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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 150
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 150
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Day of Respect for Taxpayers: We All Are VIP Clients of Public Institutions
by LFMIon May 11, 2022 May 11, 2022
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LFMI
On the May 11, Lithuania celebrates The Day of Respect for the Taxpayers. On this occasion, the Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI) stresses that a public sector that serves its citizens and creates value is an expression of respect for taxpayers.
The Day of Respect for the Taxpayers has been commemorated since 2018. Due to the LFMI’s initiative, it is included in the list of memorial days of the Republic of Lithuania.
“This day is important because it invites us to remember that the money contributed by taxpayers to the budget should be used in a meaningful way. The day encourages not only to talk but also to do tangible things so that our civil service really serves the people,” said Elena Leontjeva, President of LFMI.
So far, she said, respect for taxpayers has been achieved in a sluggish and cursory manner. The impact of laws, adjustment costs, and administrative burden are too rarely assessed. Taxpayers’ rights to a transparent and efficient tax system, quality advice, and planning are not always respected.
However, the situation is set to change. The Government set itself the objective of optimizing the public sector at the beginning of its term in office. The concept of civil service reform is now being discussed as well. The Economic Recovery and Resilience Plan for Lithuania, which aims to make public services more customer-oriented, also offers good opportunities.
“If implemented properly, the plan has the potential to fundamentally change the relationship between public authorities and taxpayers. From service recipients to customers, we should forget confusing laws, excessive bureaucracy, long chains of approvals, and even queues to see doctors. Instead, this would be a real tribute and appreciation for the value we all as taxpayers create every day,” said the President of LFMI.
It is not enough to digitalize the processes envisaged in the aforementioned documents to turn the plans into reality to achieve the various objectives.
“A prerequisite for digitization is reviewing and shortening all bureaucratic chains before digitizing them. The persistently lagging state information technology infrastructure warns that unnecessary and non-value-adding functions must be eliminated before they are digitized,” said Karolina Mickutė, Senior Expert at LFMI.
To do this, it is crucial to restructure public governance.
“Today, civil servants are in the unenviable position of not being able to help people because they are imprisoned by a plethora of rules and regulations and contradictions. So what needs to be done? – Systematically remove regulatory loopholes and bureaucratic barriers to people’s activities”, said Ms Leontjeva.
Therefore, it is essential to establish real accountability of civil servants to achieve the most important objectives to society and stop the useless procedures. Furthermore, this would allow public authorities to connect with citizens as their VIP customers.
“If people feel that civil servants are trying to serve rather than dominate, they will have a more positive attitude towards taxes,” said the head of LFMI.
Find out more about it in the event initiated by LFMI to discuss crucial steps to restructure public governance here.
The event was attended by the Deputy Minister of Finance Rūta Bilkštyte, Head of the 1st Department of Financial Audit of the State Audit Office Danguole Krištopavičienė, businesswoman Odeta Bložienė, Chairman of the Tax Disputes Commission Evaldas Raistenskis, and the Head of the Department of State Service Gediminas Miškinis.
All taxpayers’ rights (in Lithuanian) can be found at this link.
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About LFMI
The Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI) is a private non-profit non-partisan organisation established in 1990 to promote the ideas of individual freedom and responsibility, free market, and limited government.
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LFMI Publishes a Handbook on Public Policy
September 21, 2017. The Lithuanian Free Market Institute publishes a handbook on public policy analysis Government Against Scarcity: How it Changes Who We Are, focusing on...
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APOL-OF-YOUR-EYE
Children Of War - Short Film
The Baby Shug's Show
With the Audience
Resume + Headshots
Contact & Collaborate
NAFF: 8 DAYS & 265 FILMS OF CELEBRATING CINEMA
INSPIRING, ORIGINAL, & WORLDLY are three words that come to mind after attending the prestigious Nashville Film Festival that enlightened and enlivened our lives April 18 – 25, 2013 at the Regal Cinemas in Green Hills.
Sponsored by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and NISSAN and in coordination with the Duhok International Film Festival, NaFF was more than an unforgettable event, it was an exciting introduction and unity of cultures under one roof!
A great reward for attendance was the talk-backs post screenings and the one-on-one discussions with the independent filmmakers, composers, actors, producers, etc., in the lobby. The enthusiastic vibe that often exudes in an environment composed with a flourish of creative people encourages such correspondence so the experience of the screening goes beyond the film itself.
I’m HONORED to have met with the following Filmmakers:
Paul Eenhoorn – Lead Actor of “This Is Martin Bonner”
Richmond Arquette – Lead Actor of “This Is Martin Bonner”
Drew Denny – Director, Writer, Actor of “The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had With My Pants On”
Another significant and unique addition that attributed to NaFF’s reputation this year was the Kurdish Film Celebration at the War Memorial Auditorium on Sunday April 21st! The successful turn-out was a perfect example of how the universal language of film breaks down barriers and unites cultures together.
I had the pleasure to meet Kurdish Actor Ari Rufino.
I had the opportunity to see the following films:
FEATURES: Rhino Season, This Is Martin Bonner, A Letter to Momo, The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had With My Pants On
DOCUMENTARIES: These Birds Walk, Musicwood (Music Film Category)
SHORTS: Reed and Woody (Music Film Category); .sub (from Spain), The Foreigner (from Greece), The Last Border (from Germany), Reza Hassani Goes to the Mall (from USA), Shanghai Strangers (from China), That Which Once Was (from USA) (Crossing Cultures Category)
I’m looking forward to collaborating with local Nashville Filmmakers and having the HONOR to have a film screening at NaFF in the future!
Congrats to the Filmmakers, Sponsors, and Staff on a SUCCESSFUL INTERNATIONAL CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
LIVE. LOVE. LAUGH.
54 Hour FIlm Fest
Children Of War
Faith Flix Films
PROVIDENCE MOVIE
The Good Book
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Colorado Health Insurance Insider
No-cost broker assistance. Cutting edge health insurance analysis.
Is High Risk Pool Eligibility Guideline Hampering Enrollment?
July 5, 2011 By Louise Norris
A recent Denver Post article discusses the current state of GettingUsCovered – the high risk pool health insurance program created last year by the PPACA. The program is very similar to the twenty-year-old CoverColorado, but does have some key differences. GettingUsCovered requires that an applicant be uninsured for at least six months before joining the program, while CoverColorado does not. CoverColorado has different pricing depending on an applicant’s income (reduced rates are available if the applicant’s household income is lower than $50,000/year), while GettingUsCovered does not. And GettingUsCovered only offers one policy, a $2500 deductible plan. CoverColorado, on the other hand, offers seven standard deductible levels plus an HSA-qualified option.
But beyond those differences, the two plans are very similar. Both are designed to insure people who are not able to obtain health insurance in the individual market because of a pre-existing condition. Both plans allow people to enroll if they have certain medical conditions, even if they have not already been declined by a private carrier. Both plans offer policies to people who have recently been declined by a private health insurance carrier. Both plans also offer coverage to people who have been offered a policy in the individual market, but with an exclusion on a specific pre-existing condition. The only difference in terms of eligibility is that CoverColorado will also accept an applicant who has been offered a policy with a rate that exceeds the rate of a comparable CoverColorado policy. This option is not available from GettingUsCovered.
Ten years ago, pre-existing condition exclusion riders were very common in the individual health insurance market. These days, they are much less common, as more carriers have switched over to a rate increase model of underwriting. While a particular condition might have once resulted in a specific exclusion, it’s now much more likely to result in an increased premium (most rate increases are between 25% and 100%). A significant underwriting rate increase can easily make a policy more expensive than a comparable policy from CoverColorado, but it wouldn’t have any impact on eligibility for GettingUsCovered.
When GettingUsCovered was unveiled last year, I found it curious that they opted to make the policy available to people with pre-existing condition exclusion riders (which as I mentioned, are not very common anymore), but not to people who are being offered policies that are priced far above “standard” rates. Obviously, people who are declined in the individual market are eligible for coverage in a high risk pool, but far more people are offered policies with a rate increase compared with the number who are declined all together. GettingUsCovered has enrolled 830 people so far, but had expected about 4000. Perhaps allowing people to enroll if they were offered a private policy with a rate increase exceeding some set level would increase the enrollment numbers?
The most interesting part of the Denver Post article was the fact that GettingUsCovered members are using more than 3000 hospital days per 1000 members per year, compared with 750 hospital days per 1000 members per year for CoverColorado insureds. This would indicate that the population of people covered by GettingUsCovered is quite a bit sicker than the population covered by CoverColorado. I wonder if this has anything to do with the eligibility guidelines? Both plans accept people who have been declined by a private carrier, but CoverColorado also accepts people who have a pre-existing condition that results in an underwriting rate increase (as long as the rate increase puts the cost of the policy above the cost of a similar CoverColorado policy). In terms of underwriting actions for less serious conditions (those that don’t result in a decline), GettingUsCovered only takes people who have been offered a policy with an exclusion rider… which most carriers don’t do anymore. Perhaps this is resulting in GettingUsCovered being comprised mostly of members who have a condition that would result in a decline in the individual market, while CoverColorado has those members as well as members who have less serious conditions that simply result in a higher-priced policy in the individual market.
GettingUsCovered has added a question to their homepage, asking people why they decided not to apply, if they had originally intended to to so. Perhaps the feedback they get will help the program to grow its enrollment.
High Risk Pool Eligibility
Expanding Eligibility For Federally Administered High Risk Pool Coverage
Claims Expenses In New Colorado High Risk Pool Are Double The National Average
New High Risk Pool Unveiled Today In Colorado
Filed Under: Health Insurance Reform, Individual/Family Health
About Louise Norris
Louise Norris has been writing about health insurance and healthcare reform since 2006. In addition to the Colorado Health Insurance Insider, she also writes for healthinsurance.org, medicareresources.org, Verywell, Spark by ADP, and Boost by ADP, and Gusto. Follow on twitter and facebook.
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In-vivo corrosion and local release of metallic ions from vascular stents into surrounding tissue
Objectives. To evaluate retrieved bare metal vascular stents and surrounding tissue. Background. Limited information is available regarding the condition of stent surfaces and their interaction with vascular tissue following implantation. Corrosion of stents presents two main risks: release of metallic ions into tissue and deterioration of the mechanical properties of stents which may contribute to fracture. Release of heavy metal ions could alter the local tissue environment leading to up-regulation of inflammatory mediators and promote in-stent restenosis. Methods. Nineteen cases were collected from autopsy, heart explants for transplant, and vascular surgery (23 vessels containing 33 bare metal stents). A method was developed for optimal tissue dissolution and separation of the stent/tissue components without inducing stent corrosion. When available, chemical analysis was performed to assess metallic content in both the control and dissolved tissue solutions. Electron microscopy and digital optical microscopy imaging were used to evaluate stents. Results. Twelve of the 33 stents showed varying degrees of corrosion. Metallic levels in the tissue surrounding the corroded stents were significantly higher (0.5-3.0 μg/cm2 stent) than in control solutions (0-0.30 μg/cm 2 stent) and in tissue surrounding stents that did not undergo corrosion (0- 0.20 μg/cm2 stent). Conclusions. Corrosion of some retrieved stents is described which leads to transfer of heavy metal ions into surrounding tissue. The contribution of this metallic ion release to the mechanisms of in-stent restenosis as well as its effect on the mechanical properties of stents is unknown and requires further investigation.
Brigitta Brott
Jack Lemons
Halwani DO; Anderson PG; Lemons JE; Jordan WD; Anayiotos AS; Brott BC
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what are the arguments for and against a plural executive?
It destroys responsibility, delays action by the necessity of consultation and hence establishes feeble government. Answer to: Explain the idea of plural executive and how it operates in Texas. 0 0. Those two kinds of executive often debated by politicians, which one is the best for the what was new about it, and why did the delegates think such a new off was needed? Read Chapter 8, including âYou Decide: Voices of Texas: A Plural or Single Executive?â and write an essay answering the following questions: How does the power of the governor in Texas compare to other states? Before discussing the arguments in favor of and against the unitary executive, the terminology of the debate should be clarified. What are the arguments for and against a plural executive? Plural executive definition is - a group of officers or major officials (as a board of directors) or a committee that functions in making current decisions or in giving routine orders usually the responsibility of an individual executive officer or official. Answer Save. Plural Executive. There are two types of executive branch based on the power distribution, single executive and plural executive. can someone give an opinion or a really really dumbed down internet site please the office of president of the united states was a new office invented at the Philadelphia convention. Also, the plural executive is voted in and not subject to cancellation. INTRODUCTION ⢠According to the a plural executive system of government limits the power of the executive, which could be a president or governor, by distributing power across several elected leaders. 70, Hamilton states, This structure provides an additional set of checks against the concentration of authority. What are the arguments for and against a plural executive? While Congress would deliberate, the president would act with decisiveness and dispatch. What are the arguments for and against a plural executive? What is a plural executive? What are the arguments for and against a plural executive? Why or why not? Plural executive lacks force, energy, unity of purpose and independence. Do you believe that the plural executive is more democratic than the single executive model? Does the plural executive lead to more efficient and accountable government? Against: Rise of other religions and the non-religious The 2011 census suggested there were 14.1 million people of no religion compared with 7.7 million a decade previously. 1. Texas utilizes a âplural executiveâ which means the power of the Governor are limited and distributed amongst other government officials. But the conventional jus tifications for rejecting plural executives are powerful weapons against only some very specific forms of plural executive regimes. Does it lead to more efficient and accountable government? 1. What are the arguments for and against a plural executive? It goes all the way back to the founding. According to the University of Texas at Austin, a plural executive system of government limits the power of the executive, which could be a president or governor, by distributing power across several elected leaders. What is a plural executive? What are the arguments for and against a plural executive? Why or why not? Why or why not? What is a plural executive? Why or why not? The plural executive does not speak with one clear voice, but is comprised of many different views and ideas. The other elected officials are not required to answer to the executive. 1 decade ago. what does this mean any examples? What are the arguments for and against a plural executive? The arguments for strong executive appointment and removal powers apply at each level of government and may involve the president, governors, or mayors. The public elects most of the executive officials, making them accountable to voters as opposed to one top leader. Abbott, as it turns out, has been remarkably stingy with executive orders, perhaps an attorneyâs view of that particular toolâs value. ... an executive can concentrate his or her energy on solving problems that she/he can manage well. Why or why not? Do you believe that the plural executive is more democratic than the single executive model? What are the arguments for and against each model? What are the arguments for and against a plural executive? Why or why not? A Plural or Single Executive? To be sure, the framers invoked important arguments for a unitary executive. The role of an executive branch is to carry out the law. Hamilton,3 and Montesquieu,6 and the historical fact that most plural executive regimes were ineffectual councils. The writing assignment should be a minimum of 750 words. What is the single executive model? Again, in Federalist No. How does the single executive model differ from the plural executive model? The Federal government has no such thing as a plural executive, but does have checks and balances, yet this varies greatly since there is no one group whose main focus is to keep the power in check of another branch or the President. Do you believe the plural executive lead to more efficient and accountable government? In other words, there is not one government official in Texas that is solely responsible for the Texas Executive Branch. Do you believe that the plural executive is more democratic than the single executive model? The unitary executive theory is a theory of United States constitutional law which holds that the President of the United States possesses the power to control the entire executive branch. Select ONE of the following topics to answer for Writing Assignment 2. Local governments are even more âmixedâ in terms of seperarion of powers. Soon after it convened, the Constitutional Convention agreed to have a single executive as opposed to a plural executive which was favored by a few delegates who feared the reinstitution of a monarchy. 70, titled "The Executive Department Further Considered", is an essay written by Alexander Hamilton arguing for the unitary executive provided for in the United States Constitution. Un fortunately, this early confusion has been replicated over and over in This protects the executive from abusing power. A unitary executive system is one in which a single official presides over the en-tire executive branch. Executive branch is one of the three branches in a government. Anonymous. Why or why not? What is the single executive model? Do you believe that the plural executive is more democratic than the single executive model? asked Feb 21, 2019 in Political Science by Shadra. Do you believe the plural executive lead to more efficient and accountable government? Does the plural executive lead to more efficient and accountable government? âEnergy in the executive,â Hamilton said, âis a leading characteristic of a good government.â Favorite Answer. 2 Answers. Why or why not? Greater disagreements persisted on the manner of electing the executive. What are the arguments for and against a plural executive? Why or why not? Supporters of the plural executive model argue that it is essential to ensure executive accountability to the public. A plural executive system, in its Do you believe that the plural executive is more democratic than the single executive model? Times New Roman, 12 point font, double-spacing, and one inch margins on all four sides of the paper. Arguments for and Against a Plural Executive. Evaluate the arguments advanced for a single executive and those for plural executive.? How does the single executive model differ from the plural executive model? ⢠If you were to design a state executive branch, how would you decide whether to have a plural executive or a single executive? 4 years ago. evaluate the arguments for a single executive and a plural executive? So in a way, everyone agrees that ours is a unitary executive. What is a plural executive? What are the arguments for and against a plural executive? Select ONE of the following topics to answer â What is a plural executive model? Plural executive system 1. What are the arguments for and against a plural executive? Read Chapter 8, including âYou Decide: Voices of Texas: A Plural or Single Executive?â and write an essay answering the following questions: How does the power of the governor in Texas compare to other states? Chad. Why or why not? What is a plural executive model? Why or why not? Feeble government is another name for bad government. Hello my fellow We the Peopler! PLURAL EXECUTIVE SYSTEM 2. Those who make these arguments come from across the political spectrum and are not uniformly for or against the administrative state. Does the plural executive lead to more efficient and accountable government? What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a plural executive? What is the single executive model? Below are some of the members of the Texas Plural Executive and their roles: The decision to create a unitary rather than plural executive was debated and decided. Does the plural executive lead to more efficient and accountable government? The Constitution does not create a "plural" executive; Article II, section 1 vests executive power in one person, the president of the United States. ⢠Is the plural executive more democratic than the single executive model? Why or why not? Why or why not? 1. The United States federal government operates under a unitary executive system. Why or why not? Relevance. He repeatedly argues that the president must have broad authority to conduct matters of war, and must not be impeded by plural executive or other circumstances which might render the executive unable to competently carry out its duties. Read Chapter 8, including âYou Decide: Voices of Texas: A Plural or Single Executive?â and write an essay answering the following questions: How does the power of the governor in Texas compare to other states? What is the single executive model? Do you believe the plural executive lead to more efficient and accountable government? Most states have plural executives to one degree or another. Why or why not? Do you believe the power of the governor should be increased, decreased or remain the same? Federalist No. Does the plural executive lead to more efficient and accountable government? Why or why not? Do you believe that the plural executive is more democratic than the single executive model? Below are some of the members of the Texas Plural Executive and their roles: Lieutenant Governor: Serves as the presiding officer of the Texas Senate, first in line of succession for Governor, member of the Legislative Redistricting Board, Chair of the Legislative Budget Board, elected to 4 years terms by the public with no term limits.Dan Patrick is the current Texas Lieutenant Governor. executive is the war-making powers of the federal government.
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The Mill Casino leverages IGT PlaySports technology to offer guests retail sports betting
LONDON, Nov. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- International Game Technology PLC ("IGT") (NYSE: IGT) announced today that its PlaySports technology is now powering retail sports betting at The Mill Casino in North Bend, Oregon. Patrons of The Coquille Indian Tribe-owned casino can now place a range of sports wagers over the counter or via the casino's IGT PlaySports kiosks.
"We are extremely pleased to be the only casino in Southern Oregon to provide our guests access to the excitement of sports betting through IGT's PlaySports technology," said Terri Porcaro, CEO of The Mill Casino. "This new option perfectly complements our slots and table games offering and gives our customers even more reasons to visit our waterfront destination."
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Nir-Laksha Dweepa-Day3-Minicoy
December 6, 2013 May 14, 2010 by Krishna Mohan
Boat Jetty at Minicoy
I was rudely woken up at two o’clock in the morning to find out that air conditioner of the ship had stopped working. AC did not restart at all. It was getting hot and uncomfortable in the room. Even the tiredness of Kalpeni’s long snorkeling trip did not help me to get back to sleep. There was no way I could open the window as it was blocked by life-saving raft. The fan in our room was so tiny and inefficient. So I spent rest of the early morning hours tossing and turning in my bunker bed till rays of the morning sun started peeping through the window.
I grabbed a cup of tea from the cafeteria and rushed to the deck. I could see many people who had a very bad night’s sleep wandering on the deck like zombies. Early morning sun was still below the horizon covered by clouds. I could see a faint glow of light from the lighthouse of Minicoy. Our ship was anchored quite far away from the island.
Ground Level shot of Boat Jetty
After breakfast we all disembarked and were taken In smaller boats to the island. White sand beaches were visible from a distance. The lighthouse made a perfect setting too! It was a long journey of over 40minutes to reach the island. The boat jetty(pier) was a long and beautiful one leading us into the island. At the other end stood a majestic fish canning factory for canning tuna fish. Outside the fish canning factory stood our transport which was a mini tempo rickshaw.
Tuna Canning factory
We were soon taken to to Minicoy SPORTS resort. As always there we were welcomed on the island with tender coconuts.
We then left to see the nearby lighthouse. This a historic lighthouse, very well constructed by British long back in 1885. It has withstood time and weather till today. Even though you would need to climb about 200 spiral stairs to reach the top, we were glad we did it. Those were the best views of Minicoy island. The island had already amazed us, but the all round view of the white sand beaches along with the carpet of coconut trees are too good a sight to be put in words.
Minicoy island assumed a great importance by virtue of its strategic location after opening Suez canal 1869 which shortened the sea distance between Europe and Far East by 4000 miles. The British government in consultation with Lord Rippon, the then Governor General took a decision in 1882 to construct a Light House in this Island. As this Island was full of coconut trees it was envisaged to construct 49metre high Light house tower to provide around visibility.
Grey Heron with Cattle Egret
The tower was constructed in brick masonry and the black bricks used was as hard stone , which was specially brought from “Birmingham of England and special adhesive compound from Holland”. The construction of Light house was completed in March 1884 and lighting equipment consisted of a kerosene wick lamp enclosed by a lantern was installed in December 1884 by a skilled mechanic from London The light house was formally commissioned on 2nd February 1885. In 1928 the wick lamp was replaced by Petroleum Vapor burner increasing luminous intensity considerably.
View From The top of Lighthouse
British Government did not transfer the administration of Light house till April 1956. The De-jure transfer of administration to the Government of India has to wait further till 19th September 1963.
After the Light house was taken over by Government of India plans were drawn to improve equipment. Department of Light houses and Light Ships under the Ministry of shipping and Transport modernized the Light house Equipment by Installing 85 mm vapor burner with revolving lens apparatus of first order large (920 mm focal length ) was installed in 1968. The light had an Effective beam intensity of 1.2 Million candelas with a range of 26 Nautical miles. A powerful medium frequency marine Radio beacon with effective range of 400 Km was also installed in 1982 to provide increased navigational Guidance. A Radar transponder RACON was also commissioned in 1985 as an additional guidance to the Mariner.
Spiral Staircase of Lighthouse
As the technology developed the old Petroleum vapor burner was replaced by Metal Halide Electric Lamp controlled by electronic circuit. The Light house range was then leaped to 50 miles from 26 miles of kerosene lamp. The new generation of Maritime system of Satellite communication Differential Global Positioning System(Latest in India) installed in 1998. The Light house renders a vital navigation guidance to ships in international lanes from Aden to Colombo, Suez to Singapore and Far East.
Mini Lagoon of backwater
Enough on lighthouse history let us get down to Minicoy island. Back from the Lighthouse we were thirsty again, but the much needed tender coconut was now on sale. Tour planning had totally missed this thirst factor. If we had not given that welcome drink earlier but provided it at a later time it would have been nicer.
Thirsty again
We spent the next few hours on the beach sea bathing and swimming in the ocean. Snorkeling was not much fun as there were no large corals but a quiet salty pool with sand made of powdered coral. We swam and kayaked till afternoon. Few of our friends were able to spot few sea turtles deep in that salt pool. The scene was beautiful but the sun was harsh. We missed the cloud which helped us at Kalpeni. Soon we were tired and sunburnt and came back to freshen up and have lunch.
Clear Blue Lagoon
Under the Shade
Swimming & Kayaking at Minicoy
Panorama by stitching two images
Bright Blue Beach
Lunch was served in the resort and was followed by so called folk dance which was customized for us. It consisted of some filmy dances and other similar tunes. This was a pretty unimpressive staple they were trying to show us as their folk dances. We later found out that their original folk dances which consist of Lava, Thaara, Dandi, Fuli and Bandiya nowhere resembled these. We also found out about language and culture of Minicoy Island.
Folk Dance!
Later in the evening we were taken around the island to see one of the villages and interact with the people of Minicoy. We were served evening tea by the local ladies. In that shed we saw colourful and elegant race boat known as Jahadhoni used for race, reception of dignitaries and for annual picnic to Viringili islet.
Jahadhoni - Racing Boat
Here is brief what I found out about Minicoy. Minicoy or Maliku as they call their island, is the southern most island in Lakshadweep. Among the islands of the territory, it has perhaps the oldest recorded history. Marco Polo referred to it as the female island. Ibn Batuta, the African Globe trotter who visited Maldives in the fourteenth Century, mentions about this beautiful island Muluk, from where he married two women during his short stay for seventy days.
The island is crescent-shaped, and more than 10 Km in length from end to end. The lagoon is large and deep enough for small ships to enter. There is a small island at the northern tip of the main island, known as Viringili which was used by the people for isolating small –pox patients in olden days, and therefore is also known as Small Pox island. Within the lagoon, the reef dries at low tide at the north-western entrance, constituting an ideal place for marine collections.
Children of Minicoy
The Minicoyans are children of the sea. In olden days their vessels went far into Arabia, the Maldives, Andaman, Bengal and Burma. More than half of the inhabitants of working age are employed as seamen in ocean going vessels all over the world. The islanders have their own Seamen’s Associations at Calcutta and Bombay, which provide employment opportunities for prospective young men. The profession of the seamen, which make the ordinary Minicoyan a globetrotter, and has also helped him to embellish his household with articles found the world over. He uses exquisitely painted china wares and his beds are spread with silks brought from abroad. The cloth for this turban and Haryal are still brought from Calcutta. So are the Libba cloth for women and the fine laces that decorate the clothing.
All sizes of nuts
Among the many foreign influences which the islanders have adopted may be listed the duodecimal (also known as base-12 or dozenal) system of numerical notation. This is however almost extinct but with a few very old people, who still use it for counting coconuts.
Houses in Maliku are the property of the female line. Men, throughout their lives, have the right of a kot in their mother’s house. Members of the house are the siblings and the children of the sisters. All the members carry the same house name throughout their lives. Persons with the same house name are prohibited from marrying one another. At the outset, marriage is a visiting marriage. Ideally, husbands come after dinner and leave their wives’ house before breakfast. During the daytime, they come for tea in the afternoon. They take the rest of their meals in their mother’s house. As a couple grows older a husband spends more and more time in his wife’s house until finally the daily rhythm is reversed: he takes his meals in his wife’s house and visits his mother’s for tea in the afternoon. But, at least once a day he has to visit his house, even if his mother is no longer alive. Discontinuing visits to a house is a definite sign of being ruli (angry), that means breaking a relationship.
Ladies who served us tea
The main attraction of the island is its carefully arranged villages, known as Athiris. Each Athiri has its own internal organization headed by a Moopan, around which the life of the community rests. They have their own village house, their own streets, bathing tanks, places of worship and burial. The public clubs for men and women which were the centers of a day night life in olden days are extinct now, but the buildings are still maintained in tact. Another curious remnant of old life in the island is the sheds where profligate men and women were exposed to communal punishment.
The cultural traits of Minicoy differ from those of any other island in Lakshadweep. Manners, customs and food are similar to those of the neighboring Maldives a dialect of Dhivehi or Mahl, is the language spoken on the island. This language employs the Ta-na script, written from right to left. The 9500 inhabitants of Minicoy were Buddhist before, but now are mostly Sunni Muslims.
Sunset from minicoy
The houses, which stand in their own private enclosures, are arranged in streets. All the houses have a swing cot made of wood which is beautifully furnished and painted in different hues. In Minicoy there are 10 villages in the island. Each village is headed by a Bodukaka (big brother) and a Bodudatha (Big Sister) assisted by a 2nd Bodukaka and a 2nd Bodudatha. First Bodukaka looks after the internal matters of the village and 2nd Bodukaka the external affairs.
Glowing ship
Each village has a village house where baemedu (assemblage of villagers) is held. The assemble of people from all the villages is known as havaru. As source of income a village has fishing boats, country crafts and coconut trees. Common feasts are conducted at the village house during the celebrations of Eid and other festive occasions.
Once back on the ship, the journey resumed, we realized that ships air conditioner was still not repaired. We wondered how to spend without air conditioner. Later during the dinner we met the chief engineer of the ship who promised that the AC will be repaired in an hour or so. We went to bed hoping the AC will be on soon. But our hope remained just a hope and the room remained just as hot and sultry till we reached Kavaratti Island next day.
End of a glorious day
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14 thoughts on “Nir-Laksha Dweepa-Day3-Minicoy”
The panorama and the last shot has come out very nice .
Shrikanth Hegde
good narration and nice pictures! Thanks
drkrishi
Srikanth, Thank you
Krishna Mohan
Shanavas
Beautiful perspective (Boat jetty at minicoy shots)
Appreciated dedication.
I am also planning for a trip to singapore this august, but I am worried that I will able to entertain my kids fully, if I take camera with me..
How did you manage these all…
I am expecting few comments on these while concluding the narration…
Shanavas,
Thanks again. Remember when you are going on holidays with family, it is to relax and enjoy. Make photography not a burden, but a joy. Involve your family in the photograph and don’t neglect them when you are deeply focused trying to get that unique image nobody has captured. I feel travel photography need to be fun and spontaneous than preplanned. Take your camera and enjoy your trip. But when your kids need you, you should be able to keep camera away and enjoy trip with them. Travel light and take camera everywhere, that way you can capture the most of your great moments. Don’t spend too much time pondering over the photos. Shoot and enjoy !!
Thanks for this great advice.
Mohith
Doc, next time go to Borneo. By luck you may have a chance of discovering some new species of animals!
Laxminarayana Bhat P
Well, a lot of advice has come your way, Doctor. But, in life, generally there are two categories of people: those who give advice (unsolicited) and those who don’t take them!!!
Muralidhar bhat
Nice article sir ,and v v good photo`s too lovely
nagesh hegde
Good photography, good reporting indeed…!
k l reddy
excellent photography,article is quite informative,information about thelight house and minicoy island is amazing.it really refreshed my memories and you have grasped the island in toto.narrating language and style is very attractive,thank you.
Vinayaka
Krishi sir, had heard about this trip from Ashokvardhan sir, but nw reading the article and seeing the fotos made me recall quiet a lot…
Hello Krishi! Can I use one of your images posted here? Thank you! 🙂
Riyaaz
Thank you for appreciating our island. The pictures were exeptional
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Back HomeEditionCatalogScoresChamber Music Mikhail Krutik: Mirage
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Mikhail Krutik: Mirage
Mikhail Krutik: Mirage quantity
SKU: РЕ 015 П Categories: Catalog, Chamber Music, Edition, Scores, Solo Tag: Mikhail Krutik
Composer Mikhail Krutik
Scored for piano
Instruments pno
Genre piano music
Dedication to Nikolay Mazhara
Mikhail Krutik was born in 1980 in Krasnoyarsk. At the age of five he started study music. He is a graduate of St.Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory (2003, class of violin – A.Shustin). In 2003 -2005 Mikhail took a post-graduate studies.
Since 1999 he works at the St.Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra (since 2008 – assistant-concertmaster).
Krutik has been awarded prizes at following international competitions.
He performed at international music festivals, such as “Brahms Evenings” (1997), “Fives Evenings” (2001), “Musical Spring of St.Petersburg” (2003-2011), “Sound Ways” (2001-2010), “Time of Music” (2004, Finland), “Bang on a Can” (2008, USA)
Since 1994 has been active as a composer. In 1995 he was awarded a diploma at the International Youth Competition “I Am A Composer” (St.Petersburg).
In 1996-1999 he attended lectures and courses at the International Seminar of New Music “Sound Ways” where he studied with Prof. P. H. Diettrich, Prof. G.Crumb, Prof. S.Slonimsky and others. 1998 – 2003 he attended composition class of S.Slonimsky at the Conservatory.
His works for various instrumental ensembles were performed in St.Petersburg, at the “Sound Ways” festival, Moscow (festivals “60 years of memory”, “Soul of Japan”) as well as in Copenhagen. In 2003-2004 Kruik took part in Pro Arte Institute’s project “Pythian Games”. In 2004 he was awarded the prize for his work “Twenty seven”. Movies with soundtracks by Mikhail Krutik were awarded International Prizes.
Mikhail performes in Russia and abroad both as a soloist and as a member of different chamber ensembles. He plays in such concert halls as Grand and Small halls of St. Petersburg Philharmonia, Chamber Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Rudolf Oetker Halle in Bielefeld and Beethovenhalle in Bonn, wih outstanding conductors, such as Y. Domarkas, V. Altshuler, A. Titov, V. Petrenko.
As a member of “Krasny” Quartett he recorded S.Taneyev’s string quartetts on “Olympia Records”.
At the present time, Krutik is a member of St.Petersburg Philharmonic String Quartet, Avantgarde-Quartet and Ensemble of the Pro arte Institute.
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Nintendo Pin-up Playing Cards (ca 1970)
Following the previous post on Nintendo's playing cards, here's a somewhat surprising item.
"Nintendo" and "Pin-up" are two words you don't expect to see close together on a product. At least, not in today's world. But in the past this was different, as this pack of Nintendo Pin-up Playing Cards shows.
Not sure about the date, but the packaging is similar to Nintendo's 1972 Miracle Trump, so I'd place it around that time.
In the 1960s and (early) 70s, Nintendo was still very much a standard playing card manufacturer. And pin-ups have long been a popular theme for playing cards, so it is not really a surprise to find this in their then product portfolio.
Pin-up Playing Cards, front and back
The real surprise, if you may call it that, is in the way the pack opens. Nintendo managed to add some innovation to the crowded market of playing cards featuring scantily clad women.
On the top of the pack, a message states "please pull in the direction of the arrow" (矢印の方向に引いてください).
Sliding the lid sideways undresses the lady shown on the front and the back.
At the same time, the cards are pushed up.
The cards themselves feature semi-nude Western ladies.
This pack of Pin-up Playing Cards isn't the only set Nintendo produced in this genre. Multiple others exist, many of which were made on behalf of other companies, who gave them away as promotional items.
The one shown on the right in the below picture, for instance, was produced for Japanese whiskey giant Suntory. Giving new meaning to the slogan "for relaxing times, make it Suntory time".
Two more examples of Nintendo pin-up playing cards
When Nintendo became more established as a toy company, fully focussed on children and families, they soon dropped this kind of product, in order to build their current 100% clean, offenseless image.
Related topics: Nintendo, Playing Cards
ひかる September 2, 2012 at 4:09 PM
This is very good! I am also searching.
Because present Nintendo never puts on the market.
from Isao Yamazaki
Razor Beamz January 17, 2013 at 2:14 PM
Just wondering, why did you censor the cards and not the box?
Erik Voskuil May 30, 2013 at 11:09 AM
There is no formal policy behind that decision. Although the cards are quite innocent (IMO), this blog is read by people from all sort of ages and backgrounds, and that is why I did not want to overdo it with the nudity. However, I thought the way that box opens was too funny not to show, and censoring that would have spoiled the fun.
Maybe you should just put a script up that opens the "You must be 18+" to view thing you see on some websites? I'm personally interested in what the entire deck looks like xD
Nintendo / Namco Bomb Bee-N (ボムビーN, 1979)
Nintendo Kôsenjû Duck Hunt (光線銃 ダックハント, 1976)
Nintendo Custom Lever Action Rifle poster
Nintendo Wild Gunman Game (荒野のガンマン ゲーム, 1972)
Meet the collectors - #2 - Fabrice Heilig
Meet the collectors - #1 - Simon Sharratt
Nintendo Playing Cards (1950s)
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The Queen’s Secret: A Novel of England’s World War II Queen by Karen Harper
Karen Harper comes to the blog with a story based on the life of the Queen Mother, the reluctant, albeit memorable wife of George VI and mother of Elizabeth II with
The Queen’s Secret
No one expected that Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon would ascend to be Queen when she married the Duke of York in 1923. He was not the heir to the throne, and was perfectly content not being in that position. Then came Wallis Simpson and the abdication of Edward VII. Elizabeth, her husband “Bertie” and their two young daughters (Elizabeth and Margaret) found themselves in Windsor Castle, and their children were next in line for the throne.
Far from being a ‘shrinking violet’, Elizabeth’s determination to support and cheer on her husband, do her duty (which Edward VII walked from) but managed to become much admired by the public, and highly feared by opponents. Her strict “how we do things” hid both a wicked sense of humor, a finely tuned sense of people’s agendas, and the ability to organize and present situations that will both help defeat the Nazis but also in her personal interactions. Supportive, loving and kind – she wasn’t without her faults and prejudices, but was, in a way, one of the last of the “old guard royals” straddling the fence between ‘what the castle releases’ and the new emergence of radio and television, as well as a seeming loosening of the restrictions on press reporting of royal events.
Most significantly, Elizabeth had a long memory and her own insecurities often led to some rather ‘grudge-like’ decisions: the ultimatum against Wallis Simpson – an until death dislike. With snippets from her childhood and past mixed in to the present, several moments with and from people from all walks of life, small vignettes of her daughter’s wanting to fight, and her ability to ‘draw others’ into conversations and sharing their lives that provided insight, and I am sure were heartwarming and welcoming to those she encountered. A lovely story that gives those unfamiliar with Queen Elizabeth II’s strength and persona a glimpse into the beginning, as well as showing the Queen Mother as a person with onerous responsibilities who never forgot who she was, or what the Royals represent to the country, people and world.
Title: The Queen's Secret
Author: Karen Harper
Genre: Biographic / autobiographic, British, Historic Elements, Historic Woman's Fiction, Historical Fiction, Political commentary, Setting: Britain, Sociological Relevancy, World War II
Published by: William Morrow
Published on: 19 March, 2020
Source: Publisher Via Edelweiss
Audio Length: 10 Hours: 27 minutes
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If you love Jennifer Robson or The Crown you will love New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper’s novel about Elizabeth, The Queen Mother.
1939. As the wife of the King George VI and the mother of the future queen, Elizabeth—“the queen mother”—shows a warm, smiling face to the world. But it’s no surprise that Hitler himself calls her the “Most Dangerous Woman in Europe.” For behind that soft voice and kindly demeanor is a will of steel.
Two years earlier, George was thrust onto the throne when his brother Edward abdicated, determined to marry his divorced, American mistress Mrs. Simpson. Vowing to do whatever it takes to make her husband’s reign a success, Elizabeth endears herself to the British people, and prevents the former king and his brazen bride from ever again setting foot in Buckingham Palace.
Elizabeth holds many powerful cards, she’s also hiding damaging secrets about her past and her provenance that could prove to be her undoing.
In this riveting novel of royal secrets and intrigue, Karen Harper lifts the veil on one of the world’s most fascinating families, and how its “secret weapon” of a matriarch maneuvered her way
A copy of this title was provided via Publisher Via Edelweiss for purpose of honest review. I was not compensated for this review: all conclusions are my own responsibility.
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Undead and Done: Undead #15 by MaryJanice Davidson
I’d been away from Queen Betsy and the havoc she brings to nearly every situation for a bit. Oh yes, I have all the books – an automatic purchase each time a new one comes out. But, with everything else, I hadn’t the chance to just dive into the world and laugh out loud for a weekend. Now, the final planned installment of the Undead (Queen Betsy) series is out with book 15, and MaryJanice Davidson hasn’t lost a bit of the humor.
Undead and Done
Betsy’s plate is full: now the new boss in Hell after taking over from half-sister Laura, she’s still dealing with the inevitable fallout and learning curve when yet another task is thrown in her lap. And she does it with her usual mix of clever thinking outside the box, happy and not so coincidences, and plenty of interior (mostly) narration that leads to shoes, smoothies, more shoes and, wait for it, fashion sense or lack of it.
What is a wonderful addition here is the footnotes, either notating where a particular scene or series of scenes can be found, a snarky comment from Betsy, a few notes from the author and even a bit of backstory, readers couldn’t completely jump into the story without having read some of the earlier books in the series – but as I can attest, there are plenty of new elements and predicaments to keep you engaged as long as you are familiar with the major players.
Eric Sinclair is still around and he is the perfect sensible, mostly calm balance to Betsy’s outrageousness. Tina, the vampire assistant is there with a penchant for oddly flavored vodka is as organized and rather humorless as possible. We revisit with the Wyndham Pack, have Marc the former ER doc now in residence, BabyJon is growing and they’ve added 2 lab puppies to the mix. What’s missing is Jessica in residence with her husband and twins – moved out when Laura, the Antichrist and Betsy’s half sister decided to out the vampires in hopes that Betsy would be shamed into silence and disappear.
Davidson uses humor, a fascination with shoes, fashion and smoothies, and the entrance to hell in the food court just like the one at the Mall of America to set her story… Yep. It’s silly and snarky and has moments of danger and pure on goofy fun, completely refreshing and wholly different than the angst ridden battles between good and evil, where guilt and self-obsession rule the day. It’s a lighthearted (mostly) story full of the Betsy that has grown into her position, dragging iit into a form of her own shape and making. The perfect ending for the series proper, with opportunities for ‘cameo appearances’ from the characters that have been so integral and loved.
Title: Undead and Done: A Queen Betsy Novel
Author: MaryJanice Davidson
Series: Undead #15
Genre: Contemporary Paranormal Romance, Humor elements, Vampires
Published by: Berkley
Published on: 4 October, 2016
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Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor continues her rule in Hell in the scorchingly funny finale to the Undead series from New York Times bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson.
It had been a well-kept secret for centuries, but now the existence of vampires is all over the news, thanks to Betsy Taylor’s half sister (and the frustrated former Antichrist), Laura. Life for the undead will never be the same, and it’s up to Betsy to do some damage control. But her interview on the local news doesn’t exactly put out the fire. It more or less pours kerosene on it.
With all the added attention on supernatural beings, the werewolves are more than a little agitated (never a good thing) and demand that Betsy gets her interview skills, and her family, in order. And while things go from bad to worse in the world, Hell continues to be hell—especially when Betsy’s new parole program becomes about as complicated as you’d expect.
With a PR team launching a vampire-friendly campaign, the devil at large and out to make trouble, and mermaids on hand to see who falls—and how hard—the end isn’t just near. It’s here. And if anyone knows how to go out with a bang, it’s the queen of Hell.
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About MaryJanice Davidson
MaryJanice Davidson is a former model and medical test subject, as well as a New York Times best-selling author who has no idea why she is a success at what she does. ("No idea. At all.") Her books have been translated into several languages and are available in 15 countries ("No one is more surprised than I."). She frequently speaks to book clubs ("I don't know why my books sell."), writer's groups ("I don't know why I'm on best-seller lists."), and World War Two veterans ("Thanks for driving Hitler to suicide!"). She lives with husband, family, and dogs in St. Paul, MN, and loves ("No, really...I do!") hearing from readers.
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Something Lost
by Lisa Cristal
The breeze came in through the open window. Lila’s eyes fluttered awake and as she stretched in bed she felt lighter, as if something inside of her was missing.
She called to her mother in a panic, “Mother, something is gone.”
“Don’t tell me that you misplaced the necklace from your betrothed.”
“Of course not,” she said crossly. “It’s much more serious than that.”
Her mother pulled back the sheets and found a single drop of blood on the sheets.
“Who was with you last night?” demanded her mother.
“No one. Sister slept in my room.”
“No!” Her mother looked horrified, angry and sad at the same time. “The marriage imp has stolen your virginity. My mother told me about the legends.
“Your betrothed and his family will not be happy. Some do not believe that the marriage imp exists and think it is merely an excuse for wayward daughters. The best we can hope for is that your father can find more goats to add to your dowry.”
But Lila was not someone who would simply accept things. No imp was going to destroy her life.
Her betrothed, Matthew, came over later that day. “You seem different, Lila. You seem lighter and unhappy.”
Lila looked down at the ground. She whispered, “The marriage imp stole my virginity. But I know that that will not change anything between us.”
Matthew seemed startled. “Are you sure that is what happened? Of course, there are the old legends, but nobody believes such stories now. If my parents find out the marriage will be called off. According to our customs my wife must be a maid.”
Lila said sharply, “You know me. Of course, that is what happened. Technically, I am still a maid. When the marriage imp steals your virginity, he merely puts it in a red box. If I find him,I can take the box back and reignite my virginity.”
“If you say so,” said Matthew doubtfully.
“Let us go and hunt for the imp together.”
“I need some time to think,” said Matthew. “I’ll join you later.”
Disappointed, Lila began her search alone in the forest outside the village. At dusk she saw a small, wizened creature crooning to himself and hugging a red box. She quietly picked up a branch to knock him out. As she crept up, she heard him singing a song about beautiful Lila and his unconditional love for her beginning with her birth and reciting her accomplishments over the years. Fascinated, she put the stick down and listened. She began to realize that this imp knew her better than anyone in the world and loved her because of her strengths and despite her weaknesses. Then she thought of Matthew, who walked away at the first sign of trouble.
The imp turned to her and asked if Lila could forgive him. “I just wanted a part of you to be with me, even if it was for a small time.”
He extended the red box to her. She was so touched she bent down to kiss him. The spell was broken, and she watched as he turned into a handsome prince.
“I can never thank you enough,” he said. “Will you come back to my kingdom and marry me?”
She took the box and reignited her virginity. “I’ll think about it,” she said. “All of this has really made reconsider whether I want any man in my life.”
In her prior life as a trademark attorney Lisa Cristal only wrote non-fiction. The members of Writing Workshop helped her enjoy writing fiction and this assignment was writing fan fiction.
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Northern hemisphere stratospheric ozone depletion...
Effect of energetic electron precipitation on the northern polar vortex : explaining the QBO modulation via control of meridional circulation by: Salminen, A. Published: (2019)
Responses of nitrogen oxide to high‐speed solar wind stream in the polar middle atmosphere by: Lee, Ji‐Hee Published: (2018)
Influence of enhanced planetary wave activity on the polar vortex enhancement related to energetic electron precipitation by: Asikainen, Timo Published: (2020)
Sensitivity of middle atmospheric ozone to solar proton events : a comparison between a climate model and satellites by: Nilsen, K. Published: (2021)
Effects of energetic electron precipitation on the northern wintertime atmosphere by: Salminen, Antti Published: (2022)
Denton, M. H., Kivi, R., Ulich, T., Clilverd, M. A., Rodger, C. J., & von der Gathen, P. (2018). Northern hemisphere stratospheric ozone depletion caused by solar proton events: The role of the polar vortex. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 2115–2124. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL075966
Northern hemisphere stratospheric ozone depletion caused by solar proton events : the role of the polar vortex
Denton, M. H.1,2; Kivi, R.3; Ulich, T.4;
Clilverd, M. A.5; Rodger, C. J.6; von der Gathen, P.7
1New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM, USA
2Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, USA
3Arctic Research Centre, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Sodankylä, Finland
4Sodankylä, Geophysical Observatory, Sodankylä, Finland
5British Antarctic Survey (NERC), Cambridge, UK
6Department of Physics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
7Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany
American Geophysical Union, 2018
Ozonesonde data from four sites are analyzed in relation to 191 solar proton events from 1989 to 2016. Analysis shows ozone depletion (~10–35 km altitude) commencing following the SPEs. Seasonally corrected ozone data demonstrate that depletions occur only in winter/early spring above sites where the northern hemisphere polar vortex (PV) can be present. A rapid reduction in stratospheric ozone is observed with the maximum decrease occurring ~10–20 days after solar proton events. Ozone levels remain depleted in excess of 30 days. No depletion is observed above sites completely outside the PV. No depletion is observed in relation to 191 random epochs at any site at any time of year. Results point to the role of indirect ozone destruction, most likely via the rapid descent of long‐lived NOx species in the PV during the polar winter.
Geophysical research letters
10.1002/2017GL075966
https://oadoi.org/10.1002/2017GL075966
115 Astronomy and space science
This work was supported at New Mexico Consortium by NASA’s prime contract NAS5-01072. Ozonesonde work at the FMI was supported by the Academy of Finland (grant 140408), an EU Project GAIA-CLIM, the ESA’s Climate Change Initiative program, and the Ozone_cci subproject in particular.
© 2018. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.
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The Case for Naturalistic Spirituality
The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality
Andre Comte-Sponville
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The Little Book of Atheist of Spirituality by Andre Comte-Sponville is a wonderful articulation of the spiritual possibilities inherent in naturalism
Because most folks are dualists, the idea of naturalistic spirituality still seems a contradiction in terms. Spirituality is generally thought to involve "higher planes," souls, spirits, and other supernatural phenomena. How can naturalists, including atheists, take spirituality seriously without violating a core tenet of their worldview, that no separate supernatural realm exists? Very easily, as Andre Comte-Sponville artfully argues in The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality. Spirituality properly understood has nothing essentially to do with the supernatural, and is far too important a matter to leave to religionists and new-agers. To do so would have naturalists ignore central questions of life’s meaning and purpose, of how we can best live together given the ultimate nature of things, and what our relation to that nature is. None of this requires or implies god.
This book is a delight and inspiration, without the least condescension or self-seriousness, beautifully direct, personal, touching, and profound. Comte-Sponville writes with the ease and assurance of someone who has thought deeply on these matters, and indeed he’s been writing and speaking for years on godless spirituality. The Little Book is the distillation of his wisdom, which is heir to both West (Spinoza, Pascal, Nietzsche, Sartre, Wittgenstein and some modern French philosophers unknown to most American readers) and East (Buddhism, Zen, Taoism, Vedanta). Although he has no animus against faith, so long as it’s not imposed, his primary objectives in the book’s three chapters are to show that 1) we don’t need theistic religion for a viable ethics or community, 2) there are good reasons to believe god, traditionally conceived, doesn’t exist, and 3) spiritual experience is a naturalistically valid mirror of basic existential truths. We are embedded in an impersonal, self-subsistent, untranscendable and value-less reality – Spinoza’s Nature, the All – therefore values and meaning are human-relative affairs. But understanding and feeling that we are rooted in an ultimately mysterious non-human absolute can, by temporarily stripping away the self, afford us the peak spiritual experience of immanent unity. Naturalistic spirituality shows us that our lives, finite, conditioned and purposeful, open into the eternal, unconditioned and purposeless.
Living in the post-modern, irreligious age (at least in France!), we must, he says, avoid the twin temptations of sophistry, that truth has no claim on us, and nihilism, that morality has no claim on us (Nietzsche: “Nothing is true, everything is allowed”). We are therefore enjoined to follow the Enlightenment in its insistence that there are truths and ethics to be had independent of religion. These are secured by fidelity, fidelity to rationalism: “to reason, to mind, to knowledge,” and to a progressive, practical humanism: “Our primary duty…that of living and behaving humanly.” Because impersonal nature affords us no recourse, this is a contingent, fallible project, but for that reason all the more worth pursuing:
Nothing can guarantee the triumph of peace and justice or even any irreversible progress. Is that any reason to stop fighting for these things? Of course not! On the contrary, it is a powerful reason to go on paying the utmost attention to life, peace, justice…and our children. Life is all the more precious for being rare and fragile. Justice and peace are all the more necessary, all the more urgent, because nothing can guarantee their ultimate victory. (54)
Comte-Sponville provides a concise survey of the traditional arguments for god and their insuperable shortcomings, then goes on to give additional reasons for why it’s very likely (although not ultimately provable) that god doesn’t exist: there’s no good evidence he does; the untoward amount of evil and suffering in the world; the sheer mediocrity of the human animal (is such a creature the best god could do?), and the fact that theistic beliefs so patently conform to our deepest wishes. That god is all-good, and provides us with everything we could possibly want, is an excellent reason to suspect he does not exist! Given these reasons for doubt, it’s of the first importance that society keep church and state separate, allowing space for the right not to believe. He ends the second chapter saying:
Freedom of thought is the only good that is perhaps more precious than peace, for the simple reason that, without it, peace would simply be another name for servitude.
The book contains much that’s personal to the author, which makes good reading and good sense. After all, even if they are informed by philosophies and traditions, spiritual matters are deeply personal – they are one’s own grappling with meaning and existence. In the 3rd chapter, he describes a transformative mystical experience that, as he puts it, let him finally understand what as a philosopher he’d been lecturing and writing about all these years. The elements of the experience are described as suspensions – suspensions of thought, of time, of the ego, “the tiny prison of the self.” This permits an opening into the self-less present:
What a relief, when the ego gets out of the way! Nothing remains but the All, with the body, marvelously, inside of it, as if restored to the world and itself. Nothing remains but the enormous thereness of being, nature and the universe, with no one left inside of us to be dismayed or reassured, or at least no one at this particular instant, in this particular body, to worry about dismay and reassurance, anxiety and danger… (149)
He points out that mystical experiences and the spirituality they express and inspire make a personal god, holding out hope for future salvation, unnecessary. Nature, being, the all, the absolute, reality (he says use whichever word suits you) is immediately sufficient, present and perfect, that is, without defect. Faith, belief, dogma, hope and fear play no role, so religion in the traditional sense becomes irrelevant. Nor is there any conflict between our best analytical and empirical modes of knowing – what we can pin down about nature – and the personal existential realizations stemming from experiences of unity. Such spirituality has nothing to fear from science.
All told, Comte-Sponville, a true humanist and universalist, gives us a philosophically and anecdotally rich account of how those without faith can remain authentically ethical and engaged in life, even as it opens onto infinity. The human project is part of reality, but in no sense does it encompass reality, which rather encompasses us in its mystery. We have to make our peace with this, perhaps even find fulfillment in the fact we aren’t the measure of nature. Naturalists looking for enlightenment will find in this book an inspiring, profound expression of the spiritual possibilities inherent in their worldview.
TWC, July 2008
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Over 11.5 R Ashwin bowls a tossed up delivery to MG Johnson, 1 run, goes across, kneels down and sweeps it in the air backward of square leg.
Over 12.2 RA Jadeja to MG Johnson, out Caught by Nehra!! It was floated up on the stumps, Johnson goes down on one knee and sweeps it in the air behind square on the on-side, Nehra was positioned at deep backward square leg, he doesn't have to go anywhere, just bends forward and takes a good low catch. Johnson c Nehra b Ravindra Jadeja 1(2)
Bailey: Full credit to CSK, they smothered us and outplayed us in all three facets of the game. We made things pretty difficult for ourselves and you need to do better when you're playing against a formidable batting line-up like that of CSK. We haven't put a complete game together yet. We need to put the bad stuff behind us and move on. We need to get a bit of momentum and cash in on that. You want your senior players to stand up. It will be nice to put this loss behind us and put up a better performance. We have got a strong squad and it's difficult to pick our XI. The first thing is that the playing XI should do better.
Brendon McCullum is the Man of the Match
Dhoni: I think it is one of the most convincing wins for us throughout the history of IPL. The spinners did really well. The wickets will get slower in the coming days. He (Nehra) has the experience and it counts. He has not slowed down with age. We need to keep him fit. All the other bowlers were also great. A very good effort from everyone, including the batters. Once you get going in the first few overs, it is the ideal platform for the middle-order. They (McCullum and Smith) back their strengths and they do it really well. They play the right kind of shots and they have done all the basics right.
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Legends Episode Ranking System - COMPLETE
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Re: Legends Episode Ranking System
That has to be Ty from "Atocha" on Guts. His name in Guts was Ty Mathen and he also appeared in the "Nickelodeon All Star Challenge" too as a Legends player along with Jennifer and Olivia-Emma.
Here is my next victim:
Episode #88 is "The Thornwood Gavel of Judge Roy Bean". Man, I haven't seen that episode in a loooooooooooong time. Its probably one of those few episodes that I haven't fully seen since the Nick GaS days. Didn't they overplay this episode back then? Besides the temple run, I only remember the stupid legend. Other than that, I completely forget that this episode exists. And I honestly can't stand the temple run either for a certain Orange Iguana player.
Purple Parrots Fan
Actually, they almost never played this episode. It was never overplayed or part of the 20 episode cycle. It's definitely one of the most forgettable episodes of the series. And Kelli's incompetence doesn't help matters either.
PurpleParrot4Life
"Bifocal Monocle" and "Thornwood Gavel" were the only two episodes I had on VHS from the 1990s, so after the reruns stopped on Nick and before Nick GaS came along, those were the only two episodes I had. It's funny to me that you haven't seen "Thornwood Gavel" in such a long time and that you think that it is so forgettable, because I have it memorized from watching it so much back then. It's amazing how different circumstances such as that can cause people to have such different memories or views on things.
Quote from: PurpleParrot4Life on November 11, 2012, 11:20:19 AM
What a coincidence, I had at least 6-8 episodes taped somewhere when the show originally ran on Nickelodeon in the 90's. The episodes include - "Alhambra", "Montezuma", "Polynesian Girl", "Imperial Wizard", "The Trojan Horseshoe", and "Red Sash". I agree, everyone's own circumstance regarding a certain episode can have different opinions. As bad as "Alhambra" was, I still have a soft spot for it since its one of the few episodes I could remember from the old Nick reruns days. Even when Nick GaS ran Legends episodes back in the day, we had different opinions on different episode depending on how much they aired them. For example, we were kind of getting sick of "Sir Gawain" since they aired it every week. But they never seemed to air episodes like "Lily-Crested Crown" and "Ivory Elephant".
As for "Judge Roy Bean", I just find it to be an average episode. Nothing really memorable or nothing really bad about it. I suppose the Orange Iguanas were very dominant in this episode though. Although I really can't stand the temple run.
Here is my ranking for the "Judge Roy Bean" episode. Overall, it was an above average episode. I bet you know what was the standout round for this episode before even reading this ranking.
THE THORNWOOD GAVEL OF JUDGE ROY BEAN
MOAT: 6.5/10
I liked the moat used in this episode, it was one of the more creative ones used on the show. The players had to cross the moat by having one partner push their partner on a stone board. But the partner pushing the board couldn't touch the player that was riding on top of it. And the player riding the board can't fall off either or else they were sent back. It required skill on both players part to cross. This moat was about average in quality and a couple of teams made it across fine while the Silver Snakes lagged behind. Overall, a creative moat.
LEGEND: 7/10
The legend takes place in the Wild West and talks about a ruthless Judge named Roy Bean. He was an iron-fisted Judge that was tough in the Wild West. He allegedly owned a bear that he used to scare people in order to keep order in the Wild West. One day, a group of cowboys came along and dragged an unconscious man to Judge Roy Bean. Roy Bean, being ruthless, charged the man $40 (which was all the guy had in his pockets) for loitering even though he was unconscious.
I liked the setting used for this legend. There weren't many legends on the show that were placed in the Wild West. And the legend did a pretty good job portraying Judge Roy Bean as being ruthless. But what sets me off of this legend is the silly part about the unconcsious man and Judge Roy Bean charging him $40 for loitering.
STEPS OF KNOWLEDGE: 6/10
Nothing really exciting happens here. In fact, the whole round was boring filled with silly questions. The Orange Iguanas and Green Monkeys were the only two teams that even got a correct answer. Oh yeah, the Silver Snakes also believe that Judge Roy Bean's gavel was made of a bear paw.
TEMPLE GAMES: 8/10
This was the best part about the entire episode. The temple games were very creative in this episode. The first temple game had the girls traveling through a maze-like shaft where they had to clear rubble out of the way and find a way out of the chamber. Once they were outside of it, they had to pull their bag of money through the holes until it was completely out. Definitely one of the most interactive temple games on the show. But I still don't know how the Green Monkey girl lost after having the lead almost the whole time?
The second temple was silly and unique also. Both male contestants had an "unconsious" man attached to them while they are riding a bucking horse. If the player fell off, then their opponent earns a point. It was very close, but the Green Monkeys fell off once, giving the Orange Igauans a final score of 1-0.
The last temple game had the teams in giant "Wells Fargo Wagons" and the teams had to smash their piggy banks by breaking them with their gavels. The Orange Iguanas won this temple game and shut out the Green Monkeys for the first time ever in the show's history and go to the temple with two pendants.
TEMPLE RUN: 5/10
This is one of those temple runs where the frontrunner makes good progress in the temple, but the second runner screws everything up. But Kelli screwed this temple run up major time. But I will get to that later. Mike was a fast guy in the temple and made it very far in his layout and not even half of the time on the clock had expired. He even had one of the fastest monkey assemblies on the show. When he was taken out, this temple run takes a turn for the worst. The second Kelli enters the temple, she already looks lost. She was so bright that she went up into the uncleared King's Storeroom where she wasted time completing the objective when she didn't have to. If that wasn't bad enough, she tries placing herself in the suits of armor and when she makes it to the Room of the Secret Password, she reads the passwords out while keeping her mouthpiece in. I am not sure what password even worked because none of them were comprehensible. But the producers must've felt bad and opened the door to the Quicksand Bog anyways. Not that it mattered, because her time ended there. She basically added one room of progress with over 1:30 on the clock. Way to go, Kelli.
While this temple run wasn't a total disaster, the second runner ruins it to the point that it is painful to watch. I wish I could rank it higher on account that Mike was pretty awesome, but Kelli's performance was so bad that I just can't tolerate to watch this run.
FINAL VERDICT: 6.5/10
For season three standards, this episode was slightly above average. But the episode is at least watchable and definitely worth the viewing. My favorite round was the unique set of temple games. Seriously, every temple game was unique in their own way and relevant to the legend. I wish more temple game rounds in other episodes were creative like this episode. I liked the legend also about Judge Roy Bean and the Wild West. The temple run though is very disappointing considering that Orange was first in the moat and swept the temple games. But you can blame Kelli for that one. Its such a shame when one players kills the entire run after working hard to get to the temple.
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Thornwood Gavel, what a quirky episode. From the moat to the unique temple game sequence, it felt so different to most of the other Season 3 episodes. As for the episode itself, I personally always hated that "balancing on a boogie board" moat. It looked hard to do, and I'd probably fall in a lot if I were to attempt it. I was never the balancing type. The Steps of Knowledge was nothing special aside from the Green Monkeys and the Orange Iguanas' double sweep. The temple games featured a very unique sequence. Why couldn't all Season 3 episodes be that creative with which temple games they used? The temple run sucked, all thanks to Kelli. Yet another temple run that should have been reserve order of players. But, we got Mike's fastest assembly of the monkey ever, so that kind of makes up for it. Overall, the episode was just fine until the temple run. It sucks when a team that dominates nearly everything has a subpar temple run due to one incompetent player. Oh well, it's a breath of fresh air from the Golden Cricket Cage episode, right?
That was my first time seeing the entire "Judge Roy Bean" episode since the Nick GaS days. It was worth the watch though and I enjoyed reviewing even though its not the most exciting episode in the world. I liked the temple games the most in this episode and forgot how unique they were. Also, I like stories about the Wild West and the legend was pretty decent even if the end of it was too goofy. And yeah, I would probably fail miserably at the boogie board moat too. But the teams didn't seem to have much problem. The one thing that drags this episode down is the temple run. Its too disappointing when one runner is too incompetent. I can't even find a redeeming thing about Kelli.
And oh yeah, it was definitely a breath of fresh air from "Golden Cricket Cage". I bet any episode is a fresh air from that shitfest. Okay, there are a couple of more episodes that is probably complete garbage like that one is. I think the only three episodes that will come close to that ranking is Alhambra, One-Eyed Jack, and Snow Cone. And I don't plan on doing any of those episodes soon.
I think I am going to do "The Pendant of Kamehameha" next. Its one of the few season one episodes that was good from beginning to end. I think i will enjoy this one very much. And the temple run was very exciting with a heartbreaker ending. And let's not forget that a former forum member was in this episode.
Yeah, kamehameha. But his favorite episode was "BENZIBAB!!!!" remember?
But yeah, great choice for the next episode to get reviewed. That was a very exciting episode from start to finish, even if the temple run ended on a rather heartbreaking note. On another note about the Thornwood Gavel episode, don't you think Mike looks sort of like Nick Carter from his early days in the Backstreets Boys? I know this sounds random to throw in there, but I kind of see it in the hair and facial expressions.
In the Steps of Knowledge, the Silver Snakes believed that the gavel was made of a bear's leg bone, not a bear paw. And I guess that goes to show that even when the answer is the episodes title, the team might still get it wrong. So maybe that was why the producers asked what Xerxes' marble armrest was made out of for the Xerxes tiebreaker question?
Oh, and by the way, Kelli's Secret Password combination was "Long Live Olmec," "Open Sesame," and finally the third one (that I never completely understood what it was, regardless of who said it).
The Ancient Warrior
Peace, joy and omelettes!
The third one was "Klaatu Barada Nikto."
I can't believe it's so easy for me to forget how quirky this episode was, even with the weird legend and Temple Run standing out as they do. I think I'd forgotten how creative the Temple Games were because the weirdness of the other rounds overshadowed it and the Moat, but it probably should've stood out a bit more, because I think one of the only other episodes that was that creative with the Temple Games was "The Sacred Ring of Sultan Suleiman." The producers should've tried to make a full sequence with the games a lot more often, you know?
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Favorite season: Season 2, very closely followed by Season 3
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Quote from: Purple Parrots Fan on November 13, 2012, 02:44:14 AM
I totally forgot that Mike had his hair like that. During the temple run, his hair is concealed by his helmet so I never noticed that he had long hair before. Reminds me of Nate from "Queen Boadicea". And yeah, he does look like Nick Carter in that image. I never understood the appeal for that hairstyle, luckily my hair never looked like that.
Oops, you're right about the Silver Snake answer being a "bear's leg bone". Shows how much detail I paid attention to during that round. But yeah, its possible that is the reason why they use the almost exact same question in "Xerxes" for the tiebreaker. After all, it was produced the very next day after "Judge Roy Bean" production day. Although it was kind of silly to use it as a tiebreaker question.
Quote from: The Ancient Warrior on November 13, 2012, 12:15:16 PM
The uniqueness about the temple games in this episode was how they used the temple game. Like the "bucking horse" temple game using the unconscious man as a part of game's challenge was a pretty neat idea. Not to mention, that it was kind of funny to see. Also, this is the only time that the "Giant Human Wheel" game was used as a team game. Plus, breaking open the piggy banks with the gavels was neat also. And all of the temple games pertained to the legend mostly too. As for "Sultan Suleiman" temple games, I haven't seen that temple game round in a while. But I do remember the sequence of the temple games being exactly like the legend.
I agree, the temple game sequences should've followed the legend of the episode a little more better. I never liked when they used a random temple game and try to associate it to the legend by some lame or irrelevant connection.
Quote from: The Red Jaguars on November 13, 2012, 01:01:44 PM
Yeah, Mike didn't show off his blonde hair like that during the temple run. But you could totally see the blonde throughout all the pre temple rounds. I'm not sure if Mike ever looked like Nate though. Nate's hair was rougher and less straight than Mike's was.
Not to mention, wasn't there a Steps of Knowledge question in "The Star of Sultan Saladin" where one of the choices was the episode title itself? And someone STILL got it wrong. I'm pretty sure it happened in more episodes too, but I don't quite remember.
Yeah, the whole episode (Thornwood Gavel), was just.... off. It had such a different feel to it than most of the other Season 3 episodes. And yes, Sultan Suleiman had the same quirkiness too. Didn't all three temple games connect to each other one after the other? Not to mention, they had a unique temple layout and subpar run too.
Case in point, the bucking horse game in "The Broken Trident of Poseidon." Where Poseidon was somehow the god of horses? What?
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Well, actually, Poseidon was in fact a god of horses as well even though he is better known as the Greek god of the seas, storms and earthquakes. I was very interested in Greek mythology when I was little so that reference didn't surprise me at all, but I can understand why it seemed like it came out of nowhere because it wasn't even mentioned in the legend as a background detail if I recall. I think because of that, it still seems like a sorry excuse for using the horse machine as a Temple Game.
Anywho, going to have to do a little catching up to read the earlier reviews, but I can't wait for the next one.
Well, I met more along the line that both Nate and Mike had the same hairstyle pretty much. During the temple run, we don't see their hair since it is concealed in their helmets. But both have that long and ugly 90's hairstyle. But yeah, Nate's hair was darker and more curly than Mike's was. Although I guess some of the other male contestants probably had weird hairstyles too but was concealed in their helmets. I mean look at Gator's hair at the end of his temple run - I never thought he had that much when I watched his episode.
Yeah, it had something to with one of the contestants answering "King" instead of "Sultan" if I recall correctly. I mean how many times did Kirk and Olmec talk about Sultan Saladin in both the episode and legend? Very inattentive.
Yeah, "Sultan Suleiman" temple games followed the exact sequence as the legend did for that episode. And yeah, both episodes had unique temple games with subpar temple runs. Except the "Judge Roy Bean" temple run was more tolerable than Sultan Suleiman one.
Season one and three were guilty of this a lot. It reminds me of Gator's temple game in "Apanuugpak" where they had to carry seals through the top of a maze. I mean what did the seals have to do with the legend? It didn't really correspond to the legend in anyway except that it dealt with Eskimos. The "Poseidon" hardly made any sense also.
I wonder why the legend didn't mention this in relation to the artifact? I mean it would've made the horse temple game a little more relevant and understandable. But I had no idea that Poseidon was also known as the god of horses.
And I am half-way done with the "Kamehameha" one. I should definitely have it up by tomorrow for sure. So far, it has been a good episode and I haven't even got to the temple games and temple run yet. The one thing I like about reviewing these episodes are that it gives me a reason to watch some of the earlier rounds of each episode. I forgot how good some of the other rounds of the temple that is not the temple run.
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Bear Hunting
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Northernmost New Hampshire's rugged mountainous terrain provides the ideal habitat for northern white-tail deer. Pittsburg's 200,000 acres consist of dense spruce forests, areas of clear cut, ample mountain streams, high mountain bogs, and the fertile Connecticut River valley. Numerous logging roads make the forest lands accessible. Most all lands are open to the public for hunting thanks primarily to the Lyme Timber Company. Pittsburg is known for its 200 lb+ bucks. The Indian Stream valley is a favorite of many deer hunters. Many nice bucks have also come from the Magalloway Mountain area. Snow comes early to NH's northwoods which makes tracking deer much easier. Our area is apt to get snow off and on from mid-October. Good areas to scout would include stream valleys, hardwood ridges and beech stands.
Visit the NH Fish and Game for specific dates and hunting rules for Whitetail Deer.
How to field dress a deer
In New Hampshire, our moose hunting season is controlled by a lottery. Moose hunting permits are offered to successful lottery applicants following a computer-generated random drawing. Anyone who obtained a moose permit in the last three years is not eligible to obtain a permit in 2008. N.H. Fish and Game has a bonus point system to improve the chance of success for unsuccessful applicants who apply each year. Unsuccessful applicants accrue one point for each consecutive year that they apply for the lottery. Each point translates to a chance in the drawing.
Permittee candidates are selected through a computer-generated random number draw. The 2008 drawing will take place yearly in June at Fish and Game headquarters on Hazen Drive in Concord.
Each applicant selected in the lottery drawing is assigned to hunt within a unit of his or her choice, except when the permit quota for that unit has already been filled. In cases where the quota in the appliant's first choice unit has been filled, the applicant will be assigned to the next unfilled unit of his or her choice, as indicated on the application. Applicants are considered for antlerless-only permits if no either-sex permits are available and the application indicates the applicant is willing to accept an antlerless-only permit. Any unit not ranked on the application form indicates that the applicant does not wish to hunt in that unit, even if it is the only unit where a permit quota has not yet been filled. Alternate candidates are selected to fill any permits not taken by the original applicants selected.
Our area units are A-1 and A-2 which generally have the highest hunter success.
Visit the NH Fish and Game for specific dates and hunting rules for Moose
More information on NH’s Moose Hunt
Grouse - Also known as ‘partridge’: The North Woods of New Hampshire provide some of the best grouse cover is New England. Our terrain is mountainous but has river bottom, areas of various staging of growth after logging, and numerous logging roads. Mountain ash, high bush cranberry, fern, raspberry, chokecherry and partridge berry are some of this area's prefered grouse foods. Look for areas with these food sources, a water supply, and protection from predators such as dense fir trees, and you will find grouse in the north woods.
Woodcock - The Northwoods are an excellent place to hunt resident and migratory woodcock. The ground dwelling bird makes its home on soft earth where it can probe the ground for earthworms. Best choices for woodcock cover include alder swamps, along woodside freshets and ponds or young, regenerating forests. Woodcock are a strong smelling bird ideal to hunt with dogs. Our season generally begins at or near the beginning of October and runs for most of the month.
Pheasant - Pheasant hunting has a long and rich history in New Hampshire - the first pheasants were stocked here over a hundred years ago. Today the time-honored tradition of pheasant hunting is possible in the state only because private landowners continue to allow hunters access to their land. There are two pheasant stocking sites in our area.
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Five Star Kitchen
Cooking with the Caliphs
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BAZMAAWURD
This giant canapé was the traditional first course at a banquet in pre-Islamic Iran or Abbasid Baghdad. The name comes from the Persian bazm, “banquet,” and awurd, “bringing.” The recipe given here is from the collection of the Caliph al-Ma’mun. It calls for the flesh of citron, a fruit with very little flesh—we know it mostly for its candied peel. Lemon is an obvious substitute.
1 lavash, Mexican flour tortilla or other fresh thin flatbread
about 12" diameter
1 whole chicken breast, roasted, boned and chopped
2 tablespoons chopped walnuts
1½ to 2 lemons, peeled, seeded and chopped
1 tablespoon minced fresh tarragon
1 tablespoon chopped mint
2 tablespoons chopped basil
Spread flatbread on work surface. Sprinkle evenly all over with chicken, walnuts, chopped lemon, tarragon, mint and basil. Roll up and cut into 4 slices. Warm in oven before serving. Serves four as an appetizer.
BAARIDAH
A baaridah was a cold meat or vegetable dish served before the hot dishes. Following pre-Islamic Iranian tradition, when a baaridah was made with fowl, it was usually a sort of chopped cucumber salad garnished with the roast meat. Some recipes call for only the seeds of cucumbers, which makes for a luxurious, slippery texture. This particular recipe is that of Harun’s famous vizier, Yahya ibn Khalid al-Barmaki. Verjuice, the juice of sour grapes, is sold in Middle Eastern markets as abghureh or hisrmi. If you can’t find it, lemon juice will do.
1 whole chicken breast, roasted
1 teaspoon coriander
¼ teaspoon cumin
¼ cup verjuice or lemon juice
1 teaspoon minced fresh mint
2 teaspoons minced fresh tarragon
1 teaspoon minced fresh thyme
1 cucumber, peeled and cut in ¼-inch dice
When chicken is cool, remove skin and bones, and tear meat into small pieces. Place in bowl and add coriander, cumin, pepper, cinnamon, verjuice, mint, tarragon, thyme and oil. Mix well and season to taste with salt. To serve, mound chicken on salad plates and surround with chopped cucumbers. Serves two.
MULAHWAJAH
Mulahwajah means “hasty.” The book says that this recipe was often prepared for Harun al-Rashid. Galangal is sold in Arabia as ‘irq al-hail or khulanjan, and in Southeast Asian markets under such names as kha and laos. Dried ginger could be substituted. Use the rue sparingly—it’s very bitter.
2 leeks
rue, preferably fresh
cilantro (green coriander, kuzbarah)
½ pound lamb, chopped or ground
2 teaspoons ground coriander seed
1 teaspoon ground caraway
1 teaspoon ground pepper
1 teaspoon ground galangal
4 teaspoons vinegar
Heat oil in pan. Add onion, leeks, pinch of rue and 2 to 3 sprigs cilantro and fry until soft. Add meat and fry until brown. Add coriander, caraway, pepper, galangal, vinegar and soy sauce. Cook until done. Stir in honey and garnish with several more sprigs cilantro. Serve with flatbread. Serves two.
TABAAHAJA
This recipe, from the manuscript of Yahya ibn Khalid al-Barmaki, makes striking use of murri, the indigenous Middle Eastern barley “soy sauce.” Most dishes flavored with murri were vinegary, but this is the exception, being quite sweet. The result is surprisingly reminiscent of a Chinese “red-stewed” meat dish. The name comes from the Persian word for frying pan, tavah.
½ cup soy sauce
¾ teaspoon ground coriander seed
1 rounded teaspoon cinnamon
⅛ teaspoon pepper
2 pounds boneless lamb shoulder
½ cup oil
rue, preferably fresh, optional
mustard greens, optional
Mix soy sauce, honey, ground coriander, cinnamon and pepper. Add meat and marinate half an hour. Heat oil in large frying pan. When hot, spoon in meat and marinade. Reduce heat to medium-low and cover pan loosely for half an hour. Remove lid and cook, stirring often to prevent scorching, until meat is tender and sauce is reduced to a thick glaze. Pour off oil and serve, sprinkled with cilantro, rue and mustard greens, accompanied by flatbread. Serves four.
JUDHAAB
This favorite dish of medieval Baghdad consisted of a sweet pudding which was set at the bottom of a tannuur oven to catch the juices of roasting meat, which would be served with the pudding. Here we have a recipe from the collection of Caliph al-Wathiq (842–847).
1 chicken
¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons rosewater
ground saffron
1 pound dried apricots
2 fresh lavashes, Mexican flour tortillas or other flatbreads, 12" in diameter
Wash chicken and pat dry. Mix 2 tablespoons rosewater with pinch of saffron and rub on chicken, inside and out. Set chicken on high rack in 350-degree oven. Put apricots in small saucepan, add water to cover apricots by ½ inch and stew until softened. Place one lavash in baking pan. Arrange stewed apricots on top, sprinkle with sugar and ¾ cup rosewater in which pinch of saffron has been dissolved, then cover with remaining lavash. When juices begin running from chicken, set baking pan under it to catch juices. When chicken is done, serve on apricot pudding. Serves four.
Cooking with the Caliphs
A little over a thousand years ago, an Arab scribe wrote a book he titled Kitab al-Tabikh (Arabic: كتاب الطبيخ English: The Book of Recipes). It was a collection of recipes from the court of ninth-century Baghdad, for the scribe’s unnamed patron—probably Saif al-Dawlah Al-Hamdani, the culture-minded prince of 10th-century Aleppo—had specifically asked him for the recipes of “kings and caliphs and lords and leaders.” The scribe, Abu Muhammad al-Muzaffar ibn Sayyar, was in a position to oblige, being descended from the old Muslim aristocracy himself.
The book has come down to our time in three manuscripts and fragments of a fourth—and what a treasure it is. These are the dishes actually eaten by the connoisseurs of Baghdad when it was the richest city in the world. There are recipes from the personal collections of every caliph from al-Mahdi (died 785) to al-Mutawakkil (died 861), including 20 from Harun al-Rashid’s son al-Ma’mun. Thirty-five of the recipes—nearly one-tenth of the non-medicinal dishes in the book—come from Harun’s brother, the famous poet and gourmet Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi.
This was the golden age of medieval cookery; centuries later, cookbooks would still carry recipes named for these very men: haaruuniyyah, ma‘muuniyyah, mutawakkiliyyah, ibraahimiyyah. A dish named for Ma’mun’s wife, buraniyyah, lives on today.
But Kitab al-Tabikh includes scarcely any of the familiar dishes of the modern Arab world. There’s no hummus or tabouli, no stuffed grape leaves, no kibbe, no baklava. Many dishes have strange, clanking medieval names like bazmaawurd, kardanaaj, isfiidhabaaj and diikbariika.
It was a heavily Persianized cuisine, but the dishes are not those of modern Iran either. There isn’t a single pilaf recipe, for example. What we see in this book is the royal cuisine of sixth- and seventh-century Iran along with a wealth of new dishes created under its influence by the chefs of Baghdad.
This was inevitable. Pre-Islamic Arabia had a wholesome but monotonous diet that revolved around dates, barley and dairy products. There were separate Arabic words for fresh dates mixed with milk (majii’), dried dates steeped in milk (siq‘al), pitted dates kneaded with milk (watii’ah) and pounded dates moistened with milk (wajii‘ah). When the Arabs conquered Persia, they found a sophisticated court with a rich and impressive cuisine, and they eagerly adopted Persian eating habits.
There had been a regular cult of gastronomy at the court of the Sassanian kings. A sixth-century Persian book entitled “The Story of King Khusraw and His Page” tells of a young nobleman who asks for a place in the king’s retinue on the grounds that he knows the best and choicest of everything. The king questions him on a host of subjects, mostly concerning food. In effect, the story is a handbook of fashionable gourmet opinions for a society where knowing such things was de rigueur.
Kitab al-Tabikh contains anecdotes about cooking contests organized by the Persian kings. We know that the Abbasid caliphs later did the same. And “The Story of King Khusraw and His Page” was eventually translated into Arabic with many details intact, such as the fattening of chickens on hemp seed.
The centerpiece of ninth-century Baghdadi cuisine was rich and complex stews, often cooked in the tannuur (tandoor oven). Some had Persian names, such as sikbaaj (which was flavored with vinegar) and naarbaaj (flavored with pomegranate juice). The dishes with Arabic names, presumably developed in Baghdad, were often named after the main ingredient; for example, ‘adasiyyah (lentils with meat) and shaljamiyyah (with turnips). Some were named for aristocrats, such as haaruuniyyah (containing ground sumac, clearly one Harun al-Rashid’s favorite spices, because it appears in several of his recipes in Kitab al-Tabikh). A few stews have fantasy names. Narjisiyyah was topped with an egg, giving it the appearance of a narcissus flower—at least, if you really yearned to see the resemblance.
The dishes in this book call for a wide range of spices, including some little used in many Arab countries today, such as caraway (highly popular in the ninth century), the garlic-like asafetida, and galangal, a root which tastes like a cross between ginger and mustard. Fair enough: Everybody knows medieval food was heavily spiced. What’s more surprising is the lavish use of herbs in these recipes—sometimes five or more herbs in a single dish, including basil and tarragon as well as the usual mint, parsley and cilantro of modern Arab cookery. Many stews are sprinkled with the bitter, plum-scented herb rue just before serving. Even more surprising, many medieval stews call for cheese to be thrown in at some point.
The most unexpected flavoring is murri. This was made by wrapping lumps of barley dough in fig leaves so that they would be attacked by mold, then mixing the moldy barley with flour, salt and water and allowing it to ferment for another month or more. The rotted barley paste would then be pressed to yield a dark-brown liquid which turns out to taste just like soy sauce. This whiff of soy ran through the food of the caliphs. The Arab sauce was not borrowed from China, however: Murri was never made from beans and it was always a liquid sauce, while the Chinese product was used as a paste until the 16th century.
People must often have cooked skewers of meat over an open charcoal fire in the ninth century, as they do today, but in this book roast meat (shiwaa’) is always cooked in a tannuur. The meat wasn’t always cut small in the shish kebab manner; fairly large items were roasted in this way, such as stuffed kid and spice-crusted rack of lamb (janb mubazzar).
Fish were cooked in the tannur too. Kitab al-Tabikh gives an ingenious recipe for a fish “whose head is roasted, whose middle is baked and whose tail is fried” which later appeared in medieval European cookbooks. (The middle of the fish was wrapped in several layers of cloth and the tail was wrapped in oil-soaked canvas.) It must have seemed as astonishing in the ninth century as baked Alaska would a thousand years later.
The supreme roast meat dish was juudhaab (or juudhaabah), where the meat was served on a sweet pudding which had been baked at the bottom of the tannur to catch its dripping juices. In the wickedly funny story known as the Maqamah of Baghdad, the 10th-century writer Badi’ al-Zaman al-Hamathani shows a rascal tricking a peasant into buying him a juuthaab dinner from one of the specialists in the market.
Fried meat was popular, of course, but fried dishes were less impressive and dignified than roasts and stews. Frying was often done in a smaller version of the qidr, the shallow pot used for stews. It was made of carved soapstone, like the miqlah of modern Yemen. Dishes containing eggs, such as narjiliyyah and ‘ujjah, a rather solid “omelette” which is still popular in the Arab world, were also fried in soapstone utensils.
There was no bulgur wheat, and the pilaf technique of cooking rice by boiling and then steaming was unknown. Rice and wheat were often cooked in the tannuur overnight with meat and spices to make a sort of meaty porridge (aruzziyyah, hintiyyah). If the wheat was beaten to a smooth paste, you had hariisah, a dish still widely made in the Middle East.
Noodles were usually cooked in soup. The book recounts a quite unbelievable story of their supposed invention by the sixth-century Persian king Khusraw Anushirwan: He offhandedly tells his cook to throw “some pieces of dough” into his soup. The book’s word for noodles, lakhshaa, is now extinct in both Arabic and Persian, though it has entered European languages from Hungarian to Russian. For that matter, the book calls soup maa’-wa-milh (“water-and-salt”), a fairly literal translation of the Persian shorbaa (“salty stew”), because the word shorbaa had not yet entered Arabic.
The book gives only a few vegetarian dishes, called muzaw-waraat (literally, “counterfeit” dishes, which reminds us of the Turkish name for vegetables with a meatless stuffing: yalanci dolma, “lying dolma”). They were known as the dishes that Christians ate on fast days, and they were thought to be good for the health—and they had indeed been introduced by the Nestorian Christian physicians favored by the caliphs. There were also cold dishes, sometimes vegetable-based but more often containing meat, called baaridah. Some of them are probably descended from the pre-Islamic Persian dishes called aamiz.
It comes as a surprise that eggplant shows up so rarely in these recipes. In today’s Arab world, it is sayyid al-khudaar, the lord of vegetables, but at the time it was a recent import from India and not yet quite popular. It was considered impossibly bitter; in a widely repeated anecdote, a Bedouin declared that eggplant had “the color of a scorpion’s belly and the taste of a scorpion’s sting.” It was actually considered bad for the health. Doctors blamed it for everything from freckles and a hoarse throat to cancer and madness.
The main ninth-century condiment, al-kaamakh al-ahmar, was made by mixing fermented barley with milk and salt. The salt preserved it; the mold gave it the flavor of a pungent, salty blue cheese. A dark reddish-brown, it had a spreadable consistency. It could be used as it was, but Kitab al-Tabikh also gives a dozen recipes for flavoring it with various herbs and spices.
Still, there are seven eggplant baaridah in this book, probably because a taste for eggplant first arose among the aristocracy. Two of the dishes are called baadhinjaan buran, “the eggplant of Buran,” after al-Ma’mun’s wife, whose month-long wedding party was a medieval byword for luxury. Today a vast range of dishes called burani or buraniyyah are made everywhere from Spain to India. The recipes in Kitab al-Tabikh, dating from only 50 or 60 years after her death, must be very close to the originals. One is simply fried eggplant slices sprinkled with murri, pepper and caraway. It’s rather good.
Some foods, such as bread and roasted meats, were felt to be excessively plain by themselves, so they were served with sauces or condiments. A condiment for meat or fish was called a sibaagh. It was something like an Indian fresh chutney, usually including a sour ingredient, a dried fruit, crushed nuts—or all three—as well as herbs and spices.
For bread, there was a whole range of condiments or dips called kaamakh. In modern Arabic, this word is sometimes used for vinegar pickles, but the main ninth-century condiment, al-kaamakh al-ahmar, was made by mixing fermented barley —the same material that murri was made of—with milk and salt. The mold quickly gives the milk the flavor of a blue cheese. In fact, blue cheese is made much the same way, by mixing moldy bread with fresh cheese curd.
The difference between blue cheese and al-kaamakh al-ahmar (apart from color: al-kaamakh al-ahmar is a dark reddish brown) is that the Arab condiment wasn’t curdled and pressed to remove moisture, which is what allows cheese to resist spoilage. Al-kaamakh al-ahmar was preserved by its salt. It smelled and tasted like a pungent, salty blue cheese and had a spreadable consistency. It could be used as it was, but Kitab al-Tabikh also gives a dozen recipes for flavoring it with various herbs and spices.
Finally, the book gives 90 recipes for sweets. Some are still known today, such as zulaabiyyah, a fritter made by pouring batter into hot oil, and qataa’if, crepes folded around a filling of ground nuts and then deep-fried. Naatif was a sweet made from beaten egg whites. Muhallabiyyah was a pudding sometimes thickened with rice flour, like the present-day version, but sometimes with eggs or noodles, and it might contain chicken meat. There were 38 recipes for khabiisah, a flour-thickened pudding flavored with nuts, dried fruits or even carrots.
But other desserts are unfamiliar. Khushkanaanaj was a sort of cookie or sweet biscuit. The most esteemed sweet was lauziinaq, an almond paste much like marzipan—probably the ancestor of marzipan, in fact. In its most admired form, it was rolled into finger shapes, wrapped in paper-thin crepes and “drowned” in syrup.
The gourmets of ninth-century Baghdad would certainly have appreciated modern sweets like baklava, but they were justly enthralled by the glory of their own cuisine. Among the 90-odd poems about food scattered through this book, many reflect a passionate fascination with these rich and impressive dishes, including this heartfelt praise for a juthabah by the 10th-century poet Kushajam:
A juudhaabah of excellent semolina, as pallid as a lovesick face,
A shining wonder from the hand of an able cook,
The well-done meat as rosy as dates made by the Creator,
With sugar of Ahwaz sweeter than a night visitor,
Drowning in fat, trembling, it diffuses aroma to the taster.
As soft as butter to the touch, its perfume like finest ambergris.
It gleams in its bowl like a star in the dark of night
Or a bright yellow carnelian on the clear cheek of a tender girl,
Sweeter than peace coming in the depths of night
To a throbbing, anguished heart.
well I was going to work on the garden today.....might just cook now....
sister, thanks very much....
Amtullah
Servant of Allah
As-salaamu'alaykum wa Rahmatu Llahi wa Barakatuhu my dearest sister,
Wow.. that was so interesting!! Jazaki'Allahu khair for sharing.
Have you tried any of the recipes??
Wa'alaykum as-salaam
Wa alaikumussalaam warahmatullaahi wabarakatuhu,
hehe I haven't Inshaa'Allaah one of these days. Indeed they're very interesting, it's like going back in time and attending their banquet.
غــرِيبْ الـدآر
:salam2:
:ma:
JAZAK ALLAH KHAIR
queenislam
★★★I LOVE ALLAH★★★
~Thank you sister
for sharing these amazing recipes along with the useful good
introduction and feedback of it.
Alhamdulillah!
~Wassalam
safaa_marwa
Assalam alaikum
jazakallah khair sister.
yummy.
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The Townsend (Townshend) Family Records
Family Houses
The Gathering 2013
Spouse Index
Background History 1647 – 1922
Edward Alan Cameron Townsend (356)
USA & Sydney, Australia
Edward James Townsend [340]
Mary Alice Townsend [436]
Table III ; Lineage ; Ancestors' Tree ; Descendents' Tree
Notes for Edward Alan Cameron Townsend. See also
Edward was born in Essendon, Victoria, Australia. He raised stock in New Zealand for a short time before emigrating to California with his brother, Vernon Townsend [357], in about 1896. Following an argument with Vernon Edward left California and returned to Australia.
Edward died at Granville, New South Wales.
These details are drawn from a letter (1) dated 26 April 1975 from May Miller of Fullerton, California to Rose-Marie Townsend [269]. Australian Government records show an 'Alan Cameron Townsend', whose father's name was Edward and mother's name was Mary Alice, coming from Granville District, Sydney and dying in 1936.
(1) Townsend Family correspondence held by Colonel John Townsend [5A26].
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Fired Up! Ceramic Artists Show May 27-29 2016 in Metchosin
Fired Up! 2016 was a great success. The participating artists give a warm round of applause to all the friends, sponsors, and collectors who supported this annual event. We couldn’t do it without you!
Fired Up! ceramics artists and guests on May 28, 2016
Below: Photos & video clip of opening on May 27, 2016 (Press replay to refresh video)
Experience and expertise are two key ingredients of the Fired Up! ceramics collective.
This talented group of professional clay artists mark 32 years of annual exhibitions in 2016.
May 27, 28, 29, 2016. Hours: May 28 & 29, 10am - 5pm. Opening is Friday evening May 27, 6:30–9pm. Metchosin Community Hall, 4401 William Head Road, Metchosin.
Participating members are: Alan Burgess, Samantha Dickie, Sandra Dolph, Mary Fox, Gordon Hutchens, Cathi Jefferson, Meira Mathison, Beth McMillan, Kinichi Shigeno, Pat Webber. (Gary Merkel on sabbatical)
Talented guests are: Robin Dupont, Kasumi Lampitoc, Vincent Massey, Debra Sloan.
Wood Firing: The Art of Earth is this year's theme.The idea springs from an inspiration book about ceramics, compiled by Rona Murray and Walter Dexter, called The Art of Earth. The wood firing happened on the Denman Island property of Gordon and Sandy Hutchens, April 21-24. The voracious Tozan Anagama (or cave kiln) was stoked every 15 minutes for three days, using up five cords of wood to achieve firing temperature. The flame and ash create chemical reactions that alter glazes and colouration. The cool down period is several days, the unloading happened April 30. Photos below tell the before and after tale.
Wood firing event at Gordon and Sandy Hutchens Denman Island property in April 2016.
Before and After: Loading the kiln and stoking the fire produces many beautiful ceramic objects. Above: large basket form from Meira Mathison.
Wood firing event at Gordon and Sandy Hutchens Denman Island property in 2015 & 2016
Gordon Hutchens unloading the Anagama Kiln, April 2016
Fire Dance at Anagama Kiln, 2015
The Tozan Anagama kiln on Hutchens’ property is one of only four in existence. Gordon Hutchens and Yukio Yamamoto (then in his 70’s) built the kiln in 1998. Hutchens wood fires twice a year, but it’s only his second session with Fired Up! “Its a team effort and lots of fun,” he says. About 12 feet deep and 4-5 feet wide, the kiln has over 250 cubic feet of space. Hutchens describes loading the kiln as three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. LIned with shelves and sloping upwards the flames move across the pots towards the rear of the kiln. “I try to imagine the river of fire,” he says "the way it weaves around the rocklike pots, caressing each clay vessel in its path.”
Recreated colour on Terracotta Warriors
Terracotta horse and two warriors
The Anagama kiln comes with a fascinating history. China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang used this type of kiln to make his life-size Terracotta Army of warriors and horses in 200 BCE. Excavation of the mausoleum in Shaanxi province is ongoing with estimates of 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots and 600 horses, still buried in three pits. The army was designed to protect the emperor in his afterlife. Wanting to keep the location secret, the emperor decreed a death sentence for all workers. Those who escaped to Japan and Korea took the technology with them.
Denman Island artist Gordon Hutchens thrives on variety and experimentation.
Hutchens Earthenware Vase. Cone 02 Lustre Glazes. Reduction fired.
Hutchens Porcelain Teapot, Reduction fired Crystalline Glazes.
Hutchens Ocean Waves, Porcelain, Wood Fired, Natural Fly Ash over Slips.
At age 14 Gordon Hutchens visited a wood-fired kiln in Japan and was intrigued by the process and product. He noticed the sophisticated results from the traditional design. Since that time, Hutchens has delved into the alchemical science of glazing. He marvels at the complex reactions of heat, clay and mineral pigments. Hutchens’ exquisite palette of iridescent surfaces and rugged wood-fired finishes delight collectors. He is an original founding member of Fired Up!
"The form of the pot is the main part of its spiritual substance. Its outline,
its proportions and balance, the fingermarks impressed on its wall, are the simple statement of its creator, spontaneous and as personal as his handwriting."
Otto Natzler, The Art of Earth
Hutchens has taught ceramics at North Island College’s Fine Arts program since 1999. He tells his students that ceramics is a complex art: combining drawing, painting, sculpture, three-dimensional design, and colour theory. Chemistry and mineralogy are also key elements. “And to tie it all together we get to play with fire,” he adds. Instructing about positive and negative space, he describes how his left hand, on the inside, creates the inner volume, while his right hand, on the outside, gently folds the clay around empty space. “In this way I envelope the spirit of the piece by defining the form,” he says. The balance between control and spontaneity, technique and creativity is very important. Each day is an ongoing experiment, full of inventive ideas and endless surprises. When Hutchens greets guests at Fired Up! in Metchosin, they may see the results of five years of working on a technical challenge. “One thing is for certain,” he says “they will see the best work of the past year.”
Creativity flows at Meira Mathison’s Dancerwood Studio
Meira demonstrates slip technique.
Jug with serving set and tray.
Double Walled Sculpture
Meira Mathison’s ceramics radiate vitality and gestural energy. Each piece is unique. After throwing a pot, she often manipulates the form, adding liquid slips and several layers of glazes. Many of her pieces fit together in sets and suggest family relationships and bonding. Fond of the roguish intellect of crows and ravens, the artist sculpts black clay heads that harbour human expressions. Mathison is currently working on sculptural forms that are technically challenging. Resembling sea-washed stone, these fecund flowing sculptures are both enigmatic and graceful.
A member of Fired Up! since 1984, Mathison applauds the professional development of the group. “The members support, inspire and motivate each other,” she says. They’ve exhibited at the Canadian Clay and Glass Museum in Waterloo, Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery in London, and two US conferences hosted by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts.
For the April firing, Mathison plans to put in forms that encourage the collection of ash on their surfaces. She hopes for “yummy, luscious surfaces with depth and brilliance.” Regarding the all night shifts, she mentions that some members enjoy them. Others are early-birds or after-nooners, so it all works out. In charge of food for the event, she plans to make sure everyone is well fed and happy.
Mary Fox eyes the future from Ladysmith Pottery
Mary Fox is an accomplished ceramic artist living in Ladysmith with an international following. Now 56, she discovered her predilection for clay as a teenager and forged her career as a self-taught professional potter. Remembering her own challenges, Fox aims to help emerging potters by creating a Legacy Project. She plans to bequeath her studio location as an artist-in-residence space. Ladysmith Pottery is currently receiving status as an Economusée site and will become an artisan destination point.
Fox’s glazing techniques, honed from years of experimentation, add a unique crackled patina to the exterior of her chalices. This gives her elegant vessels the look of newly unearthed antiquities. Before going to the wheel, Fox attains a calm centered state. The still point must be inside the potter in order for the form to be successful. “How I am feeling is in the work,” she says, “my loving intention guides the creative process.” In Victoria, view Fox’s stylish creations at Winchester Galleries in Oak Bay and The Gallery at Mattick’s Farm.
At the centre of every vessel thrown on the wheel is a point of stillness, which remains still, whatever form the clay assumes. The form of the vessel measures movement in relation to this point. The variety of possible forms is endless.
by Alan Caiger-Smith from Tin Glaze Pottery, cited in The Art of Earth
Mary Fox has a long history with Fired Up! When she was a shy novice, Fox attended the Metchosin weekends
“to admire the pots and quiz the potters.” Now a professional, she likes to chat with emerging potters and guests to share her knowledge of the artform. Mary looks forward to the wood firing on Denman in April. She plans to consult with her colleagues about which shapes and glazing techniques offer best outcomes. Guests at Fired Up! will be the first to see her signature successes. “I use the dark months as a creative hot zone,” she says, “and spring offers a rebirth.”
Pat Webber’s animal tales are most a-Muse-ing
The colours and textures produced by Anagama kiln enhance Webber’s functional ware and animal forms. Her mythical creatures evolve from her love of the natural world. The Pacific Tree Frog seen in the banner photo, is honoured as a Muse and special guest. Her whimsical sculptural pieces, featuring animal stories, draw the viewer into the narrative. At the Metchosin sale, former customers treat her like an old friend. “We chat and laugh,” she says, “when someone resonates with your work it’s very rewarding.“
Candleholder with Boating Frogs, wood fired in Anagama kiln.
Detail: Hare and Dog traveling on Tortoise, reduction fired, copper matte glaze.
Each summer for the past 23 years, Webber has wood fired at an Anagama kiln in Oregon. She believes the process of wood firing is a metaphor for living well. “The effort requires teamwork, planning ahead, strength and perseverance,” she says. Every firing has its surprises, delights and disappointments. Webber enjoys wood firing with the Fired Up! crew. She describes night-shift stoking as a bonding experience, with sounds of nocturnal animals alongside the roar of the kiln. Singing in harmony or telling stories passes the time. Each year friendships evolve and deepen, with work being the common thread that binds them together. She has been with Fired Up! since 1984.
Above: Webber at the unloading of an Anagama kiln in Oregon. At right: wood fired jug with unusual markings. Like most of her pieces, the jug combines both thrown and hand-built techniques.
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Game On: Hawks @ Hornets
By: Michael McNamara
Christmas Day is over and presumably Phil Jackson has no problems with the NBA scheduling games on December 26th, so the Hornets take the court for the first time in four days with no protest from the Zen Master or any other outspoken multi-millionaires who don’t seem to realize where their bread is buttered.
The Hornets are coming off perhaps their best offensive performance of the season, winning 105-91 against the Nets on Wednesday behind spectacular showings from Okafor and Thornton and efficient performances by Paul, West, and Belinelli. Even though the game was against the Nets, a team that has struggled mightily on the road, it was still a performance that gave fans hope going into the Christmas break, and hopefully the Hornets can pick up right where they left off.
Match-ups
Point Guard: Chris Paul vs. Mike Bibby
Advantage: Hornets
Bibby is on his last legs as a starting NBA point guard, but he actually has been very efficient this season as Larry Drew has essentially turned him into a spot up shooter. He basically is the Derek Fisher of the Atlanta Hawks at this stage of his career. He isn’t really asked to create and he only takes about 9 shots per game, but he is often the one taking the big 3’s down the stretch. He is shooting nearly 48% from the field, which is well above his career average, and is shooting 50% from deep- knocking down 2 per game. With all that being said, CP3 obviously dominates this matchup, but he has to be careful not to leave Bibby too often in order to go for steals or Bibby can easily go off for 20+.
Shooting Guard: Marco Belinelli vs. Joe Johnson
Advantage: Hawks
Johnson has played 4 games since coming back from surgery and the results have been mixed, at best. He looked good against Cleveland, although a friend of mine who was at the game told me that he was 80 percent at best and couldn’t really get to the rack. His injuries haven’t really stopped him from being aggressive, however, as he is averaging more than 16 shots per game since returning, averaging 17.5 PPG. it seems like he still doesn’t have his lift, and that is affecting his deep ball, but perhaps the 3 days off has helped.
Marco looked great against New Jersey on Monday, but this is the kind of matchup that he will struggle with. Atlanta is fairly long and Marco will have a tough time getting to the basket or creating. He might get some open looks from deep, especially in transition, but I can’t see him doing much else offensively. He needs to focus his energy on the defensive end, where he will be asked to guard scorers like Johnson and Jamal Crawford.
Small Forward: Trevor Ariza vs. Marvin Williams
Every time these two meet, somebody just has to mention that Williams was taken over CP3 in the draft, but I refuse to do it- it is just too easy. But Williams was taken over 2 elite point guards that year who could have changed the Atlanta franchise forever. One of them was Deron Williams, the other…. Promised I wouldn’t go there.
Anyway, Marvin has been solid for Atlanta this year, averaging nearly 11 PPG on 48% shooting while playing solid defense. The great thing about Atlanta’s front line is that they can switch on pick and rolls and never really be at a disadvantage. Williams, Smith, and Horford can all cover 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, and even most 5’s. In fact any of those guys can even stay in front of most point guards.
As for Ariza, hopefully somebody got him some confidence over the break because he has just been awful as of late. In his last 3 games he is 6-35 from the field and over his last 5 games he is 0-15 from deep and has a 1.4:3 assist to turnover ratio. If not for his solid rebounding and above average defense, I might be well within my rights to label him the worst starting small forward in the league during the month of December- a month that has seen him shoot 32% from the field, 13% from deep, and average over 2 turnovers per game.
It is time for him to step up or move to the bench. Plain and simple. Hopefully he rises like a Phoenix starting tonight.
Power Forward: David West vs. Josh Smith
By far the best matchup on the court tonight, and one that could go a long ways into deciding the outcome of the game. West really struggles against Smith when he tries to overpower him around the rim. I have no way of looking this up, but I would bet a nice piece of change that Smith blocks more shots per game against D West than anyone else West has matchup up with.
Where West can take advantage of Smith is out on the perimeter. Smith loves to help out on the weak-side and this can leave West open for a lot of open jumpers. If West can knock down those shots early, it will force Smith out and could open up the lane for the Hornets considerably.
Center: Emeka Okafor vs Al Horford
Advantage: Hawks (slightly)
Maybe I am factoring Emeka’s last two games into this too much, but I really like the way he has been playing and I think he and Horford are mirror images of each other in a lot of ways. Horford possesses a better stroke from the line and can actually pass the ball out of the high post, but everything else is fairly similar. Neither really have an elite low post move and both rely mostly on pure hustle around the rim, while they both do a fairly good job of protecting the paint while being undersized.
The key for Okafor in this game will be not to pick up ticky tack fouls, because the Hornets need him on the court to match up with Horford, seeing that they don’t have anybody else who can limit him on the glass.
Bench: Jeff Teague, Zaza Pachulia, Maurice Evans, Jamal Crawford vs. Marcus Thornton, Jarrett Jack, Willie Green, Jason Smith, DJ Mbenga
Advantage: Even
This can swing either way depending on a few factors. For one, it is uncertain if Atlanta’s best bench player Jamal Crawford will play tonight. If he does, Atlanta has a slight advantage off the bench. it is also not known whether or not Willie Green will play tonight or if Monty will finally stick with Thornton no matter what.
Depending on those factors, this could go either way, but something tells me that Jack and/or MT5 go off tonight. Good match-ups for both of them.
Other Notes/Observations
– If Willie Green comes in tonight- let’s all give him a standing ovation to let him know he has our support. Horrible thing to happen, over the holidays no less.
– Vegas has Hornets as 2.5 point favorites and the over/under at 184. I really like the way the offense looked at home on Wednesday, so I am taking the over. Hornets 102 (free chicken!!) Hawks 96.
– This is the beginning of an 11 day, 7 game road stretch for Atlanta. I kinda wish we caught them at the end of it, but such is life.
– Okafor limited Hibbert and Lopez to a combined 7 for 26 over the last two games. Horford isn’t as stiff as those two, but I expect Emeka to have an impact if he stays out of foul trouble.
Joe’s additional preview (because Michael and I both wrote a preview at the same time). Thanks, Michael! Had I know I would have continued lounging on the beach in SoCal/playing superuncle to my two nephews who may or may not be onamphetamines.
Off Efficiency: Hawks 104.7 (12th), Hornets 102.4 (18th)
Def Efficiency: Hawks 102.5 (12th), Hornets 99.0 (4th)
Pace: Hornets 92.3 (26th), Hornets 92.2 (27th)
New Orleans begins a double headers against Atlanta that starts on the floor of New Orleans Arena and ends on the turf of the Georgia Dome. After a very merry Christmas/Kwanza/Solstice/Whatever else you feel like celebrating, I wouldn’t expect much love in the stands for this battle, mostly as a result of the upcoming Monday Night Football game. The Hawks and Hornets started a combined 14-0, and since have gone a meager 22-24. In actuality their skill level lies somewhere in between those two records, and tonight should be a good test to see where each team is.
Two two teams share another similar trait, being two of the slowest paced teams in the league. It should be a low scoring game, although not necessarily because of poor execution.
As far as rebounding goes, New Orleans has recently been dominating the boards, leading to their percentage of rebounds grabbed jumping all the way up to 51.2 percent (8th in the league). If you had told me that the Hornets would be top 20 in the league before Monty Williams started emphasizing team rebounding, I would have laughed at you. Now though? I just smile. The Hawks aren’t slouches, at 49.7 percent, but somehow, some way, it appears that the Hornets have an advantage.
Atlanta is led by the highest paid player of the highly regarded 2010 free agent class, Joe Johnson. Although clearly not the best of the bunch, his desire to take the highest possible contract hometown loyalty enabled him to score a contract regarded by some (me) as one of the dumbest moves of the summer. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a good player, but it’s unlikely he can be the best player on a championship team. Atlanta really hamstrung themselves with that contract and although they will be a playoff team for years to come, they lack the financial flexibility to make any major improvements.
Jamal Crawford is questionable, after sitting out the previous six games. I would expect him to play, but I’m not in New Orleans so I really don’t know much more than you do. What’s the deal with guys coming back from injuries against us? If your team has a hurt player, just come to New Orleans and you can rest assured that he will be A-OK.
Anyway, enjoy the game and your Sunday. Maybe Ryan will come in and write a third preview if you all are lucky.
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Interview with Author Kathleen Kaska
Today, Feathered Quill reviewer Ellen Feld is talking with Kathleen Kaska, author of A Two Horse Town.
FQ: Tell our readers a little about yourself. Your background, your interests, and how this led to writing a book?
KASKA: I'm a Texas gal. Except for an eighteen-month hiatus living in New York City after college, I lived in the Lone Star State continuously for fifty years. Since then Texas has been hit and miss—a little hit, but a heck of a lot of miss. There was a time when I thought I would happily die in Austin, Texas. But circumstances and weather—especially weather—changed that. Now I spend most of the year on Fidalgo Island in Washington State with a view of the bay and the mountains. When I gets homesick, my a husband and I plug in the iPhone to Pandora and select Willie—as in Nelson, (Hope you don’t have to ask). Soon we are dancing the two-step, imagining we're at our favorite honky-tonk in Tokyo, Texas where the mayor is believed to be a dog. Who wouldn’t miss that?
It was my love of animals and the outdoors, and my need to support certain social causes that led to the writing of A Two Horse Town.
FQ: Have you always enjoyed writing or is it something you’ve discovered recently?
KASKA: I've been writing for about twenty-five years. It's something I'd always wanted to do, but I had to work up the courage to start. I also had to find the time in my teaching schedule. I started writing in my early forties and retired from teaching about ten years ago. Now my time is spent writing and enjoying free time with my husband.
FQ: Tell us a little about your book – a brief synopsis and what makes your book unique.
KASKA: A Two Horse Town is part of my Animal-Rights Mystery Series. Here's a brief synopsis: With her coffee-guzzling dogs and a welcome mat that starts at the business end of a shotgun, Ida Springfield weathers all the challenges life hands her. Until the local government gets the idea to build a dam to help the ranchers, a dam that would dry up the water on her ranch and destroy the habitat for the herd of mustangs living there. After further alienating the "goofballs at town hall," Ida lets go of her pride and accepts the help of animal rights activist Kate Caraway. Kate feels a need to escape life in Chicago after so many years in her beloved Africa. She's eager to get to Montana and find some peace from rural surroundings. After tumbling down a mountain, finding a body, and getting warned off by the mayor, Kate understands why her husband wants her to come home. But Kate can't leave without saving the mustangs and helping the 82-year-old woman and her mentally challenged twin sister stand up to the town bigwigs. To do that, she has to find out who killed Ida's estranged son and why town officials believe her great-grandson committed the crime.
FQ: What was the impetus for writing your book?
KASKA: The idea for this series started forming in my mind when I was a member of Wildlife Rescue, Inc in Austin, Texas where I helped rehab and raise orphaned wildlife. So, I wanted to write a series that made readers aware of animal-rights issues. The first book in the series, Run Dog Run, published in 2017, takes place in the world of greyhound racing.
While traveling through Montana several years ago, I became aware of the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range, which is a refuge for a herd of free-roaming mustangs. These horses have a unique genetic makeup that doesn’t exist in other breeds. I began imagining what would happen if their habitat were threatened, and the plot for A Two Horse Town unfolded from there.
FQ: What was the hardest part of writing your book? That first chapter, the last paragraph, or ...?
KASKA: The hardest part of writing a book occurs about two-thirds of the way in. I plot by the seat of my pants until I reach a point where I have to pull everything together. That's when the work begins.
FQ: The genre of your book is Mystery. Why this genre?
KASKA: I write mysteries because I enjoy reading them. The challenge is making the plot work. I used to compare the process to putting together a jigsaw puzzle, but I've come to realized it more like playing 3-deminsional chess. I also write nonfiction, which has its own challenges in the planning and outlining process.
FQ: Do you have any plans to try writing a book in a different genre? If so, which genre and why?
KASKA: Right now, I'm sticking with mysteries, but I'm writing a hard-boiled detective novel set in the 1940s in Manhattan. l love reading Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Mickey Spillane and I wanted to try my hand at the sub-genre.
FQ: Who are your favorite authors?
KASKA: My favorite authors are: Martha Grimes, Dick Francis, Elizabeth Peters, E. B. White, Roger Angell, poet Billy Collins, John Irving, F. Scott Fitzgerald, just to name a few. I also love discovering writers I've never read before. I've recently discovered David Handler, author of the Stewart Hoag mystery series.
FQ: Which do you find easier, starting a story, or writing the conclusion?
KASKA: Starting the story and concluding the story is easy, it's the middle that is challenging. It's definitely a mental workout.
FQ: As an author/writer, what famous author (living or dead), would you like to have dinner with, and why?
KASKA: I would like to spend time with E.B. White. He lived during an era that has always fascinated me. His essays are timeless and I would love to ask him about what inspired him. Although, shying away from talking to people, he might not be easily forthcoming.
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Although Micah Berdichevsky (1865-1921), a giant of Hebrew literature, never completed his book-length study of the apostle Paul, his literary executors ensured that Saul and Paul was published in 1971. Like the better known study by Joseph Klausner, From Jesus to Paul (1939), Berdichevsky's work was a Zionist perspective on the founder of Gentile Christianity, written in Hebrew. Central to Saul and Paul is a mysterious document that Berdichevsky believed to be an ancient Jewish account of the conversion and missionary success of Paul, namely, the tale of the pagan priest, Abba Gulish. He went on to argue that Saul and Paul had been two different individuals, the one Jewish, the other pagan, and that Christian tradition had amalgamated them. Attributing historicity to a Hebrew legend rather than a Greek Christian one, Berdichevsky argued that Paulinism was an essentially pagan philosophical system. While many before and after him would find the seeds of Christianity in the Jewish Paul's adoption of non-Jewish, Hellenistic ideas, Berdichevsky went one step further and denied Paul even a Jewish birth. In addition to a comparison of Klausner and Berdichevsky's views of Paul, this short article includes the Hebrew text and translation of the story of Abba Gulish.
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This study examines the religious response to the Shoah of Rabbi Kalonymous Shapira, a Chasidic leader in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Second World War. The responses of the Ultra-Orthodox to the Holocaust have long been neglected and/or marginalized, only coming back into considered focus in more recent years. These responses were often associated with the idea of 'punishment for sin' in relation to theological justification of the Holocaust. Yet Shapira's response contains surprising elements concerning his attempt to understand theologically the unfolding sufferings through which he and his community lived (and died). These surprising tendencies can be characterized as 'atheodic' and 'antitheodic' in nature in that they evidence the relinquishing of the effort to justify and explain the suffering. Together these tendencies show Shapira's response to be both more complex and sensitive than Ultra-Orthodox thought has often been given credit for.
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LGBT meltdown: Florida bans Medicaid coverage for gender-related medical treatments
Members of Florida’s LGBT community and their supporters blasted a rule by the state’s health officials that blocked health coverage for...
Members of Florida’s LGBT community and their supporters blasted a rule by the state’s health officials that blocked health coverage for “gender dysphoria” treatments. Transgender individuals often avail of these medical procedures to “transition” to their preferred sex.
The new rule put in place by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) took effect on Sunday, Aug. 21. Prior to this, the agency put out a report signed by Tom Wallace, Medicaid director for Florida. The report said treatments such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and gender reassignment surgeries are neither safe nor effective.
Several legal groups supporting the LGBT community – including Lambda Legal, Southern Legal Counsel, Florida Health Justice Project and National Health Law Program – also denounced the new rule in a statement. They accused AHCA of discrimination and of ignoring public comments in support of Medicaid covering gender therapies.
Despite the condemnation from the LGBT community and its allies, the AHCA found supporters of its decision not to include gender-related medical treatments under Medicaid coverage.
Board-certified pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Matthew Benson cited studies from Sweden and Denmark showing extremely high suicide rates among people who availed of gender-related medical procedures.
“I think the data on which the gender-affirmative model is based [on] is not scientific,” said the Jacksonville-based Benson. “We need better data [and] long-term perspective trials where we can look at adverse effects. We need much more robust data to justify these kinds of very robust therapies.”
Brock Juarez, AHCA communications director, referenced Wallace’s report recommending against such treatments. He pointed out a section in the report stating that several treatments to address gender dysphoria “are not consistent with widely accepted professional medical standards” and “are experimental and investigational with the potential for harmful, long-term effects.”
Not all members of LGBT community are against AHCA rule
“AHCA’s actions, at the behest of Governor [Ron] DeSantis and his political appointees, are morally and legally wrong, as well as medically and scientifically unsound,” wrote the pro-LGBT legal groups. “This rule represents a dangerous escalation in Governor DeSantis’s political zeal to persecute LGBTQ+ people in Florida and particularly transgender youth.”
Mainstream media (MSM) outlet NBC also joined in the fray, writing that “transgender medical treatment for children and teens is increasingly under attack in many states where it has been labeled a form of child abuse and where Medicaid coverage is barred.”
According to NBC, “many doctors and mental health specialists argue that medical treatment for transgender children is safe and beneficial and can improve their well-being.” However, the MSM outlet acknowledged in the same sentence that “rigorous long-term research on benefits and risks [for such treatments] are lacking.”
There are members of the LGBT community who support AHCA’s rule. And unlike critics who parrot MSM claims, these individuals gave their support based on their own experiences.
Former female-to-male transgender Chloe Cole is one such supporter. The California resident began transitioning at 13 years old, but changed her mind when she turned 16.
“I really didn’t understand all of the ramifications of any of the medical decisions that I was making,” she admitted to Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo. “I was unknowingly physically cutting off my true self from my body, irreversibly and painfully. No child should experience what I experienced.”
Cole also warned the parents against transitioning their children.
“If you are considering transitioning, please wait until you are a fully developed adult. Transitioning can damage your body and mind in ways that we may not fully understand.
Watch singer Macy Gray explain why gender reassignment surgeries do not truly change someone’s sex.
This video is from the SBN News Clips channel on Brighteon.com.
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Figure 114.1
Patient with a urostomy for bladder carcinoma who has reacted to the tape border of a two‐piece appliance on a 5‐day skin test (right of picture). She...
(a) Psoriasis affecting an ileostomy in a woman with Crohn disease; this was confirmed histologically. She had a history suggestive of scalp psoriasis...
Fistulating Crohn disease affecting an ileostomy in a teenage girl. The original stoma on the left was partly destroyed by the inflammatory process an...
Figure 114.13
Severe pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) in a middle‐aged man with acute onset of Crohn disease requiring a pan‐proctocolectomy and ileostomy. He received ada...
A short colostomy demonstrating faecal dermatitis. The patient also has a persistent reaction to the tape border of her appliance (outer ring of derma...
Pain is occasionally prominent and sometimes severe as in this young woman with an ileostomy for ulcerative colitis. Treatment is as for Figure .
Candida infection presenting as an itchy, non‐follicular pustular rash affecting an immunosuppressed woman with an ileostomy for Crohn disease.
(a) Lichen sclerosus affecting a urostomy in a woman with a history of genital lichen sclerosus presenting some years prior to stoma formation for bla...
(a) Crohn ulcer near a recently formed ileostomy. The ulceration was painful and slowly expanded. (b) Crohn ulceration affecting a colostomy site. A b...
A short ileostomy buried in a skin fold near the umbilicus. This stoma was undertaken as an emergency procedure and siting is suboptimal. The eroded d...
Idiopathic dermatitis affecting the whole skin covered by the stoma barrier. The patient did not develop a reaction to the appliance when it was worn ...
Ileal metaplasia affecting a longstanding urostomy and covering a wide area of skin. This was treated with laser resurfacing.
Streptococcal cellulitis complicating healing pyoderma gangrenosum in a 65‐year‐old woman with inflammatory bowel disease.
(a) Nicorandil ulceration affecting an ileostomy for ulcerative colitis. (b) This healed completely within 6 weeks of stopping the drug.
Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) affecting an ileostomy in a teenage girl with a permanent end‐ileostomy for Crohn disease. There is active PG at the 5 to 7 ...
A proximal colostomy with liquid effluent that leaked onto the skin because the stoma is short. This results in an eroded faecal dermatitis.
(a) Inflammatory polyps affecting a colostomy where the skin has been exposed to faeces. (b) Where these bleed, proliferate, cause pain or otherwise r...
A short and buried ileostomy where leaks are inevitable. The mottled appearance of the hyperkeratotic papules is typical.
Synergic gangrene affecting a recently formed ileostomy. The patient required surgical debridement in addition to systemic antibiotics.
(a) Localized bullous pemphigoid affecting a large colostomy in a 90‐year‐old man. At presentation denuded areas of skin were seen, but there were no ...
(a) Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) affecting a permanent ileostomy in a man with a history of ulcerative colitis. The perforated edge is typical and result...
A highly contractile ileostomy that varies in length from flush (pictured) to 3 cm long.
Granulation tissue with bowel metaplasia affecting an ileostomy. These lesions cause bag failures, especially by bleeding. Because of this, and in par...
(a) Chronic papillomatous dermatitis (CPD) and irritant dermatitis associated with a leaking urostomy. The papules are typical. (b) These may prolifer...
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Joe-ing Away Party
by Debbi | Jul 26, 2010 | Events | 4 comments
The Joe Factor is leaving the Sandbar.
Joe's lovely fiancee Teresa graduated from Washburn Law in May, and she's taking the bar exam this week. While she's been studying all summer, Joe's been living it up at the Sandbar and at manager Dave's backyard pool. But now, Teresa has landed a job in the metropolis of Emporia, and they'll be leaving Lawrence soon.
Wednesday is Joe's final regular bartending shift at the Sandbar. I say "final regular," because we certainly hope he'll come back to visit and make a guest appearance behind the bar or at the door.
Come join us on Wednesday night and wish Joe well in his new adventures in Emporia.
Some of the staff in "Cuddle Island" with Joe. That's how much they'll miss him.
Share your favorite Joe Factor memories and moments in the comments!
Danny on July 26, 2010 at 11:45 am
I have a photo of The Factor in his underwear, “riding” a leaf blower.
I’ll start the bidding at $5.
brother pants on July 27, 2010 at 1:38 pm
I’d pay $5 for you to burn that photo.
Datasmybag on July 27, 2010 at 9:57 pm
We love you Joey!!! – Mama Myrrie and Mama Kelli
Debbi on July 27, 2010 at 10:18 pm
We will miss Joe, both at the bar and as a neighbor!
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Why exactly did we go to war?
The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty - perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton
William Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
Edward Rutledge
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton
Benjamin Rush
John Morton
George Clymer
George Taylor
George Ross
Caesar Rodney
George Read
Thomas McKean
William Floyd
Philip Livingston
Francis Lewis
Richard Stockton
Francis Hopkinson
Abraham Clark
Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
Robert Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
William Ellery
Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
Oliver Wolcott
Matthew Thornton
Posted Saturday, July 04, 2015
Fine, I'll Finish the Damned Book
Stuck in self-realization
Guided meditation for writers
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ACKLEY LEADS WAVERLY TO 3-1 FINISH
By: Tim Birney | Waverly Athletics | September 14, 2021 | Photo courtesy Tim Birney
WAVERLY — Waverly, led by first-place finisher senior Nate Ackley, and Tioga, led by junior Thomas Hurd, each had two finishers in the top 10, but SVEC won the five-team IAC boys cross country meet here at the Waverly Glen.
SVEC had 26 placement points to go 4-0, while Waverly was 3-1 with 42 points, Tioga was 2-2 with 55 points, and Marathon and Whitney Point both fielded incomplete teams.
Ackley clocked in at 19:06.4 — 18 seconds ahead of runner-up Jonathan Garrison of SVEC, while Hurd finished in fifth in 20:32.7, Waverly senior Gavin Schillmoeller was seventh in 21:01.5, and Tioga freshman Andrew Earley was ninth in 21:04.6.
Waverly seniors Sam VanDyke (21:06.3) and Matt Atanasoff (21:08.7) finished 11th and 12th, respectively, and sophomore Brayden Hurd was 16th in 23:30.7.
Tioga freshman Isaiah Fore finished 13th in 21:31.2, while senior Colt Herrala was 23rd in 26:02.6, and senior Will Slater (27:26.8), sophomore Casey Herrala (26:02.6), senior Zander Whitmore (28:43.3), and senior Jack Cary (29:15.8) finished 26th through 29th, respectively.
Tioga’s Reed Cook was 34th in 42:51.2.
MODIFIED BOYS
Chase Hine and Finn Williams finished third and fourth, respectively, to lead the Wolverines in the boys modified race, while Owen Seaver finished eighth to lead Tioga.
Hine clocked in at 10:56.2 on the 1.5-mile course, while Williams finished in 11:36.2, and Seaver crossed the finish line in 12:46.0.
Waverly’s Mark Myers finished 11th in 17:12.1.
Seaver, Tioga’s only runner, finished in 12:46.0.
FOR MORE PHOTOS, VISIT VALLEY SPORTS REPORT.
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MTSR 2016 : 10th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference
Conference Series : Metadata and Semantics Research
Link: http://mtsr-conf.org
Categories metadata semantic web linked data ontologies
The International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'16) will be held at the UniversitätsBibliothek of Göttingen (Germany) on November 22-25, 2016.
MTSR’16 celebrates the conference’s 10th anniversary with the theme of bridging the past, present and future of metadata, data and semantic technologies. The organisers encourage prospective authors and conference participants to reflect on the following questions:
How the documented evidence produced over the past years can be used as a driver for innovating management and processing of data and information?
How close are we from the vision of building powerful learning systems that will meet the needs of modern societies through high quality data infrastructures and data-driven interfaces?
What are the main challenges that modern metadata and semantics research has not addressed yet?
MTSR'16 brings together scholars and practitioners with common interest in the interdisciplinary fields of metadata, data and semantics. The conference provides an opportunity for participants to share knowledge and novel approaches in the implementation of semantic technologies across diverse types of information environments and applications. These include Cultural Informatics, Open Access Repositories and Digital Libraries, E-learning applications, Search Engine Optimization and Information Retrieval, Research Information Systems and Infrastructures, e-Science and e-Social Science applications, Agriculture, Food and Environment, Bio-Health & Medical Information Systems.
SCOPE & TOPICS
Contributions are encouraged on this year’s theme "Learning from the Past, Building the Future", including contributions covering, but not limited to, metadata in general, ontologies, Semantic Web, linked data, data repositories, digital libraries, knowledge management, software engineering, and the following list:
I. Foundations
Typology of metadata and metadata implementations
The value and cost of metadata
Quality evaluation in the use of Metadata
Metadata reusability
New or revised metadata schemas or application profiles
Metadata standardization
Empirical studies on metadata and/or ontologies usage
II. Languages and Frameworks for Metadata Management
SGML, XML, UML in theory and practice
Languages and Frameworks for Ontology Management
Metadata and the Semantic Web
Metadata and Knowledge Management
Metadata and Software Engineering
Metadata application of Semantic Web technologies
Ontologies and Ontology-based Knowledge Management Systems
III. Case Studies
Metadata and ontologies for librarianship, management of historical archives and archeological research
Metadata and ontologies for the design of innovative products and processes
Metadata and ontologies for health, biological and clinical information management
Metadata and ontologies in finance, tourism and public administrations
Metadata and ontologies in industry
Metadata and ontologies in education
Metadata and ontologies in agriculture, food and environment
IV. Technological Issues
Technologies for:
Metadata and ontology storage, Metadata and ontology integration, Metadata extraction and navigation, querying and editing of ontologies
Learning Objects management
Search engines, Localization & Visualization
Mobile challenges
V. Digital Libraries, Big Data and Information Retrieval
Ontologies and SKOS
Linked Data and its applications
Metadata quality
Impact and evaluation of DL
Use and re-use of digital data
Multilingual IR
User behavior and modeling
Big Data semantics, search and mining
Reasoning on Big Data
VI. Tutorials and Workshops
You can bring in your ideas for tutorials. If you are interested in a particular topic, please let us know by sending an email to:
mtsr.conference@gmail.com
Part of the conference are special tracks focusing on particular domains or topics. Papers submitted to tracks undergo the same review procedures and are published in the same proceedings as those accepted for the main track.
Tracks currently being organized:
• Cultural Collections & Applications
• Agriculture, Food & Environment
• Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval, Linked & Social Data
• European and National Projects
• Open Repositories, Research Information Systems and Data Infrastructures
The following types of submissions are invited:
Full papers (12 pages) reporting complete research
Short papers (6 pages) presenting ongoing or preliminary research
Posters (4 pages)
Proposals for tutorials and workshops (2 pages)
Submissions should be original and not previously submitted to other Conferences or Journals. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity following a double-blind peer review process. Submitted papers have to follow the LNCS proceedings formatting style and guidelines (ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/instruct/authors/authors.pdf). Authors of accepted submissions will be asked to register to the Conference and present their work in the form of either oral presentation or poster presentation.
Interested authors can submit to EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=10mtsr2016
Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) book series (7899). CCIS is abstracted/indexed in Scopus, DBLP, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings.
Revised and extended versions of best papers will be published in selected international journals, including the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (Inderscience), the Program: Electronic library and information systems (Emerald) and the International Information & Library Review (Taylor & Francis) (list incomplete).
There are two types of awards: the Best paper award and the Best student paper award, both sponsored by euroCRIS (http://www.eurocris.org/).
Best paper award: This award will be presented to the authors of the best full research paper submitted and presented to the conference.
Best student paper award: MTSR sponsors a paper competition to recognize excellence in a conference paper contribution whose primary author is a student (normally at a PhD or MRes level). The student is required to present the paper at the MTSR 2016 conference. Submissions are evaluated on their originality, scientific merits, structure, and clarity of composition.
The author of an awarded paper, and co-authors if any, will be entitled to:
Receive a signed and stamped official award certificate by the conference organizers
Promote their achievement on MTSR conference webpage, and MTSR Social Media
Get invited to submit an extended and revised version of the awarded paper for publication in the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (Inderscience) (http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijmso) or Program (Emerald) (http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/prog):
Each award comes with the price of a free access/registration to next years’ MTSR, including all conference materials, together with the printed/digital conference proceedings
This voucher for each award for free registration is valid only for one author, in case of many co-authors, of the awarded paper, and only for the MTSR conference that follows the year after receiving the award.
Emmanouel Garoufallou, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece
PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS
Jane Greenberg, Drexel University, USA
Armando Stellato, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Imma Subirats, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Italy
SNLP 2023 4th International Conference on Semantic & Natural Language Processing
HBPSC 2023 7th HBP Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Brain Research
SEMANTiCS 2023 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems
WiMoNe 2023 15th International Conference on Wireless & Mobile Networks
Journal for Fantasy Research 2023 Journal for Fantasy Research Special Issue 'Fantasy Across Media'
SDS 2023 The First International Workshop on Semantics in Dataspaces
IJWesT 2023 International Journal of Web & Semantic Technology
FLAIRS-36 36th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference
CBIoT 2023 4th International Conference on Cloud, Big Data and IoT
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