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After receiving a number of requests from individual students and student groups, a quiet space meant for personal reflection, meditation and prayer is now available to members of the UCSF community at the Parnassus campus.
Before it opened in January, UCSF did not have a designated space on the campus for students to reflect and pray on a regular basis.
“It’s particularly a concern for organizations that have a religious mission and want to make sure they’re fulfilling their commitment,” says Joseph Castro, PhD, vice chancellor for Student Academic Affairs. “It’s not a study space, and not for groups to meet. It’s for individuals who want a place to reflect, pray or just be.”
The space, located in a classroom in University Hall, room U 70, is available Monday through Friday from noon to 5:30 p.m. To get to room U 70 from the Medical Sciences Building walk West on Parnassus Avenue to the entrance to University Hall located near the crosswalk at Third Avenue. Enter the building and follow the corridor to the right. | <urn:uuid:93de7473-6755-4135-aae9-1b70c9823ff9> | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2011/01/8418/ucsf-opens-space-dedicated-meditation-and-prayer-parnassus-campus | 2015-09-03T15:09:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440645315643.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827031515-00015-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954651 | 230 |
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Thank you for the information about the extra 3 cigarette packs, I needed number 61 and had no idea where to look as the gamespot guide only relates to the orignal 59. thanks again... achievemnet unlocked
FYI, the Gamespot guide has an incorrect location for Cigarette Pack #51. That's the one outside the Power Cell Charger room, where the Large Alien comes through the wall. The guide says to look in the hole, when in fact the pack is behind the crates in the original room.
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The following message is based on Matthew 23:13-39, entitled: “Our Hypocrisy; God’s Patience”
Unfortunately, things are not always as they seem. The “Queen Mary,” was the largest ship to cross the ocean when it was launched in 1936. Through four decades and a world war she served until she was retired, anchored as a floating hotel and museum in Long Beach, California.
During the conversion, her three massive smokestacks were taken off to be scraped down and repainted. But on the dock they crumbled. Nothing was left of the ¾ inch steel plate from which the stacks had been formed. All that remained were more than thirty coats of paint that had been applied over the years. The steel had rusted away.
At times in our lives, we are like those smokestacks, appearing as one thing, but in reality something else. This is called hypocrisy. Hypocrisy. We all struggle with it from time to time. It’s like the man told the pastor, “I’d come to church if it was not for all the hypocrites! At this the pastor responded, “Don’t let that stop you. We could always use one more.” This morning, I’d like to address the subject of hypocrisy. For that, we turn to Jesus’ words in Matthew 23, as He addressed the religious rulers of His day. Is there a message in His words for us today? Let us first discover that…
CHRIST ADDRESSES HYPOCRISY IN A SERIOUS WAY.
Matthew 23:23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others. Many times in this passage, Jesus introduces condemnation on the religious leaders with the term, “Woe.” The Greek term denotes horror, disaster, or calamity. It comes from the Woe oracles in the Old Testament especially found in Isaiah and Habakkuk. It is as if God is bringing charges against these leaders for their wayward living. On the outside, they appeared to be pretty spiritual, but their hearts depicted something else. The term “Hypocrite” in the Greek denotes “one who pretends to be other than what he is.”
The definition of the English term “hypocrite” is a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion or a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings. The Pharisees and Scribes were a source of instruction, but inwardly they were hypocrites. In the remaining verses of Matthew 23, Christ will pronounce judgment upon them and address their hypocrisy. What is the definition of a hypocrite? Jesus gives us the definition in verse three: “…for they say things, and do not do them (Matthew 23:3).”
Jesus is addressing several actions by these rulers: their evangelism, tithing, and swearing, among other things. To each one, they practiced different forms of spiritual incongruency. For instance, in spreading their teachings, they operated overt control over people, producing replicas of themselves rather than true followers of God. In their charitable giving, they tithed those things of lesser value, while secretly practicing self indulgence or ignoring the weightier things of God’s moral code. Lastly, in order to emphasize their honesty, they would swear carelessly, rather than letting their yes be yes and their no be no. The trouble was that these were the spiritual influencers of the day! This was the best of the best! That was a troubling thing!
Here, we can know that hypocrisy is hated by God. Only the Lord is able to see the condition of our hearts and He knows what we are on the inside. King David prayed in Psalm 51:6: “Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place.” He also sees our every action. And so we must know that we are accountable to Him and Him alone. John Milton, in Paradise Lost, said: “Neither men nor angels can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible- except to God.”
What will people say about us? There are things in my life that I am not happy with; things that I would change. Where does change come from? The Holy Spirit works in the heart and gives us the grace to change. We cannot give up on change. Could there be something that the Holy Spirit is prodding you about? Is there incongruence in our spiritual walk? Next, we discover that…
GOD IS PATIENT AND KIND, ALWAYS WANTING US TO COME BACK TO HIM.
Matthew 23:37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling. 38 “Behold, your house is being left to you desolate! 39 “For I say to you, from now on you shall not see Me until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’”
What Jesus says about Himself should cause us to take notice. Although the inhabitants of Jerusalem had not believed in Him; although they had mocked Him and disregarded His teaching, Jesus relates the heart of God hear when He expresses His patient love. It is said of Moses’ experience, when He was hid in the cleft of the rock and allowed to see God passing before Him, notice the words in Exodus 34:6: “And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, … .” From Jesus’ words, what can we learn about God? For one, He is patient and kind.
Secondly, although He is patient and kind, but His patience does not last forever. The desolation that is mentioned in verse 39, would occur in 70 A.D. when the Romans would raze the temple and fully demolish every religious representation. Josephus writes that this was a horrible time, where scads of the cities inhabitants were crucified as public spectacles under the Roman emperor Nero. It was truly both a temporal catastrophe and a form of divine judgment.
Thirdly, the human will is stubborn, especially towards spiritual things. If we rely upon our wills to bring us back to God, they never will. And, if the truth were known, we all have some hypocrisy in our hearts. I know I do. So what is the proper approach? Allow me to suggest three actions.
The first is detection. We must ask God to put us under His microscope! We must ask Him to seek our hearts and identify those places, those actions that simply are not Christlike. Psalm 139:23: “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties….”
The second is confession. Once we identify anything in our lives that smells of hypocrisy we must come to Christ and confess it. Our wills must be broken and our hearts must be rent in two, if the Holy Spirit would ever do something genuine. Someone once said that confession is simply agreeing with the Holy Spirit on what He’s convicting you of. Third is correction. To be dissatisfied with any continued hypocrisy and renounce it. We must think on the subject as God thinks. We must be repulsed by our own hypocrisy.
I hope you have learned two important things. For one, CHRIST ADDRESSES HYPOCRISY IN A SERIOUS WAY. Secondly, GOD IS PATIENT AND KIND, ALWAYS WANTING US TO COME BACK TO HIM. It is a call to single-mindedness. Joseph Bayly wrote a beautiful piece, entitled “A Psalm of Single-Mindedness.” Read its words as you think about the hypocrisy that sometimes lurks in the corners of our lives:
Lord of reality
make me real
an actor playing out his part
I don’t want to keep a prayer list
but to pray
nor agonize to find Your will
but to obey
what I already know
theories of inspriation
but submit to Your Word.
I don’t want to explain the difference
between eros and philos
but to love.
I don’t want
to sing as if I mean it
I want to mean it.
I don’t want
to tell it like it is
but to be it
like you want it.
I don’t want
to think another needs me
but I need him
else I’m not complete.
I don’t want
to tell others how to do it
but to do it
to have to always be right
but to admit it when I’m wrong.
I don’t want to be a census taker
but an obstetrician
nor an involved person, a professional
but a friend.
I don’t want to be insensitive
but to hurt where other people hurt
nor to say I know how you feel
but to say God knows
and I’ll try
if you’ll be patient with me
and meanwhile I’ll be quiet.
I don’t want to scorn the cliche’s of others
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Well i managed to get a few good runs under the belt. 10 miles saturday nice and steady negative split (by about 4 minutes) all at v low RPE low HR and felt easy! just a brilliant run all in all. Then, ran home from work on tuesday 5.8miles in 42'30. Felt good, if a touch warm and then a nother 4 steady at lunchtime today. Feeling good, throw in a few cycle commutes and a gym session and its going well. Hell I'll be ready for the tri season, just after it ends!
by HIIT i take it we mean interval stuff? gotta agree with NV hold off doing too much (if any) of that until you have a base of fitness. Look at what you want to achieve by running - general fitness, great but do you have a target, run for half hour or 5k etc. When you can manage that slow and steady - then look to go faster throw in intervals, some fartlek (random bursts of speed when running), or tempo runs (just going as hard as you can maintain) for a disctance or time - probably half what your distance is, so 15 mins or 2.5k etc. It will help your body become more resillient and place less stress on joints ligaments etc as NV said. Your fitness increases much quicker than your joint strength!
well i managed to get out at lunch for a reasonbly rapid 4 miles at about 7'20 pace with a colleague, was nice and comfy and a great way to spend a reasonbly nice lunchtime at work. tot was 4.1miles in 30'08, no HR data etc but felt pretty good and could chat the whole way around.
morning all, well what a wweekend that was! Mo Farah, just amazing! Anyway, i did my own spot of running, a nice 8 miles steady on saturday morningm kept the HR nice and steady for 7 miles and then let rip in the last mile. The a nice short one on sunday at target half mara pace - felt the 8 from the day before a little in the legs but the pace held so very pleased with that. Also, I'm very pleased at how comfy i felt through both runs and after, I'm getting back at it now i think.
Superslow - the Run, zombies thing - how does that work - it sounds like it could be a good laugh for my commute run home!
Darryll, if you are getting a stitch you might need to back off a little, you are going at a decent pace but sometimes the way to get faster is to get slower and build the endurance first.
knackered - hi and welcome. That drop in motivation happens a lot to everyone! the first few runs back will be tough, for two reasons. 1) you know you can do more and so expect to be able to pick up where you left off - and 2) you have lost a little fitness and conditioning, so it will take a little while to remind your body what to do and how. Don't worry it will be much easier to get back, than it was to get in the first place. Keep trying and you'll see!
NV definately up for a pint mate - do you have my number from the A&D last year (or the one before, can't remember) - planning on entering that again this year - imight have adecent winter of speed under my belt by then so might really attack the 40 minute level...although i've said that for about 3 years now and never done the work required! But i'm going to start running at lunch and the enforced cycle commute during the olympics will hopefully kick start my training, again, for a bit...hopefully
No running for me this weekend, i went to a spa instead, much nicer i wonder if there are professional spa visitors - that's a job i could go for!!!!
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But that's not enough, oh no.
The fucker mailed me a ball.
No packaging. No box. Just a ball.
He stamped and addressed a ball.
And if you look closely, the address is written backwards on the opposite side. You have to look through the ball to read it.
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Eddie Adams was so much more than a single prize-winning photograph, more of a man than any obituary could ever reflect. Unlike so many "artists," Eddie devoted his life to teaching the skills he had worked so hard to acquire, always sharing his gift ... and himself. He faced his own end with the same courage he displayed on so many battlefields. I was honored to collaborate with him on this photo essay—the cover image is his beloved son, August, holding the world in his hands—and even more honored to be his friend. If photographs of Heaven start mysteriously showing up in magazines, you'll know who took the pictures. I'll see you soon enough, pal.
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Mount Union's volleyball team, ranked No. 9 in the nation released Sept. 10, travels to Cleveland, Ohio to take on Case Western Reserve on Wednesday, September 11 at 7 p.m.
Follow along with live stats and video below.
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Mount Union enters with an 8-0 record on the season as Case enters at 4-4.
The Purple Raiders are coming off a 4-0 weekend as they competed at the Nazareth Golden Flyer Invitational and won the tournament championship over host, Nazareth College 3-0.
Senior Taylor Webb (Geneva/Geneva) led the Raiders as she was selected as the Tournament MVP and to the All-Tournament team. Junior Nicole Snyder (Mentor/Lake Catholic) joined Webb on the All-Tournament team as the both finished with double-digit kills and digs. Webb recorded 34 kills with 11 digs as Snyder finished with 23 kills and 25 digs.
The Spartans enter Wednesday after going 2-2 at the Marcia French Memorial Tournament last weekend. Case was led by Isabelle Wagner at the tournament as she was selected to the All-Tournament Team and collected 47 kills.
Case won over John Carroll, 3-1 and lost in two straight matches to Buffalo (N.Y.) St., 3-2, and Geneva (Pa.) 3-1. The Spartans bounced back to defeat Capital in three straight sets to end the weekend.
The Last Meeting
Mount Union and Case met last year in Alliance, as the Raiders defeated the Spartans 3-1 (25-23, 23-25, 25-23, 25-15). This was the first loss by the Spartans on their 2012 campaign when they entered 8-0. The Raiders moved to 6-3 on the 2012 season after ending the streak for Case.
Snyder and Webb led the attack for the Raiders with 16 and 10 kills, respectively, as Snyder added 14 digs on the night. Junior Brittany Woodard (Diamond/Southeast) notched 20 assists as junior Sarah Schleich (Westfield Center/Cloverleaf) tallied 15.
The Spartans were led by Hanna Collins who recorded 13 kills in the loss as Rachel Gulasey received 22 digs. Natalie Southard chipped in with 10 kills against Mount Union a year ago.
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Out of respect for the family, I will make no comment, other than to say that my position on the legal carry of firearms is not modified by this tragedy.
A suburban mother who became a voice of the gun-rights movement when she openly carried a loaded pistol to her daughter's soccer game was fatally shot Wednesday along with her parole-officer husband in an apparent murder-suicide at their home in Pennsylvania Dutch country, authorities said.
Police released scant details about the deaths of Meleanie Hain, 31, and Scott Hain, 33, but said more information would be released Friday after their autopsies.---
Melanie Hain, who was cited for open-carrying a handgun at a soccer match in 2008 [see Geek Article here] was shot and killed, along with her husband yesterday, October 8, 2009.
Neighbors said the children ran outside and said their father had shot their mother, but Wright declined to disclose what investigators have concluded about how the deaths occurred.
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Somali pirates in two skiffs fired on a French navy vessel early Wednesday after apparently mistaking it for a commercial boat, the French military said. The French ship gave chase and captured five suspected pirates.Is this an argument for unarmed vessels in the high seas?
No, I don't think so.
As they do there, so might we do here
A teacher convicted of child abuse after her students drank a soda laced with hot sauce will not be going to prison.Sylvia Tagle was found guilty of one count of child abuse after, prosecutors said, she intentionally allowed children at Bob Graham Educational Center to drink the spicy soda in order to teach them a lesson about not taking her drink.Uh, is this a tempest in a teapot?
The story doesn't provide the grade-level of the students (which might not correspond to the level of maturity of the students), but apparently the teacher added "hot sauce" to her soda, which presumably resided on her desk during the school day.
Another presumption was that her students were in the habit of drinking her soda during moments of the teacher's inattention , or more likely absence.
The charges imply that she deliberately added "hot sauce" to her drink in order to "booby trap" her soda. The reason? To keep her students from drinking her soda.
The question sees to pivot on whether she deliberately hotted-up her Pepsi to dissuade her students from drinking out of her cup, or whether she 'typically' hotted-up her Pepsi because she likes it that way.
Drinking even unadulterated Pepsi (no evidence that this was her soda of choice) seems, in itself, sufficiently teeth-gritting. Anyone who regularly adulterates her soda with hot sauce for her own enjoyment is suspect in my eyes. Ey-eeeeeew!
Which undermines credence of her defense I'm thinking.
Oh the other hand, if the little ragamuffins were slurping from her slurpy uninvited, I'm thinking You Go, Girl!
The Minor Monsters ought to keep their noses in their school-books, not in Teacher's 7-11 Monster Cup. How better to bring the lesson home, other than to make it a zero-sum Moment?
"Pet my dog? Sure. Read my Cliff-notes? Maybe. Drink our of my Pepsi Mug? Only at your own risk."
If she did, indeed, deliberately booby-trap her 16 oz Pepsi by making it taste BAD, I'm thinking that she ay have taught her students a far more useful lesson than the Three R's. This is NOT "A Bad Thing" that she did.
If it were up to e, I would give her a 12% bonus this year. Ten percent for living up to the expectations of being a Teacher, and two percent for originality.
And these yahoos want to put her on probation?
Pfahh! A pox on all their houses!
I'm sure glad that I, or my children, or my children's children, don't live in Miami. Those folks are all folked up.
Bunch a little beggars -- Not only the students, but also the School Administration, and the School Board.
That's how many "Hits" this website has received since it's inception in December 2004. Over a quarter of a million. (I've been watching the stats for the last few weeks, waiting to see the readership count top that mark.)
Actually, the blogsite started a while before the statscounter dot com statistics software was installed, but that's not important. The BIG blogs often receive that many hits on a single day.
Still, I choose to interpret this milestone as meaning that I am providing information which is of interest to more than a handful of friends and shooting buddies.
I think I could round up more "returning visitors" if I stuck to IPSC/USPSA topics, or even to "Shooting Sports" topics. However, my interests are wider than that. If you don't like to read humor, cultural or political articles, you still have the option of "voting with your feet".
I hope you stick around, though. While I write primarily for myself ("because I must!"), my original intention was to provide useful information to IPSC/USPSA competitors. It's just that I think IPSC folks are interested in more than a single topic. And so, of course, am I.
Jerry the Geek
Sunday, October 04, 2009
I hadn't realized how much I missed this opportunity to familiarize "New Shooters" in the arcania of Practical Pistol shooting in the past six months, but to my joy I discovered that I had as much fun yesterday (October 3, 2009) as I did during my first instructional experience in June of last year.
Mac only identified one student (Corbin) when he notified me that a class was scheduled for October, but one is enough.
I was surprised -- and delighted --- when Luc ("Luke") and Gerry showed up for the class. One is enough for a good class, but having other attendees allows them to get to know other people in approximately the same situation. That is to say, they're new to competition in this oddball sport, and discovering that they're not the only people who are interested in IPSC/USPSA competition allows them to share their questions and experiences.
The standard syllabus includes:
- practicing basic range commands: "Make Ready", "Unload and Show Clear", as well as knowing when the shooter session begins and ends ("Range Clear");
- Engaging a single target;
- Engaging multiple targets, and mandatory reloads;
- Engaging multiple targets, reloads, moving to secondary shooting positions;
- Engaging multiple targets from behind a Bianch Barricade;
- Fault Lines - "In the Box", "Out of the Box", and neither "IN" nor "OUT" of the box (stage procedure definitions);
- Immediate action to clear jams;
- Scoring, role of Range Officer, and Assistant Range Officer ("Score Keeper")
- forward-falling poppers;
- strong-hand/weak-hand shooting;
- stage walk-through, and the value of understanding the nuances of a stage before shooting the stage.
Two of the students had studied the Columbia Cascade Training Manual (see link to the document at the CCS website, here) and had completed the worksheet. One student had not read the manual or completed the test. That he did not have the information needed to answer the 20 questions on the test, but still performed adequately during the live-fire portion of the class, proved that reviewing the test in class helped train people who don't have the advantage of having read the preparatory materials. In fact, after an hour discussion of the test questions the live-fire exercises showed no difference of actual gun-handling or stage-engagement ability between the two students who had read the material and completed the test, and the single student who had not been exposed to USPSA training documentation at all.
I hope that the student who has not read the manual will take the opportunity to do so before the test-match next weekend. We cannot teach all of the basic concepts in class, due to time constraints. We expect the students to read the manual before the first exposure to competition, both for their benefit and because we want to make sure than miscellaneous Safety concepts have been provided even if they are inadvertently overlooked during the three-hour live-fire instruction portion of the training.
It was no surprise to me that I found each of the attendees to be responsible, safety-conscious and skilled gun-handlers. We saw
Generaly speaking this was one of the most rewarding classes I have taught, given that it was not one-on-one training and I did not have an assistant to demonstrate each stage (I was my own demonstrator, and I fired a total of 12 rounds in demonstrating the stages.)
I brought my camera with the full intent to film the attendees, for their own benefit during the class. In the actual event, I had no time to use the camera. It wasn't really necessary, but I would welcome the opportunity to film a class some time in the future. I think it is (or would be) a valuable training tool, but perhaps more usable if the resultant videos could be used during the class rather than posted on the Internet for everyone to see. It's not a way to embarrass students, but a tool which they can use to improve their performance. But that is for a future date, with perhaps a smaller class and a dedicated photographer. Perhaps I can convince SWMBO to come along to perform that function.
Women in USPSA Competition:
One of the attendees (Gerry) noted in conversation that he would like to get his wife interested in USPSA competition.
Actually, she is already interested, but she is hesitant to enter training and (after that) competition because she doesn't feel comfortable in the milieu, although they have watched IPSC/USPSA competition at the ARPC club.
SWMBO has been available for the past several years to introduce women to USPSA, and to help make it clear that "Girls Can Do This". Although SWMBO will not, in the near future, be able to provide an active role-model in USPSA competition (because she has Lung Cancer, and cannot 'move about' without an oxygen tank on her back), she may be able to fulfill the duties of a "Demonstrator" for this very limited set of scenarios.
More important, she can server as a Role-Model to show prospective women competitors that competing in USPSA is a viable proposition for women as well as for men.
I know that SWMBO loves USPSA competition, and misses it more than you may imagine. Perhaps it would be valid to set up a class with only prospective female USPSA attendees, with a contribution by SWMBO to be limited to one or two demonstrations, and perhaps an opportunity for female attendees. to discuss the USPSA experience.
This last concept is very much off-the-top-of-my-head, but I am confident that we can define a situation in which she will be not only capable, but willing to participate.
It depends on her physical limitations, and the demand for a lady instructor. It may not be possible to set up until late next spring but I know that new lady participants are more likely to be convinced by another lady shooter than by anything I can say.
What about it? Are there men out there who would welcome an "Introduction to USPSA" class which was oriented toward Lady Shooters if there was an established Lady Shooter available to take an active role in the training?
The Brits call hooligans "YOBs". It's "Boy" spelled backward, and generally refers to "a thuggish young male".
It's suppose to be a form of a social contract. The police identify a "Young Boy Behaving Badly", speak to him firmly so he supposedly (a) knows what part of his behavior is unacceptable, and why it is unacceptable; (b) draw up a document in which the YOB promises to never never act badly in that specific way again; and (c) if the YOB once again is found to behave badly in exactly the same way, he is subject to criminal penalties.
My thesis is that if the YOB misbehaves in a manner which is not legal, he should be subject to punishment for a criminal action the first time. This may not change his mind, but at least it gets him off the streets for a while. It serves the further purpose of suggesting to his victims that if they are the object of his mis-behavior, the police will respond with alacrity.
The problem with ASBOs is that the victims feel -- and with good reason -- that their demand for equal protection under the law is NOT taken seriously.
However, the way it works is that the YOBs get an ASBO each and every time they act out, and they routinely ignore them. And the police ignore the repeated cycle of lawlessness.
In point of fact, my original article served to initiate a dialogue with a British citizen who claimed that he was a police officer and was proud to be one of the most prolific writers of ASBOs.
My thought was that, if his area of responsibility was so inundated by YOBs, the public might be better served if the police took a few of the off the streets, instead of merely giving them a stern talking-to and accepting their solemn promise to go and sin no more. The YOBs are demonstrably without honor, or any concept of honor, by definition.
The resulting exchange of email between myself and "The ABSO-Monger" continued for a couple of days. The most telling contribution was from the research I did, which found a statement from the Britsh Home Office that "ABSOs Work".
In fact, I can point to a comment by "The ABSO-Monger" in which he categorically states:
No one is a bigger fan of ASBOs than street cops. They know that they work. I have put quite a few wrong ‘uns in jail through ASBOs who were otherwise untouchable by the criminal justice system. Believe me – if you had something similar in the States you’d like them too. (In fact I’m surprised you don’t have something similar.(See also: "David The ASBOmonger on Gun Control".)
No one is a bigger fan of ASBOs than street cops.
This statement may not be absolutely correct. If anyone is a bigger fan of ASBOs that street cops, it must be the YOBs. They just love it ... it's a license to steal! Also bully, harass, mug, intimidate, rob, maim, mutilate and drive their victims to a dispair that the only relief is suicide. (I'll get to that in a minute.)
Certainly the honest British citizen is no fan of ASBOs.
Case in point:
Thanks to Kevin at The Smallest Minority.
In his October 2, 2009, article ("Get Out. Get Out NOW"), Kevin links to the tragic case of Fiona Pilkington.
Fiona Pilkington had two "seriously disabled" children. The local YOBs chose these children, their mother and their home, to be the object of their continued abuse and assault. Pikington complained to the police ... 33 times ... that she and her family were being assaulted by rock-throwing children sometimes as young as 10 years old. Their home was literally surrounded by gangs; her children pummeled by thrown rocks as they biked home from school.
The police responded sporadically, never arresting anyone, never charging anyone. One time when a policeman was spotted leaving the Pilkington home, her house was surrounded by rock-throwing children; one parent even challenged her on her doorstep.
During the last of the seven years during which this harassment went on, Pilkington made 13 calls to police asking for help. They never responded. Finally, in 2007, Pilkington loaded her severely disabled 18-year-old daughter in her car, drove to an isolated spot, poured petrol (gasoline) in her car and torched it while mother and daughter were inside the car. Their bodies were identified by DNA.
The continued assaults on the Pilkington family lasted seven years; it must have become a tradition, almost a 'cultural climate' in the neighborhood to abuse the family. The neighbors knew about it, and they didn't do a thing to stop it.
The police knew about it, and they didn't do a thing to stop it.
Her MP, David Tredinnick, knew about it, and didn't do a thing to stop it.
During the Coroner's Inquiry subsequent to the death of Mrs. Pilkington and her daughter, Francecca, questions were asked of the police:
On the second day of the inquest, Olivia Davison, the assistant deputy coroner for Rutland and North Leicestershire, repeatedly asked why
“common sense and basic old-fashioned policing” had not identified the family as extremely vulnerable. She said that their human rights were being breached because they were victims of a campaign at their home in the village of Barwell, Leicestershire.
During four hours of intense questioning from the coroner, Chris Tew, then the acting Chief Constable of Leicestershire, admitted that his force had failed to recognise that the family’s 33 pleas for help were all linked. The force classified the offences as antisocial behaviour rather than as a crime. [emphasis added] He said that things had changed in the force and by the end of this year 2,000 officers would have been trained to spot vulnerable people who were either physically or mentally disabled.
"The force classified the offences as antisocial behaviour rather than as a crime."
Let's go back to an earlier statement by David the ABSO-Monger:
No one is a bigger fan of ASBOs than street cops. They know that they work.
No, ABSOs do not work. The street cops like ABSOs because they remove responsibility from the street cops to make the hard decisions to actually arrest someone.
When children pelted the Pilkington son with rocks as he rode his bicycle home, why wasn't someone arrested?
Why were a vulnerable mother and her vulnerable children driven to the most painful suicide of all? Could it be because they despaired of ever receiving protection from the mob which the police are presumed to offer to their most vulnerable people?
Certainly, British law allows no options for them to protect themselves. Still, would they not be better off in prison because they defended themselves against a mob rather than allowing themselves to be driven to a horrible suicide? Can't a civilized nation even protect its citizens from such an extreme 'solution'?
Britain is no longer a civilized nation.
British citizens no longer exist; the remnant are British Subjects, who cannot even depend on honest Imperialism to enforce a minimal semblance of civilization ... of humanity.
Two years ago I used the British National Health System as a mechanism to define a descent from civilization to Socialism ... which has failed in every attempt recorded by history.
I was dismissive of British Socialism, naively assuming that such drastic measures would never become a measure to which Americans would never resort.
Today, I sadly admit that Americans seem as liable to accept draconian Governmental measures to resolve undefined "problems" as were the Brits. Considering our current one-sided debates, I despair of the ability of Americans to resist the temptation to allow our country to descent into "Nanny-Statism", resulting in the undermining of support for the common citizen.
Anti-Social Behavior Orders - coming soon to an American State near you!
UPDATE: 08-OCT-2009: "The whole thing is madness."
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By Jill Silverman Hough
Hands-on time: 30 minutes
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- 2 tsp Chinese five-spice powder
- 1 tsp each sea salt and fresh ground black pepper
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The tumbling and the leaping from the spring-board will be classed as two separate events instead of one, in the third winter meeting.
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Nigeria star Victor Moses believes he is getting back to his best after recovering from injury, Completesportsnigeria.com reports.
Moses was not part of the Super Eagles team that lost 2-0 to South Africa in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in June after copping a toe injury at the end of last season.
He returned to the Chelsea squad and featured in their first pre-season game which was an 8-2 win against Fulham.
On Saturday, Moses starred for Chelsea who beat Arsenal 3-0 in their second friendly in China.
Moses praised his teammates for their impressive performance in the Arsenal win.
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“Virtue, then, can be described as state that makes a decision, consisting in a mean, the mean relative to us, which is defined simply by reference to explanation, that is to say, for the reason by reference to that the prudent person would specify it. It is a mean among two addictions, one of excess and among deficiency” Aristotle’s definition of Advantage of Persona but what can it be really declaring. Let us define it together with the Socratic Classification per genus et differentia. Let us break it in the three parts genus, kinds and the differentiating factor (differentia).
The genus or basic topic would be virtue of character, the species and also the specific area of virtue of character is the mean involving the two habits excess and deficiency, finally is the differentiating factor or perhaps what makes the species unlike other forms than it which could be the situation and just how individual persons can cause out diverse outcomes by what is essential from them. Virtue is an activity of the man soul and has two parts advantage of character and advantage of intelligence. Virtue of intellect is wisdom and knowledge the would be their studies at school. Virtue of figure is discovered by actions and practice an example can be learning that cheating upon tests is usually bad and knowing to not attempt that.
Reasoning out where we stand in a specific situation is definitely not associated with knowledge or perhaps studying but rather repeated using acts so Aristotle’s is definitely stating serves of character not of intellect. Nothing can be to good, have to tiny and you have deficiency have excessive and it’s excess. The mean is definitely the middle surface between an excessive amount of and inadequate. This suggest varies in person to person. An illustration would be too much sun.
Require a 2 persons one which has a fair complexion and one particular with a darker skin tone. The mean amount of sunshine for the dark complexion would be excessive to the reasonable skinned person and possibly provide them with sunburn. Give the dark toned person the mean volume of sunshine required by the fair well developed person and you have deficiency and may led to insufficient vitamin Electronic.
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Pennsylvania High School Basketball - Montoursville routs MuncyDecember 7, 2015: Montoursville, PA 17754
In Monday's non-league outing, the Montoursville Warriors (Montoursville, PA) basketball squad overwhelmed the visiting Muncy Indians (Muncy, PA), by a count of 70-32.
The Warriors (2-0) will now prepare for their bout against Lewisburg (Lewisburg, PA). The Green Dragons come into the Heartland II bout with a 1-0 record. In their last bout, Lewisburg overwhelmed Shikellamy (Sunbury, PA), 64-50, in a non-league bout.
Next up, the Indians play the Columbia Montour Vo-Tech Rams (Bloomsburg, PA) in a non-league bout, on Thursday, December 10. Muncy will attempt to upgrade on its 0-2 season record. | <urn:uuid:a4d9865b-300f-40e6-8dc8-523198a06650> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | http://www.maxpreps.com/games/basketball-winter-15-16/montoursville-vs-muncy/12-7-2015-Uzi7U7XHnUuEm2AIIiyMCg.htm | 2018-09-22T17:58:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267158609.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20180922162437-20180922182837-00085.warc.gz | en | 0.899168 | 188 |
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What are the biggest changes you've witnessed at UNF?
What have you learned from students over your years at UNF?
The most important thing I have learned from students is that sometimes they know more about a given subject than me. Therefore never underestimate the student’s capacity and knowledge.
What were you doing just prior to coming to UNF?
I was on the faculty of University of Tehran, [in] Iran.
How have students changed over the last 35 years?
They are smarter and more focused.
How has college education changed over the last 35 years?
College education is more important now than ever before. Studies prove that without a college education a citizen will remain at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder, and it would be hard for him/her to enjoy the many benefits that the society offers.
What was your favorite year at UNF and why?
I wish you could have asked “favorite years”, but my most favorite year was 2006 when years of high quality research and teaching together with the contributions of non-profit institutions paid off and I was selected “Prime F. Osborn III Distinguished Professor” at the Coggin College of Business. This event was preceded by a 2005 event at which Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Jones Jr. (former chief executive officer of Barnett Banks of Jacksonville) created a generous endowment in the name of Simin and Reza Vaghefi at the Coggin College to provide scholarships for International Business students to go abroad and learn new things.
How would you describe the physical growth on campus over the last 35 years?
Transfer students have told me, on numerous occasions, that they transferred to UNF because of academic standards and because it is a beautiful campus. Two qualities that are critical to UNF. I hope we can keep it that way.
How will you keep UNF in your life and heart after you retire?
I have spent most of my professional life at UNF and have accomplished a lot so there is a lot to remember.
What special relationships have you formed with students as a result of your tenure here?
Some students are more appreciative than others. Over the years my wife, who retired couple of years ago, and I have entertained guest students from overseas at our house. They have been very special, and we have maintained good relationships with many of them. My wife has had many students who continue their contact with her, admiring her ability to teach them and help them in their research.
What are the biggest challenges on campus today compared to the biggest challenges on opening day, Oct. 2, 1972?
The biggest challenge is to maintain the beauty of the campus while the University is expanding in response to the increasing needs of the region.
How has UNF impacted Jacksonville over the years, and how has Jacksonville impacted UNF?
The University has become a major institution and an integral part of the greater community adding to the attractiveness of Jacksonville as a major metropolitan city in the Southeast USA. The diversity of the city and businesses that have established their headquarters here and demand high quality professional education for their families and staff has definitely impacted the University in its mission and scope/scale of educational offerings.
How did you find out about the opening at UNF?
My major professor, Dr. Harold Wein, at Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State suggested that I should try this experience.
What made you decide to come to UNF?
Sunshine and the newness of the institution. The fact that I could create things like the International Business Program that I helped create at a time when nobody thought it was something that we should be concerned about.
What do you remember about the first day of classes?
The most important thing that I remember is that there were a few confused administrators and students, and it was hard to keep students focused on quality education. They just wanted to have a degree.
What kept you at UNF for so many years?
In 1986 Vice President John Bardo recruited my wife, Dr. Simin Vaghefi, a first-rate teacher/scholar, to create the Nutrition Program at the College of Health. She enjoyed the challenge and worked at it indefatigably and with great enthusiasm. Although we had offers from many universities, none had jobs for both of us and therefore we decided to do the best that we could for UNF and I believe we succeeded in achieving this noble objective. She created the nationally accredited Nutrition Program at the College of Health [now the Brooks College of Health], and I helped create the International Business Program at the Coggin College. Both programs have been praised for their coverage and relevance.
Is there one event that’s most memorable for you during your time at UNF?
Yes, there is one and that is when I asked a student where he came from? Given the fact that early on most students came from Duval County, when the student said he came from North, I was ecstatic that finally we have students coming from out of state and especially from the North. And when I insisted to know where in the North, and he said he came from Fernandina Beach, all that excitement melted away and I decided that we needed to broaden the students’ horizon. That moment was the beginning of developing the International Business Program. Dean Edward Moses realized the issue and he helped us start it.
What is the best thing (or things) about working at UNF?
The best things about working at UNF are the size and intelligent incoming students, the face-to-face interaction that I enjoy and students have told me about many times in their evaluations and written comments. This unique feature should not be compromised. President Delaney’s strategy is to differentiate UNF from other state universities and that is a remarkable objective.
What people do you remember the most during your years, and why are they so memorable?
The person that I have always admired and will continue to do so is Dean James Parrish, the founding dean of the Coggin College of Business. I believe he was the most remarkable and respected dean we have ever had in this college. He was humble, with integrity and honesty, and the most egalitarian dean the College has ever had. He never excluded anyone for any reason. He was a king among equals, to quote the ancient Greek King Agamemnon in the “Iliad” by Homer. The unfortunate thing is that the University failed to recognize the tremendous contributions that Dr. Parrish made (over 15 years) to the growth, viability, depth, and strength of the University. I may suggest that it is not yet too late to do something about this.
Any humorous times you recall, and why were they so funny?
The funniest event that I remember is when the College of Business organized a canoeing event in front of the Boathouse, and Frank McLaughlin got stuck in the middle of the water and had a hard time getting out of it.
What have you done during your time at UNF that you are proudest of?
In addition to numerous research and teaching awards, I have published in the most important international quality journals that have brought a lot of recognition for the University. When your conference presentation is picked up from the Internet by the Financial Times of London, and they call you and request you to write an article on the subject of your conference presentation to appear in the Financial Times, there is a lot to be proud of. That article, co-authored by Dr. Louis Woods, was printed and has been reprinted in five books during the last five years.
What are the biggest changes in your personal life while you have been working at UNF?
My personal life could not have been so gratifying without the dedication and central role that my sweet wife Dr. Simin Vaghefi plays in our family life. She and I raised two wonderful children, now a young woman and man, Shireen and Jubeen.
They both graduated from Coggin College in accounting and finance, respectively. Thanks to my wife, who has been the pillar of love and care in my family, we have raised a healthy family and both of our children are married and very successful in their personal and professional life. They give us every reason to be proud of them. I consider their accomplishment in society the most significant aspect of our personal life. They have given us a few handsome and intelligent grandchildren. They all motivate us to enjoy them and continue to remain part of their personal life.
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Mexicans are so eager to buy that they come to the USA looking for products instead of waiting around for someone to call them and sell them something. They visit US trade shows organizations and many companies. I constantly have someone in San Diego visiting from Mexico to speak with me on how they can find products of all kinds to export. Who s looking for new beverages? All convenience stores and supermarkets chains hroughout Mexico. They are looking for beverages to sell in retail stores or to other distributors in Mexico most of the time they will buy truckloads and export them to Mexico themselves handling the shipping imports and tariffs. If you travel through the large supermarkets in Mexico you will see how many US products could be selling in Mexico and are not.
From bottled water to sports drinks juices spirits and soda there are a multitude of thirst quenching products on the shelves from which consumers can choose. But the way those products make their way into the bottles can vary depending on a number of different factors. Below are a few of the beverage choices available to the thirsty consumer along with a brief explanation of some of the common machinery used to package the products. BOTTLED WATER Arguably one of the simplest packaging lines to create is the bottled water line. This is in part because almost all bottled waters are packaged in a nearly identical manner. A typical bottle of water will be packaged in a 16.9 ounce clear plastic bottle with a flat screw on cap and a wrap label. Repetition leads to simplicity and efficiency so that many bottled water packaging systems will look nearly identical. Bottle rinsers will be used to remove dust and debris from containers before the filling process in most applications.
Of course these drinks contain alcohol -- which have addictive properties and overtime can be very damaging to your health. 3. Beer. Beer is another one of those beverages that you should be avoiding this summer. Beer contains a large amount alcohol and empty calories. The yeast in beer also creates uric acid. Uric acid is a normal waste product that is found in your blood. Higher levels of uric acid are associated with gout. Beer is also known to create the classic "beer belly syndrome." This syndrome is very similar to metabolic syndrome. This includes abdominal obesity high blood pressure hypertriglyceridemia and insulin resistance. As a result limiting your beer consumption is a great way of controlling your weight and improving your health. 4. Lemonades and Fruit Juices. For many lemonade and fruit juices are a summer staple. However these drinks are packed full of sugar and fall under the category of summer beverages that you should be avoiding this summer. | <urn:uuid:5a7559cd-d431-4300-a1c4-d60a773703fb> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://warhblog.com/ki8rok/1y1t2adkjhb3/ | 2019-06-16T00:48:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627997508.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20190616002634-20190616024634-00222.warc.gz | en | 0.948995 | 562 |
The Bronx School of Science in Quiry & Investigation has a great reputation as one of the best schools in the United States. Admission is based exclusively on an entrance examination, known as the specialized schools admissions test. Along with the quality of teachers, the principal, extracurricular activities, safety, parental involvement has also been counted as very important to the aspect of the educational programs designed at this upstanding school. The school has a close-knit relationship with other students, teachers, and staff while excelling in test assessments. The small school is more than just a school but an extension of the community itself with each citizen contributing to the well-being and academic presence of the school.
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At Christ Church Stockport we seek to be:
We believe the scriptures are God breathed, living and active. As such they are to be read, expounded, taught and obeyed. The word of God is our highest authority in all matters of faith and behaviour as it points us to Christ and calls us to sit at his feet in discipleship. We will be a church who are saturated in the Word.
The heart of the Christian faith is the message that Jesus Christ has come to save sinners from the wrath of God by dying in their place as a substitutionary atonement and by bestowing upon them his righteousness. This undeserved favour is received though both repentance and faith. As such we must be a church who calls people to turn from sin, and a church that demonstrates how Christ is the only worthy rock in whom to put our faith.
Prayer is vital to our relationship with God. We aim to depend on God through regular, disciplined and spontaneous, corporate and individual prayer.
Christians are not saved into isolation but to work out their discipleship within the community and fellowship of God’s church family. As such we will be a local church that walks with one another in corporate worship and discipleship.
As the Lord Jesus commands us to “go” we will seek to disciple, disciples who bring all their gifts together to make disciples. Local, regional, national and global mission will remain constantly on our agenda. Our structures, teaching, training, prayers, and budgets are all shaped toward us being a missional church.
God is a generous God of love who calls us to love our neighbour. We actively seek ways to generously love the people of Stockport, through acts of service, mercy and partnership.
Whilst the message and content of the Gospel must never change the presentation and communication of the Gospel needs to be relevant and accessible in order for it to be heard, understood and believed. We will work hard to get the aesthetics, presentation, and culture of the church right in order to clearly and relevantly communicate the Gospel.
Christ’s church is his given means of mission to the world. As such we want to be a Church who are intentional in both planting new and revitalising existing churches specifically throughout the North of England both through sending from our own number and supporting other Gospel projects. | <urn:uuid:a36dcc05-1342-4ddc-b7dc-dd6788a5725e> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://www.christchurchstockport.com/who/what-do-we-believe/our-philosophy/ | 2019-06-26T02:21:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560628000044.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20190626013357-20190626035357-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.956803 | 478 |
25.04.2016 - Rocket Land
There is a game (tentatively named "Rocket Land") i made quite a while ago but never bothered to continue or release before now.
It's a 2D rocket physics kind of game, but instead of magical "this point makes thrust" engines and "this thing does torque" rotators you actually have to make a mass ejector of some sort. Rocket science, not orbital mechanics (but that is in there too).
Ideally, you'll be drawing your rockets, but at the moment there is only a set of pre-drawn ones, since UI is 99% of the effort.
Anyway, if anyone is interested, here it is (300 Kb):
Linux 64 bit: http://orbides.org/etc/rland_160424_lin64.tar.gz
Controls are WASD for the steering and engine, q activates engines, tab drops stages, space pauses.
If the mouse wheel scroll does not work, then use up and down arrows (can happen on a Mac). Held mouse key scrolls.
There are 4 scenarios, A to D, loadable by the buttons on the bottom left.
Both moons should be reachable, especially with the big lander in D, if you could navigate the debris belt and use the fuel sparingly. :)
A ship with boosters:
Lander on the blue moon:
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UNION JACKby Vin Zzep
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Full contact sport played by two opposing teams, the aim of the game is score more points than your opponent, by touchdowns or field goals.
Like Robin Hood without the tights! Join the Archery Society for friendly target practice, competitions and professional coaching.
Association Football (M)
Bust out some fancy footwork and join Men’s Football for training, socials and above all a good game.
Association Football (W)
Play the nation’s favourite sport in a social environment, learning some fancy footwork whilst you’re at it.
From throwing, jumping, running, to training, track and weights. Athletics can put your fitness to the test.
This racquet sport takes centre court as a social and inclusive society that’s great for beginners and professionals.
Hit a home run with one of the UK’s fastest-growing sports, suitable for seasoned pros and new players.
Develop your dribble or learn to score a slam dunk with the University of Leeds Men’s Basketball Club.
Teamwork, friendship, passion, skill development and laughter guaranteed. Whether you've been playing basketball for 15 years or 15 minutes, we'd love you to join.
Determination, sportsmanship and fun - that’s what this UK number one University Cheerleading team is all about.
A bat-and-ball game rooted in British history, this sport is social as well as serious about competing.
Bowler, batter or fielder, Women’s Cricket welcomes all abilities - even if you don’t know what a silly point is.
The race is on - join other athletes in road running, fell racing and middle-distance track events.
From mountain biking to track cycling, hop on your bike for trips, weekly rides, spinning sessions and socials.
Hit a bulls eye by becoming part of Darts society. Weekly socials, tournaments and the ever-successful Christmas curry.
Learn the skills of good swordsmanship - come and practice a sport that has been part of every modern olympics.
Want to play for the squad or just play more golf when you can for a discounted rate? Leeds University Golf Club is the one for you.
From forward rolls to somersaults, gymnastics can help you learn a few tricks and develop your flexibility.
Mixed speeds, quick thinking and tough tackles - Handball is an international sport that’s rough and ready.
One of the biggest sports clubs on campus, Men’s Hockey has a strong social ethos welcoming all abilities.
Say hello to one of the biggest sports societies on campus!
Fast, adrenaline-fueled and exciting: the worlds fastest team sport has a place for all, new players and pros alike.
The only mixed team sport in the world, Korfball is a fast-growing game that’s fun and competitive.
Physical, fast-paced and skillful, this is the perfect sport for newbies and those wanting to develop their tactics.
The fastest sport on two feet; competitive and skillful, with a social side that brings together all abilities.
Leeds Motorsport allows students to get involved in the highest level of student Kart racing in the UK whilst also racing regularly at local tracks around Leeds.
We have six teams which compete in the BUCs League as well as a full development club consisting of 80 members.
Physical Health & Training (PHATSoc)
Physical Health & Training is a fitness society put in place to guide and support students looking to get into fitness.
Pool & Snooker
Whether you just like playing for fun or are looking to compete, LUU Pool & Snooker welcomes everyone.
Powerlifting & Weightlifting
Let's get strong and fit. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned lifter, we provide a supportive environment where everyone can learn from each other.
The LUU Rounders Society is a new society hoping to bring everyone’s favourite school sport to University.
Whether you’re an experienced rower or just a beginner, represent your university and join Leeds University Boat Club.
Rugby League (m)
Leeds University Rugby League is a high performance sports society where students have the opportunity to develop both their fitness and skills all whilst being a part of a welcoming team environment.
Rugby League (w)
Whether you’re a complete newcomer to Rugby League or a pro, come along and have fun.
Rugby Union (M)
An opportunity for athletes to experience near professional rugby alongside their studies, in a fun and sociable environment.
Rugby Union (W)
Be a part of one of the fastest growing sports in the UK and join Women’s Rugby Club.
Sport for Non-Sporters
An exciting environment for non-athletes to try different sports such as rounders and dodgeball in a non-competitive space.
Train with England Squash Level 2 coach and Gryphon's Team player Matthew Powell and gain new skills, enjoy the sport and get to know the members.
Swimming & Waterpolo
Join one of LUU’s largest mixed sports teams for a friendly and competitive atmosphere regardless of ability.
A relaxed and enjoyable sport where students can play both socially and competitively, regardless of ability.
Whether you’re experienced or have never held a racquet, join one of the largest student-led tennis clubs in the country!
Join the club regardless of experience and learn new moves from qualified coaches and meet new people.
Join one of the newest high-performance clubs in Leeds, whether you’re an experienced triathlete or love a challenge.
A fast paced, non-contact team sport played with a flying disc.
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We still can’t get to grips with automatic translation that comes across as if it was written by a human. In the meantime, when you need a business translation service, you’ll need to approach the people. The reason why humans are still better than machines at translating, is that a good translation is a not necessarily a case of word for word transliteration.
Instead, the anatomy of a good translation is as follows:
The most important criteria is that a translation should make sense. Even if it strays from the meaning of the original piece, if it makes sense then it could offer some value. If it doesn’t make sense then it’s likely to embarrass your business.
Meaning though is extremely important. Meaning takes precedence over the accuracy of a word for word translation and often a translator will need to use their creativity to maintain meaning, especially with a translation that crosses cultural boundaries.
Beyond meaning there is tone. So once a translation hits its meaning, it’s important that it also strikes the right tone. So if the original document as a very authoritative tone, then this should be carried over into the final piece.
A good translator will be fluent in the original and target language and crucially will be aware of the culture of the target language. So, for instance if you require German translation, then your chosen translator should know something of the culture. | <urn:uuid:4e5627a9-f38c-40ee-af10-03fc05830672> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://www.blog-publisher.com/the-anatomy-of-a-good-translation.html | 2020-10-29T13:50:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107904287.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20201029124628-20201029154628-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.948678 | 287 |
Until new research came about in the 1950s, scientists thought our bodies were mostly dormant during sleep. But as it turns out, our brain is pretty active during this time. Research also found that there are distinct stages we go through while we’re sleeping. Learn more about these stages and what your body is up to during each one.
Sleep Stage 1 This is the lightest stage of sleep. During this phase, you might drift in and out of sleep or awaken easily. Meanwhile, your muscle activity and eye movements start slowing down.
Sleep Stage 2 The second sleep stage involves slower brain waves (the fluctuations of electrical activity in the brain) with occasional bursts of rapid waves. Eye movements stop during this stage.
Sleep Stage 3 During stage 3, brain waves slow way, way down to essentially the slowest rate (also known as “delta waves”). There are some smaller, faster waves occasionally detected during this phase.
Sleep Stage 4 In stage 4, your brain almost exclusively produces delta waves. During both stages 3 and 4, it’s very difficult to wake someone up. Generally, these are known as the “deep sleep” stages. No eye movement or muscle activity takes place during this time.
REM Sleep The REM (rapid eye movement) stage first occurs about an hour to 90 minutes after falling asleep, with additional periods of REM sleep usually occurring throughout the night as you cycle through these stages. During REM sleep, breathing typically becomes shallow and irregular and the eyes exhibit sudden, jerking motions. Heart rate and blood pressure tend to increase and limb muscles become temporarily paralyzed. Many people experience vivid dreams during this stage. Ideally, your body will naturally cycle through these sleep stages through the night. Creating a comfortable sleep environment will help avoid being awoken during one of the stages, which can contribute to poor sleep quality. Remember that good rest is important for your physical, mental and emotional health! | <urn:uuid:d930ebd5-89aa-48ba-8e1d-04de37c425fd> | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | https://www.cool-jams.com/blogs/blog/sleep-stages-explained | 2021-06-15T03:26:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487616657.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20210615022806-20210615052806-00577.warc.gz | en | 0.971263 | 393 |
Valencia With dynamic museums, a flourishing restaurant scene, lively nightlife, great shops and miles of beach, Valencia is bursting with Mediterranean exuberance. An increasingly popular short-break venue, Valencia is where paella first simmered over a wood fire. This is a vibrant, friendly, mildly chaotic place with two outstanding fine-arts museums, an accessible old quarter, and Europe's newest cultural and scientific complex. More Resort Info....
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Hospes Palau de la mar Valencia - 5 star
Hospes Palau de la Mar Hotel shines between the 5 Star Hotels of Valencia. It is a catalogued palace, a majestic house of the 19th Century,
that responds to the marine spirit and symbolises the great values of its city and its people.
Las Arenas Balneario Resort Valencia - 5 star
An exclusive hotel in Valencia, a 5-star Grand Luxury hotel where you can enjoy a
wonderful experience with complete facilities.
Ideal for anyone looking for a bity of city luxury by the beach!
Ilunion Valencia Valencia - 4 star
Enjoy a complete experience and discover everything the hotel can offer you. Outside the room itself, the broad spectrum of services ensures you will have a pleasant stay in Valencia.
The hotel has excellent facilities to make your stay a success including a swimming pool with hoist.
Ilunion Aqua 4 Valencia - 4 star
Located within the vicinity of the City of Arts and Sciences, near the biggest
aquarium in Europe, the beach and the historic centre this hotel is in a perfect location.
A four-star, accessible hotel where you can enjoy all comforts and services in an unbeatable location with an elegant, modern design.
Ilunion Valencia3 Valencia - 3 star
A hotel with facilities that are very practical and comfortable,
designed for you to enjoy your stay in Valencia without worrying about your
accommodation. In terms of value for money, it is unrivalled,
especially for a hotel located in the most leading-edge area of Valencia
Ilunion Aqua3 Valencia - 3 star
With impressive views of the most cosmopolitan area of Valencia
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Aliyu Na Idris, a 26-year-elderly person from Kaduna State Nigeria, has put himself available to be purchased in Kano.
The man, who is supposed to be a designer, has allegedly been strolling around Kano with a bulletin that peruses, “This man is available to be purchased for N20 million.”
The young fellow has been in the city for five days searching for somebody to get him, and he let Daily Trust know that he did as such out of urgency.
He uncovered that he previously made himself available for purchase in Kaduna, yet moved to Kano when he was unable to discover a purchaser.
He expressed that since his fitting business fizzled because of the monetary emergency, making him lose clients and become monetarily incapacitated, he chose to put himself available to be purchased for N20m on the grounds that he has no different method for endurance.
He concedes that he knows that in case he is purchased, he will lose his opportunity, yet he additionally expresses that he is ready to confront the outcomes of his choice. Aliyu additionally expressed that if nobody gets him in Kano, he will migrate to an alternate state to sell himself.
Despite the fact that MANY PEOPLE IN KANO OFFERED ME VARIOUS PRICES OF N10M, N5M, AND N300,000, I REFUSED BECAUSE THE AMOUNT WAS LESS THAN WHAT I EXPECTED,” ALIYU EXPLAINED.
“I WILL GIVE N10 MILLION TO MY PARENTS; N5 MILLION TO THE STATE WHERE I WAS PURCHASED; N2 MILLION TO THE PERSON WHO ASSISTED IN ADVERTISING ME; AND THE REMAINING N3 MILLION TO THE PERSON WHO PURCHASES ME FOR MY DAILY MAINTENANCE.” | <urn:uuid:edf4ac92-4ce8-44af-9f4a-fc17c9623fac> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://www.viewsghana.com/young-man-ready-to-sell-himself-due-to-the-hardship-in-his-country/ | 2022-07-06T18:32:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104676086.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220706182237-20220706212237-00555.warc.gz | en | 0.966655 | 397 |
Florida is home to the Pinecraft Amish community located in the Sarasota area. Though the Amish presence in the Sunshine State is small, there are a handful of Amish wagon dealers in Florida, found in the areas of Sarasota, Tallahassee and Miami. These dealers mainly provide wagons via online sales.
1877 Porter Lake Drive,
Sarasota, FL 34240
Carries a very large selection of Amish-made products including decorative carts and wagons such as Amish-made old fashioned goat wagon in rustic style or buckboard wagons.
18095 Blountstown Highway
Tallahahassee, FL 32310
Amish-made decorative wagons available.
Baby Eco Trends
PO Box 143305
Miami, FL 33114
Specializes in toys, furniture and accessories for children. They carry some Amish children wagons, available in different colors such as red, green, or blue. Made using eco-friendly materials.
Note to FL residents: Please double-check business hours of Amish wagon dealers listed here. Business locations and availability can change. Amish-owned businesses will always be closed on Sundays; non-Amish wagon dealers may be open. Not responsible for changes to the above information.
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An important hub in the heart of the Mediterranean at the crossroads of Europe, Africa and Asia, Cyprus is diverse, culturally rich and perfectly placed for working and traveling within and beyond the European Union. The economy is rapidly recovering from a recent recession through significant activity in the shipping, tourism, legal and financial services sectors, and has also seen a surge in foreign investments and developments, and property and investment values.
WHY CHOOSE CYPRUS?
- Strategic location on the crossroads of 3 continents (Europe, Asia and Africa), an active transshipment center and attractive business hub.
- Low tax rates and free trade within the EU.
- Fast-track procedure. Approval of citizenship application within 6 months.
- No physical residence requirements.
- Unrestricted right to live, work and study in Europe.
- 167 Visa-Free destinations
- Main Applicant & Spouse should be above 18 years.
- Applicants must hold Cyprus residency for at least 6 months before applying for citizenship.
- Hold a private property for a lifetime.
- No Criminal Record.
- Real Estate Investment with minimum Amount €300,000.
- You can choose between Fast & Regular Track Programs.
- Must be residential real estate.
- €30,000 deposit in a bank for 3 years.
- You should maintain the property ownership for a lifetime.
- Leads to citizenship (residency of 2,555 days).
Real Estate investment:
Invest € 2.5 Million in Real Estate real estate, land development and infrastructure projects:
- Purchase or construction of buildings.
- Construction of other land development projects (residential or commercial developments, developments in the tourism sector)
- Or other infrastructure projects.
Financial Assets investment:
The applicant should have made a purchase or should have participated in companies or organizations established and operating in the Republic of Cyprus with investment costs of at least €2,5 million.
Combination of the Above investments:
The applicant may proceed with a combination of the above investments, provided that the total investment will amount up to at least €2.5 Million.
- All the investment must be held for 3 years
- withdraw mechanism: After 3 years, the investor can sell or redeem the investment with only €2 Million
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Oh dear, Jai needed to know the facts of life today.
Jai: “Mummy, honey is bee poo!” Totally random comment from left field, yet understandable in our house.
Mum: “No , if anything it is bee spew.”
Mum: “Seriously, would you rather eat poo or spew.”
Dad: “Please don’t…” But it was too late.
Jai: “I say it is BEE POO!”
There was further discussion, but he couldn’t be swayed. Thankfully he lost interest and his six-second attention span found a new topic. But I know my boy’s memory.
[5 minutes later]
Jai: “Daddy, I have some bee poo for you!”
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Pore strips contain a substance that is like hairspray on one side that is used to stick to the material within your pores. When you rip the pore strip off, it stretches the pore leading — this leads to enlarged pores, in which material collects more materials. You'll end up with a nose that is more likely to trap dirt, debris, and sebum.
At home: cleanse with an oil-based cleanser. It will cleanse and refine the pores, leading to refined skin. Using our St. James Glycolsal or Lactisal medicated cleansers will help to balance troubled skin at home between facial sessions.
Professional methods: treat your skin to a 30, 60 or 90-minute facial that will include a series of customized cleansing treatments that is right for your skin. Committing to a six-week cycle for facial visits will make a lasting impression on the overall health of your skin.
Holly has been great- I came in for a laser hair removal treatment, and she didn't hesitate to give me recommendations for vitamins and skin care ideas to help treat the acne breakouts I've been getting recently.Anonymous | <urn:uuid:20891315-0de9-4a15-a6b0-a981315548ba> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | http://themonfrance.com/are-pore-strips-good-for-your-skin/ | 2018-08-17T21:31:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221212910.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20180817202237-20180817222237-00567.warc.gz | en | 0.951391 | 236 |
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Pixelhobby UK is an offical distributor of Pixelhobby products in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
We welcome small independent retailers as well as larger national companies.
If you would like to become a stockist of Pixelhobby products, we will provide a personalised starter package to suit your requirements.
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New lines of Pixelhobby products will now be regularly launched on Hochanda with live demonstrations on how to bring Pixelhobby to life.
We recently launched our brand new floral Pixelhobby artwork and card kits on Hochanda, showcasing how beautiful Pixelhobby can be. Pixelhobby's magnet collections, magnet kits and Christmas kits have also been featured on the show. | <urn:uuid:ad07fab8-74f3-45de-90fe-115a75baebd2> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | http://www.pixelhobby.org.uk/ | 2021-05-17T04:03:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991557.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20210517023244-20210517053244-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.911843 | 187 |
Active Businesses - back to top
Endeavor Performance Endeavor Performance offers indoor and outdoor training sessions, clinics and camps that target specific cycling abilities and skills, bicycle fitting, and personal coaching.
Green Fleet Bikes Green Fleet Bikes is a local bike shop with used and new bikes, a bike tour business and a bike messenger service.
Nashville Pedal Tavern It’s a 16-person bicycle powered party on wheels. Perfect for pub crawls, bachelor/bachelorette parties, company outings, sporting events, brewery tours, the ideas are endless!
Bicycle Clubs - back to top
Columbia Cycling Club Columbia Cycling Clubs believes that riding in groups is safer and more fun than riding alone.
CycleLite CycleLite is a riding group within Harpeth Bike Club that hosts weekly rides in the range of 30 to 40 miles. Most rides are friendly and laid back, with an average speed around 13 mph. Those who wish to ride longer and faster can visit the Harpeth Bike Club site for appropriate rides.
Domestiques Cycling Club The Domestiques Cycling Club is focused on promoting road cycling across cyclists of all experience levels throughout Middle Tennessee.
Harpeth Bicycle Club The Harpeth Bicycle Club (HBC) exists to promote cycling in the greater Nashville area. Formed in 1997, the club has over 1000 members ranging from casual cyclist to ultra rider.
Highland Rim Bicycle Club The Highland Rimmers Bicycle Club was chartered in 1974. It’s name was changed to Highland Rim Bicycle Club in 2011. It is a non-profit corporation chartered by the State of Tennessee whose objects and purposes are to promote the general interests of bicycling in all its phases.
Major Momentum Cycling Club Major Momentum Cycling Club is Nashville's newest cycling club, with a very diverse group of cyclist and a welcome for all who are interested in promoting the sport of cycling.
Murfreesboro Bicycle Club The MBC Home Page is for local riders and bicycling enthusiasts in the Middle Tennessee area, providing information that is useful to all.
Music City BMX Music City BMX will promote the sport of BMX by teaching good sportsmanship and respect, teaching proper bicycle safety, maintaining a safe and competitive track, and making BMX a family activity that involves riders, family and friends in a well-organized program.
Team Belladium A unique cycling program in Nashville,Tennessee, Team Belladium enters its second season this year with a full roster of 12 riders undefined and a commitment to compete and win at the elite amateur cycling level, to set the standard for teamwork, and to encourage other women to participate in the sport.
Tennessee Bicycle Racing Association The Tennessee Bicycle Racing Association (TBRA) is an organization of Tennessee bicycling racing clubs and their members. TBRA exists to help promote, develop, and grow the sport of bicycle racing in the state by helping race directors promote events, helping riders access the sport, and generating enthusiasm in the cycling community at-large.
TN Women's Cycling Project Tennessee Women’s Cycling Project (TWCP) promotes bicycling as a sport, strives to improve cycling safety, and encourages cycling as a means of transportation, recreation, and fitness both among its members and within the community.
Veloteers Bicycle Club Veloteers is a non-profit bicycling club founded that promotes interest, educates, and encourages fun and safe participation in bicycling of all forms.
SoundForest.org SoundForest.org is a Pro-Earth Eco-Charity whose purpose is to better our environment. SoundForest aims to partner with businesses, allowing them to become more eco-friendly and assisting them in making a positive difference in the world.
Community - back to top
Music City Cycling Our mission is to provide an interactive communication tool for Nashville cyclists of all types and skill levels and help the Nashville cycling community grow closer and stronger.
NashvilleCyclist.com NashvilleCyclist.com was established in 2004 with a dedication to providing the most extensive resource for cycling in our area.
Nashville Mountain Bike A cycling resource for the large community of mountain bikers in and around Nashville, TN.
Government - back to top
Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee The Nashville BPAC is an advisory committee for the Metropolitan Government established by Mayor Karl Dean to promote and encourage safe bicycling and walking to further Nashville’s goal of becoming a bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly city.
Metro Nashville Sidewalks Program Here you can find information on the multi-million-dollar capital improvement program for sidewalks, including what has been accomplished, what is underway and what the future holds.
Nashville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization The Nashville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is committed to providing leadership to the region in the planning, funding, and development of a regional multi-modal transportation system; one that promotes personal and social economic prosperity while encouraging sustainable growth and development practices to protect and preserve valuable community and natural assets.
TDOT Bicycle and Pedestrian Program It is the intent of the Department of Transportation to promote and facilitate the increased use of non-motorized modes of transportation, including developing facilities for use by pedestrians and bicyclists and promoting public education and safety programs for using such facilities.
hub.nashville.gov is the easiest way to report infrastructure problems to Metro Government, even if you don't know exactly who to contact.
Call 311 or (615) 862-5000 (Monday-Friday 7 AM - 5 PM) or go online from any device to find information, request services, and share feedback:
Local Blogs - back to top
Carless and Carefree in Nashville, TN "Our experiences while riding public transportation in Nashville."
Let's Go Ride a Bike "We hope this blog will encourage others, especially women, to give cycling a shot. You might be surprised by how easily it fits into your life…"
Nonprofit Organizations - back to top
Bike Walk Tennessee By advocating for safety, facilities and increased government and public relations, Bike Walk Tennessee will promote cycling and walking in Tennessee for the benefit of health, recreation, tourism and a cleaner environment for all.
Clean Air Partnership of Middle Tennessee The Clean Air Partnership of Middle Tennessee is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization focused on air quality in the eight-county area including Cheatham, Dickson, Davidson, Robertson, Rutherford, Sumner, Williamson, and Wilson counties.
Greenways for Nashville We give people the opportunity to support and enjoy walking and bicycling through Nashville’s natural resources.
Nashville Bicycle Alliance The Nashville Bicycle Alliance's focus is to help improve Nashville's Bicycle Community.
Jeff Roth Cycling Foundation The purpose of the Jeff Roth Cycling Foundation is to promote, through advocacy and education, cycling as a safe and healthy form of transportation, and to provide financial assistance to families that have been touched by cycling tragedies.
Ride For Reading Ride For Reading's mission is to promote literacy and healthy living through the distribution of books via bicycle to children from low-income neighborhoods.
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Tuesday, Aug. 6
North River Evening Hike, Leave Aberdeen at 6:40 p.m. to meet the leader at Artic Tavers RV Park at 7 p.m. for this evening hike along North River to view the sights, 942-8698.
Tuesday, Aug. 13
Aberdeen Evening Hike, Leave Aberdeen at 7 p.m. to take a leisurely walk around Aberdeen with the Olympians’ resident Colonel Bob hike master, 532-3122.
Thursday, Aug. 15
Clemons Hill Day Hike, Leave Montesano at 10 a.m. for a hike on logging roads west of Montesano with moderate hills (easy paced hike with one long hill), 249-4630.
Tuesday, Aug. 20
Montesano Area Evening Hike, Leave Montesano at 7 p.m. for an easy evening hike (wear sturdy shoes), 249-3508.
Saturday, Aug. 24
Madcat Meadows Day Hike, Leave Aberdeen at 7 a.m. for a scenic day hike in the South Cascades with elevation gain of 1500 feet, 538-7425.
Tuesday, Aug. 27
Hoquiam Evening Hike, Leave Hoquiam at 7 p.m. to enjoy Grizzly-Land on this hike with mild hills, 538-0054.
Saturday, Aug. 31
Mount Baldy Climb, Call the leader for this “not the usual climb” that will start near Upper Maynard Burn Way trail and hike open meadows to the summit, 267-7715.
Three Falls Day Hike, Leave Montesano at 9 a.m. for three short hikes near Wynoochie Lake that includes Maindenhair Falls and more, 482-4629.
Tuesday, Sept. 3
Westport Evening Hike, Leave Aberdeen at 6:30 p.m. to leave the Westport Park & Ride at 7 p.m. for this evening hike beginning in downtown Westport and going out to the dock area and back, 267-7715.
Saturday, Sept. 7
South Fork of the Willapa River Day Hike, Leave Montesano at 9:30 a.m. to meet at the Carriage Museum in Raymond at 10:15 a.m. for this day hike, 249-3508.
Sunday, Sept. 8
Mount Washington Climb, Call the leader to sign up for this climb on the Big Creek waytrail to the summit (ropework will be needed), 267-7715.
Tuesday, Sept. 10
Cosmopolis Evening Hike, Meet at the Mill Creek Park in Cosmopolis at 7 p.m. for this evening hike with some hills, 538-0054. | <urn:uuid:86c2f851-923c-4bad-a6e6-3c519b5e4765> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://thedailyworld.com/sections/sports/local/olympians-hiking-calendar-saturday-aug-3.html | 2014-09-22T00:11:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657136494.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011216-00287-ip-10-234-18-248.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.875943 | 583 |
Aided by renowned professionals with ties to the area, the Catonsville High School Steel Band brought some of the sounds of Jamaica to Baltimore County Friday evening.
Catonsville High alumni Andy Stack and Chris Aschman and Catonsville native John Patti took a break from their professional careers to work with the students for a week, culminating in the 14-song concert attended by about 200 people.
Stack, who graduated from Catonsville High in 2002, is best known as a member of the band Wye Oak, a duo that has performed around the world. Cable television fans may recognize the band's song, "Civilian," who was heard during an episode of the most recent season of"The Walking Dead."
During two songs during Friday night's concert at the high school, Stack manipulated the island sounds of the steel drums with a computer that repeated some of the beats and added effects.
Aschman, a 2004 Catonsville High graduate, has traveled around the United States playing the trumpet or steel pan backing recording stars such as Dionne Warwick, Chaka Kahn, The Boxtops, Bonnie Raitt and The O'Jay's.
Patti moved out of Catonsville with his family when he was in the fifth grade. The 2000 graduate of Centennial High School in Howard County said he regretted missing the opportunity to play in Catonsville High's Steel Band.
His professional career includes performing on the steel pan in concerts around the world with performers such as guitar wizard Les Paul, members of Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band, country musician Jeff Walker and rhythm and blues vocalist Nadirah Shakoor.
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How to Share Company Financials With Your Employees
Today, Wayne Rivers is widely considered a small business expert. He is the president of The Family Business Institute, which he started nearly two decades ago. Back then, he was in the same shoes as many of his current clients: an entrepreneur just trying to get his company off the ground. Part of that challenge was knowing what behind-the-scenes financials to share with his team.
“We didn't share in the beginning,” says Rivers. “But as we opened the culture, I wanted my employees to buy in, to share the same dreams that I have. It's a piece of it.”
The Family Business Institute boasts 10 employees and clients today, who make from $10 million to $2 billion in sales. And part of Rivers's savvy in growing his business, he says, was keeping employees in the financial know, increasing the company's cohesion.
“Its consistent with business planning—sharing 1-, 3-, and 5-year goals,” he believes. “It's a big part of making a participative culture vs. a patriarchal culture.”
Here are some guidelines for finding that sharing balance and, in turn, getting your employees to care about your company's financials.
Put Yourself in Your Employee's Shoes
The primary goal you want to accomplish is to demonstrate that your company is stable and an organization of substance,” says Barry Sloane, CEO of the Small Business Authority and Newtek Business Services. A successful company should use its financial strength to engender confidence.
“If you were a business making a lot of money you may want to show that, the bad part is it could make negotiations with your employees difficult,” says Sloane.
Also avoid sharing salaries, as that could lead to personnel drama and jealousy. Of course, keep proprietary dealings under wraps until contracts allow for it.
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“Budget is not something you would necessarily share, nor is the income statement essential,” says Sloane. “Balance sheet and equity capital are more important.”
Balance sheets and equity statements show assets, capital, investments and other factors that allow you to depict stability and strength.
Communicate to your employees the relationship between the current finances and the company's future success.
“You want your workers to understand employee input, profits and compensation are a direct causal connection,” says Rivers. So let them know about business plans down the line and company's goals, short or long term.
Present Data in a Friendly Format
Remember, not all of your employees may have a head for numbers, or even care to hear the nitty gritty financials. Think big picture.
“You should never give raw financials because they wouldn't make sense,” says Rivers. “Its just gobbledygook unless they are accountants. You should present information in digest or summary format.”
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Rivers suggests taking out extraneous line items such as the amount you spend on coffee a year. “Use percentages, bar graphs and pie charts,” Rivers advises if not to help get the message across, then perhaps away to avoid sharing exact digits.
Learn How to Say No
Consistency is key when employees ask to see more than you think they should.
Make the amount of financial information you routinely share standard.That way, when someone ask uncomfortable questions beyond the mold, you have the leverage to use a line suggested by Sloane.
“Tell them this is historically what we've made available and all that is available,” says Sloane.
But that does not mean you should discourage all prying questions, just the ones you are uncomfortable answering.
“If people have questions that's wonderful. It means they're engaged,” says Rivers.
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First published at http://www.pluto-online.com/?p=840
The changes to abortion laws are all but made. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill is now in the ‘ping pong’ stage- their words not mine (www.parliament.uk) – between the two Houses of Parliament, before it is given Royal ascent- or the Queen’s big rubber stamp.
Some of the changes were supported in a letter to The Times by, amongst others, the former head of Professional Ethics here at UClan, Ruth Chadwick.
Their letter urged change to the current qualifying conditions held in the Abortion Act 1967 so that the consent of two doctors will no longer be needed for an abortion, and in medically sound circumstances, where and by whom abortions could now be performed. This is because with medical advances, abortions no longer have to be performed just by doctors, and could be given in GP Practices.
The letter was hardly one of defiance at a divisive time in the debate (it was only printed on 17th October) or necessarily on the more controversial provisions of the Bill. But the letter did highlight a rational debate that has been lost in the more sensationalised, moral objections in newspapers and from Parliament.
The letter said:
“As academic medical lawyers and ethicists, we believe that the current restrictions on women’s reproductive autonomy during the first 24 weeks of pregnancy are not justified.”
But, just how autonomous is or should a woman’s reproduction be?
On one hand, it is your body, and you should be able to do want you want with it. If you become pregnant, at any time, you should by some argument, be allowed to terminate it.
The BMA, RCN and other royal colleges support the present 24-week time limit for abortions, saying: “There has been no significant improvement in the survival of pre-term infants below 24 weeks gestation in the last 18 years.”
So women have autonomy under the law, until the given time where it is seen by medical professionals to become and inhumane procedure. It is also notable that most abortions are performed earlier rather than later.
But, women’s reproductive autonomy can often come into conflict with the rights of the father. Some would argue that they also come into conflict with the rights of the unborn child. Can or should provisions be given under the law to them?
Can the law or other people really measure other factors- feelings, the relationship itself, and the situation?
There is a moral argument… but morals are relative. Should it be someone else’s morals? What if you have incredibly lax morals yourself?
Religious people, particularly the Catholic Church, are very vocal on abortion issues and have been throughout the discussion of the Bill. Nadine Dorris, a Catholic MP still calls for the time limit for abortions to be reduced from 24 to 20 weeks, although this flies in the face of medical advances and advice from the BMA.
In an almost secular country, but one religiously governed by the Church of England, should the Catholic Church be allowed to decide the outcome of unwanted pregnancies for non-believers?
And should Members of Parliament bring their religious views into their jobs, governing people who are not religious? Although, is it fair to ask them to keep them separate?
But do women actually know how to self-govern their reproduction? The number of abortions is on the increase. Do some women have irresponsible pregnancies because they don’t know or don’t care about contraception or consequences?
There is often a very loud voice when it comes to the pro-life/pro-choice debate, but is there a loud enough voice, with a clear message on how to stop so many women needing to have abortions? Or is there anyone in authority questioning why so many young women decide to have many children, often by different and numerous partners?
I think this is a much more pressing and obvious problem and whether the government feels intervention in such issues is their place or not, a consensus on how to control under-age sex and helping people to form proper, loving relationships is necessary.
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You may not get to all of them — hell, who can — but here are the books we’re most excited to buy and at least look at all season long.
1. "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
There are few modern writers as brilliant at capturing the complexities of a family as Celeste Ng. A breathless exploration of adolescence and young love, “Little Fires Everywhere” tells the story of a seemingly-perfect little town, its perfect residents, and how two outsiders unintentionally change things forever. The book is smart, nuanced, and exhilarating — but more than anything, “Little Fires Everywhere” is a gorgeous exploration of motherhood in its many forms, and the many different paths that women travel to get there.
2. "Trust No Aunty" by Maria Qamar
Even if you don’t consider yourself a graphic novel type of gal, this gem by Maria Qamar is guaranteed to convert you. A guide to navigating all the meddling but incredibly wise “Aunties” of the world, “Trust No Aunty” is chock full of useful and hilarious advice inspired by Qamar’s experience growing up in a South Asian immigrant family. The art is absolutely gorgeous, but it’s Qamar’s tongue-in-cheek observations that’ll make you laugh out loud again and again.
3. "Sing, Unburied, Sing" by Jesmyn Ward
National Book Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward has gone straight for the jugular with her newest novel, “Sing, Unburied, Sing” — and it’s as devastating as it is absolutely stunning. The book tells the story of three generations of a black family in Mississippi navigating grief, addiction, and identity. The realities of modern racism are laid bare when the daughter decides to drive across the state to pick up her children’s white father from prison. The book is visceral, haunting, and lyrical, with a dash of magical realism you won’t soon forget.
4. "Electric Arches" by Eve L. Ewing
They say you aren’t supposed to judge a book by its cover, but it’s impossible not to when it’s as beautiful as the one for “Electric Arches.” The pages within Eve L. Ewing’s masterpiece more than live up to the jacket: With tenderness and grace, Ewing’s mix of poetry, prose, and visual art explores the many representations of Black Girl Magic in both her hometown of Chicago and a future unbound by space or time.
5. "Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat" by Patricia Williams
As heartbreaking as it is darkly hilarious, “Rabbit” will make you wipe away both tears of joy and sorrow. In a memoir filled with wit and wisdom, Williams recounts her experiences growing up in Atlanta during the crack epidemic, becoming a mother before her 14th birthday, and her fight to give her children a better life. Honest, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny, Williams’ book is an absolute must-read.
6. "Motherest" by Kristen Iskandrian
Nostalgic, tender, and devastating in turns, “Motherest” tells the story of a college student on the cusp of adulthood and in desperate need of her absent mother’s guidance. So, she begins to write letters to her mom — and the results are nothing short of stunning. A gorgeous and darkly humorous exploration of motherhood, young love, and female friendship, “Motherest” is, in many ways, about loneliness and growing up without a compass, and how we manage to pull through anyway.
7. "Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems" by Danez Smith
Danez Smith dazzles in his latest collection of poetry, which explores what it means to be black in America with a focus on how society views, treats, and punishes black men and their bodies. Each poem is charged with brilliance and heart: The first imagines a paradise where the victims of police violence are allowed to live the lives that were stolen from them, while a later poem tackles what it feels like to find out you’re HIV-positive. Smith’s words are resistance and resilience embodied.
8. "The Twelve-Mile Straight" by Eleanor Henderson
A devastating and often difficult read, “The Twelve-Mile Straight” follows what happens after a white sharecropper’s daughter in rural Georgia gives birth to biracial twins — one white, one black — in the early 1930s. After a black field hand is accused of raping the new mother, he is lynched and his body is dragged along the Twelve-Mile Straight, while she is left to raise her children with the help of her housekeeper. Filled with twists and turns, this book gives an intimate and heartbreaking look at America’s ugly history of racial violence, and it’s never been more timely.
9. "Stay with Me" by Ayobami Adebayo
After struggling with infertility for several years, a young Nigerian woman discovers that her husband has taken a second wife — and her jealousy and outrage leave her more determined than ever to have a child. Powerful and unflinching, “Stay with Me” delves deep into the sacrifices we make in order to save our relationships and families. Adebayo’s debut novel is a poignant reminder that women are resilient, fierce, and brave, even in the face of heartbreaking lies, violent political upheavals, generational divides, and cultural pressures.
10. "Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone" by Brené Brown
If you’re skeptical about self-help books, you’ve probably never read Brené Brown. The renowned social scientist is a master of the medium, mixing research with real-life solutions that are as easy to digest as they are genuinely helpful. Her latest book, “Braving the Wilderness,” takes aim at “what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization,” and will leave you feeling empowered, at peace, and ready to take on the world.
11. "A Kind of Freedom" by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Spanning three generations of a black family living in New Orleans, “A Kind of Freedom” is an intricately woven story that explores ideas of legacy, race, and survival. The book takes us through World War II, the crack epidemic, and Hurricane Katrina, telling a rich and dynamic story that’s as tragic as it is necessary. Each character is compelling and nuanced, making the reader all the more sorry to leave them at book’s end.
12. "The Origin of Others" by Toni Morrison
If you’ve ever wanted to take a peek into the brilliant mind of Toni Morrison, look no further than her latest book. In “The Origin of Others,” Morrison dissects all the thematic elements that frequent her work, and sheds light on what inspires her and what keeps her up at night. Based on her Norton Lectures, the renowned novelist delves deep into how literature has shaped society’s perceptions of race over the years, as well as how some of her most beloved books came to be. Plus, it has a brilliant introduction from Ta-Nehisi Coates!
13. "Bluebird, Bluebird" by Attica Locke
From the brilliant mind of “Empire” writer/producer Attica Locke comes “Bluebird, Bluebird,” the story of a black Texas Ranger who must help solve two murders in a small, racist town. Oh, and all of this is after he’s been suspended for trying to help someone being harassed by the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas. Incredibly timely and fiercely compelling, Locke’s thriller takes a visceral look at modern-day racism and policing, managing to approach both topics and their intersections in a way that’s fresh, multifaceted, and necessary.
14. "Home Fire" by Kamila Shamsie
Elegant and intense, Kamila Shamsie’s seventh novel asks timeless questions about love for and loyalty to family and ideology — and you won’t be able to put it down until you reach its unforgettable ending. The book opens with a line from Sophocles’ “Antigone” (“The ones we love … are enemies of the state”), setting the stage for an exemplary modern retelling of the Greek tragedy. Followed by a scene featuring a young Muslim woman being detained at an airport and a mention of “The Great British Bake Off,” it’s safe to say this is Shamsie at her best.
15. "How to Behave in a Crowd" by Camilla Bordas
Charming and an absolute delight, “How to Behave in a Crowd” follows an eccentric family of overachievers as they navigate everything from crappy television to unimaginable tragedy — all told from the perspective of the youngest and most “normal” sibling. French author Camilla Bordas sparkles in the book, bewitching readers with her wit and humor while deftly navigating the many pitfalls of adolescence. The perfect reminder of what life feels like when adulthood is just beyond reach, this coming-of-age story will win you over from the first sentence to the last.
16. "I Hear She’s a Real Bitch" by Jen Agg
With a memoir title like this, how can you not immediately fall in love with Jen Agg? A first-person account of the restaurant industry and its sexism, “I Hear She’s a Real Bitch” packs a powerful punch that’ll have you rooting for Agg the whole way through. Incredibly frank, razor sharp, and outrageously funny, this book is just what the food world needs, but it’ll leave you feeling inspired and empowered no matter your line of work. If you want to know what a badass boss looks like, look no further than Agg.
17. "Devotion (Why I Write)" by Patti Smith
Patti Smith has a gift for turning words into art, and her latest book pulls back the curtain on how exactly she does it. “Devotion (Why I Write)” explores Smith’s mysterious and riveting creative process — from idea to tangible piece of work — with the same bewitching voice that makes her poetry, music, and prose so special. Both intimate and fascinating, this book should be savored and returned to, often.
18. "The Ninth Hour" by Alice McDermott (9/19)
Alice McDermott is absolutely masterful in her latest novel, which tells the story of a pregnant widow, her unborn child, and the nuns who care for them after her husband kills himself by setting their apartment on fire. A profound, multi-generational exploration of grief, coming of age, and the Catholic faith, “The Ninth Hour” immediately draws you in with its depth and lyricism, and refuses to let go.
19. "Her Body and Other Parties" by Carmen Maria Machado (10/3)
If this debut collection of stories is any indication, you need to put Carmen Maria Machado on your radar — stat. Her stories are the perfect mix of emotional, witty, and sexy, with just the right amount of weird added in for good measure. “Especially Heinous,” Machado’s ode to “Law & Order: SVU,” particularly shines, but each story is spectacular in its own right. Intimate and painfully honest, Machado has created a world that’s both familiar and terrifying, and unlike anything you’ve ever experienced.
20. "We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy" by Ta-Nehisi Coates (10/3)
Whatever Ta-Nehisi Coates writes is always worth reading — that’s just the facts. His latest book, “We Were Eight Years in Power,” is no exception to this rule. The book is a meditation on race in America, the ebbs and flows of white supremacy, the Obama administration, and the tragedy of its end. Nearly one year after the 2016 presidential election, Coates’ voice has never been more essential, and this book is proof of it.
21. "Manhattan Beach" by Jennifer Egan (10/3)
More than seven years after the release of her Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection, “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” Jennifer Egan has returned with a gorgeous new novel set during the Depression and World War II. Her first historical novel, “Manhattan Beach” follows the story of the first female diver at the Brooklyn Naval Yard as she navigates her incredibly dangerous job, scheming mobsters, and rigid gender norms — all while trying to solve the mystery of her missing father. Riveting and complex, “Manhattan Beach” is the definition of a page-turner, and you won’t be able to put it down.
22. "Fresh Complaint" by Jeffrey Eugenides (10/3)
Jeffrey Eugenides is one of the most beloved, well-known novelists of our time, so it should come as no surprise that his first collection of short stories would be just as good. Each story in “Fresh Complaint” shows Eugenides’ unmatched ability to explore a variety of themes through the eyes of unexpectedly relatable characters, all while staying honest, heartfelt, and tender. There are even a few appearances from characters in Eugenides’ previous works, just to sweeten the deal.
23. "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez (10/17)
You’re never too old for young adult novels when that YA novel is as incredible as “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter.” Sánchez’s book is a smart and original look at what it’s like to grow up in a Mexican-American family, and the social and cultural pressures that are put on “perfect Mexican daughters.” The novel grapples with grief, family dynamics, and coming of age as a woman of color, all while managing to be both heartbreaking and, at times, very funny.
24. "Uncommon Type: Some Stories" by Tom Hanks (10/17)
Leave it to the most likable star in Hollywood to write a book of short stories as lovable as he is. Equal parts peculiar, unexpected, and heartwarming, “Uncommon Type” is just as delightful as you’d expect. From the story of an unexpected bowling sensation to the tale of “an eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant” on their adventures through America, Hanks’ tales are irresistibly good. If acting doesn’t work out for him, he might just have a second career as a short fiction writer.
25. "The King is Always Above the People" by Daniel Alarcón (10/31)
From immigration and gang violence, to the many different kinds of seduction, no stone is left unturned in this brilliant collection of 10 short stories from Daniel Alarcón. The author brings his various characters to life with such depth and grace, you might even find yourself relating to both child scammers and cheating spouses by book’s end.
26. "Mean" by Myriam Gurba (11/14)
Loud, smart, and unflinchingly humorous, “Mean” is about the things we do and the ways we behave in order to protect ourselves. Told from the perspective of “a queer, mixed-race Chicana” who’s faced it all, Myriam Gurba shines as she tackles everything from rape culture and racism to homophobia. Through wit and in-your-face brilliance, Gurba tells a story that is both deeply personal and bitingly critical of modern life. Along the way, she also gives us a masterclass in what intersectionality is all about.
27. "They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us" by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib (11/14)
Music nerds, rejoice! There are few critics alive today that can talk about music and culture with the same level of adoration and encyclopedic knowledge as Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. It should come as no surprise, then, that “They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us,” his collection of music and culture essays, is ridiculously good. True to form, Willis-Abdurraqib will likely give you a whole new level of appreciation for some of your favorite music — so strap in, because fandom has never sounded so good.
28. "Future Home of the Living God" by Louise Erdrich (11/14)
If you still can’t get enough of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” this haunting dystopian novel should definitely be next on your reading list. In an alternate (but not-that-unbelievable) universe where evolution is reversing itself and women are giving birth to “primitive” infants, a young pregnant woman fights to protect both herself and her unborn child while desperately trying to find her birth mother. Riveting and terrifying in turns, Erdrich’s novel is a beautiful and prescient meditation on identity, motherhood, and reproductive autonomy. | <urn:uuid:ad3de8af-a45c-4769-ba9a-27097e050917> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | https://www.shondaland.com/inspire/books/a12244001/fall-book-list-2017/ | 2019-09-22T14:46:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514575515.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20190922135356-20190922161356-00543.warc.gz | en | 0.950436 | 3,751 |
Aviation Investigation Report A98H0003
4.3.3 Aircraft Wiring Issues
- 18.104.22.168 - Material Flammability Test Requirements for Aircraft Wiring
- 22.214.171.124 - Limitations of FAR 25.1353 Electrical Equipment and Installations
- 126.96.36.199 - Potential Limitations of MIL-W-22759/16 Wire
In one of its recommendations regarding Material Flammability Standards (A01-03), the TSB explained the need to augment the certification test regime used in the approval of aircraft wires. Specifically, the certification criteria need to be expanded to include the determination of wire failure characteristics, using realistic operating conditions and specified performance criteria. The goal of such certification requirements would be to establish standards that would prevent the approval of any wire whose in-service failure could ignite a fire and minimize further collateral wire damage.
Regulatory authorities have advised the TSB that this issue is to be dealt with under the auspices of the FAA's Aging Transport Systems Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ASTRAC). The Board is aware that a Wire Systems Harmonization Working Group has been established to review the certification standards related to aircraft wiring systems. However, in evaluating the assignments of this working group, the Board was unable to identify a specific task that would initiate a review, based on the deficiency described in A01-03.
The Board appreciates that regulatory authorities are dealing with the larger issue of in-flight fires on several fronts, including improved material flammability standards and AFCB technology. While such activities have been beneficial and necessary, the Board is concerned that the deficiency identified in its A01-03 recommendation will not be corrected unless a specific regulatory review of certification requirements is undertaken to ensure the proper evaluation of aircraft electrical wire failure characteristics.
During this investigation, the TSB found that there are limitations associated with the interpretation and application of FAR 25.1353(b). In aircraft design, it is not always possible to maintain physical separation between wires, especially in the cockpit area where, typically, space available for installations is confined. The guidance material does not specify what measures or criteria would be acceptable to meet the requirements of FAR 25.1353(b).
The Board has not issued a safety communication on this subject as it is aware that the FAA's ASTRAC (includes the JAA and TC) has been tasked with identifying the requirements for wire separation as they pertain to electrical equipment and installations. Specifically, the ASTRAC is to determine whether a comprehensive wire separation regulation needs to be included in a new wire system rule.
The ASTRAC's final recommendations on this matter have yet to be published; however, the Board is aware that Working Group 6 has declared to the FAA that the creation of separation standards is well beyond the scope of its tasking. Given this situation, it is unlikely that substantive change on the matter of wire separation will result from the current round of ASTRAC assignments. The Board remains concerned about the limitations regarding the interpretation of FAR 25.1353(b) and encourages the regulatory authorities to take follow-up action to research and resolve this matter.
The primary wire type selected for the IFEN system installation was MIL-W-22759/16. This wire is commonly used by aircraft modifiers and the general aviation industry, although the wire is not used by major aircraft manufacturers, such as Bombardier and Boeing. The wire type is certified and used successfully without any record of inherent problems or adverse service history.
The Board is aware that on 22 March 2002, the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority issued Appendix 64 to its Airworthiness Notice 12, entitled Experience from Incidents. Appendix 64 deals specifically with MIL-W-22759/16 Electrical Cable and states, in part:
The appendix lists several areas that must be addressed prior to the approval of MIL-W-22759/16 wire usage in the United Kingdom.
While the Board has not determined that this wire type is problematic, it remains concerned that, based on the Airworthiness Notice 12, the in-service performance of MIL-W-22759/16 wire may not be fully known.
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My passion project is DiverseSources.org, a database of underrepresented experts in science, health and the environment that addresses the lack of diverse perspectives cited in news articles. The database is searchable by expertise, language, location, time zone and other fields to help journalists more easily find potential sources.
I co-founded Diverse Sources so I could work with news organizations to increase the diversity in their sourcing. I provide training and consulting to reporters so they can find more relevant stories and better report those stories.
But all of this didn’t happen overnight. It’s taken years of preparation and hard work to get this far. That’s because passion projects are a lot of work. If you’ve got a passion project in mind but just don’t know how to get going, here are my tips:
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Have a business plan—even if you don’t expect to make money.
Unless you’re one of the lucky few who are independently wealthy, odds are you have to work to make a living. While your passion project may never become something that helps pay the rent, it’s still important to write up a business plan. That’s because you’re going to be spending a lot of time on your passion project, and you know how the saying goes—time is money. So even if you’re not forking over the big bucks to make your dream happen, you’re still spending money. Having a business plan helps you set goals, hone your project’s purpose and scope and keeps track of all those expenses.
Focus on the learning process.
I’m throwing the word “passion” around a lot, but, let’s face it, you’re going to have some of those days. You know, days when you’re overwhelmed and wonder why you started this thing in the first place. Big projects, especially those that aren’t putting food on the table, can end up being way more stressful than expected. That’s why it’s important to focus less on achieving some big goal (though goals are great!) and more on what you’re taking away from the whole process. Even though it might seem like a Sisyphean task at the time, keep in mind that you’re learning new skills, having new experiences and connecting with people in a way you wouldn’t have had the opportunity to do otherwise.
Ask for comments.
Reach out to your target audience and ask them how you can do better. Constant criticism isn’t usually anyone’s idea of fun, but it’ll help make your project stronger and allow you to grow as a professional. Even if you think some of the advice isn’t worth following, you can still learn from it. Make sure you look at your work from all angles—different perspectives from underrepresented groups are invaluable for helping with inclusivity.
Create an advisory board.
Different viewpoints are so important that I believe every big passion project should have an advisory board of some kind. This doesn’t mean you need to hire a group of highly-caffeinated, businesspeople in suits to tell you what to do. But you should thoughtfully recruit a few people from varying groups in your project area and ask them to weigh in on big decisions.
Here’s what I wrote when I put together a board for Diverse Sources:
“I’m putting together an advisory board for DiverseSources.org, and I’d love for you to join.
“I know that everyone here is super busy so you can participate as much or as little as you have the time. I’ll send you grant applications before I submit them and ask y’all for your input on specific design features, etc. So you can be on the board and pick and choose what you want to weigh in on—what’s most important to you.”
This way, I found people who were also passionate about diversity to help me best serve my audience, but I didn’t overwhelm them with work since they’re already full-time professionals.
Don’t give up
It might sound cliche, but, seriously, you started this project for a reason, and you’ve already gotten this far so don’t stop now. Maybe you’re up against a challenge that seems unsurmountable. Maybe things are just a little too stressful. This is the time to dig deep and remind yourself why this project matters. Why was this so important that the world needed to see it? Who is your work helping and how? How have you changed the world with your passion? Answer those questions and you can conquer anything.
If after answering those questions, it still doesn’t feel right to continue, read Kelly Moffitt’s interview with Whereby.us co-founder Rebekah Monson on knowing when to quit. This piece has great insights to guide you as you continue to reflect on next steps.
Don’t do something that’s already been done before.
Don’t reinvent the wheel. If your passion project is a carbon copy of another’s project, see if you can partner with them instead of going it on your own. You want to make sure that your angle and approach is unique and will set you apart from the competition. For example, while there are other databases of experts like SheSource and now SciLine, DiverseSources.org is much more inclusive. I spoke with the creator of SciLine to learn more about its purpose. It is a database of vetted scientists for journalists who aren’t well versed in the sciences but cover them anyway. SheSource focuses only on female experts, which misses out on a lot of diverse voices. SheSource is also not specific to science, health and environment journalism. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that they will respond to journalists on deadline—something everyone in the Diverse Sources database has committed to.
Don’t rely on volunteers or grant funding.
People are busy and foundations money can be tough to get. When I started Diverse Sources, I assumed dozens of people would leap forward to volunteer and help spread the word. I do have a few amazing volunteers, but not nearly as many as I’d hoped. What I’ve learned from this project is that you can’t rely on things going to plan—life has a funny way of surprising you. You should have a multitude of contingency plans in case things don’t work out the way you planned. That being said, if you want to contribute to Diverse Sources, please email me at DiverseSources@gmail.com
Don’t forget to promote yourself.
We get it, you’re modest, and you don’t like to brag. Sorry, folks, promoting yourself doesn’t count as bragging, and it’s just a part of getting by in the professional ecosystem. You want to be a big fish, and this is how you get there. Promoting yourself now makes it much easier to ask for help later—be it concerning donations or volunteering. People are helping you as much as they’re helping the project. They want to know who you are and what you stand for. So take to social media, hone your elevator pitch, print out business cards and network like there’s no tomorrow!
Don’t spend too much time making it look perfect.
I’ve talked a lot about planning, and, as a serial planner, I wholeheartedly recommend having your i’s dotted and t’s crossed. But there’s a difference between being prepared and being a perfectionist. Nike’s onto something when they say “Just Do It.” At a certain point you have to stop critiquing and go for it, hit the publish button, blast it out there, let your passion project into the world. If it’s functional, it doesn’t have to be perfect. Remember, you’re learning as you go so cut yourself some slack and celebrate those little victories. | <urn:uuid:a3256fc3-4030-4b24-b081-c104f4544633> | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | http://www.lospatiperros.com/how-to/the-dos-and-donts-of-starting-a-passion-project/ | 2020-12-04T04:46:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141733122.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20201204040803-20201204070803-00147.warc.gz | en | 0.952922 | 1,729 |
The British School of Amsterdam encourages friendly relations and mutual respect throughout the school community. Such an atmosphere is a positive example for the school’s pupils and a necessary foundation for their successful personal, social and academic development.
From time to time, disagreements or problems do arise. Our aim is to resolve such difficulties swiftly and informally, so that good relations may be resumed without delay. However, if that does not prove possible, the following procedure should be followed.
Stage 1: Informal resolution
- It is hoped that most complaints and concerns will be resolved quickly and informally.
- If parents have a complaint they should normally, in the first instance, contact the class teacher or subject teacher. If this person cannot resolve the matter alone, he/she may need to consult with their appropriate line manager: in the Early Years School, the Head of Nursery or the Head of Early Years; in the Infant and Junior Schools, the relevant Year Group Leader and in the Senior School, the Head of Key Stage.
- Complaints made directly to the relevant Head of School (or Deputy Head), or to the Principal, will usually be referred to the relevant person (as above) unless the Deputy/Head/Principal deems it appropriate to deal with the matter personally.
- In all cases, there will be a written record of complaints and concerns, to include the date received and the action taken. The school will attempt to resolve all informal complaints within three working days.
- Should a satisfactory resolution not be achieved the parents will be advised to proceed with their complaint in accordance with Stage 2 of this procedure.
Stage 2: Formal resolution
- If the complaint cannot be resolved on an informal basis, parents should put their complaint in writing to the Principal who will decide, after considering the complaint, the appropriate course of action to take. (Formal complaints made in writing to one of the Heads of School will be passed to the Principal for action).
- In most cases, the Principal will meet or speak to the parents concerned, normally within five working days of receiving the complaint, to discuss the matter. If possible, a resolution will be reached at this stage.
- It may be necessary for the Principal to carry out further investigations. The Principal will advise the parents how long the investigation is likely to take. The Principal will attempt to carryout the investigation and resolve the issue within five working days. If it is going to take longer he will communicate this to the parents.
- The Principal will keep written records of all meetings and interviews held in relation to the complaint.
- Once the Principal is satisfied that, so far as practicable, all the relevant facts have been established, a decision will be made and parents will be informed of this decision in writing. The Principal will give reasons for his decision.
- If the complaint concerns the Principal, then parents should put their complaint in writing to the Chairman of the Supervisory Board. The Chairman can be contacted either using firstname.lastname@example.org or by writing to The Chairman, The British School of Amsterdam, 1077 ME Amsterdam.
- If parents remain unsatisfied with the decision, they should proceed to Stage 3 of this procedure. Parents would be expected to make this request within 28 days.
Stage 3: Integrity Committee (Panel Hearing)
- If parents seek to invoke Stage 3 (following a failure to reach an earlier resolution), they will be referred to the Chairman of the Education, Welfare and HR Working Group who has been appointed by the Supervisory Board to call hearings of the Integrity Committee. The matter will then be referred to the Integrity Committee for consideration.
- The Integrity Committee will consist of at least two Supervisory Board members not directly involved in the matters detailed in the complaint and a specifically appointed member of the Committee, independent of the management and running of the School.
- Each of the Integrity Committee members shall be appointed by the Supervisory Board. A hearing will take place as soon as practicable and normally within 28 working days of referral.
- The Integrity Committee's remit is to investigate the integrity of the complaint procedure followed and the application of natural justice in the matter under consideration. A complainant may ask one other person who may be a friend, colleague or relative to accompany him/her to any meeting with the Integrity Committee. Legal representation is not usually appropriate.
- If possible, the Integrity Committee will resolve the parents’ complaint immediately without the need for further investigation.
- After due consideration of all the facts they consider relevant, the Committee will reach a decision and may make recommendations, which it shall complete within seven days of the hearing. The Integrity Committee will communicate its findings simultaneously to the complainant, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board, the Management Board and Supervisory Board members, and, where relevant to the person(s) about whom the original complaint was raised.
The school will keep records of any formal complaint for three years in the Complaints Log. At all stages of a complaint, the school recognises the need for confidentiality. However, the school reserves the right to consult an appropriate statutory or professional body.
This conforms to Part 7 of the UK Government’s British Overseas School Standards regarding the manner in which complaints are dealt with.
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John Abraham is all gung-ho about his next film ‘Rocky Handsome’. The actor is also producing this project and seems to be taking keen interest in its making. ‘Rocky Handsome’ stars a cute little girl, Diya Chalwad and our Bollywood hunk is taking great care of his youngest co-star. Apparently when Diya was dubbing for the very first time, John was by her side. It seemed to be an adorable moment as John guided and helped the kid dub her lines correctly. ‘Rocky Handsome’ stars Shruti Haasan opposite John, and is all set to hit the screens on March 25. | <urn:uuid:50eb7fa8-8d0b-44e2-8c60-2087a82a99ea> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | http://www.avstv.com/john-abraham-plays-mentor/ | 2020-10-28T11:01:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107898499.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20201028103215-20201028133215-00425.warc.gz | en | 0.985622 | 142 |
Zoe Saldana is the real deal. Anyone who’s seen the split screen demo for Avatar that reveals how precise James Cameron’s “performance capture” actually is knows that Saldana’s portrayal of a sexy blue alien in Avatar was so raw, so physical, and so precise that it managed to burst through said alien blueness into a genuinely affecting performance. And then there’s that salcious little look that passed between Saldana’s Uhuru and Zachary Quinto’s Spock in J.J. Abram’s breakneck reboot of Star Trek.
Do I love Zoe Saldana? Yes I do. I’ll tell you who else I love: Luc Besson. Besson exploded into the international film scene with two arsty films called Subway and Big Blue, but once he got his French street cred out of the way he got down to business with a string of wild genre pictures: La Femme Nikita, The Professional, and my good friend Mackenzie Firgens' fave The Fifth Element. Luc Besson slowly developed a film industry in France that churned out genre movies like District B13, The Transporter, Taxi, and Taken – all produced and written by Besson. He’s doing what he does best: guns and revenge. Besson’s latest is Columbiana starring Zoe Saldana. All you need to know is that she’s a badass and she’s got revenge on her mind.
Although I must admit, and I know you’re waiting for this, the trailer’s left me a little cold, hankering for some revenge served up as cold as it gets. And when it comes to ladies taking revenge on the world, there’s nothing like 1978’s legendary I Spit on Your Grave.
The category of film is “rape-revenge.” It’s both awful and affirming, in a way. Rape is a horribile thing, and the power-fantasy involved in the idea that revenge or violence can heal the wounds of sexual assault has driven a lot of films: Straw Dogs, Thelma & Louise, Sudden Impact, Death Wish. I hope that we all know revenge isn’t the same thing as healing, but in the world of genre fiction, everything internal is dramatized. In other words, for genre fiction, healing tends to require ass-kicking and graphic killshots.
I Spit on Your Grave is the grandmomma of rape-revenge films. Over the years it has been criticized for the graphic and extended scenes of sexual assault. This is absolutely not a PG-13 movie. It is solidly R and your young children shouldn’t see it. That said, the sheer brutiality of the rape scenes in this movie have a strange kind of ethicality about them. Would we rather that rape scenes were palatable? There is nothing palatable about rape, nothing artistic or aesthetically pleasing about the act of rape, nor should there be. Why should the depictions of rape be criticized for being brutal? I should say that in the much more subtle and intellectualized rape-revenge movie The Accused, starring Jodie Foster, the rather brutal rape scene has never been criticized. But standards are different when it comes to genre.
And yet I Spit on Your Grave needs the initial scenes to be awful in order to push the rest of the story. Jennifer, the victim of the first act of the film, feels as if she’s done something wrong and heads to church to pray to God for a forgiveness that does not come. That’s when she turns to revenge. Like the brutality of the earlier film, there’s a kind of ethicality to Jennifer’s actions, or at least a kind of aesthetic imperative. If the pain of being assaulted could be turned into a purging anger, this is what it would look like. It believe that one of the reasons people turn away from I Spit on Your Grave is exactly because it doesn’t pull its punches when dramatizing the pain and self-negation that often follows sexual assault.
On a sheer storytelling level, the brutality of the first half of the film allows for the genre follow-through of the second half. Does revenge bring Jennifer the salvation she so desperately desires? I’ll let you decide. But I will say that it’s often possible for genre stories to be just as emotionally subtle as their more artsy fartsy bretheren. | <urn:uuid:a5a59f9f-68f7-4f6d-98e8-30bea9daf97a> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://www.hollywood.com/news/movies/7830929/classic-hollywood-must-see-movie-i-spit-on-your-grave | 2013-12-06T15:06:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163051986/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131731-00024-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939522 | 952 |
The Daver works one of those jobs where he’s ALWAYS working. I don’t mean that in the flip sort of oh-my-God-I-have-to-work-until-6-PM-AGAIN kind of way; I mean it in the very real you-better-never-get-attached-to-the-idea-of-a-spouse way. It took quite an adjustment for me, who had been used to the idea that a job came with occasional overtime, but overall, after you clocked out, you were done.
Not so for The Daver’s job. At any moment in time, and I do mean ANY moment, work can send an email and he will have to drop whatever he’s doing and go fight some nerdy fire. Most often this occurs when I am having a meltdown or the kids are driving me insane (perhaps the two are related?) or at the MOST inconvenient time possible. I had to physically pry Dave’s Blackberry from his hand while our babies were born.
I used to be infuriated by this. How DARE they take him from me when I am having A Moment? How could they POSSIBLY know when the worst possible time to require the eyes of ONLY Dave was? Anger gave way to a quiet resignation several years ago and I now merely roll my eyes when work takes up one of my weekend days–the only time I am able to get shit done–and move the hell on with my life.
But the prospect of losing the hour of help each day that I have another human being who is capable of taking care of one of the children left me cold and in dire need of a meaty hug. I often can only get through the day knowing that by 7 or 8, I will have another set of hands to take over for me, should I have to do something as inconsiderate as taking a poo.
I know, how DARE I have to move my bowels?
In a stunning fit of brilliance, Daver asked my sister-in-law to come stay with us while he was away. This meant that now, rather than having to wait until late evening or weekends to Get Stuff Done, it’s now possible for me to go and plant the hydrangea that I couldn’t resist purchasing even though I had no real spot to put it.
(hello run on sentence! How I’ve missed you!)
It’s entirely safe to say that I have gotten more done in the past few days than I have in months. Years, maybe. I’d tell you what I’ve done, but you might die of boredom, so I will merely leave you with this cautionary tale.
The people whom we’d bought our house from three and a half years ago weren’t what I would call House People. They finished my basement and replaced all the doors, but didn’t see fit to trim the 3 lilacs in front or try and tame the Rose Bush of Doom in my back yard. This was made worse by the people whom they had bought the house from who were House People. Specifically, they were Landscaping People.
Bought, I’m sure when the bushes and trees were tiny, every single inch of the front of my house is neatly landscaped with variations of trees and bushes. Aside from a couple of the squat evergreen type-y bushes, I like it all.
Problem is that landscaping like that requires upkeep greater than simply watching as it overtakes the yard. So I inherited quite a mess when I moved in. The rose bush I eventually tamed could likely have been in the Guinness Book of World Records for Least Beautiful Rose On The Planet.
The whole house had taken on a look of being owned by some creepy recluse who was happy to have all of the windows covered by overgrown shrubbery.
Lest the people who drive past think that I am that creepy recluse (shut up), I’ve made a weekly effort to trim that fucker the fuck down. And I’m not sure that you’d notice, but the 12 or 13 bags of lawn refuse would say differently.
On Saturday before Dave left, he gave me the afternoon off so that I could take care of some business in the yard. Including taming this bush-tree thing that was beginning to resemble a koosh ball on speed.
But because I am short, it’s no easy feat. It requires that I essentially get the whole tree into a bear hug and pull down branches to trim several feet of length off so that it stops scraping against the house. As I was in the middle of doing this, I realized that with every lop of my choppers, I was being coated in a fine dust of…something. After I’d done most of it, I realized that the dust-stuff was causing my chest to erupt in a delicious constellation of hives.
And because I am not only stupid but a masochist too, I finished the damn job before I went inside to survey the damage. I lubed up my burning, itchy skin with some topical cream or another (thankfully, I was NOT allergic to that, although this would have made the story funnier) and tried to think non-itchy thoughts.
About 20 minutes later, we had to go across the street to a birthday party for Alex’s friend Zach. Praying that 20 minutes was enough time for me to look less diseased, I prepared for the best and eventually, thanks to the anti-itch cream, forgot about my delicate oozing chest situation.
It wasn’t until we showed up at the party and I began to receive decidedly cold looks as parents shooed their children away from mine did I realize that perhaps something was wrong with me. After I had Daver check for bats in my belfry (none present, sir), I was stumped. Then, sheepishly, Dave pointed out gently that maybe my weeping, red, crusty chest might have something to do with the looks I was getting.
He was right and we left immediately. To prove that I never learn my lesson, upon surveying that I had missed a patch on the bush of crusty, itchy doom, I grabbed my loppers and hugged that bush right up, further intensifying both my sheer stupidity and my histamines.
I’d say something like “you live, you learn” but obviously I do not.
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Once you’ve got an adequate quantity of water in the bowl, press the pedal the remainder of the way down, and you receive a clean flush and you use enough H20. There’s a way to solve the water wasting problem, and it’s known as a demand system. You may think that water is water, but that isn’t exactly correct. One particular sure-fire method is to blow the water out. Most people today need hot water to shower or maybe to wash dishes. Hot water is a critical part of contemporary life, a necessity in place of a luxury. Nowadays you have instant hot water and you didn’t run any water farther down the drain.
The expense of the repair is presently a fraction of the price. Repair costs should consist of labor and materials required for the job. Water heater repair costs could possibly be significant as compared with replacement expenses.
The absolute most popular heaters were produced by Morco and Bosch. Since the tankless heater doesn’t have a pilot light and doesn’t have a huge tank full of heated water losing energy constantly, it’s more energy efficient. Tankless heaters are normally the extent of a massive computer. Tankless water heaters, often known as on-demand hot water heaters, are a wonderful option when building a new house.
The last price of experiencing a water heater repaired will be contingent on the time of your water heater, the kind of water heater, the range of the issue and whether additional repairs to the organic gas supply, plumbing or electrical systems are required. The typical cost to fix a busted water heater is $483. Before finding the correct plumber, you should know everything which goes into the price of repairing a hot water heater. The expense of water heater repairs is dependent upon the character and complexity of the issue.
All systems ought to be checked at least every month for absolutely any obvious repairs needed. The second sort of solar system is a lot more complex. Hot water heating systems are essentially very straightforward and easy to comprehend along with repair when you have just a little insight and any mechanical aptitude. If you should purge your hot water heating system, here is a link for one more column I’ve written to cover the procedure for it. Hot water heating systems are among the most frequent types of heating.
There are currently two popular forms of water heaters utilized by homeowners. So choosing and installing a water heater is a rather important decision in the life span of your house. Whether you’re replacing an old water heater or installing a completely new system, you might be worried about the price.
Water heaters can be found in gas or electric choices. If you opt to change out your water heater, there are a few considerations to account for. Your water heater appears to be a simple enough appliance, but in fact, it can be a risky appliance to work with. The solar water heater includes 2 significant pieces. The solar water heaters are commonly utilised in nations like Australia and Israel.
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Does oil splash everywhere when the oil plug is opened? How can you quickly change the engine oil without special equipment? From jacking the car to effectively using a wrench, I will show you my tricks. I used a Subaru Forester as an example. You may modify it and adapt the ideas to other cars as well.
Other cheap tricks see below links:
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It’s time to break out your cherry and silver. It’s homecoming season at the University of New Mexico!
The time-honored tradition kicks off this Sunday and will culminate with the Lobos hitting the gridiron to take on San Jose State on October 1st.
Sunday, an online auction go underway and bidding will be available for many items.
This gives alumni around the country the opportunity to participate in the events being held here locally.
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The Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery industry is an ever evolving industry where the latest developments and techniques are being updated all the time. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons now have advanced tools and technology to continually discover new ways to ensure a better outcome for patients on a daily basis, and over the last few decades it has become increasingly difficult to keep track of the various procedures and methods by which plastic and reconstructive surgeons achieve their outcomes.
Although it is near impossible for patients or the general public to fully understand exactly how a Plastic and Reconstructive surgeon may go about their work unless we undergo years and years of training, it is also extremely difficult for surgeons themselves to keep abreast of the various new innovations and discoveries in their field by other surgeons and scientists (new materials, technologies and human anatomy understanding); especially considering the availability of information and insights into the industry across the world through the internet and the media.
This is why several leading surgeons and industry experts have come together to create a textbook with an overall rundown of the approaches and techniques that are currently used by surgeons worldwide in a comprehensive list of procedures and issues. We here at the Hub also think this book will be an extremely interesting read for anyone wanting to get more detail about any surgery they may be researching and interested in undergoing for themselves.
This book is a collaboration by some of the world authorities in varying specialties to share their knowledge to assist in bringing the almost endless world of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery together. Whilst it certainly does not assume to replace any comprehensive learning texts for university students or trainee doctors, it will almost certainly assist to give its readers a broader and more comprehensive (and practical!) understanding of the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeries that are performed around the world today.
One of the contributors who was also the chief editor and architect of the book is Mr Ross D. Farhadieh, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon at the Australian National University, Panthea Plastic Surgery in Sydney & Canberra. We were able to ask Mr Farhadieh about what it took to bring such an amazing new textbook together.
PSH: Who do you think will benefit most from this new book, ie. where do you think the biggest percentage of readers will come from?
MR FARHADIEH: This is a textbook intended for training and established surgeons. It brings together experts in their filed from the corners of the globe all sharing their experience and knowledge with the readers. Dispensing pearls of years of experience at the highest levels. This textbook is intended to become an international textbook in the field of Plastic surgery. We have been very lucky that so many of the good and the great contributed to this compendium.
The Aesthetic component has an outstanding set of contributors from the US, Canada, Europe as well Australia.
PSH: Do you think that perhaps considering society’s growing interest in plastic surgery it might be a more widely read book than first anticipated?
MR FARHADIEH: It’s a technical textbook for experts and those trained in the discipline of plastic surgery. Its more unlikely that this textbook would find an audience amongst cosmetic physicians, “surgeons” with no surgical training or the wider society.
PSH: With the industry moving forward with new discoveries at such a fast pace, are you concerned that the book may be outdated within a few years of it being published? Of course, this may give you reason to create further updated volumes!?
MR FARHADIEH: That is a very good question. These textbooks are now constantly updated on their electronic websites to indicate all the advances. The second editions usually come out within 5 years to reflect this update and consolidate a textbook’s reputation amongst the experts.
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Jerry is home!
Seems he has an infection somewhere in him that we couldn't find here. Tall Guy thought he had a DA, which stands for "displaced abomasum." The abomasum is one of a cow's four stomachs. I just saw a blog that talked about feeding magnets to cows. We sometimes do it to catch bits of wire or metal the cows might accidentally digest.
Here's a picture to kind of show how it works. The dark teardrop shape is the magnet.
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To backtrack, Tall Guy had been noticing that Jerry wasn't eating as much as he should or drinking as much as he should. He listened to his stomach, and it would "ping" like the inside of a basketball would sound if you thumped it. That, apparently, is only a good sound if you are a basketball. We decided to take him down to Purdue's Large Animal Hospital (TG had been on the phone with them a couple of times). I knew if it was a serious thing with his stomach, Jerry probably wouldn't be coming home...so I called the girls out and told them what was going on with Jerry. I probably had more tears than they did, dang it, but I want them to know the truth. It's just the way it sometimes works on the farm. Life and death are a big part of the cycle, and we raise beef to be eaten.
So now we have to decide what to do with him. TG is thinking Jerry might be too off his feed to be "finished" by fair time. Finished to cows is like a body builder being at his/her peak for a contest. He may get to go out and hang with a new bunch of beef cows we just brought home from the sale barn and just get to be a regular cow....We have some more consulting to do. Meanwhile, we still have five steers and a heifer in the barn to break, AND the biggest news is that Lady Bug is returning so we can show her at the fair one more time.
She's expecting! More about her when she actually returns to the farm, but based on her ability to get along with this "little" pig, she should be a great momma!
But for now, we will keep our eye on Jerry and make sure he is getting the best of care so he can be all that he can be in the world of cows.
*Editors note: Jerry is down in a lower lot with other beef cattle working his way back up on feed. This is a good thing because he will be with other cattle eating at his own pace.
As a side note, I honestly had mixed emotions about Jerry coming home because now we will have to go through the "Good-byes" all over again, but again, this is what we do, and sometimes you do get attached, and it is hard, but we have to know that each beef cow that leaves our farm can feed one family for an entire year. That is a big part of what we do to help feed this country. I just need to tend to my heart a bit so it will be ready for the next time.
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One of the most famous battle royale games, Fortnite, will soon release its 10th Season. Epic Games, its developer, made all the improvements necessary for a better game experience. With that being said, these are some of the new additions: changed game map, a new Battle Pass for players to enjoy and impressive gameplay mechanics. Below, you’ll see the details about the upcoming Fortnite Season 10.
Fortnite Season 10 Release Date
The length of a Fortnite season is two months and a half, which meant that the 10th one should have started on 15th of July. However, it was delayed for the 1st of August, so it is synchronized with the Fortnite World Cup. The developer mentioned that before changing the map in any way, the competition must end.
After the Birthday Event of Fortnite, Season 10 will launch and it will provide players with particular challenges and rewards. The map will also hide little presents and birthday cakes that fans will come upon including special loot drops and health/shield regen.
More about the Battle Pass of Fortnite Season 10
If you were thinking about purchasing the Season 10 Battle Pass, you would need to get 950 V-Bucks out of your virtual pocket. If you do not have enough at the moment, you can spend $10/£8 on a set of 1,000 V-Bucks. The Battle Price should not be more or less expensive than this for Fortnite Season 10.
However, we do not really have specific details for Fortnite Season 10. When it comes to seasonal changeovers, we are always getting surprised by the themes. With that being said, there might not be any giant swords, mechs, or monsters included. If we take a look in the past at previous seasonal events, this time around there will be more changes implemented.
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Blephilia hirsuta (Pursh) Benth. - Wood Mint
Family - Lamiaceae
Stems - To 1.5m tall, hirsute, 4-angled, hollow, erect, from rhizomes, with fibrous roots, herbaceous, single or multiple from base, branching above or single.
Leaves - Opposite, decussate, petiolate, typically ovate, serrate, pubescent above, densely pubescent below and hirsute on veins, to +/-8cm long, +/-4cm broad, acuminate. Petiole to 2.5cm long, hirsute.
Inflorescence - Dense terminal verticillasters numbering from 1 to 6. Each verticillaster subtended by small hirsute foliaceous bracts to +/-1cm long, 5-6mm broad. Pedicels 1.5mm long, hirsute.
Flowers - Corolla bilabiate, white with purple spotting internally, hirsute. Tube to 8mm long. Upper lip single lobed, 3mm long, glabrous internally. Lower lip 3-lobed, 4.5mm long, 3-4mm broad, glabrous internally. Central lobe thin, with parallel margins, emarginate to shallowly lobed at apex, longer than lateral lobes. Stamens 2, exserted from upper lip. Filaments white, glabrous, adnate near apex of corolla tube, 6mm long. Anthers 1mm long, purplish-brown. Style 1cm long, glabrous, white, exserted. Stigma 2-lobed. Ovary of 4 glabrous white nutlets. Calyx bilabiate, hirsute. Calyx tube to to 3.5mm long, with 13 nerves. Upper lip 3-lobed. Lobes 3mm long, attenuate, green. Lower lip 2-lobed. Lobes attenuate, 1.1mm long, dark purple.
Flowering - May - September.
Habitat - Shaded slopes, rich woods, ravines.
Origin - Native to U.S.
Other info. - This plant,
like many species in the family, is very fragrant when bruised or crushed.
It is a favorite forage item of the local insect population and authors
have noted that it is hard to find a plant which has not been browsed.
I was lucky to find the beautiful cluster of plants photographed above.
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Spiral mandrel distributors are among the most powerful extrusion tools for the production of pipes, films, hoses and bottles and are available in a wide range of variants on the market. Spiral mandrel distributors can be used for various production processes and a good design of the spiral mandrel distributor significantly determines the quality of the product produced.
When designing and dimensioning spiral mandrel distributors, there are various design rules, the knowledge and observance of which can make a positive contribution to achieving high product quality. A few of these design criteria will be mentioned and explained below.
The most important free geometry parameters of a classical spiral mandrel distributor (without consideration of extruder connection, primary distribution and die) are:
- Diameter (D)
- Overall height (H)
- Number of spirals (n)
- Slope of the spirals (alpha)
- Spiral channel depth at beginning of channel (t)
- Spiral width (b)
- Gap width of the overcurrent range (s)
- Wrap angle of the spirals (phi)
- Design details, radii, bevels, sealing surfaces
The diameter of a spiral mandrel distributor as well as the height of the system are usually determined by the available installation space and the desired diameter of the product. The advantages of a compact design are, on the one hand, reduced space and material requirements and, on the other hand, the avoidance of unnecessarily long flow paths and thus unnecessary loading of the melt as well as high pressure losses. However, if the systems are too short, the distribution effect can be negatively affected.
Number of spirals:
“Increasing the number of spirals improves the distribution efficiency and reduces the pressure loss of the tool (with constant spiral geometry).”
In principle, it can be assumed that an increase in the number of spirals increases the free volume (the area in the die in which melt can flow). The pressure loss in the die decreases due to the reduction of the flow resistance which is usually associated with this. At the same time, the melt is distributed over a larger area, which usually increases the distribution effect. The disadvantage is, of course, the longer machining times for milling the flow channels.
Channel depth of the spirals:
“An increase in the initial channel depth leads to a more uniform distribution effect and a reduction in the pressure loss, but can have a negative effect on the flushing capability of the tool.”
In the geometry of the spirals, the initial depth and the depth profile are defined. The depth of the spirals generally decreases continuously with the course of the spirals until it reaches the core diameter of the sleeve. A high initial depth of the spirals leads to a reduction of the pressure loss in the tool, but can have a negative effect on the behaviour of the tool during purging or material change processes. The following graphic shows the simulation results of a spiral mandrel distributor. The occurring wall shear stresses are shown in colour. In the areas where the flow channels are narrow, comparatively high shear stresses prevail, so that the die walls in this area are flushed with good effect (e.g. in the area of the nozzle and the overcurrent areas). The areas in which the flow paths have large free volumes are characterized by low shear stresses (blue areas). Stagnation of the melt can occur here. In principle, the melt takes the “path of least resistance” as it flows through the die, so in deeply cut channels a large part of the melt flows through the spiral channel. Of course, this also has an influence on the distribution effect.
Spiral pitch angle:
“Lower spiral angles improve the melt distribution, but cause a higher pressure loss.”
Together with the overall height of the system, the pitch angle determines the size of the wrap angle. The pitch angle, similar to a thread pitch, is the angle at which the spirals winds around the mandrel. The following figure shows the melt flow in two adjacent spiral in different colors. From the overall height of the manifold as well as the angle of inclination, the wrap angle results, in this case almost 180°.
The resulting overlap angle of the melt in the area of the distributor end is also clearly visible. The overlap angle is the area in the (rotationally symmetrical) product which is fed simultaneously by the melt from two adjacent spirals. The larger this spiral is, the more effectively weld lines are avoided (or blurred).
Gap width between helical mandrel and cylinder:
“The initial gap width has an influence on the distribution efficiency, but this influence is dominated by the gap width profile. Small initial gap widths lead to increased pressure loss”.
Since the function of the spiral mandrel distributor is based on the principle that the flow fronts that flow through the spirals overlap with the flow fronts that flow out of the spiral and into the gap area, the gap width between mandrel and cylinder plays an important role. If this gap width is too large, almost the entire melt flows through this overcurrent area and the flow at the bottom of the spiral comes to a stagnation. If the overflow gap is too narrow, hardly any melt can flow through it and the dominant flow component occurs in the spiral flow.
In order to achieve optimum production results, an intelligent adjustment of the gap width course is therefore necessary. In practice, both linear and progressive or degressive shapes exist.
“The gap width profile has a strong influence on the quality of the distribution of the extrusion die. ”
The following figures show different courses of the spiral channel depth and the gap width of the overcurrent gap. While the channel depth in the upper illustration decreases linearly, the spiral depth curve in the lower illustration is degressive (first rapidly decreasing, then slowly decreasing).
The correct selection and combination of various design details in the spiral mandrel distributor determines the product quality to be achieved later. For this reason, it is particularly important to attach great importance to the design of the spiral mandrel distributor. Today’s computer simulation methods allow an insight into the tool behaviour even before the machining of the steel and thus help to avoid unnecessary additional expenditure.
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Hello, my friend and welcome back! I have to tell you that it sure feels good to be back in the saddle again. I have truly missed writing this blog and I want to thank all of my loyal readers for sticking with me. Starting this week I will have a new post every Monday through Friday along with Product Reviews and guest post which I have had a lot of request for. If you would like to write a guest post then please, by all means, let me know. We do not pay for guest post, but you will get recognition for your work. All product reviews will be first come, first published and if you have a product that you think would be of interest to our readers, please contact me by using our feedback form link above. If everyone is ready, then let’s get this show on the road!
I today’s Video Monday video, I have found a good one covering a subject that I hear a lot about on AK-47s by Tactical Rifleman and I hope you enjoy it. I know there are a lot of you wondering if the AK is a better choice than the AR, and hopefully, this video will answer some of your questions. Grab a cup of coffee my friend and have a seat while we visit.
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Les Pyjamasques et le marchand de sable (English:
The Pajamasks and the sandman) is the ninth book of Les Pyjamasques which was published by Éditions Gallimard on March 25, 2010.
The sandman thought he had asleep the entire neighborhood when his path crosses that of three zigotos perfectly awake. But what are these three in the middle of the night? "Dorlidodo! Dorlidodo! It's time for you to go to bed, my little ones, "said the enchanter, blowing a handful of sand. "Ouch! How are you going? "Les Pyjamasques reply.
Sand, sheep, enchanted lullaby, the sandman tries everything in his power to put the imps to sleep, but nothing works.
It is noticed that the logo in the front cover of the book is changed slightly to have the silhouettes of the main character's eyes to look transparent. This change was kept until Les Pyjamasques et l'opération zéro.
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BlackLight Unveils New Track ‘Bass is Pumpin (Original Mix)’ on 16th Feb 2019
The electronic dance music producer, artist, and performer BlackLight is all set to rock the airwaves with his latest Tech House Music single ‘Bass is Pumpin (Original Mix)
NEW YORK, NY. — (Jan 29th, 2019) – Hailed as one of the most prominent upcoming music artist who is rising through the ranks to achieve a level of stardom in electronic, PLUR (Peace Love Unity & Respect) vibes, and house music, the extremely multi-talented maverick BlackLight delivers a brand new track ‘Bass is Pumpin (Original Mix) collaborating with his own music warehouse record label Plurred Vision Records. The uplifting track gives enough room for electronic, sonic vision, kaleidoscopic vision, and style to shine through and is perfect to blast on all days and is set to release on music stores and streaming services like Beatport, Traxsource, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Pandora, Spotify, Deezer, and many others on February 16, 2019.
BlackLight‘s unique vision and innate ability to fuse the two worlds has seen him produce some of the hottest tracks like ‘Deep (Original Mix)’, ‘Tribal Jack (Original Mix)’, ‘Can’t See In (Original Mix)’, and many others without fail, time and time again. The Chicago, Illinois born producer, musician, songwriter, and performer has become a dance music pioneer and with every stint, it is safe to say that at this stage in his career, BlackLight knows exactly where to take it next. He has proven his command over electronic dance music (primarily House), songwriting, and exhilarating performances through his projects. Now that his new track is right around the corner, BlackLight is once again set to woo the world with his incredible sound.
What started with an insatiable passion for creating and performing all types of electronic dance music, the new generation artist has become well known around the world for delivering vibrant electronic music and is also the founder of the record label Plurred Vision Records. BlackLight has proven to command the boundless energy required for the music industry and is known to captivate his audiences with his music.
Currently based out of Omaha, Nebraska, BlackLight is a talented avid dancer, approach songwriter and lover of good vibes. BlackLight’s upbeat music with catchy repeating melodic phrases makes people of all ages sway and want to dance to the beats. The music fills the atmosphere with high energy and a feel-good vibe that helps audiences have lots of good-natured fun and enjoy free-spirited performances.
For more details about BlackLight and collaboration or booking, please feel to contact on below: (Social Media & Music Streaming Links)
Sound Cloud: https://soundcloud.com/blacklighttrance
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The Quality Versus Quantity DebateWednesday, May 18th, 2016
You know the saying “quality vs. quantity?” It reminds me when clients used say “Get on Oprah,” as it’s echoed during almost every strategic planning and goal development session. I can’t say that numbers don’t matter, but the value everyone places on the numbers needs to be reconsidered. What’s the point of driving engagement among thousands of influencers if the depth of the interactions doesn’t go very far?
Brand advocacy continues to play an integral role in the success of today’s most popular brands. But it’s the approach to driving advocacy that brands need to think about. At JSH&A, we focus on how much value content will bring to audiences rather than how many people will see it. Of course, we want to ensure the ROI is compelling and that the content is shareable and can be amplified with paid dollars, but for the consumer to get excited to watch, click or share, it comes down to them caring. We set the stage by talking through each content strategy or visual storyboard session with the following questions:
- Does the image or video that’s being shared on Instagram or Twitter (or any channel for that matter!) command attention and align with how fans/followers are consuming content?
- Will their “impression” translate into actual interest?
If the answer is yes, then it’s likely that we’ll be one small step closer towards driving awareness. The quality of the story a brand is trying to tell outweighs how many people it’s connecting with. We want people to click and view past the first three to five seconds of a video. Content can always be amplified, but concentrating on each one of the viewers to ensure they’re listening first is the ultimate goal.
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International Feed Expo about to kick off
On Wednesday, the International Poultry Expo and the International
Feed Expo will kick off. The shows wil be held
at the Georgia World Congress Centre, Atlanta, Georgia, until Friday
The International Poultry Expo and the International
Feed Expo are the world's largest trade shows for the poultry, egg and feed
sectors of the industry.
Feed Mix, Feed Tech and World Poultry will be present at the
show. You can visit us at in Hall B at booth 4342 where you can take advantage of
our discounted subscription rates or have a chance to win free subscriptions and
World Poultry USB sticks.
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CAIRO, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Egypt says it will turn off half the streetlights in the country as 15 power stations have halted electricity production because of fuel shortages.
Electricity production fell when the plants closed down in late December.
The reduction in the number of streetlights turned on will save 700 megawatts of power worth $917,000, the state-run daily newspaper al-Ahram reported Friday.
The conservation plan will be carried out by the ministry of local development and will last through March, Minister of Electricity and Energy Ahmed Imam said.
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Vibrant Living Kinesiology is Healing Yourself Back to Health
Consider what the new science tells us:
75% of our immunity is in our guts,
95% of who we are is driven by our unconscious habits.
No wonder we are what we ingest (or not), absorb (or not), eliminate (or not) as well as what we focus on (or not) and feel (or not).
Advanced muscle testing is an amazing tool which communicates with the body’s intelligence as a biofeedback mechanism, so let your body tell you what it needs and find out how you can optimise your physical health , emotional and energetic balance.
I would love to share my passion with you and accompany you on the path to a vibrant health and a happy life. Kinesiology encompasses the body and the mind and balances nutrition including food sensitivities, structure, meridians, acupuncture points, chakras…, emotional release (my passion), tapping, vibrational remedies, healing, visualisation…. to trigger and support a gentle healing process on all levels. Whatever is in the way, whether you know it or not, the muscle test will help us find out. That’s the beauty of it. The body knows all the answers and it never lies. Trust your body to tell you your truth and take your life to the next level whatever your condition or emotional state.
When you heal your body holistically any condition, chronic or acute… will balance itself.
This approach can help with:
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Kinesiology is so effective because we address with the help of vibrational remedies the imbalances in your body, such as deficiencies of all the major nutrients (vitamins, minerals, hormones, neurotransmitters, etc), toxicity in the body and toxic thoughts and emotions and much more…
Training, qualifications & experience
Kinesiology diploma level,
Life coaching level 3 BTEC certificate.
Reiki 1 and 2
Laughter Yoga leader
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And many more courses as part of my continuous professional development as required by my professional association.
I have been training with numerous talks/workshops in epigenetics, neuroscience and quantum physics.
I started my professional career as a teacher in French as a Foreign Language (FFL).
I have a masters degree in FFL.
Healing your body on all levels is a process, a journey, where we peel layers one by one over time. We can achieve a lot in one session but experience has shown me that the results you get from a few sessions over time are exponentially bigger. As I enjoy working with clients who have a desire for commitment, I recommend a minimum of 3 sessions over 3 months. This will start a process of finding imbalances, assessing what the body/mind need and finding what correction(s) work(s) over time and/or going deeper into the body’s layers.
Free taster session 30 mins
60 minute treatment: £50 (includes vibrational remedies)
30 minute treatment food intolerance testing: £30 (includes vibrational remedies)
Energetic house cleansing (distant) £80 (includes vibrational remedies)
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Life Coaching sessions from £50 (includes vibrational remedies if needed)
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I now am using vibrational remedies that i make myself and or very natural products.
Since we are energy, we can work on a very deep level with vibrational remedies. They can be used by anybody. They work wonders with children. It is truly the 21st century healing modality.
I believe in a very natural approach and give talks/workshops on how to "let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food" Hippocrates. They explain how our GUT is our second brain and our first line of health and immunity, how we can make our own probiotics (kefir, kombucha), how we can make our own natural antioxidants (green juicing, sprouting, herbs and spices) and the truth about grains (gluten free and sprouted grain baking). I give other talks about how to release emotions using tapping, meditation, healing, laughter... and the research in neuroscience, epigenetics and quantum physics.
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If you have been diagnosed with or suspect you may have a pre-existing medical condition you should consult your GP for advice, diagnosis and treatment and always inform your health professional before starting any alternative or additional therapies, treatments or making any major changes in your diet or exercise programme.
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A subdued business recovery in the September quarter notwithstanding, shares of Monte Carlo Fashions Ltd have gained substantially since its results announcement in November.
The stock gained as the company’s management, in a post-results conference call, exuded confidence it is well placed to deliver double-digit revenue growth in the current and next fiscal years. Revenue growth in the September quarter and the first half of the current fiscal year stood at 9.3% and 1.2%, respectively. In the previous fiscal year, it dropped 6% as demonetisation hurt sales in the crucial winter season. The company has a large presence in woollen apparel and as a consequence the winter season and the third quarter of the fiscal year generates more than half annual revenue.
According to the management, business is now normal and the order book for winter wear this year is higher by 15%, which should translate into similar growth for the current fiscal year.
Further, with the cotton apparel business gaining traction and the company looking to expand its retail footprint in the southern and western parts of the country, analysts expect the double-digit revenue growth momentum to continue.
“We have increased our revenue estimates for FY19E/20E on the back of: i) additional growth levers in the cotton business from sub-brands, ii) higher growth expectations from the online and institutional businesses, and iii) improved guidance for store expansion," Emkay Research said in a note on Monte Carlo. The broking firm estimates the company to post revenue growth of about 15% for the next two fiscal years.
Monte Carlo launched its cotton apparel business several years ago to reduce its dependence on woollen apparel.
It created several sub-brands and ventured into home furnishings and children’s sportswear as well. The new initiatives have helped de-risk its business model from winter season and woollen products.
The strategy now is to take those products across the country. So unless another extraneous event like demonetisation hits the industry, the retail expansion should ensure revenue growth.
But the journey will not be smooth. Relatively stronger winter seasons and brand awareness have made it easy for Monte Carlo to gain customer acceptability (for cotton apparel products) in the northern market.
In the south, where winters are less severe (and hence Monte Carlo is not so well-known), the company will have to create consumer awareness. It may also have to step up promotional expenditure which can weigh on margins.
“There are challenges in the southern market being a brand which was known as a woollen wear brand to convince the consumer and the retailer that we are equally strong in summer wear so there are challenges and the challenge is I think also in the terms of awareness about how strong we are in summer, how strong we are in designing so those challenges we are tackling and we are understanding this market from last three four years," Sandeep Jain, executive director of Monte Carlo, told analysts after the September quarter results. Success in this will not only ensure long-term growth but also expand stock valuations. | <urn:uuid:3327f3f9-cb5b-4d20-a0cd-3debdfda8ecd> | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | https://www.livemint.com/Money/DcnfD50wDmLXXPx27ZHUXM/Monte-Carlo-Fashions-brand-leverage-and-retail-expansion-to.html | 2020-08-08T13:27:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439737645.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20200808110257-20200808140257-00424.warc.gz | en | 0.961696 | 628 |
A viral theme is one which helps website owners in garnering tons of traffic from social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, etc. It should have excellent layout and beautiful social network icons. The icons in a viral WordPress theme must be placed at the best position so as to increase the chances of a visitor sharing the content.
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Bimber Viral WordPress Theme
Although it was launched this year, Bimber became the best-selling Viral theme for WordPress CMS on the ThemeForest marketplace. Bimber is unique and more importantly, it looks stunning.
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Bimber has powerful social sharing buttons powered by the mashsare plugin. It supports sticky sharing buttons to keep the share counter increasing with every visitor.
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BoomBox is an SEO friendly responsive theme which has W3 compliant code. The theme is RTL ready and comes with advanced options for managing GIF files. BoomBox has the option to upvote or downvote a post. It is compatible with contact form 7. It supports integration with MailChimp newsletter and lead generation service.
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The theme lets users customize the color of the badges. It has a well-designed post ranking system, which you can configure to show posts by popularly, upvote/downvote counts, view count, etc.
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SociallyViral template from MyThemeShop is inspired by popular viral sites such as BuzzFeed, Business Insider, ViperChill, 9gag, etc. MTS has designed its SociallyViral theme for getting maximum social shares in minimum time.
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De Wikcionario, el diccionario libre
|phænomenally||more phænomenally||most phænomenally|
- Grafía anticuada de phenomenally.
- 1853, William Hamilton, Discussion on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform, página № 621:
- An object is presented to our observation which has phænomenally begun to be.
- 1866, David Masson, Recent British Philosophy, páginas 136–137:
- The Cosmos, in the scheme of the Constructive idealists, grapples the Absolute, if we may so say, by one available anchor (Mind seeking its cause), and would grapple it by another if it knew where to find that other (the unknown external cause of sensation, for which also, were it realized, a cause would have to be sought) ; the Cosmos, in the scheme of the Natural Realist, grapples the Absolute by two anchors, considered equally available—Mind, and that Material Nature which Mind knows face to face as phænomenally existing out of itself.
- 1867, John Stuart Mill, An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy and of the Principal Philosophical Questions Discussed in his Writings, página № 257:
- Having thus, as I hope, more clearly defined my position in regard to the reality of the Ego, considered as a question of Ontology, I return to my first starting point, the Relativity of human knowledge, and affirm (being here in entire accordance with Sir W. Hamilton) that whatever be the nature of the real existence we are compelled to acknowledge in Mind, the Mind is only known to itself phænomenally, as the series of its feelings or consciousnesses. | <urn:uuid:914e24c2-acb5-4e61-8ab4-e46c2ff6e17e> | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | http://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/ph%C3%A6nomenally | 2014-03-08T21:08:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1393999664114/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305060744-00024-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.849705 | 382 |
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Because the resolution of a civil lawsuit can take months – or sometimes even years – one of the biggest challenges for plaintiffs is to remain patient while their case is pending. This can be especially difficult for plaintiffs in personal injury cases whose injuries prevent them from working. In these circumstances, financial stress can make a difficult situation even worse.
Lawsuit funding can be a viable source of financial relief for plaintiffs in these circumstances. But with so many sources to choose from, how do you know which one – if any – is best for you? Here is what you should know about shopping for lawsuit funding.
What is lawsuit funding?
If you are the plaintiff in a personal injury case and you need money to make ends meet until your case is settled, lawsuit funding may be a worthwhile option. It allows you to get a cash advance against your settlement that you can use to pay your medical bills, buy groceries, and make your mortgage payments, rent and so forth. Once your case is resolved the funding company will deduct the amount of the cash funding plus any applicable fees and other charges from the settlement.
Eligibility for lawsuit funding
Unlike a bank, credit union or similar lender, companies that provide lawsuit funding don’t rely on traditional metrics – such as your credit score – to determine eligibility. Instead, they assess the information about your case provided on your application. They will also talk to your lawyer about the strength of your case, the chances of a settlement or judgment in your favor and its potential value.
Choosing an honest provider
Critics often warn consumers that the lawsuit funding industry is largely unregulated. They also claim that this allows unscrupulous lenders to charge exorbitant interest rates and incorporate hidden fees into lawsuit loans.
While this was true in the industry’s infancy, it is not necessarily so now. In recent years, several states have implemented or considered implementing rules and regulations for the industry. The industry has also taken steps to police itself.
If you are considering a lawsuit funding, don’t be afraid to ask your lawyer for advice. He or she is probably familiar with different providers and should be able to recommend a few.
The Alliance for Responsible Consumer Legal Funding (ARC)is another good resource. This is because it encourages practices and protocols that allow plaintiffs and their attorneys to make informed decisions. Its ultimate goal is to ensure that accident victims and their families in need of financial reliefs have more options.
The different types of lawsuit funding
When shopping for lawsuit funding, it is also important to understand that this is actually a broad term that includes several mechanisms for financial relief. Three of the forms a funding is most likely to come in, depending on your state of residence, are a purchase agreement, spring forward agreement or loan.
Here’s a basic overview of each.
A purchase agreement assigns a portion of the pending proceeds from your legal claim plus any associated charges and fees.
Spring forward agreements
Although they aren’t widely advertised, spring forward agreements are another mechanism for financial relief. This type of arrangements allows you to sell an asset (such as a portion of your settlement) for a specified price on a future date.
In other words, you – as a plaintiff in a personal injury case – can enter into a contract to sell some of the proceeds from your settlement for a specific amount immediately. However, the deal isn’t finalized until the case is resolved. This means you don’t usually have to report the proceeds from the sale as income until that time.
Depending on your state of residence, a funding may come in the form of a loan. Similar to a purchase agreement, a lawsuit loan allows you to have quick access to cash against the proceeds of your pending legal settlement. However, in this case, repayment plus charges and fees may be required regardless of the outcome of your case.
You should also be aware that most other expenses are taken from your settlement or judgment before the funding company deducts its share. These typically include:
- The attorney’s fee (which can be one-third to one-half of the settlement/judgment amount in personal injury cases).
- Any costs associated with the litigation, such as fees for copying and filing relevant documents and paying process servers.
- Those needed to meet any demands for payment for medical services
Another important caveat is that there is no guarantee your case will be resolved in your favor or that you will get as much in a settlement or judgment as you expected. The details in your loan agreement determine what happens in either case. The company may or may not be able to recoup all or even some of the total amount owed.
Because these types of transactions can be tricky, however, it is always best to secure the proper legal and financial advice before choosing this option.
Furthermore, doing your own research and then making an informed decision can also keep you from making a costly mistake.
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Welcome. Good morning to Mike Ferry TV. It is the week of Monday, March 8th, so we set a goal for our coaching clients and the month of February. We asked each one to work hard to take a minimum of four active, good, solid listings. I don’t have the numbers yet. I’ll have them the next week or so as to what percentage did take four. But from what the coaches are telling me, it was quite high. So then I decided for the month of March to stretch everybody a little bit and we set a goal for everybody to take six listings. I got a little bit of negative feedback because some of the people that are not as strong yet at taking listings as they want to become are saying, I can hardly get three, much less six. Well, you know, a big part of life is the discipline we have. A big part of life is stretching what we can do. So I just wanted to mention that it is OK for you to take a lot more listings and think about it this way; You know, and I keep saying the same thing. I’ve been saying it all of last year and really starting in June of 2019, it’s only a small percentage of the people in real Real Estate today. And we want you to be part of that percentage that understand the value of taking listings.
And I know that the competition for them is strong and they’re challenging. But I want you to think about the other side. In representing a buyer today, the amount of people you’re competing against is ninety five percent of the Board of Realtors. And if you’re competing for listings, you’re competing with maybe five percent. So even though these five percent are usually pretty good agents, like a lot of you, you have a better chance working on listings than working on trying to get a buyer into a property, getting an offer, and then the hard part is getting accepted. One of the questions that came up last week, and it was a fun question, I apologize, I should be able to tell you who said it. I don’t recall, but it was an agent from Coldwell Banker. And he said, How long have you been doing Mike Ferry TV and why do you continue? And I wrote back the answer is, I don’t know how long it’s been. I will tell you this. When I started, I had dark hair. So that’s how long ago has been. I think I started Mike Ferry TV probably, I’m just trying to think, we have been in Las Vegas with our headquarters, I think now for ten years. I started at three or four years before that, so probably fifteen, seventeen, eighteen years.
And the reason why I continue at number one is if you’re prospecting for buyers and sellers, you’re going to use multiple platforms or multiple methods of prospecting in most cases, if you want your business to keep growing. And if you want your business to keep growing, you can’t rely on one source, whether it be a database or calling on Expireds or just knocking on doors, because if you rely on one source, you’re limiting your opportunities. So between email campaigns and the marketing campaigns and all the different sources on social media and the Mike Ferry TV and our entire sales team, we use every source we can and we touch different people with each source. We have a pretty steady and pretty large following for Mike Ferry TV and we’re going to continue that as long as I’m standing upright and can share ideas with you. Allen Dalton was one of the fellows that I have really got to know pretty well and probably well, no, actually real well. Allen and I have been friends for probably twenty five years. And one of the things I admired about Allen was what I admired about Mike Vänskä, Gunther Klaus, Earl Nightingale was the ability to use words continuously that can affect how we think and make a difference.
So on today’s message, I wrote down four words quantity, quality, negative and positive.
And as I’m almost always going to do, I’ll go right to Webster’s Dictionary because even though I think I know what the word, for example, quantity means, I want to check the dictionary. So today’s message is not going to be long, but it’s going to be about those going forward. So I first looked up the word quantity and the fun part.
I’m going to be honest, it kept saying no definition, no definition.
Well, then I realized I couldn’t spell the word quantity the way it’s spelled. So therefore I did get a definition. And it actually says it’s a very generic term used when referring to measure a number of items. People, situations or things, OK. Quantity. And I’ve been talking about quantity a lot almost all my career, you know, make X number of contacts a day. If your goal, for example, is to do twenty five transactions a year, the first question I would ask you is how many of those come from your database, past client centers of influence; for example, you’ll say to me out of my twenty five, I think 10 will come from my database. Well, then I will say to you then you have to create 15.
So what methods will you use to create 15? Are you going to call For Sale By Owner? Are you going to call around Just Listed, Just Sold? Are you going to make cold calls? Are you going to buy leads off the Internet? What is the methodology? What is the quantity that you’re going to use for prospecting techniques and the quantity of contacts you’ll make per day? Because quantity and quality always make a difference. So quantity. I wrote on, for example, how many appointments are you going to go ahead and look for in the month of March? How many appointments… Or then I wrote down is one totally different, how many apples are in a barrel? Those are referring to quantity. How many contacts does it take to get you a listing appointment? These are quantity types of things to look at. So don’t be a person that thinks by talking to one or two people a day, you’re going to do a higher level of productivity because the odds are against you because of quantity. But then, of course, I always say, is it more important to have quantity or quality? So I looked up the word quality, the level of excellence that is given or preferred by individuals that you’re working with – The level of excellence. OK, now I wrote, for example, people say that quality, OK, quality of one’s life is determined by their health or education on their income. That’s what the dictionary said. I’m not always going to agree with what the dictionary says, but watch, quality of life: What does that mean? Quality of your business? What does that mean? You know what? What is the level of excellence in terms of the customer service you give other people? What is the response you get not only in quantity by making, say, 10 calls a day, but the quality of the conversation. Are you using scripts that can make a difference, are you using scripts and dialogs that engage the people and get them involved with you?
So I guess the answer would be when people say to me, which is more important, quantity or quality, I go a mixture of both. I could knock on one hundred doors and if I walk up and they’re not home and I just leave a door hanger, am I really being effective? Or if they do answer the door, ‘Hi, do you want to sell your home?’ Well, you’re doing one hundred doors, which will probably get you a lead. But if you had a better quality script, could you get more? The third word, of course, I worked on the word negative in life because, you know, there’s a lot of people that we meet in life that are certainly not positive. But my belief is either we’re positive or negative. We can’t be a neutral when it comes to our attitude. And so I looked up the word negative: Thinking of the bad qualities of someone or thinking a bad result will happen. Isn’t that interesting? Thinking of the bad qualities of someone or thinking a bad result will happen. So I wrote, for example, prospecting doesn’t work.
That’s a negative belief or attitude, and if repeated, it becomes part of who we are. OK, or I don’t like the scripts of Mike Ferry wants me to use. All right. So my attitude then is what is that going to do to help you become a better agent? So negative. Then I wrote down the word positive and I wrote down positive: thinking of the good qualities of someone or thinking of the good results that will happen. I’m very positive that I can get this listing this evening.
I’m very positive that if I make the number of contacts I need to make his day, that I’m going to achieve the goals I’ve set. So I wrote for example, I know I can take six listings in the month of March. I’m very positive based on my work ethic, my schedule, my discipline, you know, my enthusiasm, my energy or calling my database is going to increase my production. And the truth is, if we can get you to call your database, it’s going to increase your production. So are you a quantity person or a quality person or are you really doing both or are you a negative person or a positive person? And I wrote down the key question.
You decide, because the choices really are all ours in these areas, I think last week I mentioned to you that we’ve been told now by our governor of the state of Nevada that we can have a live Superstar Retreat in July. We’re not sure of how many people yet. I mean, we know it’s going to be more than a couple hundred. We’re not sure if it’s going to be five hundred a thousand, fifteen hundred. You know, obviously, we would like to see the most people possible because we haven’t done any live events. And our first live event of consequence will be May 3rd and 4th.
What we’re doing, which is going to be allowed in Las Vegas, is a two hundred person Management Retreat East – socially spaced, of course. So if you want to know more about the Superstar Retreat, talk to our sales team, go online. But think about this. The quality of what you do is often based on the quality of what you learn; and if you’re looking for positive information to improve the quality of what you do, hopefully Mike Ferry TV and the things that we do to assist you work in your favor. Quantity, quality, negative, positive, in every case, the choice is one hundred percent ours. Thank you for watching. We’ll look forward to talking to you next week. Have a great week. Think five, six, seven listings. It can be done, it is being done every day. Why not you? Thank you. | <urn:uuid:6620d760-a255-46fe-980f-c3b91ce2e096> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | https://www.mikeferry.com/quantity-versus-quality/ | 2021-04-23T14:14:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618039594808.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20210423131042-20210423161042-00396.warc.gz | en | 0.968528 | 2,416 |
Every month K-pop fans are delighted to hear that their favourite idols are performing in a new and upcoming musical, or making their key acting debut in a new movie or Korean drama. Most of the time its pretty much over-looked and we all applaud and cheer that our talented public figures are showing their potential to the fullest… But there is another side to the story, where not everyone in the industry is as happy as the fans.
I was looking at the announcement that a new bunch of K-pop idols are turning their talents to Korean dramas (Most recently the announcement of BTS’s V in a historical drama) and musicals – and as much as I do love a person who I can connect with on different levels being on my screen and promoting the best way they can; a little part of my heart goes out to all those trainee actors and actresses who have worked just as hard, day and night, to hopefully see their name in the big headlines.
Now I can hear you all saying under your breath “but our idols work just as hard too” – and this is 100% true, but let me explain why im finding this to be a problem within the Korean entertainment system right now.
Training, Movies and Dramas
Just like our favourite idols, actors and actresses have to train exceptionally hard. They go to universities, colleges, and special schools for acting and musical degrees – all so they can have that exceptional bit of paper that declares them worthy of possibly being looked at for a career in something they love to do. They spend equally as hard of training with vocabulary, singing, dancing, and acting lessons to make sure that whatever project comes their way they are fully prepared. They are not from the same mould (as many say with K-pop idols) and they each have their strengths (you can’t beat a good villain!).
But on terms of K-idols becoming actors my question lays with “Where and when do they get their training?” – It’s fair to argue that it comes as a package when training to become a K-idol, but for me it feels that 70-80% of that training is aimed at debuting as a singer/dancer and then as a back up plan there is 20% interest and care given to their acting. Now its an absolute obvious that a small amount of acting skill is taught to the debuting idols of late, that fake smile, always looking happy, always knowing what to say at the right time (thank you monologue screen) – and we all know that acting comes out best with their “fan service” at special events and concerts, sorry guys its all been planned from the very moment they wave to that moment they stand and stare in a certain direction.
The never ending schedules of the idols which keeps them forever busy, and their own personal feelings (something that’s greatly overlooked throughout the Korean Entertainment system) it does make me wonder how they even get the chance to study for their schools and for their big debuts. If you could imagine that you were a newcomer director, and you have a chance to make a huge movie which is guaranteed to sell out no matter who is acting (new comer or familiar face), you have to choose one of the following options –
Option 1: A fresh face, fully trained, completely prepared and a potentially great actor straight from a acting degree willing to work for slightly less than anyone else for “their first actual chance” – Its your chance to create a well known actor of them.
Option 2: A familiar face on the tv screen, familiar name with a big company behind them, larger acting fees, and not being able to dedicate endless amounts of time on set with the downfall that they don’t actually have any “real” training – But they have a huge fan following, and their company (not the idol at hand) are going to promote their idol and your movie on most of the interviews and tv appearances the idol is on.
If most of you said option 2, then I couldn’t fault you for it – in business terms you have more chance to actually get viewers and sell tickets in a theatre or cinema if there is an idols face and name to it. They might not have the training, and with a few shouts from the Director or PD, you can soon have the kid good enough to state a few words; they might look wooden and not be the best actors, but they will bring in the viewers.
But if you chose option 1 I would stand and applaud you. If your movie is set to be one of the biggest things in the industry, you don’t need “another” big name in the form of a K-idol, try to create a job and future for someone who needs a chance! We have all, no matter at what age, needed just one person to give us the experience or that little shove in the right direction; we all know how “dog eat dog” the acting and celebrity world is, so actually giving the chance to someone who has nothing, but is showing 100% potential of becoming a huge sensation is the step forward – And I feel this is what the Korean entertainment industry has lost, instead its about fandoms, money, and how big the name of the idol or entertainment company behind the idol is.
For a while Korean musicals were an untapped source of entertainment, through the likes of musical singers Park Eun Tae and Hong Kwang Ho I was introduced into a whole new world of Korean entertainment – less fandoms, more support of the artists, and raw energy which showcased the talent of the performers to their fullest with live singing and some pretty intense acting and choreographies to perform; they became K-idols of the musical world really fast.
But soon enough the Korean entertainment industry latched on to this new phenomenon that was also interesting those abroad, and with the visiting European and American stage shows going to Korea to then get their own Korean cast, it wasn’t long before the big money makers of the entertainment industry was ready to start including Korean actors from some of their favourite TV dramas or movies. Now my problem with this was on the same terms as K-idols going into movies and dramas; These actors had literally no percentage of training and were jumping at the chance to perform on stage. The only problem – They couldn’t sing.
So why was they taking up a spot of a newcomer who could potentially make it really big in the musical industry and follow in the footsteps of people like Park Eun tae and Hong Kwang Ho? Yet again it lays with the Entertainment world believing they need the biggest names in the smallest of productions to make a bigger impact, to get more coverage and promotion. Now days we have K-idols belting their little voices out on a stage that is well suited to them, they can sing, they can dance – but there is always that moment when it comes to the “acting scene” and you can see the fear in their eyes, and in the eyes of all the musical lovers who are there for the musical and not there for the names which are performing.
Now I completely agree that if your good at what you do, and your good at other things, then go ahead and do the best you can – heck im also up for letting people cross over job roles (so to say) and perform on stages, in movies or on K-dramas. Even though I made this a discussion I am neither for nor against the crossing over of idols into non idol jobs and thus. This is where I am making my stand and explaining why there are no new faces in the entertainment scene that isn’t a K-idol or K-pop star. There were a lot of talks wondering why the buzz and excitement around the K-drama, movie and musical scene isn’t as pumping as it once was a few years back, and in honesty I personally think it lays with this very fact; the hardcore movie goers and K-drama watchers don’t want to be bored to tears by an idol whose acting is wooden. An avid theatre and musical goer don’t want actors who cant sing nor K-pop idols who cant act – they truly want the right people for the right jobs.
It’s a hard thing for fans of all sectors (like myself) to describe when you yourself love seeing an idol exploring other talents, or seeing them embark on a whole new adventure of their life whilst they grow into a multi-talented woman or men. But for me at least there is a understanding from taking a step back and seeing why the entertainment industry of Korea is becoming stagnant – and that’s the over saturation of the supposed “Hallyu” that’s sweeping everywhere to the point they believe that an idols “Celebrity status” means more to the people who are watching their productions, than that of a good story and good (believable) acting. my conclusion comes from many years of watching K-dramas, K-movies and K-musicals and being a huge fan of each, and seeing how different it is now, to how it was then. From promotional activities of each of them, to the involvement of idols and actors in areas they really cant handle, to finding out that some Korean idols are truly multi-talented and very bright.
It’s just something to think about, next time you watch a movie, drama or musical – count how many people are known for being a singer, actor, dancer, or by any other known job titles; then ask how you would title said person – you will be surprised. | <urn:uuid:5b0faec7-fba1-41bf-ad91-0e69089ccffc> | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | http://jakwave.co.uk/from-music-to-screen-the-impact-of-duel-talents-in-korea/ | 2017-09-21T05:15:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818687642.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20170921044627-20170921064627-00206.warc.gz | en | 0.972577 | 2,014 |
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Jake Edey has been fascinated with motorbikes from a very young age. With both parents winning national and international jet ski titles, winning is in his blood.
Having raced since the age of 6 Jake has always shown talent and promise, he is now 16 years of age and through the years he has struggled with injuries often missing out on some well deserved titles even though he had won against some of the best youth riders in the country on several occasions.
However 2015 has been a strong season in his career, Jake says " I feel I have made some very mature decisions dedicating myself to motocross and making the commitments and sacrifices needed to succeed in this demanding sport, I have been focused on the motocross track but also with keeping on track with my studies. I am fortunate to have had the support of a personal trainer in the evenings after my school work to maintain a high level of fitness. Weekends have seen me practicing when not racing and even with this demanding schedule I know my studies are important, a fact demonstrated by passing all nine of my GCSE exams this year at grade A to C."
For someone so young Jake's achievements over 2015 are impressive, the beach race at Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, near Boulogne-sur-Mer, in the Pas-de-Calais region of northern France is commonly referred to as Le Touquet. The race was formerly known as "Enduro des Sables" and considered the most challenging beach race in the world by the sports experts, it pits the best regional riders against leading competitors from across the world and was renamed "Enduropale/Quaduro" in 2005 when the course was shortened and races introduced for quad bikes and young riders. Over 250 young riders aged 13 to 17 took part in the open youth class in 2015 in front of 300,000 spectators and Jake rode to an impressive 5th position.
Add to that 2nd place overall in the open MXY2 at the GT Cup Nationals, 6th Overall in the British Youth Nationals, 5th Overall in the Pirelli Masters Nationals and 13th Overall in the adult Class at the Weston Super Mare beach race. and we believe we are looking at a future champion
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Owens–Illinois Inc. (O-I) is a Fortune 500 company that specializes in container glass products. O-I was able to achieve faster turnaround on jobs, and improved utilization of software and hardware assets through the use of TotalCAE Managed HPC Clusters
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We appreciate it when our guests share their stories, comments and photos with us and allow us to post them on our blog. Allan & Mildred Karlin, from Morgantown, WV, traveled with us on a 7-day Peru Explorer and wrote us this quick letter about their trip:
We really did not have any expectations, the way the trip worked out was far better than we imagined it would be. This was the first time we took a trip like this and didn’t make all of the arrangements ourselves. We had a very enjoyable, stressless, and educational jouney. We would definitely travel this way again.
We appreciate it when our guests share their stories, comments and photos with us and allow us to post them on our blog. Barbara & Ashley Blankenship, from Los Angeles, California, traveled with us on our 5-Day Peru Explorer with Add-ons and had this to report:
It was the trip of a lifetime – actually 3 trips in one, since the experiences were so different in the Inca region, the rainforest, and the coastal desert.
We loved it all but these were unanticipated pleasures. We especially recommend the Larco Museum in Lima and the museum of Pre-Columbian Art in Cusco for their elegant coverage of pre-Inca materials. We hadn’t expected the Islas Ballestas to be so magnificent. We are glad we dropped by there on our way back from Nasca.
As our Cessna again circled over the giant figures on the ground I shot the final slide on my roll of film and, leaning at a 45 degree angle, attempted to reload my camera. Another pass over a monkey larger than a football field and we headed back to the dirt landing strip on Peru’s Nazca Desert. This was my first trip to Nazca, and the year was 1979.
The Nazca Desert is a high arid plateau which stretches 37 miles between the towns of Nazca and Palpa in southern Peru. Hundreds of square miles of this dry, rocky plain are marked with lines, triangles and other geometric shapes, some running for more than five miles in a straight line. There are also giant drawings including a monkey, a spider, birds, reptiles, and whales.
The desert markings, believed to have been made thousands of years ago, made little impression on occasional travelers who viewed them from ground level, but when they were spotted by aircraft in the 1930’s they caught the world’s attention. They have since been surveyed, mapped and studied. Only two questions remain—who made them, and why?
In his 1968 book, “Chariots of the Gods,” Swiss writer Eric von Daniken suggested that the lines were built by “ancient astronauts” as a landing field. Looking at the lines from the sky they do resemble an airport, but it doesn’t seem reasonable that advanced extraterrestrial spacecraft would require landing strips. Besides, Nazca’s soft, sandy soil is hardly suitable for an airport. Forgetting the “Twilight Zone” theories, we can imagine a more down to earth explanation. We know that the region has been inhabited for thousands of years—by the Paracas, 900–200 BC, by the Nazcas, 200 BC–600 AD, and by others. The figures are generally attributed to the Nazcas since they resemble those on Nazca pottery.
But why create figures which can be seen only from the sky? A reasonable explanation is that they were not intended to be viewed by humans but by gods. A local school teacher in the area explained his theory to me. The lines all point toward the Andes—the source of the water which flows into the area through underground aquifers. The figures, he believed, represent the bounty made possible by this water. The Indians probably conducted rituals on these giant drawings to thank the gods and ensure that the water would continue to flow.
They created the lines that extend for miles by placing two stakes in a row, sighting along them to place a third stake, then repeating the process. By moving the desert’s stones and scraping its surface coating, in the absence of rain, the lines have survived the centuries. Hopefully, they will survive many more centuries for future generations to marvel at.
Not far from the lines is the ancient Nazca cemetery at Chauchilla. The Nazcas buried their dead, along with many of their possessions, in underground vaults lined with mud bricks. The bodies were dressed in embroidered cotton clothes, placed in a fetal position, and coated with resin. The hot, dry climate mummified the bodies. Over the centuries the tombs were looted by huaqueros, grave robbers, who located the chambers by sticking poles into the ground.
On my first visit to the site, the scene was of a desolate desert, pockmarked with holes, and littered with human skulls and bones, broken pottery, with colored designs still vivid on their surfaces, and strands of mummy-cloth blowing in the wind. No other person was there except for the Peruvian school teacher, who was my guide, and two German tourists. While the Peruvian and I talked, the Germans were busy stuffing skulls into their backpacks for souvenirs.
Now, more than thirty years later, things are different at the ancient cemetery. The desecrated graves are roped off and trails lead to observation kiosks where mummies and artifacts are displayed. The two German tourists would no longer be able to take a long-deceased Nazcan home with them.
We appreciate it when our guests share their stories with us and allow us to post them on our blog. Tom Thiss, from Excelsior, Minnesota, had this to say about his Adventure in Peru and Hiking the Inca Trail:
Machu Picchu cannot be adequately described. One has to experience it, and trekking the trail heightens the anticipation like a good story. The Sun Gate sunrise experience was shrouded in clouds yet for me, it did not matter. What mattered to me at that moment was the euphoria of restored health and energy and the sense of real accomplishment. Machu Picchu’s capacity to evoke the power of imagination not only offsets the “Inca Travail” it supercedes it. This to me is the true testimony of its potency.
This footbridge over the Urubamba River is the start of the four-day trek on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.
A little rain feels good at “Dead Woman’s Pass,” at 13,860 feet, the highest point on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.
This June we are celebrating our 30th Anniversary—30 years of leading fantastic trips to exotic destinations around the world.
This anniversary comes as a proud moment for our company’s founder, Lee Klein, who continues to scout new locations world-wide in search of new destinations for the active traveler. Klein, who holds an MBA in Management and a BS in International Marketing, spent more than two decades as a corporate manager and college professor until, in 1983, while climbing Ayer’s Rock in the Australian Outback, he decided to drop out of the corporate world, take off his suit and tie, and create an adventure travel company based on the lessons he taught his students on how to succeed in business: “keep the quality high, keep it affordable, and treat people the way you would like to be treated.”
The initial offering from The California Native was a tour billed as “The Other Los Angeles.” This day-long excursion traced the route of the San Andreas Fault from the Mojave Desert to the San Gabriel Mountains without ever leaving Los Angeles County. The tours became so popular that colleges in three California counties offered them as part of their community-education programs. From this, the company expanded its offerings to include tours to the Channel Islands, Death Valley, Yosemite, and other uniquely California destinations, as well as white-water rafting, ballooning, spelunking (caving), sailplane gliding, and other outdoor adventures. “My family has lived in Los Angeles for generations,” writes Klein in the company newsletter, “hence the name The California Native.”
Satisfying the growing client base led to the development of The California Native’s most popular destination—Mexico’s Copper Canyon. These escorted and independent tours feature the Chihuahua al Pacifico Railroad (labeled as one of the most spectacular train rides in the western hemisphere) and highlight one of the most primitive indigenous cultures still subsisting in North America—the Tarahumara Indians. The California Native has become a leading source of information on this remote area and the company and it’s guides are known throughout the area for their work with the Tarahumara.
I first visited the Cathedral in Lima, Peru, in 1979, and saw the mummy of Francisco Pizarro. The mummy had been placed there back in 1891, when Peruvian officials, wanting to prominently display the “Founder of Lima,” had the body moved from the chapel in which it had lain for the previous 350 years.
But was this really Pizarro? Just prior to my visit, workers cleaning a crypt beneath the altar found two wooden boxes, one containing the bones of five people—one missing a head! The other box held a lead casket on which was inscribed in Spanish, “Here is the skull of the Marquis Don Francisco Pizarro, who discovered and won Peru and placed it under the crown of Castile.”
Francisco Pizarro died a violent death. On June 16,1541, while he was having dinner in his governor’s palace, a group of men, led by the son of his ex-partner, Diego de Almagro, broke in and stabbed him to death. As he lay dying from multiple sword wounds, he drew a cross on the ground in his own blood, kissing it, and crying “Jesus.” In 1892, his mummy was exhumed and displayed for almost a century in the Lima, Peru Cathedral, but was discovered to be an imposter when the underground crypt was discovered.
Pizarro had lived a cruel but exciting life. Born in poverty and illiterate all of his life, he sailed with several expeditions to the Americas, including Balboa’s journey to the Pacific. After settling in Panama, he formed a partnership with Almagro, a soldier, and Hernando de Luque, a priest, to explore the territory south of Panama, they discovered the Inca Empire. Pizarro then sailed to Spain to enlist the support of Emperor Charles V, from whom he received the charter to conquer and rule Peru. The
After the bloody conquest of the Incas, where 2000 Indians were slaughtered and Emperor Atahuallpa strangled, Pizarro alienated his partner, Almagro. This eventually led to armed conflict between the former partners, and Pizarro’s brother, Hernando, having Almagro garroted.
The skull in the lead box matched the headless skeleton and, when reunited, turned out to be a man approximately the right age and height for Pizarro at the time of his death. Additionally, the skeleton showed that the man had been murdered by multiple sword thrusts, unlike the mummy which, upon reexamination, showed no wounds, leading Peruvian and American scientists to conclude that the skeleton was indeed that of Pizarro. It is now believed that the mummy who had sat in for Pizarro for so many years, was a church official. He is now retired, and the “real” Pizarro’s bones have taken his place on display.
As we come to the end of another year, it’s time to reflect on what we have accomplished in the last year and what we are looking forward to in the new year.
Last year was quite an eventful year for The California Native. We made another exploration trip to Patagonia, sailing around Cape Horn on a wonderful expedition cruise, hiking on glaciers with crampons, and whitewater rafting through Argentina’s beautiful countryside. We also made several trips to Mexico, one at the invitation of President Calderon to attend a luncheon with him and celebrate the initialization of a campaign to promote the wonders of Mexico’s colonial cities.
The world is a fascinating collage of cultures, each with its own traditions, customs and history, which gives them a uniqueness and sets them apart from all of the others. But the more we travel the more we find that so many things are the same and we are more united by our similarities than divided by our differences. In our series, Images of the World, we group our similarities to enjoy them and appreciate their cultural differences.
The Street Musicians: No matter where you are in the world, everyone enjoys music, and entertainment provided by street musicians is universal.
In Iquitos, Peru, a musician plays huayno music, the traditional music of the Andes, on his mandolin.
Standing guard over the Urubamba Valley, the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Ollantaytambo’s great terraces and massive stoneworks served as a ceremonial center and fortress, protecting the heart of the Incan empire from its enemies. Its massive structures were crafted by moving giant stones for miles using sheer manpower and ingenious engineering devices. The builders even re-channeled a river to allow the giant stones to be maneuvered across. It was here at Ollantaytambo that the Incas staged their last victory over the Spanish.
In 1536, the Inca ruler Manco Inca led a rebellion against the Spanish invaders. To quell the rebellion, Francisco Pizarro dispatched his younger brother, Hernando, to Ollantaytambo to capture Manco. With a force of 70 cavalry, 30 foot soldiers, and a “large contingent of native auxiliaries,” the confident Spaniards planned a dawn attack to surprise the sleeping Indians, but it didn’t work. The Spaniards were overwhelmed by showers of arrows, spears and boulders, which rained down from the high terraces above the city. Then, by diverting the Patachanca River through previously dug channels, the Incas flooded the plains below the fortress, and the bewildered Spaniards found themselves mired in mud and water up to their horses’ bellies. They had no choice but to retreat.
Pizarro returned, this time with four times the force. The city fell but Manco escaped. Two years later Pizarro captured Manco’s sister and, when Manco refused to negotiate, had her stripped naked, flogged, and shot to death with arrows. He then had her body tied to a raft and floated down the Urubamba River. Pizarro was not a guy to mess with!
After landing at Cusco Peru‘s two-mile high airport, we are greeted by colorfully-dressed Incas who hand us cups of hot tea. “¡Bienvenidos a Cusco!” A delightful welcome to the former center of the Incan Empire. but the tea also serves an important purpose—the prevention of altitude sickness.
The tea we are offered at the airport, and again in our hotel lobby, is mate de coca—brewed from leaves of the coca plant. Coca is best known to North Americans as the source of the drug cocaine, which is actually a highly processed derivative of the coca leaf. Because of its association with the drug, coca is banned in the U.S.
In the Andes, where it is legal, coca is an age-old tonic and a remedy for many ailments. It enhances mood, without dependency or toxicity; is a natural energizer, similar to coffee; is rich in vitamins and minerals; relieves dizziness, headaches and stomach problems; and aids in weight loss and child-birth.
Coca leaves can be chewed, brewed, smoked, or made into candy and baked goods. Shamans in the Andes smoke it for “magical” purposes—to enter the spirit world and to prognosticate the future in the tea leaves.
In the Incan empire, coca was considered to be very special, sometimes magical, and its use was controlled. After the conquest, the Catholic Church tried to forbid it, because of its ties to the old religion, but they found that in the high altitude without the coca, the natives had trouble working the fields and mining the gold, so the church itself cultivated the plants and distributed the leaves to the workers.
The world’s most popular coca product is Coca Cola™. Made from the extract of coca leaves mixed with kola nuts, it was created in 1885, and sold as a tonic. Coca Cola™ did contain cocaine (commonly used in 19th century patent medicines) until 1929! When it became known that cocaine was potentially harmful, the company had a problem. If it removed the coca from its recipe, could it still call its product Coca Cola™? On the other hand, if it did not remove the cocaine, there could be a boycott of the drink. Their solution was to devise an extraction process in which the coca leaves were ground, mixed with sawdust, soaked in bicarbonate of soda, percolated with toluene, and steam blasted. The result was then mixed with powdered kola nuts and pasteurized—preserving the taste while eliminating the drug effects. Pepsi™, by the way, does not use coca leaves in its recipe!
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Philip Wagreich, 1941-2013
Philip Wagreich, a national leader in math education and retired director of the University of Illinois at Chicago Institute for Mathematics and Science Education, died Jan. 1 of a heart attack. He was 71.
Wagreich, who was professor emeritus of mathematics, statistics and computer science at UIC and an expert on algebraic geometry, joined the faculty in 1973. In 1985, he turned his attention to revitalizing education and founded the office of mathematics and computer education within the department. Under his leadership it became a major center for mathematician-led work in mathematics education.
“In addition to his mathematical prowess and his wonderful human qualities, we should remember Phil’s profound impact on this department and mathematics education,” said his colleague John Baldwin. “He spearheaded a mathematics education program, which in its depth of impact on the preparation and professional development of K-12 teachers, is virtually unmatched. We will miss him both personally and professionally.”
Wagreich and Howard Goldberg, UIC professor emeritus of physics, used National Science Foundation grants to create the Teaching Integrated Mathematics and Science Project. The well-known Math Trailblazers K-5 curriculum, developed by TIMS in 1997, is still in use today across the country.
“Unlike many mathematicians, Phil had a natural ability of being able to decipher how children come to understand mathematics and how to help them learn mathematical concepts and skills,” said Martin Gartzman, executive director of the University of Chicago Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education, and a long-time collaborator with Wagreich. “Phil became a role model for the substantive involvement of research mathematicians nationally in precollege mathematics education.”
Wagreich was a co-director of the Mathematicians and Education Reform Forum, a national clearinghouse that built a program of interconnected K-12, undergraduate, and graduate-level educational activities for mathematicians. From 1997 to 2000 he was a member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ Principles and Standards for School Mathematics writing team that developed standards for curriculum, teaching, and evaluation in grades K-12.
Wagreich received the Excellence in Integrated Mathematics & Science Award from the School Science and Mathematics Association in 1992 and the Max Beberman Award for contributions to mathematics education from the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics in 1996.
A graduate of Brandeis University, Wagreich received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University. He was a lecturer at Brandeis and assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania before joining the faculty at UIC as associate professor in 1973. He was named professor in 1978. He was a member of UIC’s Learning Science Research Institute.
Wagreich is remembered as a fine teacher, collaborator and friend by many UIC colleagues. “He always had time for students who came to see him,” said Janice Nekola, assistant to the director at the Institute for Mathematics and Science Education, who worked with Wagreich for many years. “He was a generous spirit.”
Wagreich is survived by his wife, Lorraine Owles; his children Heidi, Ian, Amy and Alexander; and four grandchildren. A memorial is planned for later this year. The family requests contributions to West Suburban PADS, Sarah’s Inn, the Greater Chicago Food Depository or the Children’s Clinic of Oak Park-River Forest Infant Welfare Society.
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· A 41-year-old Cudahy man was cited for attempted theft after taking a lawn mower from a garage in the 3900 block of East Mallory Avenue at about 1 p.m. Aug. 24. According to police reports the man took the mower while scavenging for aluminum cans. The mower was recovered.
· Two Cudahy men, ages 48 and 50, were cited for disorderly conduct after a fight in the 3700 block of East Munkwitz Avenue at 9:30 p.m. Aug. 19. Police determined the older man was the primary aggressor and cited him for battery. He provided a breath sample, with a blood alcohol content of 0.20.
· A 51-year-old Cudahy woman was arrested for disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and battery after an incident at 6:44 p.m. Aug. 24 in the 3800 block of East Iona Terrace. Police reported responding to a possible 911 call, only to be cursed and kicked by the woman, who also cursed her dog and a neighbor.
· A 29-year-old Kenosha man was cited for operating while intoxicated at 2:29 a.m. Aug. 17 in the 5500 block of South Packard Avenue. A breath test indicated a preliminary BAC of 0.13. After a search he was also cited for marijuana possession.
· Stereo equipment valued at $2,600 was stolen from a car in the 1700 block of East Bolivar Avenue between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m. Aug. 20.
· Two bicycles, one valued at $190 and the other at $200, were taken from a storage unit at an apartment building at 2702 Fifth Avenue overnight Aug. 20-21.
· Police are investigating the disappearance of a desktop computer, associated equipment and a cable modem from Marquette Manor, 2409 10th Ave., overnight Aug. 21-22.
· A 64-year-old Milwaukee man was cited for retail theft at 1:45 p.m. Aug. 24 after he took $67.72 worth of meat from Pick 'n Save, 2931 S. Chicago Ave.
· A tablet computer was taken from an unlocked vehicle in the 1700 block of Marquette Avenue overnight Aug. 24-25.
· A 55-year-old South Milwaukee woman was cited for operating while intoxicated at 5:39 p.m. Aug. 21 in the 3800 block of 5th Avenue. A witness had told police the woman was driving erratically and failed to observe multiple stop signs along Columbia and Fifth avenues. A breath test indicated a preliminary BAC of 0.29.
· A 37-year-old Oak Creek woman was cited for operating while intoxicated at 3:09 a.m. Aug. 23 in the 1800 block of Rawson Avenue. A breath test indicated a preliminary BAC of 0.13.
· A 31-year-old South Milwaukee woman was cited for operating while intoxicated in the 3000 block of 13th Avenue at 2:13 a.m. Aug. 26. A breath test indicated a preliminary BAC of 0.09.
· A 21-year-old South Milwaukee man was cited for disorderly conduct and obstructing police at 9:11 p.m. Aug. 26 after he was found passed out on a lawn in the 1000 block of Davis Avenue. According to police reports he cursed and tried to kick an officer and paramedics before he was taken to St. Luke's South Shore Hospital in Cudahy "due to his high level of intoxication."
· Police responded to four domestic violence incidents between Aug. 22 and 27.
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In a recent project, I needed a way to quickly get some additional details about a user from the user information list. The project is making use of search and in the core results the only item being returned is the display name of the author. Since I needed to get some more details on the user, I needed a quick way to lookup the user by display name from the user information list.
If you have a need to open a modal dialog for user interaction, here’s how you can accomplish it the “SharePoint 2010” way. Continue reading “Open the SharePoint 2010 Modal Dialog”
This week I had a lot of time to experiment with new ideas – snow in Texas has a way of shutting down business. As part of my tasks for this week, I wanted to provide a flashy way to show off images stored in an image library. The idea came from an “employee club” site at a client. The group is made up of people from across the organization who participate in activities outside of the job – Special Olympics, Ranger’s Games and other social or community events.
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Power Greens Smoothie Recipe
Getting more greens in your day is easy with this powerful blend. The balanced mix of cleansing greens and tropical fruit will please your palate and support your body in detoxifying the way it’s built to!
1½ cups Coconut Milk
1 cup frozen Pineapple
1/2 Lime, juiced
2 tsp Navitas Organics Superfood+ Greens Blend
In a blender, combine all ingredients and blend until desired texture is reached.
Pour into a serving glass and enjoy!
Makes 1 Serving
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It dawned upon me that while Americans are tweeting, instragamming or facebooking photos of their thanksgiving day meal, is the rest of the world looking at us like we’re big fat greedy Americans? I mean there’s people in the world that do not have the option to even eat 1/4 of what we’re indulging on tonight. Hmm.
Oh I didn’t do thanksgiving this year, my mother & one of my sisters are in Vietnam. So there will be no big feast for my other sister & I.
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Benefits of Being an Early Riser
They say the early bird catches the worm, but aside from getting a head start on the day, what are the main advantages of waking up early? It turns out, there are a lot more than you might think. Night owls might want to consider slowly adjusting their body clocks to get on a different schedule. Here's what you can more easily achieve as a morning person.
More Family Time
Waking up with the sun allows you to accomplish more early in the day, which means your evenings aren't as jam packed as they otherwise would be. You'll be able to get out of work earlier and spend more time with your family, whether that means a more relaxing dinner or just an hour or two spent on the couch with everyone unwinding from the day.
Not all early birds are necessarily healthier than night owls, but waking up with the sun allows you the chance to get in a good workout before you start the day. This will give you a natural energy boost that could potentially make you even more productive and likely to make healthier decisions during the day.
When you begin your day earlier, you can get a head start on your commute to work and potentially miss the rush of the standard 9-5 shift. Trains and buses won't be as congested, and the roads will be somewhat clearer when many people are still in bed. Likewise, you can leave work earlier than the rest of the professional crowd and beat them home. Your ride to and from the office or jobsite will be so much more laid back and less stressful as a result.
Quieter Work Space
There's nothing like that first hour in the office when there's nobody there and you can answer your emails in peace and quiet. It's not that you don't love your coworkers - it's just that they sometimes want to chat or ask questions when all you want to do is churn out your work. Arriving a little earlier than usual will let you get some of the more challenging, looming projects out of the way before there are many chances for distraction.
Not only does waking up early get you in the office before everyone else, but it could also make you more productive as a whole. The reasoning is simple: You have more time in the day to devote to crossing items off your to-do list without as much distraction. | <urn:uuid:ba5d9775-934a-4662-8319-301ae7d1193d> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | https://www.sunbeam.com/blog/archive/2015/jun/benefits-of-being-an-early-riser.html | 2018-09-23T01:13:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267158766.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20180923000827-20180923021227-00240.warc.gz | en | 0.966862 | 481 |
Aug 2nd 2010
BUFFALO, NY (WBFO) – The 6th Annual Buffalo Infringement Festival kicked off this past weekend in Allentown, celebrating the city’s rich arts & cultural scene. WBFO’s Lauren Mook (DMS BA ’09) spoke with the Festival’s organizers, musicians, performers, and attendees about what makes this festival so unique.
To view the WBFO News article, please go to: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wbfo/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1681228.
Apr 1st 2010
On radio station WFMU April 1, 2010 (TODAY — this afternoon!) from 3-6PM on Strength Through Failure with Fabio: Tony Conrad and Throbbing Gristle/Thee Majesty/Psychic TV mastermind Genesis Breyer P-Orridge illuminate Studio B with a live violin collaboration! The duo performed first together last year at Issue Project Room at a show presented by filmmasker Marie Losier and the results were a now-sold-out LP on the Dais label. Tune in for sublime sounds and as usual with each of these artists in the past on the show, some lively conversation with Fabio!
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BERLIN — After a popular performance of Romeo and Juliet downtown last month, Brown Box Theatre co-founder Kyler Taustin confirmed that his trope will be back on the shore next year for a follow-up.
The play, which took place outside in historic Berlin, was well received, earning a standing ovation, which Town Director of Community and Economic Development Michael Day said was “well deserved.”
“I think Romeo and Juliet was one of the most magical events in downtown Berlin that I’ve experienced,” Day said.
Day called the show “spellbinding” and “professional all around.” He added that the audience seemed to agree, with a much larger crowd than he had originally anticipated showing up for the 6:30 p.m. show, which coincided with 2nd Friday activities.
Taustin pegged the crowd at around 300, with many more visitors stopping briefly to watch as they moved around downtown.
“It was very exciting to have that many people there,” said Taustin.
The show in Berlin wrapped up the Boston-based company’s tour of the Eastern Shore, a week-long event spanning six different public performances from Snow Hill to Ocean City to Rehoboth Beach.
“That performance was our closing night and it couldn’t have gone any better,” said Taustin of Berlin.
Besides taking Shakespeare into the streets, Brown Box brought him into area classrooms, with workshops at five different Eastern Shore schools which Taustin estimated reached roughly 3,000 students.
“It was a unique and exciting opportunity for the kids,” he said.
In some of the schools Brown Box visited, Taustin explained that students had not had the chance to participate in theatre much previously and were not familiar with the works of William Shakespeare. By offering workshops, Taustin hopes to encourage a new generation to become excited about theatre. He added, while reading Shakespeare in the classroom was great, actually seeing it on stage is by far the best way to experience the Bard.
Taustin also confirmed that Brown Box has every intention of returning to the shore next year and may even expand slightly. As far as what play will be performed, he said the group is still considering that decision, which will be made sometime in November and announced at brownboxtheatre.org.
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Here are a few full-length operas on YouTube with English subtitles. Isn’t it amazing that you can watch full-length operas for free in the comfort of your own home? Die … Continue readingFull-length operas on YouTube! | <urn:uuid:34de1fb4-098b-4e7f-b3a2-314ca61009fd> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | https://www.operasense.com/tag/puccini/ | 2019-02-15T22:54:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479627.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20190215224408-20190216010408-00575.warc.gz | en | 0.922729 | 912 |
New Video – Sharing Online
This was a great episode! We talked about topics like:
- How to share your photos online (I give some philosophical advice in addition to logistical, practical advise)
- Pricing your images and selling prints
- Getting inspiration from other online photographers
- SmugMug and how I use them (see my full SmugMug Review here)
- Memory cards and horror stories
So, in addition to Lisa Bettany and Leo Laporte, we had on RC Concepcion, which was really cool. He just finished a book on this very subject, so he was a fount of knowledge. And if you guys don’t know who RC is, well then this is a great introduction to him!
Shuttle Launch Upcoming on April 29
I hope NASA doesn’t delay this thing again! Re-organizing planes, hotels, and cars is not an easy thing. Luckily, my “inside gal” got me some quick info so I was able to re-book the hotel near Cape Canaveral before it filled up. There’s gonna be a lot of people there… I should be getting in close, about three miles away in the media section. I’m excited about seeing the rocket launch, but I’m also worried about getting an interesting shot. I’ve been thinking about it a lot… I have some ideas but nothing solid yet.
Daily Photo – Coming Home to the Inn After Dinner
This is a nice feeling — this idea of walking to dinner and arriving back at the inn with family and friends just before it gets dark. I don’t know how to explain it, but perhaps you have experienced this too.
This is in the far northern part of the South Island if New Zealand. The town is named Nelson, and I think it is one of the five biggest on that island. But all of New Zealand only has four million people, and the vast majority of those are on the north island. I wonder what has happened to towns like Nelson since the big earthquake in nearby Christchurch. Maybe some of our NZ community readers can fill us in with some on-the-ground info. | <urn:uuid:fd50a627-cec5-4ebe-9dbd-76e30150b413> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://www.stuckincustoms.com/2011/04/20/nelson-nz/ | 2017-03-23T00:16:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218186530.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212946-00316-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966511 | 453 |
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