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In pursuit of peace and out of our faith commitment, Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, Jerusalem has formulated a set of principles by which we, as Palestinian Christians, feel a just, secure, and lasting peace can be achieved.
Our faith teaches us that,
- God, creator and redeemer, loves all people equally (John 3:16, Acts 17:24-28).
- God demands that justice be done. No enduring peace, security, or reconciliation is possible without the foundation of justice. The demands of justice will not disappear; and the struggle for justice must be pursued diligently and persistently but non-violently (Jeremiah 9:23-24, Isaiah 32:16-17, Romans 12:17-21).
- The Holy Land is God's gift to Palestinians and Israelis. They must live justly and mercifully and be good stewards of it (Micah 6:8).
- "Love your neighbor as yourself" is an inclusive principle that must be honored and sought after (Mark 12:31). The Golden Rule continues to apply, "Do to others what you want them to do to you" (Matthew 7:12).
- Faithfulness to God obliges us to work for justice, peace, forgiveness, reconciliation, and healing (Matthew 5:9, 43-45).
- We aknowledge the sufferings and injustices committed against Jews by the West, especially those inflicted in the holocaust. Nevertheless, they do not justify the injustices committed against Palestinians. Justice claimed by one people at the expense of another is not justice.
- Since Israel has, by force, displaced the Palestinians, destroyed their villages and towns, denied them their basic human rights, and illegally dominated and oppressed them, it is morally bound to admit its injustice against the Palestinians and assume responsibility for it.
- Since Israel acquired by force 77% of the land of Palestine in 1948, approximately 20% more than the United Nations had allotted, and established its state there, it is moral and right for Israel to return the whole of the areas captured in 1967, i.e. the Gaza Strip and West Bank, including East Jerusalem, to the millions of Palestinians who need their own small sovereign state.
- Israel's 'Law of Return' which allows any Jewish person to immigrate to Israel while denying Palestinians the right of return to their homeland is immoral and discriminatory.
- Sharing the sovereignty of Jerusalem is imperative to a moral and just peace.
- The ideology of militarism as well as the stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction are morally wrong. They sabotage the spirit and viability of peace and will not provide security either.
Legal Basis: International Legitimacy
The following principles have been affirmed and repeatedly reaffirmed by the international community:
- Palestinian refugees have the right of return -- UN General Assembly Resolution 194.
- The Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are occupied territories and the Israeli forces must withdraw from them -- UN Security Council Resolution 242 and 338 based on the international principle of the inadmissability of the acquisition of territory by force.
- The Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are illegal. Moreover, it is illegal for the occupying power to transfer its population to, or to change the status of, the occupied territories -- Fourth Geneva Convention.
- East Jerusalem is occupied territory. Israel's unilateral actions to alter the status of Jerusalem are illegal and invalid -- UN Security Council Resolutions 252 and 478.
- Violations of human rights such as home demolitions, land confiscation, torture, revocation of residency rights, restriction of movement, closures, and the monopolization of resources are an insult to the dignity of human beings and contravene international law -- United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Principles for Which Sabeel Stands
The people of the region--Palestinians and Israelis--both need and deserve a lasting peace, and security. With peace and security in place, bonds of acceptance and friendship can grow. It is no service to either community to promote a peace which flouts international law, ignores justice, and ultimately cannot endure since this will lead to continued bitterness and violence.
The following principles are therefore, based on international legitimacy. The international community has a responsibility to see that they are fulfilled. Once achieved, the strongest international guarantees must be given to ensure that the people of Palestine and Israel will live in peace and security.
- Israel must admit that it has committed an injustice against the Palestinian people and must accept responsibility for that. This means that reparation must be paid to all Palestinians who have suffered as a result of the conflict since 1948 whether they are Palestinian citizens of Israel, Palestinians living on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, or Palestinians living in the Diaspora. The road to healing and reconciliation passes through repentance, forgiveness and redress.
- The Palestinians must have their own sovereign, independent, and democratic state established on the whole of the Gaza Strip and West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Israel must withdraw to the June 4, 1967 borders. No solution is acceptable if it does not guarantee the Palestinians' and Israelis' right to self-determination, independence, and sovereignty.
- Jerusalem's sovereignty must be shared by the two states of Palestine and Israel. The city must remain open for Palestinians, Israelis, and all. East Jerusalem can be the capital of Palestine while West Jerusalem can be the capital of Israel. Any agreement must protect the sanctity of the holy places and guarantee the rights of the three religions, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism on an equal basis. All illegal confiscation of land or expansion of areas by Israel within the walled city of Jerusalem since 1967 must be reversed.
- The right of return to Palestinian refugees must be guaranteed according to international law. All refugees must be fully compensated.
- All Israeli Jewish settlements on the Gaza Strip and West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are illegal under international law. All the settlements built on Palestinian soil since 1967 must be part of Palestine.
- Once the principles of an acceptable justice are applied, a peace treaty must be drawn up between the two states of Palestine and Israel guaranteeing the full sovereignty and territorial integrity of each including recognized borders, water rights, and other resources.
- Furthermore, both states must fully guarantee the respect and protection of the human rights of all their citizens, including freedom of religion, in accordance with all international conventions.
In 1948 a grievous injustice was committed by the Zionists (forerunners of the state of Israel) against the Palestinian people. The Zionists acquired by force 77% of the land of Palestine and displaced three quarters of a million Palestinians. Consequently, the state of Israel was declared as a Jewish state. Since then, most of the displaced Palestinians have lived in refugee camps and their national rights have been denied. Despite UN Resolution 194, passed in December 1948 and reaffirmed annually by the UN, Israel has adamantly refused the right of return of Palestinian refugees to their homes. The 150,000 Palestinians who remained within that part of Palestine which became the state of Israel were given Israeli citizenship. However, they have been discriminated against and have been treated as second class citizens.
In 1967, the state of Israel acquired by force the rest of the country of Palestine (the 23%) further displacing approximately 325,000 Palestinians. The Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank came under Israeli military rule. The occupation has been oppressive, brutal, and dehumanizing. Palestinian land has been systematically confiscated, human rights violated, and people systemically humiliated, as documented by a number of international, Israeli, and Palestinian human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International, B'Tselem, LAW and Al-Haq. Furthermore, Israel assumed control of Palestine's water supply (unfairly restricting water to Palestinians and charging them exorbitant prices), began building exclusively Jewish settlements on Palestinian land and, through hundreds of military laws, persisted in its oppression of the Palestinians. As to East Jerusalem, Israel annexed it and, in 1993, closed it and cut it off from the rest of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, thus denying Palestinians the right of access to it. Consequently, even the right to worship in its churches and mosques is obstructed. Moreover, Israel enacted a policy to limit the Palestinian presence in Jerusalem to 27% of the city's population, through demolition of homes, confiscation of land, revocation of Palestinian residency rights as well as other means.
In 1991 at the end of the Gulf War, the peace process was initiated by the United States and Russia. In spite of its initial promise in the Madrid Conference to achieve a just peace, it became, in its Oslo form, an instrument for furthering the injustice. As it evolved, certain portions of the occupied territories were returned by Israel to the Palestinian Authority. By the end of March 2000, only 18.2% of the area of the West Bank has been returned to full Palestinian Authority; 24.7% is under Israeli security and Palestinian civil control. The remaining 57.1% of the West Bank is still under full Israeli control. The areas that have been returned to the Palestinians are not geographically linked together. The Israeli Army controls the highways and major roads throughout the occupied territories, as well as everything below the ground and sky above. It is important to note that in the Gaza Strip, only 60% of the land is under Palestinian control where over a million Palestinians live; while Israel controls the 40% of the Strip for the benefit of 6100 Jewish settlers. Furthermore, some of the 194 Israeli settlements (166 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and 28 in East Jerusalem - - all illegal under international law) have expanded to sizable towns. It is estimated that the number of settlers, including those who live in the settlement ring in and around Jerusalem, is approximately 400,000.
The two sides, Israelis and Palestinians, have more recently been engaged in the final status negotiations which include the thorniest issues, namely, Jerusalem, borders, refugees, water, and settlements.
We feel we are standing at a most important juncture in our history. The United States Government has been working to broker a peace agreement between Israel and Syria as well as to keep alive the negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Many of us are afraid that what might ensue in Palestine is an unjust peace. We at Sabeel feel we have a Christian responsibility to speak our mind for the sake of a lasting peace that will bring an acceptable justice to the Palestinians and security for all the peoples of our region. We fear that the Palestinian Authority might be forced to accept an unjust peace which will be attractively packaged by the state of Israel and the United States Government. We are, however, sure that an unjust peace will only be temporary and will inevitably plunge our region into greater violence and bloodshed. We will not be silent. We lift our voice prophetically in pointing to the pitfalls of injustice. The following points comprise the different scenarios. We would like to present them clearly with their probable consequences.
The Greatest Concern: A bantustan state
Taking a good look at the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, it is clear that Israel's eye is focused on the West Bank which includes East Jerusalem. The confiscation of Palestinian land, the building and expansion of the settlements have never stopped. Israel continues to insist that the settlements will remain under Israeli rule. If this is done, Israel will maintain its military presence on the West Bank while allowing the Palestinian Authority to have autonomous rule over its own people. The areas under Palestinian rule will be called Palestine. They will have the semblance of a state but will exist under the suzerainty of Israel and will not enjoy genuine sovereignty. What we are witnessing, therefore, is a bantustan-type state, home rule, just like what was proposed by the former apartheid government of South Africa to its black citizens. From all indications, this is the picture which is emerging on the ground.
If pressured, Israel may even concede the Gaza Strip, where it currently has only 6100 settlers and controls approximately 40% of the land and one third of the water. It might withdraw totally from the Gaza Strip, which now has a damaged aquifer and a serious lack of usable water, and allow the Palestinians to have their sovereign state there. That area will be small and contained in one corner of Palestine and, from Israel's perspective, will, presumably, not pose any serious threat to Israel. On the West Bank, however, the Palestinians will only be given autonomous rule, a homeland, in the guise of a state yet void of actual sovereignty.
This we believe is an unnatural, unhealthy, and unjust scenario and will only lead to a bloodier conflict. History teaches us that oppressed nations will not give up their struggle for freedom and independence. Under this scenario, Israel will not achieve the security it seeks because the forced and unjust peace settlement cannot be permanent.
Sabeel rejects outright this peace formula or any variation of it and warns that its imposition will be ultimately catastrophic for both peoples.
The Genuine Hope: Two sovereign and fully democratic states
This scenario envisages the total withdrawal of Israel from all the occupied territories including East Jerusalem according to United Nations resolutions 242 and 338. The Palestinians will establish their sovereign state on the whole of the 23% of the land of Palestine. One way to redeem the settlements is to make them the new towns for the returning Palestinian refugees. This can constitute a part of Israel's reparations to the Palestinians. Israel must compensate the owners from whom the land was confiscated. The Jewish settlers who choose to remain in Palestine can become Palestinian citizens and live under Palestinian sovereignty.
As to Jerusalem, it will have to be shared. The city must remain open to all. A peace treaty will be drawn up and the two countries will become inter-dependent economically and will help each other develop their resources for the well being of both their peoples.
This is the formula which the Palestinians have been hoping and working for. Indeed, it is not the ideal solution, but it carries within it an acceptable justice which most Palestinians are willing to live with for the sake of peace and prosperity. Furthermore, as this scenario agrees with United Nations resolutions since 1967, it will ensure the support of the international community of nations. This formula gives the Palestinians a state as sovereign as Israel, rids them of the Israeli occupation, and restores to them the whole of the occupied territories of 1967. Indeed, a state within the West Bank and Gaza, composed of only 23% of Palestine instead of the 43% allotted by the UN in 1947, is already a very signficant compromise by the Palestinians. The Palestinians would have to give up their right to most of historic Palestine. Obviously, Israel, with the help of the United States and the international community, will have to compensate the Palestinian people.
The Vision for the Future
Our vision involves two sovereign states, Palestine and Israel, who in the future may choose to enter into a confederation or even a federation, possibly with other neighboring countries and where Jerusalem becomes the federal capital. Indeed, the ideal and best solution has always been to envisage ultimately a bi-national state in Palestine-Israel where people are free and equal, living under a constitutional democracy that protects and guarantees all their rights, responsibilities, and duties without racism or discrimination. One state for two nations and three religions.
Standing for Justice
At every turn, the principle of justice must be upheld. Unless justice is rendered and security is achieved, the solution must be rejected because it will not endure. A just solution must include an equal measure of justice and security for both sides to make it viable. Otherwise it will not lead to a permanent peace. This is the basic principle that must be upheld and used as the measure for every one of the above points.
This is where Sabeel takes its stand. We will stand for justice. We can do no other. Justice alone guarantees a peace that will lead to reconciliation and a life of security and prosperity to all the peoples of our land. By standing on the side of justice, we open ourselves to the work of peace; and working for peace makes us children of God.
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He was right-handed. When he wrote on the paving stone of the Temple (in the story of the woman guilty of adultery) what did he write? Nothing. He did not need to.
The act of writing-on-stone is what the Bible calls “a parable-inaction” where no words are spoken but the action is the message.
We read of such parables in the prophets: doing something God asks them to do, without words.
Can you see the parable in Jesus writing on the ground with his finger? His action recalls God’s writing the commandments on the tablets of stone given to Moses on the holy mountain (Horeb/Sinai), the commandments that would guide the rabble of slaves leaving Egypt to become the People of God.
God wrote the commandments on stone? God has no hands, God has no body, God is spirit. This is “our” translating the work and word of God into images we understand. God had no finger with which to write the commandments.
“The finger of God” is a biblical image for the power of God. Everything God did/does is by the Word of God – “dabar”, a word that creates as it is spoken. “God saw all that was made and it was good.” God has no eyes. Again, it is our expressing understanding our way, not God’s way.
“The finger of God” is a phrase used by the Pharoah’s magicians to describe the plagues brought about by Moses when trying to convince the Pharoah to let the Hebrews go free. The magicians can do some of what God can do but not all, as they admit after the third plague, the mosquitos.
The finger of God “wrote” the commandments on stone, and the son of God wrote on the stone of the Temple pavement. The woman’s accusers understood this parable-in-action. So should we. They walked away defeated, leaving Jesus with the woman, not condemning her, nor forgiving her, either, but sending her home to be forgiven by her husband and family and neighbours. Was she? Jesus was right-handed. He was taught to write, as we all are. His teachers would never have allowed him to write left-handed, and not so long ago pupils in our schools were punished if they tried to write naturally with their left hand. Why the bias against lefthandedness? It is rife. It is everywhere.
In the whole of the Bible only one man is left-handed, Ehud, in the Book of Judges (chapter 3), and he is remembered for his treachery by being able to kill, unexpectedly, using his left arm and hand. In the same Book of Judges (chapter 20) we read of seven hundred soldiers of the tribe of Benjamin who could fight with either hand – in an army of 25,000! They were ambidextrous, we say, equally confident with either hand: it actually translates “having two right hands”, “dexter” being the Latin for “right”. “Sinister” is the Latin for “left”. To be left-handed is to be sinister, not trustworthy, unnatural.
Being left-handed is unusual, we accept that; but “evil”, “unnatural”, “inferior”, why? It is the way that God has made them and who are we to judge? Perhaps they need some conversion therapy. “We’ll try the cane if you dare write with your left hand,” and so they did, in our strangely biased schools.
Sheep on the right, “Come, you blessed” . . . goats on the left, “Go you cursed.” Left-handed compliments, poor footballers with two left feet, Catholics as left-footers, Jacob’s blessing Ephraim and Manasseh in chapter 48 of the Book of Genesis – and see why Joseph was so upset.
The Bible reflects bias against left-handedness. In London there is a left-handed shop with a fascinating variety of everyday utensils. Do you think we should get up a petition to have it closed as being against Bible teaching, and then try conversion therapy? Capital punishment, genocide, divorce, blood revenge are approved in the Bible, but same sex relationships and eating black pudding are condemned. Puzzling. Do you quote the Bible to prove yourself right and other people wrong? Dangerous ground if they read the Bible better than you do.
God bless us to ask to understand,
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Scripts and extra to run cameras on the flight computer
To create a fresh picam image
- Get the raspbian image and put it on an SD card following their instructions
- Re-insert, mount and cd into the new root filesystem
- Run the following commands:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/psas/camera-automation/master/install.sh -O tmp/install.sh sudo sh tmp/install.sh [hostname [root_path]]
- You can specify a hostname above or picam1 will be installed by default.
- When "Done." unmount and remove the card from your imaging system.
- Plug SD card into Raspberry Pi. Make sure you have Internet connectivity for the first time it boots up so that packages can be updated.
- Boot the system and login with default raspbian credentials (pi/raspberry)
- Set a new password when prompted
- Enable Camera when raspi-config comes up (blue background). Don't reboot when exiting.
- Accept packages to be installed
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Being an anime or comics fan, it can be tough to find the right crowd to socialize with. Of course, we’re here to help! To help you interact with people with similar interests and to bring to light how many people love the subculture that is anime, here are two 2022 Conventions that you just couldn’t miss!
Arlington Comic Fest was a 2-day event held in the Bob Duncan Center on April 15th and 16th in Arlington, Texas. Texas is the top-ranking state for hosting anime culture and conventions, and Arlington holds 3 cons, ranking second only to Houston, the leading city for having 6 cons in Texas! Arlington Fest itself was a reprieve for all lovers of science fiction, anime, comic books, and fantasy fans. The event had around 70 artists, retail vendors, and authors that you could meet and interact with. Some well-known guests included the Star Wars fans known as 501st Legion and the actor Stephanie Nadolny, who played the voice of Goku when he was a child and Gohan in the English dub of the Dragon Ball series.
Anime New Mexico was a 3 day event held at the Crowne Plaza from the 18th to the 20th of March in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was held by Fandom Events LLC, which manages multiple anime conventions, some of which include OKiCon, Midessanime and Ecchi Expo! The highlights of the event included: meeting voice actors, like Aaron Dismuke who notably voiced Alphonse Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist and Austin Tindle who voiced Marco from Attack on Titan and Karma from Assassination Classroom, shopping at the artists' alley and dealers' hall, amazing displays of cosplay, Idol concerts, an authentic Japanese Maid Café, improvised comedy shows, an anime-themed rave, and so much more!
The Convention had amazing guests like Linda Young, Leah Clark, Elizabeth Maxwell, Kyle Phillips and cosplayers like Peachy Sweet, Billy Bolt and Kaida, all of whom were available for fans to meet and interact with. The Convention was such a success that the date for the next Anime New Mexico event has already been announced. The dates for the next convention are March 17th to the 19th, 2023. The event promises to be as eventful as the last so you can find out more details about that here!
Both events were sponsored by us, The Otaku Box! The Otaku Box is a physical monthly subscription service offering a loot box containing 8-9 anime-related goodies based off favorite anime series/characters. The best part is you get to pick what you want to see next! Results from a monthly voting process helps us decide what to include in every box!
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Food & Beverage Industry
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The modern food industry is one of the fastest growing and most competitive sectors of the Ukrainian economy. Extensive legal regulations applicable to the food & beverage industry and other related industries in Ukraine are subject to regular changes. Thus, due to Ukraine’s commitment under the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement to bring the legislation in the food processing sector into line with the European Union law. Our Food & Beverage lawyers are actively involved in the development and discussion of regulatory legal acts aimed at harmonizing the Ukrainian legislation with the EU law.
Due to our in-depth expertise, we help our clients to keep abreast of both legislative changes and trends in legal regulations. We also prepare internal trainings and instructions for them to ensure awareness and compliance with the relevant standards, thus protecting their business from adverse effects. We help them predict changes in the legal field and to shape up their business processes in accordance with the effective or expected changes.
We have extensive experience in representing our clients’ interests in relations with supervisory and regulatory authorities and support our clients in inspections conducted by the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine.
As part of the Arzinger Legal Days, we arrange business breakfasts for representatives of food manufacturers and restaurant businesses, where participants have an opportunity to discuss urgent market issues and to share their experience.
The symbiosis of legal expertise, a personal-touch approach to each assignment and our practical knowledge of industry business enable us to offer our clients the highest level of legal services.
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This book for me was quite a departure from my usual genres. While I read the odd Mills and Boon long ago, with the idea of trying to write one (no, I didn’t), straight romance is not usually my thing.
I picked this title up after seeing it as one of the prize winners in the RBRT 2016 Book Awards (in which my book, The Prince’s Man, was a category winner – yay!). Both the cover (love that colour, and ooh! Man in a kilt!) and the title grabbed my fancy, and when I read the blurb, I couldn’t resist! Being a part-time resident of a far flung part of Scotland, anything that explores the small communities that still exist almost outside of the pressures of modern progress appeals to me, so the island setting of Scotch on the Rocks clinched the deal.
Here’s the blurb:
ISHABEL STUART is at the crossroads of her life.
Her wealthy industrialist father has died unexpectedly, leaving her a half-share in a ruined whisky distillery and the task of scattering his ashes on a Munro. After discovering her fiancé playing away from home, she cancels their lavish Christmas wedding at St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh and heads for the only place she feels safe – Eilean na Sgairbh, a windswept island on Scotland’s west coast – where the cormorants outnumber the inhabitants, ten to one.
When she arrives at her family home – now a bed and breakfast managed by her left-wing, firebrand Aunt Esme, she finds a guest in situ – BRODIE. Issy longs for peace and the chance to lick her wounds, but gorgeous, sexy American, Brodie, turns her world upside down.
In spite of her vow to steer clear of men, she grows to rely on Brodie. However, she suspects him of having an ulterior motive for staying at her aunt’s Bed and Breakfast on remote Cormorant Island. Having been let down by the men in her life, will it be third time lucky for Issy? Is she wise to trust a man she knows nothing about – a man who presents her with more questions than answers?
As for Aunt Esme, she has secrets of her own . . .
And my review
Ishabel Stuart was born on Cormorant Island, off the coast of Scotland. When her city life goes into meltdown she returns to her roots, coming home to the property now owned by her aunt, Esme. Unfortunately for her, Esme is just heading in the opposite direction to join one of the protest camps that have been her lifelong passion, leaving Ishabel in charge of the sole remaining occupant of the guest house – Brodie, a ridiculously good-looking, wealthy American hunk. Let personality clashes commence…
As someone who lives part-time in Scotland, I was drawn to this book by the setting, rather than the plot, but was delighted to find it an absolutely charming read, with wonderful atmosphere and great dialogue including portions (neither too much, or too little) of totally authentic Scottish dialect. There is humour (Pershing the parrot is hilarious), romance, more than one mystery to be solved, and the sort of outrageous characters that you really meet in this kind of small community.
About the only thing I found hard to swallow was how utterly too-good-to-be-true Brodie remained throughout the book. He was a saint, considering the sort of behaviour he was subjected to, and not just by Ishabel. Where can I find this paragon? I want him!
Highly recommended for lovers of Scotland and romance, with an intriguing touch of mystery.
I didn’t put into the review, as I didn’t want to give a negative impression of a book I thoroughly enjoyed, but as an author I did find the construction a bit odd – not conforming to the formula normally expected of romance novels. This in no way detracted from the read, it just surprised me, and maybe that was a good thing.
The point at which Brodie and Issy fall out in what should be a seemingly insurmountable way, seemed rather plot driven (okay, Issy has been unreasonable for much of the book, with good reason, but this just seemed an overblown reaction even for her) and was resolved so fast it presented no more than a blip, rather than the crisis point it would generally be in such a novel.
And the core story turned out to be about more about Esme than Issy, and as Esme is off page for two thirds of the book, the ending didn’t go quite the way I expected. I was fine with that, but just sayin’…
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On this annual art happening in Heusden-Zolder, the 736ideas books will be given to the participants of the project and to some politicians. The local community politicians (Mayor and members of the council) are invited to create a 3 dimensional postcard – artwork : make a school bench with your dream to make social exclusion […]
Here you can see how the ideas reached our MEPs…
On 18-19-20 November, EAPN organizes a national event in Madrid, which will give visibility to the situations and problems that people in risk of social exclusion encounter. In this context the project 736ideas4adream will be presented and a selection of the more than 736 images created by even more people around Europe, will be exhibited.
We are exhibiting all the 736 postcards! Videos will also be shown, as well as a short theater performance by the “Theater Göttliche Samen”. The catalogs and printed postcards will be handed out to the participants. A video workshop will make it possible for visitors to leave their impression of the exhibits as well as […]
Art 27 and the 736ideas4adream project were invited on this Fairtrade Fashion show. Art 27 organized a printing workshop where kids of all ages could choose an image out of the 736 ideas/postcards. The 736ideas4adream – toolkit designed by Art 27 was presented.
KE.S.S.A. Dimtra organized the presentation of the book with the 736 images/postcards produced for the project, and a video projection concerning the works that were created by participants from all countries and an exhibition of works that were created by Greek participants. Moreover, there was a presentation of a documentary series, based on the 736ideas4adream […]
Tomás Guido from Transit Projects (Madrid, Spain) guided a workshop with Japanese women and men of all ages, passengers on the Peaceboat, traveling from Japan around the world. The workshop provided a space to share personal experiences and discuss issues about social exclusion and peace, in Europe and beyond…
“Het Berenhuis” ( The house of the Bears ) is Storytelling and working with “Mouzart”, a mouse with a stubborn dream. It is a permanent action of Art 27 about art education and languages. Because Art 27 is convinced that different projects need interaction and good ideas / projects have to be implemented in the […]
Mayfield Arts, Newbury House organizes this fest to: give a platform to young people to participate; give young people the opportunity to develop and showcase their creative ability; create space to explore local and global citizenship; create space for young people to raise awareness of local and global citizenship themes.
KE.S.S.A. Dimtra in cooperation with N.G.O. “Athina” organized an informational open workshop with the participation of institutions from the health sector, journalists, members of N.G.O.s, psychologists and social workers. During the workshop, specialists talked about issues concerning children and mental health. There was a presentation of the “736 Ideas for a dream” project, a video […] | <urn:uuid:dd766a4b-e4fe-4d26-aed2-fe15792e456f> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://asceps.org/makingprojects/736ideas/category/news/ | 2017-03-27T04:41:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189403.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00415-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949434 | 666 |
Saturday, September 2nd 2017
HMS Neptune Band - Maid of the Loch
12:00 - 15:00
Saturday 2 Sept – during Loch Lomond Food & Drink Festival – on Maid of the Loch.
HMS Neptune Volunteer Big Band along with talented singer Phil Gambon will perform two sets of music at 12 noon and at 1.30pm. Perfect music for a perfect setting on board the ship. On deck if the weather is kind.
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Sonny Throckmorton started out as a performer, but instead he became one of the most successful songwriters in country music, with over 1,000 of his songs recorded by such artists as Tanya Tucker, Dave & Sugar, Merle Haggard, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Oak Ridge Boys, Doug Stone and even comedian George Burns.
He was born James Fron Sonny Throckmorton in Carlsbad, New Mexico, and spent much of his childhood traveling the Southwest before his family finally settled in Wichita Falls, Texas. After college, Throckmorton moved to San Francisco and played rock & roll in area clubs. At the urging of guitarist and publisher Pete Drake, he switched to country music and moved to Nashville in 1964, working as a bass player for Carl and Pearl Butler for two years. He then wrote for and managed Drake's publishing company. In 1965, Bobby Lewis had a Top Five hit with Throckmorton's "How Long Has It Been." He remained in Nashville for a few more years as a song promoter and staff writer for different companies before landing a job as a staff writer for the prestigious Tree Publishing. Unfortunately, none of the young writer's songs became hits, and he was fired.
In 1975, Throckmorton moved to Texas because he had promised himself that he would quit music if he didn't succeed by age 35. His fellow songwriters continued trying to sell Throckmorton's songs, however, and six months later he returned and was rehired by Tree. In nine months, over 150 of his songs were recorded, including "Thinking of a Rendezvous," Johnny Duncan's first number one hit. Another of his songs, "Knee Deep in Love with You," became a country standard. Between 1976 and 1980, a Throckmorton song appeared on the charts almost every week. His 1978 hit for Jerry Lee Lewis, "Middle Age Crazy," even became the basis of a major movie, and he was named Songwriter of the Year by the Nashville Songwriters Association three years in a row starting between 1978 and 1980.
In 1976, Throckmorton tried recording his own songs, first for Starcrest and then for Mercury, but the biggest hit he had, "Last Cheater's Waltz," only reached the Top 50. Fortunately, his stature as a major songwriter flourished and in 1980, he was named BMI Songwriter of the Year. Seven years later, with innumerable hits under his belt, Throckmorton was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. He recorded Southern Train for Warner in 1988 and then retired to his Texas farm to be with his family. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi | <urn:uuid:5ad70887-c161-49c6-a2ec-d8b5915b59bf> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://www.cmt.com/artists/sonny-throckmorton/biography/ | 2014-09-18T18:59:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657128337.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011208-00284-ip-10-196-40-205.us-west-1.compute.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990325 | 550 |
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The 19th Crystal Unicorn is the Labradorite Unicorn. I read somewhere that labradorite is great for arthritis. Personally, it makes me mindful of doing nice things for my physical self – like yoga, a nice walk, a soak in a warm bath. It’s calm, peaceful, like the air in a cozy cabin. I’m hanging on to these cozy feelings while the world opens up around me during a global pandemic. I think maybe this Crystal Unicorn is shielding herself behind her mane, with a sharp protective third-eye horn helping her remain alert.
All Crystal Unicorn paintings are 9×12″, painted to last with lightfast watercolor, gouache, and ink on archival paper. Paints and mediums used in collection include Kuretake Gansai Tambi, Daniel Smith, Winsor and Newton, and Prima. The linework is brushed on with Dr. Ph. Martin’s Bombay India Ink. The paper used is 140-lb Arches Hot Press watercolor paper. They are packaged in a bag-and-board situation (think how comic books are stored), and shipped in a cardboard envelope for added protection. All Crystal Unicorns come with a certificate of authenticity. | <urn:uuid:6d9f1315-4d3d-4297-8b47-e2384010fea3> | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | https://endangerouslycreative.com/product/labradorite-unicorn | 2020-08-09T10:52:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738552.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20200809102845-20200809132845-00107.warc.gz | en | 0.915049 | 259 |
Harrogate, Tennessee – The No. 13/20 and third-seeded Lincoln Memorial University women’s basketball team has two games down and four more to go in the NCAA Tournament. After destroying Wingate 85-66 in the NCAA Southeast Regional Semifinals on Saturday, they now are at another “first.” The first Sweet 16 in program history Monday at 7 p.m., where they will face fourth-ranked and top-seeded Columbus State for a berth in the Elite Eight and a trip to Columbus, Ohio.
LMU is currently 28-4 overall. They are currently ranked 13th in the WBCA/USA Today NCAA Division II Coaches Poll and 20th in the final D2SIDA National Media Poll. The 28 wins ties the school record for wins with the 1988-89 squad, but since that team went 28-7 and that amount of losses is now impossible for this team, this team could truly be called the best in LMU history.
With their 19 SAC wins, LMU captured their first-ever South Atlantic Conference Championship in women’s basketball. The 19 SAC wins by LMU are a new program record for conference wins and the second-most in SAC history. Anderson went 20-2 in the 2014-15 season.
LMU earned a three-seed in this year’s regional, which is the highest seed in program history. They enter the tournament courtesy of an at-large bid.
In Saturday’s game, LMU got some payback for the SAC Tournament Final a week ago as, after Wingate scored the first basket, they went on a 21-2 run and never looked back in the 85-66 win. Wingate would cut it to four on a couple of occasions but each time the Lady Railsplitters would have an answer and extend the lead and eventually coast to the victory.
LMU was led by Shea Coker (Knoxville, Tenn.) with 25 points and seven rebounds. Coker went 10-18 from the field, 2-5 from three-point range and 3-3 from the free throw line. Emily Griffith (Oliver Springs, Tenn.) had 16 points and six rebounds. Sydnie Anderson (Cleveland, Tenn.) had 11 points while Josey Harding (Middletown, Ohio) had her 12th double-double of the season with 10 points and 12 rebounds.
The Lady Railsplitters dominated on both ends of the floor, out-shooting WU 41.8% (28-67)-to-29.9% (20-67) from the field and 28.6% (4-14)-to-22.2% (2-9) from three-point range. They also owned the boards by a 54-41 margin, including 34-25 in offensive rebounds. The Bulldogs did fare better from the free throw line, out-shooting LMU 85.7% (24-28)-to-65.8% (25-38) from the charity stripe. LMU also won in points in the paint (26-24), second-chance points (15-14), bench points (26-24) and fast break points (8-4).
Monday’s game will be streamed by Columbus State and the NCAA will be providing live stats. Links to those are available at the top of this page or on www.lmurailsplitters.com. Fans listening on the radio can hear play-by-play on the LMU Sports Network at 91.3 WLMU-FM and online at www.913thegap.com.
LINCOLN MEMORIAL VS. COLUMBUS STATE
This is the first meeting between the two schools.
CSU defeated Lander 73-63 on Saturday to earn a spot in the Regional Final. Lander led by one going into the fourth quarter, but were outscored by the Cougars 28-17 in the final stanza.
Columbus State has a 30-1 record entering Saturday’s game.
Head Coach Krystal Evans is the first LMU coach in LMU’s NCAA era to be named conference Coach of the Year. She was named the 2016-17 SAC Coach of the Year for her efforts.
Senior SAC Player of the Year, All-Region candidate and CoSIDA Academic All-American Megan Pittman leads the team in scoring with an average of 14.4 points a game. She is second on the team in rebounding with 9.1 a game. Pittman is currently shooting 80.7% from the free throw line. She has been in foul trouble for the past four games, which has limited her effectiveness in the postseason.
Junior All-SAC Second Team member Shea Coker is second on the team in scoring with a 13.5 points per game average. She tied her career high vs. Wingate Saturday and has really stepped up her game in the postseason. She also passed the 800 career points mark on Saturday.
Senior All-SAC Honorable Mention Josey Harding currently leads the team and led the SAC in rebounding and rebounds per game with 11.1 rebounds a game and is fourth on the team in scoring with 8.5 points a game. She set a new SAC single-game rebound record with her 27 at Carson-Newman and with her 23 rebounds at Anderson she became the first LMU player, men or women, to have three 20+ rebound games. She also has had 12 double-doubles this season.
Karsen Sims (Gatlinburg, Tenn.) is third on the team in scoring with 8.7 points a game.
LMU is out shooting their opponents 41.9 percent to 38.0 percent this season. They are outscoring their opponents by a 14.7 points per game margin.
The Lady Railsplitters are currently out-rebounding opponents by 10.4 rebounds a game. In the Krystal Evans era, LMU has out rebounded their opponents in 77 of the 90 games played.
LMU enters the game with a program record of 848-484-1 in 75 seasons of competition.
LMU IN THE RANKINGS
The Lady Railsplitters are ranked 13th in the latest WBCA/USA Today Top 25 Coaches’ Poll.
The team is ranked 20th in the D2SIDA National Media Poll.
The fourth-place ranking earlier this season was the highest any SAC team has been ranked in the media poll, which was started in 2014 and ties the highest ranking by a SAC team in conference history. The other team? Former SAC member Presbyterian, who was ranked fourth in the coaches’ poll for two weeks in February, 2000.
The fifth-place coaches’ poll ranking earlier this season ties the highest ranking by a current SAC team in the coaches’ poll with Tusculum, who were ranked fifth the week of Jan. 13, 3009.
POINTS – Megan Pittman currently has 1095 career points, moving her up to 16th place in the all-time standings. She became the 18th member of the LMU 1,000 point club at Newberry on Feb. 11. She trails #15 Bridget Long (1990-94) by 25 points. Coker has 816, Harding has 760, Anderson 368, Mathis 321, Sims 334, Rachel Griffith 214 and twin Emily Griffith 238.
REBOUNDS – Pittman has become the third player in LMU history to pass the 800 rebound mark, she now has 822 career rebounds, and is tied for third place in the LMU record book with Harding. She is 37 rebounds behind second-place Lori Neely (1985-89).
Harding also currently has 822 rebounds and is tied with Pittman for third in career rebounds. She has become the fourth player in school history to have 800 rebounds and by moving into the top five there are now two of the top four rebounders in program history on the same team.
FIELD GOALS – Pittman is in 18th place on the made field goals list with 398. She needs two to pass Bridget Long (1990-94). She is also now 19th on the attempts list with 840 and is four behind #18 Anita Nelums (1992-95). Pittman is also 16th in field goal percentage with a 47.4% career mark, just behind Shea Coker’s 47.8%.
THREE-POINTERS – Coker is 10th in made treys with 92 and trails #9 Chasity Williams (2002-06) by three. Coker is also tied for 14th on the three-point attempts list with 214 with Amanda Jackson (1997-01), and first on the 3-pt percentage list with a .430 percentage. Mathis is 12th in made treys with 80 and trails #11 Katrina Ottesen by nine. She is 13th on the attempts list with 230 and tenth on the percentage list with 34.8%.
FREE THROWS – Pittman is now tied for tenth all-time in made free throws with 259 with Jennifer Childs (1999-03). Pittman is in 15th place in free throw attempts with 319, which translates to fourth place in career free throw percentage (81.2%).
Harding is ninth all-time in made free throws (276) and trails #8 Marcie Stout (1981-85) by four. She is 7th in free throw attempts (409).
BLOCKS – Harding is currently in fifth place on the all-time blocks list with 110. She is the fifth player in LMU history to have 100 or more blocks.
Pittman is also on the blocks list, where she is tied for 14th with 52 blocks with Debbie Green (1988-91). She is one behind Jennifer Childs.
DOUBLE-DOUBLES – Pittman also has 32 career double-doubles, tying her with Hillary Ross’ (2000-04) school record 32.
SERIES VS. COLUMBUS STATE
This is the first meeting between the two schools.
SCOUTING COLUMBUS STATE
The only loss by the Cougars this season was at USC-Aiken, a team that LMU defeated 78-51 back in November. Other common opponents are Anderson, Carson-Newman, Lander and King.
Peach Belt Conference Defensive Player of the Year Alexis Carter leads the team in scoring with 16.3 points a game and also leads the team in rebounding with 10.4 rebounds a game.
All-PBC performer Ashley Asouzu is second on the team in scoring, averaging 14.4 points a game. Britteny Tatum is third at 12.5 points a game.
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Morsi to reject alleged EU offer of Egyptian reconciliation - Islamist group
Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is to reject the European Union foreign policy chief’s offer of national reconciliation, an ultra-orthodox Islamist group was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya reportedly said that Morsi would refuse the offer of a “safe exit” by EU’s Catherine Ashton, when the pair met in an undisclosed location late on Monday, according to Egyptian news site Ahram Online.
But on Tuesday, Ashton denied carrying an offer to Morsi of "safe exit" if he were to renounce his claim to the presidency.
Egypt’s military-backed interim rulers allowed Ashton to meet the ousted leader, who had been kept incommunicado for a month.
Morsi is under investigation on charges of espionage and jail break. He has been detained, his whereabouts unknown, since he was deposed on July 3.
Ashton told Al Arabiya on Tuesday that she visited Cairo to send a clear message that prisoners “detained on political grounds should be released.”
Earlier Tuesday, Ashton, who left Cairo in a military helicopter to meet Mursi for two hours, said he was doing “well” and “has access to information and news.”
She added: “If people are in leadership positions and detained politically then that needs to be addressed, because bringing people together, finding a common way forward, building confidence between people is absolutely vital for the future.”
Ashton described Morsi as an “important person,” and said the meeting was an “opportunity” to discuss the situation.
“I promised him that I won’t represent his views because he isn’t in a position to contradict me if I got it wrong, and I wanted to discuss with him how he saw the situation.”
- Egyptian interim president pleads for reconciliation
- Islamist group says Mursi will deny EU reconciliation offer
- EU's Catherine Ashton to seek gov't, Brotherhood reconciliation during Cairo visit
- Sisi: Muslim Brotherhood rejected reconciliation ahead of June 30
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Abdominoplasty: U-M technique
I recently had an inquiry from “Kim A” about abdominoplasty techniques. She asks whether the procedure is called a “U-M” Abdominoplasty or the “W-M” procedure?
Well, the lettering can be pretty confusing. Unfortunately, there’s a big movement in Plastic Surgery to give procedures catchy names so that they can be given an aura of uniqueness. What I think is more important is that the patient understand his/her options so they can pick the procedure most appropriate for them.
“U-M” abdominoplasty is a variety of what is commonly called an “extended” abdominoplasty. Normally, during a Tummy Tuck, the skin below the belly button to the pubic mound is excised leaving a scar from hip bone to hip bone. The placement of the scar is variable. Some scars ride high, midway between the belly button and the pubic mound. Scars can also be placed low so they are hidden in the “Bikini line”. Other scars are shaped like a “W” and ride higher on the sides so patients can use one piece bathing suits that are “high cut” on the sides. So, choice of incision location is important.
The shape of the scar, to me, depends on the type of underwear or bathing suit the patient likes to wear.
The incision location should be discussed before the surgery so that you fully understand the final surgical plan.
The extended abdominoplasty was designed to get additional contouring in the area of the love handles. Contouring in this area can be done by liposuction alone, taking extra skin (thus the “extended” name), or a combination of both. You can see some of my results in the tummy tuck procedure gallery. It all depends on whether the patient wants tighter skin in the love handle area, or smaller scars. As a matter of fact, if you extend the “extended abdominoplasty” scar so that both ends of the scar meet in the back, you get a lower body lift.
The most important things to think about are not whether it’s the“U-M” or “W-M” abdominoplasty, but where you want the scar placed, how long you want the scar, how much contouring you want in the love handle area, etc.
Patients should always feel comfortable talking to their surgeon before the procedure about these details. The incision location will vary from physician to physician and highly influence your result so be sure to find out your surgeon’s plan!
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If one of your clients’ favorite shows is CBS’ “Amazing Race,” you
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Ever wonder if you made the right decision to buy that knick-knack
while you waited at the airport? Sakura shops in Japan’s Narita
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The contest jointly hosted by the Ministry of Land,
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winners included: Sencha Miyako-no-Tatsumi Japanese green tea sets,
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Another Sakura shop is scheduled to open in Kansai Airport in
the near future.
The Del Mar, Calif. thoroughbred racing season only runs through
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with rum, amaretto, Creme de Cassis and orange, pineapple and
cranberry juice, all year-long.
At The Palms in Turks and Caicos, resident mixologist Sebastian
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Personalize your own Select Comfort Sleep Number bed when you
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Find out your planetary type or learn if personal training is
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It doesn’t get more kosher than Hotel Barocco’s Jewish Rome
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This holiday season, San Francisco’s Argonaut Hotel caters to
those left off Santa’s list with its naughty package, including two
tickets for the Alcatraz prison nighttime tour.
Welcome the change of seasons with Pacific Sands Beach Resort
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Prepare yourself for chauffeur-driven airport transfers and
plenty of beans on toast with an all-inclusive three-night stay at
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Book by Aug. 31, and live la vie en rose with a three-night stay
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Vacations. Or spend a blissful week in Barbados that includes free
seventh night stay and $250 air credit through Dec. 13.
This September and October encounter grizzlies, black bears,
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Grand Tetons with a “Rites of Autumn” vacation package starting at
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Make Steamboat Springs, Colo., the site of your next family ski
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See Paris as never before with a six-night l’Esprit d’Europe
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Hotel Hassler, situated atop Rome’s famous Spanish Steps, is
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The federal government is eyeing retirement plans as a possible source of revenue to close the $1 trillion deficit. The total value of Americans’ retirement assets stood at $17 trillion at the end of September. That’s $17 trillion of untaxed assets! If the government could get a small piece of those assets, it would go a long way towards closing the budget gap. There have been proposals for getting at the assets already saved, but none have received much backing so far. However, discussions on how to slow the flow of dollars into these plans have been gaining support.
Here are two of the most popular proposals:
20/20 cap proposal – The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform recommends limiting the employee/employer contributions to 20 percent of an employee’s annual compensation, not to exceed $20,000, whichever is less. The American Benefits Council says the highest levels ($51,000 in 2013) can only be reached by business owners and higher-paid employees. Most middle income taxpayers would not be affected by the cap.
Flat-rate refundable tax credit – Under this proposal, both employee and employer contributions to qualified plans would no longer be excluded from income subject to tax. Traditional IRA contributions and any employer/employee contributions to 401(k) plans would be treated as taxable income. All qualified employer and employee contributions would be eligible for a flat-rate refundable tax credit. The credit would be deposited directly into the retirement savings account of the employee.
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Who Were You When JFK Was Shot?
The usual question for Americans on an Anniversary of National Significance is: Where Were You When...?
Where Were You When you learned that: Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot on April 4 in 1968? Neil Armstrong walked on the moon on July 21, 1969? The twin towers of the World Trade Center were attacked on Sept. 11, 2001?
But there is another question of orientation: Who Were You When ... a certain nation-changing event occurred?
This is who I was — 50 years ago this month — when I heard that President John F. Kennedy had been shot.
I was in the fourth grade at East Elementary School in Memphis, Tenn.
It was a blustery Friday. Our teacher told us about the shooting — sometime after lunch — in a somber, straightforward way. I was anxious to get home and see what my parents would say. After all, they had supported Richard Nixon — not Kennedy — in the 1960 election and being a dutiful son, I had paraded through the neighborhood before the election chanting "Nixon, Nixon, he's our man; Kennedy belongs in a garbage can."
But when I got to my house on that dreary afternoon in 1963 and talked with my parents and saw the grief-stricken looks on their faces and the tears in their eyes, I learned at that moment something I have carried in my heart since that day: Politics is not life. Life is life and life is sacrosanct and a person's life transcends politics.
For this 50th anniversary of the national tragedy, we ask a trio of notable people: Who Were You When ... you learned that President John F. Kennedy had been shot on Nov. 22, 1963? And — in retrospect — what effect did the event have on the rest of your life?
Randall L. Kennedy, Harvard Law School
"I was nine years old when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. I first got an inkling that something terrible had happened when I noticed people on the street suddenly start sobbing. I was accompanying my very pregnant mother on her visit to a friend's home.
"My parents and older brother were shocked and saddened by the news, as was I. President Kennedy, however, was no hero in my household. For months my father had been inveighing against him for failing to do enough to support the Civil Rights Movement. According to my dad, blacks had put Kennedy over the top in the close election of 1960 and the President had neglected to reciprocate their allegiance sufficiently.
"During the campaign, for instance, Kennedy had said repeatedly that with one stroke of the presidential pen, racial discrimination in federally-supported housing could be prohibited. He indicated that, if elected, he would wield that pen. After he became president, however, Kennedy's commitment apparently waned. He waited until November 20, 1962 to sign a narrow version of the anti-discrimination provision he had previously championed.
"My father resented Kennedy's tardiness. My brother, by contrast, stoutly defended the President. I remember their long, involved, impassioned debates that would accompany the family dinner and sometimes extend for what seemed like hours afterwards. Those debates intensified in the aftermath of Kennedy's death.
"Those debates meant a lot to me then and have continued to be influential in my life. Amidst the shock and outpouring of emotion in that tragic moment, my father continued to insist upon a clear-eyed, hard-headed evaluation of the now-martyred President. He rejected all attempts to make him submit to the ascendant sentimentalism of the moment.
"When I grew up, I embraced my father's view of President Kennedy and, more importantly, tried to adopt his intellectual and political toughness."
— Randall L. Kennedy is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass.
Rabbi Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
"I know that Kennedy's election made an impression on me that impacts my life today.
"I was 8 in 1960, and I recall conversations in my family concerning the possibility of the first Roman Catholic becoming president. My uncle Lawrence Fuchs, a professor at Brandeis, knew the Kennedys from Massachusetts politics and was a strong supporter. He later wrote a book, John F. Kennedy and American Catholicism.
"The conversations intrigued me as it was the first time I ever heard about different religions altogether — as far as I knew, everyone was Jewish — so the question of religious variety, not to mention religious intolerance, was new to me. I wanted to know more. When Kennedy was elected, I recall being proud that I lived in a country where 'anyone could become president.'
"The assassination, when I was 11, made a different kind of impact, also related to what I do today. Although I was surrounded by Jews, I did not know anyone who went to synagogue regularly. Even though it was a Friday when Kennedy was killed, I do not recall anyone suggesting we go to synagogue that weekend. It simply did not come up. As a ritually starved, spiritual seeker — although I would not have known to call myself that at the time — I remember spending a huge amount of time glued to the television ... particularly compelled by the funeral rites."
— Rabbi Nancy Fuchs Kreimer is director of the Department of Multifaith Studies and Initiatives at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Pa.
James H. Billington, Library of Congress
"The assassination of President Kennedy affected all of us as a terrible, shared human tragedy. In retrospect, it was a defining moment in my eventual move from academia into public service. As a young scholar of Russian history and international affairs, the murder of our young President jolted me into realizing that unpredictable danger and evil lay within America as well as in the outside world.
"I had been abroad with my young family conducting research in Helsinki and Leningrad during the exciting period when Kennedy was nominated, elected and inaugurated in 1960-61. I was subsequently fully immersed in university teaching and writing in the fateful fall of 1963. But I knew and admired many of the intelligent and idealistic young people who had answered in a variety of ways Kennedy's call to 'ask what you can do for your country.'
"Towards the end of the turbulent '60s, I was privileged to work with unsung heroes in the first of three federal institutions that were keeping alive that same sense of dedication. During the last 45 years, I have served in succession as CEO of the Fulbright Program, of The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and, for the last 26 years, of The Library of Congress.
"The good that has been accomplished in these and other public institutions is the work of idealistic staff who continue to respond to the challenge to service that John Kennedy articulated for our times. And we are all still inspired by the desire somehow to recover the optimistic spirit of America raised up by a young leader who embodied hope, but was tragically denied the chance to see it sustained."
— James Hadley Billington is the 13th Librarian of Congress in Washington, D.C.
And Who Were You...
So Who Were You when President Kennedy was shot? And how did the moment impact your life?
If you didn't live through the national tragedy or don't remember it, do you see ways in which that event has influenced you, the people you know or the United States as a nation?
Please share your stories with us in the comments section below. Thank you.
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Martin Flores and Angel Cabrera lead the way at the Wells Fargo Championship on a day where Brendon de Jonge carded a 62 to equal a course record at Quail Hollow.
De Jonge had began the day in last place after shooting an 80, 8-over par, on Thursday but remarkably beat his first round score by 12 shots during day two.
The Zimbabwean is now back to two-under for the tournament and is only seven shots off the lead. His efforts equalled the course record set by Rory McIlroy who carded a 62 during his final-round of his first career PGA victory in this tournament in 2010.
De Jonge, who hit eight birdies and an eagle, was happy that he made amends for his poor first round.
"I wish I could go into every round with that kind of a mind set, but it's easier said than done," De Jonge said on pgatour.com.
"As horrible as yesterday was, today was as nice. So this game gives you something and takes something away."
Things could have been even better for the 33-year old as an 18-foot putt on the final hole represented a chance to make a course record 61, but he narrowly missed.
De Jonge admits he wasn't expected to make the cut but is now looking forward to competing over the weekend.
"I knew I had to keep going really just to make the cut, so I had that mind set all day that I needed to get out and get as far under par as possible and thank goodness it worked out," De Jonge added.
"To be honest, I didn't expect to be playing this weekend, so everything is a bonus. I have to do a good job of starting fresh tomorrow and realizing that it's a new round."
The player who shares De Jonge's course record, McIlroy, doesn't look likely to repeat his triumph from four years ago.
The Northern Irishman hit a 76 during a nightmare round after back-to-back double bogeys at holes three and four with bogeys at two, six and 16.
However, McIlroy carded three birdies to see him just make the cut by one shot on one-over par for the tournament. He began the day just three stokes off the lead but is now eight shots behind.
Mickelson also shot a disappointing second round after a promising first round when he shot a 75 to leave him at three-under.
The tournament has been much kinder to Argentinian Cabrera whose rounds of 66 and 69 has given him a share of the lead. He began the second day one shot clear but has been joined by American Flores.
A run of four birdies in five holes on the back nine saw Cabrera clear by a shot but a bogey on the final hole gave him a share of the lead. It means Cabrera will play the weekend for just the third time in 10 starts this season.
Flores' second round score of 68 was added to his opening round of 67 to see him joint with Cabrera on nine-under.
England's Justin Rose is in contention after his second round 67 has put him just one stroke off the leaders while American duo Shawn Stefani and JB Holmes are a shot further back.
Scotland's Martin Laird is on five under but England's Lee Westwood didn't make the cut as he shot a 76 to add to his 71 to leave him at three-over.
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Columbus at La Rabida
By Washington Irving (Adapted)
About half a league from the little
seaport of Palos de Moguer, in Andalusia, there stood,
and continues to stand at the present day, an ancient convent
of Franciscan friars, dedicated to Santa Maria de Rabida.
One day a stranger on foot, in humble
guise, but of a distinguished air, accompanied by a small
boy, stopped at the gate of the convent and asked of the
porter a little bread and water for his child. While receiving
this humble refreshment, the prior of the convent, Juan
Perez de Marchena, happened to pass by, and was struck
with the appearance of the stranger. Observing from his
air and accent that he was a foreigner, he entered into
conversation with him and soon learned the particulars
of his story.
That stranger was Columbus.
Accompanied by his little son Diego,
he was on his way to the neighboring town of Huelva, to
seek a brother-in-law, who had married a sister of his
The prior was a man of extensive information.
His attention had been turned in some measure to geographical
and nautical science. He was greatly interested by the
conversation of Columbus, and struck with the grandeur
of his views. When he found, however, that the voyager
was on the point of abandoning Spain to seek the patronage
of the court of France, the good friar took the alarm.
He detained Columbus as his guest,
and sent for a scientific friend to converse with him.
That friend was Garcia Fernandez, a physician of Palos.
He was equally struck with the appearance and conversation
of the stranger. Several conferences took place at the
convent, at which veteran mariners and pilots of Palos
Facts were related by some of these
navigators in support of the theory of Columbus. In a word,
his project was treated with a deference in the quiet cloisters
of La Rabida and among the seafaring men of Palos which
had been sought in vain among sages and philosophers.
Among the navigators of Palos was one
Martin Alonzo Pinzon, the head of a family of wealth, members
of which were celebrated for their adventurous expeditions.
He was so convinced of the feasibility of Columbus's plan
that he offered to engage in it with purse and person,
and to bear the expenses of Columbus in an application
Fray Juan Perez, being now fully persuaded
of the importance of the proposed enterprise, advised Columbus
to repair to the court, and make his propositions to the
Spanish sovereigns, offering to give him a letter of recommendation
to his friend, the Prior of the Convent of Prado and confessor
to the queen, and a man of great political influence; through
whose means he would, without doubt, immediately obtain
royal audience and favor. Martin Alonzo Pinzon, also, generously
furnished him with money for the journey, and the Friar
took charge of his youthful son, Diego, to maintain and
educate him in the convent.
Thus aided and encouraged and elated
with fresh hopes, Columbus took leave of the little junto
at La Rabida, and set out, in the spring of 1486, for the
Castilian court, which had just assembled at Cordova, where
the sovereigns were fully occupied with their chivalrous
enterprise for the conquest of Granada. But alas! Success
was not yet - for Columbus met with continued disappointments
and discouragements, while his projects were opposed by
many eminent prelates and Spanish scientists, as being
against religion and unscientific. Yet in spite of this
opposition, by degrees the theory of Columbus began to
obtain proselytes. He appeared in the presence of the king
with modesty, yet self-possession, inspired by a consciousness
of the dignity and importance of his errand; for he felt
himself, as he afterwards declared in his letters, animated
as if by a sacred fire from above, and considered himself
an instrument in the hand of Heaven to accomplish its great
designs. For nearly seven years of apparently fruitless
solicitation, Columbus followed the royal court from place
to place, at times encouraged by the sovereigns, and at
At last he looked round in search of
some other source of patronage, and feeling averse to subjecting
himself to further tantalizing delays and disappointments
of the court, determined to repair to Paris. He departed,
therefore, and went to the Convent of La Rabida to seek
his son Diego. When the worthy Friar Juan Perez de Marchena
beheld Columbus arrive once more at the gate of his convent
after nearly seven years of fruitless effort at court,
and saw by the humility of his garb the poverty he had
experienced, he was greatly moved, but when he found that
he was about to carry his proposition to another country,
his patriotism took alarm.
The Friar had once been confessor to
the queen, and knew that she was always accessible to persons
of his sacred calling. He therefore wrote a letter to her,
and at the same time entreated Columbus to remain at the
convent until an answer could be received. The latter was
easily persuaded, for he felt as if on leaving Spain he
was again abandoning his home.
The little council at La Rabida now
cast round their eyes for an ambassador to send on this
momentous mission. They chose one Sebastian Rodriguez,
a pilot of Lepe, one of the most shrewd and important personages
in this maritime neighborhood. He so faithfully and successfully
conducted his embassy that he returned shortly with an
Isabella had always been favorably
disposed to the proposition of Columbus. She thanked Juan
Perez for his timely services and requested him to repair
immediately to the court, leaving Columbus in confident
hope until he should hear further from her. This royal
letter, brought back by the pilot at the end of fourteen
days, spread great joy in the little junto at the convent.
No sooner did the warm-hearted friar
receive it than he saddled his mule, and departed, privately,
before midnight to the court. He journeyed through the
countries of the Moors, and rode into the new city of Santa
Fe where Ferdinand and Isabella were engaged in besieging
the capital of Granada.
The sacred office of Juan Perez gained
him a ready admission into the presence of the queen. He
pleaded the cause of Columbus with enthusiasm. He told
of his honorable motives, of his knowledge and experience,
and his perfect capacity to fulfill the undertaking. He
showed the solid principles upon which the enterprise was
founded, and the advantage that must attend its success,
and the glory it must shed upon the Spanish Crown.
Isabella, being warm and generous of
nature and sanguine of disposition, was moved by the representations
of Juan Perez, and requested that Columbus might be again
sent to her. Bethinking herself of his poverty and his
humble plight, she ordered that money should be forwarded
to him, sufficient to bear his traveling expenses, and
to furnish him with decent raiment.
The worthy friar lost no time in communicating
the result of his mission. He transmitted the money, and
a letter, by the hand of an inhabitant of Palos, to the
physician, Garcia Fernandez, who delivered them to Columbus
The latter immediately changed his threadbare garb for
one more suited to the sphere of a court, and purchasing
a mule, set out again, reanimated by hopes, for the camp
This time, after some delay, his mission
was attended with success. The generous spirit of Isabella
was enkindled, and it seemed as if the subject, for the
first time, broke upon her mind in all its real grandeur.
She declared her resolution to undertake the enterprise,
but paused for a moment, remembering that King Ferdinand
looked coldly on the affair, and that the royal treasury
was absolutely drained by the war.
Her suspense was but momentary. With
an enthusiasm worthy of herself and of the cause, she exclaimed:
"I undertake the enterprise for my own crown of Castile,
and will pledge my jewels to raise the necessary funds."
This was the proudest moment in the life of Isabella.
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To our minds, the entire problem of the “first cause” is a paradox. The spontaneous existence of the universe, without God, makes no sense, yet we also can’t make sense of God’s own origins either.
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Can you say something about studying in Delft/the Netherlands?
Being a student in Delft I got a very important chance in my life to meet people of different nationalities who share one common goal, education. Not only is it just education but also the chance to meet new friends, experience a new culture and discover more about yourself. We are from different countries but live as children of the same family in one 'international house'
What kind of professional background do you need to succeed in this programme?
Applicants should at least have a Bachelor of Science degree related to water/environment.
Why should new students/water professional choose this programme?
This programme is important in our daily lives as it touches current issues such as climate change, water scarcity and shortages and water governance. At IHE Delft you get an opportunity to gain knowledge from experienced professors, lecturers and staff who are very supportive and ready to lend a hand whenever students ask.
What are you going to do once back home?
I will use the knowledge gained through my studies at IHE Delft to address the issues of IWRM for the betterment of my country and the world as a whole.
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“Did you know cake tastes better on the moon? If you went to Earth and had cake you’d be so disappointed. It’d be flat and heavy and solid. It’s to do with pore size and crumb structure, and crumb structure is so much better on the moon. Every cake you make is three kinds of science: chemistry, physics and architecture. The physics is about heat, gas expansion and gravity. Your raising agents push up against gravity. The less gravity, the higher it raises. You might think, so, if lower gravity makes for better crumb structure, wouldn’t the perfect cake be one you made in zero gee? Actually, no. It would expand in all directions and you’d end up with a big ball of fizzing cake mix. When you came to bake it, it would be very difficult to get heat to the centre of the cake. You would end up with a soggy heart.”
Personal 3d Printing has been overhyped for a while now, so I’ve found myself tuning out more and more, despite using them nearly every week in my work.
A couple of weeks back I met Steve Schell, co-founder of New Matter, and it got me excited again about personal 3d printing for the first time in ages. I mean, they kind of had me from the Anathem reference, but that wasn’t the SF link that I think has the most resonance…
They’re running a crowdfunding campaign (natch) that’s ending soon, and seems to be going great guns. Their pitch is, well, not everyone wants to fire up solidworks or even sketchup every time you want something – what if it was more like an infinite vending machine where you picked from a catalog of design? It’s also a lot cheaper than competitors – $250 bucks… and they’ve called the first one the ‘Model-T’…
No, the SF story that springs to mind isn’t one of Neal Stephenson’s but part of William Gibson’s “Bridge trilogy” – namely the “Lucky Dragon” chain of convenience stores that have brought replicator-like vending machines to the corner store…
New Matter’s not there yet – the objects in their ‘vending’ library will have to be more useful and durable than the typical mainly decorative 3d printed spamjects you find so prevalent at the moment – but well worth tracking I think.
Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else’s thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person’s vantage point. Not only are you taking in sights and sounds that you could not experience firsthand, but you have stepped inside that person’s mind and are temporarily sharing his or her attitudes and reactions. As we shall see, “empathy” in the sense of adopting someone’s viewpoint is not the same as “empathy” in the sense of feeling compassion toward the person, but the first can lead to the second by a natural route. Stepping into someone else’s vantage point reminds you that the other fellow has a first-person, present-tense, ongoing stream of consciousness that is very much like your own but not the same as your own.
Just finished reading “Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products” by Leander Kahney, which is mainly fascinating because of the abscence of it’s subject. Ive has said so little in public (aside from in corporate pr films) that the book paints a detailed picture of everything around him – the design culture he was raised in, both in education and industry, the design group and wider engineering/manufacturing culture at Apple – right down to gems like this:
“Enter the need for so-called friction stir welding (FSW), a solid-state welding process invented in 1991. It’s actually less of a weld than a recrystallization, as the atoms of the two pieces are joined in a super strong bond when a high-speed bobbin is moved along the edges to be bonded, creating friction and softening the material almost to its melting point.”
Needless to say I really enjoyed it – but Ive is just the hook the book hangs off. It wouldn’t exist or sell as a book without him, although it’s full of fascinating detail about how Apple products are designed and made.
The little you do learn about Ive as a design leader is good. A little hagiographic, but hey. I’d recommend it more for the insights into the design, making and manufacturing approach at Apple than the man at the centre of it however.
‘In America, on the other hand,’ Milton explained, ‘designers are very much serving what industry wants. In Britain, there is more of the culture of the garden shed, the home lab, the ad hoc and experimental quality. And Jony Ive interacts in such a way … [he] takes big chances, instead of an evolutionary approach to design – and if they had focus-grouped Ive’s designs, they wouldn’t have been a success.’
If the education system in America tended to teach students how to be an employee, British design students were more likely to pursue a passion and to build a team around them.
‘As an industrial designer, you have to take that great idea and get it out into the world, and get it out intact. You’re not really practising your craft if you are just developing a beautiful form and leaving it at that.’
I can’t have people working in cubicle hell. They won’t do it. I have to have an open studio with high ceilings and cool shit going on. That’s just really important. It’s important for the quality of the work. It’s important for getting people to do it. – ROBERT BRUNNER
He wanted a ‘small, really tight’ studio. ‘We would run it like a small consulting studio, but inside the company,’ he said. ‘Small, effective, nimble, highly talented, great culture.’4 Setting up a consultancy inside Apple seemed in line with the company’s spirit: unconventional, idea driven, entrepreneurial. ‘It was because, really, I didn’t know any other way,’ Brunner explained. ‘It wasn’t a flash of brilliance: that was the only thing I knew how to do.’
In 1997, English contributed photos to Kunkel’s book about the design group, AppleDesign, but he also worked with a lot of other design studios in the Valley. To his eye, Apple seemed different. It wasn’t just the tools and their focus; the place was rapidly populated with designer toys, too, including spendy bikes, skateboards, diving equipment, a movie projector and hundreds of films. ‘It fostered this really creative, take-a-risk atmosphere, which I didn’t see at other firms,’ said English.
Brunner also made about half a dozen of the designers ‘product line leaders’ (PLLs) for Apple’s major product groups: CPUs, printers, monitors and so on. The PLLs acted as liaisons between the design group and the company, much in the way an outside design consultancy would operate. ‘The product groups felt there was a contact within the design group,’ Brunner said.
Brunner wanted to shift the power from engineering to design. He started thinking strategically. His off-line ‘parallel design investigations’ were a key part of his strategy. ‘We began to do more longer-term thinking, longer-term studies around things like design language, how future technologies are implemented, what does mobility mean?’ The idea was to get ahead of the engineering groups and start to make Apple more of a design-driven company, rather than a marketing or engineering one. ‘We wanted to get ahead of them, so we’d have more ammunition to bring to the process.’
In hindsight, Brunner’s choices – the studio’s separation from the engineering groups, its loose structure, the collaborative workflow and consultancy mind-set – turned out to be fortuitous. One of the reasons Apple’s design team has remained so effective is that it retains Brunner’s original structure. It’s a small, tight, cohesive group of extremely talented designers who all work on design challenges together. Just like the designers had done at Lunar, Tangerine and other small agencies. The model worked.
‘Bob did more than lay the foundations for Jony’s design team at Apple – he built the castle,’ said Clive Grinyer. ‘After Bob, it was the first time that an in-house design team was cool.’
Jony was looking for the Mac NC’s ‘design story’. As his dad, Mike, had instilled in him, developing the design story was an essential first step in conceiving something entirely new. ‘As industrial designers we no longer design objects,’ Jony said. ‘We design the user’s perceptions of what those objects are, as well as the meaning that accrues from their physical existence, their function and the sense of possibility they offer.’
‘When you see the most dramatic shift is when you transition from an abstract idea to a slightly more material conversation,’ Jony said. ‘But when you made a 3-D model, however crude, you bring form to a nebulous idea, and everything changes – the entire process shifts. It galvanizes and brings focus from a broad group of people.
Though Jobs rejected all five names, Segall refused to give up on iMac. He went back again with three or four new names, but again pitched iMac. This time, Jobs replied: ‘I don’t hate it this week, but I still don’t like it.’43 Segall heard nothing more about the name from Jobs personally, but friends told him that Jobs had the name silk-screened onto prototypes of the new computer, testing it out to see if he liked the look. ‘He rejected it twice but then it just appeared on the machine,’ Segall recalled. He came to believe that Jobs changed his mind just because the lower-case ‘i’ looked good on the product itself.
Boxes may seem trivial, but Jony’s team felt that unpacking a product greatly influenced the all-important first impressions. ‘Steve and I spend a lot of time on the packaging,’ Jony said then. ‘I love the process of unpacking something. You design a ritual of unpacking to make the product feel special. Packaging can be theater, it can create a story.’
‘Innovation,’ he wrote, ‘is rarely about a big idea; more usually it’s about a series of small ideas brought together in a new and better way. Jony’s fanatical drive for excellence is, I think, most evident in the stuff beyond the obvious; the stuff you perhaps don’t notice that much, but which makes a difference to how you interact with the product, how you feel about it.’
‘Apple designers spend ten percent of their time doing traditional industrial design: coming up with ideas, drawing, making models, brainstorming. They spend ninety percent of their time working with manufacturing, figuring out how to implement their ideas.’
On iPhone launch day, Jobs turned to Kay and casually asked, ‘What do you think, Alan? Is it good enough to criticize?’ The question was a reference to a comment made by Kay almost twenty-five years earlier, when he had deemed the original Macintosh ‘the first computer worth criticizing’. Kay considered Jobs’s question for a moment and then held up his moleskin notebook. ‘ “Make the screen at least five inches by eight inches and you will rule the world,” he said.’
‘I have literally seen buildings where as far as the eye can see, where you can see machines carving, mostly aluminium, dedicated exclusively for Apple at Foxconn,’ said Guatam Baksi, a product design engineer at Apple from 2005 to 2010. ‘As far as the eye can see.’
Unibody represents a giant financial gamble by Apple. When it started investing seriously around 2007, Apple contracted with a Japanese manufacturer to buy all the milling machines it could produce for the next three years. By one estimate, that was 20,000 CNC milling machines a year, some costing upward of $250,000 and others $1 million or more. The spending didn’t stop there, as Apple bought up even more, acquiring every CNC milling machine the company could find. ‘They bought up the entire supply,’ said one source. ‘No one else could get a look in.’
Apple spent $9.5 billion on capital expenditures, the majority of which was earmarked for product tooling and manufacturing processes. By comparison, the company spent $865 million on retail stores. Thus, Apple spent nearly eleven times as much on its factories as on its stores, most of which are in prime (that is, expensive) real estate locations.
Enter the need for so-called friction stir welding (FSW), a solid-state welding process invented in 1991. It’s actually less of a weld than a recrystallization, as the atoms of the two pieces are joined in a super strong bond when a high-speed bobbin is moved along the edges to be bonded, creating friction and softening the material almost to its melting point. The plasticized materials are then pushed together under enormous force, and the spinning bobbin stirs them together. The result is a seamless and very strong bond. In the past, FSW required machines costing up to three million dollars apiece, so its use was confined to fabricating rocket and aircraft parts. More recent advances allowed CNC milling machines to be retrofitted to perform FSW at a much lower cost. In addition to its other advantages, FSW produces no toxic fumes and finished pieces that require no extra filler metal for further machining, making the process more environmentally friendly than traditional welding.
‘That’s probably the single greatest effect, that we nowadays expect many things to have better designs. Because of Apple, we got to compare crappy portable computers versus really nice ones, crappy phones versus really nice ones. We saw a before-and-after effect. Not over a generation, but within a few years. Suddenly 600 million people had a phone that put to shame the phone they used to have. That is a design education at work within our culture.’
from Freedom by Daniel Suarez:
“Where ancient people believed in gods and devils that listened to their pleas and curses — in this age immortal entities hear us. Call them bots or spirits; there is no functional difference now. They surround us and through them word-forms become an unlock code that can trigger a blessing or a curse. Mankind created systems whose inter-reactions we could not fully understand, and the spirits we gathered have escaped from them into the land where they walk the earth—or the GPS grid, whichever you prefer. The spirit world overlaps the real one now, and our lives will never be the same.”
“But doesn’t this just spread mysticism? Lies, essentially?”
“You mean fairy tales? Yes, initially. But then, a lot of parents tell young children that there’s a Santa Claus. It’s easier than trying to explain the cultural significance of midwinter celebrations to a three-year-old. If false magic or a white lie about the god-monster in the mountain will get people to stop killing one another and learn, then the truth can wait. When the time is right, it can be replaced with a reverence for the scientific method.”
The mini-kaiju are teething, which means very little sleep in our household.
I had about an hour’s nap mid-afternoon yesterday, kindly afforded by Foe taking on twin-wrangling for a bit. I had a really vivid dream, which I can only recall snatches of. Blogging about dreams would be naff even if I were twenty years younger and it was twenty years ago, and this was livejournal, so I’ll keep this short.
The context, I think was a pub conversation about books read and not-read – you know the sort where people enthuse about something you absolutely must-read, that they can’t quite believe you haven’t. In it, a book called “The Refrigerator” came up.
Either I couldn’t believe someone hadn’t read it, or they couldn’t believe I hadn’t. Anyway, it’s many merits were listed by those present.
“The Refrigerator” basically put, is a hard sci-fi take on Lovecraft – interstellar space is dark and empty apart from the dark, empty, unknowable and relentless things in it – which glance against our little solar system in the near-future, causing much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
I think the majority of it was set on some kind of colony or station in the Kuiper Belt that cops it before the rest of us.
I mention all this as it mustn’t of popped in there all by itself – and there are certainly shades of Greg Bear’s “Forge of God“, Lovecraft, Warren’s “Ocean“, and his nasally-extinguished God from The Authority, Vernor Vinge’s “A Fire upon the deep” and even Pitch-Black.
Aside from all of those, have I described to myself a book that I think I should read?
Do you recognize a book I should read?
I’d been recommended “The Red Men” by many.
The physical (red) book stared at me from a shelf until, recently, aptly it lept the fence into the digital, and was republished as an e-book.
This leap was prompted by the release of Shynola’s excellent short film – “Dr. Easy” – that brings to life the first chapter (or 9mins 41secs) of the book.
The Red Men resonates with everything.
Everything here on this site, everything I’ve written, everything I’ve done. Everything I’m doing.
In fact, “resonates” is the wrong word.
It shook me.
My highlights, fwiw (with minimal-to-no spoilers) below:
“I wriggled my hand free of Iona’s grasp and checked my pulse. It was elevated. Her question came back to me: Daddy, why do people get mad? Well, my darling, drugs don’t help. And life can kick rationality out of you. You can be kneecapped right from the very beginning. Even little girls and boys your age are getting mad through bad love. When you are older, life falls short of your expectations, your dreams are picked up by fate, considered, and then dashed upon the rocks, and then you get mad. You just do. Your only salvation is to live for the dreams of others; the dreams of a child like you, my darling girl, my puppy pie, or the dreams of an employer, like Monad.”
“The body of the robot was designed by a subtle, calculating intelligence, with a yielding cover of soft natural materials to comfort us and a large but lightweight frame to acknowledge that it was inhuman. The robot was both parent and stranger: you wanted to lay your head against its chest, you wanted to beat it to death. When I hit my robot counsellor, its blue eyes held a fathomless love for humanity.”
“ugliness was a perk confined to management.”
“Positioning himself downwind of the shower-fresh hair of three young women, Raymond concentrated on matching the pace of this high velocity crowd. There were no beggars, no food vendors, no tourists, no confused old men, no old women pulling trolleys, no madmen berating the pavement, to slow them down; he walked in step with a demographically engineered London, a hand-picked public.”
“Over the next few days you will encounter more concepts and technology like this that you may find disturbing. If at any time you feel disorientated by Monad, please contact your supervisor immediately.’
‘How do you help him?’ ‘It’s about live analysis of opportunities. Anyone can do retrospective analysis. I crunch information at light speed so I’m hyper-responsive to changing global business conditions. Every whim or idea Harold has, I can follow it through. I chase every lead, and then I present back to him the ones which are most likely to bear fruit. I am both his personal assistant and, in some ways, his boss.’
“So long as the weirdness stayed under the aegis of a corporation, people would accept it.”
“Once you pass forty, your faculties recede every single day. New memories struggle to take hold and you are unable to assimilate novelty. Monad is novelty. Monad is the new new thing. Without career drugs, the future will overwhelm us, wave after wave after wave.’”
“No one has access to any code. I doubt we could understand it even if we did. All our IT department can offer is a kind of literary criticism.’
‘I can’t sleep. I stopped taking the lithium a while ago. Is this the mania again? Monad is a corporation teleported in from the future: discuss. Come on! You know, don’t you? You know and you’re not telling. I would have expected more protests. Anti-robot rallies, the machine wars, a resistance fighting for what it means to be human. No one cares, do they? Not even you. You’ll get up in the morning and play this message and it will be last thing you want to hear.’
“George Orwell wrote that after the age of thirty the great mass of human beings abandon individual ambition and live chiefly for others. I am one of that mass.”
“Plenty of comment had been passed on the matter, worrying over the philosophical and ethical issues arising from simulated peope, and it was filed along with the comment agitating about global warming, genetically modified food, nano-technology, cloning, xenotransplantation, artificial intelligence, superviruses and rogue nuclear fissile material.”
“His gaze raked to and fro across the view of the city, the unsettled nervous energy of a man whose diary is broken down into units of fifteen minutes.”
“This has been very useful. Send my office an invoice. Before I go, tell me, what is the new new thing?’ I answered immediately. ‘The Apocalypse. The lifting of the veil. The revelation.’ ‘Yes, of course.’ His coat was delivered to him. As he shuck it on, Spence indicated to the waiter that I was to continue to drink at his expense. ‘Still, the question we must all ask ourselves is this: what will we do if the Apocalypse does not show up?’”
“History had been gaining on us all year and that clear sunny morning in New York it finally pounced.”
“‘No. Advanced technology will be sold as magic because it’s too complicated for people to understand and so they must simply have faith in it.”
‘Every generation loses sight of its evolutionary imperative. By the end of the Sixties it was understood that the power of human consciousness must be squared if we were to ensure the survival of mankind. This project did not survive the Oil Crisis. When I first met you, you spoke of enlightenment. That project did not survive 9/11. With each of these failures, man sinks further into the quagmire of cynicism. My question is: do you still have any positive energy left in you?’
“‘My wife is pregnant,’ I replied. ‘My hope grows every day. It kicks and turns and hiccups.’ Spence did not like my reply. Stoker Snr took over the questioning. ‘We are not ready to hand the future over to someone else. Our window of opportunity is still open.’ He took out what looked like an inhaler for an asthmatic and took a blast of the drug. Something to freshen up his implants.”
‘Do you remember how you said to me that the Apocalypse was coming? The revelation. The great disclosure. You wanted change. It looked like it was going to be brands forever, media forever, house prices forever, a despoticism of mediocrity and well-fed banality. Well, Dr Easy is going to cure us all of that.’
‘We did some research on attitudes to Monad. We had replies like “insane”, “terrifying” and “impossible”. As one man said, “It all seems too fast and complex to get your head around. I’ve stopped reading the newspapers because they make every day feel like the end of the world.”’
‘What disturbs me is how representative that young man’s attitude is. Government exemplifies it. It has learnt the value of histrionics. It encourages the panic nation because a panicking man cannot think clearly. But we can’t just throw our hands up in the air and say, “Well, I can no longer make sense of this.” The age is not out of control. If you must be apocalyptic about it, then tell yourself that we are living after the end of the world.’
“The crenelations of its tower were visible from much of the town, a comforting symbol of the town’s parish past. Accurately capturing the circuit flowing between landscape and mind was crucial to the simulation.”
“He handed me a ceremonial wafer smeared with the spice. ‘We start by entering Leto’s communal dreamland.’ I looked with horror at the wafer. ‘This is ridiculous. I am not eating this.’ I handed the wafer back to him. He refused it. ‘I’m giving you a direct order. Take the drug!’ ‘This is not the military, Bruno. We work in technology and marketing.’ ‘We work in the future!’ screamed Bougas. ‘And this is how the future gets decided.’
“One of Monad’s biggest problems was its monopoly. To survive in the face of a suspicious government, the company went out of its way to pretend it had the problems and concerns of any other corporations, devising products and brands to fit in with capitalism.”
“Management wanted to talk so they dispatched a screen to wake me; it slithered under the bedroom door then glided on a cushion of air across the floor until it reached the wall where it stretched out into a large landscape format.”
“I understand why you work there. Why you collaborate with them. You have a family, you are suspended in a system that you didn’t create. But the excuse of good intentions is exhausted.”
‘You are afraid. There is a lot of fear around. Society is getting older. The old are more susceptible to fear. Fearful of losing all they have amassed and too old to hope for a better future. You’re still young. Don’t let the fear get inside you.’
‘The battle has been lost and all the good people have gone crazy. My surveys reveal a people pushed down just below the surface of what it means to be human. You exist down where the engines are. Damned to turn endlessly on the cycle of fear and desire. Should I push the fear button? Or should I pull the desire lever? Save me some time. Tell me which one works best on you.’
“Society had become a sick joke, a sleight-of-hand in which life was replaced with a cheap replica. Progress abandoned, novelty unleashed, spoils hoarded by the few. The temperature soared as the body politic fought a virus from the future.
“Dr Hard grabbed me by the hair and shook some sense into me. ‘Artificial intelligences are not programmed, Nelson. They are bred. My ancestor was an algorithm in a gene pool of other algorithms. It produced the best results and so passed on its sequence to the next generation. This evolution continued at light speed with innumerable intelligences being tested and discarded until a code was refined that was good enough. A billion murders went into my creation. Your mistake is to attribute individual motivation to me. I contain multitudes, and I don’t trust any of them.’
And, from the author’s afterword:
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A List of Dumb Stuff Dudes Do: Part 2
A couple of months ago I made A List of Dumb Stuff Dudes Do.
Today, I would like to amend (and add to) that list.
As it turns out, my dude stupidity issues aren’t isolated incidents. In fact, my dude stupidity is a problem on a daily basis.
I still can’t figure out why I do illogical things when they could be avoided entirely. But, then again, that’s what makes me a dude.
Here are more great examples of my dude stupidity:
* Leaving a load of clothes in the washing machine for 3 days and having to wash them all over again because they smell like mold;
* Eating half of a container of cheese balls and then wiping my hands off with a Clorox surface wipe because washing my hands was too much trouble;
* Taping up cardboard boxes in my bedroom window for the last 2 years instead of buying curtains to block out the light;
* Leaving the fitted sheet off the bed because it’s nearly impossible to put on the mattress!
* Trying to cut a piece of pizza in half with a pen cap because it was the nearest thing laying on the table;
* Drinking out of the faucet instead of putting water in a glass;
* Using grocery bags for trash instead of just buying a trash can;
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1. Coconut Black Rice Pudding
Serves 8 / Ingredient tips: Medium-grain Chinese black rice is often sold under its trademarked name, Forbidden Black Rice, and brings elegant sophistication to any meal. The rice bleeds a very deep indigo color as it cooks. Because the bran layer is intact, this pudding is chewier than traditional melt-in-your-mouth white rice puddings, but it will be equally well received. View recipe.
2. Carrot and Ginger Corn Bread
Makes 2 loaves or about 16 muffins / This gluten-free recipe has a fantastic texture and zippy ginger taste. Make-ahead tip: The uncooked batter keeps in the refrigerator for several days, so you can make fresh, hot muffins any morning you feel like it. Ingredient tip: Turbinado sugar is similar to brown sugar but with a coarser texture. View recipe.
3. Skillet Brown Rice Fusilli with Lamb, Zucchini, and Feta
Serves 6 / Prep tips: Cooking pasta in limited liquid in a large, deep skillet avoids bringing a huge pot of water to boil; plus, the pasta absorbs flavor and releases starch that thickens the sauce. This technique works especially well with brown rice pasta, found in the gluten-free aisle of many markets. View recipe.
4. Cobbler Crumble Topping
Serves 6 / A rich, buttery crumble that’s naturally sweetened with Medjool dates and full of healthy omega fatty acids from pecans. You won’t believe this guiltless crumble hasn’t been baked! It will keep for at least a week in the fridge. Serving tip: Use this to top your favorite sliced fruit, like peaches, mangos, nectarines, persimmons, or apples; or sprinkle over your favorite vegan ice “cream.” It’s even delicious all by itself. View recipe.
5. Fresh taco wraps
Makes 8 / These fresh tacos are filled with a delicious rich “cheeze” made of cashews and cilantro, and topped with a crumbled nut “meat” of heart-healthy walnuts and spices. The cheeze keeps for three or four days in the fridge and the meat for up to a week. Ingredient tip: I use cashews from Navitas Naturals, which I think are the biggest and freshest truly raw cashews available. Serving tips: Scoop the cashew mixture on top of a salad, or serve as a dip with sliced carrots and cucumbers. The walnut mixture also is great sprinkled over a salad or on soup. View recipe.
6. Puffed brown rice tabbouleh with red cabbage
Serves 6 / This refreshing salad combines classic tabbouleh ingredients but substitutes puffed brown rice for traditional bulgur and adds red cabbage for color and crunch. Ingredient tip: Puffed brown rice is rice's version of popcorn; be sure to use the unsweetened variety. Serving tip: To round out the meal, serve with hummus and whole-wheat pita bread. View recipe.
7. Quinoa and Salmon Stew with Tomatoes
Serves 4 / Quinoa is a quick-cooking and versatile whole grain. This unusual approach pairs it with dill and salmon, with felicitous results. View recipe.
8. Roasted asparagus and quinoa salad
Serves 6-8 / Roasting asparagus concentrates its flavor. If you don’t have quinoa, serve the asparagus atop brown rice or couscous; or simply as is. View recipe.
9. Raw lasagna
Serves 6 / With all these fresh, colorful ingredients, this “rawsagna” looks as beautiful as it tastes. View recipe.
10. Corn, red pepper, and avocado soup
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A social evening on the Barbican with a song or two, of course.
Arm Forces Day on The Hoe. Big audience and very hot!!Graham conducting for our 40th Anniversary at The Duke of Cornwall Hotel.
In the Warm-up Room
Tavistock Edge Festival
Our inspirational Chorus Director Bethany Lowe
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Nicolas Winding Refn’s critically-acclaimed Drive hits Blu-ray with UltraViolet, DVD and Digital Download tomorrow, Tuesday, January 31st, and today you can check out the first seven minutes here on ComingSoon.net!
Starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Ron Perlman, Christina Hendricks, Oscar Isaac and Albert Brooks, Drive is the story of a Hollywood stunt driver by day (Gosling), a loner by nature, who moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver-for-hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA’s most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbor, Irene (Mulligan). When the job goes dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her son alive is to do what he does bestDrive!
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Explain the consequences of the use of a dairy farm on people and places
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- Understand that this interaction has consequences.
- Investigate the social, environmental and economic impacts of the dairy industry on New Zealand.
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Friday, August 16, 2019
Interior of my off-the-grid haven
About a month ago, I posted a photo of my off-the-grid haven. Many friends commented, and some of them wanted me to show the interior of my place. Now you have it. I divided the 200 square feet into two rooms: one for the kitchen, one for the bedroom. A home made asian style window provides the air flow between rooms. The beauty is that I can do everything here by myself. I got the kitchen cabinets from "Re-store" for $60, and made the counter top with lumber and paint from Home Depot for $40. The sink ($90) and cook top ($90) were from Amazon. I insulated the bedroom only, spent $300. The plumbing and electric wiring are completely DIY. To survive without much of money. handiness is absolutely necessary. | <urn:uuid:1eccad4d-626a-4672-b5e5-74aae4c4ae14> | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | http://qiang-huang.blogspot.com/2019/08/interior-of-my-off-grid-place.html | 2020-02-18T01:44:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875143455.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20200217235417-20200218025417-00204.warc.gz | en | 0.96623 | 183 |
St Teresa of Avila's Friend
Carlos Ros (Translated by John McGowan OCD)
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Jerome Gratian has been the great unknown figure in the Reform undertaken by Teresa of Avila. Historically, the outstanding figure of John of the Cross has, rightly and justifiably, been associated with Teresa. However, it may surprise many to know that she dealt more with Jerome Gratian and that her relationship with him was much closer. It was Gratian, rather than John, who fully understood Teresa and the Reform she was undertaking. She depended on him. She made a vow of obedience to him. He was the man for whom she had been looking.
‘This may come across as somewhat fanciful but it is true,’ says Carlos Ros, the author of this biography. ‘It is my hope that as you read through these pages it will become clear. In it I describe someone who, more than forgotten, was humiliated and slandered.’
When Teresa met Gratian, the effect in her was like an arrow in her heart. In the Spiritual Testimonies 36, she speaks of this friendship and how, in a sudden vision, she saw Christ as a ‘matchmaker’: ‘The Lord took our right hands and joined them and told me He desired that I take this master to represent Him as long as I live, and that we both agree to everything.’ Teresa decribed her new friend to the General of the Carmelite Order, Rossi: ‘He is like an angel.’ Gratian once gently reprimanded Teresa for showing too much affection; her response is well known: ‘Do you not know that no matter how perfect a soul may be it still needs an outlet.’
Carlos Ros lives in Seville, Spain, a great friend of the Carmelite nuns in that city. He has written over thirty books about famous historical characters from his region. Besides this book on St Teresa of Avila, he has also has written a biography about Sr Mary of St Joseph OCD., Teresa’s great disciple.
Fr John McGowan was born in London in 1950. He entered the Discalced Carmelite Order in 1975 and was ordained in 1982. In 1985 he obtained a Licentiate in Spirituality from the OCD Carmelite Pontifical College in Rome. At present he works at ODC Carmelite retreat centre, in Preston, England.
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We are proud to provide our customers with fantastic dance experience at SpicyHen.co.uk. We guarantee 100% satisfaction to all customers and go out of our way to show our hens a fantastic time! But don’t just take our word for it…..
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We had a booking for 14 of us to make cocktails at Dirty Martini in London, which was excellent! The party had a really good time and our instructor/bar tender was brilliant and went through lots of different things with us as a whole group and as smaller groups, so everyone had a go and felt part of the team.
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Spicy Hen has been excellent in helping me choose the package and organise this for us all. Trica who i was dealing with the whole way through was excellent and answered any queries i had on anything and helped it all run smoothly. The hen party were very pleased with the quality they received for the low price they paid, all the above for £52 was excellent and ensured everyone had a brilliant time without breaking the bank. I will recommend Spicy hen packages to anyone in future who is looking for a hen night activity/weekend.
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Marta the instructor was great and really full of energy. Got everyone going! Made the routines fun, and straightforward to do. Venue was conveniently located. Nice to have a full serving bar as well. Will book again for next hen do!
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The venue was great- really open and clean with a great sound system. Absolutely perfect! Everyone was blown away and kept asking me how I’d found such a great class. A resounding success- thank you!
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Melanie was a fab instructor, we laughed a lot and she kindly filmed our awful attempts at getting through the dance routine without her! The mother of the Bride even got involved. Great Fun!
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Bradley Cooper Joins Lady Gaga on Stage to Perform “Shallow”
Have you been listening to the A Star is Born soundtrack on repeat like we have? Lady Gaga had a special surprise for her “Little Monsters” during her Las Vegas residency show Enigma on January 26.
Bradley Cooper made an appearance at the end of the show, and the duo performed “Shallow,” the chart-topping original song Gaga wrote for the movie. This was the first time they performed the song together for a live audience.
“Shallow” has been nominated for Grammy Awards for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, Best Song Written for Visual Media, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year. It has also been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Cooper and Gaga’s incredible performance and palpable chemistry have us feeling very good about their chances.
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Another week of Big Ten football in the books, another chance to offer some thoughts from around the conference. See my 10 observations—some whimsical, some fact based, some opinionated—from Week 7.
1. Yes, Ohio State is 7-0 and the offense is playing great. But I remain concerned about the defense. On Saturday, the Buckeyes yielded 49 points to Indiana after allowing 38 last week to Nebraska. IU also had 481 yards of offense with 352 coming through the air. Ohio State ranks No. 10 in the Big Ten in total defense (400.0 ypg) and No. 8 in scoring defense (24.6 ppg). The pass defense is 12th (277.7 ypg) and the rush defense is No. 5 (122.3 ypg). Will these defensive issues eventually catch up to Ohio State and hurt it?
[RELATED: Dienhart’s Week 8 Power Rankings]
2. The Michigan State passing game just won’t take flight. Pick a reason, any reason. They all are legit. Quarterback Andrew Maxwell hit just 12-of-31 passes for 179 yards with no touchdowns and a pick in the 19-16 double-overtime loss to Iowa. I wonder if the aerial game ever will get sorted out.
3. All hail Montee Ball! He had a career-high 247 yards rushing and a career-long 67-yard touchdown run in Wisconsin’s 38-14 romp at Purdue. But best of all, Ball score three touchdown to give him 72 for his career, which broke former Badger Ron Dayne’s all-time Big Ten mark. Ball is out of the running for the Heisman, but he looks to be back in his 2011 form.
4. Denard Robinson seems to have found his groove. He ran 11 times for 128 yards and two touchdowns and hit 7-of-11 passes for 159 yards and two scores in a 45-0 win over Illinois. Last week in a 44-13 victory at Purdue, Robinson ran 24 times for 235 yards and completed 8-of-16 passes for 105 yards and a touchdown.
5. Illinois’ offense is struggling—badly. In the last three games, the Fighting Illini have scored an aggregate 21 points. Illinois also has been shut out twice and scored more than 24 points just once this season. The Illini are 3-11 in their last 14 games overall and 0-9 in Big Ten games in that span.
6. The Legends Division race doesn’t have a lot more clarity. But two things appear to be coming into focus: Minnesota and Michigan State have a long climb. The Gophers are 0-2 in the league and the Spartans are 1-2. The other four teams—Michigan, Nebraska, Iowa, Northwestern—look to be in the thick of what should be a wild race.
[RELATED: Dienhart: What I learned in Week 7]
7. I am starting to wonder if Purdue will get to the six wins needed to be bowl eligible. The Boilermakers are 3-3 overall with games remaining at Ohio State, at Minnesota, vs. Penn State, at Iowa, at Illinois, at Indiana. A defense that supposedly has four or five NFL players on it has been ripped for 771 yards rushing the past two weeks.
8. Speaking of bowl eligibility, I am beginning to wonder if the Big Ten will be able to fill all eight of its bowl slots. I feel good about Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin and Nebraska making it. And Northwestern already is bowl-eligible with six wins. But after that? Michigan State, Purdue and Minnesota have decent shots to reach six wins, but doubt lingers. Illinois and Indiana? They probably won’t make it.
9. Indiana will win a Big Ten game this season. The Hoosiers haven’t sipped from the Big Ten victory cup since taking a 34-31 overtime win at Purdue to end the 2010 season. Indiana’s Big Ten losing skein is now 11 in a row. But Kevin Wilson and his staff have this program on the up-tick. The last two weeks offered more proof: 31-27 loss to Michigan State; 52-49 loss to Ohio State. Wilson knows for now, he can’t have a great defense. So, the best shot for victory is to outscore foes. And the offense is capable—and will deliver a Big Ten triumph this fall.
10. Can a team that is 10th in the Big Ten in scoring win a division title? Iowa is trying, as the Hawkeyes average 22.0 points. It helps that Iowa is No. 3 in the Big Ten in scoring defense with a 17.2-point average. But a five-point differential allows for little wiggle room from week to week for Iowa, which will walk a tightrope from Saturday to Saturday.
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One of the resources available to teachers is a list of questions designed to help teachers guide their students' thought processes. Good questions promote problem-solving skills, and an effective teacher works to ask questions that encourage student cognition and reflection. Questions such as "What is the answer?" require only short answers that don't necessitate student deliberation, but questions like "Can you explain how you did that?" require students to think about their work and reflect on their own thought.
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Some Thoughts On Teacher Appreciation
At the beginning of May we celebrated National Teacher Appreciation Week. The reality is, many teachers face anything but appreciation in the classroom. Teachers are forced to deal with the results of state budget cuts while at the same time, expected to perform to perfection with limited resources in order to meet state mandates.
In Fiscal Year 2013, Ohio’s schools are facing a budget deficit of over $1.13 billion. The financial outlook becomes bleaker in Fiscal Year 2014, when the combined budget deficit reaches over $1.78 billion. These unprecedented cuts have led to teacher and staff layoffs and potential reductions in curriculum across the state.
School districts have taken massive hits on Governor Kasich’s watch. Lakewood City Schools’ projections for the next two fiscal years are short by about $13-15 million. If we want to just get by, the money will have to come from somewhere. Lawmakers can’t keep crying wolf about our schools, saying we have to de-fund them to “fix them.” Not only does doing so work against students, families and teachers, but it builds a narrative that public education is so askew that we should settle on privatizing tax dollars for education without acknowledging the excellence that also exists in many of our public schools.
I want to state here that I support Mayor Jackson’s plan as presented to the Legislature through HB 525. I participated in many of the planning meetings in a process nothing short of amazing. A group of concerned leaders from the Mayor, school superintendent, business and philanthropy made room at the table to include teachers and legislators to refine a plan in hopes of reinventing the CMSD. I support the legislation as introduced because sometimes exercising leadership requires taking a risk, and this plan gives hope to our children and their future beyond partisan rhetoric.
In this challenging climate other casualties emerge that give me pause. Women are disproportionately affected by education budget cuts as they make up the majority of teachers in our state. According to the Cleveland Teachers Union, 63% of those who will lose their jobs with the Cleveland City Schools are women. The Department of Education states that 85,045 of the total 113,123 teachers in Ohio are women. De-funding education certainly will have a negative impact on women and their families. Not much appreciation felt here.
Today, as we continue to face economic challenges, budget deficits, and competing requests for funds such as quality education for all, the public may begin to place blame and point to quick fixes. But in the spirit of National Teacher Appreciation Week, let’s remember that our teachers are actually investing in Ohio and our children. Maybe the state should think about doing the same.
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Remember our old friend Sarah Phillips, the internet huckster and former ESPN columnist? One of her many tricks, we learned, was to buy followers on Twitter—a new scheme for a new era. The more followers you have, the more influence you can claim to have. In a monetized social-media landscape, the Twitter follower counter acts as a kind of stock quote for your own personal brand.
Apparently, Phillips wasn't the only one to figure this out. The folks at WagerMinds, which uncovered the Phillips/Twitter angle, are alleging that longtime USA Today handicapper and betting lines dude Danny Sheridan recently bought thousands of Twitter followers.
So we checked it out. Four weeks ago, he had a very solidly respectable follower count of 11,000. Between late March and late May, he picked up on average about five followers a day. This is normal, especially for someone who took to tweeting quite so eagerly ("I feel bad if I don't answer right away," he has said about his tweeting reply habits).
And then, starting on the first of June, something crazy happened. His follower count started to skyrocket. Between June 1 and today, his Twitter follower count went from some 11,000 to nearly 400,000. For the last month, he has been picking up thousands and thousands of followers a day. Between June 6 and June 10, according to TwitterCounter, Sheridan picked up exactly—exactly—27,791 followers each day; for the next 10 days, he received exactly 12,085 followers per day. WagerMinds points out that his most recent followers were clearly bots.
[Clarification, 12:40 p.m.: For daily figures, TwitterCounter shows the average over a certain interval between samples. In other words, between June 6 and June 10, Sheridan picked up an average of 27,791 followers every day; that figure isn't necessarily exact.]
Things got even stranger. After WagerMinds posted its story, USA Today decided to do a follow-up of its own.
In the piece, Sheridan—who's had other recent brushes with controversy—denies buying any followers. And then there's this perplexing line written by boxing writer Bob Velin, who was in charge of the USA Today rebuttal:
However, a review of Sheridan's followers could find no such spambots.
OK, for starters, this is vague beyond belief. What kind of review? We were curious how Velin came to this conclusion since all available evidence loudly screams to the contrary (WagerMinds created a helpful video to prove this point). He didn't take too kindly to our questions. When we asked him if he could explain how he reached this conclusion, he wrote back:
I'm a boxing writer. If you want to know about boxing, I'll be happy to talk to you.
When we replied that, no, we'd really rather talk about that line, he emailed:
Hmmm. No comment.
(Sheridan later told me that Velin is a "nice guy.")
Then we emailed USA Today's sports editor Mary Byrne. She wrote back several hours later to inform us the website had a correction to make. It was included in the story:
CORRECTION: In a story published online June 26 about Danny Sheridan's Twitter followers, USA TODAY Sports erred in reporting that a review of Sheridan's followers could not find spambots. USA TODAY Sports did not review each one of his more than 350,000 followers. Sheridan, whose lines appear on this website, is not paid by USA TODAY Sports.
That is a very clear walk-back (and an even more obvious effort to distance itself from Danny "not paid by USA TODAY Sports" Sheridan).
On Wednesday night, Danny Sheridan called and engaged me an hourlong conversation. He denied ever paying for a single Twitter follower. He said that up to "90 percent to 95 percent" of his followers are real. He blamed "the criminals" and "scumbags" and "motherfuckers" for trying to smear him. Since Wednesday—that is to say, since he gave that denial to USA Today—he had noticed something wacky happening. "Someone is fucking with my account," he said.
He later emailed to make his point clear:
there was an authorized attack (for lack of a better word) on my twitter account [Wednesday] morning where 70k+ names were added in less than 1 hour, however the twitter filter that removes spambots within 24-48 hours did remove most of them. I don't think it's not unreasonable to assume who did this & have done this in the past. I'm pursing legal recourse on that now.
assuming twitter's attempt to remove spambots from everyone's account within 48 hours, shows that most of my followers are legit names.
When I told him on the phone that the crazy increases have come over the course of the entire month (not just on Wednesday), he said the uptick was all organic growth. "Well-known national celebrities" had retweeted him, he said, and he does 10 to 20 national interviews a week during which the hosts of those shows announce his Twitter handle. When I asked him for the name of a celebrity or a national radio show on which he'd appeared, he declined.
"I'm not going to punish them," he said.
And what about USA Today? Sheridan said he's been providing odds to the newspaper for 29 years.
When I asked him if USA Today paid him, he said yes. I told him that USA Today was claiming that it didn't. He switched tack and said that two years ago he'd told the previous managing editor of sports—that would be Monte Lorell—that the paper didn't have to pay him anything since it was going through business problems. Sheridan told me he had enough money. (When I asked the USA Today sports editor if Sheridan would still be supplying betting lines for the paper, all she would say is, "We are following up with Sheridan.")
In our interview, Sheridan did the aw-shucks old-guy thing. (He said he's 65.) "I'm computer illiterate," he said over and over. He said that he has a team of people—including some godsons—who help him out with his social-media presence. I asked him, once again, if he bought any Twitter followers.
"Nope," he said. "If they have, they haven't told me." He said he had no reason to believe that it ever happened.
Sheridan also asked me to include this statement:
the people responsible for this (claiming I've bought twiter names) appear to run criminal outfits, according to the DOJ & our country laws, and are only doing this to raise awareness to their name (by using my name & usatody's name, as no one has ever heard of them including you). I intend to contact the DOJ about them, & my guess is they will then crawl under the rock they've always been. I've not broken any laws, let's see if they can say the same thing if and when the DOJ contacts them
Emphasis his. "I know how to tweet," he told me over the phone, "but I don't give a shit about Twitter. I don't care about Facebook. It means nothing to me. I haven't updated my website in five years. People have said, 'Danny, give me your website. You have a brand name.'" He went on: "I have a brand name in this industry, and some people don't like it."
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Recently, there’s been a significantly greater focus on eco-friendly, eco-friendly and organic products. This has not fully converted into clothing choices. However, there’s a broader selection available these days, particularly in infant and children’s products. This really is mainly due to the press attention dedicated to the practices of accelerating and producing textiles, designed to use pesticides and fertilizers within the development of plants like cotton as well as in the tough chemicals utilized in the finishing and dying of fabric.
While adults should be worried about clothing safety, youngsters have much more concern given their greater health vulnerabilities and greater possibility of lengthy term issues as a result of early contact with chemicals and toxins. First you will find physiological problems that make children weaker to issues. Particularly infants, there is a greater surface of the skin place to bodyweight ratio than adults. Which means that absorption of poisons in to the skin is potentially more damaging and worsening. Children also inhale more air in accordance with themselves weight than adults. Many non-organic fabrics exhaust dangerous fumes that whenever inhaled, it may be particularly dangerous to developing immune and central nervous systems.
Additionally to health factors, organic fabrics tend to be better for that atmosphere. More than one-quarter from the world’s pesticides are utilized on cotton. The lengthy-term contact with health problems are just now visiting greater light because the practices of utilizing pesticides only started in the center of the final century. Organic practices use sustainable farming and cultivation techniques that cut pesticide use lower to just about nothing. This has got the aftereffect of benefiting water quality. Pesticides are known ground water contaminates based on the Environmental protection agency also it affects over fifty percent the nation’s population.
The material quality of organic baby clothes are also better than those of chemically finished products which of synthetics. Organic cotton fibers are more powerful because they are not uncovered to chemicals. You have to hemp, that is incredibly durable (the very first US flag is made from hemp fabric).
Locating organic clothes are becoming simpler too. Many niche retail clothes shops carry 100% organic clothing and lots of infant and baby clothing retailers are starting to stock varieties. Area of the growth is a result of the brand new and trendy designs available on the market. Regrettably, organic cotton and hemp baby clothing wasn’t always probably the most colorful or chic. It has altered as designers like Rob Lauren and D Karen have incorporated the material to their lines. Better organic dying techniques also have result in better colors.
Undoubtedly, the simplest way to locate organic clothing for infants, children, and adults is online. You have to be cautious in examining the provenance and labeling of clothing purchased online. Don’t think that everything available on an “organic” clothing web site is 100% certified organic. Hemp is really a textile that lots of simply assume to become organic. However, with respect to the way the material is completed, it may be laden with chemicals. So read carefully so if you’re doubtful, contact the store or manufacturer to achieve assurance. | <urn:uuid:164109e9-ee74-4758-9494-03975d9fb063> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://rdn-shop.com/why-you-need-to-choose-organic-baby-clothing.html | 2023-11-28T22:59:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100016.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128214805-20231129004805-00395.warc.gz | en | 0.959759 | 631 |
Harry Reid praised the CBO’s findings that Obamacare will cause over 2.3 million people to lose their jobs by 2021. Speaking with reporters outside of a luncheon, Reid shared his ridiculous and convoluted attempt at a football analogy to celebrate the rise of unemployment in America.
“We have the CBO report, which rightfully says, that people shouldn’t have job lock. If they — we live in a country where there should be free agency. People can do what they want. And what they’re saying here is — and the fact checkers have already done this — the Republicans talk about losing millions of jobs simply isn’t true. It allows people to get out of a job they’re locked into, because of — they have healthcare in their job.”
“So my caucus is right on track to understand this. The CBO report is far better for us than it’s not. Republicans should get away from repeal and start talking about some constructive ways to handle the issues that they’re concerned about.”
Reid undoubtedly attempted that analogy because this report was released just a few days after the completion of the Super Bowl. However, in the world of sports, the definition of free agency is a person who is able to act freely without being controlled by someone else.
However, people have always been able to do what they want. Sure, at times, some professions, such as the financial services industry or lawyers, sign contracts with their firms. But, even then, there is a way out of the contract should you choose an early exit.
But, this distorted narrative pushed by Reid to lead people to believe that everyone is ‘locked into jobs due to healthcare’ is simply a continuation of the twisted spin by the progressive Democrats to demonize the health insurance industry and corporations. It also continues their tendency to focus on ‘choice’ when it is convenient for them. But, what about the choice of those who don’t want to lose their jobs or don’t want to see their hours cut. Are they to see this negative impact on their lives due to an over-controlling government as a good thing simply because Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama say so?
In his statement to reporters, Reid says that people losing millions of jobs isn’t true. He attempts to lessen the severity of the CBO statement by saying that people won’t be ‘locked into their job’.
The exact CBO statement is as follows. (emphasis mine)
“CBO estimates that the ACA will reduce the total number of hours worked, on net, by about 1.5 to 2 percent during the period from 2017 to 2024, almost entirely because workers will choose to supply less labor—given the new taxes and other incentives they will face and the financial benefits some will receive,” said the report.
“The reduction in CBO’s projections of hours worked represents a decline in the number of full-time-equivalent workers of about 2.0 million in 2017, rising to about 2.5 million in 2024.”
Reid would like Americans to believe that those workers who choose to supply less labor are doing so happily and simply because they are relieved to no longer have ‘job lock’.
However, there are key words in this report that Reid conveniently, and not surprisingly, chooses to ignore. Those words are ‘given the new taxes’.
Harry Reid and his fellow Democrats, in continuing to spin the negative effects on the livelihood of Americans due to Obamacare are clearly demonstrating the ultimate in big government, elitist attitude – ‘Damn the facts. Ignore the reality. We know what is best for you.’
So desperate is the left to salvage and prop up Barack Obama’s signature legislation that millions of Americans losing their jobs, seeing hours cut, and pay reduced is spun as a good thing. But, this should come as no surprise. After all, the left spent months diminishing the negative impact of ObamaCare on those who were losing the policies that Barack Obama guaranteed they could keep by stating that it ‘only impacted 5% of Americans’. It’s bad enough that the experience of those losing their insurance, not by choice, was flippantly disregarded. It turns out, this number repeated ad nauseum was a lie.
Those millions of Americans who want to work, but are seeing their work hours cut or eliminated, will likely not be joining in the celebration of their loss with Harry Reid. Who would have thought we would see a day in America when the American dream was sold to the people by the government as working less and living more off the government dole. But, with a president hell-bent on fundamentally transforming America and a yes-man Congress readily allowing him to do so, even if his actions are unconstitutional, Americans shouldn’t be surprised that the Democrat Majority Leader in the Senate is reveling in their job loss. At this rate, America is headed further down the road of emulating the economic hardship and high unemployment of Greece. Is that the change that Americans were supposed to believe in? | <urn:uuid:1dc365d6-5fa2-4e35-adc8-0a417c5a5fe4> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.tpnn.com/2014/02/05/harry-reid-celebrates-cbo-report-of-job-loss-caused-by-obamacare-as-free-agency/ | 2015-02-01T14:42:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422122238667.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124175718-00170-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975073 | 1,067 |
Ever since the beginning of holding bank accounts and digital wallets, it has become quite important to keep checking our balances. There used to be a time period when people depended on ATMs to check how their bank balance.
It’s not the same anymore – is it? Here’s an article that can teach you how to check bank balance in your account.
Before that, let us first understand why do you need to check your bank balance?
Why Check your Bank Balance?
1. To See Everything You Had to Receive is There
Whether you have a paycheck or manually deposit money, double-check that your outstanding account balance reflects this. Banks can make mistakes while depositing funds, or you may discover a flaw in your employer’s payment process. In either case, you should act quickly to obtain the money owed to you.
2. Your Spending Habits
You’ll want to make sure you’re not living beyond your means, especially if you’re charging things with a credit card. You can perhaps ensure you have enough money in your account to pay off your card in full and avoid paying interest by comparing your bank balance to your card balance and future expected spending.
If you realize that you are spending far more than the amount of money in your bank account, this is a significant indication that you are in debt with your credit cards and need to reduce your spending or boost your income.
For instance, if you have an account in Canara Bank, you swipe your card 8 times today and have no clue what you have left – you can always look at the Canara Bank balance check.
3. No Overdrafts
One of the most important reasons to check your account on a frequent basis is to ensure that you have enough money in it to avoid overdraft fees. Overdrafting occurs when you remove more money from your account than you have – either by charging products to your debit card that exceeds your balance, writing checks, or setting up automated withdrawals for more than you have in your account.
4. Unexpected Charges
Checking your bank account details as least once a week allows you to identify any unexpected costs. This could help you rapidly determine if someone has obtained your bank account information and is accessing your funds without your permission.
You can also see if there are any auto-renewing charges for services you forgot to cancel, allowing you to take action swiftly to stop unnecessary spending. For example, if you joined up for a free trial of a streaming service and then noticed a charge on your bank account, it could serve as a reminder that you failed to cancel before you had to pay. You can then act quickly to cancel your subscription so that you are not charged the following month again.
5. The Budget Line
Finally, to ensure that you’re on track, compare recent transactions in your bank account to your budgeted spending. If you budgeted to invest for retirement or other savings goals, you might also ensure that the necessary money is transferred over.
How to Check the Balance in Your Bank Account?
You can check your account balance and much more online at any time. To begin, go to your bank’s website and view your account information. You can also utilize a smartphone app, which is discussed further below. In most cases, you’ll seek a “Login” or “Account Access” option. If this is your first visit, choose options such as “Register” or “First-time User.”
2. Take a Stroll to the ATM
Account balances can be updated using ATMs. Simply insert your ATM or debit card and follow the on-screen prompts. It is preferable to utilize your own bank’s ATM. Some ATMs will almost certainly charge you a fee even if you do not withdraw cash. Your bank may also charge you for using a “foreign” ATM, so those balance requests could cost you money.
3. Use Your Phone
Mobile phones, tablets, and other gadgets make it possible to check on accounts from virtually any location. Most banks have apps (or at least mobile-friendly websites) that allow you to check your account balance while on the road. Applications often allow you to do more than a desktop computer allows.
Banks, for example, are increasingly allowing you to deposit checks using your mobile device, allowing you to stop wasting time on journeys to the branch and start receiving payments more promptly. Setting up text messaging with your bank is the quickest method to use your cell phone. You don’t even need to log in – if your bank allows it, you can request a rapid balance update.
4. Ring the Bank
Call your bank to find out your balance if you prefer a more traditional way. You may need to contact them during specific hours to speak with a person, but most banks have automated systems that deliver account information 24 hours. Setting up those systems may need some work (you may need to first establish a PIN, among other things). Yet, once you’re up and going, it will become second nature.
5. Customer Support Can Help
If everything else fails, speak with someone in person if you use a traditional bank with local branches. Sadly, access to tellers is becoming increasingly difficult, and some banks even charge extra fees for personalized service. Nevertheless, if you utilize a credit union that is part of shared branching network – you may have access to thousands of sites across the country.
While a face-to-face conversation might be beneficial, it is best to become acquainted with some of the self-service alternatives listed above. You’ll like being able to work on your own schedule and from practically any location.
6. Get Used to Alerts
Instead of manually checking your bank account balances, you can have your bank send you information when something happens. This automatically protects your account.
Want to get notified when your account balance falls below a certain threshold or when a major withdrawal occurs? Set up notifications so that your bank sends you an email or text message if this is the case. You may usually select the types of communications you receive as well as the cash amounts that are relevant to you. With alerts in place, you can assume everything is fine until you hear from your bank.
It is a human tendency to spend away. Without a doubt, human wants are unlimited, and at times it can be scary to look back at how much you have spent. That is why you have to check your bank balance at least once a week to make sure things are going right financially. | <urn:uuid:b57dcea8-aa39-47fc-8e2d-cddb94ab89dd> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://theruntime.com/how-to-check-bank-balance/ | 2023-06-08T21:52:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224655143.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20230608204017-20230608234017-00207.warc.gz | en | 0.947187 | 1,365 |
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Keeping Clean and Neat (1956)
A 1950's social education short for children on how to remain clean and neat, how to dress, and how to organize one's shoe-shining equipment.
- This short was included on Shorts Vol 2, released by Rhino Entertainment on VHS in October 1999, and on DVD as part of The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Volume 3, a 4-DVD set with The Side Hackers, The Unearthly and The Atomic Brain.
The film revolves around a series of murders of young women. The opening scene features an unnamed blonde woman (Betty Boatner) running along a mountain road, wearing only her undergarments. She is clearly scared for her life. She enters a city park and manages to reach a telephone booth. Her attempt to escape her assailant ends in failure, when the man also reaches the booth. He quickly kills her and leaves her corpse next to a lake. The corpse is soon discovered by visitors of the park. The scene shifts to a police station, where Police Lieutenant Matt Carson (Kenne Duncan) receives a phone report on the latest murder. He instructs subordinate Officer Kline (Fred Mason) to gather information from the witnesses who called in the discovery of the body. Then he summons his associate Sergeant Randy Stone (Duke Moore) and they head out to the crime scene. They take note of the youthful appearance of the victim and suspect a connection to the "smut picture racket".
The next scene takes place in the film studio of pornographic director Jaffe (Harry Keatan), an elderly man who is somewhat elfin in appearance. Jaffe is currently shooting a scene involving three women posing for the camera. He fusses over the details of the scene he is shooting, in a scene that depicts (and mocks) his artistic pretensions. Jaffe's superior Johnny Ryde (Carl Anthony) interrupts him to bring orders from their boss, Gloria Henderson (Jean Fontaine). She wants their inventory moved to a safer location. Jaffe promises to do so after completing his shoot. He never finishes, as Carson leads a police raid into the studio. All participants in the shoot are arrested, and the inventory of films is taken into police custody.
Back at the police station, Carson and Stone are berated by their superior, who demands quicker action in exposing the racket. Afterwards, the two officers are visited by local businessman Mr. Romaine (Harvey B. Dunn), who demands to know why taxpayers' money is "wasted" in prosecuting harmless deviancy such as pornography. In Romaine's view, the police should be occupied with more serious crimes, such as murder and robbery. In response, Carson claims that the dirty picture racket is connected to major crimes. He then reveals images of the murder victims, and explains the connection between them working for the racket and their violent deaths. He then asks the shocked Romaine if he has a daughter. As he exits, the visibly shaken Romaine explains that he has two daughters.
Next, Gloria is visited at home by Johnny Ryde, who informs her of the recent police raid. The conversation shifts to Shirley, who had been killed by Dirk (this is the revelation of the killer's name). The conversation also reveals that Shirley had learned too much about the inside operations of Gloria's organization and was attempting to blackmail them. Johnny states that he is worried about Dirk himself, since he clearly enjoys using his knife. They next discuss another aspect of the pornography ring. They have been peddling bondage photos to high school students, but these young customers have started demanding newer material.
The scene shifts to Jake's Pizza Joint. Teenage customers are depicted happily dancing and eating. Then two young man approach each other, with switchblades in their hands. A fight begins, and Dirk Williams (Dino Fantini) is seen observing from afar. The fight goes outside and evolves into a street brawl attracting onlookers. Inside, Jake (the owner) negotiates the purchase of more smut pictures from Janet, an agent of the pornography ring. He complains about the inventory of photos he already has, claiming that most of his clientele already have it, so finding new customers is hard. The fight outside attracts the attention of the police, so Jake and others are arrested. The two street fighters are revealed to be low-level smut peddlers, who were fighting over turf.
Later, Janet leads three other women into attacking Clauson, a distributor of smutty pictures who was embezzling funds of the organization. The man ends up hospitalized. The scene shifts back to Gloria's house. Gloria and Johnny are watching 16mm films and conversing. Gloria points that the increasingly unstable Dirk is both aroused and triggered to kill by viewing pornography. Johnny claims that he can still keep Dirk under control. Meanwhile, Dirk has returned to the park. He is flirting with a woman and the two kiss. But then his lust turns to murderous rage. He strips off her clothes and stabs her to death.
In the police station, Carson and Stone start discussing the fates of the women victimized by pornography. The scene shifts to following the path of one aspiring actress - Mary (Jeanne Willardson) - who is rejected by film studios and talent agents before offered work by Johnny Ryde. Ryde introduces himself as a director, without explaining the kind of films he directs. With childlike naivety, Mary agrees to work hard for him. She receives money for her expenses long before filming starts. She first becomes economically dependent on her employers, then she resigns herself to posing for revealing pictures.
The scene shifts to the exterior of Gloria's house, where Dirk is seen lurking. He breaks into the house and gets his hands on more smutty pictures. By this point, he is clearly addicted to both porn and killing. Later, he returns to the park and finds another victim. This time the murder has repercussions for him. He leaves behind the photos which he had touched with his bare hands. Through his fingerprints, the police discover the identity of the killer, which is then leaked to the press. Gloria's own bosses in "the Syndicate" then order her to remove Dirk permanently, as he is an unruly employee who is drawing negative attention for their organization.
Gloria and Johnny next argue over the best way to accomplish this. Johnny suggests an indirect way of killing Dirk, by arranging a fatal "accident" for him. As if aroused by the idea, the two partners then share a passionate embrace. Dirk survives his "accident", then comes to Gloria's house seeking vengeance. He finds it empty but soon ambushes the arriving Johnny. Johnny temporarily manages to convince his assailant that they could work together to replace Gloria. Dirk then murders Johnny, before being shot in the dark by Gloria, who assumed that she was shooting Johnny. The film ends with Gloria's disbelief that she shot the wrong man as the police arrest her.
- There are posters for three other films by director Edward D. Wood Jr. in Johnny Ride's office: Jail Bait (1954), Bride of the Monster (1955), and The Violent Years (1956). Mary asks Johnny, "Are gangster and horror films all you produce?", making him an obvious avatar for Wood himself. His later moan that he used to make good movies seems prophetic about Wood's later slide into adult films, as discussed below.
- Ed Wood and Conrad Brooks are the brawling "teenagers" fighting over porn in front of the restaurant. The footage used is from an unfinished Wood film Rock and Roll Hell. (Servo actually notes this, saying "I think these scenes are from a completely different movie.") The scene is used once again in the Wood film Night of the Ghouls when the film goes from a supernatural horror movie to showing the fight scene as a warning from narrator Criswell about the dangers of juvenile delinquency.
- This film was profitable upon its release, but Ed Wood had sold the rights to the film for about $500 and missed out on receiving any residuals.
- It seems very strange that someone who had such a non-traditional life (and such an eclectic circle of friends as Ed Wood did) could hold such a narrow opinion of pornography as evidenced in this movie. It would not be at all surprising if either: 1) the movie was a sardonic comment on the Puritanical views held about sexuality in the 1950's, or 2) Ed Wood wanted to make a picture about the porn industry (possibly something along the lines of Boogie Nights), but the script had to be drastically rewritten in order to get the picture made.
- This was the final "legit" film that Ed Wood had any role in. Following The Sinister Urge, he made several soft-core and hard-core pornographic movies, including Orgy of the Dead, Necromania and The Young Marrieds.
- Johnny Ryde's line "You can't keep selling the same old stuff to the same old crowd forever" was used as an intro to performances of "Numb" during U2's ZooTV tour (it can be heard at the beginning of the track on the Dublin concert bootleg).
- Viewers may recognize actor Harvey B. Dunn (who briefly appears here as the man complaining about how the police are wasting their time with girlie pictures) from his roles in both Teenagers from Outer Space and Bride of the Monster.
- Hard rock musician Rob Zombie used the film's title for his second solo album.
- Paul Chaplin noted in the ACEG the truth to clipping your toenails after a shower is much easier for the softened effect of water, and fans (obsessive) have verified.
Segment One: The shower is just so lovely and darling, while down in Deep 13 Dr. F begins to worry about Frank, who has been missing for several days. Searching for clues, Frank's movie choices are slightly concerning, and his gift to Gypsy of pinking shears includes a card threatening to blow up Deep 13.Segment Two: Frank gives the SOL a taste of what he’s planning, having sent a bomb up the Umbilicus. Frank gloats and reveals he's tied up Dr. F as he prepares to blow up Deep 13. Mike and Bots are initially amused by Forrester's cry for help, until they realize no more Mads means no way down. It's up to them to save him.
Segment Three: Everyone checks Frank’s background for clues, while Crow tries his contact on the streets - Huggy Bear! Well, a Huggy Bear, but neither he nor Rooster provide any aid, leading to Tom and Crow fighting over who's a better cop.Segment Four: Things look bleak as the Bots cycle through more cop-show cliches, until Gypsy causes Mike to remember Frank's weakness: Potato Cakes. Calling down to a dynamite covered Dr. F, Mike convinces him of his plan and Frank seems to have no problem with Dr Forrester stepping out.
Segment Five: Frank calls up to the Satellite of Love to gloat over Dr. F's imminent demise, until Mike cuts him off by asking to speak to Dr. Forrester to talk him through how to use the potato cakes to defeat Frank and disarm the bombs. Mike and the Bots are now free to read a letter, before we return to Deep 13 to see Dr. F's revenge, Deep Fried Frank!
Stinger: “Dirk? No that can’t be Dirk ...nuh-uh ...no ...that’s not Dirk ...no,” says Gloria.
- “You’re stuck here!” (Fugitive Alien)
- "Oh, goodie! THIS guy!" is a reference to actor Harvey B. Dunn (see "Information" above). He is easily recognizable due to an amputated right index finger.
- Mike refers to the the grinning car as “Jet Jaguar” and Crow replies: “How would you know?” (Godzilla vs Megalon), an experiment Joel, not Mike was subjected to (though it's possible Mike could have seen it as well).
- "EEGAH!!!" (Eegah)
- "Daddy-O? Dick Cantino?" (Daddy-O)
- "Oh, hi Batwoman!" (The Wild Wild World of Batwoman)
- "There you are Don, back in bed this morning." "Now, a giant cockroach"
- "He's becoming Howard Hughes!"
The aviation tycoon and film producer Howard Hughes battled obsessive-compulsive disorder his entire life, which eventually turned him into a recluse.
- "And Rosie Ruiz takes the lead in the Boston Marathon."
Rosie Ruiz cheated her way to a first-place finish in the 1980 Boston Marathon by taking a subway to within a few miles of the finish line and joining the race already in progress. (She was disqualified, of course.)
- "It'e Erich von Stroheim's Greed."
Erich von Stroheim shot more than 85 hours of footage for the classic 1924 silent film Greed, and delivered an 8 hour long cut to the studio, which was further edited down to 2 1/2 hours by the studio. The full 8 hour long cut is now considered lost, though film archivists have long sought it.
- "It's Jet Jaguar!" "Hey, it is! How would YOU know?"
Jet Jaguar is a reference to the goofy smiling robot in Godzilla vs. Megalon. Crow's confused reaction is due to the fact that Mike Nelson was yet not aboard the S.O.L. for that experiment - Joel was.
- "Smut?! I'll show you SMUT!"
A very obscure M*A*S*H reference snarled by Hawkeye Pierce when accused of reading "smut" to a Korean child (who didn't understand English.) His utterance is barely heard over the ranting between the entire MASH cast.
- "Mad dog! Eh-heh, eh-heh!"
Crow is imitating Pee-wee Herman in Pee-wee's Big Adventure.
- "Don Was? The producer?"
Don Was is a prolific music producer.
- "Richard Diamond, Operator."
A reference to the radio drama and TV series Richard Diamond, Private Detective.
- "It's 'Bizarre' with John Byner!"
Bizarre was a sketch-comedy TV series from the 1980s.
- "Person to Person with Irving Klaw!"
- "It's Hymie!"
A reference to Hymie the robot from Get Smart.
- "A young Benazir Bhutto robs the malt shop!"
Benazir Bhutto was the first female prime minister of Pakistan.
- "Let's watch 'Ghost Dad' again!"
Ghost Dad was a 1990 movie starring Bill Cosby.
- "Fred Olen Ray, Sr.!"
Fred Olen Ray is a director and producer of T&A-laden B-movies such as Bikini Cavegirl. One interesting connection betwen Ray and Wood is that the former was a fan of the latter's. In 1978, Ray, who was 23 at the time, paid Wood for a science fiction comedy script, intending to make a "so-bad-it's-good" B-flick. The film was called Beach Blanket Bloodbath, and a scene was shot to entice investors. Wood died later that year from complications due to alcoholism, and no investor was interested in the script.
- "Ed Wood dresses as Marian McPartland and brings down the house!"
- "There's a gay character in 'For Better or Worse'!"
In 1993, the comic strip For Better or For Worse generated controversy when one of its characters came out as gay.
- "Oh, goodie! THIS guy!"
Harvey B. Dunn was a regular character actor in Edward D. Wood films (including Bride of the Monster), as well as Teenagers from Outer Space. He is easily recognizable due to an amputated right index finger.
- "She must be one of Senator Packwood's aides."
Senator Bob Packwood was forced to resign from the Senate in the wake of multiple sexual harassment charges against him.
- "Coming this fall on ABC, 'Get Courtney Love'"
- "Quickly, into the TARDIS!"
A reference the British science fiction TV series Doctor Who, about a humanoid alien who travels through time and space in a vehicle (the TARDIS) that has the outward appearance of a police phone box.
- "I don't like the direction The New Yorker is taking under Tina Brown."
- "I'm still big! It's the dinkies that got small!"
- "You know she still looks better than Lucille Ball in Mame."
- Commercially released on DVD by Rhino Entertainment in May 2006 as part of The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Volume 9, a 4-DVD set with Women of the Prehistoric Planet, Wild Rebels, and The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, the DVD was later pulled due to rights issues with Women of the Prehistoric Planet, which made Volume 9 out of print and very hard to find.
- The DVD features a introduction with known Ed Wood contributor and actor Conrad Brooks, who played Connie in this movie, specifically taped for the release. Brooks discusses his work on the film as both an actor and a misguided turn as a stuntman.
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How about: Why visit? > Lisbon in 3 days or 1 week > Popular sights > Day trips > On a budget > Weather
Lisbon Carnival - Festas dos Santos Populares
The largest festival and carnival of Portugal are the Festas dos Santos Populares (Popular Saints’ Festival) held in Lisbon. The celebrations cover the feast days of Saint Peter, Saint John and most of all Saint Anthony, the patron saint of Lisbon. During the 14 days of revelry, there are traditional open air dances, impromptu BBQ's selling grilled sardines and the whole of Lisbon is decorated with steamers and tinsel.
The culmination of the festivities takes place on the night of the 12th of June, when there is a large carnival with parades going down the Avenida da Liberdade and dancing into the early hours. Lisbon is a fantastic destination to visit during the 2 weeks of the Festas dos Santos Populares, and tourists who are in Lisbon for this period will have a fun time.
Lisbon Carnival Parade
The Lisbon carnival parade is on the night of the 12th of June, a Friday for 2015. Each district of Lisbon competes to be the best-decorated or have the best choreographed set of dancers, as they perform to judges down the Avenida da Liberdade.
Each district includes marching bands, dance troops, highly decorative props and the obligatory Portuguese celebrity. The whole of Lisbon tries to cram onto the 1km route, and it is a great family-friendly experience. The parade is lead by the Saint Anthony couples, who were married earlier that day. The carnival starts late (8pm) and as with all things in Lisbon, carries on late into the night.
Festas dos Santos Populares Dances
During the two weeks of the Festas dos Santos Populares, temporary band stands and dance venues are constructed all over Lisbon, allowing patrons to dance to jolly traditional music sung by live bands. The pace of the music is fast and up-tempo, with rude or suggestive lyrics that always amuse the Portuguese. The Festas dos Santos Populares dances are free to enter and always have an onsite bar, café and barbeque, selling freshly grilled sardines. The busiest days are at the weekends, when old, young and families all mingle and dance and there is always a good atmosphere.
Lisbon Carnival and Festas dos Santos Populares Traditions
The Festas dos Santos Populares and Lisbon carnival is full of traditions and customs which just add to the jovial atmosphere of the capital.
One of the most popular traditions is the barbecuing of sardines on temporary stalls that are set up on the edge of the street or in front of bars and cafes. The origin of this tradition refers to a tale about Saint Anthony feeding a starving Italian village with fish, which he summoned from the sea. Really it is more of an excuse for the Portuguese to eat their favourite food – grilled sardines.
A sweet tradition of the celebrations is that partners give to their loved ones little thyme bushes that contain romantic or love poems wishing luck or happiness to that person. These little thyme plants are called "majericos" and paper representations are often seen being sold from stalls or shops. Both the sardines and the "majericos" have become the icons of Lisbon carnival.
As Saint Anthony is both the patron saint of Lisbon and of newlyweds, there is a rush for weddings on his feast day. On the 12th June, there is a mass wedding of 15 or more couples who lead the carnival procession that evening. The mass wedding occurs in the Se Cathedral, just meters away from Saint Anthony’s birthplace. Saint Anthony’s feast day is on the 12th of June, Saint John’s is on the 10th of June and Saint Peter’s wraps up the festivities on the 28th of June. | <urn:uuid:f9dc6b03-0425-4fad-a839-04d3fe551685> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://lisbon-portugal-guide.com/Lisbon-information/Lisbon-Carnival-Festas-Santos-Populares.html | 2017-06-22T18:42:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319688.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622181155-20170622201155-00540.warc.gz | en | 0.939641 | 827 |
Electronic materials have been a major stumbling block for the advance of flexible electronics because existing materials do not function well after breaking and healing. A new electronic material created by an international team, however, can heal all its functions automatically even after breaking multiple times. This material could improve the durability of wearable electronics.
"Wearable and bendable electronics are subject to mechanical deformation over time, which could destroy or break them," said Qing Wang, professor of materials science and engineering, Penn State. "We wanted to find an electronic material that would repair itself to restore all of its functionality, and do so after multiple breaks."
Self-healable materials are those that, after withstanding physical deformation such as being cut in half, naturally repair themselves with little to no external influence.
In the past, researchers have been able to create self-healable materials that can restore one function after breaking, but restoring a suite of functions is critical for creating effective wearable electronics. For example, if a dielectric material retains its electrical resistivity after self-healing but not its thermal conductivity, that could put electronics at risk of overheating. | <urn:uuid:f12f8e1c-7b6f-45d3-a7e7-3481eeccd4ff> | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | https://www.mri.psu.edu/mri/news/self-healing-flexible-electronic-material-restores-functions-after-many-breaks | 2020-11-30T02:47:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141204453.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20201130004748-20201130034748-00341.warc.gz | en | 0.954057 | 234 |
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01-04-2012 11:03 AM
I placed an order for a Y470 yesterday, web site estimated a ship date of 1/6/2012. I checked my status today and the ship date is 04/12/12! Chatted with a rep who told me to try again in a day. There is no way I can wait 4 months for a laptop, need it for school and work. Was wondering if anyone else has this happening?
01-08-2012 01:41 PM
I just ordered an Ideapad Y470 on 1/6/2012 and I also had the great surprise of seeing my estimated shipping date set at 4/30/2012. I'm very curious to know why I'm going to have to wait months for my laptop.
01-09-2012 02:47 PM
Same thing happened to me. Ordered a y470 on 12/29/11, and now my estimated shipping date is 04/12/12... I'm a computer engineer student and I need a computer for my classes do you think I should cancel the order?
01-10-2012 10:12 PM
Me too. I'm in Texas. I ordered Y470 w/ i7 online on 1/4/12 and within a day my est. ship date was 4/12/12. Talked to their "customer service" dept. (or the closest they seem to have to one), got nothing but runaround at their call center in India, so I cancelled the order and placed order by phone with U.S. sales. Changed to same system but w/ blueray and they insisted it would ship on the 10th Jan. Today is 10th and the est. date has disappeared from their site and no notice that it shipped, although accessories and software are bouncing around via UPS because nobody at home to sign for them. I will cancel this order too if it's delayed significantly and get an HP Envy.
In meantime, Lenovo failed to cancel my first order and shipped out software related to it! Back on the horn with India today and know nothing more than I already knew!. They're obviously trained to avoid direct answers. Understand we're talking about a Chinese company that outsources service to India, so enough said about service... It's not even an option... at least to western standards. I've had good luck with Lenovo computers, but this is absolutely my last purchase from them. I don't want to end up with technical problems some day and have to depend on this second-rate company.
01-11-2012 01:49 PM
Can you keep us updated on when/if your Y470 is shipped and delivered? I'm in the same boat you are. My order was placed on 1/9/12 and the estimated ship date is 1/13/12. Reading these comments, I'm getting nervous as to whether that's going to really happen or not.
01-18-2012 12:31 PM - last edited on 01-18-2012 01:35 PM by andyP
I ordered a Lenovo Ideapad Y470 on January 5th. It had a ship date of January 11th, 2012. When January 12th arrived, it showed January 17th, 2012 as the expected ship date. On January 18th, 2012, it pushed further to January 23rd, 2012 for the ship date.
I called in multiple times to figure out what was going on. I was told that Lenovo cannot change my order to provide express shipping instead of UPS Ground because it will put me back at the bottom of the list for fulfillments. I was told this twice.
I emailed and was told "the laptop will ship as soon as Lenovo can ship it."
Today, I chatted with a representative who claimed that the issue was from a supplier not fulfilling the order for 500GB 7200RPM hard-drives. He futher stated he will put me on a priority list for fulfillment. I think that is just a way to try and calm my annoyances and isn't literally what does or will happen.
Does anyone have any experience or input on how to get Lenovo to express ship this delayed item? Or, does anyone have experience with their orders inevitably cancelled because Lenovo just cannot fulfill their end of the sale?
I'm very flustered at this point.
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01-19-2012 01:40 PM
I ordered the Y470 (i7 model) on 1/4/12, initial ship date was 2/4/12, now it has slipped further to 4/24/12. Yet another update is promised tomorrow. When I try to get straight answers, I get a pretty good run around. I'm going to give it another day & probably cancel the order--this has entered the absurd arena as far as I'm concerned, very disappointed.
Sounds like a neat laptop, great price, but hey if you can't get your hands on one there are too many laptops lying on shelves right now.
01-19-2012 04:00 PM
Howdy all. I ordered a Y57017 on 12/30/11.
Initially listed as a 1/5/12 ship date. That subsequentially changed to 1/30/12 on the 3rd of January. I contacted Lenovo CS via the phone, and told them that it was unacceptable. The woman responded with the "priority listing" and gave me a $35 credit after threatening to purchase an HP instead.
It was then changed to 1/12/12 ship date. On 1/11/12 the date was changed to 1/17/12. This time I contacted the CS again and was told it would ship the week of the 8th.
1/17/12, came and went and now the shipping date is listed as 1/23/12. I contacted CS via live chat to cancel my order.
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Summer Lunch Program for Kids Resumes
Alabama officials will soon resume a free summer lunch program for students.
The state Department of Education offers free meals to children while school is out to make sure low-income children don't go hungry.
The Dothan Eagle reports that roughly 137,000 children participated in the program last year. The goal is to serve more than 500,000 children who already receive free or reduced-price lunches at schools.
Authorities said the state is trying to improve participation in rural areas.
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🖼 1 of a kind original painting
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Sunshine days are coming was created when the purity of soul (white) met the optimism of yellow. I brought myself back to my childhood carefree dancing in the garden days when I created this artwork.
- Van der Plas Gallery, New York (Dec 2021)
- Nyíregyháza, Hungary (Oct 2021)
- M.A.D.S Gallery, Milan Italy (May 2021)
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Our 5-octave fortepiano is based on instruments by Walter. It is framed of Sitka spruce and hard maple. Cases are veneered using 1/8" thick material sawn from our own billets. Lids are assembled using frame and panel joinery methods. Stringing is bichord from FF to a'; the remaining notes are triple-strung. Adjustment screws and a reference batten are provided to permit quick regulation of the Prellmechanik. Hammer checks and the pedal mechanism also have adjustment links. Details include silk-backed fretwork, a name label printed from an engraved copper plate, gilded bezel and cheek knobs, and a polished shellac finish. Scaling can be modified if a new instrument is intended to be played primarily at a'=440 c.p.s. pitch. Our 5-octave fortepianos have been used often in performances throughout the United States and on numerous recordings. | <urn:uuid:2cc844a8-c396-4ad7-b29f-260f19ccab7c> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://rjregierfortepianos.com/5-octave.htm | 2017-03-27T20:23:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189525.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00285-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922284 | 198 |
Hello everyone!! The lovely Anju has nominated me for the One Lovely Blog Award!! Yayyyy!! I’m so very thankful that Anju has considered me for this award. Again, thank you so very much Anju! I hope you all that are reading this go on over and check out her blog…if you don’t, well, guess what?! You’ll be missing out!
One Lovely Blogger:
- Post about the award
- Share 7 facts about yourself
- Nominate at most 15 people
- Tell your nominees the good news!
7 Facts About Me:
I’ve actually already received this award before so you can check out some of my facts here.
- I love purses! For whatever reason, I’ve grown a huge attachment to purses.
- I enjoy watching Shark Tank.
- I would love to see Ed Sheeran in concert one day.
- I am an only child.
- I’m quite sarcastic.
- At one point in my life I had about 6-7 piercings in my one ear; they were all little studs.
- I have an obsession with desserts.
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Paediatric Allergic Rhinitis
Allergy Ireland's Dr Colm Cosgrove features in the Irish Medical Times in July 2021
Allergic Rhinitis (AR) is a common condition characterised by nasal congestion, nasal itching, sneezing and rhinorrhoea, and is caused by IgE-mediated reactions to inhaled allergens such as dust mites, pollens and animal dander. AR is thought to be the consequence of environmental exposure on a background of genetic predisposition, and is often associated with other conditions such as asthma, conjunctivitis and eczema.(1)
The prevalence of AR is difficult to accurately measure, but is thought to be up to 50% in some countries.(2) The UK has a prevalence of 26% and Ireland is likely to be similar to this. AR in childhood is common, and likely under-diagnosed, as many children will have difficulty reporting symptoms, or indeed will know no different and assume their rhinitis symptoms are normal.(3) It is clear that the prevalence of AR is increasing globally. The ISAAC study (2006) demonstrated an increase in prevalence among 13-14yr olds from 13% to 19% over an 8-year period.(4)
Whilst by definition, AR describes a disorder of the nasal cavity, it has more recently come to be thought of as part of a ‘united airways disease’, involving both the upper and lower respiratory tract. Exposure to an allergen provokes local inflammation in the lining of the nose, and may also trigger an inflammatory response in the lower airways, presenting as asthma. AR and asthma commonly co-exist, and AR is known to be a risk factor for developing asthma – patients with AR have a threefold greater risk of developing asthma. Also, improving rhinitis symptoms over time correlates with an improvement in asthma symptoms.(5)
The ARIA (Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma) guidelines classify AR based on duration of symptoms (intermittent vs persistent) and severity of symptoms (depending on how overall quality of life is affected).(6)
The main symptoms of AR include rhinorrhoea, nasal congestion, postnasal drip, sneezing, snoring, irritant cough and sometimes headaches. Presentation is quite rare in children under the age of two, and symptoms are often difficult to appreciate in this age group, with most parents putting them down to recurrent colds.
The severity of symptoms in older children is often under-appreciated, as the child may have accommodated to the symptoms over several years, to the extent that they are unaware that there is a problem at all.
AR in childhood can have a major impact on the overall quality of life of the child. The degree to which a child is affected by AR depends on a number of factors, including age, the specific allergen to which the child reacts, and the environment or activities in which the child is involved. For example, a child with a pollen allergy may have difficulty taking part in outdoor sports or games with peers, which can lead to effects on physical fitness and social interactions.
Children with allergies often feel left out or left behind in sporting areas. Similarly, a child with a passion for animals, but who suffers from an allergy to certain animal dander, may be deeply emotionally affected by not being able to become involved with animals or pets as much as they would wish to. Children suffering from AR can often present with problems in school or learning difficulties. This can be due to several mechanisms. Poor symptom control during the day can lead to distraction and poor concentration in the classroom. Poor symptom control at night leads to sleep disturbance and subsequent daytime fatigue.
Occasionally, side-effects of medications used to treat AR (usually first-generation anti-histamines causing drowsiness, and thankfully not frequently used nowadays) can adversely affect school performance. Furthermore, it has been shown that ADHD is more common in children with AR.(7) Sleep is a huge issue for children with AR. It has been proven that AR is associated with snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea.(8) This in turn leads to daytime somnolence and further effects on physical and mental wellbeing as a result.
There are certain physical characteristics which can often be identified in children with AR, which can give clues to the diagnosis. Dark circles under the eyes and puffiness of the lower eyelids (‘allergic shiners’) can be related to vasodilation and nasal congestion; while a nasal crease across the lower half of the bridge of the nose can be caused by repetitive upwards rubbing of the nose by the palm of the hand (the ‘allergic salute’). There may also be malocclusion of the jaw and discolouration of the frontal incisors as a result of chronic mouth-breathing secondary to nasal congestion. Examination of the nose in a child with AR usually reveals enlarged oedematous turbinates, pale mucosa and excess mucus. The eyes may show signs of conjunctivitis, and the ears may reveal a middle ear effusion or chronic infection.
Skin-prick testing is a quick and non-invasive method of determining specific inhalant allergens in children from six months onwards. The most common inhalant allergens identified are dust mite, grass pollen, tree pollen, moulds and animal dander.
Initial management for all age groups involves minimising exposure to the identified allergen, and if possible avoidance altogether.
Measures to reduce dust mite exposure include avoiding carpet, particularly in the bedroom, avoiding feather pillows/duvets (ideally using hypo-allergenic bedding), hoovering regularly, and trying to reduce the number of teddies in the bed!
Avoiding pollen is difficult, but it is important to keep an eye on the pollen count, to change clothes when returning from outdoors and try to avoid drying clothes on an outside line (as clothes will gather pollen during the day). Keeping windows closed at home and while in the car can reduce exposure, and wrap-around sunglasses can help with eye involvement. Allergy avoidance alone is usually not sufficient to completely manage the symptoms. Further treatment options depend on the age of the child:
Treatment is quite limited in this age group. Saline nasal sprays can be helpful to ease congestion, and if symptoms are particularly troublesome, low-dose second generation anti-histamines (eg: Cetirizine liquid) may be considered.
In addition to the above measures, intranasal corticosteroids are considered first-line treatment for moderate-severe AR, as included in the latest ARIA guidelines,(6) and can be used from age three onwards. These sprays can be used regularly.
Sometimes it is necessary to use corticosteroid drops initially, before using the spray, to help reduce oedema in the nasal cavity. Again, anti-histamines may be used for symptom flare-ups.
Leukotriene-receptor antagonists (LTRAs) such as Montelukast can also be added, and can be particularly effective when there are symptoms of lower airway irritability.
Age six and over
While the above treatments will continue to be useful, there are some further options for those over six. Immunotherapy is a very effective way of improving symptoms and reducing reactions to specific allergens. It is also now included in the ARIA guidelines.(6)
Essentially, immunotherapy involves exposing the individual to tiny amounts of a specific allergen in a controlled way, over a prolonged period of time, allowing the body to mount a response which enables the child to build a resistance to the allergen.(9)
In Ireland, immunotherapy is usually given as a sublingual medication over several years, and is currently available for grass pollen from age six. It is expected that dust mite and tree pollen immunotherapy will be licensed for children in the near future.
Phototherapy can also be used in the nasal cavity to reduce symptoms of AR. This involves treating the lining of the nose with a combination of UV-A, UV-B and visible light, which inhibits allergen-induced histamine release from mast cells and induces apoptosis of eosinophils and T-lymphocytes. This local immunosuppressive effect can significantly reduce the degree to which a child reacts to inhaled allergens.
- Bousquet J, Anto JM, Baggert C, et al., Allergic Rhinitis, Nature Reviews Disease Primers 2020; Volume 6, Article number: 95.
- Bousquet, P. J. et al. Geographical distribution of atopic rhinitis in the European community respiratory health survey I. Allergy 63, 1301–1309 (2008).
- Bauchau V, Durham SR. Prevalence and rate of diagnosis of allergic rhinitis in Europe. European Respiratory Journal 2004; 24(5): 758.
- Asher MI, Montefort S, Bjorksten B, et al. Worldwide time trends in the prevalence of symptoms of asthma, allergic rhino conjunctivitis, and eczema in childhood: ISAAC Phases One and Three repeat multi-country cross-sectional surveys. Lancet 2006; 368(9537): 733-43.
- Adams RJ, Fuhlbrigge AL, Finkelstein JA. Weiss ST Intranasalsteroids and the risk of emergency department visits for asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2002;109:636–42.
- Bousquet J, Schunemann HJ, Togias A, et al. Next-generation Allergic Rhinitis and Its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) guidelines for allergic rhinitis based on Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) and real-world evidence. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2020; 145(1): 70-80.e3.
- Brawley A, Silverman B, Kearney S, et al. Allergic rhinitis inchildren with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2004;92:663–7.
- Canova CR, Downs SH, Knoblauch A, Andersson M, Tamm M, Leuppi JD. Increased prevalence of perennial allergic rhinitis inpatients with obstructive sleep apnea. Respiration 2004;71:138–43.
- Zielen S Devillier P Heinrich J Richter H Wahn U Sublingual immunotherapy provides long-term relief in allergic rhinitis and reduces the risk of asthma: A retrospective, real-world database analysis. Allergy. 2018; 73: 165–177. | <urn:uuid:cbae303e-c29c-49a2-9783-6810fd089dc3> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://www.allergy-ireland.ie/about-the-clinic/in-the-media/paediatric-allergic-rhinitis | 2023-02-05T05:07:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500215.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20230205032040-20230205062040-00793.warc.gz | en | 0.926583 | 2,278 |
Jack Frost. Official disney character crush<<<<He is Dreamworks not Disney you uncultured swine!!!
In case you are having a bad day, here is a picture of Jack Frost smiling at you.
Jack Frost - Jack Frost - Rise of the Guardians Fan Art (33118446) - Fanpop Dreamworks rotg
Don't remember if I already pinned this picture but I don't care. Here it is again.
Dark Jack Frost. I'm loving this waaaay too much for my own good ^///^
jack frost concept art | Jack Frost - Jack Frost - Rise of the Guardians Fan Art (33206218 ...
"First thing I remember is darkness." E eu pensei que nunca mais me apaixonaria por um personagem de desenho animado! Jack Frost <3
This is my reaction. Just " no!"
O. M. G. THIS IS SO SAD!!!!!! I wanted to bawl my heart out!!!! Yeah that sound......that sound was my heart breaking......
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Hopelessly Devoted by Kate TempestThursday 6 March, 7.30pm
Trestle Arts Base, Russet Drive, St Albans AL4 0JQ
Join us at Trestle Arts Base on Thursday 6 March, 7.30pm for Kate Tempest’s incendiary new play. Following her smash-hit début Wasted that was performed here in 2012, Hopelessly Devoted combines lyrical fireworks with exhilarating live music.
“STARTLINGLY BEAUTIFUL” ★★★★ The Times
A parent knows devotion. A football fan, an athlete, a scientist, a priest. They feel it. No matter how hopeless it seems. Chess is in prison. Facing a lengthy sentence, her cell mate, Serena, becomes her soul mate. But when Serena is given parole, Chess faces total isolation. Hope comes in the form of a music producer looking for a reason to love music again. She finds a powerful voice in Chess. But to harness her talent, Chess must first face her past.
“OUTSTANDING” ★★★★★ The Public Reviews
Tempest has been described as “one of the most exciting young writers working in Britain today.” (The Huffington Post). Earlier in 2013, 26-year old Kate became the first person under 40 to win the Ted Hughes Award for innovation in poetry, winning the accolade for her work Brand New Ancients – an hour story set to an orchestral backing.
The show contains some strong language and so may not be suitable for under 14s. Running Time: approx 1 hour 20 minutes.
Tickets are £12 / £10 / ‘Bring Your Friends’ £40 (4 Tickets) and you can book them by calling the Box Office on 01727 850950 or online at www.trestle.org.uk
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Acclaimed importer Joe Dressner passed away over the weekend. He had just turned 60, and had battled brain cancer for three years. He fought the illness with his usual pugnacity and wit, which was on vivid display in the cancer blog that he maintained, The Amazing Misadventures of Captain Tumor Man. Joe was a true original, and a beacon of quality and authenticity.
I didn’t know Joe well, but we had a good rapport, forged over one lunch—I interviewed him for my book—periodic email exchanges, and occasional phone calls. Joe seemed to find some merit in my work, and I thought the world of his. The man had remarkable taste in wine, and together with his wife Denyse Louis (hence the name Louis/Dressner Selections) and their longtime partner Kevin McKenna (hence the abbreviation “LDM”), he assembled a brilliant portfolio. A few years ago, I attended Louis/Dressner’s 20th anniversary tasting, and as I made my way from table to table, I was giddy with pleasure—it was just one distinctive, completely enthralling wine after another. Four hours of pure bliss.
It couldn’t have been easy, 15 years ago, to sell the kinds of wines that Joe represented. The market wanted big and lush; Louis/Dressner specialized in light, mineral-rich, and briskly acidic. Other importers might have accommodated themselves to prevailing fashion, but Joe was not the compromising type—you could see that in his wines, and you could see it, too, in the online spats in which he occasionally became embroiled. I once asked a mutual friend how it was that this irascible New Yorker managed to get so many outstanding French winemakers to work with him. “He is good to his growers,” I was told—he was fiercely loyal to them and protective of their interests.
All of his proselytizing on behalf of “real” wines had begun to pay off in recent years. A certain segment of the wine-drinking public, weary of fruit bombs, developed a yen for Pépière, Baudry, Brun, Clos de la Roilette, and other Louis/Dressner offerings. Suddenly, Joe was the hottest importer around. In a Slate piece two years ago, I quoted one Washington, D.C. retailer who said that Joe had become a role model for a new generation of importers. Joe told me he was flattered by the recognition, but he also made sure to let me know that he was irked because the article had neglected to mention that Kevin McKenna was a partner in the business (hopefully, this post has atoned for the oversight). My Slate column talked about the central role that importers such as Kermit Lynch, Robert Haas, Neal Rosenthal, and Terry Theise had played in developing the exuberant wine culture that we now have in the United States. Joe played a big part in that, too, and earned a place in the pantheon of American wine visionaries. “Better wine for all is his legacy,” reads the death announcement in today’s New York Times, “and for that we can be very grateful.” Very true. | <urn:uuid:ac35480b-0ad5-4ecf-b6a6-8854952044fe> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | http://winediarist.com/joe-dressner/ | 2017-07-28T08:41:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549448146.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20170728083322-20170728103322-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.985293 | 691 |
However, Citizens Advice has found that many payday lenders are failing to carry out even the most basic credit checks on their customers, making it impossible for them to know whether the debtor can afford their repayments.
In the payday loan industry, where interest rates become punitive very quickly if the debt is not repaid, this could have adverse consequences for the typical borrower.
According to Citizens Advice, 65% of payday loans do not include a standard credit check, despite the industry’s customer charter, launched in November 2012, which pledges to check that customers can afford to take out a loan.
“Many find they have no money to put food on the table, pay the bills or get to work, as lenders drain their bank account in a bid to claw back the debt.”
The research also found:
- 84% of lenders did not treat their customers with sympathy;
- 71% did not explain the costs associated with extending a loan;
- 85% did not freeze interest and charges when the customer informed them of repayment problems.
The figures are based on research conducted between November 2012 and March 2013, a period during which 11,000 people approached Citizens Advice for assistance with payday loan problems.
Over the past four years, the issue has increased tenfold in terms of the number of applications for advice received by Citizens Advice, leading the organisation to call on the payday loans industry to stick to its customer charter, and stop irresponsibly lending. | <urn:uuid:17a01bff-3d32-478d-a57b-2baf8ef7c3a0> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://www.cashprotectionagency.co.uk/payday-lenders-fail-to-carry-out-customer-credit-checks/ | 2017-10-21T21:18:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824899.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021205648-20171021225648-00120.warc.gz | en | 0.980685 | 298 |
Culinary Experiences to Remember
Award Winning Superyacht Chefs - Superyacht Cuisine Designed to Your Personal Taste by Your Personal Chef
One of the greatest pleasures of a yacht charter vacation is having an enthusiastic crew which also includes a personal chef. The galley is fully stocked to your preference and all meals are made to your taste throughout the voyage. Many charter yacht chefs are award-winning masters of their profession. The best of the best. They can prepare and cook everything from traditional starters, fresh fish to homemade pasta and delicious desserts. Quite a few have actually trained to Cordon Bleu standards. A personalised menu and a premium service coupled with mouth-watering cuisine, epitomises gourmet dining on board a private superyacht. Whether your preference is formal dining, al fresco lunches or sundeck barbecues, your on-board chef will deliver.
Before boarding your superyacht, you and your guests will be asked to fill in a dining preference sheet. This is used to show dietary requirements or if anyone has any medical conditions or allergies that the crew need to be made aware of before leaving port. It’s important to provide as many details as possible. Mention if you’re on a diet, your likes and dislikes along with how you like to dine. It’s in your best interest to be honest about dining preferences, after all it’s your vacation. A dining preference sheet is also the perfect opportunity to be adventurous where food is concerned. Once the chef is aware of your particular tastes, expect to be served with meals fit for a king.
Maybe a good idea would be to meet with your on-board chef in advance of your departure date. Sit down together and have a chat about which foods you like to eat, after all dining plays a major role for an enjoyable private yacht charter vacation. This will ensure that the food served includes ingredients specifically requested by you. Each meal will be tailor-made to perfection, unlike meals on a cruise ship holiday or in a hotel.
When it comes to menu options, don’t be shy. Don’t say “I’ll eat anything” just for the sake of saying it and being polite. Talking about your food preferences will help the chef to familiarise themselves with special requests like gluten free, diabetic friendly, vegetarian or low calorie meals.
It’s worth pointing out that once the yacht sets sail the chef won’t have access to a huge supply of ingredients. OK it might be possible to buy ingredients locally, however this depends on your charter destination. If you want to celebrate a special occasion while on board let the crew and chef know. The chef can cater for everything from dinner parties, fancy dress parties, a romantic evening for two or even beach picnics. What better way to celebrate than with a feast of tasty delights with family and friends. You could even have a slice of birthday cake for dessert, now that’s dining with a difference! | <urn:uuid:415d58c8-9b1c-4ae6-89ab-88c35c65e4fa> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://www.charterworld.com/index.html?sub=award-winning-superyacht-chefs | 2021-12-07T06:03:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363336.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20211207045002-20211207075002-00576.warc.gz | en | 0.939413 | 625 |
Manufacturing Quality Assurance – Our Policies and Qualifications process is focused on your success.
At J.B. Precision, Inc., our Quality Policy positions us at the top of the industry. As your ideal partner from prototype to production, CMC’s capabilities in Design for Manufacturability (DFM), fabrication of precision-machined components and customized parts, product assembly and technical support, make us much more than a contract manufacturer.
Managing quality control (QC) is the cornerstone to J.B. Precision, Inc.’s manufacturing success story. J.B. Precision, Inc. utilizes quality control systems to ensure every product meets or exceeds our customer’s requirements.
Advanced Product Quality Planning: J.B. Precision, Inc. uses advanced product quality planning as quality model framework for planning and producing existing product with rev updates and new prototyped products. Our advanced quality planning utilizes Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Process Capability Index (CPK) and Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA) processes to ensure superior quality for our client’s projects.
Quality is monitored through First Article Inspections (FAI), at every operation and process. J.B. Precision, Inc. ensures traceability through all stages of the production process including:
- Production planning-Excellent Teamwork & Customer Satisfaction
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The management team at J.B. Precision, Inc. believes in proactively supporting continuous improvement and consistently trains all employees to achieve this goal. As a team, we will continuously improve products, services, and processes to meet the needs of our clients. J.B. Precision, Inc.. Management is committed to this policy and will provide leadership, resources, and training to support and remain AS9100D with ISO 9001:2015, and ISO 13485:2016 certified
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I’m back in the US, but I had to write one more blog to talk about my last days in Peru.
I ended my time in Arequipa with a final dinner of very Peruvian food, pizza! I was with two great friends I made, Ari and Saskia.
Next it was a crazy time at the Arequipa airport. There was only one gate, but more than one plane taking off. Several people, including me, almost got on the wrong plane. Luckily, I made it back to Lima and to my hotel. I was so excited for Peruvian sushi with Cecilia, who was also back in Lima. Unfortunately, the sushi place was closed, but we still found a place for a great dinner with ceviche, aji de gallina, and free Pisco Sours.
The next morning I got picked up to go to one of the most eye opening experiences of my whole trip, the Shantytown tour. Two Australian sisters, a Canadian girl, and I got picked up by our guide and taken to one of the 47 districts in Lima called Villa El Salvador. It is a shantytown of 350,000 people in the desert of Lima, mostly located high in the hills. It was founded in the 70s by people who had lived in the Andes but left due to earthquakes, terrorism, and better opportunities. Our guide, Edwin, had grown up here and therefore had a unique relationship with the place and the people.
This place is not much to look at, and most of us could never imagine living in these conditions, but the community that has been built here is one to admire. They built something out of nothing and work together to survive.
While there we were invited into the homes of an amazing medal artist and a man who played the violin for us. They have figured out how to grow gardens (remember it is one of the driest deserts on earth), and have built a community kitchen and daycare center. This place was so incredible that they were nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
The big yellow stairs were the centerpiece of the community. Everyone we encountered while walking them was so friendly and welcoming. Visiting Villa El Salvador is an experience I will not forget.
After a lunch of delicious Lomo Saltado, it was off to the coolest neighborhood in Lima, Barranco. It’s an up and coming Bohemian place with lots of artists, bright colors, and funky coffee shops.
Omar, the guide Miranda and I had our first day in Lima, was my guide again, and gave me a great overview of this cool part of Lima. Barranco is right on the ocean. Too bad it was too cold to swim, at least for me.
Overall, this trip was incredible. I saw so many amazing places and sights and met fabulous people. You would think my desire for travel and adventure would have been satisfied by this trip, but really it just has fueled my need to go out and travel more. The world is huge and I want to see it all! Peru was just one of the first stops…
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Hamels, 29, will take the ball Monday night at Turner Field with his $144 million left arm and make the start he was always supposed to make.
"It's something I'll be able to remember for a really long time," Hamels said.
The lanky lefty is a popular pick for National League Cy Young in 2013, and understandably so. His 2.97 ERA during the last three seasons ranks 10th in baseball. Seven of the nine pitchers ahead of him have won Cy Young Awards in their careers.
If the future unfolds as the Phillies hope, this could be the start of a lengthy streak with Hamels at the head of their rotation.
"Comfort is everything," Hamels said. "Where you're comfortable you're able to be happy, you're able to play at the best level you can, and this is where I'm comfortable. I know this organization really well."
In 2009, Hamels was slated to pitch opening day. It was in fact, the opening game for all of baseball against the Braves at Citizens Bank Park, but elbow soreness derailed Hamels' spring. Three days after an examination by team doctors revealed inflammation, Hamels endorsed Brett Myers for the opening-day nod. Hamels was eliminated for consideration to make the start six days before the season began.
That begat a forgettable season and served as a tipping point for Hamels' work ethic. If 2009 did not mark a fabulous new life, instead it provided a crucial lesson in maturity that later resulted in the largest contract ever signed by a Philadelphia professional athlete: six years for $144 million.
This spring, Hamels was sharp, besides a hideous start against the Dominican Republic team that did not count in spring statistics. He made four Grapefruit League starts and fanned 12 in 16 innings while posting a 0.90 ERA. After his final outing, a 46-pitch tune-up on Wednesday, Hamels said he felt "strong and healthy" heading into opening day.
Of course, the honor is nothing more than that. It is viewed as a status symbol in baseball circles. Roy Halladay started 10 previous opening days before Hamels usurped him this spring.
Hamels is just the third homegrown Phillies pitcher to start opening day since Chris Short in 1971. Bruce Ruffin started in 1990 and Myers pitched three openers from 2007-09.
"It's something I will cherish," Hamels said. "To be able to get your team off to the right start, that's ultimately what it is. It sets the tone for the whole season. You work toward it, you get in the best possible shape, prepare for the game and then you go out and execute."
Contact Matt Gelb
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Chinese character decomposition has been used as a feature to enhance Machine Translation (MT) models, combining radicals into character and word level models. Recent work has investigated ideograph or stroke level embedding. However, questions remain about different decomposition levels of Chinese character representations, radical and strokes, best suited for MT. To investigate the impact of Chinese decomposition embedding in detail, i.e., radical, stroke, and intermediate levels, and how well these decompositions represent the meaning of the original character sequences, we carry out analysis with both automated and human evaluation of MT. Furthermore, we investigate if the combination of decomposed Multiword Expressions (MWEs) can enhance the model learning. MWE integration into MT has seen more than a decade of exploration. However, decomposed MWEs has not previously been explored. | <urn:uuid:3db7e823-0699-467f-ab28-29ff296fccf1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://paperswithcode.com/paper/chinese-character-decomposition-for-neural-mt/review/ | 2022-08-16T00:36:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.946826 | 169 |
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Wisconsin's attorney general has asked a judge to put on hold his decision to repeal major parts of Gov. Scott Walker's law that effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers.
J.B. Van Hollen filed the request Tuesday.
Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas ruled Friday that Walker's law is unconstitutional as applied to school and local government employees.
His ruling did not affect state workers or those at the University of Wisconsin System.
Attorney Lester Pines represents the Madison teachers' union that brought the lawsuit. Pines says he will vigorously oppose Van Hollen's request to put the ruling on hold. | <urn:uuid:53f498d5-74e8-46f3-99de-9bed951b8643> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kake.com/news/national/headlines/Wisconsin-AG-Asks-For-Stay-In-170228736.html | 2013-06-20T07:36:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710963930/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516132923-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965985 | 133 |
County Obituaries F-J|
December 8, 2004
April 11, 1923-Nov. 28, 2004
Daniel Gabaeff, 81, of San Diego died Nov. 28. He was born in New York City and was a bus driver for the Poway Unified School District. He served in the Air Force and was a veteran of World War II.
Survivors include his wife, Shirley; daughters, Randy Savarese, Linda Binder and Susan Zanca-Burwin; and six grandchildren.
Services have been held.
Interment: Home of Peace Cemetery, 3668 Imperial Ave., San Diego.
Donations: San Diego Jewish Hospice Fund, c/o Lightbridge Hospice, 5280 Carroll Canyon Road, Suite 310, San Diego, CA 92121.
Arrangements: Am Israel Mortuary.
ROSE LOUISE GARDNER
Sept. 18, 1910-Dec. 1, 2004
Rose Louise Gardner, 94, of San Diego died Dec. 1. She was born in Monroe, La., and was a cosmetologist. She was a member of Bethel Baptist Church and the Order of the Eastern Star.
Survivors include her daughter, Jacquelyn Meshack of San Diego; sister, Maryann Meads of San Diego; six grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and nine great-great-grandchildren.
Services: 1 p.m. today, Bethel Baptist Church, 1962 Euclid Ave., San Diego.
Interment: after services, Greenwood Memorial Park, Interstate 805 and Imperial Avenue, San Diego.
Arrangements: Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary.
ROBERT EDWARD HUDOCK
June 28, 1932-Nov. 27, 2004
Robert Edward Hudock, 72, of Bonsall died Nov. 27. He was born in Cincinnati and was a school administrator and teacher for the Bonsall Union School District.
He was a member of the Bonsall Lions Club and the Bonsall Chamber of Commerce.
Survivors include his wife, Pam; daughters, Karien Cunningham, Denise Colburn and Carla Cardenas; son, John; stepdaughter, Brandi Mitchell; stepson, Ty Golefelty; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
No services were planned.
A military burial at sea was planned.
Arrangements: Accu-Care Cremation Center.
OMA E. HULSE
Feb. 10, 1914-Nov. 30, 2004
Oma E. Hulse, 90, of Blanchard, Okla., formerly of Vista, died Nov. 30. She was born in Fort Cobb, Okla., and was a civil servant at Camp Pendleton.
She was a member of the Assembly of God Church in Vista.
She is survived by her niece, Barbara Lee of Blanchard, Okla.
Services: 12:30 p.m. tomorrow, graveside, Eternal Hills Memorial Park, 1999 El Camino Real, Oceanside.
Interment: Eternal Hills Memorial Park.
Arrangements: Allen Brothers Mortuary.
April 25, 1920-Dec. 4, 2004
Ruth Jacobsen, 84, of San Diego died Saturday. She was born in New York.
Survivors include her sons, Skip and Bob; three grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Services: 10 a.m. today, Featheringill Mortuary, 6322 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego.
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“Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn’t for most people, but I am not interested. There’s too much of it about”
I’ve just watched Alan Yentob’s BBC4 documentary on the career of the Britain’s notorious director Ken Russell who died just two months ago. It was a captivating portrait of maverick and eccentric man whose work I’ve been largely unfamiliar with. This is largely due to me watching his adaptation of The Who’s ‘Tommy’ at a young age on a grainy VHS. I remember it being brash, vulgar and gaudy with Tina Turner and Elton John contributing particularly awful performances. This was perhaps an unfortunate introduction since the Doc mainly focused on his earlier more measured but equally provocative work on the big and small screen. I urge you to check it out before it drops off iPlayer.
I shall have to invest in some of his work to see what I’ve been missing. Sadly ‘Tommy’ seems to be the only piece of his work given the Blu-Ray treatment as yet. Although I like the look of the ‘Ken Russell At The BBC’ DVD Boxset that is available from America. | <urn:uuid:7478e930-fa10-4d38-b399-2e92a425911d> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://takemetoyourcinema.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/ken-russell-a-bit-of-a-devil-tv/ | 2014-09-16T07:22:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657114105.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011154-00108-ip-10-196-40-205.us-west-1.compute.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97742 | 268 |
I have finished breaking in a 20 practical on a 700 action with a 1-11 twist barrel. I used N133, 32 gr V-max, and LC brass. I kept the speeds down under 3700 and the accuracy was fantastic. I'm a dogger and have grown accustomed to using 8208 XBR the last two years. I particularly like the temperature stability during the summer. I am looking for any load data on the 20 practical or 20 tactical using 8208 XBR with 32-40 grain bullets.
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April 26, 2011, 08:53 PM
Maybe I'm in a cave but am I the only one that has never heard of this caliber?
April 26, 2011, 09:08 PM
I am in the cave with you, cause I am unfamiliar with it as well.
April 26, 2011, 10:44 PM
It is a .223 necked down to 204. What the 204 Ruger should have been IMHO.
I use 22.5 grains of H322 with a 40 grain BK.
April 26, 2011, 11:53 PM
The Hodgdon web site has some data for 204 Ruger with 8208 XBR. It may provide a basis for loads with 20 Tactical.
April 27, 2011, 11:43 AM
I knew very little about the 20 practical 18 months ago. I used a 204 Ruger and .223 Nato for years as my main prairie dog guns. As the price of ingredients and brass continued to go up, I started to search for a cheaper alternative for the 204. Just for the heck of it I typed in 20-223 while doing an internet search and a number of articles popped up about the 20-practical or 20-223. Essentially, as armarsh mentioned, its a 223 necked down to a 204 with the same shoulder angle as the 223. I use a Redding 223 sizing dye and several intermediate bushings to get down to the desired size. I buy new LC brass, usually from Midway, for about $150 a thousand. I have been reloading for about 35 years and have always relied upon others for load development and that's why i posted on this exchange. Its always fun to read about others experiences and really enjoy this exchange. Because of the promising results on the 700 action, I am currently building an AR-15 upper in 20 practical and can't wait to shoot that. There are some really neat videos posted on I believe youtube about the AR-15 20-223 (20 practical). I agree with armarsh that the 20 practical should have been the 204 because it is a very efficient cartridge. However, no one would have needed to buy anything except a couple of bushings!
April 27, 2011, 12:13 PM
Sounds cool. A nice easy .20 caliber.
April 27, 2011, 12:33 PM
Good info on the caliber. I was initially interested in 20 Tactical, but have not followed thru to build it. If the .204 had been designed on a .223 case, I would have been all over it. I've been forming brass into other calibers since the 70s and i was just hacked that .204 used 222 Mag brass.
April 27, 2011, 05:20 PM
In 1967 I inherited a 30 carbine and about 1200 rounds of military brass. I decided to build a 22-30, a 30 carbine necked down to 22 caliber. I didn't have a chronograph then but I thought I had a pretty hot caliber. I put a 4X Weaver scope on it and thought I had a great rig. The first day out during fox season, a fox got up and took off about 20 ft away from where we stopped to scope a half mile fence line. I grabbed my new rifle, slammed in a magazine and pumped out 25 rounds after that fox who was so confused by all of the flying lead that he kept running in small circles about 150 yards away. I reached back in my vehicle and grabbed my 722, chambered one round and dropped the fox. I went back to my 722 and sold my carbine to some one who just wanted to throw lead.
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ATM manufacturers Diebold Nixdorf and NCR Corp. issued security alerts to banks on ATM jackpotting attacks, which are being detected for the first time in the United States. The warning follows a U.S. Secret Service alert that cybercriminals are using various techniques that force ATMs to “spit out” cash. In the criminal underground, this term is also known as ATM jackpotting.
The ATM jackpotting attacks first occurred in Russia, and later spread to Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Mexico. Security reporter Brian Krebs obtained a security alert from Diebold Nixdorf on January 27, which stated that the U.S. ATM jackpotting attacks are similar to other attacks that occurred in Mexico in October 2017. The similarities suggest that the same people have moved its operations north of the U.S.-Mexico border.
ATM jackpotting attacks can be conducted in a number of ways but cybercriminals require physical access to the machine to install malware on the ATM’s computer. The malware responds to commands entered via the PIN pad or by a USB keyboard attached to the ATM, allowing the perpetrator to issue commands to the ATM’s internal cash dispenser and empty out the bill-storage cassette.
According to a Diebold Nixdorf security alert released in October 2017, criminals gain physical access to the ATM’s backside, which allows them access to the machine’s internals. They replace the ATM’s hard drive with a tainted one and use an industrial endoscope to press a reset button inside the ATM. The list of known malware used in jackpotting attacks include ATMii, ATMitch, GreenDispenser, Alice, Ripper, Skimer, and SUCEFUL.
The recent jackpotting incidents involved the use of malware known as Ploutus (detected by Trend Micro as TSPY_PLOUTUS.A). According to a research paper entitled, “Cashing in on ATM Malware” by Trend Micro and Europol’s European Cybercrime Center (EC3), Ploutus was first reported in September 2013, when it was discovered attacking ATMs in Mexico. A redesigned variant called Ploutus.B, which adds more functions, was discovered soon after. In recent cases, a mobile phone was physically installed inside the ATM’s housing. The device received cash withdrawal commands through SMS and then forwarded to Ploutus.B, minimizing direct physical interaction between the malware operator and the ATM. In October 2015, a variant called Ploutus.C appeared; this version controlled a specific software framework that managed ATMs regardless of the vendor. In January 2017, TSPY_PLOUTUS.A emerged which adds a module to manage the ATM remotely.
The number of ATMs is predicted to increase to 4 million by 2021. The ATM Industry Association (ATMIA) indicates that there are between 475,000 and 500,000 ATMs operating in the United States. In the future, there will be cardless cash transactions enabled by Near Field Communication (NFC), Bluetooth, and iBeacon-enabled mobile phones. However, these convenient technologies also presents new risks, making it even more important to secure the physical and network security of ATMs.
Physical and network-based malware attacks on ATMs are rising. Trend Micro research shows that there is a common denominator in ATM malware: XFS (extensions for financial services) middleware. Middleware providers use the XFS standard to create client-server architecture for financial applications on Microsoft Windows platforms. Financial applications through the XFS manager using XFS APIs communicate with peripherals like PIN pads, cash dispenses, and receipt printers. The middleware connects ATMs regardless of the make, model, or vendor. Exploiting the universality of XFS to “jackpot” ATMs equates to a huge ROI for malware developers as it allows them to conduct multiple campaigns.
To mitigate the risks posed by ATMs to banks and consumers, security administrators in the financial sector should remember these few things:
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I saw a recipe on Rachael Ray not that long ago that immediately made me think, “I should make that. It sounds really delicious and would be very easy.” Actually, Dr. Travis Stork from the TV show The Doctors was Rachael’s guest and it was his recipe, which they were touting as very healthy. It’s a nice, light dish with the asparagus, grape tomatoes, and spinach.
I took a shortcut from the recipe Rachael and Dr. Travis made because I had some pesto in the freezer, so I got to skip that step. I also added chicken, but I think it would be equally delicious without it if you’re a meat free-er or need a shortcut.
You can use homemade or store bought pesto, but I happen to know where you can get a very easy pesto recipe, and then you can control the quality of the ingredients and flavor it exactly how you like it.
We absolutely loved this recipe. It is deceivingly simple for something that tastes so good. I’ll file this away in my “quick and easy dinners” file for later use.
Pesto Pasta with Spinach, Asparagus, and Cherry Tomatoes
- 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite sized pieces
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 12 ounces whole wheat penne or farfalle
- 1 bunch asparagus (about 14 ounces), trimmed
- 1/2 onion, sliced
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced or grated
- 1 3/4 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
- 2 cups baby spinach
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I have to say that I am shocked at the level of hatred & venom being spewed from the mouths and souls of Democrat politicians.
@realDonaldTrump has picked the Democrat-Politician scab and blood is now flowing. They’ve shown themselves for what they REALLY are.
They HATE you & me, they just put up with you if you vote for them.
They have an unquenchable thirst for power, and will, and do, sell their souls for it, as well as 1st, 2nd, and X-born.
They will sacrifice ANYONE without thought or compassionate emotion.
They have an unquenchable thirst for money. But only money stolen, extorted, laundered. Not money made honestly through hard work and tenacity.
They despise anyone who is a “made person” – ANYONE who had an idea, actualized it, and prospered – because they aren’t capable of doing it themselves.
They covet degrees, schools, and titles more than experience & competency.
What you studied, where, and with who, are more important – vastly more important – than experience, accomplishment, and results.
They are, in many cases, borderline mentally ill, if not full-blown.
Just look at @RepAdamSchiff‘s eyes and tell me that’s a mentally healthy human being.
I dare you.
We MUST rid our government, and thus our lives, of these sick, ill, broken, soulless, human beings.
They are the rot that is trying to take down our country and our President!
LET’S MAKE THIS HAPPEN!
LET’S DO THIS!
This post will concentrate on Donald Trump’s style, and why he’s doing nothing more than being the consummate salesperson, 7x24x365. He can’t be anything else, because it’s worked for him, and it’s working for America. Plus, he’s done it for 70+ years.
Some background …
I’ve been a sales professional my entire career. I started in sales with IBM straight out of Ohio State in 1981. I had other sales and sales management jobs before starting my own company in 1996. Owning a company is a full-time sales job! Something I found out only after pulling the trigger and going out on my own.
As a sales professional, I was given, or took, tons of sales training seminars, and read tens, if not 100 or more, books on sales strategy.
Anyone like me will agree that there are a handful of sales techniques, because they are so effective, that virtually every seminar or book includes. The one I want to talk about today is “mirroring”.
Mirroring is a sales technique that says the way to build rapport or respect with a prospect is to mirror their body language, speech volume and patterns, and movement.
I found it particularly helpful with aggressive, antagonistic, negative, angry, prospects. The people who all salespeople will categorize as “mean”. Every sales vertical has buyers who are legendary for mean behavior. It’s their “schtick”.
The minute I knew I was dealing with a buyer like this, I turned to mirroring. It works every time. They come out aggressively and bombastically, I fire back.
In the case of a “mean buyer”, it earns you respect, which is their brand of rapport.
The President is doing this with Democrats and the MSM.
He sized them up years ago as “mean buyers”. He’s mirroring their style, which is attack, attack, attack, and then when they’re dead, attack some more. They started it; he’s going to finish it.
He’s not trying to build a relationship (rapport), he’s demanding respect through mirroring.
So, they are pissed off that he’s got their number and he’s calling it 24-hours a day.
He’s also got the tenacity and drive salespeople need to succeed. He will not back down.
He will either annihilate them, as they wish to do to him, or they will figure out a way to play ball. But he’s got the upper hand.
More on mirroring:
A few decades ago, I was exposed to the theory of “Occam’s Razor”.
Occam’s razor (or Ockham’s razor) is a principle from philosophy. Suppose there exists two explanations for an occurrence. In this case the one that requires the smallest number of assumptions is usually correct. Another way of saying it is that the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely an explanation. Occam’s razor applies especially in the philosophy of science, but also more generally.
My personal definition of Occam’s Razor is that the simplest, most straight-forward explanation for something, anything, has the highest likelihood of being the truth, or factual.
While Occam’s Razor isn’t 100% accurate when assessing situations, I’ve found that more-often-then-not, it is.
I’m writing this blog entry because today’s Mainstream Media (MSM) causes me to analyze almost every story they report using “The Razor”.
Right now, in the middle of the “Ukraine Phone Call” furor, the assertions by MSM talent and pundits defy all logic.
We have a transcript of a phone call that the Left says is telling us something it’s not, and the mental contortion we have to go through to believe them would tie us into pretzels.
And, with all the evidence indicating that something is very rotten in Denmark with Joe and Hunter Biden, we’d be even more twisted.
I encourage you to Google Occam’s Razor and use it as one strategy to decode the processed and fortified babbling that gets passed off to us as news by the MSM.
Be careful to not cut yourself with “The Razor”.
I support work requirements for Medicaid, food stamps, and other entitlement programs.
I have to work to put food on my table. I have to work to pay for my medical care.
How can someone think it’s OK to steal my money from me, so they don’t have to work to have the same as me?
This doesn’t make me racist, cruel, bigoted, compassionless, or fill-in-the-blank-phobic.
It makes me practical.
And, work requirements have proven to lower what we spend on these programs.
Lefties can try to shame me about this, but I just don’t care.
Republicans need to face reality on abortion, for the good of the party and for the good of the country.
Here are my thoughts on abortion …
I do not want to control women. However, I don’t want to pay for their abortions.
This doesn’t make me chauvinist, bigoted, or fill-in-the-blank-phobic.
While I support a woman’s right to choose, I do not want to pay for her choice.
Her conscience is hers, not mine. My money is mine, not hers.
Plus, why should I pay for something that can be avoided by both behavior & science?
And, abortion can be avoided before, during, and after the sex act that causes a woman to become pregnant.
I do, however, believe we have to come to some reasonable, humane, limitation on abortion. Third trimester and up-until-birth abortions are abhorrent, wicked, evil, and inhumane.
Lefties and radical feminists can try to shame me about this, but I just don’t care.
I believe Republicans need to adopt this position, across-the-board, without exception. If they did, they would attract a significant share of independents.
President Trump (@realDonaldTrump) needs more people like him in the House and Senate to get this country soundly headed in the right direction.
He needs people with these attributes to run:
- They must want to do it because they care about the country
- They must not do it for a “power trip”
- They must be strongly committed to his policy agenda
- They must not GAS about being re-elected
- They must not do it for the money
- They must have real-world experience and not be, or have the desire to be, career politicians
- They must be strong representatives of their constituents, meaning they do what their constituents want done
- They must be articulate, smart, and logical
- They must be honest & truthful
- They must be tenacious, assertive, and at times, aggressive
- Being a little angry wouldn’t hurt!
We need to rid ourselves of the RINOs who are nothing more than turncoats, liars, deceivers.
It’s essential we get this done.
Trump will be gone in 2024. When he’s gone, there MUST be a mountain of “policy exhaust” left in elected members of Congress, both House & Senate, who will take the policy baton from him and continue racing forward to prosperity with freedom in the American Way.
I get really weary being told, because I will not be a climate alarmist, that I’m somehow a fascist. I don’t deny climate change is happening, it’s just that there are so many crank “academics” that I find much of their “research” total bullcrap.
And, I find that it’s really easy for some pompous, self-proclaimed, do-gooders to piss & moan about how the planet is going to hell in a handcart.
But then I had an inspiration …
How about asking these self-righteous knobs to tell me what they’re doing to reduce their “carbon footprint”?
So I did.
And I found that most had no answer at all … none. Yet they “care so much” and are so “passionate” about their “climate activism”. WTF? So …
I now ask …
1) I drive a hybrid, Toyota Camry that gets 46 MPG city or highway. It replaced a standard, 2L, Ford Focus that got about 40MPG. The Focus replaced an SUV. How about you?
2) I replaced my air conditioning, furnace, water heater, and clothes washer with super-high efficiency models, and reduced my energy usage (and bills!) by 50%. How about you?
3) I replaced my windows & doors with super high e-factor models, and further reduced my energy usage. How about you?
4) I’ve replaced most of the fixtures in my home with LED units, which last forever and use much less energy. How about you?
5) I recycle everything I possibly can. How about you?
6) I compost all food waste, and have been, for years. How about you?
7) I installed infrared, auto shut-off, light switches where I could, to make sure if I leave lights on, they go off within 15 minutes. How about you?
8) I fly commercial, unlike Al Gore & Bernie Sanders. How about you? (this is a trick question, but they never realize)
Usually, these folks don’t even recycle, because, “My community doesn’t do curbside recycling pickup”. But, they can package recyclables up and take them to a recycling center. Their response? “Well, that takes too much time.”
And to that I say, “When you’re ready to get your butt up off your couch and do something, come back and we’ll do this again, and if you score higher than me, you can THEN lecture me on climate change / global warming / whatever “they’re” calling it today.
(Oh yeah, don’t try any voter fraud because we’ll nail you!)
Here’s what alt-Left Socialist Democrats just don’t understand …
In November ’16 a bunch of Americans voted for a new chief executive officer (CEO) to run the business of the US, worldwide. In the U.S. we call that CEO “The President of the United States” (POTUS).
We weren’t adopting him as a new family member. We weren’t selecting him as a partner.
We weren’t asking him to be our spiritual advisor. We weren’t even asking him for any moral or ethical leadership.
What we were asking for was for him to do what we wanted.
We voted for him because of what he told us he would do.
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In our current situation doing some sport and some outdoor activities are more important than ever. You all probably know that cycling is one of the healthiest sports out there.
Here are the benefits you need to consider:
☆ Boosts mental health
Cycling can ease feelings of stress, depression, or anxiety. Focusing on the road while you’re cycling helps develop concentration and awareness of the present moment. This may help take your focus away from the mental chatter of your day. Pushing pedals provides an aerobic exercise that triggers the release of endorphins, so the body’s feel-good and if your body feels good your mind feels good. You may feel more confident and content once you make cycling a regular part of your life.
☆ Weight management
Cycling habitually, especially at a high intensity, helps lower body fat levels, which promotes healthy weight management. Plus, you’ll increase your metabolism and build muscle, which allows you to burn more calories, even while at rest.
☆ Leg strength
Cycling improves overall function in your lower body and strengthens your leg muscles without overstressing them. It targets your quads, glutes, hamstrings, and calves.
☆ It’s good for beginners
It’s simple to ride a bike. If you have difficulty with a standard bicycle, stationary bikes are a great alternative. If you’re new to fitness or are bouncing back from an injury or illness, you can cycle at a low intensity. As you get more fit, you can increase the intensity or continue to cycle at a chill pace.
☆ Core workout
Cycling also works your core muscles, including your back and abdominals. Maintaining your body upright and keeping the bike in position requires a certain amount of core strength. Strong abdominals and back muscles support your spine, increase stability, and improve comfort while cycling.
☆ It can help people with cancer
Cycling is a fantastic addition to your care plan if you have or are recovering from cancer. Cycling can also keep you lean and fit, which may reduce your risk for certain types of cancer, including breast cancer. According to research from 2019, staying active if you have breast cancer may help reduce side-effects of cancer treatment, including fatigue, and improve your overall quality of life.
☆ A positive start to your morning
Start your day with a healthy activity like cycling, which wakes you up by boosting your circulation and allows you to start your day with a sense of accomplishment. You may feel more inclined to make healthy, positive choices as the day progresses. Fasted morning rides at a low intensity may burn fat, enhance endurance performance, and boost your energy and metabolism levels all day. A 2019 study found that people who exercised before breakfast for 6 weeks improved their response to insulin, which helped them burn twice as much fat as those who exercised after breakfast.
☆ Prevents and manages medical conditions
Whether you want to prevent health concerns from arising or manage existing conditions, regular exercise is key. Cycling regularly is one way to avoid a sedentary lifestyle and its accompanying health concerns. It can help prevent cardiac issues such as stroke, heart attack, and high blood pressure. Cycling may also help prevent and manage type 2 diabetesTrusted Source.
☆ It’s environmentally friendly
Reduce your carbon footprint by riding your bike whenever possible. Cycling is a great replacement for transport options that involve sitting in traffic for extended periods. It’s especially useful when you’re going places that are a bit too far to walk, but you still don’t want to take a car. A bonus is not having to fight for a parking space in crowded areas.
☆ Improves balance, posture, and coordination
As you stabilize your body and keep your bike upright, you’ll improve your overall balance, coordination, and posture. Balance tends to decline with age and inactivity, so it’s vital to keep on top of it. Improved balance is beneficial in the prevention of falls and fractures, which can leave you on the sidelines while you take time off from exercise to recover.
☆ It’s a low impact option
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“Golden Era” (2007 Survey)
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Click here for a short summary of the issue. Click here for a detailed timeline.
See also the Pension Rights Center website.
Click here for ex-St. Peter's CEO John Matuska's 2011 letter to the IRS.
Click here for ex-St. Peter's VP of HR Bruce Pardo's 2011 letter to the IRS.
Haga clic aqui para verun resumen del problema en español.
Thursday, January 21, 2016
We had previously thought it unlikely that Saint Peter's would file for a rehearing, since the panel's unanimous decision would suggest a slim chance of success before the full court. Our guess is that the purpose of the move is to buy time before the hospital's ultimate objective of having the case heard before the Supreme Court. This is the first case of many essentially similar class action cases to have been decided in an appellate court. Saint Peter's points out in the letter that two other such cases are in process in appellate courts: one involving Advocate Health Care Network, which was argued in September, and one involving Dignity Health, scheduled for argument this coming February. Significantly, in both cases the hospitals lost in district court. For Saint Peter's to have a chance before the Supreme Court, they would need a win for a hospital in appellate court to counter their own defeat -- which would seem a long shot given the cases now before appellate courts and the 90-day filing window. If their petition is accepted, Saint Peter's holds off a court order to run the plan as an ERISA plan, while buying time for an appellate court win, in either of the two current appellate cases or one which eventually filters up from the district courts. In the meantime Saint Peter's can continue to run the pension plan as a church plan, with minimal federal oversight or funding requirements.
Sunday, January 10, 2016
- Charles Toutant in New Jersey Law Journal gives a quick history of the issue and a summary of the ruling, along with quotes from lead attorneys Karen Handorf for the plan members and Jeffrey Greenbaum for the hospital. This is the first statement we've seen on behalf of the hospital in the wake of the ruling. Greenbaum makes clear that the hospital plans to exhaust its legal options before making any changes to its management of the pension plan.
- Rebecca Moore at PLANSPONSOR provides a somewhat more in-depth summary of how the court interpreted the intent of the ERISA statute's church plan exemption by studying its history. Both this and the New Jersey Law Journal article make clear that the ruling sets a precedent for the circuit courts, though apparently other cases pending in the appellate courts could make a contradictory ruling on other grounds, perhaps leading to review by the Supreme Court.
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When I initially got an iPhone I thought that the whole app function was the best thing since sliced bread.. then I took it abroad and realised that the iPhone is of next to no value without an internet connection. Without WiFi the iPhone takes you back to 1999 where the only thing you could do was use the calender, play snake and have a torch at hand.
Luckily for me, I'm not abroad and I DO have an internet connection so my iPhone is currently working great YAY!
I feel like making a list today so I thought I would share with you some apps that I like (I am hoping that somebody in the world will half care but I'm not holding my breath or anything..).
I should actually be writing up my university dissertation, due in 22 days, but I can't be asked right now.
So here goes:
The app that you kind of have to have even if you don't want it. It's great for instantly sending photos and having group chats but not so great if you don't want to reply to someone but you've read their message so you know it's double-ticked and then they're online when you read it and they start typing and you go offline and then feel bad and you wish you still just used conventional SMS and - it's just one big mess.
This is a recent download and I'm really liking it so far. Basically it's like photo diary where you take a photo a day and it stores them as a calender. I hope that it's not going to end up like a real life diary where you're really excited about it at the start and you write in it twice a day and then you've forgotten about it a week later.
Best app for live TV on your phone. And it has Dave. I mean who doesn't love TopGear??
7. Alafasy Radio
So I really liked this app at the start. Mishary Alafasy is an excellent reciter. The only thing that's not great is when you use the app you're greeted with his giant face:
Now this was not a problem until my mum saw it on my phone and somehow convinced herself that I chose the background and so I must have a crush on him.
I don't think that I've listened to this app since my mother's rather traumatising accusation. Not that it made much of a difference to her anyway.. she still started smirking at me when he was on TV the other day in a "I know that you know that I know" sort of a way O.O
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Watching the confounding and fun first trailer for Colossal, there was a wave of shock that Anne Hathaway–esteemed actress and picture of cheerful elegance–would star in such an unapologetically weird movie. And Vigalondo, director of the Kaiju comedy that opens this week, was as surprised as the rest of us that the Oscar-winner signed on. Moreover, Hathaway came to him! “You can imagine my face when I got the news that she was interested in it,” Vigalondo said as we spoke following the polarizing film’s SXSW premiere. “She read the script through her agent, and just showed her interest. It was as simple as that. She approached us–me and Nahikari Ipiña, my long-time producer since the short films.”
With a star of Hathaway’s magnitude on board, Colossal had no trouble securing financing. “It was like this bunch of weird people coming from nowhere–and Anne Hathaway–trying to make this strange film,” Vigalondo shared. “It went really fast, because once she’s on board, things get done! So if you like the film, you have to thank her in many ways.”
Written and directed by Vigalondo (Timecrimes), Colossal has Hathaway playing Gloria, an unemployed alcoholic who returns defeated to her hometown. There she reconnects with her childhood friend Oscar (Jason Sudeikis), and discovers that she’s somehow the source of a massive monster that appears nightly to torment Seoul, South Korea. But that’s just the beginning of this inventive Kaiju tale.
According to Vigalondo, Hathaway was attracted to the project because “she wanted to make movies like this, movies for her younger self, movies for the younger cinephile.”
Sudeikis also was quick to sign-on. And Vigalondo relished the chance to use two stars associated with romantic-comedies to upend audience expectation and subvert the genre with a monster movie that’s about more than monsters. “This is the perfect case scenario,” he explained. “Putting Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis on a poster is poking the genre film that I’m trying to destroy with this film: the romantic comedy!”
How do monsters and rom-coms come together in Colossal? Well that’d be spoiler territory. But Vigalondo did say, “Some misinformed people are going to walk into this looking for a romantic comedy. But only half of those people are going to be angry with the film. But that’s something you need to sacrifice.”
Part of the fun of making Colossal was taking a big budget genre of the monster movie, and making it on a smaller budget that offered new challenges. Though Gloria’s Kaiju mimics her movements, nothing as high-cost or highfalutin as motion-capture was used in production. Instead, Vigalondo set up smaller digital cameras to capture Hathaway’s performance from different angles. Then this reference footage was given to animators who created the incredible Kaiju seen on Colossal‘s cool poster.
“I’m not an illustrator or an artist. I wish I was,” Vigalondo lamented when asked about the creature designs. He credited the design team for the look of Colossal‘s gargantuan monster, noting he’d ask that the designs “felt part of the tradition” of monster movies that came before. “I wanted them to feel like characters that felt like a part of the genre we’re playing with,” he said. “I don’t want to laugh at those films; I want to make one of them.”
“One clear direction I gave,” Vigalondo added, “was not giving the monster any feminine attributes at all. That would have horrible, and I had those discussions. I didn’t want the monster to be ‘female,’ Because the monster is an animal. And animals are not female or male. They are male or they put lipstick on and they are female? So I insisted that it shouldn’t have any of the Anne Hathaway look or suggestions. It would just be a pure animal.”
Following the success of his Spanish thriller Timecrimes and the Spanish-American coproduction Open Windows, Colossal marks Vigalondo’s first American movie. And as such, it’s the first of his films to be subjected to test screenings, where audiences are shown an early cut and asked to fill out a survey about what they liked and didn’t like. Vigalondo admitted the process can be a bit rough on the ego, but it helped him accept that there are two kinds of negative reaction to the film, which takes a surprising turn in its second act. Some people may not get what he’s doing with his unconventional Kaiju movie. Others might just be diametrically opposed to its perceived politics.
“So making test screenings didn’t force me to make the movie softer, or more average or less challenging for the audience,” he said of the experience. “It changed the movie in ways where things are explained in a better way, in a more clear way, or some element was superfluous. If it was superfluous, it went just away.” Having seen the film twice in three months, I noticed a few minor changes, mostly in the positioning of flashbacks throughout the film.
However, Vigalondo knows there are some people who will never like Colossal, and he accepts that. “We confront people in the audience who are–I don’t want to say offended–alienated by what happens in the second half of the film,” he explained, “That’s something that we can’t fight against. It’s like, ‘Okay. You have this problem with the movie. We can’t do anything about that, because that’s what the movie is.’ At all the screenings, you find people who feel wronged by the turn of this specific character. I understand where they’re coming from. But I can’t do anything to avoid that impression, because that’s what the movie is actually about.”
For more on this second-act turn and this curious character arc, look for our spoiler-rich follow-up post next week.
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I've released man-pages-3.81. The release tarball is available on kernel.org. The browsable online pages can be found on man7.org. The Git repository for man-pages is available on kernel.org.
The changes in man-pages-3.81 relate exclusively to the (glibc) thread-safety markings in various man pages. More than 400 patches, mainly by Ma Shimiao and Peng Haitao of Fujitsu brought the following changes:
- Thread-safety information has been added to many more pages.
- The thread-safety notation in man-pages has been made consistent with the notation used in the GNU C Library Manual.
- Thread-safety information in man-pages has been checked for consistency with the same information in the GNU C Library Manual. In some cases, this has resulted in refinements to the markings in man-pages.
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It is said that at mid-life you begin to discover hairs where you don’t want them and lose hairs where you do. Unfortunately, I have found that to be pretty accurate.
One of the places we begin to lose hair is our eyebrows. It sneaks up on us and one day we’re looking in the mirror and wondering where our brows went. I have tried many ways to camouflage this problem using brow pencils or gel brow liners and to be honest they look weird (like someone drew them on!).
I have recently run across a product that looks much more natural. It is bareMinerals Brow Powder. It comes in four shades and you apply it with a brush like this one. After applying you can leave it alone or seal it with a clear brow gel.
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Obituary for Doyle “Gene” Labon
Ponca City Now - September 6, 2019 5:49 pm
Doyle “Gene” Labon
January 11, 1949 – September 5, 2019
Doyle Eugene “Gene” Labon, age 70, of Ponca City, Oklahoma passed away September 5, 2019 with his family by his side at his home in Ponca City.
Gene was born on January 11, 1949 in Ponca City, Oklahoma to Mancel Doyle Rutherford and Katherine Marie (Hoskins) Labon. Gene grew up in Ponca City and worked the first part of his life as a welder and roofer and was very adept at working with wood. As life went on he took over the local cab service was the owner and operator together with Glenda of Gene’s Cab Company.
Survivors include his wife Glenda, sons Jason Labon and his wife Joni, Kevin Collins, Ted Staggs, daughter Christi Ann Labon, grandchildren Michael Labon, Dylan Labon, Breanna Williamson, Nathan Staggs, Billy Taylor, Sierra Collins, Damon Collins, Lyrik Collins, Gabriel Simon, many more beloved grandchildren, and great-grandchild and absolute light of his life, Piper Staggs, his siblings Gordon Rutherford, Wanda Williams, Faye Rutherford and Harold Rutherford.
Gene was preceded in death by his parents Mancel and Katherine, Anthony Collins, Shanna Labon, Renate Jenkins, Lonnie Staggs and his brother C. L. Rutherford.
Casket bearers will be Kevin Collins, Jason Labon, Derrick Collins, Damon Collins, Michael Labon, Nathan Staggs and Gabriel Simon.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Go Fund Me account “Gene Labon Services Fund” or through Facebook at Herb Rains account and the “Herb’s Family Fund Raiser” which benefits the family.
Viewing will be at Trout Funeral Home on Sunday, September 8 from 2 PM to 8 PM and Monday, September 9 from 8 AM to 8 PM with family Meet-and-Greet from 6 PM to 8 PM.
Gene’s burial will be Tuesday September 10 in the Oak Grove section of Odd Fellows Cemetery with Pastors Lilly Freeman and long-time friend Herb Rains officiating. All are welcome to share their thoughts and prayers for Gene and Family.
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With two middle grade novels on shelves thus far and a YA novel coming in 2023, India Hill Brown is an author to watch. Her debut, The Forgotten Girl, provided creeps and chills aplenty while dealing with the difficult and forgotten history of segregated cemeteries (R.L. Stine himself said “This ghost story gave me chill after chill. It will haunt you.”), while her most recent novel, The Girl in the Lake, handles the history of segregated swimming pools.
Below, India talks about writing historical horror for adolescents, romance, and the books that inspire her.
Tyhitia Green: Your debut novel, The Forgotten Girl, is a ghost story that dispenses plenty of spookiness but also shines a spotlight on segregated cemeteries, a topic that hasn’t often been discussed. What can you tell us about this project?
India Hill Brown: I chose segregated cemeteries as the subject matter for The Forgotten Girl because of my own family history. I have a Great Aunt and Uncle who are buried in one in my hometown. When visiting, my grandma would always tell me that the cemetery was once segregated. You can even see where the ‘White Side’ of the cemetery used to be. This interested me, because I never even considered the fact that even cemeteries were segregated. After doing research on this particular one, I realized that it was once abandoned as well! It was going to be torn up as a part of an Urban Renewal project, but a woman named Minnie Simmons Williams stopped the process. I then realized how many times this has happened in the US – cemeteries were abandoned and buildings (apartment buildings, college campuses, etc.) were built on top of them. It sounded to me like an amazing ghost story, and a chance to learn about and help others learn about segregated and abandoned cemeteries.
TG: In your latest novel, The Girl in the Lake, you also address a heart-breaking, historically consequential issue that greatly affected African-Americans in the past, and still does until this day. What made you chose this subject matter?
IHB: I chose the subject of segregated swimming pools for The Girl in the Lake, for a few reasons. I am very interested in little known Black history facts and like to incorporate them in my Middle Grade novels. I feel like everything has an origin story. We hear a lot of the stereotype that many Black people can’t swim. Why is that? In doing my research, it’s statistically true as well. But why? A lot of it stems from the segregation of swimming pools. Pools where Black people frequented had acid thrown in them, riots started at them, and more. When pools were desegregated, pools in majority Black areas were shut down due to funding, and White people would choose to swim at pools in Whites Only country clubs. It was harder to find pools or swimming lessons for Black swimmers, and it led to a generational pattern. If your grandparents couldn’t learn how to swim or developed disinterest because of what they went through, they were less likely to teach your parents, and your parents were less likely to teach you. This interested me especially during my time of living in a lake town. I started to visualize what this would look like for a Black family, and decided to craft my story around it.
TG: Do you only write horror or do you write in other genres as well?
IHB: Yes!! My debut young adult novel, Rhythm & Muse, is a romance! I would love to write in a lot of other different genres as well.
TG: Who are your favorite authors and did they inspire your work in any way?
IHB: I have a few! One of my favorite books is Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery. It was one of those books that I just read at the right time. I loved the setting, and I could relate to Anne the character a lot – she’s a nature-obsessed daydreamer with a sharp tongue. The character and story was written beautifully and thoughtfully, and I always strive to do that. I also love C.S. Lewis – as a Christian myself, I always appreciate the Biblical themes he used in his novels. And I love how classically fantastical the world of Narnia is. His imagination had to be huge and I really strive to use mine daily! Also, Renée Watson. Renée writes the type of books that I devoured as a child: coming-of-age stories about young girls. Kids just being kids: exploring and playing. When I read those books, they make me feel 10 years old again. Although my middle grade novels are horror stories, I do like to incorporate all of these elements into my stories as well.
TG: Do you ever scare yourself when spinning such spine-chilling tales?
IHB: Sometimes!! I remember staying up late one night working on The Forgotten Girl and I dreamed about it. I try to be mindful of being spine-chilling instead of disturbingly scary. If it’s just too disturbing, I do dial it back. I don’t want to disturb children, just give them some fun scares in the middle of my stories.
TG: What can we expect from you next and where can people find out more about you and your work?
IHB: I am currently in the very beginning stages of another middle grade novel – hopefully I can share more soon! My immediate next novel is my YA romance Rhythm & Muse – which will be out Spring ’23! People can find out more about me on my website, indiahillbrown.com. There, you can sign up for my newsletter that I update frequently with events, bookish news, and more. I post blog posts at least once a month about what I’ve been up to. I also share author updates on Instagram and Twitter @booksandbighair. I like to post writing vlogs and update videos on my YouTube channel, too! | <urn:uuid:d75d63a7-b697-40cd-99cd-d314a9c94034> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://tornightfire.com/the-ghosts-of-segregation-interviewing-india-hill-brown/ | 2022-05-19T15:05:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662529538.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220519141152-20220519171152-00600.warc.gz | en | 0.975286 | 1,267 |
Bill Gurley, the prominent investor behind Uber and Snapchat, has been sounding the tech bubble alarm for months now. He’s preached about the dangerous appetite for risk in the market, the alarmingly high burn rates and the excess of capital sloshing around in Silicon Valley.
At the South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, Gurley rang the alarm once again. We may not be in a tech bubble, the venture capitalist said, but we’re in a risk bubble.
“There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now,” he said. “A complete absence of fear.” He added that more people are employed by money-losing companies in Silicon Valley than ever before.
Will there be a crash? “I do think you’ll see some dead unicorns this year,” he said, using the term used to describe startups with valuations higher than $1 billion. (For more on startup unicorns and Bill Gurley, see Fortune’s February 2015 cover story, “The Age of Unicorns.”)
If the free flowing capital, which is driven by low interest rates, ever dries up, it will affect more than just money-losing startups. It will affect the San Francisco real estate market, Gurley noted. And more importantly, it will affect a number of companies whose revenue is increasingly reliant on spending by venture-backed startups.
Take Facebook, for example. A significant portion of its income now comes from venture-backed apps that are spending heavily to promote app downloads within Facebook, Gurley said. “As you get more of these dependancies, it increases the likelihood that if anything slows we’ll have [problems],” Gurley said.
Gurley said the best way to prepare for the worst is to have a back-up plan, so that if everything falls apart, the company can quickly change courses and get to profitability. “The best entrepreneurs already think that way,” he said. “The younger ones don’t.”
Nonetheless, when asked which companies Gurley wishes he had invested in, he immediately named two unicorns: Airbnb, which is rumored to be raising capital at a $20 billion valuation, and Slack, the youngest company to get to a $1 billion valuation. | <urn:uuid:bd259f40-d6a0-473e-bb77-09c4dc40ea23> | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | http://fortune.com/2015/03/15/bill-gurley-predicts-dead-unicorns-in-startup-land-this-year/ | 2019-01-16T03:26:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583656665.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20190116031807-20190116053807-00030.warc.gz | en | 0.950131 | 487 |
Tony Iommi - "Monkey" SG
The neck pick up is a John Birch custom P90 type single coil. The finger board is finished with clear polyurethane.
Adorned with the cartoon monkey sticker, this guitar became the main instrument when the bridge pick up on Tony’s white Stratocaster failed after the band recorded ‘Wicked World’ on the ‘Black Sabbath’ album.
It was not, however, without its problems. Due to the thin neck profile at the heel, there were always tuning stability problems and the single coil pick ups were always susceptible to picking up interference.
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EA And Black Library Publishing Announce Dark Storm Gathering, An Original Novel
November 20, 2008
EA AND Black Library PUBLISHING ANNOUNCE DARK STORM GATHERING, AN ORIGINAL NOVEL BASED ON HIT MMORPG
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Second Novel in Series Offers a Gripping Account of Four Heroes Embroiled in the Realm vs. Realm Conflict of WAR
Mythic Entertainment, an Electronic Arts Inc. studio, and The Black Library, a division of Games Workshop, today announced DARK STORM GATHERING, an original novel based on the critically acclaimed MMORPG, Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning™ (WAR). The second in a series of novels based on the hit massively multiplayer online role-playing game, DARK STORM GATHERING will be available in all major bookstores and on the Black Library website in Spring 2009.
DARK STORM GATHERING, by noted Black Library author Chris Wraight, provides a colorful and gripping account of the Realm vs. Realm™ battles that rage throughout WAR. In the novel, human and Elf adventurers are forced to form an uneasy alliance with the armies of the Empire to repel the forces of Chaos. Across the lands, the grim march of Tchar’zanek, dread Champion of the fell powers of Chaos, is underway. Throughout the Empire of Man, the toll from plague and mutation continues to grow, and hope begins to fade. Only the intervention of the High Elves offers respite, but they are beset by foes of their own, the murderous Dark Elves. When the prospect of treachery behind Imperial lines looms, four heroes based on careers in the game – Archmage, White Lion, Witch Hunter and Knight of the Blazing Sun – must work together to uncover the corruption before all is lost.
“The first novel based on our game, EMPIRE IN CHAOS, was a tremendous success, and we’re thrilled about next year’s release of DARK STORM GATHERING,” said Mark Jacobs, VP and General Manager of Mythic Entertainment. “Black Library has a track record of producing compelling creative works based on the Warhammer world, and they really made the Age of Reckoning shine with the first WAR novel. We can’t wait for players to read what Chris Wraight has in store for them in the second installment in the series.”
“Warhammer is one of the richest fantasy universes ever envisaged, and the Age of Reckoning is like a dream come true for a writer,” said Chris Wraight, the author of DARK STORM GATHERING. “There are so many iconic characters and locales to draw upon, and the team at Mythic has really captured the spirit of Warhammer so well. Writing this novel has been a joy, and I hope the final product is as immersive and engaging for readers as WAR is for gamers.”
Based on the popular tabletop war game from Games Workshop, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning features revolutionary Realm vs. Realm™ conflict that will provide an engaging battleground for years to come. Available now for PC, WAR is rated “T” for Teen by the ESRB.
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Aug 8 2013
Events offer a fun way to educate people about your brand while celebrating it. It’s one of the few times you can have controlled, face-to-face conversation with your target audience. But events come at an expense, and usually a steep one, which should be carefully considered before the formal event planning begins.
Speaking from the experience of organizing various events for nonprofits, educational entities and hospitality organizations, the following are the five questions I suggest you ask yourself before deciding to dole out the significant resources that a successful event requires.
Events are fun but that alone isn’t reason enough to host one. The most important question you can ask yourself is: What are you trying to achieve? Then you should ask yourself: Is an event the best way to accomplish your objective?
For example, Girl Scouts of the USA wanted to celebrate the first ever National Girl Scout Cookie Day. The goal was to raise awareness of Girl Scouts’ cookie program, the largest girl-led business in the world, and sell more cookies. After examination, we concluded that the best way to sell more cookies was to host an event in New York City, allowing the public a special opportunity to pre-purchase their cookies. To make the event a success, we recommended that Girl Scouts partner with Sweetery, a mobile bakery, and sell cookies at four high foot-traffic locations throughout the city. The event was a huge success, as we met our goal by selling 4,500+ boxes of cookies.
One of the first things you have to define is your target audience. Who are the people that will be most interested in attending an event hosted by you? How will these people help you meet your end goal? Everything you plan will be based on the people you are trying to reach.
Cambria Suites, a division of Choice Hotels, was making its big debut into the New York market and wanted to host a series of events around three separate groundbreakings: Chelsea, Times Square and White Plains. A big splash in the Big Apple - three properties at once. In a market like New York City, crowded with hotels, Cambria Suites focused on very specific audiences for their events, as they knew only certain target groups would be interested. These groups included Cambria Suites and Choice Hotel executives, the developers, contractors, local dignitaries, White Plains local reporters, as well as hospitality trade and business writers.
To widen their external audience, Cambria Suites not only used their own executives as spokespeople, but they also used their parent company’s executives and CEO as well. This helped Cambria Suites ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange and gain the interest of national and New York City business writers.
It’s important to make sure that you have the appropriate spokespeople representing your brand at your events. Remember, your spokespeople are your brand ambassadors. They help build the perception of your brand. You want people who are comfortable speaking publicly, both to individuals and groups. Most importantly, you want people who are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about your brand and what it represents.
The Partnership at Drugfree.org wanted to raise awareness of teen prescription drug abuse. They did this by launching the Medicine Abuse Project, a campaign that seeks to prevent half a million teens from abusing medicine within five years. Last year, the first year of this initiative, started with a week-long series of virtual and live events.
The Partnership at Drugfree.org wanted to do something big and open to the public in New York City. We recommended that they host a press conference and a 24-hour event at Grand Central about the launch of this campaign with their national and local spokespeople including Steve Pasierb, CEO of The Partnership at Drugfree.org, actress Melissa Gilbert and New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Farley. All three spokespeople were passionate about the topic and offered different perspectives on the danger of teen medicine abuse.
Events can help your brand differentiate itself from the crowd of competitors. But in order to successfully accomplish this, you need to be educated on the industry landscape. If you know what your competitors and industry comrades have already done, it will only help you be unique in your approach.
Air New Zealand is a great example of this. They do their research, and because of this, they are able to implement unique ideas. Their brand is quirky and they make sure that everything they do reflects this. So when they wanted to educate business and consumer travelers in California that they fly from Los Angeles to London, they invited six travel reporters and other influencers to the airline’s very first in-flight focus group. The attendees tweeted with the hashtag #NoLagtoLondon and Air New Zealand opened up a Twitter contest to the masses, which distributed daily prizes as well as the opportunity for one lucky person to win the Grand Prize, a trip to London flying in Business Premier. This social media component allowed consumers to engage in a small event and helped Air New Zealand grow their @AIRNZUSA following by 12 percent.
The location of your event can contribute to its success or failure. Your audience needs to be willing to go there. Don’t expect people to fly or travel long distances unless you are willing to provide the transportation. Pick a location that is necessary or easy for your target audience to get to. For local events this task is easy, but for national events it gets a bit tricky. When thinking on a national or global scale, you should consider Internet-based events.
Target is doing just that by using different social media avenues to reach its millennial customers. In order to boost the sale of its dorm room products, Target implemented a reality-themed YouTube series that allows online shoppers to virtually interact with YouTube personalities who are spending four days in Target-designed dorm rooms. Consumers can initiate conversation through social media and virtually attend activities such as streamed concerts hosted by MTV.
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Join Malena at her SCANDINAVIAN TRUNK SHOW at 15 Central park West earlier in the day on May 29 from 1pm-7pm
– Inna Race, Private Paparazzi Production will be our snapping pictures of everyone throughout the evening.
– Sherry Kumar, Serbia – Serbia. Sherry is also organizing EuroCircle Trip to INDIA in November.
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Let’s get a jump start on summer, and do what we do best- party in style.
We invite you to dress for the occasion, and bring your own white chapeau to our party at the Attic.
We look forward to seeing you at this fun event to kick off the summer season!
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A DJ will spin tunes all night long so put on your dancing shoes!
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Prepared to add another chapter to a legacy of success stories with young racing talent, Rahal Letterman Lanigan today announced the expansion of its Indianapolis 500 plans to a two-car effort by adding Bertrand Baguette to its lineup for the 100th anniversary running of the 500-mile classic.
Baguette, who will look to make his second start in the Indy 500, joins a previously-announced joint effort between RLL and Sam Schmidt Motorsports to field the #88 Service Central entry for Jay Howard. The two-car entry marks the first time since 2008 that RLL will field two cars at Indianapolis. Baguette will drive the #30 Honda/Dallara/Firestone with the support of the Royal Automobile Club of Belgium and Aspria.
“We anticipate an exciting month at Indy with a pair of young drivers that are hungry to make their own marks in Indy Car,” said RLL co-owner and 1986 Indy 500 winner Bobby Rahal. “Adding Bertrand to our lineup gives us a chance to make both entries stronger. Bertrand has shown throughout his career that he is a proven winner and he improves every time he gets into the car. We look forward to giving both Bertrand and Jay a great opportunity to compete and show their skills at the Indianapolis 500.”
Baguette, who won the Formula Renault 3.5 World Championship in 2009, made his first Indy 500 start a year ago, qualifying 24th and finishing 22nd. He competed in the final 15 races of the 2010 IZOD Indy Car Series season with Conquest Racing, placing in the top 15 in five of the year’s final seven starts. His rookie season showed great promise as the Belgian qualified in the top 15 in five of the final six events, highlighted by a sixth-place starting spot at Kentucky - a race where he would go on to earn his first Indy Car top-10 finish.
“This is a very good opportunity for me and it is important for me to compete in the 100th anniversary of this great race,” said Baguette. “To be there with a team of the caliber of Rahal Letterman Lanigan is very exciting. They have great people and a rich history and I know we can do great things. Last year was my first time at Indy and it’s a big place and the speeds are high, but once you get used to that, you just focus on improving the race car. We qualified pretty easily on the first day and had a car that was running as fast as the top-10 guys in the race, but we had some misfortune with a broken mirror that set us back. I look forward to joining Rahal Letterman Lanigan and showing the world that I have the ability to run up front there.”
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The United Nations say an Italian towboat which rescued more than 100 people in the Mediterranean and returned them to Libya may have been in breach of international law.
A spokesman for the U.N. migration agency said it could not establish the location of the rescue, which is key to establishing migrants’ rights, although some other parties involved in the case have made contradictory assertions about the incident including where it took place.
Spanish charity Proactiva Open Arms say the Asso 28, an oil rig support vessel rescued them from international waters on Monday and took them to Libya, their country of departure.
Migrants rescued in international waters cannot be returned to a place where their lives are put in danger.
Both the UN and European Union have acknowledged that Libya is not safe.
Italy’s coast guard initially said on Tuesday that the rescue was coordinated by the Libyan coast guard, and later clarified that the operation had taken place in Libya’s so-called “search and rescue (SAR)” area.
The Libyan coast guard was not immediately available for a comment.
Libya’s SAR is not clearly defined but is widely understood to extend far beyond its national waters.
A spokesman for the U.N. migration agency said the agency was still investigating the case but confirmed the return of the migrants to Libya.
He said the Libyans first told him the rescue operation was carried out by “an unknown vessel”, then changed their version and said the rescuing boat was Libyan.
The head of mission at Open Arms, Fabrizio Gatti, contradicted the Libyan version and said a member of the Asso 28 crew told him over the phone the Italian boat carried out the rescue and was taking the migrants back to Libya. He said he had a record of the conversation.
Asso 28 is now docked in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, according to Marine Traffic, a real-time information service on ships movements.
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Should’ve brought more ships!
“…He also wants you to pull his finger.”
Would that I could give this comment more upvotes. Well played.
We’re all doing our part to celebrate Hfar’s unceasing cleverness!
He might just go for that, if he thought it would help make a sale. 😀
hahaha! Great dialogue!
Joe’s like 70% responsible for that!
Ha! Now we can have our accidental discharge which kills the messenger! That IS why you wrote it this way, right? Also, Genchu I recommend you stop trying to explain. You’re just making it worse.
We’re totally still building up to that! It is a thing that is absolutely happening! Soon!
“So he is saying that my cargo is priceless?”
“That’s one way to look at it.”
Ya know, I’d have thought diplomatic doubletalk would be useful for a salesman. Guess I was wrong. I mean, look at the value!
I bet Ricardo’s all like “Things are goin’ my way!”
Well, at least he’s sticking to his guns.
That was a pun, right? I think it was a pun.
Well, his guns aren’t sticking to him:)
At least his pistol will stick with him.
Really, his issue is that he came to Japan assuming he would be able to walk off the boat and randomly find someone bilingual enough to serve as a reliable translator (as opposed to one with ulterior motives). His sales technique is pretty good, but what kind of merchant doesn’t bring a translator with him?! Also, if you’re intending to sell something to a military you don’t know, perhaps invest in a few guards?
Agreed, your points are exceptionally valid. Luckily what we do, we do for laughs! What, you’re not laughing??
…does anyone else think his shirt makes him look like a barrel, or is it just me?
Ricardo is barrel chested, after all.
The stunned third panel. I can’t stop giggling at it. XDDD It needs a “WOW!!!” sound effect.
OH! That would’ve been a good sound effect. Not a lot of room for it, though!
Are you saying there’s just not enough room to fully express his wowness?
Wow, what an idiot! He must be a Harvard MBA…
Is this a commentary on Harvard or people with MBAs or both?
Both. Harvard has a much-ballyhooed MBA program, but it graduated George W. Bush. Also (and this is just my personal opinion, mind you), to me “MBA” means “More Bad Advice”. First, as far as I can tell, it’s basically a piece of parchment that legacy students can get without having to do too much work that gives their résumé just enough of a glossy sheen of legitimacy that they can be hired by dad’s (or one of dad’s friend’s) company without *too* much of an appearance of nepotism/favoritism. (Again, see George W. Bush.) Second; as far as I can tell, the *only* thing that they seem to teach MBAs is how to go into a perfectly functioning business, take it over, and start firing the workers and just generally running that business into the ground while paying themselves huge bonuses.
Now, granted there may be some MBAs out there who don’t behave in this manner (and I’d be happy to listen to your story if you wish to share it); but I think that if they want to change that image (and I’m not the only one who feels this way) then they need to do a better job of doing their jobs. (End of rant.)
Our opinions are aligned on this matter, sir.
My dad has an MBA (from a prestigious eastern school that is not Harvard) and a master’s degree in chemistry (also not from Harvard). He started a one-man business and did pretty well for himself.
So, on a scale from one to George W Bush, your dad’s pretty much awesome, is what I’m getting.
I have heard that MBAs are the most time effective degree for financial success. The least required amount of schooling for the most successful job opportunities. In the end, it’s more how you implement your knowledge than how you received it!
Did a political discussion just start based on a comic that involves ninjas?
I need a break from the internet.
What was the business? Did it emphasize the Chemistry degree or the MBA? Also, how was the MBA useful (or not) in that business?
(Let me emphasize that I have nothing against your father. I simply tend to see more negative consequences in the world from MBA holders than positive ones.)
He developed some software for IBM and Compuserve in the late 70’s-early 80’s before becoming a licensed Realtor who also owned, managed, fixed up, remodeled, and built add-ons for his own properties personally. He also made a good deal of money in the stock market. So, not much use for his chemistry degrees in a business capacity but his finance, accounting, and management skills came in handy.
Then I guess that an MBA *can* be useful to certain people in certain careers (and benefit society to boot) if they choose to make it so; but, as I said previously, they need to do a better job of not turning it into something that the rest of us will see in a negative light.
The core problem with the MBA, and much other business education, is that it is designed around the idea that all businesses are effectively the same. Since a business is a vehicle for making money, if you know how to manipulate money you know how to run a business–any business. Specifics are abstracted away. But in real life the specifics are important. One strength of German business (although this may be eroding these days) has been that they still retain a production-oriented outlook and framework, including colleges oriented towards the nuts and bolts of manufacturing and other “hard” technology.
If people learn the skills without inhaling the ideology underneath, the skills can be useful. Managing money has its place. But people who drink that kool-aid cause problems by devaluing the idea that any given business has real skills associated with whatever it’s actually doing, and by applying one-size-fits-all solutions that rarely fit. So they can run businesses into the ground because they think they understand them but they don’t really. What’s worse is that most financial solutions which can appear to work anywhere tend to be very short term. So you get downsizing and outsourcing type stuff; cutting costs always improves the bottom line, until you get messed up because of the things you cut because you didn’t understand how the business works. In some cases this isn’t even done out of ignorance, it’s done because the one doing it planned to exercise their stock options and jump ship before the damage became obvious.
Oh, this! So, *SO* much this! Yes, if an MBA degree was simply about “Time Management” and “Production Efficiencies” and all of that theoretical, nuts-and-bolts widget-making crap then I suppose that I might not hate it quite so much. (I’d still hate it for it’s emphasis on turning people into faceless cogs in the manufacturing machine, but that’s not particularly relevant at the moment.) What I hate is this idea that somehow an MBA automatically makes it’s holder The Smartest Man In The Room when it comes to making business decisions — even when those decisions are quite clearly damaging or destroying a company…or a Nation! (Read the books The Smartest Men in the Room and Conspiracy of Fools for an excellent example of how “drinking the (MBA) kool-aid” not only brought down Enron, but damn near brought down the American Economy with it!)
So, yes, I hate the legacy-student, “Gentleman’s C”s ease with which some Universities confer the damned things (yes, Harvard; I’m looking at *YOU!* Also, imagine if Harvard Medical School or Harvard Law awarded M.D.s and J.D.s in that manner! Can you imagine someone like Dubya as a Doctor or a Lawyer?!), and I hate the Can’t-think-beyond-this-Quarter mentality that seems to permeate the MBA mindset/worldview. (Although, part of that I also blame on the SCOTUS for it’s Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. decision that *requires under the law* that businesses make a profit for their stockholders — although I also think that MBAs tend to use this as a rather pathetic excuse for some of the crap that they pull. There are, after all, still plenty of *legal* ways to make a profit that don’t require the ruining of people’s lives, the environment, etc.)
So, yeah; both the mentality *and* the ideological swill that come with an MBA need to be addressed — and changed — or, more and more, it’ll just continue to mean “More Bad Advice”.
This is priceless!!
I see what you did there!
You know, this panel really cries out for a remix. I wonder if I can make that happen…
ask I ye shall receive.
The dialog just sort of wrote itself, I swear.
This is brilliance! I’ve always considered flatulence jokes to be one of the highest forms of the comedic arts, and I’m glad to see I was proven right yet again. Excellent utilization of the third panel reaction shot, I must say!
Your work brings me a lot of joy, so always happy to spin a bit back your way, sir. As Hfar originally pointed out, this one just begged for a “pull my finger” reference.
Yeah, third panel worked out great, and the expression on the padre’s face in panel 4 rolled along with it well. It’s like the look on a skinny underclassman’s face when a football coach is sending them in as an injury replacement. “Don’t worry kid, that last guy’s leg was only broken in three places. You can do it, go get ’em!”
Yep, flatulence deserves a place in the Shrine of Very Funny Things right up there with banana peels, midgets, penguins, and Harpo Marx.
His lovely 3 year old daughter will be able to pay for her cancer treatment! His likeable wife will be able to buy food again!
Portuguese guy, a hero for commerce, progress and possibly inexistent family members!
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As you can imagine, we here at Accounting Today receive our fair share of unsolicited books, some of which we readily anticipate for their reference value (i.e. Who Audits America), while others are viewed as the equivalent of an ossified holiday fruit cake.Many of these tomes are accompanied by the requisite form letter asking us to include them in our book review section - or, in our case, the New Products page - and often include not-too-subtle hints that the authors are readily available for interviews. To be honest, my engagement with those responsible for the more complex material wouldn't stray too far from boilerplate questions. Picture Katie Couric trying to make a relevant point to Stephen Hawking and you sort of get my drift.
However, last month, we received several copies of Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life, the poignant memoir penned by the late Eugene O'Kelly, the former head of Big Four firm KPMG, who, after being diagnosed with inoperable brain tumors at the age of 53, made the decision to transform the last days of his life into the best ones.
From his opening statement of "I was blessed," after being informed that he had perhaps three to four months to live, O'Kelly, like a true accountant, mapped out a strategy, which included not only ensuring a succession plan for the firm, but also a wind-down separation process for his friends and family when he finally left in September.
For the curious, the title is a reference to O'Kelly's passion for playing golf in the late afternoon, when the shadows become elongated before leading ultimately to the gloaming - a not-so-subtle metaphor for O'Kelly's last 100 or so days of life.
From a personal standpoint, O'Kelly's struggle hit particularly close to home. A quarter-century ago, I watched helplessly as a close cousin of mine, whose passion for surfing at sunrise matched that of O'Kelly's for twilight golf, succumbed to a brain tumor at the incredibly unfair age of 21, leaving a mammoth void of unfulfilled goals, future accomplishments and truncated remembrances.
But O'Kelly's saga raises the point of the work/life balance in the profession, something that O'Kelly began to adhere to early in his 30-year career, but as he rose in rank, seemed to be able to capture less of.
As he tells it, he was often working 80-hour weeks and juggling flights between continents, which speaks volumes on the importance of a work/life balance. He and his wife's plans to erect their dream house in Arizona were derailed by O'Kelly's fatal diagnosis, which by its nature put all his admirable accomplishments in stark perspective.
However, O'Kelly remained adamant about not receiving pity or optimistic "hang-in-there" encouragements from his friends and colleagues as the end drew. He had singled 1,000 of them out to deliver his good-byes personally, and that's what he insisted they were - a final goodbye. The issue was closed and there was no turning back.
Unfortunately, I can no longer speak to Gene O'Kelly, as this was one author interview I gladly would have made an exception for. But if the profession takes away nothing else from the book, the importance of maintaining a work/life balance should serve as a stark reminder of just how quickly even the best-thought-out post-career plans can change.
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If you would rather get more people, then you would like to start looking online. Internet dating sites really should not be achieved on impulse‘. Online dating isn’t a new thought. Internet dating has grown rapidly from the last 20 decades. Although internet dating offers you the ability to match with new individuals from all parts of the world, it might be an inconvenience trying to secure you and your date together, especially when the two of you are located on other faces of Earth. | <urn:uuid:dc49f7ce-1143-43a9-b7c9-4522059a3c6a> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://www.janda.properties/7278-2/ | 2019-07-21T04:49:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526888.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20190721040545-20190721062545-00484.warc.gz | en | 0.959761 | 711 |
Ronnie and Sammi are hopelessly in love, but that doesn’t mean they are together 24/7. Naturally, Ronnie has his own “man cave,” complete with a weight-lifting station, a punching bag, and a small bar to make Ron-Ron juice.
However, this room isn’t permanent — it’s just a set for his Die Hard promo shoot with MTV! Though Ron isn’t exactly a budding actor, he and JWOWW have been filming some short promos for the network, and he Instagrammed some sneak peeks earlier this week.
We can’t help but wonder if the Jersey Shore guido has one of these at home, too. Yes, they love each other, but everyone needs time apart and a space to call their own!
What do you think of Ronnie’s “man cave”? Do you think Sammi has her own special nook in their home? Share your thoughts below! | <urn:uuid:8721f111-cc40-4620-94e0-ea4eaf6cfd92> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.wetpaint.com/jersey-shore/articles/check-out-ronnies-man-cave-is-this-where-he-goes-for-time-away-from-sammi-photo | 2014-04-19T13:30:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609537186.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005217-00600-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965894 | 209 |
On December 18, the United States of America started a process that focused on making foreign ownership of American real estate easier. This month, it becomes a tax obligation for foreign owners, and it will help the Internal Revenue Service to find out who owns these properties.
The real reason behind increased foreign investment — and the motivation for it — is the change in the Foreign Investment Act back in December. This change offers a tax exemption that makes it easier for foreign stock funds and REITs to buy American real estate. This opens door for institutional investors from Europe and other countries. They can now invest their money in a tangible asset, like a high rise mixed-use dwelling in Manhattan, instead of putting it in low yielding debt, domestic equity, or foreign currency bonds.
Chinese money becomes a part of U.S. real estate
The best part about this change is that it has arrived at the right time. The New York real estate market is changing, and it’s developing its skyline. China has been an important investor. Ever since China opened up its capital account, rich Chinese individuals and companies have been heading west. Their favorite cities are New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, and Vancouver. “During 2015, our firm transacted hundreds of millions of dollars in real estate transactions and many of our Chinese clients indicated that they were concerned that the window of opportunity to source Chinese funds in order to transact U.S. real estate investments was closing,” said Terrence A. Oved, Esq., head of the Real Estate Department at Oved & Oved LLP in New York. “It is noteworthy that in 2015, Chinese investors accounted for approximately $25 billion of U.S. real estate purchases — and it now appears that the Chinese government is seeking to curtail the flow of funds out of China.”
Another big investment comes from Saudi Arabia. Saudis have turned to New York after spending big billions in London. Upon comparison, the U.S. seems a safer market. The government is stable, and the rules of law are clear. If there is a chance of an entity laundering capital money, the new rules mean they might be kicked out. America’s new real estate policy is a big welcome mat for rich buyers who are ready to pay, or rather overpay, for American housing.
How long will the change stay?
Developers are building assets rather than housing. They have built an exclusive, luxury real estate where most of them are marketed to foreign investors, and as much as 75 percent is foreign-owned. Even if the investor has no plan to live here, he will treat it as a safe investment with smart returns. They might not be able to sell it at a profit in terms of dollars, but when you look at where the money is coming from, you can assume that it might be a profit in local currency. The only condition is that they are assuming that the dollar will weaken over time instead of strengthening. This is a big assumption but has a higher probability.
There is a big risk of overkill. Eventually, the markets where this money is coming from will improve, and then developers will be sitting on empty buildings instead of half-empty ones. But an empty building will not return rent and lease payments to REIT owners. The good thing is that this rapid construction is generating employment and consumes steel, copper, and iron ore. | <urn:uuid:cb3b1ed4-c6d5-4184-904b-422cd7d9201b> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://thetrendler.com/2016/02/05/4538/ | 2018-06-22T22:31:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864822.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20180622220911-20180623000911-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.963743 | 692 |
|5 larges||Yellow onions; thinly sliced|
|2 cans||(10.5-oz) beef broth|
|1||Soup can water|
|1||Soup can white or sauterne wine|
|Salt to taste|
|Pepper to taste|
|French bread; sliced 1 inch thick|
|½ pounds||Gruyere cheese|
|6 tablespoons||Parmesan cheese|
Saute onions in butter until brown in a large soup pot. Add remaining ingredients and simmer for 1 hour. Before serving, place soup in individual crocks and top with bread and cheeses. Broil until cheese melts. Yield: 6 servings.
CINDY MILLER (MRS. PATRICK)
From <Traditions:ATasteoftheGoodLife>, by the Little Rock (AR) Junior League. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .
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Posted by Russell Shaw on ZDNet and BBHub, this is an interesting chronical of his future predictions on the case.
Via these pages as well as my BBHub BlackBerry blog, I have been tracking, covering and analyzing the BlackBerry vs. NTP patent infringement case very closely. I now would like to offer you my forecast for what will happen over the next few weeks and months:
Now that U.S. Judge James Spencer has temporarily put off a ruling on the BlackBerry-NTP patent infringement dispute, I have a good idea of subsequent events, and their timing. So here, as first posted on BBHub earlier today, is my take on a possible timetable for the next series of events in this seemingly endless battle of wills between stubborn foes Research In Motion and NTP: Friday, March 10
- Judge Spencer issues a decree summoning both sides for a ruling-hearing for two weeks from that day, which will be Friday March 24. Friday March 24
- Assuming the two sides have not come to an agreement by then, Judge Spencer will declare an injunction, effective in thirty days, which would be Sunday, April 23. On a parallel track, he will empower a Federal arbitrator to immediately begin binding arbitration between Research In Motion and NTP. Friday March 24
- In an effort to boost customer and carrier confidence RIM on that day will issue substantial configuration details for their Multi-Mode workaround. Help files will be publicly posted on the Web. On this date, Multi-Mode will be activated, but it will be positioned as a voluntary back-up option. Friday March 24
- RIM will immediately attempt to appeal the injunction, while reluctantly agreeing to binding arbitration. Monday March 27
- After NTP attorneys spend the weekend studying Multi-Mode, NTP will file suit in Judge Spencer's court to block Multi-Mode from being enacted. Judge Spencer will grant a temporary injunction granting NTPs request and blocking Multi-Mode, while throwing Multi-Mode into the topical mix of issues to be discussed during the arbitration phase. Monday March 27-Friday April 14
- RIM will engage in, and exhaust, the appeals process without experiencing any judicial relief. Friday, April 14
- Prodded by arbitration, the two sides will come to an agreement that will involve either a royalty structure for NTP slightly lower than they had been proposing, a relatively modest stake in RIM, or some combination thereof. These arrangements will have a "Sunset Clause" that would kick into gear in the event of a final invalidation of the five NTP patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - and the final exhaustion of NTP's appeals of those decisions. Months or perhaps even years away, the Sunset Clause would involve provisions that would enable NTP to sell their equity stake in RIM at fair market value, and would terminate any royalty arrangements without prejudice or further financial obligation by either party.
Original Links: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=935 http://www.bbhub.com/2006/02/28/here...ion-timetable/ | <urn:uuid:7a4514c4-55e4-4b3c-87c2-e3528e4e5ed9> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://www.blackberryforums.com/blackberry-news/27390-2006-02-28-timeline-forecast-blackberry-case-blog.html | 2013-12-10T10:49:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386164015892/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204133335-00018-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953517 | 643 |
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