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New 2022 Honda Ridgeline Rumors Changes, Interior Redesign, Price – The Ridgeline is Honda’s response to the Us obsession with pickup trucks. Despite the fact that competing with all Us powerhouses independently turf isn’t a modest project, the Ridgeline holds their own. It will not be the most durable or prepared van available, but it retains its uniqueness.
The 2022 Ridgeline is likely to have small changes if any, as right after the 2021 redesign, it won’t receive any significant changes. Just like the recent age group, the 2022 model year is said to be provided in Sports; RTL, RTL-E, and Black Version trim ranges.
Thinking of the price level of the New 2022 Honda Ridgeline Rumors, it competes with the Chevrolet Colorado and the Ford Ranger. These trucks made a substantial term for their selves in the market over the yrs. The Ridgeline is going to need to work tirelessly to produce this acceptable battle.
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The Ridgeline is suspected to get the identical trims as the previous year. Distributing all over 4 trims, the Ridgeline begins around $36k, going all the up to $44K. The total convenience and security functions are recommended to be identical.
New 2022 Honda Ridgeline Rumors Changes
With 2021 renew, Honda handled the interior of the pickup as well. The 2022 Honda Ridgeline’s previously impressive interior. Was improved additionally with the help of some contemporary details. This computer software created the infotainment system faster and crisper. And the most notable transform was the add-on of an actual physical amount knob.
Other changes included an improved dashboard carried out in great-quality components. Discussing the space offered on the inside of, properly it was actually in no way a difficulty for the Ridgeline. In reality, it presented the finest cabin place within its section.
For the 2022 model year expect the supplement of a couple of contemporary capabilities like updated infotainment capabilities and creature convenience and new controls or no modify by any means.
New 2022 Honda Ridgeline Exterior
Honda offered the Ridgeline a thorough redesign for the 2021 model year. It had been a common facelift. On the outside of the house, the changes integrated a new front-end which provided it a far more durable appearance which it deserved. Which characteristics a massive mesh pattern along with a new headlamp and fender design.
Aside from the 2022 Honda Ridgeline continues to functions the identical body structure as of the 2017 model year. So it is probable that the 2022 model year won’t go less than any further significant bodywork until and except when Honda generates an all-new Pilot which the Ridgeline is based on.
New 2022 Honda Ridgeline Safety
The New 2022 Honda Ridgeline Rumors got a comprehensive status of 5-star with just one 4 star status in the roll-over check, as outlined by the NHTSA accident analysis.
This is particularly fantastic news when we take into consideration that the 2022 model year is will be depending on the 2021 model. Yet another thing to celebrate is the number of safety functions that will be provided by the 2022 model year.
Just as the present model, each trim of the 2022 Ridgeline is will be provided with Honda Safety Sense which is a range of motorist-support illustrates that gives Entrance Collision Mitigation and Computerized Emergency Braking as regular.
Other safety characteristics range from fundamental Traction Electrical and Manage Balance Software to Lane Always keep Help and Sightless Area Checking in the better clip ranges. Characteristics of the higher-end 2021 Ridgeline as normal all over the range-up.
The many years this engine has seen minor adjustments and upgrades to keep it on par with modern-working day requirements. When released in 2012 the Ridgeline created about 250hp that was fairly remarkable back. Then and a 247 lb-feet of torque that has been common around that time.
In 2017 when Honda introduced the current Ridgeline. The engine powering the van continued to be the exact same 3.5L V6 but it was tweaked a tad. Now it created 262 and 280hp lb. ft of torque.
But as of the competition, it jumped ahead of time by a huge leap and Honda continued to be in the underside posts of the kitchen table if it arrived at the potential. Also, it was actually substantially lower on towing potential.
While others in this particular sector could tow as much as 7000 lbs, the Honda maxed out at 5000 lbs. The 2022 model year is expected to bring the exact same engine.
New 2022 Honda Ridgeline Managing and Braking
Thanks to Honda’s Clever Variable Grip Managing torque-vectoring AWD. The Ridgeline does not appear as slow-moving in the real world as it appears to be in writing. This system is capable of direct around 70% of the torque to the rear rims, and also in that. It can choose which of the rear wheels the torque more, judging by the course where the vehicle is transforming.
These assists instill self-confidence in the vehicle while in spirited makes. And driving a car up any reduction of excitement which comes to the comparative common acceleration. Overall, the 2022 Honda Ridgeline is an absolute enjoyment to operate.
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Bank of England rate to remain at 0.25%
08 August 2017
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted by a majority of six-two, to maintain Bank Rate at 0.25%.
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) sets monetary policy to meet the 2% inflation target, and in a way that helps to sustain growth and employment. At its meeting ending on 2 August 2017, the MPC voted by a majority of six-two to maintain Bank Rate at 0.25%.
CPI inflation rose to 2.6% in June from 2.3% in March, as expected. The MPC expects inflation to rise further in coming months and to peak around 3% in October.
All members of the MPC agreed that any increases in Bank Rate would be expected to be at a gradual pace and to a limited extent. The Committee will continue to monitor closely the incoming evidence, and stands ready to respond to changes in the economic outlook as they unfold to ensure a sustainable return of inflation to the 2% target. (Inflation remains at a level slightly above the 2% target).
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October 21, 2012 § 11 Comments
The first ‘cross race of the SoCal season was thrilling, filled as it was with fresh, happy faces beaming with the eagerness to try out this new fashion called cyclocross. In preparation for their first race, many had purchased brand new, top of the line ‘cross rigs, had donned fancy Rapha and Assos clothing, had invested in pro-grade Specialized shoes, and, in the final frenzy of their folly, had paid the advance $350 fee to pre-register for all ten events in the SoCal ‘Cross Series.
By the third race in the series, which was held yesterday and billed as Spooky Cross, the herd had thinned considerably. “Welcome to ‘cross season!” for many eager beavers had translated into “Crash your fucking face into a berm and quit after one lap and sell your new bike to some other sucker.” For others, it meant “Wife livid at spanking new, trashed $2k tubular ‘cross wheels that need replacing.” For others still, it meant something far worse: “Sheer, unmitigated terror shot through with almost unbearable pain and repeated smashing of nuts on the top tube.”
Where the rubber doesn’t actually meet what you’d describe as “road”
After my first race, MMX had given me a friendly grin, taking in the blood mixed with sand, torn shorts, broken bike, and just-finished-a-bout-with-Manny-Pacquiao look on my face. “The thing about ‘cross,” he said, “is the learning curve. It’s steep.”
Yes, it is.
With no BMX or moto background, even the most basic thing about riding a bike through sand and grass and dirt had eluded me: How to steer.
Luckily, the learning curve came to my rescue. I’d started in the coveted last spot, but unlike the previous three races, rather than watch the entire group instantly vanish, I easily stayed with the peloton. We entered the chute together, and along the narrow sand ledge the wanker in front of me ejected. I neatly pedaled around him. “Wow, I’m like, actually cyclocrossing instead of just riding by myself through a yard.” I passed several others.
By Lap 3 the field was shattered, the race decided, and I simply dialed in the rider ahead, overtook him, and then dialed in the next. On the long dirt section that goes through the start-finish I passed three wankers who’d been dangling out ahead for half a lap. “Take that, wankers!” I chortled.
The entire time, though, something had been gnawing at me. “Why can’t I corner?” In every turn my front wheel skittered and slid, and in the sandy turns it was invariably touch-and-go.I was that guy who the people behind looked at and thought, “Just get around that fucker, he’s going down.”
The terror quotient was high, and the pain quotient higher because if I braked I had to come full sprint out of the turn from what was almost a dead stop. If I let the momentum take me through the turn I almost crashed every single time.
Going through the sandy 180 just before the run-up, my front wheel leaped skyward. I fell on my right side, my skull thwacking the dirt so hard that, for a split second, everything stopped. “Won’t be seeing that dude again,” said the wankers who I’d so dropped earlier with such authority, as they bunny-hopped my torso and head.
Enlightenment through gravity
Legend has it that a falling apple whacked some gravitational sense into Newton’s head. In my case, that pounding on my temple beat in a stunning realization:
If you want to go through a turn safely and fast, take the fucking weight off your front wheel, dipshit.”
It made such perfect sense. I don’t load up over the front hub in a crit or bombing a downhill, why the fuck was I all hunched up on the drops and throwing my weight to the front in this shit?
The guys who had bunny-hopped my head were already atop the run-up. I clambered up the steps, where One of the Finest Photographers Ever, Danny Munson, clicked away at my Stumble, Drag, and Whack Nuts approach to the stairs. I began a furious chase using my newfound “sit higher and shove your ass back technique.” I began waltzing through the turns…okay, more like polka-ing with an iron accordion, but still nothing like the Free Willy Frontire turns I’d done every fucking turn for the three previous races.
As I passed Wanker One, he looked at me in surprise. “Good job, dude,” he said. When I passed Wanker Two, he grunted and pedaled harder. This, however, is what Supcat would say is the unfortunate result of introducing road-fit riders into the mix of strictly ‘crossers: We drag them down to our level of technique and beat them with fitness.
He battled heroically to hang onto his 17th or 38th or 43rd position or whatever it was we were risking life and limb for, but in vain. One of my many hecklers shouted, “Yo, Wanky! You can’t win 27th place if you keep jumping off your bike and rubbing your face in the mud!”
Another helpfully hollered, “Go to the front!”
The second day of racing starts shortly. The weather gods of cyclocross, tired of all the sunshine and dry ground and warm temperatures, unleashed cold rain and drizzle all night long. I know because I periodically woke up and as the rain beat down could only think, “Tomorrow, I die.”
I know what I’m going to find when I get to the Fairplex course in Pomona: Mud, rain, cold, mud, and more mud. Did I mention rain and cold?
That learning curve just got a lot steeper.
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008
What We’re Reading: The Lazy Environmentalist
I love the book The Lazy Environmentalist by Josh Dorfman. Although I like granola, I’m big on shaving my legs and not particularly fond of Birkenstocks. This book shows you little ways to make a big difference. The premise of the book is to make the reader aware of choices. Next time you buy light bulbs buy the energy efficient bulbs. As you replace cleaning supplies use all natural supplies. Drugstore.com allows people to rate supplies so you can see what works, plus they have free shipping on large orders. Although I’ve been known to wear a disguise to buy Tilex, I’ve mostly given up all the other chemicals in my life. He also has ideas for the office which can make for a healthier, happier work enviroment.
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Yesterday I was disappointed to learn there is no magical IC to measure current flow in a standard appliance cord.
On the advice I received, I went ahead with a US5881 Hall effect sensor and split the conductors. I then passed only one of the conductors over the over the sensor (to avoid cancellation of the magnetic field from having two conductors in close proximity).
I wired it up as shown below. The setup works fine when tested manually with a permanent magnet. But I cannot detect any pulses when attempting to measure against the AC line. I do not have an oscilloscope, so pulses are being measured using interrupts on a digital Arduino input.
(I also tried with a 100nF capacitor on the source voltage and a 4.7nF capacitor on the signal legs, as shown on the datasheet. The result was the same: no pulses when measuring the AC current.)
Is this just a matter of insufficient sensitivity on the US5881? From the other thread I linked, I kind of got the impression this chip could measure AC fields with this setup, but maybe not? Or is there something wrong with my approach?
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The past few years have been marked by an influx of refugees fleeing their homes due to conflict and persecution. These individuals, their lives uprooted, seek refuge in a new country with the hopes of rebuilding their lives. While countries bordering these areas of conflict and civil unrest continue to host the majority of these refugees, European countries have seen an increase in asylum applications. Some have even welcomed refugees into their country by committing to an enhanced resettlement scheme.
Refugees who have found a new place to call home have achieved a significant milestone. However, their journey doesn’t stop there, as they face a new set of challenges that come with integration. Many European countries, recognising that welcoming refugees extends beyond granting them the right to remain, have brought the topic of integration to the forefront of political discourse. In 2016, the EU released a series of reports , which highlight the importance and value of investing in integration services and provide general recommendations to improve the integration of refugees and migrants.
In the UK, where the Wonder Foundation is based, social integration is a topic of interest too. With the national government tasked with developing a post-Brexit immigration programme, they have launched an All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) to specifically examine the social integration component of immigration. This APPG has so far released an interim report, which provides a broad agenda of how the UK immigration system can better promote social integration of current and future immigrants. While this report recognises the multi-faceted nature of social integration, it barely covers different types and combinations of barriers immigrants face.
This point matters immensely when discussing the social integration outcomes for refugees, as they face particularly pronounced and complex barriers. With negativity dominating discussions about refugees, their relatively poor integration outcomes are wrongly attributed to their unwillingness or lack of interest. In fact this is more often caused by insufficient support provided by the current immigration system. What is needed is a new strategy that organises the right people, provides appropriate resources, and coordinates necessary services, so the experience can be better for everyone involved in social integration.
As the UK and European countries continue to develop their social integration strategies, they should reflect on what drives diverse outcomes for refugees in different countries. Moreover, in recognising that integration is a two-way approach, refugees and their new neighbours can better work together to build and nurture a sense of belonging and inclusion.
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11 record labels have sued porn websites from RK Netmedia and RealityKings for using their music as a soundtrack for porn videos, according to a report in XBiz Newswire. They're claiming copyright infringement and seeking damages in a Los Angeles U.S. District Court for “infringement of the most blatant and offensive kind.”
Songs include the obvious choice of Kate Perry's "I Kissed a Girl," "Sexy Back" from Justin Timberlake and "Don't Stop (Til You Get Enough)" from Michael Jackson.
Elektra, Atlantic, Warner Brothers and 8 other labels are seeking $150,000 for each copyright infringement (song) used in the porn videos. The suit contains 18 pages of copyright infringement claims, with over 500 individual uses.
The suit claims that “Defendants simply stole these sound recordings and music compositions, synchronizing plaintiff’s works more than 500 times onto the soundtrack of their pornographic videos without license of consent from the plaintiffs.”
500 times $150,000 is a cool $75 million, unless the suit is for a maximum of $150,000 per song. No word yet from the defendants on their reaction.
And you thought Joel Tenenbaum was in a bad spot.
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Editing and Retouching
We know how much work you put into your wedding and sessions, and how important it is that everything looks wonderful!
After the session, we hand-edit for toning, color correcting, and stylizing. All photos provided to you have been edited, and we do not share unedited photos with you.
We do any simple retouching, including flaws that should have been caught during the session (ie outlets, signs, background distractions, etc). Simple retouching is done at no cost to you. It is at the photographer's discretion and creative opinion.
Extensive retouching is something we're more than happy to do for you, and we typically save those conversations for after the full gallery has been delivered. We would hate to remove your favorite birthmark or change something you love! Any extensive retouching outside of the photographers' control (ie removing acne, glasses glare, wrinkles, uncontrolled background elements, etc) and/or more technical and complicated retouching (ie removing a person from a family photo, etc) may be requested and is billed at $80 per hour. If any extensive retouching is needed, 30 minutes to 2 hours is usually sufficient. Depending on the request, a few complimentary images with extensive retouching may be provided.
Overall, we capture moments and emotions as they are. Below are some examples of editing, simple retouching, and extensive retouching. Have other questions or want to chat more? Head to the Contact Page to get in touch!
Unedited photos are on the left side, edited on the right side.
Click through to see original edited photos and photos with simple retouching.
Click through to see original edited photos and photos with extensive retouching.
We're more than happy to chat more about extensive retouching if needed! Just contact us to get the conversation started.
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Have you seen these men? CCTV released of thieves who stole alcohol from Tesco in Ely
- Credit: Archant
CCTV images of two thieves who stole alcohol from Tesco in Ely have been released in a bid to help police identify them.
Police are looking to identify the two males in connection with the theft from the store on Angel Drove, on Friday February 19.
The men were caught on the store’s CCTV selecting a number of bottles.
PCSO Ian Hawkins, of Ely police station, said: “We would like the co-operation of the community to help us identify these two males. There is a strong likelihood that they are known locally and traditionally it is the support of the local residents that helps us to resolve matters like this.
“If you believe you can identify either male please call us on 101, leave a message for us on Facebook, or alternatively you can call CrimeStoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.”
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A man’s greatest fear is not being able to offer financial stability and protection for his family. This fear is intensified when the reasons behind it are far beyond his control. One of our own, a Yemeni American, and father of five (who’s name is not disclosed here for respect to his family and privacy reasons) is like so many others being affected by the Trump administration’s Muslim ban. In fact, we’ve heard that he first filed for his wife and children back in 2013. However, due to increased tension and violence in Yemen, he was forced to relocate his family to Djibouti in 2016.
From what we’ve been informed, he would continuously talk to his family from the US and visited them from time to time. All he wanted was to be a part of their lives as the visa process ran its course. Unfortunately, five years of trying to provide for them placed a tremendous strain on his finances to a point where he could no longer support them. His situation was such that three of his five children had managed to enter the US, while his two remaining kids and his wife were still stranded in Djibouti awaiting their visas. Thus doubling his financial burden to try and handle two households, where the cost of living in Djibouti is only 26% less expensive than NYC according to Expatistan.com, a site which compares the cost of living for cities around the world.
What’s more, the situation for his wife and kids were deplorable, and they had to deal with bug bites as well as the constant susceptibility to numerous infections. It broke his heart that there was nothing he could do to help them. He felt depressed, desperate, and utterly powerless. Was this what pushed him to take his life on the evening of 19th July 2018 after he had expressed his despair with his family over the phone? A father that assured his family he loved them and apologized for not being in a position to secure them a safe and stable life here in America.
Ironically, it took the death of this man for the Department of State to finally allow his wife and kids to have their visas to attend the burial. How will their lives ever be complete without him? Something has to give when immigrants founded America, and yet he was made to feel like a second-class citizen, alienated and un-welcomed. Why should a US citizen be denied the right to be with his family?
We Aren’t Blind to What’s Happening Behind Closed Doors
Senator Elizabeth Warren said, “US immigration policy is a moral crisis. There is a need to rebuild it from bottom to top and build a country that reflects our values.” There are so many families going through similar difficulties. Often times, sacrificing everything to relocate their families from the war in Yemen, and setting them up in foreign countries to await their visa interviews only for the process to stagnate for years.
Initially, the DOS had stated that they would grant waivers but has since been exposed on not upholding their promise. In response, more waivers have been approved by the DOS but, an approved waiver doesn’t guarantee a visa. It is incredibly frustrating and torturous to fight for a fundamental human right when our current administration continues to prevent the entry of bona fide family ties of Muslims.
This alarming shift of the immigration landscape, which is based on discriminatory practices, is especially evident to immigration attorney, Julie Goldberg, who has taken the family case and has handled thousands of cases for Yemeni families over the years.
Moreover, it is quite difficult to fathom how a child should have to wait a whole year for their case to be adjudicated to the US and another year at the national visa center before they get an appointment at the embassy. These children are then subjected to hours of questioning, sitting on chairs that are too big for them that their feet can’t touch the floor, with nothing to eat while being expected to give valid reasons as to why they should be granted visas. How can a child comprehend the degree of the crisis back in their home country? These are our fellow humans, small children, suffering because of something that is beyond their control.
Take Action Now!
We need to actively participate in this fight towards ensuring we are treated just like every other US citizen. We shouldn’t be kept away from our loved ones for no valid reason. Be proactive and hold these government departments accountable by reaching out to Congress, senators, or your closest civil rights organizations in case you encounter any maltreatment or discrimination from them.
If you have a pending case that has been dragging on for too long, make a point to contact an attorney to find out the details to maintain transparency throughout the process. If at their offices you are intimidated, insulted or even ignored and there happens to be a witness in the room, request them to come forward. It doesn’t matter if it’s an employee of the state. What is happening to our people is wrong, and many people are willing to come out and speak about what we are going through.
Everyone that sees the injustice in all this needs to actively participate in the fight towards ensuring that everyone is treated equally. No one should be defined by their skin color or religion but by their dedication and love for this country.
Voting is the voice of the American people and it cannot be emphasized enough. We need to come out in large numbers for both the primary and the general elections in August and November respectively. This is a clear way of having our voice heard collectively. Putting the right people in positions of power ensures that the country is moving towards the right direction; the direction of non-discrimination. Enough is enough! Let us push for the change we need.
Thousands of Yemeni Americans are in deep anguish. Being separated from your loved ones can have detrimental effects on a person’s mental state. The stress of having to worry for your family when they are in a country where war is the norm, not knowing if they will make it through the night or day is no way for a person to live. Under intense stress, people do the unthinkable, and one death in any community is already far too many! After five years of patiently waiting our very own Yemeni American must’ve felt at a complete loss when his own country turns its back on its citizens. Therefore, we urge anyone who is either affected or knows someone struggling due to the Muslim ban to seek out professional help in dealing with their situation.
We Will Be Announcing Soon
A town hall soon where we will be inviting Congress, Immigration attorneys including attorney Julie Goldberg to come speak at and answer any questions. More to come…
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Off-site, On-Site & Remote Support
Not all technical support services are created equal! Adroit Technologies works with you to solve all of your technical challenges, while providing you with a clear explanation without talking “over your head”. Please see “Our Approach” for more about what makes us different.
We are where you are: our technicians can come to your location, work remotely or solve problems in our office.
Hardware and Software Services
A few examples of the services we provide are:
- Computer Hardware
- Upgrades for Ram, Hard drives
- Data Migrations
- Data Back & Data Recovery
- Hardware Purchasing
- Hardware Repair
- Computer Software
- Office & Home Networks
- including Wifi & Cabling
- Network Equipment Purchasing
Don’t see what you are looking for? Give us a call, we couldn’t possibly list everything we can do to help you here!
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Walmart offers Snapware Airtight Plastic 23-Cup Fliptop Food Storage Container, 4-Pack for $19.88 (reg. $29.97) plus free shipping.
The 23-Cup Snapware Airtight Plastic Container offers an airtight and leak-proof solution for food storage. Each vessel offers a four-tab locking lid and silicone seal to lock in freshness. The fliptop feature allows easier access to food. The 23-Cup Snapware Airtight Plastic Food Storage Container provides you with multiple containers to keep your food fresh. Fliptop Airtight Plastic Containers, in a 4-Pack, are easy to use when putting together lunches.
Category: Home & Kitchen
Posted on 20 August 2016, 09:28 PM
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john at repetae.net
Thu Apr 27 15:11:44 EDT 2006
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 10:25:53AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> Actually yes, I did intend to replace/extend Text.Regex with JRegex at
> some point. Plus we can include PCRE, since it has a BSD license -
> maybe it can replace the POSIX regex implementation that we have in GHC
> right now (which was taken from FreeBSD's libc).
That would actually be nice, the PCRE that comes with most systems isn't
compiled with unicode support enabled. However you can set flags when
compiling PCRE to let it handle UTF8 directly.
John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈
More information about the Libraries
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Business France and Mazars have decided to join forces and use their combined skills to create 4 guides and offer valuable insight regarding your investment project in France. Mazars offers internationally renowned consulting, auditing, tax and accounting services in 86 countries, while Business France is the national agency supporting the international development of the French economy, providing support each year to more than 1,000 foreign investment projects. What better partnership could there be to provide you with an operational response to your key preoccupations regarding tax issues, employment regulations, state aid and corporate law?
- Booklet 1 – French tax system
- Booklet 2 – Available support and grants
- Booklet 3 – Labor Legislation
- Booklet 4 – Setting up in France (coming soon)
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You can watch the video version of this article HERE
Illegal immigration has been the biggest issue Trump promises to tackle during his presidency, and it was his vehement commitment to building a wall along the border that gained him so many supporters during his campaign. It seems like a simple solution to a problem that has been central to so many on the right, and the President has not backed down from his promise to build The Wall. Trump has already signed two executive orders directing the construction to begin along the U.S-Mexico border. There is a plethora of information floating around the Internet about the still contentious Wall, and I’m here to help answer your questions about the future of our southern border.
The reasons vary about why we need a wall, from protecting internal wealth, to keeping out criminals and terrorists, to reducing drug imports. There is a general feeling, mostly from the Right, that the current immigration laws simply aren’t strict enough. Many believe the border isn’t nearly as secure as it should be. But a lot of these reasons stem from a place of fear. The fear that our jobs are being taken, the fear that we’re letting in too many criminals, the fear that those coming over are unmotivated and will be a burden to U.S citizens. It’s a fear that has been repeated throughout history, dating back to 1882 when Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act. This was the first real immigration law enacted nationally in America, in hopes to protect the jobs that Chinese laborers were willing to do for less. Trump honed in on this fear and made it the main piece of his platform, convincing his audience that a wall separating the two countries could solve many of our problems. But the fact is, unauthorized U.S immigrants account for only 3.5% of the nation’s population, and only 23% of the population view a Wall as vitally important to U.S immigration policy. Despite this, it seems that Trump is planning on keeping his promise to build, so the next question is…
In order to complete this wall, it will have to cover nearly 2,000 miles of land from California, Arizona, New Mexico, to Texas. That’s a lot of land to be covered, much of which is private property. Eminent domain would have to be used to buy this land and force the land owners off of their property, which is typically something Republicans have been against. There is currently fencing covering roughly 40% of the border due to President W. Bush signing the Secure Fence Act back in ’06. Trump has cited the Secure Fence Act as the legal grounds to build a wall. The estimates of how much this wall will cost vary greatly, from $8 billion according Trump, to a whopping $40 billion according to a study published by MIT technology review. $15 billion alone would need to go to labor costs. And speaking of labor, you may be wondering who is going to build this wall, considering finding enough legal, properly documented workers is going to prove difficult to do. About half of Texas’ construction workers are undocumented, and 14% nationwide lack proper authorization. Roughly two thirds of construction firms are having difficulty finding legal workers because of this. It’s become a profession that many younger people in America find unappealing and tend to avoid, leaving a huge deficit in construction laborers.
Who will foot the bill?
President Trump has repeatedly said that Mexico will be paying for this wall, and he is confident despite President Peña Nieto consistently denying this. Republicans are not clear as to how this will happen, but Paul Ryan is sure that if the U.S fronts the money for the Wall, “there are a lot of different ways of getting Mexico to pay for it.” One example of this would be to put a 20% tax on Mexican imports, which gives the U.S the upper-hand since 80% of Mexican exports come into America. This would potentially bring in 10 billion dollars a year and could be a bipartisan agreement to assure that the U.S taxpayer won’t be affected by the cost of the Great Wall. However, this tax would inevitably lead to a surge of prices, ultimately making the American consumer pay in a roundabout way.
How will this affect U.S-Mexico relations?
If the Wall ends up being completed, it’s important to have it guarded from both sides in order to be the most effective it can be. It has taken years to build a cooperative relationship between the two countries, but particularly since 9/11, Mexico has had a cooperative border relationship with America in efforts to stop drug cartels, although migration is still a sensitive topic. Regardless of how the current Mexican President responds to Trump, the upcoming nominees for the general election in Mexico are much less likely to cooperate with Trump in order to gain favor with their voters. A strain on this relationship may only take the U.S back further in it’s effort for a more secure border.
How will this affect the environment?
Another factor to remember about potentially building a wall is it’s affect on the delicate ecosystem of the U.S-Mexico border. Man-made infrastructure of all kind effects these ecosystems, including the many roads that will be needed to be built for workers to access the areas. The caliber of the Wall, however, could destroy habitats, affect the way these animals migrate, and potentially cause extinction. Many species, including the North American Jaguar, bighorn sheep and black bears, depend on movement between the u.s and mexico to maintain genetic diversity. Human barriers can also disrupt pollination and disturb watersheds and waterways, which can lead to flooding.
The consequences of human barriers is unpredictable, and building a wall still won’t guarantee security or safety for the American people. We need to ask if this is truly necessary for our country (which, as stated earlier, 23% agree it is not.) There are many other ways to improve immigration policy, many Americans care much more about people overstaying their visas or whether or not illegal immigrants are receiving government benefits than they do about building a wall. The potential $40 billion could be spent on our education system, on housing veterans, or perhaps on cleaning up the water in Flint, Michigan. We have to ask what our priorities are. Do we want to be represented by The Wall or The Statue of Liberty?
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Using Vcarve Pro V9.0 for Shopbot, Windows 7 pro sp1, Latest Gadgets SDK V2.04
Why is the only method on the ToolDatabase Object a dialog?
Where are the methods to enumerate the tools in the DB, modify groups ?
First I want to make a list (ascii) of tools that I keep track of for myself. I pin it on the wall so I can reference it when I create tool paths.
I was creating a gadget to do it for me, only to find there is no method to enumerate the tools.
Many tools, are the same bit but different speeds and feeds for specific materials and finishes.
I want to manage the tool numbers and names myself.
I want the tool info in the job file, so I can verify I have the parts correctly setup in the collets without have to be in front of the machine and
do that for each tool path in the job I am about to run.
When I "hand" edit the tool DB it is not easy to manage from a GIT perspective. i am a software guy and version control is important to me.
After going through the process of creating a form tool for a round-over bit, I want to automate it via a gadget and it looks like I can't create a form tool from the SDK tool object constructor. Is that true?
Please expose methods that help with this in the SDK.
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As I suspected, there were lots of books with a couple of votes so, while I hate to have so many in the voting thread, it only seems to be fair to include them. Voting ends 10/18 (Saturday) so that posters will have plenty of time to get the book(s) and I'll tally up first thing Sunday morning and post the winner. Please use all caps when posting your vote.
• FISH WITHOUT A DOUBT by Rick Moonen (Five votes)
• THE ART OF SIMPLE FOOD by Alice Waters (Three votes)
• KITCHEN DIARIES by Nigel Slater (Three votes)
• A NEW WAY TO COOK by Sally Schneider (Three votes)
• THE SOUTH AMERICAN TABLE by Maria Baez Kijac (Three votes)
Link to suggestions thread, in case anyone wants to look at it:
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Let’s talk about gumption! Arvin Manangan grew up in the Philippines where kilts are not all that common, and opportunity was almost as elusive. In 2008 Arvin became a member of Window Works Inc., a Calgary company in need of temporary foreign workers to help fill the demand for their professional residential and commercial window cleaning business. Arvin is a tremendous success story from the Temporary Foreign Workers Program. He literally climbed the ladder to success. Seizing that opportunity came at a great cost for Arvin, as he had to leave his family behind to come to Canada, a step towards providing a better life for his family back home. In 2012 Window Works Inc. joined forces with Men In Kilts (Canada’s largest Window Cleaning Franchise). When Arvin first heard that he’d be donning a kilt as part of the change, he said to himself, “That’s awesome! I’ve sure got the legs for it!”
Men In Kilts CEO Chris Carrier says, “Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW’s) had become a big part of the Canadian economy and our personal experience regardless of the countries they come from have been nothing short of a huge blessing. Dedication, hard work, kindness, initiative & the willingness to do what it takes to serve customers and our community are just some of the few qualities that stand out for Arvin. Men In Kilts is always on the hunt for spectacular leaders who are Awesome, Dedicated, and FUN!
Although Arvin’s story is unique to him, it highlights his commitment and accomplishments within the last 8 years with Men In Kilts. In February of this year, Arvin’s long journey brought him to the exciting conclusion of becoming a Permanent Resident of Canada. As a leader in our Calgary franchise, Arvin’s blood, sweat and tears have paid off and has made the grand opening of our Red Deer location an exciting reality! What began as a temporary work permit for Arvin has grown into an amazing opportunity and will lead to job creation in Red Deer. No one ever said it was going to be easy, but Arvin continues to be up for the challenges ahead of him and looks forward to being able to provide jobs and opportunities for those willing to role up their sleeves while proudly representing Men In Kilts.
Arvin says, “Red Deer is the third most populated city in Alberta and is the midpoint between Calgary & Edmonton, where we already have very successful franchises located. I see this as an exciting and natural progression for the Alberta market and I’m looking forward to meeting EVERYONE in Red Deer – personally!
Men In Kilts is unique not only because we wear kilts, but also because we offer professional quality service across the board. Meeting the needs of both residential and commercial clients, we provide interior and exterior maintenance services including window cleaning, pressure washing, gutter cleaning and snow removal. With Men In Kilts you get the representation of a name brand with the value and friendliness of a small business. Although the brand draws attention, it’s the quality of the service experience we provide that develops lifelong relationships with our customers.
About Men In Kilts
Nicholas Brand started Men In Kilts in 2002 with a squeegee and a hand-sewn kilt made by his wife. The first franchise was opened in 2012 in Victoria and has grown to 21 locations across Canada and the U.S. People often give them a try because of the kilts, but they keep coming back because of the outstanding service. There’s a lot more behind Men In Kilts services than just kilts! The company continues its successful expansion, with plans to be in every major market across North America.
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Do store-bought cleaners leave you with a headache or feeling a bit lightheaded after using them? Well, that was the case for me before I switched to making my own natural cleaning products!
I have starting using Lemongrass Essential Oil to replace the chemical-laden products in my cleaning cabinet! I love the way it shines up my old wood floors and leaves my home smelling lemony fresh!
Besides cleaning, Lemongrass Essential Oil has tons of uses, from boosting circulation and immunity to soothing muscular tension, and beyond! In this blog, we will talk about its uses, recipes, what it blends well with, and much more!
Lemongrass Essential Oil Benefits, Uses, & Recipes
Lemongrass Essential Oil has been shown to have aromatic and deodorizing properties according to one study1. This study showed that it can be used as an eco-friendly alternative to synthetic and artificial fragrances that can fill our homes with toxins. Try it in a diffuser in your bathroom to help refresh the air!
Lemongrass Essential Oil is one of my favorite oils to use in cleaning. Aside from its fresh lemony scent, it also has strong disinfectant properties that are found to be more effective than standard chemical disinfectants like Lysol2.
Lemongrass Oil is a great cleaner for surfaces and can also be used to disinfect the air. In another study3 that tested essential oils against 6 common respiratory pathogens, Cinnamon Bark and Lemongrass Essential Oils were effective in significantly disinfecting the air when diffused.
Lemongrass Essential Oil is a great oil to add to DIY hair care products. In a 2015 study4, it was found to significantly reduce dandruff. Dandruff can cause itchiness and scratching, which damages hair follicles and can ultimately lead to hair loss.
Lemongrass is a wonderful natural insect repellent. In fact, it is an effective repellent against mosquitoes and houseflies according to this study5.
Lemongrass Essential Oil has great detoxifying effects. A study that used Lemongrass Essential Oil infused in a serum showed positive effects on the subject’s antioxidant status.
Supports Women’s Wellness
Traditionally, Lemongrass Essential Oil has been used to treat menstrual cramps, bloating, and hot flashes. A published study6 mentioned that this oil is useful in cooling down the body and has anti-inflammatory properties to ease cramps and pain caused by menstruation.
- Lemongrass, Cajeput, and Bay Compress
- Sore Muscle Soak
- Fresh Vibes Aromatherapy Inhaler
- Summer Morning Roll-On
What Lemongrass Essential Oil Blends Well With
Lemongrass Essential Oil has a fresh citrusy and slightly earthy aroma. Its smell is similar to Lemon Essential Oil but has a stronger, more penetrating and earthy scent. Bergamot, Cedarwood, Citronella, Fir Needle, Geranium, Grapefruit, Lavender, Lemon, Lime, Marjoram, Nutmeg, Palmarosa, and Pine Essential Oils all blend well with Lemongrass Essential Oil.
Simply Earth Blends That Use This Oil
Bug Fighter Essential Oil Blend can help keep your patio or outdoor picnic area pest-free so you can naturally enjoy your time outside!
What’s the Science Behind Lemongrass Oil?
Pure Lemongrass Essential Oil is mostly made up of geraniol and neral. These are chemicals naturally created by the plant. By looking at these naturally occurring chemicals, we can discover the benefits of the oil derived from the plant!
Geraniol has been shown to kill germs in the air, as well as bacteria, viruses, and fungi. It is also known to soothe pain and kill dust mites.
Neral supports many of the same functions as geraniol.
What Earthies Are Saying About This Oil
What I Love About Lemongrass Essential Oil
I love the way this oil cleans. It is really great at cleaning up gunk like the sticky stuff left behind by stickers or crayon drawings on the wall. It also leaves my old wood floors looking shiny and new.
Things to Remember When Using Lemongrass Essential Oil
Always dilute an essential oil when using it on the skin. This essential oil is unlikely to cause skin irritation when diluted properly. If the oil has been oxidized (left with the cap off for long periods of time) it is more likely to cause skin irritation. Check out this dilution chart for diluting this essential oil properly.
This essential oil is not generally safe to use if you are pregnant. Consult your doctor prior to use.
This essential oil is safe to use with kids age 10+.
Cats may find this oil irritating. However, we do not expect your cat to be disturbed if you use this oil on yourself. Just be mindful of your pet’s behavior. For more information on using essential oils with cats, check out this blog post.
Lemongrass Essential Oil is generally safe to diffuse and use topically on dogs. For more information on using essential oils with dogs, check out this blog post.
We don’t recommend ingesting essential oils unless under the direction of a doctor certified in aromatherapy. For more information on why we don’t ingest essential oils check out this blog post.
*Please note: This post is a compilation of suggestions made by those that have extensively used essential oils and has not been verified scientifically with clinical tests nor reviewed by medical experts. It is anecdotal information and should be treated as such. For serious medical concerns, please consult your doctor. The statements given in this blog post have not been verified by the FDA
How do You Use Lemongrass Essential Oil?
The uses and benefits of Lemongrass Essential Oil are endless! This is such a versatile essential oil. How are you going to make your home toxin-free with Lemongrass Essential Oil?
To learn more about how to use essential oils, check out our Simply Earth Essential Oil Recipe Box. When you subscribe, we’ll ship you a monthly supply of four 100% pure essential oils, six natural recipes, and all the quality ingredients you’ll need to make your own wonderful products for just $44.99/month. All of these goodies have over $100 value, plus we’ll give you a FREE Big Bonus Box when you subscribe.
Subscribe today to learn how to use essential oils!
- Ngan T. T. K., Hien T. T., et al. Formulation of the Lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus) essential oil-based eco-friendly diffuse solution. 2020 Oct
- ThejasK M, Aswathy P.G, Surya N.K, Metilda H, Study On Disinfectant Potential Of Lemon Grass Oil Against Common Pathogens, 2016 Jul
- Shigeharu Inouye, Toshio Takizawa, Hideyo Yamaguchi. Antibacterial activity of essential oils and their major constituents against respiratory tract pathogens by gaseous contact. 2001 May
- Chaisripipat W, Lourith N, Kanlayavattanakul M. Anti-dandruff Hair Tonic Containing Lemongrass (Cymbopogon flexuosus) Oil. 2015 Jul
- Baldacchino F, Tramut C, Salem A, et al. The repellency of lemongrass oil against stable flies, tested using video tracking. 2013 Jun
- Shah G, Shri R, Panchal V, Sharma N, Singh B, Mann AS. Scientific basis for the therapeutic use of Cymbopogon citratus, stapf (Lemon grass). 2011
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THE HEROINE CULTS OF ANCIENT GREECE
“They say that there is a shrine also of the heroine Iphigenia…Hesiod, in his Catalogue of Women, says that Iphigenia did not die, but by the will of Artemis became Hecate.”
-from Pausanias’s Description of Greece, vol. 1, trans. with a commentary by James George Frazer (1898).
To the Ancient Greeks, heroes and heroines were exalted beings—a genus—as it were, of humans magnified to the umpteenth power. Their ranks included some of the most well-known figures in classical mythology; Heracles, Theseus, Alcmene, Ariadne—the list went on and on. All members of this superlative “club” endured great travail, but only a select few could boast of divine parentage. These were the mythic godlings of epic and tragicomedic writers like Homer and Euripides. Those who lacked ichor-blooded progenitors had to forge their own path alongside their immortal counterparts.They were persecuted, abused, and debased before the world. They struggled against all the elemental forces the Moirai cast at them and either surmounted their foes or perished in the process. Among this group of fate-treading mortals were the local heroines venerated by devotees in polities and city-states across the Greek Isles.
The story of these multifaceted women and their corresponding religious cults is the subject of Greek Heroine Cults, a fascinating study by Professor Jennifer Larson. We caught up with Professor Larson to gain a better understanding of heroine worship in Ancient Greece and its place in everyday societal relationships.
The Custodian: What qualified someone as a heroine? Did heroine “origin stories” generally follow a specific narrative pattern?
Professor Jennifer Larson: From early in the Iron Age, the Greeks worshiped certain dead people in a sporadic way, without having a name (so far as we know) for this religious category, or a fixed mode of offering. We know that these powerful dead included warrior-chieftains, city founders, and recently-deceased ancestors, but there may also have been cults for legendary people and harmful dead who were similar to ghosts. By the sixth century, some of these practices coalesced into a “cult of heroes”, which involved the worship of the men and women who figured in the traditional tales of each Greek region and city (“cult” in this sense is a technical term for organised worship, with no negative connotations). Such a man was called herōs, and a woman hērōinē or hērōissa. Odysseus, Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Oedipus all had cults. Although cult heroines were less common, they include many of the heroines familiar from Greek myths, like Penelope, Ariadne, Alcmene (the mother of Heracles), and Iphigenia (the daughter of Agamemnon).
Most cult heroines, however, figured in local myths rather than the grand epic tales. An example is Antinoë, a woman who was guided by a snake to establish the site for the Arcadian city of Mantinea. In the second century CE, the traveller Pausanias wrote about seeing her tomb in the city, a round stone which the people called the Public Hearth. Still other heroines never had names at all, but were simply known as “the heroine on the plain”, or “the heroines near the property of Kalliphanes”.
There were no systematic selection criteria for heroines (or heroes); the cults sprang up spontaneously as a kind of folklore, although many of them were adopted as public cults, meaning that the town or polis undertook to fund the annual offerings. Still, certain narrative patterns are regularly associated with heroine cults. A very common one is the story of a girl who is impregnated by a god, and persecuted (often by her own relatives) as a result of her pregnancy. She usually has to abandon the baby, who is then adopted by someone else. The great Swiss scholar Walter Burkert called this storyline “the girl’s tragedy”. Sometimes the girl dies, like Alope, the mother of the Attic hero Hippothoön, who was killed by her own father. Koronis, the mother of Asclepius, and Kallisto, the mother of the Arcadian hero Arcas, were both shot with arrows by Artemis. In other cases, the heroic son grows up and is reunited with his mother. The twin sons of Antiope by Zeus were the Theban heroes Amphion and Zethus. When these twins reached adulthood, they rescued their mother from persecution by a rival named Dirce (who had her own cult). The cults of these heroines were usually associated in one way or another with those of their sons—in the festival calendar, or spatially, by means of neighbouring tombs.
Another common storyline was that of the sacrificial virgin. This was a popular tale type in Attica, the territory of Athens. The narrative usually begins with an oracle saying that a maiden must be sacrificed in order to win a war or end a plague. Sometimes the virgin is a willing sacrifice, and sometimes not. The daughters of an early Athenian king, Erechtheus, were voluntarily sacrificed in order to gain victory in the war against Eleusis. The same story is told about one of king Cecrops’ daughters, Aglauros, and the young men of Athens took their citizenship oaths at her sanctuary on the Acropolis, demonstrating similar loyalty.
Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon, was sacrificed against her will in order to appease the anger of Artemis and restore the winds needed to carry the Greek armies to Troy. She was worshiped in a sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron, in Attica, and elsewhere. (No such human sacrifices are known from the historical record, although there is limited evidence for ritual killings in the archaeological records of the Bronze Age through the tenth century.)
A third story pattern is the wrongful death of the heroine. According to legend, some Spartans once raped and murdered a group of sisters who lived in Leuktra near Thebes, then threw their bodies into a well. Their father Skedasos, unable to hold the Spartans to account, killed himself at their tomb. Years later, the Thebans were preparing for battle with Sparta. The Theban commander, Pelopidas, had a dream in which he was directed to sacrifice a white colt to the girls. As a result, he defeated the Spartans and avenged the “Leuktrides”, as they were called. It is easy to see how a story like this could arise after the fact, to explain why the supposedly invincible Spartans suffered such a crushing loss.
C: How did the varying classes of Greeks view their semi-divine compatriots? For example, did aristocrats hope to one day achieve apotheosis–or were they convinced that such a possibility was restricted to the “Age of Heroes”?
J: The Greeks distinguished ritually between cult honours paid to the denizens of the earth and underworld (the dead, heroes/heroines, and underworld gods), and cult honours paid to deities (such as the Olympian gods) who were thought to reside in the upper world and heaven. The distinctions were sometimes subtle, but (to generalise) underworld beings tended to receive more libations, especially of blood from sacrificial animals, and the meat from animal sacrifices was less often consumed by the participants in the ritual for underworld beings (instead, all or part of the meat would be burned).
These procedures were derived from somber funerary ritual, and can be contrasted with the joyous feasting characteristic of sacrifices for the “upper” gods. From early times, founders and warrior chieftains might expect to be honoured this way after their deaths, and there were sporadic instances of what we might call “ancestor cult”. As the Greek polis system developed, cults were established for local heroes, who then could act as “ancestors” for the community as a whole. Still, we find historical tyrants aspiring to this type of recognition during the Classical period, and athletes being worshiped after their deaths. They were not regarded as gods, however, but as dead men who happened to retain the ability to act in the world.
True apotheosis, and the apellation of theos (god), was reserved for only a tiny number of people. The most notable example is Heracles, the son of Zeus and a mortal woman, Alcmene. During the late seventh century, a new story about Heracles began to circulate: at the end of his life, Athena escorted him to heaven in a chariot, where he was accepted among the gods of Olympus and married Hera’s daughter Hebe (“Youth”). Around the same time, worship of Heracles as a full-blown god, with temples, statues, sacrifices and festivals, began to spread. Still, although Heracles was unquestionably a theos, there remained certain doubts about his status and questions about the proper mode of worship (Pindar calls him hērōs theos, “hero-god”). When Odysseus visits the underworld in the Odyssey (11.601-4), he sees the dead hero— or does he?
“And afterward I perceived mighty Heracles, his phantom, that is: for he himself, in the company of immortal gods, takes pleasure in the feast and has as his wife slender-ankled Hebe, the daughter of Great Zeus and gold-sandaled Hera.”
The Greek historian Herodotus claimed that some cities had dual cults of Herakles, one for sacrifice “as to a god”, and the other “as to a hero”. He attributed this oddity to the existence of two figures named Heracles, one an ancient Phoenician god, and the other a Greek hero.
Among women, the most famous case of “apotheosis” is the beautiful Helen, the daughter of Zeus and the cause of the Trojan War, although there is no equivalent story of her entry to Olympus. According to the Odyssey (4.561-9) the hero Menelaus would never die, but instead would live forever in a special place called Elysium, because Helen was his wife and he was therefore the son-in-law of Zeus. Helen was regarded as a goddess by many Greeks, particularly at Sparta, where she and Menelaus were worshiped in a sanctuary of their own. Still another example of female apotheosis is mentioned in the Odyssey (5.333-5), where Odysseus is rescued from drowning by “Ino Leucothea, who of old was a mortal of human speech, but now in the depths of the sea has acquired honour from the gods”. Ino had been a daughter of Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, but leapt into the sea in a fit of madness. There, instead of dying, she was transformed into a sea deity known as “the White Goddess”. Many cults were devoted to her throughout the Greek world, and in this respect she resembles Heracles.
In general, then, most people could not expect to be heroised, much less treated as gods, but there were exceptions for people regarded as especially blessed, skilled, or beautiful, those who seemed to measure up to the great men and women of the “Age of Heroes”. For the average person, ancient mystery cults (addressed below) also offered a tantalising hope of immortality. Another special case was the deification of dead and living kings and queens, starting with Alexander the Great, and continuing with his successors in the Hellenistic kingdoms.
C: Would it be fair to draw a comparison between the ritual worship of heroines and heroes at sanctuaries and the veneration of Christian saints in cathedrals?
J: This is a much-debated question. Superficially, there are many similarities between the veneration of Christian saints and the cults of heroes and heroines. First is their local character, and the folkloric elements emphasising the hero or saint’s protection for those living nearby. In both cases we find special attention to the tomb and relics. Most hero cults were attached to a “tomb”, marked by a mound or a stone monument; these might be remains from the Bronze Age, or other local landmarks. In several instances, the Greeks cherished what they believed were the relics of heroes, such as the ivory “shoulder” of the hero Pelops, displayed at Olympia, or the huge bones of the exiled Theseus, recovered from the island of Scyros and ceremoniously conveyed home to Athens (these were probably fossil bones).
Possession of such relics conferred the hero’s protection, and quarrels over ownership were not unusual. At least three cities claimed to possess the tomb of Heracles’ mother Alcmene, who was buried with her second husband, Aleus. In 379, the Spartans invaded Boeotia and opened the “tomb of Alcmene” in Haliartos, intending to remove her remains to Sparta. It is unclear whether they found bones, but the other contents of the tomb were a bronze bracelet, two pots filled with what seemed to be hardened earth, and a bronze tablet with unknown writing. Disasters and portents followed the violation of the tomb, and the heroised pair had to be propitiated.
There are significant theological differences, however, between Christian saints and heroes. Because Christianity is nominally monotheistic, saints are to be “venerated” rather than worshiped. Saints are also envisioned as mediator figures between humans and God, which was not the case with heroes and heroines. Finally, saints achieve this status because of their moral virtues and/or martyrdom. While narratives of the manner of death were important in the legends of both saints and heroes, the Greeks did not heroise people on the basis of moral excellence, but for a variety of other reasons, such as legendary status, power, talent, beauty, or uncanny manifestations after death.
C: Were heroines usually pledged or allied to a specific goddess such as Hekate?
J: Most heroines were not tied to a particular goddess, but there are several cases of heroines with special connections to Artemis and/or Hekate, both virgin goddesses. Originally these two deities were separate, but by the late Classical period, Hekate was sometimes described as the underworld aspect of Artemis. Artemis killed many young women in myth, while in real life, the deaths of unmarried girls and of women who died in childbirth were attributed to her. Perhaps the idea was that through her death and heroisation, a woman remained forever young and virgin like the goddess herself. A fragment of Hesiodic poetry states that Agamemnon’s daughter Iphigenia “became Hekate by the will of Artemis”, while another story says that Artemis brought Iphigenia to the White Isle, an Elysium-like place in the Black Sea. Artemis, meanwhile, took the surname Iphigenia. Another legend tells of Aspalis, a girl of Pthia in Thessaly, who hanged herself to escape being raped by a tyrant. Her body disappeared and was replaced by a statue, which stood in Artemis’ temple.
C: Were nymphs and sirens sometimes considered to be heroines?
J: Generally speaking, heroines were dead women with a human genealogy and ties to man-made monuments, while nymphs were minor goddesses who inhabited the wild spaces and personified features of the landscape, such as springs, trees, and mountains. In practice, however, there was overlap between the two categories. Many heroines were connected with springs or wells. The heroine Dirke had a tomb at Thebes, but there was also a spring called Dirke. The same is true of Leukonoë, a heroine of Arkadia. Both heroines and nymphs were worshiped in anonymous groups, probably reflecting the cultural institution of group dances (“choruses”) of maidens.
A calendar of sacrifices from the Attic town of Thorikos mentions four distinct groups of this type: the Heroines of Thorikos; the Heroines of Hyperpedios; the Pylochian Heroines, and the Heroines of the Koroneians. Three of the four groups receive offerings together with a local hero who seems to represent a feature of the landscape. The sirens are a special case. According to legend, they were hybrid bird/women creatures who lured sailors to their deaths with their irresistible song, but after Odysseus heard their song and lived to tell the tale, they killed themselves. The perception that they were mortal seems to have made possible siren “tombs” and corresponding cults. A siren named Parthenope was worshiped by Greek colonists at Naples, and they held a gymnastic contest in her honour.
C: Was there any overlap between heroine rites, mystery traditions, and divinatory practices?
J: Beginning with the Eleusinian Mysteries in the eighth or seventh century, the Greeks explored the possibility that with the aid of special rituals, they might gain access to a more “blessed” afterlife than the common run of mortals, who shared a dismal fate in Hades. Such cults were called “mysteries” because initiates were sworn to secrecy. During the sixth century, a new mystery cult devoted to Dionysus/Bacchus emerged, with a revisionist theology making the god the son of Persephone, queen of the dead (rather than the son of Semele, as Homer and Hesiod taught). Initiates were buried with tiny inscribed gold tablets, which functioned like passports and guides to the “blessed” regions of the underworld. Some of these groups promised that their adherents would rule in Hades “with the other heroes” or even “become a god instead of a mortal.” From excavation of the burials, the content of the tablets, and other evidence, we know that these mysteries were quite popular with women. So in a sense, these cults offered ordinary men and women a chance to share the “blessed” status of heroes and heroines, a privilege which had previously been reserved for various elites.
C: Can you tell us a bit more about your current research and forthcoming publications?
J: Greek Heroine Cults was my first book, published in 1995. I followed it up with Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore (2001), which explored another neglected aspect of Greek worship, paying particular attention to the emotional and erotic components cults of of the nymphs. Since then I have published other books and articles on ancient Greek religion, most recently Understanding Greek Religion: A Cognitive Approach (2016). In this work, I applied insights from an emergent discipline, the cognitive science of religion, to better understand phenomena like ritual reciprocity with the gods, divination, purity rites, sympathetic magic, and afterlife beliefs.
In my current research, I am continuing to explore the relationship between cognition and religion, particularly the way human cognitive structures help to shape religious beliefs and practices. For example, most humans share certain intuitive, implicit beliefs about what constitutes a “miracle”, and their expectations have an impact on which stories get reported and transmitted. A god’s healing of a stomach ailment is only mildly, if at all, “miraculous” enough to give rise to a legend, while restoration of an amputated limb seems to be a very extreme sort of miracle, rarely reported in healing cults. The most oft-reported kind of healing miracle exists in between these extremes, in cures which seem to heal irreversible conditions, while not wildly violating our expectations of natural law. For example, the miracle healings attributed to the Greek god Asclepios include many cures of paralysis, blindness, infertility, and (most amusingly) baldness, but only a few cures of the “unimpressive” or “extreme” types. If I am correct about the impact of shared intuition on the perception of miracles, patterns similar to this should be detectable in other healing cults across cultures.
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February Patch Tuesday 2020
99 CVEs were resolved by Microsoft this month. That surpasses the 2019 August release of 93 CVEs resolved. Hmm 99. This could be fun. 99 bottles of beer… 99 CVEs to Patch? Unlike the song where you need to take each bottle down and pass it around, the good news here is many of these CVEs can be resolved by applying just a few Microsoft updates. Most of these are in the OS this month. On average your OS updates will resolve around 50 CVEs. The exception is Windows 10, which along with IE and Edge, will resolve 88 CVEs. What is more important to talk about is which of these 99 CVEs are most critical to resolve and what products you need to update to plug those holes. Along with Microsoft, Adobe and Mozilla also have security updates this month.
There is one zero-day in the mix (CVE-2020-0674), which was first identified last month in a security advisory (ADV200001). Five of the CVEs (including the zero-day) have been publicly disclosed, meaning that enough information has been made publicly available to give threat actors a head start on figuring out how to exploit them. By updating the operating system or browsers with a couple of patches per system you can take the teeth out of the majority of the risk this month.
The really good news in all of this is 99 CVEs really doesn’t mean a whole lot of extra work for admins this month. The normal updates still apply. OS, browsers, and Office will resolve most of your vulnerabilities from the Microsoft side. SQL and Exchange Admins do get a bit of extra work this month as both of those products are included in the updates released.
February 2020 marks the first security updates for the new Edge Chromium browser edition! That’s right, there are now two editions of Edge—the HTML version built into the Windows 10 OS and the new Chromium edition that you can install if you choose.
Another notable, we will call it discrepancy, this month is the extended support releases. Windows 7, Server 2008 and 2008 R2 ESU updates are still being documented publicly and are listed in the standard WSUS catalog. This is likely to cause some confusion. Does this mean everyone has access? No, you do need an ESU with Microsoft in order to meet the specific criteria for the free options that Microsoft has outlined in the Windows 7 ESU FAQ. Also of note, there is an ESU License Preparation Patch which states the following:
“This update provides the complete set of licensing changes to enable installation of the ESU MAK add-on key, which is one of the steps to prepare for installation of Extended Security Updates. (For the full set of steps, please see KB4522133). A reboot is required after installing this update.”
This additional licensing preparation patch means there are four things you need to review on your ESU targets to ensure you will be able to patch without issue. You need to ensure the SHA-2 support updates are applied, that you meet Service Stack Update pre-requisites, that you have pushed this new licensing preparation patch to the systems, and that you have your ESU license key in place.
On the third party front:
Adobe has resolved 17 CVEs for Adobe Reader and Acrobat (APSB20-05) and one CVE for Flash Player (APSB20-06). This is the first security update for Flash Player for 2020 and also the first since September 2019. The Adobe Acrobat Reader update includes 12 Critical CVEs and the Flash Player CVE is also Critical. We recommend prioritizing these two updates this month. Microsoft’s release of Flash Player covers the latest editions of Windows. The Flash Player update is only supported on Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 and later.
Mozilla has released updates for Firefox, Firefox ESR and Thunderbird and is resolving 6, 5 and 7 CVEs respectively. The two Firefox updates are rated as a High severity and the Thunderbird update as Moderate by Mozilla’s severity rating. So while these updates are not urgent, you will want to get them rolled out in your normal monthly maintenance.
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- More customisation over last year's model
- Hockenheim is in
- Overhauled sense of physicality
- Pit media interviews are a confusing and unnecessary addition
- Review Price: £39.99 (PC)
- Developer: Codemasters
- Genre: Racing
- Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, PC
- Release Date: August 24, 2018
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Eight years into its licensed F1 franchise, developer Codemasters continues to explore new ways of enriching the off-track experience as well as on it. The headline feature for this year is the column inches themselves. In the shadow of narrative-driven modes in sports titles like FIFA 17’s The Journey, F1 2018 asks: will you be a sportsman or a showman?
For years now, the F1 games have been objectively very good racing titles – slick, fast, refined packages that deliver a virtual representation of the world’s fastest sport. Where gaps have appeared, Codemasters has filled them. Features like classic cars deliver appropriate fan service, and there have been consistent improvements made to everything from the looks, to the drive-feel and the opponent AI.
With the addition of headlines in particular, though, I find myself wondering: who cares?
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They slot seamlessly into the championship career mode, at least. It’s pretty standard stuff in that department – pick a team from the grid, complete practice test sessions to unlock points to upgrade the car, earn rivalry points through qualifying and race results, and aim your way toward a championship win.
I always think that the F1 games give more back the more you put in. Best advice? Play it on harder settings than you’re perhaps used to. Ditch the assists so you’re not helped out by restrictive ABS brakes or traction control; get rid of the fluorescent driving line that guides you into each corner and gives you visual cues on when to brake.
Abandon as many safety nets as is feasible for your skill level and F1 2018 is a rip-roaring racer. It has drama and soul in its best moments, turning the most mundane of things into potential game changers. Drops of rain can change a race entirely; an inopportune virtual safety car can turn your well-earned lead into a second fight for the finish line; get the strategy wrong and you’re stuffed. Play races on longer lengths, and you’ll see the organic tyre degradation and other mechanical underpinnings of the sport play out their natural course.
Niggles with F1 2018 are pretty much similar to previous games. The AI is much more aggressive now, which results in some excellent wheel to wheel tussles, but it’s still inconsistent at times. AI racers too often follow clearly dangerous lines when you’re overtaking or defending, and you almost always come off worse from any unwanted shunts or bumps.
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The rules and regulations can raise eyebrows, too – they hand out penalties and warnings for everything from collisions to corner cutting, but you’ll get warnings for things that clearly weren’t your fault. A good example was a rear-ended shunt up the backside by Esteban Ocon in the run into the first corner in Singapore. I ended up with a warning.
Sat in front of the screen at home, that moment had me seething. But in a press interview post-race, it all feels too inconsequential. Interviews are short, thankfully, but none of it really feels like you’re imparting your own personality onto the pitlane press paddock. You’re just manipulating an invisible meter that slides from one end to another depending on your responses.
It’s morality at its most basic. I’m sure avid role players could imagine themselves doing this for realsies but in the grand scheme of what F1 2018 offers – the depth, the precision, the sheer speed of it all, this all just feels distracting. I found myself not paying attention to any of it, so much so that F1’s new halos had more of an impact on my experience.
Thankfully, the depth of strategic tinkering has been built upon elsewhere. Progression has been made more legible and easier to understand, which reduces the sense of overwhelming complexity that pervaded the last game a little bit. I was much more invested in improving my car this time around.
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What I like most is the on-the-fly management of F1. The stuff that really matters while on track, and which affects moment to moment play most drastically. The game retains the intuitive method of communicating with your engineer from the cockpit, as well as the ways in which you can alter the car on the fly.
Meanwhile, the addition of features like ERS, which stores up kinetic energy under braking to then unleash it during acceleration, means you’ll be altering settings more regularly in order to manage the onboard battery. It’s not complicated in execution but it adds that extra level of thought in order to use those moments of respite on the straights to tinker with the steering wheel.
Of course, for any F1 fan, it’s the new drivers, updated car liveries and new tracks that really make for a fun new game. The marquee track this year is France’s Circuit Paul Ricard, as well as Hockenheim, which was absent from the last F1 game.
Paul Ricard makes for a calendar spectacle; its tough-to-master turns render it one of the more challenging tracks in the championship season. It gave me a brilliant reason to work through those practice sessions in order to identify places I needed to improve before qualifying and race day. Eight years of F1 games have left me knowing practically every track on the circuit by heart – having a lesser known one is a delight.
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Other updates, like an increase to the refresh rate on the car suspension, makes for the most satisfyingly smooth game to date. Even with a controller pad, it relays a sense of physicality that’s really impressive whether you’re racing with a fresh set of boots or 15-lap old rubber.
F1 2018 is still a game that shines on the track, then. Forget speaking to journalists in the confines of a press paddock – this is a sport about being at the cutting edge of technology, inches from a solid metal barrier, in the sunny streets of a tax haven. And god bless it.
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Web 2.0 Animals Icons: Free PSD
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As a teacher you are able to reset your student's passwords.
- Select "Students" from the main menu link to manage your students.
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Italy raises the stakes to get Kobe
@SportsBata ..nuff said
The Italian B-Ball Club Virtus Bologna, has thrown everything at Kobe in past weeks to recruit him to their club (during the lock-out). Bologna has raised the stakes, ante-d up, and offered Kobe $1 – $2 Million to play one game, an exclusive “Tribute to Kobe” game! Bologna has also written a letter to President Barack Obama to try get help from the Prez! Check it out!
“Negotiations with Mr. Kobe Bryant have been very difficult,” said Vicenzo Di Schiavia, the team’s communications manager. “We will not make any comment for now.”
Virtus Bologna initially had tried to persuade Bryant to play up to 10 games, but the team has decided on an exhibition in order to get around scheduling problems and TV rights issues in Italy.
“I had to make this decision because it was the only way to be able to show ‘The Tribute to Kobe’ to the whole world,” attention craving owner Claudio Sabatini said last week, according to il Resto del Carlino. “If we had done a league game, we would have had problems trying to show it also in Italy.”
La Reppublica, a publication based in Bologna, reported on its website that Bryant had been offered $2.3 million to play in the exhibition in the next two weeks. – espn
Bologna Letter to Obama:
“Dear Mr. President,
We have a dream: to see Kobe Bryant playing for our Team Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna, the Italian town well known in the world as basket City.
According to your wishes we hope that the NBA lockout will shortly stop but in the meanwhile let us have the chance to see at least for one game the great Kobe Bryant playing with our black and white jersey and be part of our history.” – foxsports
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Welcome to the spectacular Metropol and Renaissance Banquet Halls in Los Angeles
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AGR re-signs Meijer Andretti Green Racing announced today it has reached an agreement with Meijer to extend its sponsorship of the Indianapolis-based race team.
Meijer has been affiliated with Andretti Green since the start of the 2007 IndyCar Series season and currently serves as a primary sponsor of Marco Andretti's #26 car at a number of races, including IndyCar events at Mid-Ohio, Kentucky and Chicagoland. Meijer maintains a major associate presence with Andretti at all other events including Sunday's running of the Indy 500.
Meijer is a Grand Rapids, Michigan, based retailer that operates 189 supercenters throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky.
Andretti and his Andretti Green IndyCar Series teammates, Tony Kanaan, Hideki Mutoh and Danica Patrick, will be appearing tonight at 7 p.m. at the Meijer store located at 150 South Marlin Drive in Greenwood, Ind., in support of the continuing tie between Meijer and Andretti Green.
JOHN LOPES, CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER, ANDRETTI GREEN: "Meijer continues to be a great partner of Andretti Green and we're thrilled to be able to extend our relationship with them. Meijer is a great retail marketer and utilizes our program and Marco Andretti in ways that are very beneficial to both organizations."
CATHY COOPER, DIRECTOR OF SPONSORSHIP AND PROMOTIONS, MEIJER: "Meijer is thrilled to continue our relationship with Andretti Green Racing. Race fans comprise a large number of Meijer customers, so it's very logical for us to continue our support of racing."
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Foghorn (A Call to Action!)
- With ice melting in Canada’s Northwest Passage, the area will soon be a new route for international shipping. Follow Life Under the Ice on OpenExplorer!
Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)
- Legendary submarine pilot Erika Bergman is exploring Belize’s Blue Hole using state-of-the-art SONAR scanning tools and ROVs. A couple floppy-haired dudes are going too.
- DSV Alvin made its 5000th dive. Way to go, little submarine!
- A boon to ocean conservation? Certain fungi can degrade marine plastics.
- I missed this over the summer, but Nash was an incredible guide and touring ancient Chamorro caves with him was the highlight of my time in Guam. He will be missed by many: Traditional seafarer Ignacio ‘Nash’ Camacho dies.
Jetsam (what we’re reading from around the web)
- Extreme field work: The Scientists Who Spend Their Summers Hunting for Whale Poop.
- Can you smell that? Oil spills change stingray’s sense of smell.
- Chokepoint Blockade Exposes Supply Risk for Black Sea Grain.
- This week in marine mammal standings:
- China-Kenya tensions rise over fish as traders cry foul.
- Coastal Job: Sea Lion Disentanglement Expert.
- Logs from the Sea of Denial: this week in climate change news.
- Writings on the SeaWall: Squidtoons.
- The Biological Big Bang: Testing the hypothesis that sperm whales use auditory bursts to stun prey and other proposed feeding strategies.
- Annals of big ocean noises.
- Five technologies to save wildlife from traffickers.
- Someone needs to get David this Calendar: 2019 MERB’YS CALENDAR.
Lagan (what we’re reading from the peer-reviewed literature)
- Barker and friends (2018) Potential limits to the benefits of admixture during biological invasion. DOI: 10.1111/mec.14958.
- Howard and friends (2018) Microprocessor-based prototype bycatch reduction device reduces bait consumption by spiny dogfish and sandbar shark. DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsy098.
- Gaudin and friends (2018) Marine sublittoral benthos fails to track temperature in response to climate change in a biogeographical transition zone. DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsy095.
- Óskarsson (2018) The existence and population connectivity of Icelandic spring-spawning herring over a 50-year collapse period. DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsy120.
- Bastari and friends (2018) Sea pens in the Mediterranean Sea: habitat suitability and opportunities for ecosystem recovery. DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsy162.
- Hard (2018) Robin S. Waples ‐ Recipient of the 2018 Molecular Ecology Prize. DOI: 10.1111/mec.14959.
Driftwood (what we’re reading on dead trees)
- A Compelling Novel About Ocean Conservation Brings Together Mermaids And Oil Spills.
- The Oyster Thief by Sonia Faruqi.
Feel free to share your own Foghorns, Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan, Shipping News, Driftwood, and Derelicts in the comments below. If you enjoy Southern Fried Science, consider contributing to our Patreon campaign. For just $5 per month, you can support the SFS Writers Fund, which helps compensate your favorite ocean science and conservation bloggers for their efforts.
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This was my first time buying Brisket. I didn’t know where it would be – with the meats on the shelf? Behind a refrigerated door? And what does it look like? I had no idea. So after a google image search and phone in hand, there I found it in the meat department on the top shelf all the way to the left.
My first thought- yikes, that is expensive.
My second thought – they had point cut and flat cut. What is the difference? Again… to Google I went in the meat department. Point cut has more fat content but is more tastier. Flat cut is less fat, less tender. Also to note Flat cut is about twice the price (twice the yikes). So when I saw a reviewer saying “If you want taste, go with the Point Cut” that was it. I wanted the flavor and texture, I wasn’t about to take that away for less fat. If this is a special meal you have a few times a year, do the point cut – just do it.
Here’s something else that I didn’t know, Corned Beef Brisket comes with a flavor packet. Again, I was prepared because I read about this online, but still confused. What’s in the seasoning packet? Ingredients are usually peppercorns, coriander, mustard seeds, cloves, cinnamon, bay leaves, ginger, cloves, salt. It’s very similar to pickling spices. So if by chance your meat doesn’t come with a seasoning packet, you can easily make your own.
Here are some other great things about this recipe:
It’s a slow cooker recipe, and I love my crock pot. Magic meals are made in the crock pot. Want to know a funny story? My dad gave me the crock pot I’ve been using for the past many years because he said it didn’t work. Dad, it works.
This meat is expensive, but you can easily get multiple meals out of if you are just cooking for 2. We got 3 meals out of it. In fact, the next night we put this beef brisket sliced up on sandwiches and it was delicious! With a piece of melted cheese and multiple pickle slices, it was perfection!
Not only do you use the slow cooker to make the meat, but you use it for all your vegetables too. And there’s alot of vegetables! So your whole entire meal is made in the slow cooker. More magic, right?
Corned Beef Brisket is almost always served with cabbage and carrots. And my, oh my, they are delicious!
- 1 3.5-4 pound Corned Beef Brisket (Point Cut) with spice packet
- 4 large carrots, peeled and julienned
- 1 pound baby red potatoes, quartered
- 1 onion, cut up into rings/slivers
- 1 small head of cabbage, chopped
- 3 cups water
- 6 ounces of apple juice
- Put your potatoes and onions in the bottom of your slow cooker. Add 3 cups of water on top.
- Put Corned Beef Brisket on top of vegetables.
- Pour apple juice over the Brisket.
- Pour spice packet from Brisket on top.
- Cover and cook on high for 7 hours.
- Note: Add and stir in carrots at the 3 hour mark.
- Note: Add and stir in cabbage with 1 hour left.
Here are our pretty carrots. Gorgeous aren’t they?
The spice packet gets sprinked on top. Something I want to note here is this is a full slow cooker. I had to literally squeeze and rearrange multiple times to make everything fit. If you can’t make it fit, you can leave out a few vegetables and throw them in later if you want.
You are going to cook it for 7 hours TOTAL.
At the 3 hour mark, you will add in your carrots. This will make sure they don’t get too mushy.
With 1 hour left, you will add your cabbage. This will make sure the cabbage is perfect and crisp.
I really can’t stress how good the leftovers are the next day. We love to eat it on sandwich rolls or toasted bread. Throw your brisket in a pan, mix with some barbecue sauce and you have another amazing meal!
I always love pickles on mine, and pickles on the side. I can’t get enough of these half sour pickles!
Happy Brisket Time!
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SEFFNER, Fla. -- The recent investigation of Armwood High School raises a question: Do student athletes need to transfer to bigger programs in order to get a scholarship? At Seffner Christian Academy, the answer is no.
On Friday, the school saw four student athletes sign scholarships. Among them was Garrett Saunders, who became the first athlete in school history to sign a football scholarship. Garrett will attend Olivet Nazarene University outside of Chicago.
Saunders thinks it proves that athletes can still make it to the next level if they stick with the small Seffner Christian Program, just down the road from Armwood.
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I'm new here and didn't know where else to turn. I have suffered from panic attacks/anxiety for years.
I started fixating on ALS back in 2004 after having severe muscle twitches thought my body. I had
gone to the doctor and he basically told me that if I start losing my balance etc, then I need to come back in.
I'm uninsured so I can't afford to run a lot of expensive testing.
I've had strange symptoms throughout the years feeling off balanced, strange sensation of cold water on my skin when I touched my arm.
Then I went through a period where I wasn't worrying about having ALS or MS untill recently.
After new years my jaw felt achy, I just ignored it for a few days until I couldn't resist looking up my symptom on Dr. Google. Of course ALS pops up, being a fatigued achy jaw being one of the first symptoms.
I really tried putting it out of my mind but it stuck haunting me a
aggrevating my anxiety.
A few weeks later I started getting a burning sensation like I had been working out in my forearms. Just basic movements caused this sensation. The calves in my legs had a similar feeling going on. The jaw fatigue was still happening along with these other symptoms.
I went to the doctor and he checked my reflexes which seemed ok, but he didn't like where I was having this pain/weakness and was concerned about MS.
Fast forward a few weeks later and my jaw feels very fatigued when chewing and I'm having trouble swallowing. I'm now sure there is something really wrong with me. I'm very frightened and have no health coverage but I need to see a neurologist and have some test done.
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|Publication number||US4470515 A|
|Application number||US 06/525,215|
|Publication date||Sep 11, 1984|
|Filing date||Aug 22, 1983|
|Priority date||Sep 4, 1982|
|Also published as||CA1218246A, CA1218246A1, DE3232907A1, EP0108203A1, EP0108203B1|
|Publication number||06525215, 525215, US 4470515 A, US 4470515A, US-A-4470515, US4470515 A, US4470515A|
|Inventors||Hans G. Boehm|
|Original Assignee||Boehm Hans G|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (3), Referenced by (11), Classifications (7), Legal Events (3)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The invention concerns a steam pressure cooker consisting of an open-top cooking goods container with a rim surrounding the opening and extending around it uniformly, with a lid which can be placed with its rim on the container rim and features a safety valve as well as a locking mechanism whose locking members, forcing the rims of container and lid onto each other in the closing position, are jointly adjustable between an open position and a closed position by an operating device which is centrally arranged and movable relative to the lid.
Such a "Papin's Pot" is previously known from the German patent application No. 33 658: its circular lid supports on its topside a plate which concentrically surrounds a valve and to which there are hinged essentially radially outwardly extending rod type locking members which through rotation of the plate with the aid of a handle, which as well extends radially outward, can be moved into eyes attached to the container or out of them. On their free ends with which they enter the eyes, the locking members are tapered so that the desired and necessary pressure between lid and container occurs as the cooker is sealed. A specific gasket is not provided between the container and the lid.
In the following decades, many improvements to steam pressure cookers have been suggested, which primarily aimed at greater safety and simpler operation. In addition, allowance was to be made for the desire not to have the cooking goods container, that is, the actual pot or "lower pot", not appear as part of a steam pressure cooker when the lid is removed. But it has been found that these various demands and desires could not be allowed for at the same time, let alone at a corresponding degree.
From the German utility patent No. 77 15 930 there is a steam pressure cooker known whose cooking goods container requires for anchoring of the locking mechanism only a rim which is outwardly beaded but smooth on the peripherally extending top, which rim does not make it recognizable as a component of a steam pressure cooker; also, various cooking goods containers, specifically of different sizes, can be combined with the same lid. Disadvantageous is, however, that the locking mechanism consists of a clamping closure which is independent from the lid and has the shape of a divided ring. In addition, its handling is laborious and not without danger, because a complete release of the original pressure in the cooker interior is not assured as the clamping closure is opened.
While the clamping closure according to the German patent publication No. 25 34 709, ring-shaped as well, can be handled more easily and does not use a component which is separate from the lid and thus losable, it has the disadvantage of requiring a specific shape of the cooking goods container rim, which is cumbersome and expensive to manufacture as well. Moreover, the necessarily sideways emplacement and removal of the lid (while the semicircular closure is opened) runs counter to the demand for a simple and logical operability. Furthermore, hazards through sideways escaping steam are again not precluded when removing the lid.
As compared to this and similar state of the art, the problem underlying the invention is to improve a steam pressure cooker of the initially explained type to the effect that its operation will be simple and safe.
This problem is inventionally solved in that the lid consists of a central hood which operates the locking members and of a frame which concentrically surrounds the hood and is sealed relative to the container with the aid of a profiled gasket known as such, with the hood extending underneath the frame, overlapping it and making contact with a gasket which is held on the underside of the frame. The two concentric lid components form thus together with the gasket a valve which can be opened through applying pressure on the hood (against a pressure in the cooker interior). The relatively large circumference of this valve permits a swift release of interior pressure. On the other hand, already a relatively low internal pressure keeps the valve safely closed, due to the large hood surface area.
Inventionally split, the lid assumes thus additional functions in that, for one, the hood forming the largest part of the lid operates likewise the locking members and, for another, in that it forms together with the gasket frame a steam release valve. Moreover, the operating device for the locking members is practically blocked as long as a pressure exists in the interior space, because the large hood surface facing toward the pressure produces a correspondingly large friction force between hood and profiled gasket lip, thereby making a hood rotation under pressure just about impossible. Opening the cooker while under pressure, which would have fatal consequences, is thus prevented.
The seal between hood and frame is preferably a lip of the profiled gasket.
Profiled gaskets between lid and cooking goods container are variously known as such; compare for instance the previously mentioned German patent publication No. 25 34 709 or the German patent disclosure No. 28 01 173. However, new is not only its use in connection with a steam pressure cooker of the initially mentioned type, but also the inventionally releasable clamping of a profiled gasket section.
Cooking goods container and/or lids will frequently be circular, but this is not necessary; possible are also oval, rectangular or quadratic pot designs. It is not necessary either that the relative movement between hood and frame for operation of the locking members--as according to the German patent document No. 33 658--is a rotary movement (around the center axis). Also sideways longitudinal movements or specifically a vertical shift movement (so to speak in conjunction with opening the pressure release valve) may as well be provided for operation of the locking members.
In the case of a circular pot cross section, however, the hood will have a circular design and the frame will be ring-shaped, with hood and frame then being rotatable relative to each other around the center axis.
To make sure that the hood rim section overlapping the frame will also at an unpressurized interior space be in sealing contact with the profiled gasket lip, prestress devices are favorably provided which force the hood into contact with the profiled gasket lip.
According to an advancement of the invention, the arrangement is such that between the hood and the frame there is at least one locking member provided which only in the closed position of the locking members will permit the hood to bear on the lip while in any other position of the locking members it holds the hood spaced from the profiled gasket lip. This ensures that the pressure compensation [valve] between hood and frame remains open until the lid is completely latched to the cooking goods container. Moreover, this measure results in a further reduction of the danger that the lid lock may be opened before any pressure inside the cooker has been completely released.
Another favorable advancement is constituted by the fact that the operating device (for the locking members) features a nonrotatable, but vertically shiftable central handle which is held on the hood and that a handle extension forms together with the hood a steam release valve which is prestressed in closed position and can be opened through shifting of the handle. This handle makes it possible to easily move a hood both downward and rotate it relative to the frame. The steam release valve formed between the handle and the hood, so to speak, precedes the pressure compensation valve formed between the hood and the frame as mentioned above. Its area facing toward the inside pressure being of necessity considerably smaller than the inside area of the hood, it can be opened at a smaller expense of force than the large circular valve between hood and frame.
Before the handle can be moved in the sense of a rotary movement for the locking members, the steam release valve formed between the hood and the handle is opened first by pushing down on the handle, whereafter the hood--with the internal pressure sufficiently reduced--permits an easy movement into its opening position relative to the frame, requiring only the maintenance of pressure on the handle. The locking mechanism can then be opened, for instance through rotating the handle and, thus, the hood.
When the steam pressure cooker is equipped with locking members which are mounted on the lid and evenly distributed on the lid circumference, as previously known also from the German patent document 33 658, the locking members are preferably clamps which in the closed position clasp around the outwardly beaded container rim, which is smooth on the topside, and around the lid rim but release them in the opening position. This enables under retention of all safety and operating advantages a rim design for the cooking goods container which makes it readily usable as a serving utensile. Moreover, one and the same lid can be combined with various cooking goods containers with particular ease.
The drawing illustrates the invention on embodiments, showing in:
FIG. 1, a closed and locked steam pressure cooker in cross section;
FIG. 2, the same cooker opened;
FIG. 3, a plan view of a somewhat differently designed embodiment of the steam pressure cooker; and
FIG. 4, a plan view corresponding to FIG. 3, of a modified embodiment of the locking mechanism.
The steam pressure cooker consists of a cooking goods container 1 and the lid marked 2 in its entirety. The container 1 has an outwardly beaded, peripherally uniform rim 3 which is smooth at the top.
The lid 2 is divided and consists essentially of a hood 4, presently circular, and a frame 5 which is concentric with it and extends in overlapping fashion underneath the hood. Arranged in the area of the frame 5, on the lid 2 and evenly distributed on its circumference, are several clamps 6 which in the locked position clamp around the frame 5 and the container rim 3.
Arranged between the frame 5 and the container rim 3 is a profiled gasket 7 in a fashion such that it will be held on the underside of the cross-sectionally angular frame 5. The upper sealing lip 8 of the profiled gasket 7 is located between the horizontal shank of the frame 5 and the rim area of the hood 4 extending underneath the frame 5. The lower sealing lip 9 of the profiled gasket 7 rests with its free end elastically on the container rim 3. Distributed on the lid circumference, force accumulators in the form of springs 10 pull the hood 4 onto the sealing lip 8 and prestress in this way the hood 4 and the frame 5 relative to each other. FIGS. 1 and 2 show only one of the springs 10.
Fastened in the overlap area between the hood 4 and the frame 5 on the hood 4, is at least one blocking member 11 in the form of an upward-extending pin which in the closed position of the clamps 6 can enter a bore 12 provided in the frame 5 and then, for one, will block a rotation of the hood 4 relative to the frame 5 (thereby making an opening of the locking clamps 6 impossible, as will yet be described) and, for another, will permit a rim area of the hood 4 to make contact with the lip 8 of the profiled gasket 7. But when moving the blocking member 11 through vertical pressure down on the hood 4 out of the bore 12 and then rotating the hood relative to the frame 5 (whereby the clamps 6 will be moved into the opening position of the locking mechanism), the blocking member 11 will strike with its top end on the underside of the frame 5 and hold the hood 4 spaced from the lip 8 of the profiled gasket 7.
Centrically to the center axis 1a, i.e., in the center of the hood 4, a knob type handle 13 is arranged on the hood. Fastened eccentrically to the hood 4, a pin 14 extends into a corresponding blind hole of the handle 13, upward from below, and prevents a rotation of the handle 13 relative to the hood 4, but permits a vertical movement of the handle 13 relative to the hood 4 to the extent permitted by an extension 16 through a bore 17 in the hood 4. The extension 16 of the handle 13 forms with the hood 4, through the intermediary of a suitable gasket, a pressure release valve which can be opened by pushing down on the handle 13.
Arranged as well eccentrically to the center axis 1a, in a blind hole in the handle 13, is the valve body 18 of a safety valve which together with a bore 19 in the hood 4 forms the safety valve. A spring 15 prestresses the valve body 18 in closed position (FIG. 1 shows the open position which the safety valve 18, 19 assumes when releasing steam). The reactive force of the spring 15 forcing the valve body 18 on the opening 19 forces the handle 13 upward and represents as well the closing prestress of the release valve 16.
FIGS. 3 and 4 show various embodiments of the locking mechanism on a steam pressure cooker illustrated at reduced scale and somewhat modified in its design; but identical and/or corresponding components are marked using the same designators as in FIGS. 1 and 2.
According to FIG. 3, the clamps 6 are in plan view approximately triangular and mounted rotatably near a corner point on a pin 23 which is fastened to the hood 4; for that purpose, bores 25 are provided in the clamps 6. The pins 23 may likewise serve as supports for the springs 10 (FIGS. 1, 2). Fastened on the frame 5 are pins 24 (not illustrated in FIGS. 1, 2) which engage longitudinal slots 26 in the clamps 6, the slots extending at an angle to the circle passing through the pins 24 and to the center axis 1a.
Illustrated in FIG. 3 is the closing position of the locking mechanism. As the hood 4 is rotated relative to the frame 5 in the direction of the arrow "open" around the center axis 1a, the clamps 6--as indicated on the example of a clamp by a broken line--are entrained and swung outward into an opening position (around the pins 23) in accordance with the above-mentioned angular position of the longitudinal slots 26, in which opening position the correspondingly shaped lower shanks 6a of the clamps 6 on the rim 3 will no longer clamp around under the container 1. Springs 30 prestress the clamps 6 in their opening position and support thus the opening operation; in the closed position, the springs 30 remain stressed (FIG. 1) through the blocking action of the blocking members 11 which have entered the bores 12.
The locking mechanism of the clamps 6 relative to FIG. 4 differs from the one described before in that the clamps 6 will in the opening process not perform a swing movement but move radially outward. Superimposed on this movement, however, the same as with the embodiment relative to FIG. 3, is also a circular swivel movement around the center axis 1a. The pins 23 are again attached to the hood 4, and the pins 24 to the frame 5. The pin 24 engages again a longitudinal slot 26 with which there is symmetrically coordinated a longitudinal slot 25a in the clamp 6 which is engaged by the pin 23. The pins 24 and 25 being located at an equal radial distance from the center axis 1a, the pin 23 attached to the hood 4 engages the frame 5 in which, therefore, a longitudinal slot across the circular arc 23a must be provided. Otherwise, the function and operation of the locking mechanism illustrated in FIG. 4 corresponds with that of the embodiment relative to FIG. 3.
Operationally, the opening of the steam pressure cooker out of the closed position illustrated in FIG. 1 (but with the safety valve 18, 19 closed) into the opening position shown in FIG. 2 proceeds as follows:
Vertical pressure applied down on the handle 13 causes the steam release valve to open against the force of the spring 15 because the extension 16 of the handle 13 opens into the pot interior, releasing the bore 17. As soon as the internal pressure has been reduced to a slight residual pressure, the hood 4 can be pushed down relative to the frame 5 and against the force of the springs 10 (through continued pressure on the handle 13). The hood 4 separates thereby from the upper sealing lip 8, permitting residual steam to escape through the annular gap 20 which is thus created. The profiled gasket 7 is in this process elastically deformed in the area of the lower sealing lip 9, the lower shanks 6a of the U-shaped clamps 6 separate from the rim 3 of the container 1; an annular gap 21 (FIG. 2) is being created.
Continued pressure on the handle 13, and thus on the hood 4, permits the blocking members 11 to leave the bores 12 in the frame 5. As soon as the blocking members 11 drop with their surface below the inside surface 22 of the frame 5, the hood 4 can be rotated relative to the frame 5. The clamps 6 move then simultaneously essentially radially outward, separating with their lower shanks 6a from the rim 3 of the container 1. The lid can now be removed.
As the pressure on the hood 4 and the handle 13 is reduced, the blocking members 11 make contact with the area 22 of the frame 5, from below, and keep the annular gap 20 open. The hood 4 can again make contact with the sealing lip 8 of the profiled gasket only when in a subsequent closing and locking operation the blocking members 11 (after the clamps 6 have been moved into their closing position) have come in alignment with the bores 12 through opposite rotation of the hood 4 relative to the frame 5. As long as this does not occur, pressure cannot build up inside the cooker even at a high energy supply.
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Charles I is relevant again today – 370 years after his execution. Responding to the suggestion that Tory leadership hopeful Boris Johnson may be willing to prorogue (suspend) parliament in order to force through a no-deal Brexit, former UK prime minister John Major recently evoked the spectre of the 17th-century monarch, ominously remarking that such a move “didn’t end well” for Charles I in the 1640s.
And Major isn’t alone. Others have taken to Twitter, warning that “Boris should remember what happened to #CharlesI”. Campaigner Gina Miller is also launching a legal campaign to prevent Johnson from proroguing parliament.
But what exactly is it that Johnson should be remembering? And what should we make of the reappearance of a 17th-century king, who played fast and loose with parliament and lost his head to the executioner’s axe, in 21st-century politics?
In early modern England, monarchs weren’t obliged to call a parliament, but they did need parliamentary approval to levy new taxes, and this often proved to be a powerful incentive to do so. In 1628, following a pretty disastrous series of overseas military campaigns, Charles summoned parliament in the hope of raising money for further military action. Parliament, however, was in no mood to give the king something for nothing.
Two years earlier, Charles had attempted to implement the so-called “forced loan” – a tax by another name for which he had not sought parliament’s consent. And so when he wanted more money in 1628, parliament attempted to preserve its authority by pressuring Charles into accepting the Petition of Right, a document which laid out certain constraints on the king’s powers, including a ban on levying non-parliamentary taxation. Charles conceded just enough for parliament to grant him the money – and then he prorogued it, suspending its sitting.
When parliament met again the following year, proceedings were scarcely more amicable. When Charles ordered MPs to take a break for a week, they refused. Two members held the speaker in his chair, another locked the door, and they refused to leave until they had voted on their own adjournment. Exasperated, Charles dissolved parliament altogether.
From the spring of 1629 until the spring of 1640, Charles ruled without a parliament. This was unusual, but it wasn’t illegal. What was more questionable were some of the measures Charles was forced to enact to sustain this state of affairs.
“Ship money”, for example, was one of the few taxes a monarch could legitimately levy without the approval of parliament. It was usually paid by coastal communities to fund naval defences in times of threat.
Charles, however, demanded payment from inland as well as coastal areas every year, even during peacetime. This caused discontent, but it wasn’t as unpopular as some of his religious policies, such as the imposition of a new prayer book, which eventually provoked a war with his Scottish subjects, who objected to the king’s attempts to impose an unpopular form of worship on them.
‘Some fewe cunning and ill affected men’
With Scottish armies at the border, in February 1640 Charles was once again forced to summon a parliament. In the 11 years since its last sitting, grievances had been growing and this time Charles dissolved the body after only three weeks. In his closing speech, Charles blamed the dissolution on “some fewe cunning and ill affected men” in the Commons who were plotting against him.
When a new parliament was called in the autumn of 1640, one of its chief concerns was how to ensure that it could not be as casually dismissed as its predecessors. One solution was the Triennial Act, which required that parliament meet for at least a 50-day session once every three years.
His back against the wall, Charles was forced to accept. He also accepted other concessions, including the outlawing of ship money. Even so, the trust between king and parliament was gone, and in 1642 the ongoing political, religious and constitutional disputes exploded into armed conflict. The civil wars that followed lasted for nearly a decade and culminated in the king’s execution for treason on January 30, 1649.
While Charles did prorogue the 1628 parliament, in 1640 he favoured complete dissolution, a move which, in the 21st century, would provoke a general election. Yet the memory of the 1630s and 40s as a time when a tyrannical ruler rode roughshod over parliament, split the country, and triggered civil war clearly lives on.
This, in itself, is nothing new. These events have cast a long shadow over politics down the centuries, and even across continents. From 1681, Charles II – who was restored to the throne after a period when the country was a republic – ruled without a parliament.
For his opponents, this was a state of affairs comparable to the days of Charles I, a parallel that emphasised the dangerous consequences of a king who tried to govern without a legislature. For his defenders, by contrast, one of the main lessons to be learned from this period were the dangers posed by overly zealous politicians, who had forced a rupture between the king and his country, and, ultimately, a civil war.
Nearly a century later, during the American campaign for independence, the imposition of a stamp tax on Americans without their consent was likened to Charles I’s ship money, a shorthand for a despotic and illegal imposition of taxation. Meanwhile, in the early 19th century, the Hampden Clubs, meetings of radicals who sought political and social reform, took their name from John Hampden, the 17th-century MP famous for his opposition to ship money.
Fast forward to Major’s evocation of the civil war era. It might best be read as a warning about the dangers of political chaos and constitutional crisis. The uncanny timeliness of BBC4’s new mini-series on the fall of Charles I, which aired recently, also reminds us that England’s most remarkable period of political turmoil continues to stalk the popular imagination.
So, Charles I may be back in the headlines – but perhaps the bigger question is whether he ever really went away.
15 July 2019
Dr Imogen Peck is an historian of early modern Britain, with particular research interests in memory, the experience of civil war and post-conflict societies, and social and cultural history.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.
Read the original article.
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Yesterday in Watchtower Documents there was published "Flawed Decrees Conceal Criminals. Barbara Anderson examined the RNWT revision of Lev.5:1 and revealed the WTB&TS to be deceptive as to applying it to congregation members being required to "tattle" on their brothers to expose sin. She shows that is just not so as Lev.5:1 has nothing to do with tattling. You folks ought to read it. It is very, very powerful when combined with the "Faulty Decree" of the "two witness" rule Deut.22:25-27
Enclosed is a letter to the South Redding Calif. Congregation as they made this subject possible back in 1991. I don't expect you to understand it, as you would of had to understand my obsession with Lev.5:1 in all my posts on this site. But with the murders of the four missionaries from Redding by the drug lord "El Chapo" the letter should stir up a lot energy in Redding.
South Redding Calif. JW Church Elders
Bob O’Dell ; The governing Body just got spanked by a little old lady! You actually know of her, Barbara Anderson the person behind the 2002 “Date Line” news story on pedophiles. As she was the one who made public the WTB&TS pedophile files of 20,000 molesters, of which those files are now subject to law suites in San Diego and Montana, to be made public. On her web site “Watchtower Documents. Org she posted “Flawed Decrees Conceal Criminals” which is a revealing of the RNWT 2013 revision of Lev.5:1 as to what is ‘true’ and church policy of informants.
When the RNWT was released in Oct. 2013 I first sent the explanation of Lev.5:1 according to Wt. 1987 article “A Time to Speak When” about my aunt Sharon to the web site JW Survey to be included in Lloyd Evans article on the “Silver Sword” it went about two pay grades right over his head. About Dec 2013 I sent it to Barbara Anderson and it has taken 4 & a half years to be finally be published. That has been a long 4 1/2 years of looking at the computer 3 or 4 times a day waiting for her to get the project done. BUT the timing has taken on a huge importance as to how it reveals energy moving in the back ground. Barbara has exposed that the WTB&TS policy on Gestapo style informants to be an “apostate” policy, a “Flawed Decree”. Of what is of major importance was WHEN she released the research project!!! The ARC used Deut. 22: 25-27 to prove that the WTB&TS “two witness” policy on molestation’s was pure BS. Evidently last week the church had to send either a Governing body member or rep. to the Netherlands to answer a summons before Parliament or Reps. as to WTB&TS failing to protect the children of Holland. The church is to be brought before Parliament in Great Britain, Belgium, perhaps Finland, they got problems in Spain and Portugal. They got kicked out of Russia not for religious reason but for money reasons, as they changed Russian ownership of Russian church assets and put ownership into US ownership, thus making a legal entity to take money out of Russia from the sale of assets and transfer to USA in violation of Russian law.
For Barbara to release Lev.5:1 at this point in time is huge! And for the WTB&TS to of cloaked the 2013 revision of Lev.5:1 in silence turns out to bite them in the ass at the worst possible time. A time when they can ill afford to have attention focused on Deut22:25-27, as being “Flawed Decree”!
And you are the person who made all of this possible by your refusing to forward two letters of criminal investigation pertaining to Shasta County Superior Court case #109555 a $4.250,000 unregistered securities swindle Ray Dale perpetrated on Redding to the WTB&TS Service Dept. for the reason you were terrified of “wolves” Acts 20: 28-30, in 1991.
Timing, energy flow amazing subjects as to when things hidden come to light and bite the one doing the hiding right in the ass. With the rape and murders of Dennis and Rose Carlson and the Mascarenas’s there is going to be a lot of attention surrounding JW’s in the Redding area as the “El Chapo” trial proceeds. But that wasn’t the only gun action in Mexico dealing with JW’s was it Bob. Your step son Larry had a gun shoved down his throat being given a choice of either buying out Johnny Del Rio or being murdered and planted in the Mexican desert. He came back from Mexico with a sever case of post traumatic stress syndrome but tried to deceive the true source by claiming it was a childhood memory. Evidently no real foul, as from what I understand Larry deserved everything he got for his greedy business dealings, just the chickens coming home to roost. But yet the church Service Dept has kept that quite. So one JW family can have their Mexican branch of the family murder a crooked elder in another JW family, no real problem. But for me to protest the church selling the Word of God to Ray Dale by means of “simony” and “bribe taking” Isa 1:23 they declare all war on me destroy my family and destroy the mental health of my son.
You got removed from being the PO and a Louisiana inbreed idiot was put in your place as a way for the church to show their displeasure of your part of hiding Larry’s close encounter with a gun barrel. And you realize that when I write those letters to the homes of the publishers what I am really doing is fucking with the Service Dept mind, its a mental chess game. I got Steve D. removed for his indiscretion. I got George Wells removed from being the PO and Dennis’s brother David put in his place for his greed of taking $6,000 City of Redding relocation money, then moving out a black single parent and taking over her cheap rental. Can you imagine what the black women activists of “Black lives matter” and “#me too” would do to the church if they got wind of Georges greed? Ever since Connie left I have written hundreds of letters, some times 2 or 3 a week and every one the intended recipient was the Service Dept not the local publishers. The local publishers ‘grape vine’ was used to spread the info and and create a audience to witness my shutting down the cowardly hearts of Redding elders who either deceived the Service Dept OR in violation of Lev.5:1 as explained in 1987 Wt. “A Time to Speak When?” refused the call to testify to the Service Dept two letters of criminal investigation as to Ray Dale defrauding widows.
Realize that this letter is not necessarily for just internal church consumption. I burned a friendship with a Superior Court judge in Tehama County writing him a letter centered around the JW shunning policy violating the “Universal Code of Basic Human Rights. And I did know I was treading on dangerous ground as judges are prohibited from involving themselves in such matters. About 6 weeks ago I wrote a letter to Shasta County Mental Health which included the Wt. 1987 article “A TIme to Speak When?” and the LA Times Jim Dart article, as my issue was that church shunning violated civil rights. I got a one sentence reply from the DA’s office stating the matter was a civil matter. In both instances they well realize churchs do wicked things of which the courts stay out of. But those same people close presence to a father beating a church at its own mental game that can make things happen. The judge goes to Grace Baptist on Churn Creek, I met the Pastor Franklin, connections can be made.
The WTB&TS has a real problem with the Brenda Becker case #149893 as they with malice had Joe Moore and appeals any committee keep that a secret. They have another problem when they lied stating Lauderdale recanted his letter, which resulted in a forensic audit. That is not the kind of stuff any church would want anywhere close to a Superior Court judge.
The WTB&TS really doesn’t like Barbara Anderson! Now for her to be the one to reveal the truth surrounding the RNWT revision of Lev.5:1, somebody is going to pay! And you are the one responsible for this scandal because of you coward icy of challenging Ray Dale’s position of prominence. All you would of had to do was put those two letters of criminal investigation into a envelope and mail them to the Service Dept. Thus allowing Merton Campbell the opportunity to realized that he was deceived when he had Ray Dale investigate Ray Dale.
The WTB&TS is not a nice organization, they are not a principled organization, they are crooks. They are stealing your money! Why do you think they are hammering away at the absolute obedience to organization mantra? They are removing as much money as possible out of its adherents. They separated the adherents from the WTB&TS by creating the “Christian Congregation of Jehovah Witnesses” corp. so as to create a separate legal entity thus shielding the WTB&TS from legal liability from actions of elders and to separate bank accounts. The CCJW bank account does not have any money in it and never will as it is siphoned off into the “world wide work” bank account. The church took in over two billion dollars [one billion from Jared Kurshner, Trump’s son in law] from sale of Brooklyn assets, yet that money is missing. It is an impossibility for them to of had that much indebtedness or to of spent two billion dollars. Where did it go? To Argentina! Google Lorenz Reibling You Tube clip in Argentina. Amazing two billion goes missing in Brooklyn but a WTB&TS front man is offering multiple, multi million dollar funding for commercial development in Argentina. The church took over the congregation bank accounts. They restructured Kingdom Hall ownership dedicating all of them to Jehovah aka the WTB&TS. Now they are consolidating congregations into the least desirable KH’s in the community and selling off the higher valued KH’s. They are canceling assembly hall construction and confiscating the bank accounts. They are charging exorbitant rents on Yuba City Hall usage. They are continually harping on the handing over money for the “world wide work”. They are ripping off their own people as they know full well they can’t keep the Armageddon just around the corner BS going for ever. Their molestation judgments are just starting.
The WTB&TS are NOT “faithful and discrete” they ARE “wicked and evil” as shown by their policies that injure innocent people. They are a “snare and a racket”! But C. Arrasmith deceived them and you refused to warn Merton Campbell that Arrasmith deceived them! They are in a very precarious position mainly because of the Brenda Becker case #149893. Are they going to try and handle it or is it going to handle them? Either way you and every South Redding elder that I assembled in the library in 1991
Is going to be held accountable for not forwarding two letters of criminal investigation per Wt.1987 article Lev.5:1 commentary.
A lot of things are coming together all at the same time, resulting in a lot of energy. Me personally I would say Holy Spirit was in the background pulling the strings. But no one listens to me, I am just a fucking apostate. I use foul and uncouth language, challenge church authority, fuck with peoples minds. But Solomon said you have to watch out for people who think outside of the box Eccl.9:13-16. If you knew your Bible you can find Ray Dale, Merton Campbell, Governingthe WTB&TS all mentioned between Eccl.9: 17 and 10: 7 but you have to be pretty sharp. Check with Chris Broom he tried to share those verses with me but I all ready was well aware of what they meant and who they applied to. Yes I think you have a problem with the Holy Spirit. A cowardice problem.
Sleep tight Rabshakeh
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In the post below, AFWife_Niki mentioned that she went into two NY&C stores and the sales clerks were unaware of the 15% military discount.
New York & Company is one of my absolute favorite stores. Anytime I go into a mall with an NY&Co, it's usually my first stop. Well after reading the post you wrote about the store last year, I went to two NY&Co's back home in NJ and asked if they had a military discount. Both times the cashiers looked at me like I was crazy and asked what that was. I guess only NY&Co's near military installations offer discounts. It makes me sad but I'll still shop there! There isn't a NY&Co near my base though.
This probably happens all the time given turnover of employees and other factors. My advice to Niki was to press them on it if you know it's a stated, nationwide policy which, in this case, it is.
But, there's something else you can do. Go armed with a coupon.
More coupons here. Bookmark the link and scan it before you go shopping. You never know what you might find.
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Emergency warnings have been issued for two fires, one burning in the area around Tickner Road at Castlereagh, the other is a grassfire at Richmond Road at Hawkesbury.
The Castlereagh fire is burning under strong northerly winds and is burning towards properties on Devlin Road. There is a threat to properties.
The fire is burning towards Nutt Road.
Authorities say if your plan is to leave and it is safe to do so, go to the oval on Castle Street at Castlereagh.
Stay up to date on this fire with information from the Rural Fire Service here.
The Hawkesbury fire is burning in the area of Bennett Road at Windsor. The fire is burning under strong northerly winds.
There is the potential for the fire to impact on properties around George Street and the area of Bligh Park.
The fire has crossed Garfield Road and is now burning in the Windsor Downs Nature Reserve.
Residents here should seek shelter as the fire impacts and protect yourself from the heat of the fire.
The RFS says there has been community information telling people to go to the Penrith Whitewater Stadium. Do not travel in this direction, as there is fire in the area.
Seek shelter as the fire impacts and avoid driving in smokey conditions.
“They’re burning in similar conditions, but dangerous conditions,” Rural Fire Service spokeswoman Laura Ryan said.
“We need the people in the areas to help us help them by taking action now.”
Conditions may be changing, so residents should continue to monitor the situation and follow your Bush Fire Survival Plan.
Firefighters are working to contain the fire and protect properties, and residents should follow the advice of firefighters.
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Source: ABC News
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A couple of weeks ago, they released a new 'hard-hitting' video to tackle binge-drinking.
Because, you see, Rankin is awfully concerned about the problem, so he is.
Jameson, the world’s best selling Irish whiskey, is delighted to announce details of a new advertising campaign which will go live from 4 September, and will be supported with a fully integrated marketing spend, of €5 million. The “It’s a Jameson Thing” campaign is a series of portraits shot by internationally renowned portrait photographer and film director Rankin.And the 'not-associated-with-binge-drinking-at-all-really' target?
The new campaign targets 25 to 34-year-old men by “reinforcing Jameson's credentials as a premium and contemporary spirit, while also supporting its leading position in the UK”.Such a split in Rankin's loyalties doesn't come as much of a surprise though. You see, the guy has form.
His last collaboration with NHS Birmingham was a gore-fest of an anti-smoking video, so hideous in its portrayal of a smoker being brutally beaten senseless, that it has been flagged 'inappropriate' by YouTube for anyone under 18.
However, as I mentioned in September, Rankin doesn't find anything too violent in tobacco when he is pallying up to showbiz stars. If anything, one would assume he considers smoking rather photogenic.
Rankin's anti-drink offering merely backs up my previous conclusions about his odd flip-flopping (if he is giving his services for free), or the wasteful nature of the NHS (if he's not).
Either the NHS are spunking a hell of a lot of money, which could be better directed towards front line services, on this disgusting advert. Or Rankin is a quite egregious hypocrite.If I were a bookie, this new evidence would persuade me to make the former the favourite.
Or maybe both.
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That’s my post title, I hasten to add.
Not Mark Steyn’s… (This is a classic, so read the whole thing:)
Do you remember Van Jones? He was Obama’s “green jobs” czar back before “green jobs” had been exposed as a gazillion-dollar sinkhole for sluicing taxpayer monies to the president’s corporate cronies. Oh, don’t worry. These cronies aren’t “corporate” in the sense of Steve Jobs. The corporations they run put “people before profits”: That’s to say, they’ve figured out it’s easier to take government money from you people than create a business that makes a profit.
In an amusing inversion of the Russian model, Van Jones became a czar after he’d been a Communist.
He became a Commie in the mid-Nineties – i.e., after even the Soviet Union had given up on it. Needless to say, a man who never saw a cobwebbed collectivist nostrum he didn’t like no matter how long past its sell-by date is hot for “Occupy Wall Street.” Indeed, Van Jones thinks that the protests are the start of an “American Autumn.”
In case you don’t get it, that’s the American version of the “Arab Spring.” Steve Jobs might have advised Van Jones he has a branding problem. Spring is the season of new life, young buds and so forth. Autumn is leaves turning brown and fluttering to the ground in a big dead heap.
Even in my great state of New Hampshire, where autumn is pretty darn impressive, we understand what that blaze of red and orange leaves means: They burn brightest before they fall and die, and the world turns chill and bare and hard.
So Van Jones may be on to something! American Autumn. The days dwindle down to a precious few, like in whatever that old book was called, “The Summer And Fall Of The Roman Empire.”
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New Zealand Medical Technology Strength on show at the 2011 Formosan Medical Association Conference
Press release [Thursday 10 November 2011]
The complementary nature of the New Zealand and Taiwan economies is on show this week in an area that may surprise many - namely, Medical Technology. Medical Technology is a sector being promoted by Taiwan's Government but for those outside the medical sector it is probably not widely recognized that this is an area where New Zealand already has some strength and the three New Zealand companies participating in the Formosan Medical Show this year are evidence.
One of the participating New Zealand companies Fisher and Paykel Healthcare has been designing and manufacturing respiratory care, acute care and obstructive sleep apnea products since 1971. Fisher and Paykel has a range of products that includes the respiratory and temperature controlled units used on premature infants in intensive care units. They are recognised as world leaders in their space and are listed on both the New Zealand and Australian Stock Exchanges employing 2,400 people and with revenues approaching half a billion dollars.
Also participating are Dynamic Control's, a maker of drive control systems for mobility scooters and electric wheelchairs with approximately 50% global market share, and Precept Health, a company that specialises in taking patient physiological data measured by a range of other medical devices and then integrating this information into comprehensive Electronic Medical Records.
Further testifying to New Zealand's surprising depth of capability in the medical sector; New Zealand company Orion Health acquired Amalga, the Hospital Information Assets of Microsoft in Asia Pacific in October 2011.
New Zealand Trade Development Centre Director Liam Corkery commented that "New Zealand and Taiwan recently announced their intention to explore the feasibility of negotiating an Economic Co-operation Agreement. In doing so, New Zealand stressed the complementary nature of the New Zealand and Taiwanese economies. The three New Zealand companies participating in the Formosan Medical Show this year demonstrate both the depth of New Zealand capability in the medical sector and the potential synergy between the economies of New Zealand and Taiwan. For example, Dynamic Control's drive systems are designed and developed in partnership with the Taiwanese electric wheelchair manufacturers that integrate them into their products and who in turn are also world leaders. As more and more Taiwanese companies explore NZ, and more and more New Zealand companies explore Taiwan, I'm confident that we'll see more and more partnerships."
For enquiries, please contact:
New Zealand Trade Development Centre
Tel: +886 2 2757 6721
The New Zealand health technology industry leads the world to the next era.
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The Recreation Vehicle Industry Association commissioned an Economic Impact Study on the RV industry, released on June 7, 2016. The study found that the RV industry contributes about $49.7 billion in economic output or 0.28 percent of the Gross Domestic Product. Through its production and distribution linkages, the industry impacts firms in 426 of the 440 sectors of the United States economy.
Nationwide, the industry is responsible for 216,170 jobs, both directly and inderectly, creating an economic impact of $37.5 billion. The full study results, along with each individual state and congressional district's economic impact is available on the website by clicking here .
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The Winegard ConnecT 4G1 WiFi Extender + 4G LTE RV internet system was recently awarded second place Product of the Year at the annual Recreational Vehicle Aftermarket Association Executive Conference held Aug. 15-17 in San Diego, California.
RVAA judges all products based on the following criteria: innovation, functionality, value, quality, technology and overall impression. The panel consists of select RV industry professionals and distributors.
"Winegard strives to be on the cutting edge with its product offerings and the Winegard ConnecT is no different," Winegard Director of Sales and Marketing Keith Larson says. “We are pleased that RVAA recognized not only the quality and performance of the ConnecT, but also the value Winegard provides RV users by keeping them connected."
Designed specifically for the mobile environment, Winegard ConnecT 4G1 is a long-range, high-performance WiFi extender that increases the range of existing WiFi hotspots. When WiFi is not available, the ConnecT 4G1 utilizes high-gain 4G LTE antennas to connect to a nationwide data network and provide connectivity in areas where cell coverage may be weak or not available (monthly fee applies).
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|Route for the day: 50+ miles over the last two climbs of the Tour route..|
Principal difficulties: The Col de la Forclaz and the Col de Croix Fry.
iPod inspirational and appropriate song of the day: David Bowie, "Dead Man Walking"
Want to torture a cyclist? Wait until they've gone on a particularly grueling ride, and then serve them a truly French meal. There seems to be something inherently incompatible with
the customs and culture of French dining and the needs of cyclists. The French restaurants that we've eaten at have all had wonderful food, even for a vegetarian like me. That's not the
problem. The problem comes from how long the meals take and the portions they bring you.
You should have seen the looks on the faces of guys like Rusty, Ray, and Ben
- all big fellas
who ride their butts off - when they were presented with tiny, pretty little pieces of food at twenty- to thirty-minute intervals for a few hours. After our tortuous ride to nowhere up the
climb that never ended, we arrived at an amazing hotel with a wonderful chef who served us the meal that never ended. I think only about six of us made it through dessert without having to
go to bed. The next morning the guides had to contend with a hungry and surly crew of cyclists who'd just about had it with the nice food and eating habits of the French. We wanted pizza,
McDonalds, or a pile of pasta at the end of the day, and we wanted it fast.
Well, after our sojourn to the Alpe d'Huez, we arrived at the next hotel very late (just as the restaurant was preparing to shut down). Those of us who came down immediately for dinner
didn't know that our guides had called ahead to have an appropriate meal ready for us when we got there. It was sitting in the kitchen, and our waiters were just waiting until the entire party
arrived to dump a large plate of pasta, green beans, and beef in front of us.
As we sat there, Rusty and Ray and a couple of the others saw that there was a large buffet out in the middle of the
restaurant. To make a long story short, the French probably haven't seen a sacking like the one we laid on that buffet since the Vikings invaded over a thousand years ago. The wait staff was
aghast, but we ignored them (one said "Bar, not for you!" and someone grumbled back "Yeah, whatever buddy.") We were tired of being slowly starved by French restaurants, so as the staff
hurriedly tried to pull the platters and bowls of food off the bar, we kept racing up to take more before it was gone. As it turned out, the food we got from the bar and the meal they finally
served us was just about perfect, filling us up fast and getting us to bed happy for once. They stuck a six euro charge onto our bills for that one, but nobody cared: it was well worth it.
I was already feeling sick, and the next morning my head cold had really taken the wind out of my sails. Instead of going on the group ride, I decided to tag along with the group of
non-riders who were there to relax, take in the sights, and see the Tour. After hanging out near an Alpine lake, Danielle, Gail, John and I walked up the Forclaz a few kilometers to the steep
section (after the first hairpin and up a few hundred meters). The sun was baking again, with the temperatures well into the nineties and high humidity to top it off. The pavement was
absolutely baking. Walking up that climb, I was grateful I hadn't let my testosterone drag me into trying to ride up that thing. Sick as I was, it was all I could do to plop down for the next
three hours and wait for the Tour to roll by.
The fans wait for the riders to reach the Forclaz. Photo ©
The spectacle is really difficult to describe. We were sitting amidst people from all over the world in various costumes and states of undress. A big part of what was so enjoyable was
everyone's enthusiasm for cycling. Old women, young children, middle-aged men, Belgians, Frenchmen, Germans, Norwegians, Danes, Yankees, all talking in a mixture of languages about
who was going well, what riders would likely attack, and when the race got closer, sharing information about what was going on down the road.
The first to come by were Virenque,
Simoni, Moreau, and Aldag on their long breakaway. They were wincing with pain, sweat pouring off of them as they slogged up the 10% gradient we were sitting on. They also had that
look of defeat in their eyes, as their gap had fallen from 8' to 3'. The next guy on the road was Iker Flores, the brother of our guide Igor Flores, so we went particular crazy, shouting "Venga!
Venga! Venga Iker!"
The peloton came by with US Postal clearly in charge, but everyone looked to be feeling the pain. And nobody spit on or cursed the Postal
guys - and if they had,
they'd have been in big trouble, as there was a pack of about thirty Texans with the Lone Star flag, a Univeristy of Texas Longhorns flag, LiveStrong bracelets, various pro-Lance kits, etc. If
anyone would have messed with a Postal rider on that climb, they'd have probably ended up bleeding in a ditch somewhere. There were two big groups after that, one led by Erik Zabel and
the other led by McEwen. It was obvious that this was a big day in the race, and the pack how blown to bits, and there were still 1.5 climbs left to go.
McEwen leads a grupetto by us on the Forclaz. Photo © Patrick
We thought that the race was over after the McEwen group rolled past, but no: there were still several men struggling up in little groups, just trying to survive the day. These were the
guys I really identified with: they were clearly in over their heads on these climbs, but they weren't going to give up. They were still grinding away, laboring painfully upwards to try to beat
the cutoff time.
Erik Dekker got a nice long push from David Hasselhof's body double, and as other men came by they got the loudest cheers (and most pushes) of the day. Sure, we were all
stoked to see Armstrong in Yellow, but there was something profoundly moving about these men at the back of the race. They made the Tour seem somehow more attainable, more
possible, and therefore, more believable. As we walked back towards the car with an evening of pizza and ice cream ahead of us, we were all in a happy daze. We'd seen the Tour at its most
beautiful and its most painful, and there was still more to come.
Erik Dekker (Rabobank) gets a good push from David Hasselhof's long lost twin.
Photo © Patrick Sharp.
Locutus has joined longtime Daily Peloton sponsor
Yellow Jersey Tours for
one of its Tour de France cycling tours. YJT is owned by Cofidis rider and Daily
Peloton favorite Bingen Fernandez Bustinza. Locutus is filing reports of his
experiences with Yellow Jersey Tours this week at Le Tour.
Jersey Tours Diary: Day 4 - Alpe d'Huez
Tours Diary: Stage 15
Tours Journal: The Rest Day
Tours Journal: Day 1 - Montpellier to Nimes
Tours Diary: Preview #2
Tours Diary: Preview #1
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"Sunshine Health in Jupiter, Fl, Palm Beach FL"
"VSP ( Vision Service Plan) Jupiter and Palm Beach Florida"
Advanced Vision Care of Hollywood / Fort Lauderdale, FL is a proud provider of Ambetter Health Insurance. Advanced Vision Care of Hollywood / Fort Lauderdale strives to accommodate their patients by accepting Ambetter Health as well as many other insurance plans throughout South Florida. The Hollywood / Fort Lauderdale office is currently accepting new patients to help with all vision and optical needs for those residing in Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, Dania, Pembroke Pines and surrounding areas. Our Ambetter eye doctors / Optometrists provide state of the art eye care with the latest in optical and medical technology for the entire family, including children and infants.
Advanced Vision Care of Hollywood / Fort Lauderdale consists of a friendly team of Board Certified Optometric Physicians/Optometrists and well-trained, personable staff that are bilingual for the convenience of all of our patients. We have six offices throughout South Florida to best serve the area– Kendall, Hialeah, Hollywood /Dania / Fort Lauderdale, Lauderdale Lakes, Tamarac and Jupiter. We accept Ambetter Health Insurance as well as many other visual insurance plans. Advanced Vision Care of Hollywood / Fort Lauderdale offers full optical care and the latest in contact lenses and eyewear fashions for adults, children and infants.
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Raphael “Trappy” Pirker is the founder and front man of Team Black Sheep, a group of hobbyist drone pilots who have gained global renown, and infamy, for their aerial videos of landscapes and cityscapes from Rio de Janeiro to New Zealand. Trappy first came into the public spotlight when he flew a fixed-wing drone over Lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty and then posted the video on Youtube. The stunt drew widespread outrage; it also made Trappy a celebrity. ABC, an Australian television network, described Trappy and his team as “aerial anarchists.” Trappy again made headlines this year when he announced that the FAA had levied $10,000 of fines against him for flying a drone over the campus of the University of Virginia “in a careless and reckless manner.” Trappy is challenging the fines; if his challenge is successful, the precedent will undermine the FAA’s claim that it has the authority to regulate the use of hobby drones. Everyone is watching.
Arthur Holland Michel spent two days hanging out near or with Trappy, whose background remains largely mysterious to us, at the Drones and Aerial Robotics Conference in New York. After lunch on the second day, Arthur sat down with Trappy and turned on his voice recorder.
Center for the Study of the Drone What’s the background? How did you get into flying drones?
Raphael “Trappy” Pirker We started doing this as a hobby, and just pushed the limits and pushed the envelope of what was possible. We improved technology, and through that we opened up new possibilities of doing stuff with drones. The background has always been in aviation. All of our team members either want to be pilots or are pilots. So it’s more of a flying thing than a technology thing, and we’re using the technology as a means of achieving our dreams.
Drone Do you have a specific technical background?
Trappy I don’t have any technical background.
Drone So this developed as a hobby?
Trappy It developed as a hobby and I learned quickly.
Drone When did you start making videos?
Trappy In 2008…
A woman approaches, asks if we want to to do the interview somewhere else.
TrappyTo the woman] We are fine where we are.
Drone And when did you have the idea that you could actually publish the videos?
Trappy I never really intended to make videos that were going to be as popular as they are today. It was more meant to show people my town—and this is like a 3,000 person village—how the town looked from up above. We live in a very beautiful place, a tourist place in St. Antoine, in Austria, but we always only see stuff from the ground. We go up the mountain and we look down, but there’s never really a mid-valley shot into the valley. This was what I was mainly interested in.
Drone Do you think there is an educational value for the general public in watching your content?
Trappy Well, the content is actually made to inspire viewers to get into the hobby. And the hobby is a tremendous educational experience. It’s not just about technology—it’s about law, it’s about social issues. I’ve been confronted with so many disciplines while performing this hobby. There is no other hobby like it.
Drone What sort of disciplines does a person need to be aware of if they’re trying to get into this?
Trappy Well, they should have at least a basic knowledge of electronics, like plus is red and minus is black. Nothing too deep: voltages, amps and stuff like this. If you want to fly out further you need some basic RF [radio frequency] knowledge. Frequencies, attenuation, decibels, and what all that means. You need to be not gifted with handicrafts, but you should be able to solder and screw stuff together so that it doesn’t fall apart in the air.
Drone When we look at these videos, they’re very interesting, they’re very aesthetically pleasing. I think you recognize that in putting them together. Do you see a line between the value of having a hobby and the ideal of creating something that actually achieves the condition of art?
Trappy Yes, of course there is a line. We have one guy that just makes the video. For him it’s about the art. For him it’s predominantly about producing videos that other people would enjoy watching. We just deliver the footage, and he makes pieces of art on his own. For us it’s mainly about flying.
Drone So, for you, is it more about the actual experience of flying, the thrill in the moment, rather than actually seeing the videos afterward?
Trappy By watching the videos you’re re-playing the moment. So you re-live all these emotions—for example, today we actually hovered with a quadcopter over the statue of liberty, and immediately when we got back we watched the HD video, and immediately we were transported back into that moment. I was there, you know. I think that with the HD video this has become more of a permanent feeling, because before we couldn’t record any of the footage in that quality. Before, it was just like “oh yeah it was a cool flight.” But now I get to watch the flights, and all the memories come back.
Drone Would you call yourself an artist?
Trappy Um, maybe an activist.
Drone What is the reason for that distinction?
Trappy Well, we try to demonstrate that the current law [governing drone use] is not really helping anybody. We do that not in a “let’s sit down and talk about this” way, but we show a world where if the law were better; we show what could be done.
Drone Let’s go back to the the idea of promoting this as a hobby. In the past, you have talked about how this hobby can be dangerous, and how there can be legal risks, as you well know.
Trappy I’m the first one, though, in the United States, so the legal side is not really a huge issue for regular people.
Drone Would you ideally like to see drone flying become as prolific as other hobbies that young people have? Would you want to see people doing it all the time, and everywhere?
Trappy Five or six years ago, when we started, there were maybe 1000 people worldwide practicing this hobby, and now there are 1,000 people just in the state where I live. This is exploding worldwide—it already is a more or less common hobby, probably not as much as for example like biking, or rock climbing or stuff like that, but it will get more popular over time.
Drone Can you describe what it is about flight that thrills you?
Trappy No, it’s very difficult to describe. My theory is that it’s because we can’t do it. You know, flying is what we dream about. We can swim and we can walk, but we can’t fly. That kind of makes it something special.
Drone What’s next? Are you going to keep trying to push it further and harder?
Trappy We’re already facing a lawsuit, so pushing it further would probably not be very smart. But I’m just in the moment wherever I am, just having fun. I don’t mean to push or upset people. I don’t get a kick out of that. We are just going to make more videos in more locations,. We’re going to see new places with new people, and hopefully have fun.
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Good morning to you! I wanted to let you know some ways that I did experience my healing through love. These are 5 ways that worked for me. 1. Finding a way to love yourself. 2. Finding your path to God 3. Forgiving and accepting your mistakes (you’re only human) 4. Be open to not judging anyone, you do not know everyone’s story. And If you have lost that feeling of love as I did it is ok. That brings me to 5. Choose to learn, accept, and be open to love again!
What I mean by number 5 is allowing love in when someone shares it and there is a lot of things to read on love. Just be open to love and I know that is hard cause we do not want to be hurt anymore. But staying closed to love makes our hearts hard. We need love in this life. I hope this helps in any way at all. These are some things that helped in my healing. Till next time friend
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Williams was 25 when he was gunned down in the lobby of the Montgomery Gardens housing complex in the early hours of March 30, 2008.
The accused shooters, cousins Chajuan Hemingway, 24, and Courtney Hemingway, 25, were acquitted of all charges on Tuesday.
"It was just sad he had to go like that," Destiny Williams, Michael's sister, said today, sitting amongst other family members in the living room of the family home on Union Street in Jersey City.
"He took a whole part of me when he went," said his sister. "I haven't been the same since," she added.
A graduate of Lincoln High School, Michael loved to spend time with his family, including his two children Michael Williams Jr., now 13, and Jade Williams, now 5, family members said.
They spoke of his love to laugh and make others laugh.
Growing up, Michael played in Lincoln Park Little League, alternating between shortstop and right field, and continued to coach in the league as he got older.
An avid music fan, Michael had deejayed since he was 13, performing under the name DJ Swiff. His father, Kevin Baskin, recalled that when Michael was a baby, he'd stand next to the speakers in the house and dance.
Michael's mother, Debra Williams, spoke of the times Michael would come into the house, pick her up and spin her around, saying "Ma, you're my favorite girl!
"(He was) a kind-hearted person," she added.
His girlfriend of three years, Patricia Jackson, got teary realizing she'd never hear his familiar greeting again. "Honey, I'm home!" he'd yell, even if it was after midnight, she said.
His family maintains Michael wasn't involved with life on the streets and was devoted to working hard and making a better life for not only his children, but all of his family.
"They took away a wonderful father," said one family member."He was not a gang member," Baskin said of his son, Michael. "There was no reason for this to happen."
The Hemingways, alleged members of the 52 Hoover Street Gangsta Crips, remain in custody with an open charge of gang criminality. Their attorneys declined to comment for this story.
The family said they realized during the trial that the cousins might be acquitted, but that didn't lessen the pain when the jury returned the verdicts.
"It felt like we lost him all over again," said Destiny.
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Vegeta, what does the scouter say about this Taiwanese CPBL baseball team’s theme nights power level? IT’S OVER 9000!
The Chinatrust Brothers have announced a major collaboration with the popular Japanese anime Dragon Ball Z for the their upcoming Anime theme nights on May 5-6th.
According to the Brothers’ press release, apart from many pre-game activities, the team will also wear the Dragon Ball Z themed uniform during the weekend event.
The Dragon Ball Z Uniform
Just like in the anime, the Brothers’ uniform will use orange as the primary colour along with navy blue highlight. The team’s name will also change from the “Brothers” to “BrotherZ” done in the same style as the Dragon Ball Z.
On the left chest, instead of having the Kanji “亀 (Turtle)”, it will now have the word “象 (Elephants)” which is the official mascot for the Chinatrust Brothers.
Chinatrust Brothers x Dragon Ball Z Merchandise
The Uni-Lions Unintentionally Did It in 2017
For a lot of CPBL fans, after seeing the Brothers’ Dragon Ball Z uniform, their first impression tend to be this uniform is a lot like the Uni-Lions’ 2017 spring training uniform.
And they are not wrong about this, as the Uni-Lions’ uniform also have the same colour scheme as the Dragon Ball Z uniform. I guess in a way, unintentionally, the Uni-Lions already did it.
The Anime and the Recent CPBL Hit-By-Pitch Incidents
There have been a lot of bad blood between the Chinatrust Brothers and the Fubon Guardians since the beginning of April, which lead to a lot of benches clearing incidents caused by tight pitches and hit-by-pitch.
Somehow there is a scene from the new Dragon Ball anime that perfectly depict this whole incidents between the Brothers and the Guardians.
This video is relevant with the announcement of the #CTBros' Dragon Ball Z theme nights and the recent hit-by-pitch incidents between the Chinatrust Brothers and Fubon Guardians. #CPBL https://t.co/K3ocOW9bta pic.twitter.com/tYlBa9Nvtp
— CPBL STATS (@GOCPBL) April 26, 2018
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Brian Boyle scores 100th career NHL goal, immediately starts fight, continues to dominate life
Even non-NHL fans know Brian Boyle's story by now. In September, the New Jersey Devils center announced that he had been diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia, an uncommon form of blood-cell cancer that begins in the bone marrow but is treatable by medication. In typical hockey player, badass fashion, Boyle was back on the ice on November 1. Eight days later, he scored his first goal as a Devil.
Not surprisingly, Boyle is still dominating life a month later, most recently on Friday night in New Jersey's game at home against the Dallas Stars. Late in the second period, Boyle was the beneficiary of a rebound in front of the net off of a slapshot from Devils defenseman Will Butcher. After finding the back of the net, Boyle took exception with a hit he took from Stars defenseman John Klingberg and tossed a hilarious chirp his way:
My expert mouth-reading senses are telling me that was a "Suck on that motherf---" from Boyle. What a boss, and on his 100th career NHL goal no less. Naturally, Klingberg and some of the Stars weren't thrilled, and the chirping spilled over to the bench area, leading to a scuffle. Here's the full video:
Too bad the ref had to pile drive him to the ice and rob us of what would have been a nice little donnybrook. The chaos led to 12 penalty minutes for Boyle, who added another goal late in the third period to give him a total of eight on the season.
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To celebrate our 1st Birthday, SquidHat records is looking for the next great Vegas band to add to our roster.
We'll be hosting a two night showcase show on January 25 and 26, 2013 and submissions are open NOW.
We have room for six bands, three each night, and each night will be headlined by a current SquidHat Records artist; The Dirty Panties or The Gashers.
How can you get your band on the bill? Simply visit our Facebook page, www.Facebook.com/SquidHatRecords, and post a link to your music along with a note telling us why you’d like to be a part of this historic showcase.
This is NOT a hokey “Battle of the Bands”. The SquidHat Records management team will review all submissions and select six bands to perform at the event. If you’re a great band, with great songs, you’ll definitely be considered. We will check out every band that posts on our page and announce our selections no later than January 1st,2013.
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? Submissions are open now so post your music at www.Facebook.com/SquidhatRecords and get in on it!
If you know of a great Vegas band get them to submit. Help spread the word!
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Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:10 AM
CHICAGO (AP) -- Kyrie Irving rested his sore right knee on Tuesday night, shelving the All-Star guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers' game against the Chicago Bulls. Irving hurt the knee in practice last week and was slowed by the injury during recent games at Orlando and Miami. He made just 6 of 16 shots in the loss to the Heat and did not have his usual explosiveness. "It bothered him the...
Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:50 PM
I'm on the bus when this Muthafucka that I don't fucks with asked me in front of everybody "am I the pitcher or the catcher referring to sex. Should I have fucked him up or did what I did and just removed myself from the situation.??? What do the fellow barbz think I should've did.
Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:36 PM
Let's go to the beach ,each Let's go get anyway They say, what they gonna say? Have a drink , click, found the bud light bad b-tches like me , is hard to come by The patron own , let's go get ii on The zone own , yes I'm in the zone Is it two , there? leave a good trip I'mma blow off my money and don't give too quick Im on the floor , floor I love to dance So...
Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:34 PM
Think Abuot life every fucking second, cause it´s short n´u don´t knows when it´s gonna stop...
Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:07 PM
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JUST GOT HERE AND LOVING EVRYTHNG ABOUT IT
Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 8:57 AM
Hi Barbs, I found Nicki's hot gold medallion necklace for only 36.00. . Check it out now @ NickiMinajCostumeBlogspot... . Grab it while you can barbs, I ordered mines two days ago, and it has already arrived.
Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:35 AM
Nicki Minaj hey I like you or that you perform the next song maje replace full name Sandra Godzik
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Originally Posted by Rbgnwo
duran is also the best lightweight of all time
duran had a legendary career even before he moved up and started fighting bigger men.
he's is the GOAT at LW.
manny cant make a claim to being a top 10 in any weight class
his best work was as a FW, where his physical gifts were most effective
but he was largely one handed and fought in straight lines and exchanges
manny is a top 20 fighter in my book because of his body of work all over the scales
his offense, which has been some of the best in the game for a decade now
and of course his rediculous resume and body of work
duran is in the top 10 and perhaps even the top five
robinson, armstrong, louis, greb, pep.... duran?
something like that sounds okay
robinson, armstrong, louis, greb, pep.... pacquiao?
doesnt have the same ring yet
go knock out sergio martinez and then we'll talk
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Shots fired, patrons panic at San Antonio theater
Scene outside Santikos Mayan Palace 14 theater complex in San Antonio, where shooting broke out Dec. 16, 2012 / KENS-TV/CBS
SAN ANTONIO Gunfire broke out at a San Antonio movie theater late Sunday, leaving two people wounded and sending panicked moviegoers rushing for the exits and ducking for cover, according to CBS San Antonio affiliate KENS, which cites police and witnesses.
Witnesses tell kens numerous shots were fired inside and outside the Santikos Mayan Palace 14 theater complex around 9:25 p.m., setting off the scramble to safety before police and EMS arrived. The complex was evacuated and sealed off for several hours.
Bexar Xounty Sheriff's spokesman Louis Antu says the incident started when the man fired shots inside a nearby restaurant "and carried on into the theater." It's not clear what led to the shooting.
Antu says the man headed toward the theater and shot a male in the lot. The age and condition of the victim wasn't immediately known, but Antu says his injuries did not appear life-threatening.
The gunman entered the theater, Antu says, where he fired a shot but did not hit anyone. An off-duty sheriff's deputy working security then shot the gunman.
At one point, the suspect also fired at a San Antonio Police Department patrol car, Antu said.
"He was shooting at a marked unit," Antu said. "He knows he was shooting at an officer, so that's (an) automatic (charge of) attempted capital murder."
The suspect was taken to a hospital but was not immediately charged.
KENS says the shooting immediately sparked fears of a mass slaying like the one in July that killed 12 people and injured 58 at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.
Cassandra Castillo waited anxiously outside the theater for her son, a projectionist at the theater.
"It brings back memories of the other theater shooting, and the elementary school shooting," she told the station. "You only think the worst."
Tara Grace, who was getting a drink from the concession stand when the shooting began, ran into the bathroom and locked herself in a stall with five other patrons to avoid the mayhem.
"We thought we were going to die," KENS quotes her as saying.
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- 7 Texans missing after tornadoes found safe; death toll remains at 6
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Compaq Presario 700US Keyboard "missing" keys (PN: 254114-001)
Short version: Some keys (Lower case), same and other keys (upper case) no longer work.
My question is this: When the notebook keyboad fails, will replacing the key board generally solve the problem?
Or is the problem possibly tied to ASCII decoder chip function (internal to motherboard)?
Historically, last year I spilled about 4 ounces of Red Wine into the "pass through" keyboard (passes through keyboard to internals). I managed to rinse out most of it after getting pointers to the IPB for the Presario. The only residual problem was a hesitant "space" bar key.
Recently, while entertaining a young grandchild, I managed to spill about 1/2 ounce of coffee (cream and sugar) into the keyboard. I whipped that baby apart, rinsed out the keyboard with distilled water. However, after everything dried out, I noticed new failures of keys, but in a pattern (or sorts).
The B and N keys (Uc & Lc) both fail. Also the "return" (cr) key. Also 3rd from left of the B "shift" C and 3rd from right of N, "Shift" <. Also the 2,3,4, and 5 key. Left Shift key is also non-functional. Most of the other keys work just fine.
The logic of this "pattern" may be simply mechanical or some hierarcy of 2 as defined in the ascii tables (or don't they use that conversion anymore?).
I noticed the keyboard cable connector only has tinned pins of the "etched" cable (not wires but flex circuit construction) and is held in place with a "sliding locking" connector.
I was unable, using the IPB that I have, to remove the "heat" or "RF" shield from under the keyboard, to investigate the possibility of the coffee having found itself a home in any of the chips on the MB.
Logic tells me only the Keyboard should be at fault. Life experiences with computers tells me "maybe" it's just the keyboard. At the time of the coffee spill, I immediately powered down, removed the charging cord and the battery.
The Laptop is about 5 years old Intel <whatever>, 850 MHz on AC, 400 mhz on Battery power, 20 G by HDD, RO CD / DVD I found that one companys ia asking $59.00 for a new Keyboard versus $300 for an equivalent new laptop.
My first desire is to repair
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About the project: HONDA FMX 650 by Toma customs
When we start a project HONDA FMX 650, we first want to hear about the clients’ wishes and transformation ideas. It is a great opportunity for us to get to know our client and enables us to visualize what his dream bike would look like.
For this project, the approach was different.
We already knew very well our customer Bruno and his wishes for customization has it is actually the second bike we build for him. He already ordered a project in the past, also based on a Honda but with a smaller engine.
Quite aware of Bruno’s desires and taste from our past project with him, we knew he would want to go for a quite minimalist, sober and neat project with a rather road/city use. When he came to the workshop to discuss his new project, he added that for this specific project he wanted something radical and unique …
So we went together to get a good coffee in the pub next to the workshop to discuss the project and quickly we agreed on a concept of an urban version of the Superhooligan motorcycles. We then just had to find the right base to start the project. After some research, we found that the Honda FMX 650 was the ideal base for his project, easy to find second hand and with its stock inverted fork and 17 ” wheels. We were on the same wavelength for the project and Bruno trusted us, so he got a Honda FMX which would serve as the project base without even having defined all the details of the project, only the budget range was set.
It is a way of working that we like too, to set the bases of the project and then let it evolve while working on the bike. When Bruno brought us the FMX two weeks later, we thus completely dismantled the bike to keep only the wheels, the frame, and the engine, and from then we imagined everything together. As Bruno has is office not far away from the workshop, he came regularly to see the progress of the project and it allowed us to show him what we imagined for the next steps at each key stage of the project: the type of tank, handlebar, headlight, side covers, exhaust, he even came 3 times to try the saddle and the adjustments of the foam so it fits perfectly before we sewed the Alcantara leather on it.
We love this kind of project and relationship with the customers, to take their ideas into account and try to achieve their dream motorcycle, all this happening in the workshop around the bike without going through Photoshop. It’s really about this kind of experience that we want to evolve and bring our customers to, discussing details, sharing what we do, make them come to the workshop to live the project together, not just buying a product, but live an experience together and build the motorcycle of their dream.
Regarding the modifications, we wanted to play with the general line of the bike, so we decided to replace the original tank by a smaller one and align/shorten the rear part of the frame. We cut and welded a shorter frame loop and replaced the original huge saddle by a custom seat base that we then sewed by our workshop. The finish and covering of the saddle are in Alcantara leather. Replacing the handlebar also helped work on the line of the bike.
All electronic components have been replaced by new and more minimalist elements (led indicator lights, speedometer) to make the motorcycle look more modern. List of modification also includes the build of an electricity box, bespoke side covers, bespoke exhaust header with Supertrapp silencer.
In the front, we removed the fairing and replaced it by a tiny led headlight and an Aluminum Endurance plate to give the bike a radical look. The color of the tank is the original one but we applied a matt varnish coat to make the bike look more aggressive.
List of modifications
Modification/shorten of the rear part of the frame
Bespoke exhaust header with Supertrapp silencer.
Replaced the tank
Bespoke side covers
Aluminum Endurance plate
Tiny led headlight
A new set of led indicator lights
Bespoke seat with Alcantara leather
Bespoke electricity box under the seat
Removed a lot of original accessories that were superfluous
- Workshop: TOMA CUSTOMS
- Location: Brussels, Belgium
- Website tomacustoms.com
- Instagram: tomacustoms
- Facebook: toma customs
- Tel : +32 479351638
- Owner of the bike: Bruno
- Owner of TOMA CUSTOMS: Thomas Jeukens
- Pictures: Olivier Truyman
- Contact: Thomas Jeukens, Workshop leader, +32 479351638, firstname.lastname@example.org
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Fundraiser to keep Franchezka Unisex Open
The shuttered Franchezka Unisex (Fifth & 12th Street)
There's a notice on the shutters of Franchezka Unisex, the salon that belonged to the late Francisca Figueroa. Figueroa died earlier this month in a Borough Park gas explosion. The cause of the explosion has still not been determined.
Help Keep Her Dream Alive
Come Join Us
Date: October 29, 2015, Thursday
Time: 7pm to 11pm
Address: American Legion
193 9th St.
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Bring your family and friends to help raise money to reopen the salon of the famous Francisca Figueroa. Her children have put together this event to keep their mother's hard work alive while she is watching in Heaven.
So come and have some fun playing games, kids face painting, socializing and delicious food.
Thank you all for the love and support.
Telephone: 201-456-3169 Email: HellensHouseKeeping@gmail.com
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We have so many amazing shows on Journal Jabber, and from time to time we will be bringing some of them back. Tonight we will be listening to one of my favorite shows which first aired upon Christopher Pike's release of his latest book, Witch World.
Amy did this show, and we all love it when she does interviews so tonight we are stepping back in time to enjoy all the Christopher Pike, and Amy, have to offer.
Aprilynne Pike is an internationally best-selling American author best known for her debut novel Wings, which was released on May 5, 2009.
Discouraged that, after years of work, she had yet to achieve publication, one November morning in 2007 Aprilynne convinced herself that she was pursuing a foolish dream. Neither she nor her husband were sure how they could afford to pay for his final year of law school and keep their children fed. So Aprilynne resolved to teach childbirth classes aga
Eva Kroon Pike was chosen. She was a dream before she was ever held. At the tender age of ten weeks, Eva was adopted into a loving family that had been waiting and praying for eight years. "These circumstances nurtured Eva into the singer/songwriter she is today with an extraordinary spirit, a compassion for people, a passion to share the gospel, a heart for God, and an awesome voice," as Dr. Jay Dennis, Pastor, Church at the Mall, Lakeland, Florida states. Her vocals are powerful, yet engaging, versatile and unwavering, melodic and soul wrenching. Diversity describes Eva's music style from contemporary to choral, traditional to country, and southern gospel. Eva's life growing up in Central Florida has been influenced by the multiplicity of people which has led to an ability to relate her passions and convictions with soul.
"Grace That Chose Me", the title song of Eva's 2010 album, describes the essence of who she is and an ultimate thank-you to her parents for choosing her to be a part of their family over twenty-eight years ago. She co-wrote this album together with Don Koch, songwriter and producer from Nashville who continues to play a significant part in her music. Eva's album was released to radio in January 2011. In November of 2012 Eva released her very own Christmas single to radio titled “Christmas Revolution.” Eva's newest album titled Love Is All About You was released to radio February 2013. "As much as my first album, Grace That Chose Me, impacted my life and those who heard the message through song, this new album has had so much more of an impact on my life in just the short time I've had the songs and allowed others to hear them." Eva is very excited about 2014 and what God has planned for her ministry.
Stop dieting and start living. Katharine Pike, HHC, AADP, Queen of Permanent Weight Loss joins us to teach us how we can get a hold on our emotional eating rollercoaster.
Katharine Pike, a Certified Holistic Health Coach, helps conscious business owners lose weight permanently so they expand their profits, not their waistlines.
Known as the Queen of Permanent Weight Loss, Katharine has worked with hundreds of women over the past 14 years to help them go from deprivation and diets to losing weight while eating what they love. Katharine gained and lost thousands of pounds in her 22 year journey until she finally figured out what it took to lose weight permanently. Her own journey led her to the Institute of Integrative Nutrition so she could help others who struggle.
In her cutting-edge programs Katharine combines the science of metabolism with the spirit of alignment. The result is lightness, joy and a radiance that shows up in greater confidence, energy, and success.
We will talk about how to manage your weight for real for good, without diets.
Jack Reacher star Rosamund Pike joins host Robin Milling to discuss her role opposite Tom Cruise as an attorney defending a criminal who just might be an innocent man.
Rosamund tells Robin her chemistry with Cruise was immediately there. In fact she felt so comfortable with him she dared to tell him to keep quiet during her audition; a bold move which she says won her the role.
Their easygoing banter on screen was the result of watching classic slapstick movies together like His Girl Friday. One of the challenges, Rosamund admits is the scene where she had to act opposite a shirtless Cruise!
Next Rosamund tries her hand at comedy; something she says she'd like to do more of, starring opposite Simon Pegg in The World's End.
For more information visit www.jackreachermovie.com
Show from Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle. We "wake up the Market" this morning. I talk with the vendors, crafter and artsits as Pike Place Market, comes alive for the day. Thank you to PPM for the invite to come down and share the magic of the market with you today! Locals share insider tips! Over 10 million people visit Pike Place Market each year.Created more than a century ago to connect the city’s citizens and farmers, Pike Place Market is a beloved
Pike Cichlids Monday June 3rd 2013, 10 PM EST, 9 PM CST, 7 PM PST The Under The Sea Radio Show has scheduled a discussion about one of the predatory genera of the family Cichlidae that is endemic to the South American continent. The Genus Crencichla otherwise known as the Pike Cichlids which according to wikipedia has 86 recognized species. Joining us for the program will be Mr Ken McKeighen along with Mr Ray Owczarzak for a great discussion on these cichlid species from S
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A while back I was asked four questions by a journalist for a story on PC Penetration and Internet Access. Below are the questions and my answers to them. I think some of these answers were in the Indo though they were edited down. The below answers are a bit of a rant 🙂
1. Despite the Government’s best efforts to project Ireland’s image as the Silicon Valley of Europe, PC penetration in Ireland stands at only 42pc compared with Sweden 56pc and the US at 82pc. What efforts should the Irish Government, Irish businesses and Irish citizens make to boost PC penetration?
In every other developed nation a PC is a multi-use product. It is there for doing administrative tasks, entertainment and most importantly communicating. What is the point of buying a PC in Ireland if all it becomes is an expensive word processor or aid to doing your accounts?
With the likes of broadband, PCs are used for tuning into radio and TV stations from all over the world, for talking to people in America or China using VOIP, for updating blogs, for downloading software that will make you do your work more efficiently, for connecting to the office from home and accessing all your documents and working on them over the Net. Why buy a sports car when you’re restricted to winding down the windows in your drive because the normal roads are too narrow to drive down or the nice and wide toll roads cost more per year to use than the car? That’s what Irish people have to deal with. Large unavailability of broadband and dialup rates prohibitively expensive.
It isn’t like Irish people are luddites or are afraid of technology. We don’t fear the beige or black boxes under the desk. In Ireland X-Box and Playstation ownership per head of population is one of the highest in the world. We love our mobiles and are addicted to texting. We’d love our computers too and use them a lot more if we could make full use of them but we can’t because of connectivity.
The government needs to make Internet Access affordable and available so that people can get value for money out of their pcs. At this stage too the Government should consider creating incentives for purchasing PCs but unless connectivity is also resolved they will only be used to gather dust.
Irish Businesses should train all staff on PC usage and if possible encourage teleworking. They should also continue making noise about Internet costs and availability like both the Chambers of Commerce and ISME have been
2. At 37pc (according to ComReg’ most recent Trends Survey) Ireland’s internet penetration hasn’t increased in the past two years. In terms of broadband, Eurostat has claimed that Ireland has a penetration rate of 1.7pc compared with the European average of 12pc. What should/could be done to resolve this?
While broadband uptake is increasing, Internet usage is staying the same. This seems to suggest that we are not encouraging new people to use the Internet but merely converting dialup Internet users into broadband Internet users. This is quite worrying and would suggest that we are going to hit a brick wall soon where broadband uptake will just cease. We need to get more people using the net and this means making it useful for them, making it available to them and making it affordable.
I think we find ourselves in a chicken in an egg situation. The PC penetration rate is blamed for the low Internet access rate when it could actually be the other way around as I previously mentioned.
We need to make Internet access cheaper. IrelandOffline wants to see per minute dialup banned and replaced with flatrate dialup products. We want people to enjoy going online via dialup or broadband and the always-on, flatfee model that most broadband products offer is the way to go for dialup and broadband.
Remove the fear of unknown and potentially massive Internet bills and more people will go online and stay online and as a result will quickly start finding new potential uses for the Net that they didn’t know about before. Every Net user could potentially be an ambassador for the Internet and could be used to ecnourage other Irish people to go online.
All government services should be offered online. We have some good E-Government initiatives like the CAO website, the Motor Tax website and the Revenue website. There are 100s more services that could be offered to Irish Citizens. Online billing should also be the norm for any service and not just government services.
Companies could help here too by allowing personal online time for employees, encouraging them to become proficient at using the net which could encourage them to get the Internet at home.
3. How damaging could low PC and broadband penetration be for Ireland’s long term competitiveness?
We are being lapped when it comes to broadband usage and Internet usage. Already we are seeing a lot of customer service jobs being lost to countries like India. As technology advances and more and more services and jobs can be done via a net connection and a broadband connection we could see an exodus of other jobs going to cheaper countries. Wait until China comes online with a billion very educated people and who are highly skilled in computers and Internet usage. We still have the potential to restart our Knowledge Economy but if we leave it much later we’ll just be fighting for the scraps that China and India throw us.
4. Does a digital divide exist in Ireland and if so in what areas? How can such a digital divide be bridged?
There’s a digital divide in the UK according to their own Government reports and they are one of the leading countries when it comes to PC usage, E-Government and broadband availability. We had a divide before the rest of the developed world sped away from us, now we have an ever-widening Digital Chasm.
The gap between the haves and the have nots when it comes to Internet Access is widening. Some 80% of Internet users in Ireland are still using dialup. The average cost of Internet access before line-rental is around €Â€36 according to ComReg.
180 hours of dialup costs €€26.99 a month and 3 euros an hour thereafter and the same ISP can now provide always-on 1mb broadband to their customers for €20 a month. So those who can get broadband are now finding it getting cheaper and cheaper and speeds are increasing but those unable to get it and lets be clear, some are guaranteed to never get it unless they move to an urban area, those consumers are stuck with dialup speeds which are awful and the cost of these products have remained unchanged for years. We have asked the regulator to look into a reduction in the costs of wholesale flatrate but they do not seem to think there is a need.
We need to lower the barriers to entry so that costs do not scare people away from the digital world and we also need to make the digital world available to all.
The model to look at for this is Estonia. A 2nd world country that in a few years became the shining light in Europe when it came to ICT usage.
See this powerpoint presentation from an Estonian consultant:
As of end of 2004:
* PC penetration 68%
* Internet penetration 54%
* 100% of schools connected
* 100% of public sector connected
* 80% of all businesses connected
* 729 PIAP (Public Internet Access Points)
If we want to be serious about having a knowledge economy then we need to build the infrastructure for one and it really isn’t rocket science at this stage. We’ve been spending billions on roads to deflect traffic away from the big cities yet 1000s move to these cities to work and set up business when they could be doing it from home. If we spent a fraction of what is spent on roads ever year to make teleworking a genuine possibility in this country then we could achieve the ambitions of those that dream with open eyes.
“the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible” – T. E. Lawrence
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Andy Murray :´ Roger Federer is not the same of before, but he will react after Wimbledon´
Federico Coppini -
- View: 3605
Andy Murray admits that the Swiss is not as consistent as he was 10 years ago, but he will be dangerous at the US Open
Andy Murray expresses his doubts about Roger Federer’s future. The Scot was told that Pete Sampras, after being defeated at the second round of Wimbledon, never came back to London.
Could it be also Federer’s case? “Roger played great tennis this year, a high quality tennis, maybe it wasn’t that concrete like in the last ten years, but his levels were incredible. Probably, we won’t see again that consistence and that continuity. You just have to wait and see what will be his reaction."
"Roger is one the best athlete of all time, so I expect an answer and a reaction to this defeat. He will be very dangerous at US Open.”
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Starting with its global insights from the Internet infrastructure, DataPulse designed ElectionPulse as an innovative method to measure voter interest in particular candidates and platforms for the Presidential Election of 2016 including the candidates official websites, unofficial websites, and Political Action Committees (PACs).
ElectionPulse analyzes all registered domains which appear to be associated with (either for or against) any of the 2016 primary candidates, monitoring comparative ElectionPulse Share of Web (ShoW) traffic as an indicator of voters researching, supporting or opposing specific candidates or topics.
This methodology differs from existing measurements of web traffic. Rather than statistically extrapolating based on an instrumented sample, ElectionPulse analyzes trends from directly observing the Infrastructure of the Internet.
ElectionPulse Share of Web is a metric that compares Internet activity over a defined period of time. DataPulse analyzes the activity on the principal campaign Internet domains of those U.S. Presidential candidates who have not publically withdrawn from the race and are polling in their respective primary at 5.0% or higher according to national poll averages published by RealClearPolitics.com at the time of report generation.
As an insight into the online presence of the 2016 Presidential candidates, ElectionPulse Share of Web is influenced by web browsing, email campaigns, advertising, direct mailing, and other activities. By observing the traffic over time, we may see how Share of Web evolves.
DataPulse analytical products are based on our analysis of anonymized Internet infrastructure data and are not scientific polls. Use at your own risk.
The high precision time granularity of DataPulse makes it possible to define specific bumps or drops in the traffic of any domain, which subsequently may be attributed to specific events, ad campaigns, outreach or press releases.
Using the DataPulse matching and similarity technology, ElectionPulse develops reports that describe each campaign’s presence on the internet using the following taxonomy:
- CAMPAIGN: a website under the control the campaign
- AFFILIATED: closely associated with but not under direct control of the campaign
- SUPPORTING: identified websites with messaging and content that supports but is not in any way associated with the campaign.
- OPPOSING: websites which oppose the objectives of the campaign
- UNRELATED: no clear indication of support or opposition to the campaign
Candidate Brand Protection
Through its domain analysis, ElectionPulse can monitor online use of candidates’ own names, slogans and related trademarks. This allows for the monitoring for online fraud, identity theft or misuse, and classic trademark dilution or infringement. ElectionPulse can detect and identify email campaigns and websites that are similar to the candidate’s brand identity, monitor and analyze how the sites are being used, and provide a breakdown of the types of Internet traffic associated with such sites. This gives unprecedented visibility into parody, commentary, misuse, and even “fake news” surrounding a candidate.
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At the Bottom of the Volcano
Kratovo is located in the northeastern part of Macedonia. It is one of the oldest towns in the country; and still pulsing with life. The rivers Maceva, Baba Karina and Tabichka converge into one. And from the Kratovo River. This recreational river divides the town on two sides; left and right. It also has many bridges on it to connect those sides.
Nevertheless, when you travel here, it is a town with a typical traditional Macedonian architecture and history. A town with the most bridges and towers in the whole country. Precisely these components give a distinctive, personal touch to this beautiful town’s society. As well as make it different from the rest in Macedonia. When there; you don’t get the feeling of already seen and felt. It’s a place where you experience the whole story for the first time.
Kratovo is considered as one of the oldest settlements in Macedonia
With that said; it lies on the western slopes of the Osogovo Mountains. At the bottom of an extinguished volcanic crater; however, it is mentioned under the name Kratiskara; in roman times. Along with Koritos; in the byzantine period. It was a significant mining and trading center in the middle ages. Therefore; the Ragusans had their own trading colony and organizations in the town.
In addition, the mines in Kratovo were rich with lead, silver, gold, copper and iron. During the Ottoman rule in the 16th and 17th century; the town was famous for forging silver coins. That was one of their issues. After the Austro-Turkish war of 1689; as well as the Karposh Uprising; the mines were closed. Also, the town’s society was left ravaged. Consequently Kratovo revived into a small settlement; as it is today.
Town of Bridges in Kratovo
However, there are 17 bridges in the town; although not every one of the still functions today. Тhey are built from smooth carved stones; and shaped in the form of a bow. Also, these bridges are mainly erected over deep and steep river banks; and can be seen from one another. The most famous is the Radin Bridge. But the others are captivating as well. You have just read a few more issues about this town.
The Legend of Radin Bridge
As a matter of fact; there is a poignant story about this bridge; that makes it the most famous among others. It tells the tale of a girl; called Rada. That was being immured alive into the bridge. According to the story; nine brothers were building this bridge. But it kept destroying itself. To strengthen and solidify it; they decided to put their youngest bride into it.
Nonetheless, she was apparently devastated. This was because she had a baby boy. She begged them to leave one of her breast accessible; so she could feed her child. Not to mention, this bridge is on the river Manceva. Built in 1833 its left tower is 28 meters high. Along with the right one; which is 29 meters high.
Seventeen Towers in Kratovo
Twelve towers are located on the left side of Kratovo; as well as five on its right side. At the moment, only six of these towers are as they were. The rest of them are in a very bad shape. The Zlatko’s tower is the oldest and the richest one. Built in 1365 got its name from its owner. It is six meters high; as well as its walls, which are made of thick stone. Having three floors; you can enter this tower by stairclimbers; if you ever decide to travel and explore here. These towers and bridges are the beauty of Kratovo society.
The Simike’s Tower
This tower is the most important; most beautiful and highest in the whole entire society of Kratovo. This one was all over the media industry. Constructed in 1370 from the Kratovo’s ruler at the time; Constantine Dejanov. In the inner part it is divided into floors; of which the fourth one is the most impressive. From there you can have a beautiful view on the town. The top floors are reachable by stone stairs; that are located on the south wall. These 69 stair steps are illuminated; by three wall holes.
Whether you go for a full tour of the town, or just wander its streets; there is a lot to be observed. Eventually, the old architecture will take the most of your day. Although, there are many places in this society where you can sit back and relax. There is no way you could miss the few cafes. As well as restaurants. They also have some organizations you can join too sometimes. Decorated in the town’s theme; they just complete the picture. As well as the general impression of the authentic beauty of this city. Everybody needs to travel here, at least once.
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Mr. Crab is a fast-paced platformer from Illusion Labs with a uniquely interesting storyline. As a heroic crab in the game’s world where little crab babies are at stake, you need to make full use of your forte–climbing. That’s not all. The towers are forever twisting upwards, deadly enemies plague your way throughout, and different scenarios unleash various difficulty levels. You surely have to possess something of wisdom and speed in order to have an ace up your sleeve.
- 40 plus levels
- Fast-paced jumping and climbing
- Multitudinous worlds
- 8 dreadful bosses
- Great 3D visuals
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One last question from the open Sunday thread, then I think I answered them all. Void asked: "I would like to see you post about what MMOs could learn from single player games. Specifically, single player RPGs. With the recent release of Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age Origins I really feel like MMOs have too much grind and not enough story. But, that is just my opinion. What do you think MMO game devs could learn from single player games?" I think this is a trap. And I think that SWTOR is well on its way to fall into this trap, so we'll be able to see whether my theory is right: You can't use game elements from single-player games with limited duration and turn them successfully into MMORPG games with unlimited duration.
Bioware is good at telling stories in single-player games, there is no doubt about it. But story-telling in a game like KOTOR (or Mass Effect, or Dragon Age Origins) works the same way as story has worked since the beginning of humankind, in a structure which has a beginning, a climax, and an end. But a MMORPG doesn't have an end (except for A Tale in the Desert), and so story-telling falls flat.
In an endless MMORPG, you have the choice of either creating one epic "main" story which develops in parallel to your character level, which is how Lord of the Rings Online does it. Or you provide thousands of short stories, like World of Warcraft. Neither option makes for great story-telling. One of the big draws of a MMORPG is that you can play them for years, for thousands of hours. One main story distributed over thousands of hours ends up being stretched far too thin. Most of the time in LotRO you are NOT advancing the epic main story, the main story ends up being something like an extra award for leveling.
Having recently made the transition from Outlands to Northrend with my paladin, I must say that Blizzard is getting better at telling stories. The WotLK quests are often more fun than the BC and vanilla WoW quests were. And I'm looking forward to Blizzard applying those improved story-telling skills to update the quests of level 1 to 60 in the Cataclysm expansion. But even at its best, storytelling by having a dozen quests or more at all times isn't very engaging. In fact the word "quest" in its original meaning doesn't describe well the quests in a MMORPG, they are more like "errands". Imagine you have a job as secretary or assistant, and your day goes like this "go, fetch me some coffee", "type this letter", "get me a flight to New York", "go for some office supplies"; does that sound like a great story to you? Even if the individual tasks were interesting, they don't combine into a greater whole.
Thus I think that trying to extrapolate story-telling from single-player RPGs into MMORPGs is doomed to failure. I'm hoping for improvement in telling the story of each quest, better grouping of errands into telling the story of one location better, and improved visuals. But that is the best it can get in a MMORPG. From there to the whole game feeling like one big story, like KOTOR or Dragon Age Origins does, there is still a huge gap, and one I don't think that can be bridged.
And therein lies the trap. By trying to learn from single-player games, you risk making a worse MMORPG. Instead of taking the structure of a different game and trying to force it around a MMORPG, game developers should look at the inherent structure of MMORPGs and improve the game around that. For example most players naturally care more about the development of their character than about the artificial story fragments the character went through; thus developers could add more game elements that chronicle the character's development. Instead of the Tome of Knowledge in WAR telling the story of some dwarf you met, in which you aren't interested at all, the chronicle should tell the story of your characters heroic acts in some location, or tell the story of how you found the magical sword of uberness. In a MMORPG the character *is* the story, and any good MMORPG story-telling has to work with that instead of trying to tell a story like a single-player game.
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Enerdrive are proud to introduce the new ePOWER B-TEC 100Ah Lithium Battery with Smart Phone Monitoring Technology.
Available in 12v 100Ah & 125Ah capacities, the ePOWER B-TEC is designed and intended for use in deep cycle applications where a single battery is required that meets the amp hour capacity.
Smart Phone Monitoring System
The Enerdrive ePOWER B-TEC battery incorporates wireless Battery Monitoring Technology. By downloading the Android™ or Apple® app to your smartphone or tablet device, you can monitor the following information;
- Battery Capacity
- Battery Voltage
- Battery Current (Amps)
- Battery State of Charge (SOC)
- Battery State of Health (SOH)
- Battery Status
- Individual Cell Voltage
- Battery Temperature
- Battery Cycles
- Battery Alarms
- Battery Event Information
Battery Management System
The battery is also equipped with an internal LiFePO4 Battery Management System (BMS) that can monitor and optimize each Prismatic cell within the battery during normal operation. It will protect the battery pack from over charge, over discharge, over temperature & short circuit. The BMS helps to ensure safe and accurate operation of the battery.
Size & Weight Savings
Lithium v AGM Capacities;
- 100Ah Lithium = 160Ah AGM
- 125Ah Lithium = 200Ah AGM
(Based on standard depth of discharge for both Lithium (80%) and AGM (50%).
The ePOWER B-TEC battery provides 60% more usable power than its equivalent lead acid cousin and being nearly 50% lighter and 30% smaller makes for a superior alternative.
The ePOWER B-TEC battery is perfect for camper trailers, 4WD’s (AUX battery), caravans, small water craft, low power communication sites or any other application that requires the use of a single deep cycle battery that meets the amp hour capacity.
With over 5 years of researching, designing and testing lithium batteries and the associated charging systems, Enerdrive are at the forefront of lithium battery systems in Australia. Enerdrive are the only Australian company that can supply a fully integrated self-branded energy system to suit your setup.
With over 1200 complete systems in operation Australia wide, Enerdrive is regarded as the leader in the field of lithium batteries and energy systems for Mobile, Marine and Remote applications.
Please Note; The ePOWER B-TEC battery is not designed to parallel connect extra batteries to increase the overall capacity. This is due to the internal management system (BMS) which does not have the ability of physical connection to a second B-TEC BMS system for balancing of the cells between each battery.
If you are requiring a battery system larger than ePOWER B-TEC battery, please look at the Enerdrive Lithium Power Pack Systems which can offer this level of cell balancing protection.
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Distribution Center Could Bring Hundreds of Jobs to Westfield
Pending approval of government incentives, construction will begin next spring in Westfield on a new distribution center for Gordon Food Service. The Michigan-based company today announced its plans to build the $150 million food storage facility in the Northpoint Industrial Park. The company says the distribution center will initially create more than 200 jobs, with the long-term hope of creating more than 400 by the end of 2025.
Before dirt is moved however, GFS wants to get state and local government enticements, such as tax credits, in place.
In an interview with Inside INdiana Business, Westfield Mayor Andy Cook said development efforts in Westfield are paying off.
"The fact that Westfield’s been able to create a place where people want to live and, of course, the whole game plan today is a city must provide a workforce," said Cook. "With the great variety of a workforce that we can provide here in Westfield with all of our school quality, our trails and Grand Park and our Grand Junction downtown, we can attract good paying jobs. We can attract employees of that nature and we can also draw further north more of a blue collar worker. This is what we’re selling right now is Westfield can provide a very wide variety of a workforce."
The company says the new 500,000-square-foot facility will be semi-automated, using mini-loaders, mini-shuttles, and conveyors designed to assist staff in moving products through the warehouse. It will include three temperature zones for product storage, freezer, cooler and room temperature.
“Our roots are in the Midwest, where our business has steadily increased for decades, and we continue to grow by offering customers great service and an even wider range of products,” Rich Wolowski, Gordon Food Service president and chief executive officer, said in a news release. “We saw an opportunity to place a new distribution center in a strong, established market, giving us the ability to deliver more efficiently to our customers.”
GFS has 17 distribution centers across the country, and this will be its first in Indiana.
"With options all over the Midwest and around the world, Gordon Food Service chose Indiana to launch its new distribution center, and I couldn’t be more grateful,” said Governor Eric Holcomb.
GFS says training programs will be offered to support skills development for the local workforce. Hourly wages are expected to range from $20-$25 an hour.
Pending approval of the Indiana Economic Development Corp. Board of Directors, Gordon Food Service will be offered up to $5 million in conditional tax credits based on the company’s job creation plans.
Also, Mayor Cook says the city council will consider additional incentives on November 11. Upon approval of state and local incentives, construction will begin in the spring of 2020.
The company plans to open the distribution center in late 2021.
Cook says the development efforts in Westfield are paying off by attracting companies such as GFS.
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Music promotion has acquired a globally popularity because it is really a sole way by what type can get recognition quickly exclusively those people who are new in music market and wants becoming a sensation. When some new individual is available in music range he might find it hard to obtain herself recognized by others as there are many effectively recognized musicians who’ve created area for themselves by their hard work and efforts to gain hearts.
Nowadays, we have so several sources where we could do music promotion. In this informative article we will examine many methods in which you may promote your music in certain super easy and effective ways.
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Print some flayers, pamphlets, business cards, t-shirts that have your manufacturer and emblem etched on it. First spread them among your family and friends. They can help you to get some popularity by releasing them among their friend and similar to this you will be able to obtain some promotion. Share your music CDs free from charge.
There are numerous other creative methods through which you are able to do music promotion but be sure that you have a style of music which is unique, different and is distinguishable when compared to different artist’s music.
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Three Premieres and a Revival
Chamber Orchestra Music by Composers from Mexico and the US
Arthur Berger Septet
Max Lifchitz Yellow Ribbons No. 50
Harold Schiffman Octet
Salvador Torré Abbau-Trace
Max Lifchitz, conductor
The North/South Chamber Orchestra
Sunday, February 17 at 3 PM
Christ & St Stephen’s Church
120 West 69th St (bet Bway & Columbus), NYC
Free Admission. No tickets necessary
North/South Consonance, Inc. continues its 33rd consecutive season of free-admission concerts on Sunday afternoon February 17 when the GRAMMY nominated North/South Chamber Orchestra under the direction of its founder Max Lifchitz performs four works by composers from México and the US.
The concert will start at 3 PM and will take place at the auditorium of Christ & St. Stephen’s Church (120 West 69th St – between Broadway and Columbus) on Manhattan’s West Side. Admission is free (no tickets necessary).
The event will commemorate the 100th birthday of Arthur Berger (1912-2003), the influential New York born composer, critic, music analyst, and teacher. Perhaps best known today for his fiery essays in the “Perspectives of New Music” periodical he founded, Berger composed noted works such as the orchestral “Ideas of Order” commissioned for the NY Philharmonic by Dimitri Mitropoulos and the neoclassical “Quartet for Winds”, and who published “Reflections of an American Composer”, a collection of his essays, in 2002.
Berger’s Septet was written in 1966 on commission from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation. It is a superb example of the composer’s “keen and sophisticated musical intellect.” The work’s instrumental textures are skillfully sketched allowing for a meaningful conversation among the three winds, three strings and keyboard instrument.
The concert will also introduce a new work by Harold Schiffman – the noted American composer celebrating his 85th birthday this season. A student of Roger Sessions, Schiffman taught for many years at Florida State University and has composed in virtually all media. His recently completed Octet consists of three contrasting movements, each exploring a different dance-derived rhythmic motive.
The second half of the program will feature a work for large ensemble by the young Mexican composer and flutist Salvador Torré. A professor at México’s National Conservatory, Torré earned a doctorate at the Sorbonne and has participated in activities sponsored by IRCAM. His work Abbau-Trace concerns itself with spectral phenomena. It was inspired by “….the erasing that happens before that happens…” and other philosophical concepts espoused by the Algeria-born French philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930-2004).
The concert will close with the premiere of Yellow Ribbons No. 50 by Max Lifchitz, the ensemble’s founder and director. Born in 1948 in México City, Lifchitz has resided in New York City since 1966 and attended The Juilliard School and Harvard University. The single movement work is the latest installment in series of compositions Mr. Lifchitz has written as homage to the former American hostages in Iran. The composers considers this compositions as a personal way of celebrating the artistic and political freedom so often taken for granted in the West. Recent tragic events in New York City and elsewhere convinced the composer that continuing to work on this series begun in the early 1980’s was both appropriate and worthwhile.
North/South Consonance’s 2012-13 season is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; grants from the Arthur Berger Fund and the Music Performance Trust Funds; as well as contributions by many generous individuals.
For further information about North/South Consonance’s activities, including concerts and recordings, please visit http://www.northsouthmusic.org.
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The cartridges I used were:
Freshly picked - for the watering can
George and Basic Shapes - for the circle
I also used a fern corner punch and kept the green fern pieces to add some green behind the flower.
I used Large paper clips.
What I learned is that you really need to use glue dots when you are working with embellishments and paper clips if you want to keep them together. I also learned that while I will probably not use these in my scrapbooks, they would be cute to add to cards, or papers I want to keep together and give someone.
Creativity is a mindset!
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Interior design is much more important than it may seem at first glance. It should not be seen as less important than the architecture of your project.
Good design is often not obvious, interior design is not just about what your home will look like. It is important to remember interior design plays an essential role in the functionality of how you use & live in a space.
Invest in your interior design, It will save you time and prevent expensive mistakes further down the line.
Actually, it’s the same reason that your wardrobe, your hair, & your overall external appearance is important. It’s your first impression.
When You Look Good, You Feel Good.
You walk a little taller, smile a little brighter, and look at people in the eyes when you feel good because you look good.
Your Interior Design is Your Personality
Having a home that reflects your style, in the same way, has the same effect but on a larger scale.
Your home affects so many things; from your personal well-being to your guests well-being to how you feel about inviting people in.
A lot of people think they can’t afford to have beautiful functional homes they love. I say you can’t afford NOT to.
When you love home, you want everyone else to experience that as well.
When you love home, you invite the world in.
When you love home, your soul feels nourished and that makes you want to nourish others.
They say, “Home is Where the Heart is”.
Professional Interior Designer is the Answer
Everyone knows it’s difficult to find good resources. But designers already work in the world of home improvement. They’re going to have reliable connections that you may need. Hiring an interior designer will help you easily find an electrician, plumber, and/or contractor that you can trust.
You get all the benefits of a professional with a design education–designers & decorators. They are understand how to create a functional space that is also stylish. Also, interior designers often work closely with architects, interior design firms, interior decorators, and more, all who have formal training.
Designers also have access to tons of product and fabric that is not available to the general public.
With these resources; an interior designer will create a space for you that looks collected and unique (instead of the big box retailer stuff everyone has in their home).
In the end, an interior designer can save money, time and spare you the headaches of unforeseen mistakes or outdated elements.
Because when it comes to the house that your guests will call home for day/week/month, this is not the time to be penny-wise and pound foolish.
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Are you like me? Are you 6'1", named "Matt," and on your emergency pair of underwear with bananas on them because you haven't done laundry in a week-and-a-half due to a protracted case of "Oh, well. Screw it!"?
Yes? Good. Then we're, like, super pals and stuff. We also share a common problem: How do you balance your college lacrosse addiction with monitoring college basketball pandemonium that directly impacts whether you win hundreds of dollars in a "totally legal in a very illegal gambling kind of way" tournament pool? Luckily, I can probably help mitigate this problem.
A few years ago, I came up with the "Fun Factor." The genesis was simple: My girlfriend at the time wanted to do something (I forget what; it probably involved me paying far too much money for it, though, and just nodding my head that I was having a good time); I wanted to sit around all day, watching college lacrosse's first round of the NCAA Tournament. So, I cut a deal: I get to watch two games and then we can do whatever the hell it was that we ended up doing that involved me barely being involved. (Shockingly, we broke up not long after that.)
The result was the formulation of the "Fun Factor": Games that were relatively competitive and featuring teams that liked offense and running. It isn't a method to determine the best games, but rather games I like to watch. Some of them are blowouts, which still can be fun, but many are actually pretty solid in the overall. With this Saturday featuring 26 lacrosse games going toe-to-toe with the NCAA's bag o' money (Student-athletes!), it's time again to break out the formula to pick my spots and maximize my enjoyment.
Immediately below are the "Fun Factor" rankings for tomorrow's game. You'd be an idiot to utilize it as canonical law -- use your head, dummy -- but if you're looking for a little extra information to balance your hoops-lacrosse interests, you could do worse that this. (I think.)
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More after the jump.
If I only had to pick three games to follow this weekend, they'd probably be:
- Villanova at Maryland: I pick this not for silly things like how Villanova's Will Casertano and Jack Rice are sweet science, or that Maryland's Niko Amato is an ox, or that the Terrapins are stealthily a national title contender. Nope. I pick this one because Villanova hasn't beaten a school that isn't located in Pennsylvania this year and I'm pretty sure that trend is rock solid.
- Massachusetts at Penn State: The Nittany Lions are probably going to drive the pace of this thing into the ground, but you have massive heads wounds without medical insurance if you think that not watching Will Manny trying to embarrass Austin Kaut isn't pure sexiness.
- Syracuse at Johns Hopkins: Yeah, no doink, turdburger.
How are you balancing basketball gambling and lacrosse watching this weekend? Any other suggestions for the weekend's best?
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One afternoon, Ian found a ransom note slipped under his front door.
The ransom note read: “Bring $50,000 to the 17th hole of your country club tomorrow at 11am tomorrow if you ever want to see your wife alive again”.
So, not wanting anything bad to happen to his wife, the following day, Ian went to the bank and drew out $35,000 in cash, which he added to the $15,000 he kept in the safe in the house. He wrapped the bundle of cash in brown paper and headed out to his country club.
By the time he arrived at the designated meeting spot, the 17th hole, the time was almost 2pm.
As Ian approached the 17th green, a masked man stepped out from behind a bush and demanded to know why he was three hours late and what took him so long.
“Give me a break”, Ian said, pointing to his scorecard. “I’m a 27 handicap”.
Image used under a Collective Commons License from https://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/3655104618
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Older women who took a daily vitamin supplement — even just a multivitamin — had an increased risk of dying of cardiovascular disease and cancer, according to a study published Monday in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine.
The study highlights concerns about the long-term use of supplements and vitamins in people who do not have severe nutritional deficiencies, the authors say. An accompanying editorial notes that findings "add to the growing evidence demonstrating that certain supplements can be harmful."
Previous studies have raised questions about the value of supplements and vitamins, but researchers and nutrition experts call these new findings "puzzling" and say more research is needed.
About half of adults in the USA take multivitamins. Annual vitamin and supplement sales total more than $20 billion.
"I think the main message is researchers are finding very little benefit from these substances," says lead author Jaakko Murso, a nutritional epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. "Other studies have not shown the mortality risk our study shows, but those studies have not seen any positive effect either."
Researchers used data from the Iowa Women's Health Study to examine the link between vitamin and mineral supplements and death rates among 38,772 women, average age 61.6. Women filled out questionnaires about supplement use in 1986, 1997 and 2004. "Out of 15 studied supplements, seven are associated with increased total mortality risk," Murso says.
Among the findings:
Use of multivitamins, vitamin B6, folic acid, iron, magnesium, zinc and copper were associated with increased risk of death.
The link between supplement intake and death risk was strongest with iron.
Calcium supplements were associated with reduced risk.
The study's authors advise that vitamins "be used with a strong medically based cause," not for prevention alone. Murso says the findings focus on the higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease, cancer and "other causes," but the study didn't examine how supplements and vitamins might affect health. "There is much more research needed to begin to understand that," he says.
"This study is very puzzling and calls for more research," says Miriam Pappo, director of clinical nutrition at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. "I wouldn't conclude from this that you stop taking a standard multivitamin. Very few people eat the required amount of fruits and vegetables a day. It's best to get your daily needs from food, but few people do that."
A spokesman for the vitamin industry was skeptical. "The study may make for interesting scientific water cooler discussion, but certainly does not warrant sweeping, overstated concerns for elderly women," said a statement from Duffy MacKay of the Council for Responsible Nutrition.
Among the 38,772 women who started the study in 1986, 15,594 died within 19 years. Self-reported supplement use increased substantially from 1986 to 2004: 62.7 percent of women reported using at least one supplement daily in 1986, 75.1 percent in 1997 and 85.1 percent in 2004.
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Cookies and Cream
The cookies and cream couple shirt I bought from Love Chic's booth last bloggers united 4 was so lovely that I decided to wear it for our family's Christmas party last year. Although this post is a little overdue, I still find it worthy to be shared as 2012 was one of the best Christmas Party I ever celebrated with my family.
The celebration was really meaningful as it was joined by all my relatives and most especially the cookie of my life, Paolo.
Just a glimpse of my laidback Christmas outfit
Me & U Couple Shirt from LoveChic (Shai and Seph)
Pink Fashion Shorts, Bubbles Bangles
It was a fun party, we all exchanged gifts, ate (a number of different dishes), drink and even watch the kids dance! Holidays celebrated with family makes the season extra memorable.
Kids dancing Chacha
Nanay and Tatay
I may be an only child but I'm blessed with cousins who love me like their own sister. I am so blessed to have them.
My small, happy family :)
Divinagracias. My grandparents and their kids. My mom, aunt and uncles who stood as my parents when I was growing up.
Because we all love Tatay so much.
I hope you like this short yet cute post! I somehow enjoy sharing some personal posts along with outfit posts -- which I hope you don't mind. By the way, I'll be posting a giveaway really soon and I'll be giving aways Simone Fashion Closet items! Watch out for it :)
The Bargain Doll
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After 10 years, a new SimCity game is finally coming outMarch 6, 2013 8 Email article | Print article
Today marks a very important milestone for those of you who are like me and created (and destroyed) countless cities in the SimCity games. Whether it was in the original game, or the more recent SimCity 4, (yes, SimCity Societies does not exist) you’ll probably be excited with the news that a new game in the series is finally launching!
Simply called SimCity, the new game has been widely anticipated up to its launch, and early reviews of the game range from positive to absolutely glowing. The new SimCity features a more connected and social approach, allowing you to play games in regions with your friends’ cities neighboring yours. This allows you to work together to pool resources such as electricity, help each other using fire departments and even antagonize each other by pulling aforementioned power supply. But if you want your old SimCity, it’s there too — you can play in a region exclusive to yourself. Apart from the new features, the game has received a significant graphical overhaul and the result is the most gorgeous-looking SimCity game yet:
Here’s a TV ad that’s launching with the game:
The only downside to this connectivity is that the game will require a constant online connection to play, meaning it’s not unlike most online games out there today. Also, the great amount of anticipation leading up to the game’s release has resulted in some server-side problems ranging from issues to downloading the game to not even being able to log in and play. However, these issues should be ironed out in the next couple of days.
I already have my copy, and I’m ready to go (cannot wait)! If you don’t have yours yet, or this is the first time you’re hearing of it, give it a shot — I think everyone can enjoy the game. SimCity is available in a “Limited Edition” for $59.99 and a “Digital Deluxe Edition” with extra content for $79.99.
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This part will be easiest if we just start from scratch. So yes, forget everything else written before now. Unless I say otherwise. To be revoked at a later date upon my say so.
For various reasons I’m using pseudonyms. Because it amuses me I’m using animals. If you have a problem with it, well you’re not dating them, are you?
Hound Dog: Hound Dog and I have been together since the beginning of February of this year (2013 in case you’re not paying attention). We moved in together at the end of March and I am honestly as happy as I can remember being in a long, long time. We both feel as if we’ve been together for years. Hound is monogamous, but is making a huge effort – and believe me it is huge- to be OK with my polyamory. I anticipate writing some about the mono-poly struggle as we go along. But we’re being brief and summarizing here! Hound is older than I am by a little over a decade. He was in a bad accident about six years ago, and this has left him with ongoing medical and physical problems. That too has an effect on our relationship at times. I’m in this for the long term, but then aren’t I always? He brings me breakfast in bed and knows what kind of yogurt I like (I don’t, that’s another story.)
Bear: Bear and I are in the very beginnings of a relationship. We’re taking baby steps as Hound works on feeling jealous. Balancing the needs of a current partner with my own needs and also wanting to protect Bear from being hurt by any fallout is quite a juggling act, but I think I’m becoming better at it. Currently we’re at the point of having “day visits” and I’m much looking forward to our next one. Bear hugs like his namesake, and he also makes me very happy. He lives about four hours away but so far managing the long distance part seems doable. I miss him when he’s not here, but I also have someone to cuddle up with and snuggle up to and to love and kiss here. Bear doesn’t have a local relationship as of my writing of this (AFAIK, let me know if I got it wrong!).
Fox: I’ve known Fox for a decade and we started seeing each other somewhere around eight years ago. Now? I don’t know what to call us. I still love him, but we’re separated by 15 hours of driving, and I haven’t seen him in person for years now. We talk nearly daily, but not as often as we used to. Perhaps he is my sweetheart? I’ll find words someday. I call him caro mio meaning “my dear” or “my heart.” Fox is married in an open marriage and was already married when we started seeing each other. Love comes in all varieties.
Now you have reference material when I talk about things… and I know what names I’m supposed to call everyone!
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Cauliflower ear is a deformation of the ear typically caused by direct blunt trauma to the auricle and surrounding tissue. Classically experienced by wrestlers or boxers, the condition can be seen in any activity where significant shearing or impact forces are experienced by the pinna, leading to an auricular hematoma. The hematoma then elevates the auricular perichondrium from the underlying cartilage, devascularizing the cartilage. The blood accumulates in the subperichondrial space and if left untreated can lead to necrosis, infection, and loss of cartilage. Cauliflower ear is the product of the fibrocartilage and fibrosis that occurs upon the destruction of the auricular cartilage once it loses its blood supply.
Description of cauliflower ear dates back to early Roman and Greek history. Literary and artistic collections from that time are littered with accounts describing the deformed or damaged ears of wrestlers, boxers, or other pugilists. Medical appreciation for the affliction has a similar storied past. Though case descriptions can be found in the works of Hippocrates, more formal research into the disease did not begin until the mid-1800s. At that time, there was thought to be a second idiopathic cause behind the cauliflower ear to go along with the more obvious relationship to direct trauma. The idiopathic hypothesis derived from observations of the elderly and mentally insane. It wasn’t until the late 20th century that the more conventional understanding of cauliflower developed, paralleling more modern advances in the physiology of trauma and wound healing.
The exact prevalence of the cauliflower ear is not easily described in the literature. In general, the higher-level the athlete in an at-risk sport (wrestling, boxing, martial arts, rugby, etc.), the higher the prevalence of the cauliflower ear. One study of national-champion-level Finnish martial artists described a prevalence of auricular hematoma of 96%, with cauliflower ear seen in 84% of men.
Historically, researchers have debated the exact mechanism behind the formation of cauliflower ear. From a series of experiments conducted in the mid-1970s when weights were dropped on the ears of rabbits, researchers concluded hematomas in the intercartilaginous space were responsible for the deformity. However, further testing (and more rabbits), showed blood accumulation in the subperichondrial space was responsible for disrupting circulation to the anterior ear from the posterior auricular and superficial temporal arteries. This buildup leads to the necrosis of the ear’s healthy cartilage. The hematoma is then replaced by chondroblasts which form neocartilage. This process sets into action a cascade of fibrosis and contracture and the subsequent development of cauliflower ear.
Patients present with a history of trauma to the affected ear, usually during contact sports like wrestling, boxing, rugby, or increasingly, mixed martial arts. The ear appears red due to hematoma, swollen, and warm, while the patient may describe any combination of difficulty hearing, tinnitus, vision changes, pain, and/or a headache. If there is no concern for more underlying severe cranial pathology, then the practitioner should continue directly to treatment. If there has been any loss of consciousness or other neurologic symptoms, the workup of these may take precedence over the auricular hematoma depending on the individual scenario.
The strong relationship between trauma causing auricular hematomas should make practitioners suspicious of those individuals presenting with the signs described above, but who deny having undergone any reported trauma. Especially where children and the elderly are concerned, it is crucial that the possibility of abuse be entertained and screened for through a careful history and exam.
Cauliflower ear is a clinical diagnosis that requires no formal testing or imaging, but practitioners should be alert to any signs of concussion in any patient with a history of head trauma.
The management and treatment of cauliflower ear can take many forms depending on when the patient presents and the size and scope of the deformity. It should be noted from the outset that the cauliflower ear is potentially avoidable through the appropriate covering and protection of the ear during contact sports. This protection reduces or eliminates the types of blunt, shearing forces the ear experiences altogether and subsequently, the formation of an underlying hematoma. According to studies of wrestlers, the use of protective headgear can reduce the prevalence of auricular hematomas by up to 50%.
Any trauma to the head severe enough to injure the exterior ear mandates a thorough head and neck examination that includes the otoscopic inspection of the tympanic membranes, a cranial nerve examination, and a detailed neurologic examination. This helps ensure a more critical intracranial injury is not overlooked. If any focal deficits are noted, computed tomography of the head may be required.
The primary treatment for cauliflower ear is prevention. The best possible outcomes require early identification and management of the hematoma before cartilage death has occurred. Typically, this requires a patient be seen within the first six hours after the injury so that an emergency department provider can aspirate the underlying auricular hematoma and secure a bolster to prevent re-accumulation. This involves anesthetizing the distribution of the greater auricular nerve (often best achieved via a circum-auricular block) using lidocaine and epinephrine. This is followed by the insertion of an 18-gauge needle into the area of greatest fluctuance. If the patient is unfortunate enough to present outside the 6-hour period where aspiration is likely to be successful, a more invasive incision may be required to be sure to remove any blood that has begun to coagulate. Aspiration is always an appropriate first step, and if any palpable clot is still present, the needle incision can be gently probed with a hemostat or enlarged with a scalpel to allow bimanual expression of the clot before placing a bolster dressing.
By removing the pocket of blood, the perichondrium can reattach to the ear’s cartilage, preventing the loss of its valuable blood supply. Further aiding in the ear’s development of healthy cartilage, is the use of compressive dressings. A variety of compressive dressings are described in the literature including cotton bolsters, dental silicone, silicone rubber splints, or even auricular stents, but no one technique has been studied and deemed superior. Some sort of compressive bolster must be placed to eliminate the dead-space and re-appose the perichondrium or recurrence is assured.
Unfortunately, recurrence remains a frustrating complication of treating cauliflower ear. The most successful management of an auricular hematoma comes with the high likelihood that the blood will re-accumulate, particularly if no bolster was placed. These patients require close follow up to ensure there has been no re-accumulation (or to drain any re-accumulated fluid). Outpatient follow-up in three to five days after the injury is prudent.
For patients who present outside the window when auricular hematoma drainage is feasible, surgical intervention remains the mainstay of treatment. In general, surgical referral is appropriate for any patient with an existing cauliflower ear, where extensive fibrosis has already occurred. Once the surgery is settled upon, the exact approach can vary based on the degree and location of the underlying deformity. Some texts go so far as to classify the cauliflower ear into four distinct types, each requiring a unique reconstructive technique. The overall goal of surgery, however, remains the same regardless of surgical method, and that is to remove the damaging fibrocartilage without compromising the ear's structural integrity or its natural contours. If damage to the ear is so severe that simply removing the malformed cartilage does not equate to the desired cosmetic outcome, costal cartilage can be used to provide greater structural integrity. For these reasons, many plastic surgeons are loathed to operate on a mature cauliflower ear that is not causing obstruction of the external ear canal, simply advising protective headgear. This is especially true if the patient is continuing to engage in the high-risk activity.
If treated soon after the injury with appropriate drainage and bolster dressing, the prognosis is very good that the patient will not develop a cauliflower ear, or that the effects will be minimal. If the patient has a longstanding cauliflower ear and desires aesthetic improvement, the results are often extremely disappointing. This is a problem best prevented through protective sportswear, or through prompt recognition and treatment should it occur.
Recurrence is the major complication after the drainage of an auricular hematoma, abscess, or seroma, which can lead to a cauliflower ear if not appropriately managed. Complications of a cauliflower ear are typically aesthetic, though they can very occasionally be painful or lead to obstructive symptoms of the external auditory canal.
If the physician is uncomfortable managing an auricular hematoma, seroma, or abscess, emergent consultation to an otolaryngologist, facial plastic surgeon, or plastic surgeon is required.
Patients with cauliflower ear may present to the emergency department physician, nurse practitioner, primary care provider or the sports physician. While the diagnosis is simple, the management can be difficult. In acute cases, aspiration is sufficient. The key is to educate the patient on prevention while playing sports. Unfortunately, recurrences are common if not managed appropriately. The cauliflower usually imparts poor aesthetics which cannot be reversed.
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A subtle hint of woodsy smoke is one of our absolute favorite flavors in a dish - meat-based or vegetarian. Of course, cooking food on a charcoal grill will give us the flavor we crave, but we can think of a few more ways...
1. Make an Indoor Smoker: It's not as hard as you might think and can be done quite easily on your stove top using a wok and a grilling grate. Here's how - but don't forget to take the battery out of your smoke alarm!
2. Add a Strip or Two of Bacon: Cut the bacon into pieces and render out the fat before any other cooking. Use the rendered bacon fat to cook the rest of the ingredients and then add the bacon back in at the end for a subtle smokiness. Smoked chorizo, tasso, and other cured meats also work very well here.
3. Cook with a Dark Smoky Beer: Used in a marinade or substituted for some of the broth, dark beers will add a very nice undertone to the dish. Look for porters and stouts, and ask the sales person for help with flavor profiles. For smokiness, we like cooking with Guinness and the smoked porter from Stone Brewing Company.
4. Use Liquid Smoke: Some people consider this cheating, but we think it makes sense for small apartment living when grilling isn't possible. Liquid smoke is actually an all-natural product and adds great smoky flavor to slow-cooked braises and stews.
5. Add Lapsang Souchong: A few teaspoons of this tea works well for adding smoky flavors to vegetarian dishes. Buy the tea looseleaf from a reliable seller and grind it into a powder using a spice grinder.
6. Add Molasses: Molasses is a common ingredient in a lot of barbecue sauces, and we can take advantage of its dark, earthy flavor to add smoky depth to glazes, sauces, and even soups. Start with one tablespoon and add more as desired.
7. Use Smoked Spices: Some spices come with their own smoky flavor, like cumin, while others have been smoked before being ground, like smoked paprika. Add a half teaspoon at a time until you get the flavor you want.
8. Sprinkle on Smoked Salt: Use smoked salt as a finishing touch, particularly on individual dishes like hamburgers or over a pasta dish. Don't bother adding smoked salt to things like whole pots of soup - you can wind up over-salting the dish before you can even taste the smoke.
What other ways do you add "smoky" to a dish?
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The Christian faith presents as its central image a bleeding man dying a cruel death on a Roman cross. We say that this Friday-afternoon misery was the central event in both human and divine history. We most often emphasize that the cross was redemptive — it opened the door to the world’s salvation. But it was also representative -- it signifies and represents our human story. And Christians believe it signifies and represents God’s story as well.
We live in a cross-shaped world.
I was reminded of this in quite unexpected ways over the weekend in Washington. I was in D.C. with a group of Mercer students who were culminating their class on the Holocaust with me. On Friday we spent the day in the Holocaust Museum. Having been there so many times with students, I decided this time to focus my attention on visual images rather than the familiar text that accompanies those images.
Often I avoid looking at the gruesome images at the beginning and end of the museum. This is video footage shot as the Allied troops liberated the concentration camps: Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen. It has been a long time since I forced myself to look at the emaciated bodies of both the living and the dead. I was especially horrified to view the footage of the lifeless dead being taken to mass graves, moving in unsettling contortions as they were carried and dragged. It had been a long time since I had looked at such images.
On Friday night I took the students to a Conservative Jewish synagogue in Washington. We were hosted so warmly by the rabbi, who kindly narrated the almost exclusively Hebrew prayer service. After Shabbat dinner, he spent an hour with us answering our questions about Judaism, the Christian-Jewish split in the 1st century, and how Jews view Christianity. He was both honest and gracious. Guards in the parking lot and the entry to the synagogue reminded us that Jewish houses of worship are sometimes targets, even here. Few churches post guards.
Finally on Sunday morning we went to a mass at a Northern Virginia Catholic church. It was Palm Sunday, and the liturgy included a lengthy reading from the Passion story in Mark.
While the story was being read, I was transfixed by the crucifix at the front of the church. Its depiction of Jesus showed a somewhat frail man whose body was contorted very painfully as he endured his suffering. I remembered reading that those who were crucified found it very difficult to breathe. This Jesus looked like he was struggling for breath as he shifted his weight on the cross.
Meanwhile, the Passion story was being read. The Catholic Church has taken great pains since Vatican II to tell the story of the death of Jesus in such a way that all humans, and not just “the Jews,” bear the responsibility for his crucifixion. So when it came time to yell “crucify him,” we all did. But the text also contains its unchanged and unchangeable elements that tell the story of Christ’s death in such a way as to implicate Jewish religious leaders at least as much as Pontius Pilate.
So as I looked upon the cross on Sunday, at one level I saw what most Christians usually see: my beloved Savior, dying for me and for the world. At another level, looking at his contorted, twisted body, I saw the bodies at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, being thrown into their mass graves. Jesus was at that moment being made into yet one more contorted, abused body to add to the massive pile of bodies that have been destroyed in the whole history of humanity.
But I saw Jesus as not just a crucified God, or a crucified human, but a crucified Jew. He was a Jew who suffered at pagan hands. In this sense he was representative of all Jews who have suffered at pagan hands. His contorted body represents all such Jewish bodies, whether at Auschwitz or anywhere else. Jesus’ death represents the historic suffering of the Jewish people.
And often the Jewish people have suffered at Christian hands. And sometimes they have suffered at Christian hands during Holy Week, because of the passions Christians have felt as they have encountered his horrific Passion. So the cross also represents the Jewish experience of persecution at Christian hands -- ironically, often in some misplaced attempt to "defend" the Jew killed there.
Christians believe God incarnate died on that cross. So the cross also represents not just the culmination of God’s suffering at human hands but also every particular instance of that suffering -- like, for example, when some made in God’s image have killed others made in God’s image, in the name of God.
We do indeed live in a cross-shaped world.
David Gushee is distinguished university professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University.
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Ask Chris #134: The Dubious Continuity Of ‘Rudolph’s Shiny New Year’
Over a lifetime of reading comics, Senior Writer Chris Sims has developed an inexhaustible arsenal of facts and opinions. That’s why, each and every week, we turn to you to put his comics culture knowledge to the test as he responds to your reader questions!
Q: What’s up with Rudolph’s Shiny New Year? Is it so perfect there are no other New Years specials? — @otherhoffman
A: I’ve talked about my pure, unconditional love for the various Rankin/Bass stop-motion Christmas specials in past columns, but let me tell you, “what’s up with Rudolph’s Shiny New Year” is a question I have asked myself on many occasions. I’m not sure if I’d call it perfect, but even stacked up against Santa Claus being raised by a lioness and fighting war against the goblins and an Ani-Magic redhead trying to seduce the Lord of All Vampires, it is downright bizarre.
The thing about Rudolph is that he’s… well, he’s exactly what they say he is in the song: He’s the most famous reindeer of all, and that makes him an incredibly lucrative property. Gene Autry’s recording of the song reigned as the second-best-selling record of all time until the ’80s, presumably because it took something as awesome as Thriller to finally knock it a few pegs down the charts, and DC published an annual Christmas comic about him for thirteen years. And that was before the 1964 TV special made him even more of a household name.
Taking all that into account, it’s obvious why they’d want to make more Rudolph stories. The problem is that when you get right down to it, Rudolph’s pretty firmly tied into doing one thing. His arch-nemesis is fog, and he manages to overcome that little problem about two minutes into the song. He’s pretty limited in that respect, and the comics back that up — DC in the ’50s specialized in finding new things to do with limited power sets, so those stories tended to be about Rudolph using his nose as a signal flare to save Santa or heading down into dark coal mines. I love ’em, but they’re a lot like that Simpsons bit about “Knight Boat.” There’s always a fjord, metaphorically speaking.
But in 1975, Rankin/Bass decided to bypass that little limitation by making a sequel to the original story that pretty much just went insane, based around the X-Menesque themes of being a misfit and that line about all of the other reindeer laughing and calling Rudolph names rather than anything that was really recognizably Christmasy. Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty of Christmas imagery in here, but it’s kind of like how the people behind Japanese Spider-Man knew that Spider-Man was about a cool teen with spider powers and that there was newspaper photography involved somehow, so they made him a motorcycle stunt racer who got web-shooters and a giant samurai robot from Garia, the Alien Warlord of Planet Spider, and gave his girlfriend a job as a reporter.
That’s what Rudolph’s Shiny New Year is like. It’s the Japanese Spider-Man of holiday specials. Feel free to put that on the DVD box.
It doesn’t wait around before it starts to get weird, either: Not only is Shiny New Year a direct sequel to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (and the second part of the Rankin/Bass Rudolph trilogy), it takes place immediately after. Like, on the same day. According to narrator and alleged comedian Red Skelton, this adventure happens on “that very same night” as that Christmas where Rudolph guided the sleigh through the fog. Apparently Santa finished delivering his toys, and rolled back home to put on a three-piece suit to check his mail.
Santa is classy as heck, y’all. Never forget that.
Anyway, the mail contains a bit of bad news from Father Time, who is writing to inform Santa that Happy the Baby New Year has gone missing, and if he doesn’t come back, it’ll just be December 31st forever. This is our first hint that Shiny New Year‘s attitude towards time and space might be slightly less firm than, say, Doctor Who‘s, but believe me, it’ll get worse.
Santa obviously wants to help out, but since it’s such a legendarily foggy and snowy night, nobody would be able to spot Happy even if they sent out a search party. Except, of course, for Rudolph, who has become Santa’s go-to man (er, deer) for this sort of thing after exactly one day. He sends Rudolph out with an ambulatory stopwatch named Ticker who speaks in rhyme so they can go get the lowdown from Father Time. So naturally, they walk from the North Pole to the desert right next door where they must cross the sands while following a star on Christmas Eve with the help of a talking camel named Quarter To Three.
Remember how I said the Christmas imagery was like Japanese Spider-Man? This would be the major factor. There’s a desert and a star to follow, but it’s all weirdly divorced from the source material.
Anyway, they get there and Father Time explains through the beauty of Ani-Magic Musical Numbers how time works as a series of babies that grow up and then die over the span of a year, all while cheerily swinging around a scythe:
The death imagery of Father Time and the Old Year is pretty solidly established, but man, it is weird and creepy to see a smiling reminder that all will die and be reaped by the ongoing inexorable march of time singing a funeral dirge to a puppet of Rudolph is pretty darn weird.
Father Time gives Rudolph the skinny about Happy and how he has comically large ears, and ran away — or toddled away, at least — because people kept laughing at him. Rudolph is pretty upset by this turn of events, and to the show’s credit, Billie Mae Richards does a pretty amazing job of making a line like “I bet they wouldn’t even let him play any… New Year’s games” seem heartfelt and genuine. Still, it raises a bunch of questions about how this whole Baby New Year thing is supposed to work.
I mean, not to get all Warren Ellis or anything, but shouldn’t the baby be born when the new year arrives instead of toddling around as early as late December? Was 1976 born premature? Is there some Moms New Year out there getting pregnant in March? These are the kind of things that keep me awake at night, and they’re never really explained. Which is probably for the best.
What is explained is how the increasingly nebulous concept of time works in the Rudolphverse. See, despite Father Time’s earlier chat about how nothing can stop the progression of time (and my own line about the old year dying and shots of scythes and whatnot), it turns out that all the past years are still alive and well, living in an archipelago where each island is devoted to a particular year:
And not really even that, they’re more devoted to one particular thing that happened during that year. Rudolph mentions that “1492 was too busy discovering things,” which means they’re choosing to skip over the death of Lorenzo de Medici and the ascension of Rodrigo Borgia as Pope Alexander VI — presumably because Rankin and Bass had never played Assassin’s Creed — and in 1776, they celebrate the 4th of July every single day. And… how are there even days?! How do they measure time in the land beyond time?! Is it just always the 4th of July there and Rudolph and his bros just perceive it as linear time because their minds can’t comprehend anything else? So confusing.
And it gets even weirder when their search takes them to 1023, the year when, according to Red Skelton, every fairy tale actually happened:
On the bright side, the embodiment of 1023 is played by Frank Gorshin, as is that weird camel from earlier.
The best year, though, is unquestionably One Million Years BC, as it features both a) The Dick Van Dyke Show‘s Morey Amsterdam as a caveman, and b) a choir of dinosaurs:
I would probably buy an ankylosaurus solo album.
Further complicating matters is the presence of Eon the Terrible, a weird vulture monster who lives for an eon (hence the name), which happens to end on December 31:
So obviously, it wants to kidnap and enslave Baby New Year so that it will never turn into ice and snow. Obviously.
There is also a whale involved.
Eventually, Rudolph and his new pals rescue Happy from Eon, but it’s right at the stroke of midnight on December 31st, which means they have until “the twelfth bong” (hilarious) to get him back to Father Time’s castle. Which of course means that the real hero of the story, Santa Claus, has to show up with his sleigh that’s fast enough to get around the world in a single night and take him back.
And again, so many questions: It takes Rudolph the whole six days to finish this little task and save the entirety of the timestream, when I’m pretty sure Santa could get that s-word done in about five minutes. Seriously, they’re looking for a little kid, and you know who’s really good at finding kids because he sees them when they’re sleeping and knows when they’re awake? Santa Claus! I mean, yeah, he gets the call after he gets home on Christmas Eve, but it’s not like he’s going to sleep for the next week or anything. And now that I think of it, Rudolph didn’t even fly until the last two minutes! He had to ride boats and whales to all these islands!
But I guess the point is that Rudolph saves the concept of time by hanging out with Morey Amsterdam and Frank Gorshin until he finds a big-eared baby on the first bong. And that’s… the true meaning of New Year’s.
Of course, it all really comes to a head in the third part of the trilogy, in which Rudolph and Frosty team up to stop the evil wizard Winterbolt from robbing a circus with the genie of the ice scepter, but I guess I’ll get around to that in about seven months. Happy New Year!
That’s all we have for this week, but if you’ve got a question you’d like to see Chris tackle in a future column, just send it to @theisb on Twitter with the hashtag #AskChris, or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.org with [Ask Chris] in the subject line!
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On holding a consultation among the commanders of the three caravels, we came to a resolution of proceeding about an hundred miles up the river, in hopes of meeting with a less ferocious, and better disposed people in the interior, than those we had encountered at the mouth of this river: But the sailors were impatient to return home, without incurring any farther dangers, and unanimously and loudly refused their consent to our determination, declaring that they had already done enough for the present voyage. Upon this being made known to us, and being well aware that seamen are of headstrong and obstinate dispositions, we conceded to their clamours, and steered next day for Cape Verd, on our return to Portugal.
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Senegal; so that the voyagers probably anchored every night within
sight of the scarcely known coast.—E.
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by Denis Fernandez,
nine years before.—Clarke.
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which, having gone through various transcriptions and translations,
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intermixed with sunk rocks, extends two miles out to sea.—E.
Called the Birds islands, or the Magdalens.—Clarke.
In Ramusio these fish are called Orate vecchis,
and in Grynaeus
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of Goree, and the Red Cape.—E.
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farther south. There is a small island named Fetti, off its northern
entrance, of which no notice is taken by Cada Mosto. The natives on
this part of the coast, to the north of the Gambia, are now called
From the sequel, I am apt to conclude that this
second river is the
Barbasini of our charts; and that the river named Barbasini in the
text of Cada Mosto, is that named Joall in modern charts.—E.
Cada Mosto betrays strange ignorance of the previous
the Portuguese, considering that he had resided some time with Don
Henry at Sagres. This fine river was discovered in 1447, nine years
before, by Nuno Tristan, who ascended it some way, and was slain there
by the poisoned arrows of the Negroes. Perhaps even Don Henry was
misled by the name of Rio Grande which it then received, and confused
the Venetian in his search for the Gambia.—Clarke.
From this it would appear, that Gambra or Gambia
is the name of the
country, not of the river. Johnson says that the natives always call
it Gee, which merely signifies the river.—Astl.
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Good Samaritan Who Found Missing Philadelphia Girl To Be Rewarded $10K
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The man who helped an abducted girl reunite with her family will receive a $10,000 reward, according to city officials.
Police say the Good Samaritan, identified as 27-year-old sanitation worker Nelson Mandela Myers, found the child early Tuesday morning near the 69th Street SEPTA Transportation Center in Upper Darby.
Investigators believe the child, who was taken from a West Philadelphia school Monday morning and found, was “targeted.”
Authorities say the five-year-old girl was seen being escorted out of Bryant Elementary School at 60th and Cedar Avenue Monday morning by an unknown woman.
Police say Myers — who spoke at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon — was walking to work around 4:30 a.m. found the girl under the bleachers of an athletic field along Marshall Road after he heard her crying.
Listen to the press conference…
“She told [Myers] that she was taken from school,” said Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood earlier on Tuesday.
Chitwood say the child was found crying, shivering and wearing only a t-shirt. He asked the Good Samaritan if the girl seemed injured and the man told him it looked like the young girl had cuts on her lip.
The young victim was taken to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for examination and was later released to her family.
Chitwood says in addition to the female suspect, investigators believe a male suspect may also be involved. Chitwood say the young girl told investigators she remembers getting into a car with the female suspect and then going to a home where a male suspect was staying.
Chitwood also said the victim told investigators she escaped from her abductors.
“Basically she says to the Good Samaritan that she ran away from the people that took her,” Chitwood said.
The athletic field where the girl was found by Myers was approximiatey a mile from the girl’s school.
School surveillance video captured a woman dressed in a burqa leaving the school with the girl shortly before 9 a.m. on Monday.
Investigators say the woman did not show ID, but said she was the child’s mother and asked for her by name. The woman told school officials she was taking the girl to breakfast.
During a news conference Tuesday morning, Special Victims Unit Captain John Darby said the child was targeted and that it was not a random abduction.
Darby said the female suspect was possibly pregnant and knew what she had to do when it came to removing the child from the school. The female suspect is described as a black in female in her 20s, between 5’5″-5’6″ and wearing Muslim garb.
Darby said neither of the child’s parents gave permission for the child to be taken out of school.
Capt. Darby said because of the way the young girl was found, Darby said she was partially clothed, she was being screened for a possible sexual assault.
Listen To Podcast Of Capt. Darby’s News Conference:
The School District of Philadelphia is investigating the incident, saying it was a complete breakdown of protocol.
“This is very upsetting,” says spokesman Fernando Gallard, “that an adult was able to walk into a school building, able to go to a classroom, and to pick up a child and say the child has been checked out, and then walk out with the child.”
The investigation is being jointly handled by the Philadelphia Police Department and the Upper Darby Police Department.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the Special Victims Unit at 215.685.3251/52/53.
CBSPhilly is no longer identifying the child, who was previously identified via an Amber Alert, because she may be a possible victim of a sexual assault.
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Buying skin care online can be like the Wild West and reviews from other people are the best way to get a feel for a product.
Unless the reviews are fake.
This week, skin care brand Sunday Riley (you might know them as the maker of Good Genes lactic acid treatment) settled with Federal Trade Commission over allegations that Sunday Riley faked reviews on Sephora’s website in order to boost sales for nearly two years.
I’m not gonna lie, this story is super dark to me. Companies are deceptive. (Hi, welcome to life.) That’s not news but when something like this comes up, it’s insane HOW shady they can actually be.
According to the complaint, company CEO and namesake Sunday Riley instructed staff to each create two-to-three different (fake) accounts on Sephora’s website. They made up names, cities and skin types for each their fake personas and also set up burner email accounts for each one. They were told to downvote negative reviews to bounce them off the page. They also were allegedly given step-by-step instructions on how to hide their IP addresses so Sephora wouldn’t clock them. (This sounds like some serious dark web shit.)
While the company didn’t technically admit to any wrongdoing this past week — only that they won’t do it in the future — the brand didn’t deny it. I personally treat these things like a Kardashian scandal: when fake rumors surface about the famous family, they immediately speak out to set the record straight. When the rumors are true, they go radio silent before releasing a statement.
Sunday Riley did the latter two years ago. After a post on Reddit went viral that the company was having employees write fake reviews, the brand posted on its Instagram that it “did encourage people to post positive reviews at the launch of this product.” Annnnnnnd that’s when the FTC got involved.
I bought my first bottle of Good Genes ($158 – which, yikes) and I remember reading the reviews on Sephora. They were glowing and I knew I needed to have this product. Don’t get me wrong, Good Genes worked fine, felt luxurious and looked amazing on a shelf. Then, after a while, I realized there were other great acids (Good Genes is a lactic acid treatment, an alpha hydroxy acid) I could use for way less. Farmacy Honeymoon Glow is a pretty much a dupe of Good Genes for $58 which is $100 cheaper than Good Genes. Tarte Knockout (though a liquid as oppose to GG’s creamy serum) is $39.
This is an icky situation for couple reasons, the biggest one being that brands can just lie and then settle with (aka pay off) FTC to make it go away. It also makes me wonder what other companies are doing this.
I think cancel culture is stupid because life is nuanced but I’m glad buyers have been vocal about how bad this is. We work hard for our money and we want to know we can trust the recs we get.
Good luck out there.
Gia Mazur is an award-winning staff writer and beauty obsessive who joined The Times-Tribune’s Lifestyles department in 2015. She’s a product enthusiast who can’t live without an eyelash curler. A proud Virgo, Charlotte Tilbury Matte Revolution Lipstick in Pillow Talk is her go-to. Contact: email@example.com; 570-348-9127; @gmazurTT
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Mambo Storm from the East
Passionate dancer, instructor, event and festival organizer
Based in Dubai, UAE, Chris started his Latin dance career in 2000 and shortly after, he already become an icon of having good times in salsa world :)
After running successful dance school and weekly Latin nights, this super positive and cheerful guy has been improving his skills in that roll since then. As a DJ, he perform in other countries like Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, Austria, Hungary Czech Republic and Spain.
He also got the chance to make the concept and organize Malta Dance Festival where he gathered amazing crew of dancers and friends.
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This is a park with a pedigree.
It surely was kismet when a Rockefeller helped create a pocket-sized, jewel-box of a public park in Gotham back in 1971.
Creating a park in that era was an investment - a sign of hope for the future of a city that some thought wasn’t worth it -- even the American president in 1975 offered a kind of Bronx cheer to the citizens of New York City.
Today, NYC can truly be thought of as the “shining city on the hill” that other American presidents from Kennedy to Reagan emphasized when referring to America.
But we really are that city! Everyone who moves to New York City comes with a dream. To be the best. To feel that urban frisson and work with all kinds of people. And contribute to our shared community.
Recently, I was privileged to be part of a garden tour with our Metro Hort group - the “association of professional horticulturists in New York City and the the tri-state region.”
I so appreciate this working group of professionals - we meet at the Fifth Avenue/Central Park Armory in the winter for lectures and how-to’s and bonhomie - in order to increase our knowledge and skills, and in the warmer months, we tour outstanding gardens and parks, organized and led by the respected hort professional, Sabine Stetzenbach - who I had the honor to work with at The New York Botanical Garden
First up this season was the outstanding public garden: Greenacre Park.
I think I have it right that we were the first professionals to be invited and accorded a full tour by the Greenacre Foundation staff who manage, operate, and maintain this urban arcadia. Our Greenacre hosts were Joe Renaghan and Lois Cremmins.
I’m kind of embarrassed to say that I never visited this park previously. Don’t repeat my mistake. This is a must-see; trust me.
In an elevated, theatric sense of style, you enter this garden space by stepping up into it. You alight upon it. There is that sense of arrival -- leaving the street and - like crossing a threshold - entering another world. It’s indeed one of the more glamorous gardens I’ve seen - and I mean to compare it estate gardens, as well as parks and parts of botanic gardens.
In addition to the sheer delight taking in the trees, perennial plants, and that majestic 25-foot waterfall over granite that makes living in New York -- or any urban environment where one is delighted to discover so much dramatic nature and beauty - (just as in New York’s Central Park) - it’s important to note these urban oasis’ are a designed and built environment.
While I’m not entirely sure, I do think that many New Yorkers - and others - believe the parks - and for that matter - the botanical gardens - are preserved remnants or remains of what was once a more native landscape.
However, the truth is, all of our parks and gardens and public spaces have been professionally designed. With love.
Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
Given all the jewel-like references to Greenacre Park, it seems quite appropriate to learn this gem of a park had a woman steering its creation and design. A rich woman too.
Abby Rockefeller Mauzė - granddaughter of the industrialist John D. Rockefeller Sr. gifted the park to the people of New York in October of 1971. With love. And she dedicated the park to her brother Laurence and his associate Allston Boyer, for their help in getting the park created.
She directed the cobbling together of three lots via the Greenacre Foundation that continues to manage the park today. Gail O. Caulkins, the president of the Greenacre Foundation is Mauzė’s granddaughter.
As part of our tour of this “vest-pocket” garden park, the Metro Hort members sort of clung to the hosts and speakers like so many hens and chicks - clinging to the mother plant - to absorb the privileged news and inside, first-hand information and lore. (And to hear over the roar of the waterfall.)
Don’t you just adore garden history? It’s all so precious with its links to money, heritage, locale, and politics and personalities.
The story unfolded… In the 1970’s, there were lots of empty lots in New York City.
Hard to believe it now when there is so much over-construction - (more on that later.)
With a desire to create a public garden, Abby Rockefeller Mauzė established the Greenacre Foundation to fund and maintain a very special space: roughly 60-feet wide by 120-feet deep.
Greenacre describes the space as “slightly smaller than a tennis court.” We’ll take the tennis “love.”
See, good things do come in small packages…
So it’s all the more dismaying to later learn that this gift to the people of New York is being besmirched in that harm will come to the jewel box after developers steal the light.
The look of the park, designed by Sasaki -- Sasaki, Dawson, DeMay Associates with Masao Kinoshita as lead designer and Hideo Sasaki and Tom Wirth - has remained true to the original design. It’s a classic, cultural landscape.
We learned, too, that Mr. Sasaki is still alive and visits the park. He made a surprise spring appearance and contributed to the spring pruning!
The park is comprised of three levels:
- The rear wall at the lowest level is punctuated by the 25-foot waterfall
- The central area, paved with russet brick and layered with tree canopy and seating
- A raised terrace along the west wall with a trellis roof of weathered steel beams and transparent acrylic vaults. There are heating elements there, built into the trellis roof.
These sturdy yet delicate trees provide the much-needed and enjoyed “dappled shade” that visitors embrace and the designer planned for.
We learned these trees are living in giant container pots under the hardscape!
It’s a very unique design, described Lois Cremmins, Executive Director, Greenacre Foundation. “There are large pots beneath us, each with its own irrigation system.”
More magic beneath our feet.
Accessorizing the interior design of the park are mid-century Knoll tables and chairs.
Park goers can arrange them to create their own conversation pods and reading nooks.
We were told that visitors also come to practice yoga, propose marriage, and all kinds of connections.
I asked what the funniest things were that happened in the park -- after all, it is New York City. “There was the time a woman tried to wash her hair in the waterfall pool; and the lady in the winter of ‘72 who dove in the water in her dress -- only to be outdone by the woman who stripped naked to dive in… Ah, the theater of a public park…
We were told that from a construction standpoint, the park is unique because it was built from the “inside out.”
There was a crane on 51st Street that dropped in the granite back wall for the waterfall first, with three pumps. We were told it’s an imperative to keep those pumps in tip-top working order because it would be very cost prohibitive to replace the pumps.
Next, the blocks went in. The stone is gorgeous and dramatic too; a kind of stone art on the walls.
Trickles of water collect from the base of the highly textured ashlar masonry of the east wall and feed into the runnel.
On the west side, the higher terrace, is covered by trellising and acrylic domes, to provide a protected overlook down into the garden.
It’s a lovely perch to view the lower level of the park. And it shows what good garden design can do in spite of the size.
The designers created a sense of movement within the distinct “garden rooms” and offer elevation and movement with the different levels.
It’s a very transporting experience - a delight for the senses.
There’s no doubt the crowning glory of the space is the Greenacre Park waterfall.
The roar of the falling water is a kind of “white noise,” designed to block out ambient urban noise.
The Foundation is testing LED lighting for the waterfall now to replace the previous ones corroded five years ago. The Fisher Marantz lighting designers will complete the work by November. All the evening lighting is managed with a timer.
Here I am with Greenacre Park manager, Joe Renaghan. When I asked him what he did with the Park and he told me he was the manager I looked skeptical, saying I’d never met a park manager who worked in a suit. Without skipping a beat he told me, “I work for the Rockefellers.” So there you go. Gotta love a gentleman urban farmer / gardener!
There is Boston Ivy clinging to the walls.
There are ilex shrubs as part of the evergreen plant portfolio. There are other low-light shrubs, including azaleas, rhododendron, andromeda - Pieris Japonica , Japanese Maple, Star Magnolia, to name a few. “We see what plants do well, “ added Cremmins. I especially enjoyed the crape myrtle, the Japanese umbrella pine and mock orange.
Sabine and her team from Town & Gardens are tasked with selecting the annual plant palette in the bowl and upright containers. They change out the plants two times a season, refurbishing the soil, pinching, pruning and providing plant love.
The colors and the textures just pop!
While the T&G team does the heavy hort work, Charlie Weston is the resident park maintenance guru for the park and has been there since the park opened! Talk about committed passion for a garden…
Can You See Me Now?
Greenacre has organized a “Fight for Light” campaign backed by the Municipal Art Society; New Yorkers for Parks; Gale A. Brewer, the Manhattan borough president; and City Councilman Daniel R. Garodnick, whose district includes the park.
Why? Because the simple reason is there is too much high-rise building approved that will produce so much shadow that the park will lose light.
Light for people; light for plants; light for life.
I read that as part of the Greenacre Park’s dedication by the City Parks Commissioner, August Heckscher said, the Greenacre “... places no burden on the city, which makes no demands, which asks of us only that we cherish it.”
Why don’t we cherish it now? I can only speculate. Greed comes to mind…
Here is my kinda garden rant:
Look, horticulturists and garden lovers understand that change is a matter of course.
Nature and time change things. We get that. And so just like that, neighborhoods change too.
But there needs to be an element to managing a sustainable change. Let’s not wholesale sell our neighborhoods away to building and real estate and the promise of profits for a few.
Let’s be realistic. Don’t you think there should be shared “sacrifice” so to speak? We can’t allow the few to be “Takers.”
And make no mistake, if the continued construction of these huge buildings continues, there is a quality of life that will be taken -- taken away forever from the people who live and work in the neighborhoods.
There is some cosmic comedy at play that is traces the thoughtless “Takers” in real estate development and city government and the “dark side” because of their ability to permanently create dark spaces in our life.
Don’t let this happen.
To continue to use the metaphorical - I hope that we can effectively combat the forces of darkness to preserve the light -- and the beauty of our gardens and parks.
Don’t get me wrong - I adore “Shadow Art.” So much so that I have a Pinterest board devoted to the interplay of light and shadow. But that s a natural, ephemeral, moment of beauty.
What we’re being subjected to in the case of Greenacre Park is the permanent “shading” of the space - as in “pulling the shade” and “lights out.”
Let there be Light
There isn’t a living soul who isn’t charmed by the romance and beauty of this garden park. Tourists, locals - residents and office workers.
So why smite those who only asked us to “cherish the space.” Why indeed? Again, all signs point to selfish greed.
Building bigger and higher. For what? Half the time people don’t permanently live in these structures.
Paley Park has lost light as you can see in the photos below. I adore Paley Park - I ate breakfast and lunch there for so many years… It was a gift everyday to find a spot and soak in the ambience of water, oxygen, people and light.
I deplore the deliberate, calculated destruction of its environment just as I do that of Greenacre Park.
Think of this destruction of our parks as similar to that of the Amazon rainforest or the wholesale change in habitat in Africa or our seas.
Environmental destruction is a kind of creep. It catches us all unawares.
Next thing you know there is the man-made horrors of the Dust Bowl or the famine in Africa due to clearing of the trees…
We need to get mad - get angry enough to change this creep from occurring.
Nothing gets between a New Yorker and our parks. Remember when Bette Midler organized protests against the Giuliani administration to prevent them taking away community gardens? The running joke was that Rudy could bust the mafia but he couldn’t break the gardeners’ will. He bowed to the green enthusiasts. Bette created the New York Restoration Project that continues to honor art and beauty in our city.
If these gigantic buildings are allowed to continue - it has truly giant ramifications - not just for Greenacre Park but for other parks, for community gardens, for our quality of life.
Rezoning should be an issue that we all have a voice in. We need the power to control the element of light in our lives.
What to do?
Care enough to make a difference for Greenacre - and other parks.
- Like and follow Greenacre on social media - @greenacreparkny
- Join their mailing list to receive alerts.
- Text GREENACRE to 22828 to get started.
- Go to www.FightForLight.nyc and send emails to Mayor Bill de Blasio urging him and his administration to preserve the sunlight
- Commend Borough President Gale Brewer and Councilman Daniel Garodnick for their support of the Fight for Light
Think of this like Tinkerbell in Peter Pan. If we stop clapping - or caring -- the light. Goes. Out.
I tell my own garden clients and often say at speaking engagements I’m privileged to talk at - that healthy plants need three things: water, sun, and love.
Can you show the love?
The Greenacre garden / park is open from the first week week in April to early winter.
You can get to the Park via public transportation: take the 4,6 and get off at the 51st Street station or the E, M to the 53rd Street station.
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Three shipyards of Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) simultaneously laid the keels of six future vessels for the country’s navy on Monday, August 23.
In a ceremony with President Vladimir Putin attending via videoconference as guest of honour, the keels were laid for two Project 955A nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines at Sevmash Shipyard, two Project 636.3 diesel-electric attack submarines at Admiralty Shipyard, and a Project 20380 and Project 20385 corvette at Amur Shipyard.
The navy expects these six new vessels will be commissioned into service during the 2022-2027 timeframe.
The best maritime site on the web. The sea's our scene!
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Internet Entertainment Portal
If you hold a position as the head of IT for an organization you can surely relate to the requests for advice concerning technology trends that come from your friends and coworkers. In the past it might have been; should I upgrade to the next version of Windows, or go with DSL or cable modems. Recently more questions arise about digital entertain and should I switch to the latest greatest broadband driven provider. Instead of offering advice I thought I would offer speculation. It seems to me that it is time for the next killer digital application that I will refer to as the Video Entertainment Portal. I define that as a digital aggregator for all video entertainment accessible via the Internet.
Here are the factors that I believe drive this opportunity. First Cable TV is obsolete and over priced. They will not be able to adapt to the transition of entertainment on demand. Second DVR has got to be getting the attention of the commercial advertising market. I will intentionally go perform some household chore for 15 minutes and then start watching a TV show so that I can skip the commercials thanks to the DVR. Third, most everything you want to watch is available somewhere on the Internet. Fourth, video on demand is more affordable. Netflix iTunes continues to pioneer this.
So what is this Digital Entertainment Portal? It is hardware and software. It is hardware in the form of Apple’s iTV except open. It is software in the tradition of any good Internet Portal except that it is integrated with a remote control device as in the tradition of the TV remote. What it does is allow you to aggregate all of the possible sources for Internet Video. It handles issues of subscriptions so NetFlix and iTunes can expand their reach. And it acts as a DVR for the remaining live TV shows. But most of all it guarantees some level of advertising eye contact. This ensures that the content producers still have a way to generate revenue. The trade off is that we still have to sit through commercials, but not as many, but the return for the advertiser is a higher qualified viewing hit rate.
So when do we see this product and what will it look like. Today it could be a new Apple Mini with someone creating this super Internet Portal Package. Or it could be a black box computer running Linux with a portal package. Outside shots could make it an Xbox or PlayStation, but that market doesn’t want to promote other forms of entertainment. What do you think it will be? I just know that I am ready to invest in a computer that I believe has the greatest opportunity to become that device. And you know what, it may also have a HD DVD or Blu Ray player, but it does not have to.
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n 2011, the editors at Hospitality Technology
are promoting a fresh approach. It’s what we’re suggesting for achieving your “2011 Resolutions
” in our January/February cover story, and we’re putting freshness to work at HT
, too. The design team has been working on a new look for the magazine, while our web team has been focusing on bringing you a more personalized experience at htmagazine.com.
If you missed it, take a peek at the January/February 2011 cover and you will see our new logo (hey, if Starbucks can do it…). Flip ahead a few pages and you’ll notice a new look throughout the inside, too. Each issue, we’ll be bringing you more detailed case studies than before. The popular opinion column, “Vantage Point” will continue to bring you perspectives from peers on hot topics, only now you’ll also get to know the contributors a little better, too. What would Nick Price do if he weren’t CIO at Mandarin Oriental?
Online, we’ve added personalized functionality to htmagazine.com. Registered users can click on the “My Favorites” tab and see articles they’ve tagged as “favorite,” their most-recently read headlines, plus any reports or whitepapers they’ve downloaded. If they’ve registered to attend any of HT’s
web seminars or live events, such as MURTEC
, that registration status will be visible, too.
On the research side, Hospitality Technology
launched a landmark report, “2011 Lodging Technology Study
,” now available for download online. In 2011, we resolve to keep bringing you news, research, analysis and opinions on the trends and topics that matter most. We welcome your input on how we’re doing, and on what you’d like to see more of. As always, feel free to e-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.org
. Happy New Year!
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How many times have you run into the senior manager who has all the answers? I’m referring to the individual who is so confident in his/her abilities that they consistently make a “gut call,” regardless of the situation. I expect you’ve probably run into these people all the time. The problem is this approach generates poor decisions! As proof, I offer the findings of a large consulting firm’s recent analysis regarding US company value degradation showing that 80% of shareholder value loss was the result of poor strategy decisions.
Executives often think the solution to a strategic issue can be based on their past experience, without a detailed evaluation of the situation. The problem with this approach is obvious; none of us know enough to make snap judgments on complex strategy issues. Poor decisions occur when executives ignore factors that could impact their strategy. Taking this simplistic approach opens the executive to the “blind-quadrant” conundrum. Since we don’t know what we don’t know, we can’t anticipate and address the challenge to the business. This approach has disaster written all over it..
I recently heard of an example that demonstrates this point. A company decided to purchase a home infusion business. Based upon the financial evaluation, the business looked exciting. Market data showed there was growing patient demand and the profit margin was very high. Since government funding drove almost all of the revenue, the financial foundation seemed solid. So, the company bought this business. But within a few months of the acquisition, the government significantly cut the reimbursement for home infusion, eliminating the entire profit margin. The new corporate owner would lose money on every patient served.
What happened? Certainly the acquiring company executives did not take a stupid pill before making this acquisition decision. Based upon their standard “due diligence” checklist; everything looked good. Well, at least everything they examined. Perhaps, they assumed the decision was simpler than it really was, so not all factors important to this strategic decision were considered.
If the acquiring company had expanded their due diligence checklist, they could have considered the business impact of government reimbursement trends. The company would have learned that the government targets high-expense medical services for cost savings. Once such an opportunity is identified, the government usually implements regulations either to control access to the service or reduce payments to service providers. In fact, if the acquiring company had performed this investigation, they would have learned that home infusion reimbursement rates had been very high a decade ago, then slashed. Only recently was the rate dramatically increased. With this knowledge, the company would have had a better sense of the profitability risk it was inheriting with the acquisition. Failing to examine their blind quadrant cost this acquiring company.
Why do executives treat strategy so simplistically? Research shows that they are overconfident in their decision-making competence. Business executives also tend to overestimate their company’s capabilities and the firm’s strategic position. There is a bias to treat a decision simplistically because this superiority means any effort to improve the company position is bound to be successful.These beliefs fool executives into thinking that identifying the best strategic option does not require great effort. So they limit the number of disciplines involved in the decision, the data they collect or the amount of analysis they perform.
But let’s not delude ourselves. It is an illusion to think today’s strategic decisions are simple. On the contrary, today’s strategic decisions are increasingly complex. They impact many more disciplines and departments than in the past. Scientific and technical issues abound. Regulatory changes impact the development process and product positioning. While focusing on existing competitors, offshore companies enter and change market dynamics. Today’s adjacent technology becomes tomorrow’s disruptive competition. Intellectual property awarded on one continent is ruled within the public domain in another. To make matters worse, all these issues intermingle, impacting our ability to make good decisions.
So what is the answer? If human nature biases us towards simplicity, how can we handle complex issues? By utilizing a system that structures the identification of all important factors and presents them in an easy-to-understand format companies can form better strategies in less time. My strategy formation process, the Lean Strategic Decision Model does just this. If you are looking for a simple but robust process to improve you strategic planning capability, contact me for free digital copy of my international best-selling book that explains this process.
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The ToughArmor MB998SP-B 8 x 2.5" SATA HDD/SSD Backplane Cage from Icy Dock is an enclosure that fits eight 7mm 2.5" SATA hard drives or SSD's in a single 5.25" bay. The enclosure can be used for high performance RAID applications such as building dual RAID 5 arrays or connecting four high performance drives in RAID 0 plus RAID 1 array for back up, all in a single 5.25" device bay. The enclosure is commercially designed for medical and military systems, media servers, IPCs, HTPC, and all-in-one computers, approved and used by Tier 1 companies.
It is useful for powerful small servers, gaming rigs, home servers or HTPC's due to its high capacity and space saving design. The backplane cage is also suitable for users who need non-RAID JBOD storage and save different contents in different drive locations. The device bay supports a wide range of applications. It is capable of holding up in various environments, with a heavy duty, full metal construction. The full metal design is also suitable for industrial and medical devices that may require a flammability rating, as the full metal material is considered to already comply with flammability requirements. In addition, the metal material used grants heat dissipation transfer from the hard drives to the backplane cage.
Anti-Vibration Technology (AVT) and EMI grounding are used to ensure a stable environment for the hard drives or SSD's used, improving reliability. The bay brings more utility to your hard drives or SSDs, as LED's are installed in the front of the mobile rack to provide individual drive status information, at all times. Active Power Technology (APT) allows each LED and the cooling fan to be active only when a hard drive is inserted into the same bay of the enclosure.
Two 40mm cooling fans placed strategically behind the rear panel provide airflow throughout the entire cage cooling all 8 bays effectively and efficiently. Using the EZ Slide Micro Trays makes drive interchangeability and maintenance completely hassle free. For drive security, the eagle-hook lock system on the tray makes sure that your hard drives will not eject when not needed. The trays can accommodate hard drives and SSDs up to 7mm in height.
Fits 8 x 7mm 2.5" SATA hard drives or SSD's in a single 5.25" bay for high performance RAID applications
Heavy duty full metal construction, commercially designed for medical and military systems, media servers, and IPCs, approved and used by Tier 1 companies
Supports SATA 6 Gb/s and hot-swap support
Suitable for rugged applications and complies to flammability requirements
Anti-Vibration Technology (AVT) creates a safe environment for hard drives or SSDs
Active Power Technology (APT), where the individual led and the cooling fan only powers up if there is a drive installed in the bay
Dual 40mm fans keep your drives from overheating
Eagle-hook lock system keeps drives secured within the enclosure
Removable tray system for easy maintenance
In the Box
Icy Dock ToughArmor MB998SP-B 8 x 2.5" SATA HDD/SSD Backplane Cage
Limited 3-Year Warranty
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