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Brain Assist (Nintendo DS)
Platform: Nintendo DS
10 brain flexing-exercises that test the players reflexes, memory and concentrations
Track your brain performance over time receive advice on how you can improve your performance
Compete with friends wireless in a variety of modes: Brain Assist also includes game share
Personalise your gaming experience: choose from 4 female nurses to be your mentor
Touch Screen-tastic! All games requite players to utilise the stylus and touch screen to make the correct Reponses under the time limit
Price: £4.99 & eligible for Free UK delivery on orders over £5 with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
You Save: £15.00 (75%)
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A game designed to exercise the brain while still keeping things fun, is coming to the Nintendo DS portable handheld system. Derived from Touch de Uno!, the classic Japanese arcade game, Brain Assist is easy to pick up and play and is filled with a variety of ways to test mental ability.
Focusing on strengthening the right hemisphere of the brain by challenging the player's memory, concentration, reflexes, deduction and analytical abilities, Brain Assist features four nurses to choose from to act as guides and help players through the game. Each game increases in difficulty and demands that players think fast to truly maximise their memory's potential and response times. Players will then be put to the test again in the "Lightning Round" where the pace and difficulty of game play becomes even more challenging. Brain Assist takes full advantage of the Nintendo DS Touch Screen technology and allows for an addictive interactive game play experience in either two-player co-op mode or fast-paced competitions for up to four players via the Nintendo DS Wireless Connection.
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Cardinals look to stop ‘blue train’By Contributor, Rodolfo Serafin Jerome T. Lozada |Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines – The Mapua Institute of Technology Cardinals look to stop the blue train as it takes on Group A powerhouse Ateneo de Manila University Blue Eagles on Monday in the Filoil Flying V Preseason Hanes Cup at the Filoil Flying VArena in San Juan.
The Cardinals, who are currently at third place of Group A with a 1-2 slate, look to prevent Ateneo from claiming its fourth straight victory and momentum going into the knockout stages. Both teams clash at noon.
In other games, the Emilio Aguinaldo College Generals look to book their second win against a winless Lyceum of the Philippines University Pirates at 1:45 p.m. followed by a rejuvenated San Sebastian College-Recoletos Stags taking on the Jose Rizal University Heavy Bombers at 5:15 p.m.
Cardinals head coach Chito Victolero said that his team’s focus is to stop Ateneo’s main players in Greg Slaughter and Kiefer Ravena.
“Our team follows a defensive system, the players are expected to play tough defense on Ateneo’s main players, we will try to compete in every way we can,” said Victolero.
Slaughter who leads the team in scoring, rebounding and shot blocking with averages of 15.83 points, 11 rebounds and two blocks per game is expected to have draw most of the pounding from the Cardinal defense.
Ravena who averages 10 ppg but is currently shooting a woeful 29.8% from the field and 25% from rainbow country, is still expected to also lead Ateneo in its hunt for a third straight win. | <urn:uuid:00f55134-a241-4df9-b792-f027725c995d> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://sports.inquirer.net/42553/cardinals-look-to-stop-blue-train | 2014-10-25T22:51:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1414119651018.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20141024030051-00311-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943965 | 394 |
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Ancestry website “taster” at Southwater Library
November 8, 2017 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
A basic introduction to using the Ancestry website at Southwater Library.
The session will act as a refresher if you haven’t done any online family history research for a while, or help you get started with this free library resource.
It will be assumed that attendees have basic keyboard, mouse and internet browser knowledge.
Places must be booked in advance.
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|David "Puck" Rainey|
|Born||Oakland, California, U.S.|
|Occupation||Reality television personality|
David "Puck" Rainey is an American reality television personality who first gained fame as a cast member on The Real World: San Francisco in 1994. A bicycle messenger during the show's shooting, he became notorious as the second Real World cast member ever to be evicted from the house, due to his increasingly antagonistic relationship with his housemates, most notably with Pedro Zamora, an HIV-positive AIDS educator. Rainey's conflict with Zamora is credited with helping make The Real World a hit show, for which Time ranked it #7 on their list of 32 Epic Moments in Reality-TV History. TV Guide included him in their 2013 list of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time.
The Real World
Rainey was a cast member on the MTV reality TV series The Real World: San Francisco in 1994. He and his castmates moved into the house at 953 Lombard Street on Russian Hill on February 12 of that year. Among the cast, Rainey was an eccentric center of attention. In the season premiere he arrived at the house last because he was detained by police for a traffic incident. He incurred many minor injuries while bike riding, and kept photos of them, which he showed to his housemates. Although the producers informed the housemates that they would be living with someone who was HIV-positive, they did not reveal who it was, and as a result of these injuries, which included scabs on his face, some of the other castmates incorrectly assumed the HIV-positive cast member was Rainey. Rainey frequently clashed with his roommates over hygiene, being repeatedly criticized for poor hygiene. His housemates also complained of his lack of consideration for others, and his need to monopolize conversation. Rainey's Jewish housemate Judd Winick took offense to Rainey's wearing of a T-shirt that depicted four guns arranged in the shape of a swastika, and his refusal to take the shirt off, a confrontation only revealed in the MTV book The Real World Diaries and depicted in the 2009 film Pedro, not the series itself.
Rainey's most contentious relationship was with Zamora, whose career as an AIDS educator Rainey denigrated and whose Cuban accent he mocked. Zamora, who had AIDS, distanced himself from Rainey and thereby from the other housemates, fearing the stress of his relationship with Rainey was affecting his health. When Zamora threatened to move out, the other housemates voted to evict Rainey instead.
Rainey made a cameo appearance in 1998 on Road Rules: All Stars, Celebrity Death match, and competed in 2003 on Battle of the Sexes, during which he came into conflict with David Edwards of The Real World: Los Angeles, and married (on-camera) Betty Garcia, his fiancee and mother of his son, Bogart. He also made an appearance in Eminem's video for "Without Me".
Rainey met his future wife, Betty, at a farmer's market in 1998. They had a son and later married on Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Sexes, then had a second son. In 2008 they were living in the Los Angeles area, where Rainey worked as a truck driver, and by 2009 were living in Alabama, where Rainey made a living through public appearances and miscellaneous jobs.
On November 8, 2012, Rainey pleaded no contest to stalking an unidentified woman on February 22 of that year, and on November 8 was sentenced to two years in Wasco State Prison. Having received credit for 401 days already served, he was expected to be released in a little under a year. As of 2013, Rainey was on felony probation and forbidden from leaving Los Angeles County, California. By 2013 Rainey and his wife had a third child and lived "off the grid" in Neenach, California.
In popular culture
- In 1998, the MTV claymation show Celebrity Deathmatch depicted a fight to the death between Puck, Jacinda Barrett, Tami Roman, and Jon Brennan. Jacinda is beaten to death by Tami and Jon, Tami's head is crushed by Puck's bike, and Jon wins by tripping Puck on his bike, sending him launched into a fish tank, where the fish tear his head to shreds.
- In Pedro, Nick Oceano's 2008 film dramatizing Pedro Zamora's life, Rainey is portrayed by Matt Barr.
- Webley, Kayla. "32 Epic Moments in Reality-TV History: 7. The Real World: Puck vs. Pedro". Time. Retrieved April 9, 2011.
- Bretts, Bruce; Roush, Matt; (March 25, 2013). "Baddies to the Bone: The 60 nastiest villains of all time". TV Guide. pp. 14-15.
- The Real World: San Francisco: Cast: Puck. MTV. 1994. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
- Montgomery, James; White Wolf, Vanessa (March 22, 2013). "'Real World' Star David 'Puck' Rainey Looks Back On San Francisco -- Unapologetically". MTV News.
- The Real World Diaries. pp. 146-147.
- "Collision Course". The Real World: San Francisco. Season 3. Episode 9. August 25, 1994. MTV.
- Winick, Judd. Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned. 2000. Henry Holt & Co. pp. 61-67.
- The Real World Diaries. 1996. Pocket Books. Page 131
- Winick; 2000. pp. 21 - 24; 64.
- Fretts, Bruce. (July 21, 1995). "The British Invasion The Real World returns for fourth season — The MTV hit invades London". Entertainment Weekly. Page 1 of 4
- Joanna Sloame and Soraya Roberts. "Most vile stars on reality TV: The ugliest, meanest and most violent of them all". Daily News. April 1, 2011. Page 30 of 46
- The Real World Diaries. pp. 130, 133 and 136.
- "You Gotta Have Art". The Real World: San Francisco. Season 3. Episode 5. July 28, 1994. MTV.
- The Real World Diaries. Page 137.
- Winick; 2000. p. 114.
- "Getting Dropped". The Real World: San Francisco. Season 3. Episode 11. September 8, 1994. MTV.
- "'The Real World' Stars: Where Are They Now?". The Huffington Post/AOL TV. March 4, 2008.
- Ryan Pienciaki, Elaine Aradillas and Paul Chi. "The Real World: Where Are They Now?". People. Vol. 70. No. 7. August 18, 2008
- All Access Presents: Where Are They Now?: Reality Stars. VH1. Viewed January 7, 2009
- "'Real World' star 'Puck' Rainey locked up". UPI. November 25, 2012.
- Roberts, Christine (November 24, 2012). "Early ‘Real World’ star Puck is behind bars in California after reported stalking incident". Daily News.
- "Pedro, a real world story about Pedro Zamora". pedrothtemovie.com. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
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In need of Prayers for the Lost? Here are a few you can use.
The Lord has a heart for the lost. And He calls us to have a heart for the lost too. When Jesus came to earth, He told us what His mission was.
In Luke 19:10 He says, “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
As Christians, God has given us the mission to preach the gospel and to reach the lost.
How To Pray For The Lost
One of the ways we can do that is by praying for them.
Who are the lost that Jesus is referring to?
We all used to be part of that.
The lost is everyone who has not come to faith in Christ, and are still under the law.
In Christ we have received grace and the forgiveness of our sins.
Apart from Christ, we have no mediator, and therefore, we are still judged by the law.
There is not a single person who can uphold the law, except Christ.
That is why He came to earth to live the life we couldn’t live, and die the death reserved for us.
God’s word tells us that there are many people who desperately need God, but they don’t have anyone who has shared the gospel with them.
In Matthew 9:37-38, Jesus tells His disciples that “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”
There are hearts which have soil that simply need the seed of the word to be planted.
We not only get to be God’s workers, but we are also called to be praying for God’s word to work in the hearts of those who hear it.
Here are a few prayers that can help you pray for the lost, and to see them come to faith in Christ.
Prayers For The Lost Souls
A Desire To See The Lost Found
“Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved.”
We have many different desires in our hearts. Some may be earthly focused and others heavenly focused.
But one thing God calls us to is having the desire to see the lost be saved. This was Paul’s earnest desire.
He didn’t keep God’s kindness and salvation to himself, he wanted to share it with everyone who didn’t have it.
Through prayer, we can ask God to increase our compassion for those who are lost.
As He grows our desire to see the lost be saved, He also helps us to be more proactive in sharing the gospel with the lost.
If it weren’t for Your heart for the lost, I would still be wandering, and absolutely lost.
Thank You for inviting me into Your grace, and saving my life. I ask that You would grant me Your heart for the lost.
Help me not to be apathetic to the lives of those who are lost, instead give me a heart that is compassionate towards them.
May their salvation be my earnest desire, and may my life begin to reflect that desire, as I share the gospel with those who I cross paths with.
In Jesus’ name, amen.
Trusting God’s Timing For Salvation
2 Peter 3:9
“The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.”
It can be discouraging when you have shared the gospel with someone multiple times and it just doesn’t seem to stick.
Sometimes we place unrealistic pressure on ourselves to make others believe the gospel.
God calls us to share the truth, but He is the one that does the saving.
We can find comfort in this truth, knowing that He ultimately plants the seed and waters it.
We are simply His workers.
When you feel discouraged, and you don’t see someone come to faith immediately, trust God’s timing. He does not desire to see anyone perish, but He does allow us free will.
Thank You for Your compassion towards us. I know that each one of our testimonies is different, because at a certain point in our lives we heard Your word, and You responded to it.
Sometimes that response is instant, and at other times it takes many years.
Please remind me that You are the one that saves people, not me.
You have given me a mission, to share the gospel, but You are the one who plants the seed in their heart, and waters it.
Please keep me from being discouraged when I don’t see immediate change.
Help me to be humbled, by acknowledging that it is in Your time, not my time that people are saved.
Help me solely focus on sharing the gospel, knowing that You will do the rest.
In Jesus’ name, amen.
A Prayer For God’s Truth To Open Their Eyes
2 Corinthians 4:4
“The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”
Though we are in the world we are not of it.
But we still have an enemy who is roaming around, and whose mission is to blind the minds of unbelievers, so that they do not come to faith in Christ.
He has darkened their mind, and tries to keep it resistant to the light of the gospel.
We can pray for the lost by asking that God open the eyes of their minds to see the truth.
We can ask Him to shine His gospel light in their minds, and grant them understanding.
He alone can change the hearts of the unbeliever, and usher them into His glorious grace.
Though we have a real enemy who tries to pull a veil over our eyes, we know that You are greater than he is.
You have already overcome this world, and the god of this age.
That is why I know I can come to You in confidence and hope, asking that You open the eyes of those whose minds have been blinded by Satan.
Please shine Your gospel light into their minds, and chase out the darkness that resides in it.
I ask that You would give them understanding of Your word, and bring them to repentance.
May they see You as You are, and fall before You in repentance and praise.
You alone can change the human heart, please do Your gracious work in the hearts of those who are lost.
In Jesus’ name, amen.
Prayer That The Truth Will Set Them Free
“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
We all come into the world as slaves to sin.
We are bound to sin because of our nature.
We can’t help but sin.
But Christ has purchased our freedom through His finished work on the cross.
When we come to faith in Him we are no longer slaves to sin.
Romans 6:6 says, “We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.”
We can pray for this same freedom from sin for those who are lost.
We don’t truly realize just how enslaved we are to our sin until You open our eyes.
Though sin may dress itself as fun, and freedom, all it does is place us in bondage.
I ask that You would open the eyes of the lost to see sin for what it truly is.
May we as Your workers go out into Your field and share the truth, and may You set them free.
Set them free from the bondage of sin.
May they become slaves to righteousness instead of sin.
May they find new life in Christ, and be a witness to Your mercy and grace.
In Jesus’ name, amen.
Prayer To Protect Them From Satan’s Influence
“But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.””
Whenever God’s word is preached, it falls on different kinds of heart soils.
The word is like a seed, and the soil that it falls on represents the receptiveness of those who hear it.
The Bible describes the different soils as the wayside, the rocks, the thorns and the good soil.
The seed that falls on the wayside has no depth, which means that the seed has no roots in it.
When those by the wayside hear the word, because of the lack of depth, Satan simply comes and snatches the word away.
Pray that God changes the soil of their hearts, and that they will be protected against Satan’s influence.
I know we can not be oblivious to the enemy’s influence in this world. All around us we can see his influence in media, music, entertainment and the lives of those who have rejected You.
He has convinced many people that You do not exist, or that You do not matter.
Their hearts have been blinded and they haven’t had an understanding of the gospel.
I ask that You would graciously show them Your word.
Please give them an understanding of who You are and who they are in relation to You.
Help them to see the weightiness of sin, and the grace of Christ’s work on the cross.
Till the ground of their hearts, that they may receive Your word, and that it may be planted and bear fruit of righteousness.
In Jesus’ name, amen.
As Christians, we have a daily mission to be a light to a world that is in the dark.
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It’s the “rock myself to sleep in a fetal position” edition.
Banks – With Calderon and Jack laying big-fat eggs, would have been nice to get a guy in who can play some defense on the perimeter at the point; but Triano felt it necessary to hang Calderon out to dry.
Bargnani – Showed that when he wants to get to the rim, no one can defend him off the dribble but didn’t do enough of it. Not sure why but his act is getting tiring. You know that drive he scored in in the first quarter and everybody clapped. And you know how on the next possession he didn’t box-out Millsap and it led to a three? That’s his game.
Belinelli – When you can’t even get out on the court in garbage time of a blow-out loss, the coach has problems with your game. Can’t say that I blame him.
Bosh – Dropped 20pts 8reb 3ast, but did it quietly. Not much support, but he also didn’t seem into it. Would hope at this point of the season the Franchise would be leaving it on the floor, regardless of what others are doing (or not doing). Could learn a few things from Boozer about using that upper-body muscle when the jumper isn’t falling.
Calderon – D-Will had his way with Jose early, and he never recovered. His inability to defend is just ridiculous. Wasn’t even happy clapping, just brutal. His 0-5 first quarter was great starter material.
DeRozan – Nice baseline dunk in the 1st quarter, errrr….that’s all I got.
Evans – Made his first positive contribution to this team by drawing a charge on Boozer (his 3rd), and followed that up with his best performance as a Raptor. When he’s your best player, you have problems.
Jack – Played like doodoo. 9 shots in 23 minutes on a night where we needed our PGs to get others going. Needs to drop that sense of entitlement.
Johnson – “There are lies, damned lies and statistics.” – Mark Twain
Nesterovic – The much anticipated Rasho Nesterovic vs Kosta Koufos battle never happened. Thanks, Jay.
O’Bryant – Ever since we acquired this guy things have gone down the drain.
Turkoglu – 3 shots? It’s almost like he’s trying to hide so nobody talks about him afterwards. Well, it works.
Weems – Tried to make things happen in the 3rd, and looked to be doing it alone. It dawned on me tonight that if he just played a bit more in control, he’d be a solid, consistent, contributor.
Wright – We can all appreciate the fight in him. The guy goes hard, and tries to make things happen. He took a couple liberties on the offensive end (a few of those shots made me murderous) which on this night was hardly a crime, but he does need to ramp up for the playoffs.
Driving The Bus: Antoine Wright
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This tee is a vintage burgandy, LAT, unixex tee and comes in Adult and Youth sizes. Designed by Madison Sims club member. Design will be on the back of tee and the NWASHA logo will be on the front pocket area. Super soft and light weight. If you are going to state, I will have pick up available at the show, so choose 'store pick up'. | <urn:uuid:160e18bb-9410-4e09-8121-ab73ec0c569d> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.longstitchin.com/product-page/nwasha-tee-21 | 2022-01-23T00:35:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303917.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220122224904-20220123014904-00610.warc.gz | en | 0.92529 | 87 |
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
I like the way the rocks turned out in this watercolor painting I did the other day, but that's about it. Seems like I'm in a bit of a funk. I think it's because I started a diet, and all the restrictions are making me cranky. I know it will be worth it, it already is health wise, blood pressure is back to normal, and my blood sugar levels are going down, but I have no energy, and I'm feeling a bit on the blue side... this too shall pass... busy week for work, so I best get to it... See ya next time.
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Here is another beach watercolor painting I started last night and finished up this morning. I really like the way this came out. It's more of what I was trying to accomplish.
On another note, I am so happy that Friday the 13th is over, I don't remember the dream, but I was screaming in my sleep, and Jeff woke me up, because I evidently wasn't just screaming in my dream!
Friday, June 13, 2014
I was talking to a friend of mine about Vincent Van Gogh, I thought I had read that he never sold a painting during his lifetime. Turns out I was wrong, Van Gogh sold one painting in his lifetime.
My point to my friend (who has purchased several of my artworks) was, how could that be true? Didn't he have any friends? Turns out that the painting he did sell (Red Vineyard at Arles (The Vigne Rouge)) was sold to Anna Boch. Vincent was a friend of her brother, Eugène Boch...
Friends are the GREATEST! So a big shout out to all my friends and family who have bought my paintings! Thanks for your support! You're the best! As the Beatles song goes... "I get bye with a little help from my friends..." :)
I've been playing around with waterscapes lately. I just finished this watercolor painting. Although I am happy with the way this came out, it's not what I was going for. I wanted more of a hilly-sandy looking beach. The problem is that I got too close to the grass so to speak... I think to get the "look" I was going for, I need to "widen" the view so to speak, and make the sandy wills in the foreground, and some grasses more toward the water, like the middle ground of the composition. I will try that next time.
Saturday, June 7, 2014
Friday, June 6, 2014
Two more computer generated abstract artworks (CGAA's) I created today. I am really having fun with this. I applied to participate in a show this summer in down town south bend. I am keeping my fingers cross that I get accepted. It's a really cool art show and they get an excellent turn out.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
This past weekend we took a quick over-night trip to Richmond Indiana to see Jeff's Aunt, Uncle and several cousins for a little picnic at a park, then we spent the night there, and drove to Cincinnati Ohio and had lunch with Jeff's other uncle, and his cousin and her husband. We have not seen these people in so many years, it was good to see the extended family. | <urn:uuid:08f12471-7728-41b1-b931-97159c347b19> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://debammermanfineart2013-14.blogspot.com/2014/06/ | 2017-05-27T21:14:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463609061.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170527210417-20170527230417-00104.warc.gz | en | 0.988442 | 707 |
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Put your body in the hands of a holistic healing expert. For $54, today's Groupon gets you an hour-long massage or reflexology session with Rachel Avalon (normally $90). Take away your aches and pains with any one of Avalon's massages, including Swedish, deep tissue, and massage specifically targeted for infants, teenager, or pregnant women. This Groupon is also good for a 60-minute session of reflexology. Commonly referred to as "acupuncture without needles," reflexology relieves stress through foot squeezing and, optionally, lobe tugging.
Avalon is no ordinary back-rubber: she lectures on holistic nutrition and eco-beauty, has appeared on The Aware Show (KPFK, 90.7 FM), and was born in Seattle. The Rachel Avalon massage studio, located east of Beverly Hills at 1040 S. La Jolla Ave., is a Spanish-style house surrounded by a fountain and gardens that ooze eco-friendly tranquility. Keep your eyes open to soak up the scenery while your skin soaks up essential oils.
- This was one of those truly special massages where every stroke and pressure point application induced a deep sense of peace and relaxation - Rachel's touch is extremely healing and achieves just the right balance between soft and effective...Rachel herself emits warmth and calm, making even new clients feel as if they are visiting an old friend as she leads them to the roomy and tranquil treatment space.
Avalon's site has a few more client testimonials. Here's what they're saying:
- She has a wonderful touch, deep yet gentle, and a giant heart, a winning combination in my book. – Sharon, medical intuitive and healer
- She has a true gift for connected mind, body, and spirit and infusing you with love. What she offers is beautiful and I am grateful to have found her. – Amanda, actress
Sweden: Home of the Swedish Massage
Everyone knows that Swedes use a lot of oils in their famous massages, but did you know that Sweden is the world's second-largest consumer of lubricating oils, trailing only hard-bodied male strippers? A 2006 study in The American Examiner of Suspicious Swedish Behavior reported that Swedes annually use 1,460 gallons of lubricating oils per person. That comes out to exactly four gallons per person, per day, every day of the year (leap year not factored in to avoid over-complication). To non-Swedes, that number may sound high, but in a country driven by the Swedish massage, ABBA, and general sexiness, it's right on par.
Here's the typical oil-usage schedule of an average Swedish family of four on military time:
05:30: Wake up, full-body soak in vat of oil (300 gal.)
06:30: Family massage (5 gal.)
10:30: Period of quiet thought (3 gal.)
12:00: Operate massage parlor out of Smart car (1 gal.)
13:00: Leave work
13:30: Period of slightly louder thought (4 gal.)
20:00: Slide beneath bed's vinyl sheets and sleep (3 gal.)
If you're interested in living like a Swede, get today's deal on an incredible Swedish massage. If their lifestyle frightens you, go with one of the other massage options or reflexology. Either way, you get a full hour of relaxation.
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‘The Darkest Hour’ Didn’t Quite Brighten My Day
The Darkest Hour: 2 out of 5
Emile Hirsch’s Character: They must be able to sense us through our bio-magnetic shit!
Rachael Taylor’s Character: That almost makes sense!
About 45 minutes into this Russian-set alien invasion movie I realized that I had no idea what the names of the characters I had been following were. That probably sums up the character work done in this film to keep you hoping for their survival, even though the leads are fairly likable. I should also note that at this point, I’ll only refer to the actors by their real names. Nothing makes this badly timed release (Christmas Day, really?) an abysmal film, it just feels like an incompetent one, with a noticeably bad handle on its editing. As a result, The Darkest Hour is not as laughably bad (making it almost good, but not really) like Skyline, but it’s also not full of serviceable grit and over-the-top (but still kinda enjoyable) gusto like Battle: LA. It just sits in the “this will soon be available for $4 in a bargain bin” territory. But hey, at least it was shot in 3D, right?
Emile Hirsch and Max Minghella star as a couple of twentysomethings traveling to Moscow on business. They created some kind of social networking app and are looking to expand, only to find that their Swedish backer, played by Joel Kinnaman, has sold them out and taken everything. Upset, but not disillusioned from spending a night out at the clubs, Max and Emile head to a nightclub and meet up with some American girls played by Olivia Thirlby and Rachael Taylor. Shortly after they all hit it off, the power goes out…everywhere. Everyone heads outside, only to notice lots and lots of bright gold lights descending from the sky.
As one of the curious looking light entities touches down close to our heroes and the surrounding group of people, we instantly find out that they are deadly. War of the Worlds-style disintegration starts to occur, and everyone runs. Max, Emile, Olivia, Rachael, and Joel all manage to find shelter in a storage room under a bar and hideout for a few days. Deciding finally to make a move, the group heads onwards, through a deserted/destroyed Moscow. They eventually learn that the invisible aliens make themselves known when around electricity-based objects and have a connection to microwaves. The fight for survival ensues.
Movies like this tend to either devote far too much time to “developing” characters (Independence Day, which I love), before letting the chaos ensue or spending a very small amount of time establishing what it needs to, in order to get to the good stuff quicker. It is the mark of a well written/constructed film (Attack the Block), when the second option works out. I can give a good amount of credit to The Darkest Hour for spending only fifteen minutes or so, before having the aliens arrive. It helps that the male actors (y’know – Emile and Max) are likable enough, so it is not too much of a chore to go through the perfunctory details of who everyone is, before settling into a sci-fi disaster tale. Of course, this doesn’t stop the film from have plenty of other issues, such as idiotic decisions made by characters, a bad switch from a survival story into something that feels like Ghostbusters meets Mad Max, and then more idiotic decisions made by characters.
The aliens should of course be discussed in any movie like this, so here are my two cents on their creation – cheap. The concept is “invisible aliens”, whose presence is only known by the triggering of street lamps, among other electrical objects, as they approach, and once they do, there is some gold, flickering light. There is something to say for taking a different sort of approach (which would ideally lead to lower costs, but this movie still cost a pretty penny to make), but nothing interesting is really done with the ideas and it actually made me more curious to see the film dailies, where the actors (y’know Emile, Max, Olivia, and Rachael) would be screaming and running away from nothing, with great vigor. The vague forms of exposition explaining why they are here are of course unnecessary, but hey, nice try.
This film was shot in 3D by the way! Yes, in addition to getting your attention by… existing, The Darkest Hour also costs more to see because of its need to really immerse the viewer by adding an extra dimension to the story; not with characters, but in viewing experience. It is just too bad that this 3D film could have been post-converted and I probably would not have known the difference.
So obviously I loved this movie…No, no I didn’t, but kudos to those who found entertainment value in it. I actually did to an extent, but not in a way that compliments the movie. I guess it is neat that they set the film in Moscow (the film was produced by visually-stylish, Russian director Timur Bekmambetov), as it gave the film a more distinct quality, kind of, but overall, this film is just as forgettable as many of the uninteresting sci-fi horror movies that both hit theaters and go direct-to-video. One last note: “The Darkest Hour” is one of the more bland titles to have come out this year; better titles – “Lights Out, Bitch”, “Moscow Invasion!”, or “Dos Vedanya, Baby”.
Emile’s Character: We’re gonna fight the hell back.
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There are times when law enforcement officers or military personnel need to subdue a person or group of people without using lethal force. They rely upon a variety of tools and tactics to achieve this goal. Some of those tools include items like riot shields, batons and tear gas. One less-than-lethal tool is the Thomas A. Swift Electric Rifle, or Taser.
A Taser is an electronic control device (ECD). The typical Taser device is a handheld gadget that fires a pair of pins tethered to the handset by electrical wires. The handset sends pulses of high voltage electricity to the pins. Anyone shot by a Taser will experience neuromuscular incapacitation (NMI). That means the subject will lose the ability to control his or her muscles -- the electric pulses cause muscles to tense. This usually results in the person falling down and gives law enforcement or military personnel time to restrain him or her.
But the typical Taser has a couple of limitations. Because the pins connect to the firing mechanism through wires, the typical Taser has a range limited to the length of the wires -- about 35 feet (10.6 meters). And while a Taser works well for taking down a single subject, it's not easy to reload a fired Taser device -- something that may be necessary in crowd control situations.
With that in mind, Taser introduced a new concept in ECD technology -- the Taser eXtended Range Electronic Projectile (XREP). The XREP looks like a high-tech shotgun shell. That's not by accident -- Taser designed the XREP so that military or law enforcement officers could fire one from a standard 12-gauge shotgun. But instead of firing pellets or a slug, these shells fire a small, self-contained Taser device capable of delivering the same NMI effect as a handheld Taser gun.
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2006-07: Finished first with an indoor-best throw of 45-1.5 in the shot put at the Dick Pond Invitational...finished ninth at the Big East Championships. Earned ninth with an indoor-best distance of 53-7.75 in the weight throw at the Big East Championships... Recorded an outdoor-best distance of 44-8.75 in the shot put at the Dr. Keeler Invitational earning first place... was 15th at the Big East Championships.... Finished third with an outdoor-best distance of 152-11 in the discus at the Oshkosh Open...was fifth at the Big East Championships. Claimed the hammer throw with an outdoor-best 169-7 at the Dr. Keeler Invitational...earned eleventh at the Big East Championships...
2005-06: Did not compete in the indoor season ... Made three, top-10 finishes at the BIG EAST Outdoor Championship ... Placed fourth in the discus with a personal-best throw of 156-7, ninth in the shot put with a toss of 43-7.5 and 10th with a hammer throw of 162-4 ... Set outdoor personal-best marks of 44-2 in the shot put at the Iowa Musco Twilight and 167-8 in the hammer throw in a third-place finish at the Ohio River Challenge.
2004-05: Competed in the C-USA Championships in Shot Put and Weight Throw in the indoor season ... Recorded a distance of 38-9.75 in Shot Put at the Championships ... Had a distance of 48-2.50 in Weight Throw at the Championships ... Had two second place finishes in Weight Throw at the Pepsi Challenge and the Panther Tune-Up ... Recorded a third place finish in Weight Throw at the Carthage Invite.
2003-04: Participated in the Shot Put at both the Indoor and Outdoor C-USA Championships ... Took fourth in the indoor Weight Throw with a personal best throw of 43-3 3/4 at the UWM Tune Up.
High School: Member of the State Champion Track and Field team as a senior ... State champion in the shot put as a senior ... Personal bests include 42-10 in the shot put and 127-7 in the discus ... School record holder in shot put ... Coached as a Spartan by Joseph Frontier ... Also lettered in Volleyball and Basketball.
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April 20, 2005
The Oak island Tourism Society directors met Wednesday, April 20, 2005 at 421 Middle River Road. Number of directors present four.
Chairman Barkhouse called the meeting to order at 7:00 P.M.
Secretary Yvonne Hennigar read the March 2, 2005 directors meeting minutes. Motion to accept the minutes as read was put forward by Danny Hennigar, second by Brett Brown, motion carried.
A check was received from Lunenburg/Queens Development Agency, in the amount of $500.00 which represented, the final payment towards the $1,000.00 pledged to help defer costs of the feasability study.
A letter of resignation for directorship was received from Bill Martin.
Danny Hennigar reported on the meeting with Marc Lewis of Impact Communications Group Inc. Impact Communications Group will work on the brochure and logo.
A letter was received from Warden and Council of the Municipality of Chester approving the use of monies for the docu-comic to be applied to the production of a brochure and logo.
Goods and services rebate was received and deposited to the society’s account.
A letter was received from Minister Rodney MacDonald advising the society to contact Mary Jo MacKay of Tourism , Culture and Heritage to begin a dialogue regarding phase II of a feasibility study.
A brief discussion was held regarding progress to have Explore Oak Island day on the island. A
tentative date for the event isAugust13-14th, 2005.
Discussion on the draft agreement between Oak Island Tourism society, Ian Paige, and Dan Blankenship was discussed at length.
Jim Barkhouse sought council from lawyer John Chandler regarding the agreement, and Mr. Chandler felt clause #9 should be removed. At present is reads in a manner which will bind the society for the actions of other peoples. It was decided Danny Hennigar will make contact with Mr. Blankenship for further discussion on the wording of the contract.
The subject of nonprofit directors and officers liability insurance was discussed and investigation revealed a cost quote of $1,103.00 per year by the Royal and Sun Alliance agent Eileen Heisler.
It was felt at present time the society will refrain from purchasing this insurance.
A letter of request for a bill for website hosting will be sent to Cedic International.
A motion was made by Brett Brown to remove the care of the society’s website from Cedic International and return it to the care of Carol Nauss. Motion was second by Danny Hennigar and passed.
A motion was put forward by Danny Hennigar to purchase a small lamination machine, second by Brett Brown and passed.
A meeting time will be arranged to strike a committee to pursue phase 2 of a feasibility study.
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A banking Trojan now spreading over the internet is able to get past captcha security challenges to send out emails and propagate itself, according to security company Websense Labs.
The Cridex Trojan variant infects a Windows PC when a malicious link in an email is clicked, Websense said in a blog post on Monday. The shortened link goes to a malware webkit with several components, including a data-gathering tool and a propagation module that stealthily opens webmail accounts.
Once the accounts are set up, Cridex sends out malicious emails to try to compromise more computers. To do this, it uses captcha-cracking techniques more commonly associated with spammers, according to Websense.
"According to our findings, captcha challenges in some cases can be broken with the help of a captcha-breaking server, which allows the bot to register a mail account or address after only a few attempts," the company said.
In a video, Websense researchers showed the bot successfully breaking a Yahoo webmail sign-up captcha after six attempts.
Spammers have used captcha-breaking techniques for a number of years. In February 2008, Websense discovered Windows Live Mail and Gmail being targeted by bots that were capable of signing themselves up.
The payoff for the Trojan is the sensitive information gathered once it has been downloaded to a computer. It harvests data from web sessions, targeting US banking services and PayPal — giving it potential access to financial account details — as well as sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
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The train from Brighton Station to Falmer Station takes 9 minutes and is by far the quickest way to get to campus. Falmer Station is opposite the south side of campus, you’ll need to follow the underpass under the A27 road to get there. Trains run every 10-20 minutes during the week during the week. Make sure you buy your ticket before you travel and ensure you have your railcard to hand if you’ve bought a discounted ticket.
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What’s your bacon?
That is to say, what is something you know you can add to a good thing to suddenly make it over-the-top?
Bacon is and has been trending for what seems like ages in the social media sphere. There are countless memes about bacon. There are normal products made using bacon imagery. Did you know there is even bacon-flavored vodka?
But enough about the food that is bacon. Let’s drill down on the concept of “being bacon”.
What if YOU were the additive that makes everything better?
In your workplace, your family, or even standing in line at the next shop you visit… your presence could, by small to larger degrees, improve the dynamic and experience going on around you.
“Being bacon” (or “being fill-in-your-blank“) doesn’t have to be about contributing your expertise or forcing an interjection. It’s about seizing opportunities to make the world around you better. You can authentically add to experiences and environments to leave them better off than they would have been without you.
What’s the payoff of “being bacon”?
Yes, I know you might well be wondering the id-focused question, “Fine, but what’s in it for me?” It’s OK to wonder, but this is where we enter the Shiny part of today’s post. You may not get an immediate or even postponed ROI on “being bacon”.
Here’s the big BUT though: if you are consistently being bacon, people will notice. Your reputation will reflect your shine, and ultimately your presence will be sought after in your circles: professional and personal. Your ROI could be increased pay, promoted titles, more networking referrals, and even longevity at your job. Holiday meals with family might go smoother, your spouse and kids may be more responsive, and your friends may ensure you’re on their invitation texts and Evites.
Oh, and one more payoff: if more people focused on “being bacon”, the world might have a real shot at being a better place overall.
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Park City Hospital seeks art and artists for healing program
Deadline is Feb. 15
It has been said that “The earth without art is just ‘eh.’” Park City Hospital thinks that sentiment can be taken a step further to suggest a hospital stay without art is equally bland.
That’s one reason the hospital and a group of dedicated art enthusiasts joined forces to create the Art for Healing program.
Dyan Pignatelli is a community volunteer who sits on the hospital’s foundation board. She spearheaded the effort.
“Studies show that patients who are exposed to art during their hospital stay actually heal quicker and have a better overall experience. It just seemed like a natural fit — to tap into the talent of local artists, beautify an already stunning facility, and uplift patients all at once,” Pignatelli said.
The program works like this: Hospital volunteers will introduce patients to an Art Cart, allowing them to choose the print they would like displayed in their room. New art can be selected throughout the patient’s hospital stay for the patient and visitors to enjoy.
“We’re looking for all types of artwork — photography, oils, pastels, sketches and more,” Pignatelli added. “We want to collaborate with anyone who is creating art and would like to share it with the patients at Park City Hospital. If you feel your art would bring joy, solace, peace or hope to others, please submit!”
Anyone interested in submitting their artwork should follow these steps:
The deadline for submitting art work is Feb. 15.
Art will be selected by a jury process and artists will be notified if their work is chosen. Selected artists will receive special recognition from Park City Hospital for being part of the Art for Healing program.
“We’re grateful to Dyan and the Art for Healing committee for creating this program and helping us to further our mission to help people live the healthiest lives possible,” noted hospital administrator, Si Hutt.
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High-end residential sales in Cape Coral are on the rise, according to real estate industry experts.
Realmark Realty reported Wednesday that a house at 5832 Armada Court in Cape Harbour recently sold for $5.3 million. The property sold for $5.1 million, with the furniture making up $200,000 in the sale. It the second highest home sale in Lee County this year based on the Multiple Listing Service.
It is the most expensive home sold in the Cape, preceded only by its 2009 sale for $6 million.
Based on the MLS, next in line is the 2011 sale of a home at 5649 Riverside Drive for $2.4 million.
Broker Ted Stout, with Realmark Realty, listed and sold the house on Armada Court.
"The luxury market is coming back; over the last year, we have sold three of the top five residential homes in Cape Coral - $1.9 million, $1.8 million and now $5.3 million," he said in a statement.
According to the Cape Coral Association of Realtors, there were a total of 15 "high-end" residences sold last year within the Cape. High-end homes are described as selling for more than $1 million.
As of Thursday, there were 16 high-end homes sales recorded in the city for 2013.
"You can see we're already on track to double what we had last year," Paula Hellenbrand, a board member with the Cape association and a broker for Encore! Realty Services, said.
In the real estate business since 1999, Hellenbrand explained that the number of high-end residential sales fell dramatically in the Cape following the "boom" years, or more specifically from 2004-06.
"We were seeing many, many many more high-end home selling," she said.
In 2005, 73 high-end home sales were recorded, compared to only 39 the next year.
Sales in the Cape bottomed out in 2009 with seven transactions on the books.
"Since then, it's slowly been climbing," Hellenbrand said.
She attributed the shift to a rebuilding of consumer confidence in the housing market and economy.
A rise in home prices and low inventory is also playing a part.
"Buyers don't want to miss out before the opportunity is over," she said.
Hellenbrand added that the home could not be rebuilt for that price - wholesale instead of retail.
"Replacement cost is still above what you could purchase a home for," she said.
As for the future of the city's real estate, the uptick in high-end home sales is a good sign.
"The people that own these kinds of homes, they're successful business people," Hellenbrand said. "It's a good indication of what other people are going to do, as well."
"It's only up from here," she added.
The Cape offers a unique market with its 400 miles of canals. Northern transplants looking to buy are attracted to the idea of owning waterfront property where boat docks are as common as driveways.
"It's a very appealing product to sell," Hellenbrand said.
The buyer of the Armada Court home is reportedly a retired entrepreneur from Naples.
"They bought the property because of the incredible value Cape Coral offers compared to Naples," Stout said. "This home would sell for $15 (million) to $20 million in Naples, making it a steal when you shop the Southwest Florida coast."
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Skip to comments.Broadcaster silent as Judgment Day hours tick by (where is Harold Camping ?)
Posted on 05/21/2011 12:56:12 PM PDT by traumer
(Reuters) - With no sign his forecast of Judgment Day arriving on Saturday has come true, the 89-year-old California evangelical broadcaster and former civil engineer behind the pronouncement seemed to have gone silent.
Family Radio, the Christian stations network headed by Harold Camping which had spread his message of an approaching doomsday, was on Saturday playing recorded church music and devotional messages unrelated to the apocalypse.
Camping previously made a failed prediction Jesus Christ would return to Earth in 1994.
In his latest pronouncement, he had said doomsday would begin in Asia, but with midnight local time come and gone in Tokyo and Beijing and those cities already in the early hours of May 22, there was no sign of the apocalypse.
The Oakland, California, headquarters of the network of 66 U.S. stations, which has international affiliates and had posted billboards around the country warning of a May 21 Judgment Day, were shuttered with a sign in the door that read "This Office is Closed. Sorry we missed you!"
The headquarters, which appears to be normally closed on Saturday, was also shuttered on Friday.
Camping, whose deep sonorous voice is frequently heard on his radio network expounding the Bible, could not be reached immediately for comment on Saturday.
On Friday, the shades were drawn and no one answered the door at his house in Alameda, California.
Atheists in different parts of the country were planning celebrations and get-togethers to mark the failure of Camping's May 21 prediction to come true.
In Oakland, the same city where Camping's network is based, over 200 people gathered at an atheist convention where speakers jokingly took note of the Judgment Day pronouncement.
In New York, at least one of Camping's followers continued to hold out hope that Judgment Day would come.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
... a man who is now $80 million dollars richer, thanks to his apocalypse message
Wow! Those houses look stunning!
Hint: Is his tent missing?
Hmmm. Maybe the Rapture did occur and he just got the earthquake part wrong. No where does that leave us?
A return to the stoning of false prophets would tend to reduce this kind of nonsense from even starting.
I heard he now works for the Federal Government doing major hurricane predictions and economic forecasting.
And we're still stuck with Obama.
Damn, I'm slow..........ya beat me to it.........LOL!
Matthew 24:36-39 “But of that day and hour no one know, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone...”
Maybe he needs to debate this with someone other than those likely to give him donations.
I was hoping to get it right on the first try. This just means we’ll have to do it all over again on 12-21-2012......:)
Nothing worse than predicting the Rapture and then getting left behind when it happens!
Cheer up folks, we still have the 2012 Mayan prediction.
Don’t these shmucks who predict the date of Apocalypse read the Bible? Jesus said no man knows the date or the hour of His return and the end. Ignorant morons—or out to make a buck somehow? Yikes.... see ya tomorrow y’all.
A comforting consolation, the Mayan prediction.
It would be the perfect end to a really good scam. He could then live out the rest of his life retiring in wealth and luxury, while stimulating his base to worship him and give more money. Not something I would ever do, but it is pretty cool.
‘...deep sonorous voice...’
That’s funny. I’ve heard him on shortwave a few times and always thought he sounded like Homer Simpson.
“Ive heard him on shortwave a few times and always thought he sounded like Homer Simpson.”
When reached for comment, Mr. Camping merely said, “D’oh!”
Mr. Camping seems to have confused the Rapture with Armageddon. These are two separate events.
Where is he? Well he’s out practicing kicking a football with Lucy of course! “This time I’m gonna kick it to the moon!”
The Feds get involved when a public corporation reports false profits. Remember Enron?
It would be nice if they had to be called into account for all the people they swindled into selling all they had to buy stupid billboards and had their pets put to sleep.
Well, there is the millstone punishment for leading people astray (or causing them to sin, can’t remember which).
That’s the spirit!
How is he $80 million richer?
WTF, people had their pets put down? My vet wouldn't put down a pet that wasn't croaking. He'd smack me upside the head for such a suggestion.
It's like that Ray Bradbury story where the people poisoned all their children so they wouldn't suffer through the "end of the World", and then the end of the world didn't happen.
One thing is for certain, it will happen someday and when it does it won’t be a joking matter...
He's probably been raptured already....
It was calculated Camping drew in $80million in donations between 2005 and 2009.
He got a lot of people to sell all they had to finance his little scam. The end of the world is big business. He is probably enjoying some beach in Mexico right now.
Nah, old guy like him won't want to leave his perch. He wouldn't know what to do anywhere else. Camping is probably putting the finishing touches on his speech explaining why he wasn't really wrong. He will probably say the whole thing got delayed for some reason, or he slightly miscalculated by failing to count all the animals on the arc correctly. Either way, unfortunately, I doubt he is going anywhere. And people will still follow him too. You'd think something like this would be a ministry ender, but it won't be.
“As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.”
He left a note saying “So long and thanks for all the fish”
You probably could count on two hands how many people get that one. :->
People I know are remembering not to forget their towel
Give him time. I’m sure he’ll eventually come up with an absolutely fascinating explanation as to why, er, nothing happened.
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Lewes St Thomas at Cliffe, Sussex Genealogy
|Lewes St Thomas at Cliffe, Sussex|
|Poor Law Union||Lewes|
|Parish registers: 1606|
|Bishop's Transcripts: 1667|
|Rural Deanery||South Malling|
|Probate Court||Court of the Peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury for the Exempt Deanery of South Malling|
|Location of Archive|
|Sussex Record Office|
Lewes St Thomas at Cliffe is an Ancient Parish.
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
From 1837 this parish was in Lewes Registration District
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Lewes St Thomas at Cliffe, Sussex Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
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|Lewes St Thomas at Cliffe, Sussex Genealogy Parish Online Records|
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Lewes St Thomas at Cliffe
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
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Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Sussex Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
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BigZ38 wrote:Goes 1 for 6 but hits game winning double against Yankees. Maybe this will get his confidence going. Also Aaron Hill exited the game with an apparently right leg injury, didn't look overly serious though
Aaron Hill is another one who needs to turn it around.
It was painful to watch Snider's first AB against Burnett tonight. Even my dog cringed. No wonder Dice-K threw a gem against these guys.
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The green movement has taken the 21st century by storm, and the words "organic" and "natural" can apply to everything from food and clothing to household cleaners and beauty products. In 2006, manufacturers produced 2,000 new personal care products that were marketed in stores as organic or natural [source: Birnbaum]. With so many products out there, if you're thinking of switching to an organic skin cleanser, it pays to do your homework first.
First, you should know that terms such as "green," "herbal," "natural," "botanical" and "eco-friendly" are thrown around in many different contexts. These words all might sound similar to the word "organic," but they have important differences. For example, if a product is labeled as eco-friendly, its manufacturer is claiming that the product and its production aren't harming the environment. Botanical products use plant-based ingredients, while herbal ingredients contain herbs. Natural products might include plant ingredients or minerals and be free of preservatives [source: Singer].
However, just because a product does not contain manufactured chemicals or is made with all-natural ingredients doesn't mean the product is organic. For a product to be labeled by the U.S. government as organic, it must mostly contain organic ingredients produced through some form of farming [source: USDA]. Other labels do not carry this same meaning.
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to look at the names and try to follow their trace in history.
I don't know if this is what you meant (especially because of Rothbard), but Peter Schiff is unrelated to the famous German Schiff bankers.
I see... thank you very much for hint, this was exactly one of the points I was looking for :-)
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This might be more pronounced if the lady is pretty – which she probably is. You need to know the difference in values between your cultures. This will let you realize when both of you must compromise to please each other. You also have to dispel any false notions that Romanian girls are “cheap” or “easy” as you might be in for a impolite awakening.
And, of course, the probabilities of magically working into an ideal match on Facebook are additionally fairly low. Romanian mail order bride is the rarest of ladies who can bring up children with out spoiling them. New regimes may come and go, but ultimately, all you could have is your beloved ones.
Romanian brides stand out for his or her catchy, vibrant, and unusual beauty. Several research have shown that Romania ranks among the prime international locations with a variety of the sexiest girls on the planet.
A respectable Romanian -mail order woman is a real value. As for matrimonial providers, they are nice for these who also don’t need to take a position plenty of time within the searching process.
Should you be not sure, you can at all times get a free trial after which make a decision whether or not you want to pay for decreased subscription. Using online matchmaking expertise can be a good way to discover the perfect companion. Many of those sites are primarily based on the compatibility test you decide to attempt join a membership. These sites use strategies to determine if you’re compatible with different users. Since these algorithms occur to be proprietary, you can’t inform which normally members russian brides for marriage are appropriate with you. However , there are many methods to find a appropriate meet without diminishing your values. The trade of on-line courting is full of misconceptions, stereotypes, and myths.
I additionally took a few prestigious on-line relationship programs. They, along with my connections in the online courting world, made me the author and marketing consultant I am at present.
So, they’ll simply adapt to your notion of the world and living with a Romanian bride will turn out to be one of the best expertise ever. It’s a chunk of cake if you’re a man who respects ladies and behaves like a real gentleman. Local girls respect courtship, so don’t forget to go with your Romanian bride and make her really feel like she is the most important person in your life. She will certainly reciprocate to such gestures from you. It seems that even categorical Romanians, who deprive themselves of men’s consideration, try to look for a husband on-line.
The Benefits Of Romanian Brides
However, for rich males, the market offers further easy and more sensible methods. Romanian marriage ceremony traditions are completely totally different from these throughout the neighboring worldwide locations. Moreover, customs in the course of the marriage celebration can differ from area to region. Below, we are going to reveal crucial ones so that you simply can get a clue of the Romanian wedding. Romanian women are a bit old-fashioned, they usually like it when a man displays some respect.
During faculty years, they aren’t restricted of their hobbies, so they try many things to do, after which select their career in accordance with their preferences. Are you looking for a companion you’ll by no means get bored with? So a Romanian lady understands she is important to you. In addition, it is type of a signal that you’re a responsible one who she will depend on. If you’re communicating with a lady with the assistance of matrimonial providers through the Internet so far, this rule also applies.
Using an online dating website — The hottest method of meeting Romanian brides. Besides, by choosing relationship web sites, you connect with folks with the same relationship goals, and you can See These Helpful Hints find someone suitable quicker. Romania is a rustic of distinctive tradition, Dracula legends, and scrumptious wine. But the real jewel of the nation is their beautiful women. | <urn:uuid:d20a4664-99ba-456e-81a9-3fd8714ef87c> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.shasankhabar.com/why-families-love-their-romanian-bride/ | 2022-01-28T06:39:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305420.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220128043801-20220128073801-00623.warc.gz | en | 0.958582 | 1,219 |
Having a personal car has been the matter of the status from the years and is expected to continue for many more years to come. The status of a person increases more in the society as soon as he drives a new car at his doorstep, and if the car is luxurious then undoubtedly the eyes of his neighbors stare at his place. This is mainly because the price tag of which the luxury cars are priced in international market. But having a luxury car is not the bag of everyone’s shoulder and therefore lots of the car lovers across the world have to sacrifice their desire of driving a luxurious car throughout their life and have to compromise the affordable car according to their budget for drive.
But, now all this is going to be the tale of yester years as now there are various options by which these cars owners can convert their existing car into a brand new luxurious car of their choice. Recognized as luxury car conversions this trend in recent years has flourished at jet dynamic speed across the world facilitating the regular car customize their car with the features that are offered in any of the luxurious cars being sold across the world. As the general practice is refers to the third-party customization which are not offered by the original manufacturer of that vehicle but customized on the demand of the car owners according to his requirement. In simple words, it may defined as the process where in the noticeable features of some standard car are converted in resemblance to some luxurious car.
An interesting feature of getting the car conversions is that along with integration of luxurious specifications it also helps in enhancing the comfort seating experience of the persons travelling in it. The conversion also impacts the functionality of machinery installed inside the bonnet and helps in offering superior performance of the car similar as offered by its original version. It would be interested to know that till few years this type of conversion was considered as an expensive investment pulling the car owners towards additional financial burden. But interestingly with entrance of different suppliers of the part of car conversions now days different types of kits are available in market which facilitate the car owners to convert their in accordance to their preference at their own end.
The commonly preferred cars that are converted into luxurious cars are Jaguar, Land Rover, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bentley, and The Vault.
An interesting feature of getting the car conversion is that the countries where the car enthusiasts get their converted into new avatar is that this conversion is strictly done according to the norms applicable in that country. For instance in the country where cars with left hand drive are preferred then in such country the conversion will be applied only with left hand drive to comply strictly according to its transportation law. Similarly in the countries where there is condition of political and social unrest the cars will be equipped with all saving standards that will protect the passengers from any type of bullet attack.
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With advancements now like stem cell technology, 3D prosthesis or even DNA reconstruction through microchip placement on injured parts, there’s certainly more to look forward to in terms of healthcare and recovery. Or is it really so, and are we perhaps moving too fast and not looking at perhaps the fundamental nature of illness and sickness and how we can heal ourselves more inclusively?
Modern medicine surely has taken a far leap. With so much of research being put in and improvements taking place it is no doubt that people are looking forward to living better, healthier and longer lives. From initial detection of ailments, to first response to emergencies, to treatments and consultations, with the use of newer medicines, equipment and medical aids – to even the emergence and popularity of healthcare tourism; it all provides the outlook of professionalism, robustness and is geared towards providing the best a patient could need.
Where in this case do alternative cures or therapies fit in? We know for a certain fact that there are patients who have exhausted all means of finding cures through conventional means, that are left with the only choice of trying out these alternative cures or having to suffer with debilitating illnesses throughout life, or even some that may only have a short time left to live. No doubt that there are also those who by themselves have an inclination to seek for alternative treatments even for the slightest of early developing symptoms.
There’s always the question there of which mode of treatment, whether alternative or conventional, is more effective. As has been put earlier, the infrastructure of modern medicine is well in place, and we can say that it has all the necessary tools and tests to detect symptoms and causes. And also, to administer immediate treatment. Alternative therapies though, go through a longer or deeper route. Experts in both fields – modern and alternative need to be trained well and have experience in what they do to administer the right cures.
Question is, is there a way that both modes of treatment could complement each other and if it’s possible to make use of each one’s advantages in bringing about better healing, recovery, and health?
When we talk about alternative cures or therapies, there are some that are already commonly known such as hypnotherapy, chiropractic or also acupuncture. There are these alternative therapies that have grown in prominence and have leading practitioners that are offering them. Alternative therapies do have a science and study behind them yet they also look at the overall aspect, in not just the physical cause of the ailments, but perhaps also the emotional, mental and even spiritual and energetic aspects.
There are other forms of alternative modalities such as naturopathy, ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, homeopathy, traditional massages and also, what’s slowly gaining popularity; energy healing (example: Reiki, Pranic Healing) and even using the ancient art of yoga and meditation. The whole notion of using these alternative methods is looking at the root causes of ailments and addressing them at a level of bringing about proper healing and enhancing one’s overall well-being. In a way of targeting an onset of symptoms and diseases that have resulted from, perhaps bad habits, stress, living environments or circumstances, or even karmic and spiritual baggage, that have emerged in our life that’s calling for attention. And for it to be resolved towards bringing about a better, more whole and complete self.
Alternative therapies, as they are called, and the variety of them that exist, have an approach of allowing the body’s natural ability to heal. Through their own specific means. Whether nutrition, yoga & exercise, or meditation and energy balancing. These have been practices that have existed for ages that are very much to be re-understood and reintroduced. The way in which modern medicine could be complemented or even combined with these alternative approaches is to very well identify and treat these ailments through the technologies and approaches that are existent as well as allowing a more thorough and structured follow through in tackling the deeper issues that are connected to the disease that has appeared. Which alternative therapies can help.
Many times people fail to realize that what has popped up on the external, is actually a call for looking back inside, in the things that we’re withholding and struggling with that have not been resolved. Yes, things like fractures or tumours or arterial clogging need intervention on the outside, yet there are traumas and pains that need working internally. Not to forget habits & conditioning. Some of which may have gone on in the distant past or even lifetimes. Which can only be known by understand and bringing them to surface, and not letting it aggravate to again recur or appear as another disease.
This is where a holistic approach comes in and often needs effort, reflection and corrective action, sometimes even with the assistance of a counsellor, mentor, healer, guide or therapist. And by that it takes an all rounded approach in dealing with the pre-existing or prevalent issue. There’s no way to guarantee a true, excellent state of health as we know that the body is very much mortal and can always be vulnerable, yet it’s only right to live the best we can live and at same time allow for harmony and well-being within ourselves and for those around us.
No doubt there would always be the question of research, viability, structural and implementation aspects, though that shouldn’t discount the need to truly allow for the best in health and healing and allowing for better lives. There surely will be a time factor involved in bringing about this combined type of healthcare approach, yet it is my hope that it catches on and that it is made workable. | <urn:uuid:9ea3e650-dd85-48ad-9ce9-2735865314f7> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://www.deeperexploration.com/where-do-alternative-cures-hold-their-place-in-this-age-of-modern-medicine-and-could-they-complement-each-other/ | 2019-08-26T09:50:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027331485.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20190826085356-20190826111356-00150.warc.gz | en | 0.965708 | 1,158 |
Jordan Spieth returned to the top 10 in the Official World Golf Ranking on Monday despite taking the past two weeks off.
The former World No. 1 rose three spots in the rolling ranking system, passing Brooks Koepka, Hideki Matsuyama and Tony Finau. It’s a notable accomplishment for Spieth, who fell as low as 92nd after missing the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open in February.
He has teed it up in 19 stroke play events since, winning the Valero Texas Open and posting a pair of runner-ups along with six other top-10 results. Spieth also went 1-2-1 during Team USA’s dominating Ryder Cup victory over Team Europe in September.
Spieth, 28, has only made one start during the fall swing thus far, tying for 18th at The CJ Cup @ Summit in Las Vegas two weeks ago. He also is not in the field at this week’s Mayakoba Classic.
Lucas Herbert Into Top 50
Lucas Herbert, who claimed his first PGA Tour victory at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, shot up eight spots to a career-best No. 43. Patrick Reed moved up two spots to No. 22 with his tie for second along with Danny Lee, who rose 52 places to No. 229.
Taylor Pendrith, who was unable to capitalize on a three-shot lead after 54 holes, still vaulted 30 spots to 203rd.
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This ‘was’ going to be the final tea of my 52teas/mysweethoneybush/manteas week-end .. However I’ve decided to pull my pouch of ‘Kitchen Sink Green’ out of the box I’m sending to a friend tomorrow, and doing a write up on that in the morning .. I’m not really a Green Tea drinker though, aside from Jasmine Dragon Pearls, so it may not read favourably – but we’ll see ..
Anyhoo, Mayan Chocolate Puerh .. OMG I LOVE THIS TEA, and wouldn’t want to change a thing! I steep it for the recommended time yet it never gets too strong or bitter .. It brews to an impressive dark cola-black colour, with a red hue that’s most obvious if you choose to add milk .. And just a heads up – taking a good huffin sniff from the pouch isn’t advisable unless you enjoy sneezing :P
Personally I prefer it with milk, but I’m not fussed if it has sugar or not .. It’s smokey, chocolatey, spicy (as in hot, not Masala’ish) – the Cayenne will make your tongue tingle nicely, and I think I’m getting some nutty flavour from the Almonds but I’m not 100% sure on that .. It’s definitely malty and full-bodied, and it holds up to a repeat steeping without loosing any of these characteristics!
This really is an all-round delicious tea, and my absolute favourite out of all seven teas I’ve drunk this week-end .. I’m actually surprised it doesn’t have a whole list of rave reviews with requests for a re-mix of it?!
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Massive cyber-attacks hit more than 100 countries around the world, including UK, Russia, India, China, Italy, US and others and companies such as Telefonica, FedEx Corp, Renault, Nissan etc. The attacks were conducted by a spreading ransomware that seems to begun by Europe and Russia.
The ransomware is a type of malware that demands an amount of payment so as the encrypted data are unlocked. This time, the payment was 300$. (12/05/2017)
The attacks are linked to another incident that took place on 14th April. A group called Shadow Brokers, published a collection of spy “weapons” used by the NSA, weapons that target Windows including Windows 7 and 8. The same group had published another pack of cyber-tools, used by NSA, last year but it did not get much attention. (12/05/2017)
Comment: That case arose some doubts, whether national agencies should stock up vulnerabilities and cyber tools, considering the risk of leaking, like it happened on 14th April.
One of the countries that were hit harsher was UK, especially the NHS. Since the attack and for the next week it is waited that hospitals will deal with chaos, as surgeries, appointments were canceled or diverted. The government is under pressure because of the vulnerability of the NHS. Microsoft had provided software and free updates to protect Window users, yet the NHS operates mainly by using Windows XP, a 16-year-old system. As said by experts, systems before 2007 are vulnerable.
A 22-year-old, working for Kryptos Logic and identifying himself as MalwareTech, was the one who saved the day, when he found out about the cyber-attacks on NHS and other organizations. He proceeded then to search it and found out a specific domain that was not registered. The switch off was there in case the creator wanted to stop the spreading of the malware. He claimed though, that at that time he did not know what that switch off could do, so it really was an accident. He also warned that this is not over and a second round of cyber-attacks may happen. (13/05/2017)
Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith, warned governments against storing computer vulnerabilities and software codes that can be used by hackers, because of the risk of leaking to the public. According to experts, the vulnerability that hackers used was found in some NSA documents leaked online on 14th April. The spreading of the virus was so fast due to a digital code called ‘eternal blue’ that it is believed it was created by the NSA. (15/05/2017)
Putin claimed that Russia had nothing to do with the cyber-attacks and blamed US government for creating the digital codes that made feasible the hacking and the quick spreading. Putin, called the global leaders to discuss cyber-security and talk in a ‘serious political level’. (15/05/2017)
Comment: Once again, the need for a legislative framework on cyber-security is stronger than ever. A Digital Geneva Convention, as was set out by Brad Smith, may be the right idea and a way to bring global leaders together, considering putting rules and boarders in cyber-space.
North Korea’s missile failure may be due to US cyber sabotage.
There are some speculations that the ballistic missile failure in North Korea (15/4/2017) maybe because of American cyber sabotage. According to New York Times, US is on the try to obstruct N. Korea’s nuclear missile program, for almost three years. Considering that and the high rates of missile failures that took place in N.Korea, it may be as a result of US interfering with country’s missile program, as reported by Business Insider. (17/04/2017)
Bulgarian Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov said the cabinet aims to increase the defense industry’s role in supplying modernized gear to the country’s military and generating additional budget revenues. (12/05/17)
Turkey and Pakistan have signed a momerandum of understanding on a mutual arms deal. Turkey will buy 52 Super Mushshak Pakistani training aircraft and Pakistan will buy four Turkish Ada-Class corvette warships (MILGEM). (11/05/17)
Turkey to ink major naval export deal with Saudi Arabia.
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In the past few years, they have exploded in popularity and are now consumed by health conscious people all over the world.
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- Fiber: 11 grams.
- Protein: 4 grams.
- Fat: 9 grams (5 of which are Omega-3s).
- Calcium: 18% of the RDA.
- Manganese: 30% of the RDA.
- Magnesium: 30% of the RDA.
- Phosphorus: 27% of the RDA.
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Cricket’s Free Sanyo Zio Phone Android
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I left T-Mobile.
Yep, I jumped ship. I went back to Cricket.
The phone that I traded my blackberry 8100 in for is a Sanyo/Kyocera zio. AKA KYOCERA M6000.
Since Cricket was giving away the Sanyo Zio if you trade in your working cell phone from your current carrier, I assumed I should.
This phone is not a brand new technology, at all. This phone was originally with Sprint back in early 2010 brought to Cricket in late 2010.
I was on a plan that gave me 300 minutes of talk time at a cost of $49 a month and I still had fave fives. To now, an unlimited everything for $55 a month.
The first thing was to call T-mobile and request my account number. The guy who answered the phone put on a sincere voice and Acknowledge that he knows that typically when people ask for their account number, they are about to leave the company. The guy asked me if there was anything i was in need of, to keep me from leaving. i let the guy know that I was not happy with how I have been treated so i am looking around, and my first step is to get my account number and that I may or may not leave T-mobile. Really, that was exactly true. I could have backed out of getting my phone number ported over to Cricket, at any time. The guy kept asking questions and hesitating, So i had to get stern with him ‘ look, I am considering leaving and you holding out like this is making me want to leave even more, i just need my number and will consider all option”. He said just about everything he could think of just short of “please don’t talk to other people, you will see how good things could be”, what ever he said. I just hung up because I got my account number. and that’s all I needed.
I gave the teller my account number, in less than 3 minutes the phone was in my hand with a temporary number on it. I got a text message and it said for me to text back with a code and my old number will be moved to cricket. I tried and it did not work. After I called the help line, I realized i wasn’t pressing they ‘*’ key first. My bad. Phone number was switched over to T-mobile just like that. Whole deal took less than 20 minutes to complete.
Ok. Time to grade the phone.
The Sanyo Kyocera ZIO from Cricket, by feel, is a lot like my blackberry, smooth.
Nice and thin, slick,no buttons to interface, touch Screen, except volume and camera. I have few complaints about
the camera button. Sensitive when I am not trying to touch the camera button, but doesn’t do squat when I hit that button on purpose. Volume buttons are excellent.
there is a data/charging connection on the lower left edge.
Headphone jack on the upper left edge, and an SD card slot on the mid right. All have caps.
Large speaker at the upper back
Pin hole mic on bottom edge.
Screen feels like plastic over glass. I could be wrong as to whether it actually is, it’s just the way the Zio feels to me.
Initial Storage space 180MB
Yes this an Android 2.2.1 system on the sanyo ZIO.
The pinch zoom feature, does not happen with this phone. Tap and zoom, yes.
Scroll ball, is a bit sticky and sluggish.
Huge Screen Perfect fit for downsized (not re-sized) hd movies
Watched Diggnation, Tekzilla and life Hacker from the revision 3 website and was impressed with the resolution and quality of the images and video, Nearly never a buffer time. sometimes The revision 3 server hiccups.
Camera takes a very high resolution video, even in room lighting. (never great to have just room lighting)
Every application I tried, all work fine.
There is some bloat ware that I had to root the phone to remove. Some bowling game demo and an “uno” game.
Many applications load constantly, you can not go into settings and turn them off like you could with the g1 on android 1.6. So battery life isn’t what it could be.
Nice fade when opening and closing apps. but again, sometimes sluggish. Keyboard seems to be miss calibrated, When you press the Letter ‘o’ you get the letter ‘p’ and so on… If you are a fast texting person, you will get frustrated. Just find the letter that the Zio mistakes you typing, and hit the far corner of the button you intend to pres. Works well that way.
Internet speeds for the Zio – using speed test app from android market
That is about what I was seeing on T-mobile with their “Edge”.
At home and at work, my signal fluctuates between no signal, and two bars. but with that said, I received a call from a friend while I had 0 bars and the phone call sounded fine on my end, and the person on the other end never asked me what I was saying. I never heard anything unusual or anything that would hint of a bad signal, other than the caller’s T-mobile lag. Was sad when we both were on T-mobile, neither knew when to talk.
although I find myself back in 2003, holding the sanyo Zio up in the air to get a signal enough to send a text message. I don’t remember Cricket having this bad of a signal.
reception 5/10 (I gave it a poor score then added some because the phone seemed to work even with no signal)
Full Over all Score is 7/10
And that is enough to make me feel as if I got another great deal.
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Sony Ericsson Jalou ReviewSony Ericsson Jalou 6
in-call quality itself. The sharp edges of the upper part of the phone body can be rather painful, especially for people who just love talking. On the other hand, the in-call quality is passable and voices sound a bit too sharp, but realistic. Our callers complained they could hardly catch onto consonants, which made understanding an uphill battle.
According to the manufacturer, the battery should provide 4.5 hours of continuous talk time and keep the device operational for 250 hours in stand-by (on 3G networks). This is a relatively mediocre performance of a device that lacks spectacular extra features and large display.
One of the issues we brought up in our review of the Samsung Diva folder S5150 was related to, well, the innate mediocrity of most cell phones aimed at women. The Sony Ericsson Jalou does belong to the same category with its slightly odd design, not particularly good build quality and basic functionality. Moreover, its price tag of $185 is rather high for what you get. In case you are willing to purchase a handset for its appeal and design only, we would advise you to look at the following alternatives:
- The Samsung Diva folder S5150 – you will hardly find a glossier, shinier device on the market today. Its specifications are similar to those of the Jalou, but the S5150 is equipped with better camera.
- The Sony Ericsson T707 – the model is simpler, but features sportier overall design, plus in one of its commercials Maria Sharapova claims she actually likes the device. Well, since we have a thing for her, so we cannot but recommend the handset.
- The Nokia 3710 fold – a likeable model by the world’s largest manufacturer that is available in a plethora of colors schemes.
While we all keep waiting for a handset aimed at women that relies on not just weird design, but proper functionality as well, the Sony Ericsson Jalou and the like remain a good option for people who have found themselves hard-pressed to come up with a decent present to please their beloved, better halves.
Samsung Diva folder S5150 Review
Sony Ericsson T707 Preview
Nokia 3710 fold specifications
- Compact size
- Mirror screen
- Rather sluggish (in most themes)
- Unusable in direct sunlight
- Mediocre camera
- Lacks 3.5mm jack
1. shimmyx20 (Posts: 280; Member since: 03 Mar 2009)
This seems like a phone that should be free or at the very most $49.99 with contract. Nothing special here.
2. dackboy (unregistered)
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The newest Phillies fan is Camryn Drew Rollins who Johari Smith Rollins, wife of shortstop Jimmy Rollins, delivered late Sunday night. The little lady weighed 5 pounds, 11 ounces.
As we reported in Tuesday's column, Jimmy Rollins had to run out of an event for his Jimmy Rollins Family Foundation Sunday night at Yakitori Boy (211 N. 11th) when he learned Johari, a fitness trainer, had gone into labor.
Rollins missed Monday's game, and will miss Tuesday's game, in order to spend time with his new bundle of joy.
Yakitori Boy meanwhile now offers a dish appropriately titled the J-Roll whose proceeds benefit the foundation.
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After the tragic loss of their daughter, Dana and David move with their son to a new home in a bid to have a fresh start. The house is big and beautiful and in a fantastic rural location but it's run down and has obviously been neglected for years before they owned it.
Though the house needs much restoration work the family decide to move in.
As they all settle down, Diana loves her new house but feels a dark and intriguing presence that draws her to explore every corner of the new property. As Diana begins to investigate the building she goes up into the attic and discovers a locked door. Finally finding a key to the lost room, Diana opens it and unleashes a spirit that's been forcefully held behind the locked door. What Diana comes to learn is that the house was formerly owned by a cruel judge who locked away his daughter in the disappointment room.
Mel Raido - the World Premiere of 'Legend' at the Odeon Leicester Square, London on September 3rd 2015 at Leicester Square, Odeon Leicester Square - London, United Kingdom - Thursday 3rd September 2015
Martin Joubert is a French baker living in Normandy who has a deep passion for the writer Gustave Flaubert and his masterpiece novel 'Madame Bovary', which takes place in the same town in which he lives. Soon he meets an English couple who have moved over to France to begin a new life, and of course their names are Charlie and Gemma Bovery. Joubert immediately senses oncoming disaster, especially when he notices problems in the couple's relationship. Gemma is an artist who, upon her arrival, is enlisted to help another English couple with some design work, and as fate would have it they introduce her to Patrick - who happens to be her former lover. Joubert watches as Gemma and Patrick begin an illicit affair and predicts that this is another story that's bound to end in tragedy, no matter what he does to try and stop it.
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Mel Raido, Gemma Arterton , Jason Flemyng - UK premiere of Gemma Bovery, Film4 Summer Screen Opening Night, held at Somerset House - Arrivals at Somerset House - London, United Kingdom - Thursday 6th August 2015
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, London was at the mercy of the terrifying Kray twins (Tom Hardy). Reggie Kray was forced to spend most of his life holding back his identical twin brother, Ronnie, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. As acclaimed night club owners and feared gangsters, the two twins were seen to own London, and lived a life of glitz and glamour, as well as blood and brutality. That is, until Detective Superintendent Leonard "Nipper" Read (Christopher Eccleston) took the task of bringing two of the most powerful and dangerous criminals in the city's history to justice, by any means necessary.
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Suzy (Froggatt) arrives home from Iraq to find her entire family waiting to celebrate. But she just wants to spend some time with her young daughter Cass (Wilkinson), who won't speak with her. Her husband Mark (Raido), naturally, just wants to get to bed. Mark is also a veteran, so he understands her trauma to a degree, but things get increasingly tense over the next days and weeks, as Suzy starts to worry that her family is under attack and Mark grows suspicious that she had a fling with another soldier (Knott).
Continue reading: In Our Name Review
In 1983 L.A., studio exec William (Thornton) wants to reconcile with his heavily medicated wife Laura (Basinger) while continuing to see his self-doubting TV newscaster mistress (Ryder). Their son Graham (Foster) is indulging in drugs and sex with his girlfriend (Heard) and best pal (Nichols), who's also sleeping with Laura for cash. Meanwhile, Graham's doorman (Renfro) is trying to please his criminal father figure (Rourke), but Graham's friend Tim (Pucci) has no interest in connecting with his dad (Isaak).
Continue reading: The Informers Review
The long-awaited fourth season of 'Peaky Blinders' debuts later this year, with Tom Hardy now confirmed to reprise his role as Alfie Solomons.
For the sci-fi horror thriller Life, Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds team up to play astronauts trying to contain an aggressive alien creature.
Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld says that the chemistry between Ryan Reynolds and Zazie Beetz in upcoming Marvel movie 'Deadpool 2' needs to be...
The British actress opened up about the disorder she's been battling since she was a teenager.
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Martin Joubert is a French baker living in Normandy who has a deep passion for...
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, London was at the mercy of the terrifying Kray twins...
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The Thanksgiving holiday is a time for turkey, family, football—and for an onslaught of electronics deals.
The big question, of course, is whether Black Friday or Cyber Monday is the best day to jump to get the most bang for your hard-earned cash. Should you skip Black Friday altogether and wait until Cyber Monday to see if the deals get any better?
The short answer for would-be tech buyers is “No.”
Last and least
The big secret: despite its name, Cyber Monday is actually pretty middling for tech deals.
Popular deal-tracking site DealNews.com went back and analyzed the last two years of Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals to see which days offered the largest discounts. If you’re interested in tech deals, Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday are actually your best bets.
On Thanksgiving, look for deals on phones, TVs, and games. “On average, there were 229% more gaming deals on Thanksgiving than on Cyber Monday,” writes DealNews.
The big winner on Cyber Monday? “It’s the undefeated heavyweight champion when it comes to clothing and shoe deals,” says Mark LoCastro, a spokesman for DealNews. He said, while there are still a few good deals on Cyber Monday, “The volume of consumer electronic deals decreases significantly.”
A relic of a (thankfully) forgotten era
If some of you are reading this story on your PC via a sub-standard Internet connection, I say, “I’m so sorry.” For most of us, though, the impetus for Cyber Monday no longer exists.
Why, you ask? Well, let’s travel back to a time when Numa Numa was the height of Internet hilarity, and Chuck Norris jokes were a fine wine, to be sipped at leisure. I’m talking about 2005, in other words. That was when the phrase Cyber Monday was first coined.
(Never seen Numa Numa? Well, here you go:)
In the pre-2005 era, home Internet speeds were still “just okay,” at best. As a result, many consumers went back to work the Monday after Thanksgiving and took advantage of their office’s high-speed connection for holiday shopping. Eventually retailers caught on and offered deals to these enterprising shoppers. A “new holiday” for shopping was born.
But Internet speeds have greatly improved since 2005. Despite Black Friday’s increasing irrelevancy, the reason for its continued presence makes sense—people still have the day after Thanksgiving off, and many of them choose to go shopping. Cyber Monday, on the other hand, is the awkward solution to a problem that no longer exists.
In fact, Philip Carmichael, owner of PCPartPicker.com, said, at this point, the traffic on his site is practically equal on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
“Cyber Monday typically edges out Black Friday by maybe a percent or two,” Carmichael says. That’s a negligible difference, and shows how consumers have turned to online shopping for Black Friday instead of waiting until the Monday after the Thanksgiving weekend.
Christmas can’t be far away
Because everyone now shops all weekend on their fancy high-speed Internet connections, Cyber Monday is too late for retailers. “Retailers have focused their marketing efforts on Black Friday and pre-Black Friday sales out of the fear that sitting on the sidelines until Cyber Monday means finding consumers who’ve already spent their Christmas budgets a week earlier,” says Matthew Ong, Senior Analyst for NerdWallet.
The problem is exacerbated this year by how late the holiday retail season kicks off. “Retailers want the season to start heating up earlier in November, not later in the month, and Cyber Monday is simply too late this year,” Ong says.
This year, by the time Cyber Monday rolls around, we’re already in December—Christmas is mere weeks away, and Hanukkah has already started.
For retailers, that’s a nightmare scenario—an entire week of holiday shopping lost compared to 2012.
Retailers are so paranoid about it, they don’t even want to wait for Black Friday this year, let alone Cyber Monday.
If you’re stuck in a turkey coma on Friday and end up sleeping through all those deals, Monday might have a few tech treasures in store for you.
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General Joe Dunford, who is Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a short memo to senior officers and enlisted leaders that the current policy should remain in effect until Trump gives formal direction to the Pentagon and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis issues new guidance.
"In the meantime, we will continue to treat all of our personnel with respect," Dunford wrote.
"As importantly, given the current fight and the challenges we face, we will remain focused on accomplishing our assigned missions."
Transgender troops have been able to serve openly for more than a year, though a plan to allow them to sign up by July 1 was put on hold by Mattis.
On Wednesday, Trump fired off a series of tweets stating that transgender people may not serve "in any capacity" in the US military, upending a key policy from Barack Obama's administration and drawing swift condemnation.
Trump said the ban would save on the "tremendous" medical costs and disruptions that transgender personnel could create.
The move caught the Pentagon off guard and Trump made the announcement with little coordination with the department.
General Mark Milley, Chief of Staff of the Army, said he first learned of the change on the news.
"We will work through the implementation guidance when we get it, and then we will move from there," Milley said.
"To my knowledge, at the Department of Defense, Secretary Mattis has not received written directives yet."
Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said the department was still waiting for formal guidance from the White House.
"The Department will continue to focus on our mission of defending our nation and on-going operations against our foes, while ensuring all service members are treated with respect," she said in a statement.
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I was intrigued by a section from Nick Clegg's Spring Conference speech last month. Specifically this:
Life chances should not be determined by background.Prospects should never be narrowed by the postcode of the home you are born into.Birth should never be destiny.As liberals, we believe in an open societyWhere the power to shape your own future is in your handsWhere all roads are open, to all of our children
I couldn't agree more with this.
The problem is, on the 29th of this month I suspect Nick Clegg along with lots of his political contemporaries will be attending a wedding in Westminster Abbey. A wedding of a woman to a man who once his grandmother and father have died will become our head of state. He will achieve this office very specifically because of who he was born to. In other words a very clear example of the exact opposite of what Nick Clegg believes should happen. This road is not open to all. Instead it is only open to a very select group of people, all of whom are closely related to each other.
Nick should not attend the wedding. I am not suggesting he makes a big thing of it (although I would!) but I am sure he could quietly find something else to be doing that day. Otherwise he is helping to validate and perpetuate the system that props up the entire class structure of this country and that contributes to the problems highlighted so eloquently by our Deputy Prime Minister in the above quoted speech. | <urn:uuid:4840ed67-dc0c-48d0-8f0d-d5d16b3ec0d2> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://markreckons.blogspot.com/2011/04/birth-should-never-be-destiny.html | 2013-12-11T11:33:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386164035309/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204133355-00039-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977955 | 299 |
If staying at a hotel run by cartoon characters sounds like a dream come true for your kids, then pack your bags for a visit to the new Cartoon Network Hotel!
When you check into the new Cartoon Network hotel or when you grab a bite to eat at the restaurant, you’ll be greeted by some of your favorite faces. Characters from Adventure Time, We Bare Bears, The Powerpuff Girls, Ben 10 and more will all be employees at the hotel, which promises to give guests an immersive animation experience.
photo: Courtesy of Palace Entertainment
“This is going to be a game changer. With sleek contemporary designs that parents will appreciate and Easter egg type surprises for kids throughout the resort, the entire family will love this place. Cartoon Network’s stories and themes appeal to everyone in a fun whimsical way,” said Rolf Paegert, chief operating officer of Palace Entertainment, which has partnered with Cartoon Network to bring the hotel to life.
The 165 room resort will sit on a nine-acre property featuring an interactive lobby, indoor arcade, a resort-style pool and water play zone, lawn games and an outdoor amphitheater with an oversized movie screen where you can get a first look of never-seen-before cartoons among other family-friendly amenities. There are also a wine bar and coffee lounge for the grown-up cartoon fans.
Each guest room will also be Cartoon Network-themed with interchangeable decor that can be customized around kids preferences.
The Cartoon Network Hotel will be located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania—right next door to the Dutch Wonderland Family Amusement Park—and is set to open later this summer. | <urn:uuid:fe8713e8-47fd-4ae6-943f-711e33747886> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://redtri.com/cartoon-network-hotel-coming-soon/ | 2021-09-26T00:38:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057787.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20210925232725-20210926022725-00353.warc.gz | en | 0.921735 | 338 |
Bob’s Burgers releasing soundtrack this fall; new episodes start this weekend at a new time (a song explains it)
Like Wes Anderson films, music is pretty intrinsic to FOX animated comedy Bob's Burgers. There seems to be a an original song in just about every episode. Some of those songs then get covered by bands like The National. For those who have been hoping these songs might become available separate from the episodes, it looks like you're in luck. The AV Club reports that during a press conference, show producer Loren Bouchard told folks that a soundtrack is in the works and should be out by the fall.
In other news, Bob's Burgers is finally back this Sunday (3/9) with new episodes after a winter break. It's back at a new time too -- 7 PM EST -- for the rest of the season. Why? In true Bob's Burgers style, they let you know in song, which you can watch below (via Vulture). It may have something to do with the update of COSMOS hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson which premieres Sunday at 8 PM... but still watch the video (and some other BBs songs) below...
St. Vincent - "Bad Tina"
The Yum Yum Song
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>>>>> "dm" == der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> writes: dm> is to disable spanning tree on that port That is what the software people always ask the netadmins to do. ``spanning tree is causing me problems. I don't know what it is but i have Issues. please disable it.'' dm> (or, when possible, to set it to assume spanning tree dm> will show no loops and thus start forwarding immediately, to dm> be changed later if appropriate). right, the vocational school will have taught your high school graduate netadmin to set cisco's 'portfast' feature for an old network, or for a new network to set 802.1w RST mode and configure the port as an edge port. In both cases, spanning tree remains active and the delay is gone. The first case is not ``standard'', and the second case is. The second case may be marginally safer. and the email you get back from netadmin probably says something like ``k., done'' leading to the confusion. You tell everyone ``after disabling spanning tree our Issues went away.'' not so. But if you have to stand in for the net admin without going to the vocational school first, you should not be disabling spanning tree. It's not necessary, and if you did it, it would disable certain hacks for avoiding storms (some documented some not), and if the hacks did not work and you did encounter a storm it could last until you remove the loop with spanning tree off, but it'll only last about 1 minute with portfast / 802.1w-edge. If you want to get equivalent or maybe slightly less level of storm safety to the portfast / 802.1w edge without reconfiguring the big switch at all, plug some crappy hub-like SOHO office switch that doesn't support spanning tree into your office network jack, and plug the alpha into that. at least until the netadmin's little alarm goes off, and he comes around to, if he's any good, take away your switch before you drape a cable into the next cube and break the network. anyway it should work long enough to figure out if this is really your problem. I admit the whole thing is kind of silly. but yeah, don't go around turning off spanning tree.
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Words & Photos by Greg Jacobs
April 9, 2017 – The Echoplex – Los Angeles, CA
Sleaford Mods made quite a statement on this, their first trip to the States. They sold out every show up to and including tonight in Los Angeles. They are being described as a “hip-hop/punk band” and that’s hard to argue with. I’d add in “low-fi” to that description. It’s not that it’s under produced, but it’s minimalist punk-hop. The stage set up is simple and bare; a laptop computer sitting atop 3 plastic milk crates, presumably found in the alley behind the club, and a mic on a stand. That’s it. No banner, no instruments, no nothing. Black stage with (mostly) white lights furthered the minimalist effect.
Jason Williamson raps in a thick cockney accent (at least that’s what I would call it, my apologies if I am misidentifying his accent) over heavy, low-fi beats blasting from Andrew Fearn’s laptop. Neither are particularly active on stage, but there’s something compelling about them that I can’t quite put my finger on.
Williamson seems angry while he’s delivering his lyrics and determined to get his point across. He doesn’t say much between songs but he’s got some unique, understated foot shuffling dance moves. I guess you’d call them dance moves. He commands your attention with his stage presence not his antics.
Fearn is positioned behind his laptop with a beer can in one hand and the other hand in his pocket. He bobs his head with the beats and smiles at the crowd on occasion. When he’s called to duty, he simply touches one button on his laptop to start the next song then returns to his beer and head bobbing.
Sleaford Mods have been around since 2006 and have a new record out on Rough Trade/Beggars Banquet called English Tapas. Check it out.
The Urinals were in the middle slot tonight. They’ve been together since 1979 playing their brand of stripped down old school punk rock. I don’t mean this new-fangled formulaic, mass produced, punk rock we hear now days. I mean when punk rock was a broad definition of a movement and attitude that you couldn’t describe any other way. When things sounded different. An example being: Listen to The Adolescents’ Blue Record, TSOL’s Dance with Me and Dead Kennedy’s Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. These are all great punk rock records and they all sound completely different from each other, and none of them sound like The Urinals. Forcing myself to compare The Urinals with other bands, I hear Wire, Magazine and Minutemen influences.
Terminal A opened the show. Honestly, being a Sunday night, I was hoping for an early night and that Terminal A was the name of a DJ spinning tunes between bands. Terminal A is no DJ, they are a very energetic goth-punk-industrial duo with a singer and a guitar player, sharing the stage with a drum machine and programmed synthesizer. The singer recited heartbreak/political poetry between songs and both members spent far more time off the stage than on it. With vocals drenched in effects and the guitar creating a wall of distortion they are worth checking out. Just be aware, the singer will get right up in your face. | <urn:uuid:6d57a27e-92c9-407a-b808-312d2b9792f1> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://newnoisemagazine.com/show-review-sleaford-mods-echoplex/ | 2018-03-21T16:34:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647671.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20180321160816-20180321180816-00345.warc.gz | en | 0.960914 | 745 |
computes formal power series solutions for differential equation systems
pdsolve(DE, F, series, opts)
a system of differential equations (ODEs, PDEs and/or algebraic constraints), possibly including initial values for the unknowns, their derivatives and/or an expansion point
optional, may be required, a function, or a set or list of them, indicating the dependent variables of the problem
disregard = ...
optional, to disregard whether the initial values cancel the equations and/or inequations of DE, the right-hand-side can be: nothing (default), inequations, equations, all
order = n
optional, a nonnegative integer specifying the order of the series expansion, default value is Order
The opts arguments may contain one or more of the following options.
disregard = <nothing (default), inequations, equations, all>. This option permits to restrict the test for the initialvalues (see above).
equations: the equations are disregarded; pdsolve only checks that the inequations are satisfied by initialvalues.
inequations: the inequations are disregarded; pdsolve only checks that the equations are satisfied by initialvalues.
all: equations and inequations are disregarded.
order = n. This option specifies the truncation order for the series expansion; if not given, the value of n used is that of Order.
The function call pdsolve(DE, series) returns an integral (exponents are nonnegative integers), formal (the convergence issue is not addressed), power series solution of the differential ideal defined by DE, truncated at order = n.
The unknowns may or not be specified. When the unknowns are specified (as a function, or a set or list of them), only these ones specified are considered unknowns and any other function is considered arbitrary. The solution is then expected to be valid for arbitrary values of these arbitrary functions. On the other hand, when the unknowns are not specified, all functions - differentiated or not - are considered unknowns.
The initial values for the unknowns, and/or their derivatives, and/or an expansion point, can be provided in DE by enclosing all the arguments into a set or a list. The set of initial values must have only one expansion point and must be linear in the unknowns and derivatives evaluated at the expansion point. Typically, these initial values are specified as equations of the form u0=value_of_u0, where the u0 are dependent variables and/or their derivatives evaluated at the expansion point - say u0,t,ux,0 or u0,0 when the unknown is ux,t - and value_of_u0 represent their values, possibly being expressions involving independent variables (in which case keep the independent variable as is, in the left-hand-side u0).
If initial values are not specified, the expansion point is the origin, all the independent variables equal to 0, and all the functions and their derivatives different from zero. It is also possible to specify only an expansion point different than zero directly in DE - say including equations of the form x=x0,t=t0.
The values attributed to the unknowns and their derivatives at the expansion point, also cannot be chosen freely. They must satisfy the system F=0,S≠0, returned by the DifferentialAlgebra command PowerSeriesSolution when using the option conditions. These conditions, which are checked by default, can be disregarded using the option disregard = ...; see the Examples section.
If the attributed values are solutions of the system F=0,S≠0, then, the returned power series are truncated solutions of the differential equation system DE.
If these values do not satisfy F=0, then, the returned power series are not truncated solutions of the differential ideal.
If they satisfy F=0, but do not satisfy S≠0, then, the returned power series may, or may not, be truncated solutions of the of DE. If they are, they do not need to be unique.
The heat equation in two dimensions
Classically, one says that the solutions of the heat equation depend on two arbitrary functions ux,0=fx and utx,0=gx. Our choice for initial values is then
A general nonlinear PDE system
The initial values are chosen to satisfy the conditions that can be computed using PowerSeriesSolution with the option condition
Note than unlike PowerSeriesSolution, pdsolve can handle any mathematical function (or compositions of them) in the coefficients of the differential equations provided that it admits a differential equation representation, for example
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|Mr. Dimitri Putilin was born in St. Petersburg, Russia but grew up in New York City. He began his career as a computer systems and network engineer, eventually founding a successful consulting company. After several years, Mr. Putilin returned to college to pursue his primary passion in psychology. As an undergraduate, he conducted research into phobia treatment while volunteering as a teacher of children and adolescents with autism, and in the local hospital's psychiatric ward. In 2006, Mr. Putilin graduated from Queens College with a B.A. in Psychology, summa cum laude with highest honors. Mr. Putilin is currently a doctoral candidate in Duke University's Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program. His research interests range broadly under the unifying theme of understanding how choices, attitudes and behaviors promote psychological well-being and life satisfaction. Mr. Putilin's additional interest is in the effects of psychological states on physical health. As a graduate student, Mr. Putilin has conducted research on the lasting influence of effective parenting practices. Most recently, he was invited to present a talk on the relationship between spirituality and health at the National Conference on Indian Psychology organized by the University of Delhi. In his clinical practice, Mr. Putilin has worked with children and adults with diverse diagnoses – most commonly, obsessive-compulsive and other anxiety disorders, as well as mood disorders. |
Mr. Putilin's Fulbright-Nehru research project will build upon studies in the West that show a protective effect of spirituality on health. Capitalizing on India's religious diversity, it will investigate the relationship between health and spirituality in a sample drawn from Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist and Jain communities. The twin aims of this study are to identify the aspects of spiritual activity most strongly associated with health and well-being, and to explore the psychological mechanisms underlying this relationship. This research can inform strategies of health promotion, with particular relevance to poor and medically underserved populations. | <urn:uuid:98eeb18d-bccf-47a5-86ea-e94219c6e298> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.usief.org.in/2011-2012%20Fellows/us_integration/Fulbright-Nehru-Student-Research-Program/Dimitri%20Putilin.html | 2017-01-20T07:43:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280801.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00043-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964863 | 403 |
Google Chrome stores the record of the sites you visited and make them available to you whenever needed. It is helpful for you when you want to revisit the page you previously visited but don’t exactly remember the name of the site. But sometimes you may be sharing the computer with other people, or you may be using the public computer in the workplace, cybercaf? or some other places. And you don’t want others to see what you search or browse on the internet. Clearing Chrome Browsing history is very important. It not only keep up your privacy but also improves the performance of Google Chrome.
We are here to tell you how to delete browser history from Google Chrome. However, if you don’t want the Browser to keep track of the sites you are visiting, you can use Private mode.
To go to the incognito mode in Google Chrome click on menu option (three dots arranged vertically) at the top right corner of the page and from the drop-down list click on New Incognito Window. The shortcut key to reaching to the new incognito mode is Ctrl+Shift+N.
Google Chrome keeps the history of whatever you have browsed for last 90 days. It excludes the web you have visited through incognito mode. Google Chrome won’t use your browsing history, so you haven’t to delete Google Chrome browsing history under incognito mode.
To view/check Google Chrome browsing history: –
- Open the Google Chrome application.
- On the top right corner of the page, you will see three dots arranged vertically. Click on that menu icon.
- A Drop-down list will appear. From among the menu click on history option.
IF you want to escape all the above steps then “Ctrl+H” is the shortcut key to view your browsing history.
How to Clear Chrome History?
- Go to Chrome history using short-cut key ‘Ctrl+H’ or from the menu tab on the top right side of the page.
- You will be provided with the options of clear browsing data and remove selected items.
- Under clear browsing data, you can choose the time from where you want to delete your history. If you want to remove the entire history, then select the beginning of time option. Since you are deleting browsing history; make sure that the Browsing History option is selected. Besides this, you can also choose other things you want to remove, like Download history, Cache and so on.
- After you are done selecting the things to be erased and the time from when you want to delete click on Clear browsing data at the bottom of the page.
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Niger: “Food is the most basic need”
Only 40, her eyes and wrinkled face bear witness to a life of hardship. A widow and a mother of six in Niger, Tchima Ibrahim Iro has no means to support herself and her family. She relies on people’s handouts. “Last year I was less exposed, as people produced more I could get more from begging. But this year, with the drought, I receive less.”
Having less food during the months leading to harvest is not new for people across West Africa. However, this year they are bracing for something much harsher. Drought, soaring food prices, and regional insecurity add additional pressure.
CARE is providing income to families like Tchima’s so they can buy food ahead of what is known as the ‘lean season’ - the gap between when people run out of food and the next harvest. Families receive cash in exchange for part-time work in projects identified by their communities, or as a handout when nobody in the family is able to perform manual labour.
“I am grateful to CARE,” explains Tchima. Neither she nor her children can work, but she still receives cash.
Without this support, I would not have been able to feed my children. Now I can buy food for my family.
Rising food prices
Sarkin Yamma, where Tchima lives, consists of vast expanses of semi-arid lands. The sandy tracks that lead there cut through a dry, barren-looking landscape. Even for people who know how to survive in such a hostile environment, small weather variations have a big impact.
The last few months have been particularly dry. The wet season started later than usual. Rains were sparse, affecting crops and cattle, people’s main sources of income and nutrition.
For Tchima, it is already generally difficult to make ends meet.
Unfortunately, I do not have any land nor animals – not even a chicken, so my biggest problem is to have food during the lean season.
This year food prices have risen hugely. Even better off homes are struggling to cope with a twenty percent increase in the price of sorghum, Niger’s staple food. For Tchima, it means a life at the edge of survival.
In addition to the drought, conflicts in the region have made it harder to bring food to the table. Most families send one person to work abroad for several months. They rely on that extra income during the lean season. This year many Nigerien migrant workers had to return home due to the conflicts in neighboring Côte d’Ivoire, Libya, Mali and Nigeria, putting a stop to crucial remittances.
This is also the case for Tchima. “My oldest child is 20 years old and lives away. I financed his departure to go find work, but he did not manage to earn anything,”
Families with limited resources must face the hard choice of whether to spend the little money they have on their children’s education or on food. “I regret my children could not attend school, but I cannot afford it,” laments Tchima.
For people trying to cope with the current situation, it makes no difference whether it is called ‘drought,’ ‘food crisis,’ or something else. Tchima explains the impact of hunger.
Food is the most basic need. Someone who has not eaten, do you think they can care about what they wear?
While her neighbours help her out, Tchima ends up in debt. “It is always debt in kind, for something to eat.”
In many cases, people have not got time to pay back the debt they incurred during the last food crisis barely two years ago.
CARE’s support has helped Tchima get back on track. "I have used some of the cash to pay back my debt and I have stopped begging – I will never forget it," she says with a smile. "As of now, I only have 5,000 (£6.25) CFA francs of debt. So, today after I get the 13,000 (£16.30) CFA francs from the project, my first reaction will be to repay my debt.
I will still have 8,000 (£10) left, so next I will buy some millet and cook it, and tonight I will be able to eat a big pot of porridge with my children.
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The Museum management programme is designed to create professional development opportunities for staff working in museums and cultural sectors in Kuwait under the guidance of the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letter.
The programme consists of three major stages for achievement of objectives starting at implementation of short-term recommendations to extend to longer-term strategic-based ones.
It is still in its initial stages; in May 2013 a UK consultant visited Kuwait for one week and conducted a needs analysis research. The consultant, under the guidance of the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters, visited different museums in Kuwait, met with staff working there and held several interviews with advocates and officials in the cultural sector in Kuwait.
The British Council will continue working along with the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters across the different stages of this project to set Kuwait as a model country in museum management and a training hub for museum management among the Gulf Countries.
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If you haven’t heard about the restocks yet… I don’t know what to tell you!
This Saturday will be one of the biggest “restocks” ever. Several websites have decided to contribute to this bonanza/extravaganza/epic online shoe shopping Saturday. Stores such as: Eastbay, Finishline, Soleheaven, Villa, and Footlocker. Rumors have been floating around saying some websites are only releasing a limited amount, limited sizes, and only Sz 15 and above. Eastbay and Footlocker have confirmed via twitter that a majority of their restocks are for size 15 and up 😦 WTF
A website overseas has got our attention….
Soleheaven, a UK based company, is making big waves this week because of their involvement in this “restock weekend!” Their website stated… The restock will take place on APRIL 19th at 12noon BST. The products available are:
- Jordan 1 Bred
- Jordan 3 Infrared
- Jordan 6 Infrared
- Jordan 9 Baron
- Jordan 11 Bred
- Jordan 11 Gamma
- Jordan 11 Low Reverse Concord
THE RESTOCK RULES
We know this is heat, and will cause a massive stir so we want the release to be fair for all. Please respect the following guidelines, and don’t get greedy!
- 1 pair per customer
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We have the technology to detect bots. If you attempt to use a bot your order will be cancelled. This goes for re-sellers trying to purchase the whole size curve. Strictly 1 pair per customer. If this is breached we will cancel your orders. We hope you enjoy Soleheaven mobile, and we will welcome any feedback to enhance your online experience.
I’m going to Soleheaven on my cell phone for some gamma or bred 11s and my pc for the Yeezy foams on Footlocker. Remember on Eastbay or Footlocker, do not give up when it say “shoes not added to your cart, try again later.” Click, Click, Click away…
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Bihar BCECE Stage 1 Hall Ticket 2016 Download
Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board (BCECEB) will shortly upload the Bihar BCECE Stage 1 Hall Ticket 2016 at its official website bceceborad.com. Large numbers of applicants were applied for this BCECE Engineering Combined Entrance Test 2016 on or before last date 28th February, 2016. At the time of online registration process, candidates will get a registration id and password. After successful completion of the online registration process, candidates are eagerly waiting for their Bihar BCECE Stage 1 Hall Ticket 2016. All the applied contenders may download their hall ticket with the help of given id and password through below link.
BCECEB has announced an official notification for getting admission into various engineering and paramedical courses for the academic year of 2016 – 2017. Large numbers of applicants were pursued their engineering courses through this BCECEB every year. This year also massive numbers of candidates were applied for this BCECE Engineering Notification 2016. BCECEB has decided to conduct the Bihar Engineering stage 1 2016 entrance test will be held on 17th April, 2016 and Stage 2 exam will be on 15th May, 2016 at various exam centers. BCECEB will not send the hall ticket by post or courier to any candidate residence address. Hall Ticket will issue through online only.
Bihar BCECE Stage 1 Hall Ticket 2016 will soon release at its official page on or before exam date and may expect in the month of April, 2016. All the applied contenders must download their Hall Ticket through online. If any queries while downloading the Hall Ticket, those can contact the following address,
Controller of Examination,
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Near Patna Airport,
How to apply for Bihar BCECE Stage 1 Hall Ticket 2016:
- Go to the official website of BCECEB www.bceceboard.com.
- Click on the Hall Ticket button.
- After that, enter your registration number and date of birth etc.
- Click on submit button.
- Bihar BCECE Stage 1Hall Ticket 2016 will be appeared on your monitor screen.
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Home Office Deduction – Simplified Method
Starting in 2013, it’s much easier to take the home office deduction on your sole proprietor business. Small business owners no longer have to deal with figuring out how much they paid for all of those utilities throughout the year and allocating them, now it’s as easy as telling your tax preparer the total square footage of your home office. The deduction is simply the square footage of your home office multiplied by $5. The max deduction is $1,500 (or 300 sq ft). There are different rules that apply if you used multiple rooms, changed homes throughout the year, or ran a daycare business. Make sure to consult a professional on those topics. | <urn:uuid:e4cc1800-07ec-4b81-a01d-e111a624af1f> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://selbytaxandaccounting.com/home-office-deduction-simplified-method/ | 2018-06-22T09:04:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864387.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20180622084714-20180622104714-00319.warc.gz | en | 0.959994 | 147 |
Feed a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life. We have all heard that familiar saying that seeks to illustrate the importance of showing someone how something is done rather than just doing it for that person. The same can be said for accepting payments in the healthcare industry, especially amidst the middle of a global pandemic that has rocked the healthcare industry to its very foundation.
Healthcare providers are facing the double whammy of increased expenses and decreased revenue thanks to the cancellation of elective procedures and a drop in patient volume while also having to spend more on personal protective equipment and other expenses associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
To compensate for the decreased revenue, many providers have been forced to lay off or furlough employees, which has put an even greater crunch on operations inside the office.
Here is the part where we get to talk about teaching someone to fish. With so many individuals lacking health insurance these days, it is likely that many of the patients walking through the doors of a healthcare provider is going to be on the hook for some or all of the bill when that visit or stay is over. The portion that the patient is responsible for — which is known as the self-pay portion — is an important piece of the revenue puzzle that providers will need to look at more closely. By being a little bit more proactive, providers can prepare individuals ahead of time for the likely expense and start the process of collecting payment well in advance, lessening the shock, frustration, and chasing that usually needs to be done.
How can a provider be proactive?
* By being better at communicating the estimated cost of a procedure or visit beforehand
* Using forecast tools to help assess a patient’s propensity to pay the bill
* Providing the right options that fit the patient’s financial position
Self-pay collection is a component of healthcare that is not going to go away and could become an even larger component of the revenue coming into healthcare providers than it is now. Providers need to focus on this area of their revenue cycle management to make sure they are not losing out now and in the future. Teach a patient to fish and you will not have to worry about your operation going hungry in the future.
PPMS is a management system for recovery agencies based upon developing, implementing and adhering to a set of strict industry-specific professional practices and policies.
PPMS certification, much like a SAS-70 audit, requires independent CPA attestation that an agency has in place written policies, procedures, and work processes that ensure regulatory compliance and adherence to industry best practices. The agency must also demonstrate that it has procedures in place to identify and remediate any variance from these. PPMS certified agencies are subject to annual surveillance and must re-certify every five years.
An agency that has voluntarily undergone the PPMS application and certification process is, quite simply, a better business partner than one which has not. This rigorous process results in:
This strict accreditation insures that you as HCI clients, receive the very best service.
"Clients come to us when good isn't good enough. They demand the best. We love it and wouldn't have it any other way."
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GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF RULES
Harvard Law School and National Bureau of Economic Research
© Copyright 1997 Louis Kaplow
This entry addresses two fundamental characteristics of rules. The first concernsthe degree of precision, detail, or complexity they embody: how finely aredifferent sorts of behavior to be distinguished? A second aspect of legalcommands concerns when a given level of detail is provided -- at the time ofpromulgation ("rules") or subsequent to individuals' actions, in the context ofadjudication ("standards"). These aspects of rules are considered from aperspective that focuses upon information costs and dissemination: differentsorts of legal commands involve differing costs of formulation and applicationby private parties (deciding upon their own conduct) and adjudicators, and thecharacter of laws also influences how well parties actually will understand thelaw and conform their conduct accordingly. The discussion encompasses relatedquestions involving the role of precedent, the evolution of the law over time,legal uncertainty, and accuracy in adjudication. This entry also addresses theseparate problem of how changes in legal rules should apply to prior behavioror preexisting investments -- issues of retroactivity and transition.
JEL classification: K40
Keywords: Rules, Precision, Complexity, Transitions, Retroactivity, Standards
Legal rules serve many functions: channeling behavior (e.g., tort law,environmental law, criminal law), providing background rules (much of contract,commercial, and corporate law), and defining obligations and eligibility forbenefits (tax law, social welfare provisions). This entry, following existingresearch, focuses on the first type of law. The relevance (or irrelevance) of theanalysis to other types of law will usually be apparent, and some commentsabout the differences in contexts will be noted.
The most commonly noted characteristic of rules concerns the degree ofprecision, detail, or complexity they embody: how finely are different sorts ofbehavior to be distinguished? Such matters may arise in defining the scope ofa legal command, providing for exceptions, adjusting sanctions based uponaggravating and mitigating circumstances, and so on. A related aspect of legalcommands concerns when a given level of detail is provided -- at the time ofpromulgation ("rules") or subsequent to individuals' actions, in the context ofadjudication ("standards"). These aspects of rules are considered from aperspective that focuses upon information costs and dissemination: differentsorts of legal commands involve differing costs of formulation and applicationby private parties (deciding upon their own conduct) and adjudicators, and thecharacter of laws also influences how well parties actually will understand themand conform their conduct accordingly. This approach is used to illuminatechoices about the degree of precision (or complexity) with which legalcommands are formulated and between rules and standards. These subjects, inturn, encompass related questions involving the role of precedent, the evolutionof the law over time, legal uncertainty, and accuracy in adjudication.
After outlining the main ideas concerning these topics, this entry addressesthe separate problem of how changes in the law should apply to prior behavioror preexisting investments -- issues of retroactivity and transition -- andconsiders some other aspects of rules that have been addressed in the economicanalysis of law.
The precision of a legal command is taken here to refer to the degree of detail ordifferentiation involved. For example, an environmental regulation is moreprecise I f more types of pollutants or sources of pollution are distinguished. Anegligence regime is more precise if the standard of care is more finely tailoredto different types of actors in different contexts. A damages scheme is moreprecise the greater the extent to which damages are designed to reflect theparticular harm done to a particular victim.
The greater the degree of precision, the greater will be the costs offormulating legal commands and applying them in adjudication and of partiesinterpreting them for purposes of deciding how to conform behavior to the law.But it does not follow that the costs of precision -- any more than costs oflitigation or of pollution control -- should be minimized: the simplest rules mightpermit all acts, require equal reduction of pollutants regardless of their toxicity,or require the same speed limits on all roads. Rather, the degree of precisionshould be optimized, which makes an economic analysis particularly useful.
Before proceeding, it is worth noting that greater precision in legalcommands -- higher levels of detail, more distinctions recognized in rules andexceptions -- is a primary source of legal complexity, which is broadlycondemned. The subject of the next section, whether a legal command isformulated as a rule or a standard (the latter leaving more open to subsequentadjudication and thus being more difficult to interpret), also may bear on whatis often described as legal complexity. A number of other sources of complexitycould be considered, but they have received little attention in the literature.Most obviously, poorly drafted laws and legal opinions will be more confusing;it will be more costly to extract less information. Although this problem is oftenserious, analysis of it is straightforward. More subtle are problems like thoseconfronted under tax laws wherein parties may devise complicated schemes tocircumvent simple legal commands. In this setting, complexity may beunavoidable. Moreover, it is possible that greater complexity will reduce costs:if a more complex regime successfully discourages transactional manipulations,parties might in the end spend less in learning the intricacies of legal rules andin making convoluted arrangements.
The presentation here follows most closely the model in Kaplow (1995a) . Seealso Ehrlich and Posner (1974) , Diver (1983) . First, we can consider the effects ofprecision on legal costs. It is straightforward that greater precision tends toincrease them: more detailed laws tend to be more costly for the government topromulgate, for parties to interpret, and for enforcers to apply. The second factor-- private interpretation costs -- involves some subtlety, because parties willincur such costs only if they find it in their interest to do so. For example,extremely complex details may be ignored by almost everyone.
Second, more precise commands -- those that differentiate behavior moreprecisely -- will generally result in better behavior. If pollutants are differentiatedand subject to particularized sanctions, rather than grouped together, subject toa single sanction (reflecting, say, the average harm they cause), there will be twobeneficial results. Activities that are more harmful will be subject to highersanctions than otherwise, which will efficiently deter additional undesirableactivity. Similarly, less harmful activities will face lower sanctions, avoidinginefficient overdeterrence.
These behavioral benefits are related to private legal costs, because thebenefits can arise only if private actors expend the resources necessary to learnwhether their particular activity is of a more or less harmful type, and thussubject to a higher or lower sanction. If the cost of determining the relevantsanction -- which may involve learning about the content of legal commands orabout the nature of one's own activity (such as by testing the chemical contentof discharges) -- is too high, individuals will not learn about the legal rules.Individuals with rather low benefits may simply forgo activities, even thoughthere is some chance that they may be subject to low sanctions or no sanction,in which case their activities would be worth undertaking. Individuals with highbenefits may simply act, even though there is some chance that they may facea very high sanction, in which case they will regret their decision. Individualswith intermediate benefits, however, will tend to acquire information and then toact accordingly -- that is, to proceed if the sanction is low and abstain if thesanction is high.
Given the nature of this problem, it is natural to ask whether private parties'incentives to acquire information will be socially appropriate. It turns out that inthe simplest case, in which liability is strict and there are no predictable errorsin adjudication, private and social incentives are aligned (for the familiar reasonthat private actors bear all the social costs of their activities, here including thecost of acquiring information). More generally -- if there is legal error, ifindividuals may misestimate the value of information, if information facilitatescircumvention of legal sanctions, or if a negligence regime governs -- privateincentives may be excessive or inadequate. See Shavell (1988a) , Kaplow (1990) , Kaplow and Shavell (1992) .
Having stated how parties will behave and what costs will be incurred whenlaws are more detailed, it is possible to characterize when greater precision isdesirable. At the broadest level, the lower are the information costs and thegreater is the variation in harm caused by different individuals' actions, the largerwill be the net benefit of precision in legal commands. To offer more insight, itis helpful to consider some special cases.
First, suppose that formulation costs are low (perhaps because a single rulewill apply to a large number of actions) and that adjudication costs are low(perhaps because harm occurs only with a low probability or because violationsare enforced with a low probability/high sanction strategy, as suggested by Becker (1968) ). In this case, more precise laws tend to be desirable as long asinformation is not prohibitively costly for actors to obtain. The reason is that theactors have the option of not obtaining information. Those who do makeexpenditures to become informed will be only those for whom the expectedbehavioral benefit is large -- individuals whose acts will be significantlydesirable if they are not in fact very harmful but significantly undesirable if theyare of the more harmful type. For example, consider a complex rule scheme thatregulates routes over which hazardous substances may be transported. Mostdrivers -- those who never or rarely carry significant amounts of suchsubstances -- will ignore the rules. Those who regularly transport hazardousmaterials, however, will undertake the necessary effort to learn the rules andconform their behavior. Their information costs may be high, but the benefitsfrom better controlling their activity will be even larger.
One implication of this analysis is that the existence of high total complianceexpenditures is not an unambiguous sign of excessively detailed or complexrules. Low total expenditures may indicate that few individuals bother to learnthe details of the law, in which case any additional formulation or adjudicationcosts would largely be wasted. High total expenditures, on the other hand,reflect that many individuals contemplate actions the desirability of which iscontingent upon the type of their act; in this case, saving compliance costs byeliminating the law's precision may be a mistake because significant behavioralbenefits will be sacrificed. Another implication of the analysis is that widespreadnoncompliance need not indicate that rules are unduly complex; as long as thefew for whom the rules are most important do learn the details, the benefits ofprecision will be achieved at little cost with regard to others.
As a second case, suppose that private information costs are low (perhapsmost individuals already know the details of their actions and how they mightbe sanctioned) but that the cost of differentiating acts in adjudication would behigh (because it is hard for the state to learn the details of individuals' behavior).In this case, more refined legal commands may or may not be desirable. Forexample, additional costs may be repeatedly incurred in adjudication eventhough few individuals' behavior would be affected as a result of greater detailin the law. The distinction between this case and the foregoing one is that thestate must make additional expenditures on adjudication even when the ex antebenefit of improved behavior would be small, because the state will not knowwhen this is true; by contrast, when only ex ante information costs are high,private parties will incur them selectively.
The precision of the law has a direct connection to the accuracy of adjudication,a topic explored in Kaplow (1994a) and Kaplow and Shavell (1994 , 1996a) . Theformer subject can be taken to refer to the precision of the law on the books andthe latter question to the precision with which the law actually is applied. At thetime they act, individuals will be induced to become more informed about thedetails of their situation only if, in a subsequent adjudication, their behavior willin fact be differentiated from that of others. If, instead, individuals' acts will beassigned to different legal categories largely at random or if no effort will bemade to refine the classification of acts, the situation is much as if the law itselfdid not make the refined distinctions in the first place. Many topics of procedure-- discovery, the use of experts, evidentiary rules, summary judgment, juries,appeals, burdens of proof -- and many substantive rules -- notably, concerningwhich categories of damages may be established and whether damages aredetermined by individualized evidence or by standardized tables -- may thus beilluminated by analysis similar to that presented here. A central concern whenassessing these features of adjudication is parties' incentives in litigation tomake expenditures on their own behalf: it often may be the case that parties, iffreely permitted to undertake further efforts in litigation, will spend excessivelybecause the private benefits from favorably influencing the outcome will exceedany social benefits from enhanced precision in applying legal rules.
The preceding discussion may be extended in a number of ways. Spier (1994) incorporates settlement bargaining. The interesting complication is thatapplication of a more precise rule in adjudication may make information that ispossessed by only one party relevant to the outcome. By thereby creating asituation involving asymmetric information, settlement becomes less likely.Thus, greater precision may be accompanied by increased litigation costs.
Kaplow (1995a) briefly considers costly sanctions -- monetary paymentsmade by risk-averse individuals and nonmonetary sanctions. Fewgeneralizations are possible. For risk-averse actors who do not become informed,greater differentiation may increase risk-bearing costs, although, as noted in Kaplow and Shavell (1996a) , more precise damage awards may reduce the risksborne by uninsured victims.
Kaplow (1990) examines the case in which some individuals know how thelaw differentiates among acts but others do not. In this case, there is no generaldeterrence rationale favoring lower sanctions for individuals who mistakenlycommit violations , but reducing their sanctions may be optimal when sanctionsare socially costly, because the lower rate of compliance by mistaken individualsresults in sanctions being imposed more often.
Kaplow (1995a) extends the analysis to regimes of self-reporting , as arecommon with much environmental and safety regulation as well as with manyforms of taxation. Self-reporting tends to be efficient when individuals'information costs are much lower than the government's; increasing precisionin a self-reporting regime has the confounding effect of inducing someindividuals to acquire information not to determine how better to behave butsolely to determine how best to report their conduct.
Most applied work on complexity and compliance costs is in the field of taxation . Empirical work is extensive. See, e.g., Long and Swingen (1987) , ArthurD. Little (1988) , Slemrod (1989) , Blumenthal and Slemrod (1992) . Analysis of thebenefits of precision in the tax context is qualitatively different from thatpresented here because the benefits of fine-tuning taxpayers' payments typicallyinvolve matters of distributive equity and minimizing adverse incentive effectsof taxation rather than of optimally controlling harm-causing behavior. See, e.g., Yitzhaki (1979) , Kaplow (1994c , 1996) . The most obvious simplifying devices inthe United States income tax code are the standard deduction (which taxpayersmay take instead of itemizing particular deductions) and the use of floors (whichforbid small amounts of deductions); they are analyzed in Kaplow (1994b) and Slemrod and Yitzhaki (1994) .
The discussion here, like much analysis in law and economics, emphasizesthe role of legal commands in providing incentives to govern parties' behaviorex ante. Modifications to the analysis would be required when adjudicationconcerns future behavior , as in the granting of licenses, enjoining harm-causingbehavior, incarcerating dangerous individuals, or determining eligibility forgovernment benefits. In particular, the benefit of precision in adjudication willbe greater than otherwise because the outcome will affect future activity directly(perhaps in addition to influencing ex ante incentives), and concerns aboutwhether individuals will learn the relevant details of the law may be less relevant.
Finally, it is worth noting that the benefits of more detailed rules are relevantto wholly private ordering , as in contractual arrangements (contingencies canbe distinguished more precisely, and provisions may provide reasonablycomplete specifications or be more open-ended) or in the internal organizationof firms. As a result, work on the economics of contracting and organizations,wholly apart from analysis of the law, can illuminate issues concerning thedesign of legal rules, and conversely.
The choice between rules and standards has long received attention from legalcommentators and more recently has been addressed from an economicperspective. The presentation here will follow Kaplow (1992a) ; a number of thepoints, particularly concerning the effects of rules and standards on legal costsand on behavior, can also be found in the prior economic analyses by Ehrlichand Posner (1974) and Diver (1983) .
An initial obstacle in analyzing rules and standards involves matters ofdefinition. Usage varies greatly (which is no surprise since most dictionariesoffer definitions of each term that use the other), and logically distinct issues areoften combined or confused. For purposes of economic analysis, it is useful todefine the difference between rules and standards as involving exclusively thedistinction between whether the law is given content ex ante or ex post. Thus,a rule might list hazardous substances that may not be released into the watersupply whereas a standard may only proscribe releases of hazardoussubstances, leaving the determination of which substances are hazardous toadjudication, after releases have occurred.
This distinction between rules and standards is obviously one of degree,although it often is convenient to discuss it as an all-or-nothing choice. A lawis more rule-like the greater the extent to which it provides advance guidance: itmay, for example, provide a partial list or state criteria to be used, either of whichwill ease the application of the legal norm to particular behavior. Moreover, evena given formal specification will have a different character depending upon whatis understood about the mode of adjudication and upon what other informationis available in advance. For example, if everyone knows that an adjudicator islikely to rely upon a recent government study that indicates the degree of dangerposed by potentially hazardous substances, the situation will be almost the sameas that under a rule that incorporated the study's results. For present purposes,such a situation will be viewed as essentially rule-like, as the economic analysisdepends upon the extent to which content -- as understood by private partiesand adjudicators -- has actually been provided in advance, not upon thewording of legal commands. (It thus can be seen that the generation anddissemination of information, even when not explicitly embodied in a legal rule,is an important aspect of the law.)
Finally, it is important to distinguish the question of the degree to whichcontent is determined ex ante from the preceding subject, which concerns thedegree of precision with which a law is formulated or applied. Often,commentators assume that standards are inherently more precise or subtle thanrules because standards leave open the possibility of considering all possiblefactors whereas rules, no matter how detailed, provide a definitive resolution thatis not open to reconsideration. But this assumption implicitly contemplates thatadjudicators will devote virtually unlimited resources in applying standards.Such an outcome is irrational, implausible, and inconsistent with the actualoperation of legal systems. For example, tax codes and many safety regulationsare far more detailed and context-dependent than, say, the results that would beproduced by a jury that was presented with the open-ended question of whattax payment or safety regime was appropriate. As a result of law, custom, or theapplication of common sense, an adjudicator may well consider far less than allconceivably relevant factors. In an ordinary negligence dispute involvingmodest stakes, parties will not commission numerous expert studies; nor will theadjudicator commit substantial time to consider all possibilities.
Thus, it is a matter of choice how much detail will be incorporated in rulesand standards, and it is hardly the case that rule-like systems tend to beparticularly simple and standard-like schemes extremely precise in actualoperation. The main point for present purposes is that the question of how muchrefinement is optimal when formulating and applying the law -- legal precision-- is logically and, to a great extent, practically distinct from the question whethera given degree of precision is best specified in advance (rules) or left toadjudication (standards). In the end, one can combine the following analysis ofrules versus standards with the preceding analysis of the optimal precision ofthe law to determine what sort of legal command is best.
Rules are defined as legal commands that provide greater specification inadvance. Hence, the initial cost of formulating rules will be greater than the costof formulating standards. It will be necessary, for example, to undertake studiesto determine which substances are hazardous and to determine appropriatethresholds of safety if a rule listing hazardous substances is to be promulgated.Such efforts can be avoided (for the moment) under a standard that merelyproscribes the release of hazardous substances and leaves their determinationto subsequent proceedings.
On the other hand, rules will be cheaper for private parties to interpret whendeciding upon their own conduct and for adjudicators to apply to past behavior.Precisely because more has been determined in advance, there will be less needfor parties to conduct their own studies and to predict legal outcomes and foradjudicators to devote effort to determine whether a violation should be deemedto have occurred. If a rule specifies which substances may be discharged, actorsand adjudicators need merely consult the list to apply a rule, whereas substantialinquiry may be necessary under a standard.
The same reasoning concerning the ease of application suggests that ruleswill tend to produce behavior more in conformity with legal norms than wouldequivalent standards. Because parties will be able to learn the governing normsmore cheaply and accurately in advance, they will tend to behave more in accordwith such norms. (This raises the question, explored in Kaplow and Shavell(1992) and noted above, whether private parties' incentives to learn about thelaw will be socially appropriate.) When guidance is easier to obtain, fewer partieswill be deterred from behavior that actually is not objectionable, because theywill have greater confidence that such behavior will not be subject to legalsanctions. More parties will be deterred from truly undesirable behavior becausethey are less likely to proceed in the mistaken belief that the prospect of beingsanctioned is remote. It is important to observe that the desirable effect of ruleson behavior may hold even when standards turn out to be more precise in actualadjudication, for any refinement embodied in the application of standards willinfluence behavior only to the extent parties are able to predict the relevantdetails in advance, and often parties will not make such precise predictions. (Thepoint that details tend to be helpful only when parties find it in their interest tolearn them was emphasized in the preceding section on the precision of legalrules.)
Combining these effects, one can see that rules tend to be preferable whenparticular activities are frequent, and standards do best when behavior varies sogreatly that any particular scenario is relatively rare. The reason is that the addedcost of rules, at the formulation stage, is borne once, whereas the relativebenefits of rules -- lower costs and greater compliance for private actors andlower costs of adjudication -- may arise often or almost never, as the case maybe. Thus, for dry cleaning and automotive fluids, it would be best to specifypermitted disposal techniques in advance, for the many small establishmentswould be unlikely to be able to determine the effects on their own and, even ifthey could, the costs of each obtaining information on the matter would begreat; also, redundant costs would be incurred in inevitable enforcementproceedings. But in the case substances that are rarely used, it may not beworthwhile to specify the range of permitted and prohibited disposal techniquesin advance because most scenarios involving potentially hazardous action maynever arise.
In this regard, it should be noted that the frequency of activity may be greateven if reported adjudications in a field are few. For example, rules might leadcountless individuals to comply with the law at very low cost. Even whencompliance is imperfect (or when harm nonetheless arises and is subject to aregime of strict liability), there may be little adjudication despite frequent activitybecause the probability of harm is low, detection of harm is unlikely, or mostlegal disputes are quickly settled. Conversely, disputes may appear to befrequent but not indicate that conditions are favorable to the use of rules. Forexample, there are many negligence disputes but some types may involve uniquesituations that, ex ante, were unlikely ever to arise.
Finally, the costs and benefits of rules and standards are important fordetermining the optimal effort to devote to formulating rules and to applyingrules and standards in adjudication. All else equal, the greater the frequency ofthe behavior to be governed, the more valuable it will be to formulate the lawwith greater care. Conversely, to the extent that an adjudication is relevant toonly a single case, it will not be very valuable to expend substantial resourcesto consider myriad factors in order to reach a precise determination -- unless aprecedent it to be set, as discussed below. That individuals may have difficultypredicting refined decisions with any accuracy will strengthen this point. Theseconsiderations reinforce the previous observation that, in fact, rules often willbe more precise and subtle than standards, taking into account how the latterwill actually be applied.
Precedent may be seen as the (perhaps partial) conversion of a standard into arule. Whether after accumulated experience or as a result of hearing a singlecase, a tribunal may issue a statement that will govern future adjudication. Atthat point, and to that extent, a rule will have been established. Similarly, evenless authoritative legal interpretations, ranging from discussions in judicialopinions to public statements of enforcement agencies, will tend to guide futurebehavior and adjudications to some degree. Once the analysis of standards --the state of affairs before the precedent -- and of rules -- after the precedent -- isunderstood, the study of precedent (and other legal interpretations) isstraightforward. A few particular factors, however, deserve some elaboration.
It is worth asking why the use of precedent is superior to an earlierannouncement of rules. After all, the primary burden of using a rule, incurringadditional formulation costs, is ultimately borne when the precedent isestablished. But in the interim, before the precedent is announced, the benefits-- of cheaper and better guidance of behavior and simpler adjudication -- areforgone. This point is particularly striking when an important, open legalquestion is identified many years or decades before a precedent is finallyannounced. The primary advantage of delay is that more information may becollected in the interim -- information about the optimal legal command or aboutthe importance of resolving an issue. But many precedents are announced withlittle more information than existed initially. Moreover, the most efficient way tocollect information may be to commission a study in the first place rather thanto wait until a case happens to appear before the relevant tribunal (when all thatis then learned is the single data point from that case or perhaps a handful ofdata points). Also, once more information does become available throughwhatever means, it is not clear why the legal system should not make anannouncement immediately rather than waiting still further.
It should be noted that making initial legal commands more rule-like does notimply that they cannot be changed if new information becomes available. Theprospect of change does reduce the benefit of rules, but it does not follow thatthere will be no benefit from providing guidance in the interim. Indeed, manydetailed regimes that are designed by regulatory agencies have a more rule-likecharacter, with occasional revision, and detailed statutes, such as tax codes, aremade precise but often revised later. (And, of course, precedents themselves areextended, narrowed, and reversed.) With standards, change may occur implicitly,but the prospect of change will accordingly increase the cost and difficulty ofprediction. Substantial developments that call for significantly different legalcommands may be apparent, making prediction under standards easier, but alsopresenting a clear case for adjusting rules. It is hardly the case that operativelegal commands in heavily rule-governed domains (like tax and environmentalregulation) and the interpretation of important precedents change slowlycompared, say, to applications of the negligence rule.
For prior economic analyses of precedent, emphasizing that the body ofprecedent can be analogized to a capital stock that depreciates over time, see Landes and Posner (1976) and Posner (1992) . See also Landes and Posner's(1994) discussion of the related subject of anticipatory adjudication, in which aparty may seek a legal decision before undertaking an activity, so as to avoid theneed to wait for a precedent.
Other law and economics work that is addressed directly to the subjectsconsidered herein includes Ogus (1981) (discussing rules formulated inquantitative terms), and Ogus (1992) (emphasizing private actors greater abilityto predict rules than standards).
The choice between rules and standards is closely related to the problem of legal uncertainty . Indeed, if rules are defined as the extent to which legalcommands are given content ex ante and thus the ease with which private partiescan predict how the law will apply to their conduct, legal uncertainty might beviewed as simply a measure of the extent to which a legal command isstandard-like. Uncertainty about the negligence rule has received the greatestattention in the literature. See Calfee and Craswell (1984) , Craswell and Calfee(1986) , and Shavell (1987) . Because the negligence rule has an all-or-nothing(discontinuous) character -- taking slightly more care will exonerate an actor fromwhat otherwise would be significant liability -- uncertainty about the legalstandard may tend to produce excessive care (although it is also possible thatgreat uncertainty will produce too little care). The suggestion that malpracticeliability results in overly defensive medicine is one example. For empiricalevidence, see Kessler and McClellan (1996) . Kahan (1989) shows that theseissues would not arise if negligent actors were not responsible for all the harmthey caused, but only for the incremental increase in harm due to theirnegligence. Also, in considering legal uncertainty, it would be appropriate toextend the present analysis and that in prior work on the negligence rule to takeexplicit account of risk-bearing costs.
As noted when addressing legal precision, the discussion here focuses onthe role of law in providing incentives to control parties' ex ante behavior. When future behavior (licenses, injunctions, incarceration, benefit eligibility) isinvolved, the analysis will differ. Indeed, the difference between ex ante and expost formulation may be moot, as a definitive resolution will in any eventprecede the relevant effect of a legal decision. There are, nonetheless, similarquestions about the benefits of wholesale decision-making, as in stating a rulefor a class of cases rather than adjudicating the same question repeatedly. Andthe foregoing analysis remains applicable to the extent adjudication willinfluence ex ante incentives in addition to regulating future behavior (such asin the case of incarceration).
There are other functions of law as well. Much of contract law and relatedfields is concerned with providing rules of form or background rules that leaveparties free to transact as they wish. See, e.g., Baird and Weisberg (1982) .Because the purpose of such law is different -- law is largely facilitating ratherthan constraining -- the analysis would have to be different. Nonetheless, itseems that in contexts where transactions are frequent, the benefit of greater exante formulation -- through rules -- would be larger.
Yet another concern with some bodies of law is to constrain fraud . In someinstances (notably, tax evasion) greater specificity in advance might beproblematic because parties will better be able to evade legal norms. Bothuncertainty and complexity, discussed previously, may be desirable preciselybecause parties will be less able to predict the law.
Apart from normative analysis, one can inquire into lawyers' and legalinstitutions incentives to formulate legal commands . In this regard, conflictsbetween private and social interest may be noted. For example, lower legal costssave social resources but may reduce the demand for lawyers. See, e.g., White(1992) . And legislation might be designed with an eye to attracting campaigncontributions rather than serving the public interest. See, e.g., Doernberg andMcChesney (1987) . Regulators may be more concerned with their own costs informulating and applying rules than in private costs. See, e.g., Diver (1983) .
Finally, the present discussion may be situated in the large literatures in theareas of legal philosophy and public choice which examine the rule of law andin particular address the use of rules to constrain official discretion. For areasonably comprehensive treatment of rules that attends to functionalconcerns, see Schauer (1991) .
Transition rules, including a determination of whether a law is to applyretroactively, concern not the form and content of substantive legal commandsbut instead how the problem of legal change is to be addressed. The mostcommon problem of legal change concerns the fact that investments and otheractions often have effects in the future, at which time the governing legal regimemay be different. Changes in the law will affect, positively or negatively as thecase may be, the returns from prior actions. This raises the question whetherlosses from legal change should be compensated or otherwise mitigated (asthrough grandfather provisions that exempt prior investments or phase-ins thatimplement the change only gradually) and, analogously, whether gains fromlegal change should be subject to windfall taxation or otherwise reduced.
As first analyzed carefully in the context of tax reform by Graetz (1977) , theseproblems arise even when new legislation is nominally prospective. For example,if a tax subsidy is repealed, a prior investment that benefited on a continuingbasis from the subsidy will become less valuable even if none of the priorsubsidy payments must be returned to the government. The possibility ofexplicit retroactivity does, however, expand the potential scope for transitionissues: even completed transactions might subsequently be rewarded orpenalized when laws change.
The general problem of transition, analyzed in Hale (1927) , Samuels (1974) ,and Kaplow (1986 , 1987 , 1992b) , arises much more widely and with more commonelements than is usually appreciated. Basically, whenever there is uncertaintyconcerning government policy -- about statutory change, new regulation orderegulation, court decisions, government spending priorities, takings of privateproperty for public use, tariffs, and so on -- the resolution of the uncertainty willcreate winners and losers. Thus, all government action (unless fully anticipated),government inaction (that is not fully anticipated -- that is, when change had apositive probability that was not realized), and even changes in the prospect foraction in the future will tend to affect the value of prior investments. Thepotentially affected investments include physical and financial assets,investments in human capital, and choices of location and occupation, amongothers.
As this general description suggests, an important aspect of the transitionproblem concerns the ex ante choice of private actors -- individuals and firms --under uncertainty. The prospect of legal change (like that of any other change)will affect both investment incentives and the imposition of risk, and theseincentive effects and risk-bearing costs will in turn be influenced by whethertransition relief is anticipated and provided. The immediately following analysisconsiders the question of optimal government transition policy, taking as giventhe actual change in the law that might occur and its desirability. The focus ison how transition relief affects the behavior and well-being of private partiesand, accordingly, its effect on social welfare. Subsequent discussion will take upconcerns about possible government misbehavior in changing the law and howdifferent transition policies may influence government activity.
Begin by considering the case in which private actors are risk-neutral (whichmay be approximately true for large, widely owned enterprises that are thesubject of much legal regulation). Suppose that there is some prospect, say, afifty percent chance, of an adverse legal change: a firm's product might bebanned if it turns out that the product is dangerous. Anticipating such apossibility -- and assuming for the moment that there will be no compensation,exemption, or other relief to those investing prior to the transition -- privateparties will invest less than they would otherwise. Half the time they will earnsome positive return and the other half of the time they will earn no return (and,indeed, they may lose their initial investment).
Now suppose instead that investors anticipate that there will be completetransition relief, say, full compensation. In this case, investors expect a positivereturn for sure, so they are more likely to invest -- or to invest at a larger scale --than if there were to be no relief. As Blume, Rubinfeld, and Shapiro (1984) firstshowed formally in the takings context, the prospect of such relief inducesinefficient overinvestment. The key point is that a private loss in such instancescorresponds to a real social loss. If a product is too dangerous and must bebanned, sunk investments that are valuable only for producing such a productwill be of no subsequent social value. Hence, insulating investors from suchrisks is inefficient, just as it would be inefficient to insulate investors from theprospect that their products might become obsolete or lose out to betterproducts of competitors. As noted by Hale (1927) , Samuels (1974) , Graetz (1977) ,and Kaplow (1986 , 1987 , 1992b) , from the perspective of investors, the risk offuture government action is similar to various market risks and natural risks(earthquakes, hurricanes). Private decisions are efficient when actors bear thefull costs and benefits of their actions. Transition relief thus does not correct anexternality; it creates one.
This analysis of transition relief may be extended to determine whenretroactive application of legal changes is efficient. See Kaplow (1986 , 1987 , 1992b) . If a product is banned because it is discovered to be dangerous, it isprobably the case that past production of the product resulted in danger as well.Thus, imposing retrospective liability will tend to be efficient, in order forinvestors ex ante to have had the proper incentives to take safety into account.By contrast, if a pollutant is to be regulated because it damages a newlyintroduced crop strain, there is no reason to impose retrospective liability, for thedecision to regulate the pollutant does not suggest that the pollutant previouslycaused some social harm. To generalize, when the government discovers newinformation about conditions that have long been in existence, retroactiveapplication in some form will often be necessary to provide the right ex anteincentives, but when there is a change in circumstances that makes future useundesirable without affecting the desirability of past conduct, retroactivity willbe inefficient.
Similar reasoning suggests that transition relief is inefficient even whenprivate actors are risk averse. See Kaplow (1986 , 1987 , 1992b) . In this his case,relief has the advantage of reducing risk-bearing costs. But private arrangements-- diversified ownership, insurance, contractual risk allocations, and the like --also may be available. Moreover, these mechanisms have systematic advantagesover transition relief. First, they often are implemented in ways that preserveincentives, in full or in part. For example, insurance premiums are greater themore assets are covered, so investors contemplating expansion in the face ofsome risk will bear the expected loss ex ante through higher insurance payments.In other cases, private risk mitigation is partial precisely to preserve incentives;absent other market imperfections (notably, adverse selection), privaterisk-sharing arrangements tend to be efficient. Transition relief generally lacksthese features. Second, even if transition relief were only partial, private partieswould undertake actions to further mitigate risk; such actions may worsen theirincentives (moral hazard), but some of the resulting cost would be borne by thegovernment. Again the analogy to market risks can be made: just as governmentrelief (as in the case of disaster relief) tends to be inefficient for ordinary risks,see Arnott and Stiglitz (1991) and Kaplow (1991) , so government relief againstgovernment-created risks tends to be inefficient with regard to privateinvestment and risk-mitigation incentives.
The analysis assumes that transition policy will be anticipated by investors andactually implemented by the government. To the extent such policy is embodiedin constitutional provisions or strong norms that guide legal reform, theassumption is plausible. More generally, a government is unlikely to succeed inthe long run in getting investors to expect one transition policy while oftenimplementing another. Problems of credible commitment may make it difficult toestablish a desired transition policy. To consider a familiar analogy, somegovernments regularly offer ex post relief when natural disasters strike, whichhas the effect of encouraging individuals to, say, invest excessively in buildingon flood plains. A possible solution to this political commitment problem is forthe government either to regulate such activity (limiting investment in high-riskareas) or to compel the purchase of insurance in advance at actuarially fair rates(the insurance premiums would discourage excessive investment and the factthat victims have paid for compensation in advance would eliminate the pressurefor ex post relief).
Most of the discussion here, like most in various literatures that addresstransition issues -- ranging from tax reform to deregulation -- emphasizes thecase in which investors suffer transition losses . But it was noted at the outsetthat transition gains arise with similar frequency. The analysis of bothpossibilities is symmetric: just as providing relief for losses will encourageoverinvestment, imposing windfall taxes on gains (or otherwise reducing them)will produce underinvestment. Few if any windfall gains -- or losses -- are reallypure windfalls. It tends to be best for investors to bear all the gains and lossesthey cause, with any risk mitigation being contractually arranged to provide forthe most effective limitation of adverse incentive effects.
Another question of transition policy concerns the means of relief. One cancompensate losers (and tax winners) in whole or in part, grandfather priorinvestors (that is, provide some exemption from new rules), or curtail the newpolicy (as by delay or phase-in or implementing reform only partially). Withregard to ex ante incentives and mitigation of risk, all of these approaches aresimilar, to the extent that they provide the same degree of effective relief. (Forexample, a phase-in that reduces gains and losses by half has effects like that offifty percent compensation and fifty percent windfall taxation.) With regard tofuture behavior, however, compensation and windfall taxation are generallysuperior to other forms of relief. Grandfathering, for example, might exemptexisting producers of dangerous products, allowing the danger to continue (butperhaps not to grow); delaying implementation would similarly permit somefuture harm. By contrast, immediate elimination of the danger accompanied bycompensation would avoid this difficulty.
As in the discussion of rule formulation, the present analysis is mostapplicable to laws that regulate behavior . Contract rules that serve as defaultsare quite different. If a default rule is changed, it may well be that the prior ruleshould govern preexisting contracts, for parties may have failed to make specialprovision in their contracts precisely because they knew they could rely uponbackground rules. On the other hand, if a default is changed because newanalysis suggests that most parties have a different preference than previouslysuspected, and if many contracts are silent simply because of the cost of makingspecial provision, it could be best to apply the new default to preexistingagreements.
The foregoing analysis takes as given a particular legal change, assumes that itis well conceived, and asks how transition relief affects private behavior. But itcannot be assumed that government always acts appropriately, and transitionrelief may affect the behavior of government.
One familiar argument is that transition relief -- in particular, requiringcompensation -- provides the government proper incentives because thengovernment bears the full costs of its actions. One can make the analogy to tortliability when both injurers' and victims' behavior affects accident costs. Foranalysis of this tort problem, see Shavell (1980) , and for application to thetransition context see Kaplow (1986 , 1987) ; for a similar discussion, see Blume,Rubinfeld, and Shapiro (1984) . No liability -- or schemes that provide nocompensation when injurers behave well, a negligence-type rule, or that denycompensation when victims behave improperly, contributory or comparativenegligence rules -- is best for victims' incentives (like investors' incentives,above), whereas full liability -- strict or otherwise -- is best for injurers'incentives. If one can assume that the government (the "injurer") alwaysbehaves properly, then a regime that denies compensation is best for theincentives of investors (the "victims"). But if one cannot make this assumptionabout government behavior, one may wish to impose liability on the government-- for example, by requiring compensation. Unless some tribunal can determinewhen the government or investors misbehaved, which is likely to be verydifficult in most transition contexts (and which involves courts second-guessinglegislative, executive, agency, or their own actions), it must be recognized thatany solution will be a compromise: if some relief is required, government'sincentives may improve but investors' incentives will be worse.
This argument, however, is incomplete. See Kaplow (1986 , 1987) . The implicitassumption is that the government, like a private investor, receives the benefitsfrom its actions. But the benefits of most government action -- banninghazardous products, improving tort rules, building highways -- are received byprivate citizens. Thus, making the legislature or an agency pay for transitionlosses (in addition to paying for direct costs, as in building a highway) when fewif any of the benefits are directly received might systematically skew decisionsagainst any change. Once benefits as well as costs are considered, it is notobvious that even a highly imperfect government is generally biased in favor ofchange when no compensation or other relief is required. For any bias -- whetherfor or against change -- to exist, there must be some asymmetry in thegovernment's treatment of costs and benefits. Some theories of governmentaction, see Downs (1957) and Olson (1965) , suggest that the most effectivepolitical interest groups are those on whom gains or losses are concentrated.Other theories are concerned with the majority exploiting the minority. Stillothers, see Niskanen (1971) , emphasize bureaucrats desire to enhance theirbudget or prestige. Thus, whether requiring compensation would makegovernment behavior better or worse depends upon which theories ofgovernment behavior are most plausible, whether it is the benefits or the coststhat are more concentrated, and other factors. See also Quinn and Trebilcock(1982) .
Another concern with government behavior involves the problem of pure expropriation . See Kaplow (1987) . It is familiar from public economics that themost efficient government tax is a one-time capital levy, in which capital (morebroadly, savings, assets in any form) is taken and the government promisesnever to repeat the action. As long as the expropriation in wholly unanticipated,there will be no adverse ex ante incentive effects; likewise, if it will never berepeated, there will be no future distortions in behavior. Levmore (1993) offersthis as a basis for a more favorable view toward retroactive taxation. But it haslong been recognized that governments would find it difficult to engage in suchinconsistent behavior. Rather, there needs to be some commitment -- whetherthrough constitutional means or long-established norms -- that the governmentwill not expropriate, and governments that deviate from such a path will beunlikely to be able to provide investors with confidence for the future.
In principle, expropriation can be distinguished from other governmentaction. As noted when addressing private incentives, it is efficient for investorsto anticipate and respond to the prospect that new information or changedcircumstances will affect what government regulation is optimal, just as newdevelopments will influence the market directly in ways that investors shouldtake into account. Anticipating expropriation, however, is inefficient ex ante. Thebenefit arises from transferring resources to the government, not from providingproper incentives for private behavior. To be sure, some taxation is required, tofund public goods and services and to accomplish redistribution. Particularlywith regard to redistribution, it would improve efficiency if taxpayers did notanticipate having to pay taxes, as such anticipation results in distortion ofbehavior. But this problem is largely unavoidable.
Successful economies seem to have succeeded, for the most part, in avoidingexpropriation. The mechanism by which this is accomplished is not that clear;no system prohibits taxation or legal changes, and constitutional or other strongcompensation requirements are limited. (For example, in the United States, thegovernment must compensate a landowner whose building is taken for ahighway, but a high capital income or wealth tax is not legally proscribed.) Thedevelopment of strong norms seems to play a greater role in successfuleconomies, but such norms cannot succeed unless the relevant audience canunderstand which legal reforms are improper in the relevant respect.
A variant of the expropriation problem arises when the government isinvolved with ordinary contractual behavior and related activity. In fact, mostgovernments accomplish many of their purposes -- building roads, procuringmilitary equipment, hiring employees -- through ordinary market transactions. (Insome countries, state enterprises are common; these too, however, often useordinary contractual means of paying workers and purchasing other necessaryinputs.) Moreover, most governments, despite the availability of sovereignimmunity from private suits, voluntarily subject themselves to a legal regimeunder which their contracts having a binding effect similar to that of privatecontracts. This avoids problems of opportunism, both large and small.
Some commentators have analogized legislation and other governmentlaw-making to government contracts. See, e.g., Graetz (1977) , Kaplow (1986 , 1987) , Ramseyer and Nakazato (1989) , Logue (1996) . Thus, sometimes thegovernment uses subsidies to induce certain behavior rather than explicitcontracts under which it pays for a promise to undertake certain activity. If thesubsidy is terminated, this might be viewed as a breach of an implicit contract.Of course, subsidies are routinely terminated. When governments use ongoingsubsidies to encourage an activity rather than entering into a long-term contractto pay for a given amount of the activity, they are choosing to use a moreflexible mechanism, allowing the possibility of change without compensation. Toimpose a norm or constitutional requirement that all law be treated as if it werea binding contract would not add to the government's options; it wouldeliminate one. (Actually, it may have no effect at all, as laws could simply bewritten to expire unless extended or with some other loophole providing thegovernment a way to avoid any binding obligation.)
Transition relief is sometimes favored because it may make it politically feasibleto implement desirable reform. For example, efficient deregulation might beopposed by protected incumbents, who could be bought out withcompensation. See Tullock (1978) ; see also Usher (1995) (addressingcompensation for takings). The problem is that, ex ante, special interest groupswould have a greater incentive to seek inefficient rules, knowing that even if therules were subsequently repealed they would benefit from transition relief. See Kitch (1977) , Quinn and Trebilcock (1982) , McKenzie (1986) , Kaplow (1987 , 1992b) . Thus, it is not obvious that a policy of buying out such politicalopposition would in the long run produce better or worse laws and lead to moreor less resources being wasted on rent-seeking activity.
Another problem concerns changes in political power that may produce legalchanges that do not reflect real changes in information or circumstances(although legal reforms may reflect shifts in perceptions or in value judgments).Small changes in beliefs may produce large legal changes (as when anopposition party gains a few percentage points in support and comes intopower), and such change may be frequent. Ex ante behavior that is desirablefrom the perspective of one party's policies may be undesirable from theperspective of the other's. Use of transition relief will tend to cause investors toput more weight on the status quo, something unlikely to be favored by asubsequent regime seeking change. Analysis of social welfare in such instancesis difficult.
The first careful analysis of many issues concerning legal transitions appears tobe Hale (1927) . For a general analysis of changing legal rules in a variety ofcontexts, see Kaplow (1986 , 1987 , 1992b) .
Most writing by legal academics on the subject focuses on takings or on taxreform. With respect to takings, Michelman (1967) offers an important earlyanalysis, although it does not take the economic approach as far as subsequentwork. Baxter and Altree (1972) advance a "first-in-time" approach to address theproblem of airport noise; they are among the first to pursue directly the problemof the adverse incentive effects of compensation. Blume, Rubinfeld, and Shapiro(1984) analyze incentive effects of compensation in a formal model and Blumeand Rubinfeld (1984 ) consider risk, although these authors do not integrate thetwo analyses or systematically consider private risk mitigation. Kaplow (1986 , 1987) discusses takings in the context of analyzing the transition problem moregenerally. For additional work, with emphasis on the problem of thegovernment's incentives, see, e.g., Fischel and Shapiro (1989) , Hermalin (1995) .For an empirical analysis of the effect of requiring compensation on governmentbehavior, see Cordes and Weisbrod (1979) .
Feldstein (1976a , 1976b) and Graetz (1977) offer the first substantialtreatments of tax transitions, followed by Kaplow (1986 , 1987 , 1992b) , who moreexplicitly analyzes effects of relief on investor's incentives and private riskmitigation, compares alternative transition mechanisms, and addressesinstitutional problems with government decision-making. This latter problem isalso considered by Ramseyer and Nakazato (1989) and Logue (1986) , who areboth favorable toward relief because of concerns about governmentmisbehavior. Levmore (1993) is more favorable to (uncompensated) retroactivitybecause of the possibility of an efficient capital levy. The particular problem oftransition to a consumption tax is addressed in Graetz (1979) , Kaplow (1986 , 1987 , 1995b) , Sarkar and Zodrow (1993) , and Bradford (1996) .
There are a number of other dimensions along which many legal rules vary thatare sufficiently general to warrant independent study. Because these subjectsare addressed in other fields within law and economics, the present discussionwill be brief. Each of the topics considered involves the general questionwhether laws should identify certain conduct as permitted or prohibited orshould instead impose fines, provide for private liability, or use other means ofaligning private and social interests so as to induce parties to make efficientchoices on their own.
Strict Liability Versus Negligence . The choice between strict liability andnegligence has received much attention. Similar issues arise involving defensesbased upon victim behavior. And other areas of law present analogousquestions: namely, is a party responsible for all harm caused, or is the partyresponsible only if behavior was improper (and, then, only to the extent of anyadditional harm caused by the inappropriate action)? The latter type of lawrequires both defining a norm of behavior (which may be done ex ante, as a rule,or ex post, as a standard, and which may be done in a simple or precise manner),and both types of law require provisions governing the measurement of harm.This sort of choice involves many of the issues considered here, as well asconcerns for the frequency of litigation, victims' incentives, and other factors.See Brown (1973) , Shavell (1980) , and the entry on strict liability versusnegligence in tort.
Property Versus Liability Rules. The distinction between property and liabilityrules involves remedies: if one party wishes to infringe the legal rights ofanother, must the acting party first obtain permission (or else be subject toextreme sanctions and the possibility of injunction, if feasible) -- a property rule-- or may the party simply act and pay damages -- a liability rule? This schemeis first explored in detail by Calabresi and Melamed (1972) and has subsequentlybeen expanded in Kaplow and Shavell (1996b) . Other relevant work includes Ellickson (1973) , Polinsky (1979 , 1980) , Krier and Schwab (1995) . The problem ofbargaining under asymmetric information has attracted disproportionateattention, beginning with Samuelson (1985) , followed, e.g., by Farrell (1987) , Shavell (1988b) , Johnston (1995) , Ayres and Talley (1995a , 1995b) , Kaplow andShavell (1995 , 1996b) . See the entry on property versus liability rules.
I am grateful for comments from Steven Shavell and the referees, researchassistance from Enrique Arana, Judson Berkey, and Jerry Fang, and supportfrom the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business at Harvard LawSchool.
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Lea Gabrielle, FOX News Correspondent and Former U.S. Navy Fighter Pilot
By Devin Tomb
Consider this: You’ve been working in the military for more than a decade, rising the ranks as a U.S. Navy fighter pilot—even flying in a single-seat, carrier-based “Hornet” aircraft during combat operations, and later deploying with a U.S. Special Operations Team as an intelligence operator in Afghanistan. And you’re a woman. And you want to make an even bigger career leap into broadcast journalism. When Lea Gabrielle was in her mid-30s, this was her life—feeling a heavy pull toward the world of reporting, but feeling unsure how to go about it. Flash forward to 2015, and Gabrielle is a FOX news correspondent with a new weekly web series, “The Patriot Report,” covering national security. We sat down with Gabrielle to hear how her skills in the military served her work as a reporter, the story she’s most proud of (hint: It has to do with Iran), and her advice for fellow journalists and crew members after the tragic shooting in Virginia:
Levo: You were a U.S. Navy fighter pilot and intelligence operator for 12 years before going into broadcast journalism. First of all, thank you for your service. What accomplishments from that time are you most proud of?
Lea Gabrielle: What I was most proud of were actually the people that I served with. I worked with some of the most brilliant, amazing, incredible people who were patriots and really wanted to work for a cause bigger than themselves. I’m also proud of having the opportunity to deploy in combat operations and serve with a Navy SEAL team in Afghanistan.
Speaking of women serving in combat, two women just graduated from the U.S. Army’s Ranger School. What does that accomplishment mean to you?
LG: I think it’s tremendous. Those two women—no matter what else they do in their lives—have something they should be extraordinarily proud of. As a woman who has served in the military, regardless of whether or not I believe women should or should not actually serve with special forces, I am extremely proud of those two women.
Do you think women should be allowed to serve in special operations?
LG: Combat forces, yes. As you know, I served in combat. Special forces is a different environment. I think the military needs to be given the space away from politics and people who don’t really understand the culture of special forces in the military to assess whether or not it’s a good idea to have women in special forces. The military will have to look at whether or not women will make special forces stronger. If the answer is no, then they need to take a look at whether or not women may make special forces weaker. If the answer is yes, then women shouldn’t be in special forces. But that’s a decision the military really needs to be able to make on its own, with the space it needs to make a true, fair decision.
Switching gears, what was it like for you to start a new career after having served in the military for so long?
LG: It was really a big risk, because although I gained skills as an intelligence operator and as a pilot that translated into certain jobs outside the military, I really wanted to make a complete change. I became passionate about journalism while I was serving, but I felt that it was a challenging thing to do, leaving the military mid-career and completely starting over.
Why did you decide on journalism?
LG: I became passionate about journalism for a number of reasons. One was that as a service member serving in combat, I really wanted to understand what was happening with current conflicts and know where we might go next. I also realized that there wasn’t much representation in the community of journalism in terms of people who had actually served in our combat boots. With so much reporting about national security, I felt like it was important that the perspective of those who served be brought to journalism. I also really appreciated how in a war that was in many ways very unpopular, the service members were still popular back home. I think that’s in large part due to journalists who were willing to put themselves in those environments overseas and bring home the stories of those who were serving.
What resources did you find were most helpful to you during your transition?
LG: The most useful resource to me was the network I developed. People tell you when you’re leaving the military that you need to network, and it’s so true. You can find people who will help you write your resume, and pull out the experience you have and tailor it to the job you want. You can find people who will help you put together your thoughts to prepare for an interview. You can find people who will help you get in front of the people who can actually offer you jobs, and so networking was absolutely the greatest resource to help me prepare to make my transition.
Was there one person in particular who became a mentor to you, and what did he or she teach you?
LG: I didn’t have a formal mentor, but I did have a lot of informal mentors. I’ll mention one that I had—a gentleman by the name of Peter Galasinao, who was a more senior naval officer reservist. He was really the first person outside of my family that I told I wanted to become a journalist. I was almost nervous to tell him because it just seemed like a crazy idea, but he believed in me. He was actually the first person to connect me to someone who worked in television journalism, and it was his sister, an Emmy-award winning makeup artist at a local news station in Chicago. That led to me going out and meeting her, and she introduced me to everyone at the news station—from the news director and the other artists, to anchors and reporters. She made everything tangible because she allowed me to see what it was actually like, being in that environment.
I can definitely imagine that being nerve-wracking, telling a senior naval officer that you want to leave the military.
LG: I think the reason telling somebody is a big step is because you know there will be a lot of people who tell you that you’re crazy, or that you shouldn’t, or that you can’t. What I’ve learned is to very quickly dismiss those ideas. Don’t let them cloud your head, because they’re just negative thoughts. Seek out the people who are going to be encouraging and positive.
Smart words to live by. At the same time, there are going to be speed bumps and setbacks along the way. What would you say was the hardest part of your transition, and how did you overcome it?
LG: The realization that I was really going to have to start over. While I was in the military, I figured out what my natural skill-sets were, and I realized that a lot applied to journalism. For example, working as an intelligence operator, you do a lot of seeking information, finding sources who can give you information, vetting them, figuring out what is intelligence, or in this world what is news. But when I left the Navy, I sort of had in my head that even though I went back to school to gain even more skills as a journalist, I still believed I could skip a lot of steps and get to a place that was more mid-career level. I was fortunate to be able to do that, but I did have to start at the beginning. My first job was an entry-level position with NBC, and that meant entry-level pay when I had been a mid-career level officer in the Navy. I had to take a big leap of faith, believing that the skills I was going to gain from taking that entry-level job were going to be worth the risk that I was taking by starting over.
What kind of work did you do in that entry-level job?
LG: I did everything from logging—which is basically typing what people are saying during 3-hour congressional hearings—to lugging camera gear all over Washington, and shooting video for the Nightly News at times. I looked for any any opportunity to actually write or report or edit or shoot video, and I also had the opportunity to do some on-air work.
What was your interview like to get into the program? And now that you interview people every day, any words of advice?
LG: When you walk into an interview, you should know what you want them to know about yourself. A lot of people today, when they’re looking for a job, think, What jobs are open? I never looked at it that way. I looked at it like, Where do I want to work? And then I used networking to get myself in the room with somebody who was in the position to hire. When I had my first interview for a job in the news business, I got in the room with the Washington Bureau Chief. It was a “Let’s sit down and talk—I’d just like to introduce myself” situation, but I went in there and I essentially marketed myself. I said, Hey, this is what I have to offer: I’m a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot and intelligence operator and there’s nobody else like me in the news business. I can offer you a lot. And I think that’s what people need to think about before they walk into an interview. What makes you unique? What makes you someone who is really going to add value to the job?
Love that. Now that you’re at FOX, what would you say has been the most important story that you’ve worked on so far?
LG: One that I really enjoyed reporting on recently is the Iran Nuclear Deal. Iran and its nuclear program is something that’s going to be in the news for a long time, and it’s a program that I happen to have spent a lot of time looking at when I was in the intelligence community. I can bring in the perspective of Iran in the larger strategic picture because there’s a lot of concerns about the way Iran is developing its influence across that region right now.
In general, what’s your advice for people who want to work in broadcast journalism?
LG: First, really understand what it’s like to work in broadcast journalism. Get yourself into the environment somehow, whether that means internships, or an entry-level job, or just shadowing people who work in this industry. Things always look different from the outside, and it’s really important to know what you’re getting into. I also can’t stress enough how important it is to enjoy your job and to look forward to coming to work every day. I’ve had jobs that I didn’t like, and I’ve had jobs that I’ve really loved, and this is one that I really love. I know that every day I’m going to come in and I’m going to learn something new, grow in my skill-set, and be challenged every single day.
After the tragic shooting in Virginia, what’s your advice for field reporters and crew members who might now feel unsafe or scared doing their jobs? What would you want to tell them?
LG: I would say that this is actually very rare, what happened. Including this tragedy, eight journalists have been killed on the job here in the U.S. since 1992. I think that really kind of puts things into perspective. As a local news reporter in San Diego, I found myself inside police lines during active crime scenes. There was also an active shooter scenario where I was inside police lines, so you do find yourself in dangerous situations, but it’s important to look at the numbers. Bad things happen in the world. When I was in the military, I knew bad things could happen while I was deployed. I had friends who passed, I had friends who came back not the same and they’ll never be the same, so life is about taking some risks, and you just have to make sure you’re taking calculated risks.
As a last question, how do you define success?
LG: Being successful is being willing to set goals that you sort of believe are out of your reach, and going after them with everything you’ve got, knowing that sometimes you’re going to fail. And when you do, it’s getting up and brushing yourself off and saying, Well, I learned something from that one, and getting right back on track. I think success is setting high goals, that you know are going to be a real challenge, and then doing whatever it takes to get there.
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Posted at: 05/17/2013 10:24 PM
Updated at: 05/18/2013 7:18 AM
By: Shaun Griswold, KOB.com
Detectives with the Albuquerque Police Department Sex Crimes Unit said they have seen a spike in the past months of sexual assaults downtown where the victims have no recollection of where they've been or what has happened.
Detective Nelson Sanchez said police are looking into whether the victims have been slipped a drug in their drink or if they have just had too much to drink and blacked out.
"There are similarities in terms of the individual being out somewhere, having even as small amount as one drink, and then waking up quite a few hours later with no memory of what took place," Sanchez said.
Bar owners downtown told us they take several precautions to keep patrons safe.
Owner of the bar Sister, Ross Sorce, said they pick up drinks that have been left unattended. But he also advised patrons to be more aware of their surroundings.
"Watch your intake for where you're at," Sorce said. "Everybody wants to come out and party, and that's essentially what we let happen is people come out and they drink and enjoy themselves but no one wants to get hurt in that process."
Detectives say they are investigating if it is one suspect, or multiple suspects involved.
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The joys of memorising Scripture
In some recent meetings in Florida, I challenged people to memorise Scripture and that if they had nothing in particular that 1 John is a wonderful book.
I memorised 1 John over 20 years ago and going over the book again brings back not only the precious Words of Scripture but also things I was doing 20 years ago. Memory is amazing and I cherish the thoughts that come back from younger years. It's hard to express but there is a sweet joy that comes to you at times when you are going of Scripture and repeating. It starts to come out of you in conversations and it comes out in my preaching. it becomes like a living fire and I treasure this blessing from memorising. This morning I was going over 1 John 3 and was just struck by the simplicity of these words
1Jn 3:10-11 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. (11) For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
John makes this point again and again about loving one another. Praise Father the words cut deep and I lay the threads of my soul against this word and it cuts and heals, it gently calls and convicts me to walker deeper with my Saviour.
To think of others, to be mindful of their feelings, to be sensitive to their needs, to be faithful to warn of errors in a spirit of love and not simply a desire to prove others wrong. This is the dividing of soul and spirit. To act from love and not from self, Lord Jesus give me your Spirit that I may love my brethren and they know that all my words and actions are because I love and care and not because of self interest.
Thank you for inspiring John to write his epistles. I John is being written into my heart and I trust it will spring up in the newness of life, not simply in pen and ink but in deed and in truth. | <urn:uuid:9e46db91-38d0-4221-8308-c1d33dd7b7c0> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | http://maranathamedia.com/article/print/the-joys-of-memorising-scripture | 2019-08-23T00:21:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027317688.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20190822235908-20190823021908-00109.warc.gz | en | 0.970281 | 427 |
Looking back, in the last 10 years, shopping malls have revolutionized the way the Indian consumer shops. Riding on a wave of increased purchasing power, these malls give a plethora of options under the same roof to the consumers. Just like any other city, even Noida is not untouched with this trend.
A recent study by property consultant CBRE says that Delhi-NCR ranks 21st in the global list of cities with maximum shopping center space under construction in 2014. Of the entire NCR area, Noida occupies an important position as a prominent shopping destination. With the residential growth, Noida became the new commercial hub for corporate, MNCs and retailers. Big shopping malls like Centre Stage Mall came into existence and the first ‘High Street Market’ in Sector-18.
Wave Group, one of the biggest real estate developers is coming up with the High Street Shopping Condominiums (HSSC). With this, the base of high street market is slated to shift to Sector 25 and 32A. So what are the factors working in favor of the shopping center:
- The condominiums are located in the heart of the city.
- The location is such that it has an excellent connectivity to Delhi and adjoining areas through Metro.
- With grand infrastructure, it is expected to be the upcoming CBD (central business district).
- There would be over 370 shopping complexes, all under one roof.
- There would be no vehicle movement on the ground level as the vehicles would directly go to the parking area.
- The pedestrian friendly pathways would enable the shoppers to walk around the whole shopping area without any disturbance.
Rajiv Gupta, CEO, Wave Infratech says, “The High Street Shopping Condominiums at Wave City Center would be like all new experience for the Noida residents. Being a one of its kind shopping complex, the center would surely become a hub for shoppers in Noida and even adjoining areas.”
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Coconut Sugar Organic 250g
- Fair Trade
ROAR Coconut Sugar has a lovely caramel flavour and is completely unrefined made using no solvents or chemicals to extract the sugar.
It pairs particularly well with coffee if you need sweetness in your morning brew. It can also be substituted 1:1 with cane sugar in brekkies, baking, desserts and pretty much anything that needs some sugar baby.
Coconut sugar can be used as a one to one substitute for sugar in baking, desserts, drinks, smoothies, savoury meals and goes particularly well in coffee.
Coconut sugar is made from nectar taken from coconut flowers high in the treetops. It is then boiled down in large traditional steel woks into a solid meaning it is not raw until it is crystallised.
In Asia, a variety of palm sugars including date palm sugar are often sold under the name of coconut sugar. ROAR coconut sugar is made from the nectar of coconut trees. It is a lot lighter than other palm sugars and has a beautiful butterscotch/caramel flavour. So beware of mislabelled coconut sugars out there!
Coconut sugar contains macro and micronutrients that are not in other refined sugars which contain very little nutrition.
Claims that it has a low GI (most companies claim coconut sugar has a GI of 35) are rather dubious given that only one flawed study has been carried out. However, it is likely to have a lower GI than refined sugar due to the fact it contains a fibre called inulin. Hopefully more research will be done in the area in the near future. | <urn:uuid:9e316353-a715-4df3-af75-b06d03809a52> | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | https://www.slowood.hk/products/coconut-sugar-organic-250g | 2020-04-05T15:50:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371606067.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20200405150416-20200405180916-00460.warc.gz | en | 0.959166 | 337 |
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Latest Review of ‘Capriccio: A Novel’ I knew the story about Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath but to read about Assia, and get the rest of the story was quite amazing. You write so well. The characters come alive making the reader understand them and their motives. Throughout the book you maintain the tension making it a real page turner. […]
This delightful review came all the way from Colorado, USA To summarise, I was totally hooked and could not put the book down. The story has multiple themes, as did the movie, “Parasite.” Where to start? One theme was, “Denial is not just a river in Egypt”. Another might be- “Be careful what you wish for, ” and “what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive,” to name just a few. You certainly zeroed in on obsession and narcissism in your portrayal of the characters. What a tragic story! I certainly had sympathy for Esther (although I wanted to shake her into reality at every turn, her background help me understand her sensibilities) the same for Grace. Tony and Tanya were the innocent victims of the obsession, no doubt. Having no sympathy for Larry, what so ever, was probably due to knowing very little about his background before Esther. I guess that might reflect my “ME TOO” bias in today’s world. As I read I was curious as to what inspired your writing related to your own background, Dina. It is always assumed that writers write from what they know. Dave also read your novel. Well done expresses both of our sentiments. Sarah, March 2020. Quoted with permission 2. I’m humbled and delighted by this 5 star review on Goodreads in January 2020. So happy readers are still enjoying it. Dragonladymoi‘s review Jan 07, […]
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Delilah (radio host)
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Delilah Rene Luke (born February 15, 1960 in Reedsport, Oregon), almost always known mononymously as Delilah, is an American radio personality, author, and songwriter, best known as the host of a nationally syndicated nightly U.S. radio song request and dedication program, with an estimated 8 million listeners.
The program, known simply as Delilah begins at 7:00 p.m. and ends around midnight local time. She takes calls from listeners in her home studio, providing encouragement, support and receiving musical dedication requests. The show is based in Seattle, Washington.
One of the cornerstones of Delilah's show is its use of callers. Most of the time the caller tells Delilah their situation or story and then Delilah chooses the song that she feels best matches the caller's situation. Callers are recorded during the show and replayed later, sometimes within the hour during the show. She also plays songs by direct request.
Originally heard only on weeknights, stations that carry Delilah have the option of carrying the show six or even seven nights a week, with most stations doing so at least one night of the weekend (usually Sunday) in addition to the weeknight show.
There are several versions of the program that are available. The most common formats are as follows:
- Adult contemporary (AC): This is the most widely distributed version of the show between January and early November. It airs the usual adult contemporary music and is geared towards adults and their families. This is the version heard on most radio stations. It has also surfaced on hot adult contemporary stations such as WEZF in Burlington, Vermont after that station moved from AC in March 2012. The station's AC/hot AC feed replaced the syndicated love songs on WEZF in late 2011. Every year, since the first week of November until the first day that the "Christmas" version of the Delilah show comes on, stations who switch to Christmas music in early-November abruptly stop airing all holiday music when this version of the show comes on at 7 p.m. local time and not play a single Christmas song again until this version of the show ends at 12 a.m. local time.
- Gold-based AC: A version of the show that features several older hits.
- Christmas music: This is the only version that is produced live between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It features all Christmas music, mainly because most of the stations that carry the show switch over to the format. Stations that do not switch to Christmas music at that time can receive repeats of previous programs. Likewise, those who change before the day of Thanksgiving can get repeats of the previous years' Christmas shows until the changeover takes place. In 2012, this version of the show is being produced live between the day after Veterans Day and Christmas.
Delilah's show includes "Friday Nite Girls," a "fan club"-style feature in which Delilah honors groups of her regular female listeners with prizes. She occasionally also calls certain "Friday Nite Girls" chapters and speaks with them live on the air. Delilah also airs a "Delilah Dilemma" each evening in the first hour of the broadcast.
The show was originally syndicated by Broadcast Programming in the late 1990s, which was later bought by Jones Radio Networks. Delilah moved to Premiere Radio Networks in 2004, where she remains to this day. Jim Ryan, the Director of AC music programming for CBS Radio, is a consultant to the program.
Many of the stations carrying Delilah's show are owned by Premiere parent Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia), which led to speculation that the company would drop similar locally produced "lovesongs" programs in New York and Los Angeles in order to place Delilah on the air in the nation's top two radio markets. In November 2006, WLTW in New York began carrying Delilah, after longtime evening hostess J.J. Kennedy was laid-off as part of a major company-wide layoff at Clear Channel (in addition, the version of the Delilah show that runs on WLTW is a separate specially tailored version of the show produced just for that station, with music programmed by local WLTW Programming). In 2007, longtime lovesongs host Zoe Bonet was dropped from KODA Houston and replaced with Delilah. In March of 2012, Delilah went on the air in Los Angeles on KFSH-FM at 95.9FM. iHeartRadio has an online Delilah station where listeners can hear the show all the time regardless of time zone or broadcast market. In early January 2014, a number of AC stations (some owned by CBS Radio) have dropped the "Delilah" program as noted on her post on her official Facebook page. This was mostly due to certain AC stations (such as KVIL in Dallas) going for a Hot AC or Adult Top 40 leaning fare.
Delilah's show in a fictional sense also plays a role in the Hallmark Channel television series Cedar Cove, which is based on writer Debbie Macomber's book series and set in a fictional Pacific coast town in Washington state. Quotes and other inspirational pieces voiced by Delilah especially for the series set up some of the plot devices which occur in the course of each episode.
The program is popular among women between the ages of 25 and 54. Delilah says that her show is a "safety zone where listeners take off their armor, slip into a 'Mr. Rogers' cardigan, sit around the electronic hearth and share their secrets."
Delilah is a mother of 13 children, 10 of whom are adopted. Her adopted son, Sammy Young Dzolali Rene, died on March 12, 2012 of complications of sickle-cell anemia. Delilah has been married four times (and divorced three times), which she tells as a common joke on the show and mentioned when giving advice to her callers. She is an Evangelical Christian and a public advocate of adoption. Her on-air persona is said to be remarkably similar to her real personality. In 2004, partly because of her personal experience with the foster care system, and partly because her heart was touched by a fact-finding trip to Ghana, Delilah founded a humanitarian aid, non-profit organization, Point Hope, as a voice for forgotten children everywhere. Point Hope is focused on saving lives, providing purpose and restoring hope for foster children in America and for refugees and other vulnerable persons in Ghana and Liberia, providing a sustainable helping hand-up instead of a hand-out to these persons. The work in Ghana began through providing fresh, safe drinking water, thus alleviating the suffering of Liberian refugees who were camped at Buduburam, a refugee camp that was established in Ghana following the Liberian civil war.
Delilah has written three books: Love Someone Today, Love Matters, and Arms Full of Love. Delilah lives near Port Orchard, Washington. She owns and operates a business in downtown Port Orchard, Delilah's Cozy Kitchen.
On October 27, 2012 she married her longtime friend Paul at her home. The invited guests (and most of the staff) were only aware they were attending her Halloween party.
In 2007, the show was nominated for the Syndicated Personality/Show of the Year award by Radio & Records magazine. Other finalists included Blair Garner, Steve Harvey, Kidd Kraddick, The Lia Show, and John Tesh.
In May of 2012, Delilah received a GRACIE Award celebrating influential women in the media.
- "Talking off-air with Delilah, the 'Queen of Sappy Love Songs'". CNN. February 14, 2012. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
- Show information page from Premiere Radio Networks
- JS Online: Rancor tinges Rather's departure
- If you're missing my show at night... Delilah's Official Facebook page (Posted January 8, 2014)
- Yes, that Delilah lives in South Kitsap Kitsap Sun. 24 February 2008.
- Delilah Loses Son; Then Loses WLIT-FM Chicagoland Radio and Media 13 March 2012.
- http://www.twchesssafari.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-message-from-delilah.html halloween marriage
- "2007 Industry Achievement Awards". Radio and Records. September 28, 2008.
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The other day on Facebook I shared a link to a posting for handmade Christmas cards on Back to the Drawing Board. The designer made a landscape using tissue paper trees, had them reduced and photo coped, then used them to make some awesome Christmas cards. Do check out her project. I thought the inside of her trees was especially clever!
We loved the bright and cheerful trees so much that we used the idea to make pictures of our own to display throughout the winter. We began by taping our water color paper to the table. This stops the paper from moving around and creates a border around your picture when the tape is removed. We used this same technique when we made our Winter Birch Trees last year.
After the paper was taped down, we used water colors to paint the sky blue, fading it into white.
Next, we chose our tissue paper colors and cut them into squares.
We then smeared glue stick on cardstock paper, and added the squares in random patterns.
When the pages were dried, we turned them over and drew very geometrical triangles on the back, and cut out our trees. This was a joint project. We only made 2 pictures, one for Michelle's and one for my house. Usually the wee ones make their own projects, but it was fun working cooperatively on this project :) Together we decided on the placement of the trees and glued them down.
Funny, as it turns out, their favorite part of this whole project was using the hole punch to "make snow". Even though their hands got tired, they were delighted they could make these perfect little circles. Pixie, btw, preferred to make crescent moon shapes by punching overlapping holes :) (BTW... As soon as we were done, Fairy went to a 5 hour final dress rehearsal for the production The Nutcracker that she will be dancing in, as a cute mouse, this weekend. She needed her hair braided and pinned close to her head so all of her hair would fit under her costumes hood! Doesn't she look like she fell out of the pages of Heidi :)
Finally, we added dots of glue to our trees, and glued down the snow. All done! (Note: the artist at Back to the Drawing Board added detail using a thin tipped marker. We opted not to add this detail.
Then, wah lah! Our Winter Tissue Paper Trees were done! They will add a cheerful addition to our homes throughout the winter months. They remind me of Eric Carle illustrations. Fun!
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While working as an educator (I taught the principles of dialysis & theory of renal failure), I reminded my students constantly: Man’s theories change–sometimes month to month, hour by hour, often minute by minute. Be mindful of the prevailing data, but equally mindful that it will change.
This is a topic which I’ve wanted to address for sometime, but approach with mixed feelings. What is this, which evokes such feelings of trepidation? Sugar and diet. A four letter word–joined with one which many believe, should be.
Sugar has been tried, found guilty, and all but executed as the major culprit in obesity, diabetes, and even addiction (sugar, sweet cravings). So as a nurse, I feel great pressure to climb on this bandwagon.
Sugar is no innocent bystander; but neither is one’s decision to ingest massive quantities of it. Yet our bodies require glucose to function. If deprived critically enough, brain activity suffers. Does this mean I get a pass to eat 6 cookies instead of two? Have an extra helping of French Silk pie? After all we are talking brain function. Yes we are, but you could probably stop at one cookie, and skip the pie.
Hyperglycemia (too much circulating blood sugar) is the long-standing battle in diabetes. Most of us are familiar with this. What we may not be as familiar with is hypoglycemia. Too little sugar has its consequences as well. Have you ever felt a little shaky, or unable to focus if you haven’t eaten? These are just a couple of the symptoms of hypoglycemia. Eating regular meals usually prevents this. Yet if we are talking whether we obtain enough sugar without even trying–the answer is yes. A resounding one at that. Most of our dietary sugars are obtained with little or no effort. Certainly we recognize sugar in cakes, ice cream, pudding, etc. Yet what about orange juice? Barbecue sauce? Salad dressing? Again, we obtain most of the sugar we need (and then some) without realizing it.
So what is my personal take on this controversial, much maligned, yet desired substance? Well let’s take a look at a few things–starting with sugar substitutes. There are many to choose from. In 1879, Saccharin was discovered, quite by accident. Constantine Fahlberg–while working in his laboratory, spilled a chemical on his hands. Later that evening at dinner, he found the bread sweeter than usual. He later realized his hands (guess he didn’t wash them prior to eating) made it sweeter. Enter the 1st artificial sweetener–and the foundation for others to follow. Today however we have a litany–Splenda, Truvia, just to name two. Yet the fact still remains, most of these substitutes have originated in the latter half of the 19th century, to the 21st. So–how long has sugar been around? I can assure you, it predates any of these.
My point is this. I know what sugar is. I know the consequences if I ingest too much of it. For me, it’s nausea followed by a headache. Too many sweets become jelly rolls on my waistline, and pudding on my thighs. However, the jury is still out for me about substitutes which claim to be “better for me.” I don’t know what they are, or their true origins.
Short but true story. Attempting to be “healthy,” yet satisfy my craving for vanilla ice cream, I picked up a pint. It contained a sugar substitute. After a couple of spoonfuls, I decided it wasn’t for me. It tasted thicker than normal ice cream, and something about it upset my stomach. I put the rest of it in the sink, and ran warm H20 on it. I can’t recall the last time I left an unfinished bowl of ice cream–yet if I did, it melted. After a couple of minutes of running warm H20 on this, it still was a glob in my sink. That sounded the death knell for sugar substitutes in my home.
Sugar in morning? Yes please, in my tea. Sugar in the evening? Most of the time, I take a pass. Yet I can assure you, if it’s going to be sweetened, it’s going to be sugar–well maybe a little honey. That’s the only substitute that will find its way onto my table.
Do you know the signs of hypoglycemia vs. hyperglycemia? Check out LIVESTRONG. Search hyperglycemia vs. hypoglycemia. Not too much medical-ese in this article. Here are a couple of links I found below.
All for now. Keep up and keep at it.
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I've been having a lot of fun flipping through The Ethnic Paris Cookbook. It's unpretentious, easy to use, and full of tasty dishes that seem to be entirely too simple, if a little hard to believe. And this one is no different. The sauce is the perfect counterpoint to the broiled chicken—it takes on an almost mustard-like tang, but has a much brighter flavor thanks to the lemon. It's so perfect, in fact, that it's easy to forget that the recipe has raw potatoes in it.
This is all new for me. But I can't think of the last time I ingested a raw potato. But there I was, tossing cubes of raw potato into a blender along with a whole heap of garlic and lots of lemon juice, hoping that this mess would transform into something edible. At the very least, I’d have liked the potato chunks to disappear. I had to shake the blender a few times, but they all did incorporate in the sauce.
As for the chicken, they recommend a grilled chicken, something I didn’t have the time to set up. But broiling is a great alternative. It won’t have the same smokey flavor, but the high heat does the job perfectly well. A roast chicken is another alternative that is easier, but not nearly as much fun.
About the author: Nick Kindelsperger is a co-founder of The Paupered Chef, a blog dedicated to saving time and money while enjoying food in every way possible. He sells wine for a living and lives in Columbus, Ohio.
Dinner Tonight: Broiled Chicken with Garlic Sauce
About This Recipe
- 1/2 cup sunflower oil
- 1 ice cubes, crushed
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 cloves of garlic, peeled
- 1/2 medium starchy potato, peeled and cubed
- 1/2 tablespoon salt
- 1/2 chicken
- Olive oil
- Salt and pepper
- Fresh thyme
Preheat the broiler. Place the 1/2 chicken on a cutting board. Set a heavy pan, like an iron skillet, on top and press down firmly. You want it as flat as possible without breaking the bones of the chicken so it cooks evenly. When it’s flattened, smear the skin with olive oil, and season with salt. Place it in the broiler, breast side up. Cook for 10-15 minutes. Then flip and cook for another 10-15 minutes, or until completely cooked.
Meanwhile, in a blender, toss in the cubed potato, garlic and the 1/2 tablespoon of salt. Process on medium until smooth. You might need to stop and stir the contents a few times. The potato pieces might not completely break down, but it’s okay.
Turn the speed to slow, and stream in the sunflower oil. When it’s completely incorporated, increase the speed to high and add the crushed ice and the lemon juice. Continue to blend until it’s completely smooth. There should be no pieces of potato by now.
When the chicken is done, remove it from the broiler and set it on a large piece of aluminum foil. Sprinkle the chicken with a couple sprigs of thyme and a little pepper. Wrap it up and let it sit for 7-10 minutes.
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Monday, April 21, 2008
Σπυροπούλου [Maria Spiropulu]--physicist
Some time ago when I was involved in a physics forum, and there was a topic initiated on the sparsity of women in the sciences--physics in particular. During the course of discussion I received a letter from Maria Spiropulu who at that time was at Fermi Labs and has now moved to CERN and the LHC project. Happily, I can say that more women are becoming involved in all branches of the sciences--especially physics.
My name is Maria Spiropulu and I am a research physicist.
I am very glad to see in this forum an organized effort to encourage students, starting at the early stages of their education , to be and keep being scientifically literate as adults. And if they choose to do so, to professionally and successfully be involved in scientific research in an academic or technology related environment. The young wave of college and graduate students in my field, and I think in most natural sciences, both genders, is an enthusiastic, creative, mutlitalented and fun bunch of people to work with, teach and learn from.
In this country the overall number of students that finish with scientific or technology related bachelors degrees and those who are entering in college in such disciplines seems to be going down a fact which is alerting indeed -- and I believe the government is paying close attention to this issue.
I am writing a chapter for a guide-to-science collection that will be published soon and I will keep you posted when it comes out.
With Best Regards,
Maria Spiropulu...was born in 1970 in Kastoria, a small mountain town of Greece, and is an experimental physicist; she is currently based at CERN, the European high-energy physics laboratory outside Geneva, and is working on experiments for the Large Hadron Collider. These experiments are designed to test some of the most imaginative and far reaching ideas ever proposed in physics and are hoped to begin at 2008. She describes her work as part of the search to discover the origins of the universe.
Maria Spiropulu received her Bachelor’s degree from the Physics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1993. She had already begun research activity from 1991, working as a technical assistant at CERN’S DELPHI and later at BESSY, the synchrotron laboratory in Berlin, Germany. After graduation she went to Harvard University for her PhD in particle physics.
For the next seven years her time was shared between Boston and Batavia, Illinois, home of Tevatron, the world’s highest energy particle accelerator at that time, where she worked for the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) experiment. For her Doctoral thesis, which was completed in August 21, 2000, Spiropulu developed a “blind” analysis, to search the accelerator’s output data for evidence of supersymmetry.
Throughout her “schooling”, she had other interests. She played drums and sang for a Fermilab band called "Drug Sniffing Dogs" (a particular exotic band, with a repertoire ranging from Metal to Jazz), until she was expelled for not attending rehearsals. She also practiced for several years in martial arts, especially karate, and later went on her way by doing kick boxing. In her early teens, she wanted to be an F-16 pilot and then an astronaut.
With a new PhD from Harvard, Maria Spiropulu joined the University of Chicago in 2001, and began searching for spatial extra-dimensions. Her analysis was based on Tevatron data obtained from 1992 to 1996. She was offered a research physicist position at CERN’s LHC in 2003, but before joining CERN, she worked for the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she set up extra dimensions analyses with RunII data. On September 19, 2003, she reported, along with Kevin Burkett of Harvard, that any extra-dimensions, if they exist, must be curled up into circles smaller than a hundredth of an inch.
The hunting for physics beyond the Standard Model, including signal for supersymmetry and extra dimensions/Kaluza-Klein gravitons, led Maria Spiropulu, in 2004, back to Geneva and CERN, where the LHC will turn on with an energy seven times larger than Tevatron. There, together with thousands of physicists, she helps prepare for a revolution she says “will blow our minds”.
Three of her papers:
"Collider Experiment: Strings, Branes and Extra Dimensions"
"Experimental Status of Beyond the Standard Model Collider Searches"
"Particle Physics Probes Of Extra Spacetime Dimensions"
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SCRANTON — Calling the thefts “mind boggling,” a federal judge sentenced the former CEO of Valor Credit Union on Wednesday to five years, 10 months in prison for embezzling about $718,000 from the financial institution.
U.S. District Judge Malachy Mannion rejected Sean Jelen’s request for a more lenient sentence, citing the high degree of sophistication he used to pilfer money systematically over a yearlong period.
“It’s flabbergasting to me ... the amount of manipulation and the degree of sophistication and to some extent, the callous nature” of your crimes, Mannion told Jelen during the roughly two-hour hearing.
The sentence was at the high end of federal sentencing guidelines, which called for a prison term of 63 to 78 months.
Jelen, 35, formerly of South Abington Twp., pleaded guilty in July 2016 to bank fraud and attempted bank fraud. Prosecutors say he used several different schemes to steal funds from July 2014 to August 2015. He used the money to fund a lavish lifestyle, including a $20,000 grandfather clock, a $30,000 birthday party for his wife and a $25,000 golf sponsorship at his alma mater, St. Francis College in New York City.
In a more than 45-minute speech to the court, Jelen expressed remorse. He never directly apologized for the thefts, however, and spoke instead of efforts to improve the credit union’s finances.
“I worked tirelessly to bring life back” to the bank, Jelen said. “The most important people were my employees.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Phillip Caraballo agreed Jelen worked tirelessly, but it was to enrich himself. Referring to Jelen as a “professional fraudster,” Caraballo said the thefts were “staggering in their audacity.”
Caraballo noted Jelen continued efforts to defraud the bank after he was fired in August 2015, trying, unsuccessfully, to cash in a life insurance policy.
“He tried to loot the credit union on his way out the door,” Caraballo said. “These are not the acts of a man trying to fix a credit union and treat its employees as family.”
About 15 former employees and customers of the credit union attended the sentencing, including its former controller, Mike Walser of Hometown.
Walser was among several former employees who scoffed and shook their heads in disbelief as Jelen addressed the judge.
“He’s a good actor,” Walser said after the hearing.
Walser said he blames Jelen for the credit union’s financial problems. Facing mounting losses, it merged with Pentagon Federal Credit Union, of Alexandria, Virginia last February. It now has four branches in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre Twp., Coolbaugh Twp. and East Stroudsburg.
“He actually took a strong, healthy financial institution and in three years’ time flushed it down a toilet,” Walser said.
Jelen was taken immediately into custody after the hearing. He also was ordered to pay $694,971 in restitution. The figure is less than the amount of theft because St. Francis returned the $25,000 donation to the bank, Mannion said. Jelen also agreed to forfeit a home he owns in Breezy Point, New York.
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We just received the results regarding the Stevenson High competitors! We are lucky to have such a passionate teacher provide us with frequent updates on his students' success using MarketClub. Here is an update of the most recent success in their stock market competition...
Well, the results are in. One of our teams finished 7th, and another 14th out of a field of 120 +!! On the other hand, the two other teams finished in the 80's (approx.) and 100 plus. Now, what is exciting is that the two top finishers are freshman and sophomores and they religiously followed MarketClub.
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Koneal Laguidao was shocked when he enrolled in Professor Jonas Lamb’s Writing Across Contexts course in his first term at the University of Alaska Southeast — and discovered he’d be editing Wikipedia as part of the class.
“I never knew students my age were able to write for Wikipedia; let alone write for Wikipedia as a college project,” he says.
Koneal’s knowledge of Wikipedia and how to edit it quickly grew, thanks to the resources provided by Wiki Education. He chose to expand the article on Douglas Island, a tidal island that’s part of Juneau, where he grew up.
“When I first read the article, I instantly saw how underdeveloped the ‘History’ section of the article was and wanted to drastically improve it,” Koneal says. “For someone who has lived in the Juneau area for years, I knew how immersive Douglas Island’s history truly was and I wanted to display it in full form.”
Koneal was one of many students in the class that selected Wikipedia articles that had some kind of personal meaning to them. Professor Lamb says an assignment with personal meaning helped him connect better with his students.
“Through his research and writing Koneal demonstrated a strong connection to place and a new awareness of the hidden history of his home town,” Professor Lamb says. “I learned a lot from my students, about who they are and where they are coming from based on the articles they selected and the issues they hoped to tackle. Their perspectives helped me recognize just how under-represented Alaska is in Wikipedia, how important it was to have Alaska Native authors contributing to articles about their communities, their culture, their leaders.”
Koneal says the Wikipedia assignment was a great opportunity for him to learn more about a place that was meaningful to him, and he encourages other students to approach the Wikipedia assignment with an open mind, as an “opportunity to learn more about where you came from, your people, your community, or something you love to do.”
He says he prefers writing for Wikipedia to a traditional assignment because of the public nature of his work. He says he would love to keep editing Wikipedia.
“I thought that the Wikipedia assignment was a ‘breath of fresh air’, as throughout my whole educational career, I have never been able to fully emerge into the researching process and researching through my university’s library finally allowed me to do that,” he says. “My favorite part about writing for Wikipedia was knowing that my contributions were formed through the research that I did and the contributions that I published were also my work.”
And, of course, he didn’t just learn from the research he did on Douglas Island — he also learned about Wikipedia.
“While editing the article, I learned how important the editing process at Wikipedia truly was, which caused me to change my previous judgments toward the site,” Koneal says. “Throughout my education, I have been constantly told that Wikipedia was not a reliable source to use in papers or projects. But, after completing this project, I have now seen how much Wikipedia emphasizes citing sources, using credible sources, and preventing acts of plagiarism within their articles.” | <urn:uuid:22f82aa4-e09c-4f3e-93a2-96f4aa9cc56e> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://wikiedu.org/blog/2022/02/14/learning-about-your-community-by-editing-wikipedia/ | 2022-09-30T13:34:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335469.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220930113830-20220930143830-00334.warc.gz | en | 0.983764 | 691 |
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For the sixth straight Octagon show, every fight on a UFC card will be made available for live viewing. “UFC 132: Cruz vs. Faber II” takes place this Saturday inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Facebook will kick off the festivities by streaming four preliminary bouts starting at 5:55PM ET/2:55PM PT. Fanboys simply have to “Like” the UFC’s Facebook page in order to watch the scraps live.
Spike TV will then air two prelims starting at 8PM ET/5PM PT.
The pay-per-view broadcast begins immediately after the freebie fights at 9PM ET/6PM PT.
A bantamweight title affair between champion Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber will headline the show.
Here is Saturday’s revised agenda:
(Facebook 5:55PM ET/2:55PM PT)
Jeff Hougland vs. Donny Walker
Andre Winner vs. Anthony Njokuani
Aaron Simpson vs. Brad Tavares
Brian Bowles and Takeya Mizugaki
(Spike TV 8PM ET/5PM PT)
George Sotiropoulos vs. Rafael Dos Anjos
Melvin Guillard vs. Shane Roller
(Pay-Per-View 9PM ET/6PM PT)
Dennis Siver vs. Matt Wiman
Carlos Condit vs. Dong Hyun Kim
Tito Ortiz vs. Ryan Bader
Wanderlei Silva vs. Chris Leben
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Azure Databricks now available in Azure Government
Published date: 07 December, 2020
Azure Databricks provides a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark -based analytics platform as a fully managed service. It helps you increase your developer productivity, automatically scales with your most demanding workloads, and enables enterprise-grade security that’s easy to use on Azure.
Azure Databricks availability in Azure Government helps federal agencies, state and local governments, higher education institutions, and government contractors transform their mission critical workloads while following strict data security and residency guidelines. Whether it is data engineering, data science, real-time streaming, IoT, security threat detection, supply chain optimization, UAV video analysis, or fleet management, Azure Databricks empowers you to bring valuable business impact to your organization.
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INDIANAPOLIS – A person with knowledge of the results has told The Associated Press that Colts linebacker Gary Brackett is not expected to miss significant time after X-rays on his injured right hand were negative.
The person spoke Friday on the condition of anonymity because the team has not disclosed a diagnosis.
Brackett was injured during Thursday night's loss at Green Bay when he appeared to hit his hand on the helmet of teammate Philip Wheeler. He is the Colts' defensive captain and signed a five-year, $33 million contract in March.
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|Location||Tell Abu Shahrain, Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq|
|Area||At most 10 ha (25 acres)|
|Founded||Approximately 5400 BC|
|Abandoned||Approximately 600 BC|
|Official name||Tell Eridu Archaeological Site|
|Part of||Ahwar of Southern Iraq|
|Inscription||2016 (40th Session)|
|Area||33 ha (0.13 sq mi)|
|Buffer zone||1,069 ha (4.13 sq mi)|
Eridu (Sumerian: 𒉣𒆠, NUN.KI/eridugki; Akkadian: irîtu; modern Arabic: Tell Abu Shahrain) is an archaeological site in southern Mesopotamia (modern Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq). Eridu was long considered the earliest city in southern Mesopotamia. Located 12 km southwest of Ur, Eridu was the southernmost of a conglomeration of Sumerian cities that grew around temples, almost in sight of one another. These buildings were made of mud brick and built on top of one another. With the temples growing upward and the village growing outward, a larger city was built. In Sumerian mythology, Eridu was originally the home of Enki, later known by the Akkadians as Ea, who was considered to have founded the city. His temple was called E-Abzu, as Enki was believed to live in Abzu, an aquifer from which all life was believed to stem.
History of research
The site at Tel Abu Shahrain, near Basra, has been excavated four times. It was initially excavated by John George Taylor in 1855, R. Campbell Thompson in 1918, and H. R. Hall in 1919. Excavation there resumed from 1946 to 1949 under Fuad Safar and Seton Lloyd of the Iraqi Directorate General of Antiquities and Heritage. These archaeological investigations showed that, according to A. Leo Oppenheim, "eventually the entire south lapsed into stagnation, abandoning the political initiative to the rulers of the northern cities", probably as a result of increasing salinity produced by continuous irrigation, and the city was abandoned in 600 BC. In 2019, excavations at Eridu were resumed by a joint Italian, French, and Iraqi effort.
Myth and legend
In some, but not all, versions of the Sumerian King List, Eridu is the first of five cities where kingship was received before a flood came over the land. The Sumerian King List mentions two kings of Eridu: Alulim, who ruled for 28,800 years, and Alalngar, who ruled for 36,000 years. Adapa, a man of Eridu, is depicted as an early culture hero. He was considered to have brought civilization to the city during the time of King Alulim.
In Sumerian mythology, Eridu was the home of the Abzu temple of the god Enki, the Sumerian counterpart of the Akkadian god Ea, god of deep waters, wisdom and magic. Like all the Sumerian and Babylonian gods, Enki/Ea began as a local god who, according to the later cosmology, came to share the rule of the cosmos with Anu and Enlil. His kingdom was the sweet waters that lay below earth (Sumerian ab=water; zu=far).
The stories of Inanna, goddess of Uruk, describe how she had to go to Eridu in order to receive the gifts of civilization. At first Enki, the god of Eridu, attempted to retrieve these sources of his power but later willingly accepted that Uruk now was the centre of the land. This seems to be a mythical reference to the transfer of power northward.
Babylonian texts talk of the foundation of Eridu by the god Marduk as the first city, "the holy city, the dwelling of their [the other gods] delight".
In the court of Assyria, special physicians trained in the ancient lore of Eridu, far to the south, foretold the course of sickness from signs and portents on the patient's body and offered the appropriate incantations and magical resources as cures.
Eridu appears to be one of the earliest settlement in the region, founded c. 5400 BC, close to the Persian Gulf near the mouth of the Euphrates River. Because of accumulation of silt at the shoreline over the millennia, the remains of Eridu are now some distance from the gulf at Abu Shahrain in Iraq. Excavation has shown that the city was founded on a virgin sand-dune site with no previous occupation. Piotr Steinkeller has hypothesised that the earliest divinity at Eridu was a Goddess, who later emerged as the Earth Goddess Ninhursag (Nin = Lady, Hur = Mountain, Sag = Sacred), with the later growth in Enki as a male divinity the result of a hieros gamos, with a male divinity or functionary of the temple.
According to Gwendolyn Leick, Eridu was formed at the confluence of three separate ecosystems, supporting three distinct lifestyles, that came to an agreement about access to fresh water in a desert environment. The oldest agrarian settlement seems to have been based upon intensive subsistence irrigation agriculture derived from the Samarra culture to the north, characterised by the building of canals, and mud-brick buildings. The fisher-hunter cultures of the Arabian littoral were responsible for the extensive middens along the Arabian shoreline, and may have been the original Sumerians. They seem to have dwelt in reed huts. The third culture that contributed to the building of Eridu were the Semitic-speaking nomadic herders of herds of sheep and goats living in tents in semi-desert areas. All three cultures seem implicated in the earliest levels of the city. The urban settlement was centered on a large temple complex built of mudbrick, within a small depression that allowed water to accumulate.
Kate Fielden reports "The earliest village settlement (c. 5000 BC) had grown into a substantial city of mudbrick and reed houses by c. 2900 BC, covering 8–10 ha (20–25 acres)". Mallowan writes that by the Ubaid period, it was as an "unusually large city" of an area of approx. 20–25 acres, with a population of "not less than 4000 souls". Jacobsen describes that "Eridu was for all practical purposes abandoned after the Ubaid period", although it had recovered by Early Dynastic II as there was a Massive Early Dynastic II palace (100 m in each direction) partially excavated there. Ruth Whitehouse called it "a Major Early Dynastic City". By c. 2050 BC the city had declined; there is little evidence of occupation after that date. Eighteen superimposed mudbrick temples at the site underlie the unfinished Ziggurat of Amar-Sin (c. 2047–2039 BC). The finding of extensive deposits of fishbones associated with the earliest levels also shows a continuity of the Abzu cult associated later with Enki and Ea.
Eridu was abandoned for long periods, before it was finally deserted and allowed to fall into ruin in the 6th century BC. The encroachment of neighbouring sand dunes, and the rise of a saline water table, set early limits to its agricultural base so in its later Neo-Babylonian development, Eridu was rebuilt as a purely temple site, in honour of its earliest history.
The urban nucleus of Eridu was Enki's temple, called House of the Aquifer (Cuneiform: 𒂍𒍪 𒀊, E2.ZU.AB; Sumerian: e2-abzu; Akkadian: bītu apsû), which in later history was called House of the Waters (Cuneiform: 𒂍𒇉, E2.LAGAB×HAL; Sumerian: e2-engur; Akkadian: bītu engurru). The name refers to Enki's realm. His consort Ninhursag had a nearby temple at Ubaid.
During the Ur III period Ur-Nammu had a ziggurat built over the remains of previous temples.
Aside from Enmerkar of Uruk (as mentioned in the Aratta epics), several later historical Sumerian kings are said in inscriptions found here to have worked on or renewed the e-abzu temple, including Elili of Ur; Ur-Nammu, Shulgi and Amar-Sin of Ur-III, and Nur-Adad of Larsa.
House of the Aquifer (E-Abzu)
|Level||Date (BC)||Period||Size (m)||Note|
|XIV||5000–4500||Early Ubaid||-||No structure found|
|XIII||5000–4500||Early Ubaid||-||No structure found|
|XII||5000–4500||Early Ubaid||-||No structure found|
|V||3800–3500||Early Uruk||-||Only platform remains|
|IV||3800–3500||Early Uruk||-||Only platform remains|
|III||3800–3500||Early Uruk||-||Only platform remains|
|II||3500–3200||Early Uruk||-||Only platform remains|
|I||3200||Early Uruk||-||Only platform remains|
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Chicago PD is back for Episode 6 soon and this one is for sure to leave you shocked!!
Episode Title: Sympathetic Reflex
Airing: November 2nd
Atwater’s reactions during a tense arrest are called into question. The team must dig in to uncover key evidence that could aid in the ongoing investigation and clear Atwater’s name.
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Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H-WiFi Reviewccokeman - November 13, 2012
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This implementation of Gigabyte's 3D Bios is a welcome sight in terms of functionality and ease of use. The GA-Z77X-UD5H-WiFi uses an AMI EFI BIOS that supports PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.0, SM BIOS 2.6, ACPI 2.0a, and Dual BIOS. A pair of 64MB BIOS chips are used to hold the BIOS and back up BIOS for use if a flash goes wrong or is used as a way to increase the amount of OC Profiles that can be saved. This 3D BIOS has two modes: 3D that has an image of a motherboard and preset options along the bottom of the screen that allows adjustment to the parameters of the board including boot order and top line settings without getting too granular. For that you can switch to the Advanced mode. Here you will find six menus to fine tune the operational parameters and include the M.I.T. Menu, System, BIOS Features, Peripherals, Power Management, and Exit menus.
By entering into the Advanced section of the BIOS you get a more detailed look at the settings that make the board tick. M.I.T. is first on the list and is where you find all of the tools necessary to overclock your installed hardware. In this section you are able to check the currently applied values under current status showing the memory and CPU settings. Advanced Frequency settings is where the bclock and multiplier are adjusted as well as where the memory XMP profiles are activated. Advanced memory settings allow for the adjustment of the memory multiplier, timings, and displays the applied voltage for the DIMMs. Digging further into the Channel A and B memory timings is where memory performance can be tuned to deliver the highest memory bandwidth and speed. Advanced voltage settings is where the voltages to be applied are set and adjusted to the values that best suit the clock speeds used on the memory and CPU. 3D Voltage control is where the operating frequencies and current limits can be tuned again for greater overclocking margins or higher efficiency. Health Status shows the component temperatures, voltages and the speed of any installed fans. Under the Miscellaneous tab the PCIe support can be set based on the installed CPU. Legacy Benchmark Enhancement is used to help drive system performance in benchmarks such as 3DMark 01 or Super Pi.
The System tab gives basic system information including the BIOS revision, allows setting of the appropriate system language, time, and date to be set, as well as looking at the ATA port info to view the installed drives and how they are configured.
BIOS Features is where the boot sequence is set up, the boot logo is turned on and off, and the boot priority of the attached drives is setup. The Peripherals tab is where the on-board devices can be enabled or disabled. Power Management is where the resume sequence is applied along with the resume mode for the IGP. Last but not least is the Exit tab that allows the user to save and exit or apply the standard default settings for a starting baseline. Here you can also save and load BIOS profiles.
Entering the Q-Flash utility will allow the end user to either search for a BIOS online or search for a BIOS to install from an installed flash drive. I found this utility worked well allowing an update to the latest BIOS at the time of testing.
We have seen the board, the included utilities, and the latest 3D BIOS, so let's see how well the Z77X-UD5H-WiFi performs and overclocks. | <urn:uuid:120496cc-7871-4233-925f-f1a72ecb512a> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/gigabyte_z77x_ud5h_wifi/4.htm | 2014-04-19T10:40:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609537097.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005217-00462-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902212 | 762 |
Chesteron on Spiritualist Critics
The Well and the Shallows (1935):
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"Spiritualism depends only on the evidence which people receive in their own homes. It does not require priests. Neither do enquirers have to buy rosaries or beads, or crucifixes, or pay for candles or masses." It must be a dreadful moment of indecision for the enquirers, when they have to make up their minds whether they will buy rosaries or beads. But the last term is the best; and here the order of words is especially significant. Apparently the first object of a Catholic is to get a candle. If once he can get hold of a candle, and walk about everywhere clasping his candle, he is all right. But if he cannot get a candle, he has the alternative of purchasing a mass; an instrument that is a sort of substitute for a candle. | <urn:uuid:84c2928e-292e-4a8a-94e4-235591d4998f> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://stuartbuck.blogspot.com/2004/05/chesteron-on-spiritualist-critics.html | 2017-04-27T11:06:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122159.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00083-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95724 | 333 |
The Embassy of the United States of America in Ouagadougou launches the Mandela Washington Fellowship recruitment in Burkina Faso
The Mandela Washington Fellowship is the flagship of U. S. President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative – YALI. This program will bring 1,000 young leaders to the United States in 2016 for leadership training and mentoring and will create unique opportunities in Africa to put those new skills to practical use in propelling economic growth and prosperity and strengthening democratic institutions.
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Our 10 Best Posts of 2014
2014 has been a year of amazing growth for Water Cooler Convos. We covered everything from the most notorious events in pop culture to the egregious acts of violence against Blacks. And when you look at our top 10 posts for the year, a portrait of our diverse content presents itself. Grab a cup and join us for this walk down Memory Lane.
First, here are our honorable mentions. These are our favorites that didn’t make the Top 10 cut:
- Luke James Breaks New Ground With Debut Album
- White People and Getting Away With Shit
- Stop Shaming Black People For Not Listening to the Beatles (and Other White People Music)
- On ‘Hood Disease’, ‘Affluenza’, and the Roots of ‘Black Crime’
- To Be a Black, Female, “Special Negro”
- Two Kinds of Friends to Avoid This Year (And Forever)
- The Paradoxical Hunt for Reasonable Love in an Unreasonable World
Here is a countdown of the year’s top 10 posts:
This year, there was an actual Change.org petition called “Comb Her Hair” referring to Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s daughter Blue Ivy. As sickening as that is on the surface, we dove in deeper and explained just why this act was so sinister. White beauty is set as the standard, and the kinky and curly Black women are left out in the cold. As a result, many in the mainstream just don’t understand how “different” operates, opting to either demonize or make a spectacle of the “other.” And it is all made worse as it falls on the head of a child.
One of the most ridiculous developments of 2014 was the popularity of the “Thug Kitchen” couple. Bolstered by a huge endorsement from Gwyneth Paltrow, Michelle Davis and Matt Holloway rose to prominence on the backs of fervor for vegan cooking and witty use of curse words and black dialect. The problem isn’t their cooking (though we admittedly haven’t tasted any of their “kick ass” recipes). It’s their disregard in using the term “thug.” In a world where Black people being labelled thugs and shot in the street, it’s a bit nauseating that this white couple would use the term for financial gain.
This year, it seemed like doing anything while Black was a enough reason to be thought a threat or a criminal and killed. One of the most troubling was the murder of John Crawford in Ohio. This showed the double-standard America has for gun ownership (just like with Tamir Rice). This showed that if White people call the police with any level of distress, cops will show up in a moment with their guns drawn and bullets flying. This showed that doing the right thing isn’t enough if you are Black.
This year, we had the pleasure of interviewing a plethora of amazing individuals. There was Traci Braxton, Kristin Howerton, Olivia Cole, Brandon Bell and Marque Richardson from Dear White People, and of course Tim Wise. At the start of the year, we had the pleasure of getting acquainted with comedian Aamer Rahman. We were immediately blown away with his set on “reverse racism” and could not wait to interview him. If you missed it, check out our discussion on walking the line with racial comedy, not being a social change-maker, post-racialism, and the notion of getting an Asteroid M-like haven for brown people. It’s an interview like none other. It was blunt. It was humorous. And it was the beginning of a great relationship we’ve built our good friend Aamer. Be sure to follow him on Twitter at @aamer_rahman.
Technically, this post doesn’t belong on this list since it was published back in 2013. However, it received enough hits in this year alone to take the #6 spot. That’s no easy feat. But why would a post about Boston Marathon conspiracy theories be so popular this far from the event itself? Well, people love a good conspiracy, especially when it casts doubt on the motives and actions of the big bad government. There were some doozies floated about the Boston Marathon bombing, my favorites being that a Sandy Hook principal that was killed in that shooting also died in the bomb blast. You deceptively orchestrate a major bombing like that and then accidentally say that a woman killed in another major event was killed there too? Yeah, most conspiracies are easily debunked.
I’m not sure why, but plenty of White folks lost their damn minds this year. They were wearing blackface, making lynching jokes, and letting Iggy Azalea make a fool of Hip Hop. But one of the most prevalent tools of an ignorant White person is false equivalency. If White people can be racist, then everyone else can be racist against White people (HINT: this is false by definition; what they are really looking for is bigotry or prejudice). The same goes for cultural appropriation. Context matters.
We reviewed our asses off this year. We saw releases from Daley, Candice Glover, Robin Thicke, Tank, Luke James, Traci Braxton, and D’Angelo. But the numbers don’t lie, and our visitors were clearly most most intrigued by Toni Braxton and Babyface’s collaborative effort “Love, Marriage, & Divorce.” And we can understand why. The re-teaming of the two rekindled that magic that catapulted Toni Braxton to superstardom in the first place. For those that might have had their doubts, Braxton and Babyface delivered in droves.
Truthfully, we all should have seen the mounting issues with race coming. Back in 2013, these stories were starting to gain prominence. One of the most disturbing occurred at the end of 2013 involving students from San Jose State University. Three white students systematically tortured their black roommate by calling him “three-fifths” and “fraction”, placing a U-shaped bike lock around his neck, and barricading him in a closet (knowing he was claustrophobic). Nope, America is not post-racial. Not even close. So even though this post was published in 2013, it is no surprise that it made it into our top 3 for the year.
This is easily our most commented on post. Scroll down to the comments section (the ones we haven’t blocked, banned, or deleted) and you can see the arguments for and against Taylor Swift’s craft. The main debate centered around whether black women (or any women of color) were spotlighted under the dance genre of ballet. The fact that this was argued so passionately speaks to the underlying issue. The post’s popularity even prompted a follow-up piece on how Swift and Nicki Minaj are no where near the same. Even still, people are looking for any excuse possible to exonerate Ms. Swift of any wrongdoing. Why are people so invested in defending her? Why is the apparent casting by race dismissed by so many Whites? We may never know. But one thing is certain: our short, blunt, and curt analysis of her antics definitely rubbed some folks the wrong way, no matter how spot-on they were.
Another of our most commented on posts, it was written as the events on the ground of Ferguson, MO were unfolding in the wake of the murder of Michael Brown. Many people took immediate issue with the title. Is it inflammatory at first glance? Yes. But it is also true. Our post built from the initial outrage from killing of Michael Brown. When we speak of “White fear,” we are not speaking solely of White people shooting Black people. It is much deeper than that. “White fear” has ingrained itself in the lives and minds of every person in the country. White fear has manifested itself in so many structural ways that it has become part and parcel with the fundamental functions of every private and governmental institution in this country.
There is no doubt that race was a point of contention over the course of 2014. A unconscionable number of atrocities were committed this year, and people continue to protest across the country for justice. But there was a lot of joy in the year also. A lot of laughter. A lot of growth. So as we enter into 2015, we’d like to just say thank you to those that have been along the ride with us as well as those that recently joined up. We appreciate the support, and we’ll see you in 2015!
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As distinct from scientific knowledge. There’s a whole bunch of different knowledges being bandied about. As a fan of the Enlightenment, imma be skeptical…
Local knowledge also includes the everyday experience of lay people, both in the form of individual and collective experiences. Since this type of knowledge has a lower status than scientific knowledge, it will have less value in making persuasive framings. However, there are situations in which scientific knowledge is unavailable or unhelpful for substantiating a certain way of understanding a problem. Under these circumstances, local knowledge can be used instead.Also, local knowledge can be crucial in resisting already accepted frames. Lay people affected by political decisions might hold a different understanding of causal relationships based on their practical experience to that of policy makers. In efforts to reframe a problem, local knowledge can point to alternative understandings of the problem, and thus open up alternative policies.
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“There can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator. ” Metropolis by Franz Lang
A few weeks ago I did a blog featuring our L.A. lady Kristin Knauff’s boyfriend Jiro Schneider. The blog was about his awesome photography, including his cover shoot for Paper Magazine with Janelle Monáe.
Soooooo, last night I found a backstage video (don’t know how I didn’t see it the last time) from the Jiro Schneider shoot with Paper Magazine. Then using my amazing detective skills I finally looked into this curious Janelle Monáe and found quite a lot of interesting material …
What I found out is that … let’s just say … hmmm … Janelle Monáe … is not exactly from this world but is more … well … outttta this world … Metropolis style.
If you have ever seen Franz Lang’s Metropolis you will understand, or at least, be equally confused as to what reality or surreality we are talking about. Now … “Open your minds, earthlings, and prepare to be launched headfirst into an alternate universe. A place where robots fall in love with humans. Where your tour guide into this alternate realm is a demure lil thang with a bold set of pipes.
“I’m an alien from outer space,” declares Janelle Monáe on the first song of her debut album, Metropolis: The Chase Suite (Special Edition).
Yes, Toto, we are no longer in Kansas anymore. Or even planet Earth.”…
What I found in my Janelle Monae search is that the lady behind the photos that Jiro took is an android full of expression from a far off planet. Janelle’s music displays a range of funk that stays super fresh while reminding me of the late Michael Jackson.
Not only is the music enough to transport you to another world but Janelle herself is so entrancing that you might as well be being sucked into a Metropolis. She bounces and dances all over the stage as she sings her upbeat diddies about an android in pursuit of love.
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7 year old Sir Lincoln gelding Liberal Arden has been retired from racing in Australia and is off to be a pony club horse in the Tamar Valley in Tasmania. It is heartwarming to hear that he has been such a beautiful horse to do anything with that he can start a new life with a young person just learning. According to one of his current owners Blair Fidler he loves his cuddles and kisses so it is highly likely that he will be happy in his new role.
From the Artsplace mare Ardenart, Liberal Arden (or Arden as he has been called by his recent owners) was sold at the National Yearling Sales and went on to race 103 times for 8 wins, 20 seconds and 11 thirds. He won stakes of $84,661.
His career began with Phil Burrows then he moved to the stables of Terry and Glenys Chmiel, before his move to the North Island to trainer Arna Donnelly. Arna had a very successful season with him in 2018- 2019 when he clinched the Dunstan Horse feeds Cambridge Horse of the Year title. He had qualified for the Harness Jewels 4 Year Old Emerald but Arna chose to bypass the trip south and concentrate on races on his home track. As a 4 year old his owners Ken and Audrey Piercy were rewarded with ultra-consistent results when he won 4 times, was second 10 times and third 3 times.
In August 2019 he was sold to Australian connections and raced from the Ben Yoles Harness Racing Stables in Tasmania. He gave his owners a huge thrill the weekend he won two races in three days.
Although he always tried his best he hasn't been able to match that form again and his last placing was a third on 23rd April this year. He has been unplaced in his last five starts but he has given his owners a lot of enjoyment following him - and enjoying those cuddles!
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TAMPA — Less than 24 hours after a little girl slipped through balcony rails and fell onto a car below, code enforcement officials declared that every building in the Tampa apartment complex has guardrails set too far apart.
They cited the owner of Fredericksburg Apartments with code violations. He has 15 days to start making improvements.
That's what resident Bermary Rivera wants. "They need to fix it real fast," Rivera, 30, said. "Because another accident could happen."
Rivera lives next door to Autumn Butler, the 18-month-old girl who fell. Rivera's own girls, ages 4 and 7, were playing with Autumn on Monday afternoon before the incident.
Rivera said she no longer will allow her girls to play outside. "I want to move to the first floor," she said.
Tuesday morning, two code enforcement inspectors found gaps up to 8 inches wide in some of the guardrails. Sometimes, a baluster was entirely missing.
When the apartments were built in the late '60s and early '70s, building code stated that guardrails could not be more than 6 inches apart. Anything replaced after 2004 can't exceed 4 inches.
Code enforcement supervisor Jim Karr said he found that some of the rails — mostly the ones made of steel — meet code requirements. But the aluminum railings had gaps averaging 6.5 to 7 inches — too large, even by the 1970s standards.
"They have some code violations they have to address," he said.
The balcony where Autumn fell still had the original concrete guardrails, which have gaps between 3.5 to 6 inches, within code requirements.
But Rivera pointed to the rails that Autumn squeezed through. The gap was slightly larger than the rest. She said she measured it yesterday and found it was 6.5 inches at the top.
"This is dangerous," she said. "It should not be like this."
Fredericksburg Apartments owner Robert D'Andrea could not be reached Tuesday for comment. His son said he is out of town.
On Monday, officials said Autumn was in good condition, with scratches on her injured face. She returned home Tuesday afternoon.
Rivera said it's a miracle the toddler survived, probably aided by the fact that Rivera's car was parked under the balcony.
She pointed to a dent in her car's trunk, where Autumn fell before landing on the pavement.
"I know that saved her life," she said.
In an apartment below, Guy Crain, 26, said he's glad he doesn't live upstairs. He has a son who just turned 1, and a 2-year-old daughter.
He was outside Monday, working on his green Dodge Intrepid, when he saw Autumn fall. He was horrified and ran and picked her off the ground. She was crying — but he was glad to see she was breathing.
He ran her upstairs, where her grandmother, also crying, met him.
"I was saying 'It's okay. It's okay, baby,' " Crain said. "I'm glad she's all right. That's all I care about."
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