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St James's Place Charges
Topic: St James’s Place 20 March 2018
In this report we analyse the charges and fee structures applied to SJP client portfolios. With initial fees of 5%, exit penalties of up to 6% and some funds charges over 2% per annum, we have identified St James's Place to be one of the most expensive propositions available to consumer investors.
Initial fee of 5% on investment funds.
Exit fees of 6% on pension and investment bond products
Annual management charges of 1.5% for pension and Life funds and up to 1.7% for unit trust / ISAs
Portfolio charges up to 7.14%
Our recent St James's Place Review has identified a large proportion of SJP funds to be poor performing when compared to other same sector funds. That coupled with high charges and high withdrawal penalties identified in this report will assist investors in evaluating the St James's Place Wealth Management's proposition in comparison to other investment service providers.
The wealth management giant now holds £95.6 Billion in total funds under management, and services 12% of the advice market. They are represented by 3,954 partner advisers who are 'restricted' meaning they are only allowed to offer St James's Place investment funds to clients.
SJP are never far from controversy
In recent times SJP has experienced a storm of negative press, and have been criticised for having high, non-transparent charges, as well as a sales-focused approach - rewarding their distribution/financial advisers through the use of “Nectar Points” or an “Air Miles” style reward structure.
Most recently, the consumer watchdog Which? carried out a damning undercover investigation into St James’s Place and found some of their advisers had misled potential customers regarding their restricted advice status and failed to comply with transparency rules on the disclosure of charges.
St James's Place Charges and Fees
The biggest source of contention relating to St James’s Place is regarding their charging structure, which is often criticised for being too hefty and lacking transparency.
SJP charges at a glance:
• Initial fee of 5% on investment funds
• Exit fees of 6% on pension and investment bond products within the first year reducing by 1% each year the customer remains with SJP. If a client adds money to that product, the 6-year clock is reset for that portion of the investment.
• Annual management charges or ongoing advice charges of 1.5% for pension and Life funds and up to 1.7% for unit trust / ISAs.
• In addition to SJP’s annual management charge, each fund also has transaction charges which can reach up 1.18% each year.
• This charging structure means that new investors can pay over 7% of the amount they invest in fees in the first year alone.
6% fee for withdrawing from an SJP pension
St James's Place also attracted criticism from the Sunday Times in relation to the level of exit charges they applied to their pension funds (which is up to 6% despite the FCA putting a 1% cap on exit charges in March 2017).
SJP’s recently retired Chief Executive David Bellamy claimed they were not in breach of the FCA ruling and attempted to clarify by stating - “It’s not an exit penalty, we call it very specifically an early withdrawal charge because it’s a means of funding the advice charge”. He continued “It’s almost like a deferred advice charge. It’s structured on the basis that if you stay with us for six years, you will simply have paid your 1.5 per cent annual management charge”.
Exit charge or not the fact remains, investors in a pension or a bond with SJP who wish to withdraw their money and move to another provider will be charged a fee of up to 6% of the amount they initially invested.
Portfolio charges of up to 7.14%
St James’s Place have also faced regular criticism for the charges they levy on their unit trust / ISA investors, which can exceed a colossal 7% in the first year.
In the table below we detail the initial and ongoing charges associated with all 9 St James’s Place unit trust / ISA portfolios. To provide an example, each portfolio reflects an initial investment of £100,000.
The data identifies that investors in a St James’s Place unit trust / ISA portfolio would face initial fees between 6.8% and 7.14% in the first year. An investor who invests £100,000 would face fees up to £7,140 in the first year alone.
St James's Place Dividends
In a recent press release relating to SJP's performance figures, Andrew Croft CEO of St James's Place commented:
"The Board proposes a final dividend of 29.73 pence per share, making for a full year dividend of 48.22 pence per share, growth of 12.5%, marginally above the growth of the underlying cash result in recognition of the very strong strategic progress during the year."
The business continues to perform well relative to the industry. However, challenging external factors, like those currently being experienced, are not in our control and the pace of fund flows has moderated compared with last year. I would note though that the inflows for the same period last year represent a very strong comparative and March typically accounts for around 50% of the first quarter’s flows."
Irrespective of these external factors, the fundamentals of our clients’ financial planning requirements remain unchanged. With a continued focus on achieving the best possible outcomes for our clients through the provision of trusted face-to-face financial advice and our distinctive investment management approach, together with the continued growth in the size of the St. James’s Place Partnership, we remain extremely well placed to continue to grow our business.”
SJP is a highly profitable company. High charges and acquisition, have helped the giant increase its performance figures and provide increased dividends to shareholders year on year.
Despite the growth of online investment platforms and the hype surrounding robo-investing models, St James’s Place have demonstrated that the traditional advice and distribution model is still popular and scalable.
Consumer investors are becoming more and more information savvy when it comes to investment performance and the cost of investing, and how excessive charges can dramatically erode the value of their investments.
Many SJP clients contact Yodelar displeased with the exit charges applied to their investment funds, they feel aggrieved that their IFA decided to move to St James's Place, and as a result they have inherited the relation with SJP without sufficient knowledge of the SJP business model.
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St James's Place Exit Charges
Topic: St James’s Place 14 January 2019
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Eight year old Anthony is somewhat uneasy about spending the weekend with his alcoholic, down-on-his-luck carpenter dad Walt while his mom Bonnie and her new husband Kyle go to a Catholic retreat together. Walt is just as uneasy about spending time with Anthony, especially since their first day together is a series of characteristically unfortunate events, including his truck breaking down, his landlord locking him out of the house, and the theft of his toolbox, which he needs for an upcoming job. As Walt and Anthony set about finding the guy who stole the tools and improvise around their other misfortunes, they begin to discover a true connection with each other, causing Walt to become a better father and Anthony to reveal the promise and potential of the good man he will become.
Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he’s human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to…
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Cute Little Buggers
From the Director of ‘DEADTIME’ and ‘Crying Wolf’ comes Cute Little Buggers! Will you let them take our women? It’s Gremlins meets Hot Fuzz set in the English countryside. When hostile aliens crash land on local farmland the villagers at the summer ball get suspicious when young women start going missing. The villagers soon band together around our hero Melchoir to fend off the invaders and bring back peace to the sleepy English countryside! B-movie laughs in this creature feature from Director Tony Jopia.
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Jane is a beautiful but troubled American girl backpacking through Japan, when her raw street fighting skills draw the attention of Oshima, Japanese karate champion, who recruits and trains her to fight in the vicious, all-female, underground martial arts tournament known as “The Kumite”. After months of rigorous preparation, Jane is ready to face off against the deadliest female fighters in the world, including Ling, the Chinese apprentice of Oshima’s nemesis. But other nefarious forces lie in the shadows, and Jane and Ling will have to unite on a journey that will take them from the gritty underworld of Hong Kong to the glitz of Macao, before deciding who really is the best female fighter on the planet.
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Microsoft’s patent envisions foldable mobile device with haptic-based buttons
Patent by Harry
The rumours claim that Microsoft is working on a foldable or dual-screen device. While there’s still no confirmation from the company itself, a patent published last week shows that Microsoft’s inventors are exploring a way to implement haptic-based buttons (power or volume) on the body of the dual-screen device.
The patent is titled “HAPTICS TO IDENTIFY BUTTON REGIONS” and it was published by WIPO on November 22. The patent was filed by Microsoft in April 2018. The patent is aimed at electronic devices that include memory associating a control action with a defined region on an external surface of the electronic device.
The figures in patent application appear to detail a foldable device that has piezoelectric actuators embedded in an edge region and a hinge region to provide haptic feedback responsive to touch detection.
Microsoft has explained the patented method below:
“An electronic device includes memory associating a control action with a defined region on an external surface of the electronic device. A localized haptic feedback response is provided responsive to detection of initial touch input within the defined region, and the control action is executed responsive to detection of a touch direction performed in association with the defined region following the detection of the touch input,” Microsoft explains.
The touch-based volume rocker, power or any other buttons (eg camera) could be implemented on the back of the device and the sides boundary.
“In other implementations, the UI button regions 104 and 106 are included on a non-display surface of the electronic device, such as an edge region (as shown) or on a back side of the electronic device 100,” patent description reads.
According to the patent application, the users will still be able to feel the haptic-based buttons with help of vibrations. A user may drag a finger along the external surface and feel haptic feedback (e.g., a vibration).
“In one implementation, the haptic feedback IC 110 provides localized haptic feedback in regions that may be felt within or close to the UI button regions 104 and 106 but not felt in other areas along the external surface 108. For example, a user may slide a finger along the external surface 108 and feel a vibration or other sensation when the finger crosses a boundary of one of the UI button regions 104 and 106,” the patent explains.
In November, a bunch of Microsoft’s foldable phone-related patents were published online. For example, a dual-screen patent with the ability to display 3D representation was published earlier this month. Another patent for a foldable device with the advanced audio system was detailed this month.
The patents are exciting and they do seem to detail the design of future devices. However, a patent application does not guarantee that Microsoft will turn this into a working product. Microsoft and other tech giants have filed multiple patents in the past which never turned into a consumer product.
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'Consumer Reports' Director Offers An Inside Take On The Car Testing Process
By Sonari Glinton • Feb 27, 2019
Originally published on March 1, 2019 11:12 am
This is FRESH AIR. Buying a new car is becoming more and more confusing. There's not just lots of brands. You can now choose between hybrid, plug-in hybrid, electric, SUV, compact SUV, pickup truck. And once you know what you want, there's the ordeal of negotiating the price. Our next guest is here to help alleviate some of that anxiety and confusion. Jennifer Stockburger runs the test track for Consumer Reports. It's the largest independent consumer auto testing center in the world. And it's where the magazine tests out hundreds of cars, trucks and SUVs. Last week, Consumer Reports put out its annual car issue, which ranks cars and car companies. The Japanese automaker Subaru was rated the top brand. Jennifer Stockburger spoke with guest contributor Sonari Glinton.
SONARI GLINTON, BYLINE: Jennifer Stockburger, welcome to FRESH AIR.
JENNIFER STOCKBURGER: Thanks for having me.
GLINTON: What are some features that are standard now that, if I'm 10 years out of a brand new car, that would surprise me?
STOCKBURGER: Electronic stability control was required on all new cars as of the 2012 model year.
GLINTON: Well, what is that?
STOCKBURGER: The car has the ability to individually brake certain wheels one at a time. So if you find yourself in an out of control, in a skid, in poor weather, the electronic stability control can individually brake a wheel to kind of pivot you back on your intended path - super effective safety feature. We've talked about it at Consumer Reports as one of the best things since the seatbelt. It's on all new cars now.
But now we're jumping to this new group, automatic emergency braking being a key element of that. This is a set of either radar, camera systems. They're doing some seeing. The car's seeing what you may not. And if you're not reacting to an imminent crash situation, the car will automatically apply the brakes to either avoid the crash entirely or, at the very least, wear off some speed to make it a less severe crash. So the data's showing it's super effective.
We, certainly, are advocating that it should be standard, like electronic stability control, on all new cars. And we give points in our overall score. And like I say, it can't even be a top pick for us this year unless you have it standard. And many of them already have that. About 30 percent of the newest models already have a pedestrian detection function as part of their automatic emergency braking, which simply says they won't just stop for a car. They'll stop for somebody in front of the car as well.
GLINTON: So Consumer Reports has released its annual car issue and - where you rank the cars and the car makers. So let's start with the brands. In first place, there's Subaru, then Genesis, Porsche, Audi, Lexus, Mazda, Lincoln, Toyota and Hyundai.
STOCKBURGER: Correct.
GLINTON: So when you're ranking a brand - I'm thinking I'm going to like driving a Porsche more than I like driving a Ford Fiesta. So how do you compare apples to oranges or Ford Fiestas to Porsches? (Laughter).
STOCKBURGER: Right. Right. So you've hit on one aspect. So the brand score is an average of the overall scores for the models in that brand, quite simply. So one piece of it - when you say, I like driving a Porsche better than, you know, a Subaru, that's the owner satisfaction piece. But it's also those other three components; reliability - I would guess the Porsche's probably not as reliable as the Subaru - and the road test score and the safety features and safety crash test performance. So when you culminate all of that together, that's where the Subaru comes up to the top because it has a number of models that are - not only perform well in our tests, our members like them. And they have really stellar reliability overall.
GLINTON: OK. Let's go through the bottom of the list. There's the last five - bottom five on your list - Jeep, Mitsubishi, Jaguar, Land Rover and Fiat. And, I think, maybe Jeep is interesting because they sell, it looks like, more of the cars here in the U.S. I mean, like, I don't ever remember Jeep being in even the top 15 of your choices. So - but this is a really popular car. What's going on here with Jeep?
STOCKBURGER: Right. And you've kind of taken the words out of my mouth with Jeep in that people love them. So they're one of those manufacturers where reliability scores are quite low. And that's what's driving them to the bottom. But some of the owner satisfaction are high. You know, there's always that car that people love. And they're going to love it regardless of whether it performs particularly great or is particularly reliable. And, you know, something like the Jeep Wrangler or the Jeep Unlimited - now, people love those vehicles. It's the reliability for Jeep models that has put it down there in that bottom 10.
GLINTON: Consumer Reports occasionally does this. It takes back its recommendation of cars. The Tesla Model 3 - now, this is the car that Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and the CEO SpaceX and a couple other things, has said would be the electric car of the masses. Now, I've talked to engineers who say overall - right? - electric cars should be more reliable. This car is selling like gangbusters. So why no love for the Model 3 from you guys?
STOCKBURGER: Right. And, again, this is from the reliability data. So this most recent round of ratings, including the top picks, happens to include a very recent set of reliability data that was taken over the summer of 2018. So in that data, the Tesla Model 3 had some issues, right down to things like paint and trim. So if you go back, you know, they keep changing the Model 3. You know, Consumer Reports has had some criticism. Oh, you keep changing your mind on the Model 3. Well, not really - the Model 3 keeps changing. So it's reflected in those reliability scores.
You know, they ramped up production on the Model 3. They had some real lag in terms of delivering Model 3s when they were supposed to, so they significantly ramped up production on the Model 3. And I think we're seeing that kind of accelerated production in the reliability scores, perhaps. You know, we own a Model 3 at our test track. And things that came out in reliability, such as glass issues - we have a crack in one of the - the rear windshield of our Model 3. So it's - even though we own one car, we see some of it.
GLINTON: Given your time at Consumer Reports, how would you score the sort of industry overall right now? Is it is a good time to be buying a safe, efficient car or have there been better years?
STOCKBURGER: No, I think there's never been a better time. I think cars overall are more reliable and safer than they have ever been, despite more vehicle miles traveled and fatalities. We talk about fatalities. They've had a little increase over the past couple, you know - in a few previous years. A lot of that is in the pedestrian area. So I think there's some distraction. We've talked about controls. Certainly, cell phones have played a part, both on the part of the driver and the pedestrian. So having systems now like automatic emergency braking to back us up as drivers has become more important. But those features are there.
GROSS: We're listening to the interview guest contributor Sonari Glinton recorded with Jennifer Stockburger, who runs the test track where Consumer Reports tests out new cars. The magazine's annual car issue was published last week. We'll hear more of the interview after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
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GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. Let's get back to the interview FRESH AIR contributor Sonari Glinton recorded with Jennifer Stockburger, who runs the test track for Consumer Reports, where they test out new cars. The magazine just published its annual car issue, ranking cars and car companies.
GLINTON: If I go to the dealership, what are some of the things that I should be doing in a test drive that you guys do that's important?
STOCKBURGER: I think the most important thing is to test drive the car like you use the car. So we certainly have the luxury because we have this fabulous test track of pushing cars to their limits, if you will. We can tromp on the gas pedal and have it, you know, excel as quickly as it can - not something the normal consumer can do out on the open highway in a test drive. We can, you know, do a panic break and see how quickly that car stops. So we look - you know, people should look to - people like Consumer Reports to get that type of information.
But when they're doing their own test drive, take it on the roads that as closely mimic what you drive on. If you have a long highway commute, be sure you make a highway portion part of your test drive. Does it want - accelerate enough that you can merge into moving traffic? Does it grip enough to get you off a curvy exit ramp?
And then conversely if you're a rural driver, make sure you include some rural roads. We even go so far as, say, if you drive frequently at night, go and do a night test drive. How are the headlights? You know, do you get enough visibility from your headlights that you're comfortable driving behind them? And if you have kids, take your child seats along.
Test the car like you use the car. You know, if you can extend the test drive, do that. If you can go back multiple times, do that. It pays to put the time in.
GLINTON: What are some of the things that you think you guys test out that it wouldn't occur to me that's really important?
STOCKBURGER: I think some of the livability. So, often, when you're doing your test drive you're talking about the on-road performance. But I think it's important to do some of the stationary performance - controls, access, getting in and out. Is it an easy - particularly if you're limited in movement or you're an older driver, can you easily get in and out? Is the visibility enough for you to comfortably maneuver?
Maybe it means pulling into a parking space and backing out. Not all of the test drive needs to be out in the driving portion. Does it have enough cargo for - you know, you take a family trip every year. Do you think it has sufficient cargo? All that stuff that can, for lack of a better word, tarnish your perception of the car that are outside of the driving performance are those details that can be the difference between loving and hating that vehicle in the long run.
GLINTON: I've test driven cars on an airplane runway (laughter), you know, with the engineer. It was the most beautiful car, the most beautiful experience. I could imagine that before the car gets to an average journalist, there isn't any lint.
STOCKBURGER: Right.
GLINTON: There's nothing wrong with that car. So how do you - how do you differentiate - when you guys are testing, how do you get out of that for - you know, if Ford is going to send me an F-150, it's going to be the best F-150 ever to a journalist. How do you guys get around that?
STOCKBURGER: Well, we get around it because we don't take that car from - from Ford. So keep in mind that all of our test vehicles are purchased at retail as consumers. You know, and many of us get to go in five or six dealerships a year and buy a car.
And people often say, oh, you know, Connecticut's a very small state. You can't possibly be anonymous in your purchases. When we tell you some of our dealer interactions, I can promise you that we are - we are anonymous. And if we think we aren't, we leave the dealership and take it to a different dealership. So we are purchasing. We are not testing press vehicles. We are testing on vehicles purchased full-price at local dealerships.
GLINTON: Are we right to be skeptical of the dealer. You know, a lot of people struggle with that idea.
STOCKBURGER: Yeah, so - so in terms of being skeptical of the dealer from the purchase, you know, a lot of people will say to us, why don't you rate dealerships? You know, it's such a nightmare. You know, why can't you rate dealerships? And what we found in the frequency of certainly the purchase is it's not really the dealership. It's not even the brand. It comes right down to the individual salesperson.
You can have, you know, a Toyota salesperson who's awful, or you can have a GMC salesperson who's wonderful. It's the individual, not the brand, not the dealership. And people - our best advice is go to a different dealership. Be ready to walk out of that horrendous experience because even if you're buying, you know, a General Motors vehicle, another General Motors dealership might just get you a better person. You might even say, I'd really like to talk to a different salesperson. It can be as simple as that.
GLINTON: All right. So I have a pet peeve when you go into a car dealership. Mine is when I ask the question, how much is that car? And then they say, how much do you want to pay for it? But what are some of your pet peeves of dealing with dealers or going into the dealership?
STOCKBURGER: Right, and yours, it's - the one key to negotiating a good deal is don't base it off a monthly price 'cause they'll make that work however they have to. Say let's talk bottom-line price, and then we'll talk about the financing. So No. 1 to you - but mine, I think, is - is their surveys. I have actually had dealers - and again I'm going to say - not say dealers. I'm going to say sales people - that survey that they want you to fill out post-purchase that says they've gotten all glowing - glowing reviews in all areas, you know, of the purchasing process. I've had dealers hand me that survey pre-filled-out with highlighter. I say pre-filled-out, but highlighted.
If I could give them all, you know, top 10 scores if it's on a scale of 1 to 10, that would be awesome, when they really didn't put in the effort and make me feel like a valued customer through the whole process until we got to that survey 'cause ultimately when Consumer Reports buys the car, there is a check delivered at the very end that says Consumer Reports on it. And the keys and the paperwork all says Consumer Reports. And the dealers have said, if I knew you worked for Consumer Reports, I would have treated you so much better. And I want to say you don't want to treat all of your customers that much better?
GLINTON: OK. So when we think about other beings in the car, there is something that has bothered me for a while, which is dogs. Now, don't get me wrong. I love dogs. And there isn't a lot of encouragement of, you know, dog travel. You know, Subaru has a dog ramp on one of their vehicles. But I saw a guy - a young man in the Chevy Silverado pickup, and he had a dog in the flatbed part of the truck.
GLINTON: And I - if I could have made a citizen's arrest, I would have. That's obviously dangerous. But dogs unrestrained in a car are definitely a problem no matter how small or how big they are. And I wonder if you're going to belt yourself in and put your kid in the baby seat, but Robert (ph) the dog is just, like, moving around the car, what are your recommendations about restraining your animal? How would you recommend me handling my best friend in my ride?
STOCKBURGER: Yeah. So I think the biggest thing is even if you don't consider the safety of your dog to the same level as you consider the safety of your passengers, in a crash, everything's moving towards the location of the crash. And that includes your dog or any pet. So if that dog is free to move about that cabin - particularly, you know, I've see people with the dog and the child in the back. That dog becomes the projectile. So even if you're not valuing their safety to the same level as the human passengers, they may be risking your human passengers. So certainly restraining your dog is your best bet.
Subaru has been at the forefront of some of this work in working for the Center for Pet Safety and doing some of this. Their harnesses in a crate is even better than just around the car. And the other piece I will add is there's a lot of distraction there in terms of the dog hanging on the wheel, sitting in the person's lap. If you crash, you're crushing them against the wheel. So they may injure you. They may have airbag interference, so it can't protect you.
So if the dog is going to be a passenger in car, think about that when you're buying the car. Perhaps you need something with a hatchback or a wagon styling. You know, I think of Outbacks and a lot of small SUVs. But the dog is safer in that cargo area with some sort of divider to protect passengers ahead. They can still get air. They're probably more comfortable than riding around on the passenger seats than they would be, you know, in the front unrestrained or trying to get comfortable on a passenger bench.
GLINTON: Jennifer Stockburger, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me.
STOCKBURGER: You are so welcome.
GROSS: Jennifer Stockburger runs the test track for Consumer Reports, where they test new cars. The magazine's annual car issue was published last week. She spoke with guest contributor Sonari Glinton. After we take a short break, Maureen Corrigan will review a new novel about migrant children at the southwestern border. This is FRESH AIR.
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It left me with a good feeling that there are people who will do what is right and stand up against the wrong that others are doing. It is an inspiring movie!
I found the arrogance and ignorance of many of the white people in Jackson, Mississippi to be very disturbing and saddening.
I salute the brave women who stood up and took a stand in the midst of such racism and threats against their own safety and that of their families.
My Rating: 9.0/10 My Recommendation: This is a movie that is well worth going to see!
Emma Stone - Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan
Viola Davis - Aibileen Clark
Bryce Dallas Howard - Hilly Holbrook
Octavia Spencer - Minny Jackson
Jessica Chastain - Celia Foote
Ahna O'Reilly - Elizabeth Leefolt
Allison Janney - Charlotte Phelan
Anna Camp - Jolene French
Eleanor Henry and Emma Henry (twins) - Mae Mobley Leefolt
Sissy Spacek - Missus Walters
Released: August 10 2011 [USA], September 1 2011 [Australia], October 26 2011 [UK]
Rated: M (Mature themes) [Australia], PG-13 [USA], 12A [UK]
Length: 2 hrs 17 mins
Favorite Line: I have 2 favorite lines in 'The Help'.
1. Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) repeated this to each of the children that she raised over her many years as a maid for these rich white families.
During the film, Aibileen said this to her young charge, Mae Mobley (Eleanor Henry and Emma Henry (twins)), "You is Smart, You is Kind, You is Important!"
Aibileen's heart was to teach the young ones, that she was responsible for, that they had value no matter what else was happening around them in their family or life.
2. Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer) saying to Hilly Holbrook (Bryce Dallas Howard), "You can eat my Sh**" Perhaps this is not the usual kind of line out of a movie that I would select as my favorite, but in this movie and in the context in which it was made, this was a statement that stood out to me! [Watch the movie and you will understand.]
Favorite Scene: There were 3 favorite scenes in the movie, The Help.
1. My favorite scene is the one in which my favorite line was spoken. When Minny baked a home made chocolate pie and brought it to Hilly after she had been fired from her job, unjustly. Hilly loved the pie so much and after finishing the first slice she took a second piece and began to eat it.
The scene continues as Minny then said then line above.
Hilly's mum Missus Walters (Sissy Spacek) burst out laughing so loudly in this scene that also followed suit and joined her, and other moviegoers, and laughed out loud in the cinema.
2. My second favorite scene was when Hilly received the check from Celia Foote. The check was written out to "Two Slice Hilly".
You have to see the movie to understand really, but it made me laugh once I realized what it meant.
3. The scene at the end of the fundraiser evening when Missus Walters held out the winning pie made by Minny to show her daughter Hilly.
Missus Walters said, "I may not remember my name, but there are two things that I do remember. One is that my daughter put me into a nursing home. Two that my daughter ate 2 slices of Minny's chocolate pie!"
The movie 'The Help' is based on the novel, also called, 'The Help', written by American author Kathryn Stockett in 2009.
Set in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960's during the civil rights movement. Life was certainly not easy for the black people living in this part of America at this point in history.
Skeeter (Emma Stone) saw the injustice around her and decided to write about it to bring the evil that was happening in her hometown to the light. This is where the story begins with Skeeter following up and researching true stories that were happening in the lives of the maids in Jackson.
Scenes that Tugged at My Heart There are too many scenes to mention that really touched and spoke to me, but here are a couple.
1. After Mae Mobley's mum Elizabeth Leefolt (Ahna O'Reilly) left her daughter with her maid and nanny, Aibileen, the little toddler, Mae Mobley looked up at Aibileen and said, "Aib-ee, you are my real mama."
I thought that was powerful! These loving, black maids, who spent much more time with their employer’s children than their own kids at home, were basically raising these white children.
2. The scene at the end of the movie, where Aibileen had just been fired, along with false accusations by Hilly, as she hugged little Mae Mobley for the very last time. Mae Mobley begged and said, "Don't go Aib-ee. Don't leave me!"
But with tears in her eyes Aibileen told Mae Mobley that she had to go, even though she did not want to. For the very last time Aibileen told this precious little girl to remember all that she had taught her. Aibileen got little Mae Mobley to once again repeat those powerful words, "You is Smart, You is Kind, You is Important!"
I could feel my heart rip out and feel some of the pain that this little girl felt as she saw the one who had loved her and believed in her, when her biological mom had not, walking away.
And the pain that Aibileen felt as she walked away hearing the cries behind her of this young child who loved her and whom she loved.
3. The scene where Skeeter learned why her own nanny, Constantine, who had been with the family for 29 years, suddenly disappeared.
This broke my heart and it certainly did Skeeter's heart too!
Summary: This movie, The Help, really spoke to me. It made me laugh in some of the scenes and to cry in others. Even more than that, "The Help" made me think and contemplate relationships and how I relate to others around me.
At some points through the movie all I could do was to shake my head and wonder at the strength that these African-American women had to continue to serve as maids in homes where they were treated with not only disrespect, but also contempt and hatred.
The story outlined how even using the toilet in the home where they worked, often for many years, was considered to be a thing of disgrace and was forbidden by some of these white employers.
The way that some of the white women spoke so dishonoringly of their black maids, even while they were in the room, just broke my heart!
This is a movie which I could watch again as it speaks to the heart of the issue that people are all created for a purpose and all have value.
I believe that each of us owe it to our children and future generations to take a stand and speak out to make a difference in the world around us, just as these women did in this film.
Again, I pay respect to each of the men and women who stood up, not only as shown in the film, but also down through the years to bring more equality to each living person, no matter the color of their skin or other differences that may exist.
Watch the video below to see some Behind the Scenes clips from "The Help".
Let's take a stand together and Declare that All People were Created Equal, All have Value and All deserve to be treated with Honor and Respect!
Until next time, Remember to Enjoy Life, Smile at a Stranger and Make a Difference in the World!
Leanne Annett <><
This is a short review of the Australian movie, "Red Dog".
Today I went to the Robina Event Cinemas to see this Aussie movie. I did not know much about it before I actually arrived and started to watch the movie.
"Red Dog" is based on a true story and is set in Western Australia, Pilbara region. The movie begins in 1979 and then rolls back in time to 1971 where it tells the story of this friendly kelpie who touches the hearts of the community in Dampier.
Dampier is a coastal town that is hundreds of kilometres from most Australian cities. The population was listed as 1,370 in the 2006 national census. Many of these people would be miners who work in or around the port at Dampier.
I enjoyed the movie. I found "Red" to be a friendly and lovable Aussie dog. He had his own unique personality and knew how to encourage those in his community.
The movie stars Australian actors Rachael Taylor (born in Tasmania, Australia) and Noah Taylor (born in London). Josh Lucas from the United States has the lead role in the film and becomes the much-loved master of this energetic dog.
Koko is the animal star in this 2011 Aussie movie as Red Dog. You can see Koko's interview in the short video below.
Aussies Keep Cool
I was surprised at how many scenes showed the local miners in their undies! But I guess that the climate is so hot there that this is one way that the men kept cooler.
I really did not like the cat in the movie. Called "Red Cat" this animal certainly learned bad habits from its unfriendly owners and definitely was not kind to dogs!
Favourite Movie Scene
My favourite scene in the movie was the knitting scene. I actually laughed out loud during this section of the film. It seemed uncharacteristic of the stereotypical Aussie bloke, and so I found it funny.
Part of the movie was sad, but it was from this sad time in the storyline that "Red" set out on his journey to find his master. This was what made "Red Dog" so famous and well known.
I recommend the film to those who enjoy Australian films and to those who like to see Aussie culture and mate-ship.
I hope one day to be able to visit the Red Dog Statue at the entrance to Dampier. The statue reads "Erected by the many friends made during his travels". So when I get over to the North-west of Australia this is on my list of places to visit.
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The Help Movie Review
Wow! I have just come home after going to the cinema with my mum and husband to watch the movie, “The Help“. I must say that it is one of the best movies that I have seen for a while. I loved it.
My Rating: 9.0/10
My Recommendation: This is a movie that is well worth going to see!
Emma Stone – Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan
Viola Davis – Aibileen Clark
Bryce Dallas Howard – Hilly Holbrook
Octavia Spencer – Minny Jackson
Jessica Chastain – Celia Foote
Ahna O’Reilly – Elizabeth Leefolt
Allison Janney – Charlotte Phelan
Anna Camp – Jolene French
Eleanor Henry and Emma Henry (twins) – Mae Mobley Leefolt
Sissy Spacek – Missus Walters
Favorite Line:
I have 2 favorite lines in ‘The Help’.
During the film, Aibileen said this to her young charge, Mae Mobley (Eleanor Henry and Emma Henry (twins)), “You is Smart, You is Kind, You is Important!”
Aibileen’s heart was to teach the young ones, that she was responsible for, that they had value no matter what else was happening around them in their family or life.
2. Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer) saying to Hilly Holbrook (Bryce Dallas Howard), “You can eat my Sh**”
Perhaps this is not the usual kind of line out of a movie that I would select as my favorite, but in this movie and in the context in which it was made, this was a statement that stood out to me! [Watch the movie and you will understand.]
Favorite Scene:
There were 3 favorite scenes in the movie, The Help.
Hilly’s mum Missus Walters (Sissy Spacek) burst out laughing so loudly in this scene that also followed suit and joined her, and other moviegoers, and laughed out loud in the cinema.
2. My second favorite scene was when Hilly received the check from Celia Foote. The check was written out to “Two Slice Hilly“.
Missus Walters said, “I may not remember my name, but there are two things that I do remember. One is that my daughter put me into a nursing home. Two that my daughter ate 2 slices of Minny’s chocolate pie!”
The movie ‘The Help’ is based on the novel, also called, ‘The Help‘, written by American author Kathryn Stockett in 2009.
Set in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960’s during the civil rights movement. Life was certainly not easy for the black people living in this part of America at this point in history.
Scenes that Tugged at My Heart
There are too many scenes to mention that really touched and spoke to me, but here are a couple.
1. After Mae Mobley’s mum Elizabeth Leefolt (Ahna O’Reilly) left her daughter with her maid and nanny, Aibileen, the little toddler, Mae Mobley looked up at Aibileen and said, “Aib-ee, you are my real mama.“
2. The scene at the end of the movie, where Aibileen had just been fired, along with false accusations by Hilly, as she hugged little Mae Mobley for the very last time. Mae Mobley begged and said, “Don’t go Aib-ee. Don’t leave me!“
But with tears in her eyes Aibileen told Mae Mobley that she had to go, even though she did not want to. For the very last time Aibileen told this precious little girl to remember all that she had taught her. Aibileen got little Mae Mobley to once again repeat those powerful words, “You is Smart, You is Kind, You is Important!”
This broke my heart and it certainly did Skeeter’s heart too!
This movie, The Help, really spoke to me. It made me laugh in some of the scenes and to cry in others. Even more than that, “The Help” made me think and contemplate relationships and how I relate to others around me.
Watch the video below to see some Behind the Scenes clips from “The Help“.
Let’s take a stand together and Declare that All People were Created Equal, All have Value and All deserve to be treated with Honor and Respect!
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Red Dog Movie Review
This is a short review of the Australian movie, “Red Dog“.
“Red Dog” is based on a true story and is set in Western Australia, Pilbara region. The movie begins in 1979 and then rolls back in time to 1971 where it tells the story of this friendly kelpie who touches the hearts of the community in Dampier.
I enjoyed the movie. I found “Red” to be a friendly and lovable Aussie dog. He had his own unique personality and knew how to encourage those in his community.
Koko is the animal star in this 2011 Aussie movie as Red Dog. You can see Koko’s interview in the short video below.
I really did not like the cat in the movie. Called “Red Cat” this animal certainly learned bad habits from its unfriendly owners and definitely was not kind to dogs!
Part of the movie was sad, but it was from this sad time in the storyline that “Red” set out on his journey to find his master. This was what made “Red Dog” so famous and well known.
I hope one day to be able to visit the Red Dog Statue at the entrance to Dampier. The statue reads “Erected by the many friends made during his travels”. So when I get over to the North-west of Australia this is on my list of places to visit.
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Tour de France: Rain neutralises Champs Elysees
Rain has caused Tour de France organisers to neutralise the 10 laps around the Champs Elysees on the prestigious race`s finish in Paris on Sunday.
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Paris: Rain has caused Tour de France organisers to neutralise the 10 laps around the Champs Elysees on the prestigious race`s finish in Paris on Sunday.
Riders will arrive from the suburb of Sevres to complete ten 7km laps around the famous Parisian avenue.
But race rules state that the stage can be neutralised from the first crossing of the finishing line if rain renders the cobbled streets dangerous.
The women`s race earlier in the day saw many riders fall on the slippery cobbles.
It means the official time will stop once riders cross the finishing line for the start of their 10 laps.
From that point on, a rider cannot lose time even if he is held up by a crash or mechanical problem. But he must nonetheless complete all 10 laps and cross the finishing line in order to earn a final classification.
It means that race leader Chris Froome will be officially classed as the winner once he crosses the finishing line for the first time ahead of the 10 laps of the Champs Elysees, as long as he then goes on to finish the stage.
However, he could still lose the race if he was to crash on the Champs Elysees and be unable to continue all the way to the finish.
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The Origin of Spectroscopic Lines
演变中的宇宙
加州理工学院
This is an introductory astronomy survey class that covers our understanding of the physical universe and its major constituents, including planetary systems, stars, galaxies, black holes, quasars, larger structures, and the universe as a whole.
I really enjoyed every lesson. It's an incredible and very complete course. Anyone who loves astronomy should do it. In addition, I was able to improve English, which is my second language.
Took this professor's course in Galaxies and Cosmology which was for 2nd year physics majors. I think this course is a more general course for non-physics-majors. Excellent course!
Basics and Kirchoff's Laws11:41
The Origin of Spectroscopic Lines12:27
Blackbody Radiation and Other Continuum Emission Mechanisms9:36
Fluxes and Magnitudes8:46
S. George Djorgovski
All right. So where do these spectroscopic
lines come from?
The atomic physics tells us where they come from.
I take it that you probably learn at least in chemistry
a little bit about energy levels of atoms and molecules.
But let's go through this in a little more detail.
So electrons will change between different energy states inside atoms or molecules.
Or they may be in free plasma just scattering off of other electrons or ions.
If they're bound to an atom or
a molecule, they can just jump from one level to another.
Then those are bound-bound transitions.
If they absorb a photon of such an energy that it actually knocks them out
of their atom or molecule.
That is called ionizations bound free.
And the other way around if an electron is captured by positive iron
it's recombination.
Electrons can just zip around and scatter off each other or positive ions.
Or they can also be interacting directly with photons,
that's called Compton's scattering.
Now what happens depends upon physical conditions.
The temperature, the composition, the pressure of the gas, and so
on, how has it been ionized, so on.
The simplest system is the hydrogen atom.
This is called Bohr figured it out, and that's how quantum mechanics began.
And schematically, electron inside a hydrogen atom can't be any simpler.
There's one proton, and there's one electron.
And so then, there are different levels.
Principal quantum number is the number of the level.
The innermost is one, and so on.
And the energy of any given level is a constant called the Rydberg constant,
which is 13.6 electron volts for
a simple hydrogen, divided by the square of the principal quantum number.
And the lowest is called the ground state.
Then there are fine hyperfine transitions, but we need not go into this.
So notice there.
Energy's inversely proportional to the square of the quantum number.
Therefore, the difference between the two that corresponds to the energy of
the photon, will be proportional to the difference between 1 over
n1 squared [INAUDIBLE] two squared.
And this is what Bohr figured out.
So how do electrons go between different states?
They can gain or lose energy in one of two ways.
Either they can get photo excited that they absorb photon and
climb to a higher energy level.
Or de-excited and go down.
Or collisionally excited or de-excited at mechanical collisions of atoms can
actually transfer kinetic energy and bond electrons from one level to another.
Both of those happen in nature and
usually we see in astrophysical sources that there is photo-ionization.
There is some source of ultraviolet light or
something like that, that pumps up to higher levels.
There is sometimes collisional de-excitation,
depending on pressure of the gas.
In hydrogen itself, and that is the simplest case,
even back in the 19th century, people noticed that different emission or
absorption lines of hydrogen show regularities that were,
it were Rydberg's formula.
And transitions to or
from a given level correspond to one of those series of lines.
So the one that goes to or from the first level is called an alignment series, and
it's important for cosmological studies,
because objects far away that we can see their ultraviolet light.
The one that's most frequently seen is Balmer series,
which, to and from the second level of hydrogen atom.
And then there's Paschen and Brackett and so on.
Now, think about the energy level.
So for hydrogen which is just the simplest nucleus,
one proton, there are the order of few electron volts.
Now, what do you think would happen for
heavier Nucleus, say iron, with 56 protons in it?
Would its energy levels be higher or lower in the absolute sense?
Any guesses to that?
Yes, they'll be higher of course,
because there is a stronger electrostatic force between nucleus and electron.
And so the binding energy of the electron will be much higher, and
turns out that for heavier elements like that the inner most
shells correspond to energies of kilo electron volts and not just electrical.
Whereas the outermost shells of something like iron
would be still in the range of electron volts just like visible light.
And so this is the spectrum of
star that has a lot of hydrogen [INAUDIBLE] looks like.
You can see this nice progression of lines that follows Balmer's formula.
That difference of the one over square quantum number minus one over two squared.
And they start always with alpha, that's the longest wave length.
That's between whatever that level is, two in this case, and three.
And then beta will be four to two and gamma will be five to do and so on.
And then it goes all the way to a limit.
Which is what happens when electron goes from infinity to that level.
So that's the maximum energy jump that it can have to get to that level
or from that level.
Hydrogen is very abundant in the universe.
And that's why this is actually a good example how to study.
So this is what it looks like.
These are kinds of pretty pictures that you see.
But now you can understand what they mean.
You see there is a whole bunch of bright blue stars.
These are regions of star formation.
These stars have temperatures of tens of thousands of degrees kelvin and
a lot of ultraviolet radiation.
And the gas that's around them, absorbs light, gets excited and
then get de-excited as time goes on.
The red light is from Balmer alpha line.
About 6500, 6300 angstroms.
And the blue one tends to be from Balmer beta line at 4800 gamma, 4300 so on.
So the colors that you see in photoionized gas reflect
wavelengths so this principal recombination lines.
Another set of astrophysical objects where you can see photoionization
in action are planetary nebulae.
Planetary nebulae are result of and
all through the old star, shedding its envelope.
What's left is very hot incandescent core which,
because it's hot, shines mostly at ultraviolet wavelengths.
The gas that used to be stellar envelopes, now expanding in the vacuum of space,
is being illuminated by this radiation and excited to whatever levels.
And then shines in this different spectroscopic clients.
These are enhanced colors, of course, but
you can see that there are different colors at different spacings,
and that would correspond to different densities of ionization field of photons
would be bluest, closest to the source and then reddest further out.
There's actually a interesting little story about this,
which is story of nebulium, the non-existent chemical element.
So when first spectra of these nebula were obtained some time early 20th century,
people notice that there are lines there that just did not correspond to
anything in the lab.
Which was unusual, right?
Everything else they can kind of sort out.
And so they hypothesis was that this is
some previously unobserved chemical element.
The periodic table wasn't quite full back then.
It was called nebulium.
It turned out it wasn't.
It was just oxygen, but these were the transitions.
From ionized oxygen atoms that have lost two electrons,
that are very hard to sustain in the lab.
Because that energy state gets very easily collisionally de-excited.
But in space it's almost a perfect vacuum.
So you see there is a nebula, just because there are so
many ions there in a large volume.
The spacing is so large that collision
the excitation doesn't really play a large role.
So you get to see the lines that are very difficult to reproduce in the lab.
So in that sense, astrophysics provides you ways of doing physics that you
can do easily in the lab on planet Earth.
You'll see the notation.
Just out of curiosity if you wonder where it's coming from, usually, well,
there is element.
In this case, oxygen, then there is the Roman numeral and that's ionization state.
One is the neutral, atoms did not lose any electrons two,
they lost one electron three, they lost two electrons and so on.
So neutral hydrogen is sometimes called H1 and ionized hydrogen,
which means a whole bunch of loose protons and electrons is sometimes called H2.
And those are the shiny nice nebulae that you see.
Regions of star formation.
Now if it's one of those so-called forbidden transitions,
they're not forbidden, they're just hard to do in a lab.
Then it gets square brackets around it.
What about molecules?
In addition to the principle quantum levels inside the atoms,
molecules since they have special extent can do two other things.
They can vibrate and they can rotate.
Both of those would have energy levels associated with them.
And those tend to be much lower energy than
those from principal content transitions.
And therefore they correspond to spectroscopic lines in infrared or
even radio.
This has been useful to study cold gas and gas where there is so
much absorption that it absorbs ultraviolet and visible light, but
far infrared or radio would go right through and this is how we study regions
of star formation, the clouds of obscuring the cores of young stars.
And finally there is an important spectroscopic transition
which is neither from principle contu numbers change nor
from probation or rotation.
It's from spin flip, so hyperfine transition.
In hydrogen, the electron metaphorically orbiting the proton
and their spins can either be parallel or anti-parallel.
They correspond to two different energy levels which are different by just
the tiny amount of energy that correspond to photon of wavelength of 21 centimeter.
And for a given atom of hydrogen,
this happens an average once every 11 million years.
But there's so many hydrogen atoms out there that this turns out to be
the dominant radio signal from interstellar medium and we use it
to study structure of Milky Way or other galaxies, measure the rotation and so on.
Because these are radio waves they go through dust clouds that obscure light,
and so when this was figured out by and and others in 1950s, this
was the first time that we could actually see through the disk of the Milky Way.
Otherwise visible light just gets obscured by dust clouds
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Breathtaking view from a point half way or so up (or down) the Going-To-The-Sun Highway. That bit of highway that runs straight up the center of the photo has a couple of objects identifiable in the original scan (2000 by 3000 pixels, 2400 dpi from a Fujichrome slide) as cars.
Lake McDonald is beyond that last mountain on the right (Mount Vaught, 8860 ft.). The "river" is McDonald Creek, and there is a campground called "Avalanche Creek" at its edge, where the eponymous tributary joins it just around that last bend. At one of the several places we stopped to enjoy the play of near-freezing green water as it rushed down the valley there was a bird who dove beneath the surface in search of food. Some kind of thresher, I think. What a way to make a living.
We were here a few days after the park was officially closed to tourism, a few days before access to the highway was closed by a real storm. Last week of October, or some time near then. It was a great contrast to Yosemite, where even in mid-week there was a half-hour cruise through packed lots in search of parking.
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The Kings Head and Radisson Hotel bars scoop Black and White Pub awards
TWO GALWAY pubs clinched Connacht titles in the Black and White Pub of the Year Award 2002 this week
The Kings Head was awarded the Best Provincial Superpub and the National Superpub of the Year awards while The Radisson SAS Hotel scooped the Best Connacht Hotel Bar and the National Hotel Bar of the Year titles at an awards ceremony held in Dublin this week. BY JULIE TIERNEY THE GARDA wishes to remind the public, and in particular parents, that Both outlets were selected on the basis of the judging fireworks are illegal. criteria, which included staff efficiency and friendliness, Large amounts of fireworks are discharged by children at this time of year and cause good atmosphere, cleanliness and hygiene, welcoming THE SUBWAY restaurant opened at Kiltartan House, a great deal of distress to older people and pets. Fireworks are also the cause of j exterior and interior, and a well served range of drinks. Forster Street in February 2001, has been joined by a numerous serious injuries to children each year. More than 600 pubs entered the awards this year and each second Subway sandwich store for Galway with the The Garda is appealing to the public to report any information regarding the sale of | was judged by a panel of judges who visited throughout the recent opening of Subway Salthill. illegal fireworks to children. early part of the summer. These were the followed by a The new sandwich shop opening a Subway store celebrity panel who visited a shortlist that vied for the is part of the largest after being in Subway coveted title of Black and White Pub of the Year. The submarine sandwich chain restaurants in other parts of celebrity judges included Irish Lion David Wallace, Stuart in the world, which now the world. GARDAl IN Galway are appealing to witnesses to a hit and run accident in Dunne (Billy Meehan, Fair City) and TV meteorologist numbers more than 17,000 "With the added attraction Newcastle this week to come forward. Evelyn Cusack. stores worldwide. In Ireland, of Mullins Ice Cream to the The accident happened between 9.30pm and 9.40pm on Tuesday October 8 at the Mayo pub. Crockets on the Quay in Ballina. scooped the Galway is the only city existing Subway range of junction of Newcastle and the Quincentennial Bridge. A young woman was knocked off overall Black and White Pub of the Year Award 2002 for outside Belfast that has fresh baked sandwiches her bicycle at the traffic lights by a motorcycle. The motorcyclist did not remain at the being judged the top pub in Ireland. more than one Subway available in Salthill we are scene of the accident. sure we will be able to bring store. The injured cyclist was brought by ambulance to UCHG following the accident. The new Subway our product to a new and The Garda is appealing to the motorcyclist to come forward. Anyone who witnessed sandwich store in Salthill, wider customer base," said the accident or who has information useful to the investigation is also asked to contact which is the 20th in Ireland, Murphy. Garda Muiris Quinn at Galway Garda Station, phone (091) 538000. Mullins Ice Cream is an is owned and run by the owners of the existing store Irish made soft scoop ice A RUSSIAN fisherman had to be airlifted to hospital at Forster Street in the city. cream which has been yesterday after his hand became entangled in machinery THE DRIVER of a silver Mazda 323 which was involved in a hit and run accident Paul Murphy, one of the produced by the Mullins outside the Dawn Dairies premises on the Dublin Road last month is asked to come on a boat off the west coast. directors of the company family in Deny since 1954. forward and contact the Garda. said he is delighted to be Flavours include dairy The 30-year-old was on a able to extend the Subway cream and honeycomb; The accident, which involved the Mazda and a motorcycle, happened on Sunday, boat just off the Aran Islands range of fresh produce to a sorbet; mint choc; cookie September 22 at around 8.30pm. The Mazda was turning into Ballyloughane Road when when the accident happened wider area of Galway and its crumble; Jamaican rum; it was involved in a collision with a red Suzuki moped, which was travelling in the at 6.30 yesterday morning. direction of the city. environs. "Having seen the bubble gum, and many more He was airlifted to success of our first Subway mouth-watering varieties, all The female motorcyclist received minor injuries in the accident. The driver of the hospital in Galway by the store, and more importantly made with the freshest Mazda checked to see if the girl was all right, but left the scene before the Garda arrived. Shannon-based rescue see it continue to satisfy our natural ingredients. The driver was a man in his early 20s, with brown hair. He also wore glasses. The helicopter less than two loyal customers, we are Subway Restaurants is Garda is appealing to this driver and any witnesses to the accident to get in touch. hours later. A spokesperson more than pleased to be able famous for its made to order Garda Eimear Walsh, who is investigating the accident, can be contacted at Galway for University College to bring Subway's delicious, footlong and six inch Garda Station, phone (091) 538000. Hospital Galway said the fresh products to Salthill. submarine sandwiches.* man is in a stable condition We have had several people They are served on Italian, and is awaiting surgery on come into our Forster Street hearty Italian, wheat, honey his hand. A NUMBER of forged 50 notes have been found in the Salthill area over the last restaurant to thank us for oat, and parmesan oregano weekend. breads. All breads are baked The notes are good quality forgeries, and were only discovered when they were fresh several times daily in lodged in the bank. The Garda is advising hoteliers, publicans, and other business people the Subway restaurant and to be vigilant for the notes. include a variety of fillings including chicken; chicken teryaki; steak; meatball; pork ribs; ham; turkey; roast PEDESTRIANS AND cyclists should remember to wear light coloured clothing and beef; pepperoni and salami; reflective jackets, armbands, and belts as the short evenings approach. tuna and many more are Cyclists are required by law to have a front light, a rear light, and a rear reflector available with a variety of fitted to their vehicles. toppings added at the customer's request. Subway also serves a AN OPEN meeting will be held in Castle Park next week with a view to re variety of low fat establishing the Neighbourhood Watch scheme in the area. sandwiches, offering seven Interested residents can attend the meeting in the Lantern Inn on Monday October 21 6-inch subs with six grams at 8pm. The Garda is hoping for a good attendance on the night. of fat or lower, and a Anyone who would like information on setting up a neighbourhood watch scheme selection of tortilla wraps. In can contact crime prevention officer Sgt Gerard Mangan at (091) 538061. addition to the submarine sandwiches, Subway also offers a variety of salads, and deli style sandwiches. THE GARDA in conjunction with the Junior Chamber Galway will host a seminar The Subway restaurant geared towards the retail sector on Thursday October 24 from 8pm in the Menlo | chain is the second largest Park Hotel. food franchise in the world Speakers at the event will include members of the Garda National Fraud Bureau of I with the largest number of Investigation and an advisor from the fraud section of the Bank of Ireland. Security outlets of any food chain in companies who are interested in having a stand at the seminar can contact Galway crime the US. President Fred prevention officer Sgt Gerard Mangan at (091) 538061. DeLuca founded the chain in 1965, then a 17-year-old acknowledgement and In Memoriam Cards If you have any information on any of these crimes, ring the relevant station directly. college student. He started Otherwise, you can contact the Garda Confidential Line at 1800-666 111. By ringing the venture as a way to the Cnmcstoppcrs line at 1800-250025. you can qualify for a reward if your finance his college confidential information leads to a conviction. For information on crimes featured on education. the monthly Crimeline show, ring 1800 40 50 60 41/42 Eyre Square. (091) 530900/530924
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Sapphos Weyr
Non Canon Like We Mean It
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Vergess
Basic Map
Rider Weyrs
Clearings
Goldhome
Candidate Houses
The Hatching Grounds
Rock Flats
Burning Sands
Weyrling Clearings
The Infirmary
Weyrtown
The Wild Wherry
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The rider weyr's are where non-Weyrling riders live. For the most part. In fact, because Senior Weyrling dragons are often too large to live in the miniature housing of the Weyrling Clearing, they usually choose their dwelling around one Turn of age. The selection of a weyr is given by relative rank, based on color. Fighter gold weyrlings receive first choice, followed by their red feline sisters, and so on. In the event of a Calcium's birth, she will be given first choice and allowed to choose for her Cobalt, though it is heavily suggested that such dragonesses elect to live in the Goldhome among Fertile Golds.
There are two types of Rider weyr: clearing and cave.
The clearings are a massive stretch of space on the opposite bank of the Black River from Goldhome, Weyrtown and the Weyrling clearings. The area was clear-cut by the first settlers in the Weyr, and the exceedingly dense jungles which surround them provide a reasonable degree of protection from non-draconic invasion, though they do tend to result in a higher than average incidence of random wild animals appearing in the Weyr.
Each clearing weyr consists of a hut for the rider, with between three and six rooms, made of sturdy but thin wood, with a thatched roof. Huts may or may not have windows, and larger huts are technically reserved for those riders with Weyrmates and children too young for fostering or creche care. As such, the larger huts usually have two shallow, sand-filled pits for dragons to sleep in.
These pits, which may be called a variety of names including 'beds' and 'hollows' by dragons themselves, are often marked with two poles at one end. Each hut comes provided with an additional two poles, and when a rider moves in, a sufficiently large swatch of fabric to create shade and shelter for the dragon or dragons in question.
As an extension of the caves which mark the Rock Flats hatching ground, there are also cave weyrs for riders and dragons. There are less than a third as many cave weyrs as clearing, however, and first and foremost they belong to the Weyr's wher handlers. If there are vacancies after all the wher handlers have been provided for, riders may take residence in them, and northern riders often do. However, it should be noted that riders will be removed to make room for whers if necessary.
In short, Goldhome is where the Golds live. The fertile ones, at any rate. It consists of the twelve most ornate dwellings in the Weyr, spaced by appropriately massive sand pits for the queens to rest in. These are arranged roughly in a circle pattern, with the Weyrwoman's dweeling at the point nearest to the hatching grounds, and her juniors selecting their own homes from those offered.
Because the Weyr's foreplanners were alarmingly optimistic, most of these dwelling are empty and rather dismal. However, the quality of the architecture still holds, and they are maintained regularly enough by weyrfolk and staff. In addition, the space can be used to host visiting dignitaries from other Weyrs, though it has very rarely done so.
The candidate houses are located approximately between Goldhome and the Weyrtown. Candidate houses are huts, much liker rider weyrs, and are fairly spartan. Each hut is divided into four apartments, and candidates live in groups of four within them. They are divided such that there is a circular central area within the hut used for socializing, with one room, or barrack, in each of the four corners. The rooms are fairly small, preventing many personal belongings and discouraging private visitors, for obvious reasons.
The rock flats are not primarily a dragon hatching ground, though they have served that purpose, and do so admirably. Because of the proximity to the Black River, however, this hatching ground is regarded almost warily. Nonetheless, for those dragons with an urge to shelter their eggs in an enclosed space, and for whers which cannot tolerate daylight, there are many caves which crop up on the borders of the Rock Flats.
Temperatures for clutches on the rock flats are maintained by sun exposure during the daylight, which even manages to heat some of the shallower caves effectively, and lit fire pits at night.
The Burning sands, but like the rider clearings, are the end result of clear cutting. However, this massive, soot-streaked sand pit would easily hold three queens and their broods- though, of course, such queens would not doubt become viciously territorial.
Because sand is not known for it's heat keeping abilities- even in the height of the day, it becomes cool to the touch only a few inches below the surface- fire pits are kept lit at all times. It then becomes the goldrider's responsibility to convince her dragoness to keep the eggs near these fires, which will be constantly well stocked to provide heat for the eggs.
The Burning Grounds are the preferred hatching ground for dragons, and due to their proximity to the jungles, many other wild animals have been seen heating and keeping their clutches here as well.
Miniaturized versions of the Clearing weyrs, this large area, bordered on two sides by bits of the Black River, and encircled by a large, heavy wooden fence, serves as the temporary home for growing dragons.
In the center of the clearing are two full sized weyrs for the Weyrlingmaster and her Head Assistant.
The fence has on large gate to the south, and encircles a portion of the black river for bathing and wing strengthening exercises as well. The gate is closed at sundown each night, and weyrlings still residing in the clearing (less than one turn) are expected to be within the gate's confines by then. If they are not, their punishment is being forced to sleep on the ground by the fence, as well as extra chores the following day.
Located just south of the Weyrling fence, and north of Weyrtown, the infirmary is placed ideally to treat the majority of the Weyr's residents. However, because of the distance from the infirmary to the hatching grounds, goldhome, and the cave weyrs, there has been some debate that an ancilliary station should be opened at the south end of the Weyr.
Weyrtown is where the vast majority of the Weyr's population lives. Crafters, weyrfolk, visiting holders. Whatever they are, if they don't have a gigantic dragon or cranky wher to deal with, they probably live, or at least sleep, here. In fact, some where handlers reside here as well, simply because they prefer it to being on the edges of the Weyr, where the cave weyrs are located.
It consists almost entirely of wooden buildings, often with thatched roofs. However, some buildings have tiled roofs, and there are three or four made of stone, mostly forges where fire risk is a serious consideration.
Located in the heart of Weyrtown, just on the edge of the markets, is the Wild Wherry tavern. A popular meeting place for those who would rather not hold guests in their personal space, they are quite liberal with their liquor and wines, working under the assumption that if you are old enough and sane enough to have money and place an order, you are more than capable of handling it. This freewheeling with giving drinks to children and the dragonless has occasionally led to trouble, but for the most part it is overlooked. Because, really, what would the Weyr do, without the Wherry?
Imagine a gather market, full of travelling traders and a few local crafters who are taking advantage of the holiday crowds. Now, imagine the holiday crowds are, actually, just the usual population strolling through. If you have ever had the fortune to stumble upon a downtown marketplace in a small town, you'll know what we mean.
While rarely bustling, the markets are a central part of the Weyr, and another common meeting place, where people go to obtain new goods, to commission special projects, and just to browse.
On occasion, there are even shocking bargains from travelling traders, like the old woman with the wher eggs who appears once a year, or the jewelry trader who creates those strange, charmed good-luck pendants for candidates.
Purchases may be made here from both staff and other players. In character purchases may or may not have an out of character marks price. That is up to the players to determine.
Currently, the following shops are open for orders and play:
Golden Mornings: Fine Jewelry by Innaria
K'ars Illustrious Wonders: Weapons and every day jewels by K'ar
Loti's Shaltiris: Excellently bred Sharliti Riding and Flying wherries, with lines created by Calciumrider Loti
Milona's Pet Sales: Firelizard eggs and Kittens from the Beacon of Firelizards herself.
Fly Away Home: G'nek's Wherries. Theoretically in competition with Loti's Wherries, though both are rarely open.
Most other crafters will take commissions personally, but do not have permanent shops.
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Photo by: Ilvy Njiokiktjien
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Ilvy Njiokiktjien is an independent photographer and multimedia journalist based in the Netherlands. As a news and documentary photographer, she covers current affairs and contemporary social issues. She has worked in many parts of the world, with a focus on Africa.
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Food In The Hobbit
Sci-fi author Sarah Hoyt linked Food In The Hobbit today. Even on first reading I noticed that coffee was part of the Colombian Exchange and thus not possible for a hobbit-culture of hundreds or thousands of years ago. I wondered what else was inauthentic, and was slightly irritated. After reading Lord of the Rings immediately after finishing The Hobbit, I found the first scenes of the earlier book jarring when I reread them all less than a year later, and the foods and musical instruments leapt out at me first. After all his painstaking history and linguistics of Middle-Earth it seemed out of character to be so anachronistic. By the time I ran into someone to mention it to a few weeks later it had already occurred to me "Well, what did you expect him to list for foods? Anything authentic would have no romance in this era, and would not evoke the proper response."
Evocative. Yes, it does that very well. I liked reading about the pork pies, and learning that the cakes referred to would be relatives of fruitcakes and plum puddings.
Texan99 said...
Something else I always notice in fantasy stories of this kind is that it's impossible to see how all the food and other necessities of life are produced. In a society that pastoral in the real world, something like 97% of all the sentient creatures would have to be engaged in growing food, and real attention would have to be given to preserving and distributing it before people could casually set off on foot on months-long journeys--not to mention the need for armies to guard the crops, and the whole city-state contract that tends to develop between warriors and farmers. So we can't expect too slavish an adherence to reality or an avoidance of too many anachronisms when it comes to items on the daily menu.
Earl Wajenberg said...
If you want to ret-con it, you can take "coffee" to be a translation of some hot drink made with, say, dandelion root, and "taters" to be some other root vegetable. I think even Tolkien said "pipe weed" couldn't really be tobacco.
You think the economics of Middle Earth are bad? Try Narnia. Where did Mrs. Beaver get a sewing machine? The best I can do is wave my hands and say, "Dwarven craftsmanship."
Fantasy novels have fantasy economics. And agriculture. And Magick!!
Assistant Village Idiot said...
In "Three Ways of Writing For Children" - I think it's that one - Lewis talks about the advantages of certain forms. In beast-fable, the characters are like adults in that they have their own homes, they set their own schedules, they do as they wish; yet they are also like children in that they do not seem to labor much for their food, drink, and clothing. Meals appear. It is unrealistic, yet it is ideal for a certain type of story, in which the characters can show off their personalities unimpeded.
Elizabeth Crain said...
Diana Wynne Jones examines the strange economies of fantasy worlds in her *Tough Guide to Fantasyland.* Very funny and perceptive.
As for the presence of pickles, tomatoes, and (in the films) maize in Middle-earth, the prevailing theory among geeks is that, like pipeweed, these crops were brought to M-e by the men of Númenor at the end of the Second Age. It was, after all, a large land mass to the west.
Regarding the various anachronisms, Deborah Webster Rogers, to my mind, says it best: "Tolkien sticks to a mindset possible before Abraham, even if hobbits do have tea kettles and tobacco." (In *J.R.R. Tolkien*, Twayne's English Authors Series No. 304, 1980.)
By this I mean that the anachronisms are intentional (particularly at the beginning of LotR as the world is beginning to open out), gently drawing us from the familiar into the legendary. Rohan and Gondor are pretty accurately-depicted Iron Age societies.
What remains consistent throughout is the theology of an epoch before God had revealed himself to humanity, or entered into his own creation as he will through Christ.
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ERRATA – GURPS Space (Second Edition, First Printing) – Updated February 10, 1998
Copyright © by Steve Jackson Games Incorporated.
P. 2. Delete the "Sample Battle" entry shown for p. 96.
P. 78, 93. If a hull is unarmored, its Defense Factor starts at 0. If a ship's final DF, after modifications for stealth and hull size, is 0 or less, treat it as having a DF of .25.
P. 83, 126. The correct equation for escape velocity is:
VE = 6.9 × sqrt(g×R) miles per second.
P. 94. The sidebar should also mention that hull DF adds to the Hull Integrity number.
P. 98, 104. Several readers have asked why certain star types shown on p. 104 cannot be rolled up using the table on p. 98. The answer: These types are so extremely rare that they don't belong on a random table. They're included on p. 104 because they do exist. Likewise, the table on p. 104 gives Life Roll Modifiers for stars that ordinarily have no worlds at all . . . just in case the GM decides there are worlds there.
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Portland United 1 Royals 0
Portchester returned pointless from their longest league away trip of the season at Portland on Saturday.
On the balance of play overall, the Royals deserved a share of the points from this Wessex Premier Division encounter but the home side had the rub of the green with some of the key incidents in the game to secure victory.
Neither goalkeeper was tested that much during the game but there was plenty of drama throughout the afternoon, with both sides eventually finishing the match with ten men.
The first chance fell to the home side on six minutes from a free kick on the left. The ball was floated into the box and Stephen Walker flicked his header across the face of the goal but it dropped wide of the far post.
Portland went closer seven minutes later when a quick throw in from the left found Ross Doidge on the edge of the six yard box. He rolled a pass to Christopher Clarke whose first shot was blocked by a defender and keeper Tom Price had to push his follow up effort away from the goal.
The home side had a glorious chance to take the lead on 33 minutes when a low free kick from the left was fired across the face of the goal and both Doidge and Sam Clarke missed simple tap-ins as the ball went past them.
Portchester went close to breaking the deadlock six minutes later when Simon Woods picked up the ball close to the halfway line and drove forward. He went past two defenders before shooting from just inside the penalty area and keeper Jordan Tewkesbury had to dive to his right to push the ball around the post.
The visitors were quickest out of the blocks at the start of the second half when they caught the home side sleeping. The ball was swiftly played up to Mike Turvey on the edge of the penalty area and his curling shot beat the keeper but hit the top of the crossbar.
A minute later Portchester went close again when a cross to the far post saw Woods have an effort blocked and when the ball was turned back across goal, Joel Jackson’s snap shot flew narrowly the wrong side of the post.
The home side had a chance of their own on 63 minutes when good play down the left saw the ball played back into the path of Doidge but Jamie Ford was in the right place at the right time to deny him a shooting opportunity.
However, Portland grabbed what proved to be the winner in somewhat controversial circumstances two minutes later. They won a free kick for a foul close to the touchline but the free kick taker managed to move the ball some ten yards infield – much to the anger of the visiting bench.
The match officials did nothing to rectify the position from which the free kick was taken and it was turned back across goal from the far post and Alex Halloran was left unmarked to slot the ball home from close range.
Portchester went close to equalising on 69 minutes when a free kick from the halfway line found Harry Birmingham in space inside the penalty area but he planted his header straight at the keeper.
Tempers were starting to flare all over the pitch and Portland substitute Aston Butcher was given his marching orders when he pulled down Woods as he tried to burst clean through into the penalty area.
With Portchester pushing forward in search of a goal, this left gaps in their defence and the home side should have made sure of the points with eight minutes remaining.
Portland burst forward quickly when a visiting attack broke down and although the initial danger was half cleared, the ball was played back into the box and the shot on goal beat Price but a visiting defender got back on his own goal line to clear the ball.
Portchester’s miserable end to the afternoon was completed in the closing minutes when Birmingham was shown a straight red card for a tackle – a strange decision by the referee when similar tackles earlier in the half appeared to have gone unpunished.
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The PMS Blues - how to deal with it or support the one you love
Belt Drive 0 Contests, Motorcycle Show n Shine, PMS, PMS Blues Online Show ‘n’ Shine, Shiny Shit Fund, SSS 2:42 PM
Is your spouse or loved one a rider?
Are they surly? Short tempered? Not eating or sleeping well?
Have you been noticing that there are unexplained charges on your credit card and they all involve motorcycle parts and chrome bits?
Well, if you are noticing these symptoms in your loved one, then they are afflicted with PMS, Parked Motorcycle Syndrome.
This genetic Dis-Ease is responsible for so much grief and strife and sadly there is NO CURE.
Every person who loves motorcycles is born with what is known as the Motorcycle Gene.
That gene is responsible for both PMS and SSS.
Shiny Shit Syndrome is the most debilitating of all of the symptoms of PMS.
Both PMS and SSS can only be treated with massive doses of motorcycle videos, photos, the riding of motorcycles - anything motorcycling related WILL have an impact in improving their disposition.
As PMS subsides, you should notice a diminishing of the SSS symptom of buying lots of parts and chrome bits, but that is not always the case.
For some PMS sufferers, their Shiny Shit Syndrome can kick in at any moment, especially at swap meets and dealerships, so ensure you have some free room on your credit card!
And Oh LORD - I almost forgot to mention the internet and online shopping - dangerous stuff when SSS kicks in!
For more information on what PMS is and how to conquer it, visit the
"Beat the PMS Blues Online Show n Shine" page over at www.beltdrivebetty.com
(Ali should have a good portion of it done today!)
That page is filled with information on PMS and includes information on the symptoms, the treatment and the supports that are available to help you and or your loved one when dealing with PMS and its sister SSS.
It's also where you will be able to enter the Show n Shine and see all of the bikes that are entered!
But there's one more thing there that you REALLY NEED to know about!
In an effort to help riders, passengers and the people who love them cope with PMS, we have started the all new "PMS Support Group". Watch for details of the group - they will be released soon!
The group is meant for all who are affected by PMS and SSS.
For riders and their passengers this is a place to share your stories about PMS, SSS and how they affect your life.
For Spouses and loved ones who don't ride you can share your stories about dealing with a sufferer of PMS and SSS.
Here you can share YOUR stories of suffering with others in a nurturing and non-judgemental environment!
Through sharing you might just learn of a coping mechanism that can help you and your family and friends!
PMS – HOW BAD IS IT? ANOTHER CONTEST!!!
Share your PMS Story for your chance to win some CASH!
You are going to need to have a very compelling story to win the
SHINY SHIT FUND!
Here's how it will work:
The Shiny Shit Fund will be fed by the sales of 2 tee shirt campaigns that we started on TeeSpring:
I Suffer from PMS
I "Heart" a PMS Sufferer
We will be sharing 15% of the revenue from each of these tee shirts with our winners!
10% for first place (along with a virtual plaque) and 5% for second place (along with a virtual plaque) in each of the two categories.
We will accept entries from January 1, 2015 until February 20th, 2015.
We will open the contest up to public voting on February 21st and that will run until March 131st.
Beginning January 1, 2015 you can submit one of two kinds of stories:
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La Familia - parallels to ISIS - but tout being CHRISTIAN
Belt Drive 0 Alberta, Drug Cartels, ISIS, La Familia, Radicals 9:04 AM
The news is full of information on 4 members of a Mexican Drug Cartel who were arrested by the ALERT team in Edmonton.
As bad as the police claim that the Hells Angels and other 1% motorcycle clubs are, the Mexican Drug Cartels are heinous and dangerous beyond most Canadian people's comprehension, according to a police spokesman on Global TV.
So who are these people?
La Familia, is based out of Michoacán in Mexico.
Michoacán is located 555 KMs south and east of Puerto Vallarta.
According to the Wikipedia article on La Familia Michoacán and the subsequent reading I did on sites like the BBC, CBC, NBC along with various newspaper sites, this would be a pretty accurate timeline of La Familia Michoacán:
1) Formed in the early 80's as a vigilante group to combat kidnappings and other issues caused for the poor as a result of the drug trade.
2) In 10 short years, La Familia became aligned with the Gulf Cartel, using their paramilitary skills to protect the Gulf Cartel's interests. They were trained by Los Zetas, former Mexican commandos who had deserted their ranks to become the personal bodyguards of Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, the head of the Gulf cartel and later to become the armed division of the Gulf Cartel to protect its assets. Many of these men were highly trained by the Israeli and American special forces. Guerrilla warfare, rapid deployment, marksmanship are just a few of their skills.
3) In 2006, La Familia broke away from the Gulf Cartel and began their own enterprise and became enemies with Los Zetas as a result. La Familia aligned itself with the enemy of the Gulf Cartel - the Sinaloa Cartel. They, La Familia, became the largest supplier of methamphetamine to the US.
4) In 2009, the US federal authorities concluded a 4 year investigation into La Familia, called Project Coranado, resulting in the arrests of over 300 people, the seizure of 62 Kilos of cocain, 3.4 million dollars and a whole lot more.
5) In 2010, Los Zetas broke away from the Gulf Cartel and formed its own enterprise.
Los Zetas is a highly unstable and yet exceedingly powerful drug cartel in their own right and they aligned themselves with the enemies of the Gulf Cartel. During the civil war that erupted over the split between the Gulf Cartel and their enforcers, Los Zetas was credited with kidnappings, murders, extortion and more. The Gulf cartel, fearful of Los Zetas, aligned themselves with their old enemies, the Sinaloa Cartel and consequently La Familia as well.
Los Zetas has committed such atrocities as the massacre of 27 Guatemalan farmers, grenade attacks, a massacre of 72 migrant workers and so much more.
6) In 2010 another major split occurred that further caused chaos. After the supposed death of one of their leaders - Nazario Moreno González, (his body has never been found) La Familia fractured into to two rival groups - La Familia and Knights Templar—Guard of Michoacán, commonly referred to as the Knights templar Cartel. In true Mexican Drug Cartel fashion, the Knights Templar Cartel is violent and their motto is “fight and die” for “the cartel.”
7) In 2011, Project Delirium resulted in the arrest of a further 220+ cartel members and seizures of cash, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine. Depending on which report your read, La Familia was all but decimated by the government projects and the split within their own ranks that created the Knights Templar Cartel.
La Familia cartel has been described as quasi-religious, as its leaders, Moreno González and Méndez Vargas, refer to the assassinations and beheadings done in the name of their cartel as "divine justice". (Read BBC Article)
La Familia's boss Nazario Moreno González, (a.k.a.: El Más Loco or The Craziest One) published his own 'bible'. (Read the Telegraph Article). According to the article - Begin Quote "A copy of this bible seized by federal agents reveals an ideology that mixes evangelical-style self help with insurgent peasant slogans.
"It is better to die fighting head on than on your knees and humiliated; it is better to be a living dog than a dead lion," Moreno writes, mimicking the phrases of the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata.
Members of La Familia are made to abstain from drugs themselves and participate in charity work, its leaders claim. End Quote.
After the arrest in Edmonton, La Familia is obviously not dead, it appears that the Mexican and US authorities got that one wrong. La Familia is believed to also have connections in BC and Saskatchewan.
Radical thinking and ideology threatens us all.
Because of the fundamental beliefs of ISIS, and the Taliban, every Muslim who practices Islam will one day be called upon to kill infidels or die themselves, when Islam rules the world. Everything this group does, it hides behind a false religious authority - Muhammed, the false prophet. The man who subrogated his own teachings in the Q'uran when they no longer served his purpose.
Because of the fundamental beliefs of La Familia, righteous violence is to be used against anyone who betrays or crosses the cartel. Moreno Gonzalez, the "deceased" spiritual leader of La Familia and
Enrique Plancarte Solís, Servando Gómez Martínez, and Dionisio Loya Plancarte, the founders of the Knights Templar Cartel all fundamentally believe in the same religious concepts. Remember, La Familia has its own "bible".
These two factions, ISIS/The Taliban and the Mexican Drug Cartels sound parallel to each other don't they? Yet one set of groups is Islamic and the other set of groups is Christian.
Radicals are radicals, it does not matter which religion/ideology it is.
Both have committed shocking beheadings (In 2006 La Familia announced its foothold in the drug trade by throwing the heads of 5 rival drug lords into the centre of a dance floor.)
La Familia has committed several mass murders of migrant workers and other innocents.
ISIS has beheaded how many foreigners now? The Taliban just murdered how many women and children in Pakistan?
NONE of this is about religion.
NONE of this is about spiritual belief. (That is just how they brainwash people, it's the lure.)
Power, money and attention - that is all any of this is about and all of the people discussed in this editorial are bullies.
Sadly we will always have bullies and fanatics.
Bullies like Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and how many hundreds of others has history revealed?
Religious fanatics like Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple who persuaded over 900 people to commit suicide and men like Charles Manson who practised Scientology and took many of his ideologies from the Process Church (Satanism), the "Family" looked at him as a guru and they committed how many murders?
ISIS, the Taliban and the Mexican Drug Cartels take radicalization and fanaticism to the same extremes and worse than any of the bullies and religious fanatics mentioned above.
The thought that La Familia and that radical, over the top religious ideology has already moved here to Alberta is scary. Who in their right mind would think to themselves; "Oh, I am joining a gang that beheads people and massacres them when they don't believe as I do." NO ONE in their right mind does that.
The fact that although no where can I find reference to them being a motorcycle club, yet they are sporting a 3 piece cut - well - that's scary.
What all of these radical groups should be teaching us is that the last few generations of parenting and schooling and the government intervention in parenting and schooling has in fact done more harm to our society than good.
With no consequences for their actions, with a feeling of isolation and emotional pain, our young, the socially disadvantaged and the mentally challenged are all fertile territory for these radical groups.
All of the so called advancements in technology etc have disconnected us from human touch.
They have desensitized us through violent games, disconnected us from love and feelings of connectedness and humanity because everyone's nose is in their phone.
If these young people who are being radicalized felt connected, felt they belonged and were loved, valued and appreciated, they wouldn't be joining these organizations and committing the terrible acts that they do.
Parents, love your children, don't give them electronic babysitter at 1 and two years old.
Don't kill yourself working to give your children all of the toys they want.
What they really need is YOU.
This Christmas I am wishing for all parents to put their children first, not in a material sense, in a physical sense.
Hug them, spend time with them, discipline them, praise them. TEACH THEM.
If they don't feel loved, valued and validated by you, they might turn to other places to find what they seek.
And that's how I see this horrid state of affairs.
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September 30, 2018 Marian R Glancy
Thus, suckling bout duration in captive animals does not necessarily reflect evolutionary adaptation to an arid environment. Although suckling bout duration and frequency is not a good indicator of milk transfer (Cameron, 1998; Cameron et al., 1999), it can be useful to assess the amount of maternal care in current offspring (Mendl & Paul, 1989; Cassinello, 2001; Therrien et al., 2007; Pluháček et al., 2010a) and specifically the needs of the offspring (e.g. suckling frequency in Therrien et al., 2007). Our results suggested that suckling bout duration increased with intraspecific aggression rate among adult females of the
species (i.e. longest duration recorded in mountain zebras, followed by plains zebras and Grévy’s Erlotinib zebras). A similar effect of relationships among adults, including aggression among female adults on maternal style, was recorded in interspecific comparisons of several macaque species (Kaufman & Rosenblum,
1969; Thierry, 1985; Maestripieri, 1994a,b). This has been given as a possible explanation for high-suckling frequency in studies on white-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus and fallow deer (Lavigueur & Barrette, 1992; Therrien et al., 2007). In primates suckling duration is correlated with stress reduction (Gomendio, 1990; Clutton-Brock, 1991; Redondo, Gomendio & Medina, 1992), and in cattle with socialization with the dam (Das Selleckchem Adriamycin learn more et al., 2000). Therefore, suckling bout duration and the time spent suckling can reflect the social needs of the foal, whereas termination and rejection seems to be affected by ecological adaptation. Because our results came from captive animals living in limited space,
the high aggression rate among mares could strengthen the social demands of the foal to the mother, in mountain zebras in particular. The artificial setting may also have affected the results likely by two factors: smaller space than in the wild and high-quality diet of predictable delivery. Our results dealing with suckling bout duration and frequency are a little different from those of Becker & Ginsberg (1990). In both studies the lowest suckling frequency and time spent suckling was observed in Grévy’s zebras. However, contrasting with the results of Becker & Ginsberg (1990) we recorded longer suckling bout duration in plains than in Grévy’s zebras. In our earlier study on captive plains zebras, we found that suckling bout duration was highly affected by the animal terminating the bout and by the pregnancy status of the nursing mare (Pluháček et al., 2010a); in this study we excluded pregnant mares and did separate analyses depending on the animal terminating the bout. These factors could have affected the results of Becker & Ginsberg (1990). Nevertheless, we cannot omit the effect of captivity as an explanation for the difference in suckling bout duration between our and their studies.
Methods: Animal ethics committee approval was obtained A single
Methods: Animal ethics committee approval was obtained. A single operator with extensive porcine and human EMR
experience performed oesophageal single-band mucosectomy (Cook MBL-6) on adult buy Fostamatinib pigs. Resections were randomized in a balanced fashion to MCC (ERBE VIO 300D EndoCutQ) or LPFC (ERBE 100C 25W). Clear fluid and low residue diet was instituted 24 and 48 hours post MBM, respectively. Feeding and mobility behaviour was recorded daily. Necropsy was performed 72 hours post MBM. Two expert histopathologists blinded to the ESC technique evaluated the depth of tissue involvement in relation to: ulceration, necrosis, acute inflammation (presence of neutrophils), chronic inflammation (lymphocytes and plasma cells) click here and fibroblastic reaction. Results: 156 tissue sections and 45 resection defects in 12 pigs were analyzed (24 LPFC, 21 MCC). All pigs survived to necropsy and tolerated an upgraded diet. The histopathological correlates corrected for submucosal thickness are shown in Table 1. Conclusions: In an experimental porcine model of a single band oesophageal mucosectomy the severity of deep mural injury as evidenced by ulceration and necrosis
of the muscle layer was significantly greater with LPFC than MCC. This suggests that LPFC use is more likely to result in stricture development than MCC. If both modalities offer equivalent efficacy and procedural safety for MBM of oesophageal neoplastic tissue, MCC would be preferable due to decreased depth and severity of tissue injury. Table 1: Histopathological correlates of MCC and LPFC. MCC (n = 21) LPFC (n = 24) P value Resection defect surface area (mm2) 222 256 0.4 Ulceration involving muscularis 1/21 (4.8%) 9/24 (37.5%) 0.04 Necrosis involving muscularis 1/21 (4.8%) 13/24 (54.2%) 0.001 Acute inflammation involving muscularis & adventitia 19/24 (79.2%) 24/24 (100%) 0.16 Fibroblastic reaction involving muscularis and adventitia 4/21 (19.0%) 4/24 (16.7%) 0.6 Muscularis propria injury / microscopic selleckchem perforation 0/21 (0%) 1/24 (4.2%) 0.8 FF BAHIN,1,5 M JAYANNA,1 LF HOURIGAN,2 RV
LORD,3 DC WHITEMAN,4 SJ WILLIAMS,1 EY LEE,1 M SONG,1 R SONSON,1 MJ BOURKE1,5 1Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, 2Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, 3Department of Surgery, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, NSW, 4Queensland Institute of Medical Research Berghofer, Brisbane, QLD, 5University of Sydney, NSW Background: Complete endoscopic resection (CER) of Barrett’s esophagus (BO) with high-grade dysplasia (HGD) and early oesophageal adenocarcinoma (EOA) is a precise staging tool, detects covert synchronous disease, and may produce a sustained treatment response. There is limited data on long-term outcomes in regards to dysplasia eradication and tolerability of CER.
From 1992 to 2008, the incidence rate of histologically unconfirm
From 1992 to 2008, the incidence rate of histologically unconfirmed HCC increased 2.5 times more rapidly than the incidence rate of confirmed HCC (Fig. 1). The APC in incidence rates for these two groups Saracatinib research buy were 7.9 and 3.2, respectively (both statistically significant: P < 0.05). Between 1992 and 2008, incidence rates of localized stage HCC increased
nearly twice as rapidly as rates of regional and distant stage HCC combined (Fig. 2) and surpassed regional and distant stage incidence rates during 2006-2008. The APC in incidence rates for the two groups were 8.1 and 4.2, respectively (both statistically significant: P < 0.05, as were APCs for regional and distant stage alone, data not shown). The APC for unstaged HCC was −2.6 (P < 0.05). Incidence rates of reported invasive liver surgery or ablation (Fig. 3) increased significantly from 1992 to 2008 (APC = 10.7; P < 0.05). Incidence rates of HCC receiving no surgical intervention also increased significantly from 1992 to 2008 (APC = 7.2; P < 0.05). During 1998-2008, most HCC cases with reported first-course surgery or ablation had localized stage HCC (Fig. 4), including cases receiving transplantation (77%), resection (75%), and local tumor destruction (70%). Overall, 41% of cases had localized-stage HCC. One third of cases with no reported surgery or local tumor
destruction had localized-stage HCC. Among HCC cases diagnosed during 1998-2007 and followed for vital status through 2008, transplant recipients experienced 84% 5-year survival (Fig. 5). Cases with Nutlin-3a mw local tumors less than 3 cm that received RFA had 5-year survival of 53%, whereas cases undergoing liver resection had 5-year survival of 47%. Among cases with reported local tumor destruction, 5-year survival was 35%. Compared to the 3% 5-year cause-specific survival in SEER-9 during 1975-1977 (data not shown), overall HCC survival during 1998-2007 was
18%, whereas survival was 8% among cases without reported invasive surgery or local tumor destruction. 5-year survival exceeded 75% among transplant recipients in all non-Hispanic racial and Hispanic ethnic groups with informative data (Fig. 5). Results were suppressed when there were fewer than 16 cases. selleckchem Among cases with reported liver resection, Asians or Pacific Islanders experienced significantly better 5-year survival (52%) than Hispanics (35%) and blacks (33%). American Indian/Alaska Native cases had 63% survival after resection, with wide CIs. 5-year survival after local tumor destruction was significantly higher among Asians or Pacific Islanders (43%) than black (21%) cases. Overall 5-year cause-specific survival among Asians or Pacific Islanders (23%) was significantly better than among white (18%), Hispanic (15%), or black cases (12%). White cases (18%) and American Indian/Alaska Native cases (20%) had significantly better survival than black cases (12%).
ISC is a rare disease, and its exact prevalence is not yet known
ISC is a rare disease, and its exact prevalence is not yet known. According to a previous report,10 a substantial portion (17%) of bile duct resection for presumed hilar CCC was finally proven not to be malignant, and significant lymphoplasmacytic infiltration was also identified histologically in half of those benign strictures. The prevalence of hilar or intrahepatic strictures as biliary manifestations ERK inhibitor of IgG4-related systemic disease in patients with AIP has been reported to be 8–13%11,12 to 46–49%.3,5 In our data, these proximal biliary strictures were observed only in 14% of patients with AIP (16/118). The wide range of prevalence of ISC in reports might be related
to the heterogeneity of the study population, including ethnic differences and undetermined natural courses of the disease, at which time, ISC develops along the clinical course of IgG4-related systemic disease in each individual patient. ISC can be preceded, accompanied, or followed by AIP.13 Among our patients, two patients exhibited a long disease interval gap between ISC and AIP, with ISC preceding AIP by 9 years, and ISC following AIP by 8 years. Concurrent AIP was
observed in one-third of patients with ISC (6/16). It is already well known that IgG4-positive cell infiltration in the bile duct specimen and serum IgG4 elevation are characteristic findings in ISC. Since ISC is a rare disease, however, it might not BMN673 be practical or cost-effective that serological evaluation for serum IgG4 and histological evaluation with IgG4 immunostaining selleck products are routinely
performed in all patients with hilar or intrahepatic biliary strictures. This strategy might be appropriate only when ISC is suspected clinically and radiologically. Our case series revealed several characteristic radiological findings, which were likely to be useful for differential diagnosis between ISC and hilar CCC. First, bile duct wall thickening, especially at the hilum, was prominent, but the luminal surface was smooth, with relatively preserved luminal patency. Thus, it looked like a doughnut (Fig. 2a). A plausible explanation for the smooth luminal surface and preserved luminal patency, despite marked bile duct wall thickening, could be that the bile duct epithelium is relatively intact, while the bile duct wall is thickened by extensive lymphoplasmacytic infiltration and fibrosis.14 In addition, the bile duct wall was a thickened in a concentric pattern in our patients with ISC,12 in contrast to the abrupt and eccentric strictures with a irregular surface in CCC.15 Second, proximal biliary dilatation was relatively mild in ISC, despite the marked bile duct wall thickening, in contrast to the marked proximal dilatation in CCC. Third, multifocal strictures with intervening normal-looking branches were observed in most of our ISC patients, in comparison to a single, localized stricture in CCC.
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The blood lipids may affect the incidence of colorectal cancer. Key Word(s): 1. colorectal cancer; 2. blood lipid; 3. hyperlipidemia; 4. lipid metabolism; Presenting Author: HUA MAO Additional Authors: WENDAN WENDAN Corresponding Author:
HUA MAO Affiliations: Zhujiang hospital of Southern medical university Objective: Proper differential SCH772984 diagnosis between Crohn’s disease and intestinal tuberculosisremains challenging problem.This study observe collagen fibers characteristics of CD and ITB by applying Masson’s dyeing and SHG/TPEF imaging. Methods: Found out pathology specimens of who diagnosed CD and ITB in our hospital from 2006 to 2012. CD group had 29 cases (25 of endoscopic specimens, 4 of the surgical specimens), ITB group had 14 cases (12 of endoscopic samples, 2 of surgical specimens). Collected 11 cases.of endoscopic specimens as healthy controls. Each specimen cut serial three sections, to do HE, Masson’s dyeing and SHG/TPEF imaging respectively. Use the Image-Pro Plus6.0 to analysis Masson’s dyeing images, calculating the Average optical density
absorbance (AOD), reflecting the expression of collagen fibers. Observed the characteristics of fibers deposition in SHG/TPEF images. Comparison among multiple groups performed Peptide 17 datasheet by a standard one-way analysis of variance,and between groups performed by Dunnett’s T3 multiple. Results: Among CD, ITB and healthy controls groups, the collagen
fibers expression in ITB was highest (AOD = 560.1772 ± 230.6484). Collagen fibers was higher in CD or ITB than healthy controls, P < 0.05. After eliminating surgical selleck screening library specimens, collagen expression was higher in ITB than CD, P < 0.05. In endoscopic biopsy specimens, collagen expression was higher with granuloma (430.2869 ± 187.6046) than without granuloma (273.6598 ± 243.2126), P < 0.05; SHG/TPEF imaging: in surgical specimens of CD and ITB, there were a large number of collagen fibers deposition in the submucosa, and collagen fibers in CD looked like clumps and curling, without obvious regularity, and in ITB rang aroud the caseating granuloma. Collagen fibers could be found scattering around the glands in endoscopic biopsy specimens. Conclusion: It’s valuable to evaluate fibrosis of crohn’s disease and intestinal tuberculosis by Masson’s dyeing and SHG/TPEF imaging and it could be a new way to identify them. Key Word(s): 1. CD; 2. ITB; 3. Collagen fiber; Presenting Author: SURESH SITHAMBARAM SURESH Additional Authors: IDA HILMI IDA, APRIL ROSLAINI APRIL, KHEAN LEE GOH GOH Corresponding Author: SURESH SITHAMBARAM SURESH Affiliations: faculty of medicine,UMMC Objective: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a fast rising cancer in the Asia-Pacific region. Many methods have been used to screen for CRC. These includes faecal occult blood test (FOBT), faecal DNA testing & colonoscopy.
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The resin cement was mixed with an auto-mixing tip and loaded directly onto the dowels. The dowels were inserted into the prepared canals with a slightly rotating action and finger pressure. Excess cement was removed, and the remainder was sealed with glycerin gel (Liquid Strip, Ivoclar Vivadent) to inhibit oxygen contact. After cementation, the gutta-percha was removed. Microleakage measurements were made 24 hours after cementation.
A modified fluid filtration method was used for the measurements.[14] The sealing ability of the cemented dowels was determined by following the movement of an air bubble progressing www.selleckchem.com/products/poziotinib-hm781-36b.html within a micropipette 25 μl in volume and 65 mm in length. All tubes, the pipette, and the microsyringe of the test system were filled with distilled water at room temperature, this website under a pressure of 211 cm H2O (20,692 Pa). The test system was attached to the specimens using an 18-gauge needle and a plastic
cone as an adapter. Measurements of fluid movement were made four times, at 2-minute intervals for 8 minutes, and then averaged. The average movement results were used to calculate the volume of the leaking fluid (average movement × fluid volume per mm [25 μl/65 mm]). Then values were expressed as “μl/min.cm H2O” (hydraulic conductance = Lp).[14] The fluid flow rate through the 18-gauge needle and unfilled tooth canals, which were prepared for dowel placement, was measured for each dowel system individually by weighing the amount of water that could pass through the root canal in 1 minute. These values served both as a positive control and as 100% leakage, to which measurements of cemented groups could be compared (as a percentage).[14] Initially, a Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test was performed to analyze the homogeneity of the variances over the data, and it was seen that the data were normally distributed (p > 0.05).[15] Later, a one-way ANOVA test was performed, and Tukey HSD, as a post hoc test, was used to identify the significant differences among the groups. The data were selleck chemicals llc finally post hoc analyzed with PASS (power analysis
and sample size) test (NCSS/PASS 2007, NCSS LLC.; Kaysville, UT) at a confidence level of 95%. The SSP group had the highest relative microleakage average (7.06 × 10−4%), and the CSG group had the lowest relative microleakage average (3.55 × 10−4%). One-way ANOVA test showed significant differences among the results of the groups (p < 0.05). Further post hoc Tukey HSD analysis showed no significant differences among the CSG, TAG, LEQ, USZ, HEG, and SOG groups (p > 0.05); however, the relative microleakage results of CSG and TAG groups were significantly lower than the results of STG and TZG groups (p < 0.05). The relative microleakage of the SSP group was significantly higher than all the FRC dowel groups, with the exception of the STG and TZG groups (p < 0.05) (Table 2).
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responses to IFN may be more promising candidates. The true clinical influence of Y93H on treatment responses remain unknown and further elucidation is mandatory after the approval of daclatasvir for clinical use. In particular, it is important to clarify the cut-off values as to the mixture ratio of Y93H to Y93 wild type in establishing clinical resistance, if the presence of viruses with Y93H before treatment really does affect the response. If so, it is also important to clarify whether the proportion of Y93H variants changes during the clinical course (the natural course or during therapy including IFN) in order to determine the most appropriate timing for introducing daclatasvir. However, it is possible for Y93H check details variants to disappear after IFN treatment considering that Y93H variants may be sensitive to IFN. The mechanism of the
relationship between the IL28B SNP and Y93H also is not clear at present. Considering that wild-type NS5A is known to be associated in its ISDR region with IFN resistance and with the IL28B minor SNP (TG/GG),[28] it is possible that wild-type NS5A Y93 also is associated with IFN resistance and with IL28B minor SNP, although further elucidation is necessary. We acknowledge that the PCR technique has a risk of producing biased amplicons according to the PCR primer sequences and therefore we designed
novel primers in this study by searching www.selleckchem.com/products/LDE225(NVP-LDE225).html for the most conserved sequence regions around NS5A. We speculate that the sequence bias might have been avoided at least to some extent considering the fact that the NS5A mutation rate in this study was quite compatible with that of a previous study and that obtained from the public database. In conclusion, we detected by deep sequencing the substantial presence of resistance mutations to daclatasvir, Y93H in particular, find more in daclatasvir treatment-naïve patients and these were not detectable by direct sequencing. We also showed that IL28B major type patients who have favorable responses to IFN may have a higher risk of being infected with Y93H HCV than IL28B minor type patients, suggesting that those patients may have a higher risk of developing daclatasvir resistance, although further studies are needed. ”
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7 Several studies, including those by Jiao et al, using a rabbit
7 Several studies, including those by Jiao et al., using a rabbit fibrosis model,19 and by Cardoso et al., using isolated perfused cirrhotic rat and human livers,20 have demonstrated that an increase in portal venous blood flow produced by mechanically pumping not only increases portal inflow pressure, but also decreases intrahepatic portal resistance (IHPR)
and dilates sinusoidal spaces in cirrhotic liver, changes that resulted in improving liver function. In liver cirrhosis, portal hypertension is characterized by increased intrahepatic vascular resistance Ponatinib price and elevated splanchnic blood flow. Hepatic stellate cells play a crucial role in regulating sinusoidal vascular tone by their contraction. In turn, such contractility is regulated by a counterbalance between vasoactive agents, such as endothelin-1, and vasorelaxing agents, such as nitric oxide (NO). Recent studies have shown that NO production in hepatic sinusoidal endothelial cells is decreased in the cirrhotic
liver, leading to increased intrahepatic resistance.21,22 Generally, the increased shear stress induced by blood flow augments NO production in the vascular endothelium and mediates vasodilatation.23 This decreased IHPR Selleck Alvelestat might result from sinusoidal dilatation by NO overproduction following the augmented portal selleck inhibitor blood flow.19 One clinical study in 14 cirrhotic patients who underwent B-RTO showed that hepatic blood flow significantly increased 4 weeks after the procedure and was associated with reduced IHPR.18 B-RTO is likely to enhance portal blood flow, and subsequently to reduce IHPR through shear stress-induced vasodilatation, finally leading to improve liver function. Mechanical portal pumping might be a useful therapeutic modality in cirrhotic portal hypertension, but it would be a difficult procedure to apply in the clinical setting. Therefore, we suggest that B-RTO could be a
procedure potentially to enhance portal blood flow with benefits in intrahepatic hemodynamics that are similar to those elicited by mechanical portal pumping. In the present study, the authors demonstrated that patients with an increase in HVPG ≥ 20% showed a significant improvement of liver function 6 months after B-RTO, whereas those with an increase in HVPG < 20% showed no significant change. Shear stress is determined mainly by three factors: vessel radius, flow rate, and viscosity.23 It is calculated from the flow rate, pressure change, and vessel length. If viscosity and vessel length are considered constant in the intrahepatic portal venous system, shear stress in the portal venous system can be estimated as an index calculated from the changes in portal pressure and portal blood flow.
[16] They were treated with these preventive regimens for 1 month
[16] They were treated with these preventive regimens for 1 month, after which they were instructed to use the medications abortively only for the subsequent 2 months, up to 14 days per month. In total, 28 patients were randomized, 16 to the sumatriptan/naproxen treatment, and 12 to the naproxen treatment. Already 8 of the 28 patients (29%) discontinued treatment during the first month of the study, 3 in the sumatriptan/naproxen group (19%), and 7 in the naproxen group (58%), leaving only 15 and 5 patients, respectively, in the groups. Unfortunately, especially considering the extent of the dropouts, the efficacy analysis of the
study was not conducted on the intent-to-treat population but on the completer population, greatly invalidating the results obtained. Although most of the dropouts Navitoclax solubility dmso in naproxen group, that is, 5 of 7, dropped out because of lack of efficacy, the reported results claim selleck products a high degree of efficacy in that group, with a reduction in
migraine headache days per month from 16.4 ± 1.9 (SD) at baseline to 6.2 ± 4.0 in month 1, a highly statistically significant change (P = .0074). The comparable change in the sumatriptan/naproxen group was from 18.9 ± 5.1 days at baseline to 14.4 ± 7.9 days in month 1, a much smaller change that was nevertheless statistically significant (P = .0112). It is difficult to interpret the results, especially when it comes to the efficacy reported for the naproxen group, considering that the analyzed group only consisted of 5 patients and the same number
discontinued treatment because of lack of efficacy. Regarding the sumatriptan/naproxen group, although the change in migraine headache days per month from baseline was statistically significant during the month of daily, preventive use, numerically it was not impressive and amounted to no more than roughly a quarter. It certainly does not suggest that regular preventive use of a triptan in chronic migraine is particularly effective, and the difference with the patients in the studies conducted by Robbins,[7] Robbins and Maides,[6] and Piekos and Spierings[1] is that they were using the triptan daily or almost daily selleck screening library abortively and not preventively. NSAIDs have been shown in randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled studies to be effective in the preventive treatment of episodic migraine, and the quality of the study reviewed above is not such that this claim can be extended to chronic migraine prevention. In a large, 5-year, longitudinal, population-based study, referred to as the American Migraine Prevalence and Prevention (AMPP), it was found that triptan use in episodic migraine is associated with an increased risk of the development of chronic migraine that increases with days of medication use.
To investigate the basis for this discrepancy, photosynthate util
To investigate the basis for this discrepancy, photosynthate utilization was characterized in Dunaliella tertiolecta Butcher grown at three different growth rates in N-limited chemostats. Pb was measured throughout a 2 min to 24 h time course and showed clear growth-rate-dependent differences in lifetimes of newly fixed carbon. 14C pulse-chase experiments revealed
differences in patterns of carbon utilization between growth rates. At high growth rate, the majority of 14C was initially fixed into polysaccharide and lipid, but the relative contribution of each labeled Selleckchem PD98059 biochemical pool to the total label changed over 24 h. In fast-growing cells, labeled polysaccharides decreased 50%, while labeled lipids increased over the first 4 h. At SCH772984 cost low growth rate, 14C was initially
incorporated primarily into protein, but the contribution of labeled protein to the total label increased over the next 24 h. Together, time-resolved measurements of Pb and cellular NAD and NADP content suggest an enhanced role for alternative dissipation pathways at very low growth rate. Findings of this study contribute to an integrated understanding of growth-rate-dependent shifts in metabolic processes from photosynthesis to net growth. ”
“Benthic microalgae (BMA) are important primary producers in intertidal and shallow subtidal sediments, serving as a vital selleck compound food resource for heterotrophs. BMA also release extracellular polymeric secretions that inhibit resuspension of sediments. Key ecological parameters such as abundance, productivity, and species composition of BMA each contribute to the character of these roles. Our primary objectives were to (i) assess the importance of biotic disturbance to the structure of sedimentary microalgal communities and (ii) identify principal modes of recolonization. We employed field comparative studies to test whether deposit feeding
by two invertebrates (Leptosynapta tenuis and Balanoglossus aurantiacus) caused removal of BMA, and manipulative experiments to assess rates and mechanisms of recolonization. Both deposit feeders were determined to significantly reduce BMA biomass via ingestion; however, little change in community composition was observed. Recovery of these disturbed patches was followed over the period of intertidal exposure. We distinguished between potential recolonization methods of migration and regrowth by monitoring fecal coils incubated naturally on underlying sediments (regrowth + migration treatment), hydrogen-peroxide-treated coils incubated on ambient sediment (migration only), and coils that were incubated on 0.2 μm filters and thereby isolated from underlying sediment (regrowth only).
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8 experienced clinical decompensation compared to 16 (67%) of 23
August 13, 2018 Marian R Glancy
8 experienced clinical decompensation compared to 16 (6.7%) of 238 with baseline AST/ALT ratio ≤0.8 (Table 2). Within each stratum of baseline AST/ALT ratio, patients who had severe worsening (>15% increase between month 24 and baseline) had a higher rate of clinical decompensation. The cumulative incidence of clinical decompensation at 3, 5, and 7 years is shown in Supporting Table 2C. Forty-eight (18.3%) of 263 patients
with baseline total bilirubin >0.7 mg/dL experienced clinical decompensation compared to 12 (5.8%) of 207 with baseline total bilirubin ≤0.7 mg/dL (Table 2). Within each stratum of baseline total bilirubin, patients who had severe worsening (>15% increase between month 24 and baseline) had a
higher rate of clinical decompensation. The cumulative incidence of clinical decompensation at 3, 5, and 7 years is shown in Supporting Table 2C. Forty-three (16.5%) of 261 patients with baseline albumin see more ≤3.9 mg/dL experienced clinical decompensation compared to 17 (8.1%) of 209 with baseline albumin >3.9 mg/dL (Table 2). Within each stratum GDC-0449 clinical trial of baseline albumin, patients who had severe worsening (>15% decrease between month 24 and baseline) had a higher rate of clinical decompensation. The cumulative incidence of clinical decompensation at 3, 5, and 7 years is shown in Supporting Table 2C. A multivariate model including baseline platelet count, AST/ALT ratio, bilirubin, and albumin (Model IA) showed that each of these four baseline laboratory values independently predicted the occurrence of clinical decompensation (Table 3A). A model including changes in values of these four laboratory tests between month 24 and baseline (Model IIA) found that severe worsening (>15% change) but not mild worsening (5%-15% change) of platelet count, bilirubin, as well as albumin were independent predictors of clinical
decompensation, whereas changes in 上海皓元医药股份有限公司 AST/ALT ratio were not. Inclusion of both baseline laboratory values and changes in laboratory values (Model IIIA) showed that baseline platelet, AST/ALT ratio, and bilirubin; and severe worsening of platelet count, bilirubin, and albumin were independent predictors of clinical decompensation. Model IIIA has the lowest AIC (621), indicating that it has a better fit than Model IA (AIC: 651) and Model IIA (AIC: 655). Addition of age, gender, and race did not improve the fit of any of these models. The duration of follow-up was similar among the three categories of change for each variable irrespective of whether the variable was normal or abnormal at baseline and did not impact the accuracy of the model. To address the issue whether a longer observation period would have any effect on the accuracy of the model, we used change in laboratory values from baseline to month 48 (Table 2B), and compared the results with those obtained using change in laboratory values from baseline to month 24.
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PSU Baseball falls to Keene State
Plymouth State (7-8, 0-1) 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 6 2
Keene State (5-9, 1-2) 2 0 0 0 3 0 1 4 X 10 8 0
2B: Josh Goulet; Chris Mansour
2B: Connor Walsh; John Tarascio; Ryan Linehan
HR: Sam Czel
Goulet extends on base streak to 15 games
RINDGE, N.H. – Senior Josh Goulet (Nashua, N.H.) had two hits to extend his on base streak to 15 straight games, but Keene State College topped Plymouth State University, 10-3, in the Little East Conference (LEC) opener for the Panthers Tuesday night at Pappas Field on the campus of Franklin Pierce University.
Keene scored twice in the bottom of the first and the score remained the same until PSU cut the margin in half with a run in the fifth. The Owls answered with three runs in the bottom of the frame and tacked on a single run in the seventh to extend the lead to 6-1. Plymouth State got one back in the eighth, but KSC broke the game open with a grand slam in the bottom half. The Panthers tried to rally in the ninth as the first two batters reached base, but Keene got out of the jam to hold on for a 10-3 win.
Plymouth State wraps up a stretch of six games in four days, dropping to 7-8 overall and 0-1 in the LEC, while Keene improves to 5-9 and 1-2 in league action.
The Final Score:
Plymouth State 3, Keene State 10
Plymouth State (7-8, 0-1 LEC)
Keene State (5-9, 1-2 LEC)
How it Happened:
* The Owls took advantage of a PSU miscue in the first to plate two runs. Senior Dylan Gaita (Melrose, Mass.) struck out the first two batters, but the second reached as the ball got away from the catcher. KSC followed with a double, sacrifice fly and RBI single to score two unearned runs for a 2-0 lead.
* Gaita faced the minimum over the next three innings, but the PSU offense couldn't get anything going.
* Junior Andrew Salta (Laconia, N.H.) started a Panthers' rally in the fifth, drawing a leadoff walk and promptly stealing second base. Senior Chris Mansour (Lowell, Mass.) followed with a run-scoring double to make it a 2-1 game.
* Keene loaded the bases with nobody out in the bottom half. Gaita got a strikeout and fly ball, but the lead runner tagged to make it 3-1, and two batters later a PSU error led to two more unearned runs.
* Junior Sam Czel (Newtown, Conn.) manufactured a run for the Owls in the bottom of the seventh, reaching on a bunt single, stealing second, advancing to third on a ground out and coming home on a wild pitch, pushing the Keene advantage to 6-1.
* Junior James Salta (Laconia, N.H.) opened the eighth with a walk and one batter later he came around to score on a single from senior Ryan Richard (Berlin, N.H.) to make it 6-2.
* Freshman Derek Walker (Littleton, N.H.) relieved Gaita in the bottom of the inning and struck out the leadoff hitter, but lost the strike zone as the next two batters walked. Junior Alex Larson (Brunswick, Maine) came on and surrendered a single to load the bases, but struck out the next hitter to nearly work out of the jam. Czel followed with a grand slam to left, however, to break the game open.
* Senior Geoff Kayo (Londonderry, N.H.) and A. Salta both singled to start the ninth. The next two batters grounded into fielder's choices, allowing Kayo to score, and the Owls got the final out on a fly ball to center.
Inside the Numbers:
* Goulet was on base three times (single, double, walk) and has reached safely in all 15 games this season.
* Richard (single), Kayo (single), A. Salta (single) and Mansour (double) also had hits for the Panthers.
* Sophomore Joe Routhier (Nashua, N.H.) picked up his 14th RBI of the year, tied for second most on the team behind Goulet's 19, with his ninth inning ground out.
* Gaita allowed just two earned over his seven full innings of work while striking out six, but dropped to 1-1.
* The Panthers continue league play on Saturday (Mar. 30) with a trip to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Games are set for 12:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.
* Keene is also in LEC action on Saturday (Mar. 30) as the Owls host Eastern Connecticut State University for a double header.
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What happens when the world thought you were dead and suddenly, now you are alive?
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Noah saved her.
Georgina never wanted to be saved.
Growing up, Noah Clark was passed from one relative to the next until he finally ended up living with his abusive, alcoholic uncle in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Thanks in part to the unwavering love and support of his best friend, Ellie Turner, Noah survived those years, escaped his uncle, and grew into the man he is today. Now he runs his own business and lives a pretty normal, no-nonsense life—one where he maintains a high level of control.
Georgina is Ellie’s younger sister. Four months ago, Noah saved Georgie’s life, but he thought that was where his involvement with his friend’s sister would end. Now Georgie has returned home from the recovery facility her parents sent her away to and Noah, still haunted by the night that connects them, can’t stop himself from continuously trying to protect this girl he barely knows. But is he willing to give up all of the control he’s worked so hard to build in his life and risk everything for her? Even more importantly, would she do the same for him?
“Nate West. Hollywood bad-boy. Television megastar.
Womanizer. Basically everything I hate about the male species rolled into one handsome package. And yet…I want him.”
Ellie Turner is a lesbian. She has tattoos, short hair, and a ‘don’t-mess-with-me-attitude.’ She knows who she is, loves who she is, and couldn’t care less what the rest of the world thinks of her. And since she has the most kick-ass best friend on the planet, Noah Clark, even when family drama gets in the way, nothing can offset her happy-go-lucky demeanor.
Until television star Nate West comes along. All thick muscle and alpha-male testosterone. When Ellie meets him on an airplane the only thing Nate West should be good for is a brand new profile picture on Facebook. Right? Wrong. Turns out he’s good for so much more.
This man is going to flip everything Ellie thought she knew about herself upside down.
Pulled Under
man-child. noun.
a grown man who is exceptionally immature, therefor considered a man-child
manwhore. noun.
a promiscuous man who has no concern for his sexual partners or the emotional value of his relationships
Rhett Morgan couldn’t have been more wrong for me. The guy drank beer in the shower, for crying out loud. He had no prospects for the future, had slept with half the women in our beach town of Kill Devil Hills, and had no desire to change his manwhore ways.
And when Ben Turner, the guy I had loved from afar for the past four years, died and I couldn’t get over his death, I desperately needed a distraction. A distraction like Rhett. So I used him for a one-night stand. Because, after all, that’s the only thing a guy like Rhett is good for… right?
About Sarah Darlington
Sarah Darlington lives in the DC metro area, is married to her high school sweetheart, and currently spends her time chasing around a very active toddler. As a former flight attendant, she misses the days of pantyhose, galley gossip with good friends, and traveling to new places. In the future she’d like to return to that career, but, just as flying gets into your bones, so does writing. Whenever she gets a free moment these days, she writes.
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Exclusive: Meet the Drag Idol 2017 finalists
By Boyz
Posted on 1st July 2017
Months of heats across the UK come to a sequinned climax this Friday night (30 Jun) at the Two Brewers with the Grand Final of Drag Idol 2017. Four performers representing four venues will battle it out to be crowned as this year’s Drag Idol champion. We hear from the finalists, including the Wild Card finalist, who we are proud to exclusively reveal is Ginny Lemon. Also we talk to this year’s hosts Crystal D’Canter and Kelly Mild to find out what to expect on the big night.
Tracy Barlow from The Royal Vauxhall Tavern
Who is Tracy Barlow?
Tracy is a girl with a past. She’s a very relatable character who has struggled to make the right decisions and now she’s doing everything she can to make amends.
How would you describe your performances?
I don’t really think of it as performing, it’s telling my life story to a room full of strangers. It just happens I’ve had a particularly exciting and fascinating life so far. I’m polyhumorous, I laugh at anything and that’s my aim, to make people laugh.
What are your other aims in life?
Well, when I moved down to London, the city of dreams, having been in the witness protection scheme so often I had my own membership card, I had to make some decisions. I decided that my aim was to trick a man into thinking I was pregnant, get £15,000 out of him and then marry him.
Are you pleased to be representing the RVT?
It means everything. It’s an amazing venue, and I would say it’s an honour. I don’t often get serious but I am about this. They had made me feel so welcome and I hope I do them proud.
Gingzilla from Her Upstairs
How would you describe Gingzilla?
Gingzilla is a ginger, bearded glam monster, a bearded bombshell. She’s fierce, ferocious and fearless. I like to think that I take you on a journey that is exciting and unstable, serving up surprises and curveballs all the way. I lip sync, I sing and I even talk!
Tell us a bit of your history?
I moved to London from Australia two years ago and I started doing drag just over a year ago. Coming here really opened my eyes to the incredible variety of drag in the UK. You have such a rich history of cabaret and every area of London seems to have its own pocket of drag style.
What does it mean to be representing Her Upstairs?
I’m so happy to be representing them. I started out in Meth’s Not Another Drag Competition and that’s where I got to really find Gingzilla and explore what I could do. Her Upstairs represents the new age of drag, it’s fresh, it’s cutting edge and political but it’s also huge fun. I couldn’t be happier.
Shania Pain from OMG Sheffield
How would you sum up Shania?
A wonderful time, some unexpectedly high notes and if you cross me, I’ll go for you. I do some old school classic songs plus some that you definitely wouldn’t expect a drag queen to do. There’s some totally inappropriate comedy plus my piece de resistance, which is balloon swallowing. I pride myself on having no gag reflex and you will be seeing that at the final.
How did Shania come about?
When I was 15 I did a module at school on stand up comedy and became obsessed with it. I then did cruise ships as a boy and started doing drag in-between and that’s when she first appeared.
Tell us about representing OMG Sheffield?
It’s lovely and they have been so supportive. I just want to win it for them and bring the trophy up north.
Ginny Lemon the wildcard finalist from Eden Birmingham
Can you describe Ginny Lemon for us?
She’s drunk, disgusting and fabulous. Imagine if Sue Pollard took acid with Linda La Hughes and then had a three way lesbian fling with Bjork. The look is old school Hollywood; Joan Crawford when the kids started to hit back.
How did Ginny come about?
In a previous life I used huddle away and write and record my own songs. I didn’t know how to get them out into the world so I just started doing them as Ginny and it grew from there. I used the negative energy that was in my life at that point to do something positive. I’m very inspired by people like Julie Walters with that great Black Country humour and Mrs Overall is a huge influence. Anything that’s a bit dirty, dark and hilarious.
What is it like to represent Eden in Birmingham?
I absolutely adore them. Birmingham has got such a great gay scene. It’s different, but so lovely and Eden is such a fantastic venue. The team there are great and the crowd just get it and they get me.
Crystal D’Canter and Kelly Mild Hosts of Drag Idol 2017’s Grand Final
How has the contest been this year girls and how will Friday be?
Crystal: 2017 has been our most diverse year ever. The contest has been full of variety from pageant kings and queens to alternative artists and everything in-between. We’re really proud that the competition has been embraced by so many.
Kelly: I’m expecting an explosion of talent on the stage. Speaking to the acts, they all have their eyes well and truly on the prize. The gloves are off, they all want this so badly. I think we will witness things in this final we’ve never seen before. Prepare to be amazed.
The Drag Idol 2017 Final at the Two Brewers, 114 Clapham High Street, SW4. This Friday (30 Jun) the show starts at 9.30pm.
Entry is free before 10pm.
dragidoluk.co.uk.
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New Word Riddles
Asked by kestrelknight
kestrelknight 2
Location:Gazing at an ancient monitor
Partially inspired by Kikacat's "The Adventure", and partially by The Geoguessr Challenge.
Imagine, if you will, that you are sitting at your computer, happily playing a quick game of Mafia, when your phone goes off in your pocket. You ignore it, too absorbed in the game to be bothered with phone calls. Later, after you are brutally murdered, you check your phone to see who had called. It's an unknown number, so you dismiss it, and become involved with the game once more.
A few hours later, you're about to hit the sack when your phone rings again. This time, you pick it up.
"Hello? Please, you have to help me!" a female voice says, desperation clear in their voice.
"Who is this?" you ask.
"It's Kestrel Knight. Look, I know we've never really met, but you're the only person I can turn to! You have to help!"
Kestrel Knight? you think to yourself, the name sounding familiar.
"Aren't you someone I know from the BrainDen forums?" you ask.
"Yeah, I am, but I kind of urgently need help!" she tells you.
"What's wrong?" you ask.
"I've been kidnapped! I don't know where I am, but I'm calling from a payphone right now. It looks like an English-speaking country."
"Wait, how do you have access to a payphone?" you query, slightly confused.
"I escaped form the hotel room they've been keeping me in, but they're sure to find that I'm gone soon."
"Okay, describe your surroundings," you tell her, getting to the point.
"Well, I'm on a main street. There's a train station nearby, and there are a bunch of trams going around. There's quite a few people around. There's an ad for a website, and the extension is .com.au. Actually, this whole place is pretty familiar. I think I know where I am. Just, please, I need help, I'm being kept in a hotel somewhere near here, and I need you to find me. I don't know if my captors are going to move me, but will you help me?"
She's beginning to ramble now, and is obviously rather distressed.
"Absolutely. I think I might know where you are, too. I'll come get you as soon as possible," you say, trying to sound confident. In reality, you're not sure if you'll be able to help. You have no idea what she looks like, and you don't know her real name. You're not even sure where she is. But, hey, someone has to help her, right?
"Thank you! Well, I guess you'll need to know what I look like, huh? Okay, I've got--"
Kestrel is suddenly cut off in the middle of a sentence. You hear a muffled shout, then the line goes dead.
1. English-speaking country
2. Main street
3. Train station nearby
4. Lots of trams
5. Lots of people
6. URL extension for the country is .com.au
~~ Okay, people. I've been kidnapped. Your job? Find me. If it helps, you can start making guesses based on what I've told you, and I'll tell you how close you are. ~~
Pickett 13
Location:40°N 83°W +/-10'
I'm not sure whether you Googled that or not, but good job!
Next part coming soon, I have lots of work to do.
Okay, I still technically have a lot of work that I should be doing right now, but this'll be a quick "chapter".
As your small plane touches down in Kenya, you can't help but feel a bubble of excitement in the pit of your stomach. You've never been closer to saving Kestrel - well, expect for that whole Mount Rushmore incident...
As you step out of the plane, the first thing you notice is the heat and humidity. You can already see the sweat patches that are bound to pop up all over you.
If you've been paying attention, you may have noticed somewhat of a theme throughout the locations that Kestrel has been taken. It's become more obvious as the game has progressed, but it's somewhat vital now to you taking the next step.
You're in Kenya, and so is Kestrel, but now you find yourself wondering, "Where now?"
So tell me, everyone... Where am I?
EDIT: Incidentally, I find it amusing that Weebl's "Kenya" is the first thing that comes up when you type, "free snorkel with every visit" into Google. Is there no place that actually supplies free snorkels with every visit? Clearly not. Frankly, it's outrageous.
Edited September 3, 2013 by kestrelknight
OmegaScales 7
Location:Wherever I feel like it.
Considering every location has been near something high (
Citigate Melbourne, Eureka Tower, Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore). I'm going to say Mount Kenya.
Another thing is that all the locations are rather widely known, so, going with the above as well, it may also be Mount Kilimanjaro.
Not quite. The height was ab unfortunately overlooked coincidence. The second part of your guess was correct, though, so...
Bump. Giving you the answer: Nairobi National Park in Kenya.
After being granted entry to the park, you automatically start listening for the familiar voices of Kestrel Knight and Demetri Noble. You also look for people wearing cliche tourist outfits.
You stand around for a few minutes, not hearing or seeing either of the two, when you hear a wonderfully cynical Australian girl say, "We're seriously going on a safari?"
You whip around as inconspicuously as possible. There stands Demetri, arms linked with Kestrel, who's holding a map in front of her face.
"Yes, we're seriously going on a safari. Would you rather I tie you up, gag you, and throw you into a freezing cold meat locker?" Demetri snaps.
"Actually, that sounds pretty appealing," Kestrel says, lowering the map slightly.
The two of them are wearing the stereotypical explorer outfits: All khaki shorts, short-sleeved shirts and pith helmets. You notice with a smile that Kestrel is toying with a plastic hatchet attached to her belt.
A woman approaches the two of them and asks for directions to the bathrooms. Demetri shoots her a death glare, pulling his own plastic hatchet off his belt.
The woman backs away, saying, "Sorry! I thought you worked here!" in a Canadian accent, before scuttling off.
"I told you the stupid outfits were a bad idea," Kestrel gloated in a sing-song voice.
"Right, no safari for you!" Demetri declared.
"Aw, boo," Kestrel said, pouting with mock disappointment.
"We're leaving. GOODBYE, KENYA!" he yelled, dragging her along as he stormed out of the park.
That was short-lived, you think to yourself.
Your phone buzzes again in your pocket. You take it out, hitting the 'View Message' button.
Ah, mon ami! C'est une bon journee en France! Vous devez nous rendre visite. Nous ne serons pas les seules choses qui sont cachées.
I did all that without Google Translate. Impressive, huh? You, on the other hand, may need a little assistance from every would-be traveller's best friend.
Okay, I managed the first three sentences without Google Translate. I'm still happy with that.
La première chose qui vient à l'esprit est le Musée du Louvre.
Nope. Think about the last sentence. (No GT this time, too! )
One of my acountless friends has guessed the answer. Come on, guys.
Vous devriez vraiment rendre visite, parce qu'ils ont des pommes les plus étonnantes ici. En fait, je me sens un peu malade...
RotationalSymmetry 0
it's Disney Land in France!
(I don't know how to do spoilers)
akaslickster 21
Location:In the valley/AZ
Sidney Australia?
Could it be Lourdes?
Good job, newbie! (It's refreshing to see the newbies in the Word Riddle area.)
Yeah, I just read your name... *sigh* (Well, everyone else, I've officially gotten one of my friends to join the site.)
Next part coming soon! Definitely in the next two days.
EDIT: Typo.
Edited October 7, 2013 by kestrelknight
I guess no one got it yet. IDK
Okay, so maybe two days was a little optimistic, but I'm aiming to have in done within the next actual two days.
Edit: And I will point out that RotationalSymmetry up there got the correct answer.
Edited October 14, 2013 by kestrelknight
After flying to France, getting to Disneyland, waiting for an hour in a queue and paying 36 pounds, you're finally inside. You're so close to catching up to Kestrel and her kidnapper. You can almost smell the reward money. As you wander through the attractions, looking completely inconspicuous, you're listening for the familiar voices, and looking out for people who looked so impossibly cliched-ly touristy that they had to be fake.
After hanging around for half an hour, you get the feeling that something's up. Usually you would have either seen them, or KK would've made contact by now.
Perhaps they've moved on... you think to yourself. Or maybe he's killed her! Or maybe they...
Your worried thoughts are interrupted by a loud giggle and a flash of bright pink. You look down at a feminine blob on the ground in front of you. An angry British man is standing over her, motioning to his left foot.
"Get up, my dear. We're going on the Disneyland Railroad," he tells her through clenched teeth.
A small crowd has gathered around his fallen companion, the aforementioned pink blob. It appears that the guy has managed an even sillier outfit, as Kestrel in dressed in a hot pink onesie that's three sizes too big, and baby pink uggs.
"Hey, ya dingus! You said we were getting ice cream!" the blob cries, raising an indignant arm, but staying on the ground. You're not really sure if she's seen you. She doesn't seem like she has, but she could be playing dumb.
"Do you want to throw it up again?" he asks, with a pointed look to his left boot.
The girl glances around, and then spots a security guard in the concerned crowd.
"Excuse me, sir, but that crazy man has a gun concealed in the sole of his left shoe. That's what he tells me, anyway. Personally, I think he should've used a bomb. That would've been so much more fun," she tells the guard.
Her captor freezes in place, feeling unnaturally vulnerable under the stares of tourists and French people - most of whom also freeze. Suddenly, he grabs Kestrel's arm and makes a run for it. Something tells you he's going to get away again. As she's being dragged off, Kestrel catches your eye and mouths, "I'll text you!" before disappearing into the crowd.
That's the last you hear from her for a week. After the first two days, you decide it would be best if you headed back home, so you catch the first flight back to [insert your town name here].
Once safely at home, you wonder if you should contact the authorities. Of course, they would know that Kestrel was missing, but would they know about your frantic hunt around the globe for her? Would they know that she pinned her life on someone she'd never met. You begin to wonder why she would trust you that much.
You continue like this for a few days, deciding that - for Kestrel's sake - the Police should be left in the dark (for now). Until you receive another clue, it would be pointless to try and find her. You're not made of money; it's a miracle that you've been able to afford every flight you've already been on. You only feel comfortable with two more flights - one to Kestrel, and one back home.
You're not sure why, but you know that this will be the end of it all.
That's right, everyone. This is the last puzzle - so give it your all. It was so much fun to make. (And in case you don't sense my sarcasm, it was a massive pain in the butt. But it'll be worth it.)
53. 75,14,DE. 49. A. 57,60. 90,85. 90,E,39. 90,8,92,G,1,T. 9,18. A,74,A,39. (comma)
5,92,T. 90,E. 74,8,RLD. 90,85. 90,E,39. 19,7,E,74. 74,33. A. 3,E. (period)
53. 95. 34,E,7. 5,39. 16,8. MA,7,39. (comma) T,88,M,15,LED. DA,39. A,9,52,R. DA,39. (comma)
A,7,D. 95. 9,92,LL. 8,9. 90,70,E. 74,67. 16,A,53,D. G,8,8,D,5,39,E. (period)
KestrelKnight, there is a typo. In the last line, it says 90,70,E. It should be 90,76,E. I've worked it out already but I think I'll let others try.
Thanks for pointing that out (assuming that's right) and for not giving away the whole thing. (I discussed my code with her.)
On another note, I thought you were sick. T_T
Edit: Checked, and RotationalSymmetry is correct. That should read "90,76,E"
Let me know if you need a hint. I can wait.
Congrats to Pickett for decoding it over on the Logic/Math section! Here's the uncoded message:
I reside in a land that they thought far away,
But the world that they knew was a lie.
I am seen by so many, trampled day after day,
and am full of those who said goodbye.
Kikacat123 6
Location:In a chair, held captive by the cat on my lap
A cemetery? ("Full of those who said goodbye") Or maybe the Great Wall of China? ("Trampled by many, far away")
*applauds*
Yay! It's the Great Wall of China! I wanted to put a "supposedly" before the "full"; however, I wciuldn't make the rhythm work with that addition. Epilogue coming soon.
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Josh Gard has had a long history in music, but lately he has been rapidly rising up the ranks for all things bass. Just a few short years ago he donned the name Figure and began making electro house, but has since become a regular name in all realms of electronic and dance. Scoring positions among the charts may have gotten him recognition, but a hefty amount of praise has been raining down on him lately as some of the leading artists in electronic music have valued his live performance skills as some of the best in the business. With releases alongside industry heavyweights Diplo, Tommy Lee, Flux Pavillion, Excision, BT, Tommy Sunshine, and Borgore, as well as a robust catalog of originals, bootlegs, and remixes, Figure's signature sound has earned him a cult following amongst a growing number of insatiable fans. In 2011, his Monsters of Drumstep series married is love of horror with his immense production skills to become the soundtrack to the Halloween season. His follow up "Destruction Series" added a new ride to the amusement park with twists and turns through an intergalactic electro war armed with robots and missile drop laser synths. "I just like how artists present a package of something close to an adventure… Like a theme park of sound that is an experiment and experience for everyone," states Gard. When he's not on tour or recording in his home-town studios in rural Indiana, he's touring worldwide including packed tents at festival like EDC, SnowGlobe, Starscape, The Bounce, Creamfields Australia, and Dour Music Festival. His constant interaction with fans is more akin to maintaining a healthy family than what one usually finds in a social media marketing age. Supporters are supplied with the latest productions for free and guest list are reserved for fans in need.
FIGURE x Megalodon
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Dane Kriklywi kept his nose out of trouble all weekend to score both race wins - Photo: Jon Elsey
The young chargers of the BRSCC Fiesta Junior Championship racing with MRF Tyres had spent just over two months waiting to get back on track after their opening rounds all the way back at the end of March at Brands Hatch. With Cadwell Park the next port of call for Rounds 3 and 4 of the 2018 season, the question on everyone’s lips was whether or not points leader James Waite would continue his red-hot form would carry over from his double win at Brands. As it turned out, a new challenger would step up to claim their first taste of FJC glory.
Race Car Consultants’ young Danish hotshot Magnus Kriklywi topped both practice sessions before the all-important qualifying on Saturday afternoon. In a session that was affected by rain showers and changeable conditions, Kriklywi then went on to stick it on pole by just over a quarter of a second from Waite, with Jam-Sport locking out the second row thanks to Olly Turner and Isaac Smith. Josh Steed began his first race weekend with new team Mutation Motorsport with 5th fastest, ahead of Nathanael Hodgkiss, Todd Garner and Alfie Glenie. There was also the first appearance of the season from newcomer Abby Lock, fresh from recovering from illness and making her inaugural start of 2018 after debuting at the Donington Park finale last year. She would start Race 1 from the back of the grid.
With the track dry on Sunday morning for the first race, Kriklywi’s pole advantage couldn’t save him as Waite picked up the better start and went on to lead the opening lap. Waite remained in front over the next few laps, but then the race came to a premature and rather abrupt halt. Waite led the cars across the line at the end of lap 5, but an accident involving the #17 then proceeded to bring the red flag out. Olly Turner was also an unfortunate victim of an incident on the same lap, and with that, the organisers had no choice but to red flag the race. This turned out to be indefinite, meaning a result was declared and due to Waite’s car not running at the time of the stoppage, it gave Magnus Kriklywi his first Fiesta Junior race win – although probably not in the circumstances he’d have wanted. Josh Steed produced a carbon copy of his drive in the first Brands Hatch race as he stormed through from the back to take 2nd place, while Isaac Smith would complete the rostrum in 3rd ahead of Hodgkiss, Glenie, Garner and Lock.
Kriklywi had another chance to start from pole in Race 2 with Steed alongside him this time for company, and this time he nailed the start to lead convincingly by the end of Lap 1. From there, try as Steed might in 2nd place, the young Dane Kriklywi continued to extend his advantage lap after lap. By the end of lap 5, the gap was up to almost 3 seconds, where at this point Steed was able to pick up the pace a little and reduce the amount of time lost to just a couple of tenths per lap. Come the chequered flag Kriklywi’s winning advantage had stabilized to 3.6 seconds, but all that mattered was that victory was his. Steed completed a strong first weekend with Mutation Motorsport with another 2nd place finish and his good friend Olly Turner put in a superb drive from the back to pick up the final podium place in 3rd, from Smith, Hodgkiss, Glenie, Garner, Lock and a struggling Waite who appeared to have issues after his Race 1 incident that prevented him from keeping pace with the rest of the pack.
Incredibly, despite both Kriklywi and Waite having won races both races each, neither of them factor in the top 3 in the points standings. In fact, it’s Brands Hatch’s driver of the meeting Isaac Smith that assumes the points lead on dropped scores, ahead of Josh Steed in 2nd and Nathanael Hodgkiss in 3rd. Kriklywi and Waite are up next in 4th and 5th respectively, ahead of Garner, Turner, Glenie and Lock.
Thankfully, the Juniors don’t have too long to wait this time as the next rounds are only a couple of weeks away. Rockingham Motor Speedway in Corby provides the next setting for Rounds 5 and 6 on June 23/24, a venue that holds good memories for James Waite; 2017 was the year in which Rockingham provided him with his first FJC victory, and he’ll be hoping to capitalise on that this season.
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Founded in 1963, Ponderosa High School is located on 38 acres in a semi-rural setting.
The oak tree-lined campus is one of eight high schools, (four comprehensive and four alternative schools) in the rapidly growing El Dorado Union High School District. Enrollment for grades 9-12 is projected at 1,898 students for the 2012-13 school year.
Ponderosa has earned a 6-year accreditation, through June 30, 2019, as a result of a review by Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). Ponderosa is home to several ROP programs, including the Agriculture Program for the District's comprehensive high schools. In 2001 and 2007, Ponderosa was also named a California Distinguished High School, and has exceeded the state API score of 800 required of all California schools.
For 20 consecutive years, Ponderosa has maintained first-place in the countywide Academic Decathlon.
For more information, please refer to our School Accountability Report Card.
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Far above the valley,
Neath the mighty oak and
pine of Ponderosa,
You'll hear us praise our alma mater,
Sounding from the hills and
through the valley,
Ponderosa, hail the green and
gray of Ponderosa, this,
our praise, we sing thee.
Hail. All. Hail.
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[Books] Sleepy Hollow: Children of the Revolution
Author: Keith R.A. DeCandido
In “Sleepy Hollow,” a supernatural twist on Washington Irving’s classic short story, Ichabod Crane has been pulled two-and-a-half centuries through time to find that he and detective Abbie Mills are humanity’s last hope in the war against evil. Passionate, intelligent, and wryly funny, Crane has always used journals to collect thoughts and documents that may prove useful later, and The Secret Journal of Ichabod Crane offers an unprecedented look at the battle also raging inside his fascinating mind.
It’s a cold day in January, and Ichabod visits Patriots Park for a moment of peace. Instead, he receives a disturbing vision from his wife, Katrina, in which she delivers a cryptic but urgent message: he must retrieve the Congressional Cross that he was awarded by the Second Continental Congress for bravery in action. There’s just one problem: Ichabod was killed before he ever received the medal, and he is unsure where it might be. Together Ichabod and Abbie set out to uncover the mystery of the cross and its connection to George Washington and his secret war against the demon hordes. They soon learn that a coven of witches is also seeking the cross in order to resurrect their leader, Serilda, who was burned at the stake during the Revolutionary War. Now they must locate the cross before the coven can bring back Serilda to exact her fatal revenge on Sleepy Hollow.
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Category: Symbian
Ovi Store gets renamed to Nokia store, built using Qt Quick
October 11th, 2011, 08:45 by Prasad 33 comments
Nokia announced back in May that they will be renaming their Ovi services such as the Ovi Store to Nokia Store. The process was supposed to happen later in 2012 and it finally has. The Ovi Store is now officially known as the Nokia Store.
But the name is not the only thing that’s changed. There is a whole new app for it as well. Read more »
Nokia Tune Dubstep Edition: The new sound of Finland’s phone royalty [VIDEO]
October 11th, 2011, 04:01 by Alex 40 comments
When you have the most iconic and recognizable mobile theme in the world, you’d have to be pretty confident to let the general public loose on it, with a mind to then putting the result on 100 million handsets worldwide, but that’s exactly what Nokia have gone and done.
The Nokia Tune competition opened at the start of September and asked musicians, music lovers and Nokia fans everywhere to reinvent the iconic Nokia theme in their own style.
Update: Nokia just came up and made it clear that this new controversial DubStep remix is not replacing the original Nokia tune.
Hear the Symbian Belle story, as told by its designers [VIDEO]
October 10th, 2011, 15:35 by Chip 50 comments
As Symbian Belle gets ready to start rolling to Symbian handsets near you, Nokia has released another story in its blog about the latest update of the platform. The company got the Belle designers to talk about the background of their creation in this nice 4-minute video.
So if you want to know more about the action going on behind the scenes here’s your chance. You will also learn what Nokia’s top priorities when creating Touch UIs are and what makes great user experience according to the Finns’ R&D team. Read more »
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The Source of the Arveiron, with Mont Blanc in the Background
Towne, Francis, born 1739 - died 1816
Topographical watercolours
British School
Towne, Francis
Prints & Drawings Study Room, room WS
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
France (probably, painted)
1781 (painted)
Towne, Francis, born 1739 - died 1816 (artist)
Watercolour, pen and ink
P.20-1921
Prints & Drawings Study Room, room WS, case Rack, shelf 81, box R
Francis Towne (1739-1816) began his artistic career as a coach painter. He later moved on to landscape painting. His watercolours are very simple but striking. He painted this watercolour in Switzerland, where he stayed on his return to England after a trip to Italy.
View of the source of the River Arveyron in the Chamonix valley. In the background is the Aiguille de Bochard in the Mont Blanc range, and descending from the right and into the foreground is the southern end of the Mer de Glace glacier.
This drawing belongs to the remarkable series of studies of Alpine scenery. Towne banishes all 'picturesque' elements such as wayside shrines and bridges and his vision is of the greatest severity; his presentation austere. He achieves the expression of his fascination with the geometry of nature by the most economical of means, reducing everything to the simplest of terms and achieving a monumentality by his skilful arrangement of light and interreacting planes.
Marks and inscriptions
Signed and dated 1781.
Height: 42.5 cm, Width: 31.1 cm
Bought from Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd, 43 Old Bond Street, London.
Watercolour entitled 'The Source of the Arveiron, with Mont Blanc in the Background' by Francis Towne. British School, 1781.
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
Robert Hoozee, ed. British Vision. Observation and Imagination in British Art 1750-1950 / with contributions from Mark Evans, Mark Haworth-Booth and Stephen Calloway. Ghent: Museum voor Schone Kunsten; Mercatorfonds, 2007. ISBN: 978 90 6153 749 6
100 Great Paintings in The Victoria & Albert Museum.London: V&A, 1985, p.78
Carolina Brook and Valter Curzi, eds., Hogarth, Reynolds, Turner : British painting and the rise of modernity Milan : Skira, c2014. ISBN: 9788857222714.
p.122, pl.115
British watercolours : 1750-1950 / Katherine Coombs. London: V&A Publications, 2012
Subjects depicted
Paintings; Topographical watercolours
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Every Jack Ryan Movie Ranked from Worst to Best
by Adam Chitwood September 3, 2018
The Jack Ryan Collection—which includes all five films on 4K UHD and Blu-ray—is available now.
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Look forward to ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and ‘The Hurt Locker’! Say goodbye to ‘Hellboy’ and ‘Trainspotting’!
Weekend Box Office: RIDE ALONG Sets New MLK Record with $41.2 Million Debut
by Nicole Pedersen January 19, 2014
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by Brendan Bettinger April 5, 2011
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Collingham and District Local History Society (CDLHS)
Promoting and Preserving your Rich Heritage
Programme of Events
Information Exchange
Jubilee Room
The Great War Trail
The Great War Trail was devised by the Society as part of the Armistice Commemorative programme over the summer of 2018. It follows a path starting and ending in the Cooperative Car Park and taking the walker on a circular tour of High Street, South Collingham (as far as the church), along Low Street up to the Grey Horse, then back along the High Street to the car park. Along the route shops, schools, buildings of importance such as the Memorial Hall, and houses of the soldiers who left the village to fight in the Great War are pointed out, and a back story given where appropriate. Pictures are included to enrich the walk.
The Trail was sponsored by the Heritage Lottery Fund via the Collingham Parish Council. It was delivered to every household in Collingham.
While the Village Trail is centred around the Great War, its value as a heritage resource enabling villagers to understand how the village appeared 100 years ago cannot be underestimated.
TRAIL LEAFLETS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE ARCHIVE. PLEASE CONTACT THE ARCHIVIST IF YOU NEED ONE – ALTERNATIVELY A PDF VERSION CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE.
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About Cricket Freaks
Ten Best Cricket Bowlers in 2015
by MairaS on February 17, 2016
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Apple music download songs android. How to save songs offline in Apple Music (Android App) 2019-05-15
Apple music download songs android Rating: 7,5/10 1438 reviews
How to Play Apple Music on Android Tablet
That's why when you re-install the Music app, the previously downloaded songs won't show up any more. As batch conversion is supported, you can add multiple songs at one time to save your time. Why Apple Music is the top music streaming service in the world? The Connect tab lets you follow your favorite artists and see photos, songs and other updates they share. Until now, there is no any news that indicates Apple Music will work on Android tablet. Your device will reboot and will function normally. The Family will give you access to all the features from the Student Plan and Individual plans and plus some of the features below. Worse, I realized that I was unable to download songs for offline playback in Apple Music on Android for some reason as the downloads kept getting stuck or stalled for no reason whatsoever.
Apple Music for Android now lets you save songs to an SD card
And like Tidal, there's a selection of live concert videos from famous artists like Sam Smith, Taylor Swift, and Skepta. Now run Apple Music to find your song to save. First, Apple Music has exclusive music you can't find elsewhere, like Taylor Swift's discography which she and Dr. Plus, Google just announced a new service, YouTube Red, which lets you listen to music through YouTube using a soon-to-be-released YouTube Music app. The most reported issue is phones like Galaxy S9+, Galaxy S8, Galaxy S6, etc.
How to Download Apple Music Songs as MP3
A new song from that artist you love has just come out and you try to download it onto your device. Then tap Apple Music on the Home Page to restart it. I tried to create a symlink like you adviced but something failed and everything went wrong. If you still have any other further questions or want to suggest any other tips you know, please don't hesitate to contact us and leave a comment below. If you have some other problem, you can just download from here:. Actually, you can do this by yourself with the help of Apple Music Converter.
[GUIDE] Apple music songs to SdCard.
Disable iCloud Music Library and re-enable it. Family Plan: Apple Music Family Plan is good for a family who loves music. Those using the alternate AirSync app will still need the app on their Android phones, and the doubleTwist desktop client on their computers. This time around, the download will not stall and complete depending on how fast your internet connection is. The Blue, white and red visual layout features eye-catching icons that let you explore the app.
Accept the terms and conditions. Curated playlists: This is another great feature of Apple Music where it provides you with recommendations to suit your personal taste. What is M4P Files What it M4P files? Get it installed and follow the steps below. Remove the items which you can't play and re-download the songs from Apple Music catalog. And then copy the Apple Music songs to your Android Tablet, make , Samsung Galaxy Tab, Nexus 9, Google Pixel C, etc. Wrap up iTunes has a very strong association with Apple and Apple products.
Solved: Apple Music Won't Download Songs on iPhone
An updated version of the app can solve the problem of Apple Music won't download music to library or cloud. Now you will see an intuitive main interface like below. If you still don't know how to use TuneFab Apple Music Converter, watch the video below:. As you listen to songs or use the app more, Apple collects data about your music tastes and accordingly provides daily custom-curated playlists. Three words: Google Play Music Gone are the days when you needed to go through complicated methods just to get your music on your phone. If you are looking for a solution to fix Apple Music not working problems on Android, this article will be helpful. If the above-mentioned steps do not work, check out the article Let us know if you have any questions.
How to save songs offline in Apple Music (Android App)
It means that you cannot copy them onto a disc or on other devices that are not linked to your Apple Music account. For a deeper dive into the good and bad of Apple Music, read , and check out why I switched after testing it. The hamburger menu keeps things a bit more organized, but it does make it more tedious to switch between tabs. Unfortunately, you cannot use Google Now's voice commands to control Apple Music. In addition, please read our , which has also been updated and became effective May 23rd, 2018. It will pop up a window, which will show you all of songs you have downloaded from iTunes. Shut down your iPhone and restart it.
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By choosing I Accept, you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. TuneFab Apple Music Converter is a great option for you. Apple Music didn't wow me when it first debuted and it's still unremarkable as a music streaming service. Download Apple Music App for Android Please make sure that you have at least Android 4. Just make sure that your device has Android 4.
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Contributor biographical information for Code talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two / Joseph Bruchac.
Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog
Biographical text provided by the publisher (may be incomplete or contain other coding). The Library of Congress makes no claims as to the accuracy of the information provided, and will not maintain or otherwise edit/update the information supplied by the publisher.
Joseph Bruchac is the award-winning author of more than 100 books, many of which draw on aspects of his Native American heritage.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Navajo language -- Fiction.
Cryptography -- Fiction.
Navajo code talkers -- Fiction.
Navajo Indians -- Fiction.
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Fiction.
United States. -- Marine Corps -- Indian troops -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
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Aspen Ridge Homes
Mike Niven Interior Design Inc
Duncan Street & Richmond Street
10 Nelson St Toronto, Ontario M5V1V3
Bellamy Road Tot Lot , Cedargrove Park , Colonial Park , Mccowan Park , and Pringdale Ravine
10 Nelson St
Toronto Ontario M5V1V3
Studio 2 is a new condo and townhouse project by Aspen Ridge Homes currently under construction at Richmond St W & Duncan St in Toronto. Available condos/townhouses range in price from $307,990 to over $571,990. The project has a total of 425 units.
“Studio on Richmond is the quintessential urban condominium development, anchored firmly within its context at ground level, and soaring to the skies in its two towers. The lower floors engage and add to the vibrancy of city life, and architecturally help to “heal the streetscape,” as vacant parking lots are transformed into vibrant streets. The robust bulk of the building façade on Duncan Street harkens back to an industrial aesthetic but with a contemporary vocabulary, helping to frame the OCAD building occupying the corner of Duncan and Richmond. Studio 2 features dynamic retail spaces at the corner of Duncan Street and the soon-to-be revitalized Nelson Street – imagine a restaurant, café or high-end furniture showroom. Along Nelson Street is a row of stunning contemporary and very flexible townhomes, urbane in style and able to dress as city residences or funky work spaces.
“Above the podium, however, a remarkable metamorphosis occurs – the building peels off its muscular solidity, revealing first a generous glazed amenity space opening to the huge sixth floor roof terrace, and then the glazed tower, expressed as a series of four boxes stacked delicately one on top of the next, floating on two storeys of transition floors. And even as the boxes stack higher and higher, the angled mullions at the corners suggest subtle movements sideways in all directions, and the balconies undulate in and out on all faces of the boxes. Studio 2 reaches a full ten storeys higher than Phase I, adding to the creative tension between the two soaring structures, and suggesting both stability and movement. Add to that the bold slashes of colour at the top and bottom of the buildings, and the composition reads like a well-crafted story, full of plot, character and emotion. This is not a one-liner that can be read at a glance, but a design that yields new delights with each viewing. It is city living at its most current – looking back to the past and aspiring to the future.”
Lounge | Party Room | Yoga Studio | Billiards Room | Movie Screen Room | Workout Facilities | Terrace | Change Rooms
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Purchasers will have the choice of Torlys® engineered wood floor or Torlys Smart Floor in the living/dining room, kitchen, bedroom(s) and hallways. The suites also feature 9’ ceilings, a balcony or terrace (as per plan) and front-loading washer and dryer.
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LED Gunshot Monitoring: Protecting Neighborhoods One Light at a Time
In a previous blog, I discussed the effect of nighttime lighting on urban crime rates. Studies have shown that, despite many people’s expectations, lighting levels do not necessarily affect an area’s safety or the amount of crime. They do, however, affect our perception of safety; most people feel safer in well-lit areas. To instill this sense of safety and lower energy costs, many cities have begun replacing traditional street lighting with amber LED lighting, which provides sufficient visibility for pedestrians and vehicles but is more efficient and less intense than other lights. But can our street lighting do even more?
While it would be unreasonable to expect lighting to eliminate crime entirely, recent progress in LED technology may be able to help. I’m talking specifically about gun violence here, which accounts for thousands of US deaths every year. So far in 2015, there have been over 10,000 gun-related deaths and over 40,000 incidents involving guns. GE Lighting is joining forces with SST, Inc., a security company, to implement something called the ShotSpotter Gunshot Location and Detection System. The technology would provide reliable information on the time and location of gunshots, which authorities can now only provide about 10% of the time. The two companies have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to install ShotSpotter technology into GE’s software- and sensor-enabled LED streetlights.
Gunshot Detection Technology Combined with LED Lighting
ShotSpotter uses acoustic sensor technology to detect when and where gunshots occur. If combined with the right software, ShotSpotter could analyze data and send results to law enforcement and first-response agencies.
This is where GE Lighting comes in. Earlier this year, GE introduced the Intelligent Environments for Cities platform—a fancy name for their series of data-sensor-equipped, cloud-based LEDs. GE’s lights can also transmit data on weather and light conditions, parking availability, environmental hazards, and be equipped with video monitoring and public-address systems. San Diego, CA, is one of the cities already using GE LED technology; they’ve reported a savings of more than $350,000.
With ShotSpotter’s gunshot monitoring technology, GE’s intelligent LEDs can each be part of a revolutionary network of responsive, data-collecting devices. Installing this network in a violent neighborhood would provide an automated, 24/7 neighborhood watch program.
Reliable and Immediate Information for First Responders
Law enforcement and emergency responders often lack immediate and reliable information about shootings. Individuals in neighborhoods plagued with frequent gun violence are often reluctant or unable to report information on shootings. Oftentimes, those who do report a shooting can only provide incomplete or incorrect information.
Installing sensor technology into LED lighting helps close this information gap and makes it possible for police, ambulatory services, and other first responders to assist gunshot victims and apprehend suspects. The LEDs would be able to collect data on incidents including the number of shots fired, the number of shooters, and the precise location from which shots were fired. Almost immediately after bullets are shot, information can alert dispatchers or specific responders, similar to alarm notification software many companies are already using. Over time, the data would be able to show, specifically, where these crimes are happening and where law enforcement would be most effectively deployed.
LiFi Brings Us One Step Closer to the Internet of Things
The collaboration between GE Lighting and SST demonstrates how LED lighting offers much more than illumination. LEDs in LiFi, which is basically WiFi transmitted through the visible light spectrum, could turn every streetlight into a technological node; a web of these nodes across a city would act like an interactive, communicative web of information.
As ShotSpotter and GE continue to roll out their plans for the lights, experts are exploring the other applications of their technology. Streetlights wired with both ShotSpotter and LiFi technology have the potential to alert mobile users within a specific radius of a shooting, giving them a chance to find cover. Similar alerts could be sent to alert users about extreme weather, heat, or cold.
Do you think ShotSpotter technology would have a positive impact on urban crime rates? Let me know below!
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This app will help you Build Custom made Android Ransomware
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By DS Staff Last updated Sep 3, 2017
Nowadays we hear a lot of news about cyber criminals attacking network systems and personal computers with Ransomware. WannaCry is the popular one among them. Hackers demand a huge amount of money to stop the attack from multinational companies to the general public. To make this situation worse now there is a new app circling the internet which allows any person, even he/she has no minimal understanding of programming, can turn out to be a hacker and build their own personal customized Android ransomware. Hacker in fact also begun marketing of ransomware-as-a-service packages in order to widen this scary peril and deliver the menace to a larger audience.
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We have seen numerous Android malware-related news and reports in the recent times, for instance, SonicSpy, Lipizzan, LeakerLocker, to list several of them. Now when it comes to the safety of Android, with this new threat, makes it more complicated. You can protect your Android device from these attacks by staying away from getting applications from anonymous web sites and third-party app outlets, checking the permissions asked for by an app, even though it is installed from an official store and by maintaining a routine backup of your vital files and data.
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DATE OF ISSUE: 23 DECEMBER 1994
AUTOMATIC ENTITLEMENT TO FUNERAL BENEFIT - EXTENSION OF ELIGIBILITY CATEGORIES TO EX-POWS AND EDA RECIPIENTS.
The purpose of this Departmental Instruction is to notify that the Veterans' Entitlements Act, 1986 (VEA) has been amended to provide entitlement for a Funeral Benefit grant to the estate of a veteran who:
was receiving an Extreme Disablement Adjustment at the time of his death, or
was a former Prisoner of War.
2.The VEA has been restructured as follows:
Section 99A is repealed;
a new section. 98B has been inserted which provides automatic eligibility for a veteran who, at time of death, was:
?receiving a special rate pension; or
?receiving a pension increased under s. 27, items 1-8; or
?receiving an Extreme Disablement Adjustment (EDA); or
?previously a prisoner of war.
a revised s. 99 that will continue to provide eligibility in respect of a veteran:
?whose death was war-caused; or
?who died in needy circumstances; or
?who died:
?- in an institution; or
?- travelling to or from an institution; or
? - after discharge from an institution in which the veteran was being treated for a terminal illness; or
?- while being treated for a terminal illness at home. or
?who after death, it was found the veteran satisfied a category under the new s. 98B.
3.The legislation received Royal Assent on (16 December 1994) and is effective from 1 January 1995.
4.The Funeral Benefit is designed to partly defray the cost of a funeral, and payment of the benefit is intended to be made to the person who incurred the cost of the funeral. Funeral Benefits are already paid under existing criteria in respect of a large percentage of ex-POWs and veterans who were receiving EDA, but there has been no automatic entitlement to a Funeral Benefit. In some instances a claim had to be made to have death accepted as war-caused simply for the purpose of paying a Funeral Benefit.
5.The inclusion of these two additional categories in section 98B of the Veterans' Entitlements Act, 1986 means that there will be consistency and uniformity in granting Funeral Benefit.
6.Procedures remain unchanged from Departmental Instruction No. B44/92 dated 18 September 1992.
7.Once notified that an eligible veteran has died, a letter providing information concerning the automatic payment of the benefit is sent to the "Executor of the Estate" at the veteran's last known address. As is presently the case, a form is sent with the letter that asks for the name and address of the executor and for details of any extra costs incurred in transporting the body of the deceased. This allows cheques to be sent to the correct person and, for audit purposes, enables the Department to record where cheques have been sent.
8.On receipt of a completed form, payment of the benefit can be authorised. This form effectively replaces form D307 "Claim for Funeral Benefit". States should continue to conduct random sample checking via the Client Data Base to confirm that the deceased was eligible for a Funeral Benefit. Grant of automatic Funeral Benefit can continue to be registered on CMS and the CDB:ATR facility.
9.In those cases where the executor is not the surviving spouse or a dependant, the advice letter should state that the Funeral Benefit must be quarantined from other assets and is paid only to defray the cost of the veteran's funeral.
10.If funeral expenses have been incurred by the person other than the executor, that person should make a claim against the estate. Before a will is granted probate all debts against the estate, including outstanding funeral expenses, must be discharged.
11.The current Funeral Benefit claim form is being modified to reflect the new legislation and to generally update information.
Automatic Advices
12.The automatic advices are being changed to reflect the new legislation. Central Office Communication, Operations & Review area will incorporate the new legislation in the next reprint of the Bereavement Information leaflet.
Monitoring of Expenditure
13.The Department of Finance requires, as part of the evaluation process, an account of cost of widening the eligibility categories. This will be achieved by using a separate accounting code for payments through the Financial Accounting System (FAS). A report generated from FAS will be produced in Central Office.
14.The following codes will become effective from 1 January 1995 when the benefit commences:
Funeral Benefit for Ex-POW cases - 39550
Funeral Benefit for EDA cases - 39555
15.The effective date of this change is 1 January 1995. This means that the benefit will be available in respect of veterans who die on or after this date.
G J COLLINS
A/G NATIONAL PROGRAM DIRECTOR
(BENEFITS)
URL: http://clik.dva.gov.au/compensation-and-support-reference-library/departmental-instructions/1994/b661994-automatic-entitlement-funeral-benefit-extension-eligibility-categories-ex-pows-and-eda-recipients
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Not Over Yet, Insists GOP State Senate Candidate from Detroit – Deadline Detroit
A week ago, east-side Detroit pastor and insurance agent DeShawn Wilkins still was seeking support for his longshot effort to unseat freshman state Sen. Dave Knezek, D-Dearborn Heights.
Now the Republican has a new opponent — Betty Jean Alexander, a fellow Detroiter who’s also a first-time legislative candidate.
DeShawn Wilkins: “You’d think that she was running unopposed. . . . [Journalists] are almost ready to swear her in as that next state senator.”
(Facebook photo)
The newcomer vs. newcomer election still is a longshot for Wilkins, running to represent Inkster, Redford, Garden City, Dearborn Heights and part of Detroit in a solidly Democratic district. He got 4,944 votes in last week’s Republican primary, where he was unopposed.
In the other party, 34,729 Democrats and independents voted for Knezek (who got 45.5%) and Alexander (54.5%). Her surprise victory was by 3,123 votes, just under 9% of the Fifth Senate District’s Democratic total.
That out-of-nowhere upset sparks media interest, naturally. It also burns Wilkins, who calls himself “the candidate that no one expects to win,” as he puts it today on Facebook and Twitter. The Republican’s posts in recent days seem like S.O.S. signals to voters with a message of “hey look, I’m over here.”
Here’s one from Sunday:
“The local media in their quest for sensational news are giving my new general election opponent FREE day-to-day coverage and thereby increasing her exposure (still without campaigning) throughout my district.
“You’d think that she was running unopposed after masterfully defeating (sarcasm) the incumbent state senator in the primary election. No disrespect to her at all, but they are almost ready to swear her in as that next state senator before the November election. #NotThatEasy”
Wilkins, a 1989 graduate of Murray Wright High, is a State Farm agent and senior pastor for nearly 10 years at Immanuel Outreach Cathedral, a Pentacostal church on Detroit’s near east side.
“Republicans have never had a chance like this to win this seat,” he posts two days after the primary created an race between two political unknowns for an open seat.
His Democratic opponent for the -year Senate term is a 52-year-old working mother with two youngsters. She ran for school board two years ago, puling just over 1 percent of the total vote in a 63-candidate crowd.
She’s a sister-in-law of Detroit education board member LaMar Lemmons, who encouraged her current run and guides a minimalist campaign that relied solely on volunteer phone banks so far. There have been no flyers, postcards, lawn signs, website or door-knocking.
The Republican has an attractive, professional website and casts himself as the more energetic, committed candidate:
“For several months now I have been actively campaigning, knocking doors, going to candidate forums, talking to constituents, explaining my platform, sharing my website, reaching across the aisle (talking to Democrats and independents), hoping to bring people together to effectuate real change. #WhereWasBettyJean?”
A big policy difference between the two Detroiters involves raising Michigan’s minimum wage, now at $9.25 an hour and rising in yearly steps to $12 in 2022.
Alexander advocates a $16 minimum wage, putting her directly at odds with the Republican.
“Giveaways may win some people a few votes,” he posts Sunday, “but there comes a point in society where we must consider the negative financial and economic impact to the very people that you gave it away to.”
“[A] $16 per hour minimum wage doesn’t work for the long-term financial benefit of the person, nor society. A better solution is to help these hard-working men and women to develop marketable skill sets to land the better paying jobs and careers.
“Example: There are more high-paying skilled trades positions available than qualified people [to] fill them.”
Wilkins got chances to dicuss that and other positions Monday during radio interviews with Stephen Henderson on WDET and with Kerry Leon Jackson on WFDF (910 AM).
Earlier coverage:
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What We Saw Monday Night Was An Anomaly « Detroit News Watch
Annual Conference To Empower Michigan Teen Girls – Detroit News Watch
LeBron James, Terry Rozier And The Matchup Game « Detroit News Watch
Former Flint Jail Inmates Sue Over Lead-Tainted Water « Detroit News Watch
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Bush never stops
by Mary Bruno
His small office-crammed with
books and papers-reflects a wide
range of interests. The phone inter-rupts
often and students drop by for
advice, but Professor Charles Bush
appears unruffled and says with a wry
smile, "There's never a dull moment."
Dullness and sameness are not
Charlie Bush's styles-variety and
change are. Although he holds a B.A.
from Randolph Macon, a M.E.D.
from William and Mary and a Ed.D.
from Nova University, Charlie Bush
does not rest on his laurels.
As the department head of Architec-ture/
Drafting, Charlie Bush is well-known
to students and faculty, but
there is much more to this "Man For
All Seasons."
"I had a 'Norman Rockwell middle-
American childhood'," says the pro-fessor.
"I was born in Roanoke, Va.,
and I was the first person of three
generations in my family to leave there.
"My family was close and unlike
today's nuclear family, ours was
extended to aunts, uncles and many
cousins» I know everyone in Roanoke
and when I visit I still know more
people there than here on the Penin-sula."
Charlie would prefer to live in
Roanoke, to regain the feeling of
"community spirit," that he feels is
sadly lacking anywhere on the Penin-sula.'
But Roanoke's loss was the Penin-sula's
gain. After i graduation from
Randolph Macon in 1962, Professor
Bush worked part time at the
Barksdale Memorial Theater in
Hanover and it was this interest in
theater that led him to Williamsburg.
With five people who shared a
similar dream, Charlie taught school at
York , High by day and built the
Wedgewood Dinner Theater by night.
"We worked for a year to convert an
old tomato canning factory into a
restaurant and a separate theater-in-the-
round, with a 300 person seating
capacity," says Charlie with obvious
pride.
~ "My colleagues and I were dedicated
to producing high-level, professional
productions and I think we
succeeded."
But the long 18-hour days took their
toll on the group's personal lives.
"People's health, their mental condi-tions
and their marriages were greatly
affected. I have some fantastic
memories, but I pulled out before it
went bankrupt in 1970, with an 800%
gain on my original investment," says
Bush.
In 1965, Charlie left the area for
Charlottesville where he studied
architecture at the University of
Virginia "until the money ran out."
He returned to the Peninsula in 1968
and began his teaching career at
TNCC. Although he primarily teaches
architecture, he occasionally teaches
sociology, which he really enjoys.
"Behavorial science is important to
architecture," says Bush. "In architec-ture
the concept is technical. In
contrast, sociology bristles with values
and this is stimulating; it keeps me on
my toes."
Charlie lives in Williamsburg with
his wife Carolee. Carolee teaches
English at Bruton High School and
also hails from Roanoke. He has two
children, from a former marriage,
Lisa, 13 and Chad, 12. Charlie lives in
Williamsburg to be near them and
beams with fatherly pride as he lists
their achievements.
His own accomplishments are many.
His interests run the garnet from
gourmet cooking, traveling and
classical music to painting with acrylics
and stage-set design.
Last summer he worked at Busch
Gardens as the stage manager for the
"Mark Wilson Magic Show."
"I had to save up to take the job,
because it didn't pay well," says
Charlie. After the director left I made
sure the show went as directed and
choreographed. But, since the kids in
the show were all professional and
seasoned performers, it usually went
very smoothly.
Although he enjoyed working: with
the show, Charlie remembers the
10-hour days and the 8 shows-a-day as
an exhausting experience.
"In terms of discipline, it was the
hardest thing I've ever done." After a
while it became monotonous-grinding
out shows like sausages," he says with
a grimace.
But working at Busch Gardens was
not a first summer project for Charlie
Bush. "I've always tried to mark each
year with a special project—something
different," says the Energetic pro-fessor.
Spending several weeks in Italy in
the summer of 1977 was one of his
"projects." "It Was an intense
experience and I'd love to go back.
But, inflation and salaries have
wrecked us all, and 'working summers'
are now a must."
Another summer found him in New
York City living in Greenwich Village
Chmrtêe Bush
while he studied "20th Century
Architecture and Planning" at
Columbia University.
"I loved it. I walked everywhere. I
know New York City now as well as I
do Roanoke."
His next project may be a book, if he
can squeeze out the time needed to
complete the basic work.
"I may cut down my college
activities, pulling my share, but no
more. I have always been on faculty
committees and it's not unusual to put
100 hours into a committee report. I
think I'll choose committees very
carefully in the future," he says with a
grin.
Bush would like to devote his free
time to a book about Thomas
Jefferson, as an architect. "There
hasn't been a definitive book done and
I think it would be a good vehicle for a
T.V. documentary. I haven't com-pleted
any significant work, but the
basic research is finished," he says.
Adding author to his titles will only
be another "project" for this creative
professor. New experiences and one
more accomplishment are a way of life
for him.
However, he would slow his pace, if
given the chance. "If I didn't teach I
would probably be a 'gentlemen
farmer' and work only on projects that
I chose. I And it easy to be a self-starter,"
he says wistfully.
But it's hard to believe that Charlie
Bush would ever really slow down.
There would always be one more
project,...
Kubala addresses faculty; press not invited
TNCC President Tom Kubala met
with faculty April 10 to discuss recent
developments concerning enrollment,
salaries, renovation plans, plans and
problems with Hastings Hall, the selec-tion
of the new VCCS chancellor and
efforts to promote the school in the
community and high schools. Faculty
also aired their concerns and asked
r / ... .
; Kubala asked that the press not
attend the meeting so as to allow com-ments
to be as frank and open as
In its meeting April 8 the Faculty
Forum voted to set up a committee to
"investigate and report on faculty
input into administrative decisions
concerning academic matters such as
curriculum development, hiring prac-tices,
course scheduling, etc." The
resolution called for a report at the
May 13 meeting.
The Forum also sent a response to
proposed changes in the Faculty
Grievance Procedure to TNCC Presi-dent
Tom Kubala to forward on to
VCCS interim Chancellor Richard
Ernst.
The resolution to set up the
investigative committee followed a
lengthy discussion in which several
faculty members expressed concern
over decisions being made about
hiring, and courses being planned and
scheduled without adequate faculty
input. The faculty felt their Input into
these decisions was justified in that the
decisions impacted directly on
academic quality and affected student
learning - areas they were
professionally bound to oversee.
Among those named -to the commit-tee
are Gail Bounds, Jack Becherer,
Phil Briggs, Larry Lewis, Sue
Silberhorn and Christie Vernon.
The faculty also heard several com-mittee
reports and sent a resolution to
the president calling for some editorial
changes in the section in the Faculty
Handbook on Copywrite policies.
Title.Alternative The Nelsonite, April 21, 1980
Transcript Bush never stops by Mary Bruno His small office-crammed with books and papers-reflects a wide range of interests. The phone inter-rupts often and students drop by for advice, but Professor Charles Bush appears unruffled and says with a wry smile, "There's never a dull moment." Dullness and sameness are not Charlie Bush's styles-variety and change are. Although he holds a B.A. from Randolph Macon, a M.E.D. from William and Mary and a Ed.D. from Nova University, Charlie Bush does not rest on his laurels. As the department head of Architec-ture/ Drafting, Charlie Bush is well-known to students and faculty, but there is much more to this "Man For All Seasons." "I had a 'Norman Rockwell middle- American childhood'," says the pro-fessor. "I was born in Roanoke, Va., and I was the first person of three generations in my family to leave there. "My family was close and unlike today's nuclear family, ours was extended to aunts, uncles and many cousins» I know everyone in Roanoke and when I visit I still know more people there than here on the Penin-sula." Charlie would prefer to live in Roanoke, to regain the feeling of "community spirit," that he feels is sadly lacking anywhere on the Penin-sula.' But Roanoke's loss was the Penin-sula's gain. After i graduation from Randolph Macon in 1962, Professor Bush worked part time at the Barksdale Memorial Theater in Hanover and it was this interest in theater that led him to Williamsburg. With five people who shared a similar dream, Charlie taught school at York , High by day and built the Wedgewood Dinner Theater by night. "We worked for a year to convert an old tomato canning factory into a restaurant and a separate theater-in-the- round, with a 300 person seating capacity," says Charlie with obvious pride. ~ "My colleagues and I were dedicated to producing high-level, professional productions and I think we succeeded." But the long 18-hour days took their toll on the group's personal lives. "People's health, their mental condi-tions and their marriages were greatly affected. I have some fantastic memories, but I pulled out before it went bankrupt in 1970, with an 800% gain on my original investment," says Bush. In 1965, Charlie left the area for Charlottesville where he studied architecture at the University of Virginia "until the money ran out." He returned to the Peninsula in 1968 and began his teaching career at TNCC. Although he primarily teaches architecture, he occasionally teaches sociology, which he really enjoys. "Behavorial science is important to architecture," says Bush. "In architec-ture the concept is technical. In contrast, sociology bristles with values and this is stimulating; it keeps me on my toes." Charlie lives in Williamsburg with his wife Carolee. Carolee teaches English at Bruton High School and also hails from Roanoke. He has two children, from a former marriage, Lisa, 13 and Chad, 12. Charlie lives in Williamsburg to be near them and beams with fatherly pride as he lists their achievements. His own accomplishments are many. His interests run the garnet from gourmet cooking, traveling and classical music to painting with acrylics and stage-set design. Last summer he worked at Busch Gardens as the stage manager for the "Mark Wilson Magic Show." "I had to save up to take the job, because it didn't pay well," says Charlie. After the director left I made sure the show went as directed and choreographed. But, since the kids in the show were all professional and seasoned performers, it usually went very smoothly. Although he enjoyed working: with the show, Charlie remembers the 10-hour days and the 8 shows-a-day as an exhausting experience. "In terms of discipline, it was the hardest thing I've ever done." After a while it became monotonous-grinding out shows like sausages," he says with a grimace. But working at Busch Gardens was not a first summer project for Charlie Bush. "I've always tried to mark each year with a special project—something different," says the Energetic pro-fessor. Spending several weeks in Italy in the summer of 1977 was one of his "projects." "It Was an intense experience and I'd love to go back. But, inflation and salaries have wrecked us all, and 'working summers' are now a must." Another summer found him in New York City living in Greenwich Village Chmrtêe Bush while he studied "20th Century Architecture and Planning" at Columbia University. "I loved it. I walked everywhere. I know New York City now as well as I do Roanoke." His next project may be a book, if he can squeeze out the time needed to complete the basic work. "I may cut down my college activities, pulling my share, but no more. I have always been on faculty committees and it's not unusual to put 100 hours into a committee report. I think I'll choose committees very carefully in the future," he says with a grin. Bush would like to devote his free time to a book about Thomas Jefferson, as an architect. "There hasn't been a definitive book done and I think it would be a good vehicle for a T.V. documentary. I haven't com-pleted any significant work, but the basic research is finished," he says. Adding author to his titles will only be another "project" for this creative professor. New experiences and one more accomplishment are a way of life for him. However, he would slow his pace, if given the chance. "If I didn't teach I would probably be a 'gentlemen farmer' and work only on projects that I chose. I And it easy to be a self-starter," he says wistfully. But it's hard to believe that Charlie Bush would ever really slow down. There would always be one more project,... Kubala addresses faculty; press not invited TNCC President Tom Kubala met with faculty April 10 to discuss recent developments concerning enrollment, salaries, renovation plans, plans and problems with Hastings Hall, the selec-tion of the new VCCS chancellor and efforts to promote the school in the community and high schools. Faculty also aired their concerns and asked questions. r / ... . ; Kubala asked that the press not attend the meeting so as to allow com-ments to be as frank and open as possible. In its meeting April 8 the Faculty Forum voted to set up a committee to "investigate and report on faculty input into administrative decisions concerning academic matters such as curriculum development, hiring prac-tices, course scheduling, etc." The resolution called for a report at the May 13 meeting. The Forum also sent a response to proposed changes in the Faculty Grievance Procedure to TNCC Presi-dent Tom Kubala to forward on to VCCS interim Chancellor Richard Ernst. The resolution to set up the investigative committee followed a lengthy discussion in which several faculty members expressed concern over decisions being made about hiring, and courses being planned and scheduled without adequate faculty input. The faculty felt their Input into these decisions was justified in that the decisions impacted directly on academic quality and affected student learning - areas they were professionally bound to oversee. Among those named -to the commit-tee are Gail Bounds, Jack Becherer, Phil Briggs, Larry Lewis, Sue Silberhorn and Christie Vernon. The faculty also heard several com-mittee reports and sent a resolution to the president calling for some editorial changes in the section in the Faculty Handbook on Copywrite policies.
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Elephant No. 63: Knitting
For today's elephant, I decided to knit the smallest thing I could find online. I was originally looking to make a knitted finger puppet, but I liked this tiny toy just as much.
The oldest knitted object to date is a pair of multicoloured knitted socks, found in Egypt and thought to have been made in the fourth century A.D. Most sources believe that knitting likely originates somewhere in the Middle East, spreading first to Europe, and later to the Americas.
The earliest knitting in Europe was produced by Muslim knitters working for the Spanish royal family. The designs produced by these master knitters were very elaborate, often worked in fine silk with as many as eight stitches per centimetre (twenty stitches per inch). Knitted items in this early period included cushion covers, wall hangings, clothing, and accessories such as gloves and stockings. Interestingly, the purl stitch—the reverse of a basic knit stitch—was unknown at the time, and knitters knit in the round on multiple needles, later cutting pieces apart if they were intended to lay flat.
From the fourteenth century onwards, knitted goods were produced for everyday use, and even the Virgin Mary is shown knitting in several medieval paintings. By the sixteenth century, the purl stitch had made its appearance, allowing for the creation of textured patterns within the knitted fabric.
"The Knitting Madonna" from the
right wing of the Buxtehude Altar, 1400–1410.
Meister Bertram von Minden (1345–1425)
Collection of the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KnittingMadonna.jpg
Knitting was originally done only by men, with the first knitting trade guild established in Paris in 1527. Knitting schools were also set up beginning in the sixteenth century, providing poorer families with a source of income. Stockings were the most important knitted item of the time, and English stockings in particular were exported to Germany, the Netherlands and Spain.
The first knitting machine—known as a "stocking machine" since that was its primary purpose—was invented by Englishman William Lee in 1529. Although the machine remained relatively unchanged for more than two centuries, by the early eighteenth century, new knitting "frames" and machines were being developed, allowing for the mass-production of larger items such as blankets and garments. As patterned fabrics became popular, various technical advances allowed coloured patterns to be knit right into the cloth, rather than embroidered on afterwards.
These days, most knitted items are produced on machines. Until a few decades ago, however, hand-knitting was still a relatively economical way to produce garments and other necessities. It was also common for home-based knitters to unravel worn-out garments, reusing the yarn to make something new. Hand-knitting has since become a primarily artisanal activity, used to produce unique clothing, textile arts and even high fashion knitwear.
For today's elephant, I used an online pattern by Melissa Mall. It involved working on a set of double-pointed needles to create a series of tube shapes in various sizes, so I chose a grey wool I had on hand, and used needles approximately the size indicated in the pattern.
I started by making the body. Not having knit in the round since I was about 13, this was harder than I expected it to be. I dropped stitches, twisted them around the wrong way, and had to start over a couple of times. The pieces are so tiny that I don't think I ever got the technique down perfectly. Making a sock might actually have been easier, because a sock is big enough to see what you're doing.
After I made the body, I made the head, then two ears, four legs, and a trunk.
When the parts were all made, I stuffed the head and body with a bit of polyester fibrefill, then sewed them together. The pattern also said to wind some yarn around the neck to define it a bit better, so I did that too.
After that, I sewed on trunk, then ears, then legs.
The last thing to go on was a tail. The pattern also called for me to knit a little scarf, but I actually preferred to use two strands of fancy scrap yarn I had, simply knotting them together at each end. He's only a little over 5 cm (2 inches) tall, so the two tiny scarves that I started to knit still looked too big.
The pattern leaves it up to you to decide whether or not to add eyes. I kind of like him without eyes for now, although I may change my mind later.
I'm pretty happy with the final result, although it's not the most tidy knitting I've ever done. I also made him out of 100% wool, so if I wanted to make him even smaller, I could throw him in the washing machine—then again, maybe that would be a little cruel.
One of the most unlikely animal friendships is the bond between the baby African elephant Themba and Albert the sheep.
Themba was orphaned in 2008 at the age of six months, when its mother fell over a cliff. Vets at the Sanbona wildlife reserve in South Africa hoped that another elephant cow would adopt Themba; when that didn't happen, they took him in to make sure he didn't starve to death.
At the Shamwari Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in the Eastern Cape region, Themba met Albert. The friendship did not have an auspicious beginning. Themba dashed over to the sheep, and chased Albert around the watering hole. Albert was deeply unimpressed, ultimately running to the far end of the segregated enclosure for safety. He stayed there for the first half-day.
Themba was very curious about Albert, however, and kept walking over to Albert, sticking his trunk through the bars and touching the sheep gently on the back. By the next morning, Albert had started venturing into the main enclosure. The two began exploring their enclosure together, with Themba's trunk resting companionably on Albert's back. After that day, the two became inseparable.
Interestingly, instead of Themba copying Albert's behaviour and behaving like a sheep, Albert copies Themba and behaves like an elephant. Albert eats what Themba eats, and has been learning Themba's technique for eating thorny acacia bushes.
Since the ultimate goal is to reacclimatize Themba to life in the wild, sadly the pair may one day be separated.
Albert and Themba snacking on an acacia tree: a tree that is not
normally part of a sheep's diet.
Photo: ©Caters
Pictured-The-baby-elephant-adopted-sheep.html
Labels: 365 project, art blog, creativity blog, elephant, elephant a day, elephant and sheep friendship, elephant blog, knitting, themba and albert
Elephant No. 90: Paper Snowflake
Elephant No. 89: Painting with Coffee
Elephant No. 88: Continuous-Line Drawing
Elephant No. 87: Torn Paper Collage
Elephant No. 86: Seed Bead Embroidery
Elephant No. 85: Snow Footprints
Elephant No. 84: Happy Holidays
Elephant No. 83: Stickers
Elephant No. 82: Candle Sculpting
Elephant No. 81: Glitter
Elephant No. 80: Wire Mesh
Elephant No. 79: Christmas Lights
Elephant No. 78: Jigsaw Puzzle
Elephant No. 77: Air-Hardening Clay
Elephant No. 76: Snow Globe
Elephant No. 75: Oil Pastels
Elephant No. 74: Linocut
Elephant No. 73: Graphite Powder
Elephant No. 72: Sgraffito
Elephant No. 71: Painted Christmas Bauble
Elephant No. 70: Drip Painting
Elephant No. 69: Evergreen Wreath
Elephant No. 68: Pompoms
Elephant No. 67: Painting on Feathers
Elephant No. 66: Tea Lights
Elephant No. 65: Wax Sticks
Elephant No. 64: Suet Cake
Elephant No. 62: Jingle Bells
Elephant No. 61: Three-Dimensional Balsa Wood
Elephant No. 60: Modelling Foam
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Information Architecture Deliverables
Kathy's note: This is the fourth installment in a 12-part series by Theresa Putkey that discusses the intersection of content strategy and user-centred design. Read all posts by Theresa.
In information architecture, there are a few deliverables meant to communicate the information design to all the stakeholders. We’ll discuss some of these in more detail in later posts, but here’s a brief overview of what can be delivered on an IA project and why these things are important.
This list of deliverables is by no means exhaustive. These are some of the typical ones I work with on a project, but I also do stakeholder interviews, user interviews, scenarios, etc. With the links I’ve provided, you can browse through the websites to learn more.
Content Audit or Content Inventory
A content audit or inventory looks at the content on a website, intranet, extranet or software program to see what is redundant, out of date or trivial and also to see what information can be kept. The audit/inventory can identify the different types of content needing to be accommodated in the site map, wireframes and design. This content audit/inventory is used with any new content needed for the site.
Learn more: http://usability.gov/methods/design_site/inventory.html
Taxonomy and Metadata
A taxonomy is essentially a way to categorize content in a content management system or digital asset management system (or records management system, etc.). To create taxonomies, the information architect looks at the existing content and finds the important words, looks at the new content needing to be accommodated on the site and finds the important words, and then creates a structure that spells out these words and their relationships. A taxonomy is a controlled list of terms with one or more terms being applied to each piece of content.
Metadata helps identify each topic or content part. Metadata can include fields for the file type, author/creator, editor, date created. Metadata is a controlled list of fields whose values are added by the person (or machine) to the content.
A taxonomy is a way to categorize information while metadata is a way to mark up content with more information. Both of these information structures can be used to pull in content onto a site, to dynamically create pages and topics.
Learn more: http://www.earley.com/webinars/jumpstarts/taxonomy-and-metadata/what-is-taxonomy-and-why-do-you-need-one
As I tell clients, personas are “fake people” that help us design for a concrete user. Without a specific audience, we lose track of who we’re designing for and why. If we’re designing for Maria and know that she is more interested in celebrity gossip than world politics, we’ll create a space for her that centres on celebrity gossip.
Learn more: http://usability.gov/methods/analyze_current/personas.html
A site map spells out the structure of the site. It can be a very useful discussion point for stakeholders and developers. Stakeholders see how and where their content shows up while developers get information about the structure of the site and how the backend needs to be set up.
The content audit/inventory feeds into the site map. From the audit/inventory, you know what pages you have and what you want to have, so you can create a site map that reflects these pages.
http://usability.gov/methods/design_site/define.html#CreatingaSiteMap
http://www.jjg.net/ia/visvocab/
WireframesWireframes show the design of the site without any visual design. It shows how information should be laid out; displays the navigation according to what the site map has specified; uses the taxonomy and metadata to pull information into a site. The personas feed into which content to display and where.
Learn more: http://usability.gov/methods/design_site/define.html#CreatingaWireFrame
It’s About Communication
While an information architect can deliver these documents, the work products are more about communication. If a wireframe or site map isn’t communicating well, it’s not doing its job. If everyone understands what’s supposed to be happening, then reams of documentation are not required to further communicate ideas.
Any first version of a deliverable needs to be used as a talking point. It should never be considered final, but should be considered as useful to progress the design discussion. These deliverables are meant to help communication, so use them wisely.
Theresa Putkey is an information architect consultant living in Vancouver, BC. With a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Davis, she focuses on integrating user needs into website and software design projects. She's currently doing her online Masters of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University. You can find out more about Theresa at www.keypointe.ca, or follow her on twitter @tputkey.
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February 11, 2019 AMSJ Author
A 30-year career improving safety for road users has earned UNSW Professor Raphael Grzebieta a prestigious award.
Global road safety expert UNSW Sydney Professor Raphael Grzebieta has been awarded the 2019 Kenneth A Stonex award in recognition of his lifetime contribution to reducing run-off-road injuries and transport deaths worldwide.
The annual award, presented by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Transportation Research Board’s (TRB’s) Roadside Safety Design Committee AFB20, is given to engineers and road safety experts who have dedicated their career to advancing transportation infrastructure and making roads safer.
Professor Grzebieta was recognised by the TRB’s AFB20 Committee for identifying the leading causes of roadside fatalities and injuries and developing mitigation techniques using full-scale crash testing and computer simulation.
As Emeritus Professor at UNSW Science’s School of Aviation and a Road Safety leader at the Transport and Road Safety (TARS) Research Centre at UNSW, Professor Grzebieta has spent 30 years conducting research into identifying the leading causes of accidents in almost all types of vehicles, conducted pedestrian safety reviews, cycling helmet safety and legislation, speed limit effects and impacts of roadside barrier safety.
“I am truly humbled by this award from the world’s leading authority on road infrastructure safety made up of the top professionals, experts and researchers in this field. Many people die and are seriously injured on our roads, not only in Australia but around the world. This award recognises the ongoing effort needed to move towards an error tolerant road transport system in Australia,” said Professor Grzebieta.
Commenting on roadside safety barriers, he said: “I have long advocated for installing nation-wide wire-rope barriers along with tactile line marking as one of the key changes Australia can make to dramatically reduce fatalities. When wire-rope barriers are installed with rumble strips on rural roads, there is an 80 to 90% reduction in fatalities and serious injuries. Sweden halved their fatalities when they installed these barrier systems in 2000.
“Victoria has now installed 1200km of wire-rope barriers on rural roads to reduce their rising fatality count in 2016. They just recorded their lowest ever road fatality count [in 2018],” said Professor Grzebieta. “Other states and in particular NSW are still lagging behind terribly. They are simply not investing the same scale of money to have a real effect on deaths and serious injuries.”
Victoria’s road toll in 2018 was 214, compared to 259 in 2017 and 290 in 2016 when they started installing wire-rope barriers.
The barriers have been controversial with motorcyclists, based on misinformation about their safety for this road user group, Professor Grzebieta said.
He was instrumental in launching a $1 million project examining motorcycle impacts into roadside barriers and how motorcyclists could be better protected in collisions, particularly with W-beam barriers.
“We disproved all of the myths promulgated by motorcyclists, providing strong support for continued installation of these lifesaving barrier systems. Sweden saw a 40 to 60% reduction in motorcycle fatalities.”
Professor Grzebieta’s work also spans multiple road safety studies into heavy vehicle accidents, analysing how former safety violations, crashes, vehicle conditions or physical work environment, vehicle technologies, recruitment and retention and pay all play a significant role in determining crash rates.
“The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator allows heavy truck drivers to work up to 14 hours per day,” he said. “This is an exploitation of an industry that is putting Australian road users at high risk. The European Union only allows 9 hrs per day, with a maximum of 48 hrs per week. Long haul truck drivers can drive for 72 hours in a week in Australia, 84 hours in a week if they have done ’fatigue training’. If Australia is to reduce the number of heavy truck related fatalities the work hours must be reduce to world’s best practise European standards.”
Professor Grzebieta’s award also recognises the immense contribution to research into reduction of speed limits on highways, suburban and high pedestrian active streets.
“The speed limits throughout Australia, in particular NSW, WA and NT, are much too high. In NSW, the limit on parts of the Newell highway are 110 kilometres per hour where there are no barriers installed. The speed should be reduced to the survivable limit of 80km/h unless median and roadside barriers have been installed.
“Also the speed limit in residential streets, the CBD and high pedestrian active areas should be 40km/h, preferably 30km/h, in line with best practise European countries that have half the Australian fatality rates,” he said. “The Australian default speed limit for suburban roads is currently set at 50km/h.”
In a paper he co-wrote with his UNSW Sciences colleague Professor Jake Olivier, presented two weeks ago at the TRB’s annual meeting where Professor Grzebieta received his award, Professor Grzebieta said that the reduced speed limits he proposed were commonly used by countries such as Sweden, Netherlands and the UK, which had the world’s lowest road fatality rates.
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Telangana Board of Intermediate Education
Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education, Hyderabad,Telangana State
Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education, Telangana
Board of Intermediate Education
Vidhyabhavan, Nampally, Hyderabad. Telangana, India.
Telugu, English, Hindi, Urdu
Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education abbreviated TSBIE,[1] is a Board of education in Telangana, India.[2] It is established in 2014. It is located at Nampally, Hyderabad.
The board regulates and supervises the system of intermediate education in Telangana State. It executes and governs various activities that include devising of courses of study, prescribing syllabus, conducting examinations, granting affiliations to colleges and, providing direction, support and leadership for all educational institutions under its jurisdiction.
Honorable Minister of the State for Secondary Education acts as chairman and secretary to Government, Secondary Education as vice-chairman of the board. The secretary of I.A.S. Rank acts as the chief executive of the board.
2 Aims and objectives of intermediate education
3 Examination
4 Pattern
5 Syllabus
to prescribe syllabus and text books.[3]
to grant affiliation to the Institutions offering Intermediate Courses in the State
to lay down regulations for the administration of the Junior Colleges
to prescribe qualifications for the Junior Lecturers
to cause academic inspection of Junior Colleges
to process results and to issue certificates
sanction of new colleges
issue of eligibility and equivalency certificates to continue further studies
to prepare the lessons for KU Band Mana TV for telecast
It has a two-tier structure – head office at state level and regional offices at 10 districts.
Aims and objectives of intermediate education
To make intermediate education accessible to all sections of the society.
To lay special emphasis on the Rural, Tribal, Socially under privileged sections of the society.
To strengthen girl's Education by improving their enrolment in the Colleges.
To monitor and supervise all junior colleges in the state.
To regulate the functioning of Private Aided Colleges to optimize the utilization of Grants of Grants in aid.
To provide quality education even to the remote villages through Tele-Education through Mana TV.
To make Education a tool of social and economic emancipation through Vocationalisation of Education.
Shift of focus from academics to marketable skills, by introducing professional and specialized courses in emerging areas such as Computer Science, Graphics, and Tourism etc.
Bring vocational education to centre-stage and to train students in practical and problem-solving skills.
Develop infrastructure to facilitate education to disadvantaged groups in backward and remote areas.
Provide Teacher Training.
To impart Teacher Training / Refresher Courses to update the knowledge skills of the lecturers.
To facilitate an interface with Industries and establish Linkage to ensure employment opportunities for Vocational Students.
To revamp and re-structure the Vocational Curriculum from time to time to cater to the changing needs of the society.
To promote vocational education by diverting a majority of students from general strength to vocational courses to make them self-reliant and gain employment.
Examination is one of the most important functions of the board. Every year a large number of students appears in Telangana Intermediate Examination for 1st Year (Junior) / Class 11 and 2nd Year (Senior) Class 12 under the two courses schemes – Regular & Vocational. Every year, TS Intermediate Examination has to be conducted in March/April
The Telangana Intermediate Public Advanced Supplementary Examination (IPASE) issued a schedule for the board supplementary exams for the students who want to retake their final exams in case if they failed or they want to improve there marks in annual examination. This exam is to be conducted in June/July.and best of 2 for 1st year improvements.
The Intermediate Public Examination is being conducted since 1978–79 both at the end of 1st year course and at the end of 2nd year course. Earlier the Public Examination was only at the end of 2nd year. The candidates are examined in Part-I English, Part-II Second Language and Part-III Group subjects for 500 marks in 1st year and 500 marks in 2nd year in Arts Group, 475 marks in HEG group and 470 marks in 1st year and 530 marks in 2nd year in MPC group, and 440 marks in 1st year and 560 Marks in 2nd year for the Bi.P.C. group. The percentage of pass marks in each paper is 35. The division in which the candidates are placed is decided on the basis of their passing all the papers in the 1st year and in the 2nd year.
The Board of Intermediate Education, Telangana, Hyderabad is offering a multitude of academic programmes. With a view to give greater impetus to the academic aspects of the board, a separate academic wing called "Educational Research and Training Wing" was created. The board enjoys prerogative right of prescribing textbooks of two year Intermediate course.
The board offers the following subjects
Part I – English;
Part II – Second Languages (Telugu, Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu, Arabic, French, Tamil, Kannada, Oriya and Marathi);
* part III – Optional Subjects (Mathematics, Physics, chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Commerce, Economics, Civics, History, Psychology, Public Administration, Logic, Sociology, Geography and Geology);
Modern Language Subjects (English, Telugu, Hindi and Urdu
The syllabus of language subjects and optional subjects is structured by concerned Subject Committees constituted by the Board. The committees also undertake revision of syllabus and its updates keeping the changes and current trends in view.
Telangana Board of Secondary Education
^ BIE Telangana Board of Intermediate Education. Telanganastateofficial.com. Retrieved on 24 October 2015.
^ Telangana Board of Intermediate Education formally constituted. Thehindu.com (21 October 2014). Retrieved on 2015-10-24.
^ Telangana Intermediate Functions. Tsteachers.in. Retrieved on 24 October 2015.
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Muhammad Mahdi Naraqi
(Redirected from Mulla Mahdi Naraqi)
This article is about Muhammad Mahdi Naraqi. For for Mulla Ahmad Naraqi, see Mulla Ahmad Naraqi.
Muhammad Mahdi b. Abi Dhar fadil Naraqi
Well-Known As
Muhaqqiq Naraqi
Mulla Ahmad Naraqi
1128/1716, Naraq
Kashan, Isfahan, Najaf, Karbala
1209/1795, Kashan
Near Holy shrine of Imam Ali (a), Najaf
Wahid Bihbahani, Yusuf al-Bahrani, Mulla Isma'il Khwaju'i, Muhammad b. Muhammad Zaman Kashani, ...
Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Shafti, Haj Muhammad Kalbasi, Mulla Ahmad Naraqi, ...
Jami' al-sa'adat, Tuhfat al-radawiyya, Anis al-tujjar, Al-Tajrid fi 'usul al-fiqh, Anis al-muwahhidin, Muhriq al-qulub, ...
Moral Verses
Ifk Verses • Al-Ukhuwwa Verse • Al-It'am Verse • Al-Naba' Verse • Najwa Verse • Verse of Trusts • Al-Sulh Verse
Moral Hadiths
Hadith of qurb al-nawafil • Hadith Makarim al-akhlaq • Hadith of Mi'raj • Hadith Junud al-'Aql wa l-Jahl
Moral Virtues
Humility • Contentment • Generosity • Controlling Anger • Truthfulness • Hilm (forbearance) • Asceticism • Bravery • Chastity • Insaf (Equity) • Silat al-Rahim • Wara' • Islah dhat al-bayn
Moral Vices
Hubris • Greed • Envy • Lie • Backbiting • Namima (Talebearing) • Miserliness • Disobedience to Parents • 'Ujb (self-conceit) • Sum'a • Cutting blood relation • Spreading grave sins • Ingratitude • Hypocrisy • Tabdhir
Moral Terminologies
Jihad with the self • Self-accusing soul • Ammara soul • Soul at peace • Self-reckoning • Muraqaba • Musharata • Sin • Morality lessons • Imperceptibility
Scholars of Ethics
Muhammad Mahdi Naraqi • Ahmad al-Naraqi • Sayyid 'Ali Qadi Tabataba'i • Sayyid Rida Baha' al-Dini • Sayyid 'Abd al-Husayn Dastghayb • Muhammad Taqi Bahjat
References of Ethics
Qur'an • Nahj al-balagha • Misbah al-shari'a wa miftah al-haqiqa • Makarim al-Akhlaq • Al-Mahajja al-bayda' fi tahdhib al-ahya' • Tanbih al-khawatir wa nuzhat al-nawazir • Jami' al-sa'adat • Mi'raj al-sa'ada • Al-Muraqabat
Muḥammad Mahdī b. Abī Dhar Fāḍil Narāqī (Arabic: محمد مهدی بن ابی ذر فاضل نراقی) known as Muḥaqqiq Narāqī (Persian: محقق نراقی) (b. 1128/1716 - d. 1209/1795) was among Shia scholars of the twelfth/eighteenth and the thirteenth/nineteenth centuries. To study religious sciences, Muhaqqiq Naraqi went to religious citites of Iraq two times and attended the class of Wahid Bihbahani, Yusuf al-Bahrani. Jami' al-sa'adat is the most famous work of Mulla Mahdi Naraqi in Islamic ethics. Mulla Ahmad and Mulla Mahdi are his children.
1 Birth and Demise
2.1 Immigration to Isfahan
2.2 Return to Kashan
2.3 Immigration to Religious Cities of Iraq
5 Software Program of the Library of Fadilayn Naraqi
6 Poems
7 Moral Characteristics
9 In the Words of Others
10 Congress for His Commemoration
Birth and Demise
Mulla Mahdi Naraqi was born in Naraq near Kashan in 1128/1716 in a religious family and passed away on Saturday, Sha'ban 18, 1209/1795 at the age of 81 and was buried near Imam Ali's (a) holy shrine in Najaf.
Up to being a teenager, he studied in the seminary of Kashan and attended the class of Mulla Ja'far Bigdili. He passed Muqaddamat (the preliminary stage), Saṭḥ (the intermediate stage) and part of Kharij lessons (the higher stage) of Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh in Kashan.
Immigration to Isfahan
To complete scientific and specialized levels of Islamic sciences, Mulla Mahdi Naraqi went to the seminary of Isfahan and benefited from the scholars in fiqh and philosophy in that city. His teachers in Isfahan included Mulla Isma'il Khwaju'i (d. 1173/1759-1760), Muhammad b. Muhammad Zaman Kashani (d. late 12 century AH), Muhammad Baqir Isfahani, Shaykh Muhammad Mahdi Harandi and Aqa Mirza Isfahani (d. 1191/1777-1778), among whom Mulla Isma'il Khwaju'i had a great position and from whom, Mulla Mahdi Naraqi benefitted in fiqh, Usul al-fiqh, Kalam (theology), philosophy, mathematics, geometry and astronomy for 30 years.
Also in rijal and hadith, he benefitted from Muhammad b. Muhammad Zaman Kashani who was among the great references for permission in the chain of transmitters of narrations.
In addition to studying, he taught, wrote and guided people in Isfahan as well and even by learning Hebrew and Latin language from Jewish scholars, he began debating with the leaders of Jews and translated discussions regarding the mission of the Prophet of Islam (s) from their religious books.
Return to Kashan
After 30 years, he returned to Kashan. That time, Kashan was empty of religious scholars and through his presence, the seminary of Kashan flourished.
Immigration to Religious Cities of Iraq
After a while, he left Kashan for Najaf and Karbala and attended in the classes of Muhammad Baqir Bihbahani (d. 1205/1791), Shaykh Yusuf al-Bahrani (d. 1186/1772) and Shaykh Muhammad Mahdi Fatuni (d. 1183/1769-1770).
After years of education and research in Najaf and Karbala, he returned to his hometown and began teaching in the seminary of Kashan and educating students. Great scholars such as Muhammad Baqir Shafti (d. 1260/1844), Haj Muhammad Kalbasi (d. 1262/1846) and his son Mulla Ahmad Naraqi (d. 1245/1829) were among his students.
Mulla Muhammad Mahdi had five sons:
Mulla Ahmad known as Fadil Naraqi (d. 1245/1829)
Haj Mirza Abu l-Qasim (d. 1256/1840-1)
Haj Mulla Muhammad Mahdi known as Aqa Buzurg
Mulla Abu l-Hasan
Mulla Muhammad Baqir
Among them, Mulla Ahmad and Mulla Mahdi (Aqa Buzurg) are more famous than their other brothers.
Main article: List of Works by Muhammad Mahdi Naraqi
He had many works in different scientific disciplines, the most famous among them is Jami' al-sa'adat which concerns with Islamic ethics.
Most of his books are kept in the form of manuscripts in different libraries and marginal notes on some of them such as Anis al-tujjar have been written by some religious authorities including Sayyid Kazim Tabataba'i Yazdi, Sayyid Isma'il al-Sadr and Shaykh 'Abd al-Karim Ha'iri Yazdi.
Software Program of the Library of Fadilayn Naraqi
The software of the library of Fadilayn Naraqi
Following the suggestion of some distinguished scholars of Naraq which were welcomed and promoted by great scholars in the seminary of Qom on recognition and acknowledgement of the scientific position of the two distinguished scholars of Shia world, Mulla Mahdi Naraqi and Mulla Ahmad Naraqi and by the order of the Congress for commemoration of Fadilayn Naraqi, a software program was designed and produced by the Computer Research Center of Islamic Sciences.
Muhaqqiq Naraqi composed many poems and many of them have been lost and only a small portion of them which are mostly mystical, composed in the form of Mathnawi and Saqinama are left.
Moral Characteristics
He passed most of his life in poverty in the seminary of Kashan. It is reported that he sometimes could not afford buying candle or oil for the lamp and studied late at night using the light of the washroom of the school.
He was also sensitive about deviant thoughts and fought against Akhbarism and misguiding thoughts. Even to fight deviant thoughts in ethics, Mulla Mahdi wrote Jami' al-sa'adat to fight extremisms of Sufis and Zahiris.
He was not indifferent towards corrupt thoughts and actions of kings and deviant leaders and in his works regarded the implementation of justice as the grounds for promotion of moral and social virtues in the society.
He also emphasized on one of the most fundamental factors in correction of the society which is enjoining to the good and prohibiting from evil and believed that an institution needs to be in charge of it so that through correct understanding of the good and the evil takes action for promotion of the good and prohibition of the evil.
Among the wonders reported for Mulla Mahdi, there is a story which is famous among scholars and students of Islamic studies in Najaf. It reports about Mulla Mahdi Naraqi's conversation with the soul of a dead person in Wadi al-Salam cemetery in Najaf and receiving food from paradise.
Also, Mudarris Tabrizi, author of Rayhanat al-adab, narrated a story, saying that, "my teacher, Sayyid Ahmad Khusrushahi narrated that, when the dead body of his father, Haj Sayyid Muhammad Khusrushahi was moved to Najaf to be buried, he [my teacher] went in the grave to place the body there; and surprisingly, saw the bodies of Mulla Mahdi Naraqi and Mulla Ahmad Naraqi were intact and not damaged at all."
In the Words of Others
Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Khwansari said that, "the excellent and comprehensively knowledgeable scholar, exemplar of knowledgeable ones by his intuitive understanding, our master, Mahdi b. Abi Dharr al-Kashani al-Naraqi was among principal scholars and distinguished and competent scholars of our contemporary time. He wrote works in most branches of knowledge and [moral] perfection and was clearly competent in fiqh, philosophy, usul, math and geometry."
Mudarris Tabrizi said, "Haj Mulla Mahdi or Muhammad Mahdi b. Abi Dharr was born in Naraq, lived in Kashan and was buried in Najaf. He was among powerful and competent Imamiyya scholars in fiqh. He was a scholar in fiqh, usul, philosophy, kalam, math, ethics, all rational and traditional sciences. In the words of some great figures, he is referred to as Khatam al-mujtahidin, Lisan al-fuqaha' wa al-mutakallimin and Tarjuman al-hukama' wa al-muta'allihin and as such."
In the introduction of Anis al-muwahhidin, Hasanzadi Amuli wrote, "undoubtedly, he was competent in all rational and traditional sciences and even in literature and mathematics. He was among the top Islamic scholars and rare ones in moral virtues and godly dispositions. His eminence had excellent works in different sciences."
Congress for His Commemoration
A three day congress for commemoration of Fadilayn Naraqi in Kashan, Qom and Naraq on May 22 to 24, 2002.
The material for this article is mainly taken from محمد_مهدی_نراقی in Farsi Wikishia.
Prominent Scholars
4/10 Century
Ibn Abi 'Aqil al-'Ummani • Ibn al-Walid al-Qummi • Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Zurari • Ibn Qulawayh • Ibn Dawud al-Qummi • al-Shaykh al-Saduq • Ibn al-Junayd al-Iskafi
al-Shaykh al-Mufid • al-Sharif al-Murtada • Abu l-Salah al-Halabi • al-Shaykh al-Tusi • Sallar al-Daylami • Abu Ya'la al-Ja'fari • Ibn al-Barraj al-Tarabulusi
al-Mufid al-Thani • 'Abd al-Jalil al-Qazwini al-Razi • al-Sayyid Fadl Allah al-Rawandi • Qutb al-Din Rawandi • Ibn Zuhra • 'Imad al-Din al-Tusi • Ibn Idris al-Hilli
Ibn Ma'd • Ja'far b. Nama al-Hilli • al-Sayyid b. Tawus • Ahmad b. Tawus • al-Muhaqqiq al-Hilli • Al-Sayyid 'Abd al-Karim b. Ahmad al-Hilli
Al-'Allama al-Hilli • Qutb al-Din al-Razi • Muhammad b. al-Hasan al-Hilli • al-Shahid al-Awwal
Fadil Miqdad • Ibn Fahd al-Hilli
10/16 Century
Ibn Hilal al-Jaza'iri • 'Amili al-Maysi • Al-Muhaqqiq al-Karaki • Al-Shahid al-Thani • Ibn Hilal al-'Amili • Muqaddas al-Ardabili
Sahib Ma'alim • Baha' al-Din al-'Amili • Mirza Muhammad al-Astarabadi • Sultan al-'Ulama • al-Majlisi al-Awwal • Qadi Sa'id Qummi • Mulla Salih Mazandarani • Muhaqqiq Sabzawari • Mulla Muhsin Fayd Kashani • Aqa Husayn al-Khwansari
Al-Majlisi al-Thani • Jamal al-Din Khwansari • Ja'far b. 'Abd Allah al-Huwayzi • Muhammad b. al-Hasan al-Isfahani • Khajawi Mazandarani • Sahib al-Hada'iq • Aqa Muhammad Bidabadi • Al-Mir al-Saghir
Wahid al-Bihbahani • Muhammad Mahdi Naraqi • Bahr al-'Ulum • Ja'far Kashif al-Ghita' • al-Mirza al-Qummi • Mulla Ahmad Naraqi • Sharif al-'Ulama' • Muhammad Hasan al-Najafi • al-Shaykh al-Ansari • Hasan 'Ali Nukhudaki Isfahani • Al-Sayyid 'Ali b. Muhammad 'Ali al-Tabataba'i • Sayyid Hamid Husayn Musavi
Sayyid Abu l-Hasan Isfahani • 'Abd al-Karim Ha'iri Yazdi • Sayyid Muhammad Hujjat Kuhkamara'i • Al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Hakim • Mahmud Husayni Shahrudi • Akhund Khurasani • Sayyid Muhammad Taqi Khwansari • Mirza Shirazi • Muhammad Taqi al-Shirazi • Shaykh al-Shari'a Isfahani • Al-Sayyid 'Abd al-Hadi al-Shirazi • Sayyid Husayn Tabatabayi Burujirdi • Sayyid Muhammad Muhaqqiq Damad • Muhammad Husayn Na'ini • Sultan al-Wa'izin Shirazi
Muhammad 'Ali Araki • Muhammad Taqi Bahjat • Jawad Tabrizi • Sayyid 'Izz al-Din Husayni Zanjani • Sayyid Muhammad Husayni Shirazi • Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini • Sayyid Ahmad Khwansari • Al-Sayyid Abu l-Qasim al-Khoei • Sayyid 'Abd al-A'la Sabziwari • Sayyid Muhammad Kazim Shari'atmadari • Sayyid 'Abd Allah Musawi Shirazi • Mujtaba Tihrani • Muhammad Sadiqi Tihrani • 'Ali Safi Gulpaygani • Al-Sayyid Muhammad al-Sadr • Sayyid Hasan Tabatabayi Qummi • Al-Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadl Allah • 'Ali Falsafi • Sayyid Muhammad Ridha Gulpaygani • Muhammad Fadil Lankarani • Sayyid Shihab al-Din Mar'ashi Najafi • Sayyid Yusuf Madani Tabrizi • Husayn'ali Muntaziri • Sayyid Muhammad 'Ali Muwahhid Abtahi • Muslim Malakuti • Sayyid Muhammad Hadi Milani • 'Ali Naqi Naqawi • Sayyid 'Abd al-Karim Musawi Ardabili• Hashimi Shahrudi
Bayat Zanjani • Muhammad Ibrahim Jannati • Jawadi Amuli • Sayyid Kazim Ha'iri • Sayyid 'Ali Husayni Khamenei • Sayyid Muhammad Sa'id al-Hakim • Sayyid 'Ali Muhammad Dastgheyb • Muhammad Sadiq Ruhani • Subhani • Al-Sayyid 'Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani • Sayyid Muhammad Shahrudi • Sayyid Musa Zanjani • Sayyid Sadiq Shirazi • Lutf Allah Safi Gulpayigani • Yusuf Sani'i • 'Alawi Gurgani • Ghurawi 'Aliari • Muhammad Ishaq Fayyad • Muhammad 'Ali Girami • Muhammad Asif Muhsini • Muhaqqiq Kabuli • Muhammad Taqi Mudarrisi • Husayn Mazahiri • Nasir Makarim Shirazi • Bashir al-Najafi • Muhammad Hussain Najafi • Nuri Hamadani • Wahid Khurasani • Al-Sayyid Ja'far Murtada al-'Amili
2nd/8th century
Burayd b. Mu'awiya al-'Ijli • Zurara b. A'yan • 'Ali b. Yaqtin • 'Ubayd Allah b. 'Ali al-Halabi • Sufyan b. 'Uyayna • Hariz b. 'Abd Allah al-Sijistani • Jabir b. Yazid al-Ju'fi
3rd/9th century
Al-Husayn b. Sa'id al-Ahwazi • Muhammad b. al-Hasan al-Saffar • Abu Ghalib al-Zurari • Ibrahim b. Hashim al-Qummi • 'Ali b. Ibrahim al-Qummi • Muhammad b. Yahya al-'Attar • Ahmad b. Ishaq al-Ash'ari al-Qummi • Ibrahim b. Muhammad al-Thaqafi al-Kufi
4th/10th century
Ibn Qulawayh • Al-Shaykh al-Saduq • Ibn al-Junayd • Al-Hasan b. 'Ali al-Hadha' al-'Ummani • Al-Shaykh al-Mufid • Ibn Dawud al-Qummi • Harun b. Musa b. Ahmad al-Talla'ukbari • Ibn Hamza al-Tabari• Ibn al-Walid al-Qummi
Ibn al-Barraj • Sallar al-Daylami • Al-Sharif al-Murtada • Al-Shaykh al-Tusi • Abu l-Salah al-Halabi • Abu Ya'la al-Ja'fari • al-Busrawi • Muhammad b. Ahmad b. 'Ali b. al-Hasan al-Qummi • As'ad b. Ahmad al-Tarabulusi • Muhammad b. 'Ali al-Karajuki
Ibn Zuhra • Ibn Idris al-Hilli • Ibn Hamza al-Tusi • Qutb al-Din al-Rawandi • Al-Fadl b. al-Hasan al-Tabrisi • Warram b. Abi Firas al-Hilli • 'Abd al-Jalil al-Qazwini al-Razi
Muhammad b. Ja'far b. Nama • Ibn Tawus • Al-Muhaqqiq al-Hilli
Al-'Allama al-Hilli • Al-Shahid al-Awwal • Fakhr al-Muhaqqiqin
Al-Muqaddas al-Ardabili • Ibn Abi Jumhur al-Ahsa'i • Ibn Fahd al-Hilli • Fadil Miqdad
10th/16th century
Al-Shahid al-Thani • Al-Muhaqqiq al-Karaki • Al-Husayn b. 'Abd al-Samad al-Harithi • Sahib al-Madarik
Sahib al-Ma'alim • Baha' al-Din al-'Amili • Al-Muhaqqiq al-Khwansari • Al-Sayyid Nur Allah al-Husayni al-Shushtari • Fayd al-Kashani • Muhammad Taqi al-Majlisi • Muhammad Baqir al-Majlisi • al-Shaykh Hurr al-'Amili • Muhaqqiq Sabziwari • 'Abd Allah al-Fadil al-Tuni • Fakhr al-Din al-Turayhi • Muhammad b. al-Hasan b. Zayn al-Din al-Amili
Yusuf al-Bahrani • Jamal al-Din Khwansari • Al-Muhaqqiq al-Naraqi • Fadil Hindi • Al-Sayyid Ni'mat Allah al-Jaza'iri • Muhammad Baqir al-Bihbahani • Sayyid Muhammad Ali Bihbahani
Al-Mirza al-Qummi • Abu l-Qasim al-Khwansari • Mulla Ahmad Naraqi • Bahr al-'Ulum • Al-Shaykh al-Ansari • Muhammad Hasan al-Najafi • Ja'far Kashif al-Ghita' • 'Ali b. Ja'far Kashif al-Ghita' • Al-Sayyid Ibrahim Musawi Qazwini • Mirza Husayn Khalili Tihrani • Sharif al-'Ulama' • Mirza Habib Allah Rashti • Al-Sayyid Muhammad al-Mujahid • Al-Sayyid 'Ali b. Muhammad 'Ali al-Tabataba'i • Al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Shafti • Sayyid Abu l-Qasim Dihkurdi • Mulla Ali Tihrani • Asad Allah Shushtari • Al-Sayyid Muhammad Jawad al-'Amili • Muhammad b. 'Ali al-Asadi • Muhammad Baqir Aqa Najafi Isfahani
Sayyid Abu l-Hasan Isfahani • Muhammad Kazim Khurasani • Sayyid Muhammad Kazim Yazdi • Sayyid Husayn Burujirdi • Sayyid Muhammad Hasan Shirazi • Muhammad Taqi al-Shirazi • Sayyid Muhammad Taqi Khwansari • Al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Hakim • Muhammad Husayn Na'ini • Sayyid Jamal al-Din Gulpayigani • Muhammad Hasan Ashtiyani • Sayyid Muhammad Hujjat Kuhkamara'i • Muhammad Hirz al-Din • 'Abd al-Karim Ha'iri Yazdi • Shaykh al-Shari'a Isfahani • Sayyid Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi • Sayyid Muhammad Hadi Milani • Muhammad Husayn Gharawi Isfahani • Muhammad Husayn Kashif al-Ghita' • Al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr • Akhund Kashi • Muhammad Taqi Amuli • Taj al-'Ulama' • Husayn al-Hilli • Diya' al-Din 'Iraqi • Sayyid 'Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din • Sayyid Mustafa Khomeini • Mirza Ahmad Ashtiyani • Sayyid Ahmad Shubayri Zanjani • Sayyid Muhammad Muhaqqiq Damad • Murtada Ha'iri Yazdi • Al-Sayyid Muhammad Sa'id al-Habbubi • Al-Sayyid 'Abd al-Hadi al-Shirazi • Sayyid 'Abd Allah Shirazi • Al-Sayyid Muhammad Taqi al-Hakim • Al-Sayyid Isma'il al-Sadr • Mirza Mahdi Isfahani • Sayyid Abu l-Qasim Kashani • Zayn al-'Abidin Mazandarani • Sayyid Hasan Sadr
15th/21st century
Sayyid Shihab al-Din Mar'ashi Najafi • Sayyid Muhammad Rida Gulpaygani • Sayyid Rida Baha' al-Dini • Muhammad 'Ali Araki • Al-Sayyid Abu l-Qasim al-Khoei • Sayyid Ahmad Khwansari • Imam Khomeini • Jawad Tabrizi • Muhammad Taqi Bahjat • Sayyid 'Iz al-Din Husyni Zanjani • Sayyid Muhammad Husayni Shirazi • Sayyid 'Abd al-A'la Sabziwari • Sayyid Muhammad Kazim Shari'atmadari • Mujtaba Tihrani • Muhammad Sadiqi Tihrani • 'Ali Safi Gulpaygani • Al-Sayyid Muhammad al-Sadr • Sayyid Hasan Tabataba'i Qummi • Al-Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadl Allah • 'Ali Falsafi • Muhammad Fadil Lankarani • Sayyid Yusuf Madani Tabrizi • Husayn 'Ali Muntaziri • Sayyid Muhammad 'Ali Muwahhid Abtahi • Muslim Malakuti • Sayyid Muhammad Hadi Milani • 'Ali Naqi Naqawi • Asad Allah Bayat Zanjani • Muhammad Ibrahim Jannati • 'Abd Allah Jawadi Amuli • Sayyid Kazim Ha'iri • Sayyid 'Ali Khamenei • Al-Sayyid Muhammad Sa'id al-Hakim • Sayyid 'Ali Muhammad Dastghayb • Muhammad Sadiq Rawhani • Ja'far Subhani • Al-Sayyid 'Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani • Sayyid Muhammad Shahrudi • Sayyid Musa Zanjani • Sayyid Sadiq Shirazi • Lutf Allah Safi Gulpayigani • Yusuf Sani'i • Muhammad Mu'min • Muhammad 'Ali 'Alawi Gurgani • Jawad Gharawi 'Aliyari • Muhammad Ishaq Fayyad • Muhammad 'Ali Girami • Muhammad Asif Muhsini • Qurban 'Ali Muhaqqiq Kabuli • Muhammad Taqi Mudarrisi • Husayn Mazahiri • Nasir Makarim Shirazi • Sayyid 'Abd al-Karim Musawi Ardabili • Bashir al-Najafi • Muhammad Husayn al-Najafi • Husayn Nuri Hamadani • Husayn Wahid Khurasani • Sayyid Mahmud Hashimi Shahrudi •
Marja's (19-21 centuries)
Before Sahib Jawahir
(d.1850)
Al-Mirza al-Qummi (d. 1231/1816)
Muhammad Mahdi Naraqi (d. 1209/1795)
Ahmad Naraqi (d. 125/1829)
Muhammad Baqir al-Bihbahani (d. 1205/1791)
Al-Sayyid Bahr al-'Ulum (d. 1212/1797)
Kashif al-Ghita' (d. 1228/1813)
Sharif al-'Ulama' (d. 1246/1831)
'Ali b. Ja'far Kashif al-Ghita' (d. 1253/1837-8)
Muhammad Hasan al-Najafi (d. 1266/1850)
From Sahib al-Jawahir
to al-Shaykh al-Ansari (d.1864)
al-Shaykh al-Ansari (d. 1281/1864)
From al-Shaykh al-Ansari
to Mirza al-Shirazi (d.1895)
Sayyid Husayn Kuhkamara'i (d.1299/1882)
Mirza al-Shirazi (d.1312/1895)
From Mirza al-Shirazi
to al-Sayyid al-Yazdi (d.1919)
Muhammad Taqi Aqa Najafi Isfahani (d. 1332/1914)
al-Akhund al-Khurasani (d.1329/1911)
Al-Sayyid Muhammad Kazim al-Yazdi (d. 1337/1919)
Mirza Husayn Khalili Tihrani (d. 1326/1908)
From al-Sayyid al-Yazdi
to al-Isfahani (d.1946)
'Abd al-Karim Ha'iri Yazdi (d. 1355/1937)
Muhammad Taqi al-Shirazi (d. 1338/1920)
Shaykh al-Shari'a Isfahani (d. 1339/1920)
Muhammad Husayn Na'ini (d. 1355/1936)
Sayyid Abu l-Hasan Isfahani (d. 1365/1946)
From al-Isfahani
to Burujirdi (1961)
Sayyid Muhammad Taqi Khwansari (d. 1371/1952)
Sayyid Muhammad Hujjat Kuhkamara'i (d. 1372/1953)
al-Sayyid Sadr al-Din al-Sadr (d. 1373/1953)
Sayyid Husayn Burujirdi (d.1380/1961)
Sayyid Husayn Tabataba'i Qummi (d. 1366/1947)
Al-Sayyid 'Abd al-Hadi al-Shirazi (d. 1382/1962)
From Burujirdi
to Araki (d. 1994)
Sayyid Muhammad Hadi Milani (d. 1395/1974)
Sayyid 'Abd Allah Musawi Shirazi (d. 1405/1984)
Sayyid Ahmad Khwansari (d. 1405/1985)
Sayyid Kazim Shari'atmadari (d. 1406/1986)
Sayyid Ruhollah Khomeini (d. 1409/1989)
Sayyid Shihab al-Din Mar'ashi Najafi (d. 1369/1990)
Sayyid Muhammad Rida Gulpaygani (d. 1404/1993)
Muhammad 'Ali Araki (d. 1415/1994)
al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Hakim (d. 1390/1970)
Sayyid Mahmud Husayni Shahrudi (d. 1394/1974)
Al-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr (d. 1400/1980)
Al-Sayyid Abu l-Qasim al-Khoei (d. 1413/1992)
Sayyid 'Abd al-A'la Sabziwari (d. 1414/1993)
After Araki
Sayyid Muhammad Ruhani (d. 1418/1997)
Sayyid Muhammad Husayni Shirazi (d. 1422/2001)
Sayyid Muhammad 'Ali Muwahhid Abtahi (d. 1423/2002)
Jawad Tabrizi (d. 1427/2006)
Sayyid Hasan Tabataba'i Qummi (d. 1428/2007)
Muhammad Fadil Lankarani (d. 1428/2007)
Muhammad Taqi Bahjat (d. 1430/2009)
Husayn 'Ali Muntaziri (d. 1431/2009)
'Ali Safi Gulpaygani (d. 1431/2010)
Sayyid 'Izz al-Din Husayni Zanjani (d. 1434/2013)
Sayyid Yusuf Madani Tabrizi (d. 1434/2013)
Mujtaba Tihrani (d. 1434/2013)
Muslim Malakuti (d. 1435/2014)
Sayyid 'Abd al-Karim Musawi Ardabili (d.1438/2016)
'Ali Gharawi Tabrizi (d. 1419/1998)
al-Sayyid Muhammad al-Sadr (d. 1419/1990)
Al-Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadl Allah (d. 1431/2010)
Alive Marja's
Sayyid 'Ali Husayni Khamenei (b. 1939)
Lutf Allah Safi Gulpayigani (b. 1919)
Sayyid Musa Shubayri Zanjani (b. 1928)
Nasir Makarim Shirazi (b. 1926)
Husayn Wahid Khurasani (b. 1921)
Abd Allah Jawadi Amuli (b. 1933)
Sayyid Muhammad 'Ali 'Alawi Gurgani (b. 1939)
Husayn Mazahiri (b. 1933)
Al-Sayyid 'Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani (b. 1930)
Al-Sayyid Muhammad Sa'id al-Hakim (b. 1935)
Muhammad Asif Muhsini (b. 1936)
Shi'a Faqihs
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North Korea 1 - 0 Japan
Woah. That was an awful game. I'm just going to blurt out my immediate impressions now before I lose the stomach for it. To be honest, I wasn't surprised -- I sort of had a hunch something like this would happen. continued
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Behind The Scenes: Zico Staff
With the EAFF Cup starting tonight, I thought I'd include a light behind-the-scenes peek at the Japan National Team staff.
Zico has aimed to create a family-like atmosphere in the Japan National Team. For that, he has surrounded himself with a staff of specialists who have a long relationship with Zico as well as each other.
Eduardo "Edu" Antunes Coimbra is the technical consultant for the team and Zico's older brother. An ex-footballer having played in clubs like Flamengo, America and Vasco, Edu's coaching career includes gigs with the Iraqi, Mexican, Peruvian national teams. He's also had opportunities both playing and coaching for the Brazil Selecao.
Edu's main responsibility is to observe and analyze. During the first half of games, Edu leaves the Japan bench and finds a comfy spot to view the match from a high position where he can see the entire pitch, and relate his conclusions to Zico via walkie-talkie (see pic). In the second half, he returns to the bench, and the tradition seems to be that if the team wins the brothers hug and kiss. Zico trusts Edu's eye for players, and the two share the responsibilities of keeping an eye on promising J-leaguers. It is said that Edu was the one to whisper Tamada and Kaji's name into Zico's ear last year. And during the last few weeks of the J-league, while Zico was back in Brazil, it was Edu who observed the Hot Six games -- I imagine he had a big say on which new players to call up. continues
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Mini-Catch Up
Nakamura Arrives in Glasgow
Having received his visa a day earlier than expected, Nakamura speeded up his departure and left for Scotland on Thursday. Reports say he was greeted by some 300 Japanese and Celtic fans and journalists at the airport. At Narita, he commented "I'd like to first take some time getting to know my teammates; what kind of players each of them is, what kind of offensive style and tactics they use. Then build up my own fitness and condition. Little by little..."
In response to questions regarding Celtic's 5-0 loss in the CL qualifying round game, a BBC Sport article quoted him as saying: "People should have no doubt that I am still coming to Glasgow," he said.
"European football is not the only reason I will be signing for Celtic. But, if Bratislava can win 5-0 at home, I am sure Celtic can too."
"The main reason I am coming to Celtic is to help them become Scottish champions again and, if there is European football, that will be a bonus."
At Least This Bust-Up Did Not Involve a Japan Player
>>Click to Read Related Article on BBC Sport
The main news in Europe is not that Kashima beat Manchester United, but that there was a "bust up" between Van Nistelrooy and Ferdinand.
Japan NT Off to Korea
The four day Chiba training camp ended yesterday, and the Japan National Team hopped a short flight to Korea today. With injury problems and obligations to play in various club friendlies against visiting European clubs, Zico has been so far denied the time to see all 23 members in training together.
Only 12 of the 23 players were able to mark perfect attendance int his week's camp. Newest call-up Komano from Sanfecce was added on Thursday, so he was unable to meet up with the team in Narita airport and instead will head to Korea from Hiroshima island directly.
The team is in a rather unfinished (and unprepared?) state, but their task is to get the trophy. With so many new variables and lack of preparation time, I cannot tell you exactly what kind of team will show up to the first game against North Korea.
Troussier Can't Help Nigeria
I wrote in an earlier entry the news that Nigeria hired ex-Japan NT manager Philippe Troussier to take over their squad. But apparently the Frenchman is planning to undergo surgery on his leg/knee and has declined the offer.
Dai to Start in Ligue 1 Le Mans
The French Ligue 1 is gearing up for the start of their league games. Le Mans' Daisuke Matsui, having helped his team climb out of the division two, is expected to start in the first round home game against Champions Lyons on the 31st. He spent the break period at his old nest Kyoto Purple Sanga taking care of the sprain to his right ankle and building up his fitness. Le Mans have changed almost half their roster since last season.
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NT Camp Ends with Game plus New Member Added
Today was the last day of the National Team training camp. They played a practice game against the Kashima Antlers Youth team, and won 10-0. The game consisted of 30 minute halfs. Missing were the 5 Jubilo players (Fukunishi, Kawaguchi, Tanaka, Murai, Chano) and the two Antlers players (Ogasawara, Motoyama). With their two offensive midfielders missing, Zico played a 3-4-3 system -- or more like a 3-4-1-2. With the 1 being Tamada and the 2 being T.Tanaka and Oguro.
The second half, Zico tested out the 4-back defense. All four forwards, including brand brand new member Maki, scored two goals each.
Another New Call-Up
This team is continuing to morph and morph again. Now it's right side Atsu Miura who had to leave the team -- he injured his left calf muscle. In his place, Yuichi Komano from Sanfrecce Hiroshima will join the team tomorrow as they depart for Korea. I've mentioned Komano pretty much every time I talk about Sanfrecce, so you all know he was on the top of my list. He has a relatively muscular frame and I've been seeing some good crosses from him this season, though I haven't watched him much recently. Komano played right side during the Athens Olympics, and ended up injuring his collarbone during the games. He was later called up by Zico for a charity game between the Zico Dream Team and Niigata Albirex, to collect money for the Niigata earthquake aftermath. The Dream Team consisted primarily of veterans of the JLeague, but Komano was one of I think two players who were in their early twenties. I'm happy he got the call-up from Zico.
The papers today showed comments from Yuichiro Maki, who got the call up yesterday. He said that he was out with friends and had not been paying attention to his cellphone. When he did look at the display, he saw how many calls he got from the club GM, and his first reaction was that he had done something wrong and was in trouble. But it turned out to be happy news, and he rushed off to join the squad. He said that there is so much more for him to learn and improve, that it never occured to him that he would get called. He said that it's an honor and all he'll do is put his best performance forward. Unlike some of the other new members who were showing some nervousness in the first couple days, Maki said that since there were a number of players he knew it wasn't that weird. His father is a coach for an ice hockey team, and Maki used to play ice hockey as well as football in school. He plays physical football, and has gotten into a bunch of crashes -- his recurring injuries to his face ended with bone damaging the nerves in his cheek.
I'm sad to hear about Atsu Miura, as he's been keeping a great attitude despite not being able to make the starting roster on the squad through these years -- his profile at Vissel has risen, now being Captain and playing multiple roles for his club. His contributions behind the scenes to the national team have been great, and it would have been good for this young team to have someone like him in their midst.
So, suddenly it feels like a completely different team, doesn't it? The important thing is for all these new members to play and practice with enough impact that they will leave a strong impression in Zico's mind and challenge the more experienced NT members in their positions. This will inevitably lead to better performances from whoever ends up on the pitch. Luckily many of the new members were part of the Olympics squad (Moniwa, Konno, Abe, T.Tanaka, Komano) so they will have some understanding of the pressure of international games.
Japan B Squad
By the way, this is a bit of old news, but I never really mentioned it before. Japan is planning on putting together a Japan B Squad after the final qualifier against Iran is played on August 17th. The JFA will organize friendlies for the B squad to play, to gain experience at the international level. So many of the newer callups on the NT right now will have to fight to stay on the A squad -- if they don't they will have an opportunity to get more international experience on the B squad. The B squad will consist of younger players (in the early twenties and under) who are thought of as the next wave of Japan's future. I don't think the details have been hammered out yet, like who will coach, etc. I'm not even sure how the JFA will convince other countries to come and play a B team...financial incentives, I guess. The B squad is a between-Youth-and-NT-generation squad -- is the best way to define it. Maybe we should call it the Gap Squad.
2005/07/28(木) 22:17:12| Japan NT| Trackback：0 Comment：0
J's Friendlies
Kashima Antlers played Manchester United tonight. I missed a bit of the beginning but it was an intersting game to watch.
There was so much of a media blitz about Real Madrid this week that the other teams (like ManU, Bayern, Bolton) were sort of cast in the shadow. But watching the match, it is obvious that ManU have an overwhelming roster -- I think in many ways much more exciting than Real...though I'm sure some of you may disagree.
Did anyone catch the game? I guess you were all at work, so maybe you'll catch replay or delayed broadcast. The first half was a much more focused game from Kashima -- their team concept was clear and it worked. ManU took a little time to get used to the game. Masashi Motoyama and Mitsuo Ogasawara ducked out of their national team training to rejoin their club for this game -- and it turned out to be a great decision. Motoyama score both goals: the first at minute 4, when he found himself with the ball past the defense on the left side of the goal. He didn't hesitate and just shot the ball in with his left foot at an angle. His second goal at 24 mins was almost the same kind of shot. Ogasawara took little time to flick the ball to Motoyama again on the left side of the goal. He took a nice swing from almost the same angle as the first goal. It was a nice performance from the two internationals. ManU's goal at 7 minutes came from Giggs who caught up to a nice low cross from the right to direct the ball in at the far post. They created some other rather perfect chances, the most memorable one in the second half after Van Nistelrooy and Park had subbed in -- Van Nistelrooy opened to the right and heeled the ball back to the center for Park, who was right in front of the goal unmarked. Unfortunately for the visitors, his shot went over the bar.
The Kashima supporters were out in full force, and I heard a bunch of chants that I haven't heard during the season in a long time. The funniest moment of the evening was the one phrase I heard loud and clear through the tv microphones on the side of the pitch -- when (I think) Rooney's voice was suddenly soaring through my speakers saying "Ah, you **cker".
It was a heated match, with a number of jostling incidents and accidents. ManU's problem was that they let Kashima get the lead -- rather than trying to "entertain" the audience, Kashima played to win, which to be honest I prefer to see...a serious match where the teams aren't there to pat each other on the back with smiles all round but to play serious football. Kashima are often belittled by the great J community because they can respond to the necessities of the game as it unfolds. Kashima played relatively poorly in the second half -- they didn't have the same focus as they did in the first half, and were saved by ManU's mistakes. They did make a number of shots, a few from mid-range.
ManU didn't quite have the creativity they needed to break down Kashima's wall until Van Nistelrooy entered. Also it was fun to see Rooney out there in the second half, and he took one of his great canonball shots but the ball went a little wide to the right. Wouldn't we just kill to have someone with his power in Japan?
The post game interviews of Ogasawara (who accepted the trophy as captain) and Motoyama (who was Man of the Match, and exchanged jerseys with Rio Ferdinand) were also funny. Ogasawara must have taken a course or two in the Kubo School of How to Respond Without Emotion to Excited Interviewer questions. He had very short and played-down answers -- reserved and focused on the job done rather than any excitement over winning against a famous club. Motoyama was his usual light-tempoed self, answering questions with schoolboy goodness, "Yes, I was happy about the goal", "Supporters, domo arigato gozaimasu!", and didn't forget to bop his head in small bows left and right. It's so strange to see these two contrasting personalities work so well together on the pitch.
Meanwhile, FC Tokyo played Bayern and lost 0-4. Not a surprisng result as all of their top players are either at the NT training camp or injured. I'm not even sure who they ended up playing on the Tokyo squad. It was poor timing to lose everyone like they did, and I'm starting to get recurring nightmares about FC Tokyo's downward spiral... I really can't go through that again! I guess it was a good thing I wasn't able to catch this game live..?!
Kawasaki Frontale hosted Bolton, and the game ended in a 1-1 draw. Have not seen any of this game either.
Fiorentina beat Cerezo Osaka 3-0 tonight. Hidetoshi Nakata started for his side, despite the injury worries to his knee.
2005/07/28(木) 22:10:39| J1| Trackback：0 Comment：0
European Players Update
Will Shunsuke look good in green (and white stripes)? The Celtic website >>Clickis already gearing up for the tsunami of Japanese fans bombarding their site -- they've announced a Japanese version of the site will become available shortly. And they've even started planning for a, what else?, Japan Tour next year. Meanwhile, the man himself is cooling his heels in Japan waiting for his visa to come through. When it does, he will immediately head for Scotland. And with him a ton of stuff, apparently -- his kit of goodies, equipment, things that he needs to stay healthy and fit. He's even taking his personal trainer with him, I hear.
Now that they have lost Nakamura, there are rumors that Reggina are looking at Takashi Fukunishi...hmmmm.
Fiorentina have arrived in Japan and are preparing for their games against Cerezo Osaka, Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Tokyo Verdy. Hide Nakata hurt his left knee last week, and was saying he wanted to take care of it first, but Fio would like him of course to make an appearance in the three games.
Meanwhile, the future of Atsushi Yanagisawa remains in question -- his club Messina got kicked out of Serie A for financial reasons, and though they are appealing, it doesn't look great. There are rumors that the club may end up letting go of Yanagisawa. I have very little info on this, so don't quote me, and let me know if you hear further news. Poor Yana, he may never get that elusive Italian goal...!
2005/07/28(木) 04:59:36| Overseas Players| Trackback：0 Comment：2
JEF's Maki @ NT squad Training
photo from so-net.ne.jp/JEFUNITED/.
I did speculate >>Click to read my previous post, and hey, I actually included him in my choices!
Jef Chiba's 24 yr old 184 cm Forward Seiichiro Maki joined the NT today. He joined Jef in 2003 after playing at Komazawa University.
Maki replaces Marinos forward Kubo who backed out because he ended up going ahead with an injection of some sort of drugs for his back/knee problem on Monday. Zico apparently was upset that Marinos had gone ahead with the injection after he played quite actively for his club this past week (albeit limited time) -- the drugs would basically mean he wouldn't be able to play for another couple weeks. There seems to be a bit of misunderstanding of some kind going on here.
Zico took Marinos and Kubo's decision as their way of safekeeping Kubo from having to play on the NT. I think he is taking their reluctance as lack of enthusiasm for the national team. Marinos of course, took exception to this claim, saying that they had scheduled the injection ahead of the roster announcement.
I guess there are two things at work here. Do you remember when Feyenoord put up a snit because "all they got was a fax" when Shinji Ono was called up ahead of the Iran and Bahrain qualifiers? Well, in the end it all got smoothed out with one simple phone call from the JFA. Basically, the Japanese thinking is that if the proper form is filled out and sent at the proper time, that's enough. The official seal is on the paper, and everything should run smoothly. But I guess what Feyenoord, and in this case Zico, wanted was a tiny personal touch. Especially in Zico's case, since this is the second time Marinos withdrew Kubo from an NT callup. And I think all Zico would have liked was a phone call or message, saying "thanks for the call up, I really want to play for the country, but hey this injury is acting up again and I'd like to take care of it now". Zico likes to call up his "regular" team, even if they are carrying injuries but are at enough fitness to play, because I think he wants to see the player for himself and have time to talk with them about how things are going. If he sees that the injury will not allow him to play, then he doesn't play or he is sent home.
Feyenoord were a little ticked that Ono keeps coming back from his international games with injury, so I guess they just wanted a little TLC. Zico didn't show disapproval when Yanagisawa talked with him about withdrawing from the squad ahead of the Asia Cup last year, though it did take a while to get back on the roster...but that could involve other reasons than his withdrawal.
In the end, Marinos are in the right. They had their reasons, and Zico/JFA have to accept that. The JFA don't have any problems with Marinos, so it's basically Zico's reaction that Marinos/Kubo is not respecting the process of an NT call-up.
It's also interesting how the clubs have prioritized the NT as well. Zico actually told the Jubilo players that they should stay with their club and play the friendly against Real Madrid, that it would be a better experience for them in lieu of the NT training. Vissel's Atsu Miura joined the NT today after his team's friendly against Bolton. And tomorrow/Thursday, the Kashima players will duck back to their team to play against Manchester United, and rejoin the NT as they depart for Korea on Friday.
But FCTokyo, who will be playing against Bayern Munchen tomorrow (Thursday), have said that the NT is more important and have not asked for their players back (there are 4 FC Tokyo players on the NT right now, and it's not like FC Tokyo has any other top level players except Ishikawa; in fact, I think Tokyo just announced Ishikawa, Toda, Kanazawa, Jan, and Lucas are all injured). I guess they figure with Konno and Moniwa still unused to the NT atmosphere and desperate to cement their position with the team, it was prioritized.
Speaking of the newbies, the Japanese media is having a field day gossiping about them. Especially FC Tokyo's Konno and Urawa Reds' Tanaka. These two are battling nerves, trying to get used to being on the NT. Tanaka is known for asking a lot of questions -- how do you do this, what do you do next, when do we do that? Konno was apparently finding it hard to relax the first couple days -- all those "famous" players, he commented doesn't know what to say. The other players are trying in their own way to make the new guys feel more comfortable; luckily, it's a very relaxed team that knows how to have fun and when to get down to business. Konno fans can rest assured, he's getting settled now that we are in day three: people like Doi, Moniwa, Nakazawa and Oguro usually are the ones creating a good mood through tough NT trainings and games. Yesterday was GK Doi's birthday, and he got the traditional Brazilian flour-and-egg ambush.
As for training, it sounds like Tanaka is showing some good hustle and finishes. Oguro and Tamada are doing well too -- the team did a game format training this afternoon, and these two were the chosen forwards for the starter team. Maki arrived in time for the afternoon practice, and I'm looking forward to seeing whether the speedy run-hard Jef philosophy will prove him effective in this team. Konno and Moniwa were also singled out by the media as showing gutsy tough attitude in training. Zico is spending a lot of time on goal-scoring -- he is especially keen on getting the players good and tired, and then making them shoot for goals. The reasoning behind this is to train the players to be able to focus and finish properly even when their bodies and minds are exhausted. He has been telling them to think, focus and relax before the shot.
I'll do a profile piece on some of the general characteristics of Zico Japan's training camps. I also thought it would be a good time to introduce the coaching staff as well, for those of you wondering who else besides Zico is involved in shaping the NT.
Lost Day
Sorry, everyone. I couldn't make it to the National Team training today on time. (They are training in Ibaragi prefecture today, and tomorrow.) It was like a four hour plus trip, and by the time I left I realized I probably wouldn't make it before the team left. I'm really sorry.
I guess I'll have to wait for the next NT game, the last qualifier game against Iran on August 17. I will definitely try and make it to one of those trainings, with photos, I promise :)
2005/07/28(木) 00:58:41| Uncategorized| Trackback：0 Comment：0
Verdy's Yamada makes CNN Sports Play of the Day
CNN didn't forget to sandwich in a mention of the Toda/Beckham spitting incident, but the focus of their Play of the Day was Taku Yamada's low header goal, the third for Verdy in their game against Real Madrid. "How did he get his head that low?" was their comment. I have to say, I loved this goal too. It was a speedy low cross placed perfectly just outside the right lower corner of the goal. Being so low, you'd expect the player to use his foot/leg, but Yamada fell to it with his head.
Hopefully, Verdy will be continue to play with this much energy and focus in the remaining league games.
2005/07/26(火) 19:58:56| Goofy Stuff| Trackback：0 Comment：0
Profile: Keiji Tamada
As I was browsing at the bookstore, the title of the Keiji Tamada interview article in the current issue of Football Nippon >>click for FN site caught my eye: "Why is it me? Why isn't it me?"
Doesn't that just fit Tamada's situation so perfectly? The late-blooming forward for Kashiwa Reysol was first called to the National Team in March of 2004. He only really started to make an impact in the J1 in 2003, when the manager had witnessed Tamada's efforts in the satellite league and decided to base the team strategy around the individual capabilities of his most adept players. But even after his emergence in 2003, the general Japanese footballing public did not really take much notice -- there were too many other forwards to distract them: the World Cup 2002 squad guys, the European club guys, the J-league top scoring guys like Kubo and Okubo. But it was Edu, Zico's brother and technical advisor for the national team, who suggested Tamada's name for a possible call up. Zico agreed with the assessment, and Tamada made his NT debut subbing in for 15 minutes during the WCQ game against Singapore. photo from sportsnavi.yahoo.co.jp continues
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Places - Southern China
GUIZHOU, GUANGXI, GUILIN (Stunning Scenery, Minorities)
GUIZHOU PROVINCE
GUIZHOU PROVINCE is a hilly, remote province in southwest China. Situated between Hunan, Guangxi, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, it is known for its beautiful countryside, festivals and ethnic minorities (Yi, Dong, Miao, Bouyei, Shui, Gelao, Bai, Zhuang and Hui make up 25 percent of the population). In 1935, during the Long March, Mao Zedong consolidated his power here and took control of the Chinese Communist Party.
There is a saying in Guizhou: "there aren't three days without rain, three miles without a mountain or three coin's in anyone's pocket." About 90 percent of the land is covered by mountains and a third of the villages can not be reached by road.
Even though only 12 percent of the land is arable, farmers make the most of it by harvesting two crops a year in a patchwork of fields between limestone hills and low granite mountains. Homes, walls, terraces, bridges, aqueducts, roads, dikes and dams are all built from stone. Travel is not easy. The trains are slow and bus and truck journeys are rough.
Guizhou is one of China's poorest provinces. According to one estimate 70 percent of the population is illiterate, and a third of the people live in severe poverty. Guizhou is rich in minerals but it doesn't have the infrastructure to deliver them to the marketplace.
Guizhou map Guizhou has been relatively untouched by the Deng reforms. Peasant families sleep in open-air huts, collect water in the mountains with shoulder poles, sleep under thin quilts in the winter and subsist off cornmeal gruel. Many people are too poor to buy plow animals or fertilizer or afford electricity. In the remote Duyun prefecture, 3.8 million people live below the Beijing poverty line of $1 a week. Many people here say they lived better in the Mao era, when at least they were guaranteed grain rations and given subsidized medical care and free schooling. [Sources: the New York Times and Time magazine] Map: China Highlights China Highlights
Guiyang is the capital and largest city in Guizhou. There isn't much to see but some people change trains or catch buses here.
Tourist Office: Guiyang Provincial Tourism Bureau, Tower 5, 346 North Zhounghua Rd, 550004 Guiyang, Guizhou, China, tel. (0)-851-689-2101, fax: (0)-851-68-2309 Web Sites: Wikipedia Wikipedia CRIEnglish CRIEnglish Travel China Guide Travel China Guide Maps: Lonely Planet Lonely Planet China Map Guide China Map Guide Hotel Web Site: Sinohotel Sinohotel Trip Advisor Trip Advisor Budget Accommodation: Check the Lonely Planet books; Travellerspoint (click China and place in China) Travellerspoint Getting There: Guiyang is accessible by air, train and bus. It is a major railway hub and is accessible by train from Chengdu, Guangzhou, Kunming and other major cities in China. Some of the trains are slow. It Travel China Guide (click transportation) Travel China Guide
Huaxi Ethnic Scenic Spot
Huaxi Ethnic Scenic Spot (16 kilometers from Guiyang City) is dotted with Miao, Bouyi and Dong villages. The ethnic groups entertain tourists with singing and dancing at touristy Lusheng parties. The best way to see the area is trek around with a guide. Huaxi Park is a nature reserve with underground caves with clear rivers and stalactites. Also in the area is the ancient city of Qingyan, known for its nine monasteries, eight temples and four towers which are placed on a plateau.
Hongfeng Lake (32 kilometers west of Guiyang) is actually a series of three lakes bordering Qingzhen and Pingba County. The lakes contain many beautiful bays and islands. Surrounding the lakes are mountains and ravines covered with dense forest. There are many Dong villages here. Dong girls sing, dance, and entertain visitors in a tourist village.
Bouye girl Zhijin Cave (100 kilometers from Guiyang) is a huge cave in the northwest of Zhijin County which covers over 30,000 square meters. There are eight scenic spots, 19 halls and 49 chambers that are open to the public. The average height of the cave is 150 feet and the highest spot is 550 feet. The cave is noted for its stalactites, stalagmites, and the clear blue water in its lakes, rivers and waterfalls. Web Sites : Luopan.com Luopan.com ; Photos Travel in China
Duyun (100 kilometers southeast of Guiyang) is the home of the “chicken feather Miao.” They wear perhaps the most elaborate costume of any ethnic group in Asia. Web Site: Travel China Guide
Anshun
Anshun (96 kilometers southwest of Guiyang) was once the center of the opium trade. The limestone scenery around the town is quite beautiful. Web Sites: Travel China Guide (click transportation) Travel China Guide Hotel Web Site: Sinohotel Sinohotel Budget Accommodation: Check Lonely Planet books; Getting There: Anshun is accessible by train and long-distance bus. Travel China Guide (click transportation) Travel China Guide
Miao girls Dragon Palace (32 kilometers to the east of Anshun) is an underground cavern with waterfalls, a 10,000-square-meter lake called Heavenly Pool, and other underground scenic spots that can be explored by boat and on foot. Purplish stalactites drop down from the arched roof of the cave at the entrance. If you follow Heavenly Pool far enough you'll arrive at Dragon Gate Falls. Below the falls is a huge room which resembles a crystal palace and above the falls is a huge stalactite covered arch called Dragon Gate. There are many caves, stone forests and waterfalls near Dragon Palace, which is also known as Longgong Caves. The South China Karst area which extends across a large area of Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan Provinces has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site UNESCO World Heritage Site Map: (click 1001wonders.org at the bottom): UNESCO .Also try the UNESCO World Heritage Site Web site (click the site you want) World Heritage Site
Huangoushu Waterfall (50 kilometers southwest of Anshun) is the largest waterfall in Asia in terms of the amount of water that drops over the edge. Bordering Zhenning County and Guanling County, these falls are 220 feet high, and 250 feet across. In the middle of the falls water cascades over a cliffside cave, which can be reached on a slippery trail for an inside view of the falls. The falls are most impressive in the rainy season from May to October
The karst scenery in the area is very impressive and they are many villages inhabited by Bouyei people. Other falls in the area include Luositan Falls and Yinlianzhui Falls. There are also more than a dozen major caves in the area. The Tianxinqiao Stone Forests boasts outdoor stalactites and stalagmites. Web Site: Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
Dong bridge
Kaili (200 kilometers east of Guiyang) is another area famous for its ethnic groups. There are many Dong villages around Liping. Many Miao live around Shibing, where boat rides are offered on the Wuyang River. Most of the Dong and Miao that reside here live in stilt houses. Many of the Dong villages have drum towers, pavilions and bridges. There are 135 festivals held in this area each year. The most well known ones are held in the middles of the first lunar month and the seventh lunar month. Visitors who attend get treated to rice wine, dances and songs played on reed pipes.
The Chenyang Bridge in Guangzi Zhuang Autonomous region is regarded as the best Dong covered bridge. Tongdao Bridge in southern Hunan Province is another good. Dimen is a Dong village of 500 households that has a community, cultural and research center and is home to the Dimen Dong Eco-museum. The Dong here were described in a National Geographic article by Amy Tam.
Shanglandgde is an interesting Miao village. Some of the Miao girls here wear enormous and elaborate silver headdresses.
Web Sites: Travel China Guide Travel China Guide ; China Highlights China Highlights Hotel Web Sites : Sinohotel Sinohotel Budget Accommodation: Check Lonely Planet books; Getting There: Kaili is accessible by train and bus but the train. There are many trains but the service is slow. Lonely Planet (click Getting There) Lonely Planet
GUANGXI PROVINCE
Guangxi GUANGXI PROVINCE is home of famous limestone formation of Guilin and several ethnic minorities. Situated north of Vietnam and east of the Yunnan Province, it for the most part is rural and poor. Some people still live in caves. Farms are worked with water buffalo, horses and non-mechanical water pumps. Children swim naked in the rivers. The whole region is very green the year round. Han Chinese outnumber the local ethnic groups in Guangxi.
Guangxi has a per capita income of between $250 and $500 (1997). Sinologist Jasper Becker said that it is where "the poorest of the poor go hungry surrounded by some of the most beautiful scenery in the world." Many people live on less than $50 a year and half the children are malnourished. There are few schools and medical facilities.
Guangxi (Short title is Gui) is a multi-ethnic autonomous region that lies in subtropical climate. There are hills, basins, plains, coastal, complex terrain, high temperatures, plentiful rain and long frost-free periods. A wide variety of livestock are found there. Fruit and vegetable can be harvested in every season. Minorities that live in Guangxi Province include Dong, Jing (also found in Vietnam), Yi, Maonan, Miao, Miaai, Mulam, Mulao, Tujia, Yao, and Zhuang.
Nanning is the capital and largest town in Guanxi. It is a bustling agricultural town Tourist Office : Guangxi Tourist Administration, 40 Xinmin Rd, Nanning, 530012, China, tel. (0)-771-280-8738, fax: (0)- 771-280-1041 Web Sites: Travel China Guide Travel China Guide Hotel Web Site: Sinohotel Sinohotel Budget Accommodation:Check Lonely Planet books; Getting There: Nanning is accessible by air and bus and well connected by train to major cities to the north. Travel China Guide (click transportation) Travel China Guide
Guanxi map GUILIN (400 kilometers from Canton) is located at the center of area filled with spectacular and unusual limestone rock formations. The subject of many classical silkscreen scrolls, great Chinese poems and tourist brochures, the formations are one of China's most well-known attractions. You can't really climb or hike on the formations. They main way to enjoy them is to look at them.
There is a saying in China that the mountains and waters of Guilin are the best under heaven. As far as the eye can see in all directions are limestone formations riddled with caves, covered with lush vegetation and shaped like animals, mythical beasts and other objects. Weaving through the cliffs and rocks are placid rivers and streams surrounded by a patchwork of farms, rice paddies, villages and ponds. The otherworldly beauty of the region was showcased in the movie the Joy Luck Club .
The Guilin area is is one of the most beautiful places in the entire world. But Guilin city itself isn't all that great. The Communists transformed it from a large market town into a small industrial center. Although it is nicer than some Chinese cities. It is still noisy, dirty and drab. You are much better off heading to Yangshuo, about an hour and a half away.
Guilin means "City of Osthmanus Trees" and the city produces syrupy and medicine-tasting osthmanus wine. There are rock formations in and around Guilin but there settings are often less than tranquil. The market is filled with all kinds of caged birds and turtles, kites, pot holders, aprons, napkins, fans, carved salad bowls, handmade glasses, silver boxes, puppets, masks.
Getting to Guilin isn't all that easy to get to. The bus trip from Guangzhou (Canton) is long and uncomfortable. The train is often fully-booked and it is slow and relatively infrequent. Flying is expensive.The South China Karst area which extends across a large area of Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan Provinces has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site UNESCO World Heritage Site Map: (click 1001wonders.org at the bottom): UNESCO Also try the UNESCO World Heritage Site Web site (click the site you want) World Heritage Site
Tourist Offices at the airport, near the main bus station, at the entrance of Seven Star Park and near the Lize Bridge. Guilin Tourist Information Center, 14 North Ronghu, Diecai District. Guangxi Province tel. (86)-773-280-0318.Also try Guilin Tourism Bureau, 14 North Ronghu Rd, 541001 Guilin, Guangxi, China, tel. (0)-773-282-5890, fax: (0)- 773-282-9111 Web Sites: Guilin Tourist Office Guilin Tourist ; Guilin China.net Guilin China Wikipedia Wikipedia ;China Highlights China Highlights Travel China Guide Travel China Guide Maps: China Map Guide China Map Guide Lonely Planet Lonely Planet Hotel Web Site: Sinohotel Sinohotel Budget Accommodation: Check Lonely Planet books; Travellerspoint (click China and place in China) Travellerspoint
Getting There: Guilin is accessible by air and bus. It is well connected by train to northern China but to reach many destinations in southern China it is easier to take a bus. Check out Travel China Guide (click transportation): Travel China Guide ; Lonely Planet (click Getting There) Lonely Planet
Yangshuo (65 kilometers south of Guilin City) in the view of many is the best place to check out the Guilin area rock formations. Situated on the shore of the Li River, it is a charming budget traveler town with lots of guesthouses, art and souvenir shops and restaurants that sell muesli, banana pancakes and beer.
The Yangshuo area is a great place to explore on foot and by bicycle. Bicycles (the typical Chinese ones are often stronger than the mountain bikes) can be rented for around $2 a day at several places.As for hiking routes, just start walking in the direction of some nice rock formation and remember how to get back. There are plenty of guides that will take you to the scenic spots. They roam around with photo albums.
Yangshuo is fairly small. The budget travelers section is located mostly on one street. The rest of Yangshuo is a typical Chinese rural town. The scenery around the town is stunning. Surrounding it are ten limestone peaks that some say look like a lotus flower. They are interspersed with houses, farms, stands of trees and streams. Well known spots include Moon Hill, Pageboy Hill, Green Lotus Peak, Dragon Back Hill, White Carne Hill, Old Ferry Under the Banyan Tree, Beautiful Girl Hill, Crab Hill and Laixan Hill." Each scenic spot has unique characteristics, which vary with the changing seasons.
Tourist Office: There are several CITS offices in town, tel. 86- (0)-773-280-0318. The small town tourist office is at West Streetm Chengzhou Road tel. 86- (0)-773-280-7922. Web Sites: Yangshuo Mountain Retreat Yangshuo Mountain Retreat ;China Backpacker China Backpacker Maps: Lonely Planet Lonely Planet Maps of China Yangers.com Yangers.com Yangshuo Travel Guide Yangshuo Travel Guide Travel China Guide Travel China Guide Hotel Web Site: Sinohotel Sinohotel Budget Accommodation: Check Lonely Planet books; Travellerspoint (click China and place in China) Travellerspoint
Getting There: Yangshuo is accessible by bus and minibus from Guilin. Buses and minibuses can most easily be caught in Guilin at the South railway station and the long distance bus station. Yangshuo is also a stop on buses that travel between Guilin and Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Another alternative is to take a cruise on the Li River from Guilin to Yangshuo. Travel China Guide (click transportation) Travel China Guide ; Lonely Planet (click Getting There) Lonely Planet
Touring the Li River
Touring the Li River is one of the most relaxing and enjoyable ways to enjoy the Guilin region. A 50-mile section of the river between Guilin to Yangshuo winds through the heart of region with the densest concentration of limestone formations, passing steep-sided conical hills, green mountains, waterfalls, springs and caves.
There are essentially two ways to tour the river. The first way is to take a tourist boat down river from Guilin to Yangshuo. The boats are large, comfortable and expensive but the pass through lots of formations. Most passengers get off in Yangshuo and take a bus back to Guilin. The second alternative is to catch a smaller, cheaper boat in Yangshuo, travel upriver past the best formations and return to Yangshuo. Many people bring a bicycle along and get off in Xingping and ride back to Yangshuo.
The Li River is clearish green and moves along at it a good clip without being rough. The trip usually takes most of the day. You can drink beer and chat with the other passengers as you cruise along watching the fishermen and limestone formations. Most boats serve lunch. The most prominent rock formations include Bat Hill, A Boy Worships Buddha, Snail Hill, Five Fingers Hill, Cockfighting Hill, Five Tigers Catch a Goat, Crown Cave, Single-Beauty Peak and Mural Hill. There are hundreds of others.
In the countryside along the river are bamboo forests, water buffalo, farms, rice paddies, and villages. In the river, fisherman get around in sampans, narrow fishing boats and raft-like boats made from bamboo and poled through the shallow water by a standing fisherman.Cormorant fishing is done on the Li River around Guilin and Yangshuo. Cormorant fishing tours can be arranged in both places. Map: China Map Guide China Map Guide Photos : Guilin China
Elephant Trunk Hill (at the confluence of the Li River and Yangjiang River) is rock hill with hole in it that dips into the river like an elephant taking a drink. The hole is known as Water Moon Arch and although it is only a few meters high tourist boats go right through it. Inside the arch are more than 50 sculptures. Nearby a small path leads to the hour glass shaped Precious Bottle Tower which sits at the top of the hill.
Reed-Flute Cave
Reed-Flute Cave (south of Guangming Hill in Guilin) is a half-mile-long stalactite and stalagmite cave with multi-colored lights and formations with names like Lion and Forest Under the Glow of Dawn, Singing Birds, Fragrant Flowers, Wild Lion Roaring Goodby to His Guests and Flying Waterfall from the Gorge. In one section stunning pillars and chandeliers that hang from the roof of the cave are perfectly reflected in the smooth surface of an underground pool. The cave was discovered by a man digging a well.
Some find Reed-Flute Cave to be unbearably tacky. In Riding the Iron Rooster, Paul Theroux wrote, "It looked Disneyish, a piece of natural vulgarity---a tasteless act of God. It could have been made of polyester or papier-mâché. It dripped. It glugged. Chunks of slimy limestone dropped from the ceiling. It was a spelunkers version of Sunset Strip or the Shanghai Bund." The Zhuangzu region around the cave is filled with caves and karst formations.
Seven Star Cave (halfway up the slope of Putuo Mountain in Guilin) is the largest and most fascinating cave in the Guilin area. A tourist attraction since A.D. 600, it contains several caverns. The main one is a 1,000-meter-long tunnel festooned with 40 major stalactite formations such as Water Overflowing the Golden Mountain, Palace of Immense Cold, and Two Lions Fighting For a Ball. Over the centuries many poems and inscriptions have been left behind on the cave's wall by scholars.
Piled Festoon Hill (on the Li River north of Guilin) is a green hill with exposed limestone cliffs that look like dangling chains. Some of the hill's main features include Windy Cave, Crane Peak and Bright Moon Peak which has a little pavilion sitting on the top of it that can be reached by foot. Tourist have been coming here for 1000 years and many inscriptions and sculptures, including 90 cliff statues, have been left behind.
Big Dragon Pool (near Liuzhou, 160 kilometers from Guilin) is an underground river that comes gushing out of a limestone hill and then disappears again. Poets used to come here to pray for rain. Behind the pool are seven peaks called the "Seven Lady Peaks" which form a circle. Yufeng Hill, also located in this area, is a 250-meter-high hill, with rock caves. Inside the caves are 50 dragon pools which drain into the Liu River through rock crevasses. The area around Liuzhou has limestone formations similar to those in Guilin but less impressive.
Longsheng (near the border of Guizhou Province, three hours northwest of Guilin) is the home of Dong, Dao and Miao hill tribes. The town of Longsheng isn't so nice but the countryside around is filled with stunning rice terraces and minority villages. There are organized tours to Longsheng from Guilin. Many travelers do two or three treks in the area.
Web Sites: Travel China Guide Travel China Guide Map: China Highlights China Highlights Budget Accommodation: Check Lonely Planet books Getting There: Longsheng is accessible by bus or organized tour from Guilin and Yangshuo. Buses leave about every 40 minutes form the main Guilin bus station.Travel China Guide (click transportation) Travel China Guide ; Lonely Planet (click Getting There) Lonely Planet Photos: Travel China Guide
Wuzhou (seven hours from Yangshuo) has two things of interest to travelers: a hovercraft to Hong Kong and one of the world's largest snake repositories. More than one million snakes from the repository are taken to restaurants and medicine shops all over southern China. Web Site: Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
Hekou (on the Vietnam border) is filled with gambling halls and prostitutes. In some places heroin is sold openly on the streets.
Image Sources: Province maps from the Nolls China Web site. Photographs of places from 1) CNTO (China National Tourist Organization; 2) Nolls China Web site; 3) Perrochon photo site; 4) Beifan.com; 5) tourist and government offices linked with the place shown; 6) Mongabey.com; 7) University of Washington, Purdue University, Ohio State University; 8) UNESCO; 9) Wikipedia; 10) Julie Chao photo site; 11) Guilin Pictures
Text Sources: CNTO, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Times of London, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, Reuters, AP, Lonely Planet Guides, Compton’s Encyclopedia and various books and other publications.
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Post by Dagger X-Ray » Thu Feb 24, 2011 5:19 pm
By K.Allsup, on February 23rd, 2011
WASHINGTON – On Feb. 23, the men and women of the Department of Veterans Affairs will mark the 20th anniversary of the start of ground combat in the 1990-1991 Gulf War. Fighting ended 100 hours later after a U.S.-led coalition drove Iraqi forces from the small nation of Kuwait.
“All Americans should be proud of the service and sacrifice of our Gulf War Veterans,†said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki. “They went to a foreign land, faced a well-armed aggressor and liberated an independent nation from occupation.â€
VA Chief of Staff John Gingrich, who commanded an Army field artillery battalion during the Gulf War, wrote a post to VA’s blog at http://www.blogs.va.gov/VAntage/?p=1522to discuss the war and VA’s services for Veterans of the conflict.
VA officials noted that one consequence of the combat focused upon concerns that Veterans who served in theater are more likely to be ill from a variety of causes than their counterparts who didn’t serve in the Persian Gulf during the war.
“Because of the unexpected health problems of our Gulf War Veterans, the military and VA are on the alert to recognize and treat Veterans for unusual medical problems,†Shinseki said.
In the aftermath of the conflict, Gulf War Veterans were provided with health care under special authority, and VA rewrote its regulations governing disability pay to allow payment to Veterans with undiagnosed illnesses. The department also participated in a federal research drive, valued in excess of $400 million, to identify the causes of the Veterans’ illnesses.
Other efforts have continued since then. In March 2010, VA recognized nine specific infectious diseases associated with military service in the Gulf, for which Veterans are eligible for VA disability compensation.
Also in March 2010, VA’s Gulf War Veterans’ Illness Task Force, led by Chief of Staff Gingrich, issued the draft of a comprehensive report that identified gaps in services to Gulf War Veterans, as well as opportunities to serve them better.
About 697,000 service members were in the combat theater during the war. Another 5.7 million served elsewhere in uniform between Aug. 2, 1990 and Sept. 10, 2001. The military lists 148 combat deaths during the war, 235 non-combat deaths and 467 woundings.
A special VA Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses formed January 2002 is scheduled to hold a meeting here Feb. 28 and March 1 to review the status of Gulf War medical research. The meeting is open to the public. To find more information about that meeting, visit http://www.va.gov/RAC-GWVI/meetings.asp.
VA also plans to hire a high-level manager to oversee the department’s Gulf War research program, along with oversight of the research into other environmentally-related health problems for military personnel and Veterans.
A recent VA study of Gulf War Veterans found that about 6.5 million people served on active duty from Aug. 2, 1990 to Sept. 10, 2001. Of that total, about 1.1 million were deployed to the Persian Gulf region.
Of the 6.5 million, about 1.9 million are enrolled in VA’s health care system and 1.2 million have medical problems that are service-connected.
The latest VA report on Veterans of the 1990-1991 Gulf War is available on the Internet at http://www.va.gov/vetdata/docs/SpecialR ... report.pdf. The final version of the March 2010 report of the Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses Task force is available at http://www.va.gov/Final20GWVI-TFReport.pdf.
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Re: VA Marks 20th Anniversary of Ground Combat in Gulf
Post by jmartinez » Fri Feb 25, 2011 3:18 am
Dagger X-Ray wrote: VA Marks 20th Anniversary of Ground Combat in Gulf
I read it and it sounds good on paper but the fact of the matter is " there not helping much on free will, we fought on our own free will, they should want to help with out them making feel worst than what we al ready do". I stomach has been acting since Monday go to VA and the Dr. says its my diet. I told what diet "I haven't eaten since Monday evening". Brothers you guys do more more me than all the damn meds......
Post by Dagger X-Ray » Fri Feb 25, 2011 8:28 am
This guy who wrote it was a commander in my division so he would have been close to me as well. If I could only get a supportive statement from him for my claim.
Post by jmartinez » Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:29 am
Dagger X-Ray wrote: This guy who wrote it was a commander in my division so he would have been close to me as well. If I could only get a supportive statement from him for my claim.
If his committed to helping fellow Vets I see why not. Whats the worst he can say no, he's part of VA he's already said no in a sense. Go for it I'll follow your lead......
Post by Dagger X-Ray » Sun Feb 27, 2011 10:12 am
I could only imagine him sayingno because of a conflict of interest due to his position within the VA. I'm gonna wait for the VA claim decision first. I'll let you know
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Your Gulf War Unit: 4404th(P) bomb wing
Post by usafretired94 » Sat Mar 19, 2011 10:47 pm
Tell me what you know of the other services and what I can do to help myself. I can only relay my misery with the VA and it has been a total mess for some time now. Question is have you heard of the War Related Illness and Injury Study Center in Washington DC?
Post by Dagger X-Ray » Sun Mar 20, 2011 10:52 am
Do a forum search on that place, there are several people here who have either looked into it or area already being treated there.
Post by redfish » Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:32 am
I've looked into WRIISC. Researched it but my MD said otherwise. Whatcha wanna know???
Your Gulf War Unit: 197 Inf. Bde. Mech. (Sep.) H.H.C.
Post by sledgehammer » Sun Feb 03, 2013 5:24 pm
On the 20 th anniversary Gen. Barry McCaffery Ret. went to the event at Ft. Benning , Ga. He did mention SSG. Raymond Hatcher ( Monticello , Fla.) and Spc. Kevin Wright ( Louisville , Ky) the only soldiers last in Desert Shield , Desert Storm from the 197 th Inf. Bde.
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Wii U specs and performance matter, and Nintendo knows this
in Nintendo Discussion on 16 August 2012
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HappySqurriel said: If I were to translate the Wii U's performance into previous generation terms I would say that it would be like Nintendo releasing a system with a dual core processor running at 1.5GHz (Power PC 970 MP like the mac mini) with 128MB of memory and a GPU based on the Radeon X600. Inexpensive, low energy consumption, and low processing power compared to the competition, but...
Mr Khan said: Hisiru said: As for Selnor, I won't even try. He simply ignored most of the posts/arguments, we shouldn't give him attention. He (again) is using some info in the wrong way because the same source who says the x720 has 12GBs in the devkit (6gbs for retail version) is the same source who says the x720 will use most of the ram for OS/multimedia fuctions. He is...
As for Selnor, I won't even try. He simply ignored most of the posts/arguments, we shouldn't give him attention. He (again) is using some info in the wrong way because the same source who says the x720 has 12GBs in the devkit (6gbs for retail version) is the same source who says the x720 will use most of the ram for OS/multimedia fuctions. He is only using the part which suits to his...
brendude13 said: selnor said: ROFL. The wiiu CPU looks to be marginally better than that in the 360. Only running 3 cores in 2012 when 360 was running 3 cores at 3.2ghz in 2005 is pure insane. You say 360 is 20x more powerful than Wii. Okay, that ended this conversation. LOL. I don't think you understand how CPU architectural changes work. Yeah, he doesn't. The...
Play4Fun said: selnor said: Its all rumours yes. But saying the 720 will dedicate the sort of ram you think to OS etc has no basis. the 360 and microsoft have been praised on the 360 for using such minimal resources for its OS etc. Even though te OS does more than the competition this gen. I expect next gen to be no different. My point. I expect Wii U to be behind just the same...
selnor said: Soundwave said: There will be a pretty significant gap between the Wii U and PS4/720, what we know of the leaked PS4/720 specs show them to be well beyond the Wii U. It may not be quite as bad as last gen, but that doesn't mean there won't be a pretty large difference. A lot of hardcore gamers are already biased against Nintendo to begin with, lets be honest, so that...
Soundwave said: There will be a pretty significant gap between the Wii U and PS4/720, what we know of the leaked PS4/720 specs show them to be well beyond the Wii U. It may not be quite as bad as last gen, but that doesn't mean there won't be a pretty large difference. A lot of hardcore gamers are already biased against Nintendo to begin with, lets be honest, so that doesn't help...
Soundwave said: Even if the Wii U can run some version of 720/PS4 ports ... are hardcore gamers really going to care? Would you buy the XBox 360 version of a game if it had 1/2 the resolution and had many effects and general visual fidelity scaled back quite a bit over the PS3 version?I don't think we know how well the WiiU or the other consoles are going to perform, but we can be sure...
darkknightkryta said: No I'm not Then you probably have some kind of source to support your claims about how engine development works. Can you share it with us? Oh yes he did: "Ummmmm, well, this is kinda a high definition engine. Designed for a certain level of graphics card and certain amount of CPU. You know, I'm sure one of our licensees will squeeze it down into the Wii....
darkknightkryta said: Hisiru said: darkknightkryta said: Article still didn't say who ported the engine over, and as far as Unreal 4 goes, it depends if they keep it open source for the liscensees. If it's open source, then it can be ported over, but without official support from Epic, it won't be an easy task. Plus there's a reason why Epic isn't doing it...
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darkknightkryta said: Article still didn't say who ported the engine over, and as far as Unreal 4 goes, it depends if they keep it open source for the liscensees. If it's open source, then it can be ported over, but without official support from Epic, it won't be an easy task. Plus there's a reason why Epic isn't doing it themselves, my hunch is because they probably can't get...
menx64 said: specs matter, graphics matter, but I am sure nintendo is trying to convey the message that HD is not an innovation but just a given. The focus is going to be family friendly again + nintendo fans (like me) + anything else they can get. On the ports part, there are a few of them that I might get, like ninja gaiden or batman. I dont have a ps3 nor 360 and I...
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darkknightkryta said: Hisiru said: 1. So... it's also running beautifully on 360 and it will run beautifully on WiiU, what's your point? And what makes you think we will see the toad rendering on PS4/x720? Looking at the leaked specs I am not sure if we will see it even on the x720/PS4, not with all those details and dynamic enviroment. Yes we don't know, it most...
darkknightkryta said: Play4Fun said: darkknightkryta said: --OkeyDokey-- said: darkknightkryta said:I still think Nintendo gambled wrong when showing off their third party support. It's not necessarily bad that Batman, Mass Effect, etc are getting ported over, but that's the problem: nothing new. I think once Watch Dogs, or the new Star Wars games gets...
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Ever hire someone who's perfectly unqualified for the job? Someone who lies on the application and during the interview process? Enter Timothy Drake. Twinkie Boi is fresh outta high school and barely legal. He did manage to land a laborer's job on a construction site, but you already know how he pulled it off. Now it's time to work, and Timothy can't do jack shit. Here's comes The Foreman, too! He's a hung, black Bull...and he's pissed. There's work to be done, and our twink is woefully unqualified to do anymore more than suck cock and get fucked. And that's precisely how The Foreman treats him. Timothy tells The Foreman he's straight, and he's desperate to keep the job...after all, Timothy Twink has to pay the rent on the apartment he just got with his girlfriend! You can tell he's never had a big, black cock skull fuck him. His man pussy is pink and tight, just like The Foreman prefers. Wait until you see the giant wad of jizz Timothy Twink takes all over that mighty fine bubble butt! Looks like he'll be keeping the job, too!
Deepdicc - Blacks On Boys
Brian Bonds loves the internet! He loves all the 'apps', and uses them frequently: if he's not ordering food through an app, he's bidding on an auction; and if he's not bidding on an auction, he's trying to rent a room in his house...and if he's not doing that, he's searching for a well-endowed black man to open up his pink, tight man pussy. Today he's juggling so much he forgets the handsome black man at the door is a hook up...and NOT the man looking to rent a room! And look at the expression on Brian's face when he sees his new friend is a 'True 10'! Uncut, too!! Brian drops to his knees and opens wide, thirsty for black dick. He peels the foreskin back to lick the delicious head before jumping on for what might be the ride of his life! By the end, Brian's literally had the jizz fucked out of him by massive BBC.
Nightclubs always have interesting -- and often controversial -- theme nights, and the club Justin Case manages is no exception. Thursdays are 'Big Fat Dick' night, and Justin is always looking to hire the biggest, fattest dicks possible in order to make the club's Thursday's nights a hit. It's always interesting to watch the interview process take place, and today you're up close and personal as Justin runs some questions by his two applicants, Ray Diesel and Deepdicc. After the traditional interview process, Justin drops to his knees to insure his employees are, indeed, big and fat. Their dicks, that is, and both Ray and Deep deliver the goods. Ray's rock-hard, oversized black cock matches Deep's uncut, thick black dong. Both men bring giant loads to Justin's interview, too. In other words, You're Hired!
Beau Reed - Blacks On Boys
Cruising. You know it well. When a fellah is horny and feeling really dirty, what better place to go than an adult bookshop? Let's face it -- everyone acts like a freak in one of those places, and Beau Reed is no exception. Look at that dude! Playing with his dick right in the middle of the store!! You know where he's headed next? Yeap...right to the back of the store. There's a handful of rooms where a horny lad can watch a movie in private. Or, maybe...invite a JO buddy in to watch it with you? What if that JO buddy is black...and hung? And what if another BBC pops through the hole, too? Beau Reed had big, black dick coming at him from all directions, and, as a good bottom, he'll receive them willingly. How does his ass accommodate all that BBC? Beau's stretched to the max, for sure, and in the end he's messier than a well-used cum rag!
Brendan Phillips - Blacks On Boys
Deepdicc is down. Really down. He manages a fairly popular bar in the gay part of town, but the owners aren't happy. Revenue is down, and they're coming down hard on him. Deep's co-workers feel his pain, and they want to help. They offer up suggestions to cut costs, boost revenues, and make the bar more popular. They also offer up some stress relief before they open. Brenden is going to offer up his mouth and tight, white ass. Brendan loves Deep's big, uncut black cock as much as rimming Daddy Cream's round bubble butt. A little stress relief turns into a super-hot 3-way...and Brendan covered in cum. Better clean up and finish prepping the bar! We open in less than 10 minutes!!
Skylar Starr - Blacks On Boys
Skyler Star is a black cock slut. He'll perform sexual acts with a black man that he'd never do with his own race. The reason? Size, primarily. We teamed Skyler up with our well-hung stud, Deepdicc. Deep is aptly-named, as his thick, uncut 11-inch dong has destroyed many who have come before Skyler. In fact, when you watch this scene, you'll see the pain Deep inflicts on Skyler's (now-loose) sweet ass. In other words, Skyler walked on set with a tight, pink manpussy and limped off set with a size 11 poopchute. Skyler's wrecked asshole felt the pain that is Deepdicc for weeks after this pounding!
Deepdicc's been training. He wants to add some bulk tohis thin frame, and he wants to do it without getting fat. He's hireda trainer -- Derek Parker -- to help him reach his goals. One ofDeep's biggest obstacles? He loves to party. So, when he's draggingass in the gym, Derek's gonna get on him. And then later, once they'redone and in the locker room, Deepdicc is going to return the favor bygetting on Derek. Literally. Derek's got a good feeling that Deep'spacking, and sure enough, once Derek pulls out Deep's uncut, monsterblack dick, it's time for another session. This time they're bothgonna sweat, and something tells me Deep's gonna work much harder thanhe did out in the gym!
Geoff Gregorio - Blacks On Boys
If you ever hear someone describe a situation or a place as 'cruisy', and you don't know what that means exactly, well...you're probably not gay. If you do, then you know all about cruisy bathrooms and cruisy parks and cruisy adult bookstores. Geoff Gregario knows about all The Cruise. When he's feeling the itch, Geoff heads to his favorite adult bookshop. It's got a decent selection of mags, DVD's and toys, but what makes this adult shop cruisy is the arcade in the back. It's old school for sure -- walk in, put a twenty dollar bill in the machine, and grab your tokens. From there it's time to watch a movie...and wait. Wait until that big, black cock makes its way through the hole, and if Geoff is 'feeling it', he'll ask the fellah in the other booth to join him for a hot JO session followed by some action. You know...cruisy action!!!
Robin Stone - Blacks On Boys
We can all agree that moving sucks, which is why we usually hire someone else to do it for us. Enter Twink Robin Stone and Deepdicc, both men employed by a moving company. They've got a big job -- perhaps too big -- and as they're sizing up all the crap they have to move, Robin stumbles upon a box of porn. Before you know it, a JO session starts up, with Robin staring in disbelief at Deepdicc's uncut 10-inch tool. With a piece of meat that big, Robin immediately recognizes a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. With the Boss on a lunch break, Robin attempts to accommodate Deep's massive member orally (he can barely take 1/4 of it down his throat before gagging) and up his tight, pink manhole. Pleasure turns to pain turns into pleasure as Deep stretches Robin to maximum girth before dropping an even bigger load...all over his new Twink Toy!
Logan Stevens - Blacks On Boys
Cell Block 7 is a tough place to be. Crummy chow. The mattresses on the beds suck. The stench from the toilet. And where are the guards when you need them? Especially if you're a white boy! Logan Stevens has been Deepdicc's cellie for his entire stay, and from day 1, Deep made it very clear he's The Barn Boss. When Deep says 'jump', Logan replies with 'how high?' When Deep says, 'I'm really horny!' Logan replies by dropping to his knees. It's futile to resist, and Logan's tired of the beat-downs. He's much rather take Deep's uncut 11 inches in either hole than Deep's fists across his face. Makes sense, I guess...
Jacob Durham - Blacks On Boys
Deepdicc and Kidd Brando are business partners, and they're into more than one type of business. For example, the two flip cars. It's a good way to make some decent bucks. They like to take cars with a ton of upside that need some TLC, and once they clean the car up, they sell it and split the profits. They're also in the sex business, and both Deep and Kidd love the feel of the white man's ass. Today, they're in for a surprise, because very rarely do car biz and sex biz mix. Deep and Kidd got a call on a mid-60's Mustang convertible that needs a little work. While negotiating a price, turns out the owner -- Jacob Durham -- is a freak! He's always wanted to walk on the wild side, and today's car negotiations turn into much, much more for all three men.
Kylie Maria - Blacks On Boys
There comes a time in every transexual relationship when it's time to spill the beans, so to speak. It's always difficult. Take Kylie Maria, for example. She's been seeing 'Deepdicc' for six months, and things are starting to get intimate. Before it actually goes down, though, Kylie needs to tell Deep something personal. Deep can't figure out what it might be! Lots of people have lots of skeletons in their closet, but it's not what Kylie has in her closet...it's what she's got in her panties. Lucky for her, Deepdicc has a very open mind and is into trannys, so when it's time to pull the panties down to see what Kylie's talking about, Deep's fine with what he sees. In fact, it makes his 11' uncut dong even harder...which is exactly what Kylie was hoping for!
Zac Stevens - Blacks On Boys
Sugardaddies are the best! Zac Stevens loves his! Look at Zac's new Hollywood apartment! He's surrounded by boxes of new furniture, too! While they're great, Sugardaddies tend to do unpredictable things, too. For example, hand a credit card number over to a Sugarbaby that's been tapped out. SugarDaddy is going to swing by in a few hours with cash, but Zac's got a deliveryman in his place to entertain, so he offers up his eager mouth and tight, pink manhole for our black stud to make another type of delivery. Zac's a filthy mess when it's all said and done!
Ares - Blacks On Boys
Let's face it. If you're a white boy, and you're not some hulking bad ass dude who can take care of himself, chances are when you're tossed into a holding cell with horny blacks dude as your cellie, he's gonna make you his bitch. We've heard it before, and we've seen it before. It's about to go down again. Poor Ares. Tossed into the hokie for a DUI. Simple, right? Just sleep it off and pay the fine in the morning. Problem 1: there's no correction officers anywhere to be found. Problem 2: Ares has a cellie, and he goes by the moniker 'Deepdicc', and Deep hasn't seen his girlfriend since getting locked up weeks ago. I'm sure you know who's the Barn Boss today.
Jessy Russel - Blacks On Boys
You gotta love star athletes. You know the ones...who walk around campus and don't give a shit about anything. They don't care about classes and tests and mid-terms and finals. They don't care because the system's rigged in their favor, so they don't need to perform anywhere else except the field. Deepdicc knows this. He's a power forward on his college's hoop team, and today his tutor has to get him past a math test. What the tutor doesn't know is it doesn't matter what he scores on the test -- Deep will still 'pass'. The tutor also doesn't know that Deeps a bi-sexual freak, and when Deep can't get a hold of his girlfriend, he'll stick his dick anywhere he sees fit -- whether or not it will fit!!
Jessie - Blacks On Boys
Can't a fellah get a little bit of privacy when it's time to jerk off? That's all Jessie Montgomery wanted to do. Sure, he's got one of the big, private booths the adult shop offered, and yea, there was room when Luke Allen walked in and asked to join him. Luke was tired of all the creeps in the other booths. He just wanted to do the same thing Jessie's doing -- watch some hot action and jerk. It's not gay to sit next to each other and offer a helping hand, right? When a monster black dick comes through the glory hole from an adjacent booth, well...that's when things get interesting. And mighty gay.
Osiris - Blacks On Boys
It goes without saying being locked up is a bitch. Being stuck in a cell with a horny man is a bigger bitch...and the biggest bitch usually ends up being the White Boy. Poor Osiris has called for a guard over and over, but to no avail. His cellie -- Deep Dicc -- is sitting on the toilet, stroking off to a jerk rag.Osiris knows the magazine won't be enough for the well-endowed, uncut thug, and sure enough, Deep Dicc is pestering him for some action. 'But I'm not gay!' Osiris cries out. But we all know it doesn't matter. It's time for Deep Dicc to establish who's the Barn Boss, and he does so by giving Osiris a size 11 poop chute. Afterwards, it's nap time for Deep Dicc as Osiris tidies up the cell.
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Episode #8.1 is an episode of Game of Thrones starring Emilia Clarke, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and Peter Dinklage. The Great War has come, the Wall has fallen and the Night King's army of the dead marches towards Westeros. The end is...
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Actor: Emilia Clarke, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Peter Dinklage, Alee Fauzi
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Ragnar supports King Horik in his land dispute with Jarl Borg. Rollo, seeking to differentiate himself from his brother, supports Borg. In the ensuing battle, ...
Country: Ireland, Canada
Genre: Action, History, Drama, Romance, War
Actor: Travis Fimmel, Katheryn Winnick, Clive Standen, Jessalyn Gilsig, Gustaf Skarsgård, George Blagden, Alyssa Sutherland, Donal Logue, Thorbjørn Harr, Nathan O'Toole, Tadhg Murphy, Jefferson Hall, Alvaro Lucchesi, Maude Hirst, Morgan C. Jones
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Coulson and his team are now wanted fugitives with limited resources - but that's not stopping them from keeping the world safe from powerful and ...
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Teen Wolf Season 3
Isaac starts the new school term with another living nightmare, forced to trust a motorcycle female to keep him out of the clutches of a ...
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Scorpion Season 2
The new Homeland Security director Adriana Molina reinstates the team to prevent a nuclear, out of control Russian spy satellite crashing on California. Everyone enjoys ...
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Team Ninja Warrior Season 1
Joe Moravsky and Jessie Graf lead teams in the first week of qualifying for the Team Ninja Warrior championship.
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Rogue Season 3
Grace is still missing. Ethan heads to Chicago to investigate notorious attorney Marty Stein. DEA agent Harper Deakins' investigation into one of Chicago's deadliest gangs ...
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Lucy helps then to get into secure place on Eulogy. This is an outlaw only barter mysterious high-tech shielded town.
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Nabeel Qadeer Keynote Speaker at Future Youth Summit 2018
FUTURE YOUTH SUMMIT 2018 The Future Youth Summit (FUYOH) 2018 by the Commonwealth Youth Innovation Centre (CWY) in collaboration focuses on creating a platform for young minds to share experiences, learn and expand their capacities. FUYOH is set to take place from 16th…
ATX+PAK Program to be brought again by City of Austin and ID92
City of Austin and ID92 bring ATX+PAK Program to Pakistan for the second time! After a magnanimous success of the first phase of the ATX+Pak Program (a 3 week long, fully paid entrepreneurial exchange to the city of Austin, USA), ATX+PAK launched its application for…
Idea Croron Ka makes unprecendented Rs. 40 million Investment on the show
Idea Croron Ka Makes History with Rs. 4 Crore Investment This Sunday, October 7th 2018, history was made when a startup BatteryLala raised an investment of PKR 4 Crores in Episode 3 of Pakistan’s premier startup reality show – Idea Croron Ka Season 3. And…
Nabeel Qadeer has been appointed the Chair of the UN Commonwealth Entrepreneurship Project
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Superior Entrepeneurial Expo 2018 will be Pakistan’s biggest yet!
Providing endless opportunities to the budding entrepreneurs of Pakistan for projecting their products and ideas to the world, Superior University in collaboration with Chaudhary Muhammad Akram Center for Entrepreneurship Development (CMACED) is hosting Pakistan’s biggest entrepreneurial show named, “Superior Entrepreneurial Expo 2018” on 11th of…
Calling All Students – Superior University Opens It Admissions Doors
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Republican Party of Texas Primary Election Schedule Defense is, uh, Interesting.
There was something that struck FHQ as odd in the filing the Republican Party of Texas submitted to the San Antonio Federal District court on Monday. [That filing was released today. -- via txredistricting.org]
Now, this is the same court whose decision in the Texas redistricting case was met with a stay from the US Supreme Court late last week. That decision has sent the lower court -- and the state parties in Texas -- scrambling to square the disarray the uncertainty into which the redrawn maps have thrown the 2012 primary season across Texas. The Republican Party of Texas wants to maintain the March 6 primary for the presidential nomination and a host of other statewide races and push the primaries for other offices -- those requiring the redrawn maps -- to May 29. RPT placed the greatest emphasis on the impact moving the presidential primary would have on the local party level:
Munisteri cannot emphasize enough to this court that moving the date of the Texas presidential primary, aside from placing difficulty, nay nearly impossible burdens on the administration of the Republican Party at all levels, but especially at the most basic level where it is wholly conducted by volunteers, will cause this court to likely change the result of the national Republican nomination for President of the United States.
To be clear, the Republicans were most concerned in this filing with the possibility of the presidential primary being moved back to May 29 as well; a date that would make completing the process prior to the early June state convention difficult. The party also argued that moving the presidential primary would force local elections officials to find alternate venues for precinct conventions and pay for those from personal funds. But then came the interesting argument from the party: That abandoning the March 6 presidential primary date would affect the balance achieved by the Texas legislature in setting that date to "preserve this States' [sic] voters a voice in the nomination of the Republican and Democratic nominees for President of the United States." The party goes on to argue that it even changed from winner-take-all delegate allocation rules to proportional in light of requirements from the Republican National Committee in order to preserve that voice.
Now sure, moving the presidential primary all the way back to May 29 would more than likely push Texas out of the window of decisiveness in the Republican presidential nomination race. And that would make the shift from winner-take-all to proportional rules all for naught. But it appears as if the Texas Democratic Party was ready with a counterproposal that would keep all the primaries on one date -- the position they want. Instead of May 29 as the consolidated primary date, the Democrats are arguing for an April 3 primary date.
That date grabbed FHQ's attention. [In fact, I may be the only one.] Why? That was the date that some Republican legislators were pushing to move the primary to back in the spring during the legislature's regular session. Not only that, but that was a date that the Republican National Committeeman (and now RNC legal counsel) Bill Crocker and Republican Party of Texas Chairman Steve Munisteri argued for in a hearing on the primary date legislation before a House committee. Look at what FHQ had to say about that hearing in April 2011:
The committee substitute to HB 111 discussed in the hearing would move the presidential primary back to first Tuesday in April. That move was supported by both Republican National Committeeman from Texas, Bill Crocker, and Texas Republican Party Chairman, Steve Munisteri. Both cited the need to comply with national party rules concerning timing and stressed the potential penalties associated with violations (half or more of the delegation). That is not a concern on timing but is based on the rules regarding Republican delegate allocation in the state. As was the case for the Republican National Committee in every post-reform cycle but 2012, the Republican Party of Texas cannot change its rules except at its convention and the party would need to change its winner-take-all allocation method to comply with the RNC rules if the state maintained a March primary. In other words, the state party could not make the necessary change to its method of delegate allocation until its convention following the primary in 2012. This concerned both Republicans for the potential penalties associated with an inability to make that change. Interestingly neither Crocker nor Munisteri mentioned the potential for Texas losing significance for moving to a later date and both touted the possible advantages of not only maintaining the winner-take-all rules with an April primary, but also the additional significance that would carry if the nomination race was still being contested at that point.
Again, those matters are out the window if the court pushes a May 29 date. The RPT is absolutely right in that case. However, the court may be sympathetic to the April 3 date Texas Democrats are rallying behind. The only question is whether the court -- or the parties for that matter -- feels the redistricting plan will be in place by that point. It is already uncomfortable with the March 6 date for offices that require those lines, but is that extra month enough time?
...and will the Republican Party of Texas consider shifting back to winner-take-all delegate allocation rules if so?
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Thirteen Victoria Crosses have been won by Gurkha regiments.
Twenty-Six, Victoria Crosses have been won by Gurkha Regiments. The Victoria Cross is the most honoured and prestigious award for valor and heroism in the line of duty awarded by the British Government. Nepali Gurkhas have won thirteen Victoria Crosses, including countless other military awards. Below are extracts taken from some of these citations.
Rifleman Kulbir Thapa:
3rd Queen Alexandra’s Own Gurkha Rifles
Fauquissart, France, September 1915
For most conspicuous bravery during operations against the German Trenches south of Fauquissart, when himself wounded, on the 25 September 1915, he found a badly wounded soldier of the 2nd Leicestershire Regiment behind the first lone German trench, and though urged by the British soldier to save himself, he remained with him all day and night. In the early morning of the 26th September, in misty weather, he brought him out through the German wire, and leaving him in a place of comparative safety returned and brought in two wounded Gurkhas one after the other, He then went back in broad daylight for the British soldier at most points under the enemy’s fire
Karna Bahadur Rana (Magar)
3rd Queen Alexandra’s
Own Gurkha Rifles
El. Kefr, Egypt
On 10 April 1918 at El. Kefr, during an attack, Rifleman Karan Bahadur Rana and a few other men crept forward with a Lewis gun under intense fire to engage an enemy machine-gun. No. 1 of the Lewis gun team opened fire but was shot almost immediately, whereupon the rifleman pushed the dead man off the gun, opened fire, knocked out the enemy gun crew and then silenced the fire of the enemy bombers and riflemen in front of him. During the remainder of the day he did magnificent work and finally assisted with covering fire in the withdrawal, until the enemies were close on him.
Date and Place of Birth: 21 December 1898;
V. Mangalthan, Gulmi, Nepal; son of Dalbir Rana
Enrolled: 21 December 1916
Extract from VC Holder Reference books
Subedar Lal Bahadur Thapa (Magar)
2nd King Edward VII’s Own Gurkha Rifles
Resse-es- Zouai, Tunisia,
N. Africa April 1943
On the night of 5-6 April, during the silent attack on the Resse-es-Zouai, Subadar Lal Bahadur Thapa was Second-in-Command of D Company….
The garrison of the outer posts were all killed by Subadar Lal Bahadur Thapa and hi men by kukri or bayonet in the first rush and the enemy then opened very heavy fire straight down the narrow enclosed pathway and steep arena sides. Subadar Lalbahadur Thapa led his men on and fought his way up the narrow gully straight through the enemy’s fire, with little room to manoeuvre, in the face of intense and sustained machine-gun concentrations and the liberal us of grenades by the enemy.
Next the machine-gun posts were dealt with, Subadar Lal Bahadur Thapa personally killing two men with his kukri and two more with his revolver. This Gurkha Officer continued to fight his way up the narrow bullet-swept approaches to thecrest.
Havildar Gaje Ghale
5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (FF)
Chin Hills, Burma (Myanmar) May 1943
….while preparing for the attack the platoon came under heavy mortar fire but Havildar Gaje Ghale rallied them and led them forward.
Approaching to close range for the well-entranced enemy, then latoon came under withering fire and this NCO was wounded in the arm, chest and leg by an enemy hand grenade. Without pausing to attend to his serous wounds and with no heed to the intensive fire from sides, Havildar Gaje Ghale closed hi men and led them to close grips with the enemy when a bitter hand to hand struggle ensued.
Havildar Gaje Ghale dominated the fight by his outstanding example of dauntless courage and superb leadership. Hurling hand grenades, covered in blood from his own neglected wounds, he led assault after assault, encouraging his platoon by shouting the Gurkha’s battle cry.
Spurred on by the irresisitible will of their leader to win, the platoon stormed and carried the hill by a magnificent all out effort and inflicted very heavy casualties on the Japanese.
Rifleman Ganju Lama
7th Gurkha Rifles
Ninthoukhong, Burma June 1944
… B Company, 7th Gurkha Rifles, was ordered to counter-attack and restore the situation. Shortly after passing the starting line it came under heavy enemy medium machine-gun and tank machine-gun fire at point blank range, which covered all lines of approach. Rifleman Ganju Lama, the No.1 of the PIAT gun, on his own initiative, with great coolness and complete disregard for his own safety, crawled forward and engaged the tanks single handed. In spite of a broken left wrist and two other wounds, one in his right hand and one in his leg, caused by withering cross fire concentrated upon him, Rifleman Ganju Lama succeeded in bringing his gun into action within thirty yards of the enemy tanks and knocked out first one and then another, the third tank being destroyed by an anti-tank gun. In spite of his serous wounds, he then moved forward and engaged with grenades the tank crews, who now attempted to escape. Not until he hand killed them all, thus enabling his company to push forward, did he allow himself to be taken back to the Regimental Aid Post to have his wounds dressd…….
Rifleman Tul Bahadur Pun
3rd Bn. 6th Gurkha Rifles
Moguang, Myanmar (Burma)
Rifleman Tul Bahadur Pun then seized the Bren gun and firing from the hip as he went, continued the charge on this heavily bunkered positioned alone, in the face of the most shattering concentration of automatic fire, directed straight at him. With the dawn coming up behind him, he presented a perfect target to the Japanese. He had to move for thirty yards over open ground, ankle deep in mud, through shell holes and over fallen trees.
Despite these overwhelming odds, he reached the Red House and close with the Japanese occupants. He killed three and put five more to flight and captured two light machine-guns remainder of his platoon which enabled them to reach their objective.
Rifleman (Acting Nak) Agam Singh Rai
Bishenpur, Burma June 1944
…… This position was now under intense fire from the .37 millimeter gun in the jungle and from “Water Piquet” Naik Agam Sing Rai at once advanced towards the gun, his section without hesitation following their gallant leader. Intense fire reduced the section to three men before half the distance had before half the distance had been covered but they pressed on to their objective. Arriving at close range, naik Agam Singh Rai killed three of the crew and his men killed the other two. The pary then returned to “Mortar Bluff” where the rest of their platoon were forming up for the inal assault on “ Water Piquet” In the subsequent advance heavy machine-gun fire and showers of grenades from an isolated bunker position caused further causalities. Once more, with indomitable courage, Naik Agam Singh Rai, covered by his Bren gunner, advanced alone with a grenade in one hand and his Thompson sub-machine gun in the other. Through devastating fire he reached the enemy position and with his grenade and bursts from his Thompson sub-machine gun killed all four occupants of the bunker……
A/Subadar Netra Bahadur Thapa (Magar)
5th Gurkha Rifles in 2nd World War
Bishenpur, Myanmar (Burma)
On 25/26 June 1944 at Bishenpur, Subadar Netrabahadur Thapa was in command of a small isolated hill post, when the enemy attacked in force. The men, inspired by their leader’s fine example, held their ground and the enemies were beaten off, but casualties were very heavy and reinforcements were requested. When these arrived some hours later they too became casualties, but the subadar, undeterred, retrieved the ammunition himself and took the offensive with grenades and kukris, until he was killed.
Rifleman Sher Bahadur Thapa (Chhettri)
San Marino, Italy
On 18 and 19 September 1944 at San Marino, Italy, when a company of the 9th Gurkha Rifles encountered bitter opposition from a German prepared position, Rifleman Sher Bahadur Thapa and his section commander, who was afterwards badly wounded, charged and silenced an enemy machine-gun. The rifleman then went on alone to the exposed part of a ridge where, ignoring a hail of bullets, he silenced more machine-guns, covered a withdrawal and rescued two wounded men before he was killed.
Date and Place of Birth: 20 November 1921,
Ghalecchap village, Thamu tehsil, Nepal, son of Ramdhoj Thapa
Enrolled: 20 November 1942
Lance Naik Bhanbhagta Gurung
3rd Bn, 2nd King Edward VII’s
Tamandu, East Myanmar (Burma)
…. Rifleman Bhanbhagta without waiting for orders dashed forward alone to attack the first foxhole. With two grenades he killed both occupants and without hesitation rushed on to clear three more foxholes single handed with bayonet and grenade. Realizing that a light machine gun now firing on him would hold up not only has own platoon behind him but another approaching from the west, Bhanbhagta for the fifth time advanced alone under heavy enemy fire to knock out this position.
Doubling forward he leapt on to the roof of the bunker from where, his hand grenades being finished, he flung two smoke and Bhanbhagta promptly killed then both with his Khukuri. Japanese inside the bunker was still firing the gun holding up the advance of the platoon, so Bhanbhagta crawler inside, killed this remaining gunner and captured gun.
Havildar Lachhiman Gurung
Taungdaw, Myanmar (Burma)
… Before assaulting, the enemy hurled innumerable grenades at the position from close range. Once grenade fell on the lip of Rifleman Lachhiman Gurung’s trench; he at once grasped it and hurled it back at the enemy. A second grenade landed in his trench. Again this Rifleman snatched to throw it back but it exploded in his hand, blowing off his finger, shattering his right arm and severely wounding him in the face body and right leg. His two comrades were also badly wounded and lay helpless in the button of the trench.
The enemy, screaming and shouting, now formed up shoulder to shoulder and attempted to rush the position by sheer weight of numbers. Rifleman Lachhiman Gurung, regardless of his wounds, fires and loaded his rifle with his left hand, maintaining a continuous and steady rate of fire. Wave after wave of fanatical attacks were thrown in by the enemy during the next four hour and all-were repulsed with heavy casualties…
Lance Corporal (Captain) Ram Bahadur Limbu
10th Princess Mary’s
… picked up to the man and carried him to safety out of the line of fire. Without hesitation he immediately returned to the top of the hill determined to complete his self-imposed task of saving those for whom he felt personally responsible. It was now clear from increase weightof fire being concentrated on the approaches to and in the immediate vicinity of the remaining casualty the enemy was doing all they could to prevent and further attempts at rescue. However, despite this, Lance Corporal Ram Bahadur Lambu again moved out into the open for his final effort. In a series of short forward rushes, once being pinned down for some minutes by the intense and accurate automatic fire which could be seen striking the ground all round him, he eventually reached the wounded man. Picking him up and unable now to seek cover he carried him back as fast as he could through the hail of enemy bullets. For all but a few seconds this young NCO has been moving alone in full view of the enemy and under the continuous aimed fire of their automatic weapons.
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New book sheds light on military courts in Latin America
A recent book by Julio Ríos-Figueroa (CIDE, Mexico) will be of great interest to many readers. Constitutional Courts as Mediators: Armed Conflict, Civil-Military Relations, and the Rule of Law in Latin America was published this summer in Cambridge University Press’s well-respected Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy series. The book focuses on the key question of how democracies attempt to balance the need for a strong military that is also bound by the rule of law, and the under-examined role that constitutional courts can play in this process. The main argument is that constitutional courts and judges play an informational role in the bargaining that occurs between the civilian government and military, reducing uncertainty and leading to a more cooperative relationship. These courts are successful, in other words, when they serve as mediators rather than just arbiters of disputes.
To illustrate his theory, Ríos-Figueroa examines constitutional court cases that challenge a previous ruling by a military authority and those that reflect broadly on the scope of military jurisdiction across three countries in Latin America: Colombia, Peru, and Mexico. The three cases share a history of internal security threats, democratic elections, and constitutional reform processes in the early 1990s, yet the nature of constitutional courts (particularly the level of accessibility) varies significantly over time and across cases, providing solid leverage on the main variable of interest. Colombia is described as being the case where courts have been the most informational and served the important mediator role that has helped resolve conflicts between the government and the military. A later chapter reflects briefly on Israel, Turkey, and Pakistan to demonstrate the applicability of the model outside of the region of Latin America.
Overall, readers will find the theory accessible and argument convincing, and will greatly value the detailed case studies. Anyone interested in the role that high courts can play in checking military power and reforming military justice should take a look at this new work.
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The oldest woman in the world revealed the secret of longevity
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In Bolivia are found the oldest woman in the world, whose record of longevity was not recorded. Talked with her, the journalists of the news Agency Associated Press.
Julia Flores Kolka (Julia Flores Colque) was born 26 Oct 1900 in Sacaba in a family of Quechua. Earlier, the childhood she spent in the mountains, among shepherds, then moved to the city, where old age was selling his own grown vegetables and fruits. Kolka calls healthy food the main secret of his longevity, although admits that sometimes allows himself to eat the cake or drink a can of soda. She never married and had no children.
Kolka said that whiles away the days playing a traditional instrument, Charango — five-string counterpart of the lute. Under it, she often sings songs in Quechua. Together with her live dog, cat and chicken. It is full of life and energy and loves to pamper homemade pastries. For Kolka looked after by her 65-year-old grandniece Agustin Bern (Berna Agustina).
The Bolivian is actually the oldest woman in the world. She is older than the past world record-holders, the Japanese Tie Miyako, born may 2, 1901, who died in July. However, the representatives of the Guinness book of records stated that they had not received applications from Kolka. As journalists found out, she was unaware of the existence of such a registry.
Authorities Sakabe recognized Kolka “living legacy”. On government money and private funds, she made a home repair, put a brick walkway in the courtyard and attached to the wall of the home the railing to the old lady fell in the evening on the way to the bathroom located in a separate room. A few years ago Kolka severely injured his back. The doctor said she can’t walk, but the woman has denied their predictions.
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Everything my kid watches on the television falls into one of two categories. Pretty OK and UNWATCHABLE CUTESY SHOUTING CONTEST. The pretty ok stuff comes, as the comic above suggests, mainly from PBS Kids. Shows like Word Girl, Martha Speaks, Wild Kratts, and Curious George actually do a commendable job of blending entertainment and education while simultaneously not being obnoxious to parents.
The rest come from all over. Nick, Disney, Cartoon Network, probably the channel where they sell knives at night, maybe a ditch with half a snake in a Coke can… just all over. I can’t really pin down the source of the annoyance other than a seemingly universal opinion among children’s television producers that kids always want to hear character screaming, shouting, shrieking, shrilly cackling or singing makeshift autotuned pop songs that are vaguely about friendship and mostly about “being yourself” and “dancing” and “dancing yourself” and “self esteem achieved through dancing” and “dance esteem.”
Adventure Time is the outlier, because it is truly phenomenal genre fiction cleverly disguised as a show for tiny children and adult stoners. Not even Game Of Thrones can match the world building going on in Adventure Time. It’s FUCKING vast. AT is also unique in the way that it has created a framework within itself where the writers are free to completely abandon the established characters and locales (even the typical time and space dimensions in which the show takes place) and just expand outward in every creative direction to tell some incredibly complex and often times bizarre stories that still manage to stay grounded in the world from which they spring. Vast, man. I am telling you. Vast.
It also doesn’t hurt that it is expertly written and voice acted. It’s genuinely funny for adults. The most interesting thing I notice while watching it with Kiddo is what makes me laugh, but not her. What makes her laugh, but only makes me smile, and what makes us both laugh heartily at the same time. SPOILERS: It’s the farts.
COMMENTERS: What things do your kids or just kids in general enjoy that you can’t stand? What gives you common entertainment ground?
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Gravity Falls! Over The Garden Wall! …I don't have much else to add other than those are two of the best kid-oriented things on the planet right now. I'd even rank 'em over Adventure Time.
hijinksensue
Kiddo loves Gravity Falls but I missed the boat on starting it with her and I'm pretty sure you have to watch it from the beginning. I hope to catch up some day.
@Kisai
I've been watching it from what appears to be season 2. There's actually a LOT of stuff in every episode that you really need to record it with a PVR.
GallopingConch
No kids were involved: My girlfriend introduced me to Gravity Falls. We watched the entire first season in a day. It's a good show. I am not surprised I wasn't the first to mention it.
@philurich
It's not strictly chronological (knowing that the channel will air reruns completely randomly, they've avoiding having it *too* serialized), but hey, what better opportunity to introduce your kiddo to the geek ritual known as The Rewatch? 😉
Whooooa. No no, don't skip Gravity Falls. It'd be almost as bad as giving Adventure Time a pass, just because you didn't see it from ep 1. It too, is "Complex world building and character development behind the guise of simple children's entertainment". It's slightly more episodic and innocent than Adventure Time, but it can be enjoyed in the same way. And Over the Garden Wall is amazing. Children can watch it, but I'm not even sure it's supposed to be for children. It gets hella dark at times.
But seriously, I lagged on starting both Adventure Time and Gravity Falls, and felt like an IDIOT when I watched them later. I love them both, to death.
Frank Fenton
Steven Universe!
I really think Rebecca Sugar's presence is missing on Adventure Time now.
@Jorenko
I agree with you 100%. Steven Universe is a younger show, but I think it benefited from a lot of the growing up that Adventure Time already did in its first couple of seasons, since a lot of their staff used to work on AT. Lately I'm actually liking SU more than AT, for all the same reasons.
My angel/devil child is 13, so our common ground shows are now horrible reality TV monstrosities.
Before the Logan's Run crystal started blinking and she was more pleasant to be around, we enjoyed most of the shows already listed plus The Aquabats. I think it hit her at just the right age, because she transitioned from the show to the music and they wound up being her first live show.
Word of caution: You can do your very best to guide them towards quality, thoughtful entertainment choices but in the end they will probably pick Pitbull over the Beatles. Try not to freak out. We were lucky as children because our parents listened to horrible music and we got to rebel by listening to great music. Children today have to go the opposite way. It's not their fault that our music is great and theirs is horrible. They will come around eventually. Or we will use them as spare parts. Either way, we'll be fine.
I wasn't allowed to enjoy any of the music i liked as a kid, so my only real hope here is to introduce her to the things I love, let her know why I think they're important, then sit back and let her figure out what SHE actually likes. If there's overlap, great. If she wants my opinion or guidance on entertainment options, I will oblige. If she likes something I think it TERRIBLE, I'm going to practice restraint as long as it isn't inappropriate. I'll be honest and let her know when things aren't my favorite or just aren't for me, but I'm really going to try not to make her feel bad for what she likes or tell her that her music is awful, because I remember what that felt like and it was devastating. Music was the only thing I cared about as a kid and being told it was wrong or bad was the same as tell me I was wrong and bad. I don't want to pass that on.
All of that said, I will always try to introduce the things I love into her life. Even if she doesn't show immediate interest. Sometimes you plant seeds that don't grow for years.
My kid love Caillou. Oh boy do I want to strangle that Canadian wretch
gretchenstull
That bald bastard.
LazyDolphin
Ugh. The way the backgrounds on that show only occupy two-thirds of the screen…that causes me actual stress.
Your dishwasher is top loading?
Also, I've never tried to get into Adventure Time. Perhaps I have been fooled by the children's show exterior. Or maybe the animation just doesn't do it for me. Every time I see an add for it, it makes me miss the Toonami of my childhood (Dragon Ball Z, Gundam, Tenshi Muyo and so on). I dunno. Maybe I should give it a shot.
HAH! I meant "washing machine." Now I have to decide whether to change the words or the art.
I have no idea if a 90's/2000's anime fan would be interested in Adventure Time since I wasn't one myself.
Also, I'm not sure if you meant to say "world building" instead of "word building" in the first panel. "complex word building" kinda made sense until I read the alt-text and realised you probably meant "world building"?
The best nerd show ever for kids was Jonny Quest, the 60/70's version. Sadly they only made a few dozen episodes. Showing my age…
The new site is spiffy, and the expanding logo at the top is cool. On Firefox, though, the logo is covering the title.
Also – is there a way to go right to the latest HE or do you always have to click through the home page first, now?
jiynx
The johnny quest revival in the 90s was pretty good for the first season or two before the creators were fired and studio types put in. Complex stories and characters and before the change in show runners one of the better female characters in animation.
I barely remember that show, but I do remember liking it. It had something to do with always going into "cyber space" via virtual reality if I recall.
Under the 'Comics' item in the menu bar there is a link to the latest Hijinks Ensue
FuryOfFirestorm
I was raised in the era of brightly colored, 20 minute toy ads (like He-Man) and cocaine-fueled fever dreams (Turbo Teen), but I was also fortunate to be a teenager when Batman: The Animated Series and Pinkie and The Brain were on air.
What were your favorite cartoons as a kid? Which ones do you wish could be rebooted or brought back for the new generation? I would love if Jem, Spiral Zone, SilverHawks, Bionic 6, and Galaxy Rangers got modern-day reboots.
Batman TAS, Batman Beyond, Animaniacs, Freakazoid, some of Tiny Toons, it was a golden age of cartoons.
Jem IS getting a reboot. Google it. It's just about to happen.
I know that there's a Jem comic book hitting the shelves soon, and there's a live action Jem movie coming this fall, but if there's a reboot of the cartoon show, this is the first I've heard of it.
Oh I suppose I saw the art for the comic and assumed it was a cartoon.
No biggie. Hopefully the comic and the movie do well, spurring an actual reboot of the cartoon.
AgentKeen
Joel's bubble in panel 1 is basically me anytime someone says "YOU WATCH CARTOONS?!?!"
(Also, FYI, the new re-sizing banner thing at the tip covers up the title of the comic)
Only if you are using Ad-block. I'm not going to tell you how to internet, but I would appreciate it if you whitlisted my site on your adblocker. I will try to fix the problem regardless.
Aha, I didn't realize I had it on here. I only pop in from time to time, but I'll make sure to add!
This site design is worth $1500? :- Makes me miss being able to read the comic on the RSS feed.
Nope. You're missing the point and being rude. When my monthly Patreon reached $1500, I said I would redesign the site and make the comics bigger. That's what happened and that's what I did.
Best Adventure Time story I ever heard was when they tried to record Lou Ferrigno (a deaf man) screaming his character's name "Billy", but couldn't figure out why he was unable to modulate his voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFZyFZaQzEE
Much of the programming on Sprout makes me want to declare my home a no-television zone just to stop the abuse. Caillou is the main culprit. It doesn't help that they show the same 5 episodes on repeat.
My kiddo and I agree on Phineas & Ferb, Teen Titans, and the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I can watch and enjoy each of those as much as he does, for different reasons.
chukg
I haven't seen the new TMNT but I will *almost* watch Phineas & Ferb without the kid (I probably would if I didn't already have a backlog of other stuff I like better).
I got into Phineas & Ferb while spending one summer semi-babysitting the neighbor kid. I haven't seen an episode in a couple of years, but I do have a stuffed Perry the Platypus on my desk in my office (very happy he survived the department move), and it's always a kick to get a student coming in and squealing, "You have a Perry! I LOVE Perry!"
I love Perry 🙂
I have yet to try the new TMNT, mostly because it's been retreaded so many times I'm afraid it will burst. My luck, probably while I'm at full speed on the freeway. Did all right with most of the DC stuff on Cartoon Network, and one of my top-five sad days of life was the day the CW finally gave up the ghost on Saturday morning cartoons. Now no one does it, save Cartoon Network, and that's just not right. Arcades, video stores, Saturday morning television…what will we pass on to our children?
I miss Saturday morning cartoons. And arcades…fond memories of arcades.
I was hesitant about the new TMNT to the point of being anti. I grew up on the late 80s/early 90s series and it lives fondly in my memory. So, when my son wanted to watch the new version, I had my hardcore snob on, prepared to hate every minute of it. You nailed it–how many times can you retread something before just beating it into the ground? It took an episode or two for me to get used to the animation style, but I fell in love the writing. I can excuse just about anything if there is a good, core story that pulls me in and makes me care about the characters, and it totally does. While I'm not crazy about all the choices they make, I love how the writers depict the importance of family and personal choice. I also really like the allusions they make that no kid is going to get–the dream beaver episode is a mash-up homage to 'Nightmare on Elm Street' and 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre'. My son did not get why I kept laughing.
Both avatar series are rock solid. Korra was a revelation to my daughter.
Lazlo Falconi
Listen, it is not too late to get into Steven Universe. The plot is starting to pick up speed and it's going to be big. Just start watching now, catch every episode you can, and hold on tight. I'm pretty sure it's gearing up to be one of the most important kids shows of this decade.
Jingy
Just an FYI, the auto resizing Hijinks Ensue banner is covering up the title and top edge of the comic for me in Firefox (and the banner only resizes when you scroll down to far to see the top of the comic)
I'm not complaining (I like the site changes so far), I just thought I'd point it out since I wasn't noticing this happening a couple days ago.
(p.s, since I'm already sticking my nose in the topic of the site redesign: Are there going to be "LowFijinks", Con sketch/photo comic, guest strip, etc archive categories?)
That error is only if you are using ad-block. See my reply to a previous commenter on this page.
All of the different comics types have always had archives pages. Click on comics -> archive in the menue and scroll down until you find the comic you want.
That is odd, because I do have ad-block, BUT I have it disabled on this site (and any other webcomic I visit regularly).
I'm back to seeing it display normally tonight though. So I guess it was just some quirk on my end
Quick links have been added to the "comics" menu drop down.
I grew up with Square One TV and Bill Nye (the science guy). PBS is awesome. We'd watch science and math after school, then spend dinner discussing it with my physicist dad.
Mathnet died before its time, man.
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Kovalic
The new Mickey Mouse shorts Disney is doing are just terrific.
Are they CG?
@BirdmanofAthena
They're not CG (as much as anything is these days, anyway), and I don't like them. They're cliche, predictable, and just don't make me laugh. They tried to go back to the roots of Mickey's and other characters' design, and that I don't mind, but Goofy's current design is just SO ugly, even compared to some of the older versions.
Just had a look at the voice cast for Adventure Time on IMDB- wow! A host of major voice talent including some with additional geek cred (STNG, Firefly etc.). Also, farts are guaranteed laughs.
@generationstx
My 6 year olds asked me once why we never watched tele-tubbies, so I showed them (insert evil laugh here). They now believe me when I say you won't like that and we move on, together. I did not see anyone mention regular show or star wars rebels yet, wee like both in our house along with a myriad of others including those mentioned as well as fairly odd parents.
What I have failed to embrace is the live action buffoonery on disney/nick they are starting to watch – kicking it was my downfall this weekend… Stupid Bucky Kentucky!
The live action stuff is a whole different circle of hell. Kiddo is watching "The Haunted Hathaways," which is about a family of humans that lives with a family of ghosts, only ghosts don't appear to be the souls of dead humans and are instead their own species that reproduce. They live in Ghost world, but come to our world to… play jazz sax? And scare people? NONE OF IT MAKES SENSE. It follows the standard Disney/Nick live action formula where kids are awesome and adults are idiot bafoons and EVERYONE is constantly shouting and mugging for the camera. The best I can tell, the acting coaches they hire for these shows only gives the kids one note: "BIGGER!" It's like Harold Zoid directs these shows.
"Ghost World"? "Jazz music"?
Are there two mopey girls in it that resemble Thora Birch and Scarlett Johanson?
I hate to be the lurker who chimes in just for this, but: Did you mean "world" instead of "word" in panel 1?
It's already been fixed. Force a refresh.
Richter12x2
I like how the hover-text reads a lot like Ginsberg's 'Howl'- was that intentional?
Nah, just an extension of the rant from panel 3.
I got into Adventure Time late, but it is amazing. I dig Regular Show as well–I honestly think RS would work as a primetime series on another network. I watched the first couple of episodes of each on Netflix recently and was astonished at how they're pretty much fully-formed from the beginning. The characters go off-model a lot (especially early-episode Finn), but the tone of each show is right there at the start. RS might work better for older kids, and that's just fine.
Maybe it's just me, but I think their Grim Reaper sort of resembles Lemmy Killmeister from Motorhead.
Not sure if it's just my phone (iPhone 5) but the alt text is unreadable on mobile as it cuts off half of the text bubble. Might I make a suggestion that for smaller phone sizes you use a Javascript 'alert("text goes here") instead of a custom modal dialog? That way you don't have to deal with resizing it and handling scrolling if the text is long, etc…etc… If you need any help with the Javascript for that feel free to e-mail me, I'd be glad to help =)
It was fixed earlier this morning. Just wait for your cache to update.
Looks to be working nicely – thanks
This is the most succinct explanation of why I only call myself a fan of animation in the right company- you know, with people who "get it", like other nerdy types and patient family members, who will listen to me explain my specific list of shows- that I have ever read.
*Squint* Rep score? What? When did I get points? What is this, I don't even.
" 'Porpoise Washing Machine and Babyzilla' , coming soon to Nicktoons! What? You think we'll just let Cartoon Network have all the weird stuff? We were first! Remember Ren & Stimpy, and Rocko's Modern Life, and CatDog? That was us."
But back on topic, I am a 30 year old man with a job in the tech industry, and I still watch Adventure Time. Not since Ren & Stimpy have I seen a show meant for kids that so liberally uses the word "sucks", or has so much on-screen vomiting! That, and the intricate backstory of the world and its characters unfolds over the course of the series. A bit like The Venture Brothers.
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High
"At Ridgemont High, only the rules get busted". Fast Times at Ridgemont High was a teenage coming-of-age comedy released in 1982. The movie starred Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli, Jennifer Jason Leigh as Stacy Hamilton, Judge Reinhold as Brad Hamilton, Phoebe Cates as Linda Barrett, and even Nicolas Cage in a small role. The movie did not received the best ratings in 1982, but it was successful at the box office, and it continues to be an iconic 80's movie.
The movie essentially follows the lives of a number of high school students over the year. There is Brad Hamilton (Reinhold), a popular high school senior whose girlfriend dumps him to play the field (she beat him to the punch). He just wants to earn enough money to pay off his car. There is his sister, Stacy Hamilton (Leigh), a precocious sophomore who turns out to be quite promiscuous and ends up paying a steep price because of it. Her best friend Linda (Cates), is full of bad advice.
And there is pot head, surfer Jeff Spicoli (Penn), who ends up making the history teacher so angry, that the teacher makes Spicoli spend a number of hours after school learning his lessons. This is one of Penn's most memorable 80's roles, and it is difficult to think of the movie without thinking of Spicoli. It is worth mentioning that in the end, Spicoloi saves Brooke Shields from drowning, and then promptly blows the reward money on his birthday party by hiring Van Halen to perform.
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Derrylossary Church Co Wicklow
Above Image: The entrance gate
Above Image: View of the interior
Above 2 Images: The bullaun within the grounds
Above Image: The proximity of the outer bullaun to the West wall
Above 2 Images: The bullaun outside the wall
This is a fairly recent ruin the last service being held here in 1968 and then abandoned due to diminishing patronage. In the mid 1980's the Church was stripped of it's roof and laid bare to the elements.
The Church is made up of two sections the original part was a simple nave and was depicted in a drawing by George Petrie in 1820. Around that time an expansion was made to the Church and a tall bell tower was added in the 1830's. It is believed that remnants of the medieval Church that stood here are included in the Prue-expansion section. The site although designated Church of Ireland contains many Roman Catholic graves. One notable grave in the Churchyard is that of former President of Ireland Erskine Childers.
While the ruin itself is aesthetically pleasing to the eye sitting on a hill adjacent to Scarr mountain and surrounded by bucolic countryside it is inaccessible unless you clamber in through one of the window apertures. But it is really fairly plain inside not full of nooks and crannies like the medieval Church ruins and so not worth the effort. The tower itself also remains locked. Interestingly enough there are a number of bullaun stones in the area and two of them lie close to the ruins and are worth seeing.
The first stone is situated within the graveyard down a set of stone steps near the West wall near the bell tower. It contains two "cups" one 6" in diameter and the other 14". The second stone is in a field just over the West wall. This contains three "cups" one measuring 12.5" another 11.5" and a third partially formed one at 7". These bullauns are fascinatng and are generally thought to be designed to capture rainwater for healing purposes. Some are also thought to be utilised to grind corn. A word of caution, if climbing over the wall to see the outer stone be wary of the capstones on the top of the wall as some are loose. I found this out the hard way when one of the larger ones came loose and dropped hard only millimetres from my foot!
Allin all a mixed bag then but a very attractively placed ruin with some interesting features. Worth a stop if in the area
To find the ruins take the M11 Dublin to Wexford motorway and at junction 15 take the exit for the L5067 heading West. At the junction with the R764 turn right and drive for approx.12Km until you come to a junction with the R755 signposted for Laragh. There will be a large Church in front of you at this junction. Turn left and drive for approx.1.5KM until, you see a left hand turn for the L5077 and a sign pointing to Derrylossary. You will find the ruins about 150m down this narrow road on the left.
flatraveler 27 February 2014 at 16:51
Just stumbled on your site while planning my next Ireland adventure in July. Bringing a friend who has never been - this is my second trip. All I can say is thanks. This is the Ireland I'm looking forward to seeing. I need to cover some of the tourist spots for my friend but I much prefer the "wilder" side. Definitely adding some of these sites into my plan.
Castlehunter 28 February 2014 at 10:51
Hi Flatraveler
You are very welcome and I'm glad you like the site. Always good to hear from a fellow ruin hunter. July is a great time to visit with long daylight days. Plenty of time to see the off the beaten track treasures
...not sure why the church roof absolutely needed to be stripped down. Surely the building could have accommodated a worthy cause or monthly meetings of many a club or organisation - not least it would have been a treasure trove of archived history from the surrounding areas.
A former resident ...(coming home soon).
Rathmacnee Castle Co Wexford
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Your Lyin’ Eyes and Impeachment
Reading time – 3.47; Viewing time – 5:20 . . .
The Mueller Report is out and I haven’t had time to go through all 448 pages, although you can do that yourself by getting the PDF from the DOJ website here. Click on the 4th line beginning “Report on the Investigation” for the download. Or if you prefer you can get an indexed and searchable version here.
There is big stuff in that report, including that the lack of indictments of the president is due to the Justice Department guideline that a sitting president can’t be indicted. Also, because so many documents were destroyed by various perps.
Nevertheless, Mueller let us know that he was unable to declare that the President of the United States isn’t a criminal. Stunning! My more chilling takeaway, though, is about Attorney General William Barr.
Barr was promoted as a legal institutionalist, even after his unsolicited, 19-page job application that made it clear that he believed that, metaphorically speaking, a president really could get away with shooting someone on 5th Avenue. That view works for Trump and Barr got the attorney general post.
In each of his public appearances and writings as attorney general, Barr has gone out of his way to exonerate the president. His rhetoric vacillates between cherry-picked, out of context phrases to outright lies all in favor of President Trump. Did he think we wouldn’t notice? In listening to Barr I’m reminded of comedian Richard Pryor’s line, “Who you gonna believe: me or your lyin’ eyes?”
The scary part is that Barr sounds like the president’s defense counsel, instead of the attorney for the Constitution of the United States of America.
In his piece in New York Magazine entitled, “Congress Should Impeach William Barr,” Jonathan Chait wrote,
“The Justice Department is an awesome force that holds the power to enable the ruling party to commit crimes with impunity . . .”
We should have seen this coming.
From The Onion, of course. Click the pic
Barr is the former attorney general for President George H.W. Bush. Barr recommended to Bush that he pardon the convicted Iran-Contra felons. Click through the link and scroll down to the Indictments section and you’ll see that these guys did a lot of really bad things, including thwarting the explicit will of Congress. You need to appreciate how significant that is.
Doing that is an attack on Congress itself, and it encourages an imperial presidency. William Barr cemented that by recommending those pardons. And now he’s defending this power grabbing, dictator wanna-be president.
If Barr is an institutionalist, exactly what institution does he serve?
Read more about this here.
Now that most of the Mueller Report is released, the talk of impeachment is spiraling upward. I’ve long called for the removal of this cheating, lying, fraudulent, self-aggrandizing, democracy damaging president, but now I have significant doubt about that notion.
President Gerald Ford set a woeful precedent by granting, “. . . a full, free and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in . . .” Nixon got a free pass for his criminal wrongdoing and wasn’t held accountable in any way.
That is the precedent that Mike Pence will inherit should he become President. That means that our criminal president will likely be pardoned for any and all crimes which he may have committed (think: conspiring with the Russians to disrupt our 2016 election, obstruction of justice; money laundering; and fraud).
Further, if Trump were to be impeached, whether convicted in the Senate or not, he and the Republicans will wail about him being a poor victim, suffering unfair discrimination by the evil Democrats and the Washington swamp. That could lead to another Republican in the White House in 2021 and a Congress controlled by the same spineless legislators who are enabling Trump right now.
The solution that makes the most sense to me is to Benghazi Trump: just keep his wrongdoing in the public eye through November 3, 2020 with ongoing Congressional hearings.
I often have difficulty rationalizing the impact of the bypassing of punishment for wrongdoing in favor of some greater good, but this one looks obvious enough even for me.
No impeachment.
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Nevada Supreme Court strengthens access to government public records
by lvtribune
By Thomas Mitchell
In a narrow 4-3 decision Thursday the Nevada Supreme Court strengthened the public’s access to records held by government agencies, ruling that the Public Employees’ Retirement System must provide the names and pension amounts of retired public workers.
In 2013 the court ruled that PERS had to provide those records to the Reno Gazette-Journal and it did so, but the following year PERS altered its record keeping process so that names were deleted from the pension data and each record was linked only to confidential Social Security numbers. When the Nevada Policy Research Institute sought the same records in 2014 as was given to the newspaper in 2013, it was denied. PERS cited the court ruling that said it did not have to “create” a record on request.
The majority opinion was penned by Chief Justice Michael Douglas and joined by Justices Michael Cherry, Mark Gibbons and Kristina Pickering. The dissent was penned by Justice Lidia Stiglich and joined by Justices Ron Parraguirre and James Hardesty. Stiglich, who was appointed in 2016, is up for re-election on the November ballot and faces conservative District Court Judge Mathew Harter.
The majority notes that PERS’ contention would contravene the very purpose of the public records law, which is to allow the public to keep an eye on how its government officials behave and spend their money.
The opinion cited a court ruling that found “sorting a pre-existing database of information to make information intelligible does not involve the creation of a new record because … computer records found in a database rather than a file cabinet may require the application of codes or some form of programming to retrieve the information.
Sorting a database by a particular data field (e.g., date, category, title) is essentially the application of codes or some form of programming, and thus does not involve creating new records or conducting research — it is just another form of searching that is within the scope of an agency’s duties …”
The majority also cited its own decision in a case called Blackjack Bonding that found “when an agency has a computer program that can readily compile the requested information, the agency is not excused from its duty to produce and disclose that information.”
In a footnote, the majority countered the contention of the dissent, saying, “The dissent argues that the creation of a computer program is not merely drawing information from a database, but rather, improperly requires the agency to conduct research. However, its reasoning ignores the realities of information storage in the digital age. As
specifically recognized by t (the aforementioned court ruling), “computer records found in a database rather than a file cabinet may require the application of codes or some form of programming to retrieve the information.”
Another footnote said the majority was not overruling its previous decision about an agency not having to create a record, but clarifying the earlier holding to reflect the realities of the advancements in technology and to further the purpose underlying the public records law.
The court remanded the case to the lower court to determine precisely how the NPRI records request would be handled and what, if any, expenses the agency could charge for the production of the records.
NPRI’s Director Robert Fellner said in a press release about the case: “PERS argued that public records should be defined narrowly to only include existing documents or reports, rather than all forms of recorded information related to governmental affairs. Had the Court accepted this argument, governments across the state could simply hide information they did not wish to be made public by keeping it stored in a computer database. Thankfully, the Court upheld the plain, statutory definition of a public record to include information stored in a computer database.”
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FILM 110: Introduction to Cinema Studies
FILM 110: Introduction to Cinema Studies: Web Sites
Articles (Databases)
Warning: The Web holds a wide variety of scientific information and misinformation, ranging from popular press coverage to scholarly communications to advertisements to science buff sites. Be careful when using information from web sites, it is changed often which makes it hard to cite it in a paper. It is perferable to use the print equivalent to electronic information because the print version is more reliable (it won't disappear as easily).
Film Studies Web Sites
These are general links to Film studies sites.
Chinese Movie Database
Covers Chinese movies made from 1905 to the present, in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, as well as other countries. Searchable by title and personal name. Includes lists of bibliographies, a movie poster collection, lists of awards and other links.
Film Literature Index Online
An online version of the standard print film index, FLI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001.
An easily searched and browsed catalog of information on over 200,000 movie & TV titles, 400,000 actors and actresses, nearly 40,000 directors and hundreds of thousands of other people connected with film and television.
Provides links to online film reviews as well as articles covering over 30,000 movies, both domestic and international.
Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers
Provides access to major film archives worldwide. Also provides links to publications, studios, copyright information, and organizations.
Screensite
Dedicated to the study of film and television, this site offers links to other selected sites that offer education, research and production information. Under education are links to syllabi, jobs, and schools. The research category offers bibliographies, indexes and discussion groups.
Search engine for all types of information about current and past films.
Silent Film Sources
Directory of vendors offering silent films on video.
Doreen Simonsen
Mark O. Hatfield Library
Subjects:Art & Art History, Asian Studies, Chinese, Cinema Studies, Classics, English, French, German & Russian, History, Japanese, Languages & Linguistics, Latin American Studies, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Spanish, Theatre
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U.S. PREMIERE · Q&AS WITH JAMES JONES, OLIVIER SARBIL & CARLOS CONDE
In 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte announced a “war on drugs” in the Philippines, setting off a wave of violence and murder targeting thousands of suspected drug dealers and users. With unprecedented, intimate access both to police officials implicated in the killings and the families destroyed as the result of Duterte’s deadly campaign, On the President’s Orders is a shocking and revelatory investigation into the extrajudicial murders that continue to this day. Entering a murky world of crime, drugs and politics, the filmmakers have managed to capture the clear trajectory of what depths those who wield excessive power can reach, when attacking those who have the very least.
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102 minutes : the untold story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers
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Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
One hundred two minutes
Dwyer, Jim, 1957-
Flynn, Kevin, 1956-
Buildings -- Evacuation
World Trade Center (New York, N.Y. : 1970-2001)
Buildings -- Evacuation -- New York (State) | New York
Rescue work -- New York (State) | New York
Victims of terrorism
Victims of terrorism -- New York (State) | New York
September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001)
Rescue work
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
Self-preservation -- New York (State) | New York
Of the millions of words written about September 11, 2001, most were told from the outside looking in. "New York Times" reporters Dwyer and Flynn have taken the opposite and far more revealing-approach, capturing the little-known stories of the nearly 12,000 ordinary people who took extraordinary steps to save themselves and others. They tell the dramatic and moving account of the struggle for life inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, when every minute counted. At 8:46 AM on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the twin towers -- reading e-mails, making trades, eating croissants at Windows on the World. Over the next 102 minutes, each would become part of a drama for the ages, one witnessed only by the people who lived it -- until now. New York Times reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn rely on hundreds of interviews; thousands of pages of oral histories; and phone, e-mail, and emergency radio transcripts. They cross a bridge of voices to go inside the infernos, seeing cataclysm and heroism, one person at a time, to tell the affecting, authoritative saga of the men and women -- the 12,000 who escaped and the 2,749 who perished -- who made 102 minutes count as never before
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Encouragement in the Classroom
Date: Saturday September 6, 2014
We are excited to have Joan Young as our special guest on Classroom 2.0 LIVE on September 6, 2014. Joan has recently published her book: Encouragement in the Classroom and she will be sharing some of her best tips and strategies for creating and nurturing an encouraging classroom environment. We all know the factors that can threaten a positive classroom environment: stress from testing, lack of motivation, and problems that students bring from home, for a start. What if we could implement some simple practices to buffer against these factors' negative effects? The good news is that we can. Some of the suggestions Joan will share include how fostering humor, mindfulness, resilience, curiosity, and gratitude in the classroom empowers students to learn from their mistakes, celebrate successes, and actively engage in learning. Follow Joan on Twitter (https://twitter.com/flourishingkids). Her book offers practical, classroom-tested strategies, routines, and rituals that teachers can use immediately to defuse the negative effects of stress and create a stimulating and supportive classroom culture.
Blackboard Collaborate (full recording): https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2014-09-06.0925.M.ACE02B5F35AA7E7975F015AAC6F794.vcr&sid=2008350
Tiny URL for Full Recording: http://hnyctt.me/cr20live-JoanYoung-Encouragement-9-6-14
Recording Chat: http://wiki.classroom20.com/September6_2014
(Note: Click on tab for "Encouragement-Joan Young" in the LiveBinder)
http://www.allkidscanflourish.blogspot.com/ (Joan Young’s blog)
http://www.rushtheiceberg.com/book-review-encouragement-in-the-classroom-by-joan-young/ (Book review by Stephen Davis - @rushtheiceberg)
http://www.educationrethink.com/2014/08/encouragement-in-classroom-review.html (Book review by John Spencer - @edrethink)
https://twitter.com/flourishingkids (Joan Young on Twitter)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KTMHJ4E (Amazon: Encouragement in the Classroom: How do I help students stay positive and focused? (ASCD Arias) [Kindle Edition]
http://www.amazon.com/Super-Sight-Word-Songs-Mini-Books/dp/054510582X/ref=la_B003VFEIIQ_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1405039069&sr=1-1 (Joan Young: Super Sight Word Songs & Mini-Books: Fun Songs Set to Favorite Tunes with Companion Read & Write Mini-Books that Teach Essential Sight Words)
http://www.emotioncompany.com/ (Emotion cards: fun and educational way to enhance emotional literacy by experiencing the world of feelings)
https://www.haikudeck.com/who-is-mrs-young-education-presentation-lqt9BQdFTW (HaikuDeck: Who is Mrs. Young? Joan’s introduction to her new class.)
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/helping-students-start-year-positive-mindset-maurice-elias (Edutopia: Helping Students Start the Year with a Positive Mindset)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/liz-evans/25-ways-to-ask-your-kids-so-how-was-school-today-without-asking-them-so-how-was-school-today_b_5738338.html (25 Ways to Ask Your Kids “How Was School Today?” without asking them “How Was School Today?”
http://allkidscanflourish.blogspot.com/2010/04/power-of-awe-fascination-and-wonder.html (Joan Young: The Power of Awe, Fascination and Wonder)
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/using-humor-in-the-classroom-maurice-elias (Edutopia blog post by Maurice Elias: Using Humor in the Classroom)
http://toddkashdan.com/curious.php (Todd Kashdan: Curious)
http://edte.ch/blog/ (Tom Barrett: Encouraging Curiosity is not Enough) http://www.johnratey.com/ (John Ratey, author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain and expert on the brain/fitness connection; author of many other books including the ADD-ADHD classic: Driven to Distraction)
http://brainrules.net/ (John Medina: Brain Rules--12 important rules that help us understand how the brain works and how to use get the most out of this information both personally and in our classrooms.)
http://brainrules.net/about-the-author (John Medina-Brain Rules: About the Author)
http://radteach.com/ (Judy Willis: Neurologist, Middle School Teacher, Author--When a Neurologist becomes a classroom teacher, Brain Learning Research promotes teaching strategies. Her website features the insights and publications pertaining to parent and teacher strategies to ignite student learning.)
http://www.positivityratio.com/ (Positivity by Barbara Fredrickson)
http://www.unc.edu/peplab/publications/Fredrickson%202013%20Updated%20Thinking.pdf (Barbara Fredrickson: Updated thinking on Positivity ratios)
http://www.unc.edu/peplab/research.html (UNC PEP Lab research: Broaden-and-Build Theory of Positive Emotions by Barbara Fredrickson)
http://www.unc.edu/peplab/publications/Chap_Fredrickson_2005.pdf (Barbara Fredrickson: Chapter 8, The Broaden-and-Build Theory of Positive Emotions, 2005)
http://youtu.be/Ds_9Df6dK7c (YouTube video by Barbara Fredrickson: Positive Emotions)
http://igniteyourpotentialnow.com/2011/10/06/you-have-within-you-the-fuel-to-thrive-and-flourish/ (Blog post by Colleen Campbell-Ignite Your Potential: You Have Within You the Fuel to Thrive and Flourish)
http://www.danpink.com//2010/01/2questionsvideo (Dan Pink: 2 Questions That Can Change Your Life)
Flocabulary http://www.flocabulary.com/
GoNoodle (movement and brain breaks) https://www.gonoodle.com/
https://web.stanford.edu/dept/psychology/cgi-bin/drupalm/cdweck (Carol Dweck resources)
http://mindsetonline.com/ (Carol Dweck: Mindset)
Growth Mindset Resources Pinterest Board http://www.pinterest.com/joan_young/growth-mindset-resources/
Grammar Funnies from Grammarly http://www.pinterest.com/grammarly/humor/
http://pursuitofajoyfullife.com/2014/01/26/what-students-remember-most-about-teachers/ (Lori Gard: What Students Remember Most About Teachers)
http://www.giesummit.org/ (Google Online Summit, Sat. and Sun. Sept. 6-7, 2014 #gieonline)
http://learningrevolution.com/page/host-your-own-webinar (Host Your Own Webinar details)
Links shared by participants in the chat log during the session have been added here and also to the Livebinder:
http://bit.ly/1kRVdOY (Calming chime sounds online-Wind Chimes Generator)
https://www.facebook.com/mywriteabout (My WriteAbout)
http://www.projectsbyjen.com/Projects/OR2014/OP14_welcome.html (Jen Wagner’s O.R.E.O. Project for this Fall)
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About our log cabins
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The whole building process can be done with a small chainsaw, an axe, tape measure, a chalk line, a spirit-level, a water-pipe level, a pencil. a spade and a drawknife, with the required ear and eye protection and safety pants - for a total cost of around R 15,000.
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British Sports and Sportsmen, Past and Present -
Circa 1913 - British Sports and Sportsmen, London - Royal edition, limited to 250 copies, of which this set is number 105.
Two large finely bound folios containing the biographies of 303 of leading British sportsmen from the eighteenth and (primarily) nineteenth centuries, practitioners of the hunt, polo, steeplechase, cricket, rugby, boxing, and other gentlemanly pursuits accompanied by approximately 300 full page photogravure portrait plates. With a fascinating introduction by Horace G. Hutchinson. Volume I covers Hugo Meynell 1735-1808 to The Hon. Egremont Lascelles 1825-1892; Volume II covers George Parr 1826-1891 to Henry Arthur, Viscount Chelsea 1868-1908.
Compiled and Edited by ‘The Sportsman’. Two large folio volumes [39x29cm] . Profusely illustrated.
Five Chip Hilton classics – Dugout Jinx, Fence Busters, Hardcourt Upset, No-Hitter, and Triple-Threat Trouble - Clair Bee
1952 - Grosset & Dunlap, New York - First Editions
Five first editions from the inspirational Chip HIlton sports story series, written by the successful college basketball coach and 1968 Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Clair Bee.
Dugout Jinx – During the last week of that hectic baseball season, it was Chip from his position on the dugout bench who was able to solve the baffling puzzle of what had happened to the team’s pitchers and its general morale.
Fence Busters – There is a lot of wonderful baseball in this Chip Hilton story, and a lot of good sportsmanship and clean manhood besides. These friends of Chip’s have what it takes to pull a demoralized and strife-torn team out of the dumps and get it back at busting fences again.
Hardcourt Upset – When Chip Hilton, sensational scoring sophomore, is benched by a knee injury, and the basketballchampions are beaten by Tech, their home-town rivals, things take a turn for the worse.
No-Hitter – After helping State University win the N.C.A.A. baseball championship through his superb pitching, Chip Hilton had looked forward to a pleasant summer at home in Valley Falls. But when State was selected to represent the United States i a college baseball series with two of Japan’s finest teams, Chip, like his teammates, was thrilled by the opportunity.
Triple-Threat Trouble – Chip Hilton, All-America quarterback and captain of State University’s team faces one of the most challenging situations he has ever encountered on the gridiron.
The Book of Cricket: A Gallery of Famous Players - C. B. Fry (editor)
1899 circa - George Newnes, London - First Edition
A large and heavily illustrated ‘pictorial record’ of the great 19th century players and teams. In publisher’s illustrated green and gilt covers. Scarce in such a handsome condition.
With commentary by Charles Burgess Fry, ‘the greatest all-round sportsman of his time, and perhaps of any time. A top performer at cricket, athletics and two kinds of football, he also shone as an angler, golfer, skater and skier, rower and tennis player. Contrary to the stereotype, he was highly intelligent and a gifted writer, and as if that was not enough, he was exceptionally good-looking. His unyielding confidence in his own rightness did not always commend itself to other people, especially those in authority, but the cricket commentator John Arlott thought him ‘the most variously gifted Englishman of any age’ [History Today]
Among Fry’s many achievements, 30,886 runs, first class batting average of 50.22, England never lost a cricket match under his captaincy, he played football for England, and also for Southampton in the FA Cup Final of 1902, played rugby for Blackheath and the Barbarians, broke the British long jump record in 1892 and equalled the world record the following year [ESPN]
Provenance: Joseph Rowley Frisby (1879-1929), of Leicester, with his armourial bookplate. Father of Joseph Brankin-Frisby (1908-1977) who played for England and Leicestershire.
Bases Loaded - A Bronc Burnett Story - SIGNED - Wilfred McCormick
1950 - G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York - First Edition [Scarce and not to be confused with the Grosset & Dunlap Reprint]
Inscribed ‘For a new friend Jeffrey Linck, with warmest personal regards - sincerely Wilfred McCormick’.
The Sonoras battle in the Western Sectional Junior tournament and run into umpire trouble in the form of Dude LaRoach who calls an overwhelming number of freak plays. However, with the wise tips of the adored Cap'n Al Carter, sturdy teamwork and the courage of the sixteen-year-old pitcher, Bronco Burnett, who finishes a game with a bad ankle and crushed finger. Sonora triumphs and Dude LaRoach shakes Bronc's hand "with a grip that counts".
The Man on the Bench - A Rocky McCune Baseball Novel - SIGNED - Wilfred McCormick
1955 - David McKay Company, New York - First Edition
The first edition of the first in McCormick’s Rocky McCune series. Inscribed by the author ‘For my good friend Don Woodward, the kind of banker all bankers ought to be! sincerely Wilfred McCormick’.
‘The man on the bench is Rocky McCune, a former great star at Koulee high school who comes back to his old home town as coach. He finds the once proud metropolis at the bottom of the heap, athletically, commercially and spiritually. Rocky brings new hope to a fine old town.’
The Hot Corner - A Rocky McCune Baseball Novel - SIGNED - Wilfred McCormick
The first edition of the second baseball novel in McCormick’s Rocky McCune series. Inscribed by the author ‘For my good friend and star pupil, Alice Woods, with warmest personal regards - sincerely Wilfred McCormick’.
Coach Rocky McCune of the Koulee Nine finds his baseball teams ethics threatening to disintegrate with the addition of brilliant but unsportsmanlike Red Bostic, the boy who specializes in spectacular plays, many of them illegal.
Annals of Cricket - W. W. Read
1896 - Sampson Low, London - First Edition - One of 250 copies
A classic account of the early history of the game and autobiography of the Surrey batsman (who scored 338 against Oxford University in 1888) and who played in 18 Tests for England.
Illustrated with portrait frontispiece and 25 black and white plates.
The Cricket Bat and How to Use It. - Nicholas Wanostrocht ‘Felix’ ‘An Old Cricketer’
1863 - Houlston and Wright, London - First Edition, Second Issue
A pretty example of this early and important work by the great ‘Felix’, rare in the original gilt cloth boards.
And with five such mighty cricketers 'twas but natural to win
As Felix, Wenman, Hillyer, Fuller Pilch and Alfred Mynn.
Nicholas ‘Felix’ Wanostrocht (1804-76) was a noted English amateur (’Gentleman’) cricketer, a classical scholar, musician, linguist, inventor, writer and artist. When his father died in 1824 he had inherited the running of his school, aged only nineteen, and he was afraid that the parents of pupils might think that cricket was too frivolous a pastime for a schoolmaster, so he played under the name of ‘Felix’. A specialist left-handed batsman, though he did occasionally bowl underarm slow left-arm orthodox, Felix was a mainstay of the great Kent team of the mid-19th century alongside such players as Alfred Mynn, Fuller Pilch, William Hillyer and Ned Wenman.
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Can we predict the horn shapes of fossil animals? A thought experiment starring Triceratops
Triceratops horridus with some crazy long and curving brow horns. Just speculation, right? Surprisingly, maybe not...
For palaeoartists, animals with flamboyant headgear are among the most rewarding to render, but it's not only the bony aspects of their cranial ornaments that we have to pay attention too. Animal headgear is covered with various amounts of soft-tissue that, in extreme cases, can dramatically augment the shape of the underlying bony features. The headgear of living species has a spectrum of soft-tissue coverings from nothing at all (mature deer antlers), to relatively thin dermal tissues (giraffe ossicones), through to hard keratin sheaths that can add significant depth and length to a horn or crest (most other animal horns). This excellent breakdown of a bighorn sheep face by Aaron Drake of Colorado State University (uploaded by Simpleware Software Solutions) gives a pretty good idea of how much tissue extreme keratin sheaths can add to the underlying skull.
Not all horns are augmented to the extent seen in bighorn sheep, but even modestly proportioned keratin sheaths can add a lot of bulk, length and characteristic geometry to horn tissues. Thus, anyone hoping to accurately predict the appearance of ancient horned animals should want to predict the shape of their horn sheaths along with understanding the skull geometry. This isn't easy because, though incredibly tough and resistant, keratin sheaths are still prone to decay and rarely fossilise.
Researching horn growth for an upcoming book project has made me wonder if horn sheath shape might be more predictable than we've traditionally thought, however. Horn sheath growth mechanics are relatively simple, closely related to bone shape, and constrained by the properties of heavily keratinised tissues. They're also fairly universal across across tetrapods - the same processes that make a goat horn will make the enormous keratin sheath of a skimmer jaw, for instance. These properties might allow insights into sheath shape in fossil species even when the sheath is not preserved. So what aspects of horn sheath growth might allow this, and how could we transfer them to fossil animals?
Growing horn sheaths in living animals
Keratin sheaths are dead tissue with their only living components being the cells that synthesise the keratin at the horn core/sheath interface (e.g. at the inner surface of the horn soft-tissues, see diagram, below). Because no living tissue reaches the outer horn surface, they cannot grow by adding tissue to the tip. Rather, they grow by internal accumulation of keratin layers, each new deposit displacing the older sheath from the bony core. This creates a stack of keratin cones, with new cones growing at the base and causing the horn tissues to lengthen. Continuous internal deposition and displacement of old material is what creates the soft-tissue horn extension, as each new keratin layer shoves the older material a little further from the bony tip. This makes the tip of a keratin horn the oldest part of the sheath, and in many bovids the tips are many years old. Conversely, the youngest part of the horn tissues are located at the base. As we discussed in a recent post about the horns of Arsinoitherium, this growth mechanism binds the internal horn tissues in the overlying sheaths, limiting their ability to change size or shape. Changes in size or curvature can only be achieved by displacing the older horn layers, but complicating the horn shape - say, by branching the tip - is impossible unless the sheath is shed, pronghorn-style. The sheath itself can't be modified after deposition either, on account of no living tissue reaching it. Thus, old sheaths permanently maintain the size and geometry they were created with.
Stylised bovid horn growth, heavily modified from Goss (2012).
This growth mechanic presents three important points relevant to predicting the shape of fossil horn sheaths. The first is that sheath tissues are synthesised directly over the horn core, effectively making the internal sheath margin a cast of the bone at the time it grew. The second is that the shape of new keratin layers are constrained by the keratin sheaths that preceded them. They can't deviate too radically from the overlying horn shape and the horn core of the emerging layer should mostly nestle into margins of the older one. The third is that horn extensions are not simply exaggerations of their contemporary horn core, but a keratinous record of the horn history. Geometry exhibited by the earliest growth stages is maintained in the extending sheath regardless of later changes to the horn core morphology, and only periodic shedding or heavy abrasion are likely to alter this.
This being the case, could ontogenetic changes in horn cores provide insight into the sheath shape of fossil animals? If bone shape translates to keratin sheath shape, and sheath shape dictates the horn extension profile, then a growth series of bony horn anatomy may allow us to reconstruct horn keratin accumulations that are otherwise lost to decay. Horn core profiles give us a 'cast' of the inner sheath margin for that growth stage, and we can fit these into the margin of the preceding sheath layer (which, of course, can be deduced by the shape of a ontogenetically preceding horn core). Building a stack of nestled horn core profiles creates something akin the bovid horn diagram above and tells us something of how keratin layers were accumulated for that horn shape. The very tip of the horn sheath is lost to time because we cannot predict external appearance from horn core casts (they only represent the internal structure) but if the youngest animal in a growth series is suitably juvenile, we probably aren't missing much.
As proof of concept, I've taken the horncore outlines from the schematic bovid horn above and attempted to recreate the horn shape. Stacking them was achieved by simply eyeballing the margins, trying to fit the horn core outlines together as tightly as possible without their margins overlapping. Here's how it turned out...
I don't think that's too bad. It's not perfect, but it gives a pretty good idea what's going on with the actual horn. This method is very simple, but - as outlined earlier - keratin horns are simple, so we might not need a particularly complex method to predict their shape. But you're not here to talk about ram horns: what happens when we apply this idea to a fossil animal with a well-known growth series, and how do the results compare to our conventional means of reconstructing horn sheaths in fossil taxa?
Step forward, Triceratops
Triceratops growth series from Horner and Goodwin (2006). Both species of Triceratops are included here, but the generalities of this growth sequence are thought to apply to both. Say, that brow horn curvature looks pretty changeable - what would that mean for horn sheath shape?
The super-famous horned dinosaur Triceratops is a great animal to explore this idea with. It's known from dozens of specimens representing a range of ontogenetic stages, from small juveniles to giant adults (above, Horner and Goodwin 2006 - and no, the adults in question here are not Torosaurus). Like the horns of other ceratopsids, Triceratops brow horns have well-developed epidermal correlates for keratinous sheaths (oblique foramina and anastomosing neurovascular channels - Horner and Marshall 2002; Hieronymus et al. 2009) and these textures are present in the smallest known skulls, indicating that most or all their life was spent with sheathed brow horns (Goodwin et al. 2006). Confirmation of a horn sheath comes from poorly-preserved soft-tissues found on some Triceratops horns (Farke 2004; Happ 2010).
Triceratops skulls underwent pretty major changes as they grew, including complete reorientation and allometric scaling of the brow horns. In juveniles these curve backwards, but in big adults they arc forwards (Horner and Goodwin 2006). Typically, artists have assumed that the keratin sheaths covering these horns changed shape with them. Even pros, such as Greg Paul (2016), who have stressed that the keratin sheath should extend the horn shape, render the sheaths as more-or-less reflecting the underlying horn core of a given growth stage, without any hangovers from a previous iteration of horn shape. Whether intentional or not, the implication here is that the horn sheath was dynamic - capable of changing as the animal grew.
....just like this. Note how the brow horns of this Triceratops group are clearly changing shape as the animals increase in size, but that the keratin sheaths don't reflect any earlier horn history. Hmm. Say, do you know this image is on the front of my 2018 calendar?
The model outlined above conflicts with this traditional take, however. If we assume that the horn extension was composed of a series of retained keratin sheaths, and using Horner and Goodwin's (2006) ontogenetic sequence as a basis, the resultant horn shape is pretty surprising. Stacking horn cores in the juveniles sees those recurved shapes pushed off the horn core to extend and extenuate the curve strongly, to the point where the horn tip even points posteriorly at one stage (below). As the horn base tips forward on the approach to adulthood, these arcing tips rotate with them, creating a long, elaborate set of horns which curved twice: once at the tip, and again, but inversely, at the base. If the Triceratops in this model retained the full history of their horn sheaths into adulthood, the result would be pretty fantastic: very long horns where the tips pointed 90° away from the point of the horn core. Yowsers - that's quite different from our traditional 'just make it pointier' approach.
Stacking Triceratops horn cores, mimicking how living animal keratin sheaths grow, suggest the keratinous extension of the brow horns was strongly curved even in adult animals. As in the mock bovid horn above, the horn cores were stacked simply by trying to make them fit as neatly as possible.
Which is more likely: twirly horn sheaths or the more conventional, 'dynamic' sheaths? Where morphing horn sheaths immediately lose points is their requirement for the inert keratin horn tissues to react to each horn core shape, as well as for the horn sheath history to continuously disappear. Modern horn sheaths just don't grow like this: their extensions only exist because the old keratin tissues hang around, and we have to ask how the extending sheaths are created in our 'dynamic' sheath model. There are perhaps two ways we could attain morphing sheaths: the first is through continuous eradication of old sheath material, allowing new keratin to grow over the horn core without being obscured by previous sheath layers. This might have been achieved by Triceratops shedding and regrowing sheath extensions, or by abrading outer sheath tissues away. The second is that the horns weren't covered in one sheath but several interlocking plates, like the beaks of some birds, which might allow for jimmying and reconfiguration of the horn tissues through growth without adding lots of material to the end.
Let's consider shedding first. It's possible that at least some layers of Triceratops horns were shed because exfoliation is common on keratin sheaths in living species. For instance, puffins shed the outer layer of their beaks annually, and bovids exfoliate outer layers of their horns once or twice in their lifetimes (O'Gara and Matson 1975; Goss 2012). The fact that only a superficial layer of tissue is lost prevents the sheath being significantly altered however: exfoliation alone would probably not give us particularly 'dynamic' horn sheaths.
Constant reshaping of horn tissues might be plausible if Triceratops could regularly shed and regrow the horn sheath, as performed by pronghorns. Unfortunately, these mammals show us that detecting this growth mechanic in fossil species is challenging, however. Despite their unusual habit of regrowing an entirely new sheath each year, pronghorn horn cores have similar textures to those of animals with permanent sheathing (Janis et al. 1998). There are some differences, but they're subtle. O'Gara (1990) reported that pronghorn horn cores have annually variable properties, alternating between a spongy, relatively rounded horn core when the sheath is growing, and a smooth-textured, sharper horn core at peak sheath hardness (O'Gara 1990). It's pretty well established that dinosaur skeletons grade from spongy, rounded bones to smoother, sharpened bones as they aged, so perhaps variation in texture and shape of Triceratops horns that broke this pattern could indicate horn shedding - provided these differences could be distinguished from ontogenetic or intraspecific factors. I'm not aware of any evidence of this kind, despite the frequency in which Triceratops skull bone texture is commented, but I also don't know that anyone has specifically looked for this variation yet.
Lovely, lovely epidermal correlates on the skull of Triceratops prorsus illustrated in Hatcher (1907). Note that there's no divide between the correlates on the brow horn and surrounding skull - might we expect some sort of dividing sulcus if the horn sheath was routinely cast? From Wikimedia, uploaded by Biodiversity Heritage Library, CC BY 2.0.
A more illuminating insight may be that the correlates for Triceratops horn keratin are continuous with the epidermal correlates of the face (above). Horner and Marshall (2002) noted that the horn correlates for keratin sheathing extend over virtually the entire face - including the back of the frill (this is why so many Triceratops reconstructions have smooth 'face shields' nowadays). However, what's not seen on Triceratops horns is a boundary dividing the face sheath and a hypothetical temporary horn sheath, as might be expected where two keratinous sheaths meet (I'm assuming that the entire face shield wasn't shed annually either (palaeoartists: exfoliating/shedding Triceratops face - go!) - that's not a discussion I want to get into here).
A last, more arm-wavy point against horn shedding is that it is not at all common among living animals, possibly not even being present in some close pronghorn relatives (Janis et al. 1998). If Triceratops did shed its horns, it would be part of a club with very few members. This isn't a particularly scientific argument, but we have to concede that permanent horn sheaths are - by some way - far more common than ephemeral ones, and probably the 'default' condition for horned animals. Maybe we should assume permanence until there's good reason to think otherwise?
Could wear and abrasion create our morphing, dynamic horn sheaths in Triceratops? It's certainly true that keratin horns can be worn down, sometimes considerably. Bighorn sheep, for instance, can wear away years of horn growth in a behaviour known as 'brooming', but the results do not look like our palaeoart - in other words, they don't look like these sheep stuck their horns in a pencil sharpener. Nor do they echo the shape of the underlying skeleton. Instead, the ends are blunt, frayed and fractured (below). Any Triceratops that removed horn keratin through abrasion would presumably adopt a similarly 'sawn-off' appearance, and lack neat, pointed tips.
The broomed horns of a bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) - notice that they're heavily and deliberately worn at the tips, but they aren't shaped into fine points. From Wikimedia, uploaded by Lake Mead NRA Public Affairs, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Might a compound horn sheath be a route to horn sheath dynamism for Triceratops? Some readers may recall that we discussed compound keratin sheath covers last month and that they typically have deep grooves between abutting sheets. We don't see grooves of this nature on Triceratops skulls despite the very obvious rugosity profile created by the epidermal tissues, so I think we have to reject this hypothesis outright. The coverage of Triceratops horn core epidermal rugosities are pretty near identical to what we see on the horns of animals like cattle or goats, and I think we have to assume they indicate a similar, all-encompassing sheath morphology.
If Triceratops horns couldn't be renewed or take advantage of a more complex sheath arrangement, the likelihood of dynamic Triceratops horn sheaths is probably low. But does this idea of continuous sheath growth and twirly horns fare better under scrutiny? It seems to pass some basic tests, at least. The Triceratops brow horn outlines fit together pretty well with only a little displacement of the preceding horn layer, which is just what in see in modern horn growth, and the fact that their horn profiles don't change suddenly is consistent with them being perpetually constrained by layers of hard tissue. The predicted Triceratops sheath profile it is unexpected, but not beyond anything we see in living animals. And it scores points generally for being a simple model that is grounded in a well-understood aspect of living animal biology, in not needing to explain the loss of sheath tissue, and for factoring data we know is relevant to horn growth in living animals. I'm not saying this model is correct, but I am thinking that explains and fits our available data better than the dynamic sheath concept.
Of course, there are still lots of caveats. Remember that the model here is rough, being based on a generic Triceratops dataset and not the growth regime of a single species. The growth series outlined by Horner and Goodwin (2006) is a good general illustration of Triceratops growth, but results might vary if we restricted the data to a single species. My illustrations do not assume any exfoliation or tip abrasion, and we still don't have any idea what the external sheath morphology - including the presence of absence of ridges, spirals and bosses - might have been like. My attempt to stack the horn core profiles has also assumed minimal sheath thickness. If the sheath was thicker, the arcs of the horn could be stretched out over longer distances. So if you're buying this concept, remember that the horn shape proposed is only a general one - it's more in keeping with our understanding of sheath grow in modern animals, but it's still quite sketchy.
Perhaps the take-home message here is not, however, that Triceratops might have had loopy horns, but that there might be more to consider about fossil horn sheaths than we've assumed. Our discussion of dynamic horn sheaths does not just apply to Triceratops: artists take this approach with most horns and spikes in palaeoart, and it's clearly at odds with how most animals grow keratin sheaths today. But maybe this isn't just a topic for artists to ponder. There's potentially scope for a real study here and, seeing as fossil horn shape has a lot of functional significance, predicting sheath morphology would be a useful aid to predicting ancient behaviour. This needn't be restricted to horned dinosaurs, or even just horns, either: keratin sheaths on plates, spikes and so on grow in a similar way, and there's not reason this technique couldn't be used on other body parts, if validated. Moving this from food-for-thought-blog post to genuine science would require testing on modern species, perhaps through reconstructing living animal horns, to see how well it holds up. Recreating a schematic, 2D goat horn sheath using this method is fine, but real-world tests - especially using 3D horn casts, not just 2D drawings - might be more challenging. In the meantime, I'm curious to know what others think of all this - the comment field is open below...
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Sovietwarplanes > Great Patriotic War Aviation > Great Patriotic War > Captured planes in Soviet markings > Fw-190 with soviet engine???
Author Topic: Fw-190 with soviet engine??? (Read 19035 times)
Re: Fw-190 with soviet engine???
Hi Konstantin,
nice kits.
But it's not a fair proof that a plane never existed.
Quote from: Massimo Tessitori on October 07, 2011, 07:36:40 AM
Massimo,
?Fw-190F M-82? is an esoteric subject, like German A-Bomb model.
How do you prove that German A-Bomb didn?t exist? Do you need to prove it didn't exist?
Or let?s put it this way: Regardless of all the historical evidence that Germans didn?t/couldn?t make an A-Bomb, there is a ?nice? model of German A-Bomb. $22.00 only!
Happy modelling,
PS. What is the purpose of "Luftwaffe 46" fantasies anyway???
It is clear that the German A-bomb didn't exist else they would have utilized it.
The parallel with an hypothetic test plane that could have been made in few weeks utilizing parts of other planes is merely arbitrary. I don't say that it existed, but it can't be stated otherwise on the base that a resin aftermarket producer has made the conversion aside to a fantasy a-bomb.
So far we have not seen any evidence the plane did exist.
Drawing of a plane (Photoshopped in 2 minutes!) and resin conversion set, doesn't mean the plane actually existed.
+1 pure Luft'46
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Hi Konstantin
Nor that it didn't exist. A thing is to say that it could be fruit of fantasy, another that it was surely so. A so strong status should be positively proved.
Hi Walker,
Eventually VVS '46.
Graham Boak
Just to pick up on one dropped comment: there is no doubt that studying the Fw190 did have considerable effect on the later British and US radial-engine fighter designs. Some of this was in hidden details, such as the colour-coding of different systems and the way details had been arranged for ease of manufacture and maintenance, but the key point was that Tank had managed to fit a powerful radial engine onto a fighter without suffering from base drag problems or an excessively fat fuselage. Partly this was the tight cowling with frontal fan, and partly it was the way that the exhaust pipes had been clustered into groups and carefully placed for maximum benefit. This was done so that the flow from the exhausts filled the overlap behind the wide engine and along the slim fuselage sides, otherwise a large source of base drag from rearward facing areas. This was considered so important that Bristol abandoned development of the Centaurus with its traditional forward-facing exhausts and collector ring (itself a step forward in drag reduction at the time of introduction) in favour of the exhausts coming from the rear of the engine. Sadly, the redesign took so long that this highly promising engine was too late for the war. The same design feature can be seen on the Bearcat (as opposed to the Hellcat) although here less advantage has been gained from a slim fuselage. Turbocharging of course to some extent will nullify or even remove this benefit, which is perhaps why the US was less interested.
The Japanese were to utilise the same technology more directly in the re-design of the D4Y Judy and Ki61 Tony for radial engines, with specific attention paid to the one Fw190 delivered to Japan. The Ki61 to Ki100 is clearly a rather more awkward arrangement than any new design would be.
It is worth noting that Lavochkin was ahead of the other Allied and Axis fighter designers in introducing the same effect, no doubt thanks in part to having a more suitable engine to hand and the more immediate need for a superior fighter, but any direct influence has not been acknowledged, as far as I know. I feel the engineering solution speaks for itself.
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Rdb Acquisition Taboo in DoJ v. Oracle Case
Monday May 31st 2004 by EnterpriseAppsToday.com Staff
Past acquisition experience with a database company is barred from Oracle's trial in its bid for PeopleSoft.
Oracle will not be able to use some of its previous acquisition experience in court as it argues for a takeover of PeopleSoft next month.
According to court documents, a federal judge granted the U.S. Department of Justice its request to prohibit the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based software giant from talking about or submitting "evidence, testimony, or argument at trial, hearing of any motion relating to Rdb Database."
Oracle purchased the software division from Digital Electronics back in 1994 and has since used the acquisition liberally as an example of how well Oracle honors the accounts of companies it purchases. During town-hall meetings last year to quell the fears of PeopleSoft investors and partners, senior vice president and CIO Bob Pacek recounted that Oracle was so proactive in its integration that DirectTV Group still uses Rdb software for billing.
"With the acquisition of Rdb, a database company purchased from Digital Equipment about 10 years ago, we promised to focus on quality and stability, while enhancing features based on customer demand," Oracle president Chuck Phillips said in an open letter to PeopleSoft investors last month. "At the time, Rdb users had the exact same questions about the takeover you're asking us today. We looked closely at what Rdb customers had to say, working together with their user groups. The bottom line was that we didn't require customers to upgrade to our products. In fact, even today, we still help thousands of Rdb customers running important applications. And we gained some great people from that acquisition as well. The head of our entire technology-development division came from Rdb. So we think the record speaks for itself."
The government said it filed the 43-page brief after Oracle failed to supply it with relevant information about the Rdb acquisition and even doubted the paperwork existed. A Justice Department spokesperson told internetnews.com that the government did not want to have evidence submitted during the case that it was not prepared to deal with.
An Oracle spokesperson declined to comment on the Rdb ruling, but lawyers representing the company filed their own paperwork to prevent any testimony from DaimlerChrysler executive Michael Gorriz. Gorriz is one of 25 likely witnesses that the DoJ planned on calling to testify about the likely impact of proposed transaction.
The DoJ and 10 states are seeking to block Oracle's unsolicited $7.7 billion plan to acquire PeopleSoft. They argue that the merger between two major enterprise software providers would be anti-competitive and limit customers' choices. Oracle is fighting to thwart the DoJ's stance. The trial begins on June 7 and is expected to last six weeks.
Oracle had better hope that the case will wrap up quickly or it will surely drop its bid for PeopleSoft altogether, suggests Jay Desai, CEO and Founder of industry think tank Institute of Global Competitiveness.
"Obviously this deal will not work if the Justice Department can win its case, Desai told internetnews.com. "Even then, I give this acquisition a less than a 5 percent chance of happening. There are too many other obstacles in the way such as the PeopleSoft leadership. Oracle should instead focus on its next stage of building its service-oriented strategy with a combination of innovation and organic growth."
In related news, Former U.S. District Judge Charles Legge is expected to present his report and recommendations on how to proceed with the issue of sensitive documents from third-parties helping with the DoJ's case.
District Court Judge Vaughn R. Walker named Legge as a "special master" of the court to advise companies like Microsoft , SAP , Siebel Systems, BearingPoint, and niche software vendors such as Lawson Software on how to best prevent their corporate secrets from becoming public record.
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Searches for Jobs in Canada Spike After Trump Win
Job searches in Canada spiked as Donald Trump clinched the election.
Americans weren’t just searching for how to move to abroad after news of Trump’s victory spread early Wednesday morning. They were also sussing out job prospects up north while they were at it.
Job site Indeed.com says U.S.-based searches for jobs in Canada increased on Tuesday night to ten times the rate of previous nights. Meanwhile, Canada’s immigration website crashed multiple times as a Trump victory became more apparent.
How Markets Around the World Reacted to a Trump Victory
In Japan, traders working a foreign exchange desk watch U.S. election results. The Nikkei index fell more than 900 points as Trump's win became real.
Toru Hanai—Reuters
The Philippine Stock exchange fell to a 7-month low on Trump’s win. In this photo, a Filipino trader looks at the electronic board showing a downward trend during trading at the Philippine Stock Exchange at the financial district of Makati, south of Manila, Philippines, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016.
Aaron Favila—AP
Pedestrians look at an electronic stock board displaying the Nikkei Stock Average outside a securities firm in Tokyo on Nov. 9, 2016. The yen strengthened against the U.S. dollar, which will make it more difficult for Japan to fight off its ongoing inflation problem.
Tomohiro Ohsumi—Bloomberg via Getty Images
As news that Clinton lost major battleground states was confirmed, billions were wiped from Australian Securities Exchange, as it was described as "a sea of red."
David Gray—Reuters
One of Trump's biggest campaign promises has been to crack down on the Chinese government, who Trump says weakens the value of China's renminbi, giving it an unfair advantage in world trade. The Chinese currency rallied as the U.S. dollar's value fell following Trump's win.
Wang Zhao—AFP/Getty Images
Asian markets were up and running during the wee hours of the morning in the U.S., when Trump's gain on electoral college votes surpassed Clinton's. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index fell to 2.6%.
Isaac Lawrence—AFP/Getty Images
Gulf State markets -- such as the Qatar Stock Exchange being monitored by a trader shown here -- fell after news of the Trump victory. These markets are heavily exposed to changes in the oil market, and Trump has promised to make America an even bigger fuel and oil producer.
Naseem—Reuters
A trader watches Trump on TV as Dubai’s stock market falls. The one upside for traders there? The U.S. doesn't do much trade with countries like Dubai, so Trump's protectionist trade policies may not impact them directly.
Ashraf Mohammad Mohammad Alam—Reuters
In Germany, the DAX exchange fell 3% after trading began, following news of Trump's victory.
Michael Probst—AP
Traders on the floor at ETX Capital in London watched as Trump was elected. The UK markets suffered huge losses in June, after their own surprise Brexit referendum results sent stocks into a tailspin.
Chris Ratcliffe—Bloomberg via Getty Images
A man looks at a screen displaying news of markets update inside the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building in Mumbai, India, November 9, 2016.
Danish Siddiqui—Reuters
“Of course, it’s far too soon to guess how many of these searchers will make a move after the shock wears off,” said Jed Kolko, Indeed’s chief economist. “But the jump in searches shows how many Americans were surprised by Trump’s victory and are thinking about their options elsewhere.”
Read More: Fleeing the Election, People Are Looking for Homes in Canada
Canada isn’t the only destination to which dissatisfied voters are hoping to flee. New Zealand’s immigration website also reported a spike in searches for residency visas, both over the past month and on election night.
Before you land a job in Canada, however, here’s how you can make your move to Canada. And don’t forget about the financial rules that apply to American citizens living abroad — like the fact that you’ll still have to pay U.S. income tax.
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DFLers in final debate before convention
By Marisa Helms
The three leading DFL candidates for governor made their final public appearance together, before the endorsing convention starts in Minneapolis this weekend. The candidates were mostly polite to one another at the gubernatorial debate held at Macalester College in St. Paul.
LISTEN TO THE DEBATE The debate, sponsored by Minnesota Public Radio, was one of the last chances for DFL convention delegates and the public to learn more about Senate Majority Leader Roger Moe, state Sen. Becky Lourey and State Auditor Judy Dutcher. Listen.
The debate, sponsored by Minnesota Public Radio, was one of the last chances for DFL convention delegates and the public to learn more about Senate Majority Leader Roger Moe, state Sen. Becky Lourey and State Auditor Judy Dutcher.
This weekend delegates will cast their ballots and endorse one of the three for governor. All three have pledged to abide by the endorsement and stay out of the primary. That promise raises the importance of the convention, but it hasn't led to sharp exchanges among the rivals.
Dutcher asked both Moe and Lourey if they would join her in opposing a new rule sent down by the national Democratic Party that requires delegates to sign their ballots. She said a lot of delegates contacted her to say they are unhappy with the new rule.
"I wrote a letter to the chair of the DFL Party asking that we consider not imposing that rule so that people can feel free to cast their vote for who they think is the best candidate without fear of retaliation or intimidation, and I would ask if the other two camps would join me in requesting that people are allowed the anonymity in casting the votes this weekend," she said.
Both Lourey and Moe said they would support delegates challenging the DNC rule.
A member of the audience asked what the candidates thought of last year's property tax reform.
Moe said there were a few positives, such as providing property tax relief to some people in the state. But he added, overall, it did not deliver the kind of double-digit tax relief the governor and others promised. And he said, it severed the link between the education formula and property tax.
"And so now, more than ever before, school districts' economics fortunes are tied directly to the state's economic condition. And you can see what happens when the economy of the state is down, the revenues are down, and you have people in the Capitol who are reluctant to provide the necessary funding for schools, you end up with, last fall, 184 school districts going out for operating levy increases, and you will have at least 150 of them going out for the property tax increases this fall," Moe said.
Lourey and Dutcher both agreed with Moe that the general fund is an unstable source of revenue for funding education. Lourey noted she voted against the property tax measure last session.
The candidates were asked about how they would handle the changing demographics in the state. They were also asked to comment on concern among immigrant communities that local police are acting as INS agents.
Lourey said she's worried about Minnesota becoming a "police state," and that immigrants' rights are being violated.
"We have to be very, very careful. Since September 11th, we have done pretty damaging things to people of color. And I'm very concerned about making sure that everyone's civil rights and human rights are totally totally protected. We need to celebrate diversity," Lourey said.
Moe said he does not support extending INS power to local police. He said he believes the next governor will have to use his position to engage people on the subject of diversity.
Dutcher said it's important for a governor to keep her door open for communities of color. She added, if elected, she would have people of color working in her administration.
Undecided voter Randy Schubring of St. Paul says he liked Roger Moe's performance at the debate. But, he says he was also impressed with Dutcher.
"She does do a good job of appealing to the Independents and the more moderate Republicans. I think she would expand the DFL tent. Judy I find an attractive candidate as well," Schubring said.
Schubring says he will support whoever of the three is endorsed this weekend.
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NigerianNews
more investigative report
Leader of the Team, Prince Celestine Ekwe who disclosed that they are a coalition of different Civil Society Organizations under the office of the Special Adviser to the President on Relations with Civil Society Organizations, however faulted the entire exercise as he said he cannot recommend the Imo LG elections to even his team.
Controversies as PDP sweeps Imo LG polls
*Presidency faults conduct
* Ohakim hails polls, swear in winners
Eze Adiuku reports from Owerri, Imo
Controversies have continued to trail the last August 7th 2010 local government election in Imo State as citizens, observers, journalists and opposition condemns the whole exercise as a charade.
Briefing newsmen during the declaration of the election results, Chairman of Imo State Independent Electoral Commission (ISIEC), Barr Emma Nwonye said the polls were free and fair; adding that report from Imo people is that the elections were not marred by violence. “It is practically violence-free, free and fair in our view”, the ISIEC boss declared.
He further accepted responsibility for the outcome of the elections, saying “we take credit for anything that was done well and blame for anything not done well”.
Reports by other observers including opposition parties’ candidates and members say the LG polls were marred by violence, ballot box snatching and rigging. Some of those that monitored the elections reported that there were cases of stuffing of ballot boxes by agents suspected to be “working for those in power... “
A resident of Ohaji/Egbema who spoke on condition of anonymity said; “In the whole of Ohaji/Egbema there were no elections because youths prevented ISIEC (officials) from distributing the materials. Even Speaker Opiah did not vote. We were frustrated and I wonder how someone was declared a winner in that LG”.
Speaking during the swearing in ceremony of the 27 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairmen at the Grasshoppers Stadium, Owerri, Imo State Governor Chief Ikedi Ohakim described the elections as peaceful, free and fair, adding that future elections will be built based on this LG elections.
He told the newly elected Council chairmen to work for Imo citizens as they are the people that voted them into office, adding that the chairmen are accountable to the people.
An observer group known as the Presidency Election Monitoring and Observation Team at a post election press briefing in Owerri said that the election was “free and fair without rancour” due to the zoning formula applied by the various communities.
What many are worried about is that the election was conducted on Saturday 7th August 2010 by Sunday 8th August, only the results of the chairmanship seats were declared by the ISIEC chairman, Nwonye who promised to release that of the 305 councillorship seats across the 27 LGs within 24 hours only for the government to swear in the so called ‘elected PDP councilors’ by 10am on Monday 9th August, 2010.
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Jr. Lady Pirates are conference, district champs
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2009 Monticello Cal Ripken Team Rosters
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Echols, Frost combine for kill
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It was pretty much a forgettable area ’14 football season all around
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Two slots left for 'Bugs & Clubs'
Only two team slots remain in the 18-hole golf tournament to be held as a part of the Junior Auxiliary of Monticello’s annual crawfish dinner and auction. The event, now known as “Bugs and Clubs,”...
Three from Monticello qualify for Meet of Champs
Three Monticello athletes qualified for the Meet of Champs with their performances at the 2009 5A State Track and Field Championships held in Paragould Saturday, May 16. The Meet of Champs is to be...
Bad second halves doom UAM
Before taking his team on a 1,700-mile, two-weekend road trip to Oklahoma, University of Arkansas at Monticello coach Allen Sharpe said he would be unhappy with a split of the four games. That is...
Test & Tune planned Saturday at speedway
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Lady Pirates defeat Lafayette Co. in blowout
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Lady Pirates take third at district tourney
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Mother Nature wreaks havoc on spring sports
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Blossoms lose season opener
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Weevils, Blossoms get baseball, softball started this weekend
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Turkey calling contest set at MHS
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Three Weevils on all-conference teams
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Billies' punch ticket to state tournament with impressive 66-20 win
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Lafayette Co. narrowly defeats Drew Central
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MHS pom squad announced
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Pirates let one slip through their hands
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Irons gets first two gobblers
Second turkey
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Trouble in the Pipeline (The Hardy Boys Casefiles, Book 26)
Franklin W. Dixon
Kickbacks always fall into the wrong hands.
Frank and Joe fly to Alaska to trace Scott Sanders, who's supposed to be working on a top-secret project for a mining firm. When company officials claim they've never heard of Scott, the Hardys grow suspicious. They find that some company managers have been selling jobs on the oil pipeline. But before the brother detectives can dig deeper, they're kidnapped and forced to bail out over the arctic wilderness. Stranded, Frank and Joe face their toughest test -- fighting hunger, grizzly bears, and bullets to survive -- while at trail's end a group called the Assassins waits to give them their final exam.
Trans-Yukon Mining," White continued. "Only what our friend Doug told us." "What did Doug tell you?" "That they had a contract to work on the pipeline and some of the managers were taking bribes." "Did he tell you what the bribes were for?" "He didn't know, but maybe they were buying people jobs." "Who was buying jobs?" White asked quickly. "Doug didn't know," Joe responded. "Do you know?" "No, I don't," Joe said emphatically. White paused. "Well ... the polygraph says you're not lying.
Mountain in the morning. That's all I know. The boss wants everything to go smoothly," the goon mumbled. "Who's giving you the money?" "I swear I don't know. Different people every time." "You'd better be telling the truth," Joe growled. "Now get over there by the ladder." The man crawled across the floor and leaned against the wall. Joe motioned for Cindy to come down. They undid the goon's belt to use to tie him to the iron bars of the ladder and shoved a handkerchief into his mouth.
when Joe came bounding up the stairs. "We've got to go to the airport. I just talked to the guy who flies the weather plane. He's a friend of Virgil's, and he'll take us out over the ocean to find them." Cindy turned off the stove and got the keys to her dad's car. She drove like a pro to the airport, where they found the pilot sipping coffee in front of the hanger. In less than ten minutes they were in the air, scouting the gray waters of the Arctic Ocean. Joe's eyes were getting tired when
"Fine!" Frank replied, making sure his leg was in a comfortable position. "Just in time. Here they come." Frank heard Virgil burrowing into the snow next to him. Then the brrr of the pursuit boat's engine reached his ears. It sounded as if they were circling Virgil's abandoned boat. Frank hoped they wouldn't find the transparent lifeline, or worse, run afoul of it. If their propeller cut it, Virgil's boat would be adrift for real. The engine drone moved back and forth in front of the ice pack.
him. "Your pals from North Slope grabbed us and stowed us aboard a plane heading into the Arctic Ocean. It was going to drop the signal buoy for the sub's rendezvous." He stared hard at Hammond. "And you know what? They were going to drop us right along with it." "I — I didn't know," Hammond said, still more shaken. "He can't prove a thing," the bagman suddenly spoke up. "Who would listen to this wild story about submarines and spies?" "How about you, Hammond?" Frank asked. "Are you beginning
Hunting for Hidden Gold (The Hardy Boys, No. 5)
The Lazarus Plot (Hardy Boys Casefiles, Case 4)
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CLPAC, Pacifica Radio Archive, Los Angeles, Calif. 6
SCLCT-INP, Southern Christian Leadership Conference Tape Collection, In Private Hands 6
CBSNA-NNCBS, CBS News Archives, Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., New York, N.Y. 5
CSt-MLK, Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. 4
MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project 4
RBFP-INP, Robert Brank Fulton Papers, In Private Hands 4
BRP-DLC, Bayard Rustin Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 3
HPP-MCR-S, Hermine Isaacs Popper Miscellaneous Papers, 1958-1964, Radcliffe College, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Cambridge, Mass. 3
HRECR-WHi, Highlander Research and Education Center Records, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 3
LDRP-NN-Sc, Lawrence Dunbar Reddick Papers, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, New York, N.Y. 3
MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. 3
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Civil Rights Bill of 1963
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Republican National Convention (1964: San Francisco, Calif.)
Republican National Committee
United States. Marshals Service
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963
RHP-WHi, Ralph Helstein Papers, 1933-1985, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
UAWRCR-NNU-LA, United Automobile, Aircraft and Vehicle Workers of America, District 65, Cleveland Robinson Papers, New York University, Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York, N.Y.
''Negroes Are Not Moving Too Fast''
Saturday Evening Post, 7 November 1964, pp. 8, 10.
France, Anatole
Lippmann, Walter
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''A Testament of Hope''
Playboy, January 1969, pp. 175+
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Maddox, Lester
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Addonizio, Hugh J.
Rust College
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Gary. Office of the Mayor
Georgia. House of Representatives
Mississippi. House of Representatives
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Dallas County, Ala.
Attapulgus, Ga.
Afro-American student movements
Freedom Is a Hard Bought Thing
''I Predict: Twenty-five Farseeing People Tell What They Hope, Fear and Imagine for 1987''
Look Magazine, 16 January 1962.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
''Who Is Their God?''
The Nation 195 (13 October 1962): 209-210.
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Meredith, James [United States. Air Force]
Guihard, Paul
Gunter, Ray
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CORER-WHi, Congress of Racial Equality Records, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
Draft, Letter to John F. (John Fitzgerald) Kennedy
Khruschev, Nikita Sergeevich
1/21/2011 soverton
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United States. Bureau of Narcotics
United States. Alcohol Tax Unit
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Forgotten Remedy for the Voteless Negro
The Measure of a Man
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Urban Schools Initiative for Pennsylvania Science Olympiad Competition Held at Saint Joseph’s University
By Brian M. Forster, Ph.D.
General Education Program Science Lab Coordinator, Saint Joseph’s University, bforster@sju.edu, 610-660-3188
Science Olympiad is a national nonprofit dedicated to improving the quality of science education that has been in operation for 33 years. It is run by current and retired teachers/professors, scientists and former Science Olympiad students. Science Olympiad runs the most comprehensive STEM competition in the country with over 300,000 students participating in all 50 states. For the past three years, Saint Joseph’s University (SJU) professors Dr. Jean Smolen (Assoc. Dean, Math/Computer Science & Natural Sciences), Dr. Claire Conry-Murray (Psychology), and Dr. Brian Forster (Gen. Education Program Science Lab Coordinator) have collaborated with Scott Leggett, coordinator of the Urban Schools Initiative for Pennsylvania Science Olympiad, to bring Science Olympiad to SJU.
On March 18th, 2017, 225 middle and high school students visited SJU for a day of science competitions. The public, charter, private and parochial schools that participated in this year’s Olympiad included:
Blaine Academy Plus School
Folk Arts–Cultural Treasures Charter School
Friends Select School
Friere Charter School
W. Carver High School of Engineering
George W. Nebinger Elementary
Kensington Creative and Performing Arts High school
Penn Upward Bound Math and Science
Philadelphia Performing Arts Charter School- A String Theory School
Simon Gratz Prep Middle Mastery Charter
Saint Katherine of Sienna
Vare-Washington Elementary
William D. Kelley Elementary School
Students had a chance to compete in various events. The major topics of these events include:
Life, Personal and Social Sciences
Physical science and Chemistry
Inquiry and Nature of Science
When I was a freshman in high school, I participated in my hometown’s science competition at the College of Staten Island by competing in chemistry, but it was only a paper test. What impresses me about Science Olympiad is that not only do they have competitions that are paper tests, but they have activities and allow students to build things and participate in conducting actual lab experiments! That is something I wish I could have done when I participated in my science competition. Students can build towers, robotic arms, helicopters and electric vehicles. Students conducting lab experiments in forensics/crime busters, food chemistry and general chemistry got to work in my teaching laboratories. Imagine the thrill I had when I designed and proctored the chemistry lab competition. It reminded me of the time I was the freshman competing. I guess the saying, “life comes full circle,” holds true for me. During the competition, Dr. William Hite, Superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia, visited SJU and had a chance to see the students competing.
Students competing in Crime Busters lab activity
Following the competitions, my teaching laboratories were opened up to the students and their families. For many of these students, this is the first time they have gotten to see what a college laboratory looks like. Helping me organize this open house was Ms. Molly Southwell, SJU Biology Department Outreach Project Manager. Six biology undergraduate and graduate students were also on hand to show students the experiments we work on in the lab. For students interested in anatomy and physiology, our anatomical models and dissected specimens were out on display to be taken apart and examined. In our general biology lab, students got to see how we analyze DNA using gel electrophoresis. The environmental science lab had on display various genetically modified organisms and fluorescent minerals. Solar panels and hydroelectric wheels were also available for the students to learn about various alternative energies.
Dr. William Hite & Dr. Brian Forster
Unfortunately, I did not win the chemistry award when I competed at the College of Staten Island’s science competition, but I am proud of the fact that I did participate. I believe it was one of the reasons I am passionate about science and education today. Seeing the student’s eagerness to compete and visit our labs during open house has shown me that Science Olympiad is having the same effect on the next generation of scientists!
http://www.pascioly.org/
https://www.sju.edu/
More K-16 Partnerships
Student Leaders launch Volunteer Council of Delaware County (VCDC) to Support College Access Services
STEM K-16 Partners Network meeting Recap
VISTA Spotlight – Reflections from Sasha Best, Community Partnership Coordinator at Alexander Adaire School
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Sen. Rand Paul criticizes Gov. Chris Christie for 'embracing Obamacare'
CNN's Dana Davidsen
(CNN) - Sen. Rand Paul criticized New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's decision to expand Medicaid in the state, calling the decision "very expensive and not fiscally conservative."
The first-term Republican senator from Kentucky said that while no “one person gets to decide what is and what isn't conservative,” the New Jersey governor’s acceptance of a portion of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act suggests that Christie is not a true conservative.
"On the case of the New Jersey governor, I think embracing Obamacare (and) expanding Medicaid in his state is very expensive and not fiscally conservative - and really, many Republican governors who I would say are conservative did resist expanding and accepting Obamacare in their states," Paul said, appearing on CNN's Erin Burnett OutFront on Tuesday.
Paul continued: "That fact, I would say, would lead towards you making the conclusion that it's not a very conservative proposal."
Both Paul and Christie are considered likely Republican contenders in the 2016 presidential race.
In February, Christie became the eighth Republican governor to accept the expansion of Medicaid included in the Affordable Care Act, explaining to skeptics that refusing the federal dollars would put other states ahead of his own.
"I am no fan of the Affordable Care Act," Christie said. "I think it's wrong for New Jersey and wrong for America. I fought against it, and believe in the long run, it will not achieve what it promises. However, it is now the law of the land."
In June 2012, the Supreme Court upheld the individual mandate of Obama sweeping health care law and the Medicaid expansion, though it allowed states to choose whether to participate in the expansion program.
Paul's questioning of Christie's conservative chops hasn't let up over the past couple weeks.
Earlier this month, Paul labeled Christie a moderate and later hit the popular GOP state executive for appearing in television ads funded by taxpayers after Superstorm Sandy.
Christie won re-election earlier this month, garnering broad support in the historically blue state of New Jersey. After criticism from members of his own party, such as Paul and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, who is also considered a potential presidential candidate in 2016, the Garden State Republican said he doesn't feel he has any "fence-mending" to do with the GOP.
"I am going to be me. And if I ever decide to run for anything again, if being me isn't good enough, then fine, I will go home. This isn't my whole life," he said at an event in Washington on Monday.
CNN's Dan Merica contributed to this report.
Filed under: Chris Christie • GOP • Obamacare • Rand Paul
timverba
Somebody please inform the junior senator that increasing revenue and decreasing costs is a conservative approach to governing. Therefore, obtaining more Medicare dollars to reduce the number of people with high costs of medical care is conservative. Rand Paul's brand of conservatism seeks to realize that fewer people have healthcare coverage. What kind of doctor was he?
November 19, 2013 08:50 pm at 8:50 pm |
Hey copycat Paul your state is accepting it too.
anything for attention can we please get down to bussiness and enough of the LIES when are we going to feel the difference in this elected President And quit TWISTING WORDS OR JUST DONT SPEAK!
HenryMiller
"However, it is now the law of the land."
Until it's repealed.
Pass the popcorn, this is gonna get good.
Rand knows that true conservatives refuse to help those less fortunate. True conservatives must enjoy people dying without access to health care, as well as refuse to vote for aid for people who were affected by hurricanes and other disasters. The religious right is wrong.
Randy better look at the republicans winning elections in Louisiana that embraced Obamacare
a segment is saying the president lied, what about the wmds, there was no outrage, we rather buy bombs than band aids, hypocrisy at it greatest level
November 19, 2013 10:30 pm at 10:30 pm |
jackson ebner
Evidently it's much more conservative for the uninsured to just show up at the emergency room, and get their free care that way. And I guess less expensive as well. Seems like Paul is completely clueless in understanding the problem.
S. B. Stein
What would Paul suggest to get people some level of medical insurance so that it doesn't end up bankrupting local hospitals? There is something that needs to be done by the government to help its citizens. This is one of them. I wold hope that Paul and other so called libertarians understand that people can't just find another job even in a good job market. Not all jobs would provide health insurance.
these repubs and their survive by yourself mentality, and government shouldn't do a dam thing for its citizens. lesson repubs most people in this country lives in big cities, which are nicknamed concrete jungles, this means that folks cannot go out their and shoot a rabbit, snake or pigeon to feed their families like most people in rural areas does. most people in America needs a job to survive in the concrete jungle because they just cannot plant crops on state land or anyone else land inside the big cities. there are about 1 job for every 5 folks looking for one, especially with you repubs gutting everything that creates jobs in our concrete jungle. how the hell do you guys expect the average Joe to survive if you guys keep gutting government programs which creates jobs and look out for the less fortunate in our country. something as basic healthcare, which the cbo said will lower our budget and put tens of millions of folks living in the concrete jungle and urban areas on path to success. why in heaven does this conservative word of making folks suffer by going back into the past and never move forward such a good word for people to go by. this pure capitalistic ideology of giving money to the rich so they can invest in china and low wage country is a dam mistery to me. sometimes it takes a little socialism mixed with capitalism to make a country work for all of its people, rather than making our country souly on aristocratically and peasants country, because those days are gone long time ago, so dont bring that world back conservatives.
November 20, 2013 02:33 am at 2:33 am |
Say What
What did he say to Jan Brewer when she did the same thing? Absolutely nada.
current state of the union
Sounds like little randi has been poll testing again. He calls everyone gutless, yet he won't express any point of view that he reached on his own principals, won't say a word until it's poll tested, is this guy expecting us to vote for him, he only wants to know what you want to hear in order to vote for him, and for all you saying Obama did the same thing, you've made my point for me.
At least Obama had the guts to tell what he thinks, without worrying about polls, randi is definitely not presidential material, sorry sport, you can say what you will, but I ain't buyin it son. Christie might be a loud mouth, but he is perceived much better than Paul, wrong for president for the same reason s Paul is, a sour mouth with toxic vocabulary won't work on a global scale, their impatience and neither are very diplomatic
The Republicans foreign policy is the same as their domestic ones, attack anyone who disagrees with you, come on people, do you seriously think this mentality will work with other countries? Like it or not,, the potus has to be diplomatic, it's in our best interest, we are so divided with no desire to compromise, its I'm right, your wrong period. That being said, mitt Romney expressed the gop tax wish, 1% top tax rate, really? And to be offset with tax consuming loopholes, which they haven't actually told us what those were, they want you to think its big business, but its the earned income credit, and mortgage interest deductions they will close, in other words, more money straight to the top.at the workers expense, please wake up people, the Republicans are trying to convince you cutting social services is the answer, but the money goes right to the top on everything they try to enact, do your homework, it won't take long for you to want to know more, then congratulations, your an informed voter, the gop's worst nightmare
And remember folks, the decisions you make at the polls the next two years will likely have long lasting implications, the black guys only there a few more years, and with any luck Hillary won't be on the ballot, she is very capable, but has a lot of baggage, were pretty good in that department already. Just know now more than ever you need to be informed, not by the msm, we know all politicians lie, inform yourself, look what happened in Austin, a good example of why you need to spend a small amount of time researching candidates, and proposals, that would have changed that whole election.
My problem with the gop is listen to them, they offer nothing, unless it helps the ultra rich, like keystone,do you really trust big oil to keep up on costly mantainence? They already proved the dollar rules all decisions, and safety takes a back seat but you can't change the laws of physics, and that was also proven .the final report on the macondo well was disturbing to say the least, and nothing has changed, not one single rule or regulation added, now that's political power folks
NATHAN WIMBERLY
Pinhead Rand Paul is going to get pimp slapped by Christie again. He like the rest of the Guns Over People tea potty never learn.
RomneyWho
You are not a true or a for real this or That . . . . Blah, blah, blah and blah! People are funny that way. 😦
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HOME > NEWSROOM > ARTICLES > ‘Freedom of Religion’ vs ‘Freedom of Worship’
Dr. Jerry A. Johnson, President & CEO of NRB, joined more than 60 other religious and conservative leaders in urging the federal government to uphold the Bill of Rights’ freedom of religion, not simply a so-called “freedom of worship.” Specifically, these leaders sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson noting that current materials provided by the Administration to immigrants who wish to be naturalized as U.S. citizens refer to “freedom of worship” as a right guaranteed to Americans. Dr. Johnson and others signing the letter requested that Secretary Johnson move to correct this error. They commented:
We believe that the wording change we are requesting represents much more than a “distinction without a difference.” Many totalitarian forms of government have allowed for the Freedom of Worship in their governmental documents but in practice severely restricted individual religious freedoms. The phrase Freedom of Worship, as it has been used throughout history, articulates an intentionally limited freedom that restricts a citizen’s rights to the four walls of a government-sanctioned house of worship and only for specific times and events.
Rather, the letter’s signers explained that true religious freedom is much richer. It ensures the liberty for “every citizen—religious and non-religious alike—to live life in the public square according to the dictates of conscience or religious sensibility.”
Earlier this month, Senator James Lankford (R-OK), a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, sent a similar letter to Secretary Johnson. He declared, “We are doing a great disservice to those seeking citizenship in this great country if we distort our history and fail to teach new citizens about the founding and constitutional principles of this nation…. Our Constitution is clear – Americans have the freedom of religion. The naturalization test and its corresponding materials must be equally as clear.”
By Aaron Mercer, Vice President of Government Relations
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BOXROX – Competitive Fitness Magazine is the world's most widely reaching magazine for Crossfitters and fans of functional fitness. With 730.000 monthly readers from more than 180 countries it connects the worldwide fitness community. The magazine and its 200+ active contributors currently cover many topics including CrossFit®, weightlifting, nutrition, lifestyle and community related news. Everything that a fitness fan is searching for.
Two years ago, I dropped 30 pounds (and kept it off) by doing the Whole30 and continuing to eat well in the months that followed. During the 30 days on the program, I lost 11 pounds. And for me, completing it helped me form healthy habits (like reading labels and not smothering everything in cheese), taught me how to cook an arsenal of healthy recipes I actually enjoyed eating and most importantly (and the reason why I do it every January), showed me how incredible my body feels when I'm not pumping it full of sugar and alcohol. These lessons stuck with me well past the 30 days, allowing me to drop an additional 19 pounds by April of that year and finally reach my goal weight.
Glassman attracted a little flock. "I was looking for a trainer, and a friend of my wife's went to Spa Fitness," says Ben Elizer, who today is CrossFit's chief information officer. He went to Spa Fitness and was told he had his pick of two: "one guy who is really nice and not that good, and another guy who is really good but super-opinionated and arrogant"--Glassman, of course. Glassman's crew was tight-knit. He even ended up marrying one of his clients, a hairdresser named Lauren Jenai. When the Spa Fitness owner inevitably showed the CrossFitters the door, and they leased a corner of a jujitsu studio, Lauren would manage the books and teach CrossFit classes herself. Soon they outgrew that space, and the Glassmans took their motley little group of cops, jujitsu fighters, and tech-company commuters to a 1,250-square-foot truck garage on a remote road three miles out in Soquel. In 2000, a number of clients asked if Glassman could put the WODs online so they could do them when they traveled, so he put up CrossFit.com.
In terms of food, I kicked up my creativity up a notch in the kitchen. I tried experimenting with recipes that were a little more complex than my usual, like making pesto out of cashews and avocados and serving it over a plate of zoodles. I made blueberry energy bites in my food processor to snack on during a movie marathon and grab for a quick breakfast. I also tried new snacks, like bottled tomatillo jalapeno soup from ZÜPA NOMA and chia pudding from Daily Harvest to mix things up.
Since then, I've reintroduced legumes, soy, added sugar, and dairy back into my diet. Since I'm lactose intolerant, I was most afraid of dairy, but it seems as of my dairy intolerance has disappeared, which is an unexpected positive. I definitely sleep worse, though, and feel more bloated when I enjoy dairy or carbs with gluten. So going forward, I'll be eating these with more moderation than before.
Primal Body-Primal Mind: Beyond the Paleo Diet for Total Health and a Longer Life by Nora Gedgaudas advocates a diet that our paleo ancestors ate. Meat, lots of fat, and seasonal fruits and berries when available. Basically, sugar and starchy carbs are discouraged. You can download a chapter from the author's site. She has a Primal Body, Primal Mind Radio weekly show on Voice of America. It started May 20, 2009, so there are many shows you can listen to. Published June 30, 2011.
Let the apples and onions cook down for a bit until they begin to become translucent. When they do, add juice of 1/2 lemon, ½ tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp nutmeg, salt, pepper, 1/2 tsp garlic powder, and 1/2 tsp onion powder and mix thoroughly to help combine and let caramelize. Turn the heat down a notch or two and continue to cook down, stirring occasionally.
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To the outside world, though, as Glassman's company has exploded from a cult fitness website to a gym concept primed to have more locations than Curves by the end of 2013, CrossFit can appear risky, unhinged: Here is a fitness routine that has sent people to the hospital, overseen by people who may have had no more than two days of instruction. (Although every real trainer I met had considerable experience and was genuinely excellent, I attended the seminar and passed the test on my fourth day reporting this story. I am, believe me, no fitness savant.) And it's all led by a man who, in a 2006 CrossFit.com comment, wrote, "We have a therapy for injuries at CrossFit called STFU." As in, Shut the f-k up. That's enough to make even the most devoted laissez faire-ists get a little, well, Uncle Pukie.
In July 2016, a New York Times article on use of Instagram by dieters noted that participants in the Whole30 program had shared over one million Instagram posts using the #Whole30 hashtag, and noted that those sharing the tag were "one of seemingly endless like-minded communities," comparing it with the over 3.5 million posts under the #WeightWatchers hashtag.[11]
I LOVE Whole30. I preach it and I live it. The reason I am only posting 3 stars is because I am really disappointed in this cookbook, which I anticipated for months. I love crockpot meals and soups, and this didn't hardly have anything like that. Most of these meals did not look very appetizing. I don't want to have to purchase odd ingredients for that 1 meal and you'll be doing that with every one of these recipes. I hope they come out with another cookbook that focuses more on altering the more common meals that we are comfortable with.
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham. This book argues that the ease of digestion and the added nutritional value available in cooked food was the key behind the explosion of human intelligence. (Cooking gelatinizes starch, denatures protein, and softens all foods, permitting more complete digestion and energy extraction. As a result, the food processing apparatus shrinks, freeing energy to support a larger brain.) He then suggests that cooking led to what eventually became marriage and the sexual division of labor. The two most helpful reviews at Amazon get into great detail. The reviews average to 4+ stars.
Paleo eating requires a lot of planning, prep time, and mental resolve. For instance, eating out on the diet isn't as simple as ordering chicken and a salad. Think: In what oil was the chicken cooked? Did any of the salad toppings come processed, canned, or packaged? "As with every elimination diet, it's just not doable long term," Dr. Ochner says. While weight loss is far from the sole purpose of eating paleo, going on and off of the diet can lead to big weight swings. Any yo-yo diet starts in weight loss from both muscle and fat, and usually ends with weight gain of all fat, which contributes to a slower metabolism and increased insulin resistance.
For immediate weight loss, Paleo is a great and healthy solution. But after carefully reading and considering, I’m unconvinced that Paleo is optimal for long-term health. I think, in fact, it might lead to heart disease and other ills associated with heavy meat consumption. Although many of Cordain’s theories fall apart long-term, I thoroughly enjoyed the read and highly recommend the book. You should read critically and decide for yourself.
The Whole30 is not a diet, a weight-loss plan or quick fix – it’s designed to “change your life,” the founders say, by eliminating cravings, rebalancing hormones, curing digestive issues, improving medical conditions and boosting energy and immune function. The theory behind it is that all sorts of physical and mental health issues – ranging from acne to depression to allergies – could be due to your diet. But you can’t know which foods are to blame for what ails you unless you cut out all traces of sugar, alcohol, grains, dairy and legumes for 30 days. By day 31, you’ll be free from your food fog and may not even miss your nightly wine ritual or morning muffin fix. If and when you reintroduce food groups, your body’s reaction will tell you which foods you should continue to avoid – or at least limit.
We love nuts and they are decidedly paleo diet friendly. Be careful though, as cashews are high in fat and, for some reason, it’s incredibly easy to eat an entire jar of them in one sitting (that’s not just us, is it?). If you’re trying to lose weight, limit the amount of nuts you’re consuming. Otherwise, have at it. I mean, you can’t beat a good almond/pecan/walnut mix, can you?
Glassman began refining his approach. He favored gymnastic and powerlifting moves he knew from growing up, and functional calisthenics (squatting, pull-ups) that forced the body to use large muscle groups together, like in real life. He liked the idea of throwing exercises at clients seemingly randomly, believing it resembled the way early humans had to overcome daily physical obstacles. To goose participants' natural competitiveness, he mandated that the workouts be for time, or for as many rounds or reps as possible in a set time period, so that no one slacked off.
The data for Cordain's book only came from six contemporary hunter-gatherer groups, mainly living in marginal habitats.[36] One of the studies was on the !Kung, whose diet was recorded for a single month, and one was on the Inuit.[36][37][38] Due to these limitations, the book has been criticized as painting an incomplete picture of the diets of Paleolithic humans.[36] It has been noted that the rationale for the diet does not adequately account for the fact that, due to the pressures of artificial selection, most modern domesticated plants and animals differ drastically from their Paleolithic ancestors; likewise, their nutritional profiles are very different from their ancient counterparts. For example, wild almonds produce potentially fatal levels of cyanide, but this trait has been bred out of domesticated varieties using artificial selection. Many vegetables, such as broccoli, did not exist in the Paleolithic period; broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and kale are modern cultivars of the ancient species Brassica oleracea.[28]
CrossFit, Inc. has been variously criticized and praised for its unorthodox approach to social media.[78][79][80] This approach has included publishing articles and tweets about non-fitness topics (including politics, philosophy, and poetry)[81][82] as well as directly interacting with other social media users and critics of the company's program.[1]
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Autoimmunity is a process in which our bodies own immune system attacks “us.” Normally the immune system protects us from bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections. The immune system identifies a foreign invader, attacks it, and ideally clears the infection. A good analogy for autoimmunity is the case of tissue rejection after organ donation. If someone requires a new heart, lung kidney or liver due to disease or injury, a donor organ may be an option. The first step in this process is trying to find a tissue “match”. All of us have molecules in our tissues that our immune system uses to recognize self from non-self. If a donated organ is not close enough to the recipient in tissue type the immune system will attack and destroy the organ. In autoimmunity, a similar process occurs in that an individuals own tissue is confused as something foreign and the immune system attacks this “mislabeled” tissue. Common forms of autoimmunity include Multiple Sclerosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus, and Vitiligo to name only a tiny fraction of autoimmune diseases. Elements of autoimmunity are likely at play in conditions as seemingly unrelated as Schizophrenia, infertility, and various forms of cancer.
This is not hard. Don’t you dare tell us this is hard. Fighting cancer is hard. Birthing a baby is hard. Losing a parent is hard. Drinking your coffee black. Is. Not. Hard. You’ve done harder things than this, and you have no excuse not to complete the program as written. It’s only thirty days, and it’s for the most important health cause on earth—the only physical body you will ever have in this lifetime.
Origins and Evolution of Human Diet was an academic web site at the University of Arkansas devoted to discussion of evolution and the human diet. They had good articles on the conferences link. Here is one from the archives: Boyd Eaton's Evolution, Diet and Health which argues that current w-6 : w-3 imbalance together with absolute dietary DHA intake quite low in human evolutionary perspective may be relevant to the frequency of unipolar depression.
Don’t pour all the curry sauce over the chicken; once the mixture has come into contact with the raw meat, you have to throw it out. Instead, place your chicken in a shallow bowl, and pour a little of the sauce over the chicken. Brush or rub it evenly over the meat, then flip and repeat on the other side. Save the extra sauce to drizzle over the top of this dish before serving, or use it to top tomorrow night’s chicken, shrimp, or vegetables.
The Whole30 book is the perfect thing to read while you’re visiting your in-laws or don’t feel like telling Aunt Sue for the 100th time what you do for a living. It’s helpful, it’s clear, and it will get you motivated. Want even more Whole30 recipes? Hartwig's latest Whole30 Cookbook may not have the nitty-gritty plan details, but the recipes are baller.
Craving some spice? This Whole30 recipe delivers with ingredients like red chili flakes and red curry paste mixed into the meatballs — plus, a creamy coconut milk sauce for topping. Make this recipe more Bulletproof with the freshest spices possible, raw almond butter, and pastured chicken. Plus, avoid eating garlic and onion too often, and avoid the peppers if you are sensitive to nightshades.
The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy by Mark Sisson is a journey through human evolution, comparing the life and robust health of our hunter-gatherer ancestors with a day in the life of a modern family. The author offers a solution in 10 empowering Blueprint Lifestyle Laws: eat lots of plants and animals, avoid poisonous things, move frequently at a slow pace, lift heavy things, sprint once in a while, get adequate sleep, play, get adequate sunlight, avoid stupid mistakes, and use your brain. The reader learns how the right high-fat diet can actually help one lose weight and how popular low-fat, grain-based diets might trigger illness, disease, and lifelong weight gain. The author presents a comprehensive, well thought out paleo style eating plan in a humorous and organized manner. He backs up all his work with research, natural wisdom, and historical timelines. He disputes the role of dietary saturated fat in causation of arteriosclerosis, the role of cholesterol in promotion of heart disease, and the costly over-promotion of expensive, potentially toxic statin drugs. He criticizes our massive overeating of refined carbohydrates and urges avoidance of grains, cereals, bread and sugar. There is specific recommendation for "primal" food including more natural healthy fats and meats, fruits, veggies, and nuts. Some reviewers consider this to be the best of the various paleo books. The many Amazon reviews average to 5 stars. The author's popular and worthwhile web site: Mark's Daily Apple. The 2nd Edition was published January 14, 2012.
Fattening cattle with corn changes the lipid balance and is clearly not the natural diet for a grass eating cow. In Simple change in cattle diets could cut E. coli infection researchers have found that when cattle were fed hay or grass for just five days before slaughter, much less E. Coli cells were present in the animal's feces and virtually all surviving E. coli bacteria were not acid-resistant and were killed by human stomach acid.
CrossFit NYC was the sixteenth (of now over ten thousand) CrossFit affiliates. We were the first in New York (2005). Our coaching staff is the largest and most experienced of any CrossFit affiliate in the world. We have supervised over 75,000 CrossFit classes totaling nearly 1 million workouts. Our members include professional athletes and dancers, desk jockeys and stay-at-home moms, celebrities and grandparents. If you live in New York and you want to get in the best shape of your life, CrossFit NYC is the place to be.
The Primal Blueprint Cookbook: Primal, Low Carb, Paleo, Grain-Free, Dairy-Free and Gluten-Free by Mark Sisson and Jennifer Meier. Recipes include: Roasted Leg of Lamb with Herbs and Garlic, Salmon Chowder with Coconut Milk, Tomatoes Stuffed with Ground Bison and Eggs, and Baked Chocolate Custard. Recipes are simple and have limited ingredients. Complaints are the book is stuffed with unnecessary photos and proofreading could have been better, e.g. oven temperatures were left out. And recipes are not truly paleo. Despite what is on the cover dairy is used in some recipes. The Amazon reviews average to 4+ stars.
He was in Seattle on business. The calendar that morning said Thursday, but Glassman's gut said the mall, and the day had meandered from there. He had bought himself and his pilot new blaze-orange parkas at Mountain Hardwear, and taken his girlfriend to Tiffany's to buy her a diamond pendant for her birthday. At first, the Tiffany's staff had eyed him suspiciously: With his faded jeans, his parka, and the backward red baseball cap over his scraggly wisps of gray hair, the 56-year-old looked as if he had wandered in from a tailgate party somewhere or might whip out a hammer for a smash-and-grab. But then, it turned out the saleswoman was one of them. Her sinewy body should have been a giveaway. "Greg Glassman!" she said, looking at his credit card. "My husband was with you last night!"
Another downside: If you have had chronic health issues (especially gut related), you may find that reintroduction actually teaches you that you're sensitive to most foods. It turns out peanut butter, gluten, and most dairy are now off limits. That rots!! But I'll live. I feel so, so much better without them, as I learned. And wouldn't you rather know why you feel crappy all the time?
CrossFit headquarters' aggression can be enough to stunt interest in the WOD--almost. In April 2012, two avid CrossFitters, Jason and Shannon Janke, opened up the PR Cave, a sporting goods store in Yorba Linda, California, designed to cater to boxgoers all around Orange County. In November, they added a sign, "Where CrossFitters Shop," and had the slogan printed on mixer bottles for protein shakes. On January 16, they received a cease-and-desist from CrossFit, objecting to the use of CrossFitter. A month later, CrossFit filed suit.
Do not eat grains. This includes (but is not limited to) wheat, rye, barley, oats, corn, rice, millet, bulgur, sorghum, sprouted grains, and all gluten-free pseudo-cereals like quinoa, amaranth, and buckwheat. This also includes all the ways we add wheat, corn, and rice into our foods in the form of bran, germ, starch, and so on. Again, read your labels.
When the clock struck midnight, I couldn't wait any longer: I helped myself to a serving of plain white rice. I sat on my couch cross-legged, eating each spoonful with my eyes closed like one of the yogurt commercial ladies. I even smiled. The next day, I ate more gluten-free carbs, like rice and paleo pancakes. I also had wine and tequila, a grain-free liquor option. I didn't get bombed like I was worried about, but I did have a worse-than-usual hangover the next day. The fun night out was worth it, though.
Eat WELL Feel GOOD: Practical Paleo Living by Diane Frampton has over 200 recipes that makes paleo eating simple, delicious, and ultimately, intuitive. So they claim. There are only a few reviews at Amazon. They all like the book, but their lack of details makes it appear that they are not truly independent reviews. The recipes have a Crossfit appeal to them. Chef Rachel Albert has made some of the recipes and posted here [archive.org].
"We settled, because I don't want to spent 50 to 75 grand getting sued," says Jason Janke. "I covered up the sign." Saran, CrossFit's general counsel, says it's all part of the fight against "the road to genericization." If people can sell "CrossFit equipment" the way they sell "baseball equipment," says Saran, then it becomes crossfit. Soon anyone will be able to coach crossfit or promote a crossfit tournament--effectively killing the value of being an official affiliate, or being CrossFit, for that matter.
For many years Arthur De Vany Ph.D. has been writing a book called Evolutionary Fitness on "What Evolution Teaches Us About How to Live and Stay Healthy." The diet he follows fits into my core diet definition. He may have been the first one to use the paleo diet to maximize fitness. His current site is Art's Blog on Fitness, Health, Aging, Nutrition and Exercise [archive.org].
Exercise is a vital part of the live-by-your-genetic-code equation. Surviving in the Stone Age meant a constant on-the-go lifestyle that probably required 4,000-plus calories a day, according to David L. Katz, MD, director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center. Even most people who hit the gym regularly won't need to eat that many calories, but the principle of using food as fuel to exercise still stands.
LOREN CORDAIN, Ph.D., is one of the top global researchers in the area of evolutionary medicine. Generally acknowledged as the world's leading expert on the Paleolithic diet, he is a professor in the Health and Exercise Science Department at Colorado State University. Dr. Cordain and his research have been featured on Dateline NBC and in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other media. He is the author of The Paleo Diet and The Paleo Diet Cookbook, among other books, and makes regular media and speaking appearances worldwide.
This is one of the best cookbooks I have ever purchased and I have nearly 100! Most cookbooks I might find 3-4 good recipes out of dozens. Out of the 150 recipes in this book there are maybe 10 that I wouldn't make but 140 I would! The pictures are great! The recipes are delicious. I don't really even feel like I'm eating healthy because the food just tastes so great!
Don’t even consider the possibility of a “slip.” Unless you physically tripped and your face landed in a pizza, there is no “slip.” You make a choice to eat something unhealthy. It is always a choice, so do not phrase it as if you had an accident. Commit to the program 100% for the full 30 days. Don’t give yourself an excuse to fail before you’ve even begun.
Similarly, any foods that were not easily available to Paleolithic humans are off-limits in this diet, Holley explains. That means processed foods — many of which contain added butter, margarine, and sugar — should not be a part of the paleo diet. The same goes for dairy, which may not have been accessible to Paleolithic humans, and legumes, which many proponents of the diet believe are not easily digestible by the body.
If you're interested in the paleo plan but don't think you want to be so strict, you don't have to be all-or-nothing with your approach. Consider adopting some eating patterns from paleo and skipping the ones that don't work for you. For example, try just eating more fruits and vegetables and cutting down on added sugars. If you feel unsure about grains or dairy, talk to your doctor or a registered dietitian to determine what's best for your body.
Glassman grew up in Woodland Hills, a suburb of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley. In the Glassman household, education trumped everything. Glassman's father was a rocket scientist at Hughes Aircraft and an all-around hard-ass who lorded math and the scientific method over Glassman, his younger sister, and their stay-at-home mom. Arguments with the old man inevitably required data sets, says Glassman--"Any point you made had to be measurable, repeatable"--and Glassman clashed with his dad frequently.
The Paleo Answer: 7 Days to Lose Weight, Feel Great, Stay Young by Loren Cordain. The author shows you how to supercharge the Paleo diet for optimal lifelong health and weight loss. Featuring a new prescriptive 7-day plan and surprising revelations from the author's original research, it's the most powerful Paleo guide yet. Published December 20, 2011.
Paleonutrition by Mark Q. Sutton, Kristin D. Sobolik, and Jill K. Gardner is the analysis of prehistoric human diets and the interpretation of dietary intake in relation to health and nutrition. This is a substantial text that combines background to paleonutrition, an extensive bibliography, a discussion on methods, and case studies. Published February 23, 2010.
Get takeout flavor without the mystery additives: This Whole30 recipe recreates a comfort food classic with clean ingredients like fresh ginger, steak, and broccoli. Stay more Bulletproof and use grass-fed beef, arrowroot starch, coconut aminos, and coconut oil to cook. Plus, avoid enjoying black pepper and garlic too often, and consider steaming broccoli instead of stir frying.
Trick And Treat - how 'healthy eating' is making us ill by Barry Groves. The author is one of the world's most outspoken proponents of a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet. This book is an account of how and why the health-care establishment has got the concept of 'healthy eating' so wrong. Whereas Taubes work (see above) is a fairly straight forward review of the existing science, Groves expands into the politics of medical research and treatment to a much greater extent. "Trick and Treat" is divided into two parts. Part One describes the corruption in the health industry, points out the problems inherent in a high-carb, low-fat diet, and then prescribes a diet that leads to good health. The prescribed diet is high in fat - specifically animal fat, not polyunsaturated vegetable fat - and low in carbohydrates, with 60-70% of calories from fat, 15-25% of calories from protein, and a mere 10-15% of calories from carbohydrates. Part Two describes numerous diseases the author claims are the result of high carbohydrate consumption. These range from life-threatening disorders such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer to less serious problems such as acne, near-sightedness and dental problems. The Amazon reviews average to 4+ stars.
This spring, Dr Cordain did an interview answering ten questions about the basics of The Paleo Diet®. To start your New Years out right, we wanted to share his answers with you. We hope you enjoy! - The Paleo Diet Team 1. The Paleo diet can be traced to a 1975 book by Walter Voegtlin, but, correct me if I’m wrong, you are responsible for bringing this diet to popularity in your 2002 book “The Paleo Diet.” Can you me about your...
I am currently prepping for my second Whole 30. I have 3 kids with the youngest being just about 6 months, so I’m taking the time to plan out the first month as well as the reintro month. I am so pleased that you have another whole 30 plan! I do pick and choose and use my own meal planning software, but it’s such an invaluable resource. Best of all my whole family has loved almost every recipe of your that we have tried! Keep them coming, please!
Is time-restricted eating effective for weight loss? Time-restricted eating is a diet plan that requires people to limit themselves to only eating during specific hours of the day and then fasting outside of this period. Here, we look at what time-restricted eating is, whether or not it works, and what effect it has on muscle gain. We also provide tips for beginners. Read now
For your body to enter ketosis, a good percentage of your calories (generally, somewhere between 60-80%, according to keto experts) needs to come from fats (this is why people frequently associate the Keto Diet with foods like bacon, even though most nutritionists say it's better to eat healthier items like avocados, nuts and seeds, eggs, and lean meats). The idea is that all of that fat-burning will help you lose weight, says Kizer.
Richard Nikoley has the blog Free The Animal. He loves meat eating. His diet is near paleo, with the addition of some gray-area foods that he likes. These days most of his posts are on food. One recent trend in the paleo community is trying to optimize the proportions of the foods eaten. If you've read my definition you'll know that I simply define the diet as foods in and out. One of Richard's posts: Optimality: A Fool's Errand? has produced a long discussion of this trend.
The Dietitian's Guide to Eating Bugs by Daniel Calder is a comprehensive guide to the nutritional content of insects. He believes insect breeding and consumption are important elements sustainable living, particularly when it comes to complementing foraged plant material with meat products. Numerous insects contain nutrients similar to those found in more conventional livestock, except the feed to conversion ratio is much higher and they're much cheaper to breed. You can find the book at scribd. Also available in e-book format for $35.
Gluten is a protein found in things like rye, wheat, and barley. It’s now being said that much of our population may be gluten-intolerant (hence all the new “gluten-free!” items popping up everywhere). Over time, those who are gluten intolerant can develop a dismal array of medical conditions from consuming gluten: dermatitis, joint pain, reproductive problems, acid reflux, and more.[2]
Two friends and I discussed the article, and then one proposed something unbelievable: "We should do Whole30 together." After considering what Philipps' had to say about it, I decided to give it a try. Then Health editor in chief Lori Leibovich asked me to document my Whole30 experience with daily video diaries on Health Instagram stories, and I knew there was no turning back. I was about to do my first diet ever.
This is a list of paleo diet meats allowed on the diet. Almost all meats are paleo by definition. Of course, you’ll want to stay away from highly processed meats and meats that are very high in fat (stuff like spam, hot dogs, and other low-quality meats), but if it used to moo, oink, or make some other sound, it’s almost certainly paleo (and, yes, that means you can still have bacon). Here’s the full list of paleo diet meats.
Paleo Comfort Foods: Homestyle Cooking in a Gluten-Free Kitchen by Julie Sullivan Mayfield and Charles Mayfield. Implementing paleo guidelines and principles in this book (no grains, no gluten, no legumes, no dairy), the Mayfields give you 100+ recipes and full color photos with entertaining stories throughout. The recipes in Paleo Comfort Foods can help individuals and families alike lose weight, eat healthy and achieve optimum fitness, making this way of eating sustainable, tasty and fun. The many reviews at Amazon are basically flawless. The sole complaint is over the lack of nutritional information. But there is no counting on the paleo diet and its inclusion would have been inappropriate. Published September 10, 2011.
“Hartwig, a sports nutritionist and cocreator of the Whole30 diet plan, packs her fourth book on the subject with 150 recipes that are, as the cover proclaims in all-caps, “totally compliant.” That means heavy emphasis on eggs, meat, fish, and fresh vegetables, but no grains, dairy, legumes or added sugars. Whether or not one buys into Whole30, there is no denying that Hartwig has come up with a clever array of healthy and flavorful dishes. Highlights include Asian beef zoodle (zucchini noodles) soup, which is similar to Vietnamese pho but uses zucchini noodles, and grilled Jamaican jerk salmon with fresh mango salsa. Many of the recipes come courtesy of guest cooks from various food blogs. For instance, Michelle Smith, from the Whole Smiths blog, contributes cherry-chipotle BBQ chicken thighs, with the fruit providing the sweetness and ground chipotle bringing the heat. Veteran food and cocktail photographer Brent Herrig drives home the point that a burger served on a tomato slice is as delectable as one on a bun, and that meatballs do just fine in a cream sauce made with coconut milk. (Dec.)” —Publishers Weekly
The groundbreaking Whole30 program has helped countless people transform their lives by bringing them better sleep, more energy, fewer cravings, weight loss, and new healthy habits that last a lifetime. In this cookbook, best-selling author and Whole30 co-creator Melissa Hartwig delivers over 150 all-new recipes to help readers prepare delicious, healthy meals during their Whole30 and beyond.
The pull-up begins with an athlete at a dead-hang (arms, shoulders, and hips extended) from a pull-up rig. The athlete then, using any style (kipping, butterfly, strict,) must get their chin clearly over the bar at the top of each rep. Each repetition begins with the athlete in a dead-hang, and finishes with the athlete’s chin getting over the bar.
First, head on over to Whole30 to gobble up their wrap-up post, including links to articles about living (and eating!) in the days, weeks, and years post-Whole30. If you still need more help, buy a copy of the Whole30 book, the Whole30 Cookbook (which includes a bunch of exclusive recipes by me!), Whole30 Fast and Easy, and Whole30 Day by Day! And if you have a copy of “It Starts With Food” on your bookshelf, take another look at Chapter 20 (“Strategies for Long-Term Success”), or grab a copy of Food Freedom Forever, which teaches strategies for making this new approach to food a sustainable change.
We don’t follow fads, trends or other “fitness and health” gimmicks. What we do is not easy, it’s hard, but it produces results! We build strength as the primary outcome of our training. Using the squat, press, deadlift, bench press and other lifts, we build functional strength. Once clients have a strength foundation, they can expand their fitness into other areas for life, recreation of sport using conditioning and skill work.
This content is strictly the opinion of Dr. Josh Axe and is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended to provide medical advice or to take the place of medical advice or treatment from a personal physician. All readers/viewers of this content are advised to consult their doctors or qualified health professionals regarding specific health questions. Neither Dr. Axe nor the publisher of this content takes responsibility for possible health consequences of any person or persons reading or following the information in this educational content. All viewers of this content, especially those taking prescription or over-the-counter medications, should consult their physicians before beginning any nutrition, supplement or lifestyle program.
A diet high in phytic acid, which can be found in whole grains (it's in the bran) and beans like soy, is very detrimental for mineral absorption. Phytic acid strongly binds to minerals like calcium, iron, zinc and magnesium to form insoluble salts, phytates, which precipitate from the body and are not absorbed. Staffan Lindeberg has written a summary on phytic acid.
Whole30 is about a physiological and psychological reset (so, not just about the number on the scale), and if you’re looking to jumpstart your system and make healthier food choices, the 30-day plan may be a good guide for you. “It’s really for someone who is looking to make drastic changes for a short period of time and understands this is a band-aid, not a cure all,” says Zeitlin.
You're not tracking calories. You won't feel hungry. You won't be eating based on a points system. You're going to miss your morning doughnuts, but this isn't like any diet you might be used to. Whole30 co-founder Melissa Hartwig actually doesn't like calling the Whole30 a "diet" at all. “Most diets are spent white-knuckling your way through deprivation, restriction, hunger, tuning out your body’s signals, and obsessing over tracking and weighing your food,” Hartwig says. She doesn't think that type of behavior is sustainable, and if you've ever tried dieting, you probably agree.
The following links tend towards news reports of scientific studies that point out some positive aspect of the paleo diet. If you are looking for current news reports, I suggest signing up for Google Alerts for the Type: News. I have three set up, for: "caveman diet," "paleo diet," and "paleolithic diet." You can also set them up for blogs and/or websites.
Strip them from your diet completely. Eliminate the most common craving-inducing, blood sugar disrupting, gut-damaging, inflammatory food groups for a full 30 days. Let your body heal and recover from whatever effects those foods may be causing. Push the reset button with your health, habits, and relationship with food, and the downstream physical and psychological effects of the food choices you’ve been making. Learn how the foods you’ve been eating are actually affecting your day-to-day life, long term health, body composition, and feelings around food. The most important reason to keep reading?
2) There is a big step up in the use of tree nuts in the cookbook. I never really got why tree nuts would be included in an anti-inflammatory diet when they are one of the more common allergens. Aside from that, I'm super allergic to tree nuts (need an epi-pen) so this was, personally, lame for me. Nuts were easy to avoid in 30 Day Guide but many more recipes include them in the cookbook.
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Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health by Gary Taubes expounds on his 2002 article in the NY Times (What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?) and then in Science Magazine (see below). He shows how public health data has been misinterpreted to mark dietary fat and cholesterol as the primary causes of coronary heart disease. Deeper examination, he says, shows that heart disease and other diseases of civilization appear to result from increased consumption of refined carbohydrates: sugar, white flour and white rice. Or in other words, without using the word Paleolithic, he justifies the paleo diet. Here is an excellent chapter by chapter summary of the book [archive.org].
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Explore programs and services, articles, and other resources related to HIV and AIDS.
Programs for individuals who are at risk or have tested positive for infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), or have developed AIDS which is caused by the HIV virus and impairs the function of the body's immune system leaving affected individuals vulnerable to illnesses that would not otherwise occur.
AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) | Ryan White Program
Accomack County Health Department
23191 Front Street, P.O. Box 177, Accomac, VA 23301
AIDS HIV Program
Franklin County Health Department
265 Pell Avenue, P.O. Box 249, Rocky Mount, VA 24151
AIDS HIV, Care Coordination
315 10th Street NE, Charlottesville, VA 22902
AIDS HIV, Support Services
Anonymous HIV Testing | Max Robinson Center
Whitman-Walker Health
2301 Martin Luther King Jr Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20020
Celiac Disease Information
Celiac Disease Foundation
20350 Ventura Blvd Ste 240, Woodland Hills, CA 91364
Celiac Disease, Information and Education
National Foundation for Celiac Awareness
P O Box 6635, Lincoln, NE 68506
HIV/AIDS Hotline
AIDSinfo
P O Box 4780, Rockville, MD 20849
HIV/AIDS | Viral Hepatitis Hotline
Virginia Department of Health
109 Governor's Street Madison Bldg, -3rd Fl, PO Box 2448, Richmond, VA 23218
HIV: Know the RISKS. Get the FACTS. Older Adults and HIV|AIDS Toolkit
Review the U.S. Administration for Community Living's "HIV: Know the Risks. Get the Facts. Older Adults and HIV/AIDS" Toolkit containing helpful resources and materials specifically designed to inform older adults about the risks of HIV/AIDS and to encourage older adults to know their status.
Seniors and HIV | AIDS
The Administration for Community Living provides a fact sheet on Seniors and HIV and AIDS.
Aging Well Healthy Choices Solution Center
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Bernie Sanders Plan Would Allow 183K Murderers, 164K Rapists to Vote from Prison
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John Binder
Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) recent endorsement of giving voting rights to all American citizens who are currently in prison for local, state, and federal crimes would allow some 183,000 convicted murderers and 164,000 convicted rapists to vote from their jail cells.
In a CNN town hall this week, Sanders endorsed allowing all convicted U.S. citizens — regardless of their crime — to vote from prison.
“So, I believe people who commit crimes, they pay the price and they get out of jail, they certainly should have the right to vote,” Sanders said. “But, I believe even if they are in jail, they’re paying the price to society, but that should not take away their inherent American right to participate in our democracy.”
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), also running for the Democrat nomination for president, hinted that she would be open to such a plan, saying “I think we should have that conversation” when asked about allowing convicted criminals to vote from their cells.
The latest data compiled by the Prison Policy Initiative concludes that there are more than 1.6 million convicted criminals in local, state, and federal prisons across the country. This includes about 183,000 convicted murderers and 164,000 convicted rapists.
Not all 1.6 million convicted criminals in local, state, and federal custody are American citizens, though. State and local prisons have yet to collect data deciphering between the citizen versus noncitizen populations of their prison populations.
Federal data concludes that noncitizens make up about 25 percent of the federal prison population.
Should this be true of local and state prisons, as well, this would mean that about 1.2 million convicted criminals in prison today could be eligible to vote from their cells under Sanders’ plan — including anywhere between 137,000 and 183,000 convicted murderers and potentially between 123,000 to 164,000 convicted rapists.
Similarly, the Sanders plan would potentially allow anywhere between 14,250 and 19,000 citizens convicted of manslaughter to vote from their cells, as well as up to 154,000 convicted assailants.
Ahead of the 2020 presidential election, as Breitbart News has reported, organizations funded by billionaire George Soros are working to restore the voting rights of about 1.4 million felons in Florida after the state approved the measure last year.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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In this week's episode of Off Panel, writer and DC Comics legend Paul Levitz joins the show to talk his career and latest trade paperback, Brooklyn Blood. Levitz discusses his comics journalism background, what comics were like when he joined DC, comic book pro poker night, Jenette Kahn's impact, his time writing the Legion of Super-Heroes, his self-created position at DC, the development of the modern DC creator contract, the direct market, the development of the trade paperback and its market, Vertigo and its 25th anniversary, how different his role was as president/publisher, Brooklyn Blood, the trickiness of the Dark Horse Presents format, how he approaches writing, collaboration, the current state of comics, and more.
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In this week's episode of Off Panel, The AV Club's resident comic critic Oliver Sava returns to the show for a deep dive into the state of the superhero union. We discuss how we feel about superhero comics in general today, Geoff Johns' big move out of DC Entertainment, what he's liking and not liking at DC right now, The Killing Zone, Bendis's start at DC, Young Animal ending, DC's love of imprints, Vertigo's relaunch, where Marvel is at, Ta-Nahisi Coates' work on Black Panther, the titles we're really digging, who we'd want to write a Marvel event today, the upcoming Marvel comic we're most excited for, which publisher has more momentum right now, who is making the best comics, which superhero title has the belt right now, and more.
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In this week's episode of Off Panel, cartoonist Vera Brosgol joins the show for the first time to talk her latest graphic novel Be Prepared and her work overall. Brosgol discusses her recent book tour, the experience of visiting schools, solely focusing on being a graphic novelist, the difficulty of writing, how she works, revisiting her past in her work, going the memoir route, the impact working in animation for Laika Studios had on her comic work, working with first second, her approach to layouts, the value of turning your brain off, the growing kids market and more, before diving into five questions about Vera Brosgol, the person.
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In this week's episode of Off Panel, it's a special Power Rankings episode with cartoonist John Allison of Giant Days and Bad Machinery fame, who joins the show to rank a few of his favorite things. Allison discusses his favorite characters of his own, why writing is easier for him than art, favorite colloquialisms, his love of television, the MCU, favorite elements of old superhero comics, science fiction stories, Death's Head II, his characters he's most similar to, bizarre, modern things he takes the most joy from, comic strips, Eurovision, superhero artists, and more.
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About 57 percent of the respondents said they hop
that instead of imposing ideas on their children, parents should learn more about what their ch
ildren want, according to the survey, which covered 1,953 unmarried young people.
According to Ling Zi, a marriage consultant, it does more harm than good for parents to be overly involved in children’s ma
rriages. “It shows the distrust of the parents, and transfers their anxiety to their children,” said Ling.
It has become common in China for pushy parents to look for spouses for their children who are too busy or slow in finding love, the paper said.
s the race to replace Theresa May as Conservative Party leader and British prime minister reach
es the final two candidates, China Daily looks at the candidates: Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt.
Johnson has long been one of the loudest voices supporting Brexit, a
nd had the backing of Donald Trump. Hunt is a converted Remain supporter.
After Conservative MPs narrowed 10 candidates down to the final tw
o, it is now up to party members nationwide to choose the next occupant of 10 Downing Street.
While many people doubt whether Mo could top the s
success of winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012, Zhang Qinghua, professor at Beijing Normal University, believes that Mo’s way of dealing with this h
as been to make a return to his hometown, a village in Gaomi, Shandong province, both in reality and spiritually.
Mo didn’t publish any new work in the five years following the award, when in 2017 he
released several short stories, poems and theater works, mainly reminiscing about his hometown.
Unlike Mo’s former novels, Peking University professor Chen Xiaoming notes th
at his new works are more reserved, realistic stylistically and employ more simple language. Literary cri
tic Li Jingze is impressed that Mo has remained acutely sensitive to the realities of urban and rural life.
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Tibet guards safety on highest mountainutiful scenery
The safety of mountaineers in China’s recently concluded Qomola
ngma climbing season, which saw 241 climbers scale the peak from the Chinese side, was ensured throu
gh good management practices, the government of the Tibet autonomous region said on Friday.
Twelve Chinese mountaineers, 21 Chinese guides, 94 foreign mountaineers and 108 Sherpa guides
made it to the summit from April 10 to May 30, according to the Tibet Mountaineering Association.
Two alpinists, however, have become the victims on the north face of the
mountain in Tibet’s Dingri county, resulting from the extreme physical demands.
“Mountaineering is a high-risk sport, and safety is the priority,” said Pema Trinley, the association’s deputy director.
“I think there are advantages and opportunities on b
oth sides if we can get people to sit down and really look at how do we put these pieces together,” Holden said.
He listed infrastructure, energy, education and business-to-business relationships as potential areas of coope
ration between China and the US, and he suggested such cooperation could start from subnational bilateral exchanges.
“It’s so important to be working at the state and local level. Because in that fashion, by buildin
g these relationships now, hopefully we get a more stable relationship nationally going forward,” said H
olden.hina’s relevant government department decided to open an investigation into US shipping company Fed
Ex, for suspected infringement of Chinese customers’ legitimate rights and relevant laws and regulations.
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Wuxi officials punished over kindergarten ‘gang’ question
Three officials in Wuxi, East China’s Jiangsu province, have been gi
ven Party and administrative punishments on Thursday over an inappropriate question about
whether kindergarten children were involved in gangs, the local government said on its official Wechat account.
According to the government of Wuxi’s Xishan district, Feng Dongyan, director and Party chief
of the Xishan Education Bureau, has been given the punishment of warning within the Party.
Wang Zhaoyu, director of the educational bureau’s general office, has been given a serious warni
ng within the Party and removed from office. Lu Zhongxian, director of the bureau’s educational equi
pment and student aid management center, was also given a serious warning and dismissed.
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In its first quarter report this year, Tesla revealed that i
t it expects its second-generation Model 3 production line at its Shanghai plant to cost 50 percent less per unit than its factory in Fremont, California.
CEO Elon Musk also said in April that the gigafactory in Shanghai expects to produce 1,000 and 2,000 vehicles a week
But China CDC says more efforts still needed to hit nation’s reduction target
Smoking has been declining on the Chinese mainland, but m
ore efforts are needed for effective tobacco control, according to a survey released on Thursday.
Last year, 26.6 percent of the population 15 years old or above across the mainland were smokers, according to the survey, which
was conducted by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention between July and December.
by the end of the year, the report said.
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Pacts set to be signed during Xi’s state visitbal strateg
Pragmatic cooperation, global strategic stability high on Sino-Russian agenda
Beijing and Moscow will sign around 30 cooperation documents d
uring President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Russia next week, including two joint statements on bilateral t
ies as well as on global strategic stability, Vice-Foreign Minister Zhang Hanhui said on Thursday.
Xi will kick off a three-day state visit to Russia on Wednesday at the invitation of Russian President
Vladimir Putin, and attend the 23rd St. Petersburg International Economic Forum to be held between June 6 and June 8.
The two presidents will witness the signing of an array of agreements on business d
eals in areas such as trade, investment and energy, Zhang said at a media briefing in Beijing.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of diplomatic ties between
China and Russia, and Xi’s visit will mark a milestone for both countries, Zhang said.
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Development of huge shale oil field goes full steam
This year, PetroChina’s Xinjiang Oilfield Company has been fully develop
ing the Jimsar shale oil field, which boasts 1 billion tons of shale oil reserves, Xinhua reported.
The company has mobilized 36 drilling rigs, started drilling on 47 wells and completed eight wells till now. The daily drille
d footage surpassed 2,000 meters and the total drilled footage reached 160,000 meters.
PetroChina has ramped up exploration efforts on Bohai Bay Basin, Songliao Basin, Ordo
s Basin and Junggar Basin in recent years and shale oil was listed as one of the four exploration goals. Dagang Oilfi
eld, Xinjiang Oilfield, Tuha Oilfield and Changqing Oilfield have been set as important demonstration zones.
Xinjiang Oilfield Company said it planned to mobilize 45 drilling rigs this year to finish drilling nearly 100 wells.
At present, 5G has become the driving force to boost Ch
hina’s innovative and high-quality development,” Sui Zhenjiang, vice-mayor of Beijing, said on Wedne
sday during a 5G industrial development and investment summit held in Yizhuang, in southeastern Beijing.
“Beijing is actively transforming itself as a national scientific and tech
nological innovation center. With advantages in complete telecom infrastructure, abunda
nt talent and strong research and development capabilities, we have the resolve to accelerate the push for making brea
kthroughs in 5G technologies and build an independent and innovative 5G industrial system,” Sui said.
As of May 24, the three major telecom operators－China Mobile, Chin
a Telecom and China Unicom－have established 4,700 5G base stations in Beijing, acc
ording to Wang Gang, head of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology.
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At present, more than 20 provincial-level regions have
completed 5G call tests and more than 500,000 commercial 5G base stations are expected to be
built in South China’s Guangdong, North China’s Hebei, East China‘s Zhejiang and Jiangxi, and Central Chi
na’s Hubei provinces and the cities of Shanghai, Harbin, Tianjin, Chongqing and Wuhan in the future, the report said.
“With technologies and products related to the 5G network maturing, the main parts of the 5G ind
ustrial chain, including systems, chips and terminals, are ready for commercial use,” Wen Ku, a
spokesman for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said on Tuesday.
The report said the ministry, having made a general plan fo
r 5G application, is estimated to formally issue 5G licenses at some point this year.
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