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Shop's Kitchen Conversion
Provincial Cabinets and Flooring here at Atwood's residence. We have beautiful shop conversions with cathedral ceilings. We're going to build a nice pantry with triple drawers and a sink here. We will also have a bar fridge and a nice little cooktop. Stay tuned to find out how much this is, how long it will take, and what it looks like!
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Unfortunately, since this plugin only works on the backend of WordPress, it’s almost impossible to see it in action without installing it. You can get a copy from the WordPress plugin repository.
Here is the background to this plugin:
I created this plugin because I wanted to learn how to create a WordPress plugin. I figured the best way to do that was to find the simplest plugin out there and copy/paste/tinker.
I majored in biology in college, so dissecting things to see how they work is second nature to me. I also like to tinker on cars, so tweaking things to see how they work, and how to make them work better (or at least work the way I want them to work) is also part of my nature.
As it turns out, the “Hello Dolly” plugin which ships with WordPress is pretty simple. While I like Louis Armstrong, I loveStar Trek, so I created a plugin that echoes lines from Star Trek: The Original Series.
FWIW, I have designed this plugin to play nice with “Hello Dolly” if you like to use both of them. It will also place nice with both “Hello Dolly” and my other Star Trek-themed plugin: “Make It So”.
Interested? Download it from the WordPress Plugin Repository.
There are no settings for this plugin (as of now); simply install it and activate it.
There is some documentation available on my wiki.
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Notes and Editorial Reviews
The producers had the wonderful idea of beginning the (otherwise stereo) disc with the original 1939 NBC Radio introduction—a lovely touch, and one that if you don’t like you may easily skip. Recorded sound is clear and warm.
The Old Maid and the Thief
Victoria Bond, cond; Nicole Franklin (
); Natalie Arduino (
Parr Mock (
); Blake Davidson (
); Lone Springs Arts O of Dallas
ALBANY TROY 990 (68:15
Text and Translation)
What a delight! The 27- year-old Menotti was commissioned by the NBC Radio Network in 1939 to write an opera specifically for radio—the first such commission ever. The result was this absolutely delightful, tuneful work that set out for the world to hear the promise that Menotti would fulfill for generations to come.
I believe that there was a recording from about 40 years ago, but I don’t own it and could not track it down for comparison (and if you don’t own it, you probably won’t find it either—even an Internet search failed to locate it). That makes this a very important release, especially so because the performance is delightful and the opera is absolutely charming, and then some.
It is an opera buffa, but as is often the case with Menotti there are bittersweet undertones to the plot and the music. Very briefly stated, the plot concerns a middle-aged lady (Miss Todd) and her maid Leaticia, who live in an unidentified small town in the United States. The only thing missing in their lives is a man, and along comes a drifter named Bob. They take him in, each trying to woo him, and then learn from the neighborhood busybody Miss Pinkerton that a notorious thief has escaped from jail. All assume that is Bob—but the two ladies decide they want to retain his company anyhow, and Miss Todd begins to steal from the neighbors in order to keep him supplied with money. Bob, as you might guess, is
the thief, just an honest vagabond. When confronted, though, Miss Todd lays the blame on Bob—which, in turn, forces him to escape. He does this by ransacking her house, taking off with her car, and her maid Leaticia. Thus the moral of Menotti’s opera: “The devil couldn’t do what a woman can: make a thief of an honest man!”
The high point of the opera is Leaticia’s aria, a heart-wrenching and deeply felt song of loneliness. Bob’s aria is a strong piece too, and overall the opera holds together very well. Because it was written for radio, included is a narrator who keeps the plot moving along (well spoken here by Jon Morehouse).
The recording is very good—singing is at a high level throughout, and Victoria Bond invests Menotti’s score with plenty of color and energy. The producers had the wonderful idea of beginning the disc with the original 1939 NBC Radio introduction—a lovely touch, and one that if you don’t like you may easily skip. Recorded sound is clear and warm—perhaps favoring the singers a bit unnaturally. I’d like to hear Menotti’s orchestra just a bit more fully. On the other hand, the clarity of the voices helps us to understand the text without needing much help from the provided libretto. Strongly recommended.
FANFARE: Henry Fogel
Works on This Recording
The Old Maid and the Thief by Gian Carlo Menotti
Lynn Parr Mock (Soprano),
Nicole Franklin (Soprano),
Blake Davidson (Baritone),
Jon Morehouse (Spoken Vocals),
Natalie Arduino (Mezzo Soprano)
Lone Springs Arts
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1939; USA
Featured Sound Samples
The Old Maid and the Thief: Overture
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A big thank-you to all you readers who came to my book signing at the Nappanee Public Library last Saturday. Thanks for all the kind words and encouragement.
Thank you to my great friend Ruth for furnishing the transportation and always being so helpful in any way she can. Thanks also to my daughters Verena, 21, and Lovina, 15, for attending with me. Their support and help always mean so much.
I want to thank Brittney from the library for hosting the event. Before leaving for home we had a nice fun time with a reader named Jessica, her mother, and her three children. Jessica’s grandmother is battling that dreadful disease dementia, but always finds comfort holding my columns in her hand. May God be with her and her loving family as they go through a heart-breaking trial in life.
Son Kevin, 14, went hunting Saturday with son-in-law Mose as his guide. It was youth season and Kevin shot a doe which provided us with quite a big amount of meat. My husband Joe cut it up and got it ready for the freezer. Last year Kevin also shot a deer during youth season. Mose also was his guide last year. With his disability Kevin appreciates the help from Mose in making it possible for him to hunt. It gives him a happy feeling to be helping with providing food for the table as well.
I want to share the great news of my next cookbook, coming in April 2020. My family and I have worked hard on these recipes and had photographers here for four days taking photos of food. I appreciate their respect in keeping us out of the pictures except for our hands. My friend Ruth also worked hard in getting the cookbook typed for the publisher and helping test recipes or having others help test them. My daughters spent many hours preparing food for this cookbook. The cookbook will be called Amish Family Recipes: A Cookbook across the Generations and published by Herald Press. I am excited to see the finished result and hope you readers will enjoy the many recipes included in this book. I will share a recipe this week from the new cookbook.
Daughter Elizabeth and children Abigail, 3, and T.J., 9 months, and daughter Susan and children Jennifer, 20 months, and baby Ryan, 7-1/2 weeks, came for the day. Fun, fun, fun for this Grandma but I admit I feel tired tonight. It is always so sweet to see the little rays of sunshine. They grow so fast and I want to treasure every moment I can spend with them. As I was hanging out laundry, Abigail trailed behind me asking one question after another. Such sweet innocent children. She loves to say her prayer out loud when we eat. Jennifer also likes to bow her head and pray, peeking up to see if we are seeing what she is doing.
Tuesday is already the wedding day of nephew Marvin and Lori. We have plans to attend. It will be different not to help cook at a family wedding, but they do things differently there than we do in Michigan.
A reader asked several questions about our weddings. They wondered if the cost of our weddings is high. I would think the highest cost is the food and the rented wedding cook wagons and cooler. Our clothes are all sewn at home so the cost of that isn’t as much, and we have weddings at our homes so there’s no cost for that. All our help is free too, although we do buy small gifts of appreciation for the cooks, table waiters, etc. These gifts are tools, Tupperware, towels, dishes, kitchen items, bedding or just anything useful. More questions will be answered in future columns, but space is limited for now.
God bless all of you!
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1 1/4 cups sugar
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 tablespoon grated lemon rind
3 eggs (separated)
1 1/2 cups boiling water
6 tablespoons sugar
1 regular 9-inch pie shell, baked
In a medium saucepan, combine cornstarch, 1-1/4 cups sugar, lemon juice, and lemon rind. Separate eggs from yolks, then beat yolks and add to cornstarch mixture. Slowly stir in boiling water. Over medium heat, bring mixture to boiling and cook on slow boil for 4 minutes, stirring constantly. Pour into pie shell.
Separately beat eggs whites until stiff but not dry. Beat in 6 tablespoons sugar, one tablespoon at a time. Spread the meringue over top of pie, spreading to the edge to seal in the filling.
Bake in 425-degree oven for 4 to 5 minutes or until meringue is browned. Cool on rack away from draft. Keep refrigerated until ready to serve.
Recipe is from Lovina Eicher’s forthcoming cookbook, Amish Family Recipes: A Cookbook across the Generations, and can be preordered from Amazon or wherever books are sold.
Lovina’s Amish Kitchen is written by Lovina Eicher, Old Order Amish writer, cook, wife, and mother of eight. Her newest cookbook, The Essential Amish Cookbook, is available from the publisher, Herald Press, 800-245-7894. Readers can write to Eicher at PO Box 1689, South Holland, IL 60473 (please include a self-addressed stamped envelope for a reply); or email LovinasAmishKitchen@MennoMedia.org and your message will be passed on to her to read. She does not personally respond to emails.
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Darrelle Revis is in Love With Tim Tebow
Tim Tebow is a hard person not to like.
Personality wise he is one of the nicest people you will ever meet and no one would ever question his heart and dedication. Jets players are finding that out.
Here is what Darrelle Revis had to say.
“He’s a born leader, he really is,” Revis said Wednesday. “Very few athletes have the gift he has. He tries to lead by example all the time. He tries to be positive, which is awesome, and that (has resulted) in his success on the field.”
“I don’t know. Some people have it, some guys don’t. It’s the passion within, wanting to be a leader, wanting to win. You see it all the time, eating lunch, walking down the hallway. You see it.
“He’s like that cartoon character Zeus (sic). He’s one of those guys. He’s very positive. He has passion for whatever he does. You can see it on him.”
“He’s a playmaker, he makes plays, he wins games,” Revis said of Tebow. “He’s one of those guys. He’s very positive. He has passion for whatever he does. You can see it on him.”
Tebow seems to be changing the perception about him in the Jets Locker Room.
Unfortunately, while that is great for Hallmark cards, all that matters is what happens when Tebow gets on the field. Even though I don’t remember hearing any comments like this about Mark Sanchez.Powered by Sidelines
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Strange set of dates, right? This novel was unpublished at the time of Zweig’s death in 1942, didn’t appear in the original German until 1982, and was only translated into English in 2008. It continues to boggle my mind, how thoroughly this writer was forgotten. I know plenty of writers are forgotten, but Zweig was literally world-renowned before his death, and almost completely forgotten after. I think it has to do with the fact that his was a world, and a readership, which had largely disappeared by the time he died, either by violence or disillusionment. Of course that’s true of many others, too, but others had the chance to make a second act — like Brecht (though only briefly), or Fritz Lang. Zweig foreclosed that possibility with barbiturates.
This is the first of Zweig’s fiction I’ve read. I come to it very well disposed to like it, since I’ve become so fascinated with him through his memoir. It’s not a great novel. The story is quite simple and actually moves a lot like a screenplay. (Perhaps unsurprisingly; my very first (and entirely unconscious) point of contact with Zweig, as may be the case with you too, was Max Ophüls wonderful Letter from an Unknown Woman, based on a story by Zweig.)
The titular post office girl is a victim of postwar Austria’s grinding poverty, has the chance to spend a week at a glamorous resort in Switzerland with her aunt who’s married a rich Dutchman and lives in New York. That’s act one. In act two, she has her mind blown by opulence, but things go sour, and she winds up right where she started in her crummy garrett. In act three, she meets a man, a fully disillusioned and nihilistic veteran and former POW, and together they determine that because society has failed them so completely and unfairly, they will have their revenge through crime. It’s not joyful vital American crime like Bonnie and Clyde, though; it’s more of the existential killing an Arab variety. The end.
Pretty pedantic, but perfectly in tune with the zeitgeist, and I was surprised and somewhat (though not entirely) charmed by Zweig’s prose, which, contra its subjects and concerns, is full of froth and elan. He describes the hell out of everything in paragraphical gusts, and offers tasty little observations and figures on almost every page.
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As my daughters started school this year, I started thinking about what it was like when I was kid. Things were different. We had a TV where you had to walk to the screen, and turn the knob to change channels. Sometimes the channels were just black and white fuzz. Sitting through commercials was still torture. I remember when we had a Beta and a VHS VCR, that’s a video cassette recorder for you young people. Back in the day Beta and VHS were two different video recording formats. Beta was the superior format, but VHS won out because they had better price points for consumers.
Wow, I’m rambling like an older person.
Well, back then we didn’t even have Facebook, so if you moved frequently, like I did, you had to write letters and wait days, perhaps weeks for a return letter from your friend. This is why I love Facebook, and all things social media. I thoroughly enjoy seeing my friends enjoying their lives, and keeping up “virtually” with all the good my friends do in their daily lives and for those around them. My friends inspire me.
Life is busy, and with Facebook, and tools like it, texting, face-time, etc. help us modern pioneers adapt, stay-in-touch and manage many things in our lives. Sadly, that can also handicap us slightly, by eschewing the personal for the digital. That’s where Choice Hotels wants to help us change that. The truth is, there’s still nothing like the face-to-face contact that can be replaced. If you have the choice, choosing to spend time in person with the people you care about, and who care about you, is precious.
This summer my family had the pleasure of spending two months in the Boston/East Coast area, due to my husband’s job. During that time I was able to connect with friends from my high school and college days, some of whom I haven’t seen in twenty years.
You know what’s great about seeing friends in person? It feels like no time has passed, and yet we’ve all grown into ourselves. All those silly things we worried about when we were teens, and young adults, don’t matter, and instead you find how settled and grounded we’ve grown to be. It just makes me ridiculously happy, and grateful.
I’ve very fortunate to have friends, such that when I’m in their company, I wish time would stop so I could just stay a while. They each have such positive energy, and interesting minds, and beautiful hearts.
This is why I’m so excited to connect with some friends I haven’t seen in person in long time, at a Choice Hotels. These are friends from my middle school and early high school days. I’m extremely grateful for how technology has kept us in touch with each other, and helping us plan our epic adventure.
We’ve found a weekend where we’ll get to hang out like we never did when we were underage, young kids who relied on rides from parents. Thanks to Choice Hotels we’re headed to the Napa Winery Inn, and I will be their designated driver, and documentarian. I can’t wait to tell you about the shenanigans, thirty-year old moms can get into.
Which friends or family would you love to spend a weekend with?
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Choice Hotels. The opinions and text are all mine.
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I woke up this morning thinking about my sweet man and how lucky a gal I am. As many know, the tamoxifen has robbed me of my ability to sleep through the night most nights. But when I awake, I am not alone. He is very attuned to me, and once again, when I awoke suddenly in the middle of the night last night, a hand gently reached out for me and rubbed my back until I dozed off once again.
There is not a day that I do not literally count my blessings. And marvel at the love which has found me in my late 40s.
Life continues and sometimes on some days it is just hard. This morning is one of those days. Another wonderfully strong woman succumbed to cancer overnight. Someone I knew.
Her name was Pat Bedard. She was a long time survivor of breast cancer, who also had played beat the clock on ovarian cancer until three months ago when it sneaked back worse than ever. Her chemo stopped working three months ago, and as per her neighbor Kim who is a friend of mine, she took a turn for the worse six weeks ago and passed in her sleep last night surrounded by her family.
When Kim told me this news this morning, I cried like a baby. Pat wasn’t my best friend, but for many years before I moved she was part of the fabric of my life.
I had gotten to know Pat through the heaviest of my activism days. She was incredibly bright and her career was interesting: she was an authority on European travel and author of The European Traveller newsletter.
She was a woman who never complained about her cancer(s), and she was also very independent. We shared a love of Victorian houses. And an occasional spirited debate over local politics.
Requiescat in pace Pat Bedard.
Also, there is a woman I wrote about before on my blog: my old neighbor Myrna. She had been diagnosed with late stage colorectal cancer around the time I had my surgery in June 2010. She was always very inspirational to me as I went through treatment because she was so positive and funny and peaceful. I marvelled at her being able to do that.
Myrna at the time of her diagnosis had no health insurance. I can’t even imagine the terror she felt at that. The hospital that treated her, treated her even without it. Eventually she became old enough for medicare, but at first she had nothing. She was treated at Lankenau, where I received my radiation. As a matter of fact some days when I had radiation, she was in patient getting chemo and I used to visit with her.
Myrna was a constant in my everyday life as well for many years. We were neighbors for so long I even remember her mother Lillian. Myrna nicknamed me Princess Thundercloud. She was a psychologist by trade and a very patient and compassionate woman who could put up with all sorts of people – I still marvel at that.
Another independent woman, she was also just so very nice. She and I both loved to garden, and I was digging in the dirt the day I got the call she had passed. October 26, 2012.
Requiescat in pace Myrna De Voren
With the cycle of life, there is not only death, there is life. In this case, a birth. My friend Michelle, the woman I asked you to pray for in September, has had her baby. His name is Nolan and he is a fighter. He is a beautiful little boy, and he is still hospitalized. He is a little over six weeks old and is still in the NICU. If I had permission, I would post a photo of him for all of you to see.
Keep Michelle, her man Jim, and baby Nolan in your prayers. He is a miracle of life and they are a family deserving of much happiness.
Now for me, a little news. My sweet man, boy, and I have found a place to make our home together. So I will be on the move again. And my recent mammograms show everything is clean and clear for me.
Today is election day. Today we vote. When you remove all the social issues that cloud the judgement of many, you need to decide what is important to you. And remember: when you vote, vote for yourself and your family not for some person shoving literature into your hand at the last-minute telling you that you “know how to vote”.
Our founding fathers suffered and bled and died so we today could be free and could vote. Don’t waste this right, exercise it. In the USA it is the best way for your voice to be heard.
I hope all are well and my last shout out is to my friends in New Jersey post-Sandy (one of whom is a fellow survivor). To them I say simply “Jersey Strong.” Sandy is New Jersey’s Katrina.
And incidentally the house is not mine in the photo. Just one of the many I have photographed over the years that I like.
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Whether mail is coming or going, it can easily get lost in the shuffle. Keep it orderly in the slats of a window shutter. Whether you repurpose one from a garage sale or buy one from the craft store to custom decorate, this strategically placed shutter will make your trip in or out the front door easier.
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FLANKER is a minimalistic evolution from the everyday tote. This premium Cotton-Canvas shoulder bag features a dual-drawstring closure, ensuring that nothing goes missing on your ventures. Additional features include nickel finish hardware and two internal pockets for multiple storage solutions.
Size: H 13.5in x W 17.5in x D 4.5in
Details: Premium Cotton-Canvas Construction | Dual Drawstring Closure | Multi Storage Solutions | Nickel Finish Zippers & Hardware
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About a year ago, I, in a cold medication-induced stupor, suffered from a bout of insomnia. Therefore, in the wee small hours of an ice-cold morning, I explored the internet in my typical haphazard fashion, before stumbling upon a Chrysler Master Technician video starring “Tech,” who proceeded to explain the fundamentals of the Carter AFB to actual human technicians. It was the second time in my life that I wondered if I had fallen fast asleep into the clutches of a lucid dream. I hadn’t.
The first time I suffered from that strange sensation, I was watching the video for Trace Adkins’ “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk,” and my initial thought then was that there is no way a record company would actually release a song that ludicrous. Of course, I had overestimated the taste of the American public again, and it was a huge hit. Shows how smart I am. Tech, too, turned out to be a real thing, and I discovered that Tech was not only trippy in the way that only Chrysler Corporation can be, but he was also helpful and philosophically stimulating.
In this 1965 video, Tech explains the concepts of electricity, a common theme in Chrysler’s “Master Technician Series” of pamphlets and filmstrips, which were apparently distributed once a month to an assuredly eager staff of technicians. After watching a few (or a few dozen) of these videos, I began to wonder if Tech didn’t exist in a utopia of sorts, the perfect workplace.
After all, Tech is a eight-inch or so tall doll with a gruff voice and a receding hairline. In most workplaces, Tech would not be taken seriously as a knowledgeable mechanic. In these service videos, however, the other technicians and engineers treat Tech like an absolute equal, avoiding workplace hazing or pratfalls of any kind. Tech would fit into the glovebox of almost any Chrysler product, yet there is no evidence that any technician shoved him in there like some Neanderthal high school jokester might.
That kind of collaboration seems to be rare in the world in which we occupy, and I can unfortunately imagine actual Chrysler techs being forced to watch these quite informative videos each month and deriding poor Tech. Fortunately for us, there is a video archive of a perfect place beyond the unrighteous tee-heeing of those less enlightened. The Imperial Club has been gracious enough to upload all the tech materials an insomniac could ever desire, and here is the website: http://www.imperialclub.com/Repair/Lit/Films/.
Until next time, be nice to your plastic coworkers.
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FreedomPop launches $99 WiMAX iPod touch sleeve for free 500MB plans
FreedomPop launched its free 500mb monthly data plans in beta earlier this month with a conventional hotspot and USB dongle free to users with a refundable deposit. The promised WiMAX-enabled iPhone and iPod cases were not yet available, but today the company announced availability of a $99 4G Hotspot sleeve for iPod touch called “Freedom Sleeve Rocket” (via TechCrunch). It’s not the best-looking case we’ve seen, and still no iPhone version, but it is free data to third-gen and fourth-gen iPod users in reach of partner Clearwire’s network. FreedomPop will charge you $10 per GB after the free 500MBs, but it will also allow up to eight other devices to connect to the 4G sleeve. TechCrunch said the iPhone version would launch in November.
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In the aftermath of a train derailment, BART workers were rushing late Sunday night to restore service at three stations east of Pleasant Hill in time for this morning's commute.
The slow-moving train was roughly 700 feet outside Concord Station. It had been switching tracks, from right to left, to avoid a BART construction project ahead, Johnson said.
About 65 passengers - including more than a dozen on the final three cars - were evacuated from the train, which was headed to San Francisco International Airport. Johnson said three people had reported back pain to Fire Department paramedics and were taken to hospitals for treatment.
BART set up bus service for the rest of the day between the station in Pleasant Hill - which remained open - and the three stations to the east. But riders suffered major delays.
Meanwhile, investigators from BART and the California Public Utilities Commission responded to Concord Station to start investigating the cause of the accident.
By late Sunday, BART was using a crane to lift the cars back on the tracks so that they could be moved out of the way. The agency also brought in bigger cranes from an Oakland construction firm, in case they were needed.
Complicating matters, Johnson said, BART also had to repair damage to the electric third rail that powers the trains.
"This is almost certainly going to be a process that will take all night," he said. "Our goal is to get this done before the morning commute starts."
BART drew up contingency plans to aid riders in the event that the stations were not open in the morning.
Johnson said trains would run from Pittsburg/Bay Point Station and North Concord/Martinez Station to Concord Station, but turn around there. Buses will then take passengers to Pleasant Hill/Contra Costa Centre Station.
"We're pretty hopeful it will open," Johnson said.
For the latest updates on BART service go to bart.gov or sfgate.com.
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Clapham Pest Inspection Cleaning
All year round, Bed Bugs can be a significant issue, although they are much more active in the summer season.
Right here is some information and advice regarding handling a Bed Bug infestation.
In this post
There is one major bed bug types affecting the UK, Cimex lectularious. Frequently discovered in bed rooms as these pests like to feed in the evening, nonetheless, they can additionally be located in lounges, especially in chairs and sofas.
Bed Bugs feed upon blood, nothing else, so they have adjusted mouth parts that allow them to pass through animal or human skin, inject anaesthetic, after that draw your blood without you feeling anything. Some people respond to the bite as well as reveal clear evidence through the typical visible pest bite marks, others reveal little proof of being attacked by Bed Bugs.
The women Bed Bug can lay in between 200-500 eggs throughout her lifetime.
This bug can enter into a "dormant" mode for up to 9 months, thus allowing it to survive extended periods without feeding.
Examination as well as preparation for Pest Inspection therapy.
Before starting the Cleaning is is necessary to discover where the Bed Bugs are concealing/ living.
Strip the bed initially and also place all bed linens in plastic bags, seal and remove from the room. Carefully vacuum the bed mattress and also bed structure.
Inspect the bed frame and also cushion thoroughly for blood spots paying particular focus on head board (back and front) The bed structure should be damaged down to its tiniest parts
It would be useful to have a canister of Rentokil Insectrol Crawling Pest Killer to hand in situation you discover live adults, a fast spray will eliminate these prior to they have an opportunity to leave.
If the bed has a divan base, ensure you turn this upside-down as well as carefully check the base, and, if it has drawers, eliminate the drawers and also examine those. Additionally look inside the divan base for any type of evidence of bed bug task.
Remove cabinets from bedside cupboards and also check leading as well as base of drawers and also up-end the cabinet in case they are concealing below or on the back of the cabinet.
Check behind any type of wall repairings (lights) or photos hanging near the bed.
Examine behind curtains of any type of home windows near the bed
Ideally, after the above works, you will understand more regarding your problem and also the level of Cleaning called for.
To secure treated mattresses you can acquire special mattress covers that prevent re-infestation of the cushion. These are extremely reliable, click on the mattress photo on the right to visit our bed mattress cover section.
Impacting the first Bed Bug Pest Inspection therapy
Having looked very carefully you are now all set to take on the Bed Bug problem. We strongly recommend using one of our Bed Bug Packs, which feature every little thing you have to do the job completely and correctly.
FOGGING: Utilizing a haze or smoke insecticide only accomplishes a fast kill of exposed insects, it is NOT a full therapy by itself.
Follow-Up Pest Inspection Clapham Companies
It is vitally important to execute subsequent Bed Bug therapies, as, even if no further infestation appears, there will still be eggs that have not hatched out. By the time such eggs hatch the chemical toughness will have dropped as well as may not eliminate arising instars. Additionally, some pests may decide to lay inactive because the chemical therapy that they notice, for that reason these Bed Bugs might revive themselves several months after your therapy, and in this instance, all the liquid used will certainly have lost its potence. Just the Pro-Active Dust will remain a hazard to them.
A 2nd therapy must be impacted two weeks after the preliminary therapy and after that an additional Cleaning after one month. If carried out thoroughly, these 3 Cleaning will wipe out most infestations.
You follow-up therapies do not should consist of making use of the Pro-Active Dirt unless the original application has been vacuumed away.
Re-treat all the areas that were originally treated. On the third Bed Bug therapy it ought to not be required to strip down the bed frame, as in the very first two therapies.
London Clapham, No region in the globe does not have bugs which need to be maintained at bay. The only distinction is the various areas have various types of insects to eliminate from home, implying that the techniques of eliminating the parasites additionally vary.
Addresses as well as phone numbers: The primary step is to collect crucial information on the respectable Pest Inspection Companies within the location. This info includes addresses as well as phone numbers. The home owner ought to take time to call these Pest Inspection business and gather the important details on their services.
Asking concerns: During these telephone call, it is crucial that the homeowner asks whatever he or she could need to understand about the Pest Inspection Companies in Clapham, consisting of the steps needed to fix the owner's issue. It is very important that the homeowner provides a comprehensive description of the issue being experienced and also aim to get the answer as to what steps the Pest Inspection company will take to fix the issue. Depending upon the responses offered to these questions, it will be feasible to establish the integrity of the firm and also the efficiency with which it will deal with the issue.
Estimate: Low prices do not always mean the job will certainly be substandard, but it is needed to compare the costs and solutions to assist in the assessment and last choice of the Pest Inspection firm for the job. The home owner can then use this info to select the Pest Inspection service he or she takes into consideration the most certified for the task. The home owner could likewise collect even more information on the Pest Inspection firm in Clapham by reviewing testimonials that were provided by former clients.
This is a list of the most typical locations gotten into by parasites
Office complex in Clapham - Your staff and also personnel are possibly not able to focus on their obligations as well as in due program ended up being unproductive given they are normally troubled by bugs. To avoid these kinds of problems, it is critical to let business Bed Bug Killers Pest Control solutions take Cleaning of your bug issues away.
Food Processing Plant Kingdoms - These places are the most attractive to pests. Continuous and comprehensive check-ups should be undertaken to destroy pest problem as well as making method for an operative and also successful Pest Inspection insect control management. It becomes feasible to use your customers with exceptional consumer solution if you could make this occur.
Grocery stores - Customers may obtain aggravated and look for other stores that satisfy their demands. Over and done with commercial Pest Inspection parasite control Cleaning consisting of cleanliness, capturing, as well as removal, you can guarantee that pests can't ever before ruin your company.
Colleges - insects are irritating; institutions which should contribute to learning must be kept entirely free of a pest as it may hamper concentration and focus. Trainees are likewise one amongst the groups, prone to getting and also spreading health problems as they commonly and proactively engage.
Health centers - Needless to say, safety, is a must to all healthcare facilities. Parasites as a service provider of unsafe bacteria should not be existent in these places. Every client's well-being is considered a top priority that's why an appropriate industrial parasite monitoring should be accomplished. Eliminating insect from house, kitchen area, farmhouse, fields is not a simple job. There are a number of sorts of pests like ants, termites, bed bugs, computer mouse, mole, ticks? roach, bees, crawler, and rats, and so on which are us and also cause a number of illness. It ends up being necessary to control the populace of these pests. Use industrial Pest Inspection Companies is the very best medium to obtain eliminate this issue. It is done in a human way & does not create any kind of injury to person. It does not cause any kind of damages to property and also make certain the safety of your member of the family. There are several other needs to make use of industrial services.
Benefits Of Professional Clapham
Homeowners need to learn multiple remedies available for Pest Inspection in Clapham. While it is straightforward to go shopping for a Pest Inspection therapy from the local shop and make use of it in your house, this selection is suitable only when the bug problem is not too frustrating. A well-qualified Pest Inspection professional in Clapham affords some advantages.
Complete Service -A property owner is only able to manage a couple of type of insects at once. Nonetheless, a qualified Pest Inspection company could deliver substantial solutions that get rid of all type of bugs. These professionals comprehend the best ways to do the job properly and efficiently. They know the hiding places of these pests and utilise the excellent chemical at the correct spot.
Security Issues - Chemicals utilized for parasite management could be harmful. If not utilized wrong quantity and also suitably, these chemicals can bring around health-related problems. They employ correct safety devices and utilize just the required amount of chemical at one area.
Procedure of Advanced Equipment - Professionals working for the bug control service collaborate with business quality makers that expensive but effective in carrying out the chemicals. Home owners have no use of this expensive devices that might be needed just once or twice a year. It is much better to pick a professional service and also get the service done efficiently and promptly.
Current Practice - Even though there are several techniques, methods, chemicals as well as equipment that are used to get rid of insects, a certified insect control contractor uses just the current ones that are a lot more effective as compared to previous techniques. They also collaborate with chemicals in such a way risk-free for the environment and also assists eliminate the undesirable bugs without influencing the wellness of house residents.
Price Financial savings - Anytime a home owner tries to do the pest control by self after that just residential property can be covered. When taken on without suitable equipment, it is a hard activity that could utilize up significant time. Expecting that the insects are not gotten rid of completely in a single try after that the pests left behind circulate swiftly. It could be reduced by taking aid of a specialist Pest Inspection service provider that gets rid of insects from each as well as every nook as well as cranny. When there is no should opt for insect control Cleaning regularly, then it causes continual cost advantages.
It is beneficial to acknowledge the advantages of using professional Pest Inspection firms in tackling the problem of undesirable bugs. It is a migraine free way to obtain this difficult task achieved minus any type of trouble. The favored outcome is acquired without shelling out a lot.
Individuals that want to live in a healthy and balanced atmosphere ought to use such a service to keep their property without undesirable parasites. Some great things that a specialist pest controller has to use include: Performing detailed as well as normal assessments of your property to discover the presence of insects and recommend ideal remedies to get rid of and prevent such issues.
Access to pest control technology not readily available anywhere else - using professional Pest Inspection items and tools are much more reliable than their commercial equivalents however call for training and also experience for risk-free and really efficient implementation.
A lot of expert bug controllers guarantee adequate as well as efficient results which are something that you simply will not find even after repeatedly trying to deal with the trouble on your very own with Do It Yourself Pest Inspection items. You will not be able the origination of insects, however they will identify the location in only a couple of minutes. In guarantee duration, if the insects occur, they will certainly eliminate it cost-free of cost.
So, there you have it - several of one of the most significant advantages that come with hiring an expert for the task. If you want to see to it that you place an end to your pest monitoring troubles and maintain your home devoid of such bugs, you can't absolutely fail by generating a great and also reputable pest exterminator for the job.
There are numerous means to take care of or manage the issue of pests. To get eliminate insects in your area, you need to know the sort of pest you are handling and also what can function best to manage it. There are several means to manage parasites and among them are;
Organic techniques. Chemical methods. Non-chemical methods.
The all-natural method of Pest Inspection is use of pest predators to regulate parasites. You could use cat to regulate rats as pests in homes.
Lots of people utilize this technique to manage computer mice as well as rats in their residences. These approaches likewise benefit the control of various other types, including slugs as well as caterpillars.
Pest control in London Clapham - If you find that have a plague of on your farm, it is a good concept to burn the whole farm as well as fields after collecting to obtain rid of the entire bees' family tree. Individuals utilize catches additionally for regulating pet dogs like rat and mice in our ranches and houses. Use of chemicals like sprays to manage bugs is additionally typical today.
One should take care when choosing the kind of spray chemical to use to stay clear of ruining your plants. There are some chemicals which are selective as well as some non-selective which one can select from. It all depends on the parasite involved. One more great technique is fumigation; right here you will certainly employ a professional to do it for you.
During fumigation, you, your household, as well as various other pets in the house will have to leave the residence atmosphere for an affordable distance to prevent being contaminated. As fumigation is on, the entire building or the area will certainly be loaded with gas that will certainly clean or eliminate out all the bugs in the location. Space Cleaning is one more sort of pest control, similar to fumigation.
The distinction is you do not secure the area completely throughout application. It includes liquid insecticides as well as not gas as in fumigation. If it has actually created you a large difficulty in maintaining parasites like wasps away from certain locations, you could determine to ruin the infected trees as well as plants. People can do wasps pest control in London; nonetheless, it is best done and regulated by insect experts to avoid resurfacing.
You could choose to vapor the dirt as a method of controlling a parasite. This technique entails steaming the soil to obtain eliminate any kind of bugs that could be living in that area. This system is called sterilisation. Repellents approach is another good technique. These are chemicals you relate to drive away insects from the area. They can be either organic or chemical. You may decide to utilize repellents as an insect control. Many repellents are available for you to use. Some of them are chemical, and also others are organic.
Last but not least, other methods of Pest Inspection have not been gone over right here. If you have taken an action to attempt any one of the techniques as well as have not recorded excellent results, you could seek advice from an expert to aid you or suggest you on the proper action to absorb obtaining your residence totally free from insects. Bed bugs are a lot a reality of modern day life.
They thrive in our centrally heated residences, and they like it there. As a matter of fact, without realising it, we have actually developed the excellent breeding ground for bed bugs. Around Two Decade back, bed bugs were much less usual place. Yes, there were still around, yet we handled to keep them under control. Currently lots of houses are struggling with invasion as well as invasions of bed bugs. Why is that, and exactly what can we do concerning it?
A Quick Background Story of Time Being A Simple Bed Bug
It is worth recognizing your adversary Napoleon when stated as he faced his Waterloo. As we all recognize, Napoleon did not take care of to beat Wellington at the stand-off at Waterloo.
We understand that the opponent exists, we are not familiar with his manoeuvres. Greater than anything, where could we found out ways to do away with bed bugs as well as suggestions on how you can fight bed bugs in our residences. The bed bug never utilized to be such a huge issue. We used to ventilate our residences much better and also not appreciate points like comforters. Certainly, main home heating as well as contemporary bedding is excellent, however we are not the only ones to appreciate it.
The reality is our continuous human buddy, the bed bug, has actually been with us since we snuggled down under our first massive woollen skins, as well as they started to appreciate our animal comforts as long as we do. The fact is we have actually developed a breeding ground for bed bugs in our modern-day houses.
The number of types of Bed Bug are there?
In Northern hemisphere, we are more familiar with Cimex lectularius. He has taken a trip with us in our luggage from all those unique vacation locations and also is now enjoyed life in lots of significant Northern hemisphere cities.
Can You See Bed Bugs?
No, you could not see bed bugs unless you have a major trouble. Popular locations for bed bugs to conceal are in the ceiling or behind drapes. A bed bug infestation is such a huge trouble, as well as one that you can't control on your own.
How Do You Know if You Have Bed Bugs?
First of all, when was the last time your hoovered your bed mattress or did that slip your mind? You are quite sure to have a couple of more friends compared to you haggled for if you don't care for your bed linen area. By the way, don't criticize the pet that rests on your bed. Your hairy good friend is just as conscious bed bugs as you are.
Most people that have bed bugs existing in their houses, suffer from itchy skin and also probably a crawly sensation during the night. When the bed bug suches as to come out to play, that is the time. They eat skin cells that you hand over in your bed and also might also begin to assault you. When that takes place, you are most likely to end up with a rash.
A bed bug breakout could look a bit like atopic eczema as well as considerable health specialist do perplex with some type of eczema. You can be quite sure that you have bed bugs if you can plainly see little attacks or red marks within the rash. Take a look at your hairy pal as well, and you could locate that he deals with the same problem. Bed bug bites can differ in dimension but are constantly scratchy. Yes, your home will need Cleaning to bring the bed bugs in control. Keep an eye out for little black droppings. This is a sure indication of bed bug task. This is the droppings of bed bugs which are constructed from dried blood - yours by the way!
Are Bed Bugs a Serious Illness?
Numerous regional authorities are eager to play down the severity of bed bugs as well as do not advertise bed bug control. You could think you are enduring from a breathing condition caused by pollution, but bed bugs can create a lot the same reaction in humans.
Most typically bed bugs are linked with skin troubles. The most common locations to find bed bugs rashes are on the arms, back as well as belly.
That could well be bed bugs. Bedbugs love dandruff. All these are indications to be mindful of when it comes to our opponent the bed bug.
Tiredness and Pest Inspection - This vitamin is a water-soluble vitamin which can conveniently end up being depleted if we lose also a tiny quantity of blood. Constantly worth inspecting just what is going on as not enough vitamin B could lead to a lengthy checklist of wellness problems consisting of blood problems. It is abundant in vitamin B and will make him or her feel better in no time at all.
Should I Deal with Pest Inspection Troubles Myself?
Your finest pal could inform you that you could get rid of bed bugs by adding points like tea tree aromatherapy oil to your clean. As an issue of reality, while you are trying all the alternatives, you could quite much depend on the truth that the bed bugs are having a good time indulging. If you are major concerning getting rid of bed bugs, you require to find some expert vermin control.
The Best Ways To Do Away With Bed Bugs - Doing away with bed bugs is a work for the specialists. Even more compared to likely, you may find that you have bed bugs in other components of your home. We all prefer to obtain up on Sunday early morning and have a lazy morning meal before the TELEVISION. Likely, you may have a few bed bugs on your sleepwear. Without recognizing, you have actually currently moved them to your sofa. We can conveniently remain to spread bed bugs without knowing that we are doing so. The depressing reality is we could likewise transfer them to our close friends' houses. Obviously, we do not indicate to do so. But, when bed bugs have attacked our residences, they want to go on little expeditions. Taking a trip on your great warm coat to your good friend's home is just one more day in the workplace for your average bed bug.
Best Pest Inspection Advice in Clapham - The various other advantage with calling in the specialists to deal with your bed bugs, is that they can offer you some individual guidance. Our homes are one-of-a-kind, and there can be something in your house that has actually caused that bed bug invasion.
Can You Clean Them From Your Home?
Unless you make use of specialist cleaning company, you are not most likely to wash them out or tidy them out. You as well as your household might have to abandon your home for the day as well as allow the cleaning firm do their work. If they remain in your bed, you could bet that they are most likely in the children' space, the canine's basket as well as maybe even in your bed linen storage. These are persistent little animals that are specialists in discovering the very best living quarters in your house. When bed bugs have worked out in, they are difficult to tackle, and also you ought to always consider the health threats on your own as well as your family.
The Very Best Insect Control in Clapham - When the bed bugs are gone, and you have your house back, it is essential to practise bedbug control. You are now probably familiar with exactly what bed bug bites resemble and exactly how undesirable they are for all of you. Always remember to watch out for indications they might have returned. A fresh problem is probably not your mistake. More than most likely the bed bugs will have travelled to your bed bug free home with your friends. If you see your friends have attacks on their arms, or scratch a whole lot, maybe that they have a bed bug issue.
Why not share your expertise with your buddies? Inform there is as service which bed bugs are absolutely nothing to be embarrassed about. There are several insect control solutions. It does not imply that the bed bug seeker will be available in and spray your residence with man-made compounds. Bed bug extermination has come a lengthy means in the last few years, and there are currently also various different options. You should constantly review your needs and also your worry about the business that you have actually contracted to deal with the issue. Much more significantly, it could be worth thinking about some sort of upkeep program.
The Modern-Day Bed Bug Pest Inspection Clapham - Bed bugs could today be encountered in other places than beds. A lot of us are bordered by numerous materials which could bring in bed bugs. That can be the fabric in your office chair at work, and they might even reside on your traveler train home. Life is simply a "jump" or a "crawl" for your average bed bug, as well as they are on their means to pastures new. They could only live brief intermittent lives, but they enjoy to share them with us. Why should we share our lives with them? Learn more about ways to do away with bed bugs and how to stay clear of a brand-new problem by getting in touch with the experts. Many companies fast to react as well as assist just like us, so provide us a telephone call..
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6225 N Elk Ridge
$395,000, 3.76 Acres
About This Property
Must stand on the pad to view its beauty! This lot has a very large pond on it with a spot to add a waterfall. The bottom of the lot incudes a small stream that flows into the Weber River. 15 minutes to Park City. Plenty of water included for culinary and irrigation use. Year-round access, paved road, electricity and phone to lot line. This lot has more that $150,000 of improvements already put in. Source of acreage is public record; Buyer to verify all to their satisfaction. Seller is owner/agent
Courtesy of: Realtypath LLC.
Electricity Connected, Other, Phone Available
Cul-de-sac, Gradual Slope, Horse Property
The information provided is for consumers' personal, non-commercial use and may not be used for any purpose other than to identify prospective properties consumers may be interested in purchasing. All properties are subject to prior sale or withdrawal. All information provided is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed accurate, and should be independently verified.
Listing information last updated on September 16th, 2019 at 12:13am MDT.
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Cyclo-Sportive: Cat and Fiddle Challenge
DISTANCE 55 miles or 88km
MAIN CLIMBS Cat ’n’ Fiddle, Axe Edge, Brown Edge, Norton Green and Smallthorne.
Ever since Brian Rourke was able to have Sean Kelly join his challenge ride, I have always secretly hankered to have a go at the ride myself and take up the chance of riding with a legend of the road.
Back in Kelly’s heyday I always used to check the results pages to see how he was fairing in the big races, particularly Paris-Nice. ‘The Race to the Sun’, as it is also known, always seemed such a glamorous race. The classic images from Graham Watson that made the covers and pages of Cycling Weekly back then showed the immaculate Alan-framed bike beneath the craggy musculature of the KAS team superstar, all set against those Continental backdrops. Years later you realise it’s perhaps not all glamour but the legend and memories live on.
So it was on a mild, sunny, autumnal Sunday in early October that myself and many others had their chance to ride with Kelly and many other star names as we set off from Brian Rourke’s shop in Stoke.
What is key to the Rourke ride is that it’s there to raise funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. As Brian stresses: “It’s about having a good social day out on the bike. It doesn’t matter what time you do it in, as long as we raise some money for the CFT.”
It’s something that Rourke is very proud to be associated with and it has been close to his heart due to his association with the local Shenton family, whose son Alfie has cystic fibrosis. Alfie and his family, along with their family and friends, Martine Granger the regional fund-raising manager for the Trust and her team, all pool resources to help Brian organise and run this challenge ride. And having Kelly there along with an ever increasing number of ex-pros and current stars has raised the profile of this ride, with bigger numbers taking on the challenge ever year.
Last year saw around 1,300 riders take the start and help raise nearly £50,000 towards the work the Trust undertakes. This year it is hoped that that figure will be matched as 1,293 riders took the line from pre-entries, and another 176 took the start on the day. That’s nearly £23,000 in entry revenue before all the extra money from sponsored riders has been taken into account.
Sign on and set out
There is always a buzz around the community hall sign-on area as riders gather and set out. Some wait up the road at Brian’s shop to set out with the ‘stars’ after their photo-call with the local press. Alongside Kelly this year were his Eurosport co-commentator David Harmon, Martin Earley, Malcolm Elliott, James Taylor the ex-Plowman Craven rider, and Neil Martin with sons Dan and Tom. Other names that had started out earlier were Andy Collis and Lee Davis, team-mates of Elliott at the Pinarello RT, Dan Fleeman and Terry Dolan.
After taking a few pictures myself with a pocket sized compact camera I’d brought along for the day, I set out with the bunch with some pleasant autumnal sun warming our backs. We pass through the residential areas of Tunstall and Kidsgrove before the right turn onto the A34 out towards Congleton. Things start to get more rural along this stretch and the pace is already brisk with Elliott and Dan Martin on the front. Dan had ridden for Ireland at the World Championships in Stuttgart the previous Sunday. My computer already reads an average of 18mph.
There is a general relaxed air to this ‘big club run’ as Kelly and co chat away behind while Brian moves up and down the bunch checking everyone is OK. We catch and pass many small groups of riders that had headed out earlier as I chat with James Taylor and also Simon Blythe. Simon it turns out is in the RAF but does some massage and soigneur work for
the Recycling team. I knew I recognised the face.
As we pass through the small village of Eaton there is a small crowd of people to cheer and shout encouragement to the groups that pass along their way, all eager too to catch a glimpse or a picture of their heroes. The turn at Warren takes us away from the main Congleton road and down the quieter lanes for a while as we head towards Macclesfield. It’s a chance to try and grab a picture or two myself.
Stopping briefly before trying to catch up again, I find that the gap to the group is greater than I anticipated. I put it in the big ring and make pursuit. I pass over the canal and take the left turn on to the main Macclesfield road. There is still quite a gap but the road is good and I get a rhythm going and put a 28mph effort in that brings me onto the back of the group.
Cycling legend Sean Kelly (right) in action. Ride organiser Brian Rourke is on the left.
Hitting the fiddle
We are soon in Macclesfield and the group swings right at the lights and starts the climb of the Cat ’n’ Fiddle. The pace drops and I pick my way forwards. The group is bigger than I thought but soon starts to string out up this first part of the climb. We pass through the tree cover as the road winds up the gradient. Out of the trees the views start to open as you look back towards Macclesfield. I try taking a few shots while riding and grab a picture of David Harmon as he takes on the Cat.
After passing the main groups I put in a concerted effort and stop at a point about a kilometre above Walker Barn. The first big group is led by a smiling Malcolm Elliott as he sets a good tempo over the lower section of the climb. I wait for the Rourke, Earley and Kelly group who are a little way behind and try to get a picture to show the views offered back to Macclesfield and Manchester beyond. Camera back over my shoulder, I grab my bike and catch the groups once more.
Time to relax
Elliott comes alongside and asks if I’ve been riding much lately. I tell him I’ve done about 160 miles that week, to which he replies: “Well it’s 160 more than I’ve done!” It turns out he his just back from Bermuda and not ridden the bike since getting back. I admire Elliott’s Pinarello Prince he’s riding and ask what he thinks: “It’s very nice and you do feel a difference. It’s definitely a step up again from what I’ve used previously.”
The Peak View Cafe is always a favoured stop and we find it filled to the rafters with challenge riders. Brian checks the situation inside as Kelly peers through the window and jokingly offers a colourful suggestion to those inside that they should get out on their bikes to make some room. No room means we carry on over the summit by the Cat ’n’ Fiddle pub where an organised drinks station was available.
We press on, however, over the summit plateau before descending towards Buxton. I have Elliott on my wheel as we flow through the S-bends on this fast rewarding descent. I’m thinking: “Don’t do anything stupid and disappear in to the scenery. It would be so embarrassing.” The T-junction at the bottom takes us straight in to the next climb of Axe Edge.
Elliott sets the tempo on the front and I hold his wheel on this grippy climb. Again there are groups of people out on the roadside to applaud the groups as they pass. I hear someone shout, “Go on Malc, you’re going well,” as we near the top. Then I hear someone in our group say: “There’s been some damage done there,” as riders get strung out back down Axe Edge. Past the Winking Man Inn and it’s down the descent towards Leek, passing below the distinctive sharp edge of Ramshaw Rocks close to the Roaches. Elliott tucks down and I’m just behind as we hit 50mph before the road levels out. It’s an absolute thrill.
There’s another drinks station before the last 10 miles or so back to Stoke. I have to admit it was a welcome stop as I was feeling a bit low on fuel having had a very early breakfast and then not putting enough food in my back pockets for the ride. A Wagon Wheel, a couple of cups of SIS drink, and an energy stick from Kelly, which he tells me are “like the ones Bettini uses” and I’m feeling back on form for the last three climbs. Brown Edge, Norton Green and Smallthorne come in quick succession and offer a sting in the tail to those who may already be feeling weary.
Eurosport commentator David Harmon joined the ride
Tea and cake anyone?
Before we know it we are back to Brian’s shop and the finish. It’s been three enjoyable hours out on the road. There are many riders gathered outside the community hall all telling their own tales of their ride. Inside, the hall is full as Kelly, Elliott, Rourke and others wander in.
They are happy to chat with everyone over a welcome cup of tea and slices of cake, all put on by the Trust helpers. I overhear one couple ask Kelly: “If you had to pick one win from all the wins you had, what would it be?” A smile comes over Kelly’s face and after a pause he answers: “If I had to just pick one then it would be my first Paris-Roubaix.” It’s a
great clubroom atmosphere and a perfect finish to a memorable ride.
From Rourke Cycles, Waterloo Road, Burslem take A50 towards Tunstall and Kidsgrove. At the junction of the A50 and the A34, turn right (TR) on to A34 to Congleton. Exit Congleton on the A536 direction Macclesfield. At Warren TR then TL on to unclassified road to Gawsworth and Oakgrove. At T-junction TL on to A523 to Macclesfield.
TR on to A537 Cat ’n’ Fiddle to Buxton. At T-junction TR on to A53 to Leek. Continue out of Leek on A53 to Longsdon. Continue to Endon to TR on to B5051 to Brown Edge, Norton Green, Smallthorne to Burslem. At junction with A50 TL to finish back at Rourke Cycles.
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Hollywood -- best known for its harmful Hollywood values and lack of intellectual achievement or productivity—is a district located in the city of Los Angeles, California. It is the historic base of the movie industry, although the studios have mostly moved out. "Hollywood" now generally refers to the entertainment industry and its culture, which is based primarily in Los Angeles County.
Hollywood is famous for its self-centeredness, liberal claptrap, and lack of independent thinking. Nearly all supported Barack Obama in robotic fashion. Robert DeNiro was no exception, insisting that Obama will "do better in the next four years."
- Hollywood values: Liberalism, Homosexual agenda and Gun control
- American Jews make up most of the Hollywood CEOs
- Liberal values and San Francisco values
- Los Angeles
- Bollywood in Mumbai, India
- Balio, Tino. Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939. (1993). 483 pp.
- May, Lary. The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way (2000)
- Schatz, Thomas. The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era. (1988). 492 pp.
- Vaughn, Stephen. Ronald Reagan in Hollywood: Movies and Politics. (1994). 359 pp.
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Yesterday, after it was mostly understood that a single suicide bomber opened fire at former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and then 'sploded, President Bush announced "Those who committed this crime must be brought to justice ..."
Note to President Bush's speechwriting team: you might want to explain to him that the person responsible is dead. Suggested intervention script based on the most recent information: "See, this t'rr'rist dinna like Bhutto, so he got close and shot at her, but'e missed. But'e's wearin' a bomb too and blowed 'imself up. When he 'sploded, part a da bomb hit'er in the head, killed'er dead. Heh." Explaining that you're not talking about Buddha is on you.
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In as much as the election was a complete bore, there lies a twinge of excitement within me this morning. Living among the red people, there is no better opportunity to discuss politics, and maybe plant the seeds of change, then when everyone is walking around feigning indignation.
While Bush was in office, I would get little else from them but the canned talk radio responses drummed into their heads. With the inauguration of Obama, that changed. No longer the willing spreaders of “everything’s fine” manure (let the democrats chuck it a while), SC conservatives were more receptive to open political discussion. It starts with joking about being racists, but then gets deeper. Before long we’re talking economic, domestic, and foreign policy – not to mention inalienable rights.
With last night’s outcome, I wonder how many republicans and libertarians didn’t show up for team GOP? Was playing the progressive mini-me to Obama’s big blue hope a good tactic (hope which he promised last night is still coming, btw)? On top of that, they suggested that a surge in death and destruction was needed overseas – citizenship notwithstanding.
Then again, take away the socialist/military goodies that entice most conservatives and they may have garnered even fewer votes.
No doubt the GOP is readying itself for the implementation of Obamacare in 2014. Socialist streamliners that they are, they’ll have plenty of tweaks to offer up.
“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.” – Albert Camus
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Last week, reports came out that a paternity suit was being filed against teen pop star Justin Bieber. This week, Bieber’s legal camp reportedly agreed to a DNA test, with intentions of suing Mariah Yeater, who filed the suit, for what they called “malicious, defamatory, and demonstrably false claims.”
If you are interested in following the story, below are a few news reports discussing the various aspects of the case:
- DDC’s laboratory director, Dr. Michael Baird, was recently interviewed by Discovery News for an article discussing how a DNA test will provide the answer in Bieber’s paternity case.
- The first report of the paternity suit against Beiber was filed November 2.
- Justin’s reps vehemently deny the allegations.
- Law professors comment on what constitutes credible evidence in a paternity suit that may result in a court order compelling a DNA test.
- Bieber agrees to a paternity test to settle the matter when he comes back to the United States in two weeks. His team threatens to sue Yeater when the results come back as they anticipate.
- MTV reports that the Maury Show is talking to Bieber about the possibility of revealing the results on the show.
- *UPDATE* Yeater’s lawyers drop the paternity suit and remove themselves from the case, but her new lawyer intends to pursue the suit in hopes of a settlement.
For more information our paternity testing page to learn more about how DNA paternity testing works for private individuals.
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Childcare services on or near our campuses include long daycare centres, school holiday programs and parenting facilities. In the broader community, you’ll also find occasional and family daycare.
Childcare can be a stress point for parents in Sydney. Fortunately, there are several childcare centres in close proximity to the University, two of which offer discounted rates for students who hold an ACCESS card. Open Monday to Friday, they are run by qualified staff and subject to quality assurance accreditation. Each centre provides a nurturing environment for children based on their developmental needs.
The University is also home to several facilities for parents, including feeding and change rooms with breastfeeding chairs and other facilities.
Our information office on campus provides resources and support to help you make the right choice about childcare – whether you’re a student, staff, or member of the local community.
The office provides information about the five centres closest to our campuses, relevant government agencies, and other daycare centres in the surrounding area.
Waiting lists for any type of childcare in Sydney can be very long, especially for children under two. Depending on your circumstances, you may be on the waiting list for up to two years. Submit as many applications as you can to different childcare centres around the area you live or are planning to live in and nearby campus.
If you’re coming to Sydney University from abroad, you should submit your waiting list application before leaving your home country.
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After a strong showing at home, the San Antonio Spurs find themselves in the same position they were a year ago. With a 2-0 series lead, they are just two games away from getting another shot at a NBA title. So how do they avoid another collapse like they had a season ago against the Oklahoma City Thunder?
Game Two did not result in a win for the visiting Memphis Grizzlies, but it did give them hope. They came out of San Antonio knowing that they can compete with them, as they rallied late to almost win. In overtime, Tim Duncan and Tony Parker proved to be too much, but the Grizzlies still have to feel confident like they did against the Los Angeles Clippers in the opening round when they fell behind 0-2.
The biggest story out of Memphis so far this postseason has been the struggles of Zach Randolph, surprising and disappointing every fantasy basketball owner. The inside threat has mostly failed to live up to expectations after a strong playoffs so far this year. San Antonio is a smart defensive team, and they are forcing the Grizzlies to make perimeter jumpers. So far, that hasn’t worked, but things could change in Memphis.
Due to a quirk in the scheduling, there is a huge gap between games two and three. While some might think the Spurs would love to keep their momentum going, the older team that relies on stars well into their 30s can use the time to regroup for road battles. The Spurs know that stealing just one game on the road could practically wrap up the series.
Going forward, expect both teams to make some adjustments obviously, but it just seems like the Spurs have a better idea on what to do out there. They are getting open looks from the perimeter, and they are a much better shooting team. With so much size and skill inside, the game will be won on the perimeter. That, along with the coaching edge Gregg Popovich provides, will allow the Spurs to win in six games.
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I didn’t know what to expect, but I suppose I was thinking along the lines of the Sydney Opera House with its iconic silhouette. Thus I was surprised to see the understated presence of the Oslo Opera House, rising from the waters of the Oslofjord, blending with its environment rather than striking a new profile.
As we approached, my sister remarked, “Are there people walking on the roof?”
Indeed they were. The architects at Snøhetta created a seamless transition between the ground level and the rooftop. I quickened my pace, wanting to claim that I effortlessly scaled the building to the roof like Spiderman.
The white Carrara marble’s rough texture provided enough friction to comfortably climb the incline.
I imagined that if this building was built in California, the building codes would have forced unsightly railings in all places where there might be a remote chance that someone may get hurt. Here in Oslo, a mere small sign gave a cautionary warning.
At the top I was faced with a stark white synthetic snowscape glistening in the sun.
The aluminum-clad building looked like a cubic igloo...
... of grand proportion.
A closer look revealed that the aluminum is punched with a pleasing pattern of concave conical dimples and convex hemispherical blisters...
... each contributing to a texture of shadows.
Turning the corner, I took in the view of the Oslofjord where a giant cruise ship towered over the waterfront...
...and a stately double-masted schooner motored out, proudly waving its Norwegian banner:
Monica Bonvicini’s glass sculpture “She Lies” floated at the head of the fjord...
...and pivoted on her axis to show her many angles:
|“Das Eismeer” (1823-1824) by Caspar David Friedrich|
At first glance, I thought the sculpture looked like a schooner with her sails unfurled. I later learned that Venice-born Bonvicini won the international competition by using a famous German Romantic Landscape painting “Das Eismeer” (1823-1824) by Caspar David Friedrich as inspiration.
This ambitious installation is strong enough to withstand the harsh elements of the Norwegian winters.
As I descended back to the ground level, I enjoyed seeing the reflection of the traditional silhouettes on the waterfront onto the ultra-modern sleek glass surface of the Opera House.
The Oslo Opera House is meant to be the anchor to spur on urban revitalization. While it's well on its way...
...I hope to come back one day to see the vision set forth by the architects at Snøhetta come to fruition.
|Copyright: Snøhetta for Statsbygg.|
See other Macro Monday posts at Lisa's Chaos.
Update: To see some great interior shots of the Operahuset, go to Ginnie's blog post here.
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A 10-month-old baby in the Republic suffered two broken arms and a broken leg while his mother was also assaulted, a court heard yesterday.
Inspector Tom Kennedy told a special sitting of Ennis District Court in Co Clare that the boy was hospitalised at Limerick |Regional Hospital as a result of the “very serious injuries”.
One of the child's arms had been broken in three places.
Larry Connors (18), of 3 Towncourt, Shannon, Co Clare, was before the court in relation to three Section 2 assault charges against the baby's |18-year-old mother and his girlfriend at the time.
Giving evidence of arrest, charge and caution, detective garda David Laing said Mr Connors replied: “I didn't do it”, when charged. Mr Connors will appear at Shannon District Court on Thursday.
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Ecolabels as drivers of clothing design
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2015
In recent decades, the textile industry has worked to reduce its negative social and environmental impacts.
Identifying and addressing important sustainability considerations already in the clothing design are of increasing importance in the continuation of this work. Many companies look to ecolabelling schemes as means to set performance criteria and to demonstrate progress to customers. This study investigates the connection between ecolabels and clothing design from the perspective of moving the garment industry towards sustainability. Information gathered from literature was aligned and contrasted with interviews conducted with employees of garment companies in Sweden, and the material was analysed using a life-cycle perspective. The results reveal that the clothing design process currently only marginally influences clothing's sustainability performance by applying ecolabelling criteria. For a more sustainable textile industry there is a need to expand the expertise and information already in the design process regarding sustainability of their finished products. Such a change is only possible if the designers can be guided by a clear vision of design for sustainability for the company they work in.
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I couldn’t sleep last night thinking of the wind turbines on Jack’s Mountain.
I was born and raised in California. I have seen Mt. Whitney at 14,495 feet and have been to the top of Mammoth Mountain at 11,060 feet. From the top of Mammoth you can look down into Death Valley with the lowest point in the continental U.S. and northwest to Half Dome which rises from the Yosemite Valley. You feel like you are on top of the world and for me, closer to God.
When I moved to McVeytown, I would say that these are not “real” mountains (not like what I was used to). Locals would respond in a very loving manner saying that they may not be as tall but they are “very old,” very beautiful, and they are our mountains. I have since come to love these mountains as much as those who were born here. I have crossed Jack’s Mountain during the winter when crystals are on the branches and the sun makes them shine like diamonds. I have seen the progression from light green to the rich dark green of summer. I have witnessed the reverse with the colors of fall starting at the top and working their way down the mountain. I have seen bird watchers at the altar on Jack’s Mountain Road, and men who take their hang gliders, who love to soar like eagles from the top. There are people and families who just like to come and look at Big Valley and Ferguson Valley and enjoy the quite peaceful time.
Now comes “progress” in the form of up to 90 wind turbines over 400 feet tall and the short-sighted exploitation of the environment. Former State Legislator Franklin Kury said, “We uglified our world and called it progress.” Is that what we will be doing to Jack’s Mountain? Will we cut 100 feet or more off the top of the mountain, build roads and cement platforms and make it ugly?
On the coastline of New England some wind turbine companies want to build out into the ocean. When the time comes to take them down, the sea will recover and perhaps there will no longer remain a trace where the turbines had been. When the turbines on the flat lands of the Midwest are taken down, the farmers can heal the land with new crops of corn and wheat.
What will we do with our mountain whose top has been destroyed? Can it be recovered? Those who love progress and want the turbines, please tell me how? Tell me how you will make the mountain whole again. Tell me if the hawks and eagles will still fly here, or will they all have been killed by turbine blades? Tell me, will the farmer’s crops be plentiful without the benefit of bats?
Section 27 of Article 1, in the Pennsylvania Constitution declares “The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic, and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania’s public natural resources are the common property of all of the people, including generations yet to come. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.” This section of the constitution certainly applies to Jack’s and Stone mountains. This is why I am so passionate about protecting the mountains for future generations.
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This time our topic of the week is restorative practice.
In this week’s episode, Paul explains what restorative practice is, how it relates to restorative justice and how it can be used as a powerful behaviour tool.
Whether you are a Pastoral manager, teacher or pupil, this technique can transform behaviour, restore and – crucially – improve relationships. Restorative practice is in use in schools, academies, further and higher education settings and can be equally effective in each.
For maximum effectiveness, the following six questions should be used in all restorative meetings. They are often made highly visible, for example on teacher lanyards, in student planners and on posters around the school:
- What has happened?
- What were you thinking at the time? (Class teacher and child)
- Who has been affected by the actions?
- How have they been affected?
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If you are a seasoned handgun shooter the recoil won't bother you. If this is your first 44 you won't like it much unless you shoot 44 specials through it which kick much less and learn to handle the recoil. I've had good Taurus revolvers and bad ones. Their quality control has always been spotty.
yes it is ported and you can mount a scope you will need a scope mount like amazon.com/B-Square-Taurus-Magnum-6-Inch-8-Inch/dp/B0014VRXQS/ref=sr_1_1/143-3149840-7393551?s=sporting-goods&ie=UTF8&qid=1523501705&sr=1-1&keywords=taurus+scope+mount&dpID=41zh-IEXn%252BL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
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Companies Put the Brakes on Telecommuting / Bosses doubt that productivity rises
Published 4:00 am, Friday, December 29, 2000
Telecommuting, the hot trend of the 1990s that promised to give relief to commuters and working parents, has lost its luster in the workplace.
After years of investment, many companies have scaled back work-from-home programs, convinced that the practice isn't as valuable as employers had believed.
Some managers say that telecommuting breeds resentment among co-workers and that teleworkers are harder to monitor. Perhaps most significantly, many managers have come to question a central tenet of telecommuting -- that is raises productivity.
Although no one tracks the precise number of telecommuters, most personnel managers and experts in the field say that the ranks of telecommuters nationally are declining and that a majority of companies are planning to allow fewer people to work from home.
"Telecommuting doesn't put anybody ahead," said Larry Prusak, director of IBM's Institute for Knowledge Management, a think tank in Boston that has researched telecommuting trends. "Workers lose because they aren't in the office enough to be taken seriously for promotions," he said. "Bosses lose because nobody's around to keep ideas alive and work through projects together. "
Certainly telecommuting still has appeal to a lot of workers and employers. Companies such as Merrill Lynch, Cisco Systems and Toshiba regard telecommuting as a positive benefit and actively promote it. Merrill Lynch, for one, began a telecommuting school at its New York headquarters to train its employees and managers in the practice.
Many workers view the perk, more than any other, as a flexible way to balance work and personal time. They also regard it as the ultimate sign of trust from their bosses. But even in this exceedingly tight labor market, workers are finding a surprisingly small number of employers offering it.
After searching for several months, Tara Robinson of Los Angeles said she found only one promising job lead in her field of publishing and public relations. When she asked about the company's telecommuting policy, which had been touted in a posting on a working mother's Web site, "they backpedaled right out the door."
"They didn't really want people to telecommute," said Robinson, 38, who has been unable to find telework since her husband's transfer to Southern California in August. "They didn't even have a program set up. You'd think in this kind of market, (employers) would have some kind of clue about letting people work from home."
The International Telework Association of Council estimates that 24 million now work occasionally from home and that millions more want to but doubt their bosses would go for it.
Executive Director Gail Martin said any negative feedback on telecommuting likely comes from employers who are either not committed to it, have tried it on a whim and failed, or haven't thought the whole process through.
"The truth is, telecommuting does work and continues to be successfully practiced in the workplace," Martin said. "But it's like anything that makes a big splash in business: Everybody gets so excited about it, and then you get to a point where everybody wants to start tearing it down."
Other experts say that full-time telecommuters represent less than 5 percent of the U.S. workforce -- and that the number is declining.
In a recent survey by CareerEngine.com, an online consulting firm, more than 62 percent of the 650 employers polled said they expect to hire fewer teleworkers.
"Telecommuting is an employee-driven concept that managers are getting tired of," said Sam Shaw, a top manager involved with hiring and development at a Los Angeles technology consulting firm.
Some supporters of telecommuting blame the traditional mind-set of many managers who, given the choice, would prefer not to offer the benefit at all.
One example: A third of the 352 executives recently surveyed by the American Management Association said they "would just rather not deal with the whole issue" of telecommuting.
Jim Miller, a workplace consultant in Colorado who has been dubbed "Dr. Telework" for helping hundreds of companies develop telecommuting programs, thinks it may be another 15 years before the trend really takes off.
That's when today's younger workers will begin landing management positions,
and Miller predicts they will be far more receptive to telecommuting and other flexible work schedules than current bosses.
"Today's employers wouldn't pro-actively encourage telework if they didn't have to," Miller said. "It requires an incredible amount of trust, and I just don't see many managers out there right now who would do it if the market didn't demand they do it."
Shaw agreed, saying he couldn't get the people he wants if he didn't offer candidates an opportunity to work from home. Yet in reality, he said, less than 2 percent of his company's employees are allowed to telecommute.
Some employers have grown aware of gaps that teleworkers leave in the workplace, experts say. Fewer bosses are convinced that employees who work from home are actually more productive. Those with a command-and-control mentality are less willing to loosen the reins as a result.
Despite a host of studies over the past decade that say employees who work from home are more productive than their in-office colleagues, many bosses believe that personal interaction in the workplace is imperative for a healthy exchange of ideas.
In the American Management Association survey, nearly one-third of supervisors cited concern about productivity as a factor in not offering telecommuting.
"How do you know when someone's finished a project if they're working from home?" said Mitchell York, chief executive officer of Epromos.com, an online provider of logo merchandise based in Manhattan. "They could be finished three days ago. We just need people's heads here, in the office. To me, telecommuting just isn't an option."
Others, particularly managers, say companies are less eager to invest in the necessary technology to keep teleworkers productive at home, especially with the cost of fitting regular offices with ever-changing, high-speed connections and software.
Then, there are those who believe telecommuting has simply run its course and is no longer viewed as a vital perk.
For some workers, that's just fine. When she moved to Temecula (Riverside County) earlier this year and tried telecommuting as the marketing manager for a computer printer supplier 80 miles from her home, Denise Ovalle quickly realized it wasn't going to work.
"I was too distracted all the time," said Ovalle, 28. "Suddenly doing laundry sounded really exciting, or my dog wanted to play, or I was inspired to do some gardening. I knew I had to get back in the office, and I did."
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Today, the MTSU Student Voice is meeting up with Dr. John Dougan of the recording industry department. Dr. Dougan teaches classes on music business, popular music, and the history of the recording industry.
Thanks for agreeing to interview today! So how did you become interested in recording industry management?
I didn’t pick it, it kind of picked me. My background in the music industry isn’t directly music related. I started out as a music journalist; I was a writer working for newspaper and magazines as a freelancer for years, starting in the late 70s/early 80s. When I went to graduate school, American music and popular music were my areas of interest, but my degrees were in American studies, so I used American music to look at other parts of popular culture. When I was hired here at MTSU, I was hired primarily because I had a Ph.D. and because I had considerable experience writing about music. Also, when I was in college I worked in a record store, so I knew about selling and marketing music.
What made you decide you wanted to teach?
I think I had always wanted to teach. My undergraduate major was English, and at the time I thought I was going to be a high school English teacher. However, it seemed very young to graduate from undergrad at 21 or 22 and go get a job in a high school where you’re teaching people who are only four or five years younger than you. I felt like I hadn’t matured enough, that I wasn’t very good at managing a classroom, so I drifted away from that and decided I wouldn’t teach then. But in the back of my mind, I always felt like teaching would be a good profession. Later in life, I had a friend who taught and who invited me to come speak at a few of his journalism classes, and he told me I was good at it and encouraged me to go into teaching. When I went to graduate school, I made the decision that the end result of my going to graduate school would be me teaching. It had been in the back of my mind for years and years, and finally, I thought “Now I’m ready to do it”.
So you went back to school as an adult student?
Yes; I had been working for years in nonprofit arts administration. I was living in Minnesota at the time, and I’d worked for the Minnesota Children’s Museum and a literary center in Minneapolis; I was a director of marketing and communications, and I enjoyed all that work. It was very fulfilling. But my wife had just finished a master’s program, and I saw how much she enjoyed it. I could’ve continued to do the work I was doing, but I think as I got older it would’ve been the law of diminishing returns. There are certain positions you’ll take in your life that you may age out of. You take them when you’re young, in your twenties, and you think “I could do this for however long”, but after seven or eight years the job may top out. You’ve gotten all you want to get out of it. I had reached that point where I felt like the window of opportunity for graduate school was closing on me, so I took the opportunity and jumped at it, and I’m glad I did.
Where did you go to college?
For graduate school, I went to William and Mary in Virginia. For undergrad, I went to Westfield State University in Massachusetts. It was part of the state college system. I didn’t go to a particularly prestigious or rigorous high school; I went to a regional high school in central Massachusetts, back when a lot of people didn’t go to college. About half the graduating class would go to college, and half would go into a vocational track, like construction or auto mechanics. For those of us who went to college, we were first-generation college kids, and we were funneled into the state college system. Every medium to large city in Massachusetts had a state college, they were all over the place. And it was affordable; you could work part time and go to school and graduate with very little debt, unlike now.
What’s one of your favorite memories from college?
Well, this isn’t really a specific memory, but I grew up in rural Massachusetts in a very insular town of about 1100 people. And even though the town I went to college in wasn’t a huge city, I met a much more diverse group of people there than I had ever encountered in my hometown. Most of the people in my hometown were white, working-class, and Catholic. When I went to college I met kids who had grown up in big cities, kids who had very sophisticated views of the world, far more so than me. So it’s not a specific memory, but I remember that as I progressed in my undergraduate career, I met so many people who fundamentally changed the way I looked at the world. That includes professors; I had great professors as an undergrad. In graduate school, again there wasn’t one specific moment or memory, but it was just one of the most thoroughly enjoyable experiences I could’ve had. I think that as an older student, I was more focused and committed. I had a child, so I was more responsible; I wasn’t in the dating pool, I wasn’t going out and getting “lit” every Friday night, I was just very focused and I wanted to finish my program. I got a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in six years, which is pretty fast, and that experience also really expanded my understanding of the world. I would say that I probably enjoyed graduate school far more than undergrad, but again, as an undergrad I was in my late teens and early twenties. I wasn’t very mature, and not really tuned in. It’s lucky I picked up the things that I did.
What’s something you wish you’d done in college, or that you wish you’d done differently?
I wish I’d been a better student. I was a thoroughly mediocre undergrad student. I got better towards the end, but I was not a good student my first year in college; I was actually on academic probation. I think part of it was because I was ill-equipped to live on my own. I was 17 when I went to college, so I just didn’t know a lot of things. When my son went to college, my wife and I had him doing things on his own at home that we knew he’d have to do on his own in college. We told him “okay, your mom’s not going to do your laundry for you anymore, you need to do it”, or “come into the kitchen, I’ll show you how to cook some things”. Little things like that. My son goes to school 900 miles away, so he has to be able to take care of himself. It’s not like if he has a lousy week he can just come home on the weekend spontaneously. So if I could change something about my undergraduate years, it would just be to be a better student and know how to take care of myself on my own and pay more attention to my professors. When I have students now who exhibit that unfocused behavior, it frustrates me because I know what that’s like. That’s what I was like, so I want to tell them to just focus. To take things more seriously.
If you could recommend one class that you teach for all students at MTSU to take, what class would it be and why?
I would say History of the Recording Industry. I teach that one a lot because it’s a required course in our recording industry management program. But I say this knowing that many students who take the class don’t enjoy it and don’t want to take it because they don’t like learning about history. Which I don’t understand at all; can you imagine being in any program where you don’t want to know the past of that program? I have students who feel like history has no relevance to them just because it’s old. They feel like it’s too many names, dates, and song titles, and I tell them, “I don’t expect you to memorize all of it, but comprehensive knowledge is a good thing”. I try to make it more than just an endless series of names and dates. I think history is an ongoing dialogue, past present and future, and that’s what history of the recording industry is about: knowing how popular music affects society, how it shapes culture, and how it reflects history. That’s why I like teaching this class. Why wouldn’t you want comprehensive knowledge in the area you’re going to work? Why would you want to be ignorant of major parts of your field? Also, I’m not impressed by people being able to look stuff up on their cell phone. If my cat had opposable thumbs, I could teach her to look things up on a phone. What I think is impressive is one’s ability to just sit down and talk to somebody about a genre of music and the background of that genre. That’s comprehensive knowledge. Who cares about your ability to look something up on your phone? It is frustrating sometimes, but even with that resistance, I still love teaching the class. Every once in a while you get through to students, and you can see their eyes light up, like “Oh, Miles Davis really was cool” or “Jimi Hendrix is actually neat”. Knowing the history of American popular music is important for people who work in a recording industry program. When I have a student who is resisting the class, I tell them to just relax and have fun.
What’s one piece of advice you’d like to students to know?
If a student comes to me and asks, “How is this going to help me get a job?”, I’m not interested in that. What I teach is important; all knowledge is important information. If you spend your college career wondering, “How is every class going to affect my paycheck?”, maybe you shouldn’t be in college. Just enjoy it, learn as much as you can. Why does everything have to be so monetized? I think that’s a larger problem in education. I think a lot of students who come to college and universities are too focused on what they want to get out of in a paycheck. They miss out on the experience of college while they’re in the middle of it. Don’t go to college and turn your entire college career into some tedious pursuit of employment. For many people, these are the last four years of education they’ll have in their life. Why turn it into drudgery? Sure, everybody who goes to college wants to have a job when they graduate; but my point is, why would you be so focused solely on getting a job that you ignore all the great opportunities for learning that you have in college? Some students come in here with blinders on, ready to ignore information that they think won’t contribute to them getting employed. Their mindset towards everything in the classroom is “Why do I need to know this? Is this going to get me a job?”. Why would you partake in four years of intellectual exercise and squeeze all the fun out of it like that? You’ve got plenty of time to work. People in their twenties have forty-five years of work ahead of them, so what’s the rush?
Last question: have you ever worked with any famous people?
Well, probably the most famous student I’ve had since working at MTSU was Hillary Scott, from the band Lady Antebellum. She was my student about twelve years ago or so; I was teaching a survey of the recording industry class, and at the time she was just another undergrad in my class. Then a few years later I heard of a band called Lady Antebellum, and I realized “That’s Hillary!” She was a really great student.
If you’re interested in taking a class with Dr. Dougan, or you’d like more information about the recording industry management program, click here to go to the department’s homepage.
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Security researchers from Team Jellyfish have implemented a theoretical method of applying GPU to monitoring activity of the system, and produced a working prototype of a rootkit and a keylogger running on the GPU to hide its presence in the system. It is interesting to note that when the rootkit and the keylogger gain access to the GPU, they do without traditional hooks and changing code of the operating system kernel.
Tracking the buffer containing data about keystrokes pressed is done directly from the GPU using DMA. Only initialization is done in the CPU; afterwards all activity of the rootkit limited to GPU.
Currently this software works only on systems with a stand-alone graphics card AMD and NVIDIA (GPUs, integrated with CPU are not supported yet). The prototype rootkit is implemented in user space and is downloaded by means of LD_PRELOAD. For the code to be executed on the GPU, OpenCL API is used, so the drivers that support OpenCL are required. After loading, all the data are stored in video memory, making the intrusion difficult to detect. The contents of CPU memory are intercepted through DMA. Execution on GPU also means that GPU can be used to perform complex calculations.
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The female form beautiful. I know the male form has its own beauty, but personally, I’m more drawn to the softer, graceful aesthetic of the female body.
Art and nudity. It feels impossible to define a concrete distinction between the artistic and the pornographic. That debate is for some other humans at some other time. I’m not attempting to define that fine line–even on my own terms or regarding my own work. The line between the artistic and vulgar when depicting the naked human form lies in extensive shades of grey.
If a particular form of art is not pleasing to you (or if you don’t consider it art) then don’t waste your time or energy viewing it. That feels simple? There is plenty of art I don’t like, and that’s okay.
I won’t waste my time trying to argue the complete absurdity of a conservative belief that all nudity equals pornography. (I have actually met people who believe that?) I know I won’t change their minds, and they certainly won’t change mine. Because that concept is, well, ridiculous.
The nude human form has been depicted since the creation of artistic imagery. I simply don’t understand the need to scandalize nudity based solely on its own existence. Should the Louvre institute an 18 or older section dedicated to all images with nudity—since the naked body in paintings and sculpture is obviously inappropriate for all those aged 17 and younger? What about architecture and public sculpture? Should we remove the genitals of all nude sculpture within public view? (Like the lovely misleadingly anatomically incorrect Ken doll forms from my childhood, and probably current childhoods? I think Ken is still a thing. Barbie is still a thing, so Ken is probably still a thing.)
I suppose my point is, I love the human form. I love the aesthetic beauty of the naked body.
I’m not going to be ashamed of that appreciation. Humans are beautiful in their perfections and imperfections—it’s incredible how one basic form can be mechanical, strong, sensual, awkward, idyllic, and fragile.
I try to embrace that—its definition, literal and metaphorical, both in my art and my life.
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Beer bar owner to chief of Niranjani Akhara – The story of Sachin Datta
The appointment of Sachidanand Giri Maharaj – Sachin Datta before he took sanyas – as Mahamandaleshwar of Niranjani Akhara has triggered a massive controversy.
Allahabad: The appointment of Sachidanand Giri Maharaj – Sachin Datta before he took sanyas – as Mahamandaleshwar of Niranjani Akhara has triggered a massive controversy.
A native of Ghaziabad, Giri Maharaj was into liquor and real estate business before he left everything to enter sanyas at the age of 22.
As per pardaphash website, his detractors allege that he continues to run a bar at Sector 18 in Noida, besides being the owner of a real estate firm.
It is also being claimed that he managed to get to the supreme seat in the Akhara on the basis of money power.
Giri Maharaj's 'pattabhishek' was held on 'Guru Purnima' day at Prayag in the presence of senior Uttar Pradesh minister Shivpal Yadav.
Expectedly, his supporters have rubbished the claims and insist that Giri Maharj had left his family and business behind when he chose the path of a sanyasi.
They also point out that Giri Maharaj has been a disciple Agni Akhara's Mahamandelshwar Kailashanand for the last 20 years and that his name was proposed by his guru for the prestigious title.
The Akhara Parishad has taken note of the issue and declared that Giri Maharaj will be stripped of the title if the allegations are found to be true.
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Smartphones equipped with portable devices that magnetically levitate cells might one day help diagnose diseases in the home, clinic or lab, researchers say.
Nowadays, smartphones are incredibly powerful portable computers that include handy devices such as multimegapixel cameras, and they can be found in both developing and developed countries. Increasingly, researchers are exploring ways for smartphones to be used not only for posting selfies and playing video games, but also to help save lives by rapidly performing medical tests anywhere there are smartphones — that is, virtually anywhere around the world.
A common medical test involves measuring the levels of red blood cells and white blood cells in the blood. Standard methods for classifying and counting blood cells are either complex and expensive or labor-intensive and time-consuming. Now, scientists have developed a lantern-size device that can measure blood-cell levels using magnetic levitation. They also say their invention can be combined with smartphones to carry out this medical test rapidly, easily and affordably. [10 Technologies That Will Transform Your Life]
To use the portable imaging magnetic levitation system, dubbed i-LEV, a smartphone is placed on top of a lens so that the device's camera can look down on tubes filled with finger-prick-size volumes of blood — say, 30 microliters, or about the volume of a single grain of rice. Mirrors and an LED light help users see the specimens. The entire kit is about 6.3 inches by 4 inches by 7.9 inches.
The blood samples are laced with a chemical known as gadobutrol, which is paramagnetic — that is, it is slightly attracted to magnetic fields. These samples are placed between two long, thin magnets about the size of toothpicks, and whatever is within buoys up in this magnetic field, the researchers said.
Cells float up to different heights in the magnetic field depending on their density, which, in turn, depends on their type. This helps the device easily separate red and white blood cells in about 15 minutes, the researchers said.
"Here, we develop a method to measure cell densities accurately at a single-cell level and separate them based on a balance between their weight and magnetic forces," said study co-author Utkan Demirci, a bioengineer at Stanford University.
The smartphone could see individual blood cells using i-LEV. Computer programs could then automatically count the number of blood cells seen in less than 30 seconds, the scientists explained.
Most portable biomedical devices designed to work with smartphones require extensive preparation of medical samples beforehand, and many need dyes and other labeling compounds to distinguish, for example, one cell type from another, Demirci and his colleagues said. In contrast, the researchers said i-LEV forgoes these steps and is therefore much simpler and easier to use.
The researchers noted that i-LEV could do more than just measure blood-cell levels. For example, their previous research found that cancer cells and infected cells levitate differently from the way healthy cells do. The invention could also help monitor the effects of drugs on cells for research applications.
The i-LEV is patented, and Demirci noted that it has already drawn lots of commercial interest. Still, "it won't be at the clinic the next day," Demirci said. "As with any other technology, this technology will take years of development and further commercialization to see it as a product on a shelf."
The scientists detailed their findings online in the journal Small on Nov. 2, 2015.
- 9 Odd Ways Your Tech Devices May Injure You
- 7 Cool Uses of 3D Printing in Medicine
- 7 Diseases You Can Learn About From a Genetic Test
Copyright 2016 LiveScience, a Purch company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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I was so excited when I saw the theme for Taheerah's next Winnie and Walter - The Gossip Column was 'Geometrics'. I love geometric designs on anything i.e. pillows, wallpaper, prints, fabric etc. It does seem to be everywhere at the moment which is brilliant for me. I had so many ideas for card designs and then my flu hit. I made myself sit down on Monday night with my stamps and ink pads and just play around.
I'll be honest, I've never had such a problem with my mojo disappearing like it has at the moment. I think its because I'm constantly left with a sinus headache, that it keeps interfering with my imagination. Anyway, it was good to create just something and I came up with four different designs. Two I have finished and the others need more work, so watch this space....
This first card is one I thought of pretty quickly because I thought the stamps would look great in lines and have such a retro vibe:
I stamped the larger round stamp from Clearly Besotted 'Simply Quilled' in red ink across a piece of white CS. I then die-cut the circle and popped it up on foam tape on my card front. I stamped the sentiment from Winnie and Walter 'The Big, the Bold and You' in black ink and heat embossed twice with clear embossing powder to give it lots of shine. I cut it out with scissors and put on foam tape as well. A few enamel dots (from Papervine) in black and clear rhinestones (from Kaisercraft) finished it off.
I have quite a few cheap canvas's at home that I've covered with fabric that I love and think this design on fabric would be awesome!!
Will post my other card shortly (which is quite a bit different to this one). And fingers crossed I will gain enough mojo back to make some more. I always enjoy the Winnie and Walter challenges, they really get me out of my comfort zone!
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February 13, 2020, 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
27375 Bell Road
Southfield, MI 48034
In the CSZ Youth Lounge.
Come play! The community is welcome to our drop-in playgroup for children ages 0-5 and their favorite adult. Songs, games, stories, projects and more! Lindsay Mall leads activities in her famous Bubble Club style, alongside our Rabbis.
Donations are gratefully accepted to perpetuate this program.
Want to know more about what other exciting opportunities we have in store for your little ones? “Like” us on Facebook at our Congregation Shaarey Zedek Young Families page for up-to-date information, photos, and programs.
For information, contact Ari Reis at email@example.com or 248.357.5544.Map Unavailable
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Adventures at Target without the leash
Saturday, February 05, 2011
Ok most will find that an odd title, but those with autistic quiet as ninja runners know exactly what that means.
My sweet PA loves to go to Target (well so does her mom *smiling*), but rarely do I attempt this by my self. We truthfully I wasn't alone, but I decided to take her with me so my husband could look at toys and I would not have to worry about PA wanting something. I wanted to go look at cloths for PA & she loves to look at clothes, so I thought why not.
Started out fine....She stayed close and was easy to control. However when we passed in her words “ballerina dress” (a pink swim suit with a pink tutu) she liked, all bets were off. I didn’t have a very hard time getting her to hang it back on the rack., so I thought I dodged a meltdown. I did dodge the meltdown, but that’s where she started to show her “ninja skills” I was talking about. See she really knew she is suppose to stay with me, but when she sees something *shinny** as we say.. She can not help herself.
I turned around to look at something not even for 3 seconds turned back and she was gone.. Of course first thought is to call out for her, but with PA wouldn’t make any difference. See she is verbal, but will not answer unless she is looking at you and wants to acknowledge you.. So I thought real fast and remembered the “ballerina dress”. I made a b-line and sure enough she was standing there with the bathing suit dancing around.. It was a happy ending and I really didn’t have to go far to find her. Of course she got a talking to and had to sit in the basket for the remainder of the shopping trip, but reinforced to me the need of the leash when we go shopping.
As far as her ninja skills. Yes, she is truly that quiet not only when she is trying to escape. She is also has ninja skills when destroying a room. You never know until you walk in the room. Even though you have been in the next room for 2 minutes, but I will revisit her ninja skills in a later post..
I took this directly from my website blog post, because I did'nt want to write two LOL...
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Once upon a time there was a song.... it had the good fortune of being recorded in demo form at London’s famous Toerag Studios and was produced by Toerag sound-maestro Liam Watson.
This demo was played by John Kennedy, tireless ambassador for new bands and X-fm DJ. The demo was heard by many A&R men and the song managed to secure it’s band a groundbreaking record deal.
The song is called ‘Rip It Up’ and it is by Razorlight. A mere couple of months after signing, Razorlight found themselves
releasing their first proper single and it was ‘Rip It Up’. The full release version was this time produced by yet another renowned producer; Steve Lillywhite and this release precipitated what eventually become ‘the rags to riches’ story of the last twelve months.
(Despite the success of the produced, recorded, signed version of ‘Rip it Up’ the Toerag demo was not forgotten and as a gesture to all of those who knew it, the Toerag ‘Rip It Up’ was given it’s own release as a B-side to what is now one of Razorlight’s most popular live songs ‘Stumble & Fall’ and the band’s first top thirty it.)
The Lillywhite ‘Rip it Up’ was a year ago to this very day. Now it is 2004. Razorlight have had what could undoubtedly be seen as a stellar year and on November 29th will release for the very first time, a new version of ‘Rip it Up’. This version appears on the chart storming debut Razorlight album ‘Up All Night’ and this version was produced by a third (but no less great) producer John Cornfield at an equally legendary studio: Sawmills.
It is a fitting cap to the year. This album version or the Cornfield ‘Rip it Up’ will be the last song to come from Razorlight’s debut album and it is a fitting bookend to what has been a truly remarkable 12 months.
This is one fairy tale where they do all live happily ever after.
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Jack has been in this world for 9 days now--that's crazy to think about. I would love to say we are settling into a routine, but I'm not so sure about that. I am struggling today with getting him to sleep enough. He likes being awake and alert, and he doesn't like napping when he's not being held. And because I can't hold him all of the time, I need help! Any suggestions?
Other than that, he really is a great baby. He is sweet and curious when he is awake. He doesn't cry very often, although he consistently cries while being changed--he hates that! He feeds often and well.
Bech went back to work today, so it was just Jack and me. I think we did okay. He even happily vegged out in the swing for a little while, which allowed me to take a shower and put on real clothes.
Here are some recent pictures of the little guy:
I know this isn't a "real smile," but it's so darn cute! I love his little sleepy smiles so much!
Bech looks really tired in this picture. That's probably because that's how we both feel--very tired!
Check out that awesome double chin...ridiculous.
He loves to put one of his hands up in a fist on his face. This is his favorite nursing pose (don't worry, I won't be sharing pictures of that anytime soon!) but he also does it sometimes when he sleeps.
This is a video Bech made of Jack on Wednesday. He's sitting in his Baby Bjorn chair, just relaxing and being so alert. It's kinda long, and is probably really boring if you aren't in some way related to Jack (actually even then, it might be boring!). But he is really cute in it, plus I love the music Bech chose to go along with it.
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The Institute of HeartMath, in their book “Transforming Depression” states that the brain is a pattern-matching system that scans for what is familiar. When a stressful situation occurs, the brain scans its memory banks for previous stressful experiences until it percieves a match. Then, it triggers the same emotional reactions you had the previous time … including depression, anxiety, hurt, resignation, or other negative feelings.
The good news is that the brain circuits are flexible and can be changed at any time in your life. You can reshape and repattern negative emotional circuitry. Because our emotional processes work faster than thinking, something more powerful than just a mental process is needed. What lays the foundation for successful reprogramming is a Coherent Heart.
Researchers have established that the heart’s signals have a significant effect on the brain’s cognitive and emotional functions, continuously influencing how a person perceives and responds to the world.
To cultivate a Coherent Heart, you can begin to explore this guided exercise offered by the Institute of HeartMath
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King's Jewel or Stone of Midas also known as the stone of bonds is one of the mystical stones found on Hayate no Gotoku! Universe
The stone(s) are plot devices as many main characters possess them and various antagonists try to steal them in return. Mikado later tells Hayate that if he loses the stone he was given or destroys it, Nagi would lose her inheritance. (He later does so to save Athena's live)
It is later revealed there are more than 1 of these stones and that you need one that hasn't lost its light in order to access the Royal Garden.
According to Nagi, (it is implied her mother taught her this in the past) it is known as the stone of bonds, and that it was a stone of wishes made by a king a long time ago using the power of the stars. It is also known as a stone of prayers that test greed and that the stone gives shape to strong feelings of wanting to protect and save someone even at the cost of his/her own life. (Chapter 231)
The stone is very mysterious, and little is known about this stone but it holds some kind of mystic power. It is said that whoever wields it will be "in a deep test of greed and endless badluck cursing his/her life". Hayate received the stone from Mikado, and probably is the source of Hayate's endless badluck in his entire life. The other characters who are shown to wear the stone are Aika Kasumi and Mikado Sanzenin but Yukariko is shown to wear it in her picture.The stone has a very bad enigmating aura that takes form as a small skeleton with purple dark aura surrounding it.
According to Maria (In chapter 199), the stone is a legenday treasure of Sanzenin family from the beginning of their era, and there are approximately 9 stones so far. In the past Mikado Sanzenin gave things to people he cared about, the king jewels were one of those things as it could be shown in flashback that he gave 1 to Aika Kasumi and another to Hayate Ayasaki.
Only a few people including Isumi is shown to have seen the stone's powers. Isumi is capable of erasing Hayate's stone powers, however it is limited to only the evil aura surrounding the stone as the test is still cursing Hayate's life.
Mikado Sanzenin declares that whoever destroys Hayate's particular stone will be the heir of the Sanzenin estate, as well as obtaining all of Nagi's riches. As a result Hayate has come into conflict before while trying to protect the stone for Nagi's sake. (Chapter 225) Few antagonists like Athena are willing to obtain it by any means necessary, in order to attain the estate or just for their own agenda.
Uniquely, Hayate's stone is shown to have a stronger power than the rest. Probably because of his serious badluck from the beginning of the story, making him the "the unluckiest person in the universe". Nagi destroys it of her own will in chapter 252.
It is later revealed in (Chapter 262) that 10 years ago Hayate picked up a King's Jewel during Christmas eve. It is implied this was the doing of Mikado Sanzenin as he appeared in Hayate's dream dressed as Santa and told him that it was his stone but he already had 8 of them so he didn't mind losing one of them. Some point later Hayate placed the stone inside a shrine charm then forgot about it later on, thus explaining how he managed to enter the Royal Garden. He later gives the stone to his Brother Ikusa who in return enters the Royal Garden to save Athena.Later on while cleaning the Mystery Room where the coffin was held formely, Hayate remarks that one of the crest on the floor appeared in the king's jewel (presumably the one he was given) He observes that there are 12 crests in total and inferred that there are 12 King's Jewel in total.
The persons who held the King's Jewels in the story
- Aika Kasumi - recieved from Mikado in Chapter 152
- Wataru Tachibana - recieved from Mikoto in Chapter 218
- Ikusa Ayasaki - recieved from Hayate in Chapter 262
- Mikado Sanzenin
- Hayate Ayasaki - first jewel was accidently given to Ikusa 10 years ago, shown in Chapter 262
- Hayate Ayasaki - second jewel was destroyed by Nagi in Chapter 252
- Mikoto Tachibana - given to Wataru in Chapter 218
- Yukariko Sanzenin - deceased 8 years prior to the beginning of story
- Interestingly enough many characters related to each other seem to be in possession of the different King's jewels at different times. (Nagi's mother & Wataru's mother who were both friends)
- Mikado Sanzenin seem to have more than one king's jewel as seen when he gave one to Aika and one to Hayate. The purpose of doing this is still unknown though.
- It is revealed in Chapter 263 that Athena cannot touch any of the King's jewels due to the role she played in Mikado's plan for trying obtain the power of royalty.
- Each King's Jewel has a different symbol, the meaning of these symbols is still unknown, (The same symbols are later seen on the floor of the main hall inside the castle of the Royal Garden, the floor and ceiling in one of the rooms in Mikado's Castle and as well as embedded in a circle surrounding the coffin inside the mystery room in Violet Mansion.)
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It's Time for the Cincinnati Bengals and BenJarvus Green-Ellis to Part Ways
One of the bigger storylines heading into the 2013 NFL season was how big of an impact newly-drafted Giovani Bernard have on the Cincinnati Bengals backfield. It was a reasonable question considering Bernard was the first running back selected in the 2013 draft, going 37th overall. The only legitimate roadblocks were veterans BenJarvus Green-Ellis, Bernard Scott and Cedric Peerman – none of those guys had proven that they had the ability to single-handedly take over a backfield.
The argument made in favor of Green-Ellis was his tough running and ball security during his career. According to pro-football-reference.com, Green-Ellis only fumbled three times in 788 career carries prior to the 2013 season – a very impressive number. And although sure-handedness is certainly a valuable asset for an NFL running back, without an explosive element to go along with it, you tend to have nothing more than average player.
In 2013, Green-Ellis received the majority of the team’s carries, 220, and accumulated 756 rushing yards and 7 touchdowns. Bernard picked up the rest, posting 170 carries for 695 yards and 5 touchdowns. Green-Ellis, who has never been known as a receiving threat, only had four receptions, while Bernard hauled in 56 catches for 514 yards and 3 touchdowns.
Just a quick glance at these numbers should alert you to the fact that Green-Ellis was much more inefficient with his touches. Bernard looked much more dangerous with the ball in his hands than did his counterpart, showing burst and agility. It’s not only the emergence of an explosive playmaker that may be signaling the end for Green-Ellis in Cincinnati, either – it’s his precipitous decline in efficiency during his past four seasons.
One of the most crucial tools we have at our disposal here at numberFire is our Net Expected Points (NEP) metric. This basically assigns a point value to a player for every situation encountered during a game depending on if what he does hurts or helps his team. Check out our glossary for a more detailed description.
The table below shows Green-Ellis’s last four seasons according to our Rushing NEP, Rushing NEP per rush, and Success Rate (the percentage of plays that had a positive effect on his NEP).
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Looking at the table above makes it very easy to see how Green-Ellis’s play has declined fairly consistently during the past four seasons. Except for a small uptick in his Success Rate in 2013, every category has steadily declined.
This doesn't mean that, in 2014, Green-Ellis can’t break the trend and have a rebound season. But for a running back who will be 29 years old by season’s start, and who has not shown much agility or explosiveness up to this point, it’s easy to be pessimistic about his chances for a sudden resurgence.
While Bernard didn't necessarily set the world on fire with his NEP stats, (-6.75 Rushing NEP, -.04 Rushing NEP per rush and a 42.69% Success Rate) he still performed better than Green-Ellis while simultaneously adjusting to the speed of the NFL and learning a new offensive system.
Where Bernard really sets himself apart is his versatility catching the football. In 2013, he posted 32.45 Reception Net Expected Points, ranking him fifth out of nine running backs with 50 to 70 receptions. Although he sits near the middle of this list, for a rookie to perform similarly to Reggie Bush and LeSean McCoy with respect to catching the football, it shows tremendous promise. With a full year under his belt, Bernard should build upon his 2013 campaign with a better understanding of the NFL game.
Another important factor to understand heading into 2014 for the Bengals backfield is Hue Jackson becoming the team’s new offensive coordinator.
In 2010 while serving as the Oakland Raiders Offensive Coordinator, Jackson engineered one of the best running games in the NFL. Under Jackson's guidance, the Raiders ranked second in rushing yards and fourth in rushing attempts, ranking fifth in rushing effectiveness according to our metrics. In 2011 as the Raiders Head Coach, they ranked seventh in both rushing yards and attempts, and were a top 15 team according to Net Expected Points. It’s clear that Jackson prefers to have a strong running game as evidenced by what he did during his tenure in Oakland.
As the new offensive coordinator in Cincinnati, it’s assumed that Jackson wants to follow a similar plan in 2014. Although he appears pleased with Andy Dalton's development so far this off-season, it will be a shock for him to totally abandon the philosophy that he has implored during his coaching career.
So if Coach Jackson wants to run the ball more, and Green-Ellis continues his downward slide, who will help Bernard shoulder the load?
The Bengals 2014 second-round pick, Jeremy Hill, may be the answer.
As a sophomore at LSU in 2013, Hill amassed 1,401 yards rushing with 16 touchdowns earning himself First-Team All-SEC honors. These numbers are terrific on their own, but considering Hill played against the toughest defenses in college football on a weekly basis makes it even more impressive. According to NFL.com, Hill also takes care of the football, having only fumbled once in 371 career touches at LSU.
As a 21-year-old rookie, Hill most likely is not ready to command a giant workload immediately in the NFL. However, he does profile as a younger, more agile BenJarvus Green-Ellis, possible putting the last nail in the Law Firm’s coffin in Cincinnati. A combination of Bernard and Hill would appear to make Green-Ellis the odd man out.
There will always be a roster spot open in the NFL for a running back who doesn't fumble and can get you tough yards when called upon. For BenJarvus Green-Ellis, however, that place may not be Cincinnati for much longer.
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Archive for June, 2012
Doing some summer entertaining? For this quick and popular appetizer, warm a whole Camellia on a cedar plank on the grill. Guests use sliced baguette to scoop up the melty cheese, topped with apricots and honey.
Goat milk kefir replaces the buttermilk in this delicious bundt pound cake. Fabulous base for strawberry shortcake!
Redwood Hill Farm Goat Milk Kefir substitutes for half and half in this delicious quiche. The kefir and the aged goat milk cheddar give it a bright flavor; delicious with the mushrooms and broccoli.
No rise time needed – just mix the ingredients together and bake for this beautiful fragrant herb bread.
This delicious goat milk ice cream gets its tanginess from Redwood Hill Farm Goat Milk Kefir.
Chopped macadamia nuts and bananas add to the tropical flavors in this healthy parfait made with our Apricot Mango Goat Milk Yogurt.
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A new study of the 1971 conflict involving Bangladesh, Pakistan and India wins points for ambition, though not for execution
There is a Rashomon-like quality to the war in the subcontinent in 1971, which led to the independence of Bangladesh and the break-up of Pakistan. In Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film, a crime takes place in the woods, and it is difficult to figure out what happened because those who claim to have witnessed it can’t be trusted. The movie reveals the complex nature of reality, how we choose to see and believe what we want to—the narrative around 1971 is similar. Bangladesh sees it as its liberation war (which it most certainly was), India sees it as a refugee crisis, which turned into a humanitarian crisis and continued the India-Pakistan conflict (which, in some ways, it has) that incidentally created Bangladesh. And Pakistan does not talk about the atrocities its army committed in what was then East Pakistan—it blames India for splitting Pakistan.
The conflict also severely undermined the prevailing wisdom in many parts of the world (and indeed in Pakistan) that India and Pakistan had to be distinct nations because there was a Hindu India and a Muslim India, ideas which the colonial rulers from Britain encouraged and exploited. Bangladesh was Muslim, but also Bengali, and chose independence, undermining the idea of subcontinental Muslim unity. Bangladeshis resent Indians talking of the war in a patronizing way—focusing on how India liberated Bangladesh, as though Bangladeshis did nothing except suffer.
In contrast, Bangladesh remembers it as a nine-month war, where India came towards the end to help, for which it is grateful, but India must not forget that Bangladeshi men and women had borne the brunt of Pakistani violence for the preceding eight-and-a-half months. More importantly, three months after the war, nearly 95% of the 10 million refugees who had come to India—many of them Hindus—went back. In Pakistan, on the other hand, the war has been a footnote in history.
Anam Zakaria is a young historian, scholar and teacher from Pakistan who aims to listen and understand the differing versions and offer her personal interpretation of what happened. In 1971: A People’s History From Bangladesh, Pakistan And India, she speaks to people in the three countries through structured interviews, conversations with schoolchildren, and discussions with groups arranged by intermediaries. These interviews are not always face-to-face, because it remains hard for Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis to visit each other’s countries given the visa restrictions—several of her interviews with Indians were conducted over Skype and some have been conducted by others. She was able to make only one visit to Bangladesh. Besides, she does not speak Bengali, which limits her ability to use the oral history archives at the Muktijuddho Jadughor (Liberation War Museum) in Dhaka.
Zakaria describes the three alternate realities well, but her account would have been more accessible had she provided a straightforward chronology of events early on. As she follows the story in thematic sections , there is repetition and too much scene-setting before each interview, which interrupts the flow—it can confuse readers unfamiliar with the story.
To be sure, she touches upon most of the key moments, starting from the time the Bengali lawyer and freedom fighter Dhirendranath Datta (who was a parliamentarian in Pakistan, and was murdered by Pakistani troops in March 1971) gave a speech in Pakistan’s legislature in 1948 seeking to make Bengali the national language. All the events that followed—first, Pakistan prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan’s rebuttal of (and veiled threat to) Datta’s demand; later, Pakistan governor general Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s refusal to consider the demand while on a tour to the city then known as Dacca; the Bangla language movement of 1952; the six-point charter of the Awami League’s demands seeking greater autonomy; the arrest of Awami League leader Mujibur Rahman; the cyclone that ravaged East Pakistan in 1970; the election and Awami League’s victory; the protracted negotiations to form the government; the army-led Operation Searchlight and the pogrom that began at the university on 25 March 1971 and continued throughout Bangladesh; the massacre at Chuknagar in May; the rape of many Bangladeshi women; the Mukti Bahini’s formation; the Pakistani surrender to the Indian Army in 1971—are there. But it could have been structured better.
Zakaria meets leading Bangladeshis who have kept the memories of the conflict alive—Shahriar Kabir, who has been campaigning for the controversial war crimes tribunal; academic Muntassir Mamoon, who has been painstakingly gathering data on the conflict; journalist and writer Afsan Chowdhury, who has compiled excellent oral histories from the time; academic Meghna Guhathakurta, whose father was among the first to be killed in 1971; Aroma Dutta, who saw her grandfather Dhirendranath taken away, and never saw him again; Ferdousi Priyabhashini, perhaps the first woman to speak publicly of her ordeal, having been kept in a camp and raped many times, embodying the noun birangana (the brave woman), which the government would confer on all the women who were sexually assaulted during the conflict. But missing are the voices of the marginal men and women—the many other biranganas who remain forgotten, or the boatmen who ferried refugees across.
Zakaria hears Bangladeshis telling her how much they distrust and dislike Pakistan and Pakistanis because of the lack of Pakistan’s atonement. The absence of people-to-people contact within the subcontinent is one reason so little is known about the “other". Zakaria is a fine ambassador of Pakistani liberalism—sceptical, defying norms, polite, a listener full of empathy. She is struck by the violent stories she hears and feels emotionally wrenched; she analyses the numbers (did three million die, as Bangladeshis insist? Or 26,000, as Pakistan reckons?) as well as the politics around them, without taking sides, which is wise.
Although Bangladeshis resent the fact that Pakistan hasn’t apologized for what happened in 1971, Zakaria rightly mentions that former president Pervez Musharraf did express regret, even as she notes that few ordinary Pakistanis expressed remorse over what happened, partly because school textbooks are so biased, and not only in Pakistan. She documents the collective amnesia in Pakistan, the unwillingness to learn more, and blames the distorted textbooks in all three countries that colour national narratives.
Zakaria also notes, politely, that Bangladesh’s own political trajectory has bounced between the nominally secular Awami League and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which has allied with Islamists—therefore, its own history books can’t be relied upon. Awamis too have allied with Islamists in the past. While words can’t compensate, the earliest Pakistani apology was in 1974 (which Zakaria does not mention), though she notes the publication, We Owe An Apology To Bangladesh, a collection of essays by Pakistanis. She speaks to the man who compiled it, the poet Ahmad Salim. She talks to Nadir Ali, a Pakistani captain who was horrified by what he saw, and became mentally ill. He would later write poetry and visit Bangladesh, expressing profound sympathy for Bangladeshis.
It is the Indian part that is weak, partly because Zakaria was not able to travel to India. We do not hear much from Indian soldiers or officers, nor from those who hosted the refugees, or who resented their presence, though she notes the resentment. While she writes about the current crisis in India over citizenship, which is inextricably linked to the lack of India’s own historical understanding of 1971, she does so perfunctorily, as if to make the book seem complete and contemporary.
As a result, we get a mixed narrative, which is not what the label advertises—a people’s history from the three countries. It is, rather, some people’s interpretations of what happened. Not all the people she speaks with are witnesses. Some rely on hearsay; many other views are not captured. We hear of Chakmas, but not from them; we do not hear of other minorities in Bangladesh, such as Christians or Santhals; and we do not hear from voices of the left, like women’s rights activist Rokeya Kabir. Dismaying are the responses of the young in each country—how little they know of their neighbours—and this shows why we need many more books like Zakaria’s.
Salil Tripathi is a writer based in New York. His book on the Bangladesh war of independence, The Colonel Who Would Not Repent, was published in 2014.
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Welcoming the first potential elements of a new climate treaty negotiation text, ICC has underscored the need for clear policies and collaborative undertakings for business to scale up investments in climate solutions.
The International Chamber of Commerce, the world business organization, through its World Chambers Federation, has formed a strategic alliance with Development Business (DB) to increase participation of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in international procurement.
The wait is over: registration is now open for the highly anticipated 2015 Singapore Annual ICC Banking Commission Meeting to be held at the Raffles Convention Centre in Singapore on 20-23 April 2015. The flagship event will bring together over 400 trade experts, banking professionals, business leaders, lawyers and government officials from over 65 countries under one roof to debate the key issues impacting the trade finance industry.
Front centre: Etienne Clementel with the merchants of peace
Members at the 1938 World Council meeting
58th session of the ICC Council in Paris on 21 October 1938
First session of the Preparatory Committee for an international trade organization held in London at Church House, Westminster 15 October 1946
From left - ICC Chairman Peter Wallenberg, US President George H W Bush, ICC Vice-Chairman and USCIB Chairman Joseph E Connor and USCIB President Abraham Katz at the White House 21 June 1990
Participants at the 20th Congress in New Delhi, India, February 1965
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How do you milk a cow?
Unless you watch somebody do it, it's a little hard to explain...but it's not hard. If somebody is trying to get you to "milk the cow"...take my advice and don't learn...it'll be your job forever!!
Very carefully, squeeze the udders in an alternating rhythm and you'll do fine.
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This review is part of the Second Annual Natural Parents Network Holiday Gift Guide!
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The 55 companies that have provided items for review and giveaway are almost exclusively made up of work-at-home shops or companies that are dedicated to supporting eco-conscious choices. I’m featuring one of those companies in my review below. When you finish reading my review, please click on over to the full Second Annual Natural Parents Network Holiday Gift Guide, where you’ll find information on 58 products. In total, we’re giving away goodies worth more than $2500!
Even if you don’t win one of our fabulous prize packages, please consider spending part of your gift-giving budget at one of these small businesses. By supporting small businesses, you are helping families, boosting local economies, and supporting ethical practices of manufacturing, production and selling. Take advantage of coupon codes provided by many of the companies, you can find them at the full Gift Guide at NPN. To make browsing easier, we’ve split the Gift Guide into sections with products that are Perfect for Kids and Perfect for Families. And you can find all 6 Rafflecopter widgets there, too. Without further ado, here is my review – thank you for reading and entering!
This is a Joint Review and Giveaway of gDiapers between Natural Parents Network and Farmer’s Daughter.
gDiapers are an ecofriendly hybrid diapering system that offers the flexibility of using cloth or disposable, biodegradable inserts in their reusable gPants covers. I have used gDiapers with both of my sons for over three years, and I love that I’m able to use either cloth or disposables, without all the plastic and chemicals found in a conventional diaper! Disposable inserts can be flushed, composted (wet only) or thrown away. Matching clothes and baby legs complete the adorable look! You can check out the videos on their website to learn all about their hybrid diapering system and how it works.
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gDiapers can also be coordinated with tees, dresses and gLegs! The gVeggie ensemble is perfect for David! We are a family who cares about the land and where our food comes from, and I love that this message can be seen on his diaper. And the gLegs? Oh my goodness, is there anything cuter than a chunky baby in gLegs? I don’t think there is!
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Jun 21, 2013, 8:58 PM EST
The NASCAR debut of Izod IndyCar Series driver Graham Rahal has been shelved for the time being, according to a report Friday by AutoWeek.com.
Rahal, the son of former three-time CART champion and 1986 Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Rahal, has decided to delay what would have been his NASCAR debut in the Nationwide Series’ August 17 event at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. No reason has been given for why the younger Rahal pulled out of the race, other than telling the web site that it “won’t happen” this season.
The elder Rahal told the web site that his son, who will race Sunday in the IndyCar race at Iowa Speedway, still hopes to make his NASCAR debut eventually.
“That’s his desire,” Bobby Rahal said. “I think it would be great for him to try. I drove IROC (the now-defunct International Race of Champions series] and I drove a NASCAR race (1984 at Riverside, made an early exit due to mechanical failure and finished 40th), and it’s all interesting. Anything you can drive in, you get better. Now, I think he’s more concerned with making it happen next year. It would be really great for him to try and I think he would do very well at it.”
Had Graham Rahal, 24, gone ahead with the Nationwide Series race, it would have been an emotional appearance. He grew up in suburban Columbus, Ohio, less than an hour from the 2.3-mile Mid-Ohio, a track that was one of his father’s favorites during his racing career.
The younger Rahal has struggled in his first season with Rahal Letterman Lanigan, currently ranked 17th. That could be part of the reason why he pulled out of the NNS race, to potentially try and salvage what has been a rough season thus far. In nine races, Rahal has one runner-up finish (Long Beach) and two other top-10 finishes. On the flip side, he has five finishes of 16th or worse.
“I think he is interested in doing some of the road courses, but in NASCAR, everybody wants money,” Bobby Rahal said, “especially if you’re going to be with a team you can succeed with. You want to get Penske or Gibbs or Hendrick or any of those guys.”
Dec 17, 2014, 7:23 PM EST
Do you like watching old racing videos and programs from the past? If so, you’re going to love this BBC video about NHRA drag racing from back in 1990.
Dec 17, 2014, 6:38 PM EST
Kurt Busch got the chance to tell his side in the legal battle with former girlfriend Patricia Driscoll. We break down what Kurt said in court on NASCAR America.
Dec 17, 2014, 5:16 PM EST
Kurt Busch testified Wednesday he asked former girlfriend Patricia Driscoll numerous times to leave his motorcoach on the night she claims the NASCAR driver struck her head several times.
Dec 17, 2014, 3:03 PM EST
The race to the finish line of Phase 1 of Daytona Rising at Daytona International Speedway kicked into high gear Wednesday, with a record 1,002 construction workers on-site.
Dec 17, 2014, 3:00 PM EST
Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup’s status grew in 2014. We caught up with the series manager during Austin F1 weekend.
Dec 17, 2014, 2:00 PM EST
Ferrari mass exodus continues.
Dec 17, 2014, 1:30 PM EST
At least two IndyCar stars will join the Rolex 24 lineup, but teams are TBD.
Dec 17, 2014, 1:23 PM EST
Ben Kennedy, the great-grandson of NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. and 2014 Camping World Truck Series Rookie of the Year, will race for Red Horse Racing in 2015, the team announced Wednesday.
Dec 17, 2014, 12:46 PM EST
As we continue our series on the top 30 drivers of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, next up is series veteran Greg Biffle.
Dec 17, 2014, 12:10 PM EST
James Hinchcliffe tests Tuesday at Sebring with Schmidt Peterson.
Dec 17, 2014, 12:00 PM EST
Crafton made history in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series this year as its first back-to-back champion.
Dec 17, 2014, 11:00 AM EST
Allmendinger propelled his single-car team into the Chase with a win at Watkins Glen.
Dec 17, 2014, 10:32 AM EST
We’ve all been there, Jimmie. We’ve all been there.
Dec 17, 2014, 9:00 AM EST
No drivers, but DCR’s shock/damper program should be good in 2015.
Dec 16, 2014, 8:04 PM EST
It’s not an ideal situation for NASCAR, but as the NASCAR AMERICA gang explained today, it’s not a hopeless one either.
Dec 16, 2014, 7:14 PM EST
Patricia Driscoll broke down on the stand during the hearing in Dover, Delaware.
Dec 16, 2014, 5:30 PM EST
A two-day website auction on the assets of the former F1 outfit began today.
Dec 16, 2014, 4:44 PM EST
Scott Hargrove to test for 8Star’s Indy Lights team.
Dec 16, 2014, 4:30 PM EST
Coming up: What will Sprint’s departure in 2016 mean for NASCAR’s future?; Steve Letarte revisits his final race as a crew chief; more on the health of Brian Vickers; the inspiring story of the NHRA’s Jay Blake.
Dec 16, 2014, 4:00 PM EST
Joey Hand confirmed at Ganassi for 2015.
Video from NASCAR America
- Kurt Busch calls ex-girlfriend’s allegations a ‘fabrication’ 5
- Fry, Tombazis out as part of Ferrari’s ongoing restructuring 1
- Sprint to end title sponsorship of NASCAR’s Cup Series after 2016 (VIDEO) 17
- NBC SportsWorld: The vision of blind NHRA crew chief Jay Blake 1
- Rutledge Wood joins NBC Sports Group’s NASCAR and motors coverage 6
- NASCAR expands Sprint Unlimited field to include Chase drivers 3
- Health issues to sideline Brian Vickers for early part of 2015 Sprint Cup season 5
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he gave an interview . . . to get Ray to drive up and get him.
I see but as soon as Ray put his hand out and said "I'm Ray Kinsella" instead of shutting the door Terrance should have known why he was there.
I think MY point however is at the ballfield, Mann says he gave an interview for Ray to come up and get him.
Ebbets Field was demolished in 1960 so the interview in question most likely took place 20 to 30 years before this movie even takes place so it's not strange that he doesn't remember giving such a specific interview.
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Our beloved squirrel and mouse are back, this time singing about all the wonders of clouds! Clouds enrich our lives and provoke our imaginations with their interesting shapes, colors, and movements. Learn all about how clouds form in the atmosphere and what clouds have to do with the water cycle, along with lots of different names for clouds, both silly names and scientific names (some of them can be quite a mouthful!).
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Music composed by Todd Stevens and Ann Staudt
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Over the past two weeks, or so, there has been a sea change in racial attitudes among European Americans due to the spate of police killing: including those of Breonna Taylor, Ahmuad Arbery, Dreason Reed, George Floyd, and most recently Rayshard Brooks. This has included a shift in the attitudes of even some “white” Republicans.
Indeed, much has changed in the two years since I wrote Killing African Americans: Police and Vigilante Violence as a Racial Control Mechanism. European Americans are now acknowledging, with the most straightforward language seen in this nation’s history, that America has always been racist, that its racial oppression continues and is systemically embedded in every fiber of its fabric, and that significant change must happen, now. And this has not just been talk; tens of thousands of them have taken to the streets to “walk the walk” while putting themselves at risk for potentially fatal COVID-19 infection and brutal police repression.
Now, while this is encouraging, we don’t know whether this is, to quote Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, going to be a mere “moment” or a sustainable “movement” that brings about systemic change. History tells us that: the poll numbers will not continue to rise, there will likely to a white backlash, and that, even if it wins significant change, when this phase of the movement is over systemic racism and racial oppression will remain, and there will still be lots of work to be done. In brief, racial oppression and the struggle against it will continue. One of the most interesting and, to me, disappointing recent developments is the amount of time and highly-emotional energy some African Americans have given in making the case that “white people” are not reliable allies and cannot be trusted. In some quarters there actually seems to be more focus on that “issue” than on the movement itself and the opportunity it brings to make black lives matter more.
While acknowledging that, based on historical facts, African Americans have good reason to be suspicious of Europeans American allies, to be angry about past betrayals, and to be weary of what is happening now, and what may happen in the future; I would like to explain why, knowing all this, I think that the focus on the genuineness and trustworthiness of “white” allies is not only a reactionary distraction from the serious business at hand; but is, in fact, not an “issue” at all.
Of course, coalitional politics has its problems. In my African Americans and Social Protest class at UConn I give specific examples of them like the pressure placed on John Lewis by European American political, union, and religious leaders to “moderate” the speech he gave as a SNCC leader at the March on Washington in 1963. I also stress in that class that, when entering into a coalition, the group that has the greatest stake in its success must be in total control of its leadership, goals, language, strategies, and tactics; and not allow allies to tamp down its militancy for any reason. So yes, having “white” allies, like any relationship, can entail problems.
But to me the question of whether we should have “white allies” is not really an issue. Why? First, not all European Americans who are involved in the current protests, and who are pushing for changes, are “allies.” As we have seen over and over again, some, are not allies because they don’t really care about issues like the pervasive, disproportionate, and persistent killings of African Americans, but are content to exploit the movement for their own, often assumed to be larger and more important, purposes. Others are not simply allies, in that they actually believe in what they are fighting for, through their protests and other means and would be out there in the streets and elsewhere even if there was not a single African American at their side. In brief, they are working to protect their own values and ideals; not just to help us.
But there is a more politically realistic reason for progressive African Americans not spending a lot of time searching for ally purity. That reason was articulated decades ago by the late Shirley Chisholm, an African American Congresswoman and presidential candidate, who made it clear that African Americans have no permanent friends, no permanent enemies . . . just permanent interests. Through that lens of such racial-political realism, therefore, it makes no difference whether “white” people who work toward our goals are friends or enemies, good or bad, trustworthy or untrustworthy; or whether our feelings toward them are love, hate, or indifference. What matters is how effective they are as a resource toward winning the changes we want and need. With that in mind our position is simple; we work with them when that works for us; we leave them along when it does not; period, end of discussion! With this racial-political realist approach the question of whether or not we should have “white” allies is simply not an issue; and we can move on to focus our attention on the movement at hand.
Noel A. Cazenave is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. He is currently writing a book titled, Kindness Wars: The History and Political Economy of Human Caring.
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It looks like it is finally about to be my time. After all of the work and the effort, I am about to be rolling in the dough. I plan on building a tower to fill with my riches ala Scrooge McDuck. I probably won’t dive into them knowing how germy money really is, but it would be nice to look at my new found tower of wealth.
That’s right, folks. I am about to become a billionaire.
According to Rob Wile of Business Insider, the company of extremely wealthy old guy Warren Buffett has announced a new contest. This March, when the NCAA basketball tournament comes around, the company will pay out $1 billion to any person who accurately predicts every single game. That’s billion with a “b”.
For those unfamiliar with the NCAA tournament, let me explain how this works. Each year, the NCAA picks 68 basketball teams to compete in a really big tournament. Inevitably every year, a team you have heard of such as North Carolina, or UNC, plays against a team like Northwestern East Carolina University of Technology and Agriculture, or NECUTA. Somehow each year, one of the big teams loses to this unfamiliar and possibly completely made up college.
You might be saying, “Hey, how can you possibly expect to win a billion dollars? I mean, what are the odds for this kind of thing? Also, I’m pretty sure NECUTA isn’t a real college at all. I think you’re just making things up. Why didn’t you just put in the effort to look up a real college? It seems like pretty lazy writing to me…”
First, thank you for your feedback, but if I wanted to know how lazy my writing seems, I would send it to my high school English teacher. Secondly, the odds are a bit skewed in the favor of Buffett. The chances of filling out a bracket correctly are 1 in 9,200,000,000,000,000,000. I’m not too worried, though. I have experience on my side.
See, in the sixth grade, my teacher Mr. Doolittle laid out a contest for us. The child with the best bracket would win a McDonald’s lunch. As a 12-year-old, this was a dream come true. All any grade school kid wants is to have a fast food lunch while all of their friends are stuck eating some sort of microwaved burrito that has caused food poisoning a handful of times in the past, but really is quite tasty. The thought of rubbing it in while you dined on the finest cuisine that the golden arches had to offer brought pure jubiliation to every kid.
I immediately got to work. Arizona winning here, Kentucky there. If anyone had watched me fill this out, it would have seemed like a scene from “A Beautiful Mind”, me envisioning scores and teams soaring around me as I feverishly wrote, wearing my pencil to a nub.
Finally it was done. We watched for the next couple of weeks. One by one the other students saw their brackets destroyed by the NECUTAs of the world. Then, finally, the championship finished. There, above everyone else, sat my bracket. My glorious bracket. I had correctly predicted half of the games, a feat that I feel should be mentioned in some hall of fame somewhere.
Do not forget that this was at age 12. I don’t want to imply that I was a prodigy, some sort of college basketball idiot savante, but I think it would be hard to argue that I wasn’t. Now, 14 years later, I have much more life experience on my side. I have viewed dozens of basketball games, observing the ups and downs of the game. I think that my obvious natural abilities combined with my life experience should improve my chances of winning to about 1 in 5.
I would like to say that when I’m a billionaire I won’t forget about all of the small people like you. That isn’t true at all. I will definitely forget all about you. It’s a very easy thing to do when one owns their own island country.
I look forward to joining Warren Buffett in the super-rich guy club very soon. Maybe we can go diving into my money tower together.
I wonder if you can bathe in Purell…
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Making your own wire connection for leather, rubber cording or fibers is easy. I like the hand crafted look better than some of the premade purchased ones.
This connection is made from 16 gauge bronze wire. First anneal the wire by heating to glowing and quench. If you don't "do fire" you can make it without this step, but it will be a very bright gold tone and not as pliable.
When the length looks nicely balanced for the weight of the cording--no specific amount here, but longer holds better--turn the end up at a sharp angle with chain nose pliers.
Then wrap the end over your pliers to form a loop at the top. Snip off the raw end about a loop and a half down and tuck inside and place on the end of the cord.
Using chain nose pliers, force the raw end of the loops into the cording to grasp and starting at this point work your way up the wire tightening it to fit the cord. "Futz" with it until it's nice and tight and won't pull off.
Don't forget to put a purchased Hook on one end before finishing or make your own hook and attach. If you want the piece to be adjustable you can add a short peice of chain. Using a polishing wheel on a Flex Shaft polish up the finished ends. You can also use OOOO steel wool.
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It’s been a stressful time at our house lately; first child graduating from high school and all that that entails, husband traveling 75% of the time for the last couple of months and the usual end- of- school year mayhem. Does anyone else view the month of May as a busy month, second only to December? Graduation, recitals, parties, concerts, gifts, treats and allergies. It gets me every stinking time.
I have neglected exercising regularly for the last few weeks, not able to see how to fit it in. Honestly, we all know it is possible to find time for whatever is most important to us, so the reality is that I allowed exercising to fall off the list of priorities for a little while. There are obvious outcomes to this, feelings of sluggishness and lack of energy, but I also noticed another area of life that took a hit while I was on break: creativity. I have come to the realization that it is physically impossible to be stressed and creative at the same time.
Stress depletes all creative energy, replacing it with worry and fear. Personally, stress forces me into survival mode, only able to ‘get through’ the situation. I’m sure this is normal, but I have found myself going into a long-term white knuckling, just get through it period. It’s not pretty. I went for a run the other day, which is normally a time for blog ideas to rush forth, but this time was inundated with guilt and stress over the list of things I have neglected and forgotten.
I don’t want to look back at this important time in our family’s life and remember nothing but what pictures show me: tired, busy, overwhelmed. I’m ready to kick the month of May to the curb, and all the stress that has come with it! I’m going to keep running until writing ideas return, and I’m going to keep suggesting ways to have fun and spend time with our kids while I have them in my house. Feel free to join me!
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LES MILLS On Demand – the ultimate fitness app where you can stream or download 1,000+ workouts including its famous BODYPUMP®, BODYCOMBAT® and BODYBALANCE® classes, recently added two brand new categories to the health & fitness platform. This includes Les Mills Wellness and Les Mills Fuel Reset.
LES MILLS Wellness
A life-changing new series of breath training, yin yoga and meditation sessions developed with Diana Archer Mills and a team of wellness experts including Fraser Beck and Milly Taylor.
The calming practices are the perfect complement to physical workouts. They have been carefully crafted to enhance connection to breath and body and help access a deeper state of calm in an often-frantic world.
- BREATH TRAINING (6 sessions ranging from 5-15 min)
Explore breath techniques to increase energy and vitality, improve clarity of mind and boost physical and emotional resilience. These powerful sessions span 5-15 minutes.
- YIN YOGA (6 sessions ranging from 5-55 min)
Experience soft yoga poses and focused breathwork to calm minds and open hearts. There is a full guided yoga journey, or a short yoga practice that will centre you at any time of the day.
- MEDITATION (5 sessions ranging from 5-15 min)
- Learn simple techniques to help quickly transition from chaos to calm, shift away from anxiety, sleep easy, and enhance peace and wellbeing across all aspects of life.
LES MILLS Fuel Reset
As well as the wellness element, Les Mills has also added a nutrition category. Focusing on nutritional fuelling for optimum health, the LES MILLS Fuel Reset collection provides education via video and digital resources, to help subscribers to further enhance their overall health and wellbeing.
Featuring Les Mills Creative Director Diana Archer Mills, and Education Director Bas Hollander, this interactive and personalised nutrition series is a guided learning experience that’s designed to discover what nutritional ideas work best for each person. Over six-weeks, Bas and Diana provide suggestions, ideas, challenges and weekly focuses for subscribers.
This new series brings together fitness and wellness, creating greater depth to a holistic offering from the global leaders in group exercise, LES MILLS. As Creative Director of Les Mills, Diana Archer Mills says: “During the last year, we’ve seen a global increase in uncertainty and anxiety.
Our scientific research has proven that incorporating new generation yoga, mindfulness and breathwork into your lifestyle can decrease tension and negative emotions as well as aid in better sleep.
After the shared experience of the pandemic, we understand the importance of prioritising better health and wellbeing, not just for aesthetic gain but to increase health and wellness holistically for ourselves and our communities.
We created the Wellness and Fuel categories for Les Mills On Demand to keep progressing, educating and inspiring our users to be part of our fitter planet goal.”
Les Mills is the global group fitness brand, famous for creating workouts such as BODYPUMP, BODYCOMBAT and BODYBALANCE.
Les Mills delivers group fitness classes to over six million people per week globally and is recognised as the most popular group exercise programme in the world, an accolade it has held for over 50 years.
Les Mills On Demand (LMOD)is presented by the world’s best instructors and supported by expert training guides.
The world-class Master Trainers take users through a journey via the digital service, which has seen an 800% increase in downloads during the COVID-19 pandemic. With over 1000+ workouts that are backed by scientific research to get the most out of each session, the classes range from 15-minute to full hour sessions.
With 13 different programs to choose from for all fitness levels, from high intensity to low intensity, equipment or no equipment – there is something for everyone on Les Mills On Demand.
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by Judy Ferro
You don’t find many people with more impressive liberal/progressive/ Democratic credentials than Robert B. Reich.
Reich was Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration. He’s a Professor of Public Policy at U.C.-Berkeley. And he’s chair of Common Cause, a grassroots organization seeking disclosure of campaign financing, restrictions on lobbying, and less media consolidation.
Reich recently toured the “American heartland,” meeting conservative Republicans and Tea Party members in states such as Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and North Carolina.
He was pleased to find many agree with him on major economic issues.
They don’t like lobbyists getting special deals from the government.
Many are “livid” about “factory farms…that abused land and cattle, damaged the environment, and ultimately harmed consumers.”
Many are angry that the government had bailed out Wall Street and not homeowners during the housing bust of 2008-9. Their communities had been devastated while Wall Street bankers became richer than ever before.
Many are against hedge fund managers getting a special income tax rate about half of what others in the highest bracket pay.
Many don’t like seeing big business dumping millions into politics since the Citizens United decision removed limits—and disclosure—on election activity planned independently from candidates or their party.
Most opposed trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which make it easier for big corporations to ship jobs overseas and bypass consumer protection laws.
Reich points out that the Pew Research center has found that more Republicans favor increased government spending on programs such as Social Security, Medicare, education and infrastructure rather than favor cutting those programs.
He concludes that what Heartland Conservatives want are economic programs that help the “little guy” and strengthen communities.
“They don’t oppose government per se…Rather, they see government as the vehicle for big corporations and Wall Street to exert their power in ways that hurt the little guy.
“They call themselves Republicans but many of the inhabitants of America’s heartland are populists in the tradition of William Jennings Bryan.”
In other words, Reich discovered that the most Republicans—like most Democrats—are concerned that government policies of the last decades are shrinking the middle class.
Democrats have a populist champion in Bernie Sanders who is making Hillary Clinton more aware of their issues.
What options do populist Republicans have? Most Tea Party politicians oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership but haven’t acted to limit Citizens United and special deals for the rich or their corporations. In fact, they are competing for the sponsorship of the Daddy Warbucks of the Republic party.
As a result, many Republicans this year are favoring political outsiders. Reich points out that Donald Trump has said many of the right things. He’s supported imposing tariffs on American companies that send manufacturing overseas, dumping TPP, raising taxes on hedge-fund managers, and protecting social security.
But outsiders seldom get anything done in D.C. John F. Kennedy put forth a strong domestic program but ended up mainly educating the American people about the need. After Kennedy’s death, Lyndon Johnson—a former Speaker of the House—shepherded Kennedy’s programs through Congress.
Experience is important.
Would the populist Republicans of the American Heartland vote for Bernie Sanders? That may depend on whether they place primary importance on economic issues or on social and cultural ones.
Reich’s latest book—his 14th—is “Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few.” His film, “Inequality for All” is available on Netflix, iTunes and Amazon
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Top 6 Sustainable Landscaping Tips
Sustainable gardening is very much about context. It is about knowing your environment and knowing how best to plan a garden that is responsive to the peculiarities of that environment.
The subject of sustainability comes into its own with special focus in locations water is a scarce resource and of course, outside of that there are other key aspects to also attribute attention to. With this in mind, let’s explore some smart ways to implement eco-friendly gardening.
Without sufficient watering capacity, most plants fail and so paying careful attention to plant hydration is a basic starting point. In terms of sustainability, unless you live in an area with heavy rainfall and abundant reservoirs, water conservation will need to feature prominently in the planning of a garden or landscaping project.
As it happens, indigenous plants tend to be water-wise and more resilient to the micro-climate of a particular area. In terms of sustainability, it’s essential to take the time to find out which plants are indigenous to the region.
It’s also smart to plan your landscape in such a way that plants with the same watering requirements are grouped together, i.e.succulents with succulents and thirsty with thirsty. This is essentially the philosophy behind water-wise gardening.
As part of the broader strategy for re-establishing an ecological balance, it is important to encourage birds, insects and other naturally occurring wildlife to inhabit and thrive in your garden space. By helping these creatures to make their homes in your garden, you introduce natural pest control mechanisms.
This has the benefit of reducing the need to use harmful chemical pesticides, which as a general rule work to upset natures delicate balance. The reduction in pesticide use also encourages pollinators like bees and birds to be drawn to your garden, making themselves at home.
Sustainable gardening is by no means complete without these little critters – their contribution is essential for an eco friendly gardening practice. Start by ensuring you cultivate plants that are attractive to pollinators.
Welcome the worms
When it comes to creatures that act as natures helpers for your garden, there’s few who can help it flourish quite like the lowly earthworm. Worms are a sustainable gardeners dream and there presence or absence is a litmus test for soil fertility.
Earthworm tunneling provides much needed ventilation for air and water to diffuse into the soil, not only that but the convoluted mass of soil, mud or sand thrown up by an earthworm as it passes through the worm’s body results in a top quality manure and an optimal soil enricher.
If you are keen on organic fertilizer, consider cultivating a worm farm. Earthworms will nibble their way through your kitchen waste such as vegetable peelings, apple cores, banana peels and egg shells – turning it into the richest fertilizing compost and soil conditioner to benefit your yard.
Since earthworm composting is entirely natural, it further enhances the entire germination process and your garden will thank you for it. You should notice your plants thriving at a far greater level than they would compared to commercial composts.
If the idea of worm farming appeals to you, a Bokashi bucket is just what you need to make compost from your family’s organic waste. It’s also an opportunity to teach your children about sustainability and the significant positive impact that even the smallest creatures in our eco-system can have on the environment.
Mulch for moisture
Related to water-wise gardening, mulching as a natural way of keeping moisture in the soil.
Mulching also helps to shade and protect roots and adding nutrients through the process of decomposition, and also enhances the aesthetic quality of the garden. Certainly, eco-friendly gardening does not have to detract from the overall aesthetic of a garden.
A clever rule of thumb to use is never to throw away any organic garden material. Instead, compost everything and return it to your garden to enrich the soil. If necessary, invest in a chipper to recycle tree branches and all other woody material.
Various forms of organic mulch include straw (a fantastic mulch type for vegetable gardens in particular, because it decomposes quickly which helps improve the soil), sugar cane mulch from dried sugar cane leaves.
Pine park mulch works well in garden beds and pots. Coir mulch, which is coconut husk fibre expands when in contact with water. To suppress weeds, hard wood – or wood chips – work well as a mulch choice. If you’re keen on adding additional nitrogen to your soil (for roses, flowers and fruit trees) then lucerne is a very helpful mulch variety.
When cutting your lawn, dry out your grass clippings and sprinkle a layer over your freshly mowed lawn. This will give protection from the elements, and lock in moisture.
In foodie culture, there is a big fuss about seasonal cooking –that is, only cooking with what happens to be in season rather than importing out of season ingredients and increasing the carbon footprint associated with the supply chain.
Similarly, sustainable gardening is seasonal, and this requires some careful planning.
Wisdom is to plant in or close to your wet weather months when the rainfall period naturally occurs. The wet season will allow a plant’s new roots to settle and develop before the summer dry season.
Space for success
Depending on the size of your garden, it is important to think about spacing plants so that there is plenty of room to grow.
Think of bonsai trees. These carefully manicured miniatures have their growth limited by the size of the pot in which they are planted.
The same concept applies to spacing plants – doing so to ensure that rain/irrigation can reach the soil base of a plant and then penetrate deep into the roots.
Spacing plants also help with air-flow, and this has the added advantage of preventing pest issues like mildew.
At the end of the day, sustainable and eco-friendly gardening has everything to do with paying attention to the cues of the environment. It is an approach where we work with nature’s patterns, seasons and effects – rather than against it. The experience is richly rewarding because not only is it a responsible approach, but it’s one that really works – particularly over time, benefiting not only us but the planet as well.
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Sottero & Midgley - Haute Couture Wedding Dresses, Fall 2014. Glimmering metallic embroidered lace on tulle over Orlando satin sheath with dramatic sleeve embellishment, illusion back and V-front neckline. Adorned with sparkling Swarovski crystal belt and finished with covered buttons trailing a zipper closure. Shown in Ivory/Pewter Accent.
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“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
During last week, Ridpest got the privilege to contribute our little help through our CSR program with Orang Asli community at the brand new unfurnished Homestay at Kg Orang Asli Ulu Gumum, Pekan, near Tasik Chini in expelling “The Silent Uninvited Guest”.
The primary objective is to combat termites which were aplenty under the pillars of the brand new house.
The brand new unfurnished homestay is a new project developed by the OA Organics community at Kg Orang Asli Ulu Gumum here.
Our Entomologist, Farah Checking on the live Termites moving along the pillar to the wooden flooring
Here’s main culprit, live termites
Active termite were found all along the wall and are eating the roof beam at one the Orang Asli House.
Ridpest Termite Specialist at work in mixing Imidacloprid Termiticides
Lim Wee Kwang, MD of Pestline Sdn BHD at work on the site, ensuring the correct mixture of the termiticides.
Ridpest Termite Specialist doing the trenching of Termiticides into the perimeter of the soil in forming a continuous barrier
Ridpest Termite Specialists at work mixing the Termiticides
Stephen Liu briefing on the termite work at the OA Homestay, Learning Centre, OA homes and Community Hall
En Kuyu, the Tok Penghulu giving the OA organic vegetable to Nur Farah, Ridpest Service Manager and Entomologist
Tok Penghulu give organic veggies to Julie Na, GM of Pestline, Entomologist
Tok Penghulu giving organic veggies to Mr. Lim, the MD of Pestline
Tok Penghulu giving organic veggies as a token appreciation to Stephen Liu
Enjoying the variety of Food especially the organic vegetables by our host and specially prepared by Orang Asli.
Helping society is always a noble thing to do. Through our experience in Kg Orang Asli Ulu Gumum, we realized that the biggest reward from helping the society is when the people we helped said thank you because they are living in a better condition and we can see the happiness on their faces.
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THE Ovens and Murray Schoolboys finished their AFL Victoria Country V/Line Cup campaign with a 26-point loss to Gippsland at Preston City Oval yesterday.
In the team’s first year back in division 1, Paul Spargo’s team was competitive but struggled to match the opposition’s bigger bodies in the wet conditions.
Scots School student Charlie Spargo was named the O and M’s player of the carnival after being a consistent performer in their three matches.
“We hit the lead in the second quarter, but our side was a bit lighter than Gippsland and they probably wore us down a bit after that,” team manager Jeff Chandler said.
The O and M defeated Ballarat before losing to Geelong and Gippsland.
Geelong won the title by defeating Peninsula Stingrays by one point in the final.
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A Dq Rotating Frame Controller for Single Phase Full-Bridge Inverters Used in Small Distributed Generation Systems
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Today, small distributed power generation (DG) systems are becoming more common as the need for electric power increases. Small DG systems are usually built close to the end-user and they take advantage of using different energy sources such as wind and solar. A few examples are hybrid cars, solar houses, data centers, or hospitals in remote areas where providing clean, efficient and reliable electric power is critical to the loads. In such systems, the power is distributed from the source side to the load side via power electronic converters in the system. At low and medium power applications, the task is often left to single phase inverters where they are the only interface between sources connected to DC bus and loads connected to an AC bus. Much has been done for the control of single phase inverters in the past years; however, due to the requirements of stand alone systems and the time-varying nature of the converter, its controller design is still quite difficult, and especially so if its critical functionality within the system is taken into consideration. Part of the challenge is also due to the fact that the load is not known at all time, further complicating the controller design. This thesis proposes a different method of control for single phase inverters used in low and medium power DG systems. The new control method takes advantage of the well-known DQ transformation and analysis mostly employed for three phase convertersâ analysis and control design. Providing a time-invariant model of single phase inverters is the main feature of DQ transformation. In addition to that, control design of the inverter in DQ frame becomes similar to those of DC-DC and three phase converters making it easier to achieve superior performance under different operation conditions while achieving a robust controller. The transformation requires at least two independent phases for each state variable in the system; thus a second phase must be created. This thesis proposes the creation of an imaginary circuit based on the real circuit of the inverter to provide the second required phase for transformation. The state variables of the imaginary circuit are obtained by differentiating the state variables of the main inviterâ s circuit. The differentiation can be implemented in DSP so there is no need for additional hardware in the system, making it more attractive and cost effective method. The DQ controller not only provides superior transient response, it also provides zero steady-state error as well as low output voltage THD under nonlinear load operation. The entire controller can be implemented in a digital control board which is becoming more common in power electronics converters within the past decade. Analysis and design of a DQ controller for a 2.5kW single phase full-bridge inverter is presented in this study with the final results implemented in a FPGA/DSP based digital controller board.
- Masters Theses
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At the family's request memorial contributions are to be made to those listed below. Please forward payment directly to the memorial of your choice.
Cherryland Humane Society
1750 Ahlberg Rd.
Traverse City, MI 49686
Life Story / Obituary
Judith Ann DeWitt 75 of Traverse City died Saturday, February 8, 2014 at her home surrounded by her family and friends.
She was born on June 20, 1938 in Detroit the daughter of Karl and Marian (Marks) Spunich.
Judy worked as a meter reader and retired as a dispatch operator with MichCon after 22 years of service.
She was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. Judy enjoyed the outdoors, canoeing, riding horse, camping, traveling, working on her yard and her time on Bass Lake. She was a great storyteller and quite witty.
Judy is survived by her husband, Milo 'Mike' DeWitt; they were married on Sept. 24, 1960 in Traverse City; her children, Richard Lee DeWitt and Kelli Ann Dewitt both of Traverse City; sister, Gail Spunich of Missoula, MO; brother, Karl (Linda) Spunich of Charlestown, WV, Gordon (Jill) Spunich of Spokane, WA, Michael (Donna) Mulholland of Detroit and Daniel Mulholland of Ypsilanti.
She is preceded in death by her parents and a granddaughter, Christan Lee DeWitt.
A celebration of Judy's life will be announced at a later date. Please visit Judy's webpage at www.lifestorynet.com to sign the guest book and share a message with her family. Memorial Contributions may be made to the Cherryland Humane Society, 1750 Ahlberg Rd. Traverse City, MI 49686. The family chose Life Story Funeral Home, Traverse City to handle the arrangements.
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While the recent presidential debates in Kenya are being hailed as a success, a newly-created political office could have a decidedly more powerful influence on the lives of Kenya’s 40 million residents: County Governors.
In order to learn about the platforms of candidates for these new positions and ensure that issues critical to the private sector are addressed, the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM), with CIPE support, is running a series of gubernatorial debates focusing on economic issues.
One of the major changes introduced by Kenya’s new constitution, adopted in 2010, is a new, devolved style of governance which establishes different administrative units, including the creation of 47 new counties. Part of the purpose behind these new sub-national entities is to ensure that service delivery, political power, and financing is deepened and expanded beyond the capital, Nairobi.
The devolved system of governance gives local governments more power to make decisions with regards to planning and the implementation of projects. Counties will also have a measure of financial independence, as they will be entitled to a minimum of 15 percent of national revenue. Each county will be headed by a governor, and one of the critical tasks for these new governors will be creating a conducive business environment in their regions.
The KAM-sponsored debates are taking place throughout February in seven towns where KAM membership is well represented: Nairobi (Feb. 4), Mombasa (Feb. 11), Nakuru (Feb. 14), Kisumu (Feb. 18), Athi River (Feb. 19), Eldoret (Feb. 20), and Central Kenya (Feb. 22). At each debate, issues raised by KAM members, including land, business zoning, taxes, business licenses, security, and improving infrastructure, health, and educational facilities, will be brought to the forefront. KAM also highlights the need for increasing opportunities for doing business, which will in turn create jobs.
“We have gone beyond just voting people in for the sake of their propaganda. It is high time we give our votes to people who have the interests of the nation at heart and are willing to work for the good of the economy. The business community is pro leaders who will move the economy forward,” said KAM Chief Executive Officer Betty Maina.
The first debate kicked off in Nairobi County, where candidates had the opportunity to share their business manifestos with the audience and answer questions reflecting their views on economic issues. Though all four candidates were invited, only Philip Kisia and Dr. Evans Kidero attended. Housing, electricity supply, and land topped the agendas of the candidates.
“I intend to build on what I started when I was working at the City Council of Nairobi. I would also be calling on the private sector to invest in housing in the county to alleviate housing challenges,” said Kisia, who shared a 10-point agenda addressing security, jobs, solid waste management, water and sanitation, public transport, infrastructure, housing, public health, education, and service delivery.
As Kenyans prepare for the national elections, diffusing candidates’ platforms to the voters will be essential in order to promote more issue-based voting and less personality-driven campaigning. Kenya is at a turning-point. A smooth and peaceful election transition would mean continuance of its rapid growth and position as THE leader for democracy and economic growth in East Africa. But fears from the devastation and violence of the 2007 elections still linger and have many watching and waiting as the March 4 election day approaches.
This post is based on a report from Tobias Alando of KAM and Ben Kiragu, CIPE’s Field Representative in Kenya.
Julie Mancuso is Program Officer for Africa at CIPE.
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It seems like an elusive concept. Kids eating veggies, meat, and healthy fats and enjoying it? Aren’t kids supposed to eat kid food? According to our media, kids will only eat foods that taste insanely sweet, salty, or comes neatly packaged in bright colored superhero boxes. I challenge you to consider this: Who made this rule and why are we supposed to follow it? Something is wrong here, really really wrong. Think back not so long ago to Little House on the Praire days. Could you imagine Laure Ingalls refusing to eat her home cooked meal and her Ma giving in and making her a “special” kid dinner? Holy cow, no way in Prairie heck would Ma have done that. So, why do we?
I used to feed my kids special kid food, that’s for darn sure and I did it because I fell into a routine of giving my kids “kid” food thinking that it was the only way I would be able to get them to eat at all. It became easy, convenient, and my kids would eat a lot of that “kid” food without any argument. Another falisy we seem to have adopted; children for some reason need to eat three gigantic meals a day in order to be healthy. Again, we are have missed the mark. Kids have an innate ability that if not tampered with, will allow them to eat when they are hungry and stop when they are full. Often for active kiddos a day of eating will look more like grazing rather than sitting and wolfing down gigantic portions of foods. Think about how small a toddlers tummy is and how much food it actually takes to fill it up and relax a bit if your little ones are not wolfing down adult sized portions at every meal.
Let’s think a bit more about kiddos. Are their taste buds different than a grown-ups? Sure, of course they have a more sensitive palate, especially the younger ones who are developing faster than the speed of light and kids are different every single day. Feeding kids healthy paleo foods does not mean expecting your little ones to love kale and collards or to hear them beg for more asparagus; it’s about offering them healthy choices and revelling in the fact that kids will eat real food when that is what you have to offer!!
Remember when you first started eating paleo? You really craved those carbs, you cried for your daily doses of sugar, you probably, if like me, hated everyone in your family for at least a week because they were an easy target as you longed for your nightly bowl(s) of banana nut clusters. But what happened next? You started to feel better. The cravings went away. You realized that you loved how real food tasted and you started looking forward to your paleo meals and stopped wanting to die for your old food.
Kids are the same exact way, I promise. We just have to give them a chance. There are ways to make the transition less traumatic or not traumatic at all for that matter, and I have an entire section in my book dedicated to helping parents be successful in getting the kids on board the paleo train, and I will talk about the most important step here.
Get your kids in the kitchen!!! All kids can help, even little babies can stir, drop in veggies, and add spices. Older kids can cook, pick out ingredients, and even meal plan. Getting rid of all the junk food is paramount in your success. If you keep a stash of pop-tarts or apple cinnamon oatmeal, you WILL GIVE IN when you are rushed, busy, stressed and faced with a whining child. If you do not have the kid food as an option, it’s just that, not an option! Serve your healthy meals with a smile and a kiss, sing and dance together in the kitchen, let your kids make a mess, let them choose what they want out of your healthy paleo options, be patient and know that even if your little ones decide to skip a meal out of total revolt, they will not starve. Maintain a positive and cheerful “we can do this attitude” and you will succeed. Focus on what you will do next rather then the fact that the plates lack the pasta! A fun game of soccer in the back yard or tag in the living room should be the focus for all kids – not the lack of hamburger buns – distraction is awesome!!
I realize 100% that this blog post is just the tip of the paleo kids iceberg, and I have written about this concept before but everyone needs a place to start; I know because I have been there. So here’s a list to focus on as you start your paleo kid journey:
1. Rid the house of the junk.
2. Do not make a big deal about the transition to healthier eating and focus on FUN!
3. Get the kids in the kitchen with you.
4. Do not stress out; your kids will eat!
5. Jump up and down for joy when you see them dive into a yummy plate of slow cooked chicken and sweet potatoes – why? See number 6!
6. Rest assured that your child is getting more nutrients and better nutrients by eating paleo than he or she would on a standard American diet and by removing the gut irritating grains, dairy, and legumes, your child is able to better absorb the nutrients that he or she is eating!!
7. Stick with it, you can do this, celebrate your successes, relax and live a little, enjoy your kids and let the messes begin!!
As always, Enjoy!!
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CORNER 2ND AVENUE & EAST 6TH STREET
At 2am the streets were still busy with sirens-blaring fire trucks, speeding cabs,
weaving drunks, passionate lovers and hot dogs. Walking down 2nd Avenue
past the East Village Cinema, we grab a bag of popcorn from the Korean
deli on the corner of East 9th Street just across the street from Veselka, the
Ukrainian diner, then through “little Tokyo” as I like to call it.
A mist had started to settle over the East Village and further down the Avenue
standing on the corner of 6th Street in front of Block Drugs is Superman
comforting Robin. Robin was sobbing “でも彼が大好き” in Japanese, Yuri
translated “But I love him so much”.
I had no idea who Robin was referring to. I guess superheroes have their soft
spots too. René quips from behind of his hand, “Man the tights they’re wearing
these days sure are tight. In real life”.
Popcorn gone and after multiple glasses of Porto wine I say my fond goodbyes
to Sami, Yuri, and René. Brushing my teeth and getting ready to sleep, I switch
the flat screen to NY1, the 24 hour news station, and mute it. The crawling
news ticker screams out “Breaking News: Spiderman arrested a few hours ago
by Bruce Lee in Times Square for allegedly groping a woman and breaking
into a currency exchange. More as the story develops”.
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Do you find yourself struggling to stay on top of your tasks and keep track of your schedule? With so much going on in our daily lives, it can be tough to maintain high productivity levels. Luckily, numerous free Android apps can help us stay organized, focused and efficient throughout the day. From calendar tools to time management apps, we’ve compiled a list of the top 10 free Android apps for improved productivity. Whether you’re a student trying to balance assignments or an entrepreneur juggling multiple projects, these apps will help you get things done more effectively than ever before!
Great free apps to help improve your productivity.
Assuming you’re using an Android device, here are some great free apps to help improve your productivity.
1. Google Calendar – This is a must-have for anyone who wants to be more organized and productive. Google Calendar can sync with your email and other calendar accounts, so you can keep track of all your appointments in one place. It also has a handy “agenda view” that lets you see what’s coming up next.
2. Evernote – Evernote is a great way to keep track of notes, ideas, and to-do lists. You can create text, audio, and image notes, and even sync them across devices. Evernote also makes it easy to share notes with others.
3. Wunderlist – Wunderlist is a super simple to-do list app that helps you get things done. You can create lists, set due dates and reminders, and even share lists with others. Wunderlist makes it easy to stay on top of everything you need to do.
4. AnyDo – AnyDo is another great option for keeping track of your to-do list. With AnyDo, you can easily add tasks, set reminders, and even get notifications when things are due. AnyDo also makes it easy to share tasks with others so you can stay on top of everything together.
5. Sunrise Calendar – Sunrise Calendar is a beautiful calendar app that makes it easy to keep track of your schedule. Sunrise Calendar syncs with Google Calendar, iCloud, and other services, so you can easily see all your events in one place. It also has a great widget that lets you quickly view your day’s appointments.
Trello is a great app for managing projects and tasks. It’s simple to use and easy to get started with. You can create boards to organize anything you need to get done, and invite other people to collaborate with you on projects. Trello also integrates with a variety of other productivity apps, so you can manage all your work in one place.
Evernote is a popular note-taking app that helps users to organize their thoughts and ideas. The app allows users to create notes, make lists, and set reminders. Evernote also offers a variety of features that make it a great
tool for productivity, including the ability to sync across devices, share notes with others, and search for keywords within notes.
Todoist is a free app that helps you stay organized and productive. You can create to-do lists, set reminders, and track your progress. The app also syncs with your calendar so you can see your upcoming tasks and deadlines.
There are a ton of great Android apps out there that can help you boost your productivity. One of our favorites is Wunderlist.
Wunderlist is a simple, but effective to-do list app. You can create different lists for different tasks, set due dates and reminders, and even share lists with others. This makes it perfect for team projects or just keeping yourself organized. Plus, the interface is clean and easy to use.
If you’re looking for a great to-do list app to help you boost your productivity, we highly recommend checking out Wunderlist.
Any.do is a free Android app that helps you keep track of your to-do list and schedule. You can add tasks and set deadlines, as well as receive notifications when tasks are due. Any.do also integrates with other productivity apps, such as Google Calendar, so you can view your to-do list and schedule in one place.
Habitica is an app that helps you build good habits and break bad ones. It’s based on the principles of positive reinforcement: when you complete a task or reach a goal, you get a positive reinforcement (in the form of a point, badge, or other reward). This encourages you to keep going and eventually develop new, better habits.
The app starts by asking you to input your goals and then breaks them down into smaller tasks. For each task, you set a frequency (e.g. every day, every week) and then check off the box when you’ve completed it. The more often you complete a task, the more points you get. You can also add friends and compare your progress with them, which adds an element of competition and motivation.
There are tons of different ways to use Habitica, but here are a few ideas to get you started:
– Use it to track your daily/weekly/monthly routines (e.g. taking a shower, doing laundry)
– Use it as a workout tracker (e.g. number of pushups per day)
– Use it to monitor your eating habits (e.g. tracking how many fruits and vegetables you eat per day)
The beauty of Habitica is that it’s completely customizable – so feel free to use it however you want! And if you need some inspiration, there’s always the Habitica community forum where users share their tips and tricks.
If you often find yourself working with documents that are not digitized, Office Lens is a must-have app. It allows you to take pictures of documents and whiteboards, which are then converted to PDF or Word format. This means you can save and share digital copies of important information, making it easy to keep track of work tasks on the go.
Assuming the reader has never heard of CloudOn, this section would need to provide a detailed introduction to the app. What is it? What does it do? How does it work? This section should be thorough enough that the reader feels like they understand exactly what CloudOn is and what it can do for them.
Assuming the reader knows a bit about CloudOn, this section would need to provide more detailed information about how the app can improve productivity. What specific features make it good for productivity? How does it compare to other productivity apps on the market? This section should be thorough enough that the reader feels like they have a good understanding of how CloudOn can help them be more productive.
Polaris Office is a comprehensive office suite that allows users to view, edit, and create documents on the go. The app includes support for a variety of document formats, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Polaris Office also offers cloud storage integration, so users can access their documents from anywhere.
Polaris Office is an excellent choice for users who need a full-featured office suite that is compatible with a variety of document formats. The app’s cloud storage integration makes it easy to access files from anywhere, and the comprehensive set of features makes it a great choice for power users.
With these 10 Android apps, you can maximize your productivity without spending any money. Whether it’s for setting reminders, managing tasks, or tracking time, there is an app to help you get things done more efficiently and effectively. So if you want to make your workday a bit easier and learn how to get the most out of your device, start downloading these free Android apps today!
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The Spartanburg Regional Heart Center is recognized nationally for providing outstanding, comprehensive care. From emergency response to surgery and recovery to rehabilitation, Spartanburg Regional offers world-class care, right here at home.
Spartanburg Regional Foundation’s Hangar B raises money each year to support the heart center and benefit patients in our community.
“The funds raised for Hangar B benefit our community, and help the heart center deliver world-class care because of that support,” said Bob Brown, director of outpatient cardiology for Spartanburg Regional. “For the community to embrace us, helps raise our level of care even higher and be on the cutting edge of heart care.”
Hangar B is a yearly dance party held at the Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport. The event features live music by Party on the Moon. The acclaimed band performs a mix of Motown, classic rock, and contemporary R&B hits.
Hangar B will take place on Thursday, September 27. The gate will open at 6 p.m.
The Spartanburg Regional Foundation has formed a new partnership for this year’s event with two of Spartanburg’s most popular eateries: Willy Taco and FR8yard. A buffet will feature selections from both restaurants.
“We are grateful to Willy Taco and FR8yard for partnering with us to support heart health,” said Kristy Caradori, executive director of the Foundation. “They both are known for serving great food, so this is an exciting addition – one more reason that the 2018 Hangar B is going to be a terrific and memorable event.”
The Foundation supports heart services in many ways: promoting education and awareness through the Joe R. Utley Heart Resource Center, providing AEDs and CPR training for community organizations, helping patients afford the cost of guided cardiac rehabilitation workout programs, supporting special training for caregivers, and more.
“Over the years, Hangar B has helped each heart fund, from our heart failure patients to cardiac rehab for supporting training in the community with CPR mannequins,” Brown said.
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Tickets for the 2018 Hangar B are $60 and cover entertainment, food, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, and a commemorative T-shirt.
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Sharell Jacobs, whose layoff in January was one of the incidents that led staff to start organizing, shouts into the microphone, “How dare you collect money from the Patriots and then the next day get rid of your staff? We built this program!” | Photo by Jane Regan.
“How dare you collect money from the Patriots and then the next day get rid of your staff.”
With anger, shock, and dismay, laid off worker-students and allies took to the streets in Dorchester last week to accuse a respected educational nonprofit of union-busting, institutional racism, and “poverty pimping.”
More than 50 people turned out to an otherwise quiet city neighborhood with megaphones and dozens of “Black Workers Matter” signs to hear speakers, chant slogans like “Boston is a union town,” and then march down Dorchester Avenue.
Last week, College Bound Dorchester laid off one-third of its staff: eight “instructors,” including two ESOL teachers, and “college readiness advisors,” just days after staff informed CEO Mark Culliton that they were forming a union, and one week after a star-studded, corporate-sponsored fundraiser that netted the nonprofit over $500,000, with $100,000 from Patriots owner Robert Kraft. The administration blamed funding problems caused by the pandemic.
College Bound Dorchester is a nonprofit that focuses on “gang-related youth,” providing stipends, tutoring, and a path “from the corner to the street,” according to its website and to its staff, with classes and through a program it calls “Boston Uncornered.”
Uncornered identifies and recruits what it calls “Core Influencers,” youth leaders involved in violence, gangs, or even in prison, and provides a monthly stipend and tutoring, with the ultimate goal of a high school degree, college, and employment.
Earlier this spring, a majority of the staffers signed cards to support the formation of a union—Uncornered United, affiliated with SEIU 888—and asked for union recognition. After the administration refused, on June 11 the group then filed a “notice of service,” indicating that members would go to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The next day, eight staffers got termination letters. Uncornered United then filed Unfair Labor Practice charges with the, according to SEIU 888.
“They declined to voluntarily recognize us,” Joe Tesch, one of those laid off, said into the megaphone at the protest. “Clearly this is in retaliation for our organizing efforts!”
“Shame, shame, shame!” the crowd chanted.
“What this man is doing is not right!” said Sharell Jacobs, whose layoff in January was one of the incidents that led staff to start organizing. “How dare you collect money from the Patriots and then the next day get rid of your staff. We built this program!”
In their speeches and in interviews, staff and students repeatedly decried what they said was a lack of transparency, respect and participation in decision-making.
Luis Rodrigues, a College Readiness Advisor (CRA) who was not among those laid off, is pro-union and supports his colleagues. He and many other current and former staffers, as well as current clients, the Core Influencers, showed up to join to protest and support the unionizing effort.
“Decisions are being made from the top, and the bottom carries the organization,” Rodrigues explained. “I don’t think we’re a racist organization. I just think the power structure, the culture, is made up of people who don’t look like me.”
But many speakers at the protest disagreed. Six of the eight people let go are black.
Greater Boston Labor Council Executive Secretary-Treasurer Darlene Lombos was one of many labor activists who showed up.
“This is what we say is blatant racism,” she said to the crowd.
Ed Norton, 62 and a Dorchester native, and who was among those laid off, read a powerful statement saying layoffs of people doing important community work were “crazy.” He condemned the administration which he said has created an atmosphere of “mistrust and anger” by not including staff in decision-making processes. That lack of participation led directly to the union efforts, he said.
Norton’s title was “CRA coach, Social and Emotional Director.”
One after another, his colleagues and students talked about his selfless dedication to the program and to each of them, as individuals.
Some of the speakers also denounced what they called “poverty pimping” because of the way youth in the program are “rolled out for funders,” as Kenny Schoonmaker, a CRA who was not laid off, put it.
Romilda Pereira, laid off in January, agreed.
“You are using their stories,” she roared into the microphone. “Boo-hoo, give us money!”
“I was one of those violent drug dealers you hear about,” said speaker Matthew Jackson, who is now in college. “Now I’m about to graduate and they’re asking me to come work here. Well, if this is what’s going on, I don’t want to be part of it.”
Jackson, who was one of the Uncornered clients who spoke at the June 9 online fundraiser, said he would not have made it through school and other challenges without the staffers who have been “holding me up.”
Protestors also denounced Culliton’s salary, which was $185,000 in 2017, according to tax records, about four times the average salary of those staffers laid off.
After the protest, about 30 people marched down Dorchester Avenue and demonstrated in front of Culliton’s home on a quiet side street. As they walked, they shouted, sang, and chanted and handed out leaflets urging people to sign a petition and telephone or email Culliton to demand reinstatement of the workers and recognition of the union. Many drivers honked horns to show their support.
“Hey there Mark, what do you say, how many more will you lay off today?” was one of the slogans they sang.
“You’ve heard about it for years, now you see it: angry black people!” Jacobs shouted through a megaphone.
Co-founders push back
The CBD co-founders, reached by telephone, rejected the accusations of racism and union-busting, calling them “false” and “insulting.”
“I find the charges of racism cynical at best and disgusting at worst,” CEO Mark Culliton said, adding that the layoffs were planned “before there was any notice of unionizing activity.”
Michelle Caldeira, senior vice president, said the organization is majority people of color.
“I’m insulted and I’m disappointed by this tactic to completely erase my identity and my leadership,” said Caldeira, who is of Guyanan origin. She lives in London.
“Because we have a staff that is majority people of color, it’s going to appear that we only laid off people of color,” she added, noting that prior to the layoffs, there were 31 employees, 69% people of color, and that with 23 employees, the percentage is now 74%.
A glance at the website makes clear, however, that leadership is not predominantly African-American.
But both Caldeira and Culliton contradicted the claim that COVID caused the layoffs when they also said that the organization had been planning on cutting out the ESOL programming and transitioning to focus entirely on the Uncornered program.
Prior to the pandemic, the program was supporting 45 students, Caldeira said. In May and June, they stipended a total of 125 people.
“None of the CRAs that have been laid off are identifying the young people we want to work with,” Caldeira said, implying that those kept on are those who can recruit from the streets. “Change is difficult, but we want to focus our resources on where we think we will have the most impact.”
Culliton echoed Caldeira, stressing the importance of the stipend payments.
“We see the next 12 to 24 months ahead as really tough times,” he said, adding that he, Caldeira, and another administrator took temporary pay cuts.
According to Caldeira, CBD’s current budget is about $4.6 million.
Uncornered united against layoffs
During its online fundraiser on June 9, hosted by journalist Andrea Kremer and sponsored by Eversource, Bank of America, RODE and two banks, Caldeira stressed the importance of students. She told attendees that CBD was going to restructure “our whole organization so that [the Core Influencers] are the ones making the decisions about who we work with and who we invest in.”
Before the event kicked off, a video showed photos of people—presumably staffers, students, and Core Influencers—wearing “Boston Uncornered” hoodies as music played.
But just a week later, CBD staffers and former staffers had “X-ed” out the “Boston Uncornered” on those same hoodies with duct tape.
Rand Wilson, SEIU 888 organizer and chief of staff, said the NLRB process could take weeks, but that he believed the Uncornered United is correct in claiming the layoffs were retaliation for attempting to form a union.
“We should not be distracted by the charge of retaliation,” Wilson said. “The most important thing is that if these layoffs are in fact warranted, management [would] sit down and be transparent and forthcoming with the workers to prove it. That’s what collective bargaining and a union is all about.”
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About MeWelcome! I'm not sure how you ended up here or what you were actually looking for, but now that you've found me you might as well stay for a while.
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Ubuntu is Goode Tonight is the first time I caught the new animated comedy TV show, The Goode Family on ABC. The Goode Family was created by Mike Judge of Beavis and Butthead, Office Space, and King of The Hill fame. The ultra-liberal, vegan, Goode family have an adopted son who is a white South …Continue reading Ubuntu Makes It To Primetime
The official release of Ubuntu 9.04 – Jaunty Jackalope is fast approaching. When it’s released on April 23 you can be sure that Canonical’s servers will be getting slammed. That means the downloads are going to be slow. The good news is that they just let loose the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 9.04. There should …Continue reading Get a Jump on Jaunty Jackalope
John Dvorak has an article on Marketwatch, (posted yesterday), that claims that the new fast boot, embedded Linux options offered by Asus and Phoenix Technologies mark the start of Microsoft’s decline. Users will use these fast booting options out of convenience and get there first exposure to Linux. Once they realize that they can surf …Continue reading Dvorak Rings Death Knell for Microsoft’s Business Model
I was looking today at the packaging of my new Sabrent 3.5″ internal card reader and noticed something very interesting on the front of the box. There is a series of gold dots on the front of the package listing the compatible operating systems.Continue reading Microsoft to Release Windows Linux!
Today, Google launched their “Free The Airwaves” PR campaign. Their goal is to open the frequency spectrum whitespace that will be left when TV goes fully digital in Feb. 2009 and make it available for universal wireless internet. The FCC has many ideas about what this whitespace could be use for. From the Free The …Continue reading Google Starts “Free The Airwaves” PR Campaign
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I’m not sure the extra day is going to help me finish anything more this month but it was a pretty good month for FO’s around here. Sadly, only one of them was a WIP 😦 And, one of them is a Christmas 2016 present – yea me!! That will obviously not be shared until much later in the year.
I finished the Christmas present early in the month. I then tackled the Vintage Giraffe hat by Melissa Kemmerer. It popped up in the Top 20 on Ravelry one day, I think because it was being offered for a discount price. It was perfect timing as I was not going to be able to attend a fundraiser for a friend who is fighting cancer and she loves giraffes. I dug around my stash and found some very giraffe colors that were also soft and set about knitting it. I’ve stopped printing patterns and read them entirely on my tablet but once I got to the colorwork I could not read it on the tablet. I printed it out and it still did not help. The colors in the chart were two shades of blue and it included the “knit stitch” pattern so it was impossible to tell where one stitch began and the other started. I finally grabbed a piece of graph paper and yellow and brown pencils and did my own chart. The finished hat turned out great and my friend loved it!
The next finished object is the Citrus Slice Dishcloth which I was able to knit in a day and I loved it! Note, the first link on Ravely does not work I had to use the Bernat link which is a little further down on the page. I was doing a craft swap at the Midwest Craft Con and my partner said she loved yellow and had just moved into a new house so I knit up a lemon slice dishcloth for her. I want to knit a bunch for me (in my spare time LOL) and replace all the misshapen, poorly knit dishcloths I knit for myself when I first learned to knit so we’ll see if I get to that.
Finally, I finished my FIFTH mermaid lapghan!!! As usual I used Mermaid Tail Lap Blanket for Children and Teens by Angie Hartley. I’ve linked to it numerous times in other blog posts. And, again, I used Knit Picks Brava Worsted held double. I think I can knit these in my sleep now. This one is for a friend who desperately tried to the win the one I donated to COAR in October but failed so he ordered one for himself. He requested Ohio State colors and who I am to say no to that???
The mermaid blanket was the only WIP as I had started that right after the first of the year but it’s at least one bag out of the Land of Forgotten Projects. I’ve got a test knit to finish up in the next couple of weeks and then it’s back to finishing those WIPs!
As usual, the needles are full this weekend. I’ve spent most of the week working on a test knit (a cool poncho) and a commissioned piece (my 5th mermaid lapghan!). I’m not too far into the test knit so I will hold off talking about that until I get further in and I have nothing new to say about the mermaid lapghan, I can almost knit that in my sleep at this point!
The other project that I got some rounds in on this week was my purse socks. Over the last six weeks I’ve had quite a bit of dental work done, at least for me. Let’s just say I’m not a good patient (for any medical professional). The first appointment was supposed to be a quick check and ended up lasting 3 hours. I had not brought any knitting and by the end I think both me and the dentist needed a drink. So on Monday I went prepared – socks in bag. I knit in the waiting room and I knit once they took me back to start the work. They even let me knit while the Novocaine sunk in. Turned out my dentist got a learn how to crochet book for Christmas and was trying to teach herself crochet. And, yes, she did know the difference between knitting and crocheting!
I returned on Friday for the appointment. I had my trusty knitting bag in hand. And, I think it helped. I think I was much more relaxed on both of these visits (that’s not saying much but any improvement is a step in the right direction). Even just holding my knitting while they worked (if only I could have continued during all the drilling) seemed to help keep me calm. It kind of worked like a security blanket. My dentist caught on during Friday’s visit and talked about her efforts to learn crochet while she was drilling. Smart woman – keep me distracted!
There are so many articles that document the health benefits of knitting. I know when I read them I think – of course! But, it’s another thing to actually experience it firsthand. Bonus – got the cuff done on sock 2!
Here’s the other really cool part of this story. By the end of Friday’s appointment I was sharing the number to my LYS so my dentist could call and arrange a private crochet lesson. She was also showing me her Pinterest page and asking me to make her a hat for the baby she is expecting in August. She had found a picture of a baby who was wearing a hat shaped like a tooth with a big smile on it. It is adorable and perfect for a dentist’s baby! It was crocheted but she doubted she would get up both the skill and time to crochet it before the baby arrived.
I came home and checked Ravely and there were no knit tooth hats. So, I put the picture up on Facebook and asked my knitting friends if anyone had ideas on converting it to a knit pattern so I could make one for her. My friend who has the blog Wool Forward is a hat genius. If you check out her blog you will see her 30 hats in 30 days project which was amazing!! She is going to work on it for me which is awesome! The thing she pointed out (which I always wondered) is why so many of these cute, shaped hats (a lot of them are used as photo props) are crocheted. Marie explained that it is because the crochet fabric comes out stiffer than knitting. And that is the exact problem when I’ve tried knitting a hat that I originally saw in a crochet version. But she loves a challenge so stay tuned!
Wow, it’s the end of January already! I might be having a harder time with how fast this month went because we’ve had such a mild winter in the Great Lakes so I’m not quite as worn down by snow and cold as I usually am at this time of year. It’s a good thing because this is the first time in two years that I have not had a trip planned to a more tropical destination in February so thanks winter for working with me this year!
Either way, I’ve had plenty of knitting time this month but that will not necessarily show in my FO’s for the month. After all the Christmas mermaid blankets, I took a short break and then started work on a fourth one which was also a special order (yea for Knit Picks after Christmas sale!) As long as I was ordering, I decided to do a scrap mermaid blanket and donate it to our youth group raffle that is held during our Lenten fish frys. I needed a couple more full skeins and then used leftovers from the Christmas order to make a rainbow mermaid. Initially I started working on the private order but was told there was no rush and the first fish fry is February 19 (Easter is super early this year!) so I switched and cast on the rainbow mermaid which is why my actual number of finished items it low this month. Here’s a picture of the rainbow mermaid. As usual, I used the Mermaid Tail Lap Blanket for Children and Teens by Angie Hartley which you can find on Ravelry or her Etsy store and used Knit Picks Brava Worsted and held two skeins together.
I also can’t resist sharing this picture of the Christmas order I did for my friend’s little girls – they are too cute 🙂
The only other thing I finished is A Girl Thing by Joji Locatelli and it’s from her new Authentic Collection. I can’t say how much I love the Collection. There’s such a variety of patterns which is great for someone like me who is not much (okay, or at all) of a sweater knitter. As soon as I saw the hat I knew I had to make it from my leftover 3 Color Cashmere Cowl yarn because it had many of the same design elements and would make a lovely set. Recently, I saw on Instagram that Joji is now designing a 3 Color Cashmere Shawl so I’ll probably end up down that rabbit hole when it’s released…
Love my hat/cowl set!
Last I finished a sock and did cast on the second one (which was my only cast on for the month!!! Go me on finishing those wips!) This sock is with the Arne & Carlos yarn so I’m doing a vanilla sock and am trying out the Fish Lips Kiss Heel. I enjoyed the heel as it does not require picking up any stitches but I ended up with a weird pucker and I’m not sure if it was a sizing issue or the fact that halfway through the heel the stitches came off the needle and, perhaps, did not get put back on correctly. (By the way, anyone else notice that there are evil yarn demons that attack your purse knitting???)
The instructions for the heel only include the heel so I broke out my Sock Architecture book to find a new toe to try. Now, for some reason in all my knitting years no one ever told me that there are toes that do not require kitchner stitch – it was like a whole new world opened up to me!!! I did the Round Toe and love, love, love it!
So, let’s call this 2 1/2 FO’s for January. The 1/2 is a languishing WIP so a little bit of progress 🙂
I managed to get a few things off the needles this month!!
First up is another Canyon Cowl. This is the pattern by Heidi May and was one of the cowls that was sweeping Facebook and Pinterest like a virus a few months ago. I’ve made three and will discuss all the details in an upcoming post.
Pattern: Canyon Cowl by Heidi May
Yarn: Cascade 128 Superwash
Color: Really Red
In another fit of viral knitting projects I also finished the Mermaid Blanket. I had a request for one and decided to try out this knit pattern because I don’t crochet and the picture floating around social media is a crochet version. I love how it turned out and it was a super fun and super quick knit. This one is being donated as a raffle prize for the organization I work with in El Salvador. Our benefit is next weekend here in Cleveland and I hope someone will be very excited to take it home!
Pattern: Mermaid Tail Lap Blanket for Kids and Teens by Angie Hartley
Yarn: Lion Brand Lion’s Pride Woolspun
Colors: Aquamarine and Violet
And, lastly, I completed my second test knit. So far, loving the test knitting and am hoping to continue to grow my test knit portfolio. The pattern has not yet been released so as per usual I will blog more in depth about it once it has been released. I will say it was for Mimi over at Eskimimi Makes who puts together Knit and Crochet Blog Week each year. It’s a super cute pattern. The release has been delayed while she has been giving birth and caring for her adorable new son! Here’s a sneak peak!
Still have a ton of stuff on the needles to we’ll see what happens in October!!
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Fed week is exciting for some. Gold bulls and bugs alike hope the Fed will do something or say something that will trigger a huge move in precious metals. It doesn’t work like that. The Fed follows the market, which for the Fed Funds rate (FFR) is the 2-year yield. The 2-year yield has been screaming higher over the past 12 months and it implies at least another two rate hikes in the future. That’s not good for precious metals and could be partly why (among other reasons) Gold and gold stocks have lost their 200-day moving averages. Whatever the reason, the short-term technicals are negative and there is risk of increased selling before a potential rebound in July.
First, let’s take a look at Gold and gold against the equity market. As we can see from the chart, Gold in June has failed twice at its 200-day moving average. That is different from 2017 when each time Gold lost its 200-day moving average, it made a V rebound back above it.
Gold’s weakness against the broad equity market is another concern. At the bottom of the chart we plot Gold against the NYSE, a broad stock market index. The ratio recently failed at its downtrending 200-day moving average and is also threatening a move to new lows for essentially the first time since 2015. (The December 2017 break was not sustained to the downside).
Elsewhere, the miners have spent the second quarter wrestling with their 200-day moving averages. GDX failed at its 200-dma twice in the past month, including last week. Meanwhile, GDXJ has shown a tiny bit more strength but essentially has wrestled with its 200-dma since April. The silver stocks (SIL) have been weaker as they have not traded above their 200-dma since January and could have started to breakdown on Friday by closing at 3-month low.
The immediate outlook for precious metals is negative as the price action suggests but current bearish sentiment implies a rebound is on the horizon. The summer could be playing out as we anticipated three weeks ago. An immediate move lower could push Gold to strong support around $1260 and that would put sentiment indicators into truly extreme territory. From there, it is critical that the sector recaptures 200-day moving averages. Given our recent cautious views, we have narrowed our focus to a smaller group of companies capable of performing well in this environment. To follow our guidance and learn our favorite juniors for the next 6 to 12 months, consider learning about our premium service.
SPDR Gold Shares is an ETF that tracks the performance of gold in the financial markets. It is denominated by the ticker GLD and is one of the most widely watched gold indicators. The gold price is influenced by a unique set of factors. These include interest rates, the strength of the USD, supply and demand, etc. For casual traders, it’s important to know that gold is the go-to investment when equities markets sour.
When geopolitical uncertainty rocks the financial markets, investors typically flock to gold as a safe-haven asset. It tends to perform strongly when stock prices are volatile, and when the USD is weak. A strong dollar is a disincentive to gold investors, since gold is a dollar-denominated asset that appreciates when the precious metal is more affordable to foreign buyers.
GLD provides one access point to investments in gold (there are many options available), and it is priced at a fraction of the gold price. For example, GLD was trading around $127.62 per share (April 16, 2018), above both the 50-day moving average of $126.15, and the 200-day moving average of $123.13. This clearly illustrates that gold is bullish. Corroborating evidence is available from the anaemic performance of US stock markets.
The 2018 performance of stock markets is precisely the cannon fodder that commodities like gold need to appreciate. When traders and investors are pulling their money from the stock market, they are either investing it in fixed-interest-bearing securities or shifting resources to gold stocks and physical gold.
The current price of gold (April 16, 2018) is $1,349.10 per ounce on the Comex. Gold was priced at around $1,316.10 on 2 January 2018, and it has consistently appreciated ever since. In percentage terms, gold is up 2.5% for the year to date. This represents the opposite of what we are seeing in equities markets, and it holds true from a theoretical perspective.
Commodities trading options include a wide range of choices These include physical assets, futures contracts, options, exchange traded funds, CFDs, stocks, and even binary options. Gold ranks as one of the most commonly traded commodities and has been a store of value for millennia. Its price is determined by supply & demand considerations, and it is heavily influenced by monetary policy (interest rate hikes), political considerations, and the strength of the USD. A useful barometer of USD strength or weakness is the US dollar index, DXY. This indicator tracks the performance of the greenback against a trade-weighted basket of currencies including the SEK, CAD, GBP, EUR, CHF, and JPY.
US stock markets have floundered in 2018, and gold is in the black. If we extrapolate back to 2017, gold traded at around $1,151 per ounce in January 2017 and by the end of the year it closed at over $1,309 per ounce. That represents a 13.8% appreciation in the gold price. Equities markets also defied gravity in 2017, with double digit gains for major bourses. It appears that confidence in gold was boosted by uncertainty with oil prices and additional uncertainty related to Trump’s election as president. We have seen a tempering of these concerns as time progressed, and gold has stabilized while equities markets have retreated.
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Firstly, while there are so many needs and even basic needs, perhaps there is no need which is of such crucial importance than the need for food. Food should be available in adequacy, now and for future generations, and food should be safe, healthy, nutritious and wholesome. As present systems do not meet this requirement, improvements are needed.
Secondly, no other sector has the potential of supporting so many creative, satisfactory and sustainable long-term livelihoods as this sector. Despite this, a situation has been created where even those whose livelihood was in this sector for decades are being forced by worsening circumstances to leave this. Hence clearly something has gone very wrong and there is need for improvement.
Thirdly, this sector is among those where there is the most scope for checking climate change, pollution and related very serious environmental problems. But the tragic reality today is that the reverse of this is happening. So clearly improvements are needed. This aspect is going to become increasingly important in the days to come.
This sector if it progresses along the right lines can contribute much to the welfare of many other forms of life ( not just human beings ), ranging from tiny insects to beautiful birds to big mammals. The sad reality is that exactly the reverse of this has been happening. Hence clearly there is very urgent need to bring improvements.
Another important reason for giving a lot of careful attention to clearly identifying and bringing the really needed improvements is that very powerful interests have emerged which retard the actually needed improvements and instead try to dress up their selfish interests, which are actually very harmful for the entire world and for all forms of life, as reforms and then try to push their terrible selfish interests in the form of so-called reforms.
Given this reality of the food and farming sector today it has become very important to engage in the struggle to identify and establish the actual improvements that are needed in the food and farming sector while exposing the falsehood of the selfish interests of powerful lobbies.
Hence while the actual improvements should be clearly identified and worked out in detail in line with regional and local agro-climatic and social conditions, a related change is to work out the various improvements in such a way that these are supportive of each other and also supportive of the agenda of wider improvements based on justice, equality, democracy, peace, protection of environment, biodiversity and all forms of life. It is certainly possible to meet this challenge with participative and cooperative efforts, shared wisdom and thoughtful planning, combining traditional understanding and new scientific research. The overwhelming and pressing need to avoid the survival crisis of course remains important for all such endeavors.
Bharat Dogra is a writer and journalist. His recent books include Protecting Earth for Children and Man Over Machine.
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The eastern Chinese city of Yiwu, home to the world’s leading small commodities market, saw its first freight train leave for Afghanistan on Sunday.
It is the fifth cargo train route linking Yiwu to Europe or Asia. Cargo train routes already in service connect Yiwu with countries including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Spain, Iran, and Russia.
The train, hauling 100 containers of goods worth more than 4 million U.S. dollars, will arrive at Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan via Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. A single trip is 7,500 km and takes 15 days, half the time needed for maritime transportation. The service is expected to run weekly by the end of this year.
The northern Afghanistan city of Mazar-i-Sharif is a key commercial center near the border with Uzbekistan. It also serves as a logistics hub for the entire Middle East. The new freight route is expected to help upgrade trade cooperation between China and the region.
Trade between Yiwu and Afghanistan amounted to 20.2 million U.S. dollars in 2015, representing year-on-year growth of 2,284.5 percent. The total import-export volume reached 18.3 million U.S. dollars during the first half of this year, up by 4,683 percent compared with the same period last year, according to the local bureau of commerce.
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Rolex Explorer Review
Dear Watch Snob®,
When I just started to be interested in watches, I frequented the website Timezone. The opinion expressed there was honestly subjective, and there was some lively discussion with both strongly positive and negative views (unlike the current internet resources, which are uniformly "positive"). I guess this reflects the ever increasing atrophy in the people to think critically and the ever increasing penetration of marketing into our lives. But anyways, there was this famous review of the Rolex Explorer by Walt Odets. In the review he "destroyed" Rolex's movement quality and the perceived "value of money." I am sure you have seen that review already. So my question to you is: would you agree with Walt or he was too harsh on Rolex, coming with too high expectations from his experiences with Lange and Blancpain?
By the way, if I recall correctly, Blancpain was his favourite brand. What is your opinion on them? To me they seem fake, with their fake heritage and uninspiring designs...
In a certain sense Mr. Odets was very much the original Watch Snob (even if I am the one to say it). He had (I suppose I should say “has,” although from what I understand he has absolutely no interest whatsoever in being a public figure in watch collecting nowadays, for which I don’t blame him in the least) a combination of talents and capabilities that almost no one else, then, or now, can lay claim to. An incredibly talented machinist and watchmaker of great intelligence, methodical disposition, and keen taste, he also had (has?) the financial means to collect widely.
His piece on the Rolex Explorer is no longer relevant except for points of historical interest. The movement in question has long been out of production. It’s worth noting, incidentally, that even with the criticisms levied that the watch showed, in his words, “excellent” performance, showing a daily variation of 3 seconds, and it was in general well within chronometer standards.
As far as Blancpain is concerned, they were a different animal then than now, at least in some respects. In general I think they were actually more interesting during the time Mr. Odets wrote; aside from the liberties the company has taken with its history over the years, the quality of its designs has badly deteriorated. In those days, they looked a reasonable and interesting alternative to the Big Three/Four, with less aggressive pricing. Today? They still have good watches among a lot of dross but there are far too many models and far too little grasp of what makes for an enduringly appealing design.
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Brand Name vs Independent Watches
Unfortunately I don't have the complicated vocabulary or the finesse in writing to have a great start to my email but I'll still get my point across. I am in somewhat of a dilemma, and not the usual dilemma of choosing between a Swatch Skin or a Mickey Mouse chronograph. It's about the appeal of a powerhouse brand name vs a smaller independent watch brand.
First let me give you a brief about my watch collection. I own a JLC Master Chronograph, a Speedmaster Professional, a Nomos Metro, a Rolex Pepsi, a Cartier Tank MC. As you can see all the watches are of good respectable brands in the watch industry and really well-made pieces. I will be getting married in six months and I was thinking of either a Calatrava 5119 or a Reverso 1931 tribute. I have recently been wondering if getting a watch from an independent watchmaker might be a more suitable choice for a wedding, as it might have that feeling of the traditional and catered mechanical watchmaking with something never to forget in it. My question is, are the big brand names swaying our vision from the real beauty of watchmaking, or are Pateks and Vacherons just as good? What’s your opinion on it?
Note that your opinion might also help me in choosing to get a Tom Ford tuxedo for my wedding or getting my tuxedo done in Mr. Frank’s bespoke shop that makes twelve suits a year.
On the tuxedo, I would suggest unless you expect your size in suits to stay the same for the foreseeable future, that you are allowed to economise a bit. Don’t buy something cheap, but not for nothing has the dinner jacket ensemble been described as “the most expensive suit you’ll never wear.” There is every reason to look your best; there is no reason to spend excessively to do so.
Your collection is not a collection so much as it is an assortment of very good and respectable watches, but never mind, it isn’t necessary to have a collection per se to enjoy your watches. Your question is about independent watchmaking. The independent makers can offer many things depending on who they are – MB&F is not Habring, who is not Voutilainen or Roger Smith. It all depends on what you want. In general, however, if you want the highest level of watchmaking from an independent watchmaker, from a craft standpoint, it is going to be extremely expensive. Voutilainen and Smith offer a level of quality in craft and finish that you will find almost nowhere else, but at a considerable premium (in general) over what you’d pay for a watch of extremely good quality from Lange, Patek, Vacheron, or Audemars.
There is, of course, the question as to whether one ought to wear a watch with a dinner jacket at all; I believe that it is perfectly all right (especially as a dinner jacket is not, technically, the most formal possible dress code in any case). However it should be as simple as possible, flat, and preferably in either platinum or white gold. Spies in the movies notwithstanding, a sports watch with a dinner jacket is gauche. Rules were made to be broken but that doesn’t mean obvious bad taste is suddenly excusable.
Pasha vs Santos
I wonder if you could share your opinion on Cartier Santos Galbee 33mm (sadly, discontinued in 2016) and Pasha (2113 with a F. Piguet movement).
I know that many people would say that Cartier is merely a fashion watch, devoid of "true" horological substance. But I think Cartier's great design, refinement and class are values in themselves. Cartier's watches are beautiful objects, projecting a certain mood, a certain perspective and values (just like a Rolex projects an aura of discovery, machismo or sportsmanship – even if all these are marketing exaggerations).
Pasha with a Piguet movement seems like an authentic expression of the Cartier design, combined with a serious movement and good value on the used market (the 1980s’ design sensibility is not in favour these days).
I already have some "serious" horology watches in my JLC Reverso UT and a Vacheron 1912. So now I am looking for a more casual watch. So the Pasha or the Santos could fill that niche. I also note that I cannot force myself to like Rolex, Tudor, Omega. I feel they are overpriced and are mostly liked by insecure people with mediocre tastes, with whom I don't want to associate. I reason that, if I wanted an honest tool watch, I should go for a Sinn or a G-Shock, but not those pseudo-tool luxury watches. A Cartier does not pretend to have any fake tool authenticity, but it has an authenticity of its own – the refined French upper class sensibility that is appropriate for an expensive watch.
So, sorry for all these ruminations, I just want to know your opinion on the Pasha and the Santos. You have handled so many watches in your life that you have a mature opinion that I find valuable. Also, between the two, would you say that the Pasha is a better made watch?
Many watch companies are bad; the ones that are good are good in different ways. Rolex, Omega, and Tudor make excellent watches, with fine movements (Rolex and Omega have been investing heavily in research and development for their movements for many decades and both in their own way make superlative watch movements) and while Tudor’s stock in trade for many years was fine-tuned ETA movements, they have in the last few years released their own in-house movement which, while not to my personal taste, is excellent from a technical perspective.
All three however most manifestly do not make watches that would appeal to a person who is seriously trying to decide between a Santos Galbee and a Pasha! However, neither is it true that Cartier is to be dismissed as a “mere fashion brand.”
Taken on design alone, Cartier is one of the most important wristwatch and pocket watch makers of the last hundred or so years. On their mystery clocks – clocks whose hands appear suspended in mid-air and which seem to turn with no mechanical connection to anything – they would deserve respect and a place in the history books, but between the Tank, the Santos, the Tonneau and Tortue, and other classics of watch design, they rank up at the top level of significant contributors to horological design. And for much of their history they relied on excellent movement makers like LeCoultre as well. What really hurt their prestige was all that ghastly Must de Cartier shite in the 1970s; it made them gobs of money but gave them the image, to many, of a cheap huckster in the flim-flam business. I shudder to remember it.
Today they have regained much of that lost respect – their fine watchmaking collection, for one thing, has some of the most technically interesting watchmaking in existence today. There is no reason at all to feel that Cartier needs to be defended as a major force in watchmaking – they have been acquitting themselves admirably in that domain for many years now. But there is no reason to let prejudice blind you to the different, but equally valid, value offered by Omega, Rolex, or Tudor. I love the Tank but would no more wear one for diving, sport, climbing, sailing, or other rough recreation, than I would – what is the American expression? – bring a knife to a gun fight.
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The TPS62095 device is a high frequency synchronous step down converter optimized for small solution size, high efficiency and suitable for battery powered applications. To maximize efficiency, the converter operates in PWM mode with a nominal switching frequency of 1.4MHz and automatically enters Power Save Mode operation at light load currents. When used in distributed power supplies and point of load regulation, the device allows voltage tracking to other voltage rails and tolerates output capacitors up to 150µF and beyond. Using the DCS-Control™ topology, the device achieves excellent load transient performance and accurate output voltage regulation.
The output voltage startup ramp is controlled by the soft startup pin, which allows operation as either a standalone power supply or in tracking configurations. Power sequencing is also possible by configuring the EN and PG pins. In Power Save Mode, the device operates with typically 20µA quiescent current. Power Save Mode is entered automatically and seamlessly maintaining high efficiency over the entire load current range.
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General Buhari bares it all in an exclusive interview with The Sun
Buhari bares it all •I won’t forget what IBB did to me, although I’ve forgiven him •I’ve not forgiven Obasanjo •My civil war experiences •No regret shooting cocaine pushers
It's a very long interview so be prepared..:-). See it after the cut...
since the Supreme Court ruled on the 2011 presidential election, former
Head of State and candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change
(CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari, has always refused to grant an
elaborate interview on his experiences and feelings. However, on the
auspicious occasion of his 70th birthday, Buhari has finally spoken. In
an exclusive interview with Saturday Sun, he talked about his growing
up days, experiences in the Army, his emergence as head of state when he
never participated in any coup, the 1966 coup and the counter-coup, the
General Ibrahim Babangida coup that swept him out of office, the
execution of cocaine traffickers, Decree 4 and the controversial ‘53
suitcases’ that allegedly came into the country during his government.
He also spoke about his relationship with General Babangida, who he
said he had forgiven, although he would not forget what he did to him
and his plan for the 2015 elections, among others. Excerpts: What kind of childhood did you have?
Well, from my father’s side, we are Fulanis. You know the Fulanis are
really divided into two. There are nomads, the ones that if you drive
from Maiduguri and many parts of the North you will find. They are even
in parts of Delta now. And there are those who settled. They are cousins
and the same people actually. From my mother’s side and on her father’s
side, we are Kanuris from Kukawa. Where’s Kukawa? Kukawa is in
Borno State. We are Kanuris. On her mother’s side, we are Hausas. So,
you can see I am Hausa, Fulani, Kanuri combined (he laughs). I am the
23rd child of my father. Twenty-third and the 13th on my mother side.
There are only two of us remaining now; my sister and I. I went to
school, primary school, in Daura and Kaduna, also a primary school, in
Kachia. I also attended Kaduna Provincial Secondary School, now
Government College. I didn’t work for a day. I joined the military in
1962. You mean as a boy soldier? No, after school certificate.
There was an officer cadet school from here in Kaduna, called Nigeria
Military Training College then. In April 1962, I went to the United
Kingdom (UK), Mons Officers Cadet School. You mean the famous Mons Officers…?
Yes. And when I was commissioned, I came back and I was posted to 2nd
Infantry Battalion in Abeokuta. That was my first posting. The battalion
was in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I went there. When I came back
from there, I was first in Lagos, as Transport Officer. That was where I
was till the January coup. I was posted back to my battalion and we
were posted to Kaduna here. And then, there was a counter coup, civil
war, coup and counter-coup. We participated. I too was overthrown and
detained for more than three years. And having had that major political
setback when I was made a head of state and then, ended up in detention,
I went out and eventually, I decided to join party politics,
participated three times and lost as presidential candidate and I am
still in and fighting. You have never given up? Even though I
said at some stage that I wouldn’t present myself for candidature again,
I said I remain in party politics as long as I have breath in me. Your Excellency, why did you join the Army?
The interest was built while I was in secondary school. The emirs of
Katsina, from Dikko, were known to be interested in the military. They
always have members of the military or police in their family right from
World War 11. One of the emirs of Kaduna-Dikko died in Burma. And of
course, everybody in the country knows General Hassan, the son of the
Emir of Katsina. He was grandson of Emir Dukko. So, when General Hassan
was in Sandhurst, we were in secondary school in Kaduna. His father, the
Emir of Katsina, Usman Nagogo, used to ask him to go and talk to the
senior students who were in form four to six, to get them interested in
the military. And we were told that he deliberately wanted a military
cadet unit in Kaduna Secondary School. Then, it was limited to Federal
Government Colleges or Government Colleges and we had a military cadet
unit, which I joined. That was the transition? That was where the interest started. Did your parents object to it? No. Well, I didn’t know my father really. Oh! How old were you when he died?
I think I was about three, four years? I couldn’t remember his face.
The only thing I could recall about my father was the horse because it
threw me down. We were on the horse with one of my half brothers going
to water it and then, it tripped and I fell. It stepped on me. So, that
is the only impression I have of him. That is the only thing I could
recall. What of your mother? Oh! my mother died in 1988 when I was in detention. Ok, I remember then the controversy of allowing you to go and see her buried. Did they eventually allow you? No. Then it was quite an issue … Yeah, it became an issue; so I was immediately released after she was buried. You didn’t see her buried? No. It was after you were released you then went to her grave and all that? Exactly! What kind of childhood did you then have?
Well, you know communities then were living communal life. Clearly, I
could recall I reared cattle. We had cattle; we had sheep and then,
there was good neighbourhood. Not many children had the opportunity to
go to school, but I went to school. I left home at the age of 10 or 11
and went to school, like I said. And I was in the boarding school for
nine years. In primary school and secondary school, I was in the
boarding house and from there, I went straight into the Army. So, you have always been on your own?
In those days, there were not many schools and the teachers then were
professionals. They were working teachers and were committed. And
teachers then treated the children as if they were their own students.
You were made to work and if you don’t, they never spared the cane
really. So, I was lucky to be in the boarding school for my
impressionable years, nine years. I was very lucky. Did you play any pranks as a young person? Oh, certainly! What where the things you did? (Laughs) I wouldn’t like to mention them. Tell us some of them… We used to raid the emir’s orchard for mangoes mainly. Of course, unfortunately we were caught and punished.
When people talk of Buhari today, they are looking at a disciplined
man. Was it the boarding house that put you through that or the
military? Was the boarding house part of where you got your Spartan,
disciplined life? Both did. As I told you, the teachers then treated
their students as if they were their own children. So, we got the best
of attention from teachers. And as I told you, they never spared the
cane. You were meant to do your homework; you were meant to do the
sports and clean up the environment, the compound and the area of the
school and so on. And from that type of life, I moved into the military,
the military of that time. Would you say going into the military was the best thing that ever happened to you?
I think so, because from primary to secondary school and in the
military, it will continue, both the academic and the physical one. I
think it was so tough, but then, once it was inbuilt, it has to be
sustained because you don’t contemplate failure. You just succeed? Does it mean failure was not an option? No. It was not.
Was it also the Fulani training of perseverance? Because when you have
reared cattle, for those who have been doing it, they said it toughens
you… It did. The sun is there, the rain and you are there with your cattle…
The period was remarkable, in the sense that those who are brought up
in the city have limited space. If you are in a confined school, you
learn from the school and what you see immediately. But the nomad life
exposes you to nature. You will never learn enough of plants, of trees,
of insects and of animals. Everyday you are learning something. You
have seen them and everyday you are learning. You will never know all of
them. So, it is so vast that it takes a lot of whatever you can think
of. And then, the difference again in the environment. In the Savannah,
in the Sahel, after harvest, you can always see as high as your eyes can
go. And then, at night when there is moon, it is fantastic. So, I
enjoyed those days and they made a lasting impression in me.
What are the remarkable things you can think of during your military trainings?
Initially, from here in Kaduna, at the end of your training, the height
of the field exercise was then conducted in two places. Here in
southern Kaduna and somewhere in Kachia area. There was a thick belt in
that forest. You go for field firing and so on. And then you go to Jos
for map reading and endurance. That was why mathematics at that level,
the secondary school level, geometry and algebra, were absolutely
necessary. It had always been, because to be a competent officer, you
may be deployed to be in charge of artillery; physics, where you help
find your position. Wherever you are from, you work it on the ground in
degrees and so on. You have to do some mathematics. We were in Jos.
Again, I was made a leader of a small unit. We were given a map, a
compass and you dare not cheat. If you are found out, you are taken 10
miles back. So, you have to go across the country. You find your way
from the map; you go to certain points and on those points, mostly
hills, you climb them and you will get a box. The weather there is cold.
You put your own coat and you cover it over the hills and at the end of
the exercise, part of your scorecards, are those marks you won or you
lost. We arrived with one compass, which led us to a certain bushy hill. In Jos?
Yes, in Jos. And it was night, dark and it was raining lightly and
definitely, our compass led us to that hill, which means there was a
point there. And there were five of us: myself, one Sierra Leonean or
Ghanaian, one from Sokoto, and one other. I think the other person is
Katsina Alu, the former Chief Justice. You mean he was in the military?
He was. He did the training but he was never commissioned. He went to
university and did Law. I went up to the hill. I picked the box. I
copied the code, and I said if I were forced to join the Army, I would
have left the following day because that place, a viper or a snake or
something or hyena or lion could have finished me. But I said if I run
away the following day, people would say well we knew you couldn’t make
it, we knew you would be lazy. But because I voluntarily joined the
Army, I said I have to be there. That is one point. The second one was
when I was in training in the UK. I came there and we were drilled so
much and at night again, we were on an exercise. We were putting our
formation. In anyway position was created, and they fired at us. We went
down automatically that day and by the time the commander asked us to
move, I fell asleep. It must be few seconds, not up to a minute. That
was how exhausted I was. Was it really the cold or what? It was
cold. It was 1962. It was cold and it was rainy again just like in
Plateau. Just between the time we went down and to move and climb the
mountain, I fell asleep. So, those two moments, I would never forget
them. Who were your classmates in the military and in the officers’ training in the UK? Well, the late Gen. Yar’Adua. I was together with him throughout the nine years primary, secondary school and in the military. So, you have always been colleagues…? We were together from childhood. Ok, that is interesting. Who else?
Well, not the ones that are here. In the military, most of them did not
reach the position I reached; myself, and Yar’Adua. They couldn’t make
it. Why did you choose the infantry and not the other arms? What was the attraction?
Maybe it was the training of the cadet unit in secondary school. I
found the infantry much more challenging and when we were doing the
training, the Federal Government decided that we were going to have the
Air Force. So, I was invited. A team came from the Ministry of Defence
to interview cadets that wanted to be fighter pilots in the Air Force. I
was the first to be called in our group. I appeared before them and
they told me that those who could pass the interview would be
recommended to go to the Air Force training either in the UK, some went
to Ethiopia or United States or Germany. So, they asked me whether I
wanted to be a fighter pilot and I said no. They asked why, and I said I
wasn’t interested. We were given three choices. Number one, maybe you
went to infantry; number two, you went to reconnaissance then before
they became armour and later, maybe artillery. So, all my three choices,
I could recall vividly, I put infantry, infantry. So, they said why? I
said because I liked infantry. And they asked if I wouldn’t like to be a
fighter pilot. I said no, I didn’t want to join them. They said why. I
said I hadn’t done physics. Normally, I did some mathematics but to be a
fighter pilot, you must do some physics. They said no, that it was no
problem, that I could have an additional one academic year. So, since I
had some mathematics background, it was just one year purely to do
physics and I would reach the grade required to be a pilot. I said no, I
didn’t want it. They again asked why. I told them I chose infantry. The
reason is: when I am fighting and I was shot at, if I was not hit, I
can go down, turn back and take off by foot. They laughed and sent me
out. So, I remained infantry officer. Where were you during the coups and counter-coups? And what rank were you in the military then? I was in Lagos, in the barracks, as transport officer. I was only a second lieutenant. That was during the January 15, 1966 coup? Yes, January 15, 1966. The coup met you in Lagos?
Yes. I think that was my saddest day in the military because I happened
to know some of the senior officers that were killed. In the transport
company, after the 2nd Battalion and we came back, I was posted to Lagos
to be a transport officer and in my platoon, we had staff cars and
Landrovers. So, I knew the Army officers, from Ironsi, Maimalari,
because I detailed vehicles for them every working day. So, I knew
senior officers. So, you were in contact with them? I was in contact with them somehow because I was in charge of transportation. Where were you that night of January 15 coup? I was in Lagos. Can you recall the circumstance, how you got to know?
The way I got to know was, my routine then was as early as about six in
the morning, I used to drive to the garage to make sure that all
vehicles for officers, from the General Officer Commanding (GOC), who
was then General Ironsi, were roadworthy and the drivers would drive
off. And then, I would go back to the Officers Mess in Yaba, where I
would wash, have my breakfast and come back to the office. And around
the railway crossing in Yaba, coming out from the barracks, we saw a
wounded soldier. I stopped because I was in a Landrover. I picked him
and asked what happened. He said he was in the late Maimalari’s house
and they were having a party the previous night and the place was
attacked. So, I took the soldier to the military hospital in Yaba and I
asked after the commander. Maimalari, I think, was commander of 2
Brigade in Apapa. He was the 2 Brigade Commander. They said he was shot
and killed. Then, you didn’t know it was a coup? Well, that became a coup. That was the time I really learnt it was a coup. And then there was a counter-coup of July? Yes, July. Where were you at this time also? I was in Lagos again. I was still in Lagos then at Apapa at 2 Brigade Transport Company.
And then, there was ethnic colouration and all that. And at a point,
they asked some of you to go back to the North. Am I correct? Yes,
because I was posted back then to the battalion. That was in Abeokuta.
It was first to Ikeja Cantonment, but after the counter-coup, we were
taken to Lagos by train, the whole battalion. Did you play any role in the counter-coup? No! Not that I will tell you. You know at 70, you are reminiscing. You are saying it the way it is, you don’t give a damn anymore…
Well, there was a coup. That is all I can tell you. I was a unit
commander and certainly, there was a breakdown of law and order. So, I
was posted to a combatant unit, although 2 Brigade Transport Company was
a combatant unit. You know there were administrative and combatant
units and the service unit, like health, education. Even transport,
there are administrative ones, but there are combatant ones also. The question I asked was, did you play any specific role?
No. I was too junior to play any specific role. I was just a lieutenant
then. In 1966, January, I was a Second Lieutenant, but I was promoted, I
think, around April, May, or June to Lieutenant. And what were your impressions of that period?
You see, senior military officers had been killed and politicians, like
Sardauna, Akintola, Okotie Eboh. They were killed. And then in the
military, Maimalari, Yakubu Pam, Legima, Shodeinde, and Ademolegun; so
really, it had a tribal tinge. The first one? Yes. And then, there was a counter. One mistake gave birth to another one? Certainly, certainly. And then long years of military came? Oh yes. From 1967-75, it was Gowon. At that point in time, where were you?
When Gowon came into power, I wonder whether I would recall where I
was. It was July 1967 that Gowon came in. That was when I was in Lagos. I
was again in Lagos, then in the transport company. Then he took over? Yeah, Gowon took over or Gowon was installed. Well, more like you… (Laughs) Yes. And then in 1967? Civil war.
So, you have to give me that part because there are some books I have
read, that featured your name. So, what were your experiences during the
civil war? Well, I told you that we were parked into the rail to
Kaduna from Ikeja, 2nd Infantry Battalion and when states were created
by General Gowon, police action was ordered; we were moved to the border
in the East. We were not in Nsukka, but in Ogoja. We started from
Ogoja. And you took active part? Yeah. Well, I was a junior officer. Who was your GOC then? My GOC was the late General Shuwa.
How did you feel during that period of the civil war? Did you think
that when the first coup started, that civil war would just come?
No. I never felt so and I never hoped for it. Literally, you are trained
to fight a war but you are not trained to fight a war within your own
country. We would rather have enemies from outside your country to
defend your country, but not to fight among yourselves. Some of those officers you were fighting were your comrades… They were. You knew some of them.
Some of them were even my course mates. We were facing each other, like
when we were in Awka sector. The person facing me was called Bob
Akonobi. We were mates here. Robert Akonobi? Robert Akonobi. Who later became a governor? Yes. He was my course mate here in Kaduna. And there you were… Facing each other. It was really crazy. It was. It was unfortunate, but it is part of our national development. And the way we are going, you think it is a possibility again? I don’t think so. No, I don’t think so. After Gowon, Murtala came. Yes. By the time you were no longer a small officer… No. I was just, I think, a colonel? Was it a lieutenant colonel or major? I think I was a lieutenant colonel. But during the Obasanjo administration, you had become a minister, as it were. No. I first became a governor when Murtala came, in North-East. This same North East that is giving problem now. Yes. I was there and there were six states then: Yobe, Borno, Bauchi, Gombe, Adamawa and Taraba. And they were all under your control or command?
North East went up to Chad; anyway, they are on the same latitude with
Lagos. The bottom before you start going on the Plateau, Mambilla
Plateau, if you look here on the map, the same latitude was in Lagos and
then, up to Chad. That was the extent of the whole North East. Now, some of them can’t govern even one state… They are now six states. I know, but you governed six states and now, some of them have problems with one state… Yes. What were the challenges you faced governing the North East as a military governor?
Actually, at that time, because of competent civil service… I was a
military man but once you get to the rank of a lieutenant-colonel, after
major, you are being taught some management courses. It needs a few
weeks for somebody who has gone through the military management
training, you have junior staff college, senior staff college; by that
time, you will have enough experience for most administrative jobs
because you must have had enough of the combat ones. I think I didn’t
have much problem. And then, the competent civil servants. Civil
servants then were very professional. And not political as we have them now? No. They were really professionals and they can disagree with you on record, on issues. They were not afraid to make recommendations to the military governor or administrator?
No, they were never. People like the late Liman Ciroma, Waziri Fika,
who was eventually Secretary to the Government of Babangida. And the
late Abubakar Umar, who was Secretary to the Government of Bauchi State;
and the late Moguno. They were real professionals, committed
technocrats. So, you didn’t really have much challenges? No, not much challenges. There was no insecurity then, like we have in the North East today?
No, the police then, with their Criminal Investigation Department
(CID), were very, very competent. They interacted closely with the
people. So, criminals in the locality were easily identified and put
under severe surveillance. And really, there was relative peace in the
country. What were your major achievements in the North East as governor?
I think the way the state was divided into three; if you remember, it
became Borno, Bauchi and Gongola. So, the way we divided the assets,
including the civil service and so on, I think it was one of our
achievements because it was so peaceful then. We had a committee on
civil service. And eventually you became minister of petroleum under Obasanjo? Yes. That was the only ministry you held under Obasanjo? Yes.
During your time as petroleum minister, what were you doing differently
that they are not doing now that has made the sector totally rotten?
Well, I was lucky again. When I was made a minister, I met an
experienced man, a person of great personal integrity, the late Sunday
Awoniyi. He was the permanent secretary then before the Supreme
Military Council approved the merger of the Nigerian National Oil
Corporation (NNOC) and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and made
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Sunday Awoniyi was then
the permanent secretary of the ministry. That was when I was sworn in
eventually, I think in 1977, it became NNPC when the ministry and the
NNOC were merged. He retired from the civil service. Another competent
technocrat, Morinho, he became the Director of Petroleum Resources and
he had a very competent team of Nigerian engineers, petroleum engineers
and chemical engineers. And as minister of petroleum, I signed the
contract for Warri Refinery, for Kaduna Refinery, for more than 20
depots all over the country, for laying of pipelines, more than 3200
kilometers and I couldn’t recall Nigeria borrowing a kobo for those
projects. And then, by the time I became head of state, because I went
to War College in the United States before the military handed over to
the Second Republic and came back in 1980 and then, there was coup at
the end of 1983. And that time, you can verify from Professor Tam
David-West who was Minister of Petroleum Resources. We were exporting
100,000 barrels per day of refined products. Exporting from the country? Yes, refined one. Refined one, not the raw one they are taking to import to…? No. 100, 000 barrels? Yes. Because we had four refineries then. They have all collapsed… Well, that is the efficiency of the subsequent governments!
You achieved so much success and all that. But there was an issue that
became quite contentious: N2.8billion. They said N2.8billion oil money
was missing. It couldn’t have been missing. The governor of the
Central Bank then, the late Clement Isong, said it was ridiculous, that
N2.8billion couldn’t be missing because he said even the king of Saudi
Arabia, couldn’t issue a cheque of N2.8billion. When you have paid your
money for petroleum, they are normally put in the country’s external
account and no bank will release that amount of money at a go because it
was deposited. And then, at that time, Nigeria was exporting about 1.82
million barrels a day. And the cost of barrel a day was about $18. You
work out N2.8billion. How could N2.8billion be missing and we still have
money to run the country? So, it was just a political… How did that issue come about? What happened and how did you feel during that period?
No, no. Shagari did the only honourable thing. He ordered a judicial
enquiry and put a serving Justice of the Supreme Court, the late Justice
Irikefe, to carry out investigation. And their terms of reference were
put there. They said anybody who had an idea of missing N2.8billion,
let him come and tell Justice Irikefe. Nobody had any evidence. It was
just rubbish. Well, later, Tai Solarin and Professor Awojobi were
confronted and Fela, the late Fela, to go and prove their case. They
had no evidence, most of them took the newspaper cuttings of their
allegations to the tribunal. As evidence? As their
evidence…Cuttings of newspapers publications where they said N2.8billion
was missing. That was their evidence. That was what they took to the
Irikefe panel. And Fela sang about it! Fela was your friend. He couldn’t have been, because of what Obasanjo regime did to him. Because we were part of Obasanjo regime.
There is one other incident that has also been in the public domain:
that Shagari gave you an order and you disobeyed your
commander-in-chief. What happened then? Which order was that? That he gave you an instruction not to go to war against Chad or something like that?
Well, that was when I became GOC. When I came back from War College, I
was in Lagos. Then, 4 Infantry Division was in Lagos, in Ikeja. I was in
War College when I was posted there before General Obasanjo’s
government handed over to Shagari. So, when I came, after about four
months or so, I was posted to Ibadan, to command 2 Infantry Division.
And after that, I was posted to Jos to command 3rd Armoured Division. It
was when I was there as the GOC that the Chadians attacked some of our
troops in some of the islands and killed five of them, took some
military hardware and some of our soldiers. Then, I went into Army
headquarters and told them then, the Chief of Army Staff then, General
Wushishi, why they shouldn’t just allow a country, our neighbour to move
into our territory, where we had stationed, to kill our people. So, I
moved into Maiduguri, former Tactical Headquarters, and I got them out
of the country. Something dramatic happened: I didn’t know I had gone
beyond Chad and somehow, Shagari, in the United States, was sent
pictures that I was with my troops and had gone beyond Chad, beyond Lake
Chad. So, I was given direct order by the president to pull out and I
did. Oh, you did? I did. I couldn’t have disobeyed the
president. So, I handed over the division to Colonel Ogukwe, who was my
course mate but was my… He was in National Population Commission (NPC)? I think so. Colonel Ogukwe. Yeah, he must have been. I handed over the tactical headquarters to him. So, you never went against presidential directive?
I couldn’t have. He was the Commander-in-Chief. But maybe it was too
slow for them, for me to withdraw, but you don’t disengage so quickly. But after that, Shagari was overthrown? Yes. Now, they said you were invited to head the government after the coup? Yes. As the most senior officer? Yes. What really happened because it was not a Buhari coup? No. Could we say you never plotted a coup throughout your military career? No. I didn’t plot a coup. You were not a coup plotter? No. You were invited? Yes. Where were you when you were invited?
I was in Jos. They sent a jet to me flown by one of General Gowon’s
younger brothers. He was a pilot. He told me that those who conducted
the coup had invited me for discussion. You went to Lagos? I
went to Lagos. I was flown to Lagos. Yes. And they said ok, those who
were in charge of the coup had said that I would be the head of state.
And I was. When you made that statement that ‘this generation of
Nigerians has no country other than Nigeria,’ for me it was like a JFK
statement asking Americans to think of what they could do for America.
Twenty months after, your same colleagues who invited you sacked you.
What happened? They changed their minds. They changed their
minds? So, what happened in between that, because part of what they said
when they took over power was that you had become “too rigid, too
uncompromising and arrogated knowledge of problems and solutions to
yourself and your late deputy, Idiagbon. What really happened? Well,
I think you better identify those who did that and interview them so
that they can tell you what happened. From my own point of view, I was
the chairman of the three councils, which, by change of the
constitution, were in charge of the country. They were the Supreme
Military Council, the Executive Council and the National Council of
State. I was the chairman of all. Maybe when you interview those who
were part of the coup, they will tell you my rigidity and whether I
worked outside those organs: the Supreme Military Council, the Council
of State and the Council of Ministers. Before I come to that, there
was also this issue of Decree 4, alleged drug peddlers who your regime
ordered shot. Looking back now, do you think you made mistake in those
areas? You see, maybe my rigidity could be traced to our insistence on the laws we made. But we decided that the laws must be obeyed. But they said it was retroactive.
Yes, they said so. But I think it should be in the archive; we said
that whoever brought in drugs and made Nigeria a transit point committed
an offence. These drugs, We We (Indian hemp), is planted here, but the
hard drug, cocaine, most Nigerians don’t know what cocaine is. They just
made Nigeria a transit point and these people did it just to make
money. You can have a certain people who grow Ashisha or We We and so on
because it is indigenous. Maybe some people are even alleging that
those who want to come for operation, brought the seed and started to
grow it in Nigeria. But cocaine, it is alien to our people. So, those
who used Nigeria as a transit, they just did it to make money. And this
drug is so potent that it destroys people, especially intelligent
people. So, the Supreme Military Council did a memo. Of course, I took
the memo to the Supreme Military Council and made recommendation and the
Supreme Military Council agreed. There was no dissenting voice?
There was no dissenting in the sense that majority agreed that this
thing, this cocaine, this hard drug was earning Nigeria so much bad name
in the international community because Nigeria was not producing it,
but Nigerians that wanted to make money didn’t mind destroying Nigerians
and other youths in other countries just to make money. So, we didn’t
need them. We didn’t need them. But there were pleas by eminent Nigerians not to kill the three men involved in the trafficking?
Pleas, pleas; those that they destroyed did they listen to their pleas
for them not to make hard drug available to destroy their children and
their communities? So, it is not something you look back now at 70 and say it was an error?
No, it was not an error. It was deliberate. I didn’t do it as an head
of state by fiat. We followed our proper system and took it. If I was
sure that the Supreme Military Council then, the majority of them
decided that we shouldn’t have done so, we could have reduced it to long
sentencing. But people who did that, they wanted money to build
fantastic houses, maybe to have houses in Europe and invest. Now, when
they found out that if they do it, they will get shot, then they will
not live to enjoy at the expense of a lot of people that became mental
and became harmful and detrimental to the society and so on, then they
will think twice. Decree 4 was what you used to gag the press?
Decree 4. You people (press), you brought in Nigeria factor into it.
When people try to get job or contract and they couldn’t get it, they
make a quick research and created a problem for people who refuse to do
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Style Evolution: Beyoncé’s Fashion Through The Years [Photos]
Beyoncé is known for being a big deal. Whether she’s ahead of the sneaker wedge trend, snapping pics in Civil clothing or campaigning for H&M, Baddie Bey has cosigned some of the biggest and dopest movements subsequently causing their net worth sky rocket. However, has she always been such a fashion icon?
Unfortunately, (BeyHive, get in attack mode) no. Mrs. Carter used to hit many fashion blunders (um, those shredded denim skirts), but in her defense, we never loved her any less. Let’s just say the former member of Destiny’s Child has made exceptional strides in her taste.
The new mommy has naturally evolved, donning luxe labels that flatter her hip-licious frame. Just like her good friend and former DC member Kelly Rowland, when she hits and red carpet fashion bloggers and journos are ready to write every detail. Micing a look between class and boss, the modern-day feminist new sets trends in whatever she throws on.
As Bey continues takes 2013 with her Mrs. World Carter tour and myriad of mag covers, Vixen heads down memory lane with a look at some of her fashion cues –past and present.
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Nicholas Miller put a lot of thought into quitting his senior associate job at Bain & Company in 2012 to launch his software company Gather. He tells Business Insider that, while his stint at Bain was "by far the best job coming out of college" he could have had and a great learning experience, he and his Bain coworker and Gather co-founder Alex Lassiter knew that, in 10 years, they didn't want to become partners or a management consultants.
"Ultimately, we felt like it was the right time in our careers and our lives to make the jump and give it a shot," he says.
Miller places a great deal of importance in the motivation, drive, and intentions behind a person's career move — it's why he always asks potential hires why they moved from one role to the next during job interviews.
Miller says he's looking for a few things when he asks this: "Why was that the right time? What were they looking to accomplish? And then did they accomplish that at their next job? By hearing from candidates why they feel now is the right time to look for a new opportunity, Miller says "you can kind of parse people's motivations, but you can also get a good understanding about whether someone's really intentional about their career."
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It's been a week, that's for sure. I'm a little embarrassed to have dragged you guys through it, too, but I'm SO THANKFUL you guys were around. Thanks, really. All of you.
So I went in to the doctor, laid down the law about stupid videos, and made him talk to me like I had a brain between my ears. He was cooler. I got to see the Xrays, and he showed me all about where the bones are misaligned. I still can't rattle off what's wrong with my foot (mostly because I don't remember the names of all those little bones), but at least I have a picture in my head and know what's wrong.
And he did fix stuff.
Constant pain on the side of my foot is gone. Shooting pains when I pull my toes up in the direction of my shin are gone. I even could get up on tiptoe, although he only allowed me once to check it, so we wouldn't undo his corrections.
He's going to fix things, but our main issue now is that he says unless I wear shoes with orthotics 24/7, I'm going to fall into little pieces.
First, I LOVE, love, LOVE the feel of my feet rooted into the ground when doing TKD and yoga. It's pretty much a spiritual connection to the Earth for me. Second, I'm not yet willing to accept that jail sentence without a second opinion.
So we'll see.
I'm a little overwhelmed with stuff to do and stuff to write. I really should take a couple weeks and be Ms. Focused Machine.
I'm addicted. I highly doubt I can stay away a day, let alone two weeks. If I happen to disappear, you know why. I have like 50,000 words to write in the next two weeks, plus get my students all orientated and lesson-planned and organized for the year. And get their websites up and everything else.
But hopefully I'll end up online anyway.
I mean, a regular schedule is coming up. I can't wait! You?
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The Wheels of Industry – ilight Marina Bay, Singapore
Client: iLight Marina Bay 2014
Commissioned by Asia’s only sustainable light art festival, iLight Marina Bay Singapore, to realise the piece ‘The Wheels of Industry’. An unexpected fusion of a matt black three-wheeled Reliant Robin with colourful stained glass panels reworked from the vehicle’s original windows which are illuminated by visitors using a kinetic bicycle to generate electricity.
A wholly interactive piece which invites visitors to play at being the source of power whilst raising questions of sustainability and whether our historic over-reliance on non-renewable energy can and should be replaced by innovative and sustainable practices.
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- How a Virtual Phone System Can Improve Communications?
Communication is the key ingredient of every business’s success. With respect to a business, both internal and extern...
last week Google confirmed that the Play Store had stopped displaying the notification of the updated applications, and that it was no fault but that it was a new feature.
well, if you are one of those people who liked this notification is to discover how many apps had been updated then we have good news. Braden Farmer, a senior member of XDA Developers has created in less than a week his solution to retrieve notifications missing from Google Play.
How to retrieve notifications of updated applications
AppNotifier is the application that we will now have to have installed in our mobile device to retrieve the notification that the Play Store has removed. We will see how many and which applications have been updated recently on our Android. All under the same design and behavior that I had in Google Play. When clicking on the notification opens the Play Store to display the recent updates.
The application does not have a lot of mystery. It allows us to activate the notifications when new applications are installed and the notification of updated applications. By default it will display only the applications downloaded and installed from the Google Play Store but offers the option to receive notifications with the apps installed and updated from any source, that is to say, from unknown sources.
The developer reports that its app does not detect when applications are in the middle of an installation, so there will be a small lag from when the application is installed and displays the notification. It also reports that the notification will show the name of the app in our device and not the name on the tab of Google Play, it is sometimes different. Another detail is that it will block a notification that informs us that AppNotifier is running in the background. The same notice informs us of what there is to do.
Via | XDA-Developers
The news AppNotifier: an application that retrieves the notifications that it stopped displaying the Play Store was originally published in Xataka Android by Cosmos .
January 21, 2020
- ← I filtri pop si arricchisce Instagram: Marvel, ‘Star Wars’…
- ‘Kung Fu’: the legendary series will make the leap to the cinema of the hand of the director of ‘Fast & the Furious: Hobbs & Shaw’ →
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The ability to name and recognize the letters of the alphabet is one of the two best predictors of a child's reading success. This lesson will teach students to recognize the letter p in print and the phoneme /p/ in spoken words. This goal will be met by having children listen for and repeat the phoneme in spoken words and by having them practice writing the letter p (both capital and lowercase).
Primary Paper (one sheet for each student), Pencils, Chart with Pretty Peggy plants pumpkins in a path written for students to see, The Pig’s Picnic by Helen H. Moore and Ellen Joy Sasaki, White board or chart paper to write students ‘P’ words on, Dry erase marker
1. “Boys and Girls today we are going to be learning about the sound that the letter p makes. The letter p makes the /p/ sound like when popcorn is popping. Let’s all try this together by making the popping sound. Ready? PPPPPPP. Great job! I knew you could do it!”
2. “Now let’s try this tongue twister. I am first going to say the sentence then you can repeat it back to me. Ready? Pretty Peggy plants pumpkins in a path. Do you think you can repeat that back to me? Excellent Job! Now we are really going to stretch out that /p/ sound when we read it this time. PPPPretty PPPPeggy pppplants ppppumpkins in a ppppath. Awesome! Did everyone hear the /p/ sound? What words did we hear the /p/ sound in ?(pretty, peggy, plats, pumpkins, and path)"
3. “Now it is time for us
to start practicing writing the letter p. Can you remind me what sound
letter p make? And what does this letter sound like? That’s right! The
makes the sound of popping popcorn! We are now going to start writing
uppercase p. Everyone find the rooftop line and put your pencil on that
Now, we are going to walk down to the side walk line and then pick up
pencil. Then were going to come back to the line we just made at the
and make a curve around to the fence line. Wow! Look at those perfect
we’re going to practice writing a lowercase p. Everyone find the fence
walk down to the ditch and lift up your pencil. Now go back to the
and curve around to the sidewalk line. Now I want you to practice
writing a row
of lowercase p’s and a row of upper case p’s.”
am going to read some words out loud, and I want you to tell me if you
hear the /p/ sound in the beginning of the word, the middle, or the end.
For example, if the word was lamp the /p/ sound is at
the end of the word. (I will hold up cards with the
words on them and have the students tell me where they hear the /p/
sound in the word). Where do you hear /p/ in the
word plant? Where do you hear /p/ in the word flop? Where do
you hear /p/ in the word proch? Where do
you hear /p/ in the word carpet?
This next word is tricky. Let’s see if you
can hear the /p/ sound in more than one place. Where
do you hear the /p/ in the word paper?
5. “Boys and girls you are doing a great job today! Now it is time for us to read a fun book! Our book today is called The Pigs Picnic. These three pigs are about to go on a picnic and need to find some food to take with them. We’re going to follow them around their house to see what they pack for their fun picnic!”
6. “Did everyone enjoy that book? Me too! Now we are going to come up with some of our own p words. I want you to think of some words and hold on to them tight in your brain so when it’s your turn you can tell me a p word.”
Assessment: For the assessment I am going to ask students if they hear the /p/ sounds in two different words. I might ask them one of the following:
Do you hear the /p/ sound in:
pike or like? (pike) fan or pan? (pan) cart or part? (part)
penny or Denny? (penny) pig or dig? (pig) carpet or mat? (carpet)
Cunningham, P. (n.d.). Alphabet Tongue Twisters. Retrieved February 22, 2009, from ABC Tongue Twisters: http://lw015.k12.sd.us/abcyonguetwisters/abc_tongue_twisters.htm
Moore, H. H., &
Sasaki, E. J. (2001). The Pig's Pinic.
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EUR/JPY rebounded from the 123.00 level on the H4. The pair formed a “piercing line” pattern.
How to trade WTI oil
Information is not investment advice
WTI oil has reached our previous targets. On the W1, a big bullish candlestick engulfed the previous bearish one. If the price rises above 52.35, it will likely push up to 53.00 (23.6% Fibonacci retracement of the 2020 decline). The Awesome Oscillator on the D1 is bullish. On the H4, the price has managed to overcome the 100-period MA. As long as it’s trading above this line in the 51.80 area, the short-term uptrend will remain in place. Below 51.70, the price will be vulnerable for a correction to the 50.90 area.
Trade ideas for WTI oil
BUY 52.00; TP 53.00; SL 51.75
SELL 51.70; TP 50.95; SL 51.85
To trade WTI with FBS you need to choose WTI-20H in MT4.
NZD/CAD has reached a 200-week MA (0.8950) and formed a “shooting star” candlestick on the D1. On the H4, we see a lower high.
XAU/USD has moved this week in line with its short-term uptrend and the overall long-term uptrend reaching $1 865.
US final GDP for 2Q -31.4%% vs -31.7% estimate
ADP, US GDP, Chicago PMI and Canadian GDP – all numbers exceeded expectations. Which currency will outperform? Let’s try to find out.
EUR/CAD may get down to the bottom of the September sideways channel if bears keep pressing.
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|Doig, Ivan: This House of Sky
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979
ISBN 0-15-689982-5. pp 314 read 11/5/18
|LeBaron, Gaye, and Bart Casey:
The Wonder Seekers of Fountaingrove
Historia II, 2018
ISBN 978-0-692-17702-0. pp 204 read 11/6/18
|Wolf, Margery: Coyote‘s Land: a Novel Ethnography
Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, 2018
ISBN 9787-145756-430-7. pp 312 read 11/11/18
The house in question is in southwestern Montana, where the author was born and raised in surely one of the last survivors of hard frontier landscape: cowboy country, sheep ranching, desperate economy. This House of Sky is a memoir centered on the author’s father — his mother died young. Like the other two books read in the last week or so are, it is nostalgic, evoking a time and place recent enough to be imaginable but irretrievably lost.
I'm old enough — older than Ivan Doig — to remember a landscape similar though less harsh than his high, bare, frequently frozen Montana: the bleak wartime northeastern Oklahoma of 1944-5, where we lived without running water, and impoverished Sonoma county farm country in the next few years, where we lived without electricity. Unlike the Doigs on their sheep ranches, we at least had society.
Doig centers his memoir on his father and on isolated ranching, but populates it also with other memorable characters: a stepmother; his grandmother; assorted dubious ranch hands; the drifters morosely drinking in a series of bars negotiating the limited available social stratas of what passes for his home town.
The book is poetic and laconic, like the best cowboy songs, and deserves the praise it's received. Doig's style is sophisticated, artful, but (except for italicized summaries to each chapter) never jarring, always related to what one presumes is the language of his subjects. Clearly the Doig line harbors — and passes along — a gift for language: the stories are so rich and at times improbable, the quotes so colorful and apt, that a reader could be forgiven for suspecting occasional authorial invention.
We need books like this, not only for their evocation of the land and society much of this country was until postwar prosperity and technological advance erased it, but also for its suggestion that the stamina and inventiveness of those times may be needed in a time still to come. In the meantime generations have grown to maturity lacking, with rare exceptions, first-hand familiarity with even the possibility of such virtues.
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY in this country was a time of frontier expansion, hardscrabble farming, urban development, and robber-baron capitalism. It also saw a considerable reaction to the worst qualities of those developments in a wave of idealistic communitarianism. Some of the resulting societies are fairly well known: Brook Farm, Oneida, Amana. But one of the longest-living of them has been largely overlooked: The Wonder Seekers of Fountaingrove corrects that historical neglect.
The Fountaingrove community began, as so many such attempts did, in rural New York, where Thomas Lake Harris, only one of many exhortative preachers, after running his course in one parish after another, decided his only success must be in establishing a society of his own. He was apparently a magnetic, persuasive figure, and in lectures in New York, New England, and London he attracted followers who signed on with their fortunes as well as their lives as individuals.
With their labor and their money Harris built what can only be called a cult, at first amusing his neighbors, ultimately attracting sufficient cynicism and suspicion that he found it expedient to move along. Each cycle lasted seven years: a farm at Wassaic in eastern New York, bought in 1861, a more elaborate settlement near Brocton on the Erie shoreline, in 1868; finally, in 1875, the Fountaingrove community, outside a provincial city growing up north of San Francisco.
A number of strands weave through this history: the members of the community, including a disillusioned, wealthy Englishman and a Japanese samurai; the various approaches to financing, including investments and agriculture; the relations with outsiders including the press; and of course the cult psychology and culture Harris developed.
The principal characters are fairly well and efficiently presented: apart from the enigmatic Harris, they are the wealthy Englishman Laurence Oliphant and the quietly competent Kanaye Nagasawa. Harris began as a frontier preacher subject to fits and visions; eager to return humanity to its pre-Expulsion innocence, he dictated thousand-line poems describing that state of bliss while in trance induced by deep breathing — and, one suspects, slow sexual experiences. Oliphant, the only child of an important British colonial officer, was an adventurous traveler whose books brought Central Asia and the Crimean War home to England. And Nagasawa was sent in his early adolescence from isolated Japan to Scotland, then England, to learn the methods and values of the mysterious West so that his native country might enter the modern global world.
For every man in Harris's communities there seemed to have been at least three or four women — wives, mothers, sisters, friends. Except for Oliphant's mother they never fully emerge from this narrative. Even Harris's second wife, who was significant in the Fountaingrove years, is present more as referred to by other personages than as a fully limned figure in her own right.
The same might be said of Nagasawa, whose motives and values are occasionally hypothesized but not clearly stated. The temptation to fictionalize this history has been kept successfully and, I'd bet, carefully at bay.
Who, then, is this book for? It appears at a poignant time, the first anniversary of the destruction of the locally famous Fountaingrove Round Barn, until last year the only surviving physical evidence of the community that once prospered on the northern edge of Santa Rosa. I found the book satisfying — but I should reveal that one of the authors, Gaye LeBaron, is an old friend, whose dedication to history and whose insistence on fact I can attest to.
Much of the value of The Wonder Seekers of Fountaingrove lies between the lines, partly in matters only hinted at — the authors are decorous — partly in questions the reader will be led to pose. Foremost — and this question is raised, more than once, though without being settled — was Harris merely a confidence man? or was he truly visionary and idealistic in his attempt to found a new life based on communitarianism, free from the distractions of private ownership and individual expression?
TWO OTHER VERSIONS of the perfect life contend in Margery Wolf's Coyote's Land: the ancient and apparently perfected culture of the Coast Miwok, based not far from Fountaingrove in the present southern Sonoma and northern Marin counties, and the Franciscan version of Catholic Christianity as it evolved in the California missions early in the 19th century.
Wolf, who was also a personal friend, died early last year, soon after completing this book. She was an anthropologist whose career was somewhat outside the anthropological norm: her first book, The House of Lim, still used as a textbook in anthropology classes, was written without the virtue of a degree in the field. (She was married to an academic anthropologist at the time.)
Coyote's Land is an interesting and, I think, significant book for a number of reasons, one of them stated by the author at the outset. The first and longest and most evocative of its two parts is what she calls "informed fiction," fictional narrative informed by a comprehensive knowledge of both details and context. Her purpose, she writes, is to make ethnography interesting to the common reader. She is a little defensive about this, as she's been criticized by professionals in her field for straying from academic norms — but in truth it's the academic professional writers who should be criticized for forgetting, in their books, that readability and appeal are greater authorial responsibilities than convention and boredom.
If Coyote's Land is significant as "informed fiction," it is also important — especially at this moment! — for dwelling on the tragedy of one culture's destruction at the hands of another. And this particularly when the destruction is wrought in the name of religion. Wolf begins her novel with a series of chapters thoughtfully, pleasantly, sometimes entertainingly evoking the daily life of the pre-conquest Miwok; then turns to the inevitable end of that idyllic culture, in the early years of the 19th century, when the chain of missions reaches San Francisco Bay.
Wolf centers her narration on an improbable device, dividing the central character between two women: Charlotte, a 20th-century anthropologist eager to learn the (pre-conquest) Miwok culture, and Sekiak, a Miwok woman condemned to immortality for a transgression against the natural order. Driven by a fierce desire to make the Miwok way known to European-Americans, she renders herself and Charlotte invisible and gifted with fluency in all languages, and the two travel back and forth between the present and the pre-conquest past, enabling Charlotte to observe daily life and eavesdrop on native conversations, thereby comprehending the contexts of both Miwok and mission life.
Not usually attracted to Magic Realism or time-travel fiction, I tried to catch little failures in this narrative device, moments when anachronism of either detail or plot might break Wolf's success. I found none. I don't know if she planned it, but to me one of Wolf's greatest achievements here is her treatment of the plasticity of Time as we humans live it and in it. And this brings me to a final irony of Coyote's Land: a valedictory book, it often pauses to contemplate — even if only for a sentence or two — the nature of Death. Charlotte's invisibility is not dependably effective to those on the point of death.
One old woman was tending a slow, smoky fire under a couple of racks of drying fish. She stared in Sekiak and Charlotte's direction; then blinked her eyes several times before turning her attention back to the fire.Toward the end of the book it becomes clear, in a few lines charmingly describing the presence of a fox in the bushes near a campfire, that Charlotte's invisibility is attached to the fact of her being in an alternate time. The fox immediately brought Leoš Janáček's opera Vixen Sharp-ears to mind, and I saw that intrinsic to both the style and the substance of Coyote's Land is a haunting, affectionate, even visionary awareness of the beyond-time nature of death and dying and of truly aware living. Janáček was 70 when he completed Vixen; Margery Wolf was dying in her last year, while completing Coyote's Land.
"Can she see us?" Charlotte asked uncertainly.
"A little maybe. She is very old… you know old people are less attached to their time than young people… They tend to wander. We need to keep our distance. She knows she will die soon, and she is watching for the spirits of old friends who will show her the way."
The irony, then, is that the death of the cultures — the Coast Miwok way, which had stood for millennia; the California missions, imperfect improvements no doubt on Spanish feudalism but unable to survive Mexican independence let alone the coming of the Yankees — those deaths are as natural and inevitable as the deaths of our grandparents and our parents. Immortality — Sekiak's sentence — is what is unnatural and wrong. The manner in which one culture destroys another may be condemned, but the destruction is inevitable.
Whether intentionally or for lack of time, Coyote's Land seems not quite finished. The novel ends inconclusively, Charlotte apparently returned to the present but certain plot elements still tantalizingly vague. The second part of the book, the "backstory," offers a quick historical survey of the Miwok and their land; the missions, their Spanish background and their ambivalent intentions; and a foretaste of the transition the young California will soon make into the United States. This part of the book is matter-of-fact and carefully documented in the conventional bibliography.
The backmatter does not detract from the real value of the book, the "informed fiction." It is a real gift: to those of us who live in what is still Coyote's Land; to those who want to see farther than the authorities who have (temporarily) survived the Miwok and the mission ways; to all the living.
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Monthly Professional Development
The Volunteer Chapter hosts a luncheon or dinner on the second Thursday of each month at Rothchild Catering & Conference Center in West Knoxville unless otherwise stated in the event promotions. These meetings offer professional development for public relations, marketing and communications professionals — whether you’re a member of PRSA or not.
RSVP to attend each month. Pay online or at the door. The cost is $20 for PRSA members, $25 for non-members and $15 for students.
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The Greater Knoxville Business Journal’s monthly column focuses on public relations’ value in business and organizational management, using a topic that corresponds to the Business Journal’s monthly editorial focus.
For more information about the Senior Practitioners Group, email Mary Beth West, APR.
Each year, the Volunteer Chapter recognizes the excellent public relations efforts of our members with the annual Volunteer PR Awards. The awards, judged by other PRSA chapters, go to campaigns, strategies and tactics that exemplify the very best in public relations. Additionally, the V Awards recognize individuals who are making significant contributions to PRSA, the Volunteer Chapter and the public relations profession.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) -- The Mesa County Department Health and Human Services is temporarily locked down because of an upset parent.
The Mesa County Sheriff's Department says someone activated a panic alarm at 510 29 1/2 Road Friday at 10:41 a.m.
Two sheriff's deputies, who already in the building, were asked by DHS staff to go to a possible verbal disturbance, and the building was locked down.
Other deputies and police officers were dispatched to the scene, but the locked doors prevented them from immediately getting in.
In the end, Grand Junction Police say an upset parent was escorted from the building, but no arrests were made or are anticipated. The lockdown was released directly after.
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