what you might generically call an array of integers. So that's been problematic again, and goes on being a problem. Not all That is completely self employed ontic. But most of the time, most of the time, it just works still.
Tobias Macey
So for a developer who's interested in getting started with using pedantic or integrating it into an existing project, what is the overall workflow of being able to add in those type definitions and some of the different capabilities that are exposed by bringing pedantic into that project.
Samuel Colvin
So getting started with pedantic should be as simple as pip install Python take that will give you a compiled binary on whatever operating system you're using, then have a look through the docs and get started. I think it's almost in some ways too easy to get started, because everyone already has an idea about how typings work. That's probably one of the reasons that people find the pitfalls because they haven't gone through the docs, quite understandably like like the rest of us, they just start going and end up running into problems. Those type hints are awesome, because they then work with your ID with my PI with your own intuition with any other ID that you're with with PI charm or whatever idea you're using. In particular, pi charm has a plug in specifically for pi antic, built by the community, which is awesome, which makes usage of Python with pedantic even easier and even better. But yeah, the use of the of type hints avoids you having to learn another like, schema micro language for defining your models, you can just use standard Python and off you go.
Tobias Macey
And what are some of the edge cases that developers often run into? Aside from the confusion about the strictness versus coercion of the typing information? One of
Samuel Colvin
the useful divisions, I think, is that when you're defining your model, it can't look at the rest of the world. So let's say that you're creating a user with an email address, and you need that email address to be unique. You can't do the check that the email address is unique within a validator in general, because that validator can't be a synchronous and even if it's even if you're using a synchronous database lookup, it's it's generally bad practice to put that inside the validator. So using pedantic gives you a very good division between Checking the data is consistent and then checking that the data works with the rest of the world. But that's something that quite often leads to confusion. And there's a bit of tooling around how to raise pedantic, valid error, pedantic validation errors, with after you've done the initial validation, which I'm going to work on in future. There are some differences with with data classes, even where if you use the pedantic data classes, mostly around implicit constraints and data classes, you can't have extra arguments to them, which, which occasionally people have problems with. And then there's a kind of complex question about whether or not to pass around pedantic models, or dictionaries created from pedantic models or data classes you create or how you then pass your data along. If it's simply as simple as accessing an attribute of a model and saving that to the database. That's fine. But obviously, people have complex processing workflows, and people have lots of different solutions for that, and it works well with pickle so you can just pick all your models but
even that occasionally leads to leads to problems
Tobias Macey
and for the capability of being able to access the different attributes and pass along the data. What are some of the sort of best practices that you have found to be useful of whether you pass the exact model or just a representation of the data set and then do the coercion back and forth throughout?
Samuel Colvin
I don't think there's a there's a single good answer, I do occasionally end up with data classes that shadow models which can allow or at least shadow parts of models that I need in a particular context. Sometimes it is as simple as as calling dict on on the model and getting back that dictionary and using that, but in general, I think that the best practice would be to continue passing the model around and using that model directly rather than converting it to a dictionary too early.
Tobias Macey
And another element of using pedantic within these applications particularly using the model terminology, people might get confused for those who are used to working with RMS in different web frameworks such as Django, and I'm wondering what the options are for being able to integrate pedantic with some of the other elements of the ecosystem, you know, starting with things like RMS of using it within Django, or with things like SQL alchemy, for doing the validation of the data as it's flowing into the application and being able to easily convert it into a database object. Yeah, I gotta
Samuel Colvin
put Django to one side, because I think that the best and the worst of Django is that it's batteries included. And if you're going to use Django, you're probably best using vanilla Django and Django rest framework and leaving pedantic out of it. I'm sure that there are some cases where people do build stuff with with Django, but use pedantic but I definitely haven't. SQL alchemy and other or M's are a more nuanced question. pedantic has a from RM mode, which basically allows it to inspect the attributes of an ORM class and build a pedantic model from there. I personally am not particularly pro RMS, I would much rather write my queries in real estate Call or whatever, then then have this RM step in between. So, I haven't done that much recently with our EMS and pedantic and I, I would say RM to quite often a mistake, full stop. So I don't put that much effort into using them myself. But I know many people do. And you do find yourself having to define your data twice in the form of a pedantic model and a sequel alchemy model. But I think that's just unavoidable. At least in most cases, there are there are no doubt exceptions where you could auto generate one or the other. But I would say unless you had thousands of different tables, and therefore models, it
Tobias Macey
wouldn't be worth it. And talking about it in the context of databases also brings up the interesting question of the ability to define pedantic classes that relate specifically to other classes so that you can do things like joining across different data objects or being able to specify relations of those different objects as it flows throughout your application. And I'm wondering what you have found to in terms of some Have the advanced usage capabilities of pedantic that are not necessarily obvious at first blush,
Samuel Colvin
one of the things I've been amazed by is how advanced many people's usage of pedantic has been in regards, which I definitely haven't, haven't done that pedantic doesn't have. And it's an open open issue, a way of avoiding recursive links between between models. So if you have, I can't think of an example right now. But you have a user linked to a pet. And then you have the pet linked back to the user, that can lead to recursive problems and pedantic it's an open issue. I'd love someone to come along and help with that. But in short, I haven't solved that because I suspect that models like that are an anti pattern in the first place. And so they just shouldn't exist. I would much prefer myself to keep my models individually and not connected and have an integer field. If there's a if there's a foreign key, for example, rather than having some implicit link to another model that automatically does
a query that I can't see because I think that that complexity
gets you into hot water when it's not really actually saving you enough time in terms of other advanced usages or advanced features of pedantic. The generic models built by David Montague are scarily powerful. If you think about generics in the context of Python typing, generic models are like that. But in but with validation on top, so you can define a model that has some generic type or types associated with it. And pedantic will then go and do the validation based on dynamic types within the definition of the model. Other another of its of the powerful features of pedantic is custom types with custom validation and custom schemas, which I don't think people are aware of enough or and don't get used enough probably the documentation could could do some work there. One of the things that I often find suggesting as solutions to people who ask questions is custom base models with custom config, and even modified methods like the deck or JSON on the model, which gets around lots of people's requests for for more features, and then the validation error system in pedantic is quite quite complex, it allows things like custom translations and customized messages on errors, which are often again probably aren't documented well enough, because people don't seem to be aware of that and the power of what that can do.
Tobias Macey
And another interesting capability that you touched on briefly earlier is the way to be able to generate things like JSON schema from a pedantic model. And I'm wondering if there is the capability of being able to do something like that in the reverse, where you have a schema definition and then being able to generate the corresponding model object for being able to validate other instances of that schema.
Samuel Colvin
Um, there are there is some third party projects, I think there were at least two out there that generate either Python code or Python models. The problem with that is that things like my PI and static typing and your own intuition aren't going to work because the model isn't defined in code somewhere. So in general, I would say that the Python code should be your single source of truth about the definition of What your data should look like. And then you should generate the schema from there? Yeah, there are there are tools that can generate Python code to represent a schema. And I'm sure there are contexts in which they useful. I haven't used them myself.
Tobias Macey
And I'm wondering too, if you have explored the space of being able to generate other types of schema objects beyond just JSON schema. So for instance, in the data engineering context, being able to use a pedantic model to be able to create instances of Avro objects or parquet rows, things like that,
Samuel Colvin
I haven't myself, I haven't worked on that. I would have said that the best approach would be to work from the current JSON schema
decks and go about
generating from that, but but I haven't had any experience myself.
Tobias Macey
And then as far as being able to integrate pedantic with other frameworks because of the fact that it is largely just vanilla Python, it seems like it's fairly straightforward for things like using it in the settings module of a Django project, but what have you found to be some of the useful tips in terms of the overall process of integrating with Things like maybe the Daxter project for ETL workflows, or maybe pyramid for being able to or flask for integrating it with other web frameworks or frameworks of other types that people might be trying to use the data validation capabilities within.
Samuel Colvin
I've used it quite a lot with with libraries like starlet obviously it's a it's a cornerstone of fast API. I know people use it quite a lot for settings management in flask. I think there are some libraries around that I haven't used to ask for a few years. So I haven't been working with that. It's become more and more a cornerstone of the data pipelines used in used in machine learning projects. It's kind of been amazing to see it was an application I had never thought of before. But now you see all of these quite popular machine learning packages like deep Pavlov and Transformers from hugging face, using pedantic for both settings management and for parsing the data before doing the machine learning, which has been really interesting. I haven't had much experience with them myself, but what's the kind of amazing thing about about My dad has been seeing other people pick it up and run with it and do stuff I had never, never thought of.
Tobias Macey
And what are some of the other interesting or innovative or unexpected ways that you have seen, pedantic used that you have been particularly surprised or impressed by?
Samuel Colvin
Probably the most surprising thing for me has been big companies you would have heard of like Microsoft, IBM, AWS, NSA, Uber Salesforce, using using pedantic which
never something I would have expected when I
first like hack something together and release something on pi pi in terms of particular projects. Facebook have their first MRI project for making MRI scanning faster and then reagent Machine Learning Library that use pedantic Microsoft use pedantic through fast API for core Windows and Office services, which is amazing. There's Mexican near bank called Sue Anka. I hope I pronounced that right who use pedantic for their interbank transfer validation the molecular science software Institute use pedantic a lot as far as I know, they're using For their COVID response, and lots of other projects in academia and in industry, each of those projects is cool. But the most gratifying thing for me has been seeing the like the sheer number and diversity of different projects that have used it in ways I wouldn't have wouldn't have thought of.
Tobias Macey
And particularly for some of the scientific context to have you found people using pedantic alongside things like paint for being able to handle unit conversions and being able to incorporate that validation or transform logic within the pedantic models.
Samuel Colvin
One of the frustrations I find writing open source code is that you can see the open source tip of the usage iceberg but you can't see the closed source usage. And so it frustrates me it's tantalizing to be able to see some of it and guess at what other people are doing with it, but not to be able to go in and actually understand what people are doing with it. So the short answer is I just don't know because lots of those some of those projects are obviously open. And I'm sure if I spent some weeks digging away I would find out what people are doing with it. I'm sure that'd be very useful for me in terms of how I develop it further, but I haven't done that. But I was a lot of the usages is closed source. And so you just don't know. But I mean, it's interesting because you get occasional intuition about about what people are doing when you get I had a credit checking agency who pointed out above the other day in a regex. And I, you know, I never never occurred to me, the company that that would be using it. So it's, you occasionally get a hint at what's underneath the sea level of that iceberg,
Tobias Macey
but mostly, I don't know. And in terms of your own experience of building and growing the pedantic project, what are some of the most interesting or challenging or unexpected lessons that you've learned in that process?
Samuel Colvin
It's been really fun working with with some big companies, I would do that again, either commercially, or just for free, out of curiosity to
see how larger organizations use
it. It's been there's a
strange paradox when you start writing open source that on day one, you desperately hope some other people will install it and use it and careful what you wish for because three years later, I now spend an hour or two Two hours a day working on pedantic mostly just answering issues which definitely wasn't what I plan to do but but it's been been really interesting. As I said earlier, I talked earlier about humility and and remembering what it was like not to know how to do things, answering a lot of like, quote, damn unquote questions for people who are who are relatively new to Python has has been a good experience in reminding me how much I know, in a sense and how lucky I am to be able to write code like I can. And so I do my best to give back and not to get frustrated by people, people asking questions that I think
they could have worked out with a few minutes on Google. Some of the other challenging aspects
Tobias Macey
of open source maintainer ship are also things like knowing when to say no to particular feature requests, but also the quote unquote bus factor of the project and figuring out what is the succession path for maintainer ship if you decide to step away from the project or you're no longer actively using it and you start to want to spend your time on other things and I'm wondering what your thoughts Are your own personal approach to that or any other thoughts that you have in this sort of discussion of maintaining open source projects?
Samuel Colvin
Yeah, I think it's really hard. And I wouldn't deny that the bus factor wasn't quite big with pedantic right now that I'm the majority of the work is really gratifying to see other people, particularly Sebastian Ramirez and David Montague, but lots of other people as well contributing it to it taking time to answer questions. But I think it's I think it's a outstanding big problem. I think that we do a lot of patting ourselves on the back and saying how great open sources, but I was reading an essay by john mark, which I'll leave a link to calls perhaps slightly hyperbolically open source of sales, I wouldn't say would go quite that far. But
I definitely don't think it's quite as rosy as as it should be.
And I definitely see the problem that all these big and very profitable companies use a library like pedantic and of course, many more, but don't contribute financially. And that then leads to a bus factor with with projects like this, that and even more so with fast API, if you'd like. I think Sebastian is amazing. And he's done lots but and it's got incredibly popular very quickly. But I don't think that any of the organizations that use that have a succession planning and have thought about what would happen if those libraries stopped being maintained. I mean, I think the good thing is, at least we've pedantic, it's relatively stable. I have lots of interesting things I want to do on v2, that that I will one day get get round to working on but without that, it's not like it's gonna suddenly crash or fall to the ground, if it doesn't have any work on it for a few weeks or a few months.
Tobias Macey
And in terms of selecting the sort of libraries to use within an application if people are looking at pedantic what are the cases where it's the wrong choice, and they might be better suited using maybe built in data classes or something like marshmallow or some other settings management library,
Samuel Colvin
I'd say the first case is that it's not a substitute for strictly typed compiled languages like c++ or rust or go and you see occasionally questions where I wonder whether the real answer here is you shouldn't be using Python. It's not It helps get around some of those problems, but it's not going to be a substitute for them. I also think that it's often the old fashion Python approach of kind of duck typing and catch the error easier to ask forgiveness than permission. Just try it works well. And if you end up validating every single input in Python, it gets really, really slow. So often, if you are reasonably sure about the inputs, and if there's no particular security concern of just calling it and seeing what happens, and then that's often a better approach. It's also obviously wrong, as I said earlier in the in the validation context for, say, a testing case where you want to confirm that a web hook or an API is giving you the right data. That's not the right tool for identic because it leans in always well towards coercion over over strictness. But if you are determined to write Python, and if you want to do validation, I think
Tobias Macey
an antic is probably the best tool in most scenarios. That's obviously my biased opinion. And as you continue to work on and maintain the project, what is this? What are some of the things that you have planned for the future of it and maybe some of the ways that you're planning on using it in your own work. Yeah,
Samuel Colvin
I'm heading towards v2 now, and I've got quite a lot of big features that I want to work on in v2, some stuff I want to break to get right. So I think validators currently, you can think of them like a list of functions, and each function is called in turn, and the output from one is given as the argument to the next unless an error occurs. Of course, that's slightly slow and somewhat confusing, I would much prefer validators to work a bit like middleware. So it's a function stack. And each function calls the next function along, but that from the outside that just looks like one function, which should be faster in the case that you are doing some common piece of validation where it's just one function, but also much more powerful because you could do your checks before or after calling the next function without having to mess with the order of the validators. I also think one of the things marshmallow does well is it talks, it makes serialization that kind of first class concern. So it's not just about the passing stage, but it's also about the output stage, and pedantic has quite a few things I want to work on in that in that regard. So input and output aliases, computed fields. So the fields on a model that aren't, don't come explicitly from an input, but instead are computed, either eagerly or lazily based on other fields. And there's a whole bunch of other stuff. Have a look on the v2 milestone on GitHub. And I'd love some feedback.
Tobias Macey
And are there any other aspects of your work on pedantic or the overall field of data validation and type checking things like that, or any ways that you're looking for help from the community that we didn't discuss that you'd like to cover before we close out the show?
Samuel Colvin
Oh, I would, I would, I would say that I've got quite a lot of
issues with a label called feedback. I'd love people's feedback. Obviously, there's a risk of just bike shedding. But getting people's input is really useful before you release a feature rather than them being furious once you've done it. So I don't need people to write code or submit issues but just a bit of feedback. A plus one here or there makes it much easier to work out what people what people are looking for. Other than that, nothing in particular
Tobias Macey
well for anybody who wants to get in touch with you and follow along. With the work that you're doing, I'll help you add your preferred contact information to the show notes. And so with that, I'll move us into the pics and this week I'm going to choose something that I had forgotten about for a while and remember during a conversation with my family the other day of the devil sticks, also known as juggling sticks or flower sticks is some way to pass the time and have something to keep your idle hands busy. So if you're looking for something to do or play with, I'll definitely recommend checking that out. And so with that, I'll pass it to you Samuel. Dan, when he picks this week,
Samuel Colvin
I do I am in terms of books, I would thoroughly recommend flash boys by Michael Lewis. I know it's not that recent, but it's an awesome book. In fact, everything by Michael Lewis, I'm a massive fanboy of him. Then in a more computing specific context, there's algorithms to live by by Brian Christian and Tom Griffis, which is a awesome book. Not it's much better than its title suggests terms of TV. I've really enjoyed sex education on Netflix. If you're bored at home at the moment, I would certainly recommend it is extremely funny. And then in terms of tech, I found recently a website called n grok.com. which creates a tunnel from a port on your local machine to the public Internet, which is awesomely helpful when developing and you want to show something to someone or if you want to have an HTTPS connection to a local port. That was that was a really nice to find really useful tool.
Tobias Macey
All right. Well, thank you very much for taking the time today to join me and discuss the work that you've been doing with pedantic and it's definitely a very interesting project and one that I'm planning to take use of and some of my work so thank you for all of your time and effort on that and I hope you enjoy the rest of your day.
Samuel Colvin
Thank you very much, you too.
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Hansen (Stahl am Tarlyk)
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They settled in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Tarlyk on 13 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 20.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Asmus Hansen was a carpenter while the 1767 census records that he was a shipswright (Schiffszimmermann).
The 1767 census records that Asmus Hansen came from the Danish village of Scherschir.
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Attempts to resolve the Quandary:
Meanwhile, high above the valley, up there, where the air is rarefied, up where you can imagine just stretching your arm and letting your fingers stroke a passing cloud, Professor Wilfred Bramble, speaking sotto voce, was distributing his troops around the small quarry and setting up the poles which marked the perimeter of the site and also provided the different triangulation points; then, once he was satisfied, he took hold of the device which looked like an inflated metal detector with a transistor radio attached, donned the World War II pilot's headphones, switched himself on and looked around the area, spoke to his cousin the Suffragan Bishop of Goole: “do you think, Bishop Peter, as the linguist in the family, you could have a chat with the young lady little Roxy is looking after? for I'd be interested to know the koine of her speech, I detect underneath the Edinburgh/Melrose lingua franca she has learned so rapidly from her eminent teacher (Roxy blushed to her roots) there is something of Hawick dialect and intonation which you might be able to identify, thankyou,” nodded, and then began the sweep – which involved walking, in a slithy sort of way, not at all like his normal marching gait, this was strange to behold and Crist realised that he could be quite other than the normal blusterer she had known all her life; first he went one way, then the other and repeating this until he had covered the whole site; after only a few lengths he stopped and stared at the screen mounted on his device, murmured to himself – quite inaudibly, he had obviously been extremely moved by Roxy's plea, or scared by her threats – and moved on; and when he had completed his sweep, he came over to Cristobal and spoke quietly to her, so that none of the others could hear: “Cristo, this is most remarkable – it certainly fits with the young lady's description; there is certainly a Cavern, just as she describes, and the void takes the form of a hand, with five fingers, the thumb leading from the entrance, which is that strange quarry, and the four fingers spread out and are possibly the sleeping quarters she mentioned,” and Cristobal nodded, then asked “you say the quarry is strange, in what way?” which caused Bramble to glance towards it, before he spoke: “it's a plug, not at all consistent with the rest of the geology, and it isn't a kind of sgrafitto, which, of course one would expect, no, no, this rock has a quite different consistency and it's almost as though someone stuffed it in there to disguise the entrance, and that is what's so bloody queer! it must have been done about a thousand years ago, crikey, two thousand, maybe more, well before the Romans came, certainly, and even before the Votadini used the North Eildon as a fort, because if not, then the Romans would have used it, recorded it, left some indication, but they only used the hills as a Signalling Station and there's no indication that they knew of 'The Cavern' your chums speak of,” and Cristobal asked: “what happens now?” which made Bramble chuckle: “well, dear cousin, you are the Archaeologist in the family, we'd better notify the authorities and have the site designated as a Dig, we can't have the hoi polloi tramping about while we begin our excavations, now, can we?” but Crist waved his words away and spoke rather fiercely: “if the statements which have been given are correct, then it looks to me that the Police will have to be involved and the whole area, all Three Eildons sealed off, and this place treated as a Crime Scene!”
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More Mental Math
I know that many of you have been waiting patiently for some more mental math tricks to amaze friends and family (for my previous post go here). With the holidays coming up, I want to be sure that you have some time to practice these new techniques.
Today we’ll look at how to square two-digit numbers that end in “5.” This is actually quite easy. You only need to remember two things:
1. The beginning part of the answer is found by multiplying the first digit by the next higher digit.
2. The answer will end in 25.
Try it!
Mental Math Example Mental Math Example
I’ll continue to parcel out mental math morsels, but if you really can’t wait, this is a good resource. My mother taught me most of the mental math tricks that I know and this book covers all of them, plus more.
I also promised to keep feeding you some of the problems from Milne’s Mental Arithmetic (1897). So here are a few more. The category is Addition.
A merchant deposited in a bank $25 more on Tuesday than on Monday. If Monday’s deposit was $65, what was the amount of both deposits?
Twenty-five minutes ago it was a quarter to ten. What time will it be one hour and 10 minutes hence?
A farmer sold 27 sheep, lost 16, and had 84 left. How many had he at first?
And one easy challenge (remember, this is supposed to be mental math…don’t pick up a pen/pencil/crayon/marker/quill). This is actually the first (therefore, easiest) of 123 “miscellaneous problems” at the end of Milne’s Mental Arithmetic.
If 1/2 of A’s money is increased by 2/3 of his money, the sum is $560. How much has he?
Curious about #123? Here it is.
A merchant’s expenses during a certain year were 33 1/3% of the gross gain on his sales. His goods were marked 30% above cost. At the beginning of the next year he advanced the price of his goods 10% of the marked price, and during the year cut down his expenses 10%. What per cent did he gain during the second year?
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B.C. Rich Platinum Pro Beast
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-The BC Rich Beast Platinum Pro is a guitar manufacturing Coren, it has 24 frets and two BC Rich humbuckers.
-The chavalet is licensed Floyd 2nd gnration
This guitar-a possde SETTING THE SETTING THE Tone a volume knob and a 3 mic positions.
I think the body is alder and the neck in Rabl (I saw some guys also say that the body silent in Agathis and rosewood handle .... but hey I'm not bcherons and Wood is not my thing: D ...)
-Then I want to emphasize the beautiful shape of this bte, when the two lots to play three pieces, everyone looks at you with eyes phew! Basically it is a guitar that class! (Like me lol)
And finally, I the shape of the guitar is very practical, if someone shit on the bus, you can get out the guitar and plug it with: D)
-The handle is agraeble to play (not a fender either), it is flat and possde good form for fast solos, and the sherd .... heavy riffs nag!
-The ACCS is acute in very easy thanks to the particular cut of the scraper.
Question-weight, it can be found a bit heavy when playing standing onn, but it's not a gibson not in any way you get used to
-Qand you play sitting down, the spikes of skyscrapers fcheuse have a tendency to get into the sternum (lol), but anyway it's a guitar BDSM, then it will not pleindre (loool! !), not sincrement, we adopt a sitting postion diffrent compared to other guitars, you stand straighter and less sag on the instrument, what class!
Ultimately, it plutt a guitar to play standing, then who cares! (That would sincerely pity to see a guy play with this skyscraper sitting on his amp during a concert!)
'Then I play symphonic metal, heavy metal etc. .... but also the blues sometimes and I find the sound of the guitar lends itself very well!
Indeed, when we see the shape of the guitar, we say that the sound saturates quickly even in super clear ... Well no! I get to have a pretty hot, super fat, very low round full-not bad for a good blues! (Attention is not the sound of a vintage Les Paul either!)
The sound is modern and very oriented plutt towards the low round for the microphones to the microphone of the bridge, there is more treble but the bass are still very present.
In general, the microphones in a hollow possdent mdiums, boosted the bass and treble "normal"
It is regrettable BC Rich pickups on the difficulty we produce harmonics (artificial), but with practice, you get there ... (A little difficult you must admit ...)
As against the point where the guitar excels is the Palm-Mute, super deep with lots of return, the thing that gets you out the guts especially when you have the sound that goes with it!
It may be noted that the knob tonalite is not super high (but hey, it's a guitar with humbucker nag!), I often play solo with a tonalite melts and the microphones acute, sometimes it m 'sometimes use the microphone for some of the handle Shred, because the neck pickup is less than prcis acute and notes that the transition is more naturally.
Nanmoins can blame him a certain lack of versatility, although the clean sound does not saturate ..
A yeah, microphones tend to blow a lot of distortion (but like with all the microphones), but the wind is not too annoying, especially when played with a pedalboard who owns a noise reductor . (Edit: I think the noise is the cre of my distortion pedals).
In fact it is like most guitars, to enjoy it, you must have a good amp that goes with ...
I have this guitar since ending for a year, I tried an Ibanez guitar and others whose names do not reviend me, and I'm thrilled!
What I like:
-Shape! What class! : P
The bass sound, and good fats in distortion and the blues
The stick-fast 24-fret
It makes game
It stands alone! lol it's convenient, there is no need to buy based guitar! (Stingy smart: D!)
-How easy it is to skewer someone, it must be said that the form lends itself perfectly! mdr)
What I like least:
-Mics are struggling to harmonics (it may also be a problem on my guitar strings, I would have to change ... And I suggest you try one to see ...)
Tonalite-scratching is the major guides (ca does not bother me, but you lose flexibility!)
-At first, this give you scratching holes in the thigh if you have the misfortune to play standing (but with time you get used to and it does worse
The guitar-possde a picnic when you play that supports sitting on your chest, it hurts to beginners, but it allows for a more upright position (in any case, the scraper is made to play up )
-Because of the problem above, if you ptez, friends tend to treat you Sado-Maso
-The guitar is quite heavy even when a whole. (But balanced)
-Some people criticize his lack of versatility (for my part I find it fits my style well).
The quality-price ratio is pretty good, even if the warlock platinum pro has the same features and is less expensive, form somewhat increased the price of the BTE, but I is not had this problem, we has made me 650 euros lol! 100 euros or less: p! niarkkk!
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Heart Disease Overview
Just as heart disease is a major player on the human side of healthcare, we also see many cases of heart disease in our animal friends. Interestingly, there are many similarities between the types of heart disease seen with humans: the physiology is awfully similar and the muscular changes over time are similar. But also some very notable differences: e.g. dogs and cats do not develop atherosclerosis as people do and they do not experience heart attacks as people do. We’ll leave it to the other Clinic to be the last word in human heart health, so for the purposes of this blog post, I’ll hit the high points of how heart disease impacts our canine and feline patients and what types of heart disease we see.
First of all, if you see symptoms of heart disease at home, please bring them to our attention. Common symptoms that our owners describe include: coughing, exercise intolerance, pale or bluish mucous membranes, and lethargy. There are other symptoms that we can determine while performing a physical examination such as an increased heart rate, fluid in the lungs, weak pulses and/or a heart murmur.
An important concept that ought to be understood about the heart is that it isn’t just a pump, but rather it is two pumps. The right side of the heart is a pump that accepts blood from most of the body and sends it to the lungs. The left side of the heart is a pump that accepts blood from the lungs and sends it to the rest of the body. Animals can experience disease of either side or both. Depending upon which side is diseased, particular and distinctive symptoms will show up.
If you’ve got a pump in your basement that is supposed to prevent flooding by sending water out to the street, what happens when the pump fails? Water backs up behind the pump and your basement floods… yikes. The same holds true for the heart. If the right side of the heart begins to fail, it cannot efficiently send blood to the lungs, and as a result, blood backs up in the body and fluid leaks out of the vessels into the surrounding tissues.
On the flip side, if the left side of the heart begins to fail, it cannot efficiently send blood to the body, and as a result, blood backs up in the lungs and fluid leaks out of the vessels and into the area of the lungs where air is supposed to be. This is congestive heart failure.
There are three major forms of heart disease in the dog and cat world: dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and unclassified or restrictive cardiomyopathies. Each set up particular scenarios in the heart that cause the heart to perform inefficiently. Diagnostic tests such as radiographs, echocardiogram (ultrasound of the heart), and electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) help to determine which is at play and therefore which forms of treatment will be most helpful.
Heart disease is not curable, but is often very treatable, and often on an outpatient basis. Medical therapy, diet therapy, and exercise/lifestyle adjustments can often help to restore quality of life to the patient suffering from heart disease.
If you have any questions about your pet’s heart condition, or if you’re worried about some symptoms that you’re seeing at home, please give us a call at 330-929-3223 so we can review your concerns and make sure your pet is as healthy as he/she can be.
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This sport fashion shoot location collection presents the less typical, modern urban side of the Hungarian capital. These are the locations of the day-to-day scenes of the lives of Budapest’s population, such as housing estates, parks, schools and factories. Typically these are the places where people exercise and young people hang out, which is why these are more naturally fitting locations for sport and fitness productions. Since these places are more modernly designed, they have more simple, highly geometric forms and shapes, creating strong and clear visual structures, that assist composing striking images. Raw materials are typical of these locations, such as concrete, steel and tarr, offering a wide range of textures enriching the shoot. These are spaces that are designed for movement, let that be a baseball court, riverside pavements, bridges, stadiums or parking lots. The clear forms enable dynamic compositions, that can highlight the energy and speed of the features sport or fitness model. A unique aspect is that in Budapest these modern, energetic and simple locations can be combined with beautiful iconic views if wished, simply by a changing one’s point of view. | <urn:uuid:3d66b9c7-e822-4b1b-b359-bcfb54fd4c40> | https://progressiveproductions.eu/locations/hungary/thematic/sporty-urban-life | en | 0.934052 | 0.019151 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Why Beavers are Worth a Dam!
Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
Beavers are a keystone species, playing a critical role in biodiversity and providing direct benefits to surrounding ecosystems as well as fish, wildlife and people. Dams created by beavers create wetlands that help decrease the effects of damaging floods, recharge drinking water aquifers, protect watersheds from droughts, decrease erosion, stabilize stream banks, remove toxic pollutants from surface and ground water and many threatened and endangered species rely on the wetland habitat created by beavers. They also produce food for fish and other animals, increase habitat and cold water pools that benefit salmon, repair damaged stream channels and watersheds, preserve open space, and maintain stable stream flows.
Over the last century, beaver populations in North America have declined from over 60 million to as few as 6 million, just 10 percent of their historic size. However, there are no current population assessments of beavers in California, and their population numbers and distribution are not monitored in the state. Beavers have struggled due to the one-two punch of population decimation and habitat loss. Historically, beaver populations declined due to aggressive hunting of their soft silky fur and castor glands, which were used for trade and to be converted into medicine and perfume, and because beavers’ tree harvesting and waterway flooding affect urban and agricultural land uses, but now the primary threat to beavers is habitat destruction and degradation. Human development has resulted in serious impairments to watersheds that beavers depend on.
Consequently, incised stream channels, altered streamflow regimes, and degraded riparian vegetation limit the potential for beaver re-establishment. For these reasons, preventing further habitat degradation and restoring degraded habitats are key to protecting and restoring beaver populations.
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Beavers are unique because they can create or modify their habitat by building dams and lodges, therefore, reestablishing beavers may help to restore degraded systems. Relocating beavers is effective to restore extirpated populations, expand current ranges, and bolster low population numbers. The beaver itself is one of the major sources for wetland development in the United States, and since 3 out of 10 endangered animals in the United States rely on wetlands, beaver restoration should be a priority.
California has lost more wetlands than any other state. Agricultural and urban uses have altered our rivers by diking, levying, channeling, and canalizing waterways that were once extensively braided river systems. For example, in the Sacramento / San Joaquin Rivers only 7% of historic floodplain area and 9% of stream length remains. It’s time to rebuild those wetlands with a little help from our furry friends.
Beavers are a cost effective and sustainable wetland habitat restoration tool overflowing with water conservation benefits of surface water storage and groundwater recharge. The ecosystem services that beavers provide cannot be replicated by humans and the benefits they provide are irreplaceable.
Beavers Need Help
While the North Coast Region has a beaver deficit, every year hundreds of beavers are killed in California’s Central Valley by Wildlife Services, a federal agency tasked with (lethal) “removal” of “problem” or “nuisance” animals because landowners view them as a pest. The Department of Fish and Wildlife also issues depredation permits for landowners to trap and kill nuisance beavers on their property.
Instead of trapping and killing beavers that are unwanted in other regions, it is imperative that a relocation program is created, so that beavers can be relocated to North Coast rivers and other places to help restore streams and wetlands. Beaver reintroduction is a sustainable cost-effective strategy, but we need to work with stakeholders to navigate the political, regulatory and biological frameworks to safely restore their populations. | <urn:uuid:b5f32962-9623-4d41-a92d-523779cdf33e> | https://wildcalifornia.org/blog/beavers-are-worth-a-dam | en | 0.94058 | 0.25405 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Just past weekly infusion update
A few days without extra steroids and I can feel it. There are little signs the infusion is doing something though: tiny infections in my cuticles. They aren’t too bad but I also had a splinter that threatened to turn into an abcess. So I’m seeing my GP. Also scratchy throat. And a bit rashy- when warm I get pin prick like red dots.
Also a lot of neck pain. So this is as much time on the computer as I can spend.
Watching a lot of documentaries. Still can’t walk very far, and still get very tired. Got a few weeks before any real change is noticeable and 6 months before any remission.
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Don’t Second Guess Your Decision
By: Rev. Barbara Samuel
Can you recall the last time when you had to make a huge decision? Not just any ‘ole decision, but a huge ‘life’ decision? I’m talking about the kind of decision that could change the path of your entire life.
As life is unfolding, as it always does, we are finding ourselves inevitably having to make more and more big decisions. Even tough decisions, and when the risks feel higher than ever, how do you navigate through the multitude of options, such as should I turn right? Or should I turn left? Which direction is the correct one? What if, what I think is currently wrong and it ends up working out five years from now? Or, what if what I think is right, ends up falling apart tomorrow?
Then, if you’re like me, you wind up playing the “what if” game. Because, honestly, who wants to go in the wrong direction, right?
Well, brace yourself. Here’s the remedy to all of the what if’s and I don’t knows and not sures. This is what I’ve learned when it comes to decision making! There is no “right” or “wrong”. There’s only right or left! Whew! That’s a relief, isn’t it?
I want you to think back to your favorite teachers, mentors, coaches. All of your influencers of your youth. Who comes to mind? Who do you remember? Why do you remember them? Maybe they supported you through tough times. Maybe it was how they unconditionally loved you. Maybe they gave you a new perspective when you needed it the most. They were your number one cheerleader in your life. You remember them. As a Minister, professional singer and musical director, when I’m on a stage and in front of an audience, I have an incredible opportunity to move people emotionally, spiritually and even physically when they get up and dance with me. To have the ability to simply connect with them through the use of a lyric or a melody is a true blessing.
My goal is to help you. Whether I inspired you or give you a new perspective, I want you to feel that you matter to me because you do.
If that’s my goal -- to make you feel like you matter -- how can there be a right or wrong? My desire is to not over complicate anything. Make a point and help people. Period. I want to create a moment that is memorable and worth recalling in times of struggle, hardships or challenge.
In our minds, we usually complicate issues or create obstacles and make things worse by burdening ourselves with the question of, “is this right or wrong?” BUT…if we remember there is no right or wrong, only right or left, I’m left with a sense of ease and grace about moving forward in any situation knowing my decision is okay. I have learned to become confident in my decision making, trusting the process of choice, and then moving forward.
In recent years, I have practiced and exercised how to make a choice and not look back. The great thing about the evolution of life is that there are many choices and paths out there, all filled with a variety of options. Who knows? What if, what you now think was the wrong choice, ends up saving your life one day?
My good friend and teacher Connie, used to say, “You don’t know what you don’t know….. but Spirit does”. There is nothing more stable and more freeing than making a decision, sticking to it, and confidently making the best out of the choice you made. I love falling into the surrender of the power of decision! So many possibilities you’re not even aware of yet! Make a decision and even wait for it, have fun with the results. Life is much too short to constantly be controlled by worry. Things are rarely as bad or as good as we think they are.
So here’s your invitation for today:
Deep breathe.Take some risks. Enjoy life. And don’t look back!
Knowing this opens the door to the freedom you’re craving today
Until next time,
Rev. Barb
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Golden Globe Memories
by Mahfouz Doss July 21, 2020
HFPA member Mahfouz Doss with Marilyn Monroe and Rock Hudson, 1960s
HFPA member Mahfouz Doss with Marilyn Monroe and Rock Hudson at the Golden Globes, 1960s.
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In 1959 I was introduced by Bertil Unger, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the time, as a new member along with Yani Begakis in a general membership meeting held at the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood. Hilda Ulloa was vice president Alan Hunter was secretary and Victor Holguin was the treasurer. Membership meetings were held monthly.
Our Golden Globe Awards in the 1960s were broadcasted during the Andy Williams Show. The show was only one hour long and very popular. The Golden Globe Awards were held at the Cocoanut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire boulevard. The Cocoanut Grove was a very hot spot attended by the who’s who, including Howard Hughes. The room was richly and elegantly decorated with several coconut palm trees. It was an Iconic room.
Hilda Ulloa used to make the seating arrangements at her home. The Golden Globe Awards were attended by some of the studio heads like Samuel Goldwyn and Louis Mayer of MGM, as well as several movie stars. One year the president Bertil Unger was sick and as vice president, it fell to me to deliver the welcome speech on behalf of the HFPA.
Many memorable events occurred during those Award ceremonies such as when John Wayne, accepting the Golden Globe, said "I licked the big C (meaning cancer )". When Samuel Goldwyn delivered the Globe to Marcello Mastroianni, he could not pronounce his name and said “I would have changed his name if he would have worked for me.” Sally Field acted in the TV series The Flying Nun - she came flying over the heads of the audience amid their applause and landed on the lap of John Wayne. Wayne acted in True Grit in which he was wearing an eye patch; when he received his award he said “I should have worn this patch long time ago” (hinting that he won because he was wearing it referring to the patch that Moshe Dayan the Israeli defense minister used to wear.) Julie Andrews, Marilyn Monroe, Rock Hudson were among the attendees.
During the 1960s I held the positions of board member, chairman & vice president. The board use to meet in the president’s apartment (the HFPA did not have an office at the time). The treasurer used to carry all the Association documents in a small briefcase. Then we rented a very very small room near the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. The board used to interview and select a Miss Golden Globe, later several of them would become recognized actresses. The first man to become Mr. Golden Globe was the son of Clark Gable, he was born after his father’s death.
Syd Cassyd was a member of the HFPA and was twice elected vice president, He is recognized as the one who founded the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and started the Emmy awards, which earned him a Star for TV on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. The star is located on the 7000 block on the south side of Hollywood Blvd. The Television Academy eventually instituted the “Syd Cassyd Founder’s Award in his honor.”
Moustapha Akkad was also a member and became a movie director and a producer. He started the Halloween movies and gave Jamie Lee Curtis one of her very first acting jobs. He was killed by a terrorist bombing attack while attending a wedding in Amman, Jordan.
George Spiro Dibie was a secretary. He became a photographer and won 5 Emmy Awards for cinematography, He was, for 20 years, president of the International Cinematographers Guild, Local 600. Sven Rye was consul general of Denmark and became president of the HFPA.
Movie premieres in the 1960s were a black-tie event often followed by elegant sit-down dinners. Dick Clark met with the board proposing to have the Golden Globes show broadcast by NBC. It was good news as we felt the HFPA was going toward a better future. With limited finances to afford proper legal representation, we signed a contract with DCP.
After the Cocoanut Grove was closed for renovations, the ceremony was moved to the International Ballroom at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. One year the Awards were held at the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City. That year Judy Garland received a standing ovation upon receiving the Golden Globe.
The popularity of the Globes increased year after year - a dinner with champagne projected a relaxed, spontaneous atmosphere. For many TV viewers, it is still a favorite television event, and gained the moniker of “the party of the year”.
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Friday April 17, 2020
I hope you all okay based on a very extraordinary and difficult time we are all experiencing, some more that others as with most catastrophic events.
I'm lucky that I can work from home (however I don't really enjoy it at all), have a steady income when so many are actually struggling. I do however feel isolated and what I used to do to keep me feeling better mentally has pretty much faded away. Okay, I know and understand there is a lot I can do at home, but there is only so much you can do before that dread of not being able to go out for at least a coffee with a friend or family, go to the social gathering at my local gym, just being able to walk about and not fear an invisible enemy starts taking its toll, and it's only week 3!!!
What I don't want is we don't learn from this awful experience as humans? The NHS have been underfunded and understaffed for a long time and if we were better equipped and better funded as a health system, then maybe we would have been better at coping when something like this happens? Perhaps.. I don't know.
I hope us talking via video doesn't become the normal, as it's not NORMAL! And what impact will social distancing have on us as a society? Only time will tell.
How are you all finding it? Has it made your mental health problems worse or just the same?
Keep safe, which I'm sure you all are.
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The Journey Through to Awareness
Monday, November 2, 2020
2020/11/02 - Discovering Self Through Spirituality
[NEW EPISODE] Discovering Self Through Spirituality
What does it feel like to challenge your own beliefs?
What does following our truth look like? How is it a spiritual awakening?
Many times we are not encouraged to discover the uniqueness of our truest self as we attempt to begin to carve our own path. Perhaps we follow what has been placed in front of us as we are told, at an early age, which path to follow.
Living our truth can feel like an unearthing of what we knew to be true and is a profound revelation as we probe our depths. We'll discuss this and more with our guest Danielle Waldman.
Show Notes
Segment 1
Dr. GeorgeAnn introduces her step-daughter. Life coach, Danielle Waldman! Together they aim to answer the question “What is truth?” Danielle explains how living through authenticity and living through your purpose helps one navigate their internal landscape. Danielle encourages listeners to always try to unravel what your purpose is in order to fine tune your own truth. Discovering comes from observing and understanding the dialog within our heads. They discuss ways to bring “awareness” into the body can help us uncover our true self. GeorgeAnn explains the science behind the neurological tissue within our gut, providing us with an answer though our own body’s response.
Segment 2
GeorgeAnn asks Danielle to explain how her spiritual journey first began. She recalls a time in early childhood when she felt like she didn’t belong and credits this difficult time as her first sign that she was “different.” Danielle discusses the power of coaching and learning it’s okay to disappoint and be uncomfortable throughout the journey of life. Together they share their own personal battle in overcoming the death of Danielle's father.
Segment 3
GeorgeAnn welcomes back her listeners by expanding on the exploration process that comes with finding our truth. An unfolding of our spirit and soul can lead to disappointment, but learning this is a fact of life and brings one closer to what God is calling them towards. Danielle explains what makes her feel the most comfortable and most uncomfortable, bringing attention to the process of letting our fears and trauma come to the surface. Finding what feels authentic to the soul, a process that’s meant to be lifelong. GeorgeAnn says “For us to ask where God is, is like a fish asking where water is.”
Segment 4
In the last segment of the night, GeorgeAnn and Danielle discuss acknowledging our ego and living in the present while looking forward to the future. Danielle reveals how her coaching process has evolved over time, involving a deep self-evaluation and deeper awareness of our past. We don’t have to change,just recognize and ask questions. Action should always overpower reaction. GeorgeAnn ends tonight’s discussion with a closing prayer.
00:00:22.980 --> 00:00:23.760 Hi, good evening.
00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:37.230 Georgeann Dau: Thank you for joining today. I'm Dr. George, and it's a privilege to be here with you this evening, and it's even more privileged to have a guest with us tonight.
00:00:38.490 --> 00:00:53.190 Georgeann Dau: My name is Daniel Waldman and she does so many incredible things she's so incredibly gifted. I don't even know how to introduce her so Danielle.
00:00:55.170 --> 00:00:59.250 Georgeann Dau: Can you mention a little bit about who you are, what you do.
00:01:00.930 --> 00:01:13.830 Dani Waldman (she/her): Yeah. Hi, everyone. It's an honor to be here. I'm so excited and would love to share a little bit about what I do. I feel like I do a lot of different things.
00:01:15.720 --> 00:01:25.290 Dani Waldman (she/her): I guess you could call me a life coach also a healer. I work primarily with women.
00:01:26.490 --> 00:01:30.840 Dani Waldman (she/her): And I do coaching. I also have
00:01:31.860 --> 00:01:36.810 Dani Waldman (she/her): Done somatic movement. My work is moving more into somatic movement healing.
00:01:37.890 --> 00:01:47.040 Dani Waldman (she/her): And really working with people to process and I really love it. It's my calling. And my purpose is.
00:01:47.940 --> 00:01:57.750 Georgeann Dau: So great to be able to find our calling and you know the name of the show is a journey through and those of you that have been
00:01:59.370 --> 00:02:00.960 Georgeann Dau: Being with me, each week.
00:02:02.700 --> 00:02:11.730 Georgeann Dau: I really hope that it's been serving you. And that you've really been feeling that you're getting a lot out of it and that you feel spiritually nourished.
00:02:12.900 --> 00:02:20.040 Georgeann Dau: Through our journey together. So we have a great topic tonight. For those of you that
00:02:21.210 --> 00:02:26.070 Georgeann Dau: Might have seen it online, but we're going to be talking about truth.
00:02:27.090 --> 00:02:28.800 Georgeann Dau: And what truth means
00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:33.570 Georgeann Dau: Means to ourselves means to
00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:40.020 Georgeann Dau: Truth in the universe. What is truth. It's interesting because
00:02:42.180 --> 00:02:44.790 Georgeann Dau: That's what punches pilot as Jesus actually
00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:53.910 Georgeann Dau: When Jesus said, said that he's the way, the truth and the life punches pilot says what is true what it's true.
00:02:55.140 --> 00:02:57.150 Georgeann Dau: So, Danny. So
00:02:59.130 --> 00:03:01.170 Georgeann Dau: What is following a truth mean to you.
00:03:04.170 --> 00:03:06.900 Dani Waldman (she/her): Oh, so many things and
00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:14.610 Dani Waldman (she/her): When I think about it. And I think about my path, thus far.
00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:19.320 Dani Waldman (she/her): What really comes to me is
00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:27.120 Dani Waldman (she/her): Living from that place of authenticity living from
00:03:28.830 --> 00:03:30.060 Dani Waldman (she/her): Your purpose.
00:03:31.470 --> 00:03:38.550 Dani Waldman (she/her): If you don't know what your purpose is asking the questions to unravel that
00:03:41.640 --> 00:03:53.280 Dani Waldman (she/her): really digging deeper into who we are and sitting with that. So I guess when I first started thinking about what this meant to me.
00:03:54.690 --> 00:04:03.210 Dani Waldman (she/her): I feel like for years. I was like, I want to speak my truth. I want to live through my truth. I'm not doing it. I was so focused on not living through my quote unquote truth.
00:04:04.320 --> 00:04:19.470 Dani Waldman (she/her): And really what I just see it as a as a combination of everything, a combination of saying what you want to say, doing the things that you want to do setting boundaries sitting in the discomfort learning making mistakes.
00:04:20.910 --> 00:04:25.080 Dani Waldman (she/her): All of the things so many of the things that you talk about here on this podcast.
00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:26.400 Yeah.
00:04:27.450 --> 00:04:30.930 Georgeann Dau: Yeah, it's really great. And, you know, daily
00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:34.380 Georgeann Dau: There's so many different voices in our head.
00:04:35.580 --> 00:04:47.220 Georgeann Dau: You know, we have we have our true self. We have our false self, which is made up of everything that went on for us what we took in pre talking
00:04:48.510 --> 00:04:49.740 Georgeann Dau: Voice of the parent
00:04:50.880 --> 00:04:52.860 Georgeann Dau: Freud calls it the super ego.
00:04:53.970 --> 00:04:59.700 Georgeann Dau: So how do we discern what our truth is, how do we discern that
00:05:04.080 --> 00:05:10.680 Dani Waldman (she/her): I think being in our own processing helps for sure as we start to
00:05:11.730 --> 00:05:23.940 Dani Waldman (she/her): Understand the feelings that are coming up and why they're there. And, you know, connecting all the dots. I think once we kind of get an understanding of our own. I think of it as our own internal landscape.
00:05:25.980 --> 00:05:28.320 Georgeann Dau: That that's great internal landscape.
00:05:28.350 --> 00:05:39.210 Dani Waldman (she/her): Yeah, which can be so hard. I mean, all the stuff that that we're talking about right now and that I know we'll talk about this next hour is can be uncomfortable.
00:05:40.320 --> 00:05:56.190 Dani Waldman (she/her): To to sit with, but I think that as we start to connect these dots in our inner landscape and understanding this is the voice of the parent. This is the past self. This is everything that you were just sharing, we start to see that.
00:05:57.510 --> 00:06:10.200 Dani Waldman (she/her): There is another point of truth, that is my point of truth and perhaps it's different from what I was told by society. Maybe it's different from what I was told by this parent or this person or whoever it is.
00:06:10.890 --> 00:06:28.530 Dani Waldman (she/her): And we get to kind of fine tune it and then it gets to change it can know it always gets to change. So I think discovering that is comes from first from observing and understanding
00:06:30.270 --> 00:06:35.670 Georgeann Dau: Mm hmm. So my hearing, hearing that it's a through a type of awareness.
00:06:36.840 --> 00:06:47.280 Georgeann Dau: And awareness and awareness of our outer environment awareness of our inner environment and all that goes along with that inner environment.
00:06:48.210 --> 00:06:55.740 Georgeann Dau: internal dialogue, you know, being in your head. I remember once I wanted to say to Sister Josephine.
00:06:56.220 --> 00:07:06.210 Georgeann Dau: When I was teaching a program. I'd like to walk in the room for the first 10 minutes just be totally stunned silence and be looking at everyone and then say um
00:07:07.200 --> 00:07:15.450 Georgeann Dau: What's going on inside. What is the voice in your head saying, you know, the one that says what voice.
00:07:16.290 --> 00:07:28.740 Georgeann Dau: You know at the time she she didn't think that was very cool, but I'm absolutely we have a dialogue going on in our heads. Always and generally
00:07:29.310 --> 00:07:48.960 Georgeann Dau: With which is what I heard you saying when we are able to be aware of that dialogue, many times that consistent compulsive dialogue is generally not our true itself. Would you say that that. So is that a good type of he
00:07:50.100 --> 00:07:57.780 Dani Waldman (she/her): Yeah, I love that. I love how you just saw that. Yeah, definitely. And as you were talking, what just came in, into
00:07:58.140 --> 00:07:58.620 Dani Waldman (she/her): My
00:07:59.040 --> 00:07:59.970 Dani Waldman (she/her): My mind is
00:08:02.250 --> 00:08:05.520 Dani Waldman (she/her): Really understanding i i think
00:08:06.660 --> 00:08:16.110 Dani Waldman (she/her): Bringing an awareness, not only to the connecting the dots and what's happening internally but also bringing it into the body and understanding
00:08:16.440 --> 00:08:24.240 Dani Waldman (she/her): You know, my body feels this way. When this happens, and I'm talking about this thing, or I'm having a conversation with this person or this parent or
00:08:24.960 --> 00:08:35.790 Dani Waldman (she/her): You know, all the people and and i'm i'm feeling my heart's racing or I'm feeling that I'm just kind of standing a certain way, just starting starting to
00:08:36.450 --> 00:08:45.480 Dani Waldman (she/her): Understand the body of these beautiful things that we have. And it can be from an energetic standpoint to, I think,
00:08:46.290 --> 00:08:53.910 Dani Waldman (she/her): bringing that into our spaces, well can also really help us as we start to kind of uncover this truth.
00:08:54.900 --> 00:09:16.680 Dani Waldman (she/her): And that can also help with all of the mind chatter that happens and feeling like, okay, maybe this really isn't my truth. And also, how would the body feel if I were to explore this thing instead that also is going to help us in discovering what really feels aligned with our true selves.
00:09:17.580 --> 00:09:22.170 Georgeann Dau: Beautiful, that's part of the somatic healing, isn't it, Danny, what you're talking about. Right.
00:09:22.170 --> 00:09:23.400 Dani Waldman (she/her): Yeah yeah
00:09:23.880 --> 00:09:27.960 Georgeann Dau: Yeah, you know, it's, it's interesting. I love what you're talking about, because
00:09:29.670 --> 00:09:43.560 Georgeann Dau: People we all, we all can forget that the mind is connected to the body and the body is connected to this, the soul and many times people think that the soul.
00:09:44.910 --> 00:09:46.020 Georgeann Dau: Is in the body.
00:09:47.130 --> 00:09:49.680 Georgeann Dau: Right. But maybe the body is insult.
00:09:51.390 --> 00:09:58.200 Georgeann Dau: Right. So what comes first, the chicken or the egg, but certainly I know from my work that
00:09:59.790 --> 00:10:04.800 Georgeann Dau: If we do not address that which lives inside of us.
00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:16.470 Georgeann Dau: Call it the haunting that it will manifest itself, physically, you know, Jesus said in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas what we bring forth
00:10:17.520 --> 00:10:20.970 Georgeann Dau: Will save us. What we do not bring forth
00:10:21.990 --> 00:10:23.310 Georgeann Dau: Will destroy us.
00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:34.380 Georgeann Dau: You know, this is 2000 plus years ago you know Jesus with the consciousness that he came to bring all of us and die to give us
00:10:35.700 --> 00:10:52.290 Georgeann Dau: Is so incredibly profound because this is really the truth. It is the one truth that we all are called to live out of it is a a place in us call it a seed.
00:10:53.550 --> 00:11:03.840 Georgeann Dau: A universal dimension a consciousness that we all share, call it the collective consciousness, but we all do share
00:11:04.380 --> 00:11:24.480 Georgeann Dau: And if we are predominantly psychologically. Well, and most of us for we're all a little crazy. But that's all of us, myself. Absolutely. And you know, that's a you know a good thing in some ways because we do want to be unique. We don't want to be cookie cutter.
00:11:26.460 --> 00:11:28.950 Georgeann Dau: But, you know, in that
00:11:30.180 --> 00:11:43.230 Georgeann Dau: There is definitely a consciousness that we're all called that we all not talking about guilt. Now, but we all have a sense of right or wrong.
00:11:43.710 --> 00:11:54.030 Georgeann Dau: Not what we've been told not quote the 10 commandments, although that's applicable, but a place inside our being.
00:11:54.990 --> 00:12:19.260 Georgeann Dau: A somatic healing that I'm hearing you talk about Danny so beautifully that our, we actually have neurological tissue in our gut and we, those of us, you know, connected have stronger, we're all connected. But those of us with that awareness that we're talking about is are able to recognize
00:12:20.460 --> 00:12:20.940 Georgeann Dau: That
00:12:22.380 --> 00:12:40.980 Georgeann Dau: Oh, I did something that's so great, there's a level of consciousness or oh wow you know I really was very connected in that moment, so I do believe that there is a universal consciousness and we all really do know quote
00:12:41.580 --> 00:12:54.150 Georgeann Dau: And I don't like these words because they're dualistic but, for lack of a better word, quote, right from wrong. What do you think about that, Danny. You think I'm off base on that or you vibrate to that or
00:12:54.300 --> 00:12:59.640 Dani Waldman (she/her): Yeah, that, that definitely lands with me. I said, Yeah, absolutely. I and I think
00:13:00.270 --> 00:13:16.650 Dani Waldman (she/her): Like one of the things that that I think about is sometimes when I talk to people about this and and maybe people who are listening. This might land with them to is how do I even know what my body's telling me how do I know that that gut feeling is saying.
00:13:18.330 --> 00:13:39.660 Dani Waldman (she/her): No or Yes. And I always say that like we just have to practice and start to slowly turn in tune in and take these baby steps and start with things small and then over time we start to kind of score almost our body and our body's response in a way
00:13:41.070 --> 00:13:45.570 Dani Waldman (she/her): Yeah, what you were saying, I didn't inland with me and it's it's spot on. Yeah.
00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:53.070 Georgeann Dau: Well, you know, it's interesting because you know this quote universal truth. Truth, um,
00:13:55.800 --> 00:14:03.780 Georgeann Dau: I think that if we all pause for a moment. We can think back of moments in our life where I call it God
00:14:04.500 --> 00:14:17.190 Georgeann Dau: Has been speaking to us from the inside out, where we are, possibly in danger or we go to do something, and that place in our gut, we can feel
00:14:17.700 --> 00:14:31.440 Georgeann Dau: Like, and something is not right here. That's the collective consciousness. I'm talking about that we all have that to share in a level of truth.
00:14:32.010 --> 00:14:52.170 Georgeann Dau: And that's really why I'm so committed to this work. I'm you know one person at a time, you know, collectively, I think I mentioned the first show that you know God certainly is asking me to do larger groups at this time to open this up and talk about this because I'm
00:14:54.480 --> 00:15:07.860 Georgeann Dau: Our awareness of the existence of what we're talking about. And the relationship with the God of your understanding, whatever that is, for each person is crucial. At this time, with the world that we're living in.
00:15:09.090 --> 00:15:16.890 Georgeann Dau: Right, I'm hearing that way. And I'm seeing that we're feeling more and more disconnected from each other.
00:15:17.460 --> 00:15:35.970 Georgeann Dau: And in many ways, I think covert is an outward representation of that you know we're wearing masks. Now I'm you know that we're not so that we're not infecting each other, but in many ways for generations. Now we've been infecting each other with
00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:46.890 Georgeann Dau: meanness or a mean attitude, um, you know, not really being as present to one another is as we
00:15:47.460 --> 00:15:51.960 Georgeann Dau: Can be a recognizing that we're all connected. His brother and sister.
00:15:52.260 --> 00:16:04.140 Georgeann Dau: You know, you go into a diner and you would have a cup of tea. I mean, how many of us really reflect on looking in the person's eyes when they're ordering the cup of tea or a cup of coffee. This person is there.
00:16:04.620 --> 00:16:15.660 Georgeann Dau: You know what they're no different from us right being very present to each human being, every living creature that comes before us, um,
00:16:16.770 --> 00:16:19.170 Georgeann Dau: Yeah, so, um,
00:16:20.760 --> 00:16:24.060 Georgeann Dau: Yeah, I think this is important so
00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:30.540 Georgeann Dau: What, what did the process of discovering spirituality look like for you.
00:16:35.310 --> 00:16:49.800 Georgeann Dau: What was that, yeah, I've known I've known Danielle. I've had the honor of knowing there for most of her life. There are many great great great stories treasure to my art about this. Um, and
00:16:51.330 --> 00:17:00.330 Georgeann Dau: We will be taking a break we'll talk more about this when we come back. Thank you so much. Thanks for joining us.
00:17:01.920 --> 00:17:03.330 Georgeann Dau: To a journey through
00:17:04.380 --> 00:17:05.220 We'll be right back.
00:19:20.370 --> 00:19:21.330 Georgeann Dau: Welcome back.
00:19:23.010 --> 00:19:24.180 Georgeann Dau: To a journey through
00:19:25.410 --> 00:19:26.070 Georgeann Dau: Georgia and
00:19:27.120 --> 00:19:29.070 Georgeann Dau: We have with us today. Daniel was
00:19:30.090 --> 00:19:32.010 Georgeann Dau: One of my favorite people working on here.
00:19:33.270 --> 00:19:40.770 Georgeann Dau: So I'm Danny, um, I was just mentioning alone. I've known her all our lives all our lives.
00:19:42.660 --> 00:19:46.380 Georgeann Dau: So what was the process of your own spirituality
00:19:48.570 --> 00:19:49.020 Dani Waldman (she/her): Um,
00:19:50.880 --> 00:19:54.870 Dani Waldman (she/her): I think I was just thinking about this. So when I
00:19:55.890 --> 00:19:58.110 Dani Waldman (she/her): I think it started when I was a little girl.
00:19:59.460 --> 00:20:03.480 Dani Waldman (she/her): I was very sensitive and I felt a lot
00:20:04.950 --> 00:20:06.990 Dani Waldman (she/her): I felt people's energies.
00:20:09.270 --> 00:20:18.750 Dani Waldman (she/her): And I didn't really know what to make of it. And I think sometimes when there's children who we want to say Empath or
00:20:20.430 --> 00:20:31.470 Dani Waldman (she/her): You know, sensitive. I think all children are sensitive creatures. But I think sometimes it they can be told that they're emotional or too sensitive
00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:34.950 Georgeann Dau: Which there's no such thing as too sensitive, by the way.
00:20:35.070 --> 00:20:49.320 Dani Waldman (she/her): Right, no such thing, right. So, um, I think that I I felt a lot when I was when I was little, and I, I always felt a little out of place.
00:20:50.040 --> 00:21:06.690 Dani Waldman (she/her): Like I didn't fully belong. I didn't know where that was. I didn't really know what that meant. I couldn't really pinpoint it as a little girl. And even as a teenager, I mean other than having Teenage Emotions and and feeling like I didn't fit in.
00:21:07.860 --> 00:21:17.670 Dani Waldman (she/her): And I mean I you know I even think about conversations that I had with you, George and about about this sort of stuff. Um,
00:21:19.080 --> 00:21:19.590 Georgeann Dau: See ya.
00:21:20.190 --> 00:21:30.390 Dani Waldman (she/her): Yeah, I remember being in middle school and talking to you one time about something. I don't remember some sort of, you know, middle school problems and
00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:45.120 Dani Waldman (she/her): You. I remember you said this is a really hard time, I would not want to be really living through middle school and you would always say to me that you know i was i was like different
00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:47.760 Dani Waldman (she/her): Yes, I'm march to my own tune
00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:49.470 Dani Waldman (she/her): Yes, um,
00:21:50.100 --> 00:21:50.490 Dani Waldman (she/her): And I
00:21:51.750 --> 00:22:04.890 Dani Waldman (she/her): I think, you know, in regards to spirituality. So there was all of that. And then, you know, I would go to bookstores and I'd always find myself in the astrology section.
00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:27.060 Dani Waldman (she/her): Kind of looking at spirituality. I was always really intrigued by this and it just started to develop as I got older and when I was in my 20s, I had the deep desire to kind of go off and and do some soul searching
00:22:28.170 --> 00:22:39.630 Dani Waldman (she/her): And this was really one of the first maybe the first major decision I did solely on my own.
00:22:40.740 --> 00:23:03.450 Dani Waldman (she/her): going against the grain of of what I thought I quote unquote should be doing and I had a nine to five job at a nonprofit. I lived in Washington, DC. I had a very lovely life and I wanted more. I was, you know, I don't remember how old I was, I don't know 2626 2526
00:23:04.980 --> 00:23:13.470 Dani Waldman (she/her): And I was thirsting to just so just grasping for something that was more and
00:23:14.550 --> 00:23:23.130 Dani Waldman (she/her): Yeah, so I ended up doing some traveling and that was really, I would say the beginning of my own spiritual awakening experience.
00:23:23.700 --> 00:23:45.090 Dani Waldman (she/her): I started to meet lots of different types of people lived in different places, many different experiences and with that came a lot of unearthing a lot of discomfort. A lot of disappointing people and learning.
00:23:46.140 --> 00:23:58.170 Dani Waldman (she/her): That it's okay to disappoint. And that was something so hard for me. Even now, that's very, it's hard it's it feels hard to disappoint. And also it's it's a part of life.
00:23:59.970 --> 00:24:03.240 Georgeann Dau: Absolutely. Very good point. We can do all show on disappointment.
00:24:03.420 --> 00:24:10.830 Dani Waldman (she/her): I know, and you always told me that you always told me that you're going to disappoint people you disappoint the people that you love the most.
00:24:13.260 --> 00:24:27.630 Dani Waldman (she/her): And yeah, I just kept going deeper and asking the questions and sitting with it and having a lot of meltdowns, and you know my emotions and everything and then eventually I
00:24:29.370 --> 00:24:43.530 Dani Waldman (she/her): Started to sit in my own processing through therapy and I discovered coaching and I just, you know, I think this is just like could be such a long I could go into like a 30 minute explanation, but really, I was just following the breadcrumbs.
00:24:43.890 --> 00:24:52.470 Dani Waldman (she/her): That God says my spirit guides angels, loved ones ancestors whomever you you we each believe
00:24:52.860 --> 00:25:04.710 Dani Waldman (she/her): Was leaving me and I just followed it. See how it felt tried it on was like, this feels good. It doesn't feel good. We're just going to keep we're gonna keep going. And we're going to keep seeing what happens. And
00:25:05.520 --> 00:25:24.300 Dani Waldman (she/her): This is really how I'm continuing to live through life is following the breadcrumbs and then being like, you know what, I don't need it. Or like, yeah, actually, I want to learn more about this thing and and and I yeah just have chosen this path, and it's sometimes uncomfortable and
00:25:25.380 --> 00:25:27.060 Dani Waldman (she/her): I also truly really love it.
00:25:28.290 --> 00:25:36.150 Georgeann Dau: Beautiful. Yeah, if you're really living your own life, life can feel uncomfortable. Absolutely. Without question.
00:25:36.570 --> 00:25:52.980 Georgeann Dau: Because from zero to seven what we were trained to believe is the way to live from now. So we grew up in and the authority figures, once we start growing and changing and individuation you know individuation goes on.
00:25:54.840 --> 00:26:06.840 Georgeann Dau: Way peers to wait till you know there's people that are 2030 said really haven't. I don't think any of us at age to fully individually and as a matter of fact, they know we don't so
00:26:07.350 --> 00:26:13.770 Georgeann Dau: Um, you know, I just want to, you know, tell everyone because I'm just so proud Danielle is my step daughter and
00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:32.310 Georgeann Dau: When I had my conversion. Well, we are in the Catholic church before she became my step daughter and she was about three years old, and we were in in the pews, and she looked up at me and
00:26:33.390 --> 00:26:50.160 Georgeann Dau: She just kept on looking up at me and I was looking down at her and smiling and we always said such a incredibly deep connection. And then she came to me one day and she said, can I call you and so sweet and then it ended up where her father and I
00:26:51.450 --> 00:27:03.840 Georgeann Dau: Ended up getting married and Danielle, you know best gift in the world to be my my step through letter and spin, you know, quite a challenging
00:27:05.310 --> 00:27:25.260 Georgeann Dau: In many ways because we lost her father, a couple of years ago. So it was a heartbreak for for us and we miss him every day. And we're just grateful that we hold on to each other in his in his memory and then his name when incredible man he is right. Love you, Jerry. So, um,
00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:27.930 Georgeann Dau: So yeah, so I
00:27:29.040 --> 00:27:33.630 Georgeann Dau: Danny would make fun of me because of all the all the ways
00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:41.940 Georgeann Dau: That I would be making her essential oils and talking about you know God and you know by hitting the gong and
00:27:43.140 --> 00:27:49.440 Georgeann Dau: And you know so truly spiritually and you know to truly is. My, my, my daughter.
00:27:50.490 --> 00:28:07.620 Georgeann Dau: I don't even like to use the word step daughter, but she has a she does have a wonderful mom and who I embrace. Totally. And so I'm just fortunate to have what I have with her, although I you know she's my everything so
00:28:07.950 --> 00:28:16.740 Dani Waldman (she/her): I just want to say, I remember I love. Thank you for sharing that. So beautiful. But I remember being little whenever I was little, and I would be sick and you would you would be in the kitchen.
00:28:18.120 --> 00:28:30.300 Dani Waldman (she/her): You know, doing making an inhalation for me with essential oils and hot water and I would hate it and I was like, I don't want to do it and you're like, just do the inhalation, it's gonna make me feel better and I hated it and now
00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:37.260 Dani Waldman (she/her): You know, now here I am like trying to get my, my partner to do an inhalation when he's sick and I feel like I'm like you
00:28:38.820 --> 00:28:41.160 Georgeann Dau: So they're telling us we're gonna take a break.
00:28:42.420 --> 00:28:48.450 Georgeann Dau: That's great. So we'll be right back to a journey through thanks for joining us tonight see in a minute.
00:31:17.070 --> 00:31:18.210 Georgeann Dau: Hi, welcome back.
00:31:19.020 --> 00:31:20.700 Georgeann Dau: I'm Dr. George and our
00:31:21.990 --> 00:31:32.100 Georgeann Dau: Show is a journey through awareness and this is Daniel with us this evening. We're talking about truth and
00:31:33.450 --> 00:31:43.740 Georgeann Dau: All have different levels of truth and what is truth and when we are pursuing our truth when we feel that we have
00:31:45.510 --> 00:32:03.540 Georgeann Dau: A desire to explore what our truth is because it's really the exploration process that makes it uncomfortable. And then when we do partake in the truth and begin to live out of it. Those of those around us that
00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:11.640 Georgeann Dau: Have a little bit of a hard time accepting
00:32:14.460 --> 00:32:26.100 Georgeann Dau: What our truth is because they were used to us and certain way and there's a lot of reasons for that lot of psychological reasons which we don't have time to go into tonight but
00:32:28.140 --> 00:32:35.430 Georgeann Dau: That can make going towards our truth a little bit more difficult because like Danielle said in the last segment.
00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:49.950 Georgeann Dau: It's very hard for us to disappoint. So we had one way of viewing things and we discovered that it really wasn't on truth. But the people close to us in our lives really liked us that way liked us having that view.
00:32:51.270 --> 00:32:59.550 Georgeann Dau: But then we will begin to change and grow into the truth of who we believe we are and they have a hard time with that we do need to
00:33:00.750 --> 00:33:21.180 Georgeann Dau: Go towards what we believe is our truth. A unfolding about with spirit and soul and can have them feel disappointed in us and that's hard for all of us. None of us like to disappoint. But like Danny was saying it's a fact of life, we will always disappoint one another on some level, and
00:33:22.590 --> 00:33:23.790 Georgeann Dau: We disappoint each other.
00:33:25.170 --> 00:33:29.010 Georgeann Dau: It's just the way it is. If we want to be.
00:33:30.660 --> 00:33:38.640 Georgeann Dau: The fullness of who God made us to be. We're not talking about any malicious intent here. It's about an unfolding.
00:33:39.150 --> 00:34:01.410 Georgeann Dau: Of the depth of desire that lives in our heart to move towards what we believe we're being called to by God because I know Danny and myself, our true his desire is to move with and towards what God is calling us to and whatever that is. So, um,
00:34:03.780 --> 00:34:11.550 Georgeann Dau: What feels the most comfortable Danny for you and following your truth. And then, what makes you feel the most uncomfortable.
00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:15.360 Dani Waldman (she/her): Um,
00:34:18.450 --> 00:34:34.920 Dani Waldman (she/her): I think, well, let me start with what makes me feel most uncomfortable. So I think the thing that feels uncomfortable. Aside from potentially disappointing people, of course, there's the thing that is, you know, what are people going to say
00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:56.520 Dani Waldman (she/her): And you know now with social media it's it's it's like everyone knows everything, and for me and my line of work. I'm constantly putting my messaging out there. So I have moments where I think what will people say, What will my clients say what will this person say so it's really
00:34:57.600 --> 00:35:05.490 Dani Waldman (she/her): It's like this inner battle with my own stuff that I think is what's uncomfortable is
00:35:07.170 --> 00:35:11.430 Dani Waldman (she/her): Your stuff your inner stuff coming up to the surface.
00:35:11.760 --> 00:35:14.970 Georgeann Dau: Can you talk about what, what do you mean by inner stuff.
00:35:15.090 --> 00:35:21.420 Dani Waldman (she/her): Yeah, so you know your fears limiting beliefs.
00:35:23.640 --> 00:35:24.750 Dani Waldman (she/her): Trauma
00:35:25.980 --> 00:35:38.280 Dani Waldman (she/her): All you know all of those type of things like we were talking about digging into our inner landscape what as we start to go deep. It's like we take this broom and we just start sweeping inside of ourselves and
00:35:38.850 --> 00:35:43.620 Dani Waldman (she/her): Just flies up things fly out of the corners were like, Where, where did that come from, I
00:35:43.620 --> 00:35:49.050 Dani Waldman (she/her): Know that this thing was gone. It's back. So all of those kind of things. That's what I mean when I
00:35:49.110 --> 00:35:50.700 Dani Waldman (she/her): When I refer to stuff.
00:35:50.790 --> 00:35:52.110 Georgeann Dau: And there's always residue.
00:35:52.740 --> 00:35:56.880 Georgeann Dau: Always, we will think that we, we all like completion.
00:35:57.060 --> 00:36:17.010 Georgeann Dau: Yeah, and you know, we think that oh I dealt with that. So I put it in the box and put a ribbon on I'm going to put it on the shelf and that's done, there's always layers. And that's the blessing God made us with unlimited potential and in that discovery of potential
00:36:18.030 --> 00:36:23.250 Georgeann Dau: There will layers and those of us desiring to be on the journey with God.
00:36:25.200 --> 00:36:30.330 Georgeann Dau: Yes, those layers will be revealed layer by layer.
00:36:31.980 --> 00:36:43.440 Dani Waldman (she/her): Yeah. And, and I think that's the thing that a I think sometimes when we enter this work, and I know for myself I was sharing this with but my small group that I lead
00:36:44.130 --> 00:36:52.560 Dani Waldman (she/her): A couple weeks ago how, you know, when I first entered this I was like, I'm going to create a list of all the things that are
00:36:53.070 --> 00:37:04.200 Dani Waldman (she/her): Off with me and I'm going to tackle that list. I'm going to check it off. It's going to be done relationship with this person. It's fixed. You know, you go into the fixer mode.
00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:16.470 Dani Waldman (she/her): And then, you know, I got like a spiritual slap on the face and that's just not the way it works. And it truly is a lifelong journey and
00:37:17.760 --> 00:37:25.140 Dani Waldman (she/her): Yeah, I think that that's the thing that can feel uncomfortable, is that we, as humans, and we are you know society likes to be like
00:37:25.530 --> 00:37:35.070 Dani Waldman (she/her): Be super productive go from A to Z as quick as possible. This is successful, you have to be constantly doing stuff. So the idea of
00:37:35.370 --> 00:37:47.610 Dani Waldman (she/her): Sitting and moving through things with patience and being slow and knowing that this can come up again and it can come up in a new way and that can be so uncomfortable.
00:37:48.690 --> 00:38:00.210 Dani Waldman (she/her): And challenging. So I think when you asked me, What feels most uncomfortable and it's it's that it's kind of like battling myself.
00:38:02.040 --> 00:38:10.320 Dani Waldman (she/her): And being patient with the process and that the process is going to look. However, the process is going to look. Yeah.
00:38:11.190 --> 00:38:13.650 Georgeann Dau: Yeah. And before we move on to
00:38:15.090 --> 00:38:16.380 Georgeann Dau: What is what
00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:19.800 Georgeann Dau: feels most comfortable
00:38:21.060 --> 00:38:25.320 Georgeann Dau: Um, it's, it's interesting because
00:38:27.270 --> 00:38:33.240 Georgeann Dau: Anyway, good. There's so much I want to say, and I will. I don't want it to get Danny, it's more important, what you have to say.
00:38:33.540 --> 00:38:39.300 Dani Waldman (she/her): Well I you know I mean. What feels most comfortable. I don't know that I'm you know
00:38:40.890 --> 00:38:46.020 Dani Waldman (she/her): I think each of us the book The Artist's Way is really beautiful if if anyone
00:38:47.730 --> 00:38:58.710 Dani Waldman (she/her): Is feeling like they are interested in exploring their artistic side. The Artist's Way is so beautiful and talks about how all of us are artists and that really
00:38:59.580 --> 00:39:21.300 Dani Waldman (she/her): God source, whatever you want to call it is we are each channel where each channel for to create and to let it flow out whatever needs to flow out so um but anyway, that I think when I think about this work is its most comfortable
00:39:23.010 --> 00:39:26.670 Dani Waldman (she/her): Living in again like living in this place of truth, living in
00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:37.440 Dani Waldman (she/her): What feels authentic to my soul being a channel for God and living with that.
00:39:40.020 --> 00:40:04.140 Dani Waldman (she/her): And also that we are all humans, we are all messy and that it's okay like it's all okay and you know none of us have it figured out to a tee. And yeah, I mean, that's what I always tell people I work with. I'm like, I'm trying to figure this out right along next to you. That's good. So, yeah.
00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:08.490 Georgeann Dau: Beautiful. Yeah. In the
00:40:10.710 --> 00:40:11.130 You know,
00:40:14.640 --> 00:40:18.510 Georgeann Dau: God sent His Son Jesus walked the face of the earth.
00:40:20.310 --> 00:40:45.330 Georgeann Dau: Guided so much with that. But for us to see how it would be to be human, as we would strive with God's help coming into our own to discover our own divinity, because God lives in us and through us and for us to ask where God is is like a fish asking where the water is
00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:49.140 Georgeann Dau: So,
00:40:51.480 --> 00:41:04.620 Georgeann Dau: In the original Greek texts and I'm bringing this up, Danny because you were talking about the brooms sleeping out what's old they speak of it is what's called ketosis. Ketosis is
00:41:06.510 --> 00:41:34.470 Georgeann Dau: The process of plumbing the depths of the well plumbing the depths of ourselves the depths of what's inside of us breaking through that hard impacted soil that hard compacted soil to loosen it up and break it up so that in the loosening of it. It can come up
00:41:35.580 --> 00:41:39.780 Georgeann Dau: And in that we died the full self.
00:41:41.370 --> 00:41:44.520 Georgeann Dau: Which is Jesus on the cross.
00:41:45.660 --> 00:41:46.380 Georgeann Dau: And
00:41:47.940 --> 00:41:51.270 Georgeann Dau: We are transmuted and transfigured.
00:41:54.480 --> 00:42:10.470 Georgeann Dau: As we transcend and we go through the dying and the rising all the time as part of our growth and development. We have to die to what is old and not working.
00:42:11.490 --> 00:42:11.850 Georgeann Dau: What
00:42:13.200 --> 00:42:17.880 Georgeann Dau: isn't supporting our growth and development and path.
00:42:19.140 --> 00:42:20.310 Georgeann Dau: It has to die.
00:42:21.510 --> 00:42:34.500 Georgeann Dau: As we grow into a closer and fuller place of God in us. So it's a rising and dying a rising and dying as we live our lives.
00:42:36.720 --> 00:42:37.290 Georgeann Dau: And
00:42:38.700 --> 00:42:42.960 Georgeann Dau: One of the things I love about being Catholic and again I chose this
00:42:43.590 --> 00:42:52.470 Georgeann Dau: God chose me. You know, when people say, what about your journey. I didn't really choose anything. You know, it was really God was seeking me as God does all of us.
00:42:53.430 --> 00:43:11.070 Georgeann Dau: But if there's a richness to the. It's a beautiful face the richness of the art of the colors of the the antiquity, the history and, of course, for me, the truth of what Jesus did, and who he is.
00:43:13.500 --> 00:43:36.720 Georgeann Dau: And died to give us the Holy Spirit, so that in us and through us. We can awaken because Jesus said, I have to go do this so that I can maybe, apparently, which is the helper. So we have the Holy Spirit in us that moves in us and speaks to us from the inside as well as the outside in.
00:43:39.630 --> 00:43:41.070 Georgeann Dau: But truly
00:43:42.180 --> 00:43:42.780 Georgeann Dau: Yes.
00:43:43.860 --> 00:43:52.200 Georgeann Dau: I think it's a grace. What I was saying about Catholicism Christianity. It is a blessing and a grace to be able to become uncomfortable.
00:43:54.450 --> 00:44:03.000 Georgeann Dau: You know, and in psychoanalysis. This is some of the things that I help people with is to be able to recognize that we're not our feelings.
00:44:05.250 --> 00:44:17.610 Georgeann Dau: We're not at all of the things that we would like to define us the hair. The clothes the makeup my education. This that none of it defines us our feelings don't define us
00:44:18.150 --> 00:44:28.440 Georgeann Dau: The only thing that defines us is love. That's it. And the only thing we take with us when we leave here is what we've given nothing else. And, you know,
00:44:29.610 --> 00:44:51.060 Georgeann Dau: In this place, the more work we do, the more capacity, the more depth in the work delving deeper that we do, the more of a capacity, we can have to be uncomfortable as we die to the false self.
00:44:52.080 --> 00:44:53.880 Georgeann Dau: And let the true self emerge.
00:44:55.200 --> 00:45:03.150 Georgeann Dau: So I think it's important to be able to be uncomfortable. Yeah, Danny. That's what I got out of what you're saying. So, um,
00:45:04.230 --> 00:45:12.000 Georgeann Dau: What if someone doesn't agree with you, a truth. What if someone doesn't agree with it. What if someone doesn't embrace it.
00:45:14.190 --> 00:45:14.610 Yeah.
00:45:16.440 --> 00:45:17.100 I mean,
00:45:19.080 --> 00:45:23.730 Dani Waldman (she/her): Yeah, that happens that absolutely happens and
00:45:25.170 --> 00:45:35.130 Dani Waldman (she/her): We have a choice. We always have. We have a choice with that and the choices. I can continue to honor myself or
00:45:36.210 --> 00:45:38.370 Dani Waldman (she/her): I can bend for this person.
00:45:39.540 --> 00:45:44.940 Dani Waldman (she/her): So what do I what do I want to do, and someone doesn't agree with it.
00:45:46.200 --> 00:46:05.370 Dani Waldman (she/her): It's, yeah, this has happened to me many times it's so uncomfortable and it her and it can be hurtful, especially when it's someone that we really love and it's uncomfortable. So, you know, we can be with the feelings like you always say to me be with the feelings and continue to
00:46:06.600 --> 00:46:23.670 Dani Waldman (she/her): Live in that space of truth speak that truth. And I think right now with everything that's happening in the world. Many people are speaking their truth and saying what they want to say. And it's not sitting with everyone.
00:46:25.260 --> 00:46:25.800 Georgeann Dau: And
00:46:31.860 --> 00:46:45.360 Georgeann Dau: Like, I think the differences between us all are really important. And not everyone is going to embrace what we're talking about. Not everyone is going to embrace it, it doesn't make
00:46:46.620 --> 00:46:57.900 Georgeann Dau: Them wrong and us right at all. It doesn't mean anything like that. It's a difference. And if everyone could just allow the difference to exist.
00:46:58.410 --> 00:47:15.690 Georgeann Dau: And embrace it in the fullness that we're all connected. We're just different. It would be a very different place to live. It doesn't make me wrong and memorize them right and it has nothing to do with that. But if we would just
00:47:17.370 --> 00:47:20.460 Georgeann Dau: Recognize that we're all love and
00:47:21.480 --> 00:47:24.660 Georgeann Dau: Come from that in a place of acceptance.
00:47:27.870 --> 00:47:35.070 Georgeann Dau: We can let another be we can net let another live we can let another live
00:47:36.990 --> 00:47:37.290 You know,
00:47:38.760 --> 00:47:42.720 Georgeann Dau: I think there were so many challenges with that.
00:47:44.160 --> 00:47:47.610 Georgeann Dau: And generally what we need to judge
00:47:49.170 --> 00:47:54.180 Georgeann Dau: Is inside of ourselves that we haven't reconciled. So we projected outward
00:47:55.230 --> 00:47:55.800 Georgeann Dau: And
00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:13.170 Georgeann Dau: We look to make wrong outwardly that we cannot look at ourselves and face. So we're going to take a couple minute break. And I want to thank you for joining us tonight and we'll be right back.
00:50:36.780 --> 00:50:38.130 Georgeann Dau: Hi, welcome back.
00:50:39.360 --> 00:50:40.680 Georgeann Dau: To the journey through
00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:47.160 Georgeann Dau: I'm Dr. George and down when we have Daniel world made with us tonight so
00:50:51.600 --> 00:51:06.360 Georgeann Dau: We often think that there's a place to get to know there's a woman I know is just so terrific or so and you know she's always looking to and she's changed Latins way.
00:51:07.950 --> 00:51:16.380 Georgeann Dau: To arrive somewhere, you know, we're on this journey we're all looking to arrive somewhere. Um, and
00:51:18.120 --> 00:51:18.540 Georgeann Dau: You know,
00:51:19.560 --> 00:51:40.740 Georgeann Dau: We like to think that there's an endpoint, you know, many times for me when I look at that many times, this isn't in this woman's case. But when I look at it as a as an overall picture or footprint that our ego loves to our ego doesn't want to change, but our ego.
00:51:43.770 --> 00:51:56.730 Georgeann Dau: Loves to be able to go wow I did that right. Good job. Good job. And there's nothing wrong with acknowledging where we've where we've come from and you know where we've landed in the moment, but
00:51:59.220 --> 00:52:11.250 Georgeann Dau: I think we we sort of count on that there's an endpoint that we're headed right how do we learn to be in the presence, while we're looking forward to the future.
00:52:13.380 --> 00:52:21.180 Dani Waldman (she/her): Danny. Yeah, well, we definitely love to like to look to the future and plan and
00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:28.560 Dani Waldman (she/her): Think about all the things that we have to do. We love the doing like I said before, you know, this is also
00:52:31.260 --> 00:52:43.710 Dani Waldman (she/her): The systems that are around us and what we've been told is right and successful. And yeah, so I just, I also want to name that because I think that's really important.
00:52:45.780 --> 00:52:55.710 Dani Waldman (she/her): And I think, again, bringing it back into the body is really helpful and supportive
00:52:56.430 --> 00:53:04.680 Dani Waldman (she/her): As we start to think about all the things that we have to do. And when we start to feel like there's an end point, there's a point that we have to get to. It's like the
00:53:05.400 --> 00:53:24.030 Dani Waldman (she/her): I like to call it the if then context. So it's like if I have this thing, then I'll get what I need. If I have the relationship, the clothes. The, the house. The, the fancy job.
00:53:25.170 --> 00:53:36.570 Dani Waldman (she/her): Then I'll be happy and we're always trying to reach this you know thing of happiness. And that's what we've been told, we should all be happy all the time.
00:53:38.100 --> 00:53:41.430 Georgeann Dau: Which is so true like
00:53:42.900 --> 00:53:44.820 Georgeann Dau: Life isn't about being happy. Oh.
00:53:44.850 --> 00:53:56.580 Dani Waldman (she/her): Totally. Totally. And I remember saying this to you again. There are so many conversations that we've had that, you know, our little imprints in my, in my my brain and
00:53:57.330 --> 00:54:05.100 Dani Waldman (she/her): I remember, I remember saying to once I just want to be happy with this thing and you were like, it's not about being happy.
00:54:05.730 --> 00:54:15.150 Dani Waldman (she/her): And you know, I really get it, I get it. And, and when I first started this work. When I first got into coaching. I was all about positivity and
00:54:15.540 --> 00:54:23.550 Dani Waldman (she/her): Like, let's just you feel sad. We're just going to journal our way out of it. We're going to, we're going to do a bunch of mindset work, and now I'm just like,
00:54:24.390 --> 00:54:36.240 Dani Waldman (she/her): Well, we're going to talk about all the things that are uncomfortable and go into the deep dark depths of the underworld and a lot of people are just kind of thinking, I don't really want to know thing. So I'm going to pass on that. But anyway, um,
00:54:37.290 --> 00:54:52.230 Dani Waldman (she/her): Yeah, I think that's something to recognize, you know, when we and and I do this all the time. I think if I have, you know, X amount of clients. Then I'm not going to have any worries and it's it's not, that's not reality there's always something else.
00:54:53.850 --> 00:55:02.070 Dani Waldman (she/her): And I, and I think the thing, the gift that we can give ourselves, which is so much about what we're talking about. And the premises of this podcast is
00:55:02.910 --> 00:55:13.560 Dani Waldman (she/her): Is because bringing a state of awareness into our space learning more about ourselves being with it, making mistakes, recognizing
00:55:14.070 --> 00:55:29.220 Dani Waldman (she/her): And you know, when we recognize it's not like we have to change. We don't have to change all the things we're just recognizing it and and ask ourselves those questions. And over time, we start to see that the observation bring some type of action.
00:55:30.300 --> 00:55:45.330 Georgeann Dau: Yes, yes. And I love the word action instead of reaction, because the more we become awake, the more we become aware, then we have a truer view of who you're
00:55:46.140 --> 00:56:04.560 Georgeann Dau: A view of what we want our life to be about and we begin to choose how we want to show up in the world instead of reacting to the outer world in a way where we are uncomfortable from within.
00:56:05.220 --> 00:56:22.170 Georgeann Dau: Looking to projected outward. And that's a whole nother show on its own so Danny is so we have to end. I could be here with you all night. So, hello, great to spend time with you this way. Thank you so much for being our guest, would you come back on again.
00:56:22.500 --> 00:56:32.070 Dani Waldman (she/her): I would love to. This was so much fun. I could talk about this stuff for hours. So anytime you want. I will do it. Thank you so much for having me. I hope
00:56:32.070 --> 00:56:36.240 Dani Waldman (she/her): Everyone enjoyed and just so grateful. Thank you so much.
00:56:36.270 --> 00:56:46.470 Georgeann Dau: Thank you so much. Thank you. God bless. Let us end in a real brief prayer, if I may, I don't know if we have time, but I'm going to try
00:56:48.150 --> 00:56:57.180 Georgeann Dau: Oh, great love. Thank you for living and loving in us and through us may all that we do flow from our deep connection with you and or beings.
00:56:57.570 --> 00:57:14.490 Georgeann Dau: Help us become a community that vulnerability shares each other's burdens and the weight of glory, knowing that you are hearing us better than we are speaking we offer all our prayers in all the holy names of God.
00:57:15.540 --> 00:57:16.080 Georgeann Dau: Amen.
00:57:18.510 --> 00:57:28.170 Georgeann Dau: Thank you so much. I could have certainly prayed a little differently. But I wanted, I always feel a little rushed at the end because I don't want to run over.
00:57:28.590 --> 00:57:39.690 Georgeann Dau: Thank you so much. And I want to thank everyone on board to make this broadcast available to us. They do a great job. Thanks, Sam. Okay. Good night. | <urn:uuid:6ba9cc7b-8bf8-4449-a827-05f86864472d> | https://www.talkradio.nyc/post/2020-11-02-discovering-self-through-spirituality | en | 0.966952 | 0.025299 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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The majority of attempts to quit addiction never make it beyond the withdrawal symptoms stage. The physical discomfort and cravings that occur when the addicted person abstains from alcohol or drugs means that it will always be tempting to just give up. There is also the risk of these symptoms being so severe that the person needs to be medically supervised in order to stay safe. Here are just seven tips for dealing with withdrawal symptoms successfully.
1. Determine if You Need a Medically Supervised Withdrawal
If you have been abusing drugs such as alcohol heavily for a long time, there is a chance that you could experience severe withdrawal symptoms (delirium tremens). In this situation, it is vital that you have a medically supervised detox. Unfortunately, it can be hard to determine who is going to have severe withdrawals beforehand, so it is probably best to err on the side of caution.
2. Choose to Go to Detox Even if You Don’t Expect Severe Withdrawals
Even if you are expecting your withdrawal symptoms to be relatively mild, it is still a good idea to enter a detox programme anyway. Being in this environment means that you can be supported through the process, and there will be medications available that can ease your symptoms as well – this increases your likelihood of succeeding. Most rehabs offer a detox as part of their package, so it is recommended that you choose this option if you have not yet quit alcohol or drugs.
3. Have a Solid Reason for Becoming Sober
When entering the withdrawal stage, it will be helpful if you have a clear, solid, and compelling reason for becoming sober. Once these symptoms become unpleasant, it can prevent you from thinking clearly; as long as you have your reasons for quitting clear in your mind, it can act as a beacon to guide you through this period. If you are ambivalent towards recovery (i.e. you are doing it because you feel you ‘should’ rather than because you ‘want’ to), you are less likely to see withdrawals through to the end.
4. Get Some Support
Going through withdrawals will always be harder if you are going it alone. There may be moments during the process when you feel weak, but the right support will help get you through these times. Being around people who understand what you are going through can be a huge help; it also means you can benefit from the experience of these individuals.
5. Understand that Acute Withdrawals Only Last for a Short Time
Withdrawal symptoms are, for the most part, similar to having a bad cold or a mild flu. You are likely to experience a bit of discomfort, but it will not last too long. The fact that you know your symptoms is only temporary means you should not find them too hard to cope with. It is the knowledge that you could so easily escape these symptoms that makes them feel harder to deal with.
6. Keep Yourself Distracted
One of the most effective tools for dealing with withdrawal symptoms is distraction. If you dwell on your discomfort too much, it can have the effect of intensifying it. By finding things to keep you busy, you will not have so much time to be thinking about your symptoms, which makes these much easier to deal with. The worst thing you can do is just lay in bed and feel sorry for yourself, as this will mean suffering unnecessarily.
7. Don’t Expect the Worst
A self-fulfilling prophecy refers to a situation in which the act of predicting an event causes this event to happen. If you expect your withdrawals to be bad, you could end up focusing so much on your symptoms that they do feel much worse than they should. If you have a more positive outlook about the withdrawal process, you will find things much easier to cope with.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Them's Soggy Words!
It's raining; it's pouring.
The old man is snoring.
He went to bed and bumped his head,
And he couldn't get up in the morning.
I hate to be a weather reporter here, but it's a big story in Upstate New York. It's raining--hard--which is something this already flooded area definitely does not need.
Yesterday I looked at the creek across the street. It's calmed down some but isn't back into its banks yet. There's still water in yards, garages and even flowing straight through a family's barn. Straight through. As in it's made a river through their building.
Now, more rain. Heavy. And we're already very splishy and splashy here. Sheesh.
You know what I'll be doing today, don't you? That's right. It's all about the book here this week. Yesterday I did manage to can tomatoes and make some applesauce (mostly because I'd filled one sink with tomatoes and apples!) but otherwise I kept my behind in the chair and my fingers on the keyboard. Today, more of the same.
Maria asked if I have a deadline in my head for finishing. I always do. And this book is about two weeks ahead of schedule because I've been so determined to make it work. I've just been single-minded about finishing it. I know I've got to do this, for so many reasons.
Maybe it's the old get back on the horse thing, I don't know. I'm just sure that my getting through what's going on in my life includes my successfully completing this book. Actually, I usually work much more quickly. I've given myself permission to meander a bit on this, recognizing I'm grieving so the added pressure of the "normal" deadline shouldn't apply. This book is longer than any other I've written, too, so I've added a bit for that. Still, I hoped to be done by October 1st but plan to be writing "The End" by this time next week. Fingers crossed!
I hope I'm not boring the heck out of you with all this book talk. I don't mean to. It's front and center in my head now and, thankfully, pushes even the sound of heavy falling rain to the background.
What's new in your world? Whatever you're doing, I hope you're staying dry. Have a peaceful day!
Anonymous said...
I'm just so glad you are writing again. it must be hard. stay with it!
Sue W.
Maria Zannini said...
I think you're doing great. So many people wallow in grief until it consumes them. You're living life and I think that would make your hubby proud.
Jess said...
It's hard to think you are getting more rain. When will it end in your part of the country?
Dru said...
I heard there was a tornado upstate..was it near you?
I love that your book is coming along and I can see you smiling as you type.
sharon said...
rain rain go away!
Shearer's Girl said...
Two weeks ahead - that's brilliant! Hope the weather improves, the last thing you need is more rain. | <urn:uuid:61e104f2-109c-4a8c-bc2f-52bea1136ede> | http://saritaleone.blogspot.com/2011/09/thems-soggy-words.html?widgetType=BlogArchive&widgetId=BlogArchive1&action=toggle&dir=open&toggle=MONTHLY-1238558400000&toggleopen=MONTHLY-1314849600000 | en | 0.981798 | 0.094731 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Oil sands
What are oil sands?
Oil sands “Tar Sands” Credit: Suncor Energy Inc.
What are oil sands?
Oil sands, Tar sands or, more technically, bituminous sands, are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit.
Oil sands are either loose sands or partially consolidated sandstone containing a naturally occurring mixture of sand, clay, and water, saturated with a dense and extremely viscous form of petroleum technically referred to as bitumen (or colloquially tar due to its similar appearance, odour, and colour). Natural bitumen deposits are reported in many countries, but in particular are found in extremely large quantities in Canada. Other large reserves are located in Kazakhstan and Russia. The estimated worldwide deposits of oil are more than 2 trillion barrels (320 billion cubic metres); the estimates include deposits that have not been discovered. Proven reserves of bitumen contain approximately 100 billion barrels, and total natural bitumen reserves are estimated at 249.67 Gbbl (39.694×109 m3) worldwide, of which 176.8 Gbbl (28.11×109 m3), or 70.8%, are in Alberta, Canada.
The crude bitumen contained in the Canadian oil sands is described by the National Energy Board of Canada as “a highly viscous mixture of hydrocarbons heavier than pentanes which, in its natural state, is not usually recoverable at a commercial rate through a well because it is too thick to flow.” Crude bitumen is a thick, sticky form of crude oil, so heavy and viscous (thick) that it will not flow unless heated or diluted with lighter hydrocarbons such as light crude oil or natural-gas condensate. At room temperature, it is much like cold molasses. The World Energy Council (WEC) defines natural bitumen as “oil having a viscosity greater than 10,000 centipoise under reservoir conditions and an API gravity of less than 10° API”. The Orinoco Belt in Venezuela is sometimes described as oil sands, but these deposits are non-bituminous, falling instead into the category of heavy or extra-heavy oil due to their lower viscosity. Natural bitumen and extra-heavy oil differ in the degree by which they have been degraded from the original conventional oils by bacteria. According to the WEC, extra-heavy oil has “a gravity of less than 10° API and a reservoir viscosity of no more than 10,000 centipoise”.
Tar sandstone from the Monterey Formation of Miocene age (10 to 12 million years old), of southern California, USA. Credit: James St. John
According to the study ordered by the Government of Alberta and conducted by Jacobs Engineering Group, emissions from oil-sand crude are 12% higher than from conventional oil.
The exploitation of bituminous deposits and seeps dates back to Paleolithic times. The earliest known use of bitumen was by Neanderthals, some 40,000 years ago. Bitumen has been found adhering to stone tools used by Neanderthals at sites in Syria. After the arrival of Homo sapiens, humans used bitumen for construction of buildings and waterproofing of reed boats, among other uses. In ancient Egypt, the use of bitumen was important in preparing Egyptian mummies.
In ancient times, bitumen was primarily a Mesopotamian commodity used by the Sumerians and Babylonians, although it was also found in the Levant and Persia. The area along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers was littered with hundreds of pure bitumen seepages. The Mesopotamians used the bitumen for waterproofing boats and buildings. In Europe, they were extensively mined near the French city of Pechelbronn, where the vapour separation process was in use in 1742.
The name tar sands was applied to bituminous sands in the late 19th and early 20th century. People who saw the bituminous sands during this period were familiar with the large amounts of tar residue produced in urban areas as a by-product of the manufacture of coal gas for urban heating and lighting. The word “tar” to describe these natural bitumen deposits is really a misnomer, since, chemically speaking, tar is a human-made substance produced by the destructive distillation of organic material, usually coal.
Since then, coal gas has almost completely been replaced by natural gas as a fuel, and coal tar as a material for paving roads has been replaced by the petroleum product asphalt. Naturally occurring bitumen is chemically more similar to asphalt than to coal tar, and the term oil sands (or oilsands) is more commonly used by industry in the producing areas than tar sands because synthetic oil is manufactured from the bitumen, and due to the feeling that the terminology of tar sands is less politically acceptable to the public. Oil sands are now an alternative to conventional crude oil.
Early explorers
In Canada, the First Nation peoples had used bitumen from seeps along the Athabasca and Clearwater Rivers to waterproof their birch bark canoes from early prehistoric times. The Canadian oil sands first became known to Europeans in 1719 when a Cree native named Wa-Pa-Su brought a sample to Hudsons Bay Company fur trader Henry Kelsey, who commented on it in his journals. Fur trader Peter Pond paddled down the Clearwater River to Athabasca in 1778, saw the deposits and wrote of “springs of bitumen that flow along the ground.” In 1787, fur trader and explorer Alexander MacKenzie on his way to the Arctic Ocean saw the Athabasca oil sands, and commented, “At about 24 miles from the fork (of the Athabasca and Clearwater Rivers) are some bituminous fountains into which a pole of 20 feet long may be inserted without the least resistance.”
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The world’s largest oil sands are in Venezuela and Canada. The geology of the deposits in the two countries is generally rather similar. They are vast heavy oil, extra-heavy oil, and/or bitumen deposits with oil heavier than 20°API, found largely in unconsolidated sandstones with similar properties. “Unconsolidated” in this context means that the sands have high porosity, no significant cohesion, and a tensile strength close to zero. The sands are saturated with oil which has prevented them from consolidating into hard sandstone.
Major deposits
There are numerous deposits of oil sands in the world, but the biggest and most important are in Canada and Venezuela, with lesser deposits in Kazakhstan and Russia. The total volume of non-conventional oil in the oil sands of these countries exceeds the reserves of conventional oil in all other countries combined. Vast deposits of bitumen – over 350 billion cubic metres (2.2 trillion barrels) of oil in place – exist in the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. If only 30% of this oil could be extracted, it could supply the entire needs of North America for over 100 years. These deposits represent plentiful oil, but not cheap oil. They require advanced technology to extract the oil and transport it to oil refineries.
Most of the Canadian oil sands are in three major deposits in northern Alberta. They are the Athabasca-Wabiskaw oil sands of north northeastern Alberta, the Cold Lake deposits of east northeastern Alberta, and the Peace River deposits of northwestern Alberta. Between them, they cover over 140,000 square kilometres (54,000 sq mi)—an area larger than England—and contain approximately 1.75 Tbbl (280×109 m3) of crude bitumen in them. About 10% of the oil in place, or 173 Gbbl (27.5×109 m3), is estimated by the government of Alberta to be recoverable at current prices, using current technology, which amounts to 97% of Canadian oil reserves and 75% of total North American petroleum reserves. Although the Athabasca deposit is the only one in the world which has areas shallow enough to mine from the surface, all three Alberta areas are suitable for production using in-situ methods, such as cyclic steam stimulation (CSS) and steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD).
Bituminous sands are a major source of unconventional oil, although only Canada has a large-scale commercial oil sands industry. In 2006, bitumen production in Canada averaged 1.25 Mbbl/d (200,000 m3/d) through 81 oil sands projects. 44% of Canadian oil production in 2007 was from oil sands. This proportion is expected to increase in coming decades as bitumen production grows while conventional oil production declines, although due to the 2008 economic downturn work on new projects has been deferred. Petroleum is not produced from oil sands on a significant level in other countries.
Methods of extraction
Except for a fraction of the extra-heavy oil or bitumen which can be extracted by conventional oil well technology, oil sands must be produced by strip mining or the oil made to flow into wells using sophisticated in-situ techniques. These methods usually use more water and require larger amounts of energy than conventional oil extraction. While much of Canada’s oil sands are being produced using open-pit mining, approximately 90% of Canadian oil sands and all of Venezuela’s oil sands are too far below the surface to use surface mining.
Primary production
Conventional crude oil is normally extracted from the ground by drilling oil wells into a petroleum reservoir, allowing oil to flow into them under natural reservoir pressures, although artificial lift and techniques such as horizontal drilling, water flooding and gas injection are often required to maintain production. When primary production is used in the Venezuelan oil sands, where the extra-heavy oil is about 50 degrees Celsius, the typical oil recovery rates are about 8-12%. Canadian oil sands are much colder and more biodegraded, so bitumen recovery rates are usually only about 5-6%. Historically, primary recovery was used in the more fluid areas of Canadian oil sands. However, it recovered only a small fraction of the oil in place, so it not often used today.
Surface mining
The Athabasca oil sands are the only major oil sands deposits which are shallow enough to surface mine. In the Athabasca sands there are very large amounts of bitumen covered by little overburden, making surface mining the most efficient method of extracting it. The overburden consists of water-laden muskeg (peat bog) over top of clay and barren sand. The oil sands themselves are typically 40 to 60 metres (130 to 200 ft) thick deposits of crude bitumen embedded in unconsolidated sandstone, sitting on top of flat limestone rock. Since Great Canadian Oil Sands (now Suncor Energy) started operation of the first large-scale oil sands mine in 1967, bitumen has been extracted on a commercial scale and the volume has grown at a steady rate ever since.
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A large number of oil sands mines are currently in operation and more are in the stages of approval or development. The Syncrude Canada mine was the second to open in 1978, Shell Canada opened its Muskeg River mine (Albian Sands) in 2003 and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd (CNRL) opened its Horizon Oil Sands project in 2009. Newer mines include Shell Canada’s Jackpine mine, Imperial Oil’s Kearl Oil Sands Project, the Synenco Energy (now owned by Total S.A.) Northern Lights mine, and Suncor’s Fort Hills mine.
Oil sands tailings ponds
Oil sands tailings ponds are engineered dam and dyke systems that contain salts, suspended solids and other dissolvable chemical compounds such as acids, benzene, hydrocarbons residual bitumen, fine silts (mature fine tails MFT), and water. Large volumes of tailings are a byproduct of surface mining of the oil sands and managing these tailings is one of the most difficult environmental challenges facing the oil sands industry. The Government of Alberta reported in 2013 that tailings ponds in the Alberta oil sands covered an area of about 77 square kilometres (30 sq mi). The Syncrude Tailings Dam or Mildred Lake Settling Basin (MLSB) is an embankment dam that is, by volume of construction material, the largest earth structure in the world in 2001.
Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS)
Some years ago Canadian oil companies discovered that if they removed the sand filters from heavy oil wells and produced as much sand as possible with the oil, production rates improved significantly. This technique became known as Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS). Further research disclosed that pumping out sand opened “wormholes” in the sand formation which allowed more oil to reach the wellbore. The advantage of this method is better production rates and recovery (around 10% versus 5-6% with sand filters in place) and the disadvantage that disposing of the produced sand is a problem. A novel way to do this was spreading it on rural roads, which rural governments liked because the oily sand reduced dust and the oil companies did their road maintenance for them. However, governments have become concerned about the large volume and composition of oil spread on roads. so in recent years disposing of oily sand in underground salt caverns has become more common.
Cyclic Steam Stimulation (CSS)
The use of steam injection to recover heavy oil has been in use in the oil fields of California since the 1950s. The cyclic steam stimulation (CSS) “huff-and-puff” method is now widely used in heavy oil production world-wide due to its quick early production rates; however recovery factors are relatively low (10-40% of oil in place) compared to SAGD (60-70% of OIP).
Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD)
Steam assisted gravity drainage was developed in the 1980s by the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority and fortuitously coincided with improvements in directional drilling technology that made it quick and inexpensive to do by the mid 1990s. In SAGD, two horizontal wells are drilled in the oil sands, one at the bottom of the formation and another about 5 metres above it. These wells are typically drilled in groups off central pads and can extend for miles in all directions. In each well pair, steam is injected into the upper well, the heat melts the bitumen, which allows it to flow into the lower well, where it is pumped to the surface.
SAGD has proved to be a major breakthrough in production technology since it is cheaper than CSS, allows very high oil production rates, and recovers up to 60% of the oil in place. Because of its economic feasibility and applicability to a vast area of oil sands, this method alone quadrupled North American oil reserves and allowed Canada to move to second place in world oil reserves after Saudi Arabia. Most major Canadian oil companies now have SAGD projects in production or under construction in Alberta’s oil sands areas and in Wyoming. Examples include Japan Canada Oil Sands Ltd’s (JACOS) project, Suncor’s Firebag project, Nexen’s Long Lake project, Suncor’s (formerly Petro-Canada’s) MacKay River project, Husky Energy’s Tucker Lake and Sunrise projects, Shell Canada’s Peace River project, Cenovus Energy’s Foster Creek and Christina Lake developments, ConocoPhillips’ Surmont project, Devon Canada’s Jackfish project, and Derek Oil & Gas’s LAK Ranch project. Alberta’s OSUM Corp has combined proven underground mining technology with SAGD to enable higher recovery rates by running wells underground from within the oil sands deposit, thus also reducing energy requirements compared to traditional SAGD. This particular technology application is in its testing phase.
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Vapor Extraction (VAPEX)
Several methods use solvents, instead of steam, to separate bitumen from sand. Some solvent extraction methods may work better in in situ production and other in mining. Solvent can be beneficial if it produces more oil while requiring less energy to produce steam.
Vapor Extraction Process (VAPEX) is an in situ technology, similar to SAGD. Instead of steam, hydrocarbon solvents are injected into an upper well to dilute bitumen and enables the diluted bitumen to flow into a lower well. It has the advantage of much better energy efficiency over steam injection, and it does some partial upgrading of bitumen to oil right in the formation. The process has attracted attention from oil companies, who are experimenting with it.
The above methods are not mutually exclusive. It is becoming common for wells to be put through one CSS injection-soak-production cycle to condition the formation prior to going to SAGD production, and companies are experimenting with combining VAPEX with SAGD to improve recovery rates and lower energy costs.
Toe to Heel Air Injection (THAI)
This is a very new and experimental method that combines a vertical air injection well with a horizontal production well. The process ignites oil in the reservoir and creates a vertical wall of fire moving from the “toe” of the horizontal well toward the “heel”, which burns the heavier oil components and upgrades some of the heavy bitumen into lighter oil right in the formation. Historically fireflood projects have not worked out well because of difficulty in controlling the flame front and a propensity to set the producing wells on fire. However, some oil companies feel the THAI method will be more controllable and practical, and have the advantage of not requiring energy to create steam.
Advocates of this method of extraction state that it uses less freshwater, produces 50% less greenhouse gases, and has a smaller footprint than other production techniques.
Petrobank Energy and Resources has reported encouraging results from their test wells in Alberta, with production rates of up to 400 bbl/d (64 m3/d) per well, and the oil upgraded from 8 to 12 API degrees. The company hopes to get a further 7-degree upgrade from its CAPRI (controlled atmospheric pressure resin infusion) system, which pulls the oil through a catalyst lining the lower pipe.
After several years of production in situ, it has become clear that current THAI methods do not work as planned. Amid steady drops in production from their THAI wells at Kerrobert, Petrobank has written down the value of their THAI patents and the reserves at the facility to zero. They have plans to experiment with a new configuration they call “multi-THAI,” involving adding more air injection wells.
Combustion Overhead Gravity Drainage (COGD)
This is an experimental method that employs a number of vertical air injection wells above a horizontal production well located at the base of the bitumen pay zone. An initial Steam Cycle similar to CSS is used to prepare the bitumen for ignition and mobility. Following that cycle, air is injected into the vertical wells, igniting the upper bitumen and mobilizing (through heating) the lower bitumen to flow into the production well. It is expected that COGD will result in water savings of 80% compared to SAGD
The world’s largest deposits of bitumen are in Canada, although Venezuela’s deposits of extra-heavy crude oil are even bigger. Canada has vast energy resources of all types and its oil and natural gas resource base is large enough to meet Canadian needs for generations. Abundant hydroelectric resources account for the majority of Canada’s electricity production and very little electricity is produced from oil. Since Canada will have more than enough energy to meet its growing needs, the excess oil production from its oil sands will probably go to export. The major importing country will probably continue to be the United States, although there is increasing demand for oil, particularly heavy oil, from growing in Asian countries such as China and India.
Canada has abundant resources of bitumen and crude oil, with an estimated remaining ultimate potential of 54 billion cubic metres (340 billion barrels). Of this, oil sands bitumen accounts for 90 per cent. Alberta currently accounts for all of Canada’s bitumen resources. Resources become reserves only after it is proven that economic recovery can be achieved. At current prices using current technology, Canada has remaining oil reserves of 27 billion m3 (170 billion bbls), with 98 per cent of this attributed to oil sands bitumen. This puts its reserves in third place in the world behind Venezuela and Saudi Arabia.
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2. Professionals in the laboratory are twice as likely to suffer from musculoskeletal injuries caused by work as compared to ordinary employees
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4. As the working time of pipetting increases and the age becomes larger, the probability of laboratory staff suffering from thumb syndrome also increases.
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Hi there. Actually this story developed after a conversation with someone from here and recollecting my memories, by putting them over the top, and ar beyond that. But I guess the story will be quite strange, since it originates in the reality. So I will give you the first chapter:
Shortly after his 20th birthday John had to move to a new city. His daddy was employed by the police force of the small mid European state Winterburg in the center of the continent. In that position he changes his working place every five years. That is the reason John had to change his former college class and go to a new school. Winterburg is famous of having a long-standing school system, so Winterburger students do not start before reaching 21. With his 20 year old classmates John agrees that the school should finally end and they wanted to start working or their studies. Unfortunately enough most of them have to serve in the military for 9 months, after the school, which most consider as nearly death sentence. At least he gets new impressions of his new city and learn to socialize with his new classmates. Interestingly his class consisted of 15 girls and 5 boys.
In Winterburg most males start working with the age of 17, with the ending of the obligatory school and the higher schools are mostly populated by females, both as scholars and as teachers. Only two males serve as teacher for his new class, the sport teacher and the mathematics teacher. The other teachers he got are females. His classmates looked rather ordinary, not bad-looking and all quite nice, what you expect in the case of 15 20 year old young females. He remarked a girl called Jessica. She was a sporty young girl, with short blond hair, just like Doris Day in her better days.
'That would be a good match', thought John.
So far he had not much success in finding a girl and that troubled him and even more his father. He had become a quite old boy, who never had a girl friend. Actually being around so many female classmates and even worser female teachers also does not increase his interest in the other gender. Horribly enough, his class teacher, the english and french teacher is an older, he guessed over 40 years old, female with short brown hair. She seem not to have breasts, but he was not able to confirm, because of the ugly clothes she wears, at least today. John immediately thought to see one of the most unattractive females he ever saw.
The first contact didn't went well. He had to present himself in the first french lesson and while after saying his name and going to his hobbies, she looked at him with dangerous blinking eyes and said:
You use the beautiful french language the same way as an SS officer in a cheap war movie, but you do not only sound like one, you also look like one. I am sure for that you will be punished!' With that she continued teaching without further addressing, or even taking a note of him.
'That does not start well', does John think, 'and it is not good for the final year in a school.'
He looks helplessly at Jessica, the admired girl was sitting left to him for help. But she seems to smile, obviously amusing herself about the happening. She is really not the great help he desperately looks for. So the lessons continues endlessly in the eyes of John. Finally the french lesson ended. After that there was a biology lesson, but before John managed to talk to Jessica.
'What kind of punishment do you have in your school, do I have to clean up the cabinets, help the janitor or do some copying out of a book?' he asks her.
She looks at him rather astonished, 'Nothing of these things, you do not know our punishments?'
,Never mind, it will be the same stuff as on every school, I will not have any problem of sitting that punishment out', he replied.
'Some enjoy it', she replies with a astonished look, 'I didn't thoughyou are that kind of boy, well with sitting you might get some problems later.'
'What do you mind with problem with sitting', an astonished John asks, but then the bell shouted and Jessica run into the biology room.
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The misbehave of John....
The biology lesson was about evolution theory, you guessed. John was annoyed. But also that lesson finally ended and the sport lesson will start after the long break. John went down to the sport facilities in the basement.
The sport facilities were quite impressive. One of the former students made a good living in the computer industry and spent some money to the college. After the stairs you go to the right side to the men's changing rooms on the left side to the female changing rooms. Behind the mens room was a shower and from the shower you enter the gym. The left side had also showers and behind female showers there was a reasonably large swimming pool of 25m. Huge and expensive!
The females could walk behind the showers of the men to the gym and the males could walk behind the females shower to the bathing facilities.
Today the setup was the following: First the males of the class, all five, had their gym whilst the females were swimming. In the second lesson the males were swimming while the females did some volley ball in gym. After the gym of the boys they had to change to their bathing clothes.
Naturally John forgot his swimming trunks and he had to recover them from his cabinet. So he excused himself by the sport teacher, runned with his sport suit to the cabinet in the second floor to pick up his swimm thongs and runned back to the male changing room.
Before entering School he got a note from the sport teacher that for the swimming, they had to come in thongs. It was surprising, but the explanation, that the teacher had to see the muscles to correct errors made perfect sense. So he had to buy a new thong, it was one in beautiful blue.
Obviously in the meantime the others allready went to the swimming pool. John undresses and tries his new thongs.
'That is quite erotic', he thinks, when the thong entered between his ass cheeks. He begins to masturbate, but remembers that he has to head for the swimming pool, so he tries to push back his erection in the thongs. That worked reasonably well.
He went through the door to the shower, on the left side there was a door to enter a corridor he turned left, as it was said to him by his schoolmates. He went through the corridor and oppend a door and saw showers.
'Wrong door', he thougth and found another door while forgetting to close that one. He was relieved when he found that he succeeded to find the swimming pool.
At the border of the pool his four schoolmates were standing, the teacher was also wearing a thong and showing a very well trained backside.
'The females of the class will surely love the sport lessons', was the first thougth of John, but then he remebered that they most probably have a female teacher.
He also noticed, that Pawel, the class speaker was standing nude at the left side of the row of classmates. John must have looked staggered since the teacher explained him:
'We have a tradition here. At the beginning of the lesson we make a short 100m swimming race to warm up, and the winner can be the whole lesson without swimmsuit. That is more convenient and since it is only us five, now six, we do not care.'
'I allways win', said Pawel. He showed a rather impressively sized cut cock and smiled at John, who allready had the intention to be the nude winner next lesson.
'In that case, it was worthless that I went back to get my thong', replied John.
'Yes, true, but I wanted not to tell you everything immediately and you got some additional break, I need you after the lesson for 10 minutes', explained the teacher.
The lesson went on without any flurries. They trained the start, made some diving exercises and at the end, everyone jumped from the 3m diving platform. Pawel changed many times between erect and flacid state and John tried not to see it. 10 Minutes before the end of the lesson, to the surprise of John, the ugly french teacher ender the swimming pool and called for Pawel. He came out of the water stark naked with erection and left with the class teacher the pool area.
That lesson passed very quickly and at the end the teacher said to John: 'John, please stay here you have to do the obligatory test, which your collegues allready did, you must dive 20 m, swimm 100 m in less than 100 seconds and the jump from the diving platform I allready noted.'
The others left for the shower and the teacher and John were alone.
'Okay, I guess also without swimmsuit', said John and removed his thong.
'As you wish', said an annoyed teacher. John did his two assignements and jumped from the diving platform, the teacher did his marks, said bye and went to the teachers facilitiess. The view of teachers backside get John a little aroused, he retook his thongs and headed for the shower. When he passed the wrong door he remarked the door was still open and behind there were people showering. He carefully looked through the slit and saw his classmate Jaqueline, a very large, thin female standing under the shower. Her clit was shaven and she passionately rubbed it. 'This school is better than I thougth', was passing the mind of John and he rubbed his penis through the thong.
'Look the piglet here!', shouted Barbara the friend of Jesica. The two opend the door grapped him professionally by the arms and pull him into the females shower. John tried to stare at the pussy lips of Jaqueline, but Jesica managed to rotate him in a way that he could see nothing.
'I am sorry, but now you passed it', said a disapointed Jesica, 'your punishment is waiting now.'
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The trial
All of the females in the class seem to surround John in the shower. Some were nude some had a shirt but were else bottomless some had their trousers on, but were topless. Barbara managed to get a pair of handcuffs and John was forced to sit at a wall.
'I think the sentence is defined anyway. He opend the door', explained Jaqueline, 'that is punished by one finger!'
'One finger, what does it mean?', asked John, 'and I did not know that!'
'Ignorance does not protect against punishment', states Jaqueline, the class nodes.
'But I believe him', says Jesica, 'and he is a freshman, we just let him go.'
'Oh, I saw how he looked at you, we have a new love pair! How sweet', says eagerly Barbara.
'Naturally, he looks at me. I am the most beautiful girl of the class', explains Jesica.
'That is not judicable', says Jaqueline and looks at John: 'You looked at me, because I am ugly?'
'Nonono, you are beautiful, such a nice pussy and beautiful breast and...', says a thrightend John.
'I am for 2 fingers!' shouts an angry Jesica. 'Who is with me?'
'2 fingers for little piglet', shout the other girls.
'Okay, okay, we will see. Melanie you are dressed, please reach for the class teacher, she is responsible for disciplinary punishments', says Jaqueline and the dressed one of the girl leaves.
'To execution place', says Barbara.
'Stop! First we have to dress him', says Jaqueline.
'Sorry just forgot', says Barbara, 'could you give a hand Jesica?'
Barbara graps the left side of the thong of John, Jesica the right side and they managed to remove Johns thong in a second.
'Are you crazy?', asks John and tries to hide his privates, which is completely impossible since he is handcuffed.
'That one is okay, well equipped is always better', says Jacqueline looking at his dick.
'Pawels little is bigger', assures the still angry Jesica.
'Dick is dick is dick, pussy is all', declamates Barbara and together with Jesica they pull John through the door, into the corridor in the direction of the gym.
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'Hey wait', shouts John after seeing what the girls plan to do, 'you can not drag me into the gym. I am naked! And in case you didn't notice you are naked to, at least most of you.'
'Stop it, Jesica and Barbara the convicted is loud', orders Jaqueline. Jesica and Barbara let John go and he fell to earth. Jaqueline was standing with spread legs above the head of John and begins to lower her body.
'Will you stop or I will sit on your face', says Jaqueline.
'Please do not', comes a softly sound out of the mouth of John.
'He mocks us', says an angry Jaqueline and sits on the face of John and a second later with a scream she jumps up and run away.
'What happened?', ask a surprised Jesica.
Jaqueline has come down: ,That pig put his tongue way up my asshole! He must be punished with 3 fingers!'
'Forget that', says Jesica, 'why did you do that ?' She asks John.
'It is not only the pussy of Jaqueline, which is marvelous, it is also the asshole! So tasty and so flexible, bring it back to me!' jokes John.
'4 Fingers', claims Jesica.
'He is mocking us', understands Barbara, 'best we give him over to the class teacher.
'A moment I have an idea', says Barbara and goes back to the changing room where she removes the belt from her trousers and
comes back with it. She then whispers in the ear of Jesica, which nodes and walks with a smile towards John.
'Let's see if my little lair is not nicer than Jacquelines', with that she stands over John, opening her ass cheeks and begin to squat.
'Yes', says John and lifts his head with his exceptional long tongue sticking out of his mouth. But before he reached his aim, the belt hit the belly with a cloud whipping sound. John collapses and fell down to the floor again. He tried it five times and then he resigns and Jesica stands up an make two steps to the left.
'Jaquelines is more pretty, anyway', says John.
'Doesn't seem so', explains Jaqueline pointing at a tremendous erection John now shows. She grabs his enlarged member and make two strokes, ,Jesica?'
Jesica also kneels down and makes two strokes, 'Barbara?'
'Okay but now we bring him first into the gym onto the wall bars', says Jaqueline.
So they drag him through the corridor into the gym before the wall bars. In the meantime the females of the class were able to dress themselves except Jaqueline, Jesica which do not get time and are still completely naked.
'Okay, here is the wall bar, so what', asks John.
'You will see', says Barbara, 'look Miriam brought us some ropes.' Indeed Miriam a red haired beauty arrived with many medium sized ropes.
'What you do?', asks John. Nonone answers. Barabara and Jesica bind one end of a rope around the feet of John, while Jaqueline puts the other ends around the top rung of the wall bar. Finished with that other classmates takes the ends. John is pulled over the flor and then up the wall later.
'Aua, that hurts!', he shouts. He end spread eageled with his backside to the wall bar. The girls surround him and Jesica says: 'So you know learn our punishments, you can easy sit that out?
We will see!'
Okay now we have to decide how the story continues. My favorite is a) !
a) Now it is enough, the boys and girls come back to reeason. They let John down and sin g a gospel together, then they drink tea and eat the famous cake of Wintergarten.
b) The heterosexual one: The french teacher comes, flogs John, and after that they have pationately sex.
c) The homosexual one: The two teachers come in, the females of the class run away because of the music of the ghetto blaster (Village people and Queen) of the 2 homosexual males. Then they all fell in love and ride in the pink evening.
e) The bisexual one: The other males and the sport teacher also come in, they are bound to the other wall bars, sucked off together with John. All have sex with each other, notably John, the sport teacher and John, such as Barbara and Melanie.
f) The kinky one: The schoolmates torture John by inserting finger and other stuff in his anus he comes patiently and has sex with the teacher and Jesica.
'Okay, now it is enough', claimed John, 'you had your fun! You have heard what the author said, let me down, we eat some potato cake and sing a gospel!'
'You don't know any gospel', guesses Jaqueline.
'Yes I do!', says John and starts loudly singing 'Oh when the saints, go marching in.'
'That is not a gospel and by the way, who is this author?', asks Jesica.
'The author, that sounds nice, must be a decent guy. I want to fuck him', declares Melanie.
'You can not fuck the author', explains Jaqueline, 'he is not part of the story and by the way he is much to old for nyphomanic 20year old girls.'
'And he has a smaller dick', assures John. 'Look at mine!'
'Your dick does not interest me, it is not you which I want to fuck', explains Melanie.
'The author also looked at girls bathroom by accident, but he did not get caught that is why you are on the cross bar and not him', explains Jaquelin the stupborn John.
'And he did not mock and ridicule females like you, that is why he did not get fingered', adds Barbara.
'Oh yes, he mocked, he once explainend a girl why books are more interesting than girls and even worse it was a book about the american civil war. And he would have starred at the girl if his scrambled brain would have realised what he saw, not hours later', corrects John.
''Yes but he did not stare at the pussy of his classmates while masturbating', defends now Barbara the author.
'He did not see pussys before reaching 40. He is not normal!' means John.
'But you are? You are just a perverse copy of him, he just invented you, you are not better than he is', states Jaqueline.
'Enough of it', says John and tries to bend his body and nearly reached his feet, but before he was able to do it, Barbara and Jesica forced by a sign of Jaqueline him down again and also bend his arms to the lowest rung of the cross bar, so he was finaly exposed to the watching female crowd.
'Hello girls, ah here is my class', says the class teacher by entering the gym. She looks at the nude spread-eageld John, still showing an impressive erection and asks, 'what is going on here?'
'We are singing a gospel.' John is the first to answer.
'I see', says the class teacher, 'and what have you to do with that?'
'I am Jesus!', explains John.
The class teacher nods her head, 'Nice try, but you are hanging upside down, there is no crown of thorns, the shield is missing and the roman soldiers are missing to.'
'And he is naked', adds Melanie.
'No Melanie' explains the disappointed class teacher, 'that is the only thing which is correct, but I guess he was stripped by the girls anyway.'
'Do not listen to that thing there', means Jesica pointing at John, 'he spyed and masturbated looking in our shower room.'
'Oh I see', says the class teacher, 'that give a 1 or even a 2 finger. But he will also get bottled because of his behavior in the french class.'
Jesica turned white, 'no, not bottling! I do not think he will endure that. Remember that Pawel then had to visit the hospital after being bottled.'
'But now he is okay', tells Jaqueline which now dates with Pawel, 'and we bottle now nearly every day.'
'You bottle?', Barbara shakes her head in disbelieve.
'Pawel deserved bottling, he did not do the homework', means the class teacher.
'Okay let's start with it, so we can close the punishment before noon', says the class teacher and the surprised John sees how his class teacher begin to remove her clothes. When nude she turned to him, showing a shaved vagina. It seems that all females here are shaved, notes John and he is positively surprised by the aged but still attractive body of the class teacher. She had small breast which were not shaggy at all and the belly had some wrinkles due to her age. Her pussy was quite similar to one of his younger classmates. That part seems not to age thought John. She was approaching him, inspecting his body so he was able to see her from below. After being confronted with Jaqueline's unused assholes he remarked that his class teacher ones looked different. It seemed as if the sphincter muscle was swollen and leaked out. Meanwhile she was inspecting in details his glans pressing his glans and his scrotum, lifted up his shaft, noting how it jumps back. She the spread his ass cheekslooking intenselyon his asshole.
'You like what you see?', asks she John.
'Mmhm. yes mam', grumbled John.
'Okay, not a SS officer, naturaly. How would I see it when we were 100 years back, Jesica?'
'He is circumsized', answers Jesica.
'Can you nasty ladies, only think on that?', says an angry class teacher, 'I should bottle you for that answer, but John will take the bottle for you. I saw he is quite able to do it. No, he has no tatoo on arm as all SS members would have. You learned in history and how the germans covered it.'
'Oh no! Please do not bottle him, I will take the bottle for him', Jesica is crying in tears, 'please bottle me. And why did you squezed John's nobs, if not looking for the circumsizions?
'That is an old teacher trick, you thought that John's penis had to do with the answer, if I hold it when I ask the question. And you can not bottle yet, John has to be bottled for you, later I will allow you to comfort him.'
'Please, not the bottle that destroys this nice boy', begs Jesica again and cries in pitty for John realising how much she cares about him.
Okay this ends up that chapter. Lots of questions have to be solved in the conclusion. Why is the french teacher nude for the bottling, is Jesica able to comfort John after botteling and is John finally socially accepted by his female classmates? Only thing we know for sure is that Melanie definitively can not fuck with the author and that is actually the only bad thing which speaks against a happy end for all.
'The sentence is 1 finger, 2 finger and 1 bottle as capital punishment of John and Jesica, but only John has to serve the bottling and a double comfort execute by me', tells the class teacher after reconsidering the evidence.
'I state objection against bottle, in the name of my client, Jesica', declare Barbara, which tries to look like Matlock, despite she is completely nude. 'Conditionally, she will take bottle.'
'Okay, case for the jury', says the class teacher, 'anyone against the bottle?'
No one of the class objects, but then Melanie steps out: 'It is now more important that we found this author, so we can fuck him, but me first!'
'That is not possible', explains the class teacher, 'the second point is if the bottle should pass to Jesica, anyone for that sentence?'
'Me', says Barbara and a few other of the classmates agree but it is not enough, most are for giving John over to the bottle.
'Okay then it is set: 1 and 2 finger, and bottling for John, rehabilitation through comfort by me and Jesica, so it is in the name of the school', finishes the class teacher the sentence, 'Melanie please bring the instruments.'
Melanie leavesthe gym and 2 minutes later she comes back with a big box of cocos grease and different half litter bottles of mineral water. The classmates build a line, first the nude Jaqueline, the nude Barbara, the rest of the class and at the end is the also nude Jessica, which tries to hide her tears.
'Just wait, what means 1 and 2 fingers and what is the stuff with the bottle?' asks John which now begins to worry.
'You will see', says Melanie, 'it is your fought, why did you not want to help me finding the author.'
'You, first, Jaqueline', says the class teacher. She puts the ring finger into the box of coconut grease and distribute it over her ring finger. The she approaches John from the left side, looks at his ass cheeks and shoves with one violentpush the ring finger through John's sphincter as deep as it is possible for her.
'Aua, that hurts! Are you crazy?' screams John.
'Next', says the class teacher. Barbara takes her middle finger and with disgust she does the one finger punishment. And so are all classmates doing the punishment, some take the ring other the middle finger. All just made one strike. Melanie naturally takes the thumb and competently she reaches the prostate.John immediately reacts with a hardening of the now semi-erectcock. Jesica sniffs when she sees that. Finally, John alreadysweats and complains permanentlyit is the turn of Jesica.
'Last one', says the class teacher. Jesica takes the ring finger and patientlyfucks John.
'Since I am the last one, I had to open for the second finger', explains she for John.
'Stop that is silly', says John, 'I also want to see the author! I go looking for him with Melanie.'
'Forget it', says Jesica and puts in the second finger.
'Hm', makes John. 'It went easy', says Jesica to their classmates with disappointment.So it is now the rest of the class which conducts the 2 finger punishment. At about half of the class John seem to have enough and closes his eyes as if he sleep. At the end it is Jaqueline again which fucks him multiple time, since she is last.
'Let us see', says the class teacher and spread Johns ass cheeks, 'should be enough, Jesica bring the bottle.'
Jesica takes one of the mineral bottles and she carefully applies the coconut grease around the bottle and steps to John. She now also inspects the now slightly open ass hole and says, 'no not enough for a bottle.'
'Yes it is enough', declares the class teacher, 'put that thing in his hole.'
Jesica puts the bottom of the bottle carefully on John's hole, but it does not enter.
'Harder!', says the class teacher and Jesica pushes more but it does not enter.
'Stop! Wait! That is not a good idea! It already hurts', shouts John.
In that moment Jesica pushes more, convinced the bottle will stay outside, the class teacher observe it, gave a small clap to John's buttock, he relaxes his sphincter, the bottle rushes in, Jesica fell in on her front and John cries loudly.
'All okay with you two', asks the class teacher looking at the red painful distorted face of John and the shockingly looking Jesica.
'Hm, hm why did you have you destroyed my hole Jesica, you could just pretend to push.... ow it hurts', comes out of the mouth of John.
'It was not my fault', assures Jesica.
'Enough, Jesica, please stand up and take the bottle half out', says the class teacher. Jesica stands up pulls on the bottle, John again cries but now she reached the prostate and his is now in fully erected state.
'In again', shouts the class teacher.
'No, it hurts, take it out', shouts John.
Jesica hesitates, but the angry look of the class teacher forces her to shove it in again to the same deep. John screams.
'More', orders the teacher. Jesica obeys and John screams louder.
'Please do not destroy my sphincter muscle, be careful', begs John.
'Please be silent', orders the class teacher and dresses the class. 'Ass we have seen the sphincter muscle is able to adapt quite large objects. Naturally it is not as flexible as females genitalia, where a complete baby comes out. Normally males have a big pleasure, when their hole is opened, since close to the opening is the so called prostate. When later married you have to touch that often with your spouse since it develops cancer...' and so she continues with her teaching. Meanwhile John's head get redder and redder and nearly silently he begs, 'please take it out, please, please.'
Finally the class teacher has finished his lengthy lecture and looks at Jesica.
'Yes?', asks Jesica. 'What yes? You might continue, if you please', orders the class teacher,
'till he come,'
'I will not come, I am in pain', is the nearly silent voice of John to hear. Jesica looks down and she is sure to see some tears running down, respectively up the face of John. However she has no chance and pulls the bottle nearly out of John's ass and shoves it halfway back in. A pitiful scream comes out of the mouth of John.
'Deeper', says the class teacher. She grabs the bottle and pushes it in more, forcefully it goes up and down at an increasing speed. John stops screaming and suddenly he feels again how is dick hardens in painful way and he begins shooting scum first only little and then in four forceful spits. The class teacher throws the bottle away and says: 'Jesica, Barbara and Jaqueline, please take him down.'
Actually bottling is not recommended, but it exists, as you may now, see pic to now, how John will now look....johndes.jpg
Okay, so we come to the conclusion:
After taking him down John lies at the floor of the gym in a fetal position.
'Put him orderly on the back', orders the class teacher.
'Please', says Jesica and earns angry views from the class.
Barbara and Jaqueline put John on his back and hold his arms, so he can not cover his limb and cum covered dick.
'He is of no use for me, like that!', explains the class teacher, 'Jesica bring him back to form, if you please!'
Jesica takes the penis of John in her mouth and desperately sucks him, essentially with no effect.
'No, that is not okay', says the class teacher, 'anyone, Melanie?'
Melanie approaches John, and indeed she is able to make him hard again. Jesica sees it, and starts crying again.
'I think it would be more fun with the author', explains she the class.
'Yes that is okay', says the teacher, 'you know good teaching means, that the teacher also demonstrate some of the exercise. With that, remember she is still naked, she stands with spread legs over John facing the class, or the female part of it, she lowers her-elf on the now again hard dick of John.
'What the heck? What crazy things go on here?' asks John when he realizes what is going to happen.
'Okay, I show you first again vaginal intercourse', with that she sits on the pelvis of John, while his erection impales her vagina. 'Any questions?'
'No, we already know that', replies Melanie, while Jesica sniffs again and seems more and more desperate.
'Okay', says the teacher and stands up again. The dick of John slips out, John looks disappointed and Jesica continues the crying.
'We continue with the anal intercourse', explains the class teacher. 'What do we have to consider in anal intercourse, Jaqueline?'
Jaqueline tries to express their disgust with her eyebrows, 'well, hm, lubrication and dilatation before and active relaxation like if you poop.'
'Yes, that is correct. Did you ever had anal intercourse, Jaqueline?' states the class teacher.
'Yes', says Jaqueline.
'Melanie?' , 'Yes, but I would like to have with the author to!'
'Jesica?', 'No', cries Jesica, 'don't like it...' John looks surprised at Jesica.
'Okay, let us go at it', means the class teacher.
'First, you need some lubrication', is the first instruction the class teacher turn her back to Barbara. Barbara uses the box of the lubricant, which was used for the bottle of John, spreads the ass cheeks of her teacher and smears carefully some grease around the asshole of her.
'One also needs some in the inner part', says the class teacher again exposing her ass to Barbara. Barbara sniffs and and put two finger in the asshole of her and distributes some grease inside.
'Secondly we need some dilatation', explains the class teacher, 'fortunately enough I did that half an hour ago with your classmate Pawel exactly that.' John get big eyes and looked at his teacher in a troubled way.
'The third thing is to press the sphincter muscle, that is easy', says the teacher and already she sits on the cock. John feels a burning on his glades as he is forced to enter her. It slips in and out.
'Oops', says the class teacher, grasp his dick, press his balls, out a finger in his now very loos ass and put it in again. Forcefully she goes up and down and finally he fills her up with his cum.
'Ok, that was it, need a shower', says the class teacher, 'the lesson ends.' She picks up her clothes and goes stark nude as she is back to the shower together with the rest of the class. 'Please look for, John, Jesica, he does not look good.'
Jesica wishes away her tears and looks at John. She find that he looks very good, but seems to have problems. He lies sideways holding his knees and breaths heavily.
'Are you okay?', asks Jesica petting his face.
'Donotknow, my ass hurts extremly, couldyounlok?', ask John nearly ununderstandable.
Jesica spreads his ass cheeks, she sees some redish backside, his asshole loks not like she is used to see. It is longer in length and on the side there is small red wall around it. Actually it looks more like a pussy, she thinks.
'It looks all quite normal, looks like mine, and of all other people', she assures him.
'Hm, thatngoodeynthink, couldnyougetcloser?', he asks her.
She gets closer to his face, he catches her and gives her a passionate kiss. Quite surprised she does not resist, she is also quite tired, because of the disappointing events. So they continue kissing for about ten minutes, while she lies naked on him and it comes as it has to come, suddenly his dick get errect and finds its way into Jesica.
'No', Jesica says.
'Should I grap for the bottle?', asks John.
'Well then bette like this', says Jesica and they fuck each other till climax. Two minutes later they stand up and go hand in hand to the shower, even not noticing the boys of the class who have observed them.
'Isn't love not a beautiful thing?', asks one of them his classmates, 'and not anyone is close to the class teacher, such as you Pavel!'
'Shut up', answers Pawel.
Well so this horrible Moritat (that is the german word for a crime story with some singing) ends with a happy end, better than a story of Rosamund Pilcher only some loose ends will be flying around: When will the class teacher finally stop her horrible teaching, will John's asshole ever come back to the normal form or will it be destroyed forever also by continued bottling by the class teacher or Jesica, and will Melanie and the author finally find a way together? No one knows, and actually no one wants to know.
I will try to find a pic, of a nude person similar to the class teacher I imagine, it is hard to describe.
Was easier than I thought! The interabyss, has to many ugly nude females, actually I imagined her with round boobs, but that one is fine to...... So see the class teacherclassteach.jpg
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The Coolest Cult Movie Title Cards of the 20th Century
Costumes and art direction have their own Academy Awards. And movie posters get a lot of love from collectors and design nuts, too. But what about title cards, those unsung heroes of film aesthetics? They are, after all, among the first images we see in movies, and they can set the mood for entire three-hour epics. Thankfully, web designer Christian Annyas has collected hundreds of them in a truly impressive archive. We’ve assembled ten of our favorite cult-movie titles of the 20th century after the jump.
Fallen Angel , dir. Otto Preminger (1945)
The Lost Weekend , dir. Billy Wilder (1945)
In a Lonely Place, dir. Nicholas Ray (1950)
Orphée , dir. Jean Cocteau (1950)
The Night of the Hunter, dir. Charles Laughton (1955)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, dir. Russ Meyer (1965)
Juliet of the Spirits, dir. Federico Fellini (1965)
The Conformist , dir. Bernardo Bertolucci (1970)
The Elephant Man , dir. David Lynch (1980)
Days of Being Wild, dir. Wong Kar-wai (1990)
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Lamb Meatball and Egg Tagine (6)
Lamb Meatball and Egg Tagine (6)
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Lamb Meatball and Egg Tagine (6)
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1. To make the meatballs tear the bread into peices then soak for a few minutes in cold water. Squeeze dry then put in a bowl with all the remaining meatball ingredients except the oil.
2. Mix thoroughly with your hands, squeezing the mixture together and mushing the bread into the rest.Wet hand then take knobs of the meat mixture and roll to form balls about 1 " in diameter.
3. In a large frying pan heat the oil over a moderately high heat . Add the meatballs and brown on all sides then scoop out and reserve.
4. Reduce the heat a little then add the onions to the pan and cook until tender.
5. Add the garlic and cook for 30 seconds then tip in the tomatoes together with all the other sauce ingredients except the coriander and eggs.
6. Add ½ pint water and bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
7. Return the meatballs to the sauce and continue cooking for a further 10 minutes, stirring frequently and adding a little hot water if the sauce is getting too thick. Check seasoning.
8. One by one break the eggs into the tomato sauce. Cover the pan and continue to simmer very gently until the eggs are just about set- this will take about 8 minutes.
9. Sprinkle with the coriander and serve.
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Trump and the millennial with a trifecta complex
Trump and the millennial with a trifecta complex
This month, sale a very private and intimate video of 23 year old model, Lira Galore, was leaked to the unforgiving eyes of the internet. In the unauthorised video, Lira Mercer appears to engage in consensual intimacy with her then boyfriend which was then exposed by a blogger.
Lira’s kick-ass response?
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Despite making some head way to accepting that women can liberate themselves in any way they so please, the reaction from some shows that we still have a far way to go. The female body and the freedom to express yourself sexually are not aspects any woman should be apologetic for.
As Lira rightly tweeted; “ Y’all never seen somebody suck d*ck before?!”
What’s even more concerning is the utter failure to appreciate that a young woman’s privacy was violated. Her womanhood and self-respect was attacked and questioned over an intimate, consensual and very normal moment. A scrutiny that seems to only be afforded to women. Lucky us! (It’s not like there were two people in the video or anything.) Post Rick Ross, the internet clearly thinks Lira has taken a liking to dating ghosts.
Woman, man, animal or alien; revenge porn is not justifiable and we have seen this committed by ex-lovers, best friends (like myself), hackers and even work colleagues.
Leaking of nudes and sex tapes, also known as ‘revenge porn’, is a malicious trend that aims to humiliate and intimidate the victim through the uploading of sexually explicit material. A trend that we have seen increase over the last decade, with the growth of social media. It can be tempting to detach ourselves from the damaging consequences of this crime and share content to feed our gossip hunger; but this is wrong. Always has been and always will be.
The law agrees too as Miss Mercer wasted no time in demonstrating when she took legal action against the parties involved.
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There has been a crackdown in revenge porn with over 200 people being prosecuted last year in the UK and sentences as long as three years being handed out in the United States. As well as publication of intimate photos or videos, revenge porn can also fall under harassment, blackmail, voyeurism and malicious communication; all criminal offences with heavy punishments.
You do not have to remain silent.
What to do if you are a victim of revenge porn:
• Collect and keep evidence: Collect as much proof as possible. Screenshot any direct threats of exposure or messages where it is apparent the person has or intends to distribute the images. Keep note of statements or accounts from other people who can state that a particular person or group sent the photo and anything else that may aid authorities in investigating the alleged crime.
• Request removal: If the picture has been made public, write an email and/or letter to the outlet requesting for the picture to be removed urgently. (Often social media platforms will delete the associated account as it violates their rules.) If this has been circulated to people, contact them and explain that you intend to take legal action. (Revenge porn covers any unwanted sharing, including sending the material to the person’s friends, on Snapchat, WhatsApp or private messages)
• File a police report: In your report, detail how the picture or video was obtained, attach your evidence and state the potential effects this may be having on you, your job or your family. You can file this under a criminal offence and/or a civil offence.
• Stay strong, stay positive and understand you have done nothing wrong: This is not something to be embarrassed about. You are a victim. If at any point you need to talk to someone, reach out to friends, family or trusted organisations like The Samaritans.
If you need any professional advice or to speak to someone, the following helplines are free and will support you.
If you need any help drafting a removal email, general advice or to speak to someone who has gone through the above, my DMS are always open and welcoming (@Monrowe)
Finally, you do not need to live in fear of consequences for sending private photos. If this is the way in which you choose to express yourself, as Lira Galore did with her partner, you are entitled to do so. You are beautiful, respected and the law is on your side.
Written by Monique Monrowe (former revenge porn victim)
Life isn’t easy for a millennial in the 21st century. It’s even harder when that particular millennial fits into a trifecta of minority groups that, page despite modern times, sale still evokes a sort of bigoted response. So how do I, erectile a Somali-American Muslim female, navigate in a world where a racist, misogynist and Islam-hating straight white male presides over the most powerful country in the world? One Ben and Jerry’s ice-cream scoop at a time.
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It’s been almost 2 months since Trump has taken over the reins of the U.S. presidency and unfortunately for individuals like me, the man sprung into immediate action. Disregarding the long held tradition of politicians failing on delivering on campaign promises, Trump wrote up and signed numerous executive orders that basically appeased his redneck voters, disrupted foreign affairs and bat signalled the remainder of his sect; the racists, misogynists, Islamaphobists and all the other societally frowned upon “-ists” that were still in hiding to come out of the closet and into a post-Obama regime.
Within a few weeks I have gone from thinking my biggest problem this year would be learning how to survive without Netflix to having to deal with the constant threat of discrimination to all facets of my being. Coupled with the fact that thanks to Trump’s travel ban, visiting my homeland has become more arduous than it already it is to my family and I as well as to my other Somali brethren.
Since I am the daughter of first generation Immigrants whom are very possessive of their cultural identity, the news of the travel ban hit my parents very hard. Primarily, because they would no longer be able to take my sisters and I on annual trips to the motherland in an attempt to retain whatever little knowledge we had left of our culture and our language. Moreover, my family manages a range of businesses back in Somalia; Businesses that to be quite honest has put food on the table in our household more times than I can count.
Then and there it became quite clear to me that Trump’s intentions with his policies was to derail, disrupt and antagonize many honest American families way of life. That he and his administration were intent on destroying the foundations many minorities fought hard to integrate into the country’s laws and constitution. True to Trump speak; the ‘American Dream’ despite its flaws is a concept that should be coveted, sought and achieved only by the white, the male and the straight aka the ‘privileged’ lot.
In spite of the prevalence of antagonistic attitudes, it was comforting to have found a wave support amongst my friends, my neighbors and fellow strangers on social media. It was heartening to know, to see that there were tons and thousands of people as opposed to the regime’s injustices as I was. That a resistance was alive, well, brewing and growing by the day, ready to clash with Mr. Trump and his minions whenever they hashed out fallible and prejudiced laws and executive orders. Because at the end of the day America is a democracy and my opinions matter and my voice no matter how small will be heard. I wouldn’t have to take off my hijab, get rid of my afro and in the process lighten my skin tone using harsh chemicals and keep my mouth shut if I wanted to have a peaceful existence. I can retain and fight for my intersectionality and just be me because there are people out there struggling to make sure that doesn’t change. That Trump despite wanting to socially back to the future us all into the 1950s will not succeed because no matter what and no matter where Love does and will always Trump hate.
Written by Idil A Farah
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Review: WWE Viva La Raza – Legacy of Eddie Guerrero DVD (Disc 3)
November 19, 2010 by Brett Mix
Disc 3 Matches:
20) Eddie Guerrero (c) vs Rey Mysterio for the WWE Championship -WWE Smackdown! March 18th 2004
We saw Rey Mysterio talk about how he wishes he could leave the room he was doing the interview in and just say Hello to Eddie like he used to so often.
An emotional Rey makes it clear just how much he misses his friend. Here’s another chapter in the classic rivalry this time with Eddie as Champion in a rare gem from the Smmackdown! brand in 2004.
Eddie Guerrero came out riding in style in one of his Low Rider’s. This match came about right before the Raw draft Lottery from Detroit in 2004 and Cole and Tazz speculated who would be around by this time next week.
Eddie Guerrero had no idea he’d be defending the title against Rey just four days (actually two) after he defeated Angle at Wrestlemania 20.
Eddie Guerrero and Rey shook hands as both were babyfaces here.
A tie up and Eddie puts a side headlock on Rey before twisting the arm and then Rey counters with an arm bar of his own into a hiplock taking Eddie down to his knees. The story had kind of been that Mysterio had Guerrero’s number over the years and that kind of came into play even during the early stages of this title bout on Smackdown!
Some Eddie chants, and as he got to his vertical base, Rey was seen holding his arm in the corner. The two men tie up yet again and Eddie got a nearfall on Rey as he had the shoulders down. Eddie with a side headlock to Rey and then he maintained the headlock until Rey countered into a reverse armbar, an armringer nicely applied by Mysterio until Eddie who was a master at counter-chain wrestling took Mysterio and his small size over with a side headlock. Eddie chants filled the air.
Eddie Guerrero then up with the headlock applied in, not wanting to let go, Mysterio began battling out and then Eddie ducked a clothesline by Rey but he still hit a leg scissors to the Champion. Rey with a powerbomb into a sunset flip, Mysterio was bringing it and Eddie Guerrero couldn’t believe it.
Some good action here.
Eddie came back in and shoved Rey and then Mysterio slapped him.
Mysterio off the side ropes then locked the legs around Guerrero’s waist but then he countered by pushing Mysterio into the corner shoulder first. Eddie saw the opening and continued to wrench the shoulder with a hammerlock position, briging back and putting a lot of emphasis on the shoulder of Mysterio, to perhaps cut off his rotator cuff, and if Rey’s left arm went out then it would surely hurt his offensive gameplan as he uses it to springboard up to his vertical base.
The Speed of the WWE champion took down Rey with a droptoe hold after he got up and then he wrenched in an armringer continuing to wear down Mysterio.
Guerrero with a hammerlock.
Mysterio elbowed out of it and then with a snap takedown and then a leapdrog, followed by a monkey flip by Mysterio which Tazz calls a Gorilla flip. Eddie flips Rey over the apron and he lands on the apron to throw Eddie up and over. Mysterio then with a springboard moonsault to Eddie on the outside.
They go to a commercial break and here in Boston it looks like Eddie Guerrero might be losing his title to Rey who hit a ton of offensive moves including a springboard moonsault. Eddie Guerrero threw Rey right out of the ring under the bottom rope to buy him some time. The WWE Champ thought maybe he could get a desperation countout.
Mysterio crawls back to the ring and once back inside Eddie levelled Rey with a big right hand. Eddie then went back to the soar arm of Rey, and he got irishwhipped into a tremendous back breaker by Eddie Guerrero, but only a two count.
Excellent TV stuff here, and the champ a bit frustrated as Rey kicked out of the tilt into the back breaker, extremely fast, extremely hard hitting match.
Mysterio had his shoulder completely disected by Eddie Guerrero in the match.
Eddie with a hammerlock into a Gory Special, a modified version of it anyway and Tazz thought he was tapping. Mysterio counters with an armdrag takedown as he flipped over top of Eddie but he only got a two on Eddie in the small package predicament.
Eddie then with Innovative offense as he bridges on top of Mysterio holding his injured shoulder. Eddie stood up on his head, unqiue form of psychological offense here.
Then, Latino Heat became his usual cocky self hopping around the ring, and Eddie became more focused, the more cocky he got. Eddie back into the arm ringer on Rey’s injured shoulder, then out of desperation Rey jumped up off the top and landed hard with a DDT to a dominant Eddie Guerrero but he just managed to kick out. Mysterio with a Senton off the top but Eddie Guerrero kicked out. Eddie Guerrero caught Mysterio off a springboard moonsault but Rey countered into a high impact DDT. How did Rey do that and how did Eddie kick out were the questions in this high intensity TV match for the title.
Amazing stuff.
Following up Eddie Guerrero sent Rey bad shoulder first into the corner and then went for the three amigo’s/the triple verticle’s but Rey countered with a roll-up and as Eddie Guerrero countered he kicked Rey shoulder first into the corner. Eddie Guerrero suplexed Rey to finish the hattrick. Eddie went up for a frog splash but lost his balance, Rey then went for a 619!
Great climax.
Mysterio leaped a long way across the ring for a West Coast Pop but missed it due to the length he was flying, Guerrero brilliantly noticed the fall and rolled him up on his bad shoulder for the three count.
Excellent stuff, amazing.
What pacing, story telling and back and forth action on FREE TV.
Truly a match that is often forgotten in the Mysterio-Guerrero saga.
21) Eddie Guerrero (c) vs JBL for the WWE Championship -WWE Judgment Day May 16th, 2004
“The chairshot I gave Eddie Guerrero in this match was maybe the most brutal in the history of Wrestling.” -JBL
Lets be fair here. Sure JBL recieved X-Pac heat because he was brand new in the main event scen……but damn he handled his character amazingly well on the mic and told good stories in the ring throughout his run.
Have to absolutely give credit where it’s due here to him. Speaking of credit, Eddie deserves a great deal for this specific performance as Champion, talk about paying your dues.
John Bradshaw Layfield delivered a great HEEL promo before the match generating a ton of heel heat, a racist promo will always work, especially with a character like John.
JBL gauranteed victory before the match.
Eddie Guerrero then came out to a monster pop as expected as the WWE Champion was getting ready for a war here in a bout that many people truely didn`t know what to expect.
It`s safe to say this one seriously passed expectations big time here.
Eddie bleeds in this match as bad as anyone has in any match, especially in the WWE. It`s pretty brutal that`s to be sure and it just added to the match similar to how Foley`s head made the 99 I Quit match with Rocky better.
This one is kind of like that match in this sort of department, very comparable from a brutality standpoint.
Eddie Guerrero`s mom had a “Heart Attack“ in a storyline before this match to JBL`s mic skills I guess.
Eddie Guerrero`s facial expression and body language going into this WWE title defense was awesome, he was just zoomed in on Bradshaw and looked at him in disgust. This one was personal.
At the time not many thought these two should have main evented a PPV but the crowd was really into it, that`s for sure.
Eddie Guerrero starts the match attacking Bradshaw and then threw him out of the ring, into the barricade, then finally into the steel steps. Bradshaw wisely got out of the ring straight away and Eddie Guerrero bounced Bradshaw off the steel post and then the Spanish Announce Table. Anything he could find, and nice remarks by Cole when he said it was appropriate it was the `SPANISH` table for JBL to go in due to his remarks before. Eddie Guerrero choked out Bradshaw with cable and then intelligently threw him back in the ring after this punishment. Eddie Guerrero right right hands not allowing Bradshaw to throw one single offensive move.
Bradshaw took a walk and the fans booed. Eddie Guerrero chased him and knocked him down in the entrance way with a running forearm followed by a straight righthand. Eddie Guerrero emotionally charged with a vicious streak and the fans just ate it up as they were pulling for Eddie Guerrero big time in this one which again, should pretty much go without saying.
Eddie Guerrero didn`t allow Bradshaw one moment to breathe in this match and he talked trash to him about how JBL treated his mother badly. Eddie Guerrero treated JBL to a big right hand and then he raked JBL`s face with his boots not caring what was legal and what wasn`t. Eddie Guerrero tossed JBL to the outside, broke the count and then went to throw JBL into the steps, then in what JBL needed badly he threw Eddie right into the steps, a world of impact. Eddie Guerrero held the arm that hit steps first.
JBL broke the count and then beat at Eddie on the outside with some chops and right hands. JBL threw Eddie head first into the announce table. JBL turning this into a war gave Eddie a big right hand, this was the opening he needed to stay in the title match. JBL kept making sure to break the count and putting Eddie back in the ring.
Once back in the ring Latino Heat followed back with rigth hands, irishwhipped JBL to the ropes but he countered with an irishwhip and then a boot to the face. JBL with a knee to the gut of Eddie followed by some chops.
JBL irishwhipped Eddie Guerrero hard into the corner and he bounced half way across the ring, JBL with a textbook side headlock takedown, JBL had the size and power, Eddie Guerrero had the speed and agility.
Eddie Guerrero tried to get out of the side headlock as JBL tried to slow the pace down. Eddie shoved JBL to the ropes and he came off with a hard shoulder block going back to his football roots, then Eddie got caught with another side headlock takedown by JBL who drove all his body weight into Eddie taking the air out of Eddie, smart move.
JBL had a sleeper on Eddie!
Eddie Guerrero with a couple of armdrag`s to JBL out of desperation to take JBL down and then he came off with a springboard moonsault to JBL on the outside but he caught him and hit a fall away slam. Eddie Guerrero slammed hard back first, JBL broke the count. Eddie chopped JBL back twice on the outside before being backdropped onto the Spanish announce table which didn`t even bust, Eddie shows signs in his face like his back was in pain, not sure how it couldn`t be.
Eddie Guerrero inside the ring laying flat down and JBL knew Eddie Guerrero was hurting so he kept up the offense and hit a swinging neckbreaker and Eddie kicked out. JBL with a big right hand, Eddie Guerrero fought back with one of his own but JBL gave him a big slam and while Eddie Guerrero tried to flip out of the backdrop, JBL layed him out and had a quick cover. Bradshaw then yelled out “Vivalaraza“! JBL then with a bearhug by Bradshaw to completely wear down the quicker Eddie Guerrero and with this bearhug works over the lower back, caused problems breathing which relates to earlier. Eddie poked to JBL`s face and then with some momentum threw JBL into both corners. Eddie Guerrero finally hit a counter-dropkick in mid-air to JBL to make sure JBL didn`t start to gain any advantage. Eddie Guerrero with a triple vertical suplex attempt, before the third JBL caught Eddie with a huge clothesline from hell attempt, Eddie ducked and then knocked out the referee. Eddie backdropped him over the top out of the ring. Eddie Guerrero rammed JBL`s head into the apron and then Eddie Guerrero sent him head first into the table. JBL turned around and then smacked Eddie sqaure in the head with a chair, and the fans chant HOLY SH** as Eddie is bleeding non-stop. They show the shot again and the fans know exactly what happened. Eddie was split-open and Tazz wished him alright. Despite the offense by Eddie Guerrero, JBL after wearing him down was beginning a brutual assualt that consisted of big right hand`s to the open wound on his head.
JBL then slammed steel steps into Eddie`s busted open head. Bradshaw raised his hands high in the air. You could barely see Eddie`s face as the beatdown was so bloody.
Bradshaw caught Eddie with a clothesline from hell to a bloodied and possibly out Eddie Guerrero. Hebner was down so no count, people still chanting Eddie despite him being out. JBL pounded on the official to wake him up. Eddie kicked out when a new referee came in.
JBL went for a clothesline from hell to knock out Hardy for good but he hit down the 2nd ref. JBL with a boot to Eddie and then a vicious powerbomb and somehow Eddie Guerrero kicked out again which got a huge pop. “EDDIE CHANTS“ fill the air as the Champion kicked out again. Eddie got caught in a sleeper and then miraculously hit a counter back suplex. The crowd loved it as Eddie charged up with blood dripping down his eyes. Eddie ducked a clothesline and then the bloody Guerrero avoided the fall away slam with a beautiful counter into the DDT.
What a match!
Eddie then went to cover JBL and as he continued to bleed he went up to the top ever so slowly to make it all the more dramatic that Eddie was going to climb the ropes and come splashing from the top and he couldn`t hit JBL on the way down as he moved out of the way.
Both men down on the red, bloodied, canvas floor.
JBL grabbed the title and a steel chair and then Bradshaw once in the ring set up Eddie for a big title belt shot. Eddie then with a low blow and hit JBL in the head with the title belt to DQ himself. Eddie retained the title but JBL won the match.
Eddie’s blood loss after that sick chair shot (and likely a major blade job in the corner by Eddie) busted him up BADLY, and made Austin at Wrestlemania 13 look relatively healthy. LA who by the way was very into Eddie (as a lot of people in his culture was surely in attendance) just gave a HUGE “OOOOOHHH” when they showed Eddie’s blood loss on the Tron. Amazing.
JBL really came into his own in this contest and I’d go as far as labelling this one a classic brawl.
Eddie had lost a ton of blood and kept the title in the end around the 25 minute mark when he DQ`d himself.
Insantly a classic of sorts.
Some unbelievable old school brutality and Eddie Guerrero PROBABLY deserves all the credit in the world for this amazing, breathtaking and slightly disturbing performance.
22) Eddie Guerrero vs JBL (c) for the WWE Championship in a Steel Cage Match -WWE Smackdown! July 15th, 2004
JBL talks about how Eddie Guerrero was the greastest Mexican Wrestler of all time, I personally don`t see how that could be debated.
JBL was the WWE Champion at this point in time as he recently and shockingly won the title at the GAB in a bull-rope match over Eddie
This was a return match for the title on Smackdown! in a Cage.
JBL with a ton of heat of course and Eddie Guerrero with a great ovation of course.
Eddie Guerrero with a kick to JBL, some chops and a poke to the eye as he was fired up but the Champion threw Eddie soon afterwards towards the cage, when Eddie Guerrero retaliated, JBL’s power and strength threw Eddie Guerrero off his game as he blocked a potential shot towards the side of the Cage.
Everyone knew this would be a great match, Cole said he felt Guerrero was going to win back the title in this match here tonight. Then again, I don’t really think it matters too much what Micheal Cole thinks.
Eddie Guerrero could win this match by escaping the match threw the door, over the top to the outside, or by pinfall or submission, those were the ways he could win this match and become the New WWE Champion yet again.
They definitely tried to build this bout up where as if Eddie could win the belt back likely to keep TV viewers tuned in. JBL looked concerned the door was chained and locked shut, another match showing just how over Eddie Guerrero truely was in the finals years of his career.
Eddie hit a back suplex to Bradshaw, then Eddie ducked a boot by Bradshaw as he picked up Eddie Guerrero and bounced him head first into the cage. JBL after his first high impact move against the cage began to climb and Eddie Guerrero grabbed a leg.
Eddie pulled JBL’s tights down and then he kicked at him and gave him some hard shots. Eddie with a few right hands and then gets irishwhipped by a more powerful Bradshaw who picks up Eddie and hits a fall away slam. A nice impact move by the WWE Champion. JBL then tried to climb out after saying enough of this, JBL then got one leg out and Eddie hung on desperately.
Eddie kept the Champion in the cage and then with both guys on the top rope, JBL with a hard shot and then some into the ribs of Guerrero, Eddie though sent JBL ribs first into the steel. Eddie had the chance to perhaps win the match but he went for a high risk move to easily put JBL away with a frog splash but JBL wisely moved out of the way. Both men down and they chant for Eddie. Bradshaw then began climbing the side of the cage and Eddie followed up behind him and grabbed the leg of JBL who fell down hard in the groin region and he is holding his hamstring. Eddie Guerrero with a nearfall.
JBL just managed to survive in this match. Eddie with a huge right hand to JBL and then an elbow to the back of the head. JBL favoring the hamstring as Eddie Guerrero applied a vertical suplex, and now Eddie Guerrero spinned the hips as he went for the three amigo’s, dos and now numero three was attempted and he hit it. Eddie Guerrero to his feet and the confidence was building. Eddie Guerrero out to the apron, went to the top rope but Eddie Guerrero got knocked off balance by JBL. Bradshaw with some solid right hands and met Eddie Guerrero on the top of the turnbuckle and hit a monster superplex that had to hurt, JBL may have injured himself as well in the process.
Back from a commercial, JBL is dominating Eddie.
Eddie Guerrero hit a dropkick to JBL from out no where after Bradshaw may have been going for a clothesline from hell. Eddie with a kick to the groin, the low blow is of course legal in a Cage match and got a nearfall. Eddie Guerrero then continued up with right hands to JBL in the corner but Eddie got reversed into the corner and whipped across the ring into a corner and then was planted by a hard Spinebuster by the reigning WWE Champion, JBL. Eddie chants as JBL tried to get out of the cage, Eddie prevented it and played defense and hit a Russian Leg Sweep off the top rope to JBL and both men hit hard to the mat. You put yourself at risk with a move like that, Eddie Guerrero showed he wanted to leave Providence, Rhode Island with the title. Eddie Guerrero with a couple of right hands to JBL and then he got reversed off the side ropes from Bradshaw and JBL held the sleeper in hard.
JBL used his tape around the throat of Eddie to choke him out while in this sleeper and Eddie Guerrero began to fade from JBL’s power until he ran in circles which forced JBL’s weight off of him into the side of the cage, Eddie Guerrero spinned with momnentum which sprung JBL into the side of the cage to release the choke hold, a nice veteran move by Eddie Guerrero. Eddie sling shotted JBL into the cage face first and Eddie got a two count. Eddie couldn’t pin JBL with the three count as he kept getting up but Eddie hit him with some forearms to the head and an elbow drop to the head. Eddie charged towards JBL but he back dropped him to the steel, Eddie bumped hard off the side of the cage. JBL showing he could adapt in any kind of environment to protect his title, so good story telling. Eddie Guerrero just managed to kick outsomehow. Eddie with a couple of hard shots to JBL and then he bounced off the side ropes with a hard clothesline from hell! Amazing. Somehow Eddie Guerrero kicked out! The clothesline from hell was devistating enough but the fact Eddie Guerrero kicked out was even better.
Last commercial break after that and we didn’t miss anything as JBL started to leave the cage. Eddie though got up and prevented him from going up over the top to the outside. An elbow from the top from JBL to Eddie. JBL tossed him over to the middle of the ring. JBL scooped up Eddie and then went for a fall away slam into the side of the cage as he smiled sadistically but Eddie Guerrero saved himself from that predicament with a nice DDT counter to JBL hard into the mat but Bradshaw just kicked out. Eddie then looked to the crowd and the challenger tried to escape the cage!
Eddie is at the top of the cage while JBL had followed him up there.
JBL realized his championship was in jeopardy but JBL caught him with right hands at the top, Eddie was bent half way over the top of the cage and then sat up at the top as JBL’s power brought him back into the inside. JBL slammed Eddie’s head into the side of the cage. JBL then set up Eddie Guerrero for a powerbomb. JBL hit a vicious powerbomb to Eddie who’s back buckled, big size difference here, even still Eddie Guerrero found a way to kick out.
This has been some fantastic material, I can definately see why it was added to
“Vivalaraza” this is a true gem.
Eddie Guerrero caught up to JBL despite the powerbomb and pinning attempt and stopped JBL up top frome escaping the cage and Eddie hit with shoulders to the gut. Eddie Guerrero had a chance to leave the cage and win the Champonship but he looked back at JBL realizing all the things he did to him.
Eddie chants filled the arena.
15 feet high, Eddie leaped off with a frog splash to JBL from top of the Cage!
Eddie Guerrero then looked to be in serious pain after a Frog Splash from the very top of the Steel Cage to JBL after what was already an epic Cage match. Unbelievable. To think I had actually forgotten all about this match.
Truly excellent.
Eddie Guerrero had hurt himself as much as Bradshaw so tooka good 30-40 seconds to pin JBL so it bought him some time to kick out of the Splash. Eddie Guerrero could not capitalize.
Eddie Guerrero got to his feet slowly asking on the audience for encouragment but turned around right into a hard DDT from Bradshaw.
Tazz said it right when he said “What a match!” He usually says that in every big match but he was definately right here, for TV this is incredible material. It was a race as Eddie Guerrero chased JBL to the top of the cage. Both men in a familar spot brawling from the top of the cage which always makes for a good Climax.
All of the sudden a masked man ran down to the cage jumped up and grabbed Eddie Guerrero preventing him from leaving the Cage. There is no DQ so there is nothing the ref could do about it. JBL retained the title by escaping the cage. It was supposed to be a luchador who did this but it would turn out to be Kurt Angle to set up there feud for Summerslam.
Amazing match!
Unbelievable really, truly underrated.
23) Eddie Guerrero vs Kurt Angle in a WWE Championship Series Match -WWE Smackdown! April 14th, 2005
A tremendous TV match here.
This match took place right after Kurt Angle came off an amazing victory over Shawn Michaels at Wrestlemania 21.
Angle was extremely over and even though he probably thought he was in his prime here, I’d say he was a couple years past it if not more but he was still good here in his own way and being in the ring with Eddie Guerrero who is ALWAYS ON only made him seem better.
Eddie was a co-tag team champion at the time coming off a loss recently to Rey Mysterio at Wrestlemania 21.
Angle and Eddie got ready to square off in a re-match from Wrestlemania the previous year where Eddie Guerrero retained his WWE title.
I remember watching this Smackdown! match in the spring of 2005 and being blown away.
A lock up inside the ring and neither man gained control until the second lockup when Eddie Guerrero hit a fireman’s takeover to Angle. Angle reversed it into a head scissors and Eddie Guerrero being the ultimate mat wrestler could ride out of it until he ran into a shoulder from Angle. Angle tied up Eddie in the corner of the ring and then couldn’t give him a shot as the referee made him break up pressure.
“Angle Sucks” chanted and then the two lock up yet again and the two guys go behind one another and Angle grabbed Eddie and then after a go-behind waistlock he worked on the shoulder of Eddie Guerrero and then grabbed the wrist, Angle controlled the arm of Eddie until he kicked up and grabbed the wrist of Angle and then an armringer flipping Angle over and slapping on an armbar. Angle got Eddie down after a cross-armringer and nearly a three count as Eddie kicked up and both men looked at each other.
The pacing here felt like a PPV match.
Eddie with a side headlock and then off the ropes hit Angle with a shoulder block. Angle went for a hiptoss and Eddie hit one of his own, Angle then went for a walk as he realized Eddie Guerrero got one up on him. Eddie Guerrero was smart not to chase Angle out there and “play his game” and I’ve loved the way this match has started out. Angle with a side headlock to Eddie that took him down to the mat and Angle kept the headlock planted until Eddie Guerrero pushed him off to the side ropes and into a shoulder block by Angle who then ran to the ropes and leaped over Eddie and straight into two beautiful hiptosses by Eddie Guerrero.
A standing switch by Angle into a waistlock, but Eddie Guerrero then countered it into a vertical suplex.
The three amigo’s, this was usually where Cole yelled out “the Hattrick” but he said there is no Hockey in Chicago! This was because this spring of 2005 match happened during the NHL lockout, but now the Blackhawks are recently Stanley Cup Champions as of June 2010, for the first time in half a century!
Angle hit Eddie with some uppercut’s back from the break.
Angle cornered Eddie while the fans chanted Eddie Guerrero’s name. Angle with his intensity choked out Eddie viciously with his boot using the ropes nearby with his arms for leverage. Eddie then hooked up with a vertical suplex by Angle who got a nearfall. Angle then hugged Eddie Guerrero from behind while on the mat trying to choke him out and get some air out of Eddie’s lungs to perhaps wear him out.
Eddie Guerrero’s sternum squeezed with a reverse bearhug as Angle had a great grip. Eddie battled out with elbows ran off the side ropes and Angle got in the zone with a Belly to Belly suplex. Eddie Guerrero countered an Angle Slam with a hurricanrana!
Amazing counter by Eddie Guerrero. Eddie covered Angle and got a two count.
Eddie with one of those classic smirks went out to the outside and grabbed a chair. The two played hot potatoe with the steel chair as Eddie thought maybe he could get Angle in some trouble.
It turns out, it worked.
This is another reason why so many fans loved Eddie Guerrero as he was a true Sports Entertainer, hilariously the ref got up and realized the chair was laying down outside the ring on the floor. He noticed that, but sometimes the ref’s wont notice a chairshot right behind them. Unbelievable, but still funny.
Eddie tried to capitalize on this spot and rolled Angle up but only got a two count.
Both guys back to there feet and Eddie hit two quick clotheslines, Angle reversed an irishwhip picked up Eddie Guerrero and then he tilted with a head scissors. Eddie on fire went for a clothesline but Angle countered with a go-behind waistlock and a German suplex but Eddie Guerrero just got the shoulder up at two and a half. Both men fatigued in this match but the reversals were nicely done. Angle picked up Eddie Guerrero and hit a back breaker. Angle with no psychological plan (big shock) where he’d stick to one body part, I guess you could say his strategy was to wear the entire body of Eddie Guerrero down which would be fair. Angle snapped Eddie over and then began to work over the mid-section of Eddie after a back breaker, then Angle rubbed his forearm across the face of Eddie Guerrero. Angle used his legs to maintain the grip on a body scissors on Eddie Guerrero.
“Lets go Eddie” was chanted.
Angle still held onto Eddie but when he maintained his vertical base he was thrown into the corner and it provided time for Angle to hit another German Suplex to Eddie Guerrero and still just a nearfall.
Kurt then with a vicious uppercut sending Angle into the corner. Angle sat Eddie up high on the top turnbuckle and then once up there he was about to go for an Angle Slam but Eddie fought out of it. Angle was shoved off the top and Eddie Guerrero leaped off for a frog splash attempt and Angle blocked it with his knees up that caught Eddie.
Angle back in control, back from the final break and Angle still dominating Eddie from the home of Wrestlemania 22 in Chicago, yet this took place just a bit after Wrestlemania 21. Angle with a waistlock and gripped Guerrero`s mid-section keeping it locked on but Eddie Guerrero still fought out of it. Angle had met his match and went for shots to the back but as Angle went for the Angle Slam, Eddie Guerrero countered it for the third time and hit Angle with a powerful DDT which should definately buy him some time! Angle had a sergically repaired neck and it made sense.
Both Gladiator`s to there feet and the two got into a fist fight. Eddie Guerrero landed the bigger blows and Eddie Guerrero for the second time in the match went for the three amigo`s but on the third go behind he countered it into an Angle Slam! This one is over, but it wasn`t! Eddie Guerrero kicks out!
The Classic Continues…..
Angle`s head was busted open a tad. Angle then took off his straps for an Ankle Lock attempt but then Eddie Guerrero rolled up Angle and got a two. Tons of nearfalls for both competitors. Eddie Guerrero into the corner on Angle hits a school boy and then Angle hit a German Suplex on Eddie. Angle kept the hands clamped and Eddie Guerrero tried to reach for the ropes but couldn`t get there. A ton of impact hitting the mat from the suplexing machine, a third german, this time a release and as he hooked the leg he still only got a two count.
Angle was poised and he stomped on the mat calling for Eddie Guerrero to get up. Angle went for an Angle Slam but he countered it into an arm drag and then a kick to the mid-section. Spinning hips from Eddie and then he hit the Three Amigo`s for the 2nd time successfully even though he had went for it three times in the match.
Frog Splash by Eddie Guerrero to Angle but Kurt kicked out!
Both men down on the mat and the crowd really appreciate the match they are saying, definitely a match of the year contender in 2005.
Eddie Guerrero frustrated fell right into the Ankle Lock but Eddie kicked out of it and then Eddie hit a sunset flip and a hold of Angle`s tights which fell down, Eddie then rolled up Angle and only got two and a half.
Angle grabbed the Ankle again of Eddie but again Eddie Guerrero tried to roll through and kick Angle off but Eddie was about to tap but at the last second Eddie`s force drove himself into the referee who fell to the outside of the ring.
Angle grabbed the steel chair that was outside the ring.
Rey came in the ring and hit a wesdt coast pop to Angle. Rey came to Eddie`s aid and Eddie thought Rey was going to hit him with the chair. Angle pushed Rey who had the chair into Eddie and then the ref came in the ring and counted the three for Angle.
A good storyline and a good ending despite Cole yelling out his usual “No! Not this way! Not this way! Damn it!“
This was absolutely phenominal though.
A Classic!
**** 1/4
24) Eddie Guerrero vs Rey Mysterio in a Steel Cage Match -WWE Smackdown! September 9th, 2005
Already have reviewed One Epic Cage match on this set between Eddie Guerrero and JBL which was way better then I remembered it being, now it’s time to take a look at a match with a familar opponent for Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio.
The chemistry was definitely there for this one.
This was the final match, or big match that I can think of between Rey and Eddie. It took place only a couple of months before his death in the fall of 2005 where I started to tune out of the product a little bit.
Rey said anytime he stepped into the ring with Eddie it was magic, but adding stipulations like a Cage it just made it better.
I loved Eddie Guerrero`s theme here with the ring tone and his slow sadistic walk to the ring. I loved it.
Christy Hemme and Stacy K before she decided to dance with the stars hung out with Long and Company in a Skybox for this night and shown during Guerrero`s entrance.
Lucky guys.
Eddie Guerrero told Rey he couldn`t beat someone with nothing to lose. He was a person with nothing to lose, yeah Eddie`s character was REAL dark around this time.
Rey had built his career about being the underdog and in this bout they made it clear he was the sympathetic face and Eddie was just the picture of everything that was EVIL.
Rey got in the ring and posed and the crowd was ready for another great match and the final one in the Rey-Eddie saga that was absolutely tremendous in WCW and the WWE.
They credit Mysterio to being 7-0 against Eddie, Guerrero had beaten him in other meetings but not where the WWE was concerned.
Eddie Sucks were heard and then Eddie viciously attacked Rey. The Friday Night Smackdown Cage match underway. Eddie Guerrero wasted little time as he slammed Eddie head first into the cage. Eddie Guerrero launched Rey from a powerbomb position head first backwards into the cage.
Eddie on top of Rey kept dishing out the punishment with the likes of forearms to the head.
Eddie Guerrero irishwhipped Rey to the ropes he ducked though, springboarded onto Eddie but he caught him and Rey hit an innovative armdrag to Eddie followed by a Monkey Flip to Eddie that sent him flying. Mysterio with a kick to the back of Eddie and went for a 619 but when he realized he couldn`t do it, Eddie just smiled and laughed at him. Good stuff. Rey hit a dropkick to Eddie and then tried to escape the Cage and Eddie climbed behind him. Eddie picked up Rey from the top and then he flipped over him and hit a powebomb, nice.
Rey just performed that Powerbomb from halfway up the cage which of course knocked himself down in the process. Rey tried to get to the very top of the cage and once there Eddie grabbed an ankle of Rey and then he fell from the top and hurt his knee on the top rope.
Atlanta was fired up after the break as Eddie Guerrero was trying to escape and Rey was holding on by the ankle as Eddie did earlier. Rey got a kick to the face by Eddie Guerrero but Rey met him up there.
Both men on the top rope and Eddie hit a side russian leg sweep from the top rope to Mysterio.
Eddie hit a powebomb with a ton of impact but Rey kicked out somehow. Eddie Guerrero elevated Rey into the Cage but Rey haqd great balance and climbed up the side of the cage to the top but Eddie held on. Eddie and Rey at the top of the Cage and Eddie and Rey exchanged right hands 20 feet above the ring. Mysterio got half his body over the side of the Cage and Eddie grabbed Rey in using his mask, Tazz didn`t know how he did that but all you had to do was look. Both guys up at the top and Rey hit a headbutt to Eddie who hung onto the Cage and then went back down the inside. Both guys on the top of the rope inside the Cage bouncing up top, Eddie kicked at Rey. Mysterio with a dropkick from the top to Eddie but sacrificed his own body from coming off the top, and the inventive Mysterio found any way he could to dish out punishment to Eddie Guerrero.
Eddie kicked Rey in the gut and planted Mysterio with a DDT. Eddie tried to go out the door but Rey grabbed onto the Ankle of Eddie. Rey held onto Eddie by the trunks and then gave him kicks to the mid-section and then the chest. Eddie grabbed onto the steps as Rey grabbed a hold of him any way he could. Mysterio caught Eddie and then planted him face first with a bulldog and both men were down in the center of the ring.
They came back from yet another Commercial Break and Eddie Guerrero climbed the cage but Eddie had a hold of him and then recieved a kick from Rey. Eddie had Mysterio up top in a powerbomb predicament from the top but Rey got out of it and got one leg over the Cage but Eddie Guerrero pulled Mysterio back over again. A hurricanrana from Mysterio to Eddie Guerrero from the top rope. Rey Mysterio back to his feet slowly climbing the turnbuckle to get to the side of the cage as the crowd encouraged him on to do so, then Eddie Guerrero caught him up there at the top. Rey kicked Eddie off of him. Rey leaped from the top with a crossbody but Eddie Guerrero rolled out of the way and Mysterio crashed and burned as they say, in the middle of the ring. Mysterio wanted Guerrero to pay for the “sins of his past“ and in the meantime went out of his way to hurt Eddie but hurt himself.
This bought Eddie enough time to get to the top and hit a Frog Splash and pick up a victory over Mysterio, Finally!
Solid stuff again between the two.
25) Eddie Guerrero vs Batista (c) for the World Heavyweight Championship -WWE No Mercy 2005
Eddie Guerrero has his final PPV match and he is going for the World Title against Batista.
There`s little doubt Batista was improving at this time in the Company but he hadn`t came into his own just yet. Hunter really did all he could to make him look good and then the epic HIAC encounter at Vengeance built up Dave`s credibility even more.
Without HHH there, Batista needed someone else great usually until he REALLY came into his own in the last couple of years.
They show a very, very EMOTIONAL Batista talk about how he was when he found out about Guerrero`s death just before they showed this PPV match.
A pretty unbelievable sight to see but it`s all too believable knowing Eddie`s character when you think about it, it is still sad. Eddie was a great worker and an even better person to those around him and he was in the ring here with a GREEN Dave the two didn`t really go out and put on a clinic or anything here.
Still though the potential was there in this match and it looked promising at times and don`t get me wrong, there was definately some substance but it wasn`t the best booked match ever.
Batista came out to a loud ovation as expected as he worked with a TWEENER in Eddie Guerrero at the time, and Eddie always had fans all over the globe no matter which allignment he was, this night was no exception.
There were actually LOUD “Eddie“ chants just before this match as the bell rang when Dave`s music shut off.
When the two men squared off for a staredown inside the ring, Eddie Guerrero found himself in familar territory once in there with a bigger man. Eddie had learned most of his live to overcome the size difference scenario.
Eddie with a double leg takedown to take the big man off his feet and get him at his level but the power of Batista forced Eddie off of him. Batista chants could then be heard with some boo`s as well. Eddie and Batista circled around each other in the ring. Eddie Guerrero with a great fireman`s carry but he got caught by Batista who respected Eddie Guerrero here with a smile. Batista then up to his vertical base and locked up with Eddie Guerrero once again and over powered Eddie which brought Eddie Guerrero to his knees as he didn`t want to get into a test of strength with The Animal. Eddie Guerrero got onto the ropes to get some height and he kicked his way out of the hold with kicks to Batista, but Dave hit him with a right hand and then tossed him off the top.
Eddie then outside the ring went for a walk and took a breather. Batista flexed his pecs about three billion times for the females to look at and Eddie Guerrero looked on rather concerned as the World Champion smiled. Batista with a side headlock to Eddie trying to take him down. Houston was rather vocal with some of the boo`s Batista was recieving at the time. Batista lowered Eddie down as he kept the pressure on his head. Eddie`s head looked tiny inbetween the chest and bicep of Batista in the side headlock. Batista backed into a corner, finally, as this headlock had been in longer then anyone would of liked.
Batista whipped Eddie into the corner and then he reversed the irishwhip with his veteran instinct and threw Batista into the corner hurting his shoulder. Batista locked up with Eddie again and then went back into the side headlock. Batista squeezed Eddie but he grabbed onto Batista`s wrist with an overhead curl but Batista`s power took over and he went right back to the side headlock.
To me, it didn`t make much sense for Batista to constantly try to suck the life out of a much smaller Guerrero. He obvioussly would be in better conditioning, and say if it was Eddie trying to ground the big man I could buy that.
The pace just didn`t flow very well.
Batista though slammed Eddie down a couple of times with scoop slam`s. Batista got a nearfall and then Eddie Guerrero went for another walk as he sold the back as he went for a walk, again a pace killer.
This is what I was referring to when discussing the poor booking.
Eddie Guerrero grabbed a chair and Micheal Cole said it was just a matter of time till the old Eddie came out. He dropped the chair and ran into a throat grab by Batista. Batista lifted up Eddie with a choke and then dropped his throat across the top rope, then Eddie looked for a small opening and got it. Eddie Guerrero hit a Frog Splash to the back of Batista but he kicked out.
Eddie stomped on Batista`s back, the kidney region where Eddie Guerrero had hit the Frog Splash from the top after a hot shot from the outside. Eddie Guerrero with a rear chinlock, into a body scissors with his legs squeezing out the back of the big man which would take the power game from the bigger man in Dave Batista, nice strategic psychology by Eddie Guerrero which of course is no surprise to anyone. He kept a headlock in but the strength of Batista drove him to his feet and he backed Eddie into the corner but he had his back hurt, and Eddie Guerrero then hit a dropkick to Batista`s back. Eddie turned Batista over with a half-single leg Boston Crab. This would not only apply pressure to Batista and his lower back but also take out the leg of the bigger man which would take a bigger guy off his vertical base and keep him grounded. Eddie loosened up the turnbuckle and grabbed the tag rope. Eddie hesitated to hit Batista with it and threw it away. Eddie then dropkicked Batista in the face and dropped his body weight onto the back of Eddie.
Eddie Guerrero with a Camel Clutch to Batista.
Eddie`s psychology and strategic wrestling really saved this match from being a flop.
The pacing and flow were really a notch under what it could of been if say Eddie Guerrero was alive in the year 2010.
Eddie was giving up a lot of size and to make up for that he kept his body scissors locked on Dave Batista to wear him down some more and continue to hurt the back. Batista then ridiculously turned a defensive move on the mat from a body scissors into a bear hug but Eddie hit Batista. Eddie Guerrero kicked Batista down and it angered him and then when he charged towards Eddie he hit a droptoe hold to him. Eddie Guerrero then hit a Texas Cloverleaf to Batista after he realized he had fell down on the same leg he applied a half crab to earlier in the title bout.
Batista though powered out of it and rolled into a small package and just got a two.
Eddie with a hard forearm shot to the injured back of Batista. Batista in trouble as he backed him into a corner and hit him with more hard shots into the jaw. Eddie with a hard shot to the chest region of Batista. Eddie Guerrero told the ref he was moving him and went for an irishwhip but Batista reversed it and threw Eddie intot he corner and Eddie flipped back over his back and into the ref. Eddie planted Dave with a big DDT.
This was Eddie`s oppurunity to capitalize with the ref down.
Eddie gives an evil grin.
Micheal Cole looks extremely uncomfortable with Eddie Guerrero and I imagine he should calm down but he was really trying to put Eddoe`s NEW PERSONALITY OVER. Eddie Guerrero said NO for a second and this reminded me a lot of Piper at Wrestlemania 8 with the ring bell. The fans hated it when Eddie Guerrero put the weapon down as they wanted to see brutality at its finest likely. Eddie Guerrero threw the chair out of the ring and then he saw Batista get to his feet who had earlier spotted the chair, Eddie told him he wasn’t going to do anything.
The two then argued and Eddie hit some right hands to Batista. Dave charged Eddie Guerrero intot he corner with a spear and hit him with a bunch of shoulder shots into the stomach. Batista hit a clothesline, threw Eddie into the buckle and hit a back body drop. The Champion then took down Eddie Guerrero with a spear and shook the ropes.
Batista lifted Eddie up for a Batista Bomb but Eddie hit a sunset flip and then Dave picked up Eddie and hit a Spinebuster slam but then sold the injured lower back after the Spinebuster slam. At least he remembered to do that, where as a bit earlier on the offense it seemed like he had forgotten he was just completely.
Batista got just a nearfall and then off the side ropes Eddie Guerrero countered Batista’s elbow drop as Eddie turned out of the way. Eddie then shook around the ring and snapped a bigger Batista up with a vertical suplex. The Triple Vertica’s were hit as he hit the Three Amigo’s.
Eddie went to the top rope and missed a frogsplash which he rolled out of and then right into a Spinebuster by Batista who retained the title after that move.
In the end Batista pinned Guerrero after a Spinebuster at 18:40 to retain The World Title.
Batista posed with the World Title and then the fans chanted Eddie’s name despite the loss. Batista shook his head and Eddie offered out his hand and Batista accepted it after a moment of hesitation.
As said, if this match took place in 2010, it could be easily in the four stars region.
The slow pacing was made up for by tremendous offense and psychology by Eddie Guerrero, but it’s clear this wasn’t the best booked match and Dave wasn’t yet on his A Game. It does however say how much Batista has improved if you compare this body of work to his more recent stuff.
** 3/4
Disc 3 Extras:
-Chris Jericho meets Eddie for the first time.
Jericho says his first impression of Eddie Guerrero wasn’t as good as you might think but then goes on to talk about the kind of person he REALLY was.
-Eddie Guerrero has his final match:
26) Eddie Guerrero vs Mr. Kennedy -November 11th 2005 WWE Smackdown! (Eddie`s final match)
I remember watching this match on Smackdown the week of his death despite not watching wrestling regularly and truth be told, I smiled when I saw what he pulled off in this match. He just looked like he had so much life left in him which made it all the more shocking to me when I heard of the news later that week.
This was just your standard television match but of course it has special meaning now and this took place just two days before the Survivor Series event in 2005.
Eddie walked to the ring for the final time with so much joy and it’s kind of hard to look at it knowing this.
Eddie Guerrero looked on at Mr. Kennedy whose entrance was not shown on this Vivalaraza DVD, but I’ll live.
“Eddie” chants filled the arena before the match got underway, the two locked up and Eddie hit a drop toehold to Kennedy and then he grabbed onto the bottom rope.
Both guys locked up again and Eddie with a hammerlock to Kennedy until he reached the ropes to break the hold.
Kennedy went for a handshake which is the oldest trick in the book and Eddie Guerrero smiled as if to say he had already been around the block.
Kennedy slapped Eddie showing him no respect and then Eddie one upped him with a thumb to the eye. Eddie viciously attacked Kennedy in the corner. Eddie hit an uppercut to Kennedy and then choked him out with a rope by the turnbuckle.
Eddie Guerrero irishwhipped Kennedy to the corner of the ring but Kennedy brought him in hard when down on the canvas as he hit Eddie Guerrero hard against the ropes which got him a nearfall.
Eddie with a right hand to Kennedy!
Kennedy eventually got up and then went into a hammerlock on Eddie Guerrero. Kennedy had it on and the fans chanted for Eddie. Eddie Guerrero went for a couple of elbow shot`s to Kennedy and then hit a back suplex followed by an elbow shot and a clothesline. Eddie Guerrero with a kick to the mid-section and then the three amigo`s but on the third one Kennedy countered turning behind him driving him into the turnbuckle. Kennedy with a few right hands to Eddie Guerrero and then hr reversed an irishwhip and Kennedy went into Charles Robinson.
Eddie grinned as he knew the ref was down so this is when he could have some fun.
Eddie grabbed a chair and then slammed it against the canvas letting Charles Robinson hear a sound as if it was Kennedy who had just hit Eddie with the chair.
Kennedy is DQ’d and the match is over.
Kind of fitting to see Eddie going out with a Smile on his face.
* 1/4
A Hall of Fame Career.
Final Rating for Viva La Raza: The Legacy of Eddie Guerrero DVD = 8.5/10
This set on so many levels is a must buy for any fans of pure wrestling. Rey Mysterio at the beginning of the DVD said he’s one of the greatest ever. This set shows you exactly why and although it doesen’t include everything, believe me when I tell you that the quality you get on each disc is well worth buying this DVD. Obviously it’s a shame Chris Benoit couldn’t of been included despite his name being mentioned on commentary during a few of the matches but like with all DVD releases, you can’t get everything. So many gems, so many epic encounters, pick this set up, it is a wonderful DVD that shows you the legacy of arguably a top 10 wrestler of all time. Eddie Guerrero will live on forever and his legacy is captured tremendously on Viva La Raza…
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Wednesday, January 05, 2011
WNW: Their As a Singular Pronoun
A reader recently called me out on using their as a singular generic pronoun. (I forget who right now; feel free to claim the comment as your own!)
The issue: What pronoun do you use in a situation where the gender of the person acting either isn't known or isn't relevant? For example:
When an employee arrives . . .
The rest of the sentence is about the employee, who must sign in. What pronoun do you use?
When an employee arrives, ____ must sign in.
At one time, writers simply used he as the generic pronoun:
When an employee arrives, he must sign in.
But eventually came the complaints of sexism. (What if the employee is female?) That's when we started seeing a lot of he or she, just to be sure we covered our bases:
When an employee arrives, he or she must sign in.
That's seriously clunky and awkward, but it's better than the other weird compromise, s/he.
Others have opted to use she instead of he. That's annoying to me as a reader, because a) it's reverse sexism and b) historically he has a far more neutral feel than she, which jumps out like a flashing red light.
(Good writing should move smoothly, without jolts or flashing red lights.)
To keep the gender thing fair, some writers alternate between he and she throughout a piece. Personally, I think that goes beyond annoying and enters the range of shoot me now.
I've seen magazines that alternate on an article level: this article uses he, and the next one uses she. Not a particularly elegant solution, but at least it doesn't have me wanting to hit something.
So the gender-neutral problem persists: English simply doesn't have a singular, gender-neutral pronoun.
Finnish does have a gender-neutral pronoun, and I have to say, it's really convenient when you see a baby but can't figure out the gender. You can totally compliment the kid without offending the parents. Too bad English doesn't have an equivalent of hän.
(Another side note: Finns often use se instead of hän . . . which means it, even when referring to people. Totally works in Finnish. Not so much in English. Can you imagine referring to your friend and saying you're going to lunch with it?)
Chicago and a lot of other style guides suggest avoiding the problem altogether. Either 1) reword the sentence so you don't need the pronoun, or 2) change the sentence so you can grammatically use the plural:
When employees arrive, they must sign in.
That works fine at times, but it's still not a solution. Sometimes a piece needs the singular, and making it plural or otherwise doing acrobatics to avoid their as singular sounds odd.
This is precisely why their is becoming increasingly accepted as the singular pronoun, at least in conversation and informal writing. I'm in the camp that accepts this usage already (obviously), although some people still foam at the mouth when they see their used this way. (Just as I foam at the mouth at infer used for imply and other losing usage battles.)
That said, if I'm writing for a professional journal or something similar, I avoid using their as a singular. You write to fit the register you want the piece to fit in. If something isn't accepted in that arena, don't use it, and no, their is not accepted as Standard English.
I believe it's just a matter of time before their is considered correct and perfectly fine to use this way. People already do, often, sometimes by accident and other times absolutely on purpose (raising my hand here).
The new rule actually reaching style guides? That may take some time, but it'll happen.
Grammar Girl agrees with me and adds that "it takes a bold, confident, and possibly reckless person to use they with a singular antecedent today."
What can I say? I live on the edge.
Susan Anderson said...
I'm always having this dilemma in my writing, and since I can't get myself EVER to use "their" as a singular pronoun (drives me nuts), I either say "he or she," change the precedent to a plural word, or say "that person," "that individual," or the like.
It's annoying. We do need a pronoun to fit the bill.
Kristina P. said...
I hadn't really ever thought about this. I always use "they" too.
Nick and Dani said...
This exact issue bothered me so much in Honors English. I wish I had this article to show to my teacher at the time. I had to conform to saying 'he' since I was being tested.
Kayeleen Hamblin said...
I'm one of those daring individuals. It seems like a great solution to a perplexing problem.
Heather of the EO said...
I love how you ended this post.
Livin' on the edge, indeed :)
Scott said...
I always say sometimes it takes a little crazy. Love the moxie. WNW is a great post. I hope you keep it up. I'm all about using 'their' as the singular pronoun. I actually have to talk myself out of using it because I know that it's not "normal."
T.J. said...
So I'm going to be one of those cool people and ask a question in your comments section.
What about the word 'that'? It seems to get a look of dismay and a thought of 'overuse' directed at it. I can see 'which' being used, but why is 'that' so wrong?
Does that make sense?
L.T. Elliot said...
We need more Finnish in our English, I think. ;)
You're totally wild, Annette! (And brilliant, too.)
Annette Lyon said...
Totally awesome, TJ!
THAT can definitely be overused, but it's not a total no-no.
I'll add this to my WNW list!
Kathi Oram Peterson said...
Yay! I'm glad your shared this. It has long been a hair-pulling experience for me to know what to do. There's a gal in my writers group who would call me on this every time. I'm going to be daring from now on. :)
Anonymous said...
I think I was the one who asked the question. And I loved your reply. Thanks!
Lara Neves said...
Huh. I will admit that I am one who is driven batty by the use of they/their as a singular pronoun. But, I do get that there is not good alternative. I think maybe it only drives me nuts when the gender is obvious and people STILL say their.
Or Facebook.
Facebook always says, Lara (or whoever) has updated their profile. It drives me crazy! Facebook knows my gender, I promise, so it could say her. I'd think they were smart enough to program it in. :)
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Prophecy: The Owens Chronicles Book One
Lucy Owens never really fit into the small, New England town she grew up in. Her first week of kindergarten she was dubbed “that weird Owens girl” and her social status never recovered. She lives a quiet, sheltered life with her guardians, her best friend, and frequent visits from two mysterious young men, Embry and Gabriel, who claim to be friends of the family. On prom night, things take an unexpected turn when Lucy is forced to escape the dance through a window and brought to a safe house. She discovers that Embry and Gabriel are Gifteds, a subset of humans with supernatural abilities who don’t die until their job is done. In this case, their ‘job’ is to defend Lucy against another Gifted who is hell-bent on acquiring her. Now, on the run with Embry and Gabriel, Lucy is left wondering who this other Gifted is. And, more importantly; what does he want with her?
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The Mosque of Cordoba
I have visited the most important monument of Cordoba several times: on my own and also as a escort guide. Of course, I would not say I am an expert, but this is the monument that I have visited more times than any other out of Seville and I have read a lot about it. The mosque of Cordoba is one of my passions.
For those visiting the monument for the first time I usually recommend this guide because I think it is a good introduction and also point other highlights of the city. It is a touristic guide, so do not expect massive information. However, it is bit different from the official version so, of course, a bit different to the leaflet given by the Cathedral in the entrance. Please note that there is a new leaflet now, so I in this post I am always talking about of the old one. In the new one, at least, the tittle is “Monumental Site of the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba”.
The thing is that everybody goes to see the Mosque of Cordoba, but it is also an active Catholic Cathedral and some local groups defend the duality Mosque-Cathedral as a monument. This is a big deal in the city and also in Andalusia. Lot of opinions and arguments disclose the different economical, social, politic and cultural interests from different sectors.
So, before continuing reading let me say it clear: This is a post about the Mosque of Cordoba or, at least, about the mosque we can still appreciate. As Robin Yassin-Kassab wrote:
“Of course, it’s not a mosque anymore. You have to pay to enter, a distressing eight euros, (now the price is 10 euros) which change the nature of the visit. You have to treat it like a museum and see all you can in one go. […] Nobody is sitting or prostrating or snoozing on the floor. Parts of the space are cluttered by pews. Sentimental, sometimes garish paintings (one of a Christian conqueror receiving obeisance from kneeling Muslims) hang on walls and in alcoves. […]Still you can imagine how it used to be.” *
Orange trees courtyard
It is possible to enter to the orange trees courtyard (or patio) through different gates, but the main entrance during Al-Andalus period was the door of the forgiveness. After the Christian conquest the orientation of the temple was changed and the main entrance of the Mosque became the exit of the Cathedral, which is normally called the door of the forgiveness. The present bell tower is attached to that door, and this tower covers the original minaret built by Abderrahman III. According to the conserved drawings from previous periods, the minaret looked like this:
This courtyard was the sahn or ablutions patio, so there is a main fountain, and other secondary fountains too, were Muslims washed their hands, face and feet before going inside of the Mosque to pray . The vegetation is mainly compound by orange trees, and there are also some cypresses, but what I really like here is the irrigation system for all them. “Acequia” is a word in Spanish that comes from Arab and it refers to the small canals on the floor that connect all trees and plants. With no electricity at all, they could irrigate everything in just a moment.
Naves of Abderrahman I
The first time I put my feet in this large gallery of arches I felt like there was no end, for me it was a boundless space. I have seen a lot of pictures of the arches before, but they were not like the reality. Totally surprised and dumbfounded I started to walk among the big groups looking to my left, right, above, below…everywhere.
Very soon I saw under my feet the ruins of Saint Vicente Basilica. I do not want to reduce the importance of those ruins, but they are just a small piece of a floor and they were marked in the old leaflet of the Cathedral as if they were more important than the mihrab, for example. Anyway, according to their leaflet this basilica “was destroyed during the Islamic period in order to build the subsequent Mosque”, while in the guide that I recommended above it is said “711: The Visigoths give half of the Basilica of San Vicente to the Arab conquerors. 785: Abd ar-Rahman I buys the Basilica of San Vicente to build a Mosque”. Here we have two different ways to tell a historical event.
The Cathedral’s version continue: “Yet a strong hispanic-roman influence is perceived, not only because of the materials that came from the use of materials from the demolished church of Saint Vicente, but also because of…” and it goes on talking about the hispanic-roman influence.
In conclusion, since the beginning of the text, the Cathedral explains to us that the Islamic Andalusian culture was a civilization who loves to destroy previous Christian basilicas and who did not create anything original, everything was due to the hispanic-roman influence (recently the bishop from Cordoba said it is just byzantine influence).
Anyway, Abderrahman was inspired by the Mosque of Damascus, probably because his family was from that city, the Omeya dinasty. Even more, the orientation was towards the South and not towards La Meca probably because of that reason too.
Expansion by Abderrahman the second
Abderrahman II was the grand son of Abderrahman I, not the son, and he ordered to make this expansion of the Mosque because of the increase of population in Cordoba. It was necessary a bigger haram (oratory) specially on Friday. This emir respected the original appearance with the arches compound by brick and stone of red and beige colors.
Expansion of Al Hakam II
Al Hakam II was the grand grand son of Abderrahman II, and the second caliph of Cordoba. His father, Abderrahman III declared the independence of Damascus and himself as the Caliph of Cordoba. So during the reign of Al Hakam II, Cordoba was the capital of the most advanced civilization in the Mediterranean area. His expansion of the Mosque is the most beautiful part in my opinion. He was a man very well versed in several sciences and his large interest in knowledge made him create the bigger library of his time. It is calculated it was compounded by 400.000 books. He had a refined taste that can be appreciated not only in the Mosque, but in the ruins of Medina Azahara, the Shining City.
The present qibla and mihrab are also from this expansion. They are full of small details, mosaics, geometrical figures, Arab calligraphy, verses from Qoran in golden letters… In every tiny corner and square centimeter lies the highest beauty. The splendour of the Omeyan dinasty is in this part of the Mosque. If my mouth was open in the beginning of the visit, at this moment I could be with a couple of tears in my eyes.
Naves of Al Mansur
This part is called “naves” and not “expansion” probably because it is almost bigger than the other three parts together. Al Mansur (or Almanzor) was a very powerful man but he was not the Caliph. He was the ruler de facto. The sudden death of Al Hakim II made his young son Hisham II to heritage the throne when he was only 12. Al Mansur became the manager of the Caliphate while he isolated the young Hisham II in the city of Medina Azahara. Totally different to the previous caliph Al Hakam II, Al Mansur was not a man of sciences and arts, he was a politician and a warrior and a he started a big military campaign towards the Christian kingdoms in the north of the Peninsula. He even took the bells from Santiago de Compostela Cathedral and they were hang in the ceiling of the Mosque.
The population of Cordoba at that moment was extremely high, around 500.000 inhabitants and this is reason enough to this enormous expansion, but it is also said that Al Mansur wanted to show off the power he had. This part of the Mosque makes the mihrab and the main entrance in the courtyard not being in the middle of the structure. That is the reason why the mihrab is off-centre. Apart from that, it is very easy to recognize the part built by Al Mansur because the floor is red and not white, while the colors of the arches are not the natural colors of the stone, the arches were dyed in red. These elements made this part of the Mosque a little bit less refined; it is a section more rough where the size is the most important element.
The construction of the different Christian chapels inside of the Mosque started after the conquest by Ferdinand the third of Castilla (1236). The main chapel is exactly in the middle of the prayer room, and there is a big chapel, where the Corpus Christi is exposed to the visitors, next to the mihrab. I do not want to disregard the artistic value of these chapels, but even the emperor Charles V said “you have destroyed something unique in the world to build something we can see everywhere”.
Even more, the Cathedral permits to work in the Mosque as a guide only to a certain number of official guides in Cordoba. In that way they control the speech transmitted to the visitors. When I go as an escort guide there is always a moment when the official guide have to say “In my opinion, the Cathedral saved the Mosque” when talking about the different restorations done in the monument. I am not going to talk about the money from the public administrations invested in cultural restorations.
But yes, the Cathedral saved the Mosque. I have heard those words every time.
Following now the words by Robin Yassin-Kassab “I’m not going to whine about the Christianising of the mosque in Cordoba or lament the larger defeat of Islam in Andalusia. Powers and civilisations, and religious too in their organised manifestations, rise and fall. […] But still, there’s something wrong here, purely from an aesthetic and cultural point of view. If you walk half a way over the Puente Romano and look back to the Mezquita you see what it is. The building’s basic elongated structure is that a mosque which has been violated by a cathedral, as if the cathedral has landed from the air, like a bomb. The cathedral is too heavy. It crushes and ruins the mosque. This isn’t fusion but vandalism. It looks like an insult. From inside too.” *
Oh, the ever flowing waters of Guadalquivir
Someone on your banks is seeing a vision of another period of time
(Muhammad Iqbal)*
*Note: Paragraphs and poem from the chapter “The Jasmine Breeze” by Robin Yassin-Kassab from “Critical Muslim: Reclaiming Al-Andalus”, that I mentioned before in the article “The Original Enlightenment”
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1. What a fascinating post, Penelope! If ever I make to Cordoba, you will be my guide. I greatly appreciated not only your description of the architecture and brief history lesson, but also your personal perspective on the cathedral. Wonderful post. Thank you!
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2. Great post Penelope. I have dome pics of my visit to the Mosque last summer which I have yet to post. I should like to repost this blogpost too if that’s ok. I like your perspective a lot.
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1. Please, go ahead and repost. As my point of view is very different to the official one I thought my post was not going to be welcome. So I am very glad to know you like my perspective. Thanks a lot for your comment.
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The limits of city centrism?
Posted by Andy Pike, 1st March 2018
City centrism has become an enduring, dominant and familiar narrative and policy mix. Portrayed as an account of necessarily connected events, it has been generalised into an international recipe for urban prosperity via a myriad of identifiable and high profile academic gurus, international agencies, and think-tanks. Simplified and repeated into messages that can be understood and implemented by national and city policymakers. In short, fix the city centre and the economic growth will trickle-down throughout the wider city-region. City centres are interpreted as the principal engines of economic growth and dynamism for their wider city-regional and, ultimately, national economies.
Economic logics and policy repertoires
The economic logic is based upon ‘external economies of agglomeration’ generated by thick labour markets of educated and skilled labour, spill-overs of innovations and knowledge, market size effects, and linkages amongst associated goods and services activities as the route to higher productivity, economic growth, innovation, incomes and prosperity in cities. Drawing upon urban economics, especially its US varieties thought-up and derived from the empirical experiences of US cities, primacy is given to urban scale, density and economic integration between cities and their hinterlands to reduce geographical and social frictions and enable rational sorting of people and capital over time and space. Policies that work with the grain of this dominant logic are favoured including planning liberalisation, education and skills upgrading, facilitating labour mobility and bringing places closer into their central city growth orbits, often through improved ‘connectivity’ and intra-city transport connections, and business and political leadership and devolved powers and resources to the city-regional scale of ‘functional economic areas’.
City centrism isn’t everything for urban growth
Emergent research from the ESRC-funded city evolutions research project into the urban predicament in British cities since the early 1970s raises some difficult issues for city centrism . Demonstrating markedly divergent pathways in output and employment, southern cities have grown faster than northern cities and large cumulative growth gaps have emerged since the early 1970s. While London’s turnaround since the 1990s is a particular and atypical case, elsewhere smaller and medium-sized cities have outperformed larger cities. City centrism, then, doesn’t appear to work for all cities everywhere all the time. Taking a longer-term evolutionary approach can help us understand when, where and why agglomeration as well as other factors such as their functions and non-spatial public policies may be important for certain economic activities and cities. It can also prompt us to look again and more closely at the relationships and transmission mechanisms of city centre growth to adjacent and outlying areas. For some city-regions, these seem to have been intermittent, weak or close to non-existent since the early 1970s. As the prospects and prosperity of British cities continue to diverge, the difficulties intensify of addressing those cities struggling to adapt and the people and places ‘left behind’.
Productivity growth is not guaranteed with services and scale
On city productivity growth, northern cities led during the 1970s and 1980s through manufacturing specialisation until their struggle with deindustrialisation led to a switch to southern cities from the 1990s Yet the more service-based growth of southern cities has been less productive, slowing national average productivity growth, despite their relatively higher levels of skilled workforces and knowledge intensive business services. City centrism in Britain appears somewhat skewed towards a paler, lower productivity variant than elsewhere. As Figure 1 shows, there is only a weak relationship between city size and productivity . Scale and density are not always and everywhere the key determinants of city growth.
Figure 1: City size and labour productivity, 2015
Source: ESRC City Economic Evolutions project
Transition to a particular kind of urban service economy has been integral to this productivity slowdown, and cities have largely left any remaining urban manufacturing to fend for itself. Rather than relative neglect, analysis could be much more open to the possibility that the role of diseconomies of agglomeration may have been underplayed in this uneven city productivity performance as unbalanced spatial concentration has stoked more rapid price inflation of factor inputs in land and labour markets, negative externalities in congestion and pollution, and rising costs of infrastructure provision at least partly due to escalating urban land values.
High skilled employment and agglomeration are necessary but not sufficient for city growth
On city skills, city growth and high-skilled occupations are closely related. Skilled workforces are critical to growth with higher levels and faster growth in southern cities. Northern cities experienced slower growth of higher-skilled and greater hollowing-out of middle-range occupations. But the city centrism propositions of ‘smart cities becoming smarter’, and a positive relationship between agglomeration and high skilled employment growth do not appear to apply to British cities. Other factors have been more important and newer, smaller cities have led the pattern of high-skill growth. The urban service economy has become profoundly polarised in occupational terms. Yet, policies are sometimes overly focused on the higher-end jobs, occupations and people when they will only ever constitute a relatively small, albeit highly productive, part of the city economy. While the lower-end of the labour market which employs lots of people but has weak productivity is relatively neglected when its potential for productivity growth could be at least examined more thoroughly. Issues of job (re)design, progression and rotation in sectors such as leisure, retail, and social care could readily be addressed. Reducing the reliance upon thinking that is conceived from a particular US perspective and draws heavily upon empirical data from US cities might be a way to recover traditions of urban and regional analysis better able to explain the particularities of the British urban system.
Time for some fresh thinking?
Some deeply invested in city centrism may dismiss or fail to engage with this more finely drawn picture of city economic evolution in British cities and its challenge to the existing policy repertoire. Some will no doubt continue to argue and marshal evidence to show that it has not failed but has simply not been applied effectively, consistently or strongly enough: that most British cities are still too small and not dense enough, that insufficient emphasis has been given to attracting highly skilled people, that less skilled people have not been given sufficiently sharp incentives to sort themselves (out) and move to where the opportunities are located, that intra and inter-city transport networks are still not extensive enough, and that planning should have been further relaxed to encourage private investment.
Yet, the magnitude of urban concerns in Britain after twenty-five years of city centrism suggests a more self-critical and reflective response, even a little soul searching. Is it time, then, to ask whether an overly narrow and singular focus upon city centrism has reached its limits? In the same way that we can look back at the other US imports of urban motorways and suburbanisation rife in the 1960s as historic and not entirely successful recipes for urban development in Britain, will we consider city centrism in the same way in the years to come? Can we think more broadly and imaginatively about different geographies of urban and regional development that better reflect the emergent international patterns and dynamics of city economic evolutions in urban archipelagos, patchworks and mosaics rather than simple and binary cores and peripheries? Countries across the world are experimenting with new metropolitan and other wider scale, pan-city-regional geographies in attempts to tackle the thorny problems at hand. Finding better ways to think about and design policies that support the combination of the dynamism of city centres with their hinterlands to the benefit of both is a pressing challenge for those thinking and doing city economy and policy.
Andy Pike is the Henry Daysh Professor of Regional Development Studies at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University, UK. He is part of the ESRC-funded project on City Economic Evolutions led by Professor Ron Martin at the University of Cambridge and involving other colleagues in Cambridge and the Universities of Aston and Southampton, and Cambridge Econometrics.
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Snow Leopard 10.6 Build 10a380
Apple released build 10a380 (the last developer preview) of Snow Leopard last week. This apparently is the last developer preview released prior to shipping Snow Leopard in September.
Some of the new features include:
1. Full 64-bit support.
2. Intel only architecture resulting in faster applications, and far far less disk space for OS. Apple claims that Snow Leopard’s HD footprint is 6GB less than Leopard.
3. Grand Central Station (framework for clever management of multi-processor multi-threading execution).
4. OpenCL (Open Computing Language). New standards C based software abstraction layer for managing video processing power. This will allow developers to leverage GPUs in any application.
5. New version of QuickTime (QuickTime X).
6. Dock Expose (not included in this release).
Snow Leopard will retail at $29 ($49 for a family pack).
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Supplements For Our Furry Four Legged Friends
Do you have a furry four legged friend that you have bought supplements for? Maybe a Vet has recommended you purchase certain products for your Dog, Cat or even Horse. In this article we look into what supplements are used for dogs, cats and horses and why and when they are used. We also cover off on how much you should roughly be giving them when using supplements that are intended for humans. Before we get into to it, we should mention that it is always recommended to check with your Vet first before giving any supplements to your furry four legged friends.
Animals will generally need supplements for the following reasons:
1) They have a medical condition and a Vet has recommended a particular product to help with the condition
2) They are not getting all the required nutrients in their diet. This maybe because they are on a raw feeding diet, raw feeding diets are great for your pets but can be hard to ensure your pet gets all the nutrients they need. Supplementation can be an easy way to ensure they receive all their required nutrients.
3) Supplements for performance. Race horses are commonly given supplements to help increase their performance. Race horse owners want their horses to be at their strongest and fastest and will supplement to ensure they are getting all the nutrition needed to achieve this.
Supplements for medical reasons
Joint Issues
Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate are used to help dogs, cats and horses with joint issues. These two supplements especially in combination are able to treat Arthritis, relieve joint pain and improve mobility. Another supplement that can help with joints and inflammation is the herbal extract Curcumin. Curcumin is extracted from Turmeric and is a popular natural treatment.
Amino Acids Proline, Lysine and Methionine can be helpful for horses and their joints.
Antioxidants and Liver Detoxing Supplements
Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Coenzyme Q10, Milk Thistle and Spirulina are great antioxidants and liver detox supplements.
Immune System Boosting Supplements
There are some great natural immune system boosting supplements available for our animals. The most popular and well known immune boosting supplements are the Medicinal Mushroom Extracts such as Reishi, Cordyceps, Chaga and Lions Mane Mushrooms.
A few other supplements used for medical reasons are, L-Tryptophan, which can be used for a calming effect on animals. Magnesium, which can help with muscle tremors, cramping and spooking (Horses). L-Lysine can be especially important for our feline friends who have FHV-1 herpesvirus infections. L-Lysine is commonly prescribed to treat this condition.
Nutrients for animals
If your dog, cat or horse is missing particular nutrients in their diet then the following supplements can be very helpful to keep them getting their required Vitamins, Minerals and other important nutrition:
Greens such as Kelp extract, Spirulina, Alfalfa and Oat Straw Extract contain many essential vitamins and minerals and are a great addition to a diet.
Horses in particular need B Vitamins such as B12, Folic Acid and Biotin. A Vitamin B complex can be very helpful. Biotin can be very important for horses hoof health. Calcium, Sodium and Phosphorus are also important to ensure an adequate dietary supply for horses.
Fibers are a Prebiotic and help with a healthy gut, once such supplement is Inulin / FOS. A healthy gut can be very important especially if you leave in close quarters with you pet!
Performance Supplements
Some common performance supplements used for horses are L-Arginine, ALCAR and Coenzyme Q10. These can potentially increase the athletic ability and energy of horses and then hopefully they run faster!
What is the dosage size?
Getting the right dosage can be tricky, we do recommend discussing with a Vet first before giving any supplements to your four legged friend. The dosage on a pouch of CYOS supplements is based on a 75kg person. To calculate for your pet you need to adjust dose based on their size compared to a 75kg person. i.e. a 37.5kg dog is half the size of a 75kg human so you would need to give them half the recommended dose of a person. Or for example a cat which is 4kg, you would need approximately 4kg / 75kg of the human dose. This can be very small and you may need some accurate milligram scales to measure this!
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Persona: Trinity Soul (ペルソナ 〜トリニティ・ソウル〜 Perusona ~Toriniti Sōru~?) is a Japanese anime TV series which is part of the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona series. It is a spin-off of the PlayStation 2 game Persona 3, taking place ten years after the game's events.[1]
Produced by Aniplex and animated by its A-1 Pictures animation studio, the series premiered in Japan on MBS, Tokyo MX and Animax from January 2008. It also features music by Taku Iwasaki. On February 11, 2010, NIS America announced it would release Persona: Trinity Soul in North America with the original Japanese dub.[2]
According to the official Persona 3 Portable fanbook, Trinity Soul is considered to be a non-canonical entry in the series. However, it does include characters and events from Persona 3.[3]
Persona: Trinity Soul takes place ten years after the end of Persona 3. It is set in Ayanagi City, a city located near the Sea of Japan (East Sea), where the police force is investigating several cases involving a mysterious illness called the Apathy Syndrome. Ten years ago, Ayanagi city had been subjected to a severe earthquake, which the city has since recovered from.
In the midst of the crisis, two brothers named Shin and Jun Kanzato move back to Ayanagi to see their elder brother Ryō, who is now the Superintendent of the Ayanagi City Police. It has been ten years since the three siblings last met with each other.
It was said that the mysterious incidents in Ayanagi City were linked to covert testing conducted under Keisuke Komatsubura's watch, which tried to locate all known Persona users and find the strongest by weeding them out via Persona experiments before it was disbanded.
Kanzato family
Shin Kanzato (神郷 慎 Kanzato Shin?)
Age: 17
Voiced by: Nobuhiko Okamoto
The seventeen-year-old protagonist. He is a second-year student at Naginomori Gakuen High School. After his parents and little sister died, he and his brothers were under the care of their relatives in Tokyo, and ten years later they returned to their home town Ayanagi. Shin also has an interest in art, making clay models and is frequently seen sketching. Strangely, his art pieces resemble Personas and in one case, Igor. His birthday is November 18, and his blood type is A. His persona has the power to eliminate (cleanse) other personas with its sword. When he was seven years old his persona cleansed both his parents personas before they were completely extracted by Ayane, who almost caused both a reverse case and a fusion of both parents. Shin was deeply traumatized until he got hypnotized by Komatsubara, to forget about that incident.
[Persona] : Abel(アベル)
Ryō Kanzato (神郷 諒 Kanzato Ryō?)
Age: 28
Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu
Shin and Jun's brother, eldest of the three at twenty-eight. His personality is stoic to the point of being cold, even towards his younger brothers. He entered the police in order to investigate the strange incidents, becoming the youngest superintendent in history. He keeps all important details on the recent 'Reverse' cases to himself, restricting them from others in the police force. His birthday is December 18, and his blood type is A.
[Persona] : Cain(カイン)
Jun Kanzato (神郷 洵 Kanzato Jun?)
Age: 14
Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro
The youngest of the Kanzato brothers, and a third-year student at Naginomori Gakuen Middle School. He began to lose the will to live after an incident that happened at the time their parents disappeared ten years before the series began.. He had a twin sister, Yuki, whose dress he keeps. Oddly, Ryō overheard Jun seemingly speaking to a girl, presumably Yuki. This might indicate a spiritual body sharing, or multiple-personality disorder. He also has a certain level of perception ability and can hear the inner voices of people around him.He carries a pendant in the shape of a feather, which is a reminder of his Yuki During his visit to the beach, the water's reflection showed his twin sister summoning her Persona but not Jun. His fringe hides a scar on his forehead that came from the surgery involving him and Yuki. His birthday is February 4, and his blood type is A. It is told later that after the accident ten years ago, part of his brain was replaced with Yuki's, in an effort to prevent them both from dying (the decision was made by Ryō). His Persona is an accidental fusion of his and Yuki's.
[Persona] : Seth(セト)
Yuki Kanzato (神郷 結祈 Kanzato Yuki?)
Age: deceased (would be 14)
Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro
The female twin of Jun. She died with her parents in a major accident ten years ago. She shares her Persona with Jun due to the fact that part of her brain was being used to replace his during her death. She sometimes takes control of Jun's body and had once been the sole inhabitant of their body after Jun's encounter with Ayane.
Haruka Kanzato (神郷 遥 Kanzato Haruka?)
Voiced by: Fumi Morisawa
Mother of the Kanzato brothers. An artbook artist, she gave Yuki a 'Whale Feather' as an amulet of happiness. She died in the Ayanagi City disaster when Ayane's Persona grabbed and nearly extracted her and Shigeru's personas, killing them.
Shigeru Kanzato
Father of the Kanzato brothers. Like his wife, he was an artbook artist. He died alongside his wife Haruka when Ayane's Persona grabbed and nearly extracted his persona, killing him. It is revealed that they were involved in the same Persona research as Komatsubara.
Naginomori Gakuen
Takurō Sakakiba (榊葉拓朗 Sakakiba Takurō?)
Age: 17
Voiced by: Hideki Tasaka
A classmate of Shin's who he becomes acquainted with him on the first day he attends school. He is an easy-going individual and sports a distinct afro. Surprisingly, he has a Persona, which awakens when Shin tries to do Shadow Extraction on him. Unfortunately, he showed very little ability in being able to control it, as it often flew off at random rather than fight when summoned (which became a recurring gag of sorts). Nonetheless, he does manage to master it by the end of the series. He also had a dream with Igor in it much like Shin did. He has a crush on Megumi.
Takuro's father had disappeared during the Apathy Crisis in Ayanagi City, due to unknown reasons. He came back in a woman's body, although Takuro was unable to accept the possibility when meeting for the first time.
[Persona]: Spartacus
Megumi Kayano (茅野めぐみ Kayano Megumi?)
Age: 17
Voiced by: Kana Asumi
A classmate of Shin's, though he actually saw her at a restaurant arguing with someone the night before he started school. She is a member of the Street Dance club and has a frank and straight-forward character. She has a dislike for Shadow Extraction, and frequently scolds her friends for partaking in it. Megumi had her Persona awakened when she was still young during an accident after which her stepbrother died. Since then, she harbored a distrust towards it, believing it had chosen not to save her brother because of her inherent jealousy rather than not being fast enough. However, the growing crisis concerning Marebito eventually makes her recognize it as a protector, and she uses it for the rest of the series for the sake of her friends.
[Persona]: Diana
Kanaru Morimoto (守本叶鳴 Morimoto Kanaru?)
Age: 17
Voiced by: Mai Nakahara
A somewhat timid girl who is acquainted with Shin, Megumi, and Takurō. She is very interested in Shadow Extraction, and she asked Takurō to do a Shadow Extraction on her, which seems to be a forced invoking of a Persona to create a euphoria similar to taking a drug. She suffers from occasional memory loss where she sometimes cannot remember why she is at a place or even where she is at. In the past, she and Mayuri lived in a nursing facility. She becomes addicted to Shadow Extraction and this may have caused multiple personalties dues to her sudden change in attitude and manner when talking to people, as well as suddenly saying things about what a Persona is with out remembering what she said. She also demonstrates a romantic interest in Shin which is later confirmed by Yuki. She is eventually revealed to be a machine, much in the same nature as Aigis from Persona 3. Unfortunately, because of her artificial nature, her working lifespan is much shorter than a human's lifespan. After severing ties with Marebito, she peacefully dies in the company of Shin.
Kanaru is unique in that she has the ability to invoke two Persona rather than the conventional one. However, the first one seen (Ashtoreth, in episode 20) proves to be the Persona of her "other personality" that is loyal to Marebito. She later invokes her own (Astarte) during a fierce fight between the Marebito and her friends, which briefly pacifies the battlefield in a stunning display of power. While most of the Persona in the series are humanoid, Kanaru's looks much simpler and resembles a jellyfish. Megumi comments that it is because Kanaru's is just a "baby Persona". Despite the death of its "master", her friends some how manage to invoke this Persona one last time during the final battle.
[Persona]: Ashtoreth/Astarte
Yumi Tasaka (田坂悠美 Tasaka Yumi?)
Voiced by: Fumie Mizusawa
Megumi's senior in the Street Dance club. She was under police protection during the period of the 'Reverse' incidents. During that time she was attacked by the Outsiders and almost had her Persona forcefully extracted. She was rescued, but suffered Post-traumatic stress disorder and was hospitalized. Her Persona is damaged from the extraction attempt.
Tōru Inui (戌井暢?)
Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki
Caretaker of the student dormitory. He keeps an old dog although pets are prohibited in the dorms. He had taken footage of Personas in action with his camera. He also knows a great deal about persona users saying that there were a lot of them around him many years ago. He also carries a gun in his jacket which he never uses. He might be Ken Amada from "Persona 3" under an alias.
Mayuri Yamasaki (山咲まゆり Yamasaki Mayuri?)
Voiced by: Mayumi Sako
A mysterious transfer student and a friend of Kanaru. She lived with Kanaru in a nursing facility in the past. Strange things started to happen after she transferred to Naginomori Gakuen High School. Her true identity is Saki Tachibana, a member of the Outsiders. Her favorite food seems to be beef bowls and she can quickly finish a big bowl in seconds; the feat contradicts her composed beauty image and greatly surprised Jun and Ryō.
Ayanagi Police
Eiko Nikaido (二階堂映子 Nikaido Eiko?)
Voiced by: Sanae Kobayashi
A medical examiner from the North Japan Medical Examiner's Office. Currently at the Ayanagi Police Station. She is also a long time family friend of the Kanzato siblings. In the third episode, she visited Jun at Ryō's house and went to pick up Shin at the Ayanagi City hospital. Shin has a childhood crush on her even when she admits that she loves Ryō. She is currently investigating the case of the mysterious disappearances that occurred at Toyama Bay.
Kunio Itō (伊藤久仁雄 Itō Kunio?)
Voiced by: Hisao Egawa
A sergeant and chief of the Ayanagi Criminal Affairs Department. He suspects Ryō to be hiding something about the recent "Reversed" cases before he decides to help investigate the true nature of the Apathy Syndrome crisis. He could be a prototype for Persona 4's Ryotaro Dojima.
Tomohiro Narasaki (楢崎智弘 Narasaki Tomohiro?)
Voiced by: Yoshihisha Kawahara
An investigator of the Ayanagi Criminal Affairs Department. He is a tall person nearing two metres. He works with Itō and is keeping watch on Ryō's actions before being sent to monitor Jun and the others from Naginomori Gakuen. He could be a prototype for Persona 4's Tohru Adachi.
Kubo (クボ?)
Voiced by: Hiroshi Naka
The vice chief of the Ayanagi Police Station.
A group of Persona-users (possibly a non-natural type, medically induced) who seem to use their special abilities to steal other people's Personas. The group is called "Marebito" in Japanese and carries the meaning of a "foreign stranger" and "outsider."[4]
Tōma Shikura (紫倉統馬 Shikura Tōma?)
Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa
A member of the Outsiders, he acts as the leader of the group. Tōma seems to be a cool and collected individual, but in the third episode he shows aggressive tendencies. He was killed in battle by Ryō, and afterwards an unknown chemical is discovered in his body. His death is kept in secret and was not publicised. However, there's some within his organization who claim that they have seen him walk about. Namely Saki.
[Persona]: Nebuzaradan
Yūji Kimoto (紀本祐史 Kimoto Yūji?)
Voiced by: Nobuo Tobita
A member of the Outsiders, one of the executors of the Reverse incident. His Persona has the special ability to extract others' Personae, this ability is the cause of the 'Reverse' incidents. After being defeated by Shin's Persona, Yūji lost his Persona. He seems to be the most mentally unbalanced of the Outsiders and is often shown taking some kind of drug. He had a part-time job giving out balloons in a bear costume. Yūji is executed by Mariya after he went renegade by escaping from their compound.
[Persona]: Utnapishtim
Sōtarō Senō (瀬能壮太郎 Senō Sōtarō?)
Age: 16
Voiced by: Motoki Takagi
Another member of the Outsiders. He does not like working in groups and usually moves alone. His Persona also display the Persona extraction ability. Sōtarō attempted to fight Shin, but he ended up gravely injured after Shin's Persona countered his. Killed in episode 22.
[Persona]: Gukyo
Saki Tachibana (橘花沙季 Tachibana Saki?)
Voiced by: Mayumi Sako
Another member of the Outsiders, the only female member. Saki appears calm and quiet, and she moves quickly while fighting. She has an affection for Tōma. Similar to Yūji, she lost her Persona after her defeat by Shin, but before that her Persona had actually been taken in by Sōtarō's Persona. Afterwards she was seen in a mysterious device that reattachs her Persona. She appears in Naganomori Gakuen High School as transfer student named Mayuri Yamazaki, which could be her real identity. The strange incidents in school were caused by her half-berserk Persona due to overdosage of the drug. Interested in the Persona ability of Jun, she decides to keep going to school. Saki laters kidnaps Yuki, in Jun's body, and activates Kanaru's persona. Killed in episode 22.
[Persona]: Nebuchadnezzar
Taiichi Udo
Voiced by: Hiroki Yasumoto
A tall man with shades and muscles.
[Persona]: Hermóðr
Wakasa Kusu
Voiced by: Tsubasa Yonaga
The older twin between himself and Shiiba. He has a small ponytail and is always smiling.
[Persona]: Shinshukuho
Shiiba Kusu
Voiced by: Tsubasa Yonaga
The younger twin between himself and Wakasa. He has a short hair and is always frowning.
[Persona]: Koteitoku
Mariya Kujou (マリヤ・クジョウ?)
Voiced by: Nobuyuki Katsube
The man in the wheelchair that is regarded as the mastermind behind the Outsiders. He at some point died, and allowed his persona to devour him to extend his life span. He uses the Outsiders to gather "A-levels" and during the process he becomes interested in Shin's Persona ability. His original name was Keisuke Komatsubara.
[Persona]: Gozanze
Returning Characters
Akihiko Sanada
Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa
He is seen talking with Ryō on the phone in the beginning of the series. He knows about the Persona and Reverse cases as they are usually the conversation topic. He is currently working with the police force after prior events 10 years ago from Persona 3. He was one of the main character's companions in Persona 3. As of episode 14, Akihiko had officially entered the universe of Persona: Trinity Soul, seen entering the elevator of the police station behind Shin and then later talking with Inui as a member of Marebito loses control of his persona in the city square. He can't evoke his Persona anymore because he passed a certain age and doesn't take the drug which allows the forceful evoking of Persona that Ryo takes.
Igor (イゴール Igōru?)
Voiced by: Isamu Tanonaka
An old man who appeared to Shin and Jun as a fortune teller in the first episode. He is a major character from the Persona game series, as the one who fused the main characters Personas and aided the protagonists in each Persona game on their journeys.
Unknown characters
Ayane Komatsubura
Voiced by: Mamiko Noto
A ghostly girl with red hair that appears and disappears before the Kanzato siblings. Surrounding her are "whale feathers," an object from the last artbook of the Kanzato brothers' parents. When sliced or shot by the Kanzato brothers' persona, she disappears in a cloud of whale feathers. In recent episodes, it is revealed that she is the daughter of Keisuke Komatsubara who conducted persona experiments on her and was the culprit behind the Ayanagi City disaster when he summoned her persona that affected a part of the city and gave its victims Apathy Syndrome.
Her name is first revealed to Jun during a "date"[5]. She is also responsible for removing Jun from his body and leaving Yuki unable to call their persona. Her power seems to draw from the "whale", as she refers to it, that causes the strange events isolated around the city. A clone of her, created by her father, was defeated by Jun/Yuki's Persona and the fate of Ayane is unknown; although she is presumed deceased, due to the experiments conducted on her.
[Persona]: Aditi/Devi
A promo video had been on the show's official website, created by A-1 Pictures[6].
Jun Matsumoto, known for his involvement in Blood+, was pitched to be director[6].[7] Shigenori Soejima designed the original characters for Yuriko Ishii.[7] Yasayuki Mutō was responsible for doing the script with Shinsuke Ōnishi, Shōgo Yasukawa and Saya Matsuda[6].
According to a statement released by Yutaka Omatsu, he said the show is different from the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 game especially since the "divergence are the many different aspects that the characters and story share."[8]
The first opening theme song to the series is "Breakin' Through", performed by Shūhei Kita, as winner of the Animax Anison Grand Prix[9][10], while the first ending theme song was "Suicides Love Story", performed by Nana Kitade. The second opening theme and ending theme songs, from episode 14 onwards, were "Word of the Voice", performed by Flow, and "Found Me", by Yumi Kawamura, respectively.
The following are involved in the creation of the show.[11]
In an anime column by Mania.com, it said that the show was good in terms of having excellent animation though it noted the huge contrast of the distrust between the Kanzato brothers and the mysterious supernatural attacks on Ayanagi city[12]. Japanator noted that the atmosphere is very dark, similar to Darker than Black[13].
Notes and references
1. "『ペルソナ3』から10年後の世界を舞台にしたアニメ『PERSONA-trinity soul-』が制作開始!" (in Japanese). Famitsu. 2007-11-07. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
2. "NIS America Goes Anime". RPGLand. Retrieved 2010-02-11.
3. Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable Official Fanbook. Atlus. 2010. p. 18.
4. Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan: An Anthropological View, By Emiko, Page 39. Retrieved on February 11, 2008.
5. See Episode 18: Sinking Dream
6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Persona -trinity soul- TV Anime Promo Video Posted. Retrieved on May 12, 2008.
7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Persona ~trinity soul~". Newtype USA. 7 (2) p. 11. February 2008. ISSN 1541-4817.
8. Persona -trinity soul-, Flash in Japan section, Anime Insider May 2008, Issue # 58, pages 22.
9. "アニソングランプリ：優勝の喜多修平がデビュー アニメ「ペルソナ」オープニング曲" (in Japanese). Mainichi Shimbun. 2008-02-27. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
10. "27-Year-Old Canadian Wins Animax's Singing Contest". Anime News Network. 2007-05-31. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
11. Manichi Broadcasting System's Official Persona -trinity soul- Webpage. Retrieved on January 14, 2008. (Japanese)
12. PERSONA-TRINITY SOUL- Review. Retrieved on May 12, 2008.
13. First Impressions: Persona -Trinity Soul-. Retrieved on May 12, 2008.
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Pray and ask God to speak to you through His Holy Spirit.
FIRST DAY Reread last week’s readings.
1. What was a helpful or new thought from the readings or from the homily you heard on Sunday?
1. From what you learned, what personal application did you choose to apply to your life this week?
(“I will never forget you.”)
1. Who was speaking in verse 14 of Isaiah 49?
1. Where or who is Zion?
1 Kings 8:1
Psalm 132:13‑14
Isaiah 46:13
1 Peter 2:4‑8
1. What did Zion say? Isaiah 49:14
Personal‑ Have you ever felt, as the people of God, forsaken and forgotten by God? Do you give in to discouragement or do you seek the face of God by quietly talking to him? Tell him how you feel.
1. Was there a time Jesus felt forsaken by God? Where did this happen, and what did Jesus say? Mark 15:34
1. What is the question asked in verse 15 of Isaiah 49?
1. What promise does the Lord give us that he will never do? Isaiah 49:15, Isaiah 44:21
1. What are we in the eyes of God? Isaiah 43:4
1. How does God feel about us? Isaiah 43:4
(“The first requirement of an administrator is that he prove trustworthy.”)
1. How should men regard us? 1 Corinthians 4:1
1. What are the mysteries of God? Judges 13:19
1. Who reveals these mysteries? Daniel 2:28
1. What is the first requirement of an administrator? 1 Corinthians 4:2
1. How do we prove to be trustworthy? Exodus 18:21, John 4:50
1. What matters little to Paul? 1 Corinthians 4:3
1. Does he have anything on his conscience? 1 Corinthians 4:4
1. Does that mean he is declaring himself innocent? 1 Corinthians 4:14
1. Who does he say is the one to pass judgment on him? 1 Corinthians 4:4
1. What does Paul tell the people to avoid doing before the time of the Lord’s return? 1 Corinthians 4:5
1. What two things will the Lord do? 1 Corinthians 4:5
1. What will happen at that time? 1 Corinthians 4:5
Personal ‑ Do you have a clear conscience before God and man? If not, repent of whatever is bothering you. Do you declare yourself innocent? Do you pass judgment on yourself? Who is the one to pass judgment on you? Reflect on this.
FOURTH DAY READ MATTHEW 6:24‑34 GOSPEL
(“You cannot give yourself to God and money.”)
1. What can no man do and what are the two things we cannot serve together? Matthew 6:24
1. What is the root of all evil? 1 Timothy 6:10
1. What is the warning given in Matthew, what is more important than food, and what is more valuable than clothes?
Matthew 6:25
1. In Matthew 6:26, at what does he tell us to look, what do the birds do for their food, and who feeds them?
1. What is the question he asks in Matthew 6:26?
Personal ‑ Refer back to Isaiah 43:4 to see how important you are to the Lord. Do you look at yourself as Jesus does? How do you look at yourself? Reflect on this.
1. Read Matthew 6:27-28 about worrying. What does God’s Word say about worrying, and what about the wild flowers?
1. Who was not in all his splendor arrayed like the flowers of the fields, and what happens to the grass of the fields? Matthew 6:29-30
1. About what three necessities should we NOT worry? Matthew 6:31
1. Who is always running after these things, and who knows all that we need? Matthew 6:32
1. What two things are we to seek first? Matthew 6:33
1. What will be given us if we do the above, and what does Jesus say about tomorrow and today? Matthew 33-34
Personal ‑ Do you spend too much of your time worrying about the roof over your head, the food on your table, and the clothes on your back? Take one day this week and make yourself aware of how much time you spend doing this. Bring this before your heavenly Father.
FIFTH DAY READ PSALM 62:2‑3, 6‑9
(“Only in God is my soul at rest.”)
Read and meditate on Psalm 62:2‑3, 6-9.
What is the Lord saying to you personally through the Psalm?
How can you apply this to your life?
ISAIAH 49:14‑15
The people of Israel thought that God had deserted and forgotten them while they were in captivity in Babylon. Today’s passage points out that God is like a loving Father who would never leave his child under any condition. God is telling us that he has each one of our names stamped on the palms of his hands. The people realized that their own sinfulness had brought about much of their captivity.
The Israelites saw that God would not tolerate or condone sin. They felt that God had punished them for their turning away from him. Today sin separates us from God, just as it did in the time of Isaiah; and it brings much pain and suffering to many innocent people. We need to confess our sins and repent and enjoy the forgiveness and love of our God who reigns over all the earth. Isaiah draws upon the sacredness of a mother’s love, devotion, perseverance, and courage in relating her to the love God has for us. He did not forget his people; He delivered them from slavery in the Exodus, using Moses as his instrument of justice. He knows every one of us personally and he died on the cross so that each one of us would experience his love and saving grace.
When we experience loneliness, abandonment, doubt, confusion, rejection, or even despair, we must ask ourselves whether we have turned away from his loving arms. No hurt or problem that we have is too big for him to heal or solve. He will never walk away and leave us orphans. He will take us to his bosom and love us back into his kingdom of justice.
1 CORINTHIANS 4:1‑5
Paul calls out the Christian leaders of the day to lead by being servants. A servant does what his master tells him to do, and he does not check to see whether the crowd agrees with his master or not. The people in Paul’s day wanted to be leaders and they wanted recognition, fame, respect, and power. We today are being called to be servants of God, and we are called to obey his commandments and abide in him (John 15:7). Abide means to live in, to take up residence. This means we have to be completely available to be obedient to our Lord Jesus’ call.
God speaks to us every day through his Holy Word, his Sacraments, and his people through the teachings of the Church. Only God knows a person’s heart and he alone has the right to judge someone. Paul warns the Christians that they are called, not to be judges but, to be servants. This warning applies to us in this day and year. There are many who condemn others because of their race, or belief or the color of their skin.
A servant is called to be of service to another, to be helpful, courteous, honest and responsible. A servant never judges; he only serves, and in Christianity a real servant is a real leader in the eyes of Jesus Christ. We are called to celebrate our being saved by Jesus Christ by serving others so that they may also find Jesus who is salvation, and who is the servant of servants.
MATTHEW 6:24‑34
Jesus really gets into the people’s mind and hearts when he talks about God and money. He tells them that they can have only one master and that master has to be God. He tells them to seek him and his kingdom first and all else will be added (Matthew 6:33). Today in many societies the desire to make money, have money, and spend money is so strong that people will lie, cheat, steal, and even kill to get their share of the money. The incredible truth is that, after spending most of their life serving the god of money, they die and leave every single penny to someone else. We come into this world with nothing and we leave it with nothing. Jesus is not saying that money is evil or that people who have money are evil. He is saying that the love of money is evil. We are to love people, not things. Money is a thing that is to be used. We use things, not people.
We need to reflect about our own use of time, talent, and wealth. Where and whatever we spend most of our time, is where our heart is. Jesus calls us to look at our spiritual values and our earthly values and make sure that our spiritual values get our top priority. We are called to use our wealth to help the least of our brothers (Matthew 25:31‑46). We are called not to let our wealth use us and possess us.
Someday, when we stand before God on judgment day, we will be called to answer some very hard questions. The main questions asked of us will not be: How rich were you? How big was your house? How long was your car? What college did you attend? The real questions will be DID you love me by loving your brothers and sisters? DID you clothe my nakedness? DID you feed my hungry? DID you give shelter to my homeless? DID you visit my sick in hospitals? DID you visit my people in prisons? DID you seek my kingship first? The answer can be a resounding YES if we put Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, first in our priority of values right now. Let him be the one who is the Lord of our lives right now and you will live forever.
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What is an Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tear?
The knee is composed of multiple ligaments, cartilage, and bones. One of the ligaments responsible for stabilizing the knee, the Anterior Cruciate Ligament, is also the most commonly injured ligament. Orthopedic surgeons can offer multiple treatment options based on the patient’s goals.
Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Tear
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The Anterior Cruciate Ligament and the Knee
The knee is a joint where different bones meet. The thigh bone, the femur, meets the two shin bones, the tibia and the fibula. The patella is a small bone that sits on the front of the knee. The ends of the thigh and shin bones are covered in cartilage, which helps the bones guide smoothly while walking.
There are several ligaments that provide the entire joint with stability. The Anterior Cruciate Ligament, otherwise known as the ACL, is the most well-known. It prevents the shin bones from sliding forward. There is also a Posterior Cruciate Ligament, the Medial Collateral Ligament, and the Lateral Collateral Ligament. They provide stability for different parts of the knee.
ACL Tear Anatomy
Causes of ACL Injury
Most people have heard of an ACL injury, often in a sports context. While it is true that most ACL injuries occur in athletic events, there are multiple mechanisms of injury. In an athlete, an ACL injury most commonly occurs while running or jumping and changing direction or pivoting that involves rotation and lateral bending of the knee. ACL injuries may also occur when the patient suffers a blow to the side of the knee. Lastly, ACL injuries can occur through high-energy impacts, like motor vehicle collisions.
People who have an ACL injury often feel a “pop”, have immediate swelling, and experience the sensation of an unstable knee. While they can often still walk, they have difficulty with other movements, like squatting or pivoting, that require more stability in the joint.
ACL Tear Diagnosis
When you come into the clinic, Dr. Morton will obtain an x-ray of your knee. This is to look for any other causes or injuries you may have sustained at the same time. After examination, he will evaluate if your knee feels unstable. Based on clinical exam, we will discuss whether you need to have an MRI performed to evaluate your injury. An MRI would also be able to look for other causes of your knee pain such as another ligament injury, cartilage injury, or meniscus tear.
Treatment for ACL Tears
Immediately after the injury, the first priority is rest, ice, compression, and elevation of the injured knee. Surgery need not happen immediately, and in fact often occurs a few weeks to months afterwards if the patient chooses surgery at all.
There are some patients who may be better suited for non-operative treatment. Choosing whether to operate depends on the extent of the injury and the patient’s activities and goals. For example, if a patient is older, less active, and still retains a reasonable amount of function with their injury, non-operative management may be the best option. Often, this involves physical rehabilitation.
Operative options
Surgery involves reconstructing the ligament itself. The surgeon does this through the use of grafts, meaning that they take another tendon and fashion it into a ligament. There are a variety of graft choices. Surgeons can take a tendon from the patient or from a donor. The two most common tendon grafts are either the patellar tendon or a tendon from the hamstring. The patellar tendon has the advantages of increased strength and better fixation to the bone. However, it may cause some more knee pain if taken from the patient. Using the hamstring causes less knee pain, can be very strong, but theoretically has slower fixation than the patellar tendon. Lastly, the surgeon can use a tendon from a donor. The advantage of the donor tendon is simply that using a donor avoids taking a tendon from the patient. The patient then does not experience the pain associated with using their own tendon. However, a donor tendon may integrate slower than a tendon taken from a patient. There is also the risk of infections from the donor.
Often there will be other co-existing injuries. Any injury to the meniscus, cartilage or other ligaments will be addressed at the time of surgery.
All-inside ACL Reconstruction
There are multiple techniques used in ACL reconstruction. The anatomic all-inside technique is a newer technique. By placing the ACL in an anatomic position, it is less likely to fail. The all-inside technique involves using specialized instruments that only drill on the “inside of the knee” and does not drill into the hard outer shell of the bone. The all-inside technique involves less bone removal and can be done with smaller skin incisions. Studies have shown that patients who undergo the all-inside technique have less knee pain compared to those who undergo the traditional technique. This is true as far out as 2 years postoperatively. Studies also show that the knee function scores and the joint anatomy outcomes are the same as the traditional method.
After surgery, patients have to undergo a significant period of physical rehabilitation. The rehab emphasizes joint mobility and strength. In patients who are hoping to return to sports, rehab may last as long as 9 months.
The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is a commonly injured ligament in the knee that is vital for movement. There are nonoperative treatment options and surgical management options available. Surgery is tailored to each patient’s needs. There are multiple grafts a patient could choose from and multiple techniques a surgeon uses. The all-inside technique results in the least amount of pain while preserving the technical successes of the traditional approach. Ask Dr. Morton about your options in regard to having an ACL reconstruction surgery.
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Frequently Asked Questions about Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tears (FAQ)
Can you walk after an ACL tear?
Yes, you can walk. Often times the knee is very swollen after the injury. Once you recover from the initial injury, However, without an ACL patients sometimes feel unstable. Patients who are athletes or require the use of their knee for high demand activities that involve pivoting or jumping are more likely to desire an ACL reconstruction.
Can you delay your ACL surgery?
Patients who are less active may consider delaying their surgery if they have other obligations. However, patients who continue to perform high levels of activity are placing the cartilage and meniscus at risk for further injury. Further injury to the knee can lead to arthritis later in life.
Can your ACL tear heal on its own?
Minor, partial tears may not cause your knee to feel unstable, and you may be able to function fine. Complete tears of your ACL will not heal without surgery. Unfortunately, the ACL is located in an area of the knee joint that it will not heal on its own. However, some patients who are lower demand can consider a rehabilitation program to strengthen their knee and successfully manage their ACL tear without surgery.
What does an ACL rupture feel like?
When you tear your ACL, patients often feel a sudden pop and their knee will give out from underneath them. Usually you will feel very unstable after the injury, as though your knee is "floppy". Many patients will experience significant swelling and pain. The swelling and pain will gradually resolve. Without treatment, many patients continue to have discomfort and difficulty walking. It is important to see an orthopedic surgeon to make sure you have your knee addressed appropriately.
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Meet Dr. Paul N. Morton, MD
Dr. Paul N. Morton, MD is a fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon in hip and knee surgery, specializing in robotic joint replacements, complex joint reconstruction, sports injuries, and trauma. Reach out to him to learn more about treatment options for your problem.
Written By: Dr. Paul N. Morton, MD
Post Published on April 1, 2020
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Oldenburg is an independent city in the district of Oldenburg in the state of Lower Saxony, Germany. The city is officially named Oldenburg (Oldb) (Oldenburg in Oldenburg) to distinguish from Oldenburg in Holstein. During the French annexation (1811–1813) in the wake of the Napoleonic war against Britain, it was also known as Le Vieux-Bourg in French. The city is situated at the Rivers Hunte and Haaren, in the northwestern region between the cities of Bremen in the east and Groningen (Netherlands) in the west. It has a population of 170,000 (November 2019). Oldenburg is part of the Bremen/Oldenburg Metropolitan Region, with 2.37 million people. The city is the place of origin of the House of Oldenburg.
Additional Information About Lubeck
Lübeck officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (German: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany, and one of the major ports of Germany. On the river Trave, it was the leading city of the Hanseatic League, and because of its extensive Brick Gothic architecture, it is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. In 2015, it had a population of 218,523. The old part of Lübeck is on an island enclosed by the Trave. The Elbe–Lübeck Canal connects the Trave with the Elbe River. Another important river near the town centre is the Wakenitz.
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2. Speed - Traveling by train is in most cases the fastest way to get from Lubeck to Oldenburg Holst .
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Debbie Friedman cited in A Journey of Spirit. Prod. Ann Coppel (Jewish Women's Archive),
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It was kol isha (the voice of women) for col isha (every woman) that inspired me to write inclusive music. It is beneficial not only for women, but for men and children as well. Singing helps us learn how to be vocal. Ultimately, the voices of women, their sense of empowerment, can be borne from song, which can form the core of political, spiritual, and economic transformation. The more our voices are heard in song, the more we become our lyrics, our prayers, and our convictions. Then every woman will be heard, and every voice will be heard: kol isha for col isha.
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Suggested Discussion Questions:
1. What is discriminatory about prohibiting a woman's voice from the public sphere?
2. How do you view voices and music and empowering?
3. What does the phrase "kol isha for col isha" mean to you?
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Salted Caramel Sauce 3 ways
Salted Caramel Sauce 3 Ways
Adapted from Alice Medrich. As always when dealing with cooking sugar, read through the entire recipe before you begin and be sure you have everything you need out and available.
Course Dessert
Servings 1 quart jar, approximately
Author TheSpicedLife
• 1 cup golden syrup, such as Lyle's Golden Syrup
• 2 cups sugar
• ½ t fine sea salt
• 2 cups heavy cream
• 3 T unsalted room temperature butter
• 1 T vanilla extract
• 1/4 - 1/2 t coarse sea salt
Possible additions:
• 1 t ground vanilla beans
• 1/2-1 t ground ancho chile pepper
• 1/2-1 t ground cayenne chile pepper
• 2 T decent quality bourbon (nothing that breaks the bank but nothing cheap tasting or overly sweet either)
1. Have ready a heat-proof storage container. I like canning jars for caramel sauce.
2. Combine the golden syrup, sugar, and fine salt in a large (3-4 quart), heavy saucepan (stainless steel or copper, for example).
3. Place the pan on medium heat, stirring with a wooden or silicone spoon. Also keep a pastry or silicone brush in a bowl of water next to the stovetop--brush down the sides of the pan to wash the sugar and syrup from the sides. When the edges of the sugar mixture start to bubble, cover the pan and leave for 3 minutes.
4. After the 3 minutes, uncover the pan and wash down the sides of the pan once more.
5. Attach a candy thermometer to the side of the pan--do not let it touch the bottom--and let the candy mixture boil. Do not stir or disturb it. Keep an eye on the thermometer--as you do this more often, you will get a sense for which parts go fast and which go slow. For example, I know from marshmallows that 220 to 245 can take a while. But 260 to 300 seem to go by pretty fast, so definitely do not wander away. You are looking for 305 F--I think mine hit 310, so you should be ok if it goes a little over.
6. When the mixture reaches 305 F turn off the heat and stir in the butter chunks. Slowly pour in and stir the cream. It will bubble and steam dramatically, so be careful. Adjust the heat--it will vary by burner--so that it boils, but is not boiling out of control. Stir until any syrup at the bottom of the pan is dissolved into the mixture.
7. Continue to boil, stirring occasionally, until the mixture reaches 225-228 F (228 will make a thicker sauce).
8. Remove it from the heat and stir in the vanilla extract. If you are making a Salted Bourbon Caramel Sauce, now is the time to stir in the bourbon.
9. When the extract (and bourbon if using) has been mixed in, let the caramel cool down for about 1 minute.
10. Now is the time to mix in either the ground vanilla beans or the (lesser amount of) ground chile peppers.
11. Let it cool for another 2-3 minutes. If you made the bourbon or ground vanilla bean versions, mix in the salt to taste and then pour into the heatproof container.
12. If you made the chile pepper version, dip a spoon into the caramel. Let it cool for a moment and then taste--if you want it spicier, mix in more of the spices now. Then pour it into a heatproof container.
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The Oise near Gency
The Oise near Gency
Coat of arms of Val-d'Oise
Coat of arms
Location of Val-d'Oise in France
Location of Vaw-d'Oise in France
PrefecturePontoise (officiaw)
Cergy (de facto)
• President of de Generaw CounciwArnaud Bazin
• Totaw1,246 km2 (481 sq mi)
• Totaw1,221,923
• Rank17f
• Density980/km2 (2,500/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Department number95
^1 French Land Register data, which excwude estuaries, and wakes, ponds, and gwaciers warger dan 1 km2
Vaw-d'Oise (French: [vaw dwaz] (About this soundwisten), "Vawwey of de Oise") is a French department, created in 1968 after de spwit of de Seine-et-Oise department and wocated in de Îwe-de-France region. It gets its name from de Oise River, a major tributary of de Seine, which crosses de region after having started in Bewgium and fwowed drough norf-eastern France. Charwes de Gauwwe Airport, France's main internationaw airport is partiawwy wocated in Roissy-en-France, a commune of Vaw d'Oise.
The originaw departments of France were estabwished in 1790 when de French Nationaw Assembwy spwit de country into 83 departments of roughwy de same size and popuwation, uh-hah-hah-hah. They were designed as sets of communes, and when better maps became avaiwabwe, certain revisions had to be made. After defeat by de Prussians in 1871, certain territories were ceded to dem and some rearrangements made. In 1955 and 1957, some departments changed deir names. In 1964, it was determined to divide up de departments of Seine and Seine-et-Oise. Vaw-d'Oise was one of de new departments so formed, and was created entirewy from de previous department of Seine-et-Oise.[1]
Vaw-d'Oise is a department in norf centraw France and is part of de region of Îwe-de-France. To de souf of de department wies de department of Hauts-de-Seine, to de soudwest wies Yvewines, to de west wies Eure, to de norf wies Oise, to de east wies Seine-et-Marne and to de soudeast wies Seine-Saint-Denis.[2] The officiaw préfecture (capitaw) of de department is de commune of Pontoise, situated in de suburbs of Paris some 28 kiwometres (17 mi) nordwest of de centre of de city, but de préfecture buiwding and administrative offices are in de neighbouring commune of Cergy. The River Oise is a right tributary of de River Seine, and fwows drough de province from nordeast to soudwest.[2]
The eastern part of de department is part of de Pays de France, an area of fertiwe pwain traditionawwy used for agricuwture (particuwarwy cereaws and sugar beet) based on its fine siwty soiws. This part is progressivewy diminishing in size as Paris expands. Part of Charwes de Gauwwe Airport fawws in dis eastern region, whiwe oder parts are in de departments of Seine-et-Marne and Seine-Saint-Denis. The soudernmost region of de department forms part of de Seine Vawwey and occupies de whowe of de smaww Vawwée de Montmorency. These parts are heaviwy urbanised, but de ancient Roman road, de Chaussée Juwes César, which winked Paris and Rouen, passes drough de watter. The centraw and soudwestern parts of de department are awso wargewy urbanised and part of de greater Paris spraww. The western part of de department forms part of de historic county of Vexin français, a verdant, wargewy agricuwturaw pwateau. Its capitaw was Pontoise on de eastern extremity of de county. This commune is now combining wif de neighbouring commune of Cergy to form de new town of Cergy-Pontoise. The Vexin area remains wargewy ruraw, and across de whowe department, one fiff is covered wif trees.[2]
Principaw towns[edit]
Most Popuwous Vaw-d'Oise communes[3]
Rank Commune Canton Arrondissement Popuwation (2017)
1 Argenteuiw Argenteuiw-1
Argenteuiw 110,210
2 Cergy Cergy-1
Pontoise 65,177
3 Sarcewwes Sarcewwes Sarcewwes 58,587
4 Garges-wès-Gonesse Garges-wès-Gonesse Sarcewwes 42,728
5 Franconviwwe Franconviwwe Pontoise 36,762
6 Pontoise Pontoise Pontoise 30,767
7 Goussainviwwe Goussainviwwe Sarcewwes 30,637
8 Bezons Argenteuiw-3 Argenteuiw 29,383
9 Herbway-sur-Seine Herbway Argenteuiw 29,342
10 Ermont Ermont Pontoise 29,108
11 Viwwiers-we-Bew Viwwiers-we-Bew Sarcewwes 27,676
12 Sannois Argenteuiw-1 Argenteuiw 26,662
13 Taverny Taverny Pontoise 26,441
14 Gonesse Viwwiers-we-Bew Sarcewwes 25,999
15 Eaubonne Ermont Pontoise 25,097
The economy of Vaw-d'Oise rewies on two different demes. The nordern, eastern and western parts are fertiwe areas of agricuwturaw wand producing warge qwantities of corn, sugar beet, and oder crops. The urban parts to de souf are dormitory towns, used by peopwe working in de greater metropowitan area of Paris. The presence of Charwes de Gauwwe Airport and its associated TGV station provides access by raiw to aww parts of France. The department has nine business zones designated for high-tech industries.[4]
Popuwation devewopment since 1876:
Historicaw popuwation
YearPop.±% p.a.
Pwace of birf of residents[edit]
Pwace of birf of residents of Vaw-d'Oise in 1999
Born in Metropowitan France Born outside Metropowitan France
76.2% 24.8%
Born in
Overseas France
Born in foreign countries wif French citizenship at birf1 EU-15 immigrants2 Non-EU-15 immigrants
2.2% 2.9% 3.6% 15.1%
1 This group is made up wargewy of former French settwers, such as pieds-noirs in Nordwest Africa, fowwowed by former cowoniaw citizens who had French citizenship at birf (such as was often de case for de native ewite in French cowonies), and to a wesser extent foreign-born chiwdren of French expatriates. Note dat a foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for exampwe in 1950 in Awgeria, when Awgeria was an integraw part of France, is nonedewess wisted as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics.
2 An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birf. Note dat an immigrant may have acqwired French citizenship since moving to France, but is stiww considered an immigrant in French statistics. On de oder hand, persons born in France wif foreign citizenship (de chiwdren of immigrants) are not wisted as immigrants.
Current Nationaw Assembwy Representatives[edit]
Constituency Member[6] Party
Vaw-d'Oise's 1st constituency Antoine Savignat The Repubwicans (France)
Vaw-d'Oise's 2nd constituency Guiwwaume Vuiwwetet La Répubwiqwe En Marche!
Vaw-d'Oise's 3rd constituency Céciwe Riwhac La Répubwiqwe En Marche!
Vaw-d'Oise's 4f constituency Naïma Moutchou La Répubwiqwe En Marche!
Vaw-d'Oise's 5f constituency Fiona Lazaar La Répubwiqwe En Marche!
Vaw-d'Oise's 6f constituency Nadawie Ewimas MoDem
Vaw-d'Oise's 7f constituency Dominiqwe Da Siwva La Répubwiqwe En Marche!
Vaw-d'Oise's 8f constituency François Pupponi Sociawist Party
Vaw-d'Oise's 9f constituency Zivka Park La Répubwiqwe En Marche!
Vaw-d'Oise's 10f constituency Auréwien Taché Ecowogy Democracy Sowidarity
The department has a rich archaeowogicaw and historicaw heritage, but is not a region visited much by tourists, perhaps being overshadowed by de French capitaw. Pwaces of interest incwude de fowwowing sites;[7] La Roche-Guyon wif a castwe on top of a rocky hiww and a twewff century château; L'Iswe-Adam, a historic smaww town on de bank of de River Oise; Auvers-sur-Oise, which owes its internationaw fame to its wandscapes and de impressionist painters such as Charwes-François Daubigny, Pauw Cézanne, Jean-Baptiste-Camiwwe Corot, Camiwwe Pissarro and Vincent van Gogh who immortawised dem; Enghien-wes-Bains, a spa resort wif a hot, suwphurous spring, on de site of what was originawwy Lake Enghien; Écouen wif a fine château which houses de Museum of de Renaissance; Cergy-Pontoise, de new administrative capitaw which has been created out of dirteen communes and has qwadrupwed in popuwation since de 1960s. There is a branch of de Académie de Versaiwwes in de city which provides tertiary education; Théméricourt, where as weww as a fine château, dere is de historic church of Notre-Dame, and de twewff or dirteenf century Croix de w'Ormeteau-Marie.[8] Royaumont Abbey, founded by St. Louis in de dirteenf century, is anoder important site. There are two protected nature areas in de department: de Parc naturew régionaw du Vexin français and de Parc naturew régionaw Oise-Pays de France.[7]
Argenteuiw is a sub-prefecture and is de second most popuwous of Paris' suburbs. It is in a scenic wocation by de River Seine and has been much-painted by Cwaude Monet, Eugène Dewacroix, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gustave Caiwwebotte, Awfred Siswey and Georges Braqwe. It has severaw historic buiwdings and a wocaw museum.[9]
See awso[edit]
1. ^ Gwiwwim Law (1999). Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive Worwd Reference, 1900 drough 1998. McFarwand. pp. 132–133. ISBN 978-1-4766-0447-3.
2. ^ a b c Phiwips' Modern Schoow Atwas. George Phiwip and Son, Ltd. 1973. pp. 42–43. ISBN 0-540-05278-7.
3. ^ Téwéchargement du fichier d'ensembwe des popuwations wégawes en 2017, INSEE
4. ^ "Vaw d'Oise" (in French). Comité d'Expansion Economiqwe du Vaw d'Oise. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
5. ^ Site sur wa Popuwation et wes Limites Administratives de wa France
6. ^
7. ^ a b "Vaw d'Oise: Must see pwaces". Visit Paris. Agence de Dévewoppement et de Réservation Touristiqwes du Vaw d’Oise. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
8. ^ Vasseur, Rowand. wa croix de w'Ormeteau-Marie à Théméricourt. Richesse du patrimoine (in French). Mémoires de wa Société historiqwe et archéowogiqwe de Pontoise, du Vaw d'Oise et du Vexin, uh-hah-hah-hah. ISSN 1148-8077.
9. ^ Dominiqwe Auzias; Jean-Pauw Labourdette (2012). Vaw-d'Oise 2012. Petit Futé. pp. 22–. ISBN 2-7469-6136-9.
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Department of Phytochemistry
Phytochemistry of herbal chemistry is the study of chemical compounds in plants especially the bioactive materials in medicinal herbs. Phytochemicals are the secondary metabolic substances found in plants. These show a number of biological effects such as anti-oxidant, anti-microbial, anti-cancer, etc. Techniques commonly used in the field of phytochemistry are extraction, isolation, purification, and structural elucidation of natural products by spectroscopy (MS, NMR, IR, UV) as well as various chromatography techniques (HPLC, LC-MS, GC-MS).
Group Goals:
1. Extraction, isolation, and identification of active materials in medicinal plants
2. Purification of bioactive substances of medicinal plants
3. Analysis of intermediates and active materials in pharmaceutical products
4. Synthesis of intermediates and active materials of medicinal herbs
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Frontier - An Okoto Space Roleplay
Date 23-13-2093
Temple Grounds
I stood among the silent crowds as the cold winter wisps stung like daggers across my face. The men, women and children who usually gathered here were often filled with warmth and cheeriness, but no-one would dare even smile today. On the platform high above, atop the neatly cut stairs sprinkled with a downy white layer of snow, were the three most powerful beings on the entire island.
The great mask makers; our leaders… And Him.
Out from the middle of the assembly of viewers, a procession of armed guards strode forth armed with electronic weaponry. In the center, layered in chains, was Messeck. No-one could turn from their gaze upon him; his expression, his very face was the epitome of wickedness. “Kulta Reborn”, as they called him. He was layered in badly mangled furs and the shrunken head of Bingzak could be seen dangling from his hip.
Messeck was the leader of the Dead of Kulta, which one might describe as a fanatic cult - but they had the blood of a hundred souls drenched into their very beings; they were the epitome of wickedness on the island of Okoto, and Messeck somehow outclassed every single one. As he took each step, my careful eyes chanced to spot small, traces of powder drifting into the snow - possibly some addictive, I thought, until I noticed the bag of ashes in his hand that he was emptying upon his ascent.
The two guards who lead him up were afraid to be even as close as the were, widely spread apart as far as the chains and the stairs would allow. The intense fear spread over them and the crowds cannot be spoken in the same manner as for the two mask makers Hokku and Velmes, as they stood by the executioner who had little care for the event in general.
The former was of fire; wise and discreet, and was robed in a puffy coat lined with scales. Despite the incredible warmth it must have given him, he still shivered intensely, perhaps from the presence of Messeck alone. Velmes, however, was of the ice, and was known for a violent temper, precise calculating, and the way he brutally killed anyone who would pose a threat to the lives of the villagers, as we shall soon see. He did not even quiver once as the grinning master cultist was slowly marched up the stairs.
When the villain at last reached the top, The executioner strode forward and began the usual speech given for every criminal executed. “Messeck, your time in existence on this world has come to an abrupt close. None exist who can prove your innocence. As usual, the criminal will be executed-”
The criminal was shoved down onto the stone block used for this public display, but the next second had rolled off the back of it and pulled hard on the pair of chains being held by the two guards. They were immediately flung forward, as they thought no harm could come once he was on the block. They flew down the stairs, letting go of the chains and trying anything to stop their descent. The executioner came at him with his axe, but Messeck sidestepped the vertical swing and landed a knife in his throat.
And then - it happened so fast I still cannot recall it properly - he began his approach to the mask makers, but a blinding flash came from somewhere in the separation of Hokku’s coat, followed by a horrible cry. I could not see what happened to him, but the people say that Messeck swung toward the crowds in great agony, and the right half of his face was glowing with the light of a furnace, melting to slag as he screamed. The next instant Velmes brought his powerful hand down on the back of Messeck’s head, perhaps moreso than he intended, slamming onto the execution block on which he was leaning and exploding anything that made up Messeck’s neck.
The bland, smoldering head of the villainous monster tumbled down the steps in an almost musical fashion, before burying itself in a pile of snow at the base. The snow on the steps ran a crimson trail down to the audience, as the audience slowly dispersed into the blizzard as it picked up speed once more.
After a long silence, as the wind whipped around them, reminding each of the horrors that life had to bring, Hokku spoke to Velmes once more.
“We’re almost there, Velmes. One more step to the cosmos.”
Velmes responded with a deep exhale, turning towards me as I finished scraping the final touches into my slate to remind me what to copy down. He placed his hand on my shoulder, leaving some of the blood of the one who just died. “Do not forget what has happened here, young one. You just may live to see the day where man will no more be murdered, no crime shall he commit, no punishment he shall face. For on that final day we shall stand at the edge of the universe and speak to the stars.”
“But what will you tell them?” He strode into the forge, Hokku following along behind. I scraped a few more reminders and hurried after as fast as I could.
~“Pigmy” Muvoso, Chronicler of the Ancients
1: Story
1.1: Pre-Collapse
1.2: The Race To Space
1.3: Death Is Thy Moniker
2: Okoto Specifics
2.1: Locations
2.2: Wildlife
2.3: Technology
3: Outer Space
3.1: To Space and Back
3.2: Vehicle Physics
3.3: Weaponry Physics
3.4: Planetary differences
3.5: Dimensional Etc.
4: Characters
4.1: Profile Sheet
4.2: Non-Playable Characters
4.3: Playable Species
5: Rules & Regulations
6: FAQ
1: The Story
Now you are speaking to Lord Hokku, elder brother of the mask makers. Velmes is my younger brother, and the two who came before us are brothers as well, but not ours. Listen now to the tale of the past, future, and present, before you be sent into the stars.
Long, long ago, before time had found its proper place, The Island of Okoto was filled with our people; our ancestors were quite strong indeed, morally, physically, and mentally. We always heard that the times back then were a perfect paradise, but no-one can say for sure anymore.
When Makuta dared to create the Mask of Ultimate Power, all of Okoto was riveted. Of course, Makuta was part of the mask makers: Gold-armoured and powerful Okotoran with incredible strength and skill beyond belief. Two were from the Ice tribe, Makuta was from the Earth tribe, and myself from the Fire Tribe. Velmes and I stayed to protect the people as Ekimu ventured into the Temple of Time after Makuta right as the third moon passed over it.
Anyone who says they know what happened there is a fool, for the doors sealed from the energy and a pillar of what can only be described as pure light destroyed the roof, carrying into the skies and beyond our feeble sight. When the Temple gates were broken open, there was a crater in the room, and both the legendary Mask Makers had vanished, with the powerful masks they wore.
Well, you know the rest of the story. Meteors rained down all over our tiny island, causing Velmes and I to step in and take command. We ordered for the construction of high, heavily fortified walls around Ko-Koto with special construction so nothing could possibly climb up them, and electric machinery based on technology inside the ancient city, which shattered the meteorites before they landed. We also ordered that special defense suits be made for the soldiers, and that any equipped head out in huge teams to find the fabled Masks of Unity, in the event that they could hold some fragile hope for our future. However, one day, a grave mistake was made…
An odd, crimson meteorite encompassed in flames arrived shortly after the arrival of the Skull Spiders - absolutely morbid swarm creatures, they maul everything in their path and beware if one should land on you; they control their prey and hollow out the inside of their victim’s head. The meteorite was shot down like the others, but it was followed with a deafening cry of agony, and large pieces of torn metal rained down instead of rock. Upon closer inspection, the “meteorite” was a capsule, which contained one of the heroes of the prophecy - dead. The blast had ripped him apart, and completely ruined his mask.
After a saddening funeral, close inspection was carried out on the capsule and, more specifically, the mechanisms that let it travel through space. They were copied, tested, enhanced, and by the time the search teams returned with the majority murdered by the vicious spiders, vehicles were under production that would let the users travel the stars. It was unknown how far they could go, but the mystery of what lay on the orbiting moons was too great to let minor concerns hold back our ambitions.
With no outside power able to hold any threat against us, how could we fall?
The Dead of Kulta is the most wicked group of individuals I have ever come across. They are so vile and horrifying I could not believe such a calm person as Dessimus would have risen to the throne after Messeck, self-proclaimed reincarnation of Kulta, was rightfully ‘executed’. Its sole purpose is to reach the moons before we do to harvest the resources and claim it as theirs. Oh, and kill everybody and take control of everything, that too. If you encounter any Dead of Kulta members, kill them - do not hesitate. Except, however, for Dessimus. His capture could lead to the surrender of the entire group- If not, it will still cripple them heavily.
1. Okoto Specifics
On this cursed island, the majority of it is cut off from access by our large walls and the hordes of Skull Spiders looking for a good way to scale them. Take heed; if you find a way out you will not be allowed back in. We do not request pilots who prove themselves to be rebellious. The village is on the back of the Temple of Time, which sits in the ice region of this island. However, the front is inside the ancient city, which is teeming with Skull Spiders and the sluggish Skull Warriors, who were defeated after Ekimu destroyed the villainous Kulta. The Temple is off-limits to anyone aside from Velmes and Myself, and the chronicler Muvoso.
All other regions were decimated by the forces of darkness except for this one. The temperature of the village is generally very cold, except for inside the forge itself, where the heat of the magma pools circulating keeps things very comfortable. There are small shops here and there, a restaurant with surprisingly fine wares, and one inn which never gets used, but there is no other major building with interior heating. This is another reason why we’re trying to find a new home. A house exists for every Okotoran before the Skull Spiders, except for a select few who were too lazy to build a house when they had the chance.
On the way up to the forge, you will spy the two massive carvings of Ekimu and Makuta which Velmes commissioned after their demise. And in the town square, the statue of the first explorer to the stars resides, the statue of the ever-famous Hymuka. He was the one who took on the first three space adventures before a mistake occurred with his capsule and he was incinerated on re-entry.
Sadly, almost all of the creatures on this island were killed off by those arachnids. Only the most powerful ones survive, spare some that were already here that were raised as either pets or livestock. The small-toothed Rezge is a lizard-like worm, only it’s the size of a person and can tunnel through anything that isn’t stone or metal. It is dangerous, but nothing like the Horde Spider. Oh, the Horde Spider! Named as such because when they were first seen, they thought they were simply a horde of tinier spiders pretending to be something massive. Smart as one of us, and ten times as strong. Rumors abound about this creature, and some say one found a mask of power with which to control those Skull Spiders, although I believe it’s hogwash.
The livestock consist of only one species now: a variety of miniature cow known as the Ekimu Bull. They’re a struggle to keep alive, especially in the cold weather. The only other creature around here is the Misken, a furry, little, four-legged creature with tiny teeth and lots of energy, which is usually considered to be a pet. But, it’s rather irrelevant, so I’ll move on.
Technology, despite our recent advancements, is still basic and blunt in comparison to what Ekimu and Makuta must have known. Yet, despite this, we still have made some interesting technological advancements. Of course, not everything is available to the public, but we make as much as we can available.
These publicly available advancements include:
• Very expensive heat generator, large enough to heat up a whole room
• Electricity-powered circular saw, can run for three hours
• Specialized crossbow, designed to fire bolts instead of arrows
We have also devised special baiting towers, which let off certain frequencies that Skull Spiders cannot resist. They will madly crowd around the towers, scrambling over each other and sometimes killing each other. While they are durable, the towers have an expected life span of only two years.
Of course, not many will be able to afford some of what we can offer, but the expedition to the stars can possibly assist us in making more advanced technology available. We must do whatever it takes to explore the universe!
1. Outer Space
Thanks to our most talented associates, we have constructed the most basic of all flying machines for travel beyond the skies- the Vertical Transportation Pod. I know, it’s not much of a name, but the name does not matter. What matters is if it can fly through space - and it can! We have perfected the landing, cycling, fuel, and durability in zero-gravity conditions, so nearly anyone can fly it safely. Thankfully, it is constructed out of materials we have immediate access to, so the loss of a Pod in the south sea is no major concern.
All passengers on board the VTP will be required to wear the special spacesuit we have designed personally for every daring adventurer. Constructed out of several high-durability materials, it is perhaps the strongest protective armour ever to exist. It can withstand and, in most cases, completely deflect knives, arrows, and other such materials/ However it is never to be used outside of the mission itself or the return trips. Wearing it casually for whatever you wish may result in you losing the suit and the right to explore the cosmos.
A team of three at a time will climb into one of these pods, take off from the specially designed take-off area, and head through the cosmos. The vehicle is very fast, but even with its great speed, and the close proximity of our first moon, travel there still takes an hour. Then, they will explore the reaches of the new world, bring back samples of whatever they can find in specially sealed containers, and return home, landing in the south sea.
Then they must escape the pod, and survive the Skull Spiders to return to the main gates, but this will be the most trying portion. While Skull Spiders are very weak and can usually be felled if they hit something too hard, despite their ability to withstand lava, the swarms are deadly. Therefore we have placed baiting towers at different locations to draw their attention to them. Despite this, the road up to they region of ice is still very dangerous. Okotoran brave enough to volunteer to assist in guarding these researchers and explorers may go out only then, to assist them in their safe return.
With the current VTP, there is not much capability to them. They can fly to the moon and back, but not much else. Thankfully, almost every night the first moon is directly overhead. They have quite the kick when they first take off, but those who have made the trip several times may not even notice it anymore.
Perhaps, in the future, there will be a machine even more powerful that can take us to other moons and, perhaps, other planets.
Sadly, there is no weaponry on the vehicles as of yet. Someday, there will be, though! Then we can eradicate the infesting Skull Spiders from our shores!
Something to remember is: A smaller world means less gravity. And several of the conditions of our home of Okoto will be quite different on the moon(s). The atmosphere, at least on the first moon, is in no condition for breathing in any way, so you will have to rely on the air tanks on your spacesuit. Perhaps, on some of the others, the atmosphere will be safe, but we will see.
Dimensional warping? What kind of madness is this? Yet some have suggested that, someday, we will be able to cross the plane of existence itself! What rubbish! Although, we cannot cross out the possibility of its occurence. Still, the idea is ridiculously absurd. I’ll wager the fur coat off my back that we’ll never even come close.
1. Characters
Here’s where you make your characters. This is the basic character sheet, although as technology in the game progresses, the sheet will update as well as the descriptions of vehicles, technology, and etc.
Name: What is your name? What do you call yourself?
Gender: Boy, Girl, neither, both, or something else?
Element: Where did you come from? What element do you have?
Mask: What style of mask do you have?
Weapons: What do you use to fight with?
Appearance: What do you look like?
Personality: We’ve got good and bad traits. What are yours?
Bio: What was your life before the race to space? (this also includes if you joined the Dead of Kulta.)
These are the major NPCs, and more will be appearing later.
Name: Hokku
Gender: Male
Element: Fire
Mask: Golden Fire mask of Unity
Weapons/Equipment: Hokku is armed with a very experimental firearm. Nobody knows what it does, and very few know it exists. Rumours suggest Velmes was the original creator of it. He also carries a variety of small knives inside his fur coat, which he is very good at throwing and fighting with. Along with Velmes, he is incredibly strong, much more so than any Okotoran.
Appearance/Powers: Squat, to some degree, crystalline formations across his chest, wide-set shoulders, and muscular hands. His whole appearance displays raw power. He is usually considered the nicer of the two brothers, based somewhat on Velmes’ bitterness.
Personality: In accordance with popular belief, he is gentle, loving, and kind, willing to display it on the outside instead of just by himself. Despite this, he is not very keen at making big decisions, and was often chastised by Makuta in the past for being too weak.
Bio: When he was born, he was separated from his brother, and sent to the fire region, as all born of the fire element are. He began his career as a carver, making statues and figures and such. Ekimu saw his great leadership capabilities, and he was advanced trough the ranks very quickly until he became a member of the council of four. He was finally reunited with his brother after many years, who was also chosen, and they worked together under Ekimu and Makuta’s guidance up until the Collapse.
Name: Muvoso
Gender: Male
Element: Stone
Mask: Mahiki
Weapons/Equipment: Muvoso has no weapons, at least none that are seen, although he tries to outwit every fight he finds himself in. He carries a large satchel, and wears a backpack, each filled with stone slates for writing notes on to remind him when he copies down proper information, along with a metal writing utensil.
Appearance/Abilities: When he was younger, Muvoso was much shorter in height, earning the name ‘Pigmy’. He is still of very miniature stature, but he is quite powerful despite his limitations. He has followed the mask makers all around Okoto, and over the years has become an incredibly adept runner, climber, hunter, marksman, and can handle the temperatures of each region as well as any Okotoran specific to that region.
Personality: He is intensely loyal to the mask makers, malicious towards anyone that speaks a word against them. He also tries very hard to be a leader of the people whenever he has to, which usually involves forcing some people to pay attention.
Bio: Muvoso was chosen by Ekimu to be the chronicler for the mask makers when he was very young, and was mostly raised by Ekimu as he grew up. Now he is one of the leaders of the island, in his prime, and usually in a position of zero pity for the villagers.
Name: Velmes
Gender: Male
Elelment: Ice
Mask: Golden Ice mask of Unity
Weapons/Equipment: Velmes is very powerful with hand-to-hand combat. He wears no cloak. He has several knives tucked away in his armour, which he is very good at throwing and fighting with. He is very skilled in almost any weapon type. Along with Hokku, he is incredibly strong, much more so than any other Okotoran.
Appearance/Powers: Squat, to some degree, crystalline formations across his chest, wide-set shoulders, and muscular hands. His whole appearance displays raw power. He is usually considered the more vicious of the two brothers, based somewhat on Hokku’s kindness.
Personality: Despite what his cohorts say to the public, he is snappy, harsh, and very strong-willed and stubborn. Despite this, he is a masterful calculator and planner, but was often chastised by Ekimu for being too unwilling to learn.
Bio: When he was born, he was separated from his brother, and sent to the ice region, as all born of the ice element are. He began his career as a public figure, organizing the reconstruction of the ice region after an attack by the Dead of Kulta. Makuta saw his great leadership capabilities, and he was advanced through the ranks very quickly until he became a member of the council of four. He was finally reunited with his brother after many years, who was also chosen, and they worked together under Ekimu and Makuta’s guidance up until the Collapse.
Name: Dessimus
Gender: Male
Element: Earth
Mask: Black Kraakhan
Weapons/Equipment: Dessimus is armoured in a very articulate suit of silver armour. The top hunch in the armour contains two tanks of air for potential space travel. He has a mechanical right hand, which is equipped with an unfolding blade, skeleton key, and small cord for choking.
Appearance/Powers: He is very tall, powerful-looking, and dark and sinister. Most of his body is covered in the silver armour, supposedly made of “the strongest steel in all of Kulta’s domain.” In reality, it is just normal steel.
Personality: He is hard and cold, sometimes colder than the ice region itself. His intentions are just and right, although he is responsible for several deaths. Rumours abound for the commoners; is Dessimus trying to destroy the Dead of Kulta? Is he trying to resurrect Kulta himself? or does he know of some dark secret in the island’s core? nobody knows for sure, and it might be possible that not even Dessimus knows…
Bio: Dessimus’ past is clouded in mystery. No-one is really aware of his history, but this very quiet gardener jumped to command after Messeck was executed.
These are the playable species and their specifics. So far only Okotoran are playable, but who knows what you might find on the other moons.
Fire: These Okotoran have a high tolerance of heat and a bitter hatred of cold. Many in their youth are taught to work with metals, others focused more on being physically capable.
Water: The water Okotoran have a deep connection with the sea and any large bodies of water. They tend to be better swimmers and were the first to discover the Skull Spiders.
Jungle: The Jungle Okotoran are excellent climbers, and the fastest on foot. They tend to have very athletic capabilities and some speak with an odd slang, mainly involving plants.
Earth: These Okotoran are the strongest and have better vision in the dark. Looks can be deceiving with them; even the scrawniest one is tougher than he appears.
Ice: The Okotoran of Ko-Koto have the most technology, most of which was destroyed in recent events. They have a high tolerance of cold and a bitter hatred of high heat.
Stone: The Okotoran of stone have no special traits, except their ability to control the odd, floating blocks in the Labyrinth of Control, which have not been found after the eruption.
These are the specific rules for this RPG. I still expect you to follow the on-site rules and respect the admin’s power at all times, although I’m making things a little harder here as well. Nothing straining on the site’s rules at all; if anything, they back them up.
A. No Swearing.
Yep, you heard me. No swearing at all. I expect this to be very well memorized and kept in order, so I’m going to say it again in bold print,
No Swearing,
so that you’re really without excuse. If I see any expletive in this I’m going to report the post to staff, and it’s going to count as a strike against you. Five strikes and you’re out; other things can count as strikes too, so play by the rules. Other things such as Karz, Brakas, Piraka, etc. are allowed.
B. Please keep to ‘IC’ and ‘OOC’ in posts, please
Yes, I want you to use IC (In-Character) when speaking in-character, and OOC (Out-Of-Character) when out-of-character, this should be easy to understand. You won’t need to do this in the Discussion topic.
C. No Bunnying, GodModding, Etc…
Okay, this may be a bit unfamiliar with some people. Bunnying is where you pull other player’s characters along and basically play them without the other player’s consent. GodModding is where you repeatedly perform the miraculous or impossible with your character simply because you want to, or you’re afraid of losing a fight, etc. If you think another player is being unfair in the game, or is violating one of the rules, bring it to the discussion topic, and do try to keep it civil.
D. Please keep character to your posts.
I’ve looked at some of the other RPs on this site, and they’re incredibly lacking in post quality. Most of them are one-sentence blurbs, such as:
Joe (placehold character) went inside.
And then what? I want to know what happened when Joe (placehold character) went inside! Did he sit down? did he get a drink? where is inside? So instead of saying that, I would say…
IC: Joe (You can include the location of the character after that, if you want)
Joe walked into the door and pushed it aside. A couple of thoughts tumbled through his head; he was quite uncertain of the situation at hand, but he decided to accept it anyway and move along.
He walked a couple of steps forwards and stood once more, eyeing the situation, expecting a potential outcome that might occur.
There, I have just said the exact same post, but with more meat to it; more life to what I’m trying to do. Keep this in mind, and you’ll be a good RPer in no time.
Do it or else. :stuck_out_tongue:
There will be questions here as they come up in discussion. In the meantime, here’s a few that I figured would be obvious.
Q: What’s this about a mask? Dessimus appears to have a G1 mask, and so does Muvoso; what’s with that?
A: I’m not limiting the masks to G2, although they are only in design. Masks with elements may come later, but we’ll see.
Q: What even is this “Dead of Kulta”?
A: Basically, the main evil organization of the game. This won’t stop you from creating your own group, though!
Q: When more technology is discovered, can we customize out ships?
A: The pods will eventually be replaced entirely with a new kind of vehicle, and customization will occur then. In the meantime, try your best to find as many resources as you can!
Refer to the Discussion topic for creating profiles, and for discussion about the game itself. Do not post in this topic unless you have a character approved by myself.
OOC: Yay! First post!
IC: Kyrlahni - Ko-Koto (Dwelling)
The first thing Kyrlahni noticed upon waking up in her cot was the same thing she was reminded of every morning since she had finally arrived in the region of ice; it was freaking cold.
For a while, she seriously considered simply rolling over onto her other side and burrowing herself deeper into the mound of hides she had used to cover herself the previous night in order to stay warm. Aside from venturing back out into the village and wandering around aimlessly or forcing herself to once again read through the books and documents she had managed to take with her for what seemed like the hundredth time, all in a futile attempt to find something that could potentially help them combat the Skull Spiders, there was literally no reason for her to get out of bed, and nothing stopping her from returning to the realm of dreams.
That is, until her stomach began to growl, causing her to let out a whimper of defeat.
“Son of a Brakas…,” she mumbled to herself, stretching out a little before finally letting her toes touch the floor.
Releasing some of her pent up ire by delivering a good, swift kick to her busted heat generator (she really needed to see someone about getting that fixed), only to scoff silently and quickly fix her mask upon realising that it had become crooked in her sleep thanks to the reflective nature of its metalic surface, she eventually made her way over to her makeshift fireplace, her blankets in tow as she picked up the nearby poker and began stoking the embers. Moments later, she found herself sitting before a full-fledged blaze, calmly treating herself to some leftovers from her previous meal, all the while trying to figure out how to best spend her day.
Weeks earlier, she had petitioned for monitored access to the safer chambers located within the Temple of Time, mostly to further her own research regarding the enemy currently at their doorstep… and her request had been flat-out denied. She had a feeling that Hokku and Velmes weren’t about to change their answer anytime soon, so that was no longer an option. A few sunrises ago, she volunteered to help guard the outer wall, which allowed her to observe the creatures directly from a relatively safe distance… until she accidentally tripped over a spear and sent an entire weapon rack falling over the edge and into the horde below, which very nearly succeeded in taking her with it. Needless to say, the others weren’t exactly pleased with this, and at the end of her ■■■■■, she was informed that her services would no longer be required. And as for yesterday’s fiasco? Well… let’s just say that she agreed to watch over somebody else’s shop while they ran out to perform an errand, only for a runaway cart full of smithing supplies to roll in out of nowhere and demolish half of the building.
Upon reflection, it was probably a good idea just to simply stay inside where nothing bad would happen… and that’s when she noticed that a stray ember had set one of the hides she had wrapped around herself on fire.
Flinging them all to the floor and quickly stomping it out, she proceeded to angrily douse the rest of the flames with her kettle before brandishing a knife, removing the damaged section, and tossing it amongst the ashes.
If it weren’t for those Karzing spiders, none of this would even be happening.
Her resolve renewed, she gathered up her belongings and prepared to venture out into the village square. She didn’t know exactly what awaited her out there today, but nonetheless, she needed to find something productive - anything at all, really - to channel her frustrations into in order to keep her mind at ease. And if it ended up helping her people rid themselves of their current arachnid infestation, then that was simply an added bonus.
Drawing back the interior flaps and pushing open her door, she shielded her eyes from the blinding light being reflected off of the snow, and took her first step into the unknown…
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OOC: @Timageness Welcome to the party, looks like you’re the first to be scooped up into events. Good luck!
IC -
Want it or not, Kyrlahni’s presence had attracted the attention of Muvoso. He didn’t speak to individuals much, and much less was he in a cheerful mood, so his starting a conversation had to be important if he was making enough of an effort to break from his usual routine to communicate with her. Or perhaps this was part of his usual routine, and something bigger was going on… Either way, ignoring this conversation would not be a wise idea.
He strode up with a grin and a hop to his step, not bothering to extend his hand as they were full, as usual. He uncomfortably shuffled the rock plates around in them as he spoke. “I’m glad I got to catch you before you went out today, miss Kyrlahni… Yes, that’s right.” He slid the plate he was looking for back into the stack in his hand.
“I hope you’re as excited as I am for the next expedition. Lord Hokku showed interest in having a researcher on board the first or second mission to study the orbiting moon, I would go myself but I’m busier than a Misken at dawn,” He blurted out a chuckle by accident and immediately conducted himself once more. “Either way, Lord Hokku would like to see you when it’s convenient…”
He leaned in slightly, bringing his honest, public speaker voice down to a whisper. “Don’t speak to Velmes, though. I don’t think I’ve seen him more volatile than today.”
“Busy day, and I’ve got to run,” He shuffled the strap on his shoulder around before taking off into the crowds, losing his happy demeanor and dropping into his usual business-like state of depressed anxiety mixed with soldier-like conduct. ‘Like to see you’ could mean anything from anytime you like to now or else, but maybe now wasn’t such a good time, if Velmes was really angry.
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IC: Kyrlahni - Ko-Koto (Village Streets)
“O-oh! Uh, th-thanks for the heads-up, Muvoso!”
Truth be told, the Chronicler’s sudden appearance had caught her completely off-guard. Gone was the funk that had been plaguing her mere seconds before, now replaced almost entirely with feelings of surprise and confusion. As she watched the Bo-Kotoran disappear into the crowd, she couldn’t help but wonder why Lord Hokku had wanted to see her of all people; surely there had to be someone more qualified to make such a journey.
Maybe he just wants to send someone from my former archaeological team, and he’s simply looking for a recomendation? Either that, or Velmes has finally convinced him that I do more harm than good, and they’re looking to kick me out of the village entirely…
And that brought her to her second concern; Velmes. It was bad enough that he almost didn’t allow her or the people she was originally escorting inside the walls back when they had first arrived, and that he had seemingly looked upon her with contempt ever since, but him being angry on top of all that, especially when the source of his current volatility might’ve possibly been herself? Needless to say, running into him, especially alone, was not something she happened to be looking forward to at all whatsoever. Unfortunately, however, her presence had been officially requested, which meant that she couldn’t just casually blow off the meeting either.
Making up her mind, Kyrlahni slowly shut the door behind her, fumbling around with her keys as she attempted to lock up. A moment later, and she was off to meet with Lord Hokku, secretly hoping that by some miracle, she’d be slow enough to avoid the majority of the fallout.
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Hokku was standing at the top of the stairs of the great Temple of Creation, talking in low tones with Velmes. The latter appeared to be in a state of great agitation, although it was impossible to tell what emotions were swirling through his mind. Before they had even noticed Kyrlahni she could overhear her name being mentioned - quite surprising, considering they had been talking in near silence up until then.
Velmes patted Hokku on the shoulder and went into the forge, the heat and comfort of the interior causing Hokku to shiver for a moment. He slightly jolted when he noticed Kyrlahni at the foot of the stairs.
“It was nice of you to come,” He said, slowly gliding down the stairs like some kind of sloth with that massive coat of his. “May I ask why you have chosen to speak with me?”
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IC: Kyrlahni - Ko-Koto (Temple of Creation - Entrance)
“M-Muvoso said that my presence had been requested?”
The Ga-Kotoran shivered a little under her cloak, but whether it was out of worry due to them mentioning her by name or simply because of the cold wasn’t entirely discernible.
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It took a minute for Hokku to process that string of information.
“Oh,” He said with some surprise. “Oh yes, I remember now.” He quickened his pace down the stairs and was aside Kyrlahni in an instant. “I figured that, before our brave adventurous explorers went on this incredible journey of theirs, they should have their transport inspected one final time by, someone in the scientific field of, research…”
It was so obvious he was avoiding saying something deliberate that you could practically taste it. “I know this is a hard request, but you’ve had to do worse… Would you meet me at the door of the Temple of Time? it’s the most subtle way to get around, and you can’t be seen walking through the Temple of Creation’s main doors.”
“Uh… oh! I mean, sure, I guess…”
This had to be a ruse of some sort, obviously. Hokku knew she was a scholar. She had no business fiddling around with the inner workings of a transportation pod; that required an extensive background in engineering, which was well outside her area of expertise. Whatever he really wanted to speak to her about must’ve been extremely important if he was going through all the trouble of making sure nobody else would overhear their conversation, and bringing up the Temple of Time certainly did manage to pique her interest a bit…
Then again, she couldn’t entirely discount the possibility that this was merely a trap of some kind either. Luring her away to a secluded location would make it much easier for her to simply “disappear,” and with no witnesses (though she doubted they’d be of much help anyway, given her current bout of luck), Kyrlahni’s destiny could very well cause her to end up inside the rotting stomach of an undead or being “unintentionally” shot out into space for all she knew.
Fidgeting cautiously, the Ga-Kotoran nodded once again before trekking through the snow towards her intended destination. She didn’t expect Hokku to begin immediately following her there or anything; he was one of the village leaders, after all, and likely had other business to attend to in the meantime.
Hokku gave a slight bow - which was usually his way of saying thanks - and then immediately ascended the stairs and ended the Temple of Creation.
If she made it their fast she would notice Hokku was already there…
IC: Kyrlahni - Ko-Koto (Temple of Time - Entrance)
Eventually arriving at the entrance to the Temple of Time, Kyrlahni was somewhat perplexed as to how the village leader managed to get there before her, but ultimately thought better of bringing the matter to light.
“So, um, where’s this… “pod” that needs inspecting?,” she asked, deciding that it would be best to continue to play along, at least for now, anyway.
Hokku smiled. Then from within his coat he drew a simplistic flare launcher and fired it over the city.
The brilliant explosion of colour and light brought people running to the area it went off as if there was some actual trouble. Hokku himself simply watched until there was no-one else noticeably around.
“Come inside, won’t you?”
Watching for a moment as the flare trailed off across the sky, the Ga-Kotoran simply nodded once again and proceeded to follow Hokku inside, her cloak obscuring the fact that one of her hands was now resting against the hilt of the sword sheathed beneath it.
Maybe now he would actually inform her as to why she was here?
As Kyrlahni entered, she would notice a large pod-like structure in the middle of the room. She could hear some small amount of noise coming from inside the ancient city.
“This is the Vertical Transportation Pod.” Hokku stood gazing up at it for a moment, before refocusing his attention back onto Kyrlahni. “It is the final version of the space exploration vehicles that we have assembled. There are five others at the moment, and more being made.”
He glanced at her in a quizzical manner. “I believe you have perceived that I’m not asking you for an inspection committee. We would like you on the next flight to the closest moon for finding out what’s up there.”
He finally noticed where her hand was. “I know you’re definitely unsure whether or not this is a trustworthy expedition, so I give you this as proof.”
He held out a porous rock, incredibly shiny and almost glowing. “Rock found on the closest moon.” He grinned. “Velmes picked it up when he went there on expedition. See what you can find out about it.”
IC: Kyrlahni - Ko-Koto (Temple of Time - Interior)
The Ga-Kotoran honestly couldn’t figure out what had her flabbergasted even more; the fact that this seemed to be an actual legitimate expedition, that the village leaders were desperate enough to send themselves into space without so much as informing those they led, or that Hokku was under the impression that she was even qualified enough to board one of the pods herself.
“M-me? But why…?,” she asked, startled enough to not even notice that her hand was no longer anywhere near her hip. “S-surely there are others with far more experience at this sort of thing, and with much better track records…”
Granted, she was still more than willing to do her part to ensure the survival of her people, and would’ve gladly complied with the elder Okotoran’s wishes if he really thought that she was the right person for the job, but given how things had been going for her recently, her skepticism was quite understandable.
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“As far as track records go, there really aren’t.” He said. “Velmes may disagree, but you’ve had the most honest track record in your field that we can find.”
It was obvious he wasn’t talking about her scientific experience.
“To be honest, the real reason you’re being sent aside from being biased is because you’re expen-…”
You could practically see the word gripping at the inside of his throat and tugging at his veins. He turned away slowly with an act of resignation. “It’s… Hard to be this blunt about it. I usually let Velmes handle these things.”
“And I shall handle this one, then.” Velmes cut the tension and strode in from the back of the room. He had either found a way to hide in the room or he had come from the ancient city itself. “You have been selected for this task because of your peculiar disposition with the rest of the public - completely ignored. If anything happens to you, only a small select group of individuals will notice it. If you return, you have the option of either becoming a celebrity or slipping back into obscurity to avoid publicity.”
Hokku was mustering all his strength to glare at Velmes. The latter didn’t notice, it seemed. “We still need to find the rest of your crew, so you have a little while to think it over. Keep this strictly between us for now. After this is over you may tell whoever you wish.”
Wow. Just… wow.
Falling silent for a moment after what was, quite possibly, the worst pep talk ever in recorded history, she immediately attempted to shake off both the comment and the ensuing feeling of depression that followed before eventually returning to the matter at hand.
“While the offer certainly is… tempting, to say the least, I still think you’re looking at the wrong person for this job,” she finally said, trying to ignore Velmes as best as she could and still coming off as a little offended. “With all due respect, scholars are far better suited for studying the past and applying what we learn to help better ourselves in the future. So unless this rock of yours was discovered near some ancient temple up there on the moon of all places, I really just don’t see how I can be of any help to you.”
Despite her reservations, however, the object did succeed in piquing her curiosity a bit. Not wanting to appear entirely unhelpful, she quickly searched her brain for an alternative solution.
“Perhaps sending it off to a mineralogist for study might yield the answers you seek?”
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Velmes angrily whirled on his heel and stalked away into the shadows of the room, likely to pout over Kyrlahni’s decision. Hokku seemed disappointed and at a loss for words, clutching the odd rock in indecision. He looked back at wherever Velmes was at before facing Kyrlahni again.
“A mineralogist wouldn’t find anything,” He said, “Because it’s a rock from Okoto.”
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Nice going, Kyrlahni.
Might as well make him cry while you’re at it.
“I… I wasn’t trying to imply that I was unwilling to help out or anything,” she said, almost apologetically. “It’s just that… rocks aren’t exactly my area of expertise…”
She paused for a moment, hoping that he would cheer up a little.
“But if there’s even the smallest chance that it might help us drive back the Skull Spiders, then I’ll go.”
And then something suddenly dawned on her.
“W-when you said that it was from Okoto, did you mean that it was similar to the ones we have here, or…?”
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He did not seem visibly pleased. However, he appeared confused by Kyrlahni’s question and slowly glanced down at the rock.
“Oh, no no,” He said, forcing himself to smile for a moment as he looked back up. “No, the rock is most definitely Okoto material. Either somehow the moon rose out of the oceans into the heavens or the rock was propelled up there.”
Now he grinned. There was only one event which could have sent rocks to the moon, and he knew Kyrlahni knew what it was.
OOC: Wow, still no other players. This is going to get stale eventually. XD Also good RPing, Timageness! If it’s alright with you, may I quote your posts in the future for examples of proper writing?
OOC: Sure, man. I’m cool with that.
The Ga-Kotoran tried her best not to imagine the repercussions of an event capable of expelling a moon from the ocean, but nevertheless, her eyes lit up for a moment.
“You think it might be a piece of the Capitol City…? From where Ekimu fought Makuta?”
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The Church of Unitology, or simply known as the Unitology and "The Church", is a dangerous doomsday cult that hides beneath their facade of a legitimate religion and they are one of the main antagonistic factions of the Dead Space trilogy. It is a religion based off of the discoveries of the Markers by geophysicist Michael Altman. The discoveries had spread all over the universe from Earth to all of the human colonies resulting in billions of followers within this faith Unitologists. Its members are delusioned by the idea of bringing about the apocalypse via the Convergence Event (simply called "The Convergence" according to Unitology) to unite humanity and as a result, they pose the greatest threat to mankind and make up all human antagonists in the Dead Space series.
Official History
For two hundred years, Unitology has sought the truth. When Michael Altman spread his word, few people believed him. The government tried to discredit him! And when that didn't work, they killed him and said it was an accident! But we also know he was telling the truth! For two centuries, we and our forefathers kept the faith and our belief in his words. Now finally we have proof - that we have been right all along. You've all seen the vidlogs by now, you all know what they found out there. Here on this very planet, we found - Another Marker!"
~ Deakin Abbot preaching the official history of Unitology.
Public Doctrine
The Markers
The Markers, mysterious alien artifacts, are the overall basis and central focus of the entire Unitologist faith. The mysterious extraterrestrial artifacts come from an unknown origin and many scientists, even Altman himself, was unaware of what they are and where they came from. The meaning of the various inscriptions are also a source of mystery as Unitologists themselves are confused on what their true meaning really is. It is a general belief among Unitologists however that the inscriptions are messages that will reveal the true origins and meaning of human life. It's also believed that the Markers' inscriptions also mean that it'll bring about a physically real paradise and it will save humanity from its destructive nature at the hands of its materialistic course.
The Markers are at the core center of Unitology and as such, they're the main symbols of the entire religion. Everything about the church is modeled in the image of the marker and its symbols adorn them as well. Intertwining circles and images in accordance of the markers are present and they symbolize the promise of unity and are used to create a rich environment for Unitologists to worship at.
The Church of Unitology frequently preaches a positive message to the masses about peace, unity, and social harmony in appealing messages to normal people as well as voice concerns to those that are environmentalists and talk about the issues of planet cracking as well as the apparent destructive course that the Earth Government has taken. Unitology has been able to thrive and grow and its message has been well received because of the diminished state of spirituality and meaning in the lives of ordinary people and how the positive messages of unity and social harmony have helped the New Age Movement grow and gave a sense of purpose and comfort to people who live in a world of increasingly incomprehensible technology and Unitology is considered the fastest growing religion in human history.
The theology of Unitology is based around the studying and debate of the origins and meaning of the Black Marker. The Unitologist Church based on Titan Station was the site of the annual Unitologist Symposium and contained a vast library of Unitology scholarly material. Unitologists have never been clear about God. Challus Mercer has frequently used the word God and has it scrawled on the wall of the USG Ishimura during the events of Dead Space, though its meaning remains vague and unknown. The overall Unitologist belief in God is used to refer to the elusive power of alien intelligence or agency that created the Marker and it was a force that would regather humanity and make it "one" through the process of the Convergence.
Unitology is a highly eschatological religion and is heavily based on the concept of the end of days similar to that in other religions. Death is a central tenant in Unitology as Unitologists believe that all living beings will be intertwined into one similar to that of two prongs of the Marker and will be reborn as one. Unitologists also believe that the Convergence will unite humanity as one and will alleviate the destructive materialistic cycle that mankind has been "cursed" with according to Unitology. Unitologists also seem to believe that they will be saved while the non-believers will be forsaken, unless their bodies fall into the hands of the Unitologists themselves.
They refer to those who do not accept the church and the end of days as "infidels" and seek to "save" them. Mercer believed that the Necromorphs were a path to salvation and sought to turn Isaac Clarke into a Necromorph via an Infector to "save" his soul. Mercer believed that infidels such as Isaac could never truly understand and was trying to "help" him. Unitologists believe that the Convergence is attainment of spiritual oneness in paradise. Unitologists do not believe that the Convergence is a usual oneness with God (although it is possible that the church does have such a doctrine), but is instead the coming of the Convergence for humanity: the souls of the deceased will be stripped of their individuality and all souls will merge as one single entity. Sometimes, the word "soul" is substituted for "body" or "flesh", in what is thought to be a figurative reference.
Famous Montras and Verses
• "Altman be Praised"
• "Praise the Great Marker"
• "Death is only the Beginning"
• "Keep us whole. Unity is Forever"
• "There is no Death. Only Rebirth"
• "Give unto the Church, and the Church will give unto you"
Unitologist wall writing
• "Embrace the Evolution"
• "Take Us. We are Ready"
• "The Marker is everlasting life for all of its children"
• "Praise Altman, chosen of the Marker, architect of the Church"
• "To join is to survive"
• "Holy creatures transform me into your servant, show me the path to enlightenment, as you alter my flesh and free my soul"
• "One Mind, One Soul, One Flesh"
• "One Purpose, One Mind, One Soul"
• "One People, One Mind, One Purpose"
• "Unity after death, unity forever"
• "One mind, One body"
Merchandised works of Unitologist theology.
Bibliography of the Unitologist Church
• Teachings of Unitology, attributed to Michael Altman
• Tome of Unitology
• Death is Only the Beginning
• Eternal Life
• Hymn Book
Preaching and Public Conduct
Unitologists are very evangelical and often preach to non-Unitologists to convince them to join the church and convert to Unitology. Unitologists themselves are openly proud and unashamed of their faith despite many within the public regarding them as bizarre and insane, particularly their belief in an intelligent alien designer. They publicly wear marker pendents they purchase from the church as a social statement that they are proud of their beliefs. Unitologists are also very devoted to spreading their beliefs such as distributing literature in public squares, which EarthGov has tried to suppress before by making Unitologists preachers acquire a permit to conduct such activities on Titan Station.
Unitologists are opposed to such laws accusing EarthGov of oppression while the latter critically addresses the preachers in the press accusing them of being a threat to public order. Not unlike other religions, Unitology has built a rich religious tradition while also maintaining its own aesthetic value like other faiths. Monetary gain is achieved through merchandise and other products such as books to spread their gospel and the church and memorabilia depicting the Black Marker in trivial fashions like paper weights and miniature statues.
Rites and Rituals
Soul Cleansing
Little is known about this practice other than that it is a initiation ceremony for Unitologists and it is most likely a painful and disorienting process.
Unitologists are believed to go through a process of "indoctrination" or brainwashing by the church. Unitology is opposed to individualistic and free-minded people and so they are indoctrinated to make sure they remain loyal to the church and asses them before letting certain adherents progress further and advance up the ranks of the church itself.
Unitologists engage in communal prayers, led by the church's clergy, like other religions.
Unitologists are known to conduct meditations with their arms crossed across their chest to make the appearance of a marker. They posses a number of aids for this purpose such as marker replicas, candles and mats and their meditation process is characterized as being quiet and reverent as they focus their minds on the teachings of the church.
Death Ritual
The most vital and important ritual in all of Unitology, Death Rituals are conducted once a Unitologist has died, but death itself is the most important step for members of the church and Unitologists are to celebrate the deaths of their loved ones as soon, they will be joining them in convergence as a single entity, rather then mourn for them. Unitologists refuse to allow their bodies to be buried or cremated, instead they chose to preserve them on ships as they view the body as a vessel for the Convergence and must remain intact even after death. Unitologists also believe that if they body is preserved, then they have lived an unselfish life and will be reborn as their bodies ascend and acquire spiritual and physical prowess where they will live in unity with their brothers and sisters as a single community.
Because of this belief and the strive to reborn as one entity within a single community, Unitologists seek to preserve their bodies at all costs. It's even encouraged to keep their bodies in top shape as possible upon death. The church teaches its members to embrace death and it's one of the many cult-like features that Unitology shares despite its friendly exterior. Other cult-like features include practices of indoctrination, its hierarchy, and its proven capacity to convince members to take part in mass suicides.
Hierarchy and Ranking System
Despite its persistent atmosphere of what they call oppression, Unitology itself is said to posses considerable large amounts of economic and political influence with upper echelons of the Concordance Extraction Corporation being mentioned being under increasing control and pressure by Unitgolosits on many occasions and it's also mentioned that high-ranking members of the CEC pay in donations to the church so that they can rise up through the church's ranks faster. There only two confirmed ranks; "Vested" and "Overseer", with the latter being higher, and a possible third and highest rank called "Enigma". The speculation comes from a video feed where the recipient is addressed to as "Enigma Lange" after the author addresses himself by inserting his rank within the church before his full name.
Suppressed History
Unknown to the common Unitologist, much of the church's overall history has been fabricated by its true founders and leaders for their own personal gains. Michael Altman himself never truly believed in the promises of the Marker and in fact he attempted to destroy the original Marker as he knew it was a threat to mankind. Altman was murdered by Craig Markoff and Stevens, the true founders of Unitology, and they used his death and several broadcasts to transform Unitology is a rising and powerful religious movement under their direct control. Moreover, despite a long-lasting conflict with the Earth Government, Unitology's true founders were actually scientists and researchers from EarthGov and were originally staff of the Chicxulub Crater Facility who became psychotic due to prolonged exposure to the Marker's effects and carrier waves which lead them to stray away from their logic and sense. The effects of the marker on their minds was later explained as humans being too weak minded and materialistic to understand the workings of God (described as an alien intelligence and creator of both the marker and humanity itself).
The founders had originally viewed the Necromorphs as a defect and the church kept live specimens and didn't release them. They did however, view the reanimation process as proof of the Marker's ability to create life and could bring about eternal life on Earth if used correctly. This irrational anthropocentric conclusion has remained one of the central tenets and beliefs of Unitology since then and has helped Unitologists develop and unyielding faith in the marker itself. The Church views the Marker as the next step in human evolution and was entrusted to ensure that this evolution comes to pass and justify the psychosis caused by the Marker and its waves as humans being blinded by their materialistic needs and are too weak-minded to understand the workings of God, who was described and viewed as an alien intelligence who was responsible for the creation of both the Marker and humanity as a whole.
Unitology's entire theology was written to blind its adherents to any conceivable horror and to willfully submit to the power of the marker, even if it turned out that Infection was the only true way to reach eternal life it provided. The Church was founded to prepare humanity for the upcoming event where another marker was to be founded and that same marker would allow them to bring about the evolution that they had promised. Common Unitologists are blissfully unaware of the true mission of the church and only the upper echelons are aware of such information and have access to it and maintain their secrecy even at the cost of their adherents and countless other people.
It was later revealed that Unitology is the result of the Markers' manipulation, tricking humanity into building more Markers by making them believe that Markers are divine artifacts of salvation through false promises of immortality and unlimited energy sources. The true purpose of the Convergence Event that the Unitology worships is to create a new Brethren Moon, and the promise of eternal life is merely a means to manipulate living beings into allowing Necromorph infestations to occur in order to facilitate a Converge Event.
Secrets of the Church
Belief in the Markers
It would be 200 years before a scientist was capable of decoding the inscriptions on the Black Marker; the inscriptions on the rock's surface are the codes for recombinant DNA that transforms humans into the terrifying creatures known as Necromorphs. While the revelations were not short of extraordinarily important to discover the truth behind the church, both incidents where the information was discovered had lead to an outbreak of Necromorphs and the deaths of everyone involved and onboard the space stations these tests were conducted.
Rebirth and Convergence
Unitologists believe in preserving the bodies of deceased church members to keep them "pure" so that they be properly reborn along with their other fallen brothers and sisters so they may merge together into a single entity after death in a greater community and to facilitate the act of Convergence. Though singularity of sentience is the former individual's rebirth or Necromorphic state, it remains separate from the act of Convergence itself, the final stage that converges all primed (Necromorphic) matter and DNA into a single moon-sized entity known as the Brethren Moon, an interstellar apex predator with telepathic and telekinetic abilities. Dead Space 3: Awakened confirmed that the Unitology's belief in the Convergence and in resurrection is in reality the process of creating a new Brethren Moon.
Formation of a Brethren Moon
The life cycle of a Brethren Moon starts when a Marker is seeded into the right environment that allows it to properly grow. The Marker contains all of the genetic information required to create and replicate a Brethren Moon. It's presumed that upon the needed requirements of an unknown nutrient threshold are acquired and it's within the presence of a compatible organic vector (such as the organism known as Isaac Clarke), the Marker begins to germinate in a chain of processes documented by pioneering explorers of the Church of Unitology which is known as "rebirth" in the eyes of the Unitologists which culminates in the process of the Convergence. Upon the completion of Convergence, the Brethren Moon is allowed to manifest, although sentience is shown to appear quickly before the physical birth. It is also observed that the consummation of a moon is aided by a congress of other moons, though the ritual's true purpose is unknown since Dead Space 3 shows that a Brethren Moon can form all on its own and that the newly formed moon must consume a large majority of primed organic matter if it is to ever achieve its massive size. It is unknown if the Brethren Moons are capable of a form of reproduction.
Faith in Convergence
The true founders of Unitology were fully aware of the Necromorphs and believed them to be living proof that the Marker could bring about eternal life if used properly. While the founders viewed the Necromorphs as divine instruments, they had also viewed them as defective; produced by the "broken" Black Marker and their theory was that another Marker would be found or created as a means of truly bringing about Convergence. The church leaders possessed many specimens of Necromorphs and preserved them, believing the original purpose of bringing about eternal life rather than infection, though ironically enough a Necromorph was used to kill Michael Altman. However, the more enlightened designs of the founders fell apart sometime and the Necromorphs became the center for the promise of rebirth in the church's theology. Certain Unitologists such as Challus Mercer take refuge in Necromorph infection as evidence that the church has been right all along. The Church now believes this, as evident by Daina Le Guin that the infection was glorious and must be spread at all costs. This does not mean that they know of the horrors that the infection brings, but are prepared to accept it because it comes from the Marker.
Conflict with EarthGov
An EarthGov poster defaced by Unitologists.
The Church of Unitology has been in a state of conflict with the Earth Government for an unknown period of time. Unitologists have come into conflict with EarthGov over issues such as planet cracking, the suppression of information on the Marker, and most believe that EarthGov was responsible for the assassination of Michael Altman. The Church itself is a very powerful institution, but it continues to seek more power and seeks to accomplish such ambitions by overthrowing EarthGov and taking over its position. Meanwhile, EarthGov has portrayed Unitologists as carpetbaggers and insurrectionists in the media while Unitologists continue to accuse EarthGov of suppressing information about the Marker and the divine truth that was revealed to Altman himself. Unitology claims to be the only true source of opposition to EarthGov, which they view as a corrupt and oppressive institution that persecutes the faith and its members.
The conflict between the two organizations is purely a war over information and is fought in the press, but both sides due posses considerable military power and their conflict has evolved to the point of it becoming an armed struggle. Unitology itself appears to be very popular and has acted as the insurrectionist force against EarthGov. Both factions however, are authoritarian entities vying for the Marker as a means of using it for their own agendas. The ways that each of the two handle the Marker varies as EarthGov seeks to study and analyze the Marker and even create new ones to satisfy energy and economic failings and demands regardless of the risks while Unitology acts more irrational and seeks to break out every captured Marker to unleash the Convergence on the human race despite the cataclysmic scale of damage and the disasters they have caused.
It is unknown how long Unitology as been at odds with EarthGov, but it's implied to have started as early as the beginning days of Unitology and the early rise of EarthGov itself. The conflict has progressed into 2514 where the conflict is now fought on the off-world human colonies housing the Markers in various EarthGov facilities with Jacob Danik leading the campaign as the head of The Circle. By 2514, it is implied that EarthGov has either been successfully overthrown, or at bare minimum has seen its structure weakened and crippled, though the exact details of the coup are unknown. It's implied that the destruction of the various Marker facilities and their "freedom" by Danik and his insurgents on colonies such as Uxor and Luna have played a large part in EarthGov's downfall.
Known Members
Several members of the Church of Unitology are prominent characters in Dead Space including:
• Craig Markoff: True founder of Unitology; led Government splinter group in possession of the Black Marker.
• Benjamin Matthius: Captain of the CEC Planet Cracker USG Ishimura. (deceased)
• Challus Mercer: A doctor aboard the Ishimura, creator of the Hunter. (deceased)
• Terrence Kyne: A doctor aboard the Ishimura, researched the Red Marker. (deceased)
• Hanford Carthusia: Manager of the Aegis VII Colony, ranked as "Vested". (deceased)
• Deakin Abbott: CEC Engineer on the Aegis VII Colony, first to experience visions after the discovery of the Red Marker. (deceased)
• Vera Cortez: Aegis VII P-Sec officer, partner to Abraham Neumann. (deceased)
• Warren Eckhardt: CEC Executive of Colonial Mining Affairs, ranked as "Overseer". (deceased)
• Benedykt Malyech: Captain of the Black Beak in Dead Space: Salvage.
• Samuel Irons: Engineering specialist of the USG Ishimura. (deceased)
• Omar Nayim: One of the engineers on board the USG O'Bannon. (deceased)
• Lana: A member of the USG O'Bannon. (deceased)
• Carrie Norton: Protagonist of Dead Space (mobile).
• Daina Le Guin: Prominent Unitologist on Titan Station; anti-EarthGov insurgent. (deceased)
• Franco Delille: Associated with Unitologist insurgency on Titan Station; subordinate to Daina Le Guin.
• Gatura Okeke: Captain of the Sunset in Dead Space: Salvage.
• Michael Altman: Geophysicist who made the discoveries that became the foundation of Unitology. (deceased)
• Jacob Danik: Leader of The Circle. (deceased)
• Unitologists are often derogatorily referred to as Marker-Heads or Rock Worshipers.
• Unitology seems to be inspired by the "Church" of Scientology on the grounds that members must pay vast amounts of money to learn the church's teachings and secrets, the considerable controversy surrounding it as well as the all around sci-fi influence, among other things.
• Unitology's history is further fleshed out in the Dead Space: Martyr novel, which describes Michael Altman's discovery of the Black Marker.
• Isaac Clarke hates Unitologists. This is because his mother was one and spent family funds attempting to move up in rank in the Church.
• Unitologists are the main human antagonists besides EarthGov in the Dead Space series.
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Warren Eckhardt | Hansen | Nicole Brennan | Kendra Daniels | Lead Interrogator | Challus Mercer | Nolan Stross | The Oracles | Armado Creeg
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Golden Retriever Husky Mix – Meet the Beloved Goberian
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A Golden Retriever in the forefront with a Husky in the background.
A combination of two affable, athletic breeds, the Golden Retriever Husky mix – often referred to as the Goberian – is a loving family dog with lots of energy and a social personality that makes it fun to be around.
The mix is created by crossing a Golden Retriever with a Siberian Husky. While no one knows who was the first to breed a Golden Retriever Husky mix, it is recognized that this designer dog started appearing sometime in the early 2000s.
The history of the parent breeds, however, goes back much further.
The Siberian Husky’s roots date back over 3,000 years when they were bred in northeastern Asia by the Chukchi people. For thousands of years they were kept as companion dogs for their families and also used as endurance sled dogs.
Isolated for years, the Siberian Husky caught the eye of the public when they began winning sled races in the early 1900s, and today it’s the 12th most popular breed in the United States.
The Golden Retriever originated in the early 19th century through careful breeding. Ultimately, the goal was to create a breed of hunting dog that was larger in stature and had the endurance to hunt and retrieve a large number of game birds at a time.
Sweet and lovable, the Golden Retriever is now a popular dog breed around the world and third on the list of top dog breeds in the United States.
Ultimately, a Golden Retriever Husky mix is a combination of two beloved dog breeds with incredible histories. Before you welcome one into your home, however, here is everything you need to know.
Meet the Golden Retriever Husky Mix
With any mixed breed, the dog can inherit traits from either parent, making the results far less predictable than a purebred dog. While it’s impossible to say precisely what the Golden Retriever Husky mix will look like or how exactly they’ll act in terms of personality, we can narrow it down with a certain degree of certainty based on what we know about its purebred parents.
This article will explore all aspects of the Golden Retriever mix, from its appearance to personality to training and exercise needs and more.
For size, the male Golden Retriever weighs 65-75 pounds and the female weighs 55-65 pounds. The breed stands between 21-24 inches. It may seem a smidge larger, however, thanks to its thick double coat which provides a plume of fluff around the pup’s entire body.
The Golden’s coat, which can be blond, yellow or golden, is certainly the breed’s most distinguishing feature. In addition, the Golden is strong and muscular with a long snout, sweet eyes and a heartwarming smile.
As for the Husky, the males weigh 45-60 pounds and the females come in at 35-50 pounds. The breed stands 20-23.5 inches.
Huskies have a number of unique features. To start, let’s talk about the piercing almond eyes that can be brown, blue or one of each. Then there is the beautiful double coat that comes in a variety of colors. And of course, you can’t forget about their wolf-like appearance.
With the Golden Retriever Husky mix, your pup will likely be 55-65 pounds if male and between 45-55 pounds if female. As with all mixed breeds, the appearance can vary widely and there is no way to predict the exact proportions of this mixed pup.
Without a doubt, there is one guarantee with the Golden Retriever mix, though: It will have A LOT of fur. The color will range greatly, however, from white to gold to brown to black, and everything in between. It all depends on the parents and the dog’s DNA.
The mix will also retain a larger snout and dark black nose. As for the ears, the Golden has floppy, downturned ears whereas the Husky has pointy, erect ears. This means the Golden Retriever Husky mix could go either way.
Certainly, there are no guarantees with mixed breeds. Your Goberian could end up looking more like a Golden Retriever or more like a Husky. No matter what, it is sure to be adorable.
The Golden Retriever is a smart, friendly dog that is completely devoted to its owners. Likewise, the Husky is a loyal and outgoing breed, with a slightly mischievous and stubborn side.
Both the breeds are affectionate and get along well with people and pets alike, so it’s all but a guarantee that the Golden Retriever Husky mix will also possess those traits.
Additionally, both are exceptionally smart, so you know the Goberian will be very intelligent. It will also have a fun and playful side.
Where the breeds differ, however, is in their obedience. The Golden Retriever is eager to please and hates to disappoint. The Husky, on the other hand, can be strong willed and aloof and is known to runaway. (Below are recommendations on training for the Golden Retriever Husky mix based on these qualities.)
Ultimately, the Golden Retriever Husky mix is a good-natured pup that loves to be active and gets along great with others.
The Golden Retriever is generally considered a healthy, sturdy dog. Potential health concerns include elbow and hip dysplasia, eye conditions, pigmentary uveitis and certain heart diseases.
As for the Husky, the cute canine is also a healthy breed overall. The breed is known to have higher rates of cataracts, progressive retinal atrophy, uveodermatologic syndrome and hip dysplasia, so it’s important to watch for these.
Like its parent breeds, the Golden Retriever Husky mix will likely be a strapping, athletic dog.
For lifespan, the Golden Retriever lives an average of 10-12 years and the Husky lives between 12-14 years. With these numbers, the Golden Retriever Husky mix is likely to live somewhere between 10-14 years.
Without a doubt, one thing is certain about the Golden Retriever Husky mix: It will have a bountiful coat.
To keep their luscious locks looking good, regular brushings are recommended. You will also want to invest in a good vacuum to keep your house tidy.
Training & Exercise Needs
Like its parent breeds, the Golden Retriever Husky mix needs regular exercise, and lots of it. Expect to take this pup on walks at least once or twice a day. After all, a busy and active Golden Retriever Husky mix is a happy and healthy dog!
As mentioned above, the Husky has a tendency to escape, so it’s important to keep a Golden Retriever Husky mix on a leash, in a harness or in a fenced yard at all times.
Training is vital for this mix. While the Golden Retriever is considered one of the easiest breeds to train, the Husky is more on the stubborn side. You will definitely want to invest in obedience classes and spend plenty of time on training.
Golden Retriever Husky Mix: Is It Right For You?
The Golden Retriever Husky mix is comprised of two beloved breeds, and the result is a beautiful, outgoing, intelligent dog with a heart of gold.
The mix does need a hefty dose of exercise and strong training. Before you commit, make sure you are able to provide this.
Ultimately, you can rest assured that the Golden Retriever Husky mix makes a great family dog and is ready to serve as a loyal, loving pet!
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