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I know the first thing you are going to do is look at my photos :D once I have pass that stage than you will see my description part just kidding lol it is so difficult to describe your self in such a short summary but I will try my best.
so im starting to realise that it is approaching crunch time and i should properly start trying to find a partner! otherwise i'm going to have to go down the arranged marriage route ,which my mum is looking forward too, but i don't really fancy having one awkward conversation after the next.
Also if it matters my family is originally from Sindh, Pakistan and my caste is Marri Baloch. For me what matters the most is my religion not caste. Alhamdulilah I am down to earth n simple person.
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This free dating service also allows you to quickly match up with good accuracy. "Quick Text" feature lets you insert pre-stored messages in emails with one tap. Video tour: m/iphoneinfo, run by volunteers who just want to see..
(Kostenlos; für iOS). Coffee meets bagel, cooles Prinzip: Sechsmal die Woche, immer um 12 Uhr, erhältst du einen neuen "Bagel" (sprich: Bekannten) aus dem Facebook-Network deiner Freunde. (Kostenlos; für iOS und Android). Bravo zeigt dir die besten Smartphone-Liebeshilfen..
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Over 888,368 users have joined the best Filipina dating site!
With 4,309 members online PinaLove has beautiful Filipina ladies from all over the Philippines from Cebu to Manila to Davao!
A good online dating site has a large membership base and an interface that doesnt require a rocket scientist to figure out.
For those who wanted to meet their potential lifetime partner and want to marry a Filipino, Filipino Kisses is a great online dating site to start with. This online dating site is a friendly, conservative and trustworthy place to meet friends online safely. We have a great marriage we are happily married in ey are schammers in every country but in general the philippinos are great. You can filter profiles by location, age, weight, height, interests, and see photos of all your matches before committing to a membership. God Bless us all, she wrote. Good for meeting western transsexuals that might be holidaying in Asia.
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Official iOS client for the CryptoControl.io API. The CryptoControl iOS client lets developers access rich formatted articles from cryptonews sources from all around the world.
First make sure that you've recieved an API key by visiting https://cryptocontrol.io/apis. With the API key, you can write the following code.
getTopNews() Get the top news articles.
getLatestNews() Get the latest news articles.
getTopNewsByCategory() Get news articles grouped by category.
getTopNewsByCoin(coin: String) Get the top news articles for a specific coin from the CryptoControl API.
getLatestNewsByCoin(coin: String) Get the latest news articles for a specific coin.
getTopNewsByCoinCategory(coin: String) Get news articles grouped by category for a specific coin.
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"url": "https://cocoapods.org/pods/CryptoNewsApi",
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My good friend Marcus joins me to talk about our upcoming 5 player Twilight Imperium day. Strategy is the main course here, how to navigate the strategic waters when there are 348 separate variables to consider; all with game changing consequences. How do you pace yourself, keep yourself on point, and most importantly... is it better to win a game of Twilight Imperium, or just have fun trying.
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April 24th was International sculpture Day! Two of our members had a memorable April 24th, Hank Nelson and Sue Taves were honored on International sculpture day by our Sculpture Northwest friends in Bellingham who promote outdoor sculpture displays in the four northernmost counties of Washington state.Look for more details in an upcoming journal. Hope you had a chance to celebrate, experience great sculpture, and hang out with your fellow sculptors.
Speaking of hanging out with fellow sculptors, Michael Yeaman, conceived, coordinated, and made happen the “Elements of Sculpture - a viewer’s guide” workshop with Herbert George based on Herbert’s book of the same name.The event on Orcas Island and the San Juan sculpture park was a success. A special thanks to Michael and his wife Deborah for hosting the reception Friday evening at their house, the food, Orcas Island microbrews and atmosphere were great.Herbert George’s presentation of a basic vocabulary of 14 elements to talk about sculpture is a very good starting place.
In addition, I especially enjoyed the Sunday morning walk with the attendees thru Roche Harbor Sculpture Park and his use of the elements to talk about the stone sculpture in the park. One surprise was hearing Herbert George speak about sitting, setting, and display of sculpture it sounded very much like what we have heard Richsculpture it sounded very much like what we have heard RichHestekind speak about.It is likely you will hear more about the 14 elements, Herbert has given Michael permission to develop a PowerPoint presentation for use at our symposia.
NWSSA is now officially an Amazon Smile charity. This means if you go to smile.amazon.com on your way to buy something from Amazon’s web site, and tell them Northwest Stone Sculptors Association is your preferred charity, they donate a half a percent of the value of your purchase to NWSSA. If you are familiar with their program, consider NWSSA every once in awhile. If you have never used Amazon Smile and if you sign up for their Smile program from March 12 to 31, 2018 Amazon will give 1.5% of your first purchase to NWSSA.
The Seattle Flower and Garden show had a great turnout! Thanks to all who brought pieces for the unexpectedly larger booth size. Monika Hawkinson, Nicky Oberholtzer, and Pat Barton pulled it together and you volunteers made it happen.
One more step forward on Marymoor Park in Redmond. We have preliminary engineering drawings for precast bases that can hold 6000# at a height of 4’, or an 8’ x 2’ x 2’ stone sculpture. We have preliminary pricing and will be working with King County on our next steps. Thanks to Ben Mefford for moving this forward. Think about what you might want to display at Marymoor. Let our two symposium directors know if you’d like a session on large works while you are at the symposium.
Speaking of symposiums, registration for Pilgrim Firs, July 7th to 15th 2018, is up on the web site. Sign-up before May 31st and get $100 off your registration.
I received news that the large outdoors works display at Kubota gardens will not occur this year, so all the more reason to think about having something ready for display in Redmond.
Ed. Note: As we go to press, Carl Nelson is in India. In place of his regular column we include a photo and caption from his travels.
I have learned from my Mediterranean travels, that when a conqueror who brought a different culture to a new land, and wanted to erect temples, he recycled and repurposed material from structures already there.
Here are the recycled columns from Hindu and Jain temples that were used in 1192 to build the first mosque in India. Because Islam does not allow images of people, if you look closely, you can see where the images on the stone columns have been erased.
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Established in 1943, The Des Moines Camera Club has been dedicated to the pursuit of photographic excellence for more than seventy years! The club provides activities for those who wish to share, learn, or improve their photographic skills.
Our membership represents all levels of photography, from beginner to advanced amateur or professional. Our goal is to increase our knowledge of photography and inspire one another in our photographic activities. Programs, workshops and field trips are held regularly on a wide variety of subject matter. Photography competitions are held monthly.
Our camera club meets the first three Tuesdays of every month from September through May, except for December. The first meeting of the month is devoted to instruction, while the second and third meetings are competition nights. Check the Schedule page for dates and the address. Visitors are always welcome at all meetings. Make sure to connect with us on Facebook as well.
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So, you’ve taken the plunge and installed some digital signage players in your stores. Awesome, you’re like, my favorite. If you’ve gotten your monitors hoisted up over the deli counter, gotten someone to hang them with (at least) a good amount of duct tape and you’re ready to start using them – I’ve got some tips for you.
Your first task should be setting a few goals. I know setting a goal to set goals sounds like something your high school counselor came up with on their lunch break, but it’s important! You’re setting those monitors up for a reason, so make sure that reason is something you keep an eye on to make sure you’re close to fulfilling it.
Next, make sure your monitors are a good distance from your customers. Basically, if everyone is leaning forward and squinting like they just caught a lemon juice blast to the eye, you’re doing it wrong. Make sure the screens are high enough that they aren’t in the way, but low enough that they can be read easily.
Content. You have the ability to create just about whatever you want, so don’t miss out on an opportunity to show your customers something amazing. Use movies, lists, menus, photos – whatever you’d like! At the same time, no one wants to see pictures of you at a Whitesnake concert in the 80s. I know, I know, your acid washed jeans and bouffant hair were on point that night, but lets use this space for in-store specials, mkay?
Now that you’ve deleted those embarrassing parachute pants photos, you need to schedule your content! This is the most important part of the whole operation. This turns a good program into a great one. You can schedule your lunch sale items to show up during lunch, your special events to pop up just the right amount of time before the event begins. Let the player do the work for you and keep everything running smoothly.
Finally, ask for feedback. You already know some of your customers by name, this is the perfect opportunity to see how they feel about your signage and to talk to the customers you don’t know just yet. After you get a good idea of what’s working, you can make adjustments, pass the whole thing on to another employee, sit back and relax.
You’ll be amazed at how much time and effort is saved from your normal routine by adding just one signage player to your roster. It’s a great way to engage without being a nuisance and can turn some heads toward areas of your store that don’t get enough attention.
Edit: After some intense feedback, I guess you can post those Whitesnake concert photos. Not my problem if it doesn’t work out.
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Ruth Marcus: Do Not Commit a Crime!
Next time I’m in Colorado, I expect, I’ll check out some Bubba Kush. Why not? They used to warn about pot being a gateway drug, but the only gateway I’m apt to be heading through at this stage is the one to Lipitor.
Marcus is an “opinion writer” at the Washington Post, which is owned by the guy who wants to fly products to your house using tiny plasticky helicopters.
When people she does not like (“insufferable whistleblowers”) violate federal criminal law, she wants heads to roll.
When people she likes commit crimes, she’s more circumspect: maybe they should be prosecuted, but maybe not because showing that NSA chief James Clapper intentionally lied to Congress is tough for prosecutors to prove.
Any person who violates this subsection may be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both, except that if he commits such offense after a prior conviction under this subchapter or subchapter II of this chapter, or a prior conviction for any drug, narcotic, or chemical offense chargeable under the law of any State, has become final, he shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment for not less than 15 days but not more than 2 years, and shall be fined a minimum of $2,500, except, further, that if he commits such offense after two or more prior convictions under this subchapter or subchapter II of this chapter, or two or more prior convictions for any drug, narcotic, or chemical offense chargeable under the law of any State, or a combination of two or more such offenses have become final, he shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment for not less than 90 days but not more than 3 years, and shall be fined a minimum of $5,000.
In all fairness, while Ruth Marcus plans to violate federal law by going to Colorado to toke up, the United States Attorney for Colorado has indicated that he has no desire to pursue mere users, as opposed to large scale drug traffickers, provided they abide by state law which as legalized the recreational use of marijuana.
But announcing you are flouting federal law may not be the wisest thing to do… or maybe it doesn’t really matter, because Ruth Marcus will almost certainly never be prosecuted while she advocates the prosecution of others.
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Graham T. McMahon, M.D., M.M.Sc.
演 題： "Optimizing Resident Education: Strategies and Evidence"
概 要： Changes in clinical practice have rendered inadequate the century-old, inpatient-based education model. Financial pressures on teaching hospitals have intensified, encouraging the pursuit of clinical and grant revenue at the expense of trainee education. Patients who are hospitalized today are more complex than previously, less representative of the diversity of diseases seen in the community, require greater involvement of specialists, and stay for a shorter time. These changes have increasingly limited the participation of trainees and affectedtheir therapeutic relationships with their patients and their supervisors.
In the United States, regulations limiting resident duty hours and patient load have had the unintended consequence of worsening this situation.In focus groups and surveys, our trainees sought to reverse this decline, and sought greater bedside teaching, more attending time and supervision, greater feedback, and a reduction in workload. An experiment that addressed these concerns on one service and compared it to a standard service demonstrated that attention to quality education improved both resident and attending satisfaction, but also positively impacted the quality and safety of patient care.
Redesign of training programs is greatly needed. The changes should prioritize education over service; emphasize quality, patient safety, and systems-based practice; and provide graded and greater supervision of our trainees. In this session we will review how redesign of the structure and format of post-graduate clinical education can reduce cost, improve efficiency, improve quality, and save lives.
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If you just discovered Recording64 in the recent weeks or months, then this post is for you! Yes, because today I want to take care of all of you new readers and subscribers. First off, thank you for sticking around! Your support is crucial.
Next, this blog is meant to give you proven mindsets and tips to get better music right now avoiding all the hype and the marketing gimmicks that surround this audio world.
So, If you want to overcome all the gear addiction and start making better music today with the tools you already have, here’s a selection of the articles that will light your way! Have a nice reading!
There you have it! If you want to start making better music, these articles will walk you down the right path… And if you want to get even more, make sure to download my FREE eBook “The Recording Roadmap”! It’s packed with tips that will boost your recordings!
Please forget about gear for a minute. Gear is not your starting point… It won’t make a better mixer or musician out of you. Having a $2000 microphone won’t help if you can’t create something creative with your music and if you can’t wield it with confidence, first.
Learn the craft to begin with and start with great musical ideas and good songs. All the rest will come automatically… Prove yourself you can do it (I’m sure you can!). Follow my advices and start today!
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Kindly be advised that EVERGRN's entire issued and paid-up share capital of RM120,000,000 comprising 480,000,000 ordinary shares of RM0.25 each will be admitted to the Official List of Bursa Securities and the listing of and quotation for these shares on the Main Board under the "Industrial Products" sector will be granted with effect from 9.00 a.m., Thursday, 10 March 2005 on a "Ready" basis pursuant to the Rules of Bursa Securities.
The Stock Number, Stock Short Name and ISIN CODE of EVERGRN are "5101", "EVERGRN" and "MYL5101OO000"respectively.
Members are hereby advised that the shares of EVERGRN are prescribed securities. Dealings in EVERGRN's shares should be carried out in accordance with the Securities Industry (Central Depositories) Act, 1991 and the Rules of Bursa Malaysia Depository Sdn Bhd.
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The Plaintiff, who is a disabled individual, was employed as an Engineer Specialist with Bastion or or about May 5, 2008. The Plaintiff’s occupation required him to consistently work an average of 40 hours per week.
On or about August 13, 2010, Plaintiff was determined to be disabled from work due to a culmination of disabling physical health issues, including spinal stenosis in the lumbar spine, physical pain, severe cervical/lumbar degenerative disc disease, left foot drop, gait dysfunction, renal insufficiency, and narcolepsy.
Due to this, Plaintiff filed an application for disability benefits with Unum on or around August 13, 2010. Plaintiff added his treating physician’s statement to his claim to strengthen it, which was acknowledged as received by Unum on August 16, 2010. This statement advised the Plaintiff not to return to work based on his health issues. Additionally, the Plaintiff’s condition was not expected to improve.
On or about December 3, 2010, Unum denied the Plaintiff’s claim for disability benefits. The main reason behind the denial was that the Plaintiff was “not eligible for Long Term Disability coverage at the time” the Plaintiff enrolled for disability as of January 1, 2010. Unum also limited its review of Plaintiff’s claim for short and long term disability benefits to whether Plaintiff enrolled during open enrollment in 2009 and whether Plaintiff submitted “evidence of insurability” at that time for an election of coverage in 2010.
On or about April 20, 2011, Plaintiff appealed this denial, providing additional information to strengthen his appeal. Despite this, Unum denied Plaintiff’s appeal via letter dated May 16, 2011.
Plaintiff requested a copy of the claim file, including all documents reflecting that the Plaintiff did not follow the proper procedure to enroll in disability coverage in 2009, from Unum on May 20, 2011. On or about June 1, 2011, Plaintiff made a final demand of the Defendants to resolve the wrongful denial of his benefits. Due to the exhausting of all administrative remedies, Plaintiff has filed this lawsuit against Unum and Bastion.
Plaintiff claims that Unum’s denial decision failed to take into account Unum and Bastion’s failure to properly amend the terms of the Plan that required the Plaintiff to enroll in disability coverage each year. Additionally, the Plaintiff was never notified that he had to provide or request an evidence of insurability form before he could file a disability claim.
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As of 19 February, the Italian airline has been renamed Air Italy in a bid to grow its fleet and become the country’s national carrier.
Apart from being bestowed with a brand-new name, the airline has also unveiled a new livery which has adopted the iconic maroon hue closely associated with Qatar’s flag carrier.
This comes as no surprise considering Qatar Airways bought a 49 percent stake in AQA Holding, the new parent of the Sardinia-based carrier.
As shown mocked up on a Boeing 737 Max 8, the aircraft is covered in a maroon hue, with the color featuring heavily within the cabin as well.
Over the next few years, the airline looks set to grow its fleet of aircraft to include 20 737 Max 8s, 20 787s, and five Airbus A330s, with many of these aircraft on lease from Qatar Airways.
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Virtualisation is a revolutionary concept that provides organisations with a powerful, simple, and cost-effective alternative to traditional IT infrastructures. RightFax offers a flexible and seamless integration with the industry leading platforms – VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V.
Download the white paper on the right hand side of this page to learn more about the concept and benefits of a virtualised fax server within a VMware environment including a number of scenarios which will help you achieve a unified and fully supported virtual IP fax environment based on RightFax.
RightFax is compatible with Citrix® XenServer® 6.2 to virtualise your RightFax environment, allowing you to replace physical fax board hardware with SR140 or RightFax Connect, and replace physical servers with virtualised Citrix instances.
RightFax is now supported for installation in the Microsoft Hyper-V virtualisation environment. This enables the full functionality and power of a fax solution leveraging virtualisation and FoIP for a complete solution in virtualisation.
Requires the use of Brooktrout SR140 Fax over IP ports, in conjunction with RightFax version 9.4 or above.
The addition of explicit support for Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualisation environment expands the options for IT professionals to deploy a fax server in their data centers. Once the creation of the suitable host Virtual Machine, as defined by the Hyper-V package, and the requirements for RightFax, the installation, licensing, configuration and operation of your fax server is identical to the deployment on a physical server.
By adding Dialogic® Brooktrout® SR140 Fax over IP ports, the Virtual Machine deployment of RightFax can be a completely self contained entity, allowing an administrator to easily manage their infrastructure, while fully leveraging their hardware entities.
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Most of us tend to take our hands for granted. However, once arthritis starts to affect them, everyday activities will surely be affected. In a nutshell, hand arthritis makes it difficult to move fingers, grasp objects and lift heavy things.
Hand arthritis is a condition more common in women than in men. Also, people who are not active are more prone to arthritis.
Generally speaking, arthritis happens when the cartilage in the hands. The signs and symptoms depends on the actual progression of the arthritis, but generally speaking, arthritis comes with pain in the fingers, wrists or thumbs.
Other symptoms are numbness in the fingers, red or swollen fingers, difficulties in motions such as opening jars, and growth of lumps or knobs on the finger joints.
As always, it is always best to see a hand doctor who can suggest treatments and medication that can keep the hand functional. However, you can add small tweaks to your lifestyle to make the pain more manageable.
It is a good idea to keep joints in a good range of motion. Exercise your hands, fingers and thumbs to keep them flexible. You might also want to switch a healthier diet, including inflammation-fighting foods such as fatty fish, olive oil and nuts.
You might also want to keep engaging in light physical activities that will keep you moving. Going for a regular swim is a good idea because it can help if other areas of your body have been affected. You might also want to keep engaging in activities that keep your hands moving like washing the dishes by hand.
Looking for an all-natural, affordable and convenient way to find relief from arthritis in your hands?
Try a relaxing Epsom Salt Bath.
Made from Magnesium and Sulfate, Epsom Salt is known to provide relief to aching joints and muscles. It has anti-inflammatory properties that can help with your arthritis too.
This particular blend is enhanced with pure Frankincense essential oil, which is known to help reduce and prevent inflammation, joint pain and other symptoms of arthritis. We’ve also added in Vitamin C crystals to help make your bath water even better. All our products are made from natural ingredients, so you don’t need to worry about bad stuff going in your body.
Get in touch with us to find out how Better Bath Better Body can help you. Check out our list of amazing products here.
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From client service to actuarial science; audit to sales, the Fist Rand Group has opportunities that will take your career to great heights. Click here and get the career start you deserve.
Disclaimer: Only applications via the First Rand Jobs Site will be considered, although the vacancies might be advertised elsewhere, you will always be requested to apply via the site. No applications outside of this process will be considered.
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Every year, fourteen rising Yale seniors are selected to be the Whiffenpoofs, the world’s oldest and most famous collegiate a cappella group, and take the year off of school to tour and perform. Founded in 1909, the “Whiffs” began as a senior quintet that met for weekly concerts at Mory’s Temple Bar, the renowned Yale tavern and club.
Today, the group has become one of Yale’s most celebrated and hallowed traditions, carrying on almost a century of musical excellence and professional showmanship at Yale, across America, and around the world. Each Whiffenpoof group maintains a busy performance schedule throughout the year, records an album, and circles the globe on a six-continent world tour.
Audiences have included such notable figures as Presidents Obama and Bush, the Dalai Lama, Mother Theresa, and fans at Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center, the Rose Bowl, the World Series, Saturday Night Live, Glee, and for the many guests in Pan’s Garden.
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Article Templates are reusable pieces of content, including text, tables, images, videos, or any other preformatted snippets you create. You can use article templates to add a disclaimer, custom formatting block, notice, warning, preformatted text, recurring paragraph, boilerplate text etc. for quick insertion to your articles.
Expand the " Articles " section in the left navigation bar and click on " Article Templates " link. By default, " Manage Templates " page will open. You can click on " Add Template " tab to create a new template.
In multi-language editions , the template is added to the language selected in language drop-down. The selected language name and icon is displayed on the screen such as English is displayed with 'Template Details' in the above screenshot.
" Title " is the heading of the template. Multiple templates with the same title are not allowed in the knowledge base.
" Content " inscribe the body of the template. PHPKB provides WYSIWYG editor with various features just like we see in MS-Word to edit the content of a template.
You can mark the template as active in " Template Options ". If active , a template will be visible in inserting template dialog for insertion into the article.
Click the " Preview " button to preview the template before saving.
Click the " Save " button to save the template or you can click on the " Cancel " button to abort the process.
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"... subarachnoid hemorrhage as a result of aneurysm rupture with fatal outcome developed on the day 4 ..."
"... region followed by aneurysm excision and removal of intracerebral hemorrhage. The postoperative period ..."
"... The study objective is to describe a rare case of putaminal intracerebral hemorrhage (PICH ..."
"... malformation. Cerebral angiography showed the cause of hemorrhage - aneurysm of PChA. The usage of frameless ..."
"... Introduction: nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage (SH) because of cerebral aneurysm rupture during ..."
"... The subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) during pregnancy is rare but extremely dangerous pathology ..."
"... and improving outcomes in patients with massive subarachnoid hemorrhage. Materials and methods. The study ..."
"... of afferents, deep venous drainage and presence of intranidal aneurysms were significant associated factors. ..."
"... often combined with the formation of intracranial aneurysms (IA). Objective: to estimate the aneurysms ..."
"... . The main reason for non-traumatic intracranial hemorrhages at pregnant women is rupture o cerebral aneurysm ..."
"... vascular pathology (aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, cavernous malformation, hypertensive ..."
"... subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) (Fisher 3) because of cerebral aneurysms (CA) rupture. Material and methods. We ..."
"... aneurysms detection as screening and in acute period of intracranial hemorrhage are also compared ..."
"... hemorrhage at various biological animals (primates, dogs, rats) are presented. The main methods of CA ..."
"... from hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhages and to estimate the indications and the volume of surgical ..."
"... with acute subarachnoid hemorrhage with following aneurysm enlargement in 3 months. This patient once ..."
"... of complex aneurysms of the brain. The use of low-profile stents allowed performing operations on complex ..."
"... with orbitozygomatic approach. Conclusions. The orbitozygomatic approach is the general for achieving of aneurysms ..."
"... . The mass effect of aneurysm was seen at 7 patients, 15 patients suffered from subarachnoid hemorrhage ..."
"... at 31 patients with hypertensive hemorrhages which underwent microsurgical removal of hematoma through ..."
"... aneurysms as well as the classification and anatomical features of mentioned aneurysms and describes ..."
"... ) usage during clipping of cerebral aneurysms distinguishing the interpretation features of obtained data ..."
"... ) and intracranial aneurysm (IA) is the rare and insufficiently examined pathology. The frequency ..."
"... source of intracranial hemorrhage but suffered from aneurysm rupture in postoperative period. Results ..."
"... . The majority of patients had unruptured aneurysms (62 patients). Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) was observed ..."
"... nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage as a result of aneurysm rupture and remains the main cause ..."
"... aneurysms with the use of flow diverting stents (FDS). Materials and methods. In 2016, in the Federal ..."
"... aneurysms. The follow-up for such patients seems reasonable to prevent aneurysmal hemorrhage or ischemic ..."
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It's happened more times than I care to admit.
I'm just running along, lost in my thoughts or my music, when all of a sudden my feet go out from under me. Maybe it's black ice or maybe a crack in the sidewalk. One time it was a sprinkler head, buried in the grass. Sometimes it's just been my feet.
Before I hit the ground, there's that moment when time stands still. Where the thought "oh, sh*t, this is going to hurt" crosses my mind.
Then crash! I land on my back, my knees, my face. Most of the time, when I have fallen, I haven't gotten hurt badly. Once after a particularly dramatic spill, a guy in a car stopped and asked if I was ok. Ashamed, I just waved him away. There was also that incident when I tripped over the curb on the way into Target and fell face first into the bike rack. That stunt bought me an ambulance ride to the ER, a concussion, and 5 stitches in my eyelid.
This winter, I've had a few close calls with black ice but each time I was able to stay upright. I was shocked every time. Was it luck? Or was it some kind of skill? Or am I becoming more nimble in my old age?
Kinesthetic awareness is the technical term for awareness of your body in space. Some people are born with it. Some of us, ahem, have to work a little harder at it.
Toddlers have a lack of kinesthetic awareness. When I see toddlers in the clinic, parents often are concerned about the amount of bruising they have. I do my best demonstration of a toddler walking, focusing on a point across the room, a toy or whatnot, instead of looking at the floor. While my antics always get a laugh out of the parents, the point is made.
Many runners run like toddlers. Focused on our goal ahead, shoulders back, eyes forward, we don't always see obstacles on the ground. Which is a recipe for a wipeout.
Have you been called uncoordinated? I was that child who was politely told that maybe dance wasn't my best skill. I'm that adult who has to be re-taught the electric slide at every party. When I workout with Becky, she has to break down every exercise for me, step-by-step. It took me forever to learn to do carioca, which is a standard warm-up for many athletes. When I told my teenage son I was struggling with carioca, he rolled his eyes. I knew I needed an intervention.
I share a lot about running and yoga on the blog, but I don't talk as much about some of the nuances of my training with Becky. While I do a lot of balance poses in yoga, Becky works with me on balance exercises as well. I might moan and groan when she pulls out the Bosu, but working out on an unstable surface forces me to engage my core and maintain balance. She also employs these techniques when I am strength training, by dangling kettlebells or chains from the barbell.
Balance poses challenge your equilibrium. While I was preparing this blog post, I asked Becky for some examples of activities that help with kinesthetic awareness. Balance exercises were on the top of her list. She also suggested changing it up by doing the balance exercises with both feet, one foot, eyes open, eyes closed, even surface, uneven surface, without upper body movement, and with upper body movement. You can use a wall until you become more comfortable with these activities. Any yoga balance pose will work.
Here I am in one-legged knee-to-chest pose, which is a simple yoga balance pose. Try these and share your results in the comments below.
When attempting kinesthetic awareness work, make sure to tighten your core and breathe! By tightening your core, it forces you to improve your alignment and stabilize your body position. There's more to a tight core than just a bikini belly!
Tight core would have held this one up!
By improving your kinesthetic awareness, you will lessen your chance of injury as your muscles and your brain will know how to react when you are thrown off balance. Eventually, you won't even have to think about it, you'll just do it.
I don't land it every time!
It's been really interesting and fun to shake off that self-image I have of being uncoordinated. I can do yoga balance poses and I can kick up into handstands now. Don't get me wrong, I'm still working on those dance moves. Becky still has to demonstrate an activity multiple times to me before I get it.
On terra firma, I got Warrior2. On a tree trunk? Not so much.
One thing is clear: greater kinesthetic awareness leads to improved function and fewer injuries. As I always say, runners can't live by running alone. Balance and stability will continue to be a work in progress for me, but staying upright is always a win.
I'm linking this post up with DebRuns for her monthly Wednesday Word, which today is Nimble. I'm also linking up with Debbie, Susie, Lora, and Rachel for Coaches' Corner as well as Nicole, Annemarie, and Jen for Wild Workout Wednesday!
This this this is entirely why I got back into my yoga practice. I have a friend and we walk together for about an hour three times a week. Especially gearing up for this marathon. Today she was horrified how I could trip/almost fall over virtually nothing.
People always ask me why I run in the road and the answer is simple: the surface is even.
Haha!! I immediately thought of my son when I started reading this post! And I've recently added balance (and ankle strengthening) exercises to the routine. My trainer said my ankles are wobbly, which is hurting my knee and hips....so we're working on it. And balancing on one foot on the Bosu ball is one of the moves...along with straight up/straight down calf raises.
The Bosu really challenges me! I'm thinking of purchasing one because I think I need more of it.
love this! i've definitely got to get back into yoga... even just for a short time a few times a week - it makes everything else feel so much more in balance!
Yoga helps running so much more than we think!
You'd be surprised how often I fall out of a pose. The outtakes are always fun to look at!
I've added more core exercises and Yoga into my workout routine. I haven't seen any improvements yet but I know it takes time!
I do think I've gotten more nimble as time has gone on but my other issue is that I get distracted very easily..I have to work on being more mindful too.
I love my outtakes! LOL! I'm pretty sure that the workers who were in the park when I was doing this were entertained as well.
Ohhhh I am so clumsy too! I've been pretty lucky (knock on wood) while running (only fallen a few times) but I seem to trip, fall, run into stuff all the time outside of running.
My Mom put me in dance to help with my clumsiness.... and I just ended up being a clumsy ballerina!
Exactly the opposite. When I think of you. I say nimble. I am in awe of your yoga poses. I can do a single one.
I have fallen many times running...Yes I am clumsy.
Practice, my friend...it really does work!
Not graceful. I can "appear" to be graceful, but let's be honest--NO. Case in point? My ice pratfall the other week!
No balance here. At all. You would fall down laughing if you saw me attempt balance poses in yoga class. Tree? How about a low-level bush? Not even with my foot on my calf. Hopeless.
Not hopeless! It's a goal, right?
I definitely have to work harder for it. I notice in classes like barre and yoga if they tell me to point or flex my feet I have to look, I can never tell by how they feel what they're currently doing.
I think we embody what we practice and focus on. You know what my background is (figure skating with tons of dance training, yoga, martial arts) so yes, kinesthetic awareness is there....as long as I keep practicing it. Does that mean I never fall? Nope.
It's nice that you have that ingrained in you--I think it's so important to get kids involved in physical activities early on. For the obvious reasons, of course, but also for the subtle things. Like staying upright.
I can't do the Electric Slide. I feel like Elaine on Sienfeld when I dance. Sadly, The Hustle is about as good as it gets. Bahahaha. You'll be proud of me. I did yoga this week! I swear.
I was good on the athletic field, but I'm klutzy in "real life." I do have to work on my balance, and one thing I want to get is that balance disc. I used it in PT, and I think that would help strengthen my ankles and calves.
I was surprised at how hard it was to stand on the Bosu! I think I need one too.
It sounds like you have had some painful falls! I fell a couple times trail running but nothing that really hurt. I only remember falling once on the road and it was just one of those dumb tripping over nothing things!
I just had to come back and inform you I jinxed myself. I ALMOST FELL THIS MORNING over a huge rock!!
I haven't fallen much running, thank goodness, although the one (two, really, twice on one long run) was pretty spectacular (but thankfully no serious injuries) -- yes, a stranger stopped to see if I was ok, too.
Which does not mean I'm very coordinated, either! Some days I can balance, some days I totally can't! But I do work at it.
Staying upright is always a work in progress!
I am SO unaware and I do work on it but it's frustrating to work on it so then it's easy not to do. I learned a lot of this from my PT and try to take time to practice during yoga. I have fallen more times than I care to admit (both running and not running)...let's just say I am a "always hang onto the handrail" girl when I am coming down stairs. I really don't trust myself (for good reason).
A girl after my own heart! We can hold each other up.
In our household we have spectacular and we have frequent. I'm the frequent - I trip over my own feet, have bruises that I have no idea where they came from, knock stuff over, etc. My husband does the spectacular - bike crashes that require a helicopter ride. Lucky for us the spectacular are not frequent.
I think I'd rather be the frequent! Yikes!
Well, my big fall a couple of months ago was tripping over a crack on the sidewalk, so nimble I'm not...what I really need to learn is how to fall gracefully!
It's so funny, in those seconds before I hit the ground, I think about how I'm going to land and turn my head. My dental work!
I have definitely noticed a difference!
Ha ha ha! I love your bike rack story. I have a similar one! I was leading a running group for the Vancouver Sun Run (a huge 10k race up here with over 50,000 people). The group had about 40 people in it, and I was walking backwards out of the rec centre, my hands cupped around my mouth, giving them some directions about our workout when I walked backwards and into and over a bike rack, and I wiped out HUGE all over it and onto the cement. IT WAS HORRIFIC. And hilarious.
You are quite deceiving with all of your yoga pose pictures. I would have never guessed!
The outtakes are pretty epic, right?
I feel geriatric when I do carioca--I'm so slow!
I like your analogy to toddlers. I almost wiped out on the bridge the other day. I always run east on the bridge but this time I was running west. There was a lip on the sidewalk that I didn't see and I went flying. I didn't fall but I wonder what the people driving by thought!
That Target spill sounds scary.
There's just so much to think about when we're running, and the danger lies in not thinking at all!
Great post! I am kinesthically unaware for sure and my injury track record proves it.
I'm heading out in a bit and our sidewalks are dusted with snow. Wish me luck!
My kinesthetic awareness varies with different activities, and as I mention in my post, sometimes it's not so good!
Thanks for linking up, Wendy! Great post!
I miss your word prompts! This one was fun.
I find that being in OR nurse I need to be kinetically aware all the time. I need to know exactly where the sterile field is, how close i am to it, what is behind me equipment wise as I move around the room. I also find yoga has really helped me as well. great post!
It's interesting. I've got really good balance, but I constantly walk into things or trip over my own feet. Odd.
I attribute the balance to dance. The rest of it, well... I do what I can.
I think dance is so helpful--if you can do it!
I agree--I feel like a kid when I'm trying all the balance poses!
I can definitely be clumsy at times. I could use a little more balance work!
It's all about the core. Something tells me you'd be a natural!
Mostly I end up with skinned knees. With an occasional cracked kneecap thrown in. :-). I was lucky today (yep), when I tried to catch myself and landed hard on my hand, that I didn't break my wrist. Okay, maybe I'm not so balanced!
You're such an inspiration! love that photo with you and the barbell and chains. I do need to do more balance exercises. I'm an embarrassment in yoga classes - legit the only one falling all over the place lol.
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Pakistan is facing a complex multi-dimensional situation with multiple possibilities after its stand-off with India. Only few weeks earlier, Pakistan was intensely engaged in the Taliban-US negotiations with the Saudi Arabia in the backdrop. Then, the twin suicide attacks, one in Sistan, Iran and the other in Pulwama, India-held Kashmir, left Pakistan in a diplomatically vulnerable position. A closer analysis will reveal whether these events were part of a greater plan or did they form a pattern leading to a shift in the regional politics.
India is strengthening its relationship with Israel and the USA on many issues, including defense, terrorism, and perhaps against the Pakistan-China-Russia alignment. According to an article by Robert Fisk in The Independent UK, Israel is playing a big role in India’s escalating conflict with Pakistan. However, the attack has certainly brought Iran and India closer on the diplomatic end, if not defense and terrorism. Iran, which is on the other end of the spectrum, has had strained relations with the USA and none with the Israel, but with this incident Iran has been drawn closer to India on the issue of terrorism. Iran and India are also not happy with the Saudi Arabian visit or Saudi investment in CPEC. The reason for India and Iran not liking the above to happen may be different, but Pakistan, Gwadar, CPEC, Saudi Arabia, has given India and Iran reasons to come closer while the suicide attacks provided the missing motivation.
The global strategic lines for the 21st century are being drawn. The ‘blocks’ proposed by Samuel Huntington in Clash of Civilizations have started to form with India, Iran, Afghanistan and the US on one side and Pakistan, Turkey, Russia and China on the other. In a regional sense, complex politico-economic interests are also remerging. China has condemned the terror attacks and does not approve of extremist elements destabilizing the region, CPEC, BRI or any of its other strategic plans. So, China is obviously being strategically targeted. Indian aggression in Doklam with the US fully backing India against China confirms that Indo-US coordination regarding Pakistan and Afghanistan is part of a much larger theatre of strategic cooperation, competition and confrontation. Indo-US pressures on Pakistan are set to build. A normally cautious China and Russia have sprung to the defense of Pakistan after the events.
Pakistan has barely managed to survive after reaching the brink of an economic collapse however the escalation with India again threatens to take it back into a bigger financial crisis. Pakistan, which barely won a few billion dollars from friends, can find these precious dollar ‘support’ and investments, ‘evaporate’ in case of an escalation with India or even a standoff at the borders. There are no marks for guessing as to who the ultimate beneficiaries would be if Pakistan undergoes a financial crisis due to escalation.
In the coming days, Pakistan will be under pressure to act and that too as per the ‘prerequisite’ set around it by Iran, China, Russia and perhaps the USA as well. Iran will exert its pressure for Pakistan to take some ‘concrete’ steps. On the other hand, India will exert pressure through global and regional players, especially around the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). FATF is another point where Pakistan has been, and will be, vulnerable and current geopolitics will be played around this point.
It is, accordingly, critical for Pakistan to formulate and follow an integrated Afghanistan, India and Kashmir policy. Strategic coordination with China will be essential. China is, incidentally, a better interlocutor for peace and stability in Afghanistan and the region than the US. Finally, a short-sighted India-centric Afghanistan policy will be disastrous for Pakistan-Afghan relations and for the strategic development of Pakistan-China relations.
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Silver is incredibly shiny. When polished to a fine sheen, for example, it has the ability to reflect 95% of the visible light spectrum. This is just one of the many reasons why people appreciate and collect silver jewelry and other items made from this precious metal.
Silver mining dates back thousands of years. The Royal Society of Chemistry, for example, reported that the first evidence of this precious metal being mined was found in Turkey and Greece circa 3000 B.C. Throughout the centuries, silver has been used to form both decorative and functional items.
The average person in the United States may walk as much as 10,000 steps in a day, though many have trouble just getting to that. When it comes to those working in construction or general labor, they can easily walk more than 30,000. With all those increased steps come increased hazards, making high visibility workwear, safety rain apparel, and cold weather work uniforms essential gear.
Whatever jokes people make about that fluorescent vest, the true is that people who work in construction and on road crews need safety rain apparel and other similar gear. In 2015 alone, 4,836 workers were killed on the job. That’s about 13 deaths every day. Some of those deaths could have been prevented with the right safety and visibility gear.
Silver jewelry has long been popular, and whether it’s a fine Tiffany silver, antique sterling, or even antique Chinese silver, buying and selling silver has never been more popular. Silver jewelry has a long history, and here are some of the most interesting facts about silver and the way humans have used it.
Supreme apparel is some of the most coveted in the world and with good reason. The brand is not only known for its cool and its quality, but it’s also been built on a strategy of scarcity. That scarcity builds anticipation and desire, and getting your hands on Supreme shirts or other Supreme merch requires some serious strategy. It takes commitment to shop Supreme clothing online. If you’re ready to shop Supreme clothing online, here’s your tips for scoring the perfect Supreme merchandise.
We are constantly learning about the world we live in. From the ways that the natural earth provides for us living beings to understanding the differences between the many diverse individuals inhabiting the same communities and societies, forward motion is always possible when people are willing to learn new and better ways of interacting with each other and with the planet. Sometimes this can feel like a daunting task, but there are small things that every person can do to make the world a better place.
Make sure you’ve got the basic hardware you need. This will include a daypack and rope bag, chalk and a bag to hold it in, locking and nonlocking carbiners, runners (get single and double), rope, a belay or rappelling device, quickdraws, and whatever guidebook or route guides you need.
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This nature/adventure trip is all about green Costa Rica with a ‘chic’ touch of elegance in your accommodation. The tours include rafting down one of Costa Rica’s most famous rivers: Pacuare; the adventure continue on the river to the lesser known El Silencio Lodge in the beautiful area of Bajos del Toro; at the end, transfer to Manuel Antonio to enjoy some relaxing days at the beautiful beach. Pace level is active.
Door to door transportation as stated on the itinerary (Day 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 and 10 – Mostly shared unless stated otherwise in the itinerary).
All activities with admissions on days 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8 with bilingual guide (Tours are mostly shared unless stated otherwise).
Note: Tours are shared depending on availability.
Day at leisure in the lodge. Enjoy the unique setting of the property and let yourself fully reconnect with nature’s tranquility. Optional tours are available please inquiry at the front desk of your hotel.
The park is made up of numerous trails, taking you through the rainforest and onto a number of pristine white sand beaches, only reachable through the park. The park is alive with tropical butterflies, birds, monkeys, snakes, iguanas, sloths, orchids and more. On this tour you’ll be able to learn about their life cycle and their special abilities and behaviors. For those that love nature and exploration, the walk within this park will be unforgettable! Overnight at Hotel Arenas del Mar. Meals: B. Note: Tours is shared.
Note: The National Park is closed on Monday.
The Canopy Safari tour begins with a drive through the rainforest out to the canopy site, during which frequent stops are made to observe the wonderful varieties of local flora and fauna. Once at the site, the company’s professional bilingual guides will prepare and assist tour members for the zip line. The canopy tour includes 18 platforms, 10 zip lines, 2 repel lines, and one suspension bridge. To top it all off, there is the so-called “Tarzan Swing” which can be attempted” a device that’ll have tour members swinging and flying through the air like Tarzan himself. Overnight at Hotel Arenas del Mar. Meals: B. Note: Tours is shared.
Note: “Typical” style breakfast or lunch is included (depending on tour time).
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The duo from Venice Beach, Skin & Bones, released their latest single, “Pointing & Laughing,” from their upcoming untitled EP. Taylor Borsuk (guitar, vocals, suitcase drums) and Peter Blackwelder (violin), create folk-blues in Los Angeles with a hint of their soul from Tennessee. Borsuk’s low vocals resonate deep, and carries a personal touch, backed by Blackwelder’s country-home stringwork on violin, creating a blues atmosphere when combined. Skin & Bones offer simplicity with thoughtful placement, and genuine feelings on the track. The song is also a fresh reminder, musically, to take it slow during the busy course of life with the duo’s twang that hits home, acting as another reason to look forward to more new music from these gentlemen, and their folk-esque sound.
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In a box in the back of my mum’s attic somewhere is a collection of band merchandise, there’s the green camo print N.E.R.D fitted cap (that was hot for a minute but then got marred by the whole Von Dutch moment), a signed Lauryn Hill poster and (rather embarrassingly) some merchandise from The Pussycat Dolls.
The box is a reflection of my music taste in clothing form, with accessories that chart my fandom over the years. The fact that those items are in a box, and not in my closet is proof of how quickly they dated (not Lauryn obvs, but definitely the PCD merch).
Fast forward to today where it’s popular to rock your Pablo Kanye jacket that you got at Madison Square Gardens to the office, hanging it over your chair with your Beyoncé Lemonade tour iPhone case peaking out of the pocket.
Fact: tour merchandise has never been a hotter, more current fashion accessory.
“Band merchandise has changed with the times, it’s part of the wider fashion conversation now, less plain black t-shirts with the performer’s face on it, and more focused on street style ” says Lourdes Linares, WGSN Associate Editor of Denim.
“Tour merchandise now comes complete with designs that incorporate emoji’s, tweetable phrases and the logo mania that we’ve seen on the A/W16 catwalk. In my recent report I even profiled how Kanye and his Pablo designs are a major example of band merchandise informing the wider denim branding discussion,” she adds.
Musicians were always trying to be part of the fashion conversation, but now (blame Yeezy) it feels effortless and the norm. In addition to brand merchandise, musicians are also moving from being the campaign face for established fashion houses, to designing their own ranges. You only need to look at Rihanna, who started teaming up with high street retailers in the beginning, and is now evolving to use her marketability to design her own beauty, fashion and accessory lines.
Band merchandise is becoming another arm in celebrities’ fashion distribution model, with some performers delivering product at accessible price points and some positioning themselves in the ‘luxury’ brand merchandising market.
From a revenue point of view, it makes sense too. Last year the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) revealed that in the US, sales of CDs dropped by 31.5% in the first half of the year. With commenting that RIAA Chairman Cary Sherman explaining that this news is reflective of the greater music industry problem which is: “a business undergoing an enormous transition,” where income from streaming and tour sales becomes even more important to fill the revenue gap.
Band merchandise, sold through online stores, and off-line pop-up retail stores, help musicians to boost their earning potential.
This year alone, Kanye, Drake and Justin Bieber have set up pop-up stores in the US, in direct correlation with their tour dates to push band merchandise. With Kanye tweeting that the store earned him $1 million in two days.
but there is no other brand that could sell 1 million dollars of clothing in 2 days from 1 location!!!
“We’ve always had the band t-shirt which consumers wore as a badge of honour, a way of stating their music affiliations loud and proud, whether that’s support for the Stone Roses, Beyoncé or Bieber,” says Shanu Walpita, WGSN Youth Editor.
“Now, thanks to social media that fandom feels bigger and more global, with fans rocking their latest merchandise in their pre and post concert selfies all over Snapchat and Instagram with the relevant hashtags”, she adds.
So the next time I head to a concert (Queen Bee in July) you can be sure I’ll be rocking my statement hoodie, during the gig, after, and making space for it in my closet.
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As a creative platform, we’re always thinking about ways to support the creative community. That’s why The Studio at Pinterest is launching a new campaign to encourage creatives to overcome gender inequalities. While women make up 46% of the advertising industry, only 11% of creative directors are women.1 Our “Right the Ratio” campaign, created in partnership with Grow, encourages the next generation of women creatives to seek leadership roles, arming them with practical advice from women who have already blazed the trail.
We spoke with seven women creatives who are leaders in the advertising industry to learn how they spark creativity, navigate their careers and amplify their voices. They shared personal anecdotes, career tips and advice for people hoping to shift the ratio. We used their insights to create content that covers tactical advice (ex: how to ask for a raise) and more general topics like leadership skills. We’ll also share tips for men to help them become better allies. All of the content will live on Pinterest, using a mix of Promoted Pins and Promoted Video. The campaign will go live on 8/23, right before Women’s Equality Day.
One of the women featured in Right the Ratio is Cindy Gallop, Founder and CEO of MakeLoveNotPorn, and Advertising Woman of the Year in 2003. “I'm very pleased that I'm talking to Pinterest,” said Gallop. “You are utterly unique. You are a tech unicorn that has been built on women. You are a platform that women have embraced as their own in a really unique way, and within you, you contain multitudes of the female lens of creativity."
We’re also partnering with Working Not Working (WNW), a global community connecting top creative talent with thousands of companies for freelance and full-time work. Our partnership includes a Right the Ratio featured list of female talent for prospective employers, co-branded events, custom editorial content and more.
To learn more about this initiative, search “Right the Ratio” on Pinterest or view the board here.
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A large number of the worker and leaders of Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party have gathered at Garhi Khuda Bux amid strict security measures to pay respects to their martyred leader.
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a gun and bombing attack in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007.
Former president Asif Ali Zardari and daughter Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari visited the last abode of Benazir Bhutto at Garhi Khuda Bux graveyard and laid floral wreaths on her grave today.
The convoys of the leaders and the party workers from Punjab have also reached Larkana to attend the death anniversary of Benazir Bhutto.
Stringent security measures have been taken for the death anniversary with deployment of over 6000 Rangers and policemen. More than 100 closed-circuit television cameras have also been installed around the venue of the public meeting and surrounding area for surveillance and security.
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There has been a revival of interest in the last couple of decades on two intersecting topics—the political theory and importance of the “forgotten” American founder and Reformed minister, John Witherspoon, and the natural theology and natural law in the Reformed theological tradition. Witherspoon, as president of Princeton, had much to say about natural theology and natural law, and many scholars have attempted to understand his relationship to Enlightenment thought and Christian orthodoxy, yet there has been no attempt by scholars to bring recent scholarship on Reformed theology to bear on our understanding of his thought. The dominant view in the literature is that Witherspoon’s view and use of natural theology, natural law, reason and philosophy indicate a compromise or inconsistency with his otherwise theological Reformed orthodoxy—a move towards a type of “enlightened orthodoxy” or “Christian rationalism.” After reviewing the primary and secondary sources, I contend that the literature is in need of significant correction. I provide here both a corrective and contribute to the literature by showing that Witherspoon’s thought on these subjects—which, broadly speaking, concerns the relationship of reason to revelation—is consistent with Reformed orthodoxy. I further argue that Reformed orthodoxy, when properly understood, permitted Witherspoon and the other orthodox Founders to participate in and give approval of the various founding events and documents of the Founding era without violating their theological principles.
Wolfe, Stephen Michael, "John Witherspoon and Reformed Orthodoxy: Reason, Revelation, and the American Founding" (2016). LSU Master's Theses. 1807.
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The Handwoven magazine 2012 collection focuses on a variety of hand weaving patterns and projects, like waffle weave, color-and-weave structures, fabric embellishments and more.
Discover all five issues of Handwoven magazine, exactly as they were printed in 2012, featuring articles on how to weave structures like waffle weave and shadow weave, as well as looks at fabric embellishments and more!
You will find over 900 pages full of weaving tips and techniques, complete looks at weaving patterns and structures, as well as all the weaving projects Handwoven is known for.
January/February 2012—Learn about the different color-and-weave patterns and effects, from elegant shadow weave to fun pinwheels to simple log cabin. Weave shimmering shadow-weave scarves in Tencel or wool scarves with one of eight different pinwheel designs. Other projects include a V-shaped shawl, a shadow-weave Möbius shawl, and a sweet chenille baby blanket.
March/April 2012—Explore a wide variety of different plant fibers with this issue dedicated to yarns that come from the earth. Articles and projects cover not only well-known plant fibers such as cotton and linen, but also more unusual yarns such as hemp, raffia, and even lavender. Projects include hemp towels, linen rugs, and a Tencel collapse-weave scarf.
May/June 2012—Add some new weave structures to your weaving repertoire including taqueté, an unusual waffle weave, and diversified plain weave. Also featured in this issue are portable projects and ideas perfect for summer weaving. Projects include waffle-weave tea towels, a portable marudai for kumihimo braiding, and a summer plaid scarf made on a rigid-heddle loom.
September/October 2012—Wear what you weave with this issue dedicated to handwoven apparel. From loom-shaped and “no sew” garments to exquisitely tailored items, there are projects for weavers (and sewists) of all levels. Projects include a woven shibori vest, an elegant men’s waistcoat, and a stash-busting loom-shaped vest woven on a rigid-heddle loom.
November/December 2012—Embellish and adorn your handwoven fabric with lace, colorful miniature overshot, and shimmering beads with the projects in this winter issue. Learn how to weave e-Textiles that literally glow. Projects include a sparkling snowflake runner, a lacy silk vest, and a not-quite-rep rug.
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For both Moca and Hanabi, going on a boring date with an insufferable jackass turns out to be the perfect antidote to their twisted pride. Whether that’s a good thing, however, that’s a whole other question.
Remember when Sanae was the most sympathetic character in this entire show, and Moca the least? How the times can change. While she certainly can’t compete with Akane, Sanae’s behaviour last week wiped away the remaining shreds of sympathy I had for the idea of Hanabi and her becoming a thing – what with the whole deriding your crush’s dedication to commit herself to her quote-unquote official beau and sexually assaulting her in public under the flimsy pretence of “you said we couldn’t do this in private anymore, you didn’t say anything about in public”. Sure, Sanae knows Hanabi, probably better than Hanabi knows herself. She knows Hanabi will come crawling back to her the moment her newfound confidence takes another inevitable nosedive. But don’t tell me she’s not fully aware of the damage she’s doing to the person she claims to love. I’ve been fooled before, and I won’t be fooled again.
And then Mugi got arrested.
Because I’ve reached this exact same conclusion before, back when I first read the manga, and yet once again, Scum’s Wish managed to fool me into rooting for Sanae to get her happy ending. Nevertheless, her relationship with Hanabi isn’t just abusive in blatant text – but in metatext as well, as the show plays with people’s expectations to make them question their own convictions. Of course viewers want to support Sanae, because twenty-odd years of queerbaiting in fiction has conditioned them to hold out hope for every shred of confirmation popular culture will throw their way… Or because they think lesbians are hot, of course. In any case, Scum’s Wish challenges that dedication, urges us to ponder just how far we’re willing to go in our support for that rare queer pairing that actually has a decent shot of being built to last. What is truly important, it asks, seeing two girls making out with each other, or seeing them happy? Too often, these options seem to be one and the same, but then again, this is Scum’s Wish we’re talking about.
Yet while there is, very understandably, a bit of a taboo on portraying queer relationships as unhealthy or toxic in fandom, Scum’s Wish consistently manages to divorce its judgement on Sanae as a person from any judgement regarding her sexuality. In fact, this narrative simply wouldn’t have worked with a straight relationship, not only because in those, anime tends to already romanticise abuse to a point where people probably wouldn’t even be able to tell the difference anymore, but also because the whole idea of friendship between girls that is so integral to Hanabi and Sanae’s relationship culturally just wouldn’t work the same way if it were between a girl and a boy. By both respectfully representing Sanae as a lesbian and her relationship with Hanabi as unremittingly terrible, Scum’s Wish musters up an integrity that isn’t so much miles as it is lightyears ahead of its peers.
Moca, on the other hand, has quickly catapulted herself to the most mature and genuinely decent one of the bunch simply by not being around for most of the last couple of episodes. In a cast full of apathetic predators, serial abusers and capricious masochists, Moca’s biggest sin is merely looking like she wandered off the set of an entirely different show. Yet like virtually everyone else in Scum’s Wish, she’s fully aware of her own ridiculous behaviour, Her shrill, stubborn, cringeworthy behaviour is a mere ruse, an attempt to create an ideal, animesque world where princes and princesses live happily ever after and virtue and virginity are the recipe for a wholesome love life, in stead of the antidote. As a result, Noriko is just as much a victim of warped expectations as Mugi is – whereas he tries to compensate for his emasculation through subzero coldness and sexual aggression, she hides her lust for validation and physical intimacy behind a caricature of childlike noise and pseudo-Victorian pining.
Back when she was first introduced, I already talked at length about my suspicions regarding Noriko’s mental state, and this episode continued to drop hints lefts and right. Her unflinching obsession, black-and-white, won’t-settle-for-second-best view of the world and complete inability to engage in “normal” social behaviour seem to place her somewhere on the autism spectrum, yet even if she weren’t intended as such, it’s hard to blame her for her behaviour up until this point. Noriko turns out to be a lot more mature than she appears at first, and in the end it’s this maturity that frees her from her own delusions. Yes, she may have “betrayed” her initial ideals, including kiss-off with her confrontational younger self à la Hanabi, but for once in this show’s miserable universe, that actually leads to the adoption of a less toxic lifestyle overall. Upon finally getting what she wants and realising that dating and mating are, after all, just a part of the inherent awkwardness of life, Noriko takes the first steps towards grasping hold of her own sexuality and breaking free of the lies she was told as a child simply because she happened to be a girl. Exit Moca the princess, enter Noriko the woman.
You sure? The place probably doesn’t even have toilets.
Yet for all the screen-time Noriko gets, she’s ultimately still a satellite to Mugi’s overall journey. Even so, when Mugi finally humours her – so to speak – it’s tough to figure out whether that is out of pity, out of bored, anyone-will-do kind of horniness, or out of a more malicious desire to ‘mess her up’, as he so lovingly intended to do to Hanabi a few episodes ago. Noriko is the virgin to Mei’s whore, a being he simply cannot envision as a sexual target. Even if he may have a certain fondness for her, her sexual unavailability all but disqualifies her from girlfriend material in his eyes. But where does that put Akane? Even though his attraction for her is clearly sexual, he obviously doesn’t see her as a mere stand-in for his right hand either. Is it her deliberate exploitation of his madonna-whore complex that lands her somewhere in the middle, or is it the unattainability that makes her transcend the standards by which he judges any other woman?
And then there’s Hanabi, whose position on the madonna-whore scale isn’t so much impossible to pinpoint as it is constantly in flux. She comes on to him, then backs down when push comes to shove, and their shared anguish and abuse has somehow brought them closer together than they’d ever imagine. At this point, their love lives are so closely interconnected that Hanabi can’t even decide to fess up to her crush without the knowledge that Mugi will do the same. As happy as I am to see her realise that the only road out of this smouldering train wreck is the high road, getting spectacularly turned down won’t make their lives any less complicated. It’s only a matter of time before Hanabi falls head over heels for someone else she can’t have – in fact, it seems to be her only prerequisite – and the question remains for how long she’ll still be able to rely on Mugi for sharing the same fate. After all, Akane is not known for turning people down.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the most kawaii of all?
Sources for the live-action adaptation have unfortunately run dry, so you’ll have to do without coverage of that for now.
“Urban Mermaid” is totally a movie I would watch.
In a show full of shots we really did not need to see, that shot of a naked, quivering Moca with her legs open certainly takes the cake. She looks about twelve, guys, come on.
If you love my coverage of Scum’s Wish, do check out Anime News Network’s excellent write-ups by Jacob Chapman, who’s living my dream of actually getting paid for reading too much into Japanese cartoons.
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Private Tour of Siracusa & Ortigia Includes: Roundtrip transportation, private licensed tour guide, taxes, tolls, parking.
Not Included: Entrance tickets and licensed expert guide for and archeological sites.
Departure Points: Catania, Taormina, Agrigento areas.
An expert guide conducts this custom private tour of Siracusa, an ancient city, and Ortigia island, one of the many highlights on your tour of Sicily. Founded in 734 BC by the Greeks, Siracusa was one of the great ancient capitals of Western civilization. This ancient city quickly grew to rival and even surpass Athens in splendor and power. Siracusa still has some of the finest examples of Baroque art and architecture, along with fantastic Greek and Roman ruins. Your private tour guide will take you on a tour of this city and its archeological sites, including a Roman amphitheater, beautiful Greek temple, a famous grotto called the Ear of Dionysus, and the most complete Greek theater surviving from antiquity.
You will have time on your own after the guided tour to enjoy Ortigia Island, a relaxed, comfortable and beautiful place to spend a leisurely afternoon. The lively baroque old town offers interesting shopping, charming piazzas and lots of outdoor cafes and bars.
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Meatspace Press is a publishing project co-founded by Mark Graham and Joe Shaw. The name comes from the cyberpunk slang for the opposite of cyberspace: real life. In practice, we believe in no such binaries. The digital is material; real life is digital; and everything is meatspace.
The project came about as a way to communicate and distribute ideas related to our research to broader audiences. A lot of academic research remains behind a wall of dense text and closed journals, that are rarely going to connect to people beyond university circles. With that in mind, we decided to turn to the classic format of the pamphlet and a Do-It-Yourself ethic. So far we have published two short pamphlets on themes of digital technology, labour and society (see: Publications).
It is our hope that the Meatspace Press project will provide accessible introductions to important issues of technology and society for people of diverse backgrounds. Whilst this will always be a very challenging objective, our first two pamphlets have already been the starting point for conversations in classrooms, bars, cafés, taxis, barbershops and homes.
The project is entirely self-funded (at present), but we are very grateful for organisational support from (alphabetically): the Alan Turing Institute, New Internationalist, openpolis.it (who are soon printing our first pamphlet in Italian), the Oxford Internet Institute, Red Pepper magazine, The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (who have recently translated one article into German), and Wired magazine.
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Editor’s note: On October 4 Fred Smith of the Competitive Enterprise Institute addressed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Smith drew on all the anathemas of the far right to attack a treaty the committee was considering. “Did anyone expect the Endangered Species Act to become a national land use planning act? Did anyone expect Superfund to become one of the most costly green pork barrel measures in history or that the Clean Water Act would compel the Corps of Engineers to ban development throughout any area that might have been or might become at some time a wetland?” With a logic alien to the majority of Americans, Smith was trying to persuade the senators to vote against ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea. In this issue, Ian Williams looks at the funders behind the isolationist rhetoric and the prospect that their money will prevail in the U.S. Senate. Williams is an occasional contributor to the Washington Spectator and has covered the United Nations for The Nation and other publications since 1989.
THE NEED FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION and the rule of law is nowhere more apparent than at the Poles, where global warming is melting ice caps at an unprecedented rate. In 1957, before American isolationism and exceptionalism resurfaced as potent political forces in Washington, the U.S. signed the Antarctic Treaty, which froze all the old territorial claims and kept the icebound continent free from military action and landgrabs. Fifty years later the only change is that more countries have signed on. It has been an extremely successful agreement.
In contrast, the North Pole is heating up in every sense of the word. Russian claims to a significant part of the Arctic seabed are finally speeding up the glacial progress of U.S. ratification of another very successful international instrument: the U.N. Convention on the International Law of the Sea (CLOS). Russia is making its Arctic claim under the CLOS, but the U.S., by refusing to ratify the CLOS, has no standing in the discussions.
The Pentagon and the White House, backed by maritime, oil and telecom lobbies, are pushing for CLOS ratification, but they find themselves battling the same retrograde element of flat-Earthers who have been taking potshots at the treaty since 1982, and who indeed have forced the U.S. delegation to the U.N. into a holding action.
The military and business lobbies’ near-universal support for the CLOS treaty has isolated and exposed the hard-core ideological—indeed faith-based—foundations behind this an other conservative causes. One can understand why lead makers have lobbied against banning lead in paints; tobacco makers against smoking restrictions; and oil and coal companies against carbon emission controls. Their rationale is self-interest. But the extremists who oppose the CLOS treaty have lost industry support in their fight against the treaty.
In September and October, at hearings held by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the groups that spoke against ratification, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and the Center for Security Policy (CSP), were both known as prominent campaigners against the idea that human activity is a cause of global warming. Both groups now contrive to depict the CLOS as some sort of “stealth” version of the Kyoto Protocol—reminiscent of earlier farfetched accusations of an undersea land grab by the United Nations.
Last year Exxon—Big Oil’s last-ditch CLOS opponent—dropped its financial support for CEI. Yet the campaign against the treaty persists. Now that such opposition to a global treaty has been stripped of the veneer of the rational if amoral self-interest of the industry lobbies, the ideological core of the irrational campaign against multilateralism in any form is plain to see. Barry Goldwater lost the 1964 election, but the people like Richard Mellon Scaife who bankrolled him have remained a force on Capitol Hill, averting ratification of almost every multilateral agreement. They are still funding CEI and CSP, along with much of the conservative project they have kept on the road for decades.
The hard-core lobby now left in the field against ratification of the Law of the Sea treaty reveals the wacko money tail that has been wagging the Republican dog, and, more often than not, converting many Democratic politicians into fawning puppies. The process was described in an e-mail Mike Scanlon, a lobbyist who once worked for Tom DeLay, sent to his Indian tribal clients. It was released by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee when it was investigating disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Our mission is to get specifically selected groups of individuals to the polls to speak out AGAINST something. To that end, your money is best spent finding them and communicating with them on using the modes that they are most likely to respond to. Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them. The wackos get their information form [sic] the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet, and telephone trees.
HATE-FEST FOR THE U.N.—In the Clinton era, groups like CEI and CSP, backed by mining companies, used a spurious “sovereignty” issue to campaign against what they termed a “U.N. land grab,” by which they meant listing U.S. national parks as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It was not the prospect of blue United Nations flags flying over the parks that upset them, but rather the red flag against strip mining up to the park’s boundaries.
Similar arguments threaten to sink the Law of the Sea treaty. The CSP’s Frank Gaffney, who writes a column for the Washington Times, got himself into more convolutions than a chambered nautilus as he shifted from calling for total legislative prostration before President Bush and General Petraeus over Iraq, to total disregard for the views of the Pentagon and the White House over the Law of the Sea treaty. Retired Chief of Naval Operations Vernon Clark has described the treaty to the Foreign Relations Committee as “a Magna Carta for the oceans that guarantees navigation freedoms throughout the world’s largest maneuver space.” In contrast, Gaffney fulminated that the “transies” have “created organizations that will be used to implement that world view—a redistributionist, socialist and fundamentally hostile to the United States view.” The U.S. view, is ipso facto that of the Scaife-funded conservative think tanks.
On the face of it, the unprecedented concatenation of a Republican President, the former Republican chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Richard Lugar, and a Democratic majority in the Senate should make ratification of the sea treaty inevitable. But the Senate Foreign Relations hearings on the treaty may as well have been conducted in an octopus’s garden in the shade for all the public exposure they got. Which implies that the Scanlon strategy may be under way: to “bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them.” Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), one of the major opponents of treaty ratification, was able to get thirty of his colleagues to sign on to a resolution against “U.N. Global taxes” this January, which is a bit like getting them to sign a resolution against the tooth fairy.
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM—It should be evident that the oceans, which cover two-thirds of the globe, need the internationally accepted legal system that the Convention on the International Law of the Sea provides. The sea is the main highway for of all the world’s nations. It is the source of food for many people. And for everybody, the oceans are the priceless resource on which life on Earth depends.
is a Conference which regulates all the uses of the ocean by humanity. Most important, it is a Conference which provides for the peaceful settlement of disputing the oceans. It is, in other words, a Conference dedicated to the rule of law among nations.
Since the convention was completed in 1982, 155 states have ratified it, including Britain, Japan and similar oceanic allies—as well as China and Russia. But not the U.S.A.
Until CLOS came into force, there was little anyone could do to police the world’s seas, as they were beyond the jurisdiction of individual nation-states. Indeed, attempts to unilaterally enforce jurisdiction have brought nations to the brink of war in the past. For much of the last century there was no consensus even on what constituted territorial waters. Historically, many states accepted a demarcation of three miles from shore, the outside range of a cannonball. Some did not even accept that. Other countries claimed twelve and by the time the convention was first negotiated, many countries claimed 200 miles. Just as many disputed the concept itself, as the principle of extended territorial waters was in conflict with customary principles of freedom of navigation. Each claim and counterclaim hazarded a shooting war to determine whose claim was more valid.
The convention was the result of intense negotiations in which a constant balancing of interests allowed all parties to feel that they had made substantial gains. The U.S. was not only deeply involved in the drafting, but the other parties did their best to keep it involved in the negotiations, despite the U.S. Senate’s refusal to ratify it. The Law of the Sea is a comprehensive package with no reservations allowed. To claim the legal backing of one part of the convention, countries had to sign on to all seventeen parts, 320 articles and nine annexes. Signatories cannot cherry-pick for parts they like and disregard clauses they find inexpedient.
An outstanding example of the elaborate balance of interests is found in the convention’s pioneering concept of Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs), which codifies the conditions for states claiming a 200-mile maritime zone, or more in some circumstances, as Russia is now doing. States can make such claims for exploration and exploitation of economic resources, but cannot impede the right of passage of vessels and aircraft of other nations. At the same time the convention codifies a twelve-mile territorial limit and an additional twelve-mile “contiguous zone.” Charts and claims to territorial seas must be lodged with the U.N. in New York. And to claim such rights, nations have to accept the right of innocent or transit passage for vessels. Yet as part of the delicately balanced structure of rights and obligations, coastal states can make regulations about shipping lanes and air routes in order to ensure safe passage.
The EEZs confer obvious advantages, not least of which is unchallenged title to 87 percent of the world’s known undersea hydrocarbon reserves. The coastal shelves are also home to most of the world’s major fisheries. I remember smiling when the U.N. began discussions, over a decade ago, on “highly migratory and straddling fish stocks.” The cumbersome phrase evoked images of fish with fins turning into legs as they made their awkward way to land. Today, there are now little or no “wild” fish on the fish slab. The convention was too late to save, for example, the cod. But it may not be too late to save other species.
It was evident that ocean-bed mining could lead to environmental despoliation, and even military conflict over competing claims. So the convention makes it illegal to mine the deep-sea bed without permission of the International Sea Bed Authority, and no country is supposed to begin mining without ratifying the convention. The issue is moot because economics and technology have not advanced as far as people feared or hoped twenty years ago. U.S. objections to mining restrictions were substantially met in a 1994 redraft. Yet while no one is currently mining the seabed, the prospect of regulation when mining inevitably begins has the conservative groups fuming about socialism.
INCONVENIENT TRUTHS—When whole shorelines can be devastated by the activities of passing ships leaking oil or dumping waste, the question of rules and jurisdiction becomes crucial. On the other hand, if coastal states can impede or detain passing foreign ships, there is an almost unlimited prospect of dangerous disputes, and, at the very least, an impediment to commerce. The convention allows coastal states to inspect and take proceedings against ships suspected of violating anti-pollution regulations. Yet CEI and CSP witnesses at the Foreign Relations Committee inverted the logic of that provision and warned that debris washed into the Gulf of Mexico from Katrina would lay the U.S. open to prosecution if the convention were ratified. If debris washing into the Gulf is an unlikely cause of action, there are ample grounds for prosecuting many people over the government’s response to the hurricane. Internationally, however, there is no real mechanism. And the free-enterprise right to dump garbage, oil and bilge on the high seas has somehow become part of U.S. sovereignty.
LAW, NOT WAR—The very first case to be brought to the Hamburg-based International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea could have been designed to prove the need for multilateral jurisdiction. In 1997 theMV Saiga, an oil tanker registered in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, owned by Cypriots, chartered by Swiss, managed by a Scottish company, officered by Ukrainians and crewed by Senegalese, had been bunkering fishing vessels off the coast when patrol boats from the Republic of Guinea seized the ship and detained the crew. Guinea claimed a customs zone that extended 250 miles from its coast. In the past, no serious legal remedies existed, and there was the ever-present threat of war to resolve such issues. The Tribunal was able to secure the release of the ship and crew on payment of a bond, and after consideration, it threw out the Guinean claim and ordered the ship and its crew freed. Under the convention, Guinea was not entitled to claim more than 200 miles for its exclusive economic zone.
FIRST WAVE?—For decades, conservative ideologues have rallied their forces and their receptive audiences on Capitol Hill to reflexive rejection of the United Nations and any other multilateral agency or convention. The U.S. refusal to ratify the International Criminal Court, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the conventions on landmines, women’s rights and child soldiers, and the Kyoto Protocol, let alone to pay U.N. dues in full and on time, has devalued American diplomatic standing and made a mockery of Washington’s attempts to preach to other so-called “outlaw” states. The Goldwater-era ideologues lurking behind this diplomatic war on the rest of the world have been able to hide behind other groups. The wackos are now in the spotlight.
The Law of the Sea ratification presents a unique opportunity to break the conservative hold on multilateralism. If the Senate cannot ratify the convention with the White House, the Pentagon and former Republican chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee onside a Democratic majority, then Americans had best resign themselves to being all at sea in the world of international law. It is just possible that the extremists who see the U.N. as a world government about to occupy and disarm the United States could thwart the two-thirds vote required in the Senate for the treaty to be ratified. For years they’ve succeeded in keeping the convention off the Senate floor despite support from the Foreign Relations Committee. For irrationality to triumph, all that’s needed is for sane men and women to do nothing.
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I don't think there's a way to wreck a car worse than this. Not only is it a mangled ball, it's also burned to a crisp. The only thing salvagable is one wheel.
2004 BMW M-Series M3 E46. Happened in New Jersey, USA.
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The Asheville characters shown on this week’s cover include Chad Nesbitt, Carl Mumpower, H. K. Edgerton, Esther Manheimer, Cecil Bothwell, Mike Fryar, Al Whitesides, Wanda Greene, Bobby Medford, Gordon Smith, Vijay Kapoor, Gwen Wisler, Sheneika Smith, Chuck Edwards, Abby Roach, Sister Bad Habit and others.
Local comedians talk craft and the potential for Asheville's comedy scene.
Anya Hinkle, Aubrey Eisenman and Amanda Anne Platt will present 'Women in Music: A Tribute to Iconic Female Artists' on Saturday, Jan. 6, at Isis Music Hall.
The Asheville-based guitarists/vocalists blend their eclectic takes on folk music Jan. 6 at The Grey Eagle.
Mardi Gras season kicks off Jan. 6 with a party at Club 11 On Grove.
AmiciMusic spotlight neglected works for violin and piano by minority composers, Jan. 5-7 at three different local venues.
The Alaskan poet and musician brings his new theater piece "Donald Trump Is My Muse" to Firestorm Books on Jan. 5.
Local rappers SK the Novelist, PTP, Siyah and Free the Optimus play a benefit show for Isaac Dickson Elementary School lunch debt relief Jan. 5 at The Mothlight.
SATIRE: Xpress takes a loving look at local media, food and politics.
From feeding the community at Western Carolina Rescue Ministries to starring in cooking videos with Ingles Market, this local chef is determined to inject some laughter into Asheville's food scene.
The Xpress beer writers and a motley crew of brew enthusiasts explore Asheville on the Amazing Pubcycle.
From laughter yoga to therapy with a dash of good cheer, a number of Asheville-area helping professionals serve up healing with a side of humor.
“Get Out” wins SEFCA’s Best Film of 2017 award and the Parodies for Charity traveling film festival makes multiple stops in the area over the next week.
In 1919, U.S. soldiers were returning home from WWI. In Asheville, a proper welcome became the source of much local debate.
Can downtown Asheville stay weird?
The new Buncombe Energy Savers project, with help from Green Built Alliance, provides energy-efficient upgrades to low-income residents’ homes.
SATIRE: Former County Manager Wanda Greene receives three ghostly visits in this story from the Xpress Humor Issue.
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Bras matter. And, bra fit matters nearly just as much. After all, in some ways, wearing the wrong bra can be just as bad as not wearing any bra at all. These are the traits to look for when looking for a bra.
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World Sailing President Kim Andersen joined organisers of the 50th anniversary edition of the Princesa Sofía Iberostar Trophy for the presentation of its sustainability program on 31 March.
The programme is firmly aligned with World Sailing's Sustainability Agenda 2030 and the Wave of Change project.
President of World Sailing, Kim Andersen, the president of the Club Maritimo San Antonio de la Playa, Jesús Comas, Stefan Eberle the CEO of Marine Pool,; Philipp Baier who is the founder of the non-profit association Clean Wave, Matthieu Morvant, responsible for the Balearic area for the company Agua KMZERO, and Ferran Muniesa, the general manager of the Princesa Sofía Iberostar Trophy all took part in the presentation.
The sustainability program of Sofía Iberostar encompasses several initiatives. "In the event we have eliminated practically all the plastics for a single use, we have distributed reusable stainless steel bottles to all the personnel of the organization. We have installed drinking water sources in all the venues. In the fuel stations where the RIB fuels we have installed soak up systems so that not even a drop of fuel goes in to the sea. And we have carried out and we carry out clean ups removing plastics and garbage from the the beaches around the yacht clubs that are the bases for the regatta," explained Muniesa.
Fundamental is the elimination of single-use plastic water bottles which are eliminated from the Troefeo Princesa Sofía Iberostar.
This has been facilitated by Clean Wave, Agua KMZERO and Marine Pool.
"In the Balearics, 1.5 million single-use disposable plastic bottles are used every day. We have to offer an alternative. This year the Princess Sofia Trophy continues with determination with the sustainability program that began last year", said Muniesa.
Kim Andersen, for his part, pointed out that, "The sustainability programme has attracted widespread support from international agencies. The sailors spend a lot of time at sea and can greatly influence this area. I think that together we can make a big change."
The sustainability program of the Balearic regatta also includes actions to clean the beaches, which began this Thursday under the leadership of the sailors who are competing in the in the 50th Trofeo Princesa Sofía Iberostar. All are part of the Wave of Change project ( Wave of Change) carried out by the hotel group Iberostar.
The campaign is based on three lines of action: elimination of the use of plastic for single use in hotels, promotion of sustainable fishing and improvement of coastal health.
In this sense, by 2020, Iberostar have pledged to become the first hotel chain free of single use plastics in its 120 hotel establishments which are located in 19 countries.
They are the first chain in southern Europe to obtain the chain of custody certificate for using only sustainable fish.
In addition, the company has signed an agreement with the University of the Balearic Islands to grant 10 research grants on the sea, focusing on fish life.
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The intricate work on this outfit is just what you want! Silver, sand color and brown, it's a new entrant in the royal color league. The anarkali is an eye-catcher.
The sand colour outfit matched with Gold and silver diamond earring and an Uneven line baguette ring would not only be an eye-catcher but a dreamy outfit!
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This video walks through the process I used to move my site from http://wordpressmodder.org to http://wpmodder.com. It includes how to install and configure WordPress 3.0 as well as how to export your posts and pages from your old site and import them into your new site.
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I am the Executive Director and Director of Operations of Bluepoint Foundation. We have been promoting Fedora since core 1 in our different FOSS advocacy campaigns in and around the Philippines. I co-founded Bluepoint Linux Users Elite in 1999 and am currently organizing the Philippine chapter of LinuxChix.
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Posted on 12/03/2018 by Mickey McCarter in Preview and tagged 9:30 Club, Australia, Gang of Youths, indie rock.
Australian indie rockers Gang of Youths recently released a new live album, MTV Unplugged (Live in Melbourne) with a special vinyl edition coming to the United States on Dec. 21. Before that, however, you can actually see Gang of Youths live at 9:30 Club on Monday, Dec. 10!
After a record breaking Australian tour, selling over 50,000 tickets, Gang Of Youths have hit U.S. shores, kicking off their tour in Nashville and coming to 9:30 Club soon.
MTV Australia recently produced all-new episodes of the Grammy and Emmy award-winning series MTV Unplugged, which featured Gang Of Youths as its first featured artist. Filmed in front of a live audience at Melbourne’s Cobblestone Pavilion at Meat Market, the band performed stripped-back versions of songs from their latest album, 2017’s Go Farther in Lightness.
Give David a chance to sing to you! Buy your tickets online.
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Timaya team up with Burna Boy for Pull Up.
Dem Mama record boss Timaya has released his much anticipated Ep called Chulo vibes, offing the album was this dope number entitled Pull Up. Which features the talented Nigeria Afrobeats singer Burna Boy.
Have a listen to Pull Up by Timaya featuring Burna Boy below and share!
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This light and fruity wine with flavors of cherries and ripe berries has no oak aging. This wine makes a great introduction to red wine enjoyment. Served chilled or at room temperature.
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Hello we are here with the 42-0 NCAA Division I National Champion in the 174-pound weight class.
fight that he was dominating.
NewMexicomma- So your doing a training camp?
Josh Koscheck- That is it Training.
NewMexicomma- lol. So how is the training going?
Kickbox Academy in San Jose.
be a good one. You've been waiting for that one for a while?
really don't give two shits about it. It's what ever. I am training to fight, every fights important.
Josh Koscheck- Yeah, It should be an interesting fight. I am pretty excited about it.
NewMexicomma- That's good. I also heard that you got casted for a new movie. How's That going?
think I could have a pretty good future in that.
NewMexicomma- That's Great. So how old were you when you First started Wrestling?
Josh Koscheck- I started wrestling when I was about five years old.
Pennsylvania ya know that's just the heart of Wrestling. It's probably where Wrestling was invented.
you make them look easy.
go to work everyday of the week, so why shouldn't I go to work everyday.
easier to make the transition into M.M.A.
Martial Arts, UFC. It's a perfect base to have, to develop into a true mixed martial artist.
NewMexicomma- Oh Great! Weren't you suppose to wrestle in the Olympics?
NewMexicomma- So how many fights do you think that you are away from a title shot?
weeks of training to prepare myself for April 7th.
NewMexicomma- Nice! Did you bring in anybody extra to help you get ready for Diego?
didn't want to do it (I tried to contact Diego for 4 months for interview).
even put that right in the fucken interview. I would appreciate it if you would put that in the interview.
Mexico man give me a call and I will take you out on the San Juan.
Josh Koscheck- Oh, Yeah I would Love that.
Josh Koscheck- Alright Appreciate it. Thank you!
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In a recent judgment of the NSW Court of Appeal, councils have been reminded of the perils of making amendments during the tender process. Woollahra Municipal Council (Council) lost a substantial damages award and was ordered to pay the costs of Secure Parking Pty Ltd (Secure) in both primary and appeal proceedings, after the Court of Appeal overturned orders made by in the Supreme Court. The case unfolded as follows.
In November 2010, Council invited tenders for the management of four car parks. Included in the tender documents were a draft management agreement with a requirement for bank guarantees to be provided as security for income associated with each car park.
It appears that Council wanted the ability to accept a tender and thereby create a binding contract with the chosen tenderer.
Secure submitted a tender in December 2010 but shortly after, varied its offer by proposing performance bonds be provided in lieu of the required bank guarantees. The relevant Council officer communicated that bank guarantees were necessary and that guaranteed amounts would have to subsequently increase (to the equivalent to three months income). Secure then proposed a compromise of performance bonds securing two months income. Council’s response was to state that two months income secured by bank guarantees would be the terms of a report put to the elected member of council for a decision. Secure did not respond to this.
Council resolved on 14 March 2011 to accept Secure’s tender subject to provision of bank guarantees for two months income. It informed Secure on 15 March 2011 and provided a copy of the resolution, along with an amended management agreement (which included several changes to its original terms), a commencement date of 1 June 2011 and the requirement for the higher value bank guarantees.
Secure refused to sign the amended management agreement and refuted Council’s claims that a binding contract between the parties had come into force as of 15 March 2011.
The Supreme Court held that a binding contract was made between the parties upon the notice of acceptance on 15 March 2011. The contract was on the terms of the draft management agreement in the tender documents, as modified in respect of the increased bank guarantees. According to the primary judge, Council was entitled to terminate that contract for repudiation because Secure refused to sign and perform. He ordered Secure to pay Council $6,940,811.41 for loss of the benefit of the contract and for having to undertake a second tender process, plus Council’s costs.
The Court accepted that Secure had agreed to the increased amounts only on the basis that they were the subject of performance bonds not bank guarantees. Secure had made clear its position and the distinction was significant. There was no agreement to provide bank guarantees. Council could not accept an offer that had not been made. The Court held Secure’s failure to respond to or correct Council’s final reference to bank guarantees did not justify a finding that Secure had agreed to that. The Court concluded that Secure’s conduct and correspondence did nothing to indicate it accepted Council’s counter-offer about the security and that if the Council officer proceeded under the wrong understanding, it was not of the making of Secure.
The invitation to tender required the parties to agree to a commencement date within 14 days of Council’s notice of acceptance to the successful tenderer. However, the draft management agreement did not specify a commencement date or expressly require such an agreement.
A date of 1 June 2011 had been mooted by Secure in pre-acceptance negotiations but was dependent on specific events occurring (namely ordering for car park management equipment in February 2011 and installation prior to commencement) which never eventuated.
Council acceptance was based on a commencement date of 1 June 2011.
The Court determined that the parties had not reached agreement on the commencement date and that a commencement date could not be attributed to an event such as the installation of parking equipment. Rather, it had to be a clear calendar date.
Council had purported to terminate by alleging Secure had repudiated its contractual obligations by not signing. But the Court held there was simply no binding contract as of 15 March 2011. So the question of whether Council was entitled to terminate was irrelevant.
The decision demonstrates that circumstances under which amendments can be made to the terms of a tender, once the process has been initiated, are limited. If a tender is to be accepted in a way that is binding on the tenderer, the process must be tightly managed so that what is accepted is what the tenderer actually offered.
General contract law principles of offer and acceptance must be adhered to or parties are at risk of not entering into a binding contract. In this case, Council could not negotiate amendments (make counter-offers and impose new requirements) and then purport to accept an original offer as binding the tenderer and it also failed to ensure that all the key elements for a binding contract had been resolved.
It is worth noting that amendments to tenders are also restricted by clause 176 of the Local Government (General) Regulation 2005.
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One son Greg Mott - five grandchildren who live in San Antonio, Texas. Oldest grandson is now 13 years More…old - how time flies! My son and his wife had three children and then this past year in 2008 adopted two children from Ethiopia. My parents in the early 80's are still living in San Antonio and my sister and her husband live there also. I get back to San Antonio a few times a year for visits.
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The following recipe is from the August 11 edition of our weekly recipe newsletter. To receive this newsletter in your inbox, sign up here!
Lately infusing my own spirits has become something of an obsession, and I have a big enough collection of bottles filled with fruits, herbs, and spices sitting under my sink to prove it. So when I came across this somewhat strange recipe for Milk Liqueur from the Azores in David Leite's The New Portuguese Table there was no way that I wasn't going to try it.
Let me start by saying that mixing whole chopped lemon, rind and all, bittersweet chocolate, sugar, vodka, and whole milk is not a pretty sight. Plenty of curdling is going to happen and the mix itself is not all that nice to look at when it's in its beginning stages. But once the concoction has sat for 10 days (stirred once a day) and is strained to remove all of the milk solids you're left with a clear, golden liqueur that tastes creamy and chocolatey with a sharp hit of lemon. It's much cleaner and less cloying than say, a Baileys or a Frangelico, and the flavors are much more complex. It's one of those liqueurs rich enough to sit in for dessert, or even better, when paired with it.
Pour the grappa and milk into an impeccably clean half-gallon glass jar with a tight-fitting lid. Scoop in the sugar, chocolate, and lemon. Cover the jar tightly and shake well to help the sugar begin to dissolve. It will look curdled; that's as it should be, and perfectly safe. Set aside in a cool, dark place and shake or stir with a clean spoon every day for 10 days.
Set a cheesecloth-lined colander over a bowl and pour in the mixture. When the mixture has finished draining, squeeze the cloth to release as much of the liquid as possible, and discard the solids.
Line a sieve with a paper coffee filter. Pour in the liqueur and let the mixture drip through the clean bowl—this can take up to 24 hours. Change the filter when it becomes clogged with the residue from the liqueur. I repeat this step once or twice more after all of the liqueur has passed through to clarify it as much as possible.
Pour the liqueur into a decanter with a tight-fitting top. It will keep at room temperature for up to six months.
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Today, VÉRITÉ announces her highly anticipated debut album Somewhere in Between alongside the release of the album’s propulsive alt-pop opener “When You’re Gone” – LISTEN HERE. Somewhere in Between will be released June 23rd, 2017 via Kobalt Music Recordings and is available for pre-order now, CLICK HERE to pre-order.
The album’s first single “Phase Me Out” has already topped 3 million streams on Spotify after premiering on Entertainment Weekly. The song’s moody, atmospheric visual premiered via Interview Magazine, marking VÉRITÉ‘s first ever music video release – WATCH HERE. In addition, VÉRITÉ recently made her television debut on the TODAY show performing “Phase Me Out” as Elvis Duran’s ‘Artist of the Month.’ Watch HERE her performance.
In support of the album, VÉRITÉ will join Betty Who on a run of North American shows and select European tour dates this April and May 2017. Full tour routing is below and tickets for all dates are on sale now, CLICK HERE to purchase.
CLICK HERE to listen to VÉRITÉ on Spotify.
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A Chinese company is building what’s being called the world’s largest infrastructure project. In Nicaragua.
Once finished, it will connect the Atlantic and Caribbean Oceans with the Pacific. The challenge is very much the scale of the project and the logistics.
Correspondent Franc Contreras travels to Central America to report on Nicaragua’s Grand Canal.
Watch on Americas Now Sunday at 6pm est at www.cctvamericalive.com.
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So what are ‘commercial grade’ products?
Commercial grade furniture is manufactured for long-term use, undergoes rigorous testing and ergonomic standards, is designed for easy maintenance and enhanced durability, and comes with a manufacturer warranty.
Commercial furniture is commonly seen in business applications, but discerning buyers understand the value and incorporate them into residential settings as well.
Commercial furniture offers countless options, colors, and fabrics to the consumer as it is manufactured when ordered.
At Kayhan, we will walk you through features and benefits of products, pricing, lead times (manufacturing + shipping time), proper care, and warranty information for any product we source.
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Gas Safety is very important. As your local Gas Safe registered engineer(s) from Postcode Plumbers in East Lothian we are keeping the public informed on “the importance of gas safety” and issues surrounding it. We also wish to remind everyone of the importance of having an annual gas safety check by a Gas Safe registered engineer. If you are not sure call us on: 01620 84 3000.
Following on from Gas Safety week, we are continuing to informing the public of a wide range of gas safety matters. This includes what to do if you suspect your gas engineer is an illegal fitter and to advise not to DIY when it comes to gas and leave it to the expert engineers from the Gas Safe Register.
Gas appliances that have not properly been maintained can cause gas leaks, fires, explosions and carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. Carbon monoxide is known as the ‘silent killer’ because you can’t see, smell or taste it. Therefore, it is highly important to have your gas appliances checked by an engineer who is on the Gas Safe Register.
“Don’t cut corners”, you should always ask to see our engineer’s Gas Safe ID card, they will not be embarrassed at you asking. Make sure you check the back of the card, which will state which gas appliances they are qualified to work on.
Don’t attempt DIY with any gas appliances. It is so important that you “NEVER” attempt to work on a gas appliance yourself. Always seek the help of a qualified Gas Safe registered engineer who can work on your gas cooker, boiler or fire in a safe way.
Make sure you install an audible Carbon Monoxide alarm. Also, ensure you know the symptoms of CO poisoning; headaches, nausea, breathlessness, collapse, dizziness and loss of consciousness.
Contact us today to book in a convenient date for you to have your gas appliances serviced.
Only employ a suitably qualified Gas Safe registered engineer when having gas work carried out in your home. Gas Safe Register is the official register for legally qualified engineers. You can find a registered engineer in your area by visiting the Gas Safe Register website at GasSafeRegister.co.uk or by calling on 0800 408 5500.
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Our glitter is available in a rainbow of colors in 3/4 oz., 4 oz., and 1 lb. sizes. Colors include: Iridescent, Turquoise, Magenta, Pink, Copper, Silver, Orange, Purple, Red, Blue, Green, Sky Blue, Gold, Multi-Color, Clear, Black, White.
Orange - Spectra Glitter Sparkling Crystals 4 oz.
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Following on from its incredible 2017 event, which featured headlining sets from Future Islands, Ryan Adams and PJ Harvey, Green Man Festival are already gearing for next summer and have just released their first wave of tickets.
Between 16 – 19 August 2018, Wales’ Brecon Beacons are to be transformed into a haven amongst the hills for music lovers as Green Man Festival lights up the mountains.
While the festival consistently brings together a stellar line-up for the main stages, Green Man‘s attractions stretch way beyond the music. The festival also takes in all major art forms, from literature and poetry, through to film and theatre.
No acts have been announced for next summer’s event, but to give you an idea of what to expect, here’s what last year’s line-up looked like.
Early bird tickets went on sale at 10am on Wednesday 27 August and are expected to sell out fast, so grab yours quick before they’re all gone!
A settler’s pass ticket allows you to enjoy a week-long holiday at Green Man, where you can enjoy music & entertainment from Monday 13th August.
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1 M.Cozzolino, (2010). EU labelling and environmental standards for marketing in sustainable fishery. Workshop on Capacity building of the State Committee of Fisheries of Ukraine. AGR 34856. Kiev.
2 L. Malvarosa, (2010). Intraregional trade and import–export of Mediterranean countries with the European Union. Workshop on Capacity building of the State Committee of Fisheries of Ukraine. AGR 34856. Kiev.
3 M. Sacco (2010). Management systems as a method for risk control. Workshop on Capacity building of the State Committee of Fisheries of Ukraine. AGR 34856. Kiev.
4 M. Cozzolino, C. Iandoli; F. Pecchio (2003), Green accounting in the aquaculture intensive sector. XV Conferenza EAFE, Brest.
5 M. Cozzolino (2003). Il bilancio ambientale nel settore dell’acquacoltura per tecnologie intensive in Italia. Aquaculture International Conference, Quality of developed market, Verona.
6 M. Cozzolino, (2001), EMAS Certification: SWOT analysis, Where is aquaculture in Europe? International Aquaculture Conference, Verona.
7 M. Cozzolino (2000), The deviation of scientific guidelines for best environmental practice. III MARAQUA workshop. Napier University / Edimburgo, UK.
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Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Climax K194 (10-in. double-faced)," accessed April 23, 2019, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/object/detail/208495/Climax_K194.
Climax K194 (10-in. double-faced). (2019). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 23, 2019, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/object/detail/208495/Climax_K194.
"Climax K194 (10-in. double-faced)." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2019. Web. 23 April 2019.
24500The mayor of Tokio : Selections / ǂc William Frederick Peters. An meine mutter / G. Benhard Voigt.
500 Climax: K194 (3491 (matrix), 3506 (matrix)).
5110 Ossman-Dudley Trio, Walter Biedermann ; Marshall P. Lufsky ; Charles Adams Prince.
7001 Biedermann, Walter, ǂe instrumentalist.
7001 Lufsky, Marshall P. , ǂe instrumentalist.
7001 Prince, Charles Adams, ǂe instrumentalist.
7001 Voigt, G. Bernhard, ǂe composer.
24500An meine mutter / ǂc G. Benhard Voigt. The mayor of Tokio : Selections / William Frederick Peters.
500 Climax: K194 (3506 (matrix), 3491 (matrix)).
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Jason Buell got me thinking again with his latest post in which he gives some great tips for all the SBG newbies. A main point of his post was for us to not be too self-satisfied with our pretty lists of standards. Instead, according to Jason, we should be taking a close look at the assessments that we are going to use so that we can define our anchors and give concrete examples of good (and bad) work for students to follow.
Will some (or all!) students be doing something unique to meet a certain standard?
Is it possible for one of my biology classes to decide to learn about a slightly different set of ideas about biochemistry than another biology class?
How do I go about writing the assessments ahead of time if these two conditions apply?
Most importantly: why did I write my standards and learning goals so broadly that they don’t drill down to specific content knowledge?
Students will be introduced to the new system of assessment, we’ll call it SBG for now, in which points are not summed, averages are defunct (except in the inflexible beast of the school’s online gradebook), and the highest number anyone will see on an assessment is a 4. After the initial shock, the students and I will look at examples of what the record-keeping system will look like (in my parent letter, sbgradebook.com, and a spreadsheet or two) and discuss the 4 level rubric and its descriptors.
Then we will get down to the business of starting on our first units of study. Here’s where the classroom becomes intentionally unscripted, or at least less scripted than in past years. I hope to be the guide-on-the-side type and give students some freedom in what they study in my classes, so long as they are making progress both in the content-specific Learning Goals and the performance-based Standards. The students and I will probably have a chat at the beginning of each topical unit to define in more detail the supporting concepts worth focusing on, both in my mind and theirs. From there, they will pursue their own paths to demonstrating mastery of the skill and content standards for that unit. Surely some Web 2.0 stuff will be generated. Some inquiry-ish lab experiments will be performed. Portfolios and blogs will be created. Much fun will be had by all.
So that’s what my classroom might look like, based on a vision derived from my summer reading and the communal brain that was ISTE10, that students need to be producers of content and they need to follow their passions whenever possible.
With this sort of idealistic, student-driven philosophy, I don’t think I can write many assessments between now and when school starts. I haven’t met my students yet.
This entry was posted in Assessment and Grades, Learning Environments and tagged assessment, grading, SBG on August 10, 2010 by Chris Ludwig.
Is that a daydream? or a nightmare? Around here community-college students are a mix of dedicated re-entry students and slackers, few of whom have the vision for student-directed learning. They signed up for a community-college class so that someone would show them the way through the thicket, not to watch them from the sidelines.
If your standards don’t drill down to the content, then they are no better than the vague state standards that amount to little more than “teach them some random stuff”. You can correct for vague standards by having specific lessons and specific assessments, but you aren’t serving the students well if you have vagueness throughout.
@gasstationwithoutpumps: I think a more “vague” set of standards will work with my high school students in part because they are operating in a 1:1 laptop environment in my classroom. They’ll be able to at least partially control their educational experience in terms of which sites they visit, which tools they learn to use, and who they learn from on the web. To script every lesson and learning target in a 1:1 environment denies the full potential of what technology can do to transform learning.
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During the winter months, Barbara will be attending the Island Roots Market on a weekly basis with a good supply of certified organic brown eggs from our newly laying flock of heritage birds. At the stand we will be selling three varieties of Fava Bean Seeds which can go into the ground right now.
Drop in, do your weekly shopping and say hi every Wednesday between 3 and 6pm.
What is the Island Roots Market ?
1. A lack of good jobs in Nanaimo and the surrounding area.
2. The need for economic justice (a reduction in the income spread between the wealthy and the rest).
3. A demand for a greater say in our economy, the development of our community and the environment in which we live. Real democracy.
4. The demand for locally produced food."
Seedy Saturday is an annual event that provides a wonderful opportunity to gain knowledge about gardening in Central Vancouver Island and access to heritage seeds, plants, and garden-related supplies and tools.
Nanoose Edibles will have a stand with information on our Kitchen Garden Pantry (opening in April), U-pick weekends at the farm and Spring Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) box program. We will also have various transplants for sale, as well as Favas. Come and say hi!
ROUND TABLE EVENTS - For some years Nanoose Edibles has been hosting Round Table Events during the growing season on alternate Saturdays in the indoor sales building at the farm. The first Roundtable of this season is taking place on Saturday, February 9th. In the light of the newly released Canada Food Guide, we will discuss the value of growing Fava Beans and other High Nutritious Foods. We have been travelling on this pathway for a number of years, encouraging customers to learn about beans, and the entire legume family as a source of local protein available from your garden. There are many other crops you can grow in your garden, not just Fava Beans. Who would have though it: Globe Artichokes, Asparagus, Beets, Collard Greens, Celery, Sunchokes, Garlic, and many more. Please come to our Roundtable and bring along information (and seeds of you wish) of your favourite high-nutrition vegetables.
Plastics, plastics everywhere!!! It is used for a short time and discarded - such as packaging for transplants. Farms are no exception. It is the grower, for their own convenience, who has put the transplants into plastic pots! At Nanoose Edibles Organic Farm, we have an on-going conversation on how to reduce plastics on the farm. The farm started off using previously purchased plastic containers and egg cartons which we received from our customers; using the gifted plastic containers to hold the transplants as it grows and the egg carton to hold the bare root transplants to be transported by our customers to their garden was a perfect match. This keeps the plastic containers at the farm to be reused and the egg cartons to be used again in the compost pile.
Nanoose Edibles Organic Farm started to incorporate soil blocks for selected plants as the soil blocks do not require plastic. This has been successful method for producing transplants and reducing containers on the farm. Certain plants that do not like root disturbance really thrive in soil blocks. Any plant in the squash, tomatoes, peppers, herbs will thank you. We have also developed a method of re-using milk cartons for transplants, using wooden/mesh trays that Lorne developed to hold them perfectly in place.
We will be demonstrating how to make soil blocks and use Milk Cartons for transplants. Kids and adults are welcome to come and get muddy creating their own plastic-free soil blocks, and plant their favorite garden seeds.
What: Plastic, plastics everywhere!!! It is used for a short time and discarded – such as packaging for food and storage. By 2050 there is expected to be more plastic in the ocean than fish by weight! Our society has taken things out of control and resorted to convenience over environmental preservation. We have produced more plastic in the last decade than we have in the last century… and there are lots of simple things we can do in the home to turn this around.
To supply your kitchen garden this spring the farm will provide you with transplants from our Kitchen Garden Pantry, located directly behind our farm market building.
The grand opening will be on the Easter Long Weekend, and will include some delicious snacks from the farm.
We will feature certified organic vegetables, flowers, herbs, fruit transplants and a selection of farm-grown vegetable seeds. We have put together a list of transplants you may wish to grow in your garden, and it would be helpful if you can provide us with any special wishes or desires your may have for high nutrition vegetables, fruit, herbs or flowers. We will continue to collect pollinator plants and flowers for the bee gardens, and you will have the opportunity to buy these as well, or swap them with varieties you may have. Email requests to neorg@telus.net. Some plants take many weeks to reach the transplant stage. To the furthest extent possible, our seeds are heritage seeds that come from the Seed Savers Organizations. Seed Savers Exchange in Iowa has over 16,000 members. Heritage plants may not always be as pretty, but they certainly will have flavor, be nutritious and staying power in your garden. We have made a start on the Kitchen Garden Pantry, but we would love to hear from you with your suggestions.
We have already pruned the Raspberries, Grapes, Pears, Plums, Blueberries, Marion Berries, Thornless Backberries, Asparagus and Artichokes, with Quince and Apples left to go. We expect to have some fruit trees left over after we have filled in the holes in our orchard.
If you are in need of a larger quantity of root stock, such as Raspberries, and Strawberries, please email us neorg@telus.net with the quantity needed.
Come down to the farm for this two-day transplant event!
Come for a walk about the farm to get ideas for your own garden.
On Saturday the 11th at 12pm, we will have a pollinators walk around the farm. Information on good pollinator plants for the garden, and a demonstration on Blue Orchard Bees. A great event for families!
If you want a local pollinator planting list click here for Barbara's list.
The Sustainable Roundtable is a farm initiative to build up a community of members to share their knowledge and learn from each other.
Come be apart of the conversation. Please let us know if you would like to run one at the farm.
Thanks for coming out to our farm events!
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A corner unit of semi detached house for rent in Island Park Green Lane at RM4500, 4 rooms with 2 bathrooms, land area about 6500sf and built-up 4200sf. Renovated with partly furnished. Suitable for kindergarten and nursery.
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The Colony. Colony is an American science-fiction drama television series created by Carlton Cuse and Ryan J. Condal, starring Josh Holloway and Sarah Wayne Callies. A 10-episode first season premiered with an online preview release of the first episode on USA Network's website on December 15, 2015, following the launch of a game-like website to promote the show. The series had its broadcast premiere on USA Network on January 14, 2016. Taglines for the series used in promotional materials include "Behind the Wall" and "Life Under Occupation". On February 4, 2016, Colony was renewed for a second season by USA Network to return in 2017. Season 1 Episode 1 Pilot: When an outside force occupies LA, a former FBI agent and his wife are forced to make tough decisions. Episode 2 A Brave New World: As Will begins his first day as Proxy Snyder's inside man, Katie makes a secret commitment. Carlos suffers the consequences of Will's actions. Episode 3 98 Seconds: Katie makes a discovery when she embarks on her first mission with the Resistance. Will's search for Geronimo leads him into a dangerous situation. Episode 4 Blind Spot: Will continues to earn his colleague's respect but when his home comes under attack, everyone comes under suspect - even Katie. Episode 5 Geronimo: A revelation gives Proxy Snyder the chance to climb the Colony ladder. Meanwhile, Will starts to question Katie's loyalty. Episode 6 Yoknapatawpha: Allegiances are tested when Will and Katie find themselves trapped with Proxy Snyder. They also learn some shocking news about their son. Episode 7 Broussard: Will gets closer to uncovering the truth as he continues his hunt for the Resistance. Katie begins to feel cut off from both her family and her cell. Episode 8 In From the Cold: Quayle makes a costly error when he underestimates how far Will will go to protect his wife. Episode 9 Zero Day: Katie and Will are pushed further apart than ever when she makes a stand against his best-laid plans. Episode 10 Gateway: Katie and the Resistance take a valuable hostage, while Will races the clock to find his son. Great show, can't wait 'til next year for season 2.
The Legend of Tarzan is an American action adventure film drawn upon the fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, scheduled for release in 2016. Directed by David Yates and written by Adam Cozad and Craig Brewer, its cast comprises Alexander Skarsgård in the title role, and Samuel L. Jackson, Margot Robbie, Djimon Hounsou and Christoph Waltz.
It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life in London as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane Porter (Margot Robbie) at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the corrupt Belgian Captain Léon Rom (Christoph Waltz).
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In South Dakota we are once again down, looks poor this year for both pheasant and grouse.
The pheasant numbers here in Kansas are abysmal. The Dept of Wildlife and Parks projects our numbers for the year to be at an all time low. We do have some quail though. They have rebounded nicely the last couple of years.
I'm told the quail are doing better in Iowa also.
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Marklin (Maerklin) presents the first system railroad: A windup locomotive with cars and an expandable track system.
On the basis of the Marklin (Maerklin) scales an international standard for the gauges and scales 0, I, II and III of that time were adopted.
With the new 20 volt system, the electric trains previously operated with standard household current are now safe for children.
With the "halving" of 0 Scale to H0 (half of zero), Marklin (Maerklin) expands the world of model railroading: The compact dimensions allow complete layouts as table top railroads. In addition, the three-rail track system makes for trouble-free setup and reliable operation.
The "perfect circuit" enables remote controlled direction reversing on Marklin (Maerklin) AC systems - a big step towards prototypical model railroad operation.
The first fully functional catenary expands operating enjoyment to include an additional, independently controlled track circuit.
Marklin (Maerklin)'s standard H0 coupler couples gently and reliably and keeps a train composition together. It is adopted by other manufacturers and later becomes NEM Standard 360.
Thanks to a realistic articulated frame, the new Marklin (Maerklin) CCS 800 Crocodile can also negotiate sharp curves.
Up to now the solid third rail has lain on top of the ties; now it is placed under the roadbed and only stud contacts stick up through the ties. This makes the three-rail track visually more acceptable to model railroaders and becomes a synonym for the Marklin (Maerklin) system.
The standard coupler is further developed into the RELEX coupler. It allows advance uncoupling over a new uncoupler track.
The TELEX coupler for switch engines takes couplers a step further. It enables remote controlled uncoupling anywhere on the layout.
The first sound effects circuit - a horn that can be retrofitted into locomotives - ends the silence of the latter.
With the K Track system Marklin (Maerklin) presents a track system without a roadbed. With flex track, large radius curves and turnouts it is quite suitable for an experienced model railroader's layout.
The new Marklin (Maerklin) 1 Gauge introduces a renaissance of the large gauge. A previously unknown level of detailing on regular production Marklin (Maerklin) models appeals to even the most demanding model railroaders.
The presentation of mini-club, the smallest mass produced electric train system in the world.
The time is past for the typical "goat's jump". Direction reversing for locomotives is now being done by an electronic circuit.
Marklin (Maerklin) Digital catapults model railroading directly into the electronic age. The digital signal processing - with electronic receiver circuits in each locomotive - makes it possible to have independent, multi-train operation.
The Marklin (Maerklin) Club of North America is established by Marklin (Maerklin), Inc.
The close coupler completes the visual appearance of the cars and locomotives by enabling prototypically close coupled train compositions. It is also compatible with the standard coupler.
A model highlight is the H0 Swedish train, constructed with real wood like the prototype. The bodies for the locomotive and cars are covered with wood panels. Super fine details demonstrate the high level of modeling technology.
The new digitally controlled, high-efficiency propulsion system allows you to set the maximum speed as well as the acceleration and braking delay for each locomotive as it would be for that unit's prototype.
With DELTA Marklin (Maerklin) brings out a multi-train system for small to medium size layouts - the simple entry into digital.
The Marklin (Maerklin) Insider Club is established. Model railroaders with a strong commitment to their hobby gain access to still more information and to special, exclusive models.
With MAXI, the toy and adventure railroad for indoors and outdoors, Marklin (Maerklin) brings the art of sheet metal toys back to life. The sturdy construction and the large scale of 1 Gauge also make Maxi the ideal garden railway - fully compatible with the standard 1 Gauge equipment.
The new C Track system combines the operational advantages of the three rail track with extremely easy "click" assembly, prototypical appearance, and modular setup.
Marklin (Maerklin) Digital is expanded further. A signal module and controllable locomotive functions bring new prototypical functions to the operation of a layout.
For the 25th anniversary of mini-club Marlin builds a steam locomotive with a body of pure 18 carat gold. This special, exclusive model is enthusiastically accepted by Z Gauge fans.
A high point of the reproduction series is the carriage that comes about in cooperation with Heidi Ott (dolls), Hutschenreuther (porcelain horses) and Marklin (Maerklin) (carriage).
A new concept for starter sets with track extension sets and a premium digital starter set make it even more appealing to enter the world of model railroading.
Marklin (Maerklin) celebrates its 140th anniversary with a model of the Stork's Leg, the first Marklin (Maerklin) locomotive.
Marklin (Maerklin) keeps their leadership in the European Model trains industry as the number 1 Manufacturer in the World. The new millennium has brought many improvements including the new Digital System, new FMX decoders and locomotives that automatically send back information to the Central units for identification and functions available to it as well as a large improvement on new locomotives designs and schemes.
The acquisition of Trix Minitrix is a total success and Marklin is also taking a predominant position on the Market for DC ( 2 rail operation) and N scale model trains.
C track is now the standard and has replaced completely the old M metal track and it is also available for DC operation under Trix box.
Marklin GmbH files for bankruptcy after inability to pay a 50 million Euros loan and deny from Banks to renew their credit lines based on "too often and too many changes on the high management and too much money paid to Consultants"
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Welcome to the April edition of First Class Faves. This month, we’re looking at marketing. Whether you’re focusing your marketing on a local or a global scale, we’ve found some great articles that will give you a little food for thought. Here’s our top 10, in no particular order.
This one is great if you want to make your name on a local level. First Class Accounts gives our own take on some budget friendly marketing methods.
Sometimes the contact you need is someone you haven’t spoken to for twenty years. Find out how you can reach out to old contacts comfortably.
Marketing can be a minefield when you’re first starting out. Entrepreneur points out the 7 biggest marketing mistakes for startups, and offers advice on how to avoid them.
Thought leaders are definitely the people to follow, as they know their industry inside out. LinkedIn has provided a great list to help you with your content marketing strategies.
Get some great timeless marketing insights from The Father of Advertising, David Ogilvy. His tips are as relevant now as they were over 70 years ago.
The Daily Egg has provided some fascinating insights into the current state of of digital marketing, and offers suggestions on how you can use these trends to your advantage.
Good communication is the key to quality email marketing. Discover what you should, and definitely shouldn’t, do throughout your email marketing campaigns.
Maximise your search engine reach with this fantastic and comprehensive checklist, designed to help you match your SEO to your business type.
If you’re planning on paying for your internet marketing, via PPC campaigns, it’s always best to know who the best performers are. Here’s a list of the top 25 from 2015.
Even if you’re not planning on hiring anyone to take care of your digital marketing, you’ll find some great tips here on must-have skills for digital marketing success.
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I am not sure how we got to the weekend again.. but here we are- thank goodness!
We have a big birthday this weekend so we will be celebrating and trying to make it last as long as possible! Wishing we could have a little fancy picnic like this too!
A few little things that I love from this week..
Sometimes I wish I lived in New York.. I keep getting invites to parties I cannot attend!
I want one or two of these poufs for me.. where o where can I put it?
Can someone make these for me? I need them!
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Back in March we covered the goings-on at the University of Wisconsin Stevens-Point. See our coverage here and here. At that time the university proposed cuts to the following programs: American Studies, Art, English, French, Geography, Geoscience, German, History, Music Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, and Spanish.
As for the history department, it has seen a 48-percent drop in the number of majors over the past five years, from 146 to 76 students, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
The department remains on the list of cuts to help meet budget reductions, said Lee L. Willis, a history professor and department chair.
The history department has 14 full-time faculty members, including 11 who are tenured. The department will most likely be reduced to 10 faculty members, and at least one tenured professor will be let go, he said.
The changes are ultimately a response to the evolving demands of career-oriented students, Summers said.
If I am reading this correctly, it looks like American studies, sociology, political science, English, philosophy, and music literature survived the cuts, but not history. Why? Was this merely an issue of numbers (of majors)? I would love to hear from a member of the history department. (You have an open invitation to explain what happened at this blog).
I am saddened that Stevens Point is dropping history, but I am not surprised. Universities now operate on a completely business-oriented model in which students are consumers. Universities no longer give students what they need to contribute to a healthy democracy. Instead, they provide students with professional skills to contribute to American capitalism with minimal commitment to the development of citizens. While we certainly need people with professional skills, we also need educated women and men who can contribute to our democratic life together. And we need them more than ever in the age of Trump.
What will all of this mean for liberal arts colleges or colleges with distinct missions to prepare students for life in church and society? How long before these kinds of colleges start dropping humanities programs?
The slavery that Frederick Douglass knew was not a metaphor. It would be wrong to suggest an equivalency between his condition and that of American workers or university students today. And there was much more than The Columbia Orator on Douglass’s road to freedom. But the power of the humanities in his life speaks to their significance. He was born into adversity but learned the value of reading at a young age. He was a boy who could not put a book down, even when owning that book might cost him dearly. He grew into a man who could hold and defend his convictions. As a master of oratory, he became a powerful and influential voice for the truth, distinguished both nationally and internationally. The liberal arts alone did not liberate Frederick Douglass from slavery but they gave him mental access to the world even while he was enslaved and, after he escaped from slavery, they propelled him to a speaking role on the world stage.
Has Marco Rubio Changed His Mind About Philosophers?
Some of you may recall that Marco Rubio once had some pretty harsh things to say about philosophy and philosophers. Has he changed his mind?
We have covered this story here. Chris Gehrz wrote about it much greater detail here.
It looks the students at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point will be staging a sit-in to protest the university’s decision to cut the following majors: American studies, art, English, French, Geography, Geoscience, German, History, Music literature, Philosophy, Political science, Sociology, Spanish.
My son is a student at UWSP and is participating in this demonstration. The university also proposed something similar three or four years ago when my daughter was a student there. The students were up in arms at that time as well and the university system backed down at that time. We’ll see what they do this time.
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point students intend to stage a sit-in of the campus administration building on Wednesday to protest proposed changes to academic programs.
The demonstration, called Save Our Majors, will take place from 1 to 5 p.m.. Participants will gather at the sundial at 12:30 p.m. and then march to Old Main at 1 p.m. to conduct a sit-in for 13 minutes, a minute for each major that is up elimination under a university proposal.
The student-led and -organized protest is in support of the 13 humanities and social science majors that the university is considering cutting in its proposal.
Outcry from the campus community and surrounding areas continues after UW-Stevens Point unveiled a proposal in early March to eliminate 13 liberal arts degree majors, including English, history and political science. The cuts of 13 majors and the additions or expansions of 16 majors are part of university efforts to deal with a projected deficit of $4.5 million through two years because of declining enrollment and lower tuition revenues.
After the sit-in, students will deliver a list of demands and requests to the university and then march back to the sundial, said Valerie Landowski, a 2014 political science and international studies alumna of UW-Stevens Point.
Want to Get a Good Job and Be Happy?
Go to college and major in the humanities.
A recent study from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences is positive news for humanities students. It reports on something we humanities folks already knew: humanities majors get jobs, make good money, and live fulfilling lives.
This report, based largely on original research commissioned by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators, examines a broader range of measures about holders of four-year bachelor’s degrees, including graduates’ satisfaction with their jobs, finances, and lives generally. The evidence shows that humanities graduates earn less and have slightly higher levels of unemployment relative to science and engineering majors. With respect to perceived well-being, however, humanities majors are quite similar to graduates from other fields. The data cannot explain the disparity between the objective and subjective measures, but they should provide a starting point for a more nuanced discussion about the relationship between field of undergraduate study, employment, and quality of life.
In case you haven’t heard, an investor named Bill Miller just gave $75 million to the Johns Hopkins University philosophy department. The money will be used to double the size of the department and create nine endowed professorships. Money will also go to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Read all about it here.
Over at The Pietist Schoolman, Chris Gehrz has written an open letter “to anyone with $75 million to give to Christian colleges.
Give preference to people, not buildings.
These come from Ilana Gershon and Noah Berlastsky at The Pacific Standard.
Back in June, we published a post on Kentucky governor Matt Bevin‘s endorsement of a bill allowing the Bible to be taught in the state’s public schools. I later published a shorter version of this post at Religion News Service.
Governor Bevin is back in the news after his said that the state’s public universities should cut programs that are not “helping to produce” a “21st century educated workforce.” Bevin urged university administrators in his state to “find entire parts of your campus…that don’t need to be there.” He singled out “Interpretive Dance.” Back in January, he singled out “French Literature.” Bevin wants to put money and energy into growing engineering and other STEM programs at Kentucky universities. Ironically, according to Inside Higher Ed‘s coverage of Bevin’s remarks, the governor has an East Asian studies degree from Washington and Lee University.
Sadly, the interim president of the University of Louisville, Dr. Greg Postel, seems to agree with the governor. Postel told the Lexington Herald-Leader that his university’s engineering program is growing, making Bevin’s ideas for funding more STEM initiatives a “natural fit” at Louisville. “Universities have to be aware of where the jobs are,” he told the Herald-Leader, “and that has to advise us as to which programs we choose to grow and put our resources in.” If I was a humanities or liberal arts faculty member at Louisville I would be up in arms right now. Postel has no clue about two things: 1) college education is more than job training and 2) liberal arts majors contribute to the economy and do a variety of jobs.
Check out Inside Higher Ed‘s coverage here. It includes several faculty members who have pushed back.
In theory, there are two major faculties on American college campuses, those who teach in the liberal arts and sciences, and those who offer professional education in such fields as business, education, engineering, social work, and various health fields. The two types of faculties are not necessarily in opposition, but they have different missions because they are oriented toward different goals.
To faculty in the arts and sciences, undergraduate education is liberal in nature — it is about gaining a broad knowledge about how the human and natural worlds work, because doing so can inspire students and because it serves a broader public good to have well-educated adults. Ideally, and often, there is no specific vocational outcome to these majors. In fact, to ask a history, English, biology, or geology major, “What are you going to do with that?” ought to be irrelevant since these are academic disciplines designed for academic purposes. When majors were first established, their goal was not job training but to offer intellectual depth and balance or, better put, to enhance a general education. Thus, majors in the arts and sciences exist for their educational purposes with no real or necessary relation to market needs.
The more we use the term STEM — in praise, condemnation, or simply as a descriptor — the more we divide the arts and sciences faculty from each other. The arts and sciences exist as the educational core of the undergraduate collegiate curriculum. They are tied together conceptually. There is in fact no difference, from the perspective of liberal education, in choosing to major in philosophy or chemistry. Faculty in both disciplines, in all the arts and sciences, believe in the value of intellectual pursuit, in fostering curiosity about the world, and in graduating students who have breadth and depth. Yet, increasingly on campuses across the United States, colleges of arts and sciences are dividing into two units, the humanities and social sciences in one, and the sciences and math in another.
Read Neem’s entire piece here.
Last week we wrote about Princeton University president Christopher Eisgruber’s criticism of the religious questions posed to federal judge nominee Amy Coney Barrett by Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Today we call your attention to Eisgruber’s speech at Princeton’s opening exercises entitled “Pluralism and the Art of Disagreement.” It is a clear statement of the purpose of a university.
Some people have suggested that the University should issue an official statement about Charlottesville, or that I should use this occasion to pass judgment upon President Trump’s comments. The events and the president’s response troubled me profoundly, and it is tempting to share my thoughts with you in detail. It is, however, neither my role nor that of the University to prescribe how you should react to this controversy or others. It is rather my role and the role of the University to encourage you to think deeply about what these events mean for this country and its core values, and to encourage you to find ways to participate constructively in the national dialogue they have generated.
You will find plenty of professors on this campus whose scholarship and erudition will provide you with insight about Charlottesville. As journalists worldwide have sought to illuminate these events and their aftermath, they have turned to professors here, including Eddie Glaude and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in African American Studies, Lucia Allais in Architecture, David Bell and Kevin Kruse in History, Julian Zelizer in History and Public and International Affairs, Robert George and Keith Whittington in Politics, and Peter Singer in the University Center for Human Values.
I urge you to seek out these and other faculty members, hear what they have to say, and learn from them. Keep in mind, however, that what they offer are not authoritative pronouncements but arguments backed up by reasons. It is your responsibility to assess their views for yourself.
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Lilac Grove ~ Paper Sculptress: Good News!!
Guess what?! As of last weekend, if you are in TO or Greater Toronto, you can now see my art in person at the Leslieville location (1114 Queen Street East) of the Arts Market!!
And more good news: the Arts Market recently had a win in the "Best of Toronto" issue of NOW magazine!
Chances are that you will run into the Arts Market coordinator, Daniel Cohen, (see photo and announcement below). Thanks to Daniel for giving me this opportunity to be a part of the artisan community at the market!!
"The Arts Market is VERY excited to announce that we won NOW Magazine's BEST UNIQUE GIFT STORE in Toronto. This really means so much to the Arts Market and all of its vendors, so big thanks to everyone who voted for us! Here's Market Coordinator, Daniel Cohen, collecting our prize at the awards breakfast this morning (it's Movember by the way.)"
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Yoga for healing” is a transformative Yoga class designed to develop deeper internal awareness, balanced energy, and greater physical and mental ease. This class uses yoga as a science to increase vital force, to heal the body, mind and soul. The heart of the science taught in this class is the skillful use of postures and breath to manipulate energy.
A holistic approach to health and well-being that combines posture, breath and meditation to give you the most beneficial therapeutic effect.
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Read about the 7 most effective tactics to turn your website into a lead generation machine. Download the eBook today.
In this Rethink Marketing episode, Act-On CMO Michelle Huff interviews Kari Seas from Seas Marketing about the 6 Things Marketers Underestimate when Targeting B2B Buyers.
They discuss the main ways marketers struggle when targeting B2B buyers. This includes not fully understanding your buyer, underestimating how long it takes to close a deal, knowing what a high performing sales funnel looks like, and optimizing your website and content for conversions not just volume.
Can you tell us more about yourself and Seas Marketing?
From your working helping companies, what are the main ways marketers struggle or fall short when targeting B2B buyers, the things that they underestimate?
Truly understanding the buyer — Demographics AND psychographics. What are their motivations, what pain or pride do they feel on a daily basis, how do they define success?
Understanding how long it actually takes to close a deal, from entry into database to signed contract. You need to recognize the time it takes to market to a long, committee-based buying cycle (multiple influencers involved in the buying decision spanning many months).
Knowing what an efficient, high-performing funnel looks like. Your marketing-to-sales funnel must be clearly defined and be comprised of agreed-upon definitions and triggers.
Recognizing that content relevance is everything. It’s about the quality of the conversions, not how many people visit your website. You need to re-establish and reinforce your credibility with every touch. Make sure all content topics (whether for a blog, ebook, infographic) tie back to a core theme or topic your product addresses, no matter how “hot” the topic is. If it doesn’t do that, it’s wasted space.
Defining success as a joint effort with sales and the executive team. Work with your sales counterparts to determine success metrics that support the entire business, instead of just telling how well marketing operates internally.
Acknowledging that operational efficiency is the only way to get great results from marketing investment. You need the right tools to make all of the things above possible. What works for B2C in many cases just doesn’t support B2B marketing and sales. That’s where marketing automation comes in.
How does the relationship between sales and marketing affect lead gen efforts? What are some ways to make that better?
You helped Act-On rebuild its lead to revenue funnel. Can you tell us about that process?
If you’re building a new funnel or updating your current funnel, what are some things to consider or steps to take?
What do you think is marketing automation’s role with lead generation?
How about other technology? How does that fit in with better targeting of B2B buyers?
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This post means that we are taking the leap and making this official. Man, it’s really hard to know where to start when you are at the beginning of something so new and exciting. What we do know is that we are passionate about food and photography. We still have a lot to learn and discover, I’m sure. Why not share that journey with you?
So how did this idea to start a food blog enter into our brains? Almost 2 years ago, Josh and I entered a iron chef photography and recipe contest. We knew that we could take a decent picture but we had to come up with a recipe that included the secret ingredient – sweet potatoes.
Making sweet potatoes look and sound delicious seemed like the real challenge. But we’d been making a lot of soups and we were inspired to play around until we had a winning sweet potato soup recipe! We won the contest and found the confidence to start taking our food adventures more seriously.
So we figured this recipe should be our first – a reminder that even though this recipe won us a free dinner at a fancy restaurant, really it gave us so much more – the inspiration to keep taking photos and sharing recipes with you. Here’s the first of many special meals we hope to enjoy together.
Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees. Place the cauliflower florets on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Drizzle with olive oil, then add salt and pepper. Bake for 35-40 minutes, tossing halfway through. When cauliflower is fork tender, remove from the oven and set aside.
While the cauliflower is roasting, cook the bacon slices in the large soup pot over medium heat. Once the bacon is crispy, remove from the pot and set aside.
Keep the stove on medium and add the onions to the bacon drippings remaining in the pan. Cook onions until softened and translucent, about 5 minutes.
Add sliced apples, sweet potato and cinnamon and cook for 3 minutes more.
Add the vegetable broth and turn stove up to medium-high. Bring to a boil. Reduce flame to low and simmer, uncovered, until sweet potatoes and apples are softened, about 30 minutes. Remove pan from the heat and let rest for 10 minutes.
Blend the soup in the pot using an immersion blender. Once soup is blended smooth, serve soup into bowls and garnish with roasted cauliflower florets & crisp bacon crumbles.
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The third Architecture & Design Film Festival runs Thursday through Monday, April 12 through 16, at Music Box, with 31 films screening in 15 different programs. Tickets are $11, with packages available for $45 (five tickets) and $90 (13 tickets). Following are selected films screening; for a full schedule see adfilmfest.com.
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Imagine the possibilities. Then explore them. The 2019 Toyota Prius Prime.
Let’s put limits in the rearview mirror. Prius Prime is the most efficient Toyota hybrid yet. With the power to run in either EV 1 or hybrid driving modes, Prius Prime strikes a harmonious balance between necessity and desire. When the charge has run out, Prius Prime has a manufacturer-estimated 54 combined mpg. 2 Designed with intelligent tech, premium materials and thoughtful engineering, Prius Prime represents the next step of our continuous quest to reach more efficient mobility with less range anxiety — without compromise.
With Prius Prime’s available Qi-compatible wireless smartphone charging, you can charge your Qi-compatible smartphone or other compatible device without wires or worry. Place it on the nonslip holder and charge up before getting to your destination.
Prius Prime’s available color Head-Up Display uses aircraft-inspired technology to project information about your drive on the windshield, where it’s convenient to see. Easily view the current speed, energy monitor, turn-by-turn navigation directions, battery charge, and Toyota Safety Sense™ P (TSS-P) 6 alerts — all without taking your eyes off the road.
Prius Prime also offers two other driving modes so that the driver stays in control: EV Auto Mode 7 and HV Mode. EV Auto Mode intelligently selects between EV and hybrid driving based on demand and driving conditions to optimize your efficiency. HV Mode efficiently combines the gas engine and electrical power from the HV battery to drive Prius Prime.
With a charged battery, the driver can experience electrifying performance. Prius Prime features a Toyota-first dual motor generator drive system that gives a fun acceleration feel and enables electric driving mode at full highway speeds. The system’s output and regeneration conditions are clearly displayed in real-time on the MID, so you can see your efficiency in action.
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A model of China’s Martian probe will debut at China International Industry Fair, it was announced Monday.
The 17th China International Industry Fair will open on Tuesday in Shanghai, lasting until Saturday. The golden model, which is a third of its real size, has been given pride of place at China’s Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.’s exhibition stand.
Niu Shengda, a satellite expert with the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, explained that the probe consists of two parts: an orbiter and a lander.
China’s astronomers have set their sights on the Red Planet following a successful soft landing on the moon late last year. They plan to launch the probe in 2020.
“The project is going smoothly,” Niu said.
A model of China's Martian probe will debut at China International Industry Fair, it was announced Monday. The 17th China International Industry Fair will open on Tuesday in Shanghai, lasting until Saturday. The golden model, which is a third of its real size, has been given pride of place at China's Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.'s exhibition stand.
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There's more to the Mets mascot than meets the eye.
Secrets of Mr. Met: Target of the Secret Service and jealous boyfriends?
What's the real story behind Mr. Mets' baseball-shaped head?
From death threats from the Secret Service to fans' jealous boyfriends to being a globe-trotting trendsetter, Mr. Met lives a pretty interesting life.
Below, amNewYork takes a peek behind that seemingly cheery disposition to uncover the truth about New York City's most beloved sports mascot.
Is this the real reason Mr. Met doesn't talk?
In 2004, New York Times columnist Dan Barry said it might be a good thing that Mr. Met doesn't speak considering the team's woes at that time.
"Whatever the reason, it is probably best that he remain mute. For if Mr. Met could speak, he might release a banshee-like wail that lasts through the day and well into the night, long after the lights at Shea Stadium had stopped illuminating the latest crime committed in the name of baseball."
In his 2014 memoir "Yes, It's Hot In Here," AJ Mass -- Mr. Met from 1994 to 1997 -- was psyched to meet then-President Clinton during a 1997 visit to Shea Stadium. But, because of the size of the costume's head, he couldn't get through a metal detector, which meant he wasn't approved to be near Clinton. Mass writes an agent told him, "Approach the President, and we go in for the kill shot..ARE WE CLEAR?"
As Rolling Stone wrote in a 2014 profile of Mr. Met, "With his size 16 shoes slapping on the concrete that lines the intestines of Citi Field, you can hear him coming from around the corner."
Mr. Met was retired as the Mets mascot in 1976, but returned in 1994 with a new look for a special promotion for Nickelodeon. That season, Mr. Met could arch his eyebrows, stick out his tongue and shoot smoke out of his ears when he was frustrated by a bad call, according to the Mets' official history of the mascot. The following year, the costume was made over--because the old one couldn't fit into door frames--and turned into the famous one delighting fans today.
The New York Mets have used Mr. Met to help lure potential minority investors, including access to Mr. Met on a list of perks available to those willing to chip in $20 million to the club's coffers.
Also in AJ Mass' book "Yes, It's Hot In Here," he writes, "A lot of macho guys would say, 'Tell me the truth. Is that a guy or girl in there?' I wouldn't give them the pleasure of answering. I'd point at my chest: I'm Mr. Met. They'd freak out." (Pictured above, is model Erin Heatheron, in October 2015).
Ebay is filled with cool Mr. Met toys and other memorabilia. Among them: a hologram keychain, a "No Smoking" sign, lunchboxes and pennants.
The first man to wear the costume, Dan Reilly, penned a memoir in 2007, "The Original Mr. Met Remembers: When the Miracle Began." Reilly, a native of New York, first worked for the Mets in the ticket department. He was the mascot until 1967 and left the organization in 1972.
Mr. Met has more than 24,000 Twitter followers. Mrs. Met, however, only has about 3,000. She recently Tweeted, "I can't stop listening to the @FooFighters today!"
How tall IS Mr. Met?
We're talking 6 feet and 10 inches of pure mascot.
On Opening Day 2000, Mr. Met became the first MLB mascot to perform overseas as the Mets played in Japan's Tokyo Dome.
Although Mr. Met graced the team's yearbook, game programs and scorecard in 1963, he first took the field to entertain fans on April 17, 1964. In doing so he became the first live mascot in MLB's modern era.
Mr. Met often makes the top 5 in Forbes' annual list of top sports mascots, and was No. 1 in 2012.
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Map and road map - Where Dr. Steven C. Bernstein is located?
Dr. Bernstein is pleased to offer full service Consultations in general and surgical dermatology.From treatment of skin condition such as acne, rosacea, eczema, and skin rashes, removal of warts and other skin lesions to the diagnosis and treatment of kin cancer.
treatment of skin condition such as acne, rosacea, eczema, psoriasia and skin rashes , removal of warts and other skin lesions to the diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer.
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Wouldn’t it be terrific if it were possible to slash your annual percentage rates and reduce debt collection calls?
Just think. You could find yourself on the road out of debt before you know it. Start now!
>> Get a Credit Counseling Consultation – Online!
A professional credit counselor in Savannah can coach you on how you can manage money, address your existing financial difficulties, and prepare for your financial future.
>> Get a No Obligation Credit Consultation – Right Now!
Debt in Savannah: How Much is Excessive?
If your debt to income ratio is above 50%, you need to find professional assistance immediately. For the average Savannah resident that has earnings of $27,199 annually, this is $1,134 or more a month.
Your credit counseling agency will address paying the credit card companies every month. The only thing you’ll have to do is give them just one monthly payment.
Credit counseling shouldn’t have a long term adverse impact on your credit history, as FICO has stated they don’t look at these plans when they calculate your rating; in spite of this, lenders may be hesitant to grant you new auto or property loans if you are currently the client of a credit counseling consultant in Savannah, TN. Since of course, they may decide that you owe too much to undertake a new loan.
Remember that nonprofit status isn’t going to guarantee that a credit counseling service is legitimate, and for profit does not mean they are not legitimate.
A simple evaluation of your finances is necessary to provide an exact savings quote.
Though not without cost, debt management is a low cost option for most Savannah residents. Enrollment typically costs less than $75, and a monthly fee of approximately $40.
How much will your payments be? That will depend on what you owe. Ordinarily 2.5% of how much you owe. The following is an overview of how much this is, based on various stages of unsecured debt.
Of the 17,184 people who live in Savannah, roughly 124 have been forced file for bankruptcy. Within half a year of filing for bankruptcy, you need to go through an accredited credit counseling program and receive a certificate to present during your bankruptcy case. You can go through the process in person, on the phone, or on the web.
The process generally costs $50 and lasts just 1 hour 30 minutes. For an approved list of approved pre-bankruptcy credit counseling agencies for Savannah residents, click here. On the other hand, you can get in touch with a qualified credit consultant by submitting this form.
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When you look at the sheer volume of her daily tasks, it’s probably easier to ask what doesn’t Cindy do in our accounting department. Multi-tasking and attention to detail are her speciality, which is perfect for our non-stop agency environment. Cindy often wonders about the next stages in evolution and technology — but mostly how they get the caramel in the Caramilk bar.
Cindy’s idea of a perfect day is sleeping in, playing baseball and having a bit of DIY fun around the house.
She is inspired by passionate leaders who bring people together to work toward a common goal that creates positive change.
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INVT has provided elevator control overall solution, which includes the associated floor display, security control, the selection and application of remote monitoring, making the elevator running more secure, intelligent, comfortable and convenient.
LIPARIS hotel stay in Mersin city in Turkey, which has both hotel and spa, and it will be open in June 2016. This hotel has 13 floors and requires 4 elevators as the transport tools for this high class building, 3 elevators group control and 1 elevator single control. Safety, high reliability, best performance and high efficiency are the most important requirement for the commercial building.
INVT EC160A intelligent integrated machine used for retrofitting of KONE elevator in India. It gives the detailed retrofitting solution for KNOE elevator and commissioning details. Engineering practice shows that INVT EC160A intelligent integrated machine has good control performance and stability on KNOE elevator.
INVT EC160 intelligent integrated machine for residence lift in India. It gives the detailed solution for residence elevator and commissioning details. Engineering practice shows that INVT EC160 intelligent integrated machine has good control performance and stability on lift application.
INVT Auto Rescue Device used for passenger elevator in India. It gives the detailed solution for rescuing the passengers in the elevator when the power is gone.
More and more elevator companies will pay more attention on the remote monitor system, because monitor system can efficiently help the company to manage the elevator, and solve the problem in time to reduce the accident. DM-04A with the advance technology will be popular on the global world in the elevator monitor system.
In many countries the elevator companies still prefer to the parallel control systems, so EC-PI parallel control board solution are more and more popular in the global market.
Through the application of EC300 four quadrant intelligent whole machine in the elevator energy reformation in a construction site in Wuxi, this article has reflected the energy-saving effect after adopting EC300 and the products features and advantages of EC300.
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Genesis: Srushtidnyan – Paryavaran Shikshan, Sanshodhan Aani Mahiti Sankalan Kendra (पर्यावरण शिक्षण, संशोधन आणि माहिती संकलन केंद्र) is a Mumbai based leading organization in the field of environment Education and action. Srushtidnyan was established on June 15, 2001 by a group of young and enthusiast environmentalists and social workers.
Future Earth Member Visit to Srushtidnyan office.
Rally on spreading awareness about saving electricity as a response to observe the EARTH HOUR 2016.
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What admirers of her cream teas and roast-chicken dinners might not appreciate is that Caron Cooper is also big in Japan. Fans cross the world to see her and she has been fêted on the red carpet alongside some of the country’s biggest pop stars. She has even had members of the Japanese royal family over to stay at her home, located in what has been described as “the prettiest village in England”.
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Hyundai Elantra Value Edition Gray Ext. Black Int.
Transmission: Automatic Color:Gray Interior Color: Black Average Vehicle Review: (4.5 reviews) I've owned this car for one year now, and have had no major problems. I've put almost 20k miles on since I bought it. Routine oil changes and a transmission flush are basically all I've had to do, oh and new tires. I think I had to replace a couple belts recently too. Handles well enough in the snow with standard all-season tires. There isn't a lot of passenger room - two adults up front and a teenager in back is pretty crowded, but most of the time it's just me and the small children in car seats, and two car seats work okay. I definitely wouldn't want to try 3 though. I mostly use the car for commuting to work and it's great, good gas mileage (33 mpg average, mostly highway).
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Micro Breweries in Des Moines?
Maybe they have good food there, I don't know. But as a huge beer nerd, their beer makes me sad and embarrassed for them.
Their beer is actually better than the food. I lived in a Ames for a couple of years & ate their a few times. I never was impressed. Great atmosphere, ok beer & mediocre food.
In Des Moines, the best place to sample microbrews is (sadly?) not a microbrewery, but El Bait Shop. They have, at last count, 106 beers on tap and a wide selection of bottles (including stuff from Peace Tree and Olde Main, mentioned by others). One of my favorite things to do is go in early (necessary if you want a table on the weekend) and order a beer flight.
I echo all the recommendations previously posted. Court Ave. has very good beer, food is pricy but very good. You can't go wrong at El Bait Shop for selection. I was AMAZED at the hard-to-find offerings they had on my first visit. I'd give Racoon River a pass, but I will recommend the Rock Bottom in West DM. I know, it's a chain, but they have a brewmaster who makes a lot of his own recipes and they are awesome. We've never had a problem with the service, but we usually sit in the bar area and can fetch our own beers at the bar if we need to. Have fun!
I agree that Rock Bottom in West Des Moines is surprisingly good, for all that it's a chain restaurant. I had a beer with lunch there a couple of weeks ago and was impressed enough to make plans to go back. The waiter also let me sample two of their cask beers free of charge (both were very nice). Now that's a way to earn a long-term customer!
I am a big fan of Court Ave brewery.
Court Ave has some great wood aged beers. Peace Tree in Knoxville is putting out some really good brews right now too. I'd stay away from Old Main, their mass produced beers are awful. El Bait Shop has an incredible selection on tap, and if you go on Thursday they have homebrewers giving samples too.
I = agree w/ the only brewery's being in west des moines are the rock bottom & the 2nd best one is the Granite city. I didn't know that (" but not your traditional brewery as the wort is trucked in" They still serve a nice choose of brews though.
I agree with the Peace Tree-Try the DIPA. You can get a vareity of the Iowa micros at El Bait shop.
Has anyone went to the Hub city brewery?
A couple buddies and I went to Hub City about 2 weeks ago on a Friday. We are homebrewers and asked if we could tag along while they brewed during the day. It's a family run business and I can't begin to say just how welcoming and friendly they were. I'd definitely recommend checking it out some time. They give tours and have a nice tasting room.
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Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of the year. I love the smell in the air—the smell of change. The air is trying to hang onto summer but knows winter is right around the corner. Thanksgiving celebrates our gratitude for our achievements as a community. But with accomplishment comes a change in the air, making it a logical time to take stock of your goals and of yourself. For some, it is a time of frustration. They think about all they wanted to do, but have failed to get done. They don’t understand why, but they get started going great guns on their goals, but then lose steam not long afterward.
I think the reason for this frustration is the dichotomy between one’s self-image and their circumstances. The result is a lower self-esteem. For many of us, the missing element is self-discipline. In a world of so many commitments, so many options, we can find ourselves making then breaking promises… especially to ourselves.
I’m like a lot of people: I don’t want to let others down. If I make a commitment, I want to keep it. I liked the feeling I got when others felt they could depend on me. I would interrupt whatever I was doing to help someone else. Often, this led to the breaking or deferring of commitments to those closest to me, or to myself. It is easy to lose track of your priorities when you are so busy helping others.
When we agree to take on a commitment for another, we are agreeing to place value on their priorities. But what are yourpriorities? Do the priorities of the other party align with yours? Yes, I’m saying not to take on commitments from others whose requests don’t align with your priorities. I would even go further and say that you should understand what are your highest priorities and make every effort to avoid accepting any encumbrances that don’t correspond with them. Individuals who perform at the highest levels—Olympic athletes, brain surgeons, and captains of industry—are very focused on the goals they are pursuing. Aren’t your goals worthy of the same treatment?
Pick something you know you can and should do daily, ideally something that will help you move forward with one of your priorities. We will call this your Action Habit. If your health is a priority, perhaps it is drinking 8 cups of water a day or taking the stairs instead of the elevator at the office could be possible Action Habits. Remember, the Action Habit must be something you know you can do and feel you should do—just for the next 10 days.
Now, write down your Action Habit. Example: For the next 10 days, I will take the stairs rather than the elevator at work. I have a great little form you can use to record your Action Habit and track your progress here.
When you get up in the morning and at the end of each day, review your Action Habit sheet. Remind yourself what you want to do.
At the end of the day, determine whether you did your Action Habit and record your progress in the table. You can also record any comments about how you felt while performing the Action Habit.
If you Action Habit revolves around your work, skip the days you don’t work and only keep track of days where you have an opportunity to work on your commitment.
When you complete the 10-day challenge, you are free to renew the challenge, select a new Action Habit, or walk away all together. After all, your commitment was only for 10 days. The key is to take action for the period of time you committed to take it. That is being good for your word.
Remember, we are learning a new skill. If you are undertaking this challenge, you probably don’t have confidence yet that you can be consistent in the area of your life that is embodied by your Action Habit. So start with something you know you can do for 10 days now and prove you can be true to yourself.
As you take action, you will feel good about yourself and start to win more self-respect, increasing your self-esteem. But be careful. If you say you are going to do this and then don’t do everything in your power to follow through, the reverse will happen. You will damage your self-esteem. So, if you really aren’t willing to perform your Action Habit for 10 days, choose another Action Habit!
Why not give yourself the gift of self-discipline this holiday season by taking the 10-day challenge? If you’d like to get more information on this, please feel free to drop me an email at dbaptist@dbaptist.com or give me a call at (703) 622-5282.
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Flotsam and Jetsam waited over 20 years to nail us with a live offering, and the jury's out on whether this was too late to care. Long past their prime, but still releasing tolerable embellishments upon the sound and style they established through No Place for Disgrace, the band seemed to enjoy a small cult following despite the massive amounts of potential they seemed to espouse in the 80s. After all, with an alumni like Jason Newsted, whom they followed onto the Elektra Records roster, and further deals through MCA and Metal Blade, it was all but a sure thing that these Arizonans would become one of the 'saved' second tier of hopeful thrash metal acts. However, it just never happened for them, and thus they remain perpetually under the radar, surviving if never thriving.
The rhythm section does a pretty good job through the set, and as usual their music was a fine mix of grooving rhythms you could mosh to and more complex melodic structures. Most of the guys had been in the band for some time, at the very least since the late 90s, so they all do an adequate job. The lead tone is exciting and retains the vitality of the originals, but I'm not so sure about some of A.K.'s performance, which seems really strained on tracks like "The Master Sleeps". Half able to hit those notes, and half cracking or disintegrated in the attempt. That said, even though it makes sense for them to mix up the material, it's not the greatest of sets. For the built in audience, they should have included at least two more Doomsday songs and perhaps one other from the third album. But then again, I don't think this was a 'resurrection of Flotsam and Jetsam playing the oldies' gig so I can't really blame them for staying current...only for the fact that I just don't care for some of these selections.
Ultimately, it's not worth owning unless you are desperate to hear the band in some incarnation upon the stage, and have had no other means. And even then, spend a little extra to track down the DVD, because it's a lot more fun to witness when you can see them leaping around the stage in defiance of the geriatric lethargy these veterans can often experience. I've gotten to catch them a few times and I will say that they're better encountered in the flesh than on your couch. Unless you've got them on your couch...in the flesh...errr...I don't like where that's going.
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Science fiction movies love setting themselves in the future, and it’s easy to see why. People are fascinated by the future as a concept — it is a fantastical place, where new technologies, alien races, flying cars, and revamped human civilizations can all coalesce, stewing in the warm ferment of our imaginations.
But there’s a catch when it comes to setting a movie in the future: Eventually, the future arrives. Some good — and quite bad — movies place their stories in the not-so-distant future and pay the price. If we are to believe these films, the world should by now be covered in flying cars, sentient robots, and time-travelling super cops. Thankfully, none of this has come true yet. But we have rounded up some of the best examples of movies that got it all quite wrong.
Before Escape from New York, Kurt Russell had been in a lot of movies and TV shows, but it was John Carpenter’s 1981 action flick that really turned him into a star. Russell is Snake Plissken, a grizzled, one-eyed criminal who is tasked with saving the President from the island of Manhattan, which happens to be a super-max prison. Snake is incentivized to complete the mission when the New York Police Commissioner (Lee Van Cleef) has a couple of explosive devices attached to the ex-con’s heart.
Carpenter’s vision of the future is brutal fun, but it is lacking in much foresight. The President carries with him information that is vital to the future of society. The mode of transportation for this is a cassette tape; cutting-edge in 1981, not so much in 1997.
Time Chasers is an independent film that was made in rural Vermont in 1994, and none of that can excuse it for how bad it is. In fact it’s so hilariously inept that Mystery Science Theater 3000 riffed it in the show’s eighth season.
The movie ‘stars’ Matthew Bruch as Nick Miller, an inventor who turns a Cessna into a time machine. The characters are inadvertently funny, thanks to writer/director David Giancola’s script, and the special effects leave something to be desired.
But the silliest achievement of Time Chasers is its depiction of the future. Nick takes a reporter and an interested business exec to the year 2041. Granted this isn’t being written in 2041, but we’re fairly sure that no one will be running around in neon spandex and long coats, using bicycles as their sole mode of transportation, or talking on cellphones larger than any we have today.
It’s odd that the makers of Strange Days chose to set it only four years into the future. Once would think that if you wanted to make a hi-tech dystopian action flick, you’d put it at least a few decades out, no? Yet the new millennium was coming and we suppose that carries some symbolic weight.
Regardless, Strange Days is fantastic. Ralph Fiennes, giving one of his reliably-great performances, stars here as Lenny Nero, a street hustler who deals not in substances but fantasies. He sells life-like experiences on mini-discs to the poor and desperate like him, living day-to-day in a broken world. Once day though, Lenny obtains a disc that depicts a murder, an experience that puts his life in danger.
Simply put, the movie is just a little too extreme in its portrayal of Los Angeles on the eve of Y2K. Gangs rule the city, with the rich ferried around in armored limos. It’s a bit difficult to suspend disbelief when all this is supposed to be occurring only four years later.
Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in Timecop, which, simply put, is about a cop who polices time travel. The film is set in 1994, and officer Max Walker (Van Damme) is given the opportunity to work for the U.S. government’s Time Enforcement Commission, which is to fall under the auspices of Senator Aaron McComb (Ron Silver). It’s a huge break for him, but when he arrives home to tell his wife, she’s been killed in an explosion.
Ten years later, Walker is still a TEC cop. He discovers a plot by McComb to enrich himself using the 1929 stock market crash, and eventually finds that McComb orchestrated the murder of Walker’s wife. Needless to say, Van Damme’s martial-arts-infused Walker takes revenge. And in the end, he is reunited in an alternate 2004 with his happy wife and a nine-year-old son.
Timecop is a fun, if generic, sci-fi flick from the mid-nineties. It’s the biggest movie Van Damme has starred in, raking in over $100 million at the box office. But it does get one thing wrong: time travel. It is pure science fiction awesomeness, because we are nowhere close to discovering it.
Writer-director Andrew Niccol’s 1997 film Gattaca is an underrated sci-fi drama. It stars Ethan Hawke as Vincent Freeman, a genetically inferior man whose lifelong dream is to be an astronaut, but because of his DNA classification he’s relegated to a life of unskilled labor. Freeman soon meets a man with what society deems to be perfect genes (Jude Law), and he goes on to impersonate the man in order to achieve his goals. But the authorities catch wind of these efforts, and soon Freeman must fight for everything that’s important to him.
The movie is set in an unspecified “not-too-distant future,” when eugenics is commonplace. Real-life scientists are already at work modifying genes, hoping to discover cures and generally improve the standard of living. Thankfully, we are nowhere near the oppressive social structure featured in the film.
In 2018, John Connor (Christian Bale) has been sent back in time to protect his father Kyle Reese from Skynet and the Terminators. But he is too late; Reese has already been abducted by the robot army, taken prisoner like so many others. Connor’s only hope to rescue him is to join forces with Marcus (Sam Worthington), a man-machine hybrid whose true intentions are unclear.
Terminator Salvation is one of the sillier installments in the Terminator franchise. Its plot is overwrought with action, peripheral characters, and needless plot points. But the series’ core subject remains: indestructible artificial intelligence overrunning human civilization. Fortunately, in real-life there is no massive operation of androids taking over the planet and corralling survivors. As well, there aren’t any fifty-foot Harvester robots custom-built to grab up people. And while militaries around the world are currently working on robotic exoskeletons to increase the strength of soldiers, there aren’t as of yet any man-machine hybrids.
Ridley Scott’s hazy, dream-like Blade Runner is the go-to sci-fi dystopian epic for many a film aficionado. And with good reason. The cinematography is superb. The direction, pacing and writing all make the film crackle in expectation. And within all that is an exploration of man’s purpose and identity in a world where artificial intelligence has been perfected, in the form of beautiful, lifelike androids.
Many consider it to be the best sci-fi film out there. But when it comes to realism, things aren’t so pretty. The film’s setting is a vast metropolis version of Los Angeles in the year 2019, a conglomeration of slums and super-structures. The sheer size of the city and the buildings in it are fantastical. Onlly four years away from the date, we aren't anywhere close to seeing flying cars roaming the skies, let alone sentient automatons prowling the streets.
The movie that sent social media into giddy delight, Back to the Future Part II has our heroes Marty and Doc transported to October 21, 2015. In a lovable rehash of the first movie — the series doesn’t start pushing viewers’ endurance until the third film — Back to the Future Part II has Marty saving his family again, this time by going to the future. He must pose as his own son and ingratiate himself into society. To do this, Marty takes on a lot of the props of any self-respecting 2015 teen: self-lacing shoes, a hover board, and a flying car (in his case, a DeLorean). Granted, none of these things have come to fruition. Society does seem close, but we have not yet perfected self-lacing shoes.
These are minor issues. What is really jarring to see in a movie set in the year 2015 isn’t that there are a flying cars, but that everyone still uses payphones. And fax machines. And stationary bikes in lieu of stools inside coffee shops? This is getting weird.
2001: A Space Odyssey is a brilliant film. It is really hard to fault Stanley Kubrick for what many consider to be his masterpiece, a breathtaking meditation on man’s place in the universe and the meaning of our existence, cloaked in a dark space adventure film.
A scientist (Keir Dullea) and his shipmates are on an exploratory mission in the year 2001. They are aided on their journey by the HAL 9000, a cutting-edge computer with exceptional artificial intelligence that controls their ship. The mission goes awry as the computer turns evil. It is an awesome film full of suspense, reinforced by one of the most legendary scores of all time.
But 2001 wasn’t perfect. It did an amazing job of creating a futuristic environment for audiences to immerse themselves in, no doubt, but some of the technology was incorrect for the era. In the real year 2001, artificial intelligence was not yet at the point of sentience, of decision-making or subtle discernment.
On a less technological note, we see a Pan-Am jet being used early in the film, but by the year 2001 (in 1991, actually) Pan-Am had actually gone bankrupt and was dissolved.
Rollerball is set in 2018, but feels more like the year it was made, 1975. Between the clunky social commentary, rollerblading, and copious amounts of James Caan, the movie has some trouble taking the audience out of its era.
It’s the year 2018, and across the world corporations have replaced governments. And thanks to this, war is a thing of the past, replaced by hyper-violent sports. When they’re not at work, people gather at home and watch the brutal entertainment. Caan stars as a Jonathan, a famous rollerball player who is asked by his sponsors to retire due to his being overexposed. The totalitarian world discourages feelings of individual empowerment, as it could lead to solidarity, and so Jonathan’s image in society is seen by the rulers to be too provocative, too threatening. But Jonathan shirks their demands and goes on playing anyways. The powers that be make the game increasingly more dangerous, attempting to push him out with threat of violence.
In reality, nations have not yet been replaced by corporations. As well, our TVs aren’t one big screen with three small ones on top. We love sports, but it’s not all America watches by any means. In fact, society has trended towards video-streaming services, which have only expanded our viewing options.
Well, did we miss any? What are your favorite sci-fi flicks of the future?
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